Chapter LII: Part II: is devoted to ‘The mountain ranges of the earth’—the (5)

“Considered not as a problem, but simply as a study in
incompatibility, ‘The marriage of William Ashe’ is a piece of subtle
and delicate workmanship.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 269. My. ‘05. 500w.

“In spite of its lack of humor the book is never dull.” C. Harwood.

+ =Critic.= 46: 472. My. ‘05. 640w.

“The interest of the work is sustained, rising to an effective
dramatic climax, and subsiding into the pathos of a closing scene of
deathbed repentance and forgiveness.” William Morton Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 389. Je. 1, ‘05. 310w.

“The first and most obvious complaint is against the strange and
confusing method with which Mrs. Ward uses the motive of her story.”
Herbert W. Horwill.

+ + — =Forum.= 37: 100. Jl. ‘05. 1470w.

“It must be admitted that ‘The marriage of William Ashe,’ which is her
latest, is likewise her strongest book. As usual in Mrs. Ward’s
stories, as the end approaches, the interest proportionally deepens.
The outcome is unpredictable. Never was the advantage of Mrs. Ward’s
method of composition more fully demonstrated than in ‘The marriage of
William Ashe.’ The crisis is balanced with absolute nicety: the weight
of a hair will turn the scales. The minor characters of Mrs. Ward’s
story are drawn with subtlety and power. All in all, ‘The marriage of
William Ashe’ is to be regarded as an achievement of consummate art.”
C. H. Gaines.

+ + + =Harper’s Weekly.= 49: 392. Mr. 18, ‘05. 2060w.

“It is in the adequate presentation and interpretation of Lady Kitty
that the author has achieved probably her greatest success as a
literary artist.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 668. Mr. 23, ‘05. 1290w.

* “Is the most notable book of the year, and will perhaps be the only
one to survive.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 1152. N. 16, ‘05. 160w.

+ — =Nation.= 80: 336. Ap. 27, ‘05. 1710w.

“Like a rich personality ‘The marriage of William Ashe’ yields itself
more and more, as one knows it better. It reveals new depth and beauty
with each reading; one appreciates how superbly the author has
triumphed over unusual difficulties of situation and of character; and
with what noble conclusions she has charged a story which might easily
have sunk into a moral morass. Its place is with the books that do not
die. Its author stands among the few living writers of fiction to whom
the Immortals have passed the torch.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 146. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1680w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.

“One of those solid, thorough, able and workmanlike novels in which
Mrs. Ward has dealt with some of the most serious matters of
experience and has proved her right to claim a first position among
the novelists of the day. The story needs condensation in the closing
chapters, and suffers from lack of humor.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 771. Ap. 1, ‘05. 300w.

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 549. Ap. 8, ‘05. 400w.

“The book expresses, doubtless, the flower of her talent. It is full
of sweet flavors. It has literary beauty of a high order. ‘The
marriage of William Ashe’ is not a great story or a vigorous one. It
is an absorbing one.”

+ + — =Reader.= 5: 783. My. ‘05. 920w.

“Is one of the few stories of which a measure, at least, of endurance
may be predicted.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 756. Je. ‘05. 350w.

“The book, in short, has the drawbacks not only of a ~roman à clef~,
but of a composite photograph. The most attractive and brilliant of
all of Mrs. Humphry Ward’s novels. The fine literary quality of her
work remains, the reader is once more charmed by the restrained
eloquence of her descriptions, and impressed by the penetrating
analysis of characters so essentially complex as those of Lady Kitty
and Geoffrey Cliffe. But along with these familiar excellencies one
notes a marked improvement in technique, a livelier movement in the
handling of incident and dialogue,—in short, a greater ease, skill,
and charm in presentation.”

+ + — =Spec.= 94: 443. Mr. 25, ‘05. 2020w.

=Ward, Wilfrid Philip.= Aubrey de Vere. *$4.60. Longmans.

A memoir, based on his unpublished diaries and correspondence of
Aubrey de Vere by his literary executor. The story of a long and
rather uneventful life is told largely by the Irish poet himself,
revealing his own mind and temperament, and giving graphic
descriptions of contemporary great men, Gladstone, Wordsworth,
Tennyson, Newman, Browning. His gradual change of religious belief
which brought him from the English church to Rome, his work during the
famine of 1846-7, and the service done for Ireland by his voice and
pen, are given in detail.

“The editor has based his work on diaries and letters, and has spread
a feast for the lover of literature where no crude surfeit reigns.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 180w.

“Sufficient to give a true picture of the man himself. Yet not the
least of the reader’s reward comes from his more intimate knowledge of
a pure and unselfish life, lived largely in the service of his
fellows; a poet who here reveals himself most fully as the patriot and
friend.” Clark S. Northrup.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 7. Ja. 1, ‘05. 1760w.

“The literary workmanship is all that could be desired.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 39. Ap. ‘05. 360w.

“Quite sustains his reputation as a master in the difficult and
delicate art of the biographer.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 290. F. 25, ‘05. 1680w.

=Warden, Florence.= House by the river, $1. Ogilvie.

A thrilling story of mystery and intrigue which turns on the theft of
curios and paintings from a valuable collection. The owner himself is
in the conspiracy to defraud an insurance company.

=Ware, William.= Aurelian, a tale of the Roman empire in the Third century. $1.50. Crowell.

The Luxembourg library offers in single volume edition, handsomely
bound and fully illustrated, some notable work of fiction that ranks
among the world’s masterpieces. “Aurelian” is one of the four late
additions to this series.

=Warner, Anne.= See =French, A. W.=

=Warner, Charles Dudley.= Complete writings; * ed. by Thomas R. Lounsbury. 15v. ea. $2. Am. pub. co., Hartford, Conn.

The complete works of Charles Dudley Warner, with a biographical
sketch appear in this handsome “Backlog” edition. “The volumes are of
the right size, simply bound, the paper and the typography expressing
the high quality of the work which this set of books preserves in
permanent form.” (Outlook.)

