Chapter LXXXII: Part 6: Literature, book reviews, drama, etc. Part 7—Two short stories (1)

not included in Whitman’s published works: The love of Eris; A legend
of life and love. The books are illustrated and indexed.

* * * * *

Reviewed by E. F. Edgett

=Boston Transcript= p4 D 24 ’20 1550w

“To those who knew him only by his great and minor poems or by the
stories of his vanities and eccentricities, these volumes will be a
revelation. They reveal his soul as it grew; and nothing will be more
surprising than their conventional form, their respect for the current
conventions of morality, and their unforced and clear style.” M. F.
Egan

+ =N Y Times= p2 Ja 2 ’21 3000w

“It is a human document, a great side-light on Whitman’s poems, and
incidentally, a mine of information on a host of matters of temporary
and local interest.” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 99:168 Ja 15 ’21 600w

=WHO= was who. *$6.50 Macmillan 920

(Eng ed 20–14622)

“This book fills the gap between the standard biographical
dictionaries and the current Who’s who. It contains the notices,
reprinted from former volumes of Who’s who, of those more or less
well-known persons who died between 1897 and 1916, with the dates of
their deaths. It runs to nearly eight hundred pages of small
type.”—Spec

* * * * *

“There is no reason why ‘Who was who’ should not be a democratic work
instead of what it is now. There is even no reason why it should not
be readable. Accidental exclusion must always occur; deliberate ought
never. We commend to the editors the ‘Modern English biography’ of
Frederic Boase, as a model of hard fact, of brevity, and yet of
amplitude. At the same time, we recognize the greatness of their task
and the great usefulness (in the right quarter) of their volume.”

+ − =Ath= p79 Jl 16 ’20 280w

Reviewed by Ralph Bergengren

=Boston Transcript= p4 S 22 ’20 2250w

+ − =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 370w

“As a work of reference it will be found exceedingly useful, all the
more because many of the persons named will never figure in the
‘Dictionary of national biography’ if, as we hope, that great work
should be continued.”

+ =Spec= 124:88 Jl 17 ’20 90w

“Apart from its utility as an indispensable book of reference for the
man of affairs, ‘Who was who’ will remain as a permanent store house
of information about the personalities of one of the most important
and critical epochs of British history.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p458 Jl 15 ’20 220w

=WIDDEMER, MARGARET (MRS ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER).= Boardwalk. *$1.60 (3½c) Harcourt

20–773

Omitting all the rose-garden atmosphere of her novels, Margaret
Widdemer has written a series of short stories about boys and girls of
high school age. The scene is one of the summer resort towns along the
Atlantic coast during the months of the year when the boardwalk
belongs to the young people who live there the year round. The titles
are: Changeling; Rosabel Paradise; Don Andrews’ girl; Black magic; The
congregation; The fairyland heart; Good times; Oh, Mr Dreamman;
Devil’s hall.

* * * * *

“Clear cut, interesting little sketches into which the same people
step again and again until one knows quite the whole village.”

+ =Booklist= 16:173 F ’20

“We must admit of them all that they piece together with their small
tragedies and happinesses into what seems a very truthful
representation of an American town. Whether or not these stories meet
with the immediate popularity of ‘The rose garden husband,’ it must be
conceded that Miss Widdemer has done a more difficult thing and
revealed a more mature and a surer art.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 21 ’20 850w

“It is a sordid, tawdry, unwholesome atmosphere, the sort of
atmosphere that one would shun if the ideas back of the stories and
their psychology, for they are primarily stories of character, were
not really interesting. Is the skill with which it is done a
sufficient excuse for painting dead fish and tinsel?”

