chapter 1
. There are numerous pictures and plans. The by-laws of the
association and various tables are given in an appendix, with the index following. “The story of the Octavia Hill association of Philadelphia is almost a history of the housing movement in that city, and shows the excellent work of women in this field.”
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“Live and interesting, with practical, frank detail on both the business and the human side, which will make the book of value to other workers.” E. W. Dinwiddie
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=WALKER, HENRY FRANCIS BELL.= Doctor’s diary in Damaraland. il *$2.10 (4c) Longmans 940.91 (Eng ed 17-28629)
“The author of this book volunteered as a medical officer in General Botha’s force which, by its dashing strategy and its great physical endurance, conquered German South-west Africa between March and July, 1915. He does not give a formal history of the campaign, but describes his own experiences in the rear of the army, with an occasional illuminating note on the course of the fighting.”—Spec
=Dial= 64:81 Ja 17 ‘18 250w
“All who wish to know the realities of war should read his very readable book. ... He has a good word for the Germans wherever it is deserved; and, generally, he extenuates nothing, makes no complaint, and sets down naught in malice. He deals only with what came under his own view, the grand tour of his own ambulance, not attempting to describe military movements or battles. His narrative is relieved by excellent descriptive touches, which make the God-forsaken country very real.”
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+ =N Y Times= 22:357 S 23 ‘17 430w
=Pittsburgh= 22:827 D ‘17 60w
“Dr Walker is eminently observant and has a keen eye for military tactics as well as natural history and geology. He has provided a detailed map of one attack, but a larger one covering the range of country he went over would have been a useful addition to his book. ... The book is well printed and has a few good illustrations, but it ought to have had an index as well.”
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“He is coldly fair to the Germans, giving instances of their cruelty, but allowing them whatever credit may be their due for establishing well-planned and well-organized towns in places where no one would want to live.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p207 My 3 ‘17 950w
=WALKER, STUART.= Portmanteau plays. il *$1.50 Stewart & Kidd 812 17-13266
Stuart Walker has been actor, stage manager and general director for Belasco. In 1914, he conceived the idea of the Portmanteau theater which has a small stage, simple scenery, and unique lighting effects. The present volume includes four of the plays given at this theater: The trimplet; Nevertheless; The medicine show; The six who pass while the lentils boil. There is a forty page introduction by Edward Hale Bierstadt, and an appendix giving “The repertory of the Portmanteau theater in the order of production.”
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“The little plays lack the beauty in strangeness of Lord Dunsany’s contributions to the Portmanteau répertoire but they are of distinct interest as a new art form based on a naïve convention.”
+ =Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 80w
“This book is more than a collection of highly diverting little plays. It is the record of an astonishing experiment in the American theatre.” H. K. M.
+ =New Repub= 13:222 D 22 ‘17 1000w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:86 Je ‘17
“Of the four plays, ‘Six who pass while the lentils boil’ is undoubtedly the most successful from both a literary and a dramatic point of view.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:444 O ‘17 300w
“Mr Walker’s plays make very pleasant reading, but they do not portend any romantic renaissance. ... The novel settings that Mr Walker has devised for his charming playlets have probably much more to do with his success than any real desire on the part of the public for poetry and fantasy on the stage.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 1 ‘17 460w
=WALLACE, DAVID DUNCAN.= Government of England; national, local, and imperial. *$2 (2½c) Putnam 342.4 17-25776
The author is professor of history and economics in Wofford college. He states that his book is intended for the general reader desiring “a brief, untechnical account of the British government” and for college classes where the time “is too limited for an extended treatment of so large a subject.” Prof. Wallace has attempted “to describe the English government as it is without distracting the reader with a long account of how it came to be what it is.” (Preface) Book 1 deals with The central government; book 2 with The local government; book 3 with The empire and colonies; book 4 with Social and political characteristics. The author has constantly “kept in mind the resemblances and contrasts between the government of England and that of our own country.” (Preface) “In the chapter on ‘Lessons England can teach us,’ the author dwells upon the greater flexibility of the English constitutional system. ... Other lessons concern the budget system, popular regard for law, and a civil service test in character and ability in addition to the applicant’s ‘immediate preparation.’” (Bookm) There is a reading-list of two pages and a table (tipped in before the index) to aid in understanding the court system.
“The chapter on ‘Aristocracy and democracy’ clarifies a subject rather indistinct to Americans who have not observed English society at close range. ... In the hands of instructors capable of supplementing it with an additional fund of historical illustration, this capitally written treatise should serve as an attractive text for college and university classes.” L. E. Robinson
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“He certainly does not misinterpret our history, when he declares that the highest intellectual effort in the United States has been consumed, not in proving that measures are good or bad, but that they are constitutional or unconstitutional. He makes a strong argument for a closer coöperation of the legislative and executive departments.” F. B. N.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 27 ‘17 670w
=WALLACE, DILLON.= Arctic stowaways. il *$1.25 (2c) McClurg 17-29730
Alfred Knowles and his friend Harry Metford were in danger of arrest for running a man down while speeding their automobile. Alfred had at first insisted that they turn about and take their medicine, but had weakly yielded to Harry’s desire for escape. So it was that they happened to take temporary refuge on board a schooner, to be carried out to sea. The vessel is a whaler, one of the last of her line, and the boys’ pleading and threats and offers of payment are of no avail. The boat is bound for the Arctic, and they must go with her, working their passage. Their experiences are not unlike those of Harvey Cheyne, of “Captains courageous,” and they learn the same lesson. The biggest of their adventures comes when they are cast adrift on the ice, to fend for themselves along a barren coast.