+ + + =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 12-15.)

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 463. Jl. 15, ‘05. (Review of v. 9-15.)

* “Everything has been done by the publishers of this edition to give
Mr. Warner’s work the dignity and refinement of form which it
deserves. Professor Lounsbury contributes to the series a biography
which is characteristically clear, vivacious, and illuminating.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 440. Je. 17, ‘05. 970w.

=Warner, George H.= Jewish spectre. **$1.50. Doubleday.

The author strips himself entirely of race prejudice and almost
whimsically creates from myth, from history, from literature and
present day tendencies a composite Israel stamped with characteristics
of imagination and fact. “The reader does not at once find out what
the ‘spectre’ is. At first it seems to be a spectral fear that the Jew
is to crowd out all competitors in the struggle for existence....
Later it comes out that the really troublesome ‘spectre’ in the
writer’s mind is the domain of religious speculation.” (Outlook.)

* =Critic.= 47: 581. D. ‘05. 25w.

* “Mr. Warner negatives too much and constructs too little.” Edith J.
Rich.

+ — =Dial.= 39: 302. N. 16, ‘05. 1360w.

“The merit of the book is that it sincerely attempts to put into a
single volume a literary view of a very difficult subject.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 991. O. 26, ‘05. 530w.

“A sort of hotch-potch of anecdote and quotation, legend and fact,
held together by a strain of comment, now ironical, now impassioned,
which is not likely to convince, but is generally diverting.”

— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 617. S. 23, ‘05. 350w.

“The book is cleverly written, and makes many good hits at shining
marks of folly; but that it is, as announced, ‘an extraordinary’ book,
except in wrongheadedness, does not appear.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 334. O. 7, ‘05. 300w.

“Yet with all it is a strangely suggestive book, reassuring to any man
who feels that America is becoming the New Jerusalem, full of careful
study and hasty deduction, full of leads which the author does not
work to a conclusion, full of surprises and odds and ends of valuable
information—and full of contempt.”

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 602. N. 4, ‘05. 430w.

=Warner, Horace Everett.= Ethics of force. 50c. Pub. for the International Union by Ginn.

This little volume contains, in revised form, a series of five papers
read before the Ethical Club of Washington, D. C., just prior to and
after the Spanish war. The titles of the papers are The ethics of
heroism, The ethics of patriotism, Can war be defended on the
authority of Christ? Can war be defended on grounds of reason? and
Some objections.

“Although the book is somewhat academic in tone, it is worth reading.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 118. O. ‘05. 370w.

“This is the sort of a thoughtful volume on the subject that should be
placed on the reading-lists of our public schools.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 414. S. 23, ‘05. 340w.

=Warwick, Charles Franklin.= Mirabeau and the French revolution. **$2.50. Lippincott.

“This is the well-written story of the most extraordinary character of
the most extraordinary scene in the drama of modern history, the
storm-center of that scene till his death.”—Outlook.

“It has all the failings and the qualities of the writing of the
enthusiastic amateur.”

+ — — =Acad.= 68: 778. Jl. 29, ‘05. 690w.

“It is neither a satisfactory biography of Mirabeau, nor a clear,
sound and well connected synthesis of the early Revolution.” Fred
Morrow Fling.

— — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 157. O. ‘05. 950w.

“Considered as reading matter, the book offers nothing new.”

+ — =Bookm.= 22: 86. S. ‘05. 270w.

“We learn nothing new about Mirabeau or the French revolution; the
style is sometimes absurd.”

+ — — =Critic.= 47: 192. Ag. ‘05. 130w.

=Dial.= 39: 119. S. 1, ‘05. 250w.

“Has neither scholarship nor style to recommend it. The style of the
book is melodramatic.”

— — — =Ind.= 59: 817. O. 5, ‘05. 320w.

“It would be a mistake, however to dismiss it as of slight worth. It
has some very positive merits. The task of exploring the voluminous
literature treating of the French revolution is no light one, and Mr.
Warwick must be credited with having considerably facilitated the
exploration in respect to the period he reviews.”

+ + — =Lit. D.= 31: 498. O. 7, ‘05.

+ + — =Lit. D.= 31: 498. O. 7, ‘05. 320w.

“Apart from a certain number of verdicts upon individual characters,
his text contains little that is distinctive. On the other hand it is
of much higher quality than most of the illustrations which accompany
it. The book is undeniably amateurish.”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 242. S. 21, ‘05. 410w.

“There is no great distinction in his style, little compelling fire in
his accounts of people and events; not much subtlety in his judgments.
He is sometimes prolix and sometimes repeats himself. Clarity and
intelligibility are the merits of the book; and they are valuable
qualities.”

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 340. My. 27, ‘05. 1850w.

“Mr. Warwick has made effective use of the best authorities in his
account both of the tragic scene and of the masterful actor.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 246. My. 27, ‘05. 50w.

“Mr. Warwick faces his subject fairly.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 270w.

“It has the distinctive merit of being at once a biography and a
history,—a graphic narrative of events not less than a just, adequate
and exceptionally suggestive estimate of a great historical figure.”

+ + =Reader.= 6: 597. O. ‘05. 200w.

“An incisive study of the part played by Mirabeau in the French
revolution.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 80w.

“Mr. Warwick’s book on Mirabeau is passable enough. But it contains
absolutely nothing new in fact so far as we have observed, and it is
certainly not distinguished for form or point of view or imagination.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 849. Je. 24, ‘05. 260w.

=Washburn, William Tucker.= First stone, and other stories. $1. Fenno.

These seventeen short stories are as varied in tone as in subject. One
is a dramatic scene in the rooms of a danseuse, another is a story of
Madagascar, a third treats of Mormonism, and a fourth concerns a most
unfaithful wife.

=Washington, Booker Taliaferro.= Tuskegee and its people: their ideals and achievements. *$2. Appleton.

