Chapter LXXXIX: Part 4: is given up to appendices devoted to the more advanced (14)

“A vast amount of valuable information is included in the volume.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 21 ‘17 110w

“We began the book with misgiving, as the style seemed to foreshadow
that lisping sing-song which is the form of address so often deemed
appropriate in modern children’s books. But we proceeded with growing
pleasure, and finally devoured all the wonders with relish. It is a
delightful book. ... We may add as a parting criticism that we doubt
whether it was well advised to include the picture of ‘what our
great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers looked like in the days when
the ape-men were slowly changing into men.’”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p609 D 14 ‘16 380w

=WIDDEMER, MARGARET.= Factories. *$1.25 Holt 811 17-23582

This book was first published in 1915 under the title, “Factories,
with other lyrics”; and has been for some time out of print. The
publisher states that the book has been reset for this new edition,
and that the author has made some changes in the original text as well
as added a number of new poems. The poems, with the exception of the
title poem, are grouped under the headings: Poems of now; The
wandering singer; Youth learns; Greek folk songs; Love songs; The
border country.

=WIDDEMER, MARGARET.= Winona of Camp Karonya. il *$1.25 (1½c) Lippincott 17-28799

The story opens with the breaking up of camp and the return of the
Camp Karonya girls to town. During the winter following they assume
responsibility for a family of neglected children and plan a pageant,
in addition to carrying on the usual Camp fire activities. The story
has two mysteries, one concerning a lost boy, who seems to have
strayed over from the war zone, the other connected with a lost baby.

“The main thing is less the plot than the atmosphere of unselfishness
and right feeling with which, without sentimental strain, the writer
surrounds her story.” J: Walcott

+ =Bookm= 46:499 D ‘17 140w

“The author of this book understands the Camp fire girl movement
thoroughly. Her one endeavor throughout is to show the effect that
Camp fire virtues have on a group of very healthy girls.”

+ =Lit D= 55:60 D 8 ‘17 33w

“A nice, long worth-while story.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:466 N 11 ‘17 120w

=WIDDEMER, MARGARET.= Wishing-ring man. il *$1.35 (2c) Holt 17-25082

Joy Hayenith, nineteen and beautiful, is kept a child by her famous
and egoistical grandfather, the poet. She meets a young doctor who
finds out that Joy is longing for pleasure and adventure, and tells
her that if she keeps on believing things will happen that very belief
may bring her what she wants “like a wishing-ring.” In order to get
permission to visit Phyllis and Allan Harrington, of “The rose garden
husband,” Joy lies to her grandfather, telling him that she is engaged
to the Harrington’s friend and neighbor, Dr John Hewitt. Hewitt
appears on the scene unexpectedly and accepts the situation. The story
goes on to picture the consequences of this word spoken in jest. All
misunderstandings are finally cleared up, and the book ends happily.

=A L A Bkl= 14:99 D ‘17

“We enter the land of romance when we read one of these novels of Miss
Widdemer’s. Reality is there too, but it is a guest rather than the
ruler of the kingdom. The bits of humor help toward this perfect
welding of romance and reality.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 27 ‘17 780w

“Margaret Widdemer has given us an impossible book—a naïve book—a book
that reminds us, in its simplicity, of the days when we read and
enjoyed ‘The five little Peppers,’” D: P. Berenberg

— =N Y Call= p15 N 11 ‘17 460w

“A charming, slight little tale, written with vivacity and with
ever-bubbling humor.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:397 O 14 ‘17 320w

“It is the purpose to make ‘The wishing-ring man’ a sequel to ‘The
rose garden husband.’ But structural similarity makes this only a weak
and frankly artificial echo of the other charming romance.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 200w

=WIER, ALBERT E.= Grand opera with a victrola. *75c Appleton 782.1 16-4756

A book “containing the stories, the most popular music, and the Victor
record numbers of Aïda, Faust, Carmen, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin,
Cavalleria rusticana, Rigoletto, Il trovatore, The Bohemian girl,
Tales of Hoffman, Hansel and Gretel, Lucia di Lammermoor; arranged for
playing, singing and the selection of Victor records.”—N Y Br Lib News

=A L A Bkl= 13:388 Je ‘17

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:73 My ‘17

=St Louis= 15:173 Je ‘17

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:62 F ‘17 70w

=WIERS-JENSSEN, HANS.= Anne Pedersdotter. *$1 Little 839.8 17-24983

The author is a Danish dramatist. The English version of “Anne
Pedersdotter” is by John Masefield. The play has been produced both in
England and America. The action takes place in Bergen in the year
1574, and concerns a case of witchcraft in which Anne Pedersdotter,
wife of Absolon Beyer, palace chaplain, is the central figure. The
first three acts are laid in Absolon’s house, the last in the choir of
the cathedral.

Reviewed by Algernon Tassin

+ =Bookm= 46:349 N ‘17 110w

=Cleveland= p135 D ‘17 50w

“It is a drama of great possibilities; but the tragic, unexpected
climax will prevent it from ever becoming popular and makes it a play
to be read rather than acted.”

+ — =New Repub= 13:sup16 N 17 ‘17 210w

“The trial scene for dramatic power must stand with the great scenes
of modern drama.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:109 Ja ‘18 150w

“Apparently the morbid horror of numerous situations is the only
raison d’etre of the piece.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 220w

=WIGMORE, JOHN HENRY=, ed. Science and learning in France; with a survey of opportunities for American students in French universities. il $1.50 Soc. for American fellowships in French universities, J. H. Wigmore, ed., 31 Lake st., Chicago; for sale by McClurg 378 17-26896

