Chapter LXXX: Part I: contains: The evolution of the principles underlying the (8)

=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.

* * * * *

“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 chapter 12, ‘How religion grows.’ The last chapters are most
suggestive, especially ‘Learning by doing’ and the ‘Dramatic method of
teaching.’”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“Professor Weigle is a trained pedagogue who has lost neither his
enthusiasm, his love of youth, nor his sound common sense, and is
excellently fitted to be the teacher of teachers that he proves
himself to be by the test of his last book.”

+ =Bib World= 54:648 N ’20 170w

“Written popularly and made effective for more intensive work by
chapter questions and carefully chosen bibliographies.”

+ =Booklist= 16:301 Je ’20

“The lists for further reading at the end of each chapter are
excellent and quite up to date.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 110w

=WELLES, WINIFRED.= Hesitant heart. *$1 Huebsch 811

20–6983

Poems reprinted from the North American Review, the Century, the
Liberator, Contemporary Verse and other periodicals. Among the titles
are: The hesitant heart; From a Chinese vase; The unfaithful April;
Driftwood; Threnody; Love song from New England; Moonflower; Surf;
Setting for a fairy story.

* * * * *

“Miss Welles’s is an art at times as ingenuous as Emily Dickinson’s
though always classical in its impeccable taste.” R. M. Weaver

+ =Bookm= 51:457 Je ’20 280w

“The mood of the book is April’s mood. The process by which the poems
arrive at bloom is exactly the process by which April arrives at
fulfilment. You can only feel the pulse of it, the subtle and
mysterious thrill in it, and by that realization know without defining
the loveliness of a miracle.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 3 ’20 1800w

“Like a handful of golden pollen scattered on the wind is the little
book of Winifred Welles’ poems, ‘The hesitant heart.’ Simple, fresh,
luminous, of the early morning, they are as whimsical as charm itself,
and as reticent in their cool distinction.”

+ =Freeman= 1:71 Mr 31 ’20 100w

+ =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 70w

“Hers is a limited gamut, an obviously restricted range. Yet, within
that range, her voice is pure, the art is skilful and the melodies
exquisite. None of the younger singers has communicated with more
charm her accents of soft delight mingled with a perturbed
wistfulness. Even her more intense affirmations have a timid
tenderness.” L: Untermeyer

+ =New Repub= 23:156 Je 30 ’20 550w

“‘The hesitant heart’ is a lovely collection of fragile lyrics. Miss
Welles has a deft and magical touch all her own, a slight and
restrained magic, but an authentic one.”

+ =N Y Call= p11 Ag 1 ’20 180w

“Miss Welles is no purveyor of novelties. She cannot be called
original, or even inventive. Yet she has a magic of lyrical speech
that gives the reader a sense of new delight and of a new personality
in the world of lyric artists.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:193 Ap 18 ’20 180w

“Her technique is much like that of Miss Millay, although she is not
so mature as an artist. But this is not to say that Miss Welles has
imitated Miss Millay. She is very much herself.”

+ =N Y Times= p15 Ja 9 ’21 220w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 70w

=WELLS, CAROLYN (MRS HADWIN HOUGHTON)=, comp. Book of humorous verse. *$7.50 Doran 827

20–20663

This volume is intended for everyone of the human race who possesses
the power of laughter. The compiler calls attention to the book as a
compilation, not a collection, as no cover of one book could contain
the latter. The poems are classified under the headings: Banter; The
eternal feminine; Love and courtship; Satire; Cynicism; Epigrams;
Burlesque; Bathos; Parody; Narrative; Tribute; Whimsey; Nonsense;
Natural history; Juniors; Immortal stanzas. The book is indexed for
authors, titles and first lines.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:147 Ja ’21

“As a whole. Miss Wells has done a most excellent piece of work that
should be an addition to the library of every lover and maker of
verse.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 Ja 15 ’21 520w

“Here at last is a collection of humorous lyrics, chosen and set in
order by an expert anthologist, who is also an expert humorist.”
Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= p3 D 12 ’20 1600w

“‘The book of humorous verse’ has done in its province what Burton
Stevenson’s ‘Home book of verse’ has done for all poetry.” E. L.
Pearson

+ =Review= 3:531 D 1 ’20 300w

=WELLS, CAROLYN (MRS HADWIN HOUGHTON).= Raspberry jam. il *$1.60 (2½c) Lippincott

20–7522

Sanford Embury is found one morning dead in bed. He was an
exceptionally healthy man, and absolutely no reason can at first be
discovered for his death. His proud, hot tempered wife is at once
suspected, for the two had many tiffs about money matters, for
although Embury was rich, it pleased his pride to give his wife no
ready spending money. Detectives are called in, investigations made.
No headway is gained until Fleming Stone and his irresponsible “kid”
helper, Fibsy McGuire, appear on the scene. Then the mystery slowly
clears, through the aid of a “spook,” a trumped up medium, a pot of
raspberry jam and certain information in regard to a “human fly.” Mrs
Embury is acquitted, the real murderer at once arrested, and a long
delayed love comes at last into its own.