A volume prepared by the officers and former students of the normal
and industrial institute at Tuskegee, Ala., under the editorial
direction of Booker T. Washington, who writes an introduction. The
problem of negro education is treated from the inside by the
intelligent negro. Seventeen autobiographical sketches are furnished
by Tuskegee graduates who are now following various occupations.

“It is an unanswerable argument against the critics of the Tuskegee
movement in particular and of the education of the negro in general.”

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 41. Jl. 13, ‘05. 1190w.

“If the stories are marked by a complacency pardonable under the
circumstances, and if they fail to prove quite all their authors think
they do prove for negro progress, yet they are not uninstructive.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 465. Jl. 15, ‘05. 400w.

“The writing is unpretentious and therefore the more forcible.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 936. Ag. 12, ‘05. 180w.

* =Washington, George.= Washington: principal state papers, $1. Century.

This volume in the “Thumb nail” series “is uniform with the early
copies of this series which is a small vest-pocket edition richly
bound in embossed leather. This volume contains W. E. H. Lecky’s
famous essay on ‘The character of Washington’ taken from his ‘History
of England in the eighteenth century,’ ‘Washington’s farewell address
to the people of the United States,’ his ‘Address to the officers in
1783,’ his ‘Circular letter addressed to the governors of all the
states on disbanding the army,’ his ‘Farewell orders to the armies of
the United States,’ and his ‘Inaugural address to both houses of
congress.’”—Arena.

* + =Arena.= 34: 665. D. ‘05. 290w.

* “Excellent in point of literary discrimination and value.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 731. D. 2, ‘05. 100w.

=Washington, George.= Washington and the West. **$2. Century.

A volume which contains the diary kept by Washington in September,
1784, during his journey into the Ohio basin in the interest of a
commercial union between the Great lakes and the Potomac river. Mr.
Hulbert’s commentary shows Washington to be an active, wide-awake
practical man of affairs which is a little-known and less-appreciated
phase of his character.

* “It is a valuable addition to the literature dealing with
Washington, the man and the statesman.”

+ + =Arena.= 34: 663. D. ‘05. 410w.

* “An interesting and valuable book, somewhat too strongly colored by
certain prejudices which affected the editor from the beginning of his
task.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 446. N. 30, ‘05. 480w.

“Mr. Hulbert’s notes, therefore, are as interesting to read as the
diary.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 743. N. 4, ‘05. 460w.

“This is a valuable portrait of Washington in an aspect comparatively
disregarded hitherto, a portrait drawn by himself.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 432. O. 21, ‘05. 200w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 634. N. 11, ‘05. 250w.

* + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 756. D. ‘05. 110w.

* =Wasson, George Savary.= Green shay. †$1.50. Houghton.

“The scene of action ... is almost entirely on the shore and in the
harbor, though the strenuous life of the open sea is always in the
background exerting its powerful influence on the actors and the
drama. The author is attempting to show the evil ways into which many
of the fishing communities have fallen, and their need of moral and
spiritual help.”—Outlook.

* “The thread of the story is not very distinct. The humor of the book
is good, however, though here and there a little underdone, in
seasoning and overdone in cooking.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 876. D. 9, ‘05. 170w.

* “As a tract the book makes a strong appeal; as a story it limps a
little and lacks freshness of conception and treatment; as a portrayal
of character it is delightfully quaint and humorous.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.

=Waters, N. McGee.= Young man’s religion and his father’s faith. **90c. Crowell.

Eight practical talks which endeavor to reconcile the old thought and
the new. On the ground that altho our conception of the Bible has
changed and broadened the book itself is the same, the author declares
that the young man who believes in the theory of evolution and
questions the infallibility of the Bible differs from the faith of his
fathers only in nonessentials and that altho our creeds may be new
they seek to define the ways of the same loving God.

* =Waters, Thomas Franklin.= Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay colony; with seven appendices. *$5. Ipswich historical soc., Ipswich, Mass.

The author states in his preface: “I have tried to tell accurately but
in readable fashion the story of the builders of our town; their homes
and home life, their employments, their Sabbath keeping, their love of
learning, their administration of town affairs, their stern delusions,
their heroism in war, and in resistance to tyranny.” Ipswich was a
typical New England town founded in 1623, and this detailed history
has been prepared largely from original town documents, facsimiles of
several of which are given.

* “Takes its place in the front rank of its class, and can hardly be
praised too highly for diligent research, candor, taste, style, and
construction.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 429. N. 23, ‘05. 820w.

* “An interesting history of an interesting New England town.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 666. O. 14, ‘05. 590w. (Review of pts. 1 and
2.)

* =Watkinson, William L.= Inspiration in common life. *35c. Meth. bk.

A series of helpful suggestions which prove that every man’s possible
happiness is the direct outgrowth of the appreciation and development
of his hidden worthiness. The volume is uniform with the “Freedom of
faith” series.

=Watson, Edward Willard.= Old lamps and new, and other verses; also, By Gaza’s gate, a cantata, $1. Fisher.

Under the divisions, Old lamps and new, and A forgotten idyl, the
author gives us dainty verses, nearly all of which sing of love; some
of the gladness of it, some of its pathos. By Gaza’s gate—a cantata,
closes the volume. It is sung by Samson, Delilah, and a chorus; the
words are based on the text of the Polychrome Bible.

=Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.= Hurricane island. $1.50. Doubleday.

A young English doctor tells the story of his experiences on the yacht
of a German prince. The prince, accompanied by his sister, is eloping
with a French actress; they all bear assumed names, but the crew
discover the truth, realize that there is great treasure stored in the
hold, and mutiny, bloodshed and murder follow. The whole account is
exciting, but hardly cheerful, save for the love story of the doctor
and the princess.

“The thing is done with such an air of assurance, the characters are
so carefully developed and sustained, that we accept it all, in a
spirit of meek credulity, and even after a period of sober second
thought admit that it is one of the best sustained stories of rattling
adventure that has appeared in many a month.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + =Bookm.= 21: 184. Ap. ‘05. 370w.