This volume of over 400 pages, the work of nearly 100 leading American
scholars and members of college and university faculties, takes up
some 22 subjects—medicine, engineering, philology, chemistry, geology,
archæology, etc. The general editor is John H. Wigmore of Northwestern
university, and associated with him as vice chairman of the Author’s
committee is Charles H. Grandgent of Harvard university. “As stated in
its preface, its purpose is to put before the American public the
contributions of France in all fields of scientific knowledge, and to
show her status in the forefront of the world’s progress, thus
furnishing to American university students an incentive to pursue
graduate work in France. Each chapter sets forth briefly for a
particular field the notable achievements and eminent leaders of
French scholarship during the past century; and the courses of
instruction given now or recently at the French universities,
especially at the University of Paris, with the facilities available
for study and research. There is also an introduction, by President
Emeritus Eliot of Harvard, on the intellectual inspiration of Paris
and France.” (Cath World) “The first of the three appendices contains
an article by James Geddes, Jr., which narrates the history of the
intellectual sympathies and university relations between France and
America. ... The other two appendices contain much practical
information for students intending to take advanced work in France.”
(N Y Times)

“No thinking person, however prejudiced, could read this record of
scholarly and scientific accomplishment without realizing the sober
intellectual power, the strong moral fibre of the French people, and
no one who had grasped that fact before the war could have talked
glibly, as many did, of France regenerated by the ordeal of battle.”
C. H. Van Tyne

+ =Am Hist R= 23:391 Ja ‘18 1300w

“As a handbook for American students who contemplate study abroad the
book will be indispensable.” C: A. Ellwood

+ =Am J Soc= 23:412 N ‘17 350w

=A L A Bkl= 14:78 D ‘17

=Am Pol Sci R= 12:155 F ‘18 100w

“The volume, besides being a revelation to most of us, is also a
beautiful testimonial to the modesty of the French scholar who made so
little effort to claim the applause of the world. The one criticism
that can be made is that names occur to one’s mind constantly which
might have been included. The chapter on law is too short.” Albert
Schinz

+ — =Bookm= 46:445 D ‘17 3050w

“On the whole, the appreciation of Catholic scholars is just. ...
There are occasional omissions of names which might be expected, such
as Branly, of the Catholic institute of Paris, the discoverer of the
principle of the wireless. ... The paper on religion deals almost
exclusively with the history of religions, and is written with a
carefulness apparently designed to avoid points of controversy. In the
list of libraries, that of the Catholic institute of Paris should
certainly have been mentioned, and even that of the Seminary of St
Sulpice, which has a recognized standing.”

+ =Cath World= 105:840 S ‘17 390w

“There is not a hint of propagandist ardor in ‘Science and learning in
France.’ Such ardor would be an insult to France, which needs no
commendation beyond the simple record of achievement. Everywhere in
this book western culture is recognized as international—a growth to
which all the peoples have made important contributions. ... It is a
compendious introduction to the intellectual world of France, intended
to serve as a guide for students who may be planning to work for a
doctorate abroad. But it should serve the broader purpose of
acquainting the general public with the brilliant achievements of
contemporary France. ... I think there is some need for Americans to
read ‘Science and learning in France.’” C. H.

+ =Dial= 63:159 Ag 30 ‘17 1350w

Reviewed by Ferdinand Baldensperger

+ =Nation= 106:37 Ja 10 ‘18 2600w

“Such books as this will be especially useful in bringing Americans to
realize the importance of a section of French life and effort of which
too many have known little and thought less.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:277 Jl 29 ‘17 1800w

“The publication of this book coincides with the establishment of an
American university union in Paris, cementing the bond between
American students and French universities.”

+ =Outlook= 117:103 S 19 ‘17 320w

“Although the disparagement of German learning and research may be
carried to absurd extremes in these days of war-time passions, this
book should prove a valuable aid toward opening the treasure-house of
French learning to the American students.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 23 ‘18 280w

=WILBUR, MARY ARONETTA.= Child’s religion. *$1 (4c) Houghton 377 17-9361

A series of papers on the religious training of children, some of them
reprinted from the Churchman. The author’s attitude is expressed in a
quotation from another religious teacher: “You cannot give your
children religion; that is not your province. Your work is to keep the
child in position before God.” Contents: A child’s religion; The child
and the church; Children and missions; The song and the child; The
child and his book; On telling Bible stories; A Sunday-school
teacher’s biography; The childlike teacher; The old Bible and the new
child.

=A L A Bkl= 13:379 Je ‘17

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:95 Je ‘17

+ =R of Rs= 55:553 My ‘17 40w

=WILCOX, EARLEY VERNON.= Tropical agriculture. *$2.50 Appleton 630 16-22335

“The author has had in mind the general reader in writing this work,
not the farmer of the tropics. ... Climate, soil, agricultural
methods, live stock and economic conditions are briefly discussed. The
larger part of the volume deals with a description of the nature,
source and commercial importance of about 350 tropical products,
including sugar cane, nuts, fruits, starchy foods, tobacco, fiber
plants, rubber, gum, drugs, tans, dyes, spices, flavorings, perfumes,
oils, timber and woods.”—Ann Am Acad

“Good illustrations and a bibliography of books and periodicals. For
reference rather than for general reading.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:339 My ‘17

“He is especially clear in discussing economic conditions not to
overestimate the opportunities for the small farmer but shows that it
is the large owner who reaps his profit from low-priced labor or the
middle man who has made great profits. ... The appendix, with reviews
of the literature related to the subject, and a full bibliography of
the periodicals from all parts of the world, are especially good.” C.
W. Larson

+ =Ann Am Acad= 70:319 Mr ‘17 480w

“Dr Wilcox, who is now an administrative assistant in the States
relation service of the United States Department of agriculture, was
for six years in charge of the Hawaii experiment station. His book is
the first real American contribution to cover the whole subject of
crops, cultural methods and live stock in the tropics.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 20 ‘17 200w

“The opening chapters on tropical climate, soils, agricultural
methods, etc., might with great advantage be carefully revised and
reconsidered. ... The reader is disappointed to note a lack of
proportion, an utter disregard of uniformity in treatment, and an
entire absence of method—qualities essential in a book of reference.
The plates serve a pictorial rather than a practical purpose. ... The
book, as it stands, cannot become a textbook for either the merchant
or the student. It needs drastic revision.”