− + =Ind= 102:374 Je 12 ’20 190w

“Her delving into the substrata of inarticulate being is sometimes
faltering, and her presentation of the less obvious springs of human
emotion is not always convincing, but her distinct penchant for
transferring to paper the elusive quality of personality is
undeniable.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:145 Mr 28 ’20 650w

“On the whole, it is a strong and searching collection.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 7 ’20 420w

=WIDDEMER, MARGARET (MRS ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER)=, comp. Haunted hour. *$1.75 Harcourt 821.08

20–5609

The little volume presents an anthology of ghost-poems and contains
only such poems as treat of the return of spirits to earth. Even so no
attempt has been made at inclusiveness, but the selections range from
the earliest ballads to the present time. With an opening poem by Nora
Hopper Chesson: “The far away country,” the poems are arranged under
the headings: “The nicht atween the sancts an’ souls”; “All the little
sighing souls”; Shadowy heroes; “Rank on rank of ghostly soldiers”;
Sea ghosts; Cheerful spirits; Haunted places; “You know the old, while
I know the new”; “My love that was so true”; Shapes of doom; Legends
and ballads of the dead. There is an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:272 My ’20

+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 70w

“A most unusual anthology of real merit and charm.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 29 ’20 120w

=WIDDEMER, MARGARET (MRS ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER).= I’ve married Marjorie. *$1.75 (3c) Harcourt

20–13699

Married in haste, Marjorie Ellison has had ample leisure to repent
while her soldier husband has been away in France. Now on the eve of
his return she is badly upset at the thought of the reunion. When
Francis comes, it is as bad as she had feared. With the best
intentions on both sides, he frightens her, and she hurts him. Hot
tempers and strained nerves almost complete a tragedy of separation.
But Francis is really in love with Marjorie and so he ventures on an
experiment before giving her up entirely. In a delightful spot in the
Canadian woods, his scheme is tried out, a scheme which leads through
storm and stress to final joy and happiness for both.

* * * * *

“This will be liked by young girls and many women, though some readers
will find it light and sentimental.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:75 N ’20

“Her theme in ‘I’ve married Marjorie’ is cut from the sheerest
gossamer material. Also it possesses all the old essential ingredients
of cuteness, wistful humor and the necessary serious touch that brings
the theme to a sweet conclusion. But there is a sparkling sanity about
it.”

+ =N Y Times= p27 Ag 22 ’20 550w

“A lively and amusing tale. Not a big book nor a provable story, but
agreeable ‘summer reading.’”

+ =Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 80w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:196 N ’20 70w

=WIENER, LEO.= Africa and the discovery of America. 2v ea $5 Innes & sons 970

20–7013

The book is archaeological and etymological, showing how many of the
plants believed to have been indigenous to America, and how much of
the language and customs of the Indians, have an African origin.
Besides a long list of the sources quoted, illustrations, a word and a
subject index, the book contains: The journal of the first voyage and
the first letter of Columbus; The second voyage; Tobacco; The bread
roots.

* * * * *

“It is unfortunate that one so well trained in this field of study
should not have undertaken to present his material in a more logical
and readable manner. He is not always convincing, and is often
dogmatic.” E. L. Stevenson

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:102 O ’20 550w

“It is not to be expected that a work like this can pass unchallenged,
and the soundest of criticism and the most profound of scholarship
should be invoked before an exact estimate can be made of its value.
But the erudition displayed in this volume is enough to make us wait
with impatience Professor Wiener’s second volume.” G. H. S.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 13 ’20 1050w

“Worthless as a scholarly contribution, the book provides the
psychologist with a valuable example of distorted erudition and
methodological incompetence.”

