Chapter LIII: Part II: is devoted to ‘The mountain ranges of the earth’—the (6)

“Its structure is rather flabby. Looking back over the book, we feel
that we ought to have been more excited over it than we were; but the
truth is that Mr. Weyman is both wordy and a little uncertain.”

— =Lond. Times.= 4: 295. S. 15, ‘05. 510w.

“It goes—goes a-cantering and takes you along with it.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 707. O. 21, ‘05. 440w.

* “Like the others, a thoroughly readable story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.

— =Outlook.= 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 100w.

“In ‘Starvecrow farm’ there are the same easy flow of narrative, the
lively dialogue, the dramatic sense, and the well-developed plot which
characterize all that this author does.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 573. O. 28, ‘05. 110w.

“As a vigorous, wholesome, and well-constructed tale it deserves to
win wide acceptance.”

+ — =Spec.= 95: 434. S. 23, ‘05. 740w.

=Whall, C. W.= Stained-glass work. **$1.50. Appleton.

A simple text-book, which the author has written “in a gossipy style,
using very few technical terms and explaining every seemingly
difficult passage, just as though he were giving oral instruction.”
(N. Y. Times.) There are photographic reproductions of windows in
English churches, and many diagrams.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 474. Jl. 15, ‘05. 390w.

+ + — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 352. S. 9, ‘05. 200w.

=Wharton, Edith Newbold (Jones).= House of mirth. †$1.50. Scribner.

A society novel, cruel in its reality. Lily Bart, beautiful and
twenty-nine, the orphaned child of a New York merchant, feels her
whole being calling for the stamp of permanent possession upon the
luxury which she has always enjoyed at the hands of her friends.
Relentlessly the author enmeshes her in the toils of debt incurred at
bridge; in scandal, the price of a trip upon a friend’s yacht; and,
almost in a loveless marriage,—only the wealthy Rosedale himself
recoils from it when society no longer smiles upon Miss Bart. She is
dropped from stage to stage of society, the unhappy victim of
circumstance and environment, but holding the reader’s full sympathy
thru an innate nobility which is submerged but never eliminated. The
end is hard—but could it all have ended otherwise?

“Mrs. Wharton has done many good things—she has never done anything
better than this. Her dialogue is clever, fresh and sparkling; she has
a fine discrimination—a natural, unstudied discrimination—in the use
of words; and her style is graceful and fluent.”

+ + + =Acad.= 68: 1155. N. 4, ‘05. 330w.

* “It is a pitiful story, told with restraint and insight and not a
little subtlety.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 718. N. 25. 160w.

* “As a piece of artistic creation, it falls short of supreme
excellence.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

+ + =Critic.= 47: 509. D. ‘05. 580w.

“She still has a fine manner, but it is like the fine gowns of her
heroines, a fashion of the times for interpreting decadent symptoms in
human nature. What she says will not last, because it is simply the
fashionable drawing of ephemeral types and still more ephemeral
sentiments.”

+ — =Ind.= 59: 150. Jl. 20, ‘05. 820w.

+ — =Ind.= 59: 1151. N. 16, ‘05. 250w.

* “Miss Bart is a blend of Becky Sharp and Gwendolen Harleth. She is
not as compellingly human as the one, nor as inspiring as the other.
Frankly, Mrs. Wharton has surpassed George Eliot in this theme. Not
only is Lily Bart more congenial and better, as a human variation,
than Gwendolen or Becky, but Mrs. Wharton’s style is more plastic and
seductive than that of Mrs. Lewes.”

+ + =Lit.= D. 31: 886. D. 9, ‘05. 820w.

* “A dozen other novels of the year are good; but this book is really
good. What Mrs. Wharton appears to lack is in a word the creative gift
at its fullest. She sees with certainty and her hand is as sure as her
eye. But with the richest imaginations something takes place beyond
this.”

+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 421. D. 1, ‘05. 790w.

* “A feeling for fair play obliges us to protest Mrs. Wharton’s
picture as a prejudiced one, yet it is not consciously unveracious.
Though depressing, it is not wholly unprofitable.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 447. N. 30, ‘05. 1100w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 190w.

“The story is the product of the most carefully calculated, the most
skilfully handled, artistic values and effects; but the workmanship is
the manner, not the substance of the novel. A story of such integrity
of insight and of workmanship is an achievement of high importance in
American life.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 404. O. 21, ‘05. 1590w.

* “It is by all odds the greatest novel of recent years.”

+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 796. D. 16, ‘05. 490w.

* “We have touched only the main theme, which like the whole story, is
worked out in a manner to stamp the writer a genius, and give her name
a place in the history of American literature.”

+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 757. D. ‘05. 380w.

“Her reputation will certainly not suffer any decline by the
publication of her new novel.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 657. O. 28, ‘05. 660w.

=Wharton, Edith Newbold (Jones).= Italian backgrounds; il. by E. C. Peixotto. **$2.50. Scribner.

Mrs. Wharton says, “As with the study of Italian pictures, so it is
with Italy herself. The country is divided not in partes tres, but in
two; a foreground and a background. The foreground is the property of
the guidebook and of its product, the mechanical sightseers; the
background, that of the dawdler, the dreamer, and the serious student
of Italy.” The nine chapters are—An Alpine posting inn, A midsummer
week’s dream, The sanctuaries of the Pennine Alps, What the hermits
saw, A Tuscan shrine, Sub umbra liliorum. March in Italy, Picturesque
Milan, and Italian backgrounds: then there are twelve illustrations
reproduced from Peixotto pictures.

“The book is written with genuine knowledge, with large and generous
sympathy, and in excellent English.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 798. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1220w.

“Her style is extraordinarily good, but her thought is pedantic and
inhuman.” G. R. Carpenter.

+ — =Bookm.= 21: 609. Ag. ‘05. 550w.

“Has an air of spontaneity, as well as of competence, an irresistible
grace, countless descriptive felicities, and the fervent glow of a
genuine enthusiasm.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 287. S. ‘05. 150w.

