Chapter LXXVIII: Part I: contains: The evolution of the principles underlying the (6)

“Such a tale might be sensational, but, in Miss Villars’s telling, it
is delicate.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 420w

“Obviously the war should not have been allowed to intrude; it spoils
everything. But one day she may write a book as good from cover to
cover as the first hundred pages of ‘The broken laugh.’”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p769 D 18 ’19 480w

=VILLIERS, FREDERIC=, il. Days of glory. il *$5 Doran 940.49

20–4792

“The sketch book of a veteran correspondent at the front.” (Sub-title)
The volume consists of a series of fifty full-page illustrations
showing scenes at the front, each accompanied by brief descriptive
comment. Philip Gibbs contributes an introduction, “A salute to
Frederic Villiers.”

* * * * *

“A well made book.”

+ =Booklist= 16:277 My ’20

“It is worth whole tomes of verbal description. The pictures are vivid
and accurate.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 17 ’20 560w

“Villiers represents the type of the old-guard war correspondent at
its best. The sketches in ‘Days of glory’ have no special artistic
merit. They look very old fashioned beside the modern methods of
Nevinson and Nash. In character they are topographical, anecdotal,
documentary. There is no doubt that they possess a certain historical
significance.”

+ =Nation= 111:785 D 29 ’20 250w

+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 60w

“The artistic merit of Mr Villiers’s work consists not merely in the
personal element wrought into the pictures as contrasted with the
mechanical work of a camera, but also in the fact that here are
pictures at which no camera had a chance in 1914–15, and the other
pictures which no camera could have furnished with all the license in
the world.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 26 ’20 360w

=VILLIERS, FREDERIC.= Villiers, his five decades of adventure. 2v il *$6 (7½c) Harper

20–20650

Two volumes devoted to the life of a veteran war correspondent and
artist. He was born in 1851, in England, and his first association
with wars came in 1870 when he went over to Paris to pick up material
for a panorama of the Franco-Prussian war. The next adventure that
offered was the war between Serbia and Turkey in 1876, and others
followed, taking him to every part of the earth, down to the great
war. The volumes are illustrated.

* * * * *

“These tales of five decades of adventure must be placed among the
greatest of autobiographies.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 8 ’20 750w

“Here between covers are the dramatic figures and the stirring events
of two and a half generations presented by a writer trained throughout
a lifetime in the art of bringing out all the high lights and shades
of dramatic contrasts.”

+ =N Y Times= p18 D 12 ’20 2600w

“With long practice in telling the public what it wanted to know, it
might go without saying that this autobiography is chatty and
interesting from start to finish.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 21 ’21 520w

=VINCENT, FLORENCE SMITH.= Peter’s adventures in Meadowland. il *$2 Stokes

20–18753

A nature-fairy story for children. Peter is a little boy who has no
playmates. For saving the life of an oak tree that his father had
wanted to cut down, he is rewarded with the friendship of all the
living things. He not only learns their language, he is able at will
to make himself smaller and smaller until he meets butterflies and
grasshoppers and crickets on equal terms. He can enter their houses,
climb up spider web ladders and ride on a butterfly’s back. So he
learns of their ways, and finds out that they are just as wise, and
sometimes wiser, than humans.

=VORSE, MARY MARVIN (HEATON).= Growing up. *$1.75 Boni & Liveright

20–12378

“This book is concerned solely and entirely with the growing up of a
small family of children and the trials, perplexities and mooted
questions which the parents of those children faced every day of their
lives in their effort to do the right thing by their offspring.” (N Y
Times) “Very likely many who start this book will be impressed with a
sense of familiarity since Tom and Alice Marcey and their three
children have already seen the light some years ago in the pages of a
magazine, but we must know Robert and Sara and Jamie in book form to
fully appreciate them.” (Boston Transcript)

* * * * *

“Will delight all modern troubled parents and other grownups.”

+ =Booklist= 17:75 N ’20

“One of the most interesting characteristics of the book is the
breadth of its appeal. The children are so natural, their parents are
so natural, that it seems impossible that anyone could fail to find
something attractive in their story.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 450w

“The tale presents a more or less deft but quite obvious mixture of
pedagogy and feminism, in an ample solution of juvenile prattle and
misdemeanour. The whole, however, is so well spiced with humour and
sweetened with domestic sentiment that (to quote the publisher’s
tribute) ‘the tired business man and the weary housewife will find a
real release in reading it.’” H. S. H.

+ =Freeman= 1:574 Ag 25 ’20 580w

“Her humor is fresh and rich and delicate. One may quite forget her
psychological implications and yield to the mirth and human charm of
her story and her people.”

+ =Nation= 111:275 S 4 ’20 440w

“Mrs Vorse’s story, though backed by sound psychology and keen
observation, is yet light fiction. Its merit is rather in the
contribution it makes to the growing volume of child thought, to the
explanation of such pieces as ‘The young visiters’ than in the
intrinsic value of either the tale or the style.” Henrietta Malkiel

+ =N Y Call= p10 Ag 15 ’20 500w

“It is a most engaging book. The freshness, the humor and the
spontaneity that characterized Mrs Vorse’s former novel are equally
manifest here, along with a deeper purpose and a greater
significance.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Jl 4 ’20 820w

“Every one who enjoyed ‘The Prestons’ will be glad to read ‘Growing
up.’”

+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w

“This story is as delightful as ‘The Prestons,’ and that is saying
much for it. The author has an uncanny understanding of children and
the problems that they offer to conscientious parents.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 500w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:239 D ’20 40w

=VORSE, MARY MARVIN (HEATON).=[2] Men and steel. *$2 (3c) Boni & Liveright 331.89

After a graphic description of the power of iron and of how coal, iron
and steel rule our civilization, of the great machines in the mills to
which man is but a negligible adjunct, of the mill towns—the slummiest
and the comparatively decent—all with the common motive: “Man is puny;
Industry great”—the author gives the history of the great steel strike
which she has personally followed up and observed in detail. The book
falls into four parts: Strike background; The steel strike; Silence;
The dying strike.

