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“It is rather a pity that a man who can tell so good a story as Mr
Wells should allow himself to be ridden so hard by an idea. ... The
marvel is that Mr Wells, with his ingenuity, skill, and sense of
reality, should have used a means so theatric and so suggestive of the
burlesque as a hashish trance to free the soul and stiffen the
conscience of his hero. ... Equally repugnant to the sense of reality
is a certain Lady Sunderbund, a gay and glittering, weird and
wonderful piece of stage property. Never before has Mr Wells created
anything in the human image quite so theatric, absurd, and impossible.
Some one refers to her once as an American, and, judging by the
marvelous dialect Mr Wells puts into her mouth, he meant such to be
her nativity.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:341 S 16 ‘17 1550w

“In ‘God, the invisible king’ he made a rhapsodic tract out of the
essential philosophy of ‘Mr Britling sees it through.’ Now he has
dramatized the tract, and in ‘The soul of a bishop,’ offers us ‘God,
the invisible king’ in the shape of a fable addressed to the
capacities of those who may have found the earlier exposition too
unremittingly theological for comfortable digestion.” Lawrence Gilman

– + =No Am= 206:786 N ‘17 3100w

“The character of the bishop is wrought out with the author’s finest
skill.”

+ — =Outlook= 117:219 O 10 ‘17 180w

“A brief, uncomplicated but very trenchant and stimulating bit of
prose fiction—Wells in his newest vein at his best.” F. R.

+ =Pub W= 92:802 S 15 ‘17 500w

“We do not propose to discuss Mr Wells’s thesis; a large part of what
he says has been for years a commonplace with educated people of all
classes; but we may be allowed to remark on the workmanship of the
book. Why did Mr Wells take as a subject the religious experiences of
a devout member of the Church of England, a Bishop, too, when he
obviously is unable to imagine the way in which the outward
observances and daily duties and privileges of its communion mould the
inner life and transform the experience of the Christian?”

— =Sat R= 124:228 S 22 ‘17 1150w

“The book has no psychological interest as a study in religious
development. There is much more in it about the Bishop’s nerves than
about his soul. Mr Wells gives us a very human picture of the home
life at the Palace. There is an amusing caricature of the sentimental
neophyte, a wealthy American widow. The reactions of this emotional
lady on the Bishop’s family form the most natural element in the
book.”

– + =Spec= 119:451 O 27 ‘17 1050w

“Mr Wells pretends to analyze the bishop’s soul minutely; but in so
doing he does not scruple to resort to the most blatant
artificialities. ... His sarcasm is biting; and his indictment of the
church’s failure to live up to its opportunities, and, indeed to its
fundamental purposes, is in many ways forceful.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 650w

“Right or wrong, profound or shallow, the book is interesting, and in
nothing perhaps more interesting than in its showing of the difference
that has been made by the war and its implied forecast of the social
and religious life that is to follow the war.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p438 S 13 ‘17 870w

=WELLS, WARRE B., and MARLOW, N.= History of the Irish rebellion of 1916. *$2.50 Stokes 941.5 17-707

“‘A history of the Irish rebellion of 1916’ is a practical and prosaic
book, the work of men who wrote rather because the historical task
appealed to them than because they found in the insurrection an
attractive theme. It is stated that their purpose has been, in
addition to narrating the events of the rebellion and showing their
connection with the European war, to portray without criticism the
conflicting ideals in present-day Ireland. ... The events leading up
to the rising, the formation of the various patriotic societies and
volunteer armies, the three-cornered debates about home rule, the long
and complicated negotiations with England, the early experiences of
the leaders of the rebellion, these things are stated. ... A valuable
feature of the book is the appendix, containing the report of the
Royal commission on the rebellion in Ireland, the military dispatches
sent by Field Marshal French to the secretary of state for war, and
from General Maxwell to Field Marshal French and to the secretary of
state for war, and Roger Casement’s speech from the dock.”—N Y Times

=A L A Bkl= 14:91 D ‘17

“Valuable chiefly as a detailed contemporary record of incidents and
events.”

+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 30w

“It is apparent that the authors are not in sympathy with the ideals
and methods of the Irish revolutionary leaders, and this fact causes
them now and then to indulge in editorial comments of a somewhat
cynical kind, out of harmony with the general nonpartisan historical
attitude they assume.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:262 Jl 15 ‘17 520w

“An accurate and comprehensive account.”

+ =Pratt= p43 O ‘17 20w

=WELSH, JAMES C.= Songs of a miner. *2s 6d Herbert Jenkins, London 821

“The author of these poems worked for twenty-four years as a miner;
his verses were written at odd times during these years.”—N Y Call

=Ath= p362 Jl ‘17 160w

“Those pieces treating of his work are the least effective of the
book. ... It is not labor speaking in terms of itself; it is labor
speaking in terms of book-poetry. ... The songs are often melodious,
but none is of the first rank.” Clement Wood

– + =N Y Call= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 410w

“‘The crusade of youth,’ which opens the book, is an ambitious poem in
heroics, which does indeed show that Mr Welsh has a glow of
imagination, a rich vocabulary, and a fine sense of cadence. But it is
a literary exercise such as many have attempted before him; and it is
sometimes grandiose and tricked out with unnecessary ornament. On the
other hand, when he comes closer to earth and touches the realities of
his life, as in ‘Labour’ and ‘The miner,’ he is apt to be prosaic and
a trifle ‘Hyde-parky.’ ... He is really most successful in such
touching little poems as ‘To a dead comrade’ and ‘To my wife,’ or in
some of the Scottish dialect pieces.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p299 Je 21 ‘17 200w

=WEST, ANDREW FLEMING=, ed.[2] Value of the classics. *$1 Princeton univ. press 375 17-28345

“Once in a while, protest is uttered against excessive intellectual
modernism. Such a protest is uttered in a collection of addresses and
papers entitled ‘Value of the classics.’ It presents the addresses
delivered at the Conference on classical studies in liberal education
held at Princeton last year, together with an introduction by Andrew
F. West, dean of the graduate school of Princeton university, and a
series of brief statements upon the subject from lawyers, clergymen,
physicians, editors, educators, and men in other walks of life. Among
those who delivered the addresses recorded in the volume are President
John Grier Hibben of Princeton university, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard law school, and Professor Lewellys F.
Barker of Johns Hopkins.”—Boston Transcript

=Boston Transcript= p8 O 20 ‘17 490w

“The conference and this volume have done a great service for our
cause. In these times, when classical teachers are so often called
upon to give a reason for their existence, it is a fine thing to have
ready at hand these manifold arguments and opinions. It is a book
which no one of us can afford to be without.” M. N. W.

