Chapter LXXXI: Part I: contains: The evolution of the principles underlying the (9)

“In this sequel to ‘Gold’ and ‘The grey dawn,’ there is all the charm,
scenic coloring and clean-cut delineation of character which
distinguished the earlier works.”

+ =N Y Times= p23 O 31 ’20 380w

“With much to commend it as narrative and as descriptive of
California, ‘The rose dawn’ is an addition to the White novels that
many readers will welcome.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 150w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:239 D ’20 90w

=WHITE, WILLIAM ALANSON.= Thoughts of a psychiatrist on the war and after. $1.75 Hoeber 940.3

19–15865

“The author sees in the social upheavals incident to the war and after
merely a reflection on a huge and unprecedented scale of the phenomena
which the psychiatrist encounters daily in frustrated individual
lives. It is because of this that he endeavors to apply some of the
psychological principles which have been found to be of help in
adjusting individual lives for the purpose of a better understanding
of the changes that have come with the war and as an aid to their
adjustment.”—Survey

* * * * *

“The brevity of the book will make it difficult for readers
unacquainted with psychoanalytic literature. If it leads some of these
into the more extended discussions of the psychology of war it will
accomplish what doubtless was the purpose of the author.” E. R. Groves

+ − =Am J Soc= 26:238 S ’20 150w

Reviewed by A. R. Hale

+ − =Freeman= 2:333 D 15 ’20 650w

“The psychiatrist adds his hope to the hopes of the advocates of a
league of nations that shall make it possible to outgrow war, as men
in socialized communities have outgrown their older, cruder ways. Such
a confirmation of our political hopes by scientific analysis is
encouraging; and Dr White maintains his thesis with skill and
interest.”

+ =Nation= 110:114 Ja 24 ’20 650w

“The book is an interesting contribution to individual and social
psychology and is written with the lucidity characteristic of the
author. It ought to prove of considerable help to those interested in
the problems of individual and social maladjustment.” Bernard Glueck

+ =Survey= 44:307 My 29 ’20 360w

=WHITE, WILLIAM PATTERSON.= Hidden trails. il *$1.90 (1½c) Doubleday

20–12058

This tale starts merrily with two wild west killings before the
twentieth page, and whiskey and shots follow one another briskly
thruout the book. Johnny Ramsay, “an impulsive young man of uncertain
temper,” is the hero. He undertakes to earn the reward offered for the
capture of the bandits who are making the life of Sunset county
exciting at the time. He has two pals in partnership with him in his
private detective work, Racey Dawson and Telescope Laguerre, but to
Johnny belongs most of the credit. The bandits prove to be a large
band, and it is no easy job to round them all up, but Johnny very
nearly accomplishes it. His life is not always safe; once he comes
perilously near being lynched, but thanks to a girl, he is spared. The
tale is certainly not lacking in adventure, with a dash of romance
added.

* * * * *

“There is a clever, though somewhat involved plot which keeps the
reader guessing. The dialect and style seem crude in spots. On the
order of ‘The Virginian,’ though not so well done.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21

“Though the story possesses a definite human appeal, is entertaining,
and contains several suggestive bits of landscape description, it is
not done with deftness or a sure touch.” L. B.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p10 D 8 ’20 430w

“It shows so firm a touch, such sure and skillful handling of
materials and so good an eye for local color that it bespeaks for Mr
White a cordial welcome to the realms of authorship and gives hopeful
promise of his future work.”

+ =N Y Times= p23 Ag 8 ’20 300w

=WHITE, WILLIAM PATTERSON.= Lynch lawyers. il *$1.75 (1½c) Little

20–625

A story of the wild West opening with a stage coach robbery. The
occurrence is one of a chain of daring deeds and, much to the
discomfort of Red Kane, the evidence seems to point to a recently
arrived “nester,” Ben Lorimer. At first sight Red had fallen
hopelessly in love with Lorimer’s daughter Dot and he knows that a man
who takes a stand against her father will have no chance with the
girl. He protects the father from a lynching mob, is shot and nursed
back to health by the girl. Eventually after much action and many
complications the mystery of Lorimer’s past is cleared away and all
ends well.

* * * * *

“The story as a whole is a masterpiece of remarkable conversation, and
excellent descriptions.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 250w

“Written along thoroughly familiar lines, the story is considerably
longer and very much slower in movement than are the majority of such
tales. The book contains a fair amount of bloodshed, and gunplay
enough to satisfy the most exacting.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:22 Ja 18 ’20 300w

“A cowboy story with wild excitement in every chapter and a strong
touch of romance to offset the sensationalism.”