* * * * *

“Skillfully written the book is, but it proves next to nothing, for
throughout the author uses the individual’s story (easy to find among
several hundred thousand people) to prove broad truths.”

− + =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 170w

“It is a beautiful and a terrible book, because like a true work of
art it embodies the elemental beauty and terror of life.”

+ =Nation= 112:87 Ja 19 ’21 780w

“This book of Mary Vorse’s is a thrilling and a perfectly sane and
down-on-the-ground contribution to the history of that historic steel
strike of last winter. It is a book really of stories—of stories of
men and of women and of children and of homes.” W: Hard

+ =New Repub= 25:51 D 8 ’20 1000w

“At the beginning of chapter II there is a really powerful bit of
writing.... And there are other pieces of really good writing in the
book. The rest too frequently tends toward the bathos of film captions
and magazine stories. The story she tells is not only improbable, but
she puts her own opinions and feelings into the mouths of her Slovaks
with a ruthless roughness. Where they do not speak as she would have
them she makes them think her thoughts.”

− + =N Y Times= p23 Ja 16 ’21 1200w

“On the whole, she has done an illuminating bit of work. It is
propaganda rather than detached painting, but it is propaganda of a
high quality. At times one regrets that the artist in Mrs Vorse was
not more rigorous in its exactions on the other side of her
personality, but, after all, no one else has given so moving a picture
of the routine of life in the steel towns.” W. L. C.

+ − =Survey= 45:676 F 5 ’21 220w

=VORSE, MARY MARVIN (HEATON).= Ninth man. il *$1.25 (7½c) Harper

20–15068

This story, set in a medieval Italian city, is a study of hate and
fear. Mazzaleone, the conqueror of the city, has decreed that it shall
mete out its own punishment and to each ninth person passing in review
before him he has given a black disc which signifies power over life
or death. For within thirty days each possessor of a disc may
designate secretly one who is to be put to death. First mad lust for
life breaks loose, then hatred and revenge, and lastly fear. But among
the frenzied populace there moves one who preaches love and
forgiveness and who offers to take on himself the death for all. This
is Brother Agnello, who carries one of the black discs and who was
first shown the way to keep his own hands clean and then the way to
redeem his townsmen.

* * * * *

+ =N Y Times= p24 D 19 ’20 370w

“It is a colorful tale, and will appeal to those who have found
pleasure in the earlier Italian stories of Maurice Hewlett and the
romances of James Branch Cabell’s invention.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:196 N ’20 90w

W

=WADSLEY, OLIVE.= Belonging. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd

20–15700

The heroine is a beautiful English girl married to a French count. She
does not love him but is devotedly loyal during his long and hopeless
illness. Two men love her, Charles Carton, who had been the object of
her girlish devotion, and Julian Guise. Following her husband’s death
she becomes engaged to Julian. Jealousy between the two men leads to a
struggle and Carton is killed. Julian, who is severely injured, is
taken away by his father and kept in ignorance of what follows. The
guilt is placed on Sara and she suffers a year’s imprisonment. When
she meets Julian after her release he is terribly changed but a second
meeting brings explanations and reconciliation.

* * * * *

“Taking well-worn material, Miss Wadsley has used it so skillfully and
with so firm, yet delicate, a literary touch that it comes near to
being a masterpiece in its way. If the subject enjoyed a higher moral
tone this commendation could be given without qualification.”

+ − =N Y Times= p24 S 26 ’20 540w

=Spec= 124:22 Jl 3 ’20 40w

“We cannot say that in the matter of construction this story is very
successful.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 140w

=WALDMAN, LOUIS.= Albany: the crisis in government; with an introd. by Seymour Stedman. il *$1.75 Boni & Liveright 335

20–12624

“This is the story of the suspension, trial and expulsion from the New
York State legislature of the five Socialist assemblymen. It was
written by one of the expelled members. It is an ex parte report of
the case, to which an introduction is supplied by one of the attorneys
for the defense.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

=Am Pol Sci R= 14:737 N ’20 80w

+ =Booklist= 17:150 Ja ’21

“The illustrations scattered through the volume might well have been
omitted, partly because they are copies of cartoons and partly because
they are poorly done. The introduction by Seymour Stedman is lucid and
interesting.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 170w

=Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 120w

“Written by one of the victims of the injustice, the book is of course
extremely partisan. Yet if one may judge from a generous reading of
the newspaper accounts of the trial, it is fairly representative. The
proofreading is poor, and there are further evidences of undue haste
in preparation and printing. But for all that it is a book well worth
anybody’s reading and reflection.” W. J. Ghent

+ − =Review= 3:89 Jl 28 ’20 1600w

“The line of cleavage in public opinion as to the merits of this case
is not likely to be materially modified by the publication of this
book. It is, however, an interesting and readable account of a famous
episode.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:109 Jl ’20 100w

“Mr Waldman’s book is convincingly written and his argument forceful.
The author tells his story in a fair and straightforward manner.” L.
D. Lasker

+ =Survey= 45:103 O 16 ’20 440w

=WALEY, ARTHUR=, tr. Japanese poetry, the Uta. *$3.25 Oxford 895

20–14302

“The poems here translated are from the Manyo Shu anthology
(Ten-thousand leaves collection), compiled by Otomo no Yakamochi, who
died in 785, and are considered as the beginnings of Japanese poetry
as an art. ‘The translations in this book,’ says Mr Waley, ‘are
chiefly intended to facilitate the study of the Japanese text; for
Japanese poetry can only be rightly enjoyed in the original. The
original texts of the poems accompany the translations, and notes on
grammar are given to facilitate the student who wishes to master the
originals.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“Mr Waley comes not halfway, but all the way to meet an intelligent
ignorance. He is instructive without severity; he is learned, but
affable. His translations have, we think, every indispensable quality
of good literal translation—especially a kind of negative rhythmical
and tone value, and distinction of vocabulary without a trace of
preciousness or squeamishness.” F. W. S.