+ =Class J= 13:302 Ja ‘18 430w

“This volume is one not only to read but to ponder. It administers
with artistic skill and completeness a body-blow to much of the crude
and noisy theorizing about education that has lately been so much to
the fore in this country.”

+ =Educ R= 54:527 D ‘17 330w

=N Y Times= 22:477 N 18 ‘17 460w

=WESTERGAARD, WALDEMAR CHRISTIAN.= Danish West Indies under company rule (1671-1754) with a supplementary chapter, 1755-1917; with an introd. by H. Morse Stephens. il *$3 Macmillan 972.9 17-16559

Dr Westergaard is the son of a Danish family which emigrated to North
Dakota and he is at present assistant professor of history at Pomona
college, California. “Dr Westergaard tells the story of the settlement
and administration of the Danish West Indies from 1671 to 1754, and in
a supplementary chapter gives briefly their history from the middle of
the eighteenth century to 1917, the date of their purchase by the
United States. The historical perspective embraces European colonial
expansion in the West Indies, covers the great romance of trade in St
John, St Croix and St Thomas, dealings with pirates, the growth of
agriculture, and the success of the island plantations in the days
when ‘sugar was king.’ There is much about the slave trade and its
attendant abuses and accounts of the insurrections of the negroes.” (R
of Rs) The book has a ten-page bibliography.

“Among the most valuable chapters are those dealing with the economic
life of the colony. The experiments with indigo and cotton, the export
of valuable woods, the rise of the sugar-cane industry which,
especially when war conditions made the prices for the staple rise,
gave the islands their boom periods, all furnish interesting contrasts
and parallels for students of the history of other West Indian
colonies.” C. L. Jones

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:132 F ‘18 450w

“Dr Westergaard brings every element of knowledge, scientific training
and personal sympathy necessary to the task he has set himself. And
furthermore, he evidently possesses literary ability sufficient to
remove his book from the class of dry reference works for library
shelves, and to put it into a class of books that are not only
commended, but really read. He has given us a work of serious and
lasting value. The bibliography is of unusual value from the comments
attached to each source of reference quoted.” G. I. Colbron

+ =Bookm= 46:211 O ‘17 1250w

“A valuable addition to Americana.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 O 13 ‘17 380w

“Prof. Westergaard began his work on some letters found in the
Bancroft collection of the University of California and then went to
Denmark and dug up the original records of the Danish West India and
Guinea company, which no previous historian had touched. This fine
piece of original investigation is too solidly packed with facts and
figures to attract the general reader. But the volume is full of
interesting and novel information.”

+ =Ind= 92:192 O 27 ‘17 430w

=Lit D= 55:40 N 17 ‘17 260w

“A feature of Dr Westergaard’s book, which should be of high value to
the student, is a series of twenty-one appendices, wherein are given
statistics, lists of governors and shareholders in the various
companies, transcripts of the charters, financial statements, and
other rare information derived from the Danish archives and now first
made accessible to the general public. ... Two additional volumes are
promised.”

* =N Y Times= 22:273 Jl 22 ‘17 1400w

+ =Outlook= 116:592 Ag 15 ‘17 80w

=Pratt= p44 O ‘17

“A brilliant piece of historical writing, particularly significant to
students of American history.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:328 S ‘17 280w

=St Louis= 15:377 O ‘17 20w

“An elaborate and profound (the criticism might be made that there is
a little bit too much of it!) historical work based on the Danish
royal archives. ... Not the least interesting part of the book is the
chapter devoted to the unsuccessful attempts by Prussians to colonize
in the West Indies under the auspices of the grand elector of
Brandenburg.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 S 13 ‘17 450w

“It is very fortunate that Professor Westergaard has been able to
place in the hands of the public an exhaustive and authoritative
history of these islands from the beginning to the day of their
transfer. His work is written in a clear and vigorous style, and is a
valuable contribution to American historical literature. It is based
on rich source material, and bears throughout the character of exact
scholarship.” Knut Gjerset

+ =Yale R= n s 7:446 Ja ‘18 1200w

=WESTERVELT, WILLIAM DRAKE=, comp. and tr. Hawaiian legends of volcanoes (mythology). il *$1 (4c) Ellis 398.2 16-24113

The author is doing original research work in collecting and
translating Hawaiian folk legends. This is the third volume resulting
from his labors in this field. The legends associated with volcanoes
which he brings together are excellent examples of primitive attempts
to explain and interpret natural phenomena. T. A. Jaggar, jr., of the
staff of the Hawaiian volcano observatory, contributes a foreword to
the book, and at the close the author adds further information about
the geologic history of the islands.

+ =Nature= 99:144 Ap 19 ‘17 200w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:27 F ‘17

“William Drake Westervelt of Honolulu has added another to the
valuable books containing those Hawaiian myths and folk tales that he
has been so indefatigable in collecting and translating. He has
rendered an inestimable service to science, for, largely through his
efforts, we are promised a mythology of this part of the Polynesian
race equaled in completeness by the known mythology of few primitive
peoples.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 1 ‘17 400w

“This very pleasant little volume is illustrated with reproductions
from photographs of the volcanoes of many lands; and there is one
beautiful reproduction in colour of the hibiscus flower.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p113 Mr 8 ‘17 500w

=WESTON, GEORGE.= Oh, Mary, be careful! il *$1 (4c) Lippincott 17-26265

Aunt Myra knew all about men, the creatures! For she had been jilted
by one of them in her youth. She had learned her lesson well, but to
make it more impressive to other foolish and trusting women, she had
collected every bit of evidence she could find in the newspapers. Her
findings filled many large scrap books. These, together with her
house, property and her fortune, she passed on to her niece Mary, with
the condition that the girl should never marry. Mary, however, had
some doubts as to Aunt Myra’s wisdom in the matter of men. She wanted
to find out for herself. And as Aunt Myra had provided her with three
practical tests, she knew how to go about it. The outcome is the theme
of this story.