“Through this traveller’s story runs a fine thread of scholarship, of
savoir faire, of cosmopolitanism, not easily to be matched in
travel-literature. The book has what we call distinction of style, as
impossible to resist as to define.” Anna Benneson McMahan.

+ + + =Dial.= 38: 351. My. 16, ‘05. 930w.

+ =Ind.= 58: 1311. Je. 8, ‘05. 190w.

“When Mrs. Wharton leaves the countryside and speaks of pictures and
sculpture, she is apt to be less satisfactory. She is almost too
impartial in her appreciation.”

+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 215. Jl. 7, ‘05. 640w.

“Mrs. Wharton has many unusual qualifications for writing on the art
of Italy in its many phases, among others a brilliant style, historic
research and a catholicity of taste.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 508. Je. 22, ‘05. 910w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 265. Ap. 22, ‘05. 270w.

“Like the text, they [the illustrations] press the ‘culture’ of
elusive expression very near to the vanishing point.” Walter
Littlefield.

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 940w.

“This attractive quarto shows the combination of thorough knowledge
based on original research, ability to enter into and value different
aspects of life and different forms of art, and a finished and
suggestive style.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 643. Jl. 8, ‘05. 250w.

“The book is full of exquisite impressions concerning matters not to
be found in the guide books.”

+ + =Reader.= 6: 597. O. ‘05. 220w.

“An intimate acquaintance with Italian art and nature, an insight into
southern life, and an exquisite literary style,—all of which belong to
this writer—are necessary for such a study.”

+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 50w.

“A great deal of charming description is scattered through this
volume.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 470. S. 30. ‘05. 2560w.

=Wharton, Edith.= Italian villas and their gardens; il. with pictures by Maxfield Parrish, and by photographs. **$6. Century.

To come so absolutely under the spell of Italy’s garden-magic as is
possible thru Mrs. Wharton’s word exposition and Mr. Parrish’s color
interpretation, is almost as rare a privilege for the traveler who has
visited those haunts as for the stay-at-home tourist. Magic which in
its first supernatural impression defies analysis, often yields to
laws of formation in the sober moments of consideration. Thus does
Mrs. Wharton show that the seemingly spontaneous glory of Italian
gardens is, after all, the result of garden-craft which the architects
of the Renaissance resolved into a three-fold problem: adaptation of
the garden to the architectural lines of the house it adjoins;
adaptation to the requirements of the inmates of a house, in the sense
of providing shady walks, sunny bowling-greens, parterres and
orchards, all conveniently accessible; and, lastly, adaptation to the
landscape around. There are fifty illustrations, in color and in black
and white by Maxfield Parrish. Months of close observation and
sympathetic study have been devoted to the large undertaking and the
harmony with the subject matter which the De Vinne press has wrought
into the book workmanship is exquisite.

“Mr. Parrish has performed his part of the task in a delightful and
satisfactory way. The impression, the atmosphere, created by the
illustrations, is not sustained in the text.”

+ + — =Critic.= 46: 166. F. ‘05. 1260w.

“The text is well written and contains much information concerning the
villas and gardens selected for treatment.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: 179. Ap. ‘05. 150w.

“This is a notable volume, all the more so from the archæological and
historical associations which it recalls.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 118. Ja. 28, ‘05. 70w.

=Wheeler, Candace Thurber (Mrs. Thomas M.).= Doubledarling and the dream spinner. †$1.50. Fox.

Doubledarling is a little girl “twice as good and twice as beautiful
as other children.” When she tells her father how her little discarded
red shoes led her in the night to the land where the old shoes go, he
promises her a dream machine which will tell her wonderful stories all
night long; and on Christmas morning her dream spinner hangs on a peg
by her bed ticking out story after story to her. The book tells about
these dreams and also of Doubledarling’s waking hours, her friends and
her pets. One regrets the commonplace realism which lets an ordinary
burglar finally make away with the dream spinner. Dora Wheeler Keith
has illustrated the volume.

* + =Critic.= 47: 577. D. ‘05. 50w.

+ =Outlook.= 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 60w.

=Wheeler, Everett Pepperell.= Daniel Webster, the expounder of the constitution. **$1.50. Putnam.

“This is at once a tribute to the genius of Daniel Webster and a handy
manual to the decisions which, following Webster’s arguments before
the United States Supreme court, have molded the constitution to make
it adequate to our needs. While Mr. Wheeler’s chief concern is with
the constitutional questions laid before the court, he is not
unmindful of the senatorial side of Webster’s career from the
constitutional standpoint, and chapters are given over to the replies
of Calhoun and Hayne, involving the nature of the republic, and to the
famous ‘Seventh of March’ speech, which brought such disappointment to
the enemies of slavery.... Interest is heightened by the inclusion of
hitherto unpublished accounts of several of the more important cases,
and by an appreciative study of Webster as a lawyer.”—Outlook.

=Am. Hist.= R. 10: 717. Ap. ‘05. 90w.

“Its manifest position as a special pleader for Mr. Webster’s memory.
Is particularly desirable as giving us new light on old subjects
through its first publication of many facts which aid to a clearer
view of the principles of the constitution.”

+ + =Boston Evening Transcript.= F. 8, ‘05. 550w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 130. Mr. 4, ‘05. 950w.

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 399. F. 11, ‘05. 130w.

=Yale R.= 14: 229. Ag. ‘05. 100w.

=Whelpley, James Davenport.= Problem of the immigrant. *$3. Dutton.

A brief discussion, with a summary of conditions, laws and regulations
governing the movement of population to and from the British empire,
the United States, France, Germany, Belgium, Austria-Hungary, Russia,
Spain, Portugal, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, and
Scandinavia.

+ + =Acad.= 68: 242. Mr. 11, ‘05. 260w.

* “Such data is not easily accessible to the average student or
legislator, and the volume will be of great service.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 753. N. ‘05. 110w.

“A useful work of reference. Such frantic statements as these are a
serious disfigurement in a book professing claims to accuracy.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 45. Jl. 8. 430w.