— =Nature= 99:183 My 3 ‘17 650w

+ =N Y Times= 22:220 Je 3 ‘17 50w

=WILD, LAURA HULDA.= Evolution of the Hebrew people and their influence on civilization. *$1.50 (1½c) Scribner 220.9 17-24078

The author is professor of biblical history and literature in Mt.
Holyoke college, and this book is the result of several years of
teaching pupils “who come to college with no adequate conception of
what the Bible stands for.” It is a work for beginners and attempts
“to relate Bible study to the great fields of knowledge that command a
modern student’s attention, to show something of the fascination of
Bible study pursued in this way, and to leave a positive conviction of
the surpassing value of the great prophetic thoughts handed down to
us.” (Preface) The book is divided into five parts: The cultural
background of Hebrew life; A sketch of the development of religious
ideas; The influence of physical environment upon the development of
the Hebrew race; Israel’s economic and social development; The place
in world thought of the great Hebrew prophetic teachers. There are two
maps, a bibliography and an index.

=A L A Bkl= 14:111 Ja ‘18

“The book ought to serve its purpose well. It does not make too great
demands of the beginner. It meets him at least half-way. It ranges
about freely through the whole biblical world seeking out the
interesting and attractive spots and finding them.”

+ =Bib World= 51:47 Ja ‘18 210w

“There is much interesting and valuable material in the book.”

+ =Lit D= 55:52 D 1 ‘17 380w

=WILDE, PERCIVAL.= Unseen host, and other war plays. *$1.25 Little 812 17-25290

These five one-act plays survey the present war from many angles. The
“Unseen host” is based upon the legend of the “Angels of Mons”;
“Mothers of men” is an interview between two women whose sons are at
the front; “Pawns” is the story of some Russian and Austrian peasants
living as neighbors on the frontier and summoned to mobilize, quite
ignorant of what mobilization means; “In the ravine” is a conversation
between an Italian professor of biology and an Austrian forger, who
have been fighting on the heights; and “Valkyrie” is a conversation on
the battlefield between two wounded officers, one German and the other
British and a common soldier.

“‘Mother of men’ and ‘Pawns’ are both powerful, thoroughly realised
achievements. He displays no weakness anywhere, is rich in dramatic
device, nervous yet natural in dialogue, frugal in means, strong in
concentration.” Algernon Tassin

+ =Bookm= 46:349 N ‘17 40w

“His new volume shows growth in Mr Wilde, especially in his
understanding of the springs of human emotion. Of the new series the
title play, a fine and effective use of the legend of the angels at
the battle of the Marne, is the best, but he almost duplicates the
success of this difficult piece of work in his German version of a
similar theme, ‘Valkyrie.’ Taken together these are the finest dramas
the war has inspired in America.” Williams Haynes

+ =Dial= 63:586 D 6 ‘17 560w

“The point of view is cosmopolitan rather than simply patriotic, and
the dialogs between enemies who have found out that, after all, they
share a common humanity light up the tragedy and absurdity of war with
far greater skill than any deliberately purposed pacifistic play could
hope to attain.”

+ =Ind= 92:63 O 6 ‘17 60w

+ =R of Rs= 57:101 Ja ‘18 100w

=WILKINS, ERNEST HATCH; COLEMAN, ALGERNON, and HUSE, HOWARD RUSSELL.= First lessons in spoken French for men in military service. *50c Univ. of Chicago press 448 17-19499

“The purpose of this book is to help men in American military service
(1) to understand what may be said to them in French; (2) to make
themselves understood in French; (3) to understand printed French. The
facts and words of French are presented consistently in terms of
sound. ... For the representation of the French sounds we have used a
set of phonetic symbols for which we claim at least the merit of
simplicity. It coincides to a considerable degree with the set used in
Grandgent’s ‘Short French grammar.’ We have deliberately ignored
certain differentiations in sound which are commonly taught, and which
should be taught under normal circumstances. ... The words chosen for
the word-lists have been selected with reference to the particular
needs of men in the service.” (Preface)

“An excellent textbook for oral work. Word lists and order of the
lessons are well chosen. Index and table of word lists, no
vocabulary.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:10 O ‘37

=Pittsburgh= 22:694 O ‘17

=WILKINSON, ANDREWS.= Boy holidays in the Louisiana wilds. il *$1.50 (2c) Little 17-24284

This book will introduce new types of adventure to northern boy
readers. Capturing alligators, hunting the marsh lynx, and fishing in
the bayous of lower Louisiana are the pastimes of its three young
heroes. Woven in with the recital of their real exploits are the tales
told by Uncle Jason, tales of the Uncle Remus variety, with such
titles as, The wise coon that got away, How the squirrel-jay war
began, How Mr Turkey Buzzard became bald. There are also attractive
pictures of home life on a big plantation and descriptions of the
country bordering the lower Mississippi.

“Children who love Uncle Remus’s stories will be glad of Andrews
Wilkinson’s ‘Boy holidays in the Louisiana wilds’ with its effective
pictures.”

+ =Ind= 92:447 D 1 ‘17 30w

“Their adventures are entertaining, and there are good descriptions of
southern scenery and life. But this is a book of stories rather than
adventure, and the interest centers in Uncle Jason, a second Uncle
Remus.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 110w

=WILKINSON, MRS MARGUERITE OGDEN (BIGELOW)=,[2] comp. Golden songs of the Golden state. *$1.50 McClurg 811.08 17-31452

A California anthology. There are included in it poems by California
writers and by others who have fallen under California’s charm. The
compiler says, “I have felt that in a sense California belongs to us
all—not only to the native sons and daughters, but to the many who
have been refreshed and strengthened and healed by sojourning
there. ... But whenever it has been possible I have given the
preference to poems by western poets who have made their reputations
in the West or who are now living there and definitely associated with
the West.” The book is made up of three parts: Pioneer voices; Voices
of the great singers; Living voices.