“The story is light but will be popular. Appeared in Ladies’ Home
Journal.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:317 Ap ‘17

“Mr Weston has the faculty of adding just enough charm of style to his
ephemeral plot to make the story amusing.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 7 ‘17 180w

“It is what the publishers quite appropriately term ‘a sweet story.’”

=Dial= 62:147 F 22 ‘17 110w

“A literary bonbon.”

=Ind= 90:87 Ap 7 ‘17 30w

+ =Lit D= 54:1855 Je 16 ‘17 180w

“Another contribution to the already abundant supply of heavily
sugared, whipped-cream fiction. ... The author has made a determined
effort to write in a light and amusing manner.”

=N Y Times= 22:122 Ap 1 ‘17 150w

Reviewed by Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 91:583 F 17 ‘17 400w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 18 ‘17 250w

=WEYL, WALTER EDWARD.= American world policies. *$2.25 (2½c) Macmillan 327.73 17-6653

The war has destroyed American isolation. A new policy must be
adopted. Shall it be nationalistic imperialism or internationalism? As
the author sees it this is the choice offered. Part 1, Our idealistic
past, is a discussion of the forces that have shaped our policies and
ideals in the past. Part 2, The root of imperialism, is a study of
industrial competition, the fight for world trade and the economic
background of war generally. Part 3, Towards economic
internationalism, offers a definition of dynamic pacifism and
discusses some of the difficulties that must be faced if the second
course is adopted. Today the nation stands in a position to contribute
to the political progress of the world, says the author: “Either it
can cling hopelessly to the last vestiges of its policy of isolation
or can launch out into imperialistic ventures, or finally it can
promote, as can no other nation, a policy of internationalism, which
will bind together the nations in a union of mutual interest, and will
hasten the peaceful progress of the economic and political integration
of the world.”

“Of the many valuable books produced by the world-war there is perhaps
none so admirably suited to the needs of the American public as this
very able and readable volume by Dr Weyl. While the writer finds
reason to believe that eventually the world may be organized for
peace, his belief is not based on a blind optimism, nor does he seek
to evade the gigantic problems of world-statesmanship that must be
solved. His presentation of these questions in such a way as to
challenge further interest and effort rather than to overcome the
reader with dismay, is one of the distinct accomplishments of the
book.” A. B. Hall

+ =Am J Soc= 23:256 S ‘17 750w

“A thoughtful and thought provoking presentation so concisely and
clearly written as to be popular with readers having an interest in
such subjects.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:430 Jl ‘17

“A critical, dispassionate, patriotic study of the fundamental
economic, political, and social factors of which American policy must
take account and from which it must spring. Mr Weyl’s grasp of the
complex elements of the situation is admirable; unlike too many
so-called students he studies the United States in the light of
international relationships, of European history as understood in
Europe, instead of dealing with international complexities on the
basis of a history of American diplomacy unconsciously founded upon
the fiction of isolation.” R. G. Usher

+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:573 Ag ‘17 450w

“The author is primarily an economist. This accounts for both the
strength and the weakness of the book. Its weakness consists in the
author’s tendency to interpret all international relations in economic
terms. ... With this word of caution in mind, Mr Weyl’s book may be
read with extreme profit and pleasure. ... He compels the reader to
consider and ponder thoughtfully matters which most writers in this
field have either ignored or failed to emphasize. ... The strength of
this book lies in the overwhelmingly convincing manner with which the
author demonstrates the absolute need of an ‘economic
internationalism’ as the basis of world-peace.” P. M. Brown

+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:242 Jl ‘17 450w

“A book that will make for far-sightedness, for clarity of thought and
sanity of judgment in the deciding of many of our problems, and the
directing of our course.” F. F. Kelly

+ =Bookm= 45:185 Ap ‘17 400w

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 400w

“The most impressive thing in his book is the analysis of imperialist
forces, the sense he conveys of the vast sweep of the great modern
populations in their push toward subsistence. He searches honestly for
‘antidotes to imperialism’ and has no smug ‘liberal’ illusions about
the beneficence of a ‘liberal’ imperialism. This critical analysis is
more valuable than anything he does specifically for American
enlightenment.” Randolph Bourne

+ =Dial= 62:388 My 3 ‘17 700w

“Here we think is the weakness of his book. By keeping his eye on the
evils that he finds in great individual wealth, he passes too lightly
by the ideals of mankind and nations. ... Whatever may be thought the
practicality of the international imperialism he favors as a
substitute for national imperialism all will agree that Dr Weyl has
written one of the most stimulating and enlightening books on our
foreign policy that has been published during the war.”

+ — =Ind= 90:551 Je 23 ‘17 1150w

“It is unfortunate that Walter E. Weyl’s ‘American world policies’ was
sent to the press before American participation in the war became a
probability. His assumption that the United States would remain a
neutral throughout the struggle gives to much of the discussion,
especially in the final chapter, an almost absurd incongruity with all
aspects of the situation as it has ultimately developed. The book,
nevertheless, has great compensatory merits.”