“This hasty ‘book of the hour,’ for such it evidently is, interests in
parts, particularly in its emphasis upon emigration as a matter of
international concern.”

+ + — =Ind.= 59: 578. S. 7, ‘05. 180w.

“His summaries seem excellent and correct. The observations and brief
discussions with which he accompanies them are illuminating and to the
point.”

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 33. Jl. 13, ‘05. 270w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 313. My. 13, ‘05. 200w.

“The book is more useful than any other bearing on the same subject.”

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 452. Jl. 8, ‘05. 720w.

“Mr. Whelpley’s careful study of the general problem of emigration and
immigration throughout Europe, our colonies, and the United States
will be found a particularly useful addition to a class of recent
books that is now somewhat extensive.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 710. My. 27, ‘05. 340w.

“Mr. Whelpley’s ideas are worthy of respect, and the materials which
he has provided should be invaluable to the political student.”

+ + — =Spec.= 95: 434. S. 23, ‘05. 510w.

* Where the road led and other stories. $1.25. Benziger.

Twenty-eight Roman Catholic stories written by fourteen Roman Catholic
authors. The stories are love stories, but some are of filial love,
some of maternal love, and some of the love of religion. The authors
include Anna T. Sadlier; Mary T. Waggaman; Magdalen G. Rock; Mary E.
Mannix; and Mary G. Bonesteel.

=Whibley, Charles.= Literary portraits. *$2.50. Scribner.

Essays on Rabelais, Phillippe de Comines, Philemon, Holland,
Montaigne, The library of an old scholar (the poet William Drummond),
Robert Burton, and Jacques Casanova.

“The appreciation is clear and just, and the author is to be
congratulated on the decision and delicacy of his touch and the
simplicity of his style. The average of the volume is fully up to that
high standard of culture which is evident in all Mr. Whibley’s
published works.” Frank Schloesser.

+ + =Acad.= 68: 13. Ja. 7, ‘05. 600w.

“The level of performance here is singularly even and singularly
high.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 78. Ja. 14. 580w.

“There is perhaps little art in the various portraits, and there is
certainly no pretence at originality; but there is sympathetic
understanding, and thorough and conscientious labor.”

+ =Critic.= 46: 475. My. ‘05. 170w.

+ + =Dial.= 38: 323. My. 1. ‘05. 930w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 153. Mr. 11, ‘05. 360w.

“‘Literary portraits’ shows marked ability and is to be classed among
the books of criticism of the higher standard.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 198. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1020w.

“Mr. Whibley has finished these portraits with a skillful and graceful
pen. Readers in a critical mood and readers for entertainment will
both find his work attractive.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 160w.

“We miss the illuminating phrase. The fresh judgment and the
historical setting is often wholly omitted. Mr. Whibley has ‘the
practiced hand,’ and is apt to be content with that amount of
accomplishment.”

— + =Sat. R.= 99: 637. My. 13, ‘05. 180w.

“This seems to us the best of Mr. Whibley’s volumes of essays, the
most mature in style and thought, and the most attractive in
subject-matter. He has studied each of his writers with a minute care
and has read deeply in contemporary literature, so that they are
presented to us in the true setting of their age. His judgments have
now the sanity which can only come from a full experience and a full
enjoyment of a wide field of literature. His style ... has acquired a
body and force which it did not always possess, and his essays are
admirable, if for nothing else, for their mastery of clear, graceful,
and vigorous prose. Sometimes his comment is a little over-strained.”

+ + + =Spec.= 94: 87. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1830w.

=Whibley, Leonard=, ed. See =Companion= to Greek studies.

=Whiffen, Edwin T.= Samson marrying, Samson at Timnah, Samson Hybristes, Samson blinded: four dramatic poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.

These four dramatic poems deal with four dramatic incidents in the
life of Samson. The first tells of Samson’s revenge upon the
Philistine youths who, at his wedding-feast, illtreat his father and
win from his bride the solution to a certain riddle. The second tells
of further revenge upon the Philistines and includes the setting of
foxes and fire brands among their corn and vineyards. In the third
drama Samson is tried before the elders of Judah, and his mother
reveals to him his divinely appointed mission—to free his people. In
the fourth the action centers about the effort of Delilah to discover
the secret of his strength and closes with Samson blind and a captive.

=Whitaker, Herman.= Probationer, and other stories. †$1.25. Harper.

Thirteen short stories of life in northwestern Canada. “Most of them
deal with the days when the factors and commissioners of the Hudson
bay company were the lords of the land, and ruled with an iron hand.
The history of the great fur company is full of romance, and there is
a peculiar fascination about life in those northern regions.”
(Outlook.)

“Some of his stories are thrilling, some humorous, some tame. In
narrative Mr. Whittaker has a good deal of manner—too much, and not
always his own.”

+ — =Nation.= 80: 442. Je. 1, ‘05. 260w.

“A book which is unusually vigorous and suggestive.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 213. Ap. 8, ‘05. 770w.

“The stories are full of strength and vigor and the atmosphere of the
woods.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 80w.

“No one has so pictured the life of the trappers and traders of that
country since Gilbert Parker wrote of ‘Pretty Pierre’ and his people.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 120w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 70w.

=White, Andrew Dickson.= Autobiography of Andrew D. White. **$7.50. Century.

A record of diplomatic service which began in 1854 when Mr. White went
to St. Petersburg as attaché of the American legation, and ended when
on his seventieth birthday, 1902, he resigned his duties as ambassador
to Germany. The two volumes contain an account of his work as state
senator, as a college professor, and finally, president of Cornell, as
a commissioner to Santo Domingo, and the Paris exposition (1878), as
minister to Germany and Russia, as a member of the Venezuelan boundary
commission, and president of the American delegation at the peace
conference of the Hague (1899). There are descriptions of the emperor
of Germany and Czar Nicholas II, and their courts, and many anecdotes
and crisp comments. The man, his life, his many fields of labor, and
the great men and events with which he came in contact, are all set
forth in detail.