* * * * *

=N Y Times= 25:153 Ap 4 ’20 350w

Reviewed by M. A. Hopkins

=Pub W= 97:602 F 21 ’20 240w

=Sat R= 130:262 S 25 ’20 70w

“The story stirs a lively interest in the reader.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 160w

“As is common in detective stories of this type, Miss Wells makes
considerable demands on her readers’ credulity or ignorance.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 160w

=WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE.= Outline of history. 2v il *$10.50 Macmillan 909

20–19599

Mr Wells’ “plain history of life and mankind” (Sub-title) is in two
volumes, composed of nine books, as follows: The making of our world;
The making of man; The dawn of history; Judea, Greece and India; Rise
and collapse of the Roman Empire; Christianity and Islam; The great
Mongol empire of the land ways and the new empires of the sea ways;
The age of the great powers; The next stage in history. The work has
been written with the advice and editorial help of Mr Ernest Barker,
Sir H. H. Johnston, Sir E. Ray Lankester, and Professor Gilbert
Murray. It is illustrated with maps, time diagrams and drawings by J.
F. Horrabin.

* * * * *

“A history of this kind is just what is wanted at the present day.
There are now sufficient scientific and historical data to make the
attempt possible; it is time we had a glimpse of the wood: we have had
innumerable examinations of the separate trees.”

+ =Ath= p1256 N 28 ’19 400w

“In praising so large a work, one must presumably begin with its
arrangement. Arrangement is a negative quality, but a great one: it is
the faculty of not muddling the reader, and Wells possesses it in a
high degree. Selection is of course a more controversial topic, and
here the critics can get going if they think it worth while. A third
merit is the style. The surface of Wells’ English is poor, and he does
not improve its effect when he tints it purple. But it does do its
job. Arrangement, selection, style; so these make up the case for his
‘Outline,’ and it is an overwhelming case.” E. M. F.

+ =Ath= p8 Jl 2 ’20 1100w

“Now for the defects, and the first of them is a serious one. Wells’
lucidity, so satisfying when applied to peoples and periods, is
somehow inadequate when individuals are thrown on to the screen. The
outlines are as clear as ever, but they are not the outlines of living
men. He seldom has created a character who lives and a similar failure
attends his historical evocations.... Such are the defects of the
book; but, as the previous article indicated, they are entirely
outweighed by its great merits.” E. M. F.

+ − =Ath= p42 Jl 9 ’20 1950w

“It has been a great book, finely planned, well arranged, full of
vivid historical sketches and of telling raps upon the knuckles and
noses of the great, but as soon as it starts for the stars its charm
decreases.” E. M. F.

+ − =Ath= p690 N 19 ’20 1500w

=Booklist= 17:110 D ’20

“The great thing which Wells has done—and it is, unqualifiedly, a very
great thing—is to state the evolutionary concept of history as a
continuing, growing entity, in terms readily understandable of the
common man. It is not too much to call it the most potentially
formative book of our day.” H. L. Pangborn

+ =Bookm= 52:358 Ja ’21 950w

“In his entire career Mr Wells has never written a more important book
than this. It is a superlatively fascinating piece of writing, in all
its details and as a whole, and it proves that the best historian is
the man with imagination who has created, or who is capable of
creating, real literature.” E. F. Edgett

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ’20 2850w

“This is the true and lasting value of the work of Wells—that he has
given our world a greatest common historical denominator.” H. W. van
Loon

+ =Dial= 70:202 F ’21 720w

“History as seen through the temperament of Mr Wells is novel,
piquant, and entertaining. Mr Wells has no sense of time, for he
discusses events in the remote past as if they were still happening.
This gives vividness to his story and truthfulness, too.... With the
chapter on Buddhism the ‘Outline’ reaches its high water mark. From
thence on, a startling change is noticeable. And the change is for the
worse. J. S. Schapiro

* + − =Nation= 112:sup224 F 9 ’21 9250w

“There is one criticism that I should like to make. Mr Wells has
written political history and overlooked economic facts.... One cannot
help wishing that Mr Wells had restrained his enthusiasm a little by
omitting Book 1, and thus clipping off several hundred million years
from the period which he was seeking to cover. He might also have
eliminated Book 2 on ‘The making of man.’ I am glad that there was
someone in the English-speaking world brave enough and earnest enough
and with enough leisure time to write it.” Scott Nearing

+ − =N Y Call= p8 N 29 ’20 1500w

“It is eminently readable. Mr Wells could not write dull if he tried
to. The first impression made by his volumes is deepened by their
study. It is that Mr Wells has undertaken a task too great for his
powers and equipment. Mr Wells has, of course, read widely and
industriously. Yet his sources are plainly meagre. They are almost
exclusively English.”

− + =N Y Times= p1 N 14 ’20 2550w

“Certain sections—the early chapters upon the origin of the earth and
of man upon the earth, the part dealing with the rise and spread of
Buddhism, for examples—are excellent when read by themselves.” E. L.
Pearson

+ =Review= 3:558 D 8 ’20 60w

“Most of us think of history only in terms of the records of
particular nations, races or periods. Mr Wells ventures on a far
bolder conception—viewing all human history as one whole. If the work
did nothing more than to fix definitely this new viewpoint it would be
worth while.”

+ =R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 220w

“High-school history teachers and students will read the work with
profit. They certainly come more nearly being world-history than any
previous work in the field.”

+ =School R= 29:155 F ’21 900w

+ =Spec= 122:698 N 22 ’19 190w

“It is good to take a broad view of history, and Mr Wells has done a
real service to his generation by writing this entertaining ‘Outline.’
He has found a talented illustrator in Mr Horrabin, whose numerous
maps and diagrams and reconstructions of extinct mammals are very
attractive and helpful. There are also many photographs, well chosen
and well reproduced.”

