chapter II

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

− + =N Y Times= p23 Ja 16 ’21 1200w

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

+ − =Survey= 45:676 F 5 ’21 220w

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

20–15068

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

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+ =N Y Times= p24 D 19 ’20 370w

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

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:196 N ’20 90w

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

20–15700

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

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

+ − =N Y Times= p24 S 26 ’20 540w

=Spec= 124:22 Jl 3 ’20 40w

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

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

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

20–12624

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

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=Am Pol Sci R= 14:737 N ’20 80w

+ =Booklist= 17:150 Ja ’21

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

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

=Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 120w

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

+ − =Review= 3:89 Jl 28 ’20 1600w

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

+ =R of Rs= 62:109 Jl ’20 100w

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

+ =Survey= 45:103 O 16 ’20 440w

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

20–14302

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

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

+ =Ath= p12 Ja 2 ’20 950w

+ =Booklist= 16:339 Jl ’20

=Boston Transcript= p7 O 9 ’20 380w

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

+ =Dial= 70:204 F ’21 800w

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

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

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

(Eng ed 20–6295)

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

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

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:316 Ja ’21 750w

=Ath= p1243 N 21 ’19 100w

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

+ − =Ath= p1396 D 26 ’19 520w

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

− + =Freeman= 2:237 N 17 ’20 620w

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

+ − =Survey= 45:514 Ja 1 ’21 190w

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

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

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

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

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

+ =Ind= 104:396 D 11 ’20 50w

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

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

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

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

* * * * *

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

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

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

20–9652

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

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

20–2262

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

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=Booklist= 16:316 Je ’20

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

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

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

20–15957

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

* * * * *

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

+ =N Y Times= p24 S 26 ’20 300w

“The action is absorbing.”

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

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

20–4011

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

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

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

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

+ − =N Y Times= 25:22 Je 27 ’20 580w

=Sat R= 128:392 O 25 ’19 100w

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

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

20–20966

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

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

+ =Boston Transcript= p2 D 4 ’20 330w

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

+ =N Y Times= p28 Ja 2 ’21 540w

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

A20–157

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

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=Ath= p118 Mr ’19 30w

=Booklist= 16:168 F ’20

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

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

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

+ =Dial= 68:614 My ’20 2900w

Reviewed by R: Roberts

+ =Nation= 110:371 Mr 20 ’20 1250w

“Good, timely reading.”

+ =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 80w

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

+ =Survey= 44:89 Ap 10 ’20 350w

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

20–10515

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

* * * * *

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

+ =Am J Soc= 26:250 S ’20 130w

=Am Pol Sci R= 14:739 N ’20 60w

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

+ − =Booklist= 17:56 N ’20

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

− =Freeman= 1:620 S 8 ’20 300w

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

− + =J Pol Econ= 28:710 O ’20 900w

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

− =Nation= 111:sup424 O 13 ’20 190w

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

+ =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 220w

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

+ =Review= 3:270 S 29 ’20 1550w

=R of Rs= 62:221 Ag ’20 90w

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

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

20–20321

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

* * * * *

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

− =Ath= p519 O 15 ’20 1150w

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

+ − =Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21

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

+ =Bookm= 52:369 D ’20 180w

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

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

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

+ =Nation= 111:735 D 22 ’20 1050w

“No reader will set ‘The captives’ down without the figure of Maggie Cardinal having been permanently limned upon his memory. The portrait is consistent throughout. The pictures of the band of religious fanatics, some of them charlatans, and of their sincere leader are

## particularly forceful. Mr Walpole’s method is that of the realist, but

he has scarcely employed it to the best of its possibilities.”

+ − =N Y Times= p18 N 7 ’20 1000w

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

+ =Outlook= 127:31 Ja 5 ’21 330w

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

+ =Pub W= 98:1890 D 18 ’20 350w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 3:384 O 27 ’20 200w

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

+ =Spec= 125:473 O 9 ’20 640w

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

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

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

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

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

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

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+ =Ath= p463 Ap 2 ’20 110w

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

+ =Cath World= 112:112 O ’20 570w

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

− + =Nature= 105:127 Ap 1 ’20 950w

+ =Spec= 124:831 Je 19 ’20 1250w

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

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

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

20–21211

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

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

20–4773

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

* * * * *

=Ath= p833 D 17 ’20 160w

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

− + =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 40w

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

+ − =N Y Times= p15 Ja 9 ’21 600w

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

+ − =Review= 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 60w

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

20–20332

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

* * * * *

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

+ =Bookm= 52:274 N ’20 190w

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

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

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

+ =Cath World= 112:542 Ja ’21 270w

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

+ − =Dial= 70:233 F ’21 100w

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

+ =Freeman= 2:214 N 10 ’20 720w

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

+ =Nation= 111:784 D 29 ’20 600w

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

+ =N Y Times= p10 Ja 9 ’21 1800w

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

+ =Outlook= 126:237 O 6 ’20 820w

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

20–9817

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

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

+ =Ath= p553 O 22 ’20 120w

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

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

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

+ =Mental Hygiene= 4:983 O ’20 300w

Reviewed by R: Le Gallienne

+ =N Y Times= 25:4 Jl 11 ’20 2900w

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

+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w

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

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

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

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

20–3569

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

* * * * *

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

+ =N Y Times= 25:21 Jl 25 ’20 220w

+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 40w

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

+ =Survey= 44:252 My 15 ’20 200w

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

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

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=Nature= 105:804 Ag 26 ’20 100w

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

+ =Survey= 45:332 N 27 ’20 100w

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

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

20–20447

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

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+ =Booklist= 17:147 Ja ’21

“It is a good coat-pocket anthology.”

+ =Ind= 104:383 D 11 ’20 30w

=Nation= 112:188 F 2 ’21 110w

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

+ =Sat R= 130:398 N 13 ’20 190w

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

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

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

19–15667

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

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

+ =Ath= p258 F 20 ’20 130w

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

− + =N Y Times= 25:85 F 8 ’20 700w

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

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

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

19–19067

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

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

+ =Am J Soc= 25:645 Mr ’20 1100w

Reviewed by C. G. Fenwick

=Am Pol Sci R= 14:341 My ’20 260w

=Booklist= 16:190 Mr ’20

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

+ =New Repub= 23:208 Jl 14 ’20 950w

=R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 80w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 F 3 ’20 80w

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

+ =Survey= 44:121 Ap 17 ’20 850w

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

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

+ =World Tomorrow= 3:157 My ’20 150w

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

20–7944

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

* * * * *

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

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

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

+ =N Y Times= p26 S 26 ’20 1000w

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

+ =Review= 3:532 D 1 ’20 1500w

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

+ =Sat R= 129:306 Mr 27 ’20 850w

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

+ =Spec= 124:389 Mr 20 ’20 1300w

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

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

20–6288

When Rachel Henderson took the Great End farm near Ipscombe to lead an independent life as a woman farmer, she had had a past in Canada. She had been married to a worthless man, had lost her child, had been divorced and—more than that—when fleeing from her husband’s cruelty, had succumbed to the sympathy and protection of Dick Tanner, a neighboring farmer, and had stayed with him for three days and nights. When, in the course of events at Great End farm, she becomes engaged to a young American captain, from a near-by camp, still guarding her secret, she faces a spiritual struggle. After all the confessions are made and the lover also has achieved a victory over his time honored prejudices, a bullet from the former, now hate-crazed husband, kills her in her lover’s arms.