=WILLCOX, CORNÉLIS DE WITT.= War French. *75c Macmillan 448 17-24091

The author, a colonel in the United States army, is professor of
modern languages at the West Point military academy. Contents: Part 1,
The French language; part 2, The French army; part 3, Passages for
translation into English. About fifty pages of part 1 are devoted to
the verb. A few pages of vocabularies and conversations follow. The
army information in part 2 is also followed by vocabularies and
conversations. Following part 3 are French-English and English-French
vocabularies.

+ =Ind= 92:343 N 17 ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 22:835 D ‘17 50w

=WILLIAMS, ALBERT RHYS.= In the claws of the German eagle. il *$1.50 (3c) Dutton 940.91 17-12508

The entertaining quality which this book of war-time adventures
undoubtedly has, is due largely to its revelation of the author’s
personality. He writes with humor and sympathy, and without prejudice.
“To myself,” he writes, “out of these insights into the great
calamity, there has come reinforcement to my belief in the essential
greatness of the human stuff in all nations. Along with this goes a
faith that in the new internationalism mankind will lay low the
military Frankenstein that he has created, and realize the triumphant
brotherhood of all human souls.” The book consists of four parts: The
spy-hunters of Belgium; On foot with the German army; With the war
photographers in Belgium; Love among the ruins. The author is the
socialist pastor of a church in East Boston who was traveling in
Europe when the war broke out. His articles on the war were first
contributed to the Outlook.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:446 Jl ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p6 My 12 ‘17 130w

“The volume before us, however, has some noteworthy differences from
the general run. In the first place, the author was not a professional
war correspondent when the war began. Hence his narrative possesses a
certain freshness of outlook and naiveté of presentation. Secondly, as
he tells us, ‘there is no culling out of just those episodes which
support a particular theory, such as the total and complete depravity
of the German race. ... So I am not to blame whether those episodes
damn the Germans or bless them. Some do, and some don’t. What one ran
into was largely a matter of luck.’ There is a very human note running
through the book.”

+ + — =Cath World= 105:699 Ag ‘17 260w

“A vividly interesting account.”

+ =Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 50w

“Accounts of frightfulness might have added to the attractiveness of
his story for those who enjoy shuddering, but Mr Williams finds
himself unable, as an eye-witness, to record any such atrocities, and
so very wisely leaves them for others to write down. Yet it is no
flattering picture he paints of German conduct in Belgium.”

+ =Dial= 64:82 Ja 17 ‘18 80w

“His book is worth more than a dozen snap-shot records.”

+ =Ind= 91:72 Jl 14 ‘17 230w

“The book is gossipy, interesting and good humoured, though by no
means flippant in tone, and the writer seems unprejudiced and fair to
all around.” Joshua Wanhope

+ =N Y Call= p15 My 13 ‘17 500w

“We need more social passion of the sort that flames through every
word that Williams has written. This alone can lead us out of the
wilderness in which we wander.” Irwin Granich

+ =N Y Call= p15 My 20 ‘17 2000w

=Pittsburgh= 22:684 O ‘17 30w

“Unlike many historians of the early days of the war, Mr Williams has
kept his emotions well under control.”

=R of Rs= 55:668 Je ‘17 50w

“An eminently readable, rather humorous and certainly very human
book.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 11 ‘17 330w

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:220 Jl ‘17 50w

=WILLIAMS, BLANCHE COLTON.= Handbook on story writing. *$1.50 Dodd 808.3 17-31454

Among the many handbooks on short story writing, the author has found
none which gives the amateur the guidance he needs in matters of
construction. In her experience as teacher of English in Hunter
college and in conducting extension classes in story writing at
Columbia, she has worked out a series of fundamental principles which
have proved to be of definite practical aid to her students. These
principles she has incorporated in this book. As the main purpose of
the work is to emphasize construction, four of its chapters are
devoted to Plot. Others consider The point of view, Characterisation,
Dialogue, The emotional element, Local colour and atmosphere, etc. The
works of master short story writers, including many present-day
writers, are freely drawn on for illustrative material. Each chapter
is followed by exercises, suggestions for reading, etc. Bibliographies
and index come at the end.

“One of the two best text-books available for the student of
short-story writing.” E: J. O’Brien

+ =Bookm= 46:612 Ja ‘18 1250w

+ =Ind= 93:377 Mr 2 ‘18 40w

=WILLIAMS, CHARLES DAVID.= Christian ministry and social problems. *$1 (3c) Macmillan 261 17-18971

The author is the Episcopal bishop of Michigan. He discusses in this
book “the demands upon religion and the opportunities of ministers
brought about by the new social conscience, the present unjust
distribution of wealth, and the attempts on every hand to devise
schemes of justice rather than charity.” (Ind) “This book is the
fourth in the series, Church principles for lay people, being issued
by certain members of the American Episcopal church to present
constructive thought on current theological and social questions.”
(Springf’d Republican)

+ =Cleveland= p9 Ja ‘18 30w

=Ind= 91:354 S 1 ‘17 90w

“Many a sectarian minister will want to come under the authority of
this Episcopal bishop long enough to read this little book, and many
more need to.” L: A. Walker

=N Y Call= p14 S 2 ‘17 420w

“Presents clearly and forcibly the principles underlying the Christian
minister’s relation to the social problem.”