+ =Ath= p12 Ja 2 ’20 950w

+ =Booklist= 16:339 Jl ’20

=Boston Transcript= p7 O 9 ’20 380w

“It is decidedly difficult to find anything in the literature of the
West which recalls these brief lyrics, which confine within seventeen
or at most within thirty-one syllables the passion of a life or the
shadowing imminence of death.” Babette Deutsch

+ =Dial= 70:204 F ’21 800w

“The volume shows the scholarly care and literary taste which were the
charms of Mr Waley’s previous translations, and nobody could wish for
a better introduction to Japanese poetry; but the poems do not give
the same thrill as those little decorative masterpieces—the Chinese
translations. Some of them seem to be too purely decorative.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p646 N 13 ’19 820w

=WALISZEWSKI, KAZIMIERZ.= Poland the unknown; tr. from the French. *$2.25 Doran 943.8

(Eng ed 20–6295)

It is the contention of the author that the characteristics of the
Polish people and of their national ideals has always been quite
distinct from those of western Europe and that, as a vanquished
nation, she has for nearly a century and a half presented not her own
face but a mask to the world. That her exceptional virtues rather than
her failings have been the chief cause of her undoing and that of all
the nations that participated in the latter, Prussia has been the
arch-criminal, is the object of the book to show. Contents: The enigma
of a nation’s fate; The Polish paradox; Ideas and principles; Organs
of government; Anarchy; The crisis; The catastrophe; Beyond the grave;
Resurrection; Conclusion.

* * * * *

“M. Waliszewski’s book is largely a vigorous and effective polemic
against the misrepresentations of Polish history so long and
systematically inspired by Berlin and St Petersburg. Unfortunately,
his own views as to the causes of Poland’s downfall are nowhere very
concisely summed up. The author may be criticized for great
carelessness in the matter of names and dates.” R. H. L.

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:316 Ja ’21 750w

=Ath= p1243 N 21 ’19 100w

“It is written in a somewhat ebullient manner which, although it makes
agreeable reading, is not altogether favourable to processes of
reasoned argument. We do not wish to suggest that M. Waliszewski is
consciously prejudiced, but he is perhaps too closely affected by the
conditions he describes to judge them dispassionately.” P. S.

+ − =Ath= p1396 D 26 ’19 520w

“M. Waliszewski is an excellent sales-agent who knows his literary and
historical wares and knows, also, how to spread them before his
customers with tact and grace; but for all that, his work will hardly
serve as a reliable guide for future historians of the Polish
question—if only because, having spent most of his life in Paris, be
writes with a decidedly French accent.” H. W. van Loon

− + =Freeman= 2:237 N 17 ’20 620w

“Unfortunately for his main purpose, he has felt called upon to
develop his thesis in a detail which makes the book rather difficult
reading for anyone not intimately acquainted with Polish history.” M.
A. Chickering

+ − =Survey= 45:514 Ja 1 ’21 190w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p615 O 30 ’19 70w

“Being written as a corrective it tends to give a somewhat one-sided
view if taken only in itself without reference to the mass of
literature which it seeks to controvert. Even so it is of very
considerable interest, especially in regard to the history of the
nineteenth century.

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p659 N 20 ’19 170w

=WALKER, ABBIE (PHILLIPS) (MRS FRED ALLAN WALKER).= Sandman’s rainy day stories. il *75c (2c) Harper

These rainy day stories are quite properly fairy tales, with such
titles as Princess Cantilla, The tree of swords, The silver
horseshoes, The blue castle, Nardo and the princess, The enchanted
boat, The gingerbread rock, and so on. The book belongs to the Sandman
series and is illustrated by Rhoda C. Chase.

+ =Ind= 104:396 D 11 ’20 50w

=WALKER, ABBIE (PHILLIPS) (MRS FRED ALLAN WALKER).= Sandman’s stories of Drusilla doll. il *75c (2c) Harper

A book of stories for very little people. Drusilla is an unbreakable
doll, and it is very lucky for her that she is, for her adventures are
many and dreadful and only an unbreakable could have survived them.
The book belongs to a series of Sandman’s stories and is illustrated
by Rhoda C. Chase.

=WALKER, HENRY CRAGIN.= Jimmy Bunn stories. il *$1.75 (8c) Century

A book of animal stories for little folks. As in the older folk lore
of many lands the rabbit and the wolf are pitted against one another,
and the nimble wits of Jimmy Bunn, here as always, are more than a
match for the craft of his adversary. The black and white
illustrations are by Hope-Innes.

* * * * *

“Fortunately this is not one of that new type of children’s books
attempting to compete with the moving pictures. Its language is
simple; its faint moralizing successfully camouflaged.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p25 O 23 ’20 100w

=WALKER, SYDNEY FERRIS.= Electric mining machinery. il $5 Pitman 622

20–9652

A British work by a member of the Institution of electrical engineers,
who is also author of “Electricity in mining,” “Electricity in houses
and workshops,” and other works. The author says, “I have endeavoured
to explain every little point that, from my own experience, I think
may trouble mining men.” The book is illustrated with 132 figures and
is indexed.