− =Dial= 69:213 Ag ’20 90w

“His book indicates the widest scholarship.” W. E. B. Du Bois

+ =Nation= 111:350 S 25 ’20 390w

=WIGMORE, JOHN HENRY.= Problems of law; its past, present, and future. *$1.50 Scribner 340

20–26999

“Professor Wigmore discusses the law’s evolution, its mechanism in
America, and its problems as they relate to world legislation and
America’s share therein. These lectures constituted one series of the
Barbour-Page foundation lectures at the University of Virginia.” (N Y
Evening Post) “It is assumed by Dean Wigmore that a new age is at
hand, for which a considerable amount of new legislation will be
required, and in view of this fact he urges that our legislators must
be made experts ‘(1) by reducing their numbers, (2) by giving them
longer terms, (3) by paying them enough to justify it [that is,
apparently, the work of legislation] as a career for men of talent,
(4) by making their sessions continuous.’” (Review)

* * * * *

“Three clarifying lectures for the thoughtful layman.”

+ =Booklist= 17:96 D ’20

“Dean Wigmore demonstrates anew the wide range of his intellectual
rummaging and the queer quirks of his marvelous mind. The second
lecture on ‘Methods of law making’ is intelligible and sensible.”

+ − =Nation= 111:568 N 17 ’20 500w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 90w

Reviewed by E: S. Corwin

=Review= 3:449 N 10 ’20 250w

=WILDE, OSCAR FINGALL O’FLAHERTIE WILLS.= Critic in Pall Mall. *$1.50 Putnam 824

(Eng ed A20–616)

A selection from the reviews and miscellaneous writings of Oscar Wilde
made by E. V. Lucas. The papers were contributed to the Irish Monthly,
Pall Mall Gazette, Woman’s World and other journals and date from 1877
to 1890. At the end under the heading Sententiæ Mr Lucas has grouped a
number of briefer extracts from other reviews.

* * * * *

“The extent to which Wilde was a deliberate poseur is made very clear
by this book, for here there is very little pose. In these reviews,
chiefly from the Pall Mall Gazette, we see Wilde as a critic with
strong common sense, general good taste and with an outlook on life
and literature sufficiently ordinary to be indistinguishable from that
of half-a-hundred other critics of his time and of ours.”

+ − =Ath= p1258 N 28 ’19 600w

“It has all his delights and all his superficialities and all his
faults.”

+ − =Dial= 69:212 Ag ’20 110w

“There is nothing especially characteristic about the collection
except, perhaps, a lightness of touch that distinguishes its contents
from the ordinary book-review, and while they reveal the delicacy of
Wilde’s taste and the sincerity of his delight in art and letters they
reveal his limitations, also, and the shallowness of his intellectual
draught.”

+ − =Freeman= 1:430 Jl 14 ’20 250w

“There is certainly no adequate reason why these forgotten writings of
Oscar Wilde should be sought out and set in order, and sent forth in a
seemly little tome of two hundred pages. Their resurrection does not
add anything to his reputation, nor does it detract anything. It does
not enlarge our knowledge of the writer or cast any new light upon the
character of the man.” Brander Matthews

− + =N Y Times= 25:69 F 8 ’20 3400w

“These modest criticisms impress one collectively as good-natured,
orthodox, and sensible. Its art vibrates between distinction and
mediocrity—which is another way of saying that it is undistinguished.”

+ − =Review= 3:152 Ag 18 ’20 330w

“Collections of this kind usually do no honour to their author. But in
this case the result is a contribution to literature; in the first
place, because the selection has been made by Mr E. V. Lucas, and in
the second place, because it illustrates not only Wilde’s gift for
perverse banter, but also his genuine scholarship and his ability to
perform plain, downright work in an honest, craftsmanlike way.”

+ =Spec= 124:492 Ap 10 ’20 1450w

“These chapters are slight, but they are models of literary criticism
of the less formal and serious type. Apart from style their
superiority over the contemporary causerie lies chiefly, perhaps, in
the cultivated background that they denote in the writer and
presuppose in the reader.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 10 ’20 800w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p605 O 30 ’19 1350w