* * * * *

“Mrs Ward cannot be judged by ‘Harvest,’ It is a plain mystery novel; it bears the impress of her desire to emerge from the library and to walk in the cornfields—in the new land which is war-time England. But she is unhappy in such surroundings and her serenity is gone.” K. M.

− + =Ath= p606 My 7 ’20 600w

“It would be an injustice to Mrs Ward to say that ‘Harvest’ is in any degree worthy of a novelist of her reputation, or indeed of many a novelist of lesser reputation. ‘Harvest,’ in common with its immediate predecessor, ‘Helena,’ and many of her later stories, might have been written by any one of a hundred English fiction writers of the hour. It is utterly conventional in form, and commonplace in plot and characterization.” E. F. E.

− =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 1400w

“Written in that smoothly flowing style to which Mrs Ward’s readers have so long been accustomed, the book, while not indeed equal to her best, shows no falling off from the standard set by her recent work, but on the contrary rises somewhat above it. The novel contains some lovely pictures of the English country.” L. M. Field

+ =N Y Times= 25:152 Ap 4 ’20 1000w

=N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 30w

“It is with peculiar pleasure that one recognizes in the late Mrs Humphry Ward’s posthumous novel, ‘Harvest,’ the qualities that have marked the very best of her fiction writing. This tale of rural England in war time is notable for the balance and unity of theme and development. It is almost astonishingly superior, for instance, to ‘Helena.’”

+ =Outlook= 125:280 Je 9 ’20 200w

“I for one should be unhappy if it were necessary for me to remember Mrs Ward by this book.” H. W. Boynton

− =Review= 2:680 Je 30 ’20 420w

=Spec= 124:494 Ap 10 ’20 400w

“Mrs Ward does not make these women seem very real. She idealizes their ‘trim’ appearance in pseudo-masculine attire and at no time visualizes their lives and pursuits from their own standpoint. Sympathy, and an earnest effort at understanding, however, are always apparent.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 460w

=WARNE, FRANK JULIAN.= Workers at war. (Century New world ser.) *$3 Century 331

20–17812

From a dispassionate, conservative point of view the author reviews the present industrial situation with its resultant high cost of living. He accords high praise to the statesmanship of President Wilson in controlling the situation during the war and to the

## activities of the National war labor board. That the government now

fails to realize the three essentials of industrial justice: a fair profit, a fair wage and a fair price is due to the present autocratic system of corporate organization of production. The remedy lies in the democratization of the corporation and in an American federation of consumers. A partial list of the contents is: The workers and the world war; The government as the employer; The Wilson administration’s labor policy; The National war labor board; The government, wages, and the cost of living; The vicious cycle and the labor union; Democracy in industry; The three parties to production; Industrial autocracy and the corporation.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:95 D ’20

Reviewed by G: Soule

+ =Natlor= 111:534 N 10 ’20 370w

=N Y Times= p15 N 7 ’20 140w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 9 ’20 60w

“The book is valuable as a summary of governmental labor policies during the war, as a record of the achievements of labor and the effect of autocratic control on the wage earner and the consumer.” J. D. Hackett

+ =Survey= 45:287 N 20 ’20 280w

=WARREN, ARTHUR.= London days. *$2.50 (3c) Little

20–17401

This book of reminiscences begins in 1878, when the author, fresh from Boston, arrived in London at the age of eighteen. He made the choice because “history already made and rounded and woven into legend, the scenes among which men have lived and wrought through centuries, shaping the rich past on which we build the present” fascinated him more than the prospect of pioneering in the West. The period covers nineteen years of Journalism, nine of them as correspondent for the Boston Herald, and combines with memories and impressions of London those of celebrated personages. Contents: First glimpses of London; London in the late seventies; A Norman interlude; I take the plunge; Browning and Moscheles; Patti; John Stuart Blackie; Lord Kelvin; Tennyson; Gladstone; Whistler; Henry Drummond; Sir Henry Irving; Henry M. Stanley; George Meredith; Parnell; “Le brav’ général” (Boulanger); Index.

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+ =Booklist= 17:154 Ja ’21

Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun

=Bookm= 52:346 D ’20 20w

“As journalism the writing is good; it does not assume to be more. Gossipy, wholesome, harmless, never profound, but lighted up here and there by almost poetic touches of admiration and of reverence, these reminiscences should well suit those who desire an easy introduction to the charm of biography.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 O 30 ’20 300w

“Despite the fact that in many cases he insists on writing an old story as if it were still of vital interest, he has preserved some anecdotes that merited survival and he has drawn the portraits of several famous Britons with commendable skill.”

+ − =N Y Times= p4 O 24 ’20 1450w

=R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 60w

“His estimate not only of men, but of the social and literary forces of modern London, are trenchantly expressed.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 13 ’20 430w

“It is a book to evoke enthusiasm for his literary style as well as for the human interest that attaches to the people whose names are chapter headings here.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 8 ’20 430w

=WARREN, HOWARD CROSBY.= Human psychology. il *$5 Houghton 150

19–16728

The author distinguishes between genetic and descriptive psychology: the one dealing with mental growth and mental progress from species to species; the other with mental life as it actually exists. The interest of the book centers mainly on the latter, the static view of psychology. At the end of each chapter is a list of collateral reading and some practical exercises intended to train the student in precise critical observation of mental phenomena. The contents are: The science of psychology; The organism; The neuro-terminal mechanism; Physiology of the neuron; Stimulation, adjustment, and response; Behavior; Conscious experience; The senses; The components of mental states; Primary mental states; Secondary mental states; Succession of mental states; Attitudes; Character and personality; Organized mental life. The appendix deals with some debatable problems for the benefit of the advanced students and contains: The mind-body relation; Mechanism and purpose; Neural activity; The visual process. There are also illustrations and tables; directions for performing the exercises and an index.

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“Comprehensiveness, thoroughness, clear definitions, elaborate classifications and an open-minded, progressive outlook are what characterize this work. And it is not only comprehensive, in that it covers the entire field of descriptive psychology, but it is comprehensive in its grasp of the subject.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 19 ’20 800w

“Professor Warren’s book is interesting not only in itself, but also in the indication which it gives of the phases of psychology which may be expected to survive after this period of devotion of the science to its practical applications.”