=WALLACE, DILLON.= Ragged inlet guards; a story of adventure in Labrador. il *$1.50 (2½c) Revell

20–2262

Four boys on a Labrador coast were left as the mainstay of their
families went when their fathers and big brothers went to the war.
They constituted themselves the Ragged inlet guards, and did men’s
work. Their home life, their hunting experiences and adventures are
described in the book and the climax of the story is their capture of
a German wireless station which brought them a medal each from King
George.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:316 Je ’20

“Stirring book of adventure. Librarians will find it in great demand
among their younger patrons.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 200w

=WALLACE, EDGAR.= Four just men. *$1.75 (2c) Small

20–15957

The “Four just men” are a conscientious little band who are not
satisfied with justice as it is meted out by law, and therefore take
certain cases of wrong-doing into their own hands. The first case that
this book records is that of Sir Philip Ramon, English Secretary of
foreign affairs. He intends to introduce an aliens’ extradition bill
in Parliament which if put thru will exile from England one Garcia,
and virtually hand him over to the “corrupt and vengeful government”
which is persecuting him. The Four just men are determined this shall
not happen and are even willing to resort to taking Sir Ramon’s life
that the bill may not go thru. He is warned of his danger and the
police take unprecedented precautions but their protection proves
inadequate and the Four just men have another success to add to their
list. The second case the story takes up has to do with the “Red
hundred,” an anarchistic body whom the Four just men work against. One
of their number almost meets his Waterloo in this adventure, but
finally makes his escape thru the cleverness of the rest of the band.

* * * * *

“Readers of crime and mystery tales will find this book entirely
satisfying. The dénouement is startling.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 S 26 ’20 300w

“The action is absorbing.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 160w

=WALLACE, EDGAR.= Green rust. *$1.60 Small

20–4011

“‘The green rust’ is the story of Oliva Cresswell, the granddaughter
and heiress of a millionaire, but ignorant of the fact, and of a
conspiracy to destroy the wheat crop of the world by a new mildew—the
green rust—of a most virulent and aggressive type. The dangers she
runs from those engaged in the conspiracy, who are anxious to obtain
control of her money to finance an enormous wheat speculation, and the
protection she receives from the most unlikely persons, make up a
story full of excitement.”—Sat R

* * * * *

“His hero is disappointing because his judgment is so often bad, his
resource meagre and his foresight dull. Its character drawing is
sufficiently sharp for its purpose.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p9 My 8 ’20 320w

“The whole narrative is breathless, sometimes even confusing, in its
rapid melodrama, but it has a grip that never loosens. It is
essentially a story of ‘action.’ The characterization does not yield
novelty in any instance.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:22 Je 27 ’20 580w

=Sat R= 128:392 O 25 ’19 100w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p502 S 18 ’19 140w

=WALLACE, EDNA KINGSLEY.=[2] Stars in the pool; a prose poem for lovers. *$2 Dutton

20–20966

“The tale is about King Telwyn’s daughter, Roseheart. Here came, sent
by his father, King Lokus, to learn from the wise King Telwyn
‘somewhat of life and living in the great world,’ the young Prince
Flame. And Flame ‘looking upon the Princess Roseheart, drew one great
breath, and loved her with the love of a man’s heart. And Roseheart,
when she looked into the eyes of Flame, and his heart therein, knew
him for her lord, and loved him.’ Flame met the Old gray woman of
Shadows who told him that she ‘was Sorrow, and the Way of destiny, and
the Shadow of things.’ And Flame had to experience these things on a
quest which was prefigured to him in a vision. On his wanderings he
met with many natural and spiritual adventures, coming back in the end
when he had searched and found the truth beyond self, to wed the
Princess Roseheart and realize the meaning of love.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“An exquisite tale that has the shimmering grace and spiritual charm
of the romantic spirit of chivalry.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p2 D 4 ’20 330w

“‘The stars in the pool’ tells in dainty fashion a story which is part
fairy tale, part allegory.”

+ =N Y Times= p28 Ja 2 ’21 540w

=WALLAS, GRAHAM.= Life of Francis Place, 1771–1854. 3d ed *$3.50 Knopf

A20–157

“The American edition of Graham Wallas’ life of Francis Place is
chiefly a reprint of the original edition printed in 1898. The career
of Francis Place spanned the beginnings and the early development of
the industrial revolution. Born in 1771, he was a young man when the
fires of the French revolution illuminated the world. He was a trade
unionist when unions were outlawed by Parliament as conspiracies. He
engaged in bitter industrial struggles and paid those terrible
penalties which are exacted only of working men who are loyal to their
fellows. He became a liberal, and after he had made a fortune he was
an influence in the politics of the kingdom. To his efforts are
attributable some of the important beginnings of social
legislation.”—Survey

* * * * *

=Ath= p118 Mr ’19 30w

=Booklist= 16:168 F ’20

“Mr Wallas’s biography of Francis Place is a valuable contribution to
the economic, the social and the political history of England.” E. F.
E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 10 ’20 1750w

“It is almost idle to praise it now, for it has taken its place among
the accepted masterpieces of English political biography. It is
difficult to overestimate the significance that attaches to his
portrait.” H. J. Laski

+ =Dial= 68:614 My ’20 2900w

Reviewed by R: Roberts

+ =Nation= 110:371 Mr 20 ’20 1250w

“Good, timely reading.”

+ =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 80w

“His account of this fascinating pioneer of the British labor movement
is a classic in biographical research.” W. L. C.

+ =Survey= 44:89 Ap 10 ’20 350w

=WALLING, WILLIAM ENGLISH=, ed. Sovietism; the A B C of Russian bolshevism—according to the bolshevists. *$2 Dutton 335

20–10515

“This is a summary of bolshevist utterances, made with a view to
showing what the real aims of the bolshevist leaders are. The official
documents and decrees, the speeches of Lenine and other leaders, the
published opinions of Maxim Gorky, acclaimed as the greatest
Bolshevist writer, are the chief sources from which Mr Walling has
drawn in formulating this ‘A B C of Russian bolshevism.’ Mr Walling
assumes that the public wants to know ‘what the bolsheviki actually
stand for—according to a fair summary of their own acknowledged words
and deeds.’”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“The book should do much as an antiseptic against the bolshevist
poison.” A. W. Small

+ =Am J Soc= 26:250 S ’20 130w

=Am Pol Sci R= 14:739 N ’20 60w

“Scattered material makes it better for reference than for straight
reading. No index.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:56 N ’20