“This is a very stirring story, and is almost as good as Robert Louis
Stevenson could have made it.” William Morton Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 388. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w.

“Has skilfully combined all the ingredients that go to make what boys
pronounce a ‘rattling good story.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 132. Mr. 4, ‘05. 240w.

“For literary qualities it is vastly inferior to Mr. Watson’s
‘Galloping Dick,’ but as a lively story of action it is exciting even
if improbable.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 253. Mr. 11, ‘05. 60w.

“It is ridiculous, impossible, and altogether unallied to anything
that any of us is acquainted with in this severely practical world;
probably it is for that reason that it is so absorbedly interesting
for a quiet evening.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 392. Mr. 11, ‘05. 210w.

“Is a capital romance of love and piracy ... and delightfully
related.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 70w.

* =Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.= Twisted eglantine. †$1.50. Appleton.

“A fascinating story of the time when George IV. was Prince of Wales.
The leading man character is another Beau Brummel, quite well drawn;
the freshness, beauty, and grace of the heroine are deftly impressed
upon the reader.” (Outlook.) “Sir Piers had no scruples in asking
Barbara Garraway, the Hampshire squire’s daughter, to be his mistress;
when he found that he had misread her character, he had no scruples in
carrying his efforts to make her his wife to the point of abducting
her to his country seat.” (Lond. Times.)

* “The Beau is the book, and our interest in the book ceases when the
Beau begins to prance like any sensational hero.”

+ — =Acad.= 68: 927. S. 9, ‘05. 460w.

* “The book thus falls somewhere between the mere romance and the
novel of character. The period is well realized; the story is
interesting and exciting; but this painful sounding of a shallow type
delays its movements, and forbids the happy surrender of judgment
which is the condition of enjoying a romance.”

+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 400w.

* “Mr. Marriott Watson has put his best work into ‘Twisted eglantine,’
and has scored a distinct triumph in Sir Piers Blakiston—an
achievement, we should imagine, of no small difficulty.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 783. N. 18, ‘05. 400w.

* “It has passages which may be distasteful to some readers.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 50w.

=Watson, Thomas Edward.= Bethany: a story of the old South. $1.50. Appleton.

Bethany, a village in middle Georgia, is the scene of a novel which
describes southern life during the period immediately preceding and
during the earlier years of the Civil war. The author is a well-known
writer of both biography and history and his present work is almost an
autobiography, for he tells of the old South as he knew it in his
boyhood. The greater part of the book is taken up with the comparison
of Toombs and Stephens, their characters and the issues for which they
stood. The slavery question is discussed freely, but while showing a
burning loyalty to the South, there is no bitterness toward the North.

“A novel of a rambling sort, although the element of truth is much
larger than the element of invention. The fire-eating southerner has
not often been exhibited, in either history or fiction, more
truthfully and vividly than in the present work. We fear that Mr.
Watson is still sadly in need of reconstruction.” W. M. Payne.

+ — =Dial.= 38: 127. F. 16, ‘05. 480w.

“Is scarcely a novel at all. It is history localized and presented
from the deliberately provincial point of view. Is probably more
nearly veracious than any picture of southern life ever given by a
southern author. It is a brilliant interpretation, based upon
impressions received with the vividness of adoring youth, and written
out with the restraint and judgment of a mature mind. Mr. Watson’s
literary style is not always good, is often too insolently local in
phrasing, but it is always graphic and honest.”

+ — =Ind.= 58: 209. Ja. 26, ‘05. 600w.

=Watson, William.= Poems; ed. by J. A. Spender. 2v. *$2.50. Lane.

In this new edition of his works, the author “has made several
alterations, even in his greater poems, changes which tend undoubtedly
to perfect the original. The two volumes before us are not large,
though they contain a good many poems not to be found in the
‘Collected works.’” (Spec.) The poems are critical, philosophical, and
political.

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 328. Mr. 18. 2460w.

* “This is such an edition of a poet’s work as one usually waits for
till the author has ceased to be, or at least to write.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 584. D. ‘05. 160w.

* “An edition that is nearly all that could be wished.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 506. D. 21, ‘05. 640w.

“We would make but one censorious comment. The political verses should
have been kept out.”

+ + — =Spec.= 94: 217. F. 11, ‘05. 1370w.

* =Watson, William.= Prayer, *35c. Meth. bk.

In this little volume uniform with the “Freedom of faith” series, the
author discusses the nature, purpose, conditions, difficulties, and
gain of prayer.

* =Way, Thomas R. and Dennis, G. R.= Art of James McNeill Whistler: an appreciation. $2. Macmillan.

A third and cheaper edition of a book which “contains chapters on
Whistler’s various styles and subjects, with many illustrations, some
of them in color, and a single chapter on the artist as a writer. It
is not a life of Whistler; it is an appreciation merely.”—N. Y. Times.

* “The new edition is an excellent compact little book, not differing
except in outward details from its predecessors.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 471. Jl. 15, ‘05. 260w.

* “Their method is rather eulogistic than critical.”

+ — =Outlook.= 80: 690. Jl. 15, ‘05. 30w.

* =R. of Rs.= 32: 640. N. ‘05. 80w.

=Wayne, Charles Stokes.= Prince to order. †$1.50. Lane.

A young Wall street broker, Carey Grey, wakes up one morning to find
himself in Paris with a new name, new friends, and his black hair and
beard bleached yellow. It develops that he has come under the power of
an old phrenologist and chemist who is passing him off as the crown
prince of the small kingdom of Budaria, whose king is dying. Grey has
come to himself because the old scientist’s power is weakened by a
fatal illness, but he keeps up the delusion in order to trap the other
conspirators. The complications are many; Grey learns that he has been
forced to embezzle from his own New York firm while under this strange
influence and his friends believe him dead and dishonored; it is only
after many adventures that he vindicates his honor, and re-wins his
American fiancée.