=WILDMAN, EDWIN.= Famous leaders of industry. il *$2 (3c) Page 926

20–3587

This is a book for boys about boys who have gained success, wealth,
honor, and prestige in the business world. It contains more than
twenty-six sketches of successful men, among them: Philip Danforth
Armour—California pioneer and Chicago packing king; P. T. Barnum—the
world’s greatest showman; Alexander Graham Bell—immortal telephone
inventor, and humanitarian; James Buchanan Duke—American tobacco and
cigarette king; Henry Ford—the Aladdin of the automobile industry;
Hudson Maxim—poet, philosopher, and wizard of high explosives; John
Davison Rockefeller,—oil king and world’s greatest industrial leader;
John Wanamaker—America’s foremost retail merchant and originator of
the department store; Orville and Wilbur Wright—who achieved immortal
fame as airship inventors. A portrait accompanies each sketch.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:317 Je ’20

“In these conventionally laudatory portraits of a group of American
inventors and business men there is no departure from the old Sunday
school type of ‘helpful’ stories for the young except in a decided
journalistic snappiness of style.” E. S.

+ =Survey= 44:323 My 29 ’20 140w

=WILKINSON, MRS MARGUERITE OGDEN (BIGELOW).= Bluestone. *$1.50 Macmillan 811

20–11184

A volume of lyrics. In her preface the author touches on the relation
of lyric poetry to music as she employs it in the composition of her
poems. Contents: Bluestone; Songs from beside swift rivers; Songs of
poverty; Preferences; Love songs; Songs of an empty house; Songs of
laughter and tears; Whims for poets; California poems; The pageant.

* * * * *

“Songs with a wide appeal because they are mostly ‘themes of the
folk.’ The appreciation of nature and outdoor feeling are keen.”

+ =Booklist= 17:63 N ’20

“There is an undoubted poetic element in these poems of Mrs Wilkinson,
but it is dew rather than flame. And being excellently even in
craftsmanship, there is no poem that fails to satisfy the reader’s
interest in being what it is.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 1050w

“Marguerite Wilkinson has decided moral and metrical spring without
conspicuous originality; though she is deeply touching here in Songs
of an empty house, on the childless state.” M. V. D.

+ − =Nation= 111:248 Ag 28 ’20 70w

“Mrs Wilkinson undoubtedly possesses a deal of talent; it is evident
throughout her work, cropping out in felicitous stanzas here and
rhythmical lines there, but she allows an occasional triteness to
retard the success of the book as a whole.”

+ − =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 590w

=Spec= 125:280 Ag 28 ’20 560w

=WILLARD, FLORENCE, and GILLETT, LUCY HOLCOMB.=[2] Dietetics for high schools. il *$1.32 Macmillan 613.2

20–12948

“Home economics teachers will be interested to learn that a much
needed textbook of dietetics has recently appeared. The content of the
book is especially significant in view of the experience of both
authors as teachers of the subject and of one of them as worker with
actual problems of malnutrition and of family feeding on low incomes
in the Association for improving the condition of the poor. The book
starts with a comparison of the weights and heights of the girls in
the class with the standards for their ages. Following this is a study
of food values as to fuel, protein, mineral, vitamines, and the
requirements of a good diet. Following the general study of the basis
for planning meals, the authors make an interesting and concrete
section of the book by selecting a family containing children of
various ages and discussing the marketing problems of this family. The
high-school girl thus makes application of her earlier nutrition study
to actual food purchase for the family’s need.”—School R

* * * * *

“This book is a distinct contribution to the very small group of
elementary textbooks in nutrition. The work is accurate and
up-to-date. The points are supported and illustrated by suitable
tables and charts in such number as to constitute a unique feature of
a beginner’s book in nutrition. One specially commendable feature is
the fact that it may be used quite as appropriately as a textbook for
boys as for girls.” M. S. Rose

+ =J Home Econ= 12:513 N ’20 300w

“A splendid and thoroughly scientific body of material makes the book
a well-rounded and teachable text.”