“His encyclopædic labours would be more convincing if it were not for
his careless habit of misquotation and of quoting isolated sentences
which when placed in their context convey a far different meaning.”
Harold Kellock

− =Freeman= 1:620 S 8 ’20 300w

“Granted that all of his conclusions are supportable, Mr Walling’s
method of establishing the case is far from satisfactory. What is
needed at this time is less political opinion and more economic
facts.” W. E. Atkins

− + =J Pol Econ= 28:710 O ’20 900w

“Nine-tenths of the book is made up of quotations taken chiefly from
the hostile press. It is worthy of note that Mr Walling seems to have
found one of the clues of bolshevist philosophy: he emphasizes the
militarization of industry which took place in some parts of Russia
and which is incompatible with the principle of industrial democracy.
It is really a strong point, and one should begin with it; but
unfortunately Mr Walling mentions it only accidentally and then again
dives into the characteristic anti-bolshevist hysteria.” Gregory
Zilboorg

− =Nation= 111:sup424 O 13 ’20 190w

“We do not know of any book from which the American reader can get a
better photograph of Russian Bolshevism as portrayed and interpreted
by the Bolshevists themselves.”

+ =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 220w

“The conclusions reached are irrefutable. Mr Walling is entirely fair
in his selections and it is unnecessary for him to indulge in an
argumentative attack.”

+ =Review= 3:270 S 29 ’20 1550w

=R of Rs= 62:221 Ag ’20 90w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p430 Jl 8 ’20 900w

=WALPOLE, HUGH SEYMOUR.= Captives. *$2 (1c) Doran

20–20321

Captives of their inheritance and environment are the two leading
figures of this psychological novel. Maggie Cardinal’s youth had been
loveless and her father’s, the miserly, sordid, unlovable vicar’s,
religion repellent to her. His death, when Maggie was nineteen, was a
liberation; now she would lead her own life. But she only escapes to
more fanatical religion, in the house of her aunts, and her natural
truthfulness and the absence of early training in conventional forms,
make her both a religious and social rebel. Martin Warlock’s early
fetters had been different. His intense love for his father, preacher
of the Kingscote Brethren, had included the father’s religion. Long
years of wandering over the earth had preserved the love but dimmed
the religion. The love becomes Martin’s chain. It also becomes his
conscience when Maggie’s trust confronts him with his past life. To
save Maggie from himself he goes away. The story resolves itself into
Maggie’s courageous struggles to remain true to her self and to her
love for Martin in spite of her marriage to an unloved clergyman and
of the demands of conventional society.

* * * * *

“We cannot, with the best will in the world, see in the result more
than a task—faithfully and conscientiously performed to the best of
the author’s power—but a ‘task accomplished,’ and not even
successfully at that. For we feel that it is determination rather than
inspiration, strength of will rather than the artist’s compulsion,
which has produced ‘The captives.’” K. M.

− =Ath= p519 O 15 ’20 1150w

“One is especially interested in the environment, but feels a lack of
the spontaneity of other Walpole novels.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21

“A long looked-for and worthy successor in the Walpole line. It is
bigger in theme than its predecessors, more than ever a novel of life
as opposed to the episodic novel.”

+ =Bookm= 52:369 D ’20 180w

“Its criticism of life in general, and specifically with the elements
of life with which it deals, presents a many sided view so that we are
able to understand clearly the weaknesses and strength of all the
characters. As a chronicle of these times and as a portrayal of people
we all may easily come into contact with, it is an eloquent example of
the consummate art of a literary artist.” E. F. Edgett

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 N 13 ’20 1400w

“‘The captives’ makes Mr Walpole’s previous books look like agreeable
fragments. For the wealth of substance here is not more notable than
the display of architectonic power. ‘The captives’ scarcely ranks
below ‘Clayhanger’ and not very greatly below ‘Of human bondage,’ and
is, therefore, one of the foremost British novels of the period.”

+ =Nation= 111:735 D 22 ’20 1050w

“No reader will set ‘The captives’ down without the figure of Maggie
Cardinal having been permanently limned upon his memory. The portrait
is consistent throughout. The pictures of the band of religious
fanatics, some of them charlatans, and of their sincere leader are
particularly forceful. Mr Walpole’s method is that of the realist, but
he has scarcely employed it to the best of its possibilities.”

+ − =N Y Times= p18 N 7 ’20 1000w

“In distinction of literary workmanship Mr Walpole is at his best in
this story.” R. D. Townsend

+ =Outlook= 127:31 Ja 5 ’21 330w

“While the direct subject of the volume concerns the religious
teachings of one narrow sect in England, which he designates as the
Kingscote Brethren, the application of his theme is as wide as the two
continents.” Calvin Winter

+ =Pub W= 98:1890 D 18 ’20 350w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 3:384 O 27 ’20 200w

“The book is full of perturbed and uneasy striving, and is elemental
both in its energy and the simplicity of its theme.”

+ =Spec= 125:473 O 9 ’20 640w

“The characters are essentially unlovely though undeniably strong.
Despite all this, it is a story of rare power—sober, to be sure, but
never morbid—and one that emphasizes the author’s advanced position in
the ranks of contemporary novelists.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 620w

“There is something wanting to make the æsthetic pleasure of reading
this book as intense as it should be, which argues something wanting
in the performance. It is not that one misses the mystery and
excitement of ‘The dark forest,’ and ‘The secret city,’ but there is
the unavoidable feeling that, after the keenest appreciation of so
much artistic skill, it should be possible to put the book down with
the exhilaration of having read a masterpiece; and it is not
possible.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 S 30 ’20 900w

=WALSH, JAMES JOSEPH.= Medieval medicine. *$2.75 Macmillan 610.9

“This book, by an American medical authority, belongs to the series of
Medical history manuals, edited by Dr John D. Comrie. It embraces the
history of about 1,000 years, during which the achievements in
medicine and surgery were quite as remarkable as the achievements of
the middle ages in other spheres.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p463 Ap 2 ’20 110w

“The volume is fully within the comprehension of any educated reader,
and is as entertaining as a novel.”