+ =Spec= 124:798 Je 12 ’20 300w

“There is room for Mr Wells’s ‘Outline of history,’ for the hand of
the specialist has lain heavy on this branch of scholarship, and the
books which give a bird’s-eye view of world history are few and not
very accessible.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 21 ’19 380w

=Springf’d Republican= p13a F 8 ’20 1000w (Reprinted from
London Nation)

“The ‘History’ is a remarkable one: there should be more books as
readable and provocative and daring.” P. B. McDonald

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 1100w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p693 N 27 ’19 880w

“Magnificent as is the panorama which Mr Wells unfolds, the details of
it are sometimes questionable.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p415 Jl 1 ’20 1050w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p612 S 23 ’20 2000w

“Mr Wells’s work should find its way into all but the most bigoted
sectarian colleges and even into the schools, as supplementary reading
for both teacher and pupil.” J. H. Robinson

+ =Yale R= n s 10:412 Ja ’21 2650w

=WELSH, JAMES C.= Underworld. *$1.75 (1½c) Stokes

20–17082

A story of the British coal industry by the author of “Songs of a
miner.” While yet a mere boy Robert Sinclair sits up long past his bed
time to listen to the talk between his father and Robert Smillie, and
it is the inspiration of that remembered conversation that sends him
far in the growing labor movement. Robert goes into the pit at twelve
years and on that very day there is an accident in the mine that kills
his father and brother and leaves him his mother’s chief support. The
story pictures the hard conditions in a disorganized industry, the
tyranny of the foreman and his control of the private lives of the
men, and the discouraging efforts to form a union. Robert loses the
girl he loves and in the end meets his father’s fate in the mine while
trying to save others. His mother is left desolate and the author’s
final plea is to the men to stand firm together and protect their
women folk from such tragedies.

* * * * *

“James Welsh, the miner, has rough-hewn a rather powerful and readable
tract.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 230w

+ =Sat R= 129:477 My 22 ’20 180w

“As he commands a fluent and forcible pen, complete mastery of the
dialect, and an unflinching realism in the treatment of details, his
work claims attention as well as respect.”

+ =Spec= 124:765 Je 5 ’20 670w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Mr 25 ’20 170w

=WENDELL, BARRETT.= Traditions of European literature, from Homer to Dante. *$6 Scribner 809

20–20996

This book has developed from lectures given at Harvard between 1904
and 1917. The author says: “Years of dealing with Harvard students had
shown me not only that Americans now know little of the literary
traditions of our ancestral Europe, but also that they are seldom
aware even of the little they know.” (Introd.) He adopts the point of
view of “English-speaking Americans of the twentieth century of the
Christian era” and concerns himself with those traditions of
literature “which, we need not ask why, have chanced among ourselves
to survive the times of their origin.” His task is somewhat simplified
by the fact that during the period covered, from Homer to Dante, the
traditions “originating in the primal European civilisation of Greece,
and extending throughout imperial dominion of Rome, remained for many
centuries a common possession of all Europe.” It has been possible
therefore to treat the subject as a whole. This is done in five books:
The traditions of Greece; The traditions of Rome; The traditions of
Christianity; The traditions of Christendom; The traditions of the
middle ages. Bibliographical suggestions occupy twenty-three pages and
there is an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:147 Ja ’21

“Nothing brings a keener joy to the heart of a conscientious reviewer
than to have in his hands to appraise and to praise a book which seems
to him altogether good—worthy in theme, comprehensive in conception,
shapely in plan and skillful in execution. This joy is mine now that I
have read this admirable example of interpretive scholarship.” Brander
Matthews

+ =N Y Times= p3 D 26 ’20 1750w

=WEST, WILLIS MASON.= Story of modern progress; with a preliminary survey of earlier progress. (Allyn and Bacon’s ser. of school histories) il $2 Allyn 940.2

20–7751

This work is a successor to the author’s “The modern world” written
with a redistribution of time to give more space and emphasis to the
period since 1870. The author says, “I have taken glad advantage of
the chance to write a new book, better suited, I hope, to elementary
high-school students; and I have used the treatment in the ‘Modern
world’ only when I have found it simpler and clearer than any change I
could make today.” (Foreword) An unusual amount of space has been
given to English history, while American history, which is sure of
full treatment elsewhere, is omitted “except where the connection of
events demands its introduction.” Contents: Introduction: a survey of
earlier progress; Age of the reformation, 1520–1648; England in the
seventeenth century; The age of Louis XIV and Frederick II, 1648–1789;
The French revolution; Reaction, 1815–1848; England and the industrial
revolution; Continental Europe, 1848–1871; England, 1815–1914; Western
Europe, 1871–1914; Slav Europe to 1914; The war and the new age. There
is a list of books for high schools, followed by an index and
pronouncing vocabulary.

* * * * *

“This present ‘Story of modern progress’ is consoling in a measure,
but also provoking. The writer has some straight views, then again,
the three-hundred-year-old tradition enfolds him.”

+ − =Cath World= 111:824 S ’20 550w

“For a one-year course in modern European history there is possibly no
better text on the market.”

+ =School R= 28:549 S ’20 280w

=WESTERVELT, GEORGE CONRAD, and others.= Triumph of the N.C.’s. il *$3 Doubleday 629.