“Its treatment lacks distinction, but the tale has one or two features
of originality. It is not a bad specimen of its class: lively,
entertaining and tolerably ingenious.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 778. Je. 24. 290w.

“Here we have still another modification of the Zenda story and one
which shows ingenuity.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 198. Ap. 1, ‘05. 420w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 120w.

=Pub. Opin.= 38: 714. My. 6, ‘05. 150w.

“The colors in which this comedy are dressed are over strong, but the
comedy itself is fairly consistent and interesting.”

+ — =Reader.= 6: 474. S. ‘05. 180w.

“The initial idea in this story is quite promising. The book is
amusing.”

+ =Sat. R.= 100: 25. Jl. 1, ‘05. 300w.

* =Webster, Jean.= Wheat princess. †$1.50, Century.

The wheat princess, an American girl whose father has cornered the
wheat market, is living with her aunt and her uncle, who is a
philanthropist, in an old villa on the outskirts of Rome. The wheat
famine tells heavily upon the Italian peasants; the newspapers blazon
her father’s name, the peasants rise in hot indignation, with cries of
“Wheat! wheat!” and her uncle, who has given so much for them, is
besieged in his luxurious villa. In the end the Americans, their
altruistic plans laid low, return to America, but the troublous times
among the poor of Italy have brought to the big hearted wheat princess
the love of her uncle’s friend, the man who has shared his unselfish
dreams.

* “An entertaining and well-written story upon somewhat novel lines.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 100w.

* “Strong, graphic, truthful.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 796. D. 16, ‘05. 160w.

=Webster, John.= White devil and The duchess of Malfy; ed. by Martin W. Sampson. *60c. Heath.

A volume of the Belles-lettres series. The play-wright’s two
masterpieces, “The white devil,” and “The duchess of Malfy,” in
critical text with the original spelling. An introduction and critical
notes are included among the editorial helps.

=Weingartner, (Paul) Felix.= Symphony since Beethoven; tr. by Maude Barrows Dutton. $1. Ditson.

This book about modern symphonies, by the conductor of the Berlin
royal symphony concerts, and of the Kaim orchestra, is in its second
German edition. “He holds that no other symphonies comparable to those
of Beethoven in lofty grandeur, deep significance and perfection of
beauty, have ever been composed.... He has small praise for the
successors of the god of his idolatry in the symphony: a kindly word
for Schubert, Mendelssohn, Bruckner; condemnation for Schumann and
Brahms; mere cursory mention of Tschaikoffsky, Dvorak, Rubinstein,
Borodin, Raff, Goldmark, Saint-Saens, César Franck and Sinding ...
Favoring criticism on Berlioz and Liszt for their symphonic poems....
Discussion of Richard Strauss, whose earlier tone-poems the author
says he admires, but whose later, and greater works he cannot
appreciate.” (Ind.)

“An interesting and stimulating essay, albeit so short as to be
fragmentary in parts. The translation of this essay into English was
worth while, but one regrets that it was not more skilfully done.”

+ — =Ind.= 58: 43. Ja. 5, ‘05. 300w.

“A sympathetic study.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 761. D. ‘04. 100w.

=Weir, Irene.= Greek painters’ art. *$3. Ginn.

“This book aims to bring together as much information as possible from
ancient and modern literature, from the reports of archæologists, and
from the study of specimens in museums and elsewhere, in regard to all
that relates to color as used by the Greek painters of old. The book
is amply illustrated.”—Outlook.

“Miss Weir possesses a delightful enthusiasm for the Greek painters’
art, supported by knowledge of ancient and modern archæological
writings as well as familiarity with art works.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 150w.

— =Ind.= 59: 40. Jl. 6, ‘05. 340w.

“A decidedly interesting if somewhat formal story of the least
generally comprehended of the arts of Greece.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 89. Je. ‘05. 290w.

“A curiously offhand and chatty book upon one of the most difficult
subjects known to the archæologist.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 312. Ap. 20, ‘05. 390w.

“It is a most important addition to the popular literature of the
subject. Its scheme is as original as it is entertaining.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 590w.

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 390w.

“Miss Irene Weir has ... rendered art students an incalculable service
in giving them the advantage of the new light which modern discoveries
have thrown upon the lost art of Greek painting.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 835. My. 27, ‘05. 300w.

“Although we have to recognize how little we know, we are able to find
an account of that little in the present volume.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 261. Ag. 19, ‘05. 150w.

=Weiss, Bernard.= Religion of the New Testament; tr. from the Germ. by G: H. Schodde. *$2. Funk.

The object of the book is “to give a ‘brief but clear’ answer to the
question, what is the religion of the New Testament?... The book is
divided into three parts. In part I, Dr. Weiss describes the
suppositions or conditions of the redemption described in the New
Testament. In part II, he discusses the redemption in Christ proper.
Here the subjects discussed are the redemptive acts of God. In the
third part he treats of the realization of redemption in the
individual and in the congregation, in the present and in the world to
come.”—N. Y. Times.

“With all his splendid exegetical and critical qualities, Professor
Weiss does not write in the spirit of the historian. But this is the
only serious general criticism one feels compelled to pass upon what
is, in fact, a remarkably able work.” S. M.

+ + — =Bib. World.= 26: 392. N. ‘05. 620w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 153. Mr. 11, ‘05. 280w.

“As an exegete Dr. Weiss excels. Men of all schools will find
something to learn from it.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 1478. Je. 29, ‘05. 250w.

“His treatment of the subject is thoroughly objective, and strongly
conservative. A somewhat less close adherence to the style of the
original would have made many sentences of this translation easier
reading for the unlearned, for whom the author intended it.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 708. Mr. 18, ‘05. 240w.

=Wells, Amos Russell.= That they all may be one. **75c. Funk.