+ =Nation= 105:19 Jl 5 ‘17 200w

“It is this quality of self-restraint, combined with his great ability
to think and write clearly, interestingly and convincingly, that
distinguishes Dr Weyl’s volume. ‘American world policies’ is an
exceedingly valuable aid to the intellectual preparedness of American
statesmen and laymen alike in this time of international crisis.” R.
W. Bruère

+ =New Repub= 10:327 Ap 14 ‘17 1750w

“As a statement of the contradictions and entanglements of present
world capitalism, and the relation of the United States to these the
work is an important one and will repay careful reading.” James Oneal

+ =N Y Call= p15 My 20 ‘17 900w

“It deserves careful consideration. More than any other writer, he
tries to make an intelligible statement of the real causes of the
war.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:129 Ap 8 ‘17 1050w

“Chiefly a discourse upon how war may be prevented and how America may
help to prevent it. Mr Weyl analyzes keenly and his explanation of
causes is better worth reading than most of what has been written on
this subject; but he leans rather to the side of economic fatalism and
his conclusions are not of the most hopeful sort. ... After finishing
Mr Weyl’s exceedingly clear and interesting analysis of world
politics, one may feel that the most important conclusion reached is
that no ultimately satisfactory adjustment between industrial nations
can be reached upon purely economic principles.”

+ =No Am= 205:622 Ap ‘17 1400w

=Pratt= p10 O ‘17 50w

“Deserves a wide reading. Here, for one thing, we have an analysis of
the ‘preparedness’ movement from a man who writes with a desire to get
beneath appearances. ... Mr Weyl’s remedy for imperialism is both
dynamic pacifism and internal reform. Here one may think that the
author takes too narrow a view. ... Mr Weyl goes farther than British
socialists are willing to do in attributing the present war to
economic causes.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 7 ‘17 1100w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p251 My 24 ‘17 160w

“Mr Weyl is not always impartial and not always accurate.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p374 Ag 9 ‘17 2150w

=WHARTON, MRS EDITH NEWBOLD (JONES).= Summer. *$1.50 (3c) Appleton 17-17516

Life was dreary as winter in the New England village of North Dormer.
Especially was it dreary to Charity Royall, the young girl whom Lawyer
Royall and his wife had brought down as a child from “the Mountain,”
the desolate settlement where law and order, mind and morals were as
nothing and lawlessness and sensuality were everything. Charity
thought the Mountain spelled freedom, though the villagers spoke of it
with a shudder. Her life was to sit in the village library to which no
one ever came, and to share the home of the old lawyer, whom she had
cause to mistrust, and who was stern and lonely after his wife’s
death. But one day Lucius Harney, the young architect, came and
changed the greyness of her life into the brightness of summer. Lucius
was of the kind that takes all and gives nothing and after he had gone
Charity knew that she was to pay the price. Then the old lawyer,
knowing, through the sins of his own past life, how bitter that price
would be, went through the ceremony of marriage with her, that the
village gossips should have nothing upon which to feed. And Charity
and the lawyer both found that goodness is greater than evil.

“In externals this is a simple variety of a common theme. But it is a
thoroughly individualized version of the old story, and a small
masterpiece of refined and economical art.”

+ =Ath= p597 N ‘17 90w

“Mrs Wharton has often been accused of bitterness; let her critics
note that the whole effect of this powerful story hangs upon our
recognition of the power of simple human goodness—not ‘virtuousness,’
but faithful, unselfish devotion of one sort or another—to make life
worth living.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:93 S ‘17 420w

“Where in New England did Mrs Wharton unearth the scene and the people
for her latest novel?... But reputation has its value, and ‘Summer’
will undoubtedly be sought because it is her latest novel. And that
there is something in it worth while because it is Mrs Wharton’s
cannot be denied.” E. F. E.

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 25 ‘17 1800w

“Mrs Wharton has failed in ‘Summer.’ It is a wonderfully well-written
book so far as the marshaling of words and phrases goes. The art of
the author is revealed in her remarkable sustaining of the element of
suspense; she puts off the catastrophe with consummate skill. And yet,
all this is, somehow, mere art: artifice, not life. Was Charity real
to Mrs Wharton? She is not to us: there are only one or two vague
moments when we feel with her at all.”

– + =Cath World= 106:127 O ‘17 600w

“A dreary and rather cold-blooded study, handled with Mrs Wharton’s
usual finesse.”

– + =Cleveland= p104 S ‘17 70w

“The combined power of impartial contemplation and sympathy makes the
genius of Thomas Hardy and it makes the genius of Mrs Wharton as it is
found in ‘Ethan Frome’ and ‘Summer.’” J: Macy

+ =Dial= 63:161 Ag 30 ‘17 1350w

“‘Summer’ reënters the field in which, with ‘Ethan Frome,’ Mrs Wharton
produced her single masterpiece. If she does not here duplicate or
rival that amazing feat, it is because the new matter falls short of
the old in tragic force and conclusiveness. We believe in Royall, and
we believe in Charity. But we do not believe in the young Lothario or
in the various tricks of coincidence with which the integrity of the
action is vitiated.”

+ — =Nation= 105:124 Ag 2 ‘17 530w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Nation= 1 5:600 N 29 ‘17 80w

“It is not a repellent story, but is essentially an empty one, and
suggests too often the failings of a person who is capable of going
slumming among souls.” F. H.

– + =New Repub= 11:311 Jl 14 ‘17 1500w

“Never has Mrs Wharton done anything more delicate, more exquisite,
than the pen pictures of the New England countryside with which this
book abounds. Of the sure and delicate analysis of Charity’s changing
and developing emotions, as of the chiseled beauty of the style, it is
unnecessary to speak; these are things which in connection with Mrs
Wharton’s work may be taken for granted. ‘Summer’ is not in any way a
big book; it ranks with its author’s lesser tales, not with ‘Ethan
Frome’ or ‘The house of mirth’ and their fellows.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:253 Jl 8 ‘17 1250w

Reviewed by Lawrence Gilman

+ =No Am= 206:304 Ag ‘17 1700w

– + =Outlook= 116:522 Ag 1 ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 22:650 O ‘17 70w

“The characters seem drawn in the flat; they are two-dimensional so
far as their emotions go. All the joy and pleasantness and tenderness
has been extracted from their lives with a hand so skilled in literary
portraiture that the sentences bite like the acids of the etcher.”

