Chapter LXXIX: Part I: contains: The evolution of the principles underlying the (7)

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.

* * * * *

+ =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.

* * * * *

“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.

* * * * *

“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.

* * * * *

“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.

* * * * *

“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

* * * * *

+ =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

* * * * *

“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.”

* * * * *

“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

* * * * *

=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)

* * * * *

“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

* * * * *

“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

* * * * *

=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

* * * * *

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.

* * * * *

“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.

* * * * *

“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

* * * * *

“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