20–7597

The N.C.’s are flying boats as distinguished from hydroaeroplanes and
the present volume contains the story of their design and building and
of their first achievements. In part 1 Commander G. C. Westervelt
tells “How the flying boats were designed and built”—the immense
number of details that had to be worked out, the numerous tests that
had to be conducted, and the many troublesome features that had to be
corrected. Part 2—The “lame duck” wins—is Lieut.-Commander A. C.
Read’s story of the transatlantic flight of the N. C. 4. Part 3
contains the log of the N. C. 3 by Commander H. C. Richardson, who
also gives an account of previous attempts at transatlantic flight.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:335 Jl ’20

“The story of the crossing is told in lively and readable narrative,
with picturesque details and with unassuming modesty.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Jl 18 ’20 500w

=WESTON, GEORGE.= Mary minds her business. il *$1.75 (2½c) Dodd

20–4960

Of the long line of Josiahs of the firm of Josiah Spencer & son,
successful manufacturers, Mary’s father was the last. His cousin,
Stanley Woodward, had long been figuring on the eventuality of
Josiah’s demise, to get entire control of the business. But he had not
counted on Mary. His first shock came when Mary had herself chosen
president of the corporation and proceeded, with the coaching of a
friendly judge and business councilor to run things for herself. And
run them she did in a most revolutionary manner. She employed women to
such an extent that the factory was finally worked entirely by women
on a greater level of efficiency than ever. Other reforms went hand in
hand—a rest room, nurseries, kindergarten, laundry, an orchestra of
one hundred pieces all played by women. Of course there was fighting
to do, Uncle Stanley to be over-ruled, his son Burdon to be shown his
place. When the scheme was out of the woods and the most pressing
suitor married off, the woman in Mary was alone and aweary and it was
then that Archey Forbes, the construction engineer, came into his own.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20

“The light story has sometimes, under Mr Weston’s pen, developed a
diaphanous quality, which has made us wonder why it was worth writing
at all. Now in surprising manner Mr Weston has discovered some
ideas—not very new ones perhaps, but nevertheless things of
substance.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 200w

“Brightly written, full of action, and with a love interest kept
discreetly subordinate to that of the extremely efficient Mary’s
management of the factory, this story also has the merit of dealing
with a question which many will think has been thoroughly answered—the
proper sphere of women in this age.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:30 Je 27 ’20 400w

=WEYL, MAURICE.= Happy woman. *$1.75 (2c) Kennerley

20–6129

The distinctive feature of this story is its character drawing. There
is Henry Hardwick, a man of decided ability but with just that grain
of iron lacking in his make-up that would make him a success in his
enterprises and the master of his domestic circumstance. Fred
Pemberton’s efficiency, on the other hand, verges on hardness and
almost wrecks his love-life, deep and true though it is. The two
leading women of the tale are likewise opposites, but both in the end
can claim the title. Ruth Bernstein, proud, reticent, an unusually
able business woman, but feminine in the best sense when off guard, is
happy when she yields to her love for Fred Pemberton. Dowdy, voluble,
irresponsible Mrs Hardwick is happy when she discovers that her “gift
of gab” can be put to good use in swaying and winning admiration from
an audience.

* * * * *

“‘The happy woman’ is that rather unusual thing—a genuinely realistic
novel.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 850w

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 50w

=WHALE, GEORGE.= British airships: past, present and future. il *$2 (4c) Lane 629.1

20–9651

Without attempting a lengthy and highly technical dissertation on
aerostatics the book briefly describes the main principles underlying
airship construction. It then gives a general history of the
development of the airship to the present day before taking up the
British airship, which had been practically neglected prior to the
twentieth century. The contents, with many illustrations and charts
are: Early airships and their development to the present day; British
airships built by private firms; British army airships; Early days of
the naval airship section—Parseval airships, Astratorres type, etc.;
Naval airships: the nonrigids; Naval airships: the rigids; The work of
the airship in the world war; The future of airships.

* * * * *

“A useful account, well illustrated.”

+ =Ath= p353 Mr 12 ’20 40w

“It is a pity that the usefulness of the book is hampered by the
absence of an index.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p717 D 4 ’19 80w

=WHARTON, ANNE HOLLINGSWORTH.=[2] In old Pennsylvania towns. il *$5 (6c) Lippincott 974.8

21–155

The author describes a motor trip thru Pennsylvania, on which
Lancaster, Lebanon, Gettysburg, Carlisle, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh,
Wilkes-Barré, Bethlehem and other towns were visited. Philadelphia and
Germantown are omitted, as too well known, for it is the author’s
purpose to call attention to the quaint and unusual. The pictures show
many of the interesting old Pennsylvania houses.

* * * * *

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 29 ’20 460w

“The illustrations will delight all who are interested in early
American architecture.” M. K. Reely

+ =Pub W= 98:1891 D 18 ’20 300w

=WHARTON, MRS EDITH NEWBOLD (JONES).= Age of innocence. *$2 (1½c) Appleton

20–18615

The milieu of the story is New York “society” in the early seventies.
It describes the old aristocracy who took life “without effusion of
blood,” who “dreaded scandal more than disease,” who “placed decency
above courage” and who considered “nothing more ill-bred than
‘scenes.’” Newland Archer was one of the few whose vision penetrated
this crust of conventionality and he fell in love with the one
off-color member of the tribe just as he had engaged himself to its
most perfect product. Ellen Olenska, wife of a profligate European
count, had left her husband and returned to America at this critical
moment and Archer hastens his marriage to May Welland before he
becomes too deeply involved with Ellen. Ellen’s fine sense of honor
and of human kindliness, on the other hand, holds him to his compact
and puts the ocean between herself and Archer by returning to Europe.
Almost thirty years later, Archer has the satisfaction of seeing his
own children step out freely and joyously on the road that had been
closed to him.

* * * * *

“The time and the scene together suit Mrs Wharton’s talent to a
nicety.” K. M.