+ =Cath World= 112:112 O ’20 570w

“As to the learning and competence for his task, no question can be
raised, but the method he elects to adopt is one which has brought
much work on the history of science into not unjustified contempt.” C:
Singer

− + =Nature= 105:127 Ap 1 ’20 950w

+ =Spec= 124:831 Je 19 ’20 1250w

“Severe compression has been necessary; but the process has not
interfered with the lucidity or the interest of this instructive
little book.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p142 F 26 ’20 70w

=WALSH, JAMES JOSEPH.=[2] Religion and health. *$2.25 (2c) Little 265.8

20–21211

The argumentation of the book turns on the influence of the mind on
the body and attempts to show how a trusting faith in God tends to
produce an equilibrated mind, which is the foundation of psychic
health, and, by interaction, of physical health. The book is indexed
and contains much sound advice as to the way of achieving both kinds
of well-being. The contents are: Can we still believe? Prayer;
Sacrifice; Charity; Fasting and abstinence; Holydays and holidays;
Recreation and dissipation; Mortification; Excesses; Purity; Insanity;
Nervous disease; Dreads; Suffering; Pain; Suicide and homicide;
Longevity; The Bible and health; Health and religion.

=WALSH, THOMAS.= Don Folquet, and other poems. *$1.50 Lane 811

20–4773

The title poem has for its theme an episode of French history and
tells how Don Folquet, a trader’s son, was first celebrated at the
court of Toulouse as Prince of song, how he tired of court life and
became a monk and later the Bishop of Toulouse and as such pronounced
a ban on the city for its wickedness. Among the other poems are a
Mother Goose sonnet series; Murillo paints “The assumption”; Catullus
anent his Lesbia; The sigh for Deirdre; Ad limina.

* * * * *

=Ath= p833 D 17 ’20 160w

“Mr Walsh has composed a medieval and monastic narrative in effete,
Tennysonian pentameters which singly are good but which in the
aggregate are wearisome.” Mark Van Doren

− + =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 40w

“To this reviewer ‘Don Folquet’ is less interesting than other things
in the book. It is a poem for those who would forget reality. ‘The
brownstone row,’ written in the kind of unrhymed cadence now in vogue,
shows that Mr Walsh could do something with reality if romance charmed
him less.”

+ − =N Y Times= p15 Ja 9 ’21 600w

“The execution falls short of the motive. Its merit is confined to
grace, and the grace is confined to landscape.” O. W. Firkins

+ − =Review= 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 60w

=WALSH, THOMAS=, ed. Hispanic anthology. $5 Putnam 861.08

20–20332

“A collection of translations, ‘by northern Hispanophiles, of Spanish
poems into English verse,’ offered as an affectionate tribute to the
Spanish poet of today, whether he writes in the old world or the new.
Dr Walsh, besides contributing a large portion of the versions, has
garnered almost eight hundred pages of translations into something
like a chronological unity, providing the selections with short
prefatory notes and interspersing them with some twenty-nine portraits
of ancient and modern Spanish poets.”—Freeman

* * * * *

“With the material at hand he has produced a creditable collection
that should be at the elbow of every Hispanic student.”

+ =Bookm= 52:274 N ’20 190w

“Masefield’s rendering of Gustave Adolfo Becquer’s ‘They closed her
eyes,’ is one of the most beautiful poems in the collection.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 5 ’21 250w

“Catholic readers will especially rejoice to possess, in this
delightful form, some of the most impressive work of the great Spanish
mystical poets, Fray Luis de Leon, St John of the Cross, and St
Teresa.”

+ =Cath World= 112:542 Ja ’21 270w

“A valuable book not alone for its well-arranged collection of poems,
but for the fine reproductions of famous portraits and for the
biographical notes.”

+ − =Dial= 70:233 F ’21 100w

“The volume, despite its shortcomings, should be owned by every
Hispanophile; it represents a pioneer-effort in a field agape with
pitfalls, and, however much one may criticize the result as it now
stands, Dr Walsh, by the mere fact of having initiated it and brought
it forth, has earned the thanks of his fellow enthusiasts.” I:
Goldberg

+ =Freeman= 2:214 N 10 ’20 720w

“Never has Spanish poetry been done so good or complete a turn in
English as Mr Walsh now does it.” D. M.

+ =Nation= 111:784 D 29 ’20 600w

“Mr Walsh has not only edited this volume, providing it with valuable
typographical and critical notes, but he has supplied it with the bulk
of the translations, translations which show him possessed in an
uncommon degree of one of the most valuable, as it is one of the most
unselfish of literary gifts.” R: Le Gallienne

+ =N Y Times= p10 Ja 9 ’21 1800w

“The plan of his anthology is remarkable for its comprehensive
inclusion of selections from the work of every significant figure in
Hispanic poetry from the unknown author of the ‘Poema del Cid’ to the
latest of Porto Rican modernistas, born in 1898. Equally important,
and especially so from the point of view of the American reader
unacquainted with the Spanish language, is the finely judicious
selection which Mr Walsh has made in choosing not only the original
Spanish poems most representative of their authors but the
translations into English which constitute the anthology. For the most
part these translations are of highly poetic quality.” L. R. Morris

+ =Outlook= 126:237 O 6 ’20 820w

=WALSH, WILLIAM SEBASTIAN.= Psychology of dreams. *$3 (2½c) Dodd 135

20–9817

The author views dreams from many points of view and is not pledged to
any one theory. He presents the theories made popular by recent
writers on psycho-analysis, but also sets forth the opinions of
Freud’s critics. Contents: Historical sketch; The mind in sleep; The
material of dreams; The instigators of dreams; The peculiarities of
dreams; Dreams as wishes; The effects of dreams; Typical dreams;
Prodromic dreams; Prophetic dreams; Nightmare; Night terrors;
Somnambulism; Miscellany; The analysis of dreams; Day-dreams. There
are two indexes, to proper names and to subjects. The author is a
practicing physician and he has endeavored to make the work as
practical as possible with a view “toward aiding sufferers from
nervous affections, as well as toward promoting a better understanding
of various normal and abnormal mental processes.”