+ =El School J= 20:392 Ja ’20 480w

“In sum, this is a most scholarly work, which in the beginning, and generally in outward semblance, gives promise of breaking fairly away from the traditions that produced the behavioristic schism, but which is found to be still heavily burdened with the inheritance of formalism, only partially offset by its clearness, criticism, humor, and tolerance.” F. L. Wells

+ − =Mental Hygiene= 4:982 O ’20 660w

Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow

=Nation= 111:15 Jl 8 ’20 90w

“Professor Warren’s work as a whole would be an excellent introduction for beginners in psychology, though it is, of course, a work of interest for advanced students also.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 S 9 ’20 300w

=WASHBURN, CLAUDE CARLOS.= Order. *$2 (1½c) Duffield

20–4014

Marville, the beautiful residential suburb of a big city was law and order incarnate—order with all its ugly sordid features pruned away, beautified and civilized. Into it blows its antithesis, the spirit of romance in the person of Peter Gresham, Englishman, packed off to America by his aristocratic relatives. He literally explodes into Marville in a train wreck, becomes its hero, and later upsets the tranquillity of everybody with whom he comes in contact. The reactions of this spirit of romance on law and order form the substance of the story. By one man and one woman it is understood. Peter himself does not understand but is it, and when it brings him in contact with Annette Cornish, beautiful young wife of an elderly man, there is fire. Others are simply stimulated, bewildered, shaken out of their repose for the nonce. Annette and pretty Elsie Cook succumb completely to its spell. Annette, disciplined and broken-in by order from childhood, fears it and is broken by it. Elsie, the half-savage, gives herself to it unstintingly, but comes out with flying colors by dint of a saving remnant of hard practical sense. Peter turns his back on it all and is killed at Neuve Chapelle.

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“Exceptionally interesting story. Here we have a book of ideas which is never didactic, but presents both sides of a case with striking fairness, a tale whose plot springs from the natural interplay of character upon character, and whose lights and shadows are managed with notable artistry.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 100w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 2:393 Ap 17 ’20 120w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 320w

=WASHBURNE, CARLETON W.= Common science. il *$1.60 World bk. 502

20–15542

The book belongs to the New-world science series edited by John W. Ritchie. It is based on a collection of 2000 questions asked by school children in the upper elementary grades over a period of a year and a half. These questions are sorted and classified according to the scientific principles involved in answering them. The object of the method is to lead the child from an interest and curiosity in a specific phenomena to a general principle and to arouse his imagination by making it clear to him what part it plays in his own life. The contents are grouped under the headings: Gravitation; Molecular attraction; Conservation of energy; Heat; Radiant heat and light; Sound; Magnetism and electricity; Electricity; Mingling of molecules; Chemical change and energy; Solution and chemical action; Analysis. There are appendices, an index and illustrations.

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“The book should be of value in conserving and developing the science interests of children of junior high-school age.”

+ =El School J= 21:154 O ’20 350w

=WASSERMANN, JACOB.= World’s illusion; auth. tr. by Ludwig Lewisohn. (European library) 2v *$4 (1½c) Harcourt

20–22159

This is the first book by this author, a Viennese novelist, to appear in English. It was written, he says, during the last years of the war: “Only in this way could I keep contact with and faith in humanity.” It has nothing to do with the war, but is a picture of pre-war society in central Europe, a brilliant, feverish picture of a society in the first hectic stages of decay, resting on insecure foundations of poverty, misery and crime. The first volume is devoted to the life of the upper classes, represented by Crammon, the Austrian aristocrat, Christian Wahnschaffe, son of a German captain of industry, Eva Sorel, the dancer, and almost countless others. The scenes flit from capital to capital with the haste and inconsistency of a screen drama. In the second volume we have in contrast the dregs of society, for Christian, in search of truth, has descended to the lowest depths. He gives up his fortune, studies medicine to fit himself for a field of usefulness and in the end cuts himself off entirely from his family and disappears, to continue his search elsewhere.

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“Despite the penny-dreadful stuff there is a breath of serenity that reveals the artist in complete mastery of his material and despite the frank consideration of sex, there is an indubitable chastity hovering over all these pages. In fact, were one to select a single word with which to describe the mood of the work as a whole, he would most probably say, austerity.” I. G.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 4 ’20 1400w

Reviewed by Paul Rosenfeld

+ − =Freeman= 2:545 F 16 ’21 2550w

“It would hold the interest through all its 787 pages if there were nothing in it save its arresting procession of grotesque incidents, but there is something more, and that something is an ironical quality that suggests the manner of the great Russians. All his characters, high and low, are pathological cases. Thus the chronicle, to an American, cannot carry much conviction despite its fine passion and its vivid detail.” H. L. Mencken

+ − =Nation= 111:sup668 D 8 ’20 880w

“Wassermann has created a work of strange and sombre power. The translation is unusually good.” E. A. Boyd

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 Ja 15 ’21 1750w

“The book’s chief values lie in its interpretation of modern industrial society as Wassermann sees it. But surely not all European society is degenerate. Humanity as a whole is not portrayed in ‘The world’s illusion.’”

+ − =N Y Times= p16 N 28 ’20 1050w

=WATKIN, EDWARD INGRAM.= Philosophy of mysticism. *$5 Harcourt 149.3

The author differentiates between the mystic and his mystical experiences, and the metaphysics of mysticism. The mystic, he says, can not adequately state his experiences in terms of discursive reason, nevertheless the philosophy of mysticism is “the body of truth about the nature of ultimate reality and of our relationship to it to be derived from the content of mystical experience.” (Preface) He regards the Catholic church as the best vehicle of expression for this body of truth. The contents are: The divine immanence; Unity of God; The transcendence of God; The relation between the soul and God; Views of the mystic way; The negative way; The active night; Mystical experience previous to the night of spirit; The passive night of spirit; Purgatory and the passive night of spirit; The transforming union: or mystical marriage; On the mystical interpretation of Scripture; The witness of nature mysticism to the teaching of Catholic mysticism studied in the mysticism of Richard Jefferies; St John the poet; Epilogue; Notes.

* * * * *

Reviewed by G. E. Partridge

=N Y Times= p28 D 26 ’20 170w

“Mr Watkin’s book is written exclusively for his co-religionists, and others will not find it worth while to study it.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p387 Je 17 ’20 420w

=WATSON, E. L. GRANT.= Deliverance. *$2 (2½c) Knopf

20–3264

The author tells us that in this his third novel he has tried to portray the spiritual emancipation of a woman whose “love for the increasing light of her own spirit ... becomes more precious than even the unique love of woman for man.” (Preface) The scene is laid in contemporary England. The principal characters are Susan Zalesky, who is brought up in the country by her aunt, Mrs Dorothy Tyler; Paul Zalesky, Susan’s father, a philanderer, who carries on a secret love affair with Dorothy; Tom Northover, the “primitive male,” who marries Susan but makes “no claims upon her soul”; Noel Sarret, a young painter with whom Tom, who believes that the only test of morality is “the sincerity of the emotion,” goes to live shortly before the birth of Susan’s child; and Martin Hyde, a gentle young painter who loves Susan.