+ − =Ath= p810 D 10 ’20 620w

=Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21

“On the book’s enduring quality it is idle to speculate. The slight
theme beaten out with delicate care is the fashion of the day, and the
best examples will no doubt remain. What is certain, however, is that
a multitude of readers today will read with a well-justified delight
this picture of New York in the ‘seventies.’” A. E. W. Mason

+ =Bookm= 52:360 D ’20 780w

“As a matter of fact, the author of ‘The age of innocence’ is not the
Mrs Wharton of ‘The valley of decision,’ ‘The house of mirth,’ ‘Ethan
Frome’ or of any one of the several volumes of short stories with
which her reputation was made. She is the Mrs Wharton—with some of her
skill and much of her knowledge of life remaining—of a new era that
demands yellow pages in its fiction as well as yellow newspapers in
its journalism. Until she becomes again the Mrs Wharton of a decade
ago, she certainly cannot maintain her once high place among the
novelists of today.” E. F. Edgett

− + =Boston Transcript= p4 O 23 ’20 1200w

“One must occasionally be grateful in a day devoted, on the one hand,
to detail, and on the other to a futuristic sketchiness, for a
literary gift as serene as Mrs Wharton’s. Her new novel, ‘The age of
innocence,’ is the perfect fruit of an austere and disciplined art.”
L. M. R.

+ =Freeman= 2:358 D 22 ’20 240w

“The interest of the story lies, not with the doings of the rather
wooden characters of the book, but with the picture it purports to
give of New York some fifty years ago. Here the author is clearly at
fault in portraying a society of such portentous dullness and also in
representing the town as devoid of anything else. The book is full of
anachronisms which are sure to be noticed by old New-Yorkers.”

− =Lit D= p52 F 5 ’21 880w

“‘The age of innocence’ is a masterly achievement. In lonely contrast
to almost all the novelists who write about fashionable New York, she
knows her world. In lonely contrast to the many who write about what
they know without understanding it or interpreting it, she brings a
superbly critical disposition to arrange her knowledge in significant
forms.” C. V. D.

+ =Nation= 111:510 N 3 ’20 580w

“Someone told me that ‘The age of innocence’ was ‘a dull book about
New York society in the seventies.’ This is amusing. It is,
undoubtedly, a quiet book, and quietness is dullness to the
jazz-minded. It is really a book of unsparing perception and essential
passionateness, full of necessary reserve, but at the same time full
of verity.” F. H.

+ =New Repub= 24:301 N 17 ’20 1450w

“Mrs Wharton’s story-telling method is precise and neat, and it is her
own. What surprises us, however, in ‘The age of innocence’ is the
pervasive glint of oblique criticism that dazzles our eyes from almost
every page. And that criticism is no wise lessened because it happens
to be leveled against New York society of the ’70s. Is New York, or
America, so different in the year 1920?” Pierre Loving

+ =N Y Call= p10 D 12 ’20 1100w

“A fine novel, beautifully written, ‘big’ in the best sense, which has
nothing to do with size, a credit to American literature—for if its
author is cosmopolitan, her novel, as much as ‘Ethan Frome,’ is a
fruit of our soil.” H: S. Canby

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 N 6 ’20 1100w

“By the side of the absolute mastery of plot, character and style
displayed in her latest novel, ‘The house of mirth’ seems almost
crude. Edith Wharton is a writer who brings glory on the name America,
and this is her best book. It is one of the best novels of the
twentieth century and looks like a permanent addition to literature.”
W: L. Phelps

+ =N Y Times= p1 O 17 ’20 1950w

“Mrs Wharton’s new novel is in workmanship equal to her very best
previous work. In its adequate dealing with a large motif this is a
book of far more than ephemeral value.” R. D. Townsend

+ =Outlook= 126:653 D 8 ’20 620w

“The plot is unobvious, delicately developed, with a fine finale that
exquisitely satisfies one’s sense of fitness, and as always with Mrs
Wharton, the drama of character is greater than that of event. One
revels recognizingly in her clean-cut distinction of style, the
inerrant aptness of adjectives, the vivisective phrase.” Katharine
Perry

+ =Pub W= 98:1195 O 16 ’20 520w

“The limitations of the present note on Mrs Wharton’s new story may be
revealed by the confession that the annotator’s delight in it as a
picture is greatly tempered by his distrust of its leading male
figure. I don’t much like this Newland Archer, and I don’t quite
believe in his existence; and this doubt curdles my faith in the
integrity of the story as a whole.” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Review= 3:476 N 17 ’20 1100w

“From a literary point of view, this story is on a level with Mrs
Wharton’s best work. As a retrospect of the early ‘seventies, it is
less satisfactory, being marred by numerous historical lapses.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:458 D 4 ’20 360w

“The picture is so finished, so convincing, and withal so
entertaining, that the study of these pages is recommended to all
students of manners.”

+ =Spec= 126:55 Ja 8 ’21 720w

“The greatest defect in the book is that of the character of Ellen,
whom her creator constantly asserts to be charming, but who does not
in the least produce that effect on the reader.” Lilian Whiting

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 720w

“Altogether Mrs Wharton has accomplished one of the best pieces of her
work so far. As for her picture of the times, how is any of us over
here to criticize it, beyond saying that it is full of vivacity and of
character and of colour, and that there is not a point in it which
seems to be false?”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p775 N 25 ’20 1200w

“This theme, the contrast of times and manners, dealt with in some of
her short stories, is one Mrs Wharton handles with skill.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:239 D ’20 90w