– + =R of Rs= 56:333 S ‘17 380w

+ =Sat R= 124:352 N 3 ‘17 100w

“Where Mrs Wharton fails is in preparing us for such an end to the
episode. She does not convince us either that the lawyer would have
married Charity at that moment or that she would have married him,
even in a temporary fit of bewildered despair.”

– + =Spec= 119:389 O 13 ‘17 630w

“The story is brilliantly conceived, with many tense passages and is
striking in its portrayal of diverse human passions, but its
conception of New England character is that of a ‘literary,’ even a
romantic, visitor.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 490w

“Anyone who cares about the way in which a pen is handled should take
this book and read, and read again, such pages as those which record
the excursion to the country town for the Fourth of July celebration,
or the girl’s visit to the insinuating lady-doctor, or the wild
night-piece of the funeral on the mountain.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p464 S 27 17 770w

=WHEELER, EVERETT PEPPERRELL.= Sixty years of American life, Taylor to Roosevelt, 1850 to 1910. il *$2.50 Dutton 329 17-3602

“This book is not a volume of personal or social memoirs. It is true
that the author has much to say of the great figures in the country’s
history during these sixty years. He has, for example, an interesting
chapter on ‘Presidents I have known,’ and another on ‘Changes in sixty
years.’ And scattered throughout his record are many delightful
personal touches, that seem to slip in almost unaware. But the book as
a whole is a study of political activity. Mr Wheeler has taken an
especially important part in the work of civil service and in tariff
reform. He has always been, as well, intimately concerned with the
municipal problems of New York city government. And these are the
matters that, readably and in valuable detail, are emphasized in his
book.”—N Y Times

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:335 My ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 17 ‘17 700w

“The chapters on the tariff and on municipal reform appeared in the
New York Evening Post and the Outlook.”

+ =Cleveland= p71 My ‘17 40w

+ =Ind= 91:76 Jl 14 ‘17 50w

“An inspiring book it is in every way, breathing through its five
hundred pages an unshaken loyalty to the principles of democratic
government, yet demonstrating how much one man can do, through
inconspicuous channels, towards making that scheme of government
measure up to its ideals.”

+ =Nation= 104:582 My 10 ‘17 280w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:39 Mr ‘17

“Offers a valuable and unusual addition to our knowledge of our
country’s internal history.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:49 F 11 ‘17 600w

=Pittsburgh= 22:685 O ‘17 70w

+ =R of Rs= 55:444 Ap ‘17 120w

=St Louis= 15:154 My ‘17

“One wishes that Mr Wheeler had injected more of that fervor of
impressionistic memory that made the late Justin McCarthy’s
‘Reminiscences,’ for instance, such delightful reading. The reprinting
of bits of speeches in themselves lend little color to the relation of
the struggle for civil-service reform in which Mr Wheeler was so
eminently engaged. ‘Presidents I have known’ is disappointingly most
impersonal.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 300w

=WHEELER, WILLIAM REGINALD=, ed. Book of verse of the great war. *$2 Yale univ. press 821.08 17-30693

“During the past two years and a half the compiler of this volume has
resided in Europe, America and Asia and has endeavored to choose the
most worthy expressions of sentiment concerning the war which have
come from these three continents.” (Editor’s preface) He has excluded
those poems which seemed inspired by the extreme animosities of the
war, holding to this principle in the hope that the book “may
contribute in some small measure to a renewal of the fellowship of the
universal community of mankind.” Among the poets represented are:
Laurence Binyon, Dana Burnet, Emile Cammaerts, Gilbert Frankau, John
Galsworthy, W. W. Gibson, Thomas Hardy, W. M. Letts, Josephine Preston
Peabody, and Rabindranath Tagore. There is a foreword by Charlton M.
Lewis, professor of English literature at Yale.

=A L A Bkl= 14:159 F ‘18

=Cleveland= p5 Ja ‘18 130w

“The principles of selection shown in this collection are judicious,
but it is to be regretted that the poems for the most part chosen have
appeared in another book which is less expensive, easier to hold and
more attractive to the eye.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p13 Ja 20 ‘18 130w

=WHERRY, EDITH.= Wanderer on a thousand hills. *$1.40 (2c) Lane 17-11706

The first part of this story tells the tragedy of little Tung Mei,
Winter Almond. An only child, she had been educated by her father in
defiance of Chinese custom. But the only fate for a Chinese girl, even
one who can read the classics, is marriage, and marriage means slavery
under the domination of a mother-in-law. In bearing a girl child, Tung
Mei is disgraced. She is held responsible for her husband’s sudden
death, her baby is murdered and she is driven out into a storm. The
second part of the story begins with her finding of little Carl
Osborne, the child of missionary parents. Like herself he is lost in
the storm, and Tung Mei in her distraught state looks on him as a gift
from heaven to assuage her woe. She brings him up as her own, and it
is not till he reaches young manhood that he learns that he is not of
Chinese birth. He tries unsuccessfully to adapt himself to foreign
ways, and later becomes the fanatic known as the wanderer on a
thousand hills.

“A grievous and dismal tale with hardly any relief and with extreme
attention paid to the particulars of Chinese superstition and the
delusions of Chinese fanaticism.”

— =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 100w

+ =Dial= 62:528 Je 14 ‘17 50w

“The book has dramatic quality and atmosphere.”

+ =Ind= 90:295 My 12 ‘17 160w

“It shows, as did ‘Kim,’ that a story, void of the master passion, may
yet command a breathless interest. ... As we read, we are conscious of
more than intellectual enjoyment; we are tarrying a while at the
Interpreter’s house.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:183 My 6 ‘17 500w

“By a Canadian writer—the wife of a Montreal physician.”

+ =Ontario Library Review= 1:121 My ‘17 70w

“A tragic and often painful story.”

=Outlook= 116:74 My 9 ‘17 60w

“Interesting psychological study contrasting the oriental and western
ideals.”