* * * * *

“However one takes it, it is a novel exposition; there is much reality in these persons, not least in the figure of Susan’s irresponsible and almost incorrigible father.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 51:343 My ’20 240w

“If he had nothing else, he would be sure to win recognition for the sheer beauty of his workmanship. Indeed it is easier to quarrel with some of the natural results of his process of spiritual emancipation than with his illustrations of it in characters, or with his manner of setting it forth.” H. I. Gilchrist

+ =Dial= 68:794 Je ’20 2500w

“His story is not quite as persuasive as his philosophy. His women are suspiciously fine in fibre and amazingly articulate. Attractive as they are, they remain a little dim. And the dimmest of all is Susan, whom Mr Watson adores and through whose words and actions he chiefly projects his sense of the new moral world that is being created by all sorts of people in many places today.”

+ − =Nation= 110:373 Mr 20 ’20 600w

“Just what Susan Zalesky emancipates into is a little difficult to conceive, and sounds, on the whole, much less interesting than the rather fascinating story of her procedure. Judged more freely, however, ‘Deliverance’ is interesting and delightful for other qualities than its processes. It comes in many ways as near the art of the Russian novelists as any English novel.” R. V. A. S.

+ − =New Repub= 24:128 S 29 ’20 430w

“Each reader will determine for himself whether or no Mr Watson’s message is worth this unpleasant ragout.”

− =N Y Times= 25:240 My 9 ’20 550w

=WATSON, JOHN BROADUS.= Psychology from the standpoint of a behaviorist. il *$2.50 Lippincott 150

20–447

“A treatise on the new American methods in psychology known as behaviourism. The essential feature of this school is that it regards man purely as a ‘reacting mass,’ and endeavours to determine his reactions without importing into the observation preconceived ideas, affecting interpretation. The present author, indeed, does not find it necessary to use such terms as ‘sensation,’ ‘perception,’ ‘attention,’ ‘will,’ ‘image,’ and the like. He states that he does not know what they mean, and he suggests that no one succeeds in using them consistently.”—Ath

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+ =Ath= p557 Ap 23 ’20 120w

“By consistently disregarding all the essential steps in ‘thinking’ in which most psychologists (and the world at large) are interested, and by cavalierly treating the problems in which the behaviorist happens not to be interested, he produces a ‘psychology’ which is as true as the railway maps of any one company showing only the towns on its line, with its own route straight and prominent, and rival systems indicated if at all by lightly drawn and circuitous detours.” Joseph Jastrow

− =Nation= 111:15 Jl 3 ’20 850w

“The present writer as he reads the book finds himself in continual expectation that now he is coming to the end of the physiology and the beginning of the psychology, but is continually disappointed. This

## book may inspire, and will direct, the student to practical researches

of the highest interest to the advance of science. To this extent every psychologist will welcome it. It is difficult to find anything in its principle to disagree with, save only its limitation and negation.” H. W. Carr

+ − =Nature= 105:512 Je 24 ’20 900w

=WATSON, ROBERT.=[2] Stronger than his sea. *$1.90 (2c) Doran

20–18387

Much of the charm of the story lies in the quaint Scotch dialect of its characters and much of Sandy Porter’s winsomeness in his Scotch sturdiness. Five when his father died, he began to help his mother support the family when he was six. He carried milk to the customers of a dairy night and morning throughout his school years and still found time for boyish mischief. How he led his schoolmates in a strike against a superannuated tyrannical master, and other escapades is amusingly told. In old Doctor Telford he had a wise friend who kept an eye on him and made things possible without making them too easy for him. So it was that the penniless boy reached his goal and became a veterinary surgeon. He also won the old doctor’s daughter, Doreen, altho there was a rival and Sandy blundered in his impulsiveness. But his poetry helped.

* * * * *

=Cleveland= p105 D ’20 40w

“The story of the young man Sandy is fully as attractive, if not so adventurous as that of the child, and both are delightfully told.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 F 9 ’21 190w

“‘Stronger than his sea’ illustrates perfectly the difference between the novel that is literature and the story that is simon-pure entertainment. It is good of its kind—‘light fiction’ that scarcely aspires to the artistic dignity of holding the mirror up to life.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 D 26 ’20 440w

=WATTS, MRS MARY STANBERY.=[2] Noon mark. *$2.50 Macmillan

20–18922

“It is emphatically an American story, full of the flavor of American life—American life, that is to say, as it is lived in such a small middle-western city as that one in which the scene of ‘The noon mark’ is laid. As this story progresses, the dominant figure is discovered to be that of Nettie Stieffel, whose father was in the accounting department of the Travelers and Traders’ bank. Clean-minded and clean-hearted, generous, brave, efficient, unimaginative and consequently a little hard, without an ounce of romance in her composition, honest and loyal to the core, and incidentally very good looking, she develops into an easily recognized type of American business woman, capable, hard-working, intelligent and dependable. When we leave her she is a married woman who has, as she herself says, ‘everything anybody could want,’ including a motor car—and happiness.”—N Y Times

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“It is a story to be placed, by those who respond to this story-teller’s genial-ironic kind of thing, beside ‘The Boardman family’ and ‘The rise of Jennie Cushing,’—not a great novel but a real and solid one.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 52:344 Ja ’21 380w

“It is, indeed, a small fragment of American life that Mrs Watts has described in ‘The noon mark,’ but it is a very real fragment and an extremely realistic portrayal of it.” E. F. Edgett

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ’20 1400w

“Mrs Watts’s new novel is more rewarding in transit than in termination. The conclusion is indefinite in its effect, ending on an interrogation which does not flow naturally out of the materials with which the author started.” L. B.

+ − =Freeman= 2:406 Ja 5 ’21 130w

“In the loose-jointed aggregation which is our United States, there can be, we must conclude, no ‘American’ novel. There can be only sectional novels, the portraiture of a sort, of a class. Of these Mrs Watts is a valuable chronicler. She is selective. It is not the light of imagination that lives in her books, but the steady rays of the impartial sun.” Alice Brown

+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 4 ’20 880w

“The author’s comments on it all are cleverly phrased, with occasional touches of irony which lend spice to the story. She is a realist, unspoiled by pessimism.”