* * * * *

“What he has written is a book of popular medicine rather than one of
popular psychology. Upon psychology he does not appear to have any
theories, and his very opinions are undecided. But when he writes
about the ‘night terrors’ of children and the best means of mitigating
them, he is full of common sense, and proves himself an admirable
popular doctor.”

+ =Ath= p553 O 22 ’20 120w

“For all practical purposes, ‘The psychology of dreams’ is an adequate
exposition of interesting data, carefully collected. The chapter on
prodromic dreams is perhaps as interesting as any in the book.” C. K.
H.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 320w

“The chapter dealing with daydreams is especially interesting and
instructive and, like the other chapters, is written in so clear a
manner that the beginner will have little difficulty in becoming
acquainted with the dream mechanism and its meaning. On the whole it
can be said that the work is an excellent medium for the student who
wishes to become acquainted with the workings of the unconscious.” L.
P. Clark

+ =Mental Hygiene= 4:983 O ’20 300w

Reviewed by R: Le Gallienne

+ =N Y Times= 25:4 Jl 11 ’20 2900w

“Not intended for professional reading, but distinctly popular in its
appeal, this book will have lively interest for the general reader who
likes to be entertained while he is being instructed. There are many
sensible hygienic suggestions.”

+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w

“Dr Walsh might have made his point of view clearer, but he at least
presents attractively a good deal of interesting material.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 210w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p622 S 23 ’20 80w

=WALSH, WILLIAM SEBASTIAN.= Yours for sleep. *$2.50 Dutton 613.7

20–3569

“The title of Dr William S. Walsh’s book, ‘Yours for sleep,’ is
somewhat misleading, as appears from the first sentence in his
preface: ‘The object of this little volume is not only to help the
sleepless to sleep, but also to instruct them on a few of the
principles of right living, a disregard of which is most often the
sole cause of their disorder.’ People who are not in the pink of
condition will be interested in the author’s treatment of such
subjects as indigestion, eye defects, diseases of the teeth and gums,
value of exercise and fresh air, and general hygiene.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“No one has written more helpfully or collected more valuable
information for the sleepless than Dr William S. Walsh.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:21 Jl 25 ’20 220w

+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 40w

“It is a valuable contribution to the subject and amply repays
perusal. The book is evidently the product of reflection, erudition
and experience.” J. E. Kelly, M. D.

+ =Survey= 44:252 My 15 ’20 200w

=WALSTON, SIR CHARLES (SIR CHARLES WALDSTEIN).= Eugenics, civics and ethics; a lecture delivered to the summer school of eugenics, civics and ethics on August 8th, 1919, in the Arts school, Cambridge. *$1.60 Macmillan 171

“A strong plea is made in this lecture for the organisation and
development of the study of ethics, or, as the author prefers to call
it, ethology. The interdependence of eugenics and civics, and the
foundation of both in ethics, are discussed, and warning is given
against striving to produce the perfect physical specimen of man
without due consideration of character and mental attributes. Towards
the end of the lecture the progressive nature of ethical codes is made
clear, and great stress is laid on the importance of the establishment
of our ideal of the perfect man and the teaching of such practical
ethics in both schools and homes.”—Nature

* * * * *

=Nature= 105:804 Ag 26 ’20 100w

“This lecture provides an excellent introduction to the author’s
somewhat forbidding larger works.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 45:332 N 27 ’20 100w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p539 Ag 19 ’20 100w

=WALTERS, L. D’O.=, comp. Anthology of recent poetry. *$1.75 Dodd 821.08

20–20447

An anthology of modern British verse. Harold Monro, who writes the
introduction, supplies the key to the collection when he says, “The
best poetry is always about the earth itself and all the strange and
lovely things that compose and inhabit it.” The first object, he says
later, is to give pleasure. “Moreover, it is adapted to the tastes of
almost any age, from ten to ninety, and may be read aloud by
grandchild to grandparent as suitably as by grandparent to grandchild.
It is an anthology of poems, not of names.” Among the poems and their
authors are April, by William Watson; The lake isle of Innisfree, by
W. B. Yeats; The donkey, by G. K. Chesterton; The south country, by
Hilaire Belloc; The west wind, by John Masefield; Full moon, by Walter
de la Mare; A dead harvest, by Alice Meynell; The great lover, by
Rupert Brooke; Star-talk, by Robert Graves; Stupidity street, by Ralph
Hodgson; The oxen, by Thomas Hardy.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:147 Ja ’21

“It is a good coat-pocket anthology.”

+ =Ind= 104:383 D 11 ’20 30w

=Nation= 112:188 F 2 ’21 110w

“This collection includes some charming things by living hands of real
distinction, and some others which make us regret young poets lost in
the war. The anthologist has given us real pleasures, and we forego
the reviewer’s privilege of grumbling about the inclusion of this or
the exclusion of that.”

+ =Sat R= 130:398 N 13 ’20 190w

“The poems are few but well chosen from the standpoint of the seeker
after clear language and well-defined images. There is little of that
strained impressionism and hazy, finespun introspection which are the
bane of modern verse.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ’20 270w

=WALTON, GEORGE LINCOLN.= Oscar Montague—paranoiac. il *$1.50 (3c) Lippincott

19–15667

In this novel Dr Walton embodies the ideas prevalent in his
non-fiction books, “Why worry,” “Those nerves,” and others. Ruth
Fulton, chronic fusser, in a fit of pique, jilts her steady
serious-minded fiancé and marries the town rake, who thinks most men
are against him. Oscar, their son, grows up spoiled, idle, badly
educated, boon companion of ruffians and loafers. He has the obsession
that everyone is in a conspiracy against him, and secretly cherishes
the illusion that one Nicky Bennett is trying to harm him.
Accidentally meeting Nicky when in an evil mood he pulls out a
revolver and shoots him; pleads insanity to escape the electric chair,
but once inside the asylum finds that the law refuses to let him out.
The daughter of Ruth and Gerrold is normal and lovable, and happily
marries the son of her mother’s old sweetheart, after having by a bit
of clever detective work “on her own,” saved the lad from being
falsely convicted for the murder of her father.