A plea that Christ’s wish that “His followers might be kept from
schism, and that His church might be maintained in perfect unity,” may
be realized in the unification of denominations. To this end the
author advocates union Bible schools and pastorates, and under such
chapter headings as, Working together; The search for truth; Churches
and men; Church union and patriotism, he finally arrives at, The
united church of Christ.

“It is not so incoherent as its typographical form would indicate.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 530. O. 28, ‘05. 20w.

=Wells, Carolyn.= Dorrance domain; a story. †$1.50. Wilde.

Four energetic Dorrances left to the care of their Grandmother
Dorrance once wealthy, now skilfully supporting a large family on a
small annuity, bemoan their boarding house existence which seems an
unbearable hardship after the free life in their Fifty-eighth street
home. A part of the Grandfather’s legacy was the Dorrance domain, a
rambling summer hotel, which was not easily disposed of and which
these daring children propose opening and running for a season. The
success of their scheme and the enjoyment which the novel experiment
afforded them are told in Miss Wells’ usual sprightly and humorous
manner.

* “Miss Wells is just the writer to make it the kind worth reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 895. D. 16, ‘05. 120w.

=Outlook.= 81: 575. N. 4, ‘05. 40w.

=Wells, Carolyn.= Patty in the city. †$1.25. Dodd.

The friends of “Patty at home” will find her quite as delightful to
know amid the conditions of New York life, where “she resides in an
apartment overlooking Central park, attends a fashionable school,
makes new friends, and keeps her old ones.” (Outlook.)

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 648. S. 30, ‘05. 220w.

+ =Outlook.= 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 70w.

* =Wells, Carolyn.= Satire anthology. **$1.25. Scribner.

“Beginning with the ancients (Aristophanes, Horace, and Juvenal) ...
the selections work down to such very modern exemplars of the species
as Mr. Owen Seaman and Mr. Gelett Burgess. Sprinkled through the list
of authors we note such out-of-the-way names as those of Ruteboeuf,
Abraham à Sancta Clara, Villon, and Béranger. The collection is,
however, mainly one of English verse, from the Elizabethans on.”—Dial.

* “The selections, from innumerable authors, have been made with
skill; but certain of the pieces from very minor modern authors might
have been spared in favor of some omitted bits from Lowell and Holmes,
both of whom are rather inadequately represented.”

+ + — =Critic.= 47: 584. D. ‘05. 150w.

* “May safely be depended upon to provide both amusement and
instruction.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 450. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.

* “It is ungracious to find fault where there is so much of good. We
are glad to get the anthology as it stands.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 905. D. 16, ‘05. 610w.

* “Contains most of the representative and well-known bits of this
sort of literature.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 640. N. ‘05. 70w.

=Wells, Carolyn, and Taber, Harry Persons.= Matrimonial bureau. †$1.50. Houghton.

The story of a girl who, weary of “waiting for the prince,” sees her
maid happily married thru the agency of a matrimonial bureau, and
decides to start one of her own. She invites a cousin, who invites a
friend, who invites another friend, and they all stay all summer.
Everybody falls in love at cross purposes, a beautiful stranger
arrives to confuse confusion, and it is all very complicated and
amusing, but is untangled in the end.

“The efforts of a New England spinster to be a machine god are amusing
and some of the conversations hang together well.”

+ =Critic.= 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 70w.

“We have never read a more improbable tale, and not often one that so
completely failed to amuse.”

— — — =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 220w.

“The small volume is packed with jokes of the kind visible without a
glass.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 203. Ap. 1, ‘05. 40w.

“Here and there are some love scenes very human, very delicately
wrought. Briefly, ‘The matrimonial bureau’ is like the ‘Summer girl,’
passing fair, fair but passing.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 214. Ap. 8, ‘05. 330w.

“It is an excellent book for summer reading, being as light as air.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.

“A book of the slightest sort, hardly comedy, more accurately
described perhaps as a summer farce.”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 1014. Ap. 22, ‘05. 80w.

“As a literary soufflé, light, well-flavored and well-browned, this
little story will be a tasty addition to the midsummer feast of
reading.”

+ =Reader.= 6: 359. Ag. ‘05. 190w.

=Wells, Herbert George.= Kipps: a monograph. †$1.50. Scribner.

“An uneducated, awkward, and uncultivated clerk in a London draper’s
establishment suddenly has a large fortune left him, attempts to get
into high society, is made use of and swindled right and left, but
finally has the courage to break away, to marry the girl of his
choice, even though she be a servant girl, and to live his own life.
In the end fortune smiles on him a second time, but now in moderation,
and he is left a happy, contented husband and father; and, by a twist
of Mr. Wells’ whimsical fancy, is made the proprietor of a bookshop
which he manages on the theory that ‘one book is about as good as
another.’”—Outlook.

“The book, in fact, has a purpose, but that purpose is not allowed to
interfere with its vivacity; and ‘Kipps’ is, indeed, the most amusing
book and at the same time the tenderest book that Mr. Wells has ever
written.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 1129. O. 28, ‘05. 900w.

* “He has set aside the speculations of scientific imagination, and
deals with warm human life to-day. This is the work which was designed
for him in the end, and we cannot doubt that he will continue to
devote himself to it.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 681. N. 18. 650w.

“Deals with his subject in a strong, broad manner, intensified by his
understanding of such detail of life as the minor incidents of retail
trade.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 478. N. ‘05. 50w.

+ =Ind.= 59: 1113. N. 9, ‘05. 220w.

“The merit of the novel, however, is not in the story, but in the
observation. He never, for a single page, fails to be amusing.”

+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 358. O. 27, ‘05. 780w.

“Is a humorous story, but it is not a trifling one, and though it
deals largely with humble folk, it has to do, in a broad and forceful
way, with much of the seriousness of life.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 649. O. 7, ‘05. 500w.

“The story in its substance is rather sordid and dull.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 382. O. 14, ‘05. 170w.