+ =N Y Times= p22 N 14 ’20 950w

“In construction and the centralizing of interest in one large situation the novel is less successful than some of its predecessors.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 60w

“Her localism, as always, is faultless. But it is in characterization, the ultimate test, that she achieves most. Her Nettie Stieffel is as actual and unescapable a person as Dreiser’s Jennie Gerhardt—or her own Jennie Cushing.” H. W. Boynton

+ |=Review= 3:623 D 22 ’20 440w

“The story is not so organic as Mrs Watts’s best, but will arouse a considerable degree of interest among readers.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 670w

=WAUGH, ALEC.= Loom of youth; with a preface by Thomas Seccombe. *$1.90 (1½c) Doran

20–8276

This novel of English school life was written some three years ago when the author was barely past seventeen. It is a boy’s criticism of the English public school, its emphasis on sports at the expense of scholarship, its lack of mental discipline, its low standard of morals, and the dull formalism of its teaching, written while these matters were fresh in mind. Midway in his school course Gordon Caruthers accidentally discovers the delights of English poetry and Byron, Swinburne and Rossetti influence his development. The story is carried into the first years of the war and the author shows how school life was affected by outward events. For one thing, the glamor was stripped from athleticism and school sports.

* * * * *

“He has not ranted. He has not preached. But he has spoken the truth as it appeared to him, swiftly, unalterably. It must remain, I think, for a long time, as one of the few remarkable records of school life which this generation or any generation has furnished.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 1050w

“‘The loom of youth’ is apt to bore American readers because the viewpoint is annoying, and the action and dialogue not sufficient to stimulate reading.”

− + =Cath World= 111:693 Ag ’20 380w

“There are very definite signs of youth in the minuteness of detail in all matters and in the exhaustive descriptions of cricket and football matches, but the writing on the whole is astonishingly mature.”

+ − =Ind= 104:66 O 9 ’20 280w

“What is fresh in the book is its clear insight into the morality of the boys, especially in their relations with the masters and its objective projection of its complex and busy scene.”

+ =Nation= 110:625 My 8 ’20 300w

“A very evident sincerity and an infinite patience in the transcription of details give a value to this book altogether greater than that of most of the innumerable books about Harrow, Eton, and other similar institutions.” S. C. C.

+ =New Repub= 23:94 Je 16 ’20 550w

“The breath of a dogged sincerity, a determination to set down nothing but the truth, emanates from every page. As a narrative of sustained power and interest the book holds up well. Mr Waugh’s characters are broadly drawn but they do give forth an intimate sense of reality. It is the meticulous eye of Mr Waugh that plays a large part in the book’s success.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 Ap 24 ’20 850w

“The book is one which will probably be of far greater interest to an English than to an American audience. It would seem to be, take it all in all, a book of no little promise.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:220 My 2 ’20 600w

“Everything in this really spirited book is sane, equable, intellectually mature. It may be read either as a narrative of a boy’s school days or as a treatise on education. Remarkable to relate, it is about equally instructive and diverting from either point of view.

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 550w

=WEALE, BERTRAM LENOX PUTNAM, pseud. (BERTRAM LENOX SIMPSON).= Wang the ninth. *$1.75 (3c) Dodd

20–16797

Shrewdness, courage, loyalty, honesty and resourcefulness are this remarkable Chinese boy’s equipment. Of the poorest peasantry, he is early an orphan, and in shifting for himself he comes to be a groom in the household of one of the “foreign devils.” During the Boxer rebellion he remains with his master, partly from ignorance of what it is all about, partly from self-interest and an instinct of loyalty. He is sent on a dangerous mission to the allied army, bearing the message rolled up in his ear. Reaching the army after a perilous journey he is given a return message. This is too bulky for his ear, so in a moment of panic of discovery, he swallows it. Of this he calmly informs his master, when at last, spent and exhausted, he returns to him, adding, “and by your blessing I shall now die a natural death.”

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“The book is throughout written, at least theoretically, from the native point of view, and has, in consequence, an unusual and fascinating quality.”

+ =Ath= p523 O 15 ’20 120w

“There are many dramatic adventures and a rich background of Chinese life.”

+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20

“A good picture of peasant childhood in China as well as a first-rate adventure story for boys.”

+ |=Cleveland= p107 D ’20 40w

“A highly interesting book, worth while both for its story element and for the faithful picture of the humble inner life of the great sleeping empire off in the yellow West.”

+ =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 260w

“The tale is one of adventure and courage, and the character of the Chinese boy is unusual and decidedly interesting.”

+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 50w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p653 O 7 ’20 80w

=WEAVER, GERTRUDE (RENTON) (MRS HAROLD BAILLIE WEAVER) (G. COLMORE, pseud.).= Thunderbolt. *$1.90 Seltzer

20–7061

“Mrs Bonham takes her engaged daughter for a trip on the continent. In Germany Dorrie injures a foot and is sent with her French maid to Professor Reisen, a famous clinician with whom Mrs Bonham has become acquainted. Instead of taking the girl to the doctor’s private office, the blundering maid takes her to a clinic conducted by Dr Reisen for experimental purposes. Shortly after this a suspicious sore appears on Dorrie’s arm, followed by a similar one on her lip. Alarmed by the sores, Mrs Bonham takes her daughter to a specialist in Paris, and is filled with horror when she learns the name of the disease with which Dorrie was inoculated in Dr Reisen’s clinic. Back in England Mrs Bonham tells Dorrie’s fiancé what has happened. The young man promptly ends the engagement. Dorrie does not learn of her lover’s defection and is kept ignorant of her disease. The old nurse, who has been sent for, realizes the truth of Dorrie’s statement that it would kill her if her fiancé stopped loving her. She determines that Dorrie must never learn the truth, and, by a noble and tragic sacrifice, keeps it from her.”—N Y Times

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=Dial= 69:210 Ag ’20 80w

“This sorry fable is quite devoid of the melodramatic ‘punch,’ the thrill of spurious horror which was, obviously, its one attainable merit. Honestly written, it would have been a rattling shilling shocker. Aping the sober garb and earnest manners of a modern novel, it has succeeded in being hailed—for various reasons—as a masterpiece.”