+ =School R= 28:798 D ’20 360w

=WILLIAMS, ARIADNA TYRKOVA- (MRS HAROLD WILLIAMS).= From liberty to Brest-Litovsk. *$6 Macmillan 947

19–18461

“This is a narrative of events from the first uprisings of the
revolution in March, 1917, to the ratification of the peace with
Germany a year later. Herself a member of the Petrograd municipal
council and the Moscow conference, Mrs Williams has described in
detail the cabinet crises and political vicissitudes of the
provisional government and the steady trend of the socialist center
toward bolshevism. Less complete is her account of the first months of
the bolshevist régime and its negotiations with Germany at
Brest-Litovsk.”—Survey

* * * * *

=Ath= p1275 N 28 ’19 220w

“Although the book is emotionally coloured with righteous anger and
hatred towards the Bolsheviks, we cannot but welcome it as an honest
attempt to narrate the history of the first year of the Russian
revolution.” S. K.

+ − =Ath= p1367 D 19 ’19 1100w

“The facts here recorded will be most impressive to all who keep even
an approximately open mind on the Russian question.”

+ − =Ind= 102:66 Ap 10 ’20 150w

“She might have made her book a skilful and telling arraignment of her
political opponents if she could have restrained her quite
intelligible hatred and indignation. She betrays her prejudice and
weakens her case most seriously in loading on the Bolsheviki the blame
for all that Russia has suffered since the beginning of the
revolution.” Jacob Zeitlin

− + =Nation= 110:399 Mr 27 ’20 360w

“When we had finished this long book of Mrs Harold Williams, we asked
ourselves why it left us with the taste of the dust of Dead Sea
apples. The answer is, we believe, that nothing is so barren as
perpetual denunciation. Only a political controversialist could be
quite so self-blind as Mrs Williams.”

− =Nation [London]= 26:402 D 13 ’19 700w

“This book may be recommended as a storehouse of facts, and it is to
be hoped that the author will in due course produce another volume,
bringing the story down from Brest-Litovsk to the present day.”

+ =Sat R= 129:62 Ja 17 ’20 540w

“She shows an intimate knowledge of the political convulsions of 1917,
and she describes them in a clear and forcible style. The dominant
note of the book is amazement that the Russian people, with their many
good qualities, could have allowed themselves to be dominated by a
gang of scoundrels.”

+ =Spec= 123:579 N 1 ’19 1450w

“Partisan and patriot Mrs Williams is, and the reader will not find in
her description of the storm-tossed waters of the revolution any clear
perception of its deeper currents. But the reader will find in her
book a useful chronicle of events and an interesting and vivid
representation of the political kaleidoscope and of the opinion of no
small part of the Russian intelligentsia during that momentous year.”
Reed Lewis

+ − =Survey= 44:48 Ap 3 ’20 200w

“A connected account of the first phase of the Russian revolution has
been badly needed. Mrs Williams has a clear picture in her own mind of
what led to Bolshevism, and her main theme is easy to trace throughout
the book. In these days, when many English liberals join in the
foolish denunciation of nearly all Russian liberals as
counter-revolutionaries without examining the positive side of their
policy, it is useful to see the aims and policy of the provisional
government clearly and sympathetically restated.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p618 N 6 ’19 1000w

=WILLIAMS, BEN AMES.= Great accident. *$2 (1½c) Macmillan

20–5226

This is a story of American provincial politics and of education gone
wrong. The way Winthrop Chase, junior, had been brought up by a well
meaning father and mother had brought out strongly the negative side
of his character. He always did the thing he was told not to do and
was fast becoming a drunkard. Shrewd old Ames Caretall, congressman,
returns from Washington just as a mayoral election is coming on. He
resolves to take a gambler’s chance with young Wint and uses his
influence to have him elected mayor over the head of Wint’s own
father. How the “joke” does the trick, knocks manhood into Wint, and
develops him into a sober, unusually decent, honorable and lovable
character is the burden of the story.