=WHARTON, MRS EDITH NEWBOLD (JONES).= In Morocco. il *$4 Scribner 916.4

20–17098

“In 1918 Mrs Wharton, under the guidance of a French military mission,
in a French army motor, spent a month traveling in Morocco. Her
account of her travels in a country without a guide book is for the
benefit of the travelers who she feels sure will flood the land when
the war is over. All the properties of an Arabian Nights tale are
here.” (Nation) “In the space of one month a military automobile
carried her from Tangier to Marrakech, from Rabat to Fez. She entered
the sacred city of Moulay Idriss, the surviving stronghold of the
Idrissite rule; she walked the streets of ancient Salé, the
‘Phoenician counting house and breeder of Barbary pirates’; she
examined the ruins of Volubilis, the African outpost of the Roman
legions; and she enjoyed the hospitality of his Majesty the Sultan
Moulay Youssef and his favorites in ‘the happiest harem in Morocco.’”
(N Y Times)

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:68 N ’20

“Edith Wharton’s ‘In Morocco’ is a model of restrained and rounded
prose, as well as a vivid picture of oriental richness.” Margaret
Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:344 D ’20 60w

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 22 ’20 920w

“‘In Morocco’ adds another swiftly-told, graceful, vivid, and yet
informative travel book to Mrs Wharton’s globe-trotting shelf.”

+ =Dial= 70:231 F ’21 50w

“The best thing a returned traveler can do is to give you not facts
but atmosphere. Edith Wharton in ‘In Morocco’ does this for you
excellently well, partly because she is so impersonal, never intruding
her own reactions, simply bringing up the scene around you with all
its blinding sunlight, desert heat and vivid colors.”

+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 170w

Reviewed by Irita Van Doren

=Nation= 111:479 O 27 ’20 680w

“The combination of authenticated facts and illuminating comment makes
her book fascinating.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 N 13 ’20 150w

“The publication of ‘In Morocco,’ by Mrs Wharton, is practically
simultaneous with that of her most recent novel, ‘The age of
innocence.’ Both of these books add security to their author’s
position as one of the foremost contemporary writers of English prose.
Never before has Mrs Wharton enjoyed so ideal an opportunity to
display her gifts of colorful description as she does in this volume.”
B. R. Redman

+ =N Y Times= p9 O 31 ’20 980w

“Nothing seen by her sensitive, unsparing eye is omitted, and her
nervous style never fails to convey the effect at which she aims.”

+ =Sat R= 130:339 O 23 ’20 360w

+ =Spec= 125:541 O 23 ’20 200w

“The duration of her visit—one month—was fortunately too short for her
to carry out her intention of writing a guide-book. One writes
‘fortunately,’ for her book would have lost in broad suggestiveness
far more than it would have gained from precision in detail. With her
knowledge of other countries and peoples, her sensitiveness, her gift
of vivid description, and her unobtruded skill in ordered
presentation, she does more than one would have thought possible to
convey what was suddenly revealed to her eyes to those who will never
see it with their own.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p649 O 7 ’20 1200w

=WHEAT, GEORGE SEAY=, ed.[2] Municipal landing fields and air ports. il *$1.75 Putnam 629.1

20–22004

The book is a compilation with chapters by the chief of the army air
service, General Menoher, the director of naval aviation Captain
Craven and their officers in charge of landing field operations. The
most acute and immediate problem now facing commercial aeronautics is
the need for flying routes and landing fields. It is the object of the
book to present all that this involves in concrete form. Besides
illustrations, diagrams, a map and an appendix containing a list of
landing fields on file in the office of the chief of air service, the
contents are: The need for landing fields; The present plight of
flight; How to construct a field; Aircraft hangers; Aerial routes;
Naval air ports; Airplanes and seaplanes.

=WHEELER, EVERETT PEPPERRELL.= Lawyer’s study of the Bible; its answer to the questions of today. *$1.50 Revell

19–19947

“Mr Wheeler’s book is really a study of life, and he uses the Bible in
interpreting life. His chapter titles indicate this characteristic of
his volume: they are such as The presence of God in the soul of man;
Prayer; Socialism; War; Labor, capital, and strikes; Immortality.
Incidentally he asks what light does the Bible throw on these
problems?”—Outlook

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p6 D 24 ’19 550w

=Outlook= 124:119 Ja 21 ’20 220w

“Perhaps the most important feature for the average reader is the
adaptation of legal procedure into rules for the study of the Bible.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 18 ’20 180w

=WHIBLEY, CHARLES.= Literary studies. *$3 Macmillan 820.4

20–1521

“Five of these eight studies are from the ‘Cambridge history of
English literature.’ They deal with phases of literature in the
sixteenth, seventeenth, and early eighteenth centuries. The others are
on Rogues and vagabonds of Shakespeare’s time (a chapter in
‘Shakespeare’s England,’ 1916), Sir Walter Raleigh (from Blackwood’s),
and Jonathan Swift, a Leslie Stephen lecture at Cambridge, 1917.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup N 13 ’19

* * * * *

“Mr Whibley is as readable as ever.”

+ =Ath= p1241 N 21 ’19 70w

“He has the first requisite of a critic: interest in his subject, and
ability to communicate an interest in it. His defects are both of
intellect and feeling. He has no dissociative faculty. There were very
definite vices and definite shortcomings and immaturities in the
literature he admires; and as he is not the person to tell us of the
vices and shortcomings, he is not the person to lay before us the work
of absolutely the finest quality.” T. S. E.