+ =Pratt= p32 O ‘17 10w

“The story intimately pictures the human side of the Chinese, and
should go far in helping the unprejudiced westerner to a truer
understanding of these people. These pictures contain, perhaps, more
than a dash of idealism, suggested by the author’s obviously
sympathetic attitude.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 500w

=WHETHAM, CATHERINE DURNING (HOLT) (MRS WILLIAM CECIL DAMPIER WHETHAM).= Upbringing of daughters. *$1.75 (2c) Longmans 173 17-28870

This book by an Englishwoman has chapters on: The creation of the
home; The life of the family; Household duties; Health; Dress; Outdoor
life and games; General education; Scholastic instruction; The arts;
Holidays and entertainments; Books to read; Money matters; Professions
for daughters; Conduct; Religion; The abdication of the parent. The
discussions touch on many other subjects than that suggested by the
title, altho the author writes always from the viewpoint of a
housewife and mother. On matters pertaining to education, professional
careers for women, etc., she is conservative.

“Concerning education she would, no doubt, be classed by many as a
hopeless reactionary. But Mrs Whetham’s restatements are of the kind
that make old things new. ... Though the book is close, earnest
reading, it is neither heavy nor pedagogic; it appeals to all who take
interest in intelligent defence of the standards by which alone any
true progress has been or ever can be made.”

+ =Cath World= 105:833 S ‘17 300w

=WHIPPLE, GEORGE CHANDLER.= State sanitation; a review of the work of the Massachusetts State board of health, 1869-1914. 2v *$2.50 Harvard univ. press 614.09 (17-13246)

Two volumes devoted to this subject have been issued. The first volume
“is in two parts. Part 1 first sketches the early history of public
health work in Massachusetts to the beginning of the board in 1869. It
then outlines the history and the work of the board and its divisions,
including the world-famous Lawrence experiment station for the study
of water purification and sewage treatment and the engineering work of
the board. There is also a chapter of biographical sketches; a chapter
on the state department of health, 1914-16, and one on state
sanitation in general. Part 2 is an able condensation of the lengthy
‘Report of the Massachusetts sanitary commission of Massachusetts’
which under the leadership of Lemuel Shattuck worked out a detailed
plan for a ‘sanitary survey’ of the state—really a scheme for state
and local health work.” (Engin News-Rec) “The second volume contains
in some cases reprints and in other cases abridgments of the more
important articles or studies which have appeared in the publications
of the Massachusetts state board of health during the past forty-seven
years. Included also are chronological abstracts of the board’s annual
reports.” (Am Pol Sci R) “Extracted from the 1878 report of the board
is a paper entitled ‘The filtration of potable water,’ written by
Prof. Wm. Ripley Nichols. This is one of many classics on water and
sewage treatment which are reprinted in full or abstract in this
volume.” (Engin News-Rec)

“Professor Whipple’s keen eye for the things that are interesting has
enabled him to make his book readable throughout. That it will be of
great service to special students of the subject is beyond question.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:791 N ‘17 170w (Review of v 1)

“Many of these writings represent pioneer achievement in the domain of
public health administration, and taken as a whole they afford an
interesting history of the stages through which that science has
developed during the last half century.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:158 F ‘18 90w (Review of v 2)

“An interesting and stimulating record of American progress in state
and municipal sanitation and preventive medicine.”

+ =Dial= 63:165 Ag 30 ‘17 230w (Review of v 1)

“Professor Whipple is rendering a notable service. The pleasurable
task he is doing so well is one for which he is well qualified through
long acquaintance with members of the board and of its staff and
through service on the Massachusetts public health council since
1914.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:130 Jl 19 ‘17 300w (Review of v 1)

+ =Engin News-Rec= 80:130 Ja 17 ‘18 450w (Review of v 2)

“A book of general as well as technical interest.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 15 ‘17 400w (Review of v 1).

=WHITE, ALBERT CLEMENT=, ed. Little book of Irish verse. *60c Dutton 821.08

“The profits from the sale of ‘A little book of Irish verse’ are
destined to add to the comfort of Irish troops, wounded or in the
field. Tho this collection cannot bear comparison with that in Yeats’s
‘Book of Irish verse,’ it still contains verses by some of the best
Irish poets of the day. Irish war poems are in evidence, but not less
so lyrics on themes quite unconnected with the present conflict.”—Ind

+ =Ind= 89:196 Ja 29 ‘17 100w

“Mr White, who is editor of the Ulster Guardian, has made careful
selection from the verse of some of the best known of the modern Irish
poets and in the main, as has been suggested, has chosen poems with a
war-time theme.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 30 ‘17 250w

=WHITE, VILLETTE HUTCHINS.=[2] Mental control of the body; or, Health through self-conquest. *$1 (4c) Clode, E: J. 131 17-21698

Aims to show the way to bodily healing thru an intelligent
understanding of a few basic facts, a vital faith in the possibility
of cure and a disciplined will to realize upon that faith. It differs
from Christian science healing in its conscious effort to treat
disease as a reality—to be met by bringing all the bodily forces and
functions under one’s control thru the will. The writer once
establishing the theory of her health scheme proceeds to give a simple
practical method of application by which the reader may find health.

=WHITE, WILLIAM ALANSON.=[2] Mechanisms of character formation. *$1.75 (3c) Macmillan 130 16-22292

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“On the whole, Dr White’s book shows wide learning and offers much
interesting material, but lacks logical coherence and exactness of
terminology and is marred occasionally by slovenly English. In spite
of its subtitle, ‘An introduction to psychoanalysis,’ it hardly meets
that need as successfully as Hitschmann’s ‘Freud’s theories of the
neuroses,’ recently made accessible to English readers, neither does
it possess the incisiveness and clarity of Professor Holt’s brilliant
little book, ‘The Freudian wish.’ The chief attraction of the book is
the note of broad and sympathetic humanism running through it.” J: M.
Mecklin

+ — =J Philos= 14:715 D 20 ‘17 750w

“We have apprehended no real ‘message’ in this book, either to the
medical student or to the general reader; it seems to us to get
nowhere in particular.”