=Outlook= 116:627 Ag 22 ‘17 120w

“An able summing up of the relations of the church to economic and
labor problems. ... The bishop is a disciple of Rauschenbusch and a
distinct radical in his social thinking.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 180w

Reviewed by Graham Taylor

=Survey= 38:531 S 15 ‘17 600w

=WILLIAMS, CLEMENT CLARENCE.= Design of railway location. il *$3.50 Wiley 625 17-5561

“A study of the physical and economic conditions that control the
location of railways in order that their operation may be at maximum
safety and efficiency. Attempts to set forth principles rather than to
describe practice. Considers economic features, with some attention to
estimates and costs. Deals pretty fully with surveys and with
operating conditions as influencing railway location.”—Pittsburgh

“May be read with profit by anybody interested in the problems of
railway economics.” T. W. V. M.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 73:235 S ‘17 190w

=Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 30w

“There is in the text a praiseworthy lack of inconsequential and
irrelevant detail, an efficient segregation and sequence of the
subject matter and a careful consideration of its expressed purpose.
The book as a whole is an excellent compilation of the essentials
governing most modern theories and practices on the subject, as
generally adopted by a profession. The personality of the author
appears strongly and in a practical manner. The book should serve more
than its immediate purpose and may well be in the library of every
student of the subject, whether in or out of college.” M. P. Paret

* + =Engin News-Rec= 78:362 My 17 ‘17 720w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17

“Based upon notes used in the author’s classes in the University of
Kansas. Although ‘the basic idea ... has been to explain and develop
underlying principles rather than to describe current practice,’ the
work should prove valuable to practicing engineers as well as to
students. The appendix covers specifications for the formation of the
roadway. Many useful diagrams.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p7 Ap ‘17 140w

=Pittsburgh= 22:523 Je ‘17 30w

=WILLIAMS, CORA LENORE.= Creative involution; with an introd. by Edwin Markham. *$1.50 Knopf 513.8 16-22289

“In this little volume of 200 pages Miss Williams endeavors to show
the need and to set forth the outlines of a new system of
philosophy—which is to say a new explanation of the processes of life
and of their causes. She finds the theory of evolution sufficient up
to the present time, when man has made almost complete his conquest of
the physical world by the process of development along the lines of
differentiation. Now, if he wishes to carry still further that
development it is necessary for him to work out and accept a new
process, that of integration, which Miss Williams calls involution.
And in the inter-relation of these two, evolution and involution, she
thinks is to be found ‘a nexus of sufficient strength to bridge not
only the chasm between the inorganic and the organic realms, but the
far greater chasm between the organic and psychical.’”—N Y Times

“Miss Williams seems to have discovered this entirely by herself and
she thinks that her discovery is new. She has been so overwhelmed by
it that she has acquired a mystic regard for it. She calls it
‘creative involution’ and opposes it to ‘creative evolution,’ in a
language which is involved, obscure, dithyrambic, sacerdotal.”

— =Dial= 62:150 P 22 ‘17 150w

“Such books as this can only do harm, and harm of the worst sort, for
they urge us to throw off restraint and they diminish our ability to
distinguish between what we can and what we cannot know. For example:
Mr Edwin Markham is pleased to write an introduction, and just see
what nonsense he turns up when he hoes in these fields of four
dimensions. ... Brave words and high praise but nonsense! Mr Markham
has not the faintest conception of what is meant in mathematics by
hyperspace, and his ‘cosmic currents’ remind one irresistibly of Mr
Don Marquis’s ‘Hermione!’”

— =Nation= 104:192 F 15 ‘17 550w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:190 D ‘16

“Miss Williams has been a member of the mathematical faculty of the
University of California, and is an authority upon that science.”

=N Y Times= 22:77 Mr 4 ‘17 350w

“One wishes that the author had given her book more definitely the
form of a critique rather than that of a series of aphorisms and
inspirations; that she had more plainly delimited her thesis and had
taken more pains to ‘distinguish away’ false or misleading
interpretations of her leading ideas. But the book is stimulating.”

+ — =No Am= 205:144 Ja ‘17 1200w

=WILLIAMS, MRS HATTIE PLUM.= Social study of the Russian German. il pa 75c Univ. of Neb. 325.7 17-27036

This work “embodies the results of a study undertaken under the
auspices of the Department of political science and sociology in the
University of Nebraska. The 6500 ‘Russians’ of Lincoln, Nebraska, are
really Germans, ignorant of the Russian language, whose ancestors, a
century and a half ago, settled in two Volga provinces. Thence, after
various guaranteed liberties were withdrawn, they proceeded, in the
years following 1870, to migrate to America, settling in Kansas,
Nebraska and the Dakotas. The main period of their immigration began
in 1898. On the basis of a canvass and of local records, Mrs Williams
describes the character of their settlement in Lincoln, their families
and their vital statistics in two chapters which she expects to extend
into a book.”—Am Pol Sci R

Reviewed by R. F. Foerster

+ =Am Econ R= 7:421 Je ‘17 160w

“This is an excellent and exact study of what might be called the
double-hyphen immigrant. ... A large amount of well-balanced material
has been collected displaying customs, vital and social statistics,
and tendencies. ... One cannot help being somewhat disappointed
because the study is essentially objective. Familiar as the author is
with the people themselves, the reader does not get inside them so as
to see their psychological life.” H. A. Miller

+ =Am J Soc= 22:848 My ‘17 210w

=Am Pol Sci R= 11:365 My ‘17 130w

“Both sympathetic and scholarly. ... Mrs Williams has done an
extremely useful piece of work; one of the best things of the kind we
have seen.” I. C. Hannah

+ =Survey= 37:699 Mr 17 ‘17 170w

=WILLIAMS, J. E. HODDER=, ed. One young man. *75c (3c) Doran 940.91 17-14140

“The simple and true story of a clerk who enlisted in 1914, who fought
on the western front for nearly two years, was severely wounded at the
battle of the Somme, and is now on his way back to his desk.”
(Sub-title) The book is made up of short chapters telling of the
experiences of the one young man in camp, on active service, etc.
There are many quotations from his letters.

“The documentary value of this little book lies wholly in the vision
of utter devotion to country and cause that made of a mere human cog
in a British mercantile house a fearless agent in England’s great war
machine.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 15 ‘17 320w

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 25 ‘17 240w

=Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 40w

“His story is of special interest because it is that of a man not a
fighter by nature.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:382 O 7 ‘17 220w

=Pittsburgh= 22:684 O ‘17

=Pratt= p43 O ‘17 20w

+ =R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 40w

“It was the Y. M. C. A. that introduced him to the sporting side of
life. The book is a genuine tribute to a fine organization.”