“The value of the volumes seems chiefly to arise from the charmingly
simple tale of personal experience told by a man of wisdom and
insight, a tale told with considerable literary skill.”

+ + + =Am. Hist R.= 10: 925. Jl. ‘05. 470w.

“In ‘The autobiography of Andrew D. White’ we have one of the most
brilliant, interesting, instructive and in many ways important works
of recent decades. These examples will be sufficient to illustrate the
reckless character of our author’s statements whenever the facts run
counter to his prejudices and views which in later years he has
imbibed from the privileged interests and reactionary influences that
have environed him.”

+ + — =Arena.= 34: 97. Jl. ‘05. 7000w.

“The volumes are full of interest for the general reader, but so ill
arranged that those may be repelled who by better construction would
have been attracted.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 589. My. 13. 880w.

“Its interest is due not to any novelty of fact, for the entire book
is an open page of history, but to an instinct or habit of
truthfulness that pervades its pages like an atmosphere.” Theodore T.
Munger.

+ + + =Atlan.= 96: 556. O. ‘05. 7900w.

Reviewed by John W. Russell.

+ + + =Bookm.= 21: 603. Ag. ‘05. 1460w.

“I have found this a most readable book from cover to cover, the story
of a strenuous life told with simple directness.” Jeanette L. Gilder.

+ + =Critic.= 46: 449. My. ‘05. 1460w.

“In arrangement the work is a model. By his skill in the selection of
material, and by his admirably lucid and even style, the author has
made every page intensely interesting.” Clark S. Northrup.

+ + + =Dial.= 38: 260. Ap. 16, ‘05. 1780w.

“To the student of the problems of higher education in America, Dr.
White’s ‘Autobiography,’ full as it is of matters of general interest,
should prove especially interesting and important.” Clark S. Northup.

+ + =Educ. R.= 30: 101. Je. ‘05. 1030w.

“Altogether this is a full book, with something for everybody, putting
one in touch on many sides with modern times; an adequate narrative of
an exceptional career.”

+ + — =Ind.= 59: 812. O. 5, ‘05. 1080w.

“A better account of the founding of Cornell, of which he was so long
the honored and successful head, has never been given, and perhaps in
no other of his pages do we see so clearly the practical idealism,
which, running throughout his life story like a golden thread, makes
it so well worth the telling.”

+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 187. Ag. 5, ‘05. 630w.

“Viewed as a narrative the book is excellent, and only needs more
continuity; viewed as a collection of essays, it is naturally
inadequate.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 149. My. 12, ‘05. 2680w.

“By the side of the recent contributions of Hoar, Stillman, Newcomb,
Dwight, Le Conte, Villard, and Conway, the autobiography of White will
hold an honored place.”

+ + + =Nation.= 80: 272. Ap. 6, ‘05. 2110w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 121. F. 25, ‘05. 180w.

“Nor does it possess that intimate charm which has made a literary
classic of more than one ingenuous personal narrative. There is little
in these two volumes which can fail to interest the serious reader in
one way or another.” H. W. Boynton.

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 321. My. 20, ‘05. 1410w.

“If he is not entirely without prejudice of egotism, he displays those
qualities after the manner of great men.”

+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w.

“These volumes ... have a value for all his countrymen not surpassed
by any American autobiography within our knowledge.” James M. Whiton.

+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 132. My. 13, ‘05. 5600w.

“Mr. White is an octogenarian, with a full life behind him, but two
hundred pages would have been ample space for it.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 28. Jl. 1, ‘05. 160w.

“It is eminently characteristic of its country of origin.”

+ + + =Spec.= 95: 51. Ag. 8, ‘05. 740w.

“There is a want of continuity. Repetitions occur, and sometimes when
they were unintended. He has written a book to interest all who are
interested in the modern world.” Simeon E. Baldwin.

+ + — =Yale R.= 14: 210. Ag. ‘05. 1770w.

=White, C. V.= Peace conference: poem. $1. Badger, R: G.

This poem is dedicated to the American delegates of the International
peace conference, which met at the Hague, May 18, 1899. It sets forth
the harm which war has done thruout history, and declares that the
time for universal peace is here. It closes with the prayer,

“Lord God endow
Us with thy blessings now,
And plenteous peace the whole world o’er
Establish thou forevermore.”

=White, Fred M.= Crimson blind. $1.50. Fenno.

The strands of this story are marvelously twisted. A villain, a fiend
in human shape, has plunged his family into dishonor to gain his ends,
but by the aid of a clever doctor, whose future had also been involved
in the general ruin, a young novelist who applies fiction methods to
the case, and a girl cousin who feigns death in order to be free to
solve the mystery, the whole is ferreted out, bit by bit. It is an
ingenious plot with manifold complications.

“This is a really fine sensational novel.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 735. Jl. 15, ‘05. 230w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 320. My. 13, ‘05. 210w.

=White, George.= Practical course of instruction in personal magnetism, telepathy, and hypnotism. $1.25. Dutton.

A practical course of instruction setting forth the manner in which
any student may acquire powers over himself, over his fellow men, and
even over time and space.

— =Acad.= 68: 683. Jl. 1, ‘05. 740w.

Reviewed by Pendennis.

— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 430. Jl. 1, ‘05. 680w.

=White, T. Hyler.= Petrol motor and motor cars: a handbook for engineers, designers, and draughtsmen. *$1.40. Longmans.

A book which the author feels is needed, because recent automobile
literature has not been written for the benefit of designers.
Practical rules for the design of the essential parts of motors and
motor cars are given, accompanied by figures. There are tables of
various kinds to facilitate calculations and to convert English units
into metric measures. The illustrations are good, but are not drawn to
a given scale.

“The formulas which are given seem to be of a rational nature; but to
the reviewer it seems a fault that the derivation of the same are
never given. The author discusses at various places the several
alternatives for the many parts of a modern automobile; he gives his
reason for his choice very clearly and never uses superfluous words,
for which fact he deserves praise. Of course it ought not to be
necessary to state that it is not always possible to agree with his
conclusions. As a book for the special purpose of helping the
designers of these engines it appears to the reviewer that it is the
best existing book in the English language, notwithstanding the
criticisms which have been made above.” Storm Bull.