* * * * *

“This town and its inhabitants stand out with remarkable clearness,
and it is well worth while for English men and women to read of it.
They will see for themselves how different is their country from that
huge one which speaks the same language.” O. W.

+ =Ath= p16 Ja 7 ’21 1300w

+ =Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20

“This is a capital story. There are a number of well-drawn subsidiary
personages, making the life of the small town vivid and often amusing.
Its atmosphere is distinctive and typical.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 650w

=Dial= 69:211 Ag ’20 110w

“It is a perfectly good idea and the characters are interesting
enough, but the author seems to be a little bit tired; it all needs to
be keyed up to a higher pitch.”

+ − =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 110w

“It will go far toward dispelling in the average reader’s mind the
illusion that a realistic presentation of American life must
necessarily be dull, morbid and unduly sophisticated.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 My 1 ’20 600w

“The merit of the tale lies in its portrayal of small town life, of
the men who control or try to control the political destinies of the
friendly little town of Hardiston, and in an easy and agreeable
style.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:163 Ap 11 ’20 400w

“Two romances and a broad vein of humor balance the political
narrative, making an entertaining if rather unlifelike American tale.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 420w

=WILLIAMS, GAIL.= Fear not the crossing. $1.25 (9c) Clode, E. J. 134

20–1895

A series of spirit communications given to the author through
automatic handwriting by the spirit of a man who had but recently
died, and who found it at first very difficult to adjust himself to
conditions on the other side. The messages are given from day to day,
and describe the life beyond death, its great beauty, satisfying joy,
its boundless service for others, and its superiority to our
flesh-bound existence. Advice is given too for our greater serenity of
the spirit while still in the flesh. Think of God, pray to Him, in
order that His power may radiate through you, and enable you to do the
tasks assigned to you, is the advice frequently repeated by this
spirit control. He speaks often of love as the most beautiful earthly
force. A new note in this book is its description of the temporary
agony of the soul newly awakening “on the other side of death.”

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 350w

“The just complaint that most spirit revelations are of such trivial
and childish nature, finds no grounds here, as the matters treated are
all of large and worthy import.” Katharine Perry

+ =Pub W= 97:610 F 21 ’20 360w

Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow

=Review= 3:42 Jl 14 ’20 90w

=WILLIAMS, HENRY SMITH.= Witness of the sun. il *$1.90 (3c) Doubleday.

20–16495

When John Theobold is killed in his office, some one has to be found
to fasten the murder to, as is usual in such cases. The guilty man
seems to be Señor Cortez, a fiery Brazilian, jealous of Theobold’s
interest in his wife, with Frank Crosby, the murdered man’s private
secretary, as his accomplice. The case comes to trial, and the counsel
for the defense springs a surprise. With the aid of Jack Henley, a
bright office boy with an interest in photography, he presents proof,
substantiated by actual pictures taken on the spot, showing that
Cortez and Crosby could not have committed the crime, and who did and
why. But all surprises are not yet over: the counsel for the defense
learns that no amount of circumstantial evidence ever proves anything,
it only shows that things might have happened in a certain way, but
they might also have happened in some other way, and in this case they
did.

* * * * *

=N Y Times= p24 O 31 ’20 130w

“The plot and its solution evince striking ingenuity on the part of Mr
Williams.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 200w

=WILLIAMS, JAMES MICKEL.=[2] Foundations of social science. *$6 Knopf 301

The book is an analysis of the psychological aspects of the social
sciences and emphasizes the vital relation of social psychology to the
other social sciences, pointing out how the advancement of the latter
is dependent on the development of the former. Although the
assumptions of social science are in their last analysis, all resting
on human nature, they have relied too much on the traditional social
relations and have failed to discriminate between “a motive that is
essential in traditional political relations, or in traditional
economic relations and one that is essential in human nature.” Also
they have allowed mass phenomena to obscure the individual and have
lost sight of the fact that only through the operation of certain
instinctive dispositions of individuals do they act as groups. The
volume falls into four parts: Social psychology and political science;
Social psychology and jurisprudence; Social psychology as related to
economics, history and sociology; The field and methods of social
psychology. Appended is a partial list of the books, documents and
articles referred to in the text, and an index of subjects.