− =Nation= 110:772 Je 5 ’20 280w

“‘The thunderbolt’ has all the exquisite artistry of Swinnerton at his best, and a realism as ultimate and magic as Leonard Merrick’s. It is hard to overpraise this book, and you are unfair to yourself if you do not acquaint yourself with it.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p10 My 9 ’20 1350w

“The two parts of the book might have been written by different authors in different ages. Absolutely nothing prepares the reader for the shock he receives when the author launches her thunderbolt. An ugly story with an undeniable dramatic dénouement.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:198 Ap 18 ’20 550w

“Having once read the book, no competent judge of good craftsmanship would dare refuse to acknowledge the unfaltering purpose, the patient insistent building up, the cumulative power of this grim book.” Calvin Winter

+ =Pub W= 97:994 Mr 20 ’20 380w

=Sat R= 127:484 My 17 ’19 60w

“It might have been, within its limits, a little masterpiece. But in the groping for tragedy the author fails and the conclusion is merely shocking. The most captivating human figure is the nurse, Hannah.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 5 ’19 460w

=WEBB, CLEMENT CHARLES JULIAN.= Divine personality and human life. (Library of philosophy) *$4 (*10s 6d) Macmillan 231

20–12837

“This volume contains the second part of the Gifford lectures, delivered in the University of Aberdeen in 1918–1919.” (Nation) “In the first series of these lectures, ‘God and personality,’ it was argued that by a ‘personal God’ is meant a God with whom a personal relationship is possible for his worshippers; that such a relationship is associated with the higher forms of religious experience; that in Christianity certain difficulties which attach to the conception of the personality of God are avoided by the assertion that God is not a single person; and it was claimed, not indeed that this position was free from difficulties, but that it was attended by fewer and less serious difficulties than its rivals. In the present course personality in man is examined in the light of these conclusions; the various activities in which this human personality expresses itself—economic, scientific, aesthetic, moral, political, and religious—being viewed in relation to the supreme spiritual reality revealed to us in the experience given in religion. The three concluding lectures consider the rank to be assigned in the kingdom of reality to the finite individual person.” (Spec)

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“A careful reader will very seldom even suspect him of confusion in ideas; there is hardly a word and—once the sentences have been construed—hardly an argument to baffle an intelligent schoolboy. Yet, with all these pitfalls avoided, we are defrauded of a good philosophical style, the worthy yet popular expression of a valuable thought, by the elementary failure to construct an unambiguous and balanced sentence.”

+ − =Ath= p74 Jl 16 ’20 750w

“It belongs to the front ranks of its class. Altogether the reading of the book is a rich experience, and its comparative freedom from the jargon of the philosophical schools makes it available for a much wider circle of readers than is usually the case with this kind of literature.” R. R.

+ =Nation= 111:sup417 O 13 ’20 880w

“In Mr Webb, terminology is reduced to a minimum. His argument can be followed by any fairly well read man without difficulty, and this is no small praise.”

+ =Spec= 124:51 Jl 10 ’20 1400w

“Mr Webb could not, we think, publish a book that did not contain acute and illuminating pages, but he certainly does not show here anything like the constructive force, or the lucidity of exposition, which marked his earlier volume.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p790 D 2 ’20 980w

=WEBB, CLEMENT CHARLES JULIAN.= God and personality; being the Gifford lectures delivered in the University of Aberdeen in the years 1918–1919. (Library of philosophy) *$3 Macmillan 231

19–14097

“All students of the philosophy of religion know that Mr C. C. J. Webb, fellow of Magdalen college, Oxford, has, within the last few years, won for himself a position in the front rank among philosophical critics and defenders of religion. Mr Webb’s argument [in this book] amounts to a philosophical defense of the Christian conception of and belief in God. Mr Webb’s emphasis falls wholly on the value of ‘religious experience’ as affording the profoundest clues to the nature of the world we live in. He holds that religious experience testifies to the reality of God and of the worshipper’s personal intercourse with God. More than this, he holds that the doctrine of the trinity, with its distinction of three persons within the Godhead, renders in language admittedly metaphorical, a differentiation within the all-enfolding divine life which is required for an adequate interpretation of religious experience in its highest, i.e., Christian form.”—New Repub

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“A fine and characteristic specimen of the best type of modern Oxford philosophy. Unlike so many modern English philosophers, Mr Webb has an admirably pure and simple vocabulary. It is the more to be regretted that his syntax is often obscure and even inaccurate.”

+ − =Ath= p333 My 16 ’19 800w

+ =Booklist= 16:221 Ap ’20

“Mr Clement C. J. Webb has written a book on ‘God and personality’ which is a remarkable achievement in more ways than one. He has managed to discuss a difficult and abstract problem in delightfully clear and often beautiful language. And in doing so he has shown that he possesses in considerable degree the quality of which real philosophers are made. Mr Webb’s answers are interesting, and in the main we may agree with them, but they are certainly not incontestable.” Lincoln MacVeagh

+ − =Dial= 68:785 Je ’20 1650w

“From Aristotle to Bergson, from the fathers of the church to Benedetto Croce, from Dante to H. G. Wells, he moves with equal mastery, and when he measures swords with Bradley or Bosanquet, the honors are not all on their side.” R. F. A. H.

+ =New Repub= 22:163 Mr 31 ’20 1650w

=Sat R= 127:584 Je 14 ’19 850w

=WEBB, SIDNEY, and WEBB, BEATRICE (POTTER) (MRS SIDNEY WEBB).=[2] Constitution for the socialist commonwealth of Great Britain. *$4.25 (*13s 6d) Longmans 335

20–18152

“The volume falls into three parts. The first is a survey of the existing signs and agencies of collectivism: the democracies of consumers (cooperative societies, friendly societies, municipalities, and national services); the democracies of producers (trade unions, copartnership concerns, and professional associations); and finally the political democracy of king, lords, and commons. The second part of the volume deals with the national structure that is to be set up in the socialist commonwealth. The lords are to be swept away and there are to be two parliaments—one political and the other social. Both are to be elected by universal suffrage but the idea of a vocational or economic soviet is utterly rejected. In the third part the authors propose to administer nationalized interests through special committees of the social parliament—one committee for each.”—Nation

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=Ath= p809 D 10 ’20 680w

=Booklist= 17:96 D ’20

“The idea that foreign affairs, the maintenance of order, the administration of justice, colonies, and defense can be separated from cities, municipalities, and national services; economics seems utterly chimerical. The third part of the volume is real, stimulating, suggestive. It is here that the Webbs have laid all students of government under a great debt. They do not speculate, but with clear eyes face the terrible tangle of realities that must make up any order new or old.” C: A. Beard

+ − =Nation= 111:sup664 D 8 ’20 1250w

“There is no field of social organization they do not enter; and there is no field where their analysis is not at once amazingly suggestive and incomparably well-informed. Not indeed, that there is not ample room for criticism and even criticism of fundamentals. What Mr and Mrs Webb have done is to cast a light upon the mechanism of government such as it has not had since Mr Graham Wallas’s ‘Human nature in politics’ in one field, and Bagehot’s ‘English constitution’ in another.” H. J. L.

+ =New Repub= 24:198 O 20 ’20 1100w

“It deserves the careful study of every person who desires to see a better system, and who is anxious that that system be inaugurated with the maximum of intelligence, the minimum of pain.”