– + =Nation= 104:584 My 10 ‘17 200w

“The criticism which applies to all Freudian psychologists applies to
the present author as well. They assume much and interpret much on
slender evidence.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 30 ‘17 200w

“Its teaching is rather obscured than clarified by the vague
philosophy of life and of the universe which the author, in common
with many of the school, delights in spinning about the facts of their
practice.” R. S. Woodworth

– + =Survey= 38:361 Jl 21 ‘17 110w

=WHITEHEAD, HENRY=, bp. of Madras. Village gods of South India. il *85c Oxford 229 17-3158

“This is the first of a series of small volumes dealing with the
Religious life of India, under the editorship of Mr J. N. Farquhar,
literary secretary, Y. M. C. A. in India. The volume under review is
by the Bishop of Madras. ... He shows how the village gods symbolize
the facts of village life, and suggests the hypothesis that the form
of their worship, viz., animal sacrifice, is a survival of totemism
from a time when the people lived a nomadic life. ... The fact that
women perform so much of the agricultural work among primitives
suggests an explanation for the fact that the majority of the South
Indian deities are female.”—Bib World

“Gives a mass of new material for the study of comparative religion.”
W. D. S.

+ =Am J Theol= 21:157 Ja ‘17 200w

“The book is deserving of a hearty reception by students of the
history of religion.”

+ =Bib World= 49:48 Ja ‘17 200w

“It is a needed volume, handy, straightforward, and not antipathetic.”

+ =Lit D= 54:913 Mr 31 ‘17 140w

“A glossary of Indian terms, a list of gods, male and female, and a
geographical index to the ethnological divisions, all provided with
diacritical marks, promise well for the series.”

+ =Nation= 103:615 D 28 ‘16 400w

+ =Spec= 117:136 Jl 29 ‘16 140w

“Mr J. N. Farquhar is entirely competent. Successive volumes, some in
preparation and others in projection, are to be written by authorities
who have every reason and opportunity for full investigation upon the
spot.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p412 Ag 31 ‘16 90w

=WHITING, LILIAN.= Adventure beautiful. il *$1 (2c) Little 134 17-25596

The author has taken Charles Frohman’s words: “Death is the most
beautiful adventure in life,” for the text of her first essay. The
present appalling sacrifice of life leads her to look for spiritual
compensations and to contemplate the possibility of immortality and
its evidences. The remaining essays of the book are: The reality of
the unseen; Twenty years in retrospect; Some psychical experiences;
Powers of the ethereal body; The nature of the ethereal world;
Creative agencies of the spiritual life; Make room for happiness; Also
the Holy Ghost, the Comforter.

“Miss Whiting has made a genuine contribution to the discussion of a
theme which must more and more command the world’s attention.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 5 ‘17 300w

+ =Lit D= 56:36 Ja 26 ‘18 130w

“Miss Whiting has much to say of the sort of spiritualism taught by
Professor Hyslop. With this spookery she mingles fragments of
mysticism caught from anywhere in the Orient. The effect of the
mixture upon one soul at least is not exalting, but there are readers
who enjoy Miss Whiting’s rhapsodies more than does this reviewer.”

— =Nation= 105:517 N 8 ‘17 200w

“One can hardly lay down her book without feeling more hopeful of
happiness in the world beyond.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:498 N 25 ‘17 400w

=WHITING, LILIAN.= Canada, the spellbinder. il *$2.50 Dutton 917.1 17-22084

“A brief survey of the ‘creative forces’ of Canada, those explorers,
missionaries, adventurers, pioneers, traders, scientists and statesmen
who from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries have explored and
developed her picturesque and fruitful domains, is followed by
detailed studies of various localities.” (Boston Transcript)
“Beginning with ‘Quebec and the picturesque maritime region,’ Miss
Whiting travels slowly westward, describing the chief cities, the
summer resorts, visiting Cobalt and the silver mines, and so going on
through Winnipeg and Edmonton to the western coast. There is a chapter
on ‘Prince Rupert and Alaska,’ and another describing the journey from
Prince Rupert by way of Vancouver, Victoria, and Seattle to San
Francisco, where another section is devoted to Canada in the
Panama-Pacific exposition.” (N Y Times) “There is a chapter on the
poets of Canada, C. G. D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, W. H. Drummond, and
others.” (Spec) “The book incorporates portions of Miss Whiting’s
articles which appeared in the Sunday Springfield Republican in 1916.”
(Springf’d Republican)

=A L A Bkl= 14:57 N ‘17

“The interest of this readable volume is increased by numerous fine
illustrations in colour and monotone.”

+ =Ath= p315 Je ‘17 40w

“Miss Whiting reviews for us not only the development of those
Canadian cities and provinces of which we already have a superficial
knowledge, but also such places as Winnipeg and Prince Rupert.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 420w

“She lacks great power of description, but to offset this, falls back
upon scores of writers and poets who have written of the scenes she
visits.”

+ — =Cath World= 106:546 Ja ‘18 90w

+ =Cleveland= p12 Ja ‘18 40w

“Lilian Whiting’s enthusiasm of spirit and glow of language are at
their usual high level in ‘Canada the spellbinder.’”

+ — =Nation= 105:18 Jl 5 ‘17 180w

+ =N Y Times= 22:236 Je 17 ‘17 250w

=Pittsburgh= 22:677 O ‘17 70w

+ =Spec= 118:593 My 26 ‘17 70w

“A very happy specimen of globe-trotting literature taken in serious
vein. ... Journalists and readers who are interested in journalism
will note with special attention Miss Whiting’s comment on the founder
of the Toronto Globe.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 4 ‘17 480w

=WHITMAN, SIDNEY.= Things I remember. *$2.50 (3½c) Stokes 17-8078

The subtitle describes this book as “The recollections of a political
writer in the capitals of Europe.” The author was for many years
special correspondent for the New York Herald. His recollections go
back to the early nineties. Among other things he writes of: Vienna;
Salonica and Constantinople; The Spanish-American war; Bismarck’s
death; Warsaw in revolt; Berlin during the Algeciras conference; W. T.
Stead; James Gordon Bennett.