+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 186. F. 16, ‘05. 750w.

=White, W. Hale.= John Bunyan. **$1. Scribner.

This is the third volume in the Literary lives series which aims to
furnish biographical and critical estimates. It treats of Bunyan’s
life and characteristics. “Bunyan is not altogether the representation
of Puritanism ... the qualification necessary in order to understand
and properly value him is not theological learning, nor in fact any
kind of learning or literary skill, but the experience of life, with
its hopes and fears, bright day and black night.” “Pilgrim’s progress”
is fully treated and there are lesser studies of “Grace abounding,”
the “Life and death of Mr. Badman,” and “The holy war.”

“If the reader would spend the amount of time required to read this
book in the careful perusal of any one of Bunyan’s great pieces, he
would probably catch more of the spirit of the Bedford dreamer, and
gain a clearer and higher conception of his genius, than these pages
by Mr. White are able to furnish.”

— =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 377. Ap. ‘05. 140w.

* “The writer does with success what he has to do, and imagines very
well the personality of the great John.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 368. Mr. 25. 230w.

“The final chapter is a very unsatisfactory treatment of ‘Bunyan and
Puritanism.’”

+ — =Bib. World.= 25: 316. Ap. ‘05. 80w.

“A very interesting study. Mr. White has so many admirable things to
say of the man and the spirit of his writings that one regrets that he
should have devoted so much of his space to a detailed summary of
Bunyan’s principal works.”

+ + =Contemporary R.= 87: 299. F. ‘05. 920w.

“The book proves to be a sympathetic, even a devout, study of its
interesting theme.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 119. S. 1, ‘05. 340w.

+ — =Nation.= 80: 79. Ja. 26, ‘05. 940w.

“An interesting and well written biography. But it lacks background.
The picture of the times is inadequate.”

+ — =Outlook.= 79: 246. Ja. 28, ‘05. 190w.

“Mr. White has made us see Bunyan the man, and through him the great,
sober, deadly earnest English folk, of whom he was the interpreter.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 126. Ja. ‘05. 80w.

=Whitefield, George.= Selected sermons; ed. with introd. and notes, by Rev. A. R. Buckland. **50c. Union press.

The text of this volume is with some slight changes that of the
“Sermons on important subjects” published in 1828. The six sermons are
entitled—The necessity and benefits of religious society,
Regeneration, A penitent heart the best New Year’s gift, The almost
Christian, Glorifying God in the fire, and Jacob’s ladder.

=Whiting, Lilian.= Florence of Landor. **$2.50. Little.

Lilian Whiting weaves a charm into the living drama that was set in
the scenic enchantment of Florence during the period of Walter Savage
Landor. She draws the Florence still vital with color, the romance,
the tragedy and passionate exaltation and despair of the fifteenth
century, and shows the sympathetic common interests of the English and
American colony including permanently the Brownings and the Trollopes,
and welcoming as visitors from time to time, George Eliot, Frances
Power Cobbe, Frederick Tennyson and a number of the Brook farm men and
women. The book creates the author’s usual ideal atmosphere, and is
handsomely illustrated from photographs.

* + =Critic.= 47: 581. D. ‘05. 70w.

* “There are so many good things in Miss Whiting’s book, that the pity
is all the greater that the writer has never acquired the literary
virtues of restraint and selection.”

+ — =Dial.= 39: 443. D. 16, ‘05. 370w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 230w.

* “Uses a great mass of material with fine discretion. At times her
pen seems to flag, and she repeats from mere weariness; but far
oftener she shows the nice discrimination of the true critic and the
grace of the trained writer.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 280w.

* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 826. D. 23, ‘05. 180w.

=Whiting, Lilian.= Joy that no man taketh from you. **50c. Little.

The realization of the Kingdom of Heaven in the hearts of men right
now and here through the great power of love is the problem which
Lilian Whiting meets. This joy may be achieved by the soul “so that
neither death nor privation nor loss nor disappointment, not trial in
any of its innumerable forms, shall dim its radiance or diminish its
energy.”

=Whiting, Lilian.= Outlook beautiful. *$1.25. Little.

In chapters entitled The delusion of death, Realizing the ideal,
Friendship as a divine relation, The ethereal world, The supreme
purpose of Jesus, An inward stillness. The miracle moment may dawn on
any hour, Miss Whiting sets forth her convictions regarding the
relation of this life to the life eternal.

“It is unusually rich in helpful thought for those who enjoy
transcendental and broadly religious discussions.”

+ + =Arena.= 34: 330. S. ‘05. 320w.

“The book is entirely characteristic of the author, and as such will
recommend itself to her considerable public.”

+ + =Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 40w.

“It is a rhapsody, a carnival of spiritual joy.” David Saville Muzzey.

+ — =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 526. Jl. ‘05. 70w.

“She weaves a fabric not overstrong, but light, and firm enough for
every-day uses.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 90w.

“Her philosophy and style are very stimulating and suggestive.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 50w.

* =Whitney, Caspar.= Jungle trails and jungle people; travel, adventure and observation in the Far East. **$3. Scribner.

“Recent travels in the Far East, in India, Sumatra, Malay, and
Siam.... The record of a trip prompted by the lust of adventure, and
by the desire to see strange lands and strange peoples, and to hunt
strange animals. Mr. Whitney has caught the trick of making a little
human interest enhance the vivid story of some thrilling or stirring
hunting adventure.... Hunters or servants, enlighten us as to the
mental and moral habits of the natives of the countries
described.”—Dial.

* “Mr. Whitney has written a volume of travel and adventure that will
make his name conspicuous among American hunters.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 378. D. 1, ‘05. 380w.

* “If he had been less journalistic in style and the printer more
careful, the reader’s pleasure would have been increased. Mr. Whitney
has given us a pleasing account of a region little known to the white
man.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 770w.

* “Is a most interesting and informing volume.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 706. O. 21, ‘05. 570w.