“Kipps, indeed, carries a social question to be long pondered, and the
author’s side-talks are an important contribution to the old but
never-ended discussion.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 290w.

* “Is another triumph in the art of presenting character.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 100w.

* “Mr. Wells, as usual, writes cleverly, brilliantly, wittily.”

+ =Sat. R.= 100: 658. N. 18, ‘05. 820w.

* “We have found Kipps in many ways the most human and sympathetic of
Mr. Wells’s stories.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 718. N. 4, ‘05. 1060w.

=Wells, Herbert George.= Modern Utopia. *$1.50. Scribner.

Mr. Wells departs from the Utopia-makers of the past in that his
Utopia is a world-state using a universal language. The author deals
“with strictly modern and current conditions, and imagines a new state
of society, whose social basis has been improved and whose social
problems have been settled.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Seems to us to mark an advance even on the high level of excellence
which Mr. Wells had before attained.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 414. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1290w.

* “We can discover nothing in this sample, however, that goes beyond
good-natured satire of conditions which none would be so poor as to
defend.” A. W. S.

+ =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 430. N. ‘05. 250w.

“There has been no work of this importance published for the last
thirty years.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 519. Ap. 29. 2450w.

“The form he has chosen for ‘A modern Utopia’ is exceedingly
unfortunate. The essay appended ... is a contribution of real value to
the theory of thinking and written in a style as witty and original as
that of Professor James.”

— + =Ind.= 58: 1307. Je. 8, ‘05. 740w.

“Mr. Wells meant this work as a very serious one. Many readers of it
will find its perusal trying, and will fail to realize, as proper
compensation for the task of reading the same, whatever grist it
offers for the mind.”

+ — =Lit. D.= 31: 427. S. 23, ‘05. 990w.

“Mr. Wells’s Utopia is far the most interesting, imaginative, and
possible of all the Utopias written since the inventions and
discoveries of science began to colour our conceptions of the future.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 144. My. 5, ‘05. 1650w.

“In the present book Mr. Wells has become still more moderate and
practicable and hopeful, without in the least derogating from his
ingenuity and originality.” F. C. S. S.

+ + =Nature.= 72: 337. Ag. 10, ‘05. 1280w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 313. My. 13, ‘05. 300w.

“It is carefully thought out and reasoned, and holds together much
better than the ideal commonwealths imagined by his predecessors.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 1340w.

“The method of presentation adopted is exceedingly happy.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 345. Je. 3, ‘05. 310w.

“It is an admirable piece of literature and a book of unlimited
suggestiveness. As literature and as philosophy, ‘A modern Utopia’ is
Mr. Wells’ masterpiece.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 764. Je. ‘05. 220w.

“The book, both in matter and in form, has been carefully studied and
thought out. Mr. Wells’s book seems hardly likely to rank as, or to
remain, a classic Utopia.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 610. O. 21, ‘05. 2040w.

=Wells, Herbert George.= Twelve stories and a dream. †$1.50. Scribner.

In this volume of stories Mr. Wells “has but rarely any prophetic or
scientific axe to grind. His stories deal with the marvelous under
many aspects, but always in the light of his half-joyous,
half-whimsical humor.” (R. of Rs.)

“None of them is equal to the best of his former tales, but there are
some that are very amusing and some quite gruesome.”

+ — =Ind.= 58: 1308. Je. 8, ‘05. 100w.

“Enough have surely been mentioned to show the varied entertainment
which Mr. Wells offers and to indicate our opinion that he has never
offered any better.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 327. My. 20, ‘05. 590w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.

“In at least half of these stories Mr. Wells is seen at his best.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 1062. Ap. 29, ‘05. 160w.

“‘Twelve stories and a dream’ will not lower Mr. Wells’ reputation as
an imaginative writer, which his previous volumes probably did.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 763. Je. ‘05. 80w.

=Welsh, Charles=, ed. See Famous battles of the Nineteenth century.

=Wendell, Barrett.= Temper of the 17th century in English literature. **$1.50. Scribner.

“Prof. Barrett Wendell, of the English department at Harvard
university, has gathered his lectures on English literature, delivered
on the Clark foundation at Trinity college, Cambridge (1902-‘03), into
a volume.... These are the first regular lectures concerning English
literature ever given by an American at an English university.
Together, they are practically a literary study of the age of Dryden.
The purpose in these lectures was, he declares, to indicate the manner
in which the national temper of England, as revealed in
seventeenth-century literature, ‘changed from a temper ancestrally
common to modern England, and to modern America, and became, before
the century closed, something which later time must recognize as
distinctly, specifically, English.”—R. of Rs.

“Prof. Wendell is always interesting, whether we agree with him or
not, and the Clark lectures ... have much good matter in them, with
perhaps as much that is by no means so good.”

+ + — =Critic.= 47: 92. Jl. ‘05. 190w.

“Smoothness of style ... Though this volume is of such high merit that
it will take a place at once as one of the recognized authorities on
its subject, it is not likely that all its positions will be accepted
without a demur.” Herbert W. Horwill.

+ + — =Forum.= 36: 407. Ja. ‘05. 1970w.

“The title of this book is more philosophical than the contents
warrant; instead of obtaining one final impression, we remember the
separate remarks—often wise, suggestive and illuminating—on separate
authors.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 1016. My. 4, ‘05. 260w.

=R. of Rs.= 31: 250. F. ‘05. 130w.

“Its author seems wholly destitute of any pretension to critical
discernment. The diction and style, as might be expected, are on a par
with the rest of the book. It is scandalous that a great university
like Cambridge should tolerate such standards of information and
criticism as this volume exhibits.”

— — — =Sat. R.= 99: 704. My. 27, ‘05. 1960w.

=Wertheimer, Edward von.= Duke of Reichstadt. **$5. Lane.