+ =Socialist R= 10:29 Ja ’21 190w

“Lenin would contemptuously sweep the whole thing aside as lackeyism in the interests of the bourgeoisie. We are not prepared to do that, but we cannot help arriving at a like degree of condemnation for entirely different reasons.”

− =Spec= 124:240 Ag 21 ’20 1650w

“What the authors fail to appreciate is that to forbid the social parliament to interfere with conduct by making it criminal will be of no effect; the body in control of the price system can enforce conformity to prescribed economic conduct by methods which, though subtler, are no less effective than the criminal law—methods by which the present capitalists exercise their dictatorship. This criticism is not intended to detract from the merits of an extraordinarily able work.” R. L. Hale

+ − =Survey= 45:514 Ja 1 ’21 750w

=WEBB, SIDNEY, and WEBB, BEATRICE (POTTER) (MRS SIDNEY WEBB).= History of trade unionism. rev ed *$7.50 (*21s) Longmans 331.87

20–10724

“‘The history of trade unionism,’ is issued in a revised edition. The original work, published in 1894, broke off in 1890. The present edition carries the story on to the beginning of 1920. There is little alteration in the main part of the book, which describes the origin and progress of trade unionism in the United Kingdom.”—Springf’d Republican

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Reviewed by J: R. Commons

+ =Am Econ R= 10:834 D ’20 1350w

“They are quite clear in their own minds as to the relative importance of facts and ideas.”

+ =Ath= p762 Je 11 ’20 320w

“Americans particularly will find this study of value, because the British labor movement is more like our own than that of any other country, and its differences from ours are consequently more significant.” G: Soule

+ =Nation= 110:803 Je 12 ’20 950w

“The new part of the work would be very valuable if it stood alone, but it gains immensely from coming after the story of the building-up of the movement.”

+ =Nation [London]= 27:76 Ap 17 ’20 1200w

“In solidity of knowledge, in massiveness of generalization, in the firm grasp of complex details, Mr and Mrs Webb have certainly no superiors and possibly no equals. If they lack any single quality, it is an inability to make the institution reflect the men who build it.” H. J. L.

+ − =New Repub= 22:359 My 12 ’20 1450w

“The authors unite a thorough knowledge of their subject with a sympathetic understanding of the struggle of the masses, making a combination that is rare in historians. A number of appendices and a good index, together with good binding and paper, make this work heartily welcome.” James Oneal

+ =N Y Call= p10 Jl 4 ’20 750w

“Mr Webb, like most Fabian Socialists, is cultured, persuasive, smooth-spoken. In the gentlest words possible he has pronounced the failure of trade unionism. We can be grateful to him for his exposure of its vices.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:412 My 1 ’20 900w

“‘The history of trade unionism’ might easily have been a very great work; even as it stands it possesses high merit; but its partisanship divests it of authority, and the reader must be continually on his guard lest he accept its statements without independent evidence of their truth.”

+ − =Spec= 124:621 My 8 ’20 850w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 My 1 ’20 180w

“I cannot feel that even the Webbs have been able to achieve the same objectivity in dealing with the almost contemporary records as they did with earlier data and still it is of more value to have their original great work brought up to-date than it would be to obtain a separate narrative covering only recent industrial history.”

+ − =Survey= 44:313 My 29 ’20 480w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p126 F 19 ’20 40w

“It remains unchallenged, after a generation not by any means barren in books on industrial affairs, as the standard work on the rise and development of trade unions. It is a pity that the greater part of the section given to the railway trade unions in the new edition should be too biased to be historical.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p206 Ap 1 ’20 600w

“A vital change is to be noted in his viewpoint. A quarter of a century ago he wrote primarily as a scholar, though from a frankly avowed moderate socialist standpoint. Now he writes, equally frankly, as an avowed political partisan, as a statesman of the Labor party. Despite all this Mr Webb’s analysis of the present labor and political conditions in Great Britain is invaluable. It is not difficult, after his bias is once known, to allow for his prejudices.” W: E. Walling

+ − =Yale R n s= 10:220 O ’20 800w

=WEBLING, PEGGY.= Saints and their stories. il *$5 (9c) Stokes 922

The stories of saints related in this edition de luxe are: St Christopher; St Denis; St Helena; St Alban; St George; St Nicholas; St Ambrose; St Martin; St Augustine of Hippo; St Bride; St Gregory the Great; St Augustine of Canterbury; St Etheldreda; St Swithin; St Dunstan; St Hugh of Lincoln; St Zita; St Francis of Assisi; St Catherine of Siena; St Joan of Arc. There are eight full page illustrations in color by Cayley Robinson.

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“Written particularly for Catholic children, but with much in it to interest all young lovers of beautiful stories.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p4 N 28 ’20 150w

“The volume’s chief value lies in the narrative of those saints not well known. The illustrations are beautiful.”

+ =Outlook= 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 50w

=WEBSTER, HENRY KITCHELL.= Mary Wollaston. *$2 (1½c) Bobbs

20–18250

Two emotional situations complicate this novel. One is the triangular relationship involving Mary, her father, and Paula, her beautiful stepmother. The other grows out of the fact that Mary, while engaged in war work in New York, has had a casual love affair with a young soldier bound for overseas. Once she tries to tell her brother, but he will not listen. Again she tries to tell her father, but he refuses to believe, thinking that Mary in her innocence doesn’t know what she is talking about. Finally she flings the truth in the face of young Graham Stannard, who in asking her to marry him, persists in treating her as a whited saint. The situation is saved by Anthony March, who listens to Mary’s story, understands it and loves her none the less for it. Anthony also resolves the difficulty in the other situation. Anthony is a composer of genius and Paula is an opera singer, and there is much musical talk in the story.

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“This will be pronounced immoral by some readers. The analysis of women’s thoughts and emotions is illuminating; a book that women rather than men will read.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:75 N ’20

“Mary Wollaston and her Anthony March have discovered that ‘sentimentality is the most cruel thing in the world’; but it would be difficult to find another word for the atmosphere with which this story invests its realism of fact. That is why I for one find little health in it.” H. W. Boynton

− =Bookm= 52:344 Ja ’21 400w

=Cleveland= p106 D ’20 60w

“This novel has both the faults and the merits of its subject-matter, which is a representative cross-section of American metropolitan life in the immediate wake of the great war. It has neither faults nor merits of its own. To apply to it the canons of literary criticism would be an empty futility, for it has nothing to do with literature. It is, in three words, a competent realistic novel.” Wilson Follett

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 N 27 ’20 1950w

“The most interesting thing about ‘Mary Wollaston’ and the chief reason for reading it is that it is so accurately contemporary. The young generation seem to be frightening their elders in these days, and perhaps this novel will explain the fear without allaying it.” W: L. Phelps