* “His descriptions of some of his guides and hunters are intensely
diverting. He makes very real the life in the jungle.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 717. N. 25, ‘05. 160w.

=Whitney, Helen Hay.= Sonnets and songs. **$1.20. Harper.

“All the sonnets and most of the songs give evidence both of
temperament and of the study of the older poets, and frequently attain
a richness of tone that neither could have accomplished without the
other.” (Nation.) “Their mood is chiefly that of quiet wistfulness,
touched by the fears and sorrows of uncertain human fate, but open
also to the influences of wholesome joy and unaffected sentiment.” (N.
Y. Times.)

“Every one of which is a finished bit of art. The work is of so even
an excellence that it offers little room for choice.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 275. N. 1, ‘05. 480w.

“Love poems, of a passion and sincere subtlety that are none too
common.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 303. O. 12, ‘05. 300w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 656. O. 7, ‘05. 660w.

=Whitney, Mrs. Helen Hay.= Verses for Jock and Joan. †$1.50. Fox.

The marginal drawings and the many full page pictures in color by
Charlotte Harding, with which this volume of little-folk’s verses is
illustrated make it an unusually attractive giftbook.

* “A pretty book with graceful verses and dainty illustrations.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 584. D. ‘05. 10w.

* “Challenges comparison with Betty Sage’s ‘Rhymes of real children’
of a year ago. The verse is correspondingly humorous, perhaps a trifle
more sophisticated.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21, ‘05. 60w.

* “The verses are not without point, but are entirely lacking in that
‘turn of the phrase’ which makes the verses of Stevenson or Lewis
Carroll dwell in the memory of a child.”

+ — =R. of Rs.= 32: 767. D. ‘05. 110w.

=Whitson, John Harvey.= Barbara, a woman of the West. 75c. Little.

A new popular edition of a story which follows the fortunes of a young
woman in search of her ne’er-do-well husband. He has some claim to
literary attainments, starts off on a tour of fortune hunting, and
becomes mentally deranged. The scenes shift from Kansas plains to
Cripple Creek, thence to San Diego, and the story ends happily despite
the fact that Barbara’s Enoch Arden reappears after her second
marriage.

=Whitson, John H.= Justin Wingate, ranchman. †$1.50. Little.

Life in the West, where the interests of the ranchman and the farmer
are at war is shown thru the medium of story characters. The hero who
enters the fight in the Colorado legislature, the doctor who
sacrifices all for the unworthy woman who was once his wife, the
rancher, choleric but honest, and the son who disgraces him, stand out
clearly in the scenes of love, political strife and danger.

Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 21: 367. Je. ‘05. 160w.

=Dial.= 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 120w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 272. Ap. 22, ‘05. 80w.

“Is a wonderfully vivid presentation of the largeness of Western
horizons. Mr. Whitson is not so happy in his love stories as in his
politics and adventure.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 374. Je. 10, ‘05. 360w.

=Outlook.= 80: 246. My 27, ‘05. 40w.

Who’s who, 1905; an annual biographical dictionary. *$2. Macmillan.

A book of biographic data about living Englishmen. This edition
contains over seventeen thousand biographies, each of which has been
submitted for personal revision.

+ + + =Critic.= 46: 96. Ja. ‘05. 50w.

+ + + =Int. Studio.= 24: 370. F. ‘05. 60w.

+ + + =Nation.= 80: 32. Ja. 12, ‘05. 90w.

“Improved in arrangement.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 197, Ja. 21, ‘05. 60w.

+ + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 532. Ap. ‘05. 70w.

=Whyte, Rev. Alexander.= Apostle Paul. *$1. Jennings.

Sixteen lectures upon the apostle Paul, which follow his life and form
a comprehensive study of him as preacher, pastor, man of prayer, and
chief of sinners, from the first lecture, Paul as a student, to the
last, Paul the aged. Five sermons, and an appreciation of Walter
Marshall are also included in the volume.

=Whyte, Rev. Alexander.= Walk, conversation and character of Jesus Christ our Lord. $1.50. Revell.

Addresses offered to the multitude which are “innocent of criticism,
but beautifully devout and sweet.” (Outlook.)

“Is composed of original, somewhat visionary, studies of the life of
Christ.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 331. Ag. 10, ‘05. 50w.

“Is a simple in thought, not obtrusively original, and expressive of a
genuine personal religion.”

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

=Wiborg, Frank.= Commercial traveller in South America; being the experiences and impressions of an American business man on a trip through Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, the Argentine and Brazil. **$1. McClure.

“Mr. Wiborg’s business trip around the coast and across the continent
of South America is ... an individual view of a business proposition,
and is made readable by descriptions—a business man’s descriptions—of
the beauty of the country, and enlivened by some travelling
‘anecdotes.’ A well-drawn map elucidates the whole considerably and
makes a very unified piece of work.”—Pub. Opin.

“Its descriptions of the country where conditions have changed rapidly
have some value because of their freshness and of the writer’s candid
expression of an alert business man’s ideas.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 716. O. 21, ‘05. 620w.

“Principally as a plea for more intimate business relations between
the north and south continents of this hemisphere the work is of
value.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 448. S. 30, ‘05. 110w.

=Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. G. C. Riggs).= Rose o’ the river. †$1.25. Houghton.

The simple story of Rose, a country girl, “a fragile pink rose
blossoming on the river’s brink,” and Stephen Waterman, a sturdy young
farmer who lives on the other side of the Saco, is prettily told in
this volume. Rose’s fancy for a city man interrupts their love for a
time, but in the end she returns happily to Stephen. As a background
for the slight plot, Mrs. Wiggin gives us the dangerous trade of the
lumberman, and the river, a thing of beauty, strength and passion.

“Mrs. Wiggin has contributed a charming picture to the ever-increasing
gallery that shows us American country life.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 1008. S. 30, ‘05. 330w.

* “This is a rather slight and mildly interesting story.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 642. N. 11. 190w.