+ =Sat R= 123:88 Ja 27 ‘17 270w

+ =Spec= 118:274 Mr 3 ‘17 1550w

“Almost a typical transcription of what has been the lot of thousands
of other ‘young men.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 140w

=WILLIAMS, LAURENCE FREDERICK RUSHBROOK.= Four lectures on the handling of historical material. (Allahabad univ. Dept. of modern Indian history publications) *$1 Longmans 907 17-31913

“The object of this volume is to make the reader realize the nature of
the special training of the modern historical student, and the reasons
which make this training necessary. The first two lectures discuss in
detail the classification of historical material. The third indicates
the pitfalls in the path of the historian. ... The fourth lecture
treats the problem of personality in history. ... The author holds the
chair of modern Indian history in Allahabad university.”—Cath World

“These lectures were written for audiences consisting partly of Indian
students, and partly of the general public. ... It is patent that the
author is concerned rather with the impression his special audience
was to receive than with the adequacy of his lectures as an
examination of the problems of historical method. ... The omission,
from his list of non-official sources, of newspapers and of
literature, which is essential for the inner, ‘spiritual’ history of a
people, is to be regretted. The difficulties of the historian in
controlling his bias and in marshalling his evidence ought not to have
been expounded without a setting forth of the scientific method of
determining particular facts, so well known to students of Langlois
and Seignobos. ... The foot-notes lack date and place of publication
and usually the full name of the author. Lecture 3 warns against
incomplete references and improperly charges German scholars with
making them (p. 67).” G. C. Sellery

— =Am Hist R= 23:203 O ‘17 420w

=Cath World= 105:825 S ‘17 190w

“It is impossible in three lectures to range, however superficially,
over all history, and the confusion which the method excites is worse
confounded by a singularly irrelevant fourth lecture on personality in
history.” G.

— =Eng Hist R= 32:627 O ‘17 260w

“Able lectures on modern historical methods.”

=Spec= 118:733 Je 30 ‘17 140w

=WILLIAMS, STANLEY THOMAS.= Richard Cumberland; his life and dramatic works. il *$3 (3c) Yale univ. press 17-25291

Richard Cumberland, poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, whose
sensitiveness led Sheridan to caricature him as “Sir Fretful
Plagiary,” possessed, according to Dr Williams, “a personality real,
vital and unique in the history of English letters.” “Sources for this
life have been found in the collections of plays, memoirs, diaries,
and letters in the Yale and Harvard university libraries, and in
original manuscripts of Cumberland in the British museum. Material has
been drawn directly from the ‘Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, written
by himself,’ published in 1806, and from Mudford’s ‘Life of Richard
Cumberland,’ which appeared in 1812, one year after the death of the
dramatist. ... The bibliography of eighteen pages contains a complete
record of authorities used but does not attempt a compilation of the
innumerable editions of Cumberland’s fifty-eight plays.” (Preface)
There are several illustrations, the frontispiece is a portrait of
Cumberland from the original painting by Romney in the National
portrait gallery.

“A valuable contribution both to the history of the drama and to the
personal records of English literature.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 3 ‘17 700w

“This is rather a long book to be all about ‘poor old Cumberland’ will
be the first thought of those who take it up; but when it has been
read it does not seem so long as was expected. Dr Williams believes
‘that the real interest of his book lies less in the plays than in the
personality of their author,’ and he is right.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p19 Ja 10 ‘18 1950w

=WILLOUGHBY, WILLIAM FRANKLIN=, and others. System of financial administration of Great Britain. *$2.75 Appleton 336.42 17-8477

“This report is the result of an investigation made in Great Britain
in the summer of 1914 by the authors acting as an unofficial
commission, and is now published by the recently established Institute
for government research [incorporated March 10, 1916]. It presents a
detailed and somewhat technical account of the administrative
procedure in the United Kingdom in connection with the preparation of
estimates, the action thereon in Parliament, the disbursement of
public funds, the treasury control over expenditures, the audit of
public accounts and the system of financial reports. This is based on
a close study of official documents and reports, especially the report
of the Select committee on national expenditure (1902), and the report
of the Select committee on estimates (1912).” (Ann Am Acad) The
compilers are William F. Willoughby, constitutional adviser to the
Chinese republic and professor of jurisprudence and politics at
Princeton; Westel W. Willoughby, professor of political science at
Johns Hopkins, and Samuel McCune Lindsay, professor of social
legislation at Columbia. President Lowell of Harvard writes an
introduction. Four appendices give acts, forms, etc.

“It must not, however, be inferred that merely because the book is dry
as dust it is not, also, to use a phrase common with reviewers, ‘an
indispensable work of reference,’ It brings together, in handy
compendium form, a large amount of data not readily accessible
elsewhere. The materials are well arranged and easy to find, and the
standing of the authors is a guarantee of accuracy.” C. C. Plehn

+ — =Am Econ R= 7:888 D ‘17 2100w

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:8 O ‘17

“The movement for the establishment of a budgetary system at
Washington has now given Great Britain the fullest and most
serviceable treatise on its financial system it as yet possesses. In
thus characterizing the Willoughby-Willoughby-Lindsay report it may be
said at once that the writer of this note is not overlooking Hilton
Young’s admirable monograph on ‘The system of national finance.’ But
Young covers much more ground than Willoughby, Willoughby and
Lindsay. ... Their book is concerned only with the appropriation of
money by parliament, and with the system that the House of commons has
devised and perfected since the beginning of the nineteenth
century—chiefly in the years from 1834 to 1866—for controlling the
expenditure of money that has been voted for the various services of
the state.” E: Porritt

* + =Am Pol Sci R= 11:578 Ag ‘17 950w

“This study should be of great value in working out improved budget
and finance methods in this country. In the conclusions, the report
calls attention to some fundamental factors which have been hitherto
almost ignored in most of the writings on these subjects. ...
Serviceable as is this report, it is in some respects open to
criticism.” J: A. Fairlie

+ — =Ann Am Acad= 73:243 S ‘17 450w

=Boston Transcript= p6 S 5 ‘17 290w

+ =Cleveland= p77 Je ‘17 20w

+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 30w

“The details relating to estimates, voting of moneys, auditing, etc.,
are set forth accurately, and conclusions are drawn with more or less
reference to our own situation. The volume is an important and timely
contribution.”