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 D 16 ‘17 150w
=WALLACE, EDGAR.= Kate plus 10. il *$1.35 (3½c) Small 17-23650
The author of “The clue of the twisted candle” has here given us another detective story. It moves around the great strokes planned by Kate Westhanger, the brains of the criminal gang in Amberscombe Gardens—a locality known to the London police as “Crime street”—and the efforts made by Michael Pretherston, the Scotland Yard detective, to outwit her. Kate had inherited power of strategy and also a tendency to crime. She had been trained by her uncle to be a thief on a great scale. Michael, who had great ability and a very pretty wit of his own, was filling the years in which he awaited his succession to the peerage in ways in which he could use his natural talents. Both were in the game for the excitement of it. How Kate used her wit, charm, and beauty and how Michael faced her at every turn; what the great coup was and how it ended; with other matters which pertain to life in English society furnish two hours of entertaining reading.
=A L A Bkl= 14:63 N ‘17
“An unusual combination of light humour and thrilling mystery.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:342 N ‘17 10w
=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 60w
=WALLACE, EDNA KINGSLEY.= Feelings and things; verses of childhood. *$1 Dutton 811 16-24229
“One feels in reading these poems that Miss Wallace is writing from within out; she is not portraying childhood as she sees or remembers it, but interpreting it as she still feels it. In her choice of subjects and language, she is always well within the mood and psychology of her subject. In this slender book are to be found the vaguely defined imaginings, the sudden sharp impressions, the bubbling excitement and joyousness of childhood. Even the rhythm of the lines has the hop-skip-and-jump gaiety, the pause of perplexed wonder, and the sudden, ecstatic crescendo of discovery.”—Dial
“They are slightly reminiscent of Stevenson and will be even more appreciated by grownups than by the children themselves.”
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“These verses are distinctive and individual, and because of their authenticity and lyrical quality must take a high place in the literature of childhood.”
+ =Dial= 62:110 F 8 ‘17 150w
+ — =NY Times= 22:401 O 14 ‘17 90w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 30 ‘17 120w
=WALLACE, WILLIAM KAY.= Greater Italy [1858-1916]. *$2.50 (3c) Scribner 945 17-13590
“I would attempt to trace in this volume the rise of the kingdom of Italy among nations, with more particular emphasis on the part played by the people of Italy in the affairs of the world during the past three decades. ... I have sought to lay particular stress on the relations of Italy with the Central powers, to trace the course of Italian policy in its dealings with Vienna and Berlin, and to show how the ‘mariage forcé’ of Rome and Vienna, brought about by the arbitrariness of Berlin, could not fail to end in disaster.” (Preface) Contents: The achievement of unity; Formative forces; The Triple alliance; The period of retrenchment; The dictatorship of Giolitti; The Libyan war; Economic development; The Vatican and the Quirinal; Italy and Germany; The problem of the Adriatic; The days of neutrality; Italy at war. The author writes of the war from personal observation. The book is provided with three maps.
=A L A Bkl= 14:21 O ‘17
=Ath= p475 S ‘17 130w
“A businesslike and straightforward book, which is not, strictly speaking, a history, but a series of studies on the rise of a united Italy and on an important aspect of Balkan diplomacy. The title of the book hardly describes its contents. The narration of the peaceful penetration of Italy by Germany is most remarkable reading, and it differs from some other recent descriptions of the process in general by its restraint and balance. The story is perhaps more impressive on that account.”
+ — =Ath= p511 O ‘17 650w
=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 25 ‘17 250w
“Mr Wallace portrays the Italy of politics, of diplomacy, of war, of realism. His task has been attempted before, with much success by King and Okey and by Underwood. But the developments of the past two years afford excellent opportunity to paint the picture afresh and on a larger canvas. Mr Wallace has spent some time with the troops on the various Italian fronts, and he describes in lucid and restrained manner the difficulties and triumphs of the operations against the Austrians. His book is well written, although there is an occasional inexact statement.”
+ — =Dial= 63:30 Ja 28 ‘17 430w
“The book contains a map of what the author conceives to be Italy’s projected sphere of influence in Asia Minor and in Austria.”