* * * * *

“The characters are clearly drawn, and are thoroughly lifelike people,
whose lives, without anything brilliant or startling, are full of
quiet interest, humorous or pathetic.”

+ =Ath= p258 F 20 ’20 130w

“Amateurish is the only adjective to describe adequately this novel,
with its wooden puppets in place of characters and its obviously
mechanical situations. The book’s two redeeming features, are the
occasional flashes of whimsical humor the author displays, and the
disarmingly naïve manner in which he pokes fun at his own inexperience
as a novelist.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:85 F 8 ’20 700w

“The only person of any interest in the book is the daughter, Helen,
and the only episode of any interest is Helen’s discovery of the real
culprit who had run over and killed her father. This has not much to
do with Oscar Montague—paranoiac, who is quite a secondary character
in a poor novel.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p126 F 19 ’20 160w

=WARD, HARRY FREDERICK.= New social order. *$2.50 Macmillan 304

19–19067

“Prof. Harry F. Ward of Union theological seminary, in his new book,
‘The new social order,’ writes on social and industrial change both
from economic and from ethical standpoints. His book considers in part
1 the underlying principles of the new order, in part 2, various
programs, such as those proposed by the British labor party, the
Russian soviets, the league of nations, various movements in the
United States, and the churches.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“Dr Ward has been developing a very unusual fluency of speech, mental
power, and moral insight that appear strikingly in this book. Although
some of the chapters on the principles might well have been a little
shorter and crisper, the style is always interesting, at times rising
to natural and impressive eloquence; and the thought is throughout
clear and weighty. This is one of the most important books for the
citizen of this generation to read thoughtfully, and read at an early
date.” C. J. Bushnell

+ =Am J Soc= 25:645 Mr ’20 1100w

Reviewed by C. G. Fenwick

=Am Pol Sci R= 14:341 My ’20 260w

=Booklist= 16:190 Mr ’20

“Dr Ward has rendered a real service in bringing together in compact
form so many expressions of the new spirit. He knows that they are
signs rather than realities, but it is a poor skipper who cares not
which way the veering flaw blows. Christians and pagans will do well
to ponder them.” C: A. Beard

+ =New Repub= 23:208 Jl 14 ’20 950w

=R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 80w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 F 3 ’20 80w

“In this latest of his several volumes Professor Ward makes his most
notable contribution to the religious interpretation of the changing
social order. Professor Ward’s discussion of the controverted points
dealt with is frank and fearless, notwithstanding, perhaps the more
because of, the criticism he has all along met from certain
ecclesiastical and special interest groups.” Graham Taylor

+ =Survey= 44:121 Ap 17 ’20 850w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p407 Je 24 ’20 150w

“The chapter on the Russian soviet constitution is far and away the
ablest and clearest statement yet given to us upon that very important
subject. Mr Ward is to be envied for his twofold gift of grasping
details and of strong speculative thinking; and this combination makes
his book a singularly valuable and safe guide for the student.” R. R.

+ =World Tomorrow= 3:157 My ’20 150w

=WARD, JOHN.= With the “Die-hards” in Siberia. *$2.50 (3c) Doran 957

20–7944

The author commanded a detachment of British troops sent to Siberia to
support Kolchak. He blames his own government for its halfhearted
support of the enterprise it had undertaken, and is especially bitter
against the Americans and the Japanese. The book was written, he says,
“for the private use of my sons in case I did not return.” Among the
chapters are: From Hong Kong to Siberia; Bolshevik successes; Japanese
methods and Allied Far-eastern policy; Administration; Omsk; Along the
Urals; Russian labour; In European Russia; American policy and its
results; Japanese policy and its results; General conclusions. There
is an index.

* * * * *

“Colonel Ward is too innocent for a propagandist. We knew Colonel Ward
had been no nearer to Moscow than had we in London, but we have
received an impression that in far-away Siberia he fought desperately
against the Red armies. Why did the coalition permit their friend to
write a book and give the show away so completely? We find that
Colonel Ward never met the disciplined armies of Trotsky, and, except
for one engagement, the whole campaign was a series of affairs with
Bolshevik bands.”

− =Nation= [London] 27:78 Ap 17 ’20 480w

“Colonel Ward’s book is bound to furnish material for controversy. His
narrative is couched in a style that is the acme of plain speaking; he
wastes no time in euphemisms or diplomatic circumlocution, but
fearlessly handles facts as they come to him. From all internal
evidence his book has the air of a straightforward, truthful
narrative.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 S 26 ’20 1000w

“Colonel Ward’s narrative makes a vivid and fascinating picture of
stirring events and gives throughout the impression of keen
observation and sincerity.”

+ =Review= 3:532 D 1 ’20 1500w

“There is nothing small about this book. The countries he traversed,
the observations he made, and the cause he worked for, all convey a
sense of space and sanity, which no niggling pen could have produced.
There is no delicate tracery of outlines here, no precious selection
of words to convey an atmosphere and the genial author does not deal
in suggestions and impressions, but relies almost entirely on
forthright facts.”

+ =Sat R= 129:306 Mr 27 ’20 850w

“Colonel Ward’s account is very welcome because it is obviously honest
and sincere.”

+ =Spec= 124:389 Mr 20 ’20 1300w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p183 Mr 18 ’20 1150w

=WARD, MARY AUGUSTA (ARNOLD) (MRS HUMPHRY WARD).= Harvest. il *$2 (2½c) Dodd

20–6288