+ − =Ath= p1332 D 12 ’19 1350w

Reviewed by Augustine Birrell

+ =Nation= 111:159 Ag 7 ’20 20w

“Mr Whibley, by being included among the journalists, dignifies
journalism. His way is not that of the headline, nor are his literary
manners those of the siren in a fog—a not unfair description of much
that appears in the journal to which he is a weekly contributor it?)
acquired the habit of writing for the sake of filling a column.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:61 Ja 17 ’20 650w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p653 N 13 ’19 60w

“It is very convenient to have these essays detached from the larger
volumes in which they first appeared. Here they express the author’s
own mind, they support and answer one another, not dressed and drilled
by an editor in company not of their own choice. Here there is harmony
among them.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p691 N 27 ’19 2000w

=WHIPPLE, GUY MONTROSE.= Classes for gifted children. (School and home education monographs) $1.25 Public-school 371.9

19–14686

Detailed account of an experiment successfully carried out in the year
1917 in the public school of Urbana, Illinois, consisting of selecting
and training especially gifted, or super-average children. Fifteen
pupils from the fifth grade, also fifteen from the sixth, constituted
the special class. Of these thirty, it was found eight had been
wrongly selected as gifted. The remaining twenty-two completed a two
years’ course in one, without forcing or fatigue, in addition to
gaining certain cultural advantages. Through tests applied, and
results observed, a more reliable standard of selecting children than
that of teachers’ marks was evolved. The book includes an analytical
study of talent in drawing, with an annotated bibliography, and it
closes with a partial bibliography on gifted children and education.
Dr Whipple, formerly professor of education, University of Illinois,
is at present professor of applied psychology, Carnegie institute of
technology.

=WHITAKER, ALBERT CONSER.= Foreign exchange. *$5 (2c) Appleton 332.4

20–1958

The book, the author suggests, will serve the double purpose of a
practical business manual, and a treatise in economics. “Stated
briefly, the subjects of study in this volume are the methods or
proceedings and the forms or documents of foreign-trade settlement,
banking, and financing. Belonging with these, the international
movement of gold and the measures taken to influence it are examined
at length.” (Preface) A partial list of the contents is: Means of
payment and commercial paper; The negotiability of commercial paper;
Discount and interest; Commercial banking; The rates of exchange; The
bank credit and letter of credit; Foreign money market factors;
Speculation in exchange; The mint price and the market price of gold;
Standard money; Monetary systems of the leading nations; Specie
shipments; Addendum and index.

* * * * *

“This volume is probably in many ways the most satisfactory that has
appeared up to the present time on foreign exchange.” M. J. Shugrue

+ =Am Econ R= 10:370 Je ’20 450w

=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 120w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 80w

=WHITAKER, CHARLES HARRIS.= Joke about housing. *$2 Jones, Marshall 331.83

20–6282

Housing is here treated as a problem of land values. The remedy for
present conditions is “for the state to put an end to the frightful
waste involved in our present riotous development of land, and thus
make the house a stable element of our national life, free from the
destructive effects of speculation in land which forces speculation in
building and which always brings communal disaster in its train.” The
subject is discussed in seven chapters: Why do we have houses? The
house and the home—a world program; Houses and wages; The employer and
the housing question; The two plants; What are the possible ways out
of the dilemma in housing? The general problem of land control. In the
appendixes two prize essays on the solution of the housing problem are
reprinted. The author is editor of the Journal of the American
Institute of Architects.

* * * * *

“The style in which the book is written should make this book one of
the most popular works on housing. Like all books devoted to the
presentation and emphasis of one fundamental idea the work suffers
from lack of perspective in so far as its use as a work upon which a
thoroughly constructive housing program could be built.” Carol
Aronovici

+ − =Am J Soc= 26:244 S ’20 370w

=Booklist= 16:301 Je ’20

Reviewed by L: Mumford

+ =Freeman= 1:501 Ag 4 ’20 440w

“Some will no doubt assert that he lays too much stress upon the idea
that the solution hangs upon the disallowance of speculation in land.
Possibly this single subject is over stressed. But relative emphasis
is a matter of little importance. What is of importance is that the
subject of land and profit and speculative adventuring has been
intimately connected with housing in the sense of cause and effect.
The importance of this change of base, so to speak, in approaching the
problem can not be overrated.” F. L. A.

+ =J Am Inst of Architects= 8:342 S ’20 1050w

=N Y Times= 25:268 My 23 ’20 1000w

“The book is written from a full heart and with sympathetic
understanding for the aspirations of common folks; it is one of the
most readable tracts from the ‘left wing’ of the housing movement that
we have seen.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 44:253 My 15 ’20 360w

=WHITE, BENJAMIN.=[2] Gold, its place in the economy of mankind. il $1 Pitman 669.2

20–21980

In the volume of the Common commodities and industries series devoted
to gold, chapters take up: Its appreciation—ancient and modern; Its
properties and distribution; The production of early times; The
production of the nineteenth century; Present production and
prospects; The evolution of British coinage; The mintage of the world;
The gold standard; The movements of gold; Stocks; Industrial use; Gold
and the great war. There are illustrations, tables, an index and a
brief list of works consulted.

* * * * *

“The tables should be of interest to students of commercial geography
and economics.”

+ =Nature= 105:774 Ag 19 ’20 80w

=WHITE, BENJAMIN.= Silver, its intimate association with the daily life of man. il $1 Pitman 669.2

(Eng ed 18–801)

In this volume of Pitman’s common commodities and industries the
author treats his subject under three heads; Production; Industrial
consumption; Utility as money, past and future. There are several
illustrations and tables and two folding charts. Some of the tables
are based on the annual reports of the director of the United States
mint. There is an index.

* * * * *

“Contains much of service to teachers and students.”