+ =J Pol Econ= 25:855 O ‘17 280w

“An admirably lucid volume which sets a high standard for the series
it inaugurates. ... One can only say that no better account of the
subject exists. It is not, of course, an exciting volume; though it is
fully as clear as the subject allows. It is perhaps defective, though
the authors admit the presence of this characteristic, in its analysis
of the financial system in relation to the House of commons. It does
not, as I think, allow sufficiently for the important fact that much
of the success of the system is dependent thereon.” H. J. L.

* + =New Repub= 11:251 Je 30 ‘17 1150w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:91 Je ‘17

+ =N Y Times= 22:389 O 7 ‘17 800w

=Pittsburgh= 22:690 O ‘17 70w

+ =R of Rs= 56:442 O ‘17 140w

=St Louis= 15:340 S ‘17

“Though in some respects slightly less detailed than Colonel Durell’s
‘Principles and practice of the system of control over parliamentary
grants’ the American work is perhaps even more valuable to the general
reader because it brings to bear an outside light upon our internal
problems. ... Its three authors ... have produced a volume which ought
to be of real public service on both sides of the Atlantic.”

* + =Spec= 119:220 S 1 ‘17 1100w

“Proclaimed as the first authoritative detailed account of the system
of financial administration of Great Britain. ... The plan of the work
is admirably simple.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 24 ‘17 320w

“For American students, however, ‘The financial administration of
Great Britain’ will be superior to Young’s volume because of its many
references to American practice and its conclusions in the way of
lessons the United States may learn from Great Britain.” H. A. Millis

+ =Survey= 38:442 Ag 18 ‘17 600w

=WILLSIE, HONORÉ MCCUE (MRS HENRY ELMER WILLSIE).= Benefits forgot. il *75c (7½c) Stokes 17-24971

The publishers state that this “story of Lincoln and mother love” is
“true in fact.” The greater part of the book deals with the boyhood of
Jason Wilkins, son of a poor Methodist circuit-rider and a mother who
loved to read and was willing to sacrifice all she had that her boy
might get his medical education. He repaid her devotion by neglect.
Finally he entered the Civil war as army surgeon. His mother, hearing
nothing from him for months, supposed him dead and wrote to President
Lincoln for information. Lincoln had young Wilkins arrested and
brought to Washington. The last chapter gives the conversation between
the two.

=A L A Bkl= 14:134 Ja ‘18

“With the obvious intention of pointing a moral as well as writing an
entertaining short story, Mrs Willsie has succeeded admirably in both
endeavors.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 5 ‘18 180w

“Fine, true picture of mother love and sacrifice.”

+ =Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 20w

=WILLSIE, HONORÉ MCCUE (MRS HENRY ELMER WILLSIE).= Lydia of the pines. il *$1.50 (1½c) Stokes 17-7817

Lydia is an appealing little figure when we first meet her.
Motherless, she plays the mother to her baby sister. The death of this
baby leaves her still more lonely. She has her father, old Lizzie, her
boy and girl friends, but there is a sad lack in her life. One of her
tragedies, even then, was the matter of clothes! She had no mother to
plan pretty things for her. Not till she was a senior in the
university and could wear a cap and gown, did Lydia feel that she
looked like other girls. All thru her childhood and girlhood, she has
one true friend, John Levin, a politician, and it is a heartbreaking
experience to learn later that he is a grafter of the worst type, one
who has systematically robbed the Indian. This theme of the defrauding
of the Indian is worked out thru the whole story. For the scene the
author has given the capital city of Wisconsin a northern Minnesota
setting.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:357 My ‘17

“An excellent story of a human and lovable girl learning to be a
woman. Its style, especially in the dialogue, is uncommonly sincere,
the real vernacular, without exaggeration or codification.”

+ =Bookm= 45:208 Ap ‘17 400w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 380w

“A clean, well-told story.”

+ =Cath World= 105:268 My ‘17 80w

“A strong, unsparing portrayal of three or four welcomely human
characters, several incidents entirely germane and not too thrilling,
and a plot that is not marred, strangely, by a bit of pro-Indian
propaganda about which Mrs Willsie seems to have been admirably in
earnest.”

+ =Dial= 62:246 Mr 22 ‘17 150w

+ =Ind= 90:471 Je 9 ‘17 100w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Nation= 104:404 Ap 5 ‘17 90w

“Somehow Mrs Willsie contrives to make an honestly American quality
radiate from Lydia. All our embarrassed idealism and puzzled,
inarticulate striving seem to find expression in her.”

+ =New Repub= 10:sup22 Ap 21 ‘17 250w

“The novel might be called, indeed, the story of a personality, so
strongly does Lydia dominate it and all the people by whom she is
surrounded. Mrs Willsie has done a particularly fine piece of work in
the way in which she has realized that personality, made it vital and
convincing and, above all, thoroughly interesting for the reader. It
marks a long step in advance of her previous books.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:62 F 25 ‘17 750w

“The book is far more real than ‘Still Jim,’ and the style less
disjointed. Moreover, there is much greater emotional power and a
surer grasp of the whole story. The enormous wonder is how Mrs Willsie
has ever managed to write it and edit the Delineator at the same time.
It is a powerful story, and more than promising as an indication of
the author’s future.” E. P. Wyckoff

+ =Pub W= 91:586 F 17 ‘17 300w

“It is a fresh and cheerful tale, and always holds the reader’s
interest.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 15 ‘17 320w

“Somewhat overdrawn and unnatural, but interesting. The well drawn
setting is Madison, the author’s girlhood home, and the University of
Wisconsin.”