+ =Outlook= 124:249 F 11 ’20 20w

=WHITE, WILLIAM PATTERSON.=[2] Paradise Bend. il *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday

20–18297

A story with all the features of the western thriller. Tom Loudon is
in love with Kate Saltoun, his employer’s daughter and when he learns
that she is engaged to Sam Blakely he throws up his job and leaves. He
had long suspected that Blakely is responsible for the frequent
disappearances of cattle, but “Old Salt” had refused to believe his
neighbor guilty and Kate sides with her father. With Tom’s departure
for Paradise Bend Blakely manages to throw the blame on him and he
narrowly escapes arrest and lynching. Sudden death lies in wait and is
averted in countless other forms before the story closes, with the
villains receiving their just deserts and the lovers happy.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21

“Nothing in this book distinguishes it from the crops of mediocre
western novels which glut the market year after year and which all
seem to be made according to a standard recipe.”

− =N Y Evening Post= p21 O 23 ’20 120w

“What ‘Paradise Bend’ lacks in literary finish and pretensions to
intellectual pabulum it replaces with a plenitude of skill in
construction and dialogue.”

+ − =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 430w

=WHITEHOUSE, VIRA (BOARMAN) (MRS NORMAN DE R. WHITEHOUSE).= Year as a government agent. il *$3 (4c) Harper 940.48

20–2700

When our country entered the war Mrs Whitehouse was appointed by
George Creel as representative for Switzerland of the Committee on
public information. Her duties were to give every possible publicity
to American news through the press, through special articles and
pamphlets and motion-picture reels. The book is an accurate, honest
account of her experiences, throwing interesting sidelights on
diplomacy open and otherwise. Not until the difficulties she
encountered in the American legation at Berne drove her to abandon her
undertaking and return to America, did she in her second attempt
succeed in breaking through the diplomatic armor plate and in gaining
a foothold for her work. The contents are: My appointment; Diplomatic
methods; The vanishing news service; Apparent defeat; To America and
back; At work; Success under difficulties; One thing after another;
Swiss problems; The approaching end; Grief and adventure; Strife and
confusion; The end of the year. There are illustrations and appendices
containing the correspondence and cablegrams between Washington and
the American legation on the one hand and Mrs Whitehouse on the other.

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 13 ’20 460w

“She writes of important international work from an agreeably personal
angle.”

+ =Ind= 104:244 N 13 ’20 220w

“Our conviction that her story is essentially true is not only because
of her own definiteness and of the evidence the older diplomatic
tradition gives about itself in the appendix, but also because of our
general experience throughout the reign of war psychology. Mrs
Whitehouse has the gift of taking the reader along with her in her
adventure.” Edith Borie

+ =New Repub= 23:67 Je 9 ’20 1100w

“Aside from its historical interest, the book has fascination as a
narrative, for Mrs Whitehouse possesses the very great gift of
unconsciousness. The story runs as simply as though she were telling
it over a table, and there is a delightful, if somewhat caustic, vein
of humor that gives color to the whole.” G: Creel

+ =N Y Times= 25:1 F 22 ’20 1700w

“A reading of her book, interesting as it is, leaves one in doubt as
to whether it is an apologia or a suffrage tract. Further, it exposes
again the error of creating an extra-legal government department, the
Committee on public information, with authority to act abroad in
matters of foreign policy independently of the Department of state.”

+ − =Review= 2:208 F 28 ’20 380w

=R of Rs= 61:445 Ap ’20 50w

“Besides being a woman of invincible courage and executive ability, as
her work in Switzerland proved, Mrs Whitehouse shows in her book that
she has a sense of humor and pleasing ability as a writer.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 8 ’20 300w

“In a delightfully straightforward style Mrs Whitehouse has told the
story of her work in Switzerland.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:120 Je ’20 80w

=WHITELEY, OPAL STANLEY.= Story of Opal (Eng title, Diary of Opal Whiteley). il $2 (2c) Atlantic monthly press

20–19873

This “Journal of an understanding heart” (Sub-title) is the diary of
an orphan, brought up in a lumber camp, and is ascribed to the end of
her sixth and to her seventh year. Before her adoption by strange
people she evidently had a careful bringing up and careful instruction
from a loving mother, as the outpourings of her childish heart and
bits of her history reveal. The records are remarkable for the deep
and loving insight into nature and the child’s communion with animal
and plant life, which they reveal. Parts of the diary have appeared in
the Atlantic Monthly.

* * * * *

“We have no space to pursue our analysis into details. An amateur
Sherlock Holmes will find much of interest in this volume. For
instance, is the vocabulary consistent? Is the idiom consistent? Is
the ignorance consistent? For the rest, and in spite of Earl Grey’s
‘sheer delight’ in the book, we find it flat, dreary, utterly
uninteresting, a reductio ad absurdum of, as we have hinted, the
American sentimental novel.” J. W. N. S.