“With a slight plot and commonplace incident, the author, through her
clever delineation of Maine manners and peculiarities, makes up an
amusing story that may be read in a couple of hours.”

+ =Cath. World.= 82: 266. N. ‘05. 210w.

* “The originality and humor that belong to Mrs. Wiggin’s best work
are altogether lacking. In spite of a certain rather specious charm,
‘Rose o’ the river’ must be classed with the pot-boilers.”

+ — =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 70w.

“A pretty story, pleasantly told by Mrs. Wiggin in her usual limpid
style.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 989. O. 26, ‘05. 130w.

* “It is ‘manufactured’ from the start, and the attempt to bestow
‘color’ and stir emotion are cruelly patent, tho perfectly null.”

— =Lit. D.= 31: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 360w.

“Rose is a pretty girl, and her story is a pretty story with a pretty
moral.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 305. S. 22, ‘05. 200w.

* “‘Rose o’ the river’ is as slender a tale as ever walked into print
on the merits of an author’s name.”

— =Nation.= 81: 488. D. 14, ‘05. 120w.

“The story is written with a graceful sprightliness which is always
part of Mrs. Wiggin’s stories, but beside those other two [Rebecca and
Penelope] Rose simply cannot live.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 635. S. 30, ‘05. 240w.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 100w.

“The author, as is usual with her, keeps well on the right side of the
line that divides sentiment from sentimentality.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 335. O. 7, ‘05. 80w.

* “It is certainly inferior to the author’s usual excellent work.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 600. N. 4, ‘05. 80w.

“Her shrewdness and humour act as antiseptics to her strong vein of
sentiment. She is tender without being effusive, reticent without any
taint of priggishness, entertaining without resort to extravagance of
facetiousness.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 570. O. 14, ‘05. 850w.

=Wight, Emily Carter.= Denim elephant; il. in colours. †50c. Stokes.

This little volume in the “Christmas stocking” series presents in a
succession of colored pictures and their accompanying text an episode
in the life of the denim elephant which belonged to the baby and
interfered with the rest of the farmyard, the woolen rabbit, tin cat,
china pig, rubber dog, cotton goose, and wooden cow, which belonged to
Edith and Philip.

* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 894. D. 16, ‘05. 200w.

=Wilbrandt, Adolf.= New humanity; or, The Easter island; tr. by Dr. A. S Rappoport. $1.50. Lippincott.

Helmut Adler, an enthusiast and the hero of this story, is modeled
after Nietzsche. He has a plan for improving the human race by taking
a few chosen followers to a secluded isle where they may rear a
perfect race. He loses his reason and dies, and his daughter and her
lover decide that the island of perfection can exist only in their own
souls.

“But we have seldom seen a worse piece of work as translation than the
volume before us.”

— — =Acad.= 68: 567. My. 27, ‘05. 960w.

“The story is told with a certain morbid power, but drags heavily in
the telling, and is only moderately successful in the delineation of
the several types of character which people its pages.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ — =Dial.= 39: 41. Jl. 16, ‘05. 160w.

“If the book is doctrinal and the doctrines heavy, it is not therefore
a heavy book. On the contrary, there is so much sincerity in each
point of view, combined with so much lightness of pen, that it is even
absorbing reading; the way is tortuous, indeed, but not slimy.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 148. Ag. 17, ‘05. 780w.

“The translation is sufficiently clear to carry the meaning of the
German writer to the English reader. It is certainly not a work of
literary art, but that does not matter.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 376. Je. 10. ‘05. 540w.

=Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills.= De profundis. **$1.25. Putnam.

A masterpiece of literary expression penned by Oscar Wilde during his
detention in Reading jail, and the last prose he ever wrote. Into it
he has put his bitterness in his downfall, his misery in the first two
months of prison discipline, and the final triumph of a chastened
spirit, a conviction that “there is not a single degradation of the
body which I must not try to make into a spiritualizing of the soul.”

“He has added to our literature a work which from its intrinsic value
is sure to command the attention of thinking men, from its style the
admiration of literary artists, from the tragedy of which it records a
part the pity of human hearts.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 397. Ap. 1. 1070w.

“The essay has ... great literary charm, and possesses unquestioned
authenticity as a contribution toward the comprehension of the
abnormal and in many ways inexplicable psychology of its author.”

+ + =Dial.= 38: 359. My. 16, ‘05. 330w.

“‘De profundis’ is one of the orchids of literature. As a
self-revelation, for it is sincere even in its manifestation of his
fundamental insincerity, this little book ranks with the ‘Confessions
of Rousseau’ and the ‘Journal of Amiel.’ Both from its style and as a
study in abnormal psychology ‘De profundis’ is one of the most
noteworthy and interesting books that have appeared for a long time.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 842. Ap. 13, ‘05. 920w.

* “Is one of the saddest, most terrible, yet most fascinating books of
recent times.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1161. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.

“It is one of the most sincere, of all self-revelations, and will go
far towards setting Oscar Wilde’s memory right with the world for
which he affected to care so little.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 58. Jl. 20, ‘05. 1800w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 205. Ap. 1, ‘05. 450w.

“The analysis of sorrow, which occupies a considerable part of the
volume, is without question, worthy of living and doubtless will live.
Least of all its qualities should this book be commended for its
literary style and yet for its style alone it is worthy of reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w.

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 592. Ap. 15, ‘05. 470w.

=Wilde, Oscar.= Intentions. *$1.50. Brentano’s.

Four essays which gayly and ruthlessly assail what we have thought
were truths, and give us others in their place. The decay of lying,
defends lying as a fine art; Pen, pencil and poison, is an artistic
appreciation of that prince of poisoners, Thomas Griffiths
Wainewright; The critic as artist, in dialogue form, is divided into
two parts containing some remarks upon the importance of doing
nothing, and upon the importance of discussing every thing. The
concluding essay, The truth of masks, is styled A note on illusion.

* “Disciple-wise, the editor of the present reprint is rather zealous
than judicious in his manner of introducing the text.” H. W. Boynton.

+ — =Atlan.= 96: 847. D. ‘05. 600w.