=A L A Bkl= 13:352 My ‘17

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:406 My ‘17 50w

“Mr Whitman, well known for his travels over Europe and his
intercourse with great and formidable people for the benefit of the
‘New York Herald,’ has revived some of his memories in a pleasant and
easy narrative. ... We have much to learn concerning Germany, and Mr
Whitman is well qualified to teach us.”

+ =Sat R= 122:461 N 11 ‘16 750w

“A most interesting book, and one which deserves the attention of all
those who desire to understand the inner working of German policy.”

+ =Spec= 117:554 N 4 ‘16 750w

“One of the best books of memoirs which have recently appeared.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p494 O 19 ‘16 650w

=WHITTON, FREDERICK ERNEST.=[2] History of Poland from the earliest times to the present day. *$3 Scribner 943.8

“Major Whitton traces the record of ‘the most unfortunate and not the
least noble of European peoples,’ the rise and fall of their great
kingdom. Naturally our interest centres in events since the beginning
of the famous partitions, and in the fate of Poland under Russian,
Prussian, and Austrian rule. The story of the partitions is told in
detail, with significant sketches of the characters of the rulers
involved—Catherine the Great of Russia, first Frederick the Great and
then Frederick William of Prussia, and first Maria Theresa and then
Francis of Austria.” (N Y Times) “In his story of the famous
partitions Colonel Whitton follows Lord Eversley fairly closely, but
he has been preserved by study of the cold-blooded ‘Cambridge modern
history’ from being too pronounced a partisan of the Poles. He is
fully alive to the weak points in their national character and to the
viciousness of their system of government.” (Spec)

+ =Ath= p531 O ‘17 220w

“His narrative is interesting, readable, and to the point. But the
book suffers from two weaknesses—a marked insufficiency of dates and a
remissness in dealing with the life of the common people.”

+ — =Ath= p585 N ‘17 570w

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 16 ‘18 490w

“‘A history of Poland’ is not only a presentation of valuable and
pertinent facts, but is written with a simplicity and vividness that
make the book thoroughly interesting.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:2 Ja 6 ‘18 360w

“He would, we are sure, lay no claim to be an original historian; he
has not added anything to the sum of knowledge. Nevertheless, we can
cordially recommend his book.”

+ =Spec= 119:358 O 6 ‘17 820w

“The author gives a clear but not very well balanced account of the
Polish kingdom under its successive monarchs. It must be confessed,
that the earlier part of the book is unsatisfactory, especially
chapters 1 and 3, and contains actual mistakes. The best part of Major
Whitton’s book is certainly its later portion.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p511 O 25 ‘17 1500w

=WHITTON, FREDERICK ERNEST.= Marne campaign. (Campaigns and their lessons) maps *$4 (5c) Houghton 940.91 17-24849

For years before the outbreak of the European war, Major Whitton
points out in his preface, military experts of all countries had been
considering the problem of handling the huge armies which a modern war
would demand. In the campaigns of the Marne theories were put to a
practical test, and it is from this point of view, that of military
strategy, that the battle is here studied. “The battle of the Marne
furnishes the military student with a signal example of the
strategical counter-attack on a great scale.” Eight folding maps are
provided at the end and there is a bibliography.

=A L A Bkl= 14:91 D ‘17

“Will be useful to civilian and military readers alike. Eight clear
maps illustrate the book.”

+ =Ath= p260 My ‘17 140w

“The book contains an excellent map of the alignments of the armies,
numbered according to their corps, divisions and brigades upon the
most reliable up-to-date information.”

+ =Ind= 91:477 S 22 ‘17 170w

“The present volume tells this story in a particularly masterly
manner, and is perhaps the best documented and most circumstantial
account of the great battle. None, in fact, that has been issued is
comparable to it, except Mr Belloc’s volume of about a year ago.”

+ =Lit D= 55:38 O 13 ‘17 580w

=N Y Times= 22:323 S 2 ‘17 250w

+ =R of Rs= 56:213 Ag ‘17 130w

“He is clear and concise, and his book gives a much better general
impression of the battle of the Marne than any other we know.”

+ =Sat R= 123:284 My 24 ‘17 250w

“A very useful and well-written narrative. There have been two rival
theories of the Marne. The common view is that General Maunoury’s
flank attack on the Ourcq upon General von Kluck, who commanded on the
German right was the deciding factor. Major Whitton adopts this
theory, and supports it by a good deal of evidence.”

* + =Spec= 119:143 Ag 11 ‘17 1350w

“Considering that Major Whitton’s narrative is built throughout of
similar and not more stable material, we are half inclined to mourn
over the labour which he has expended upon it. For the author has not
done his work ill. He writes good, clear, and vigorous English; and
his summary of the military and naval resources of the combatants and
of the operations preceding the battle of the Marne is, so far as his
information goes, terse and pointed.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p195 Ap 26 ‘17 1450w

=WHYTE, ADAM GOWANS.= World’s wonder stories. il *$1.75 (2½c) Putnam 500 18-2983

A book of rather miscellaneous information about the universe,
together with a discussion of ethical problems, designed for young
readers. Contents: How was the world made? Where did the plants and
animals come from? Nature’s family tree; Who was the first man? Who
was the greatest grandfather of creation? Where did all the religions
come from? Where did the Bible come from? Where did right and wrong
come from? How do things happen? There are many illustrations.

“It is that rare thing, a book written for children without being in
some sense written down to them,—and therefore a delight to the reader
of any age.” J: Walcott

+ =Bookm= 46:497 D ‘17 120w

=Ind= 92:449 D 1 ‘17 30w

“The information is correct and modern; and the language is dignified
and circumspect. Orthodox teachers and parents whose teaching of
morality follows conventional lines would undoubtedly derive benefit
from the method of presentation adopted, while no child could read the
book without understanding something of the scientific method and what
it has accomplished.”

+ =Nature= 98:208 N 16 ‘16 160w