− =Ath= p372 S 17 ’20 1400w

“Nature lovers and lovers of childhood especially will be delighted by
it.”

+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20

“The truest thing about the journal to my own mind is its truth of
emotion—it is the absolute record of a child’s emotion.” A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 52:258 N ’20 740w

“Completely delightful book.” C. H. O.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 2200w

“That it is a beautiful and touching and piercingly honest revelation
of an imaginative child’s spirit seems to me evident beyond cavil.”
Christopher Morley

+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 13 ’20 1200w

“The question asked with regard to ‘The young visiters’ is being
repeated in connection with the present book—‘Could a child really
write it?’ Only a child could have written ‘The story of Opal.’ No
adult could put into language such innocent and spontaneous grace
combined with such freshness of perception.” Marguerite Wilkinson

+ =N Y Times= p14 O 3 ’20 1900w

“If ever the word unique is appropriate to a literary production,
certainly it is here. The reader sometimes tires of the singular
manner and strange expressions in the diary, but he never fails to
feel the genuine fineness and charm of Opal’s love for animals and
trees and all of out-of-doors, and her sweetness and affection toward
the few human beings who responded to her appeal.”

+ =Outlook= 126:201 S 29 ’20 1150w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ − =Review= 3:269 S 29 ’20 120w

“The book is so incessantly sentimental as to be very tiresome reading
to most English people—Americans seem to have stronger stomachs.
Again, the inverted style is tedious—almost perhaps as tedious as the
humour.”

− =Spec= 125:504 O 16 ’20 750w

“The style of the diary is irresistible. Full of quaint phrases,
unconscious humor, the profound philosophies of childhood, the
sentences move along in solemn, yet sparkling procession.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 720w

“It is not safe to dogmatize upon the limits of precocity, but the
hand at work in many passages is prima facie not that of the
six-year-old, but of the more mature professional humorist. Whatever
be the solution, the main interest of the book is its vitality of
imagination and its pregnancy of issues bearing upon child life
remains unaffected.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 13 ’20 230w (Reprinted from London
Observer)

“We may say without absurdity that the child has a style. And it
reaches, particularly towards the end of the diary, a rare poetic
suggestiveness. We hope that Opal Whiteley will write the other books
she planned in childhood, but we do not expect them to be like this
book; it is one of those inspirations which can seldom be repeated.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p593 S 16 ’20 2500w

=WHITHAM, G. I.= St John of Honeylea. *$1.75 (1½c) Lane

20–7526

When Evelyn St John was ten he was left an orphan in the keeping of a
hard aunt. Of his father’s family he knew nothing. By force of
character and personal charm he holds his own, makes friends and
achieves a sheep farm at the Cape, when at the age of thirty he falls
heir to the ancestral estate of the St John’s, Honeylea, in the south
of England. In reality he had inherited much more: dark mysteries, a
curse and the hatred and suspicions of a neighborhood. Honeylea had
once been abbey land, had been wrested from the monks, who still
haunted the woods where they had been murdered and had cursed the
place. What became the banqueting hall of Honeylea had once been a
church and all the St Johns had come to grief—the curse and their own
pride being their undoing. The modern skepticism and moral courage of
the present St John struggles bravely against the atmosphere and
hidden malignity of the place which he loves for its beauty. Not until
he has learned to pray as a last refuge from despair and the house is
burned, is the curse lifted and fortune in love returns to a St John.

* * * * *

=Ath= p1354 D 12 ’19 40w

“A very good bit of character work, an intensely absorbing story, this
will appeal equally to those who love realistic tales of today, and to
the fortunate folk who are made happy by medieval legends of days of
old. For the book has both.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 9 ’20 480w

“Those who read ‘Mr Manley’ will not need to be told that G. I.
Whitham knows how to write an interesting story. And ‘St John of
Honeylea’ is an improvement on her earlier book, more convincing and
better written, to say nothing of its possession of an unusually
romantic and picturesque atmosphere.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:236 My 9 ’20 600w

“It is a good book, and many interesting people are to be met in it;
not the least of whom are two who live only in the descriptions of the
neighbours who have known them, ‘Uncle Charles,’ and his nephew and
successor Cecil, the two last owners of the house. They are perhaps
more distinctly drawn than any of the actual characters of the story.”

+ =Sat R= 128:590 D 20 ’19 480w

“The subject sounds familiar, but Mr Whitham has treated it in an
original way.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p694 N 27 ’19 450w

=WHITIN, CORA BERRY.= Wounded words. *$1 Four seas co. 793

20–1007

A little book of rhymed charades designed by the author for the
entertainment of convalescent soldiers. At the end a key is provided
by which answers may be tested.