* “‘Intentions’ is an interesting book to the student of literature;
it contains much that is well put; but even its virtues are vitiated
by a false conception of the real meaning of life.” Edward Fuller.

+ — =Critic.= 47: 568. D. ‘05. 390w.

=Dial.= 39: 213. O. 1, ‘05. 50w.

=Wilder, Marshall Pinckney.= Sunny side of the street. **$1.20. Funk.

Recollections of some 300 more or less well known people with whom the
jester-author has come in contact. Three presidents, a king, and
various great preachers, actors, politicians and soldiers contribute
to the “garland of blossoms” plucked from “the gardens of humor and
pathos” in the weaving of which the author modestly claims as his own
merely “the string that binds them together.”

“Cannot fail to interest the many friends of the author. Mr. Wilder’s
writing is on a par with his speaking.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 475. N. ‘05. 50w.

“The loquacity of the author, his well-known success in ‘getting
around,’ his chatty tone, make a very cheerful book.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 580w.

“He tells many good stories. He nearly always lives up to his doctrine
of amiability. We can recommend his book as cheerful reading.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 452. Jl. 8, ‘05. 360w.

“The dense personal fog that surrounds this work casts diminutive
shadows on the sunny side, and many of the anecdotes of which the book
is composed savor of spice and antiquity.”

— =Pub. Opin.= 39: 383. S. 16, ‘05. 150w.

=R. of Rs.= 32: 255. Ag. ‘05. 50w.

=Wiley, Harley Rupert.= Treatise on pharmacal jurisprudence, with a thesis on the law in general. $2.50. Hicks-Judd.

This text-book is “A pioneer in its peculiar field” and aims to give
“a presentation of the principles, with a collection of the leading
cases, which define the legal aspects” of the profession of pharmacy.
Over 200 cases are cited and the ground defined is fully covered.

* =Wiley, Sara King.= Alcestis and other poems. **75c. Macmillan.

“A priestess of classic song comes with two-fold, precious offering,
in this presentation of Iphegeneia, that flower of Argos ... and in
the retold story of Alcestis, whom Hercules brings back from the gates
of death.”—Critic.

* “A beautiful and welcome work, shone upon as by the white light of
Greek art, has been contributed in this volume to the poetry of the
year.” Edith M. Thomas.

+ =Critic.= 47: 511. D. ‘05. 130w.

* “Mrs. Drummond’s treatment of the fables has no very novel features,
but she has realized its mood very vividly, and made of it a compact
and moving little drama.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 50w.

* =Wilkins, Augustus Samuel.= Roman education. *60c. Macmillan.

“In ninety-two pages the whole system of Roman education is
presented.... Dr. Wilkins divides the story of Roman education into
two periods: the ‘purely national stage, when as yet there was no
outside influence,’ and the effects of Greek influence from the middle
of the third century, B.C. onwards on ‘the distinct departments of
literary—or what we might call now secondary—education,’ and in the
higher training of rhetoric and philosophy.... In four chapters,
‘Education in the ‘early republic,’ Education under Greek influence,’
‘Elementary schools and studies,’ and ‘Higher studies—rhetoric and
philosophy,’ he gives all the information that can be possibly
discovered on record and the natural inferences from it.... The final
chapter deals with the Endowment of education in ancient Rome.”—Acad.

* “There are few teachers who will not benefit by it; few interested
in any way in education who will not read it with pleasure and
profit.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 966. D. 16, ‘05. 910w.

* “We know no other work to which one could go for so complete and
accurate an exposition of what is known about Roman education.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 395. S. 23. 1760w.

* + =Lond. Times.= 4: 317. S. 29, ‘05. 360w.

* “It contains in six chapters and a hundred pages all that is really
known upon this subject, and it is the best compendium which we have
seen. Its style is pleasant, and the method of treatment makes the
book easy to read.”

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 402. N. 16, ‘05. 170w.

* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 683. O. 14, ‘05. 230w.

* “The present volume offers a singularly clear, accurate, and
trustworthy statement of the somewhat scanty information that is to be
found in Roman writers on the subject of education.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 817. N. 18, ‘05. 1750w.

=Wilkins, Philip A.= History of the Victoria cross. *$6. Dutton.

This volume contains an account of “the 520 conspicuous acts of
bravery which have called for as many bestowals of the decoration,
instituted in 1856 and made retroactive for the Crimean war. These
plain tales are accompanied by a remarkably large number (392) of
portraits of the recipients; by statutory and narrative appendices; by
a table of awards of the cross by branches of the service; and by a
personal index.” (Nation.)

“The scheme has been very carefully and soberly carried out.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 290. Ap. 13, ‘05. 220w.

“A very interesting account of the 520 men who have won the cross.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 340. My. 27, ‘05. 1030w.

“Though we must confess that some of the narratives are somewhat bald,
and that the author has neglected many excellent opportunities, Mr.
Wilkins’s records are interesting.”

+ — =Spec.= 95: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 150w.

* =Wilkins, William Henry.= Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV. **$5. Longmans.

“For more than a century there has been no moral doubt of the marriage
of Maria Fitzherbert and George IV. of Great Britain. For the last
seventy years it has been practically certain that the proof of that
marriage was deposited in Coutts’s bank, in London ... [these
papers] ... King Edward placed at the disposal of the author of this
volume, and thus enabled him to prove conclusively that Mrs.
Fitzherbert was the wife of George, Prince of Wales, later George
IV.... Although he writes as a partisan of Mrs. Fitzherbert, he is
fair-minded enough to write of the king: ... ‘His faults were many and
grave, but ... there must have been some good in him or a good woman
would not have loved him.”—N. Y. Times.

* “In his Life of Mrs. Fitzherbert he has reached a higher level, both
as regards literary excellence and in the interest attaching to his
subject.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 1219. N. 25, ‘05. 1930w.

* “Mr. Wilkins displays his usual lucidity in narrative and firm grasp
of his subject. These things [errors] do not detract materially from
the merit of Mr. Wilkins’s well-written and historically important
work.”