+ =N Y Times= p8 O 31 ’20 640w

+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 70w

“It is most cleverly compact and as neat as a good play in its action. But the climax lacks something of convincing the reader. ‘Mary Wollaston’ is well worth reading. And if read, it demands to be thought about. If you like stimulating novels, you cannot find a more satisfying one than Mr Webster’s latest.” E. P. Wyckoff

+ − =Pub W= 98:657 S 18 ’20 350w

“One finds that the title is inappropriate. Indeed, not a few will conclude that Mary never quite attains a position of first importance.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 550w

=WEBSTER, NESTA H.= French revolution; a study in democracy. *$8 Dutton 944.04

“‘The siege of the Bastille—the march on Versailles—the two invasions of the Tuileries—the massacres of September—and finally the reign of terror—these form the history of the French people throughout the revolution. The object of this book is, therefore, to relate as accurately as conflicting evidence permits, the true facts about each great crisis, to explain the motives that inspired the crowds, the means employed to rouse their passions; and thereby to throw a truer light on the role of the people, and ultimately on the revolution as the great experiment in democracy.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup Jl 24

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“The method of the book is as unscientific as the conception of the problem. It was a pure waste of time to write such a book, and it is unfortunate that it was ever published, for it is attractively written, has all the earmarks of a scientific work, and may do much harm, if it finds its way into public libraries and into the hands of readers incapable of forming a correct estimate of its value.” F. M. Fling

− =Am Hist R= 25:714 Jl ’20 600w

“That there is a kernel of truth in each of these factors which fomented trouble and disorder in France, as there is at the bottom of every caricature, none will deny; but to magnify them a hundred-fold as the great cause of the revolution is to caricature, not correct, history. Mrs Webster’s volume is exceedingly interesting: it may lead historians to pay more attention to these new factors which she emphasizes.” S. B. Fay

− + =Am Pol Sci R= 14:732 N ’20 470w

“The book is interesting reading. A good deal of the evidence accepted by Mrs Webster is very shaky, since it consists of accounts given after the ending of the terror by men who wished to exculpate themselves at the expense of their colleagues.” B. R.

+ − =Ath= p943 S 26 ’19 1850w

“It overstates its case in an endeavor to emphasize the dangers and the downright wickedness of revolutions and revolutionaries. It is, perhaps, too long. Certainly it is prejudiced. But it is a good piece of work, and good reading, for all that, and any account of the French revolution must reckon with it and the material on which it is based.” W. C. Abbott

+ − =Bookm= 51:570 Jl ’20 1850w

“The style is fascinating, the temper sincere, and the argument (granting the hypotheses) convincing. But there are faults of method, prejudices of standpoint, and manipulations of material, which make the book not only a most biased interpretation of the French revolution but one of the most mischievous and malicious attacks on democracy that have come to our notice. The book is called ‘a study in democracy’; it is a studied insult to democracy from cover to cover.” D. S. Muzzey

− + =Nation= 111:300 S 11 ’20 2200w

“Allowing for Mrs Webster’s tenderness for that old régime, to which in other respects she is only just, she deserves our devout thanks for having shown that the French revolution was not at all a democratic movement. To a large circle of younger readers who are more and more getting their knowledge of historical events from text books and novels, this volume will prove a real delight.” M. F. Egan

+ − =N Y Times= 25:10 Je 27 ’20 2350w

“She has written an interesting and ingenious survey from her own special angle, but one can not help feeling that the angle is a somewhat narrow one.”

+ − =Review= 2:653 Je 23 ’20 1300w

“Is there anything left to be said on the subject? Frankly, we thought not, and the first glance at Mrs Webster’s book seemed to confirm this opinion. Yet Mrs Webster makes good. The style of the book has no

## particular individuality: it is plain, straightforward and devoid of

ornament. But the author is scrupulous in affording ample data for every statement made.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:386 O 25 ’19 900w

+ =Sat R= 129:29 Ja 10 ’20 950w

“Mrs Webster, by drawing largely on Royalist and Moderate sources, supplies a much-needed corrective to the many books which glorify even the wild and wicked excesses of the revolution. Yet she goes too far in suggesting that the revolution was unnecessary and disastrous.”

+ − =Spec= 123:245 Ag 23 ’19 1700w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p402 Jl 24 ’19 100w

“Mrs Webster’s book is full of vivacious interest, and the lines of her argument are followed through the mass of detail with an artistic skill. Her ardour communicates to the reader a desire to get close to facts. But the facts may not be the same as Mrs Webster’s, for though she has read extensively and marshalled her authorities, her use, and often her choice, of them shows how strongly she is bent on proving a case. So she does not convince us that her book is the one true history of the revolution.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p443 Ag 21 ’19 1650w

Reviewed by W. C. Abbott

=Yale R= n s 9:879 Jl ’20 1150w

=WEIGALL, ARTHUR EDWARD PEARSE BROME.= Madeline of the desert. *$2 (1½c) Dodd

20–20189

Madeline had been born beyond the pale of respectable society at Port Said in Egypt; had grown up in ignorance of conventional morality and lived in open defiance of it until she was twenty-three. But there had been growing pains and a crisis came when she must either die or be reborn. Father Gregory—retired from ecclesiastical honors in England to a hermitage in the desert—and his nephew, Robin Beechcroft, the young explorer, help her to a rebirth. The former points her to her supreme need, Christ, the latter loves and makes her his wife. The story traces Madeline’s unfoldment as a woman, a thinker and a seer. She and Robin pass through trials, even tragedies, but it is Madeline’s fineness and clear-sightedness that at last saves the day for them both.

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“Under its appearance of superficiality there is a quite unusual and remarkable understanding of the character of Madeline.” K. M.

+ − =Ath= p702 My 28 ’20 580w

“Mr Weigall’s novel grows weaker with the turning of pages, and there is no marvelous rising above climax after climax. Madeline, vivid at first, becomes more and more pallid as the tale progresses.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p12 D 8 ’20 310w

“It is impossible to withhold from Mr Weigall a tribute of admiration for the amazing fluency and fertility of imagination which enable him to make a long story out of very scant material. Whether the story was worth making is another question.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 250w

“The author’s vivid pictures of Egyptian life are explained by the fact that he has lived in Egypt a great deal, and has the faculty of presenting pleasingly and convincingly that which he sees. On the whole, he has presented to the world a very readable, as well as clever, book.”

+ =N Y Times= p22 N 21 ’20 220w

=WEIGLE, LUTHER ALLAN.= Talks to Sunday-school teachers. *$1.25 Doran 268

20–6997

“While much of the subject matter is in essence that contained in ‘The pupil and the teacher,’ it is given here in the form of delightful chatty chapters, supplementing the previous work. The book brings the same pleasure and information that often comes from the question period following a lecture. The first chapters deal with the pupil and seem to be repetition of much that has already appeared for the use of the teacher of religious education, though special mention should be made of