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 17 ’20 140w

=Cath World= 111:554 Jl ’20 70w

“Mrs Whitin has been more concerned with ingenuity of expression than
with Tennysonian polish of her verses.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 2 ’20 120w

=WHITING, GERTRUDE.= Lace guide for makers and collectors. il *$15 Dutton 746

20–2109

“While this is a book which few people would enjoy for leisure
reading, it represents the work of years of careful study of a subject
which is nearest and dearest to the author’s heart. The work was
produced, with the cooperation of lace experts of the Metropolitan
museum for the guidance of students, makers, collectors and
classifiers of bobbin laces. The author explains in detail the general
rules for making various laces. These rules are expanded to include
all variations from the simple grounds to the most complex stitches of
many patterns of laces.” (Springf’d Republican) “The book is profusely
illustrated with plates giving key designs, with accompanying
directions to show students of lace how certain meshes are woven, to
aid those planning to produce lace, and to assist classifiers and
collectors in identifying laces. The book also contains a bibliography
and lace nomenclature in five languages.” (Nation)

* * * * *

“There is an increasing interest in lacemaking and lace collecting in
this country, and Miss Whiting’s thorough technical knowledge as
imparted in this book will do much to foster the movement.”

+ =Nation= 110:773 Je 5 ’20 280w

“The author has undertaken an arduous task, which she accomplishes
with seeming ease. The explanations are made yet more valuable by the
excellent photographs.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 26 ’20 380w

=WHITING, JOHN D.= Practical illustration; a guide for artists. il *$3 Harper 741

20–21999

The book deals with the problems peculiar to the work of the
illustrator and the commercial designer and proposes to acquaint him
with actual conditions in the publishing world. It is offered as a
textbook for the teacher of “applied art” and a guide to the student.
It is indexed and profusely illustrated—many of the plates in
color—and the contents are: Looking over the field; Pictorial art for
reproduction; Concerning illustrations; Concerning cover designs;
Concerning commercial designs; Filling “rush orders”; Mechanical
reproduction; Processes in color; Some concrete examples; The
published art of tomorrow.

=WHITLATCH, MARSHALL.= Golf; for beginners—and others. il *$2 (4c) Macmillan 796

The author had disdained golf as a mollycoddle game but when he tried
it, it hit him hard. He spent much time—wasted it—copying the style of
professional experts, till he came to the conclusion that—barring a
few fundamentals—it is an individual game for which each player must
develop his own method. The object of the book is to call attention to
the fundamental principles that must be observed under every form or
method. The book is well illustrated and some of the chapter headings
are: Balance the foundation of golf; Getting the power into the ball;
Accuracy—not distance; Making the swing; Ease rather than effort; The
part the body plays; On the putting green.

* * * * *

“There is little advice in it which may not be found in other books of
its kind, but Mr Whitlatch has suited his instructions particularly to
the man who takes up golf in middle age with the handicap that his
years force upon him. The illustrations are rather more radical than
the text.”

+ =N Y Times= p28 Ag 1 ’20 390w

=WHITMAN, ROGER BRADBURY.=[2] Tractor principles. il *$2 Appleton 621.14

20–17311

Tractors are far from being as standardized as automobiles and there
are almost as many types and designs as there are tractor makers. A
man competent to handle and care for one type may be at a loss as to
how to handle another. The purpose of the book is to describe and
explain all the mechanisms in common use so that anyone may be able to
identify and understand the parts of any make. The contents are:
Tractor principles; Engine principles; Engine parts; Fuels and
carburetion; Carbureters; Ignition; Battery ignition systems;
Transmission; Tractor arrangement; Lubrication; Tractor operation;
Engine maintenance; Locating trouble; Causes of trouble. The book is
indexed and carefully illustrated.

=WHITMAN, WALT.=[2] Gathering of the forces. il 2v *$15 Putnam 814

The books contain the editorials, essays, literary and dramatic
reviews and other material written by Walt Whitman as editor of the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1846 and 1847. The editors of the collection
are Cleveland Rodgers and John Black, the latter contributing a
foreword, inspired by the spirit of Whitman, and the former a sketch
of Whitman’s life and work. The contents fall into seven parts with
classification of the articles as follows: Part 1—Democracy: American
democracy; Europe and America; Government; Patriotism. Part
2—Humanity: Hanging, prison reform, unfortunates; Education, children;
Labor, female labor; Emigrants; England’s oppression of Ireland. Part
3—Slavery and the Mexican war: The extension of slavery; The union of
states; War with Mexico; The Oregon boundary dispute. Part 4—Politics;
Political controversies; Two local political campaigns; Civic
interests; Free trade and the currency system. Part 5—Essays,
personalities, short editorials; General essays; Personalities of the
time; “The art of health”; Short editorials; Whitman as a paragrapher.