+ — =Wis Lib Bul= 13:159 My ‘17 80w

=WILLSON, ROBERT NEWTON.= Education of the young in sex hygiene. il *$2 (1c) Stewart & Kidd 612.6

This book was published by the author in 1913. The present edition is
a reprint. It is intended as a book of instruction for parents and
teachers, those who are responsible for the sex instruction of the
young. Two of the chapters, A talk with boys, and A talk with girls,
are addresses directly to young people, but are included here as a
suggestion of a method of approach. Among the chapters are: Economic
relations of the social diseases; The boy—his need; The girl—her need;
A brief talk on the heredity of health and disease, and the
selfishness of unhygiene; When are the boy and girl to be taught, by
whom, and how? The training of the teacher; The eradication of the
social diseases in large cities.

“It is thought by the author that boys and girls are taught to better
advantage by word of mouth and largely by object demonstration than by
the printed page. The book will undoubtedly prove a means of
safeguarding hundreds, if not thousands, of boys and girls if parents,
teachers and social workers give heed to its warnings.”

+ =Social Service Review= 5:24 Mr ‘17 180w

=WILSON, SIR CHARLES RIVERS.= Chapters from my official life; ed. by Everilda MacAlister. *$3.50 Longmans (Eng ed 17-3144)

“Sir C. Rivers Wilson did good work in many positions of trust,
notably as one of the three English commissioners to the Monetary
conference held at Brussels in 1892, as the representative of the
English bondholders of the Central Pacific railway in 1894, and as
president of the Grand trunk railway of Canada from 1895 to 1909; but
his name will be best remembered in connection with Egyptian
finance. ... His reminiscences do not belong to the same order of
writings on Egypt as Lord Cromer’s and Lord Milner’s. ... Writing in a
chatty style, he furnishes information on historic incidents by
dwelling less on their logical sequence than on the undercurrents in
the diplomatic life of the period to which they pertained.”—Nation

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:293 Ap ‘17

+ =Lit D= 54:1075 Ap 14 ‘17 650w

“This frankness, together with the flavor they derive from the
anecdotes freely interspersed, constitutes the chief attraction of his
memoirs.”

+ =Nation= 104:270 Mr 8 ‘17 750w

+ =Sat R= 122:sup5 N 4 ‘16 950w

“The main portion of his book is naturally devoted to his Egyptian
experiences, and though by no means new, supplements in certain
particulars the standard works of Lord Cromer, Lord Milner, and Sir
Auckland Colvin.”

+ =Spec= 117:808 D 23 ‘16 400w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p484 O 12 ‘16 550w

=WILSON, ERNEST HENRY.= Aristocrats of the garden. il *$5 (7½c) Doubleday 715 17-9126

This book is brought out in an edition limited to 1,200 copies. Among
its chapters are: The story of the modern rose, Midseason flowering
trees and shrubs, The best of the hardy climbing shrubs, Ornamental
fruited trees and shrubs, The best hardy conifers, Broad-leaved
evergreens for northern gardens, Japanese cherries and Asiatic
crabapples. New herbaceous plants from China. There are eighteen
illustrations. The author is a member of the staff of the Arnold
arboretum and author of “A naturalist in western China.”

“For many years, Mr Wilson explored the secluded portions of eastern
Asia—especially in China and Japan—searching for new plants and trees
and shrubs suited to the climate of western gardens. The story of his
journey through China in search of the fabled ‘Davidia’ makes one of
the most delightful portions of a book of delight. It will send more
than one reader to the Arnold Arboretum on a new errand.” F. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p12 Ap 7 ‘17 700w

“A very beautiful book.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:191 My 13 ‘17 140w

=WILSON, WOODROW.= Why we are at war. *50c (3½c) Harper 353 17-13747

A small volume containing President Wilson’s messages to Congress and
to the American people, delivered between January and April, 1917.
Contents: A world league for peace; The severance of diplomatic
relations with Germany; Request for a grant of power; We must accept
war; A state of war; “Speak, act, and serve together.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:21 O ‘17

“The title is unfortunate in so far as it does not properly describe
the contents of the book. The second inaugural speech, delivered on
March 5 last, should, in our opinion, have found a place in the
collection.”

+ — =Ath= p466 S ‘17 80w

“The addresses in the great little volume are all instinct with the
purpose of leadership.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:193 My 20 ‘17 2600w

=WINDLE, SIR BERTRAM COGHILL ALAN.= Church and science. *$3 Herder 215

The author is a well-known anatomist and archaeologist and is
president of University college, Cork. “The book’s message is that the
advance of science brings with it constantly increasing testimony to
the impossibility of antagonism between the church and any form of
truth; that the fancied enmity originated in premature acceptance and
proclamation as facts of what were in reality only theories, and that
wisdom decrees for the scientist an attitude of humility and patience,
and for the Catholic a happy security in the knowledge that any theory
that may seem to conflict with Catholic dogma will assuredly, in the
course of time, be either proved false and cast aside, or found, when
more closely viewed, to be in accordance with the faith.” (Cath World)

“It is a layman’s manual, of intense interest and written with the
author’s accustomed force and charm. ... The reader is made acquainted
with an imposing array of achievements of the highest order that must
be credited to Catholic scientists from the ranks of both the clergy
and the laity. ... The book should be upon the shelves of every
Catholic library, public and private. ... Above all it should, by
every means possible, be circulated among young men, at this time when
thousands of every faith and of none are going forth to share the life
of camp and trench.”

+ =Cath World= 106:114 O ‘17 900w

=St Louis= 15:318 S ‘17 10w

“His object is not so much to undertake the reconciliation of science
and religious belief as to set out the attitude of science on all
these problems and to determine how far it actually conflicts with
dogmatic religion.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p156 Mr 29 ‘17 270w

=WINSLOW, CARROLL DANA.= With the French flying corps. il *$1.25 Scribner 940.91 17-1909

“The author, a young American who enlisted in the French flying corps
soon after the beginning of the war, went through the various exacting
grades of flying-school preparation for the French army, and after
seven months of training was passed on into regular army aviation
work. ... It is specialized without being too technical. Its
exposition and narrative of French army aviation training give us
fully, simply, and interestingly information on a little-understood
phase of the war.”—N Y Times

=A L A Bkl= 13:310 Ap ‘17

+ =Cleveland= p46 Mr ‘17 30w