+ =Nature= 105:774 Ag 19 ’20 60w

=WHITE, MRS GRACE (MILLER).= Storm country Polly. il *$1.75 (2c) Little

20–8242

The scene of the story is a squatter colony on the shores of Lake
Cayuga. The colony is known as Silent City and Jeremiah Hopkins is its
unofficial mayor. His daughter Polly is the story’s heroine. Polly,
the one person in Evelyn Robertson’s confidence, knows the story of
Evelyn’s secret marriage to Oscar Bennett. Evelyn desires release, for
she is now in love with Marc MacKenzie, the man making war on the
squatters, and Bennett will grant it only on condition that Polly
agrees to marry him. And Evelyn, who might intercede with MacKenzie,
promises to do so if Polly will pay the price, but Polly cannot, for
she is in love with Robert Percival, Evelyn’s cousin. Marc carries out
his threats. Daddy Hopkins is sent to jail, wee Jerry is torn from
Polly’s arms and her love is turned to hate. But not for long and love
triumphs all round in the end.

* * * * *

“A more apt title for the book would have been ‘Storm country
Pollyanna,’ for the leading figure in the novel is so good that it
almost hurts to think of her. In spite of the archaic construction and
material of the story, it manages to sustain a certain amount of
interest.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:252 My 16 ’20 200w

=WHITE, SAMUEL ALEXANDER.= Ambush. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday

20–11893

In the days when the Hudson’s Bay company, north of Lake Superior, is
fighting two rival fur trading companies, Paul Carlisle is factor of
one of their most important posts. In addition to his never-ending
disturbances with the Free traders and the Northwest Fur company, his
position is further complicated by the fact that he is in love with
Joan Wayne, daughter of the Free trader’s chief. And as if being his
business rival were not enough, Ralph Wayne is in addition Paul’s
bitter personal enemy, for a reason which Paul at first can not
understand. But the cause of this enmity is made clear to him
presently by Richelieu, the third party in this three-cornered
rivalry, the manager of the Northwest Fur company, and also in love
with Joan. Eventually Paul wins out both in business and love, after a
series of exciting and dramatic events.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:75 N ’20

=WHITE, SAMUEL ALEXANDER.= Foaming fore shore. il *$1.50 (2½c) Doubleday

20–16344

A tale of the sea. Cap’n Walter Taylor is a fisherman in Newfoundland
waters, but becomes a fugitive as the result of breaking some of the
fishing regulations. He takes refuge in the Magdalen Islands and there
finds Madeline Boucher, with whom he speedily falls in love. But
Jacques Beauport, his hereditary enemy, as his father before him had
hated him, has been on the field first, and considers Madeline engaged
to him. He seeks Taylor out to return him to justice, but Taylor has
no idea of tamely submitting to this, and the chase grows exciting
before its finish. Finally a decision of the Hague tribunal puts
Taylor in the right, but not before Beauport has lost his life in his
spiteful attempt to make Taylor suffer. The story is full of
descriptions of fishing and sailing in the turbulent northern waters.

=WHITE, STEWART EDWARD.= Killer. il *$1.75 (1c) Doubleday

20–9477

“The killer,” which opens this collection, is a story of novelette
length. It is a story of the old West with a central character whose
malignity and propensity for killing extends even to birds and
insects. He never kills men, but has only to nod to one of his Mexican
servitors and the desired deed is accomplished. How a reckless young
cowboy took a dare and asked for a night’s lodging at his ranch and
what followed form the substance of the story. Two shorter tales, The
road agent and The tide, come next and the remainder of the book is
taken up with three descriptive essays reminiscent of Mr White’s
earlier work in “The forest.” The titles are: Climbing for goats;
Moisture, a trace; The ranch.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:351 Jl ’20

“‘The killer,’ the first story in Stewart Edward White’s new book, is
crammed with action, exciting, unexpected, mysterious; in the last
story, ‘The ranch,’ nothing happens at all and yet the chances are
that you will read them both with interest and joy. The moral of which
of course is that the important thing about a tale is the way you tell
it.”

+ =Ind= 104:66 O 9 ’20 150w

“The essays in the volume are entirely delightful.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:237 My 9 ’20 550w

“Mr White knows the old land of the cowboys, desert, ranches, and
border raiding settlements as do few writers of the present day.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 380w

“Mr White belongs to the school of American literature which has been
more popular than any other in this country principally because we
ourselves have nothing similar to it. From the point of view of
construction his stories are, as he himself allows, irregular, but for
sheer gustiness they are hard to equal.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 S 9 ’20 360w

=WHITE, STEWART EDWARD.= Rose dawn. *$1.90 (1c) Doubleday

20–21290

This novel follows “Gold” and “The grey dawn” and completes Mr White’s
California trilogy. It is a story of the transition period of the
eighties when the great ranchos of the cattle era began to give place
to irrigation and the small fruit farm, and pictures the land boom
that heralded the change. It opens with a fiesta at Corona del Monte,
the rancho of Colonel Peyton, an old time Californian, who with his
wife, Allie, dispenses hospitality to all comers with the high-handed
manners of the old days. Other characters are Brainerd, the easterner
who experiments with irrigation on a small scale, foreseeing the
future of the country from a scientific point of view, and Patrick
Boyd, who recognizes its financial future. The romance of the story
develops between Daphne Brainerd and Kenneth Boyd, and the plot turns
on the rallying of all the colonel’s friends, including Sing Toy, his
cook, to save Corona del Monte. The story ran as a serial in the
Saturday Evening Post.

* * * * *

“Mr White has always written good books, but he has never written as
good a novel as ‘The rose dawn.’ Incidentally it is by far the best of
his California trilogy.” G. M. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 13 ’20 440w

“The book is written by one who loves to write. We have the leisurely
style of the Victorians. The writer goes into byways of description
and character drawing, forcing us to his mood. In the art of
description he is unusually gifted. One could not imagine this book
dramatized, the action is of so little importance. The story,
nevertheless, is delightful.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 300w