+ =Ind= 92:60 O 6 ‘17 80w
+ =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 280w
=Outlook= 116:233 Je 6 ‘17 140w
“The pages that deal with the great problem which is Italy’s problem alone, the quarrel between the Vatican and the Quirinal, are full of valuable information. And none of the recent books on the present war gives a more useful description of the counter-currents of Italy’s growing national aspirations, Austria’s imperialistic inclinations, and the Pan-Slav movement, which combined to keep the Balkan region at a fever-heat of tension for many years and culminated in the present catastrophe.” G. I. Colbron
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“It is not a profound work; it adds nothing to the equipment of the advanced student. But it tells simply and clearly the story of Italy’s rise through immense difficulties to real independence, and shows how she has come within sight of realizing the greatest of her ambitions—the rescue of millions of her people in the Trentino and the Adriatic provinces from the Austrian oppressor. Mr Wallace is an American who loves Italy.”
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+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 550w
“Mr Wallace has thrown together a certain number of documents and has eked them out with impressions rapidly gleaned and facts carelessly ascertained. He has made a volume of some 300 pages, but he has not written a book. His work lacks perspective and cohesion, and is sometimes positively misleading. He lacks the sense of style that distinguishes many American war correspondents, to say nothing of the best American writers. It is only in dealing with the present aspects of Italian policy and Italy’s war aims that Mr Wallace’s work becomes tolerably accurate. His last three chapters are fair journalism.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p350 Jl 26 ‘17 1200w
=WALLER, EDITH.= English-Italian phrase book for social workers. pa 75c Edith Waller, Morristown, N.J. 458 16-14779
“This book is intended to help the American social worker, teacher, physician or nurse, who in daily work find need for a small store of colloquial Italian.”—Educ R
“The book is exceedingly well done and may be highly commended to those who are at work in these fields.”
+ =Educ R= 53:199 F ‘17 70w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:152 O ‘16
“Designed to furnish a small store of colloquial Italian, it contains phrases on buying and preparing food, caring for the sick and infants, registering pupils and conducting a class. Includes a vocabulary and the essentials of the Italian grammar.”
=Pittsburgh= 22:536 Je ‘17 40w
=WALLING, WILLIAM ENGLISH.= Russia’s message: the people against the czar. il *$1.50 (3c) Knopf 947 17-13587
This work, first published by Doubleday, Page & Co., in 1908 and listed in the Digest at that time, is now brought out in a new and cheaper edition by Alfred A. Knopf. To the new edition Mr Walling has added an introduction, written at some time during the progress of the present war but before the recent revolution. In this introduction Mr Walling discusses the attitude of England, France, and Germany toward Russian autocracy.
“Of interest now as showing the foundation of the great democratic movement.”
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“Reissued with some unaccountable omissions and the complete disappearance of the index, as well as of a number of illustrations. But in any form, Mr Walling’s book commands attention.” L: S. Friedland
+ =Dial= 62:429 My 17 ‘17 820w
+ =Ind= 91:30 Jl 7 ‘17 110w
“There are a permanent value and a timeliness in Mr Walling’s book that make its republication in the climax of the events he foreshadowed worth noting. The student of recent events in Russia will find the news dispatches strikingly illuminated by Mr Walling’s descriptions.”
+ =Lit D= 55:40 O 13 ‘17 280w
“Of particular interest is Mr Walling’s account of the progress of the waking up of the peasant population a few years ago, and its progress in enlightenment.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:159 Ap 22 ‘17 570w
“It is in part because Mr Walling so thoroughly and convincingly analyzes the policy and motives of czardom that his book is not only informing, but as timely as possible. ... Accurately and in detail, Mr Walling lays bare an economic system that, but for the clearness and appositeness of the evidence he submits, would seem incredible. ... His book is thorough and authoritative—a study of more than transitory value—but also a book of the hour admirably adapted to enlighten and influence American opinion.”
+ =No Am= 205:951 Je ‘17 900w
“Written ten years ago after the author had passed the greater part of two years in close contact with Russian government officials, as well as with the leaders of revolutionary organizations after the temporary failure of their uprising in 1905.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:101 Jl ‘17 100w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 15 ‘17 420w
=WALLING, WILLIAM ENGLISH, and LAIDLER, HARRY WELLINGTON=, eds. State socialism pro and con. *$2 (1c) Holt 335.6 17-17731
This book on state socialism or collectivism, which its editors, both members of the Intercollegiate Socialist society, define as “the policy of extending the economic functions of the state,” is in no sense a brief for state socialism, but “primarily a source book of authoritative selections either written by experts or selected by experts from official reports.” The editors have not tried to give arguments, except in the introduction, but simply to provide the reader with the most important data on which to base a conclusion. The introduction takes up the relation of state socialism to war socialism, to the military state, to related government policies, to democracy, socialism, and nationalism. The excerpts are arranged under the headings: Finance; Agriculture and the conservation of natural resources; Transportation and communication; Commerce, industry and mining; Collectivism and the individual (as citizen, consumer, producer and taxpayer). A good deal of space, though not the larger part, is given to the United States.