Dr. Wertheimer’s monograph on the Duke of Reichstadt makes use of a
vast deal of new biographical material. The study covers the political
setting of the life in detail, painstakingly going over the whole
piece of statecraft involved in Napoleon’s Austrian marriage, dwelling
at length upon the influence which the alliance exerted upon the
policy of Napoleon and of his opponents. The short uneventful life of
Napoleon’s son is of less interest than the stirring history which the
father tried to shape for the glory of a permanent kingdom. “It is to
the fact that he was his father’s son that the fame of the Duke of
Reichstadt is due ... the shadow of a great name surrounds him, and
historical writers record and discuss his every act as if he had been
a real king, instead of merely the If, Yes, and Perhaps of Modern
European history.” (N. Y. Times.)

+ + — =Acad.= 68: 1124. O. 28, ‘05. 1780w.

“As a rule, however, the narrative runs easily—perhaps more so than is
the case with most translations.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 536. O. 21, 2040w.

* “The translation, on the whole, is very satisfactory, though there
are occasional lapses into awkwardness or obscurity. Here and there
one may question the justice of Dr. Wertheimer’s remarks. But these
and a few other blemishes do not detract from the value of a most
careful and interesting work, which presents the first complete and
authoritative account of the life of this unfortunate prince.”

+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 337. O. 13, ‘05. 1360w.

“Mr. de Wertheimer’s book is a valuable contribution to historical
knowledge. The author’s style, however, is somewhat confused, and his
judgment is far from critical.”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 386. N. 9, ‘05. 1050w.

“He has scraped everything together, sorted it out, sifted it, and
arranged it in what must be acknowledged to be an interesting story.
The matter is not important, however. The English translation of Mr.
de Wertheimer’s book is good.”

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 669. O. 14, ‘05. 860w.

* “It is as interesting as it is valuable as a contribution to a
strangely neglected period of European history.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.

* “Dr. Wertheimer has chosen wisely to present the details of a sad
career with the fulness, the accuracy, and the impartiality of a
scholar.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 869. N. 25, ‘05. 1410w.

=West, George Stephen.= Treatise on the British freshwater algae. *$3.50. Macmillan.

“Certainly there is no book upon any phase of cryptogamic botany for
which there has been so much need, and for which the demand in recent
years, has been so great, as one dealing comprehensively with the
freshwater algæ.... A good general discussion of the methods of
multiplication and reproduction in algæ, together with a reference to
the question of polymorphism and a rather full exposition of the
particular theories of the author regarding phylogeny, precedes the
specific treatment of the six classes, Rhodophyceæ, Phaeophyceæ,
Chlorophyceæ, Heterokonteæ, Bacillarieæ, and Myxophyceæ.... The book
is fully illustrated and too much cannot be said for the successful
effort to secure new and accurate drawings of not only the more
recently described genera, but for the older forms as well.”—Science.

“The work has been thoroughly done throughout, and its value is
greatly increased by an exhaustive index. The plates are sufficiently
characteristic for most identifications, and the descriptions and keys
are good.”

+ + + =Nation.= 80: 93. F. 2, ‘05. 90w.

“Is particularly well qualified to write such a book. The need of a
treatise upon the freshwater algæ has been referred to; that this book
will come as near to filling such a need as one of its scope, written
by one man, could possibly be expected, is all that is necessary to
say regarding its worth.” George T. Moore.

+ + + =Science=, n.s. 21: 184. F. 3, ‘05. 900w.

=West, W. K.= George Frederick Watts. $1.25. Warne.

A biographical sketch of Watts by W. K. West, with an essay on his
art, and an outline of the sixty-five pictures reproduced in the book,
by Romualdo Pantini.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 205. Ap. 1, ‘05. 230w.

+ =Outlook.= 79: 856. Ap. 1, ‘05. 60w.

=Westcott, Rev. Frank Nash.= Church and the good Samaritan; mission addresses to men. **$1. Whittaker.

A series of Lent addresses to men. They include The lawyer’s question,
The Jericho road, The priest and the Samaritan, The Samaritan and the
Jew, The wayside inn, The two pence.

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 60w.

* =Westcott, Frank N.= Heart of catholicity. $1. Young churchman.

A defence of the conception of the church which is held by the “high
church” party of the Anglican communion. It regards the church as a
divine institution let down from above, the dispenser of truth and
salvation as against the view held by the members of that communion in
common with other protestants that the church is a historic growth
which has developed out of human needs and which is seeking truth and
salvation. The author means by “catholicity” the former conception of
the church, but the term ought to be big enough to include both views.

=Outlook.= 81: 134. S. 16, ‘05. 150w.

=Westrup, Margaret.= Coming of Billy. $1.25. Harper.

“Billy’s coming will be a pleasure to readers of all ages, for Billy
is a delightful addition to the real small boys of fiction. His
parents send him from India to Rose Cottage, England, where he is a
source of continual surprises, not always agreeable to his maiden
aunts. He takes a hand in the love affairs of the ‘youngest and
prettiest’ Miss Primrose.”—Outlook.

“The reviewer fancies that the whole book is much more likely to
interest mature, and even elderly readers, than children.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 432. S. 30. 230w.

“A delightfully humorous story that is told with a wholly charming
grace and simplicity.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 710. O. 21, ‘05. 470w.

+ =Outlook.= 81: 134. S. 16, ‘05. 70w.

=Weyman, Stanley John.= Starvecrow farm. †$1.50. Longmans.

“The story is placed in the early part of the last century; the
heroine, engaged to one man, elopes with another, on whose head there
is a price. The couple are captured the day of their flight from the
girl’s home, but the man escapes, leaving the girl in the hands of the
law. The world thinks her an accomplice, and as her family repudiates
her, she has to fight her battle alone.”—Pub. Opin.

“A novel that is likely to be read with delight on a wet day in a
country house or on a railway journey.”

+ — =Acad.= 68: 1025. O. 7, ‘05. 320w.

“It is as good as any of those which have preceded it from the same
pen, and to say this is to pay it a high compliment.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 396. S. 23. 420w.