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p3 D 4 ’20 840w

=WILLIAMS, JENNIE B.= Us two cook book, rev and enl ed *$1.50 Harper 641.5

In this cook book “every recipe has been carefully estimated and
tested—the ingredients reduced so as to supply the requirements of
two.” (Preface) Contents: Soups; Fish; Meats; Poultry and game;
Entrees; Vegetables; Eggs; Beverages; Breads, cakes, etc.; Desserts;
Fruits, pickles and sauces; Miscellaneous. Tables for cooking and
measuring come at the end. There is no index. The book was copyrighted
in Canada in 1916.

=WILLIAMS, LLEWELLYN W.= Making of modern Wales. *$2.25 Macmillan 942.9

“The recorder of Cardiff, in this well-organized, well-documented, and
well-indexed treatise, studies the processes, legal, political, and
social, by which mediæval was transformed into modern Wales. He
devotes much space to the story of Catholicism in Wales after the
reformation, and to an account of the Courts of great session—subjects
on which far less has been written than on the council of the Marches,
the history of Welsh nonconformity, and other main topics. His last
chapter deals with the bilingual problem.”—Ath

* * * * *

=Ath= p1210 N 14 ’19 90w

=Nation= 111:304 S 11 ’20 280w

“The author’s chapter on the Great sessions, which were abolished in
1830, is the best account of them that has yet been written.”

+ =Spec= 122:48 Ja 10 ’20 1400w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 O 30 ’19 70w

“The solid value of Mr Williams’s researches arouses gratitude and
deep respect. We should, however, describe his work as research of the
second—the organizing stage, chiefly—rather than of the first stage.
The chapter on the reformation is extremely interesting. The chapter
on the Welsh Catholics is the most picturesque and attractive in the
book, and probably contains the most generally unfamiliar information.
The most workmanlike and most original chapter is that on the king’s
Court of great sessions.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p625 N 6 ’19 1400w

=WILLIAMS, SIDNEY CLARK.= Unconscious crusader. *$1.75 (2c) Small

20–4708

This is a story of present-day journalism and of James Radbourne, who
started as reporter on a daily paper and ended as proprietor of one.
All the ups and downs of a newspaper career, all the rivalries and
jealousies between staff and managers of different papers come out in
the story and how James Radbourne took the straight course until he
won out and made himself a name for honest journalism. He did not know
that some one was watching this course, but when she was satisfied
that it was the right one she came and asked for a job. It was
“Miladi.”

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:351 Jl ’20

“When we turn from the world of business and politics to that of
romance the atmosphere is clean and fresh. The setting for the romance
is deliciously funny.” G. L. E.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 400w

“‘An unconscious crusader’ will hardly set the world aflame, yet it is
readable and affords a glimpse of the inside workings of a newspaper
office.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:329 Je 20 ’20 420w

“An attempt, not wholly successful, is made to weave in a love story,
or rather an alleged one. It detracts from the interest of the story,
rather than adds to it.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 340w

=WILLIAMS, WAYLAND WELLS.= Goshen street. *$1.90 (1½c) Stokes

20–17177

Goshen street is a New England country road. David Galt, who is born
on a Goshen street farm, is given an education thru the benevolence of
a millionaire who makes a hobby of sending poor and promising boys to
college. He goes into journalism afterwards and rises high in his
profession, but Goshen street always remains an influence in his life.
It is Sylvia Thornton who first brings David to her father’s attention
and as he continues to make his way up in the world David holds to the
intention of marrying Sylvia, but instead he marries Naomi Fiske. The
war comes, David is first a correspondent, then a soldier. Naomi dies
of influenza while nursing in France and after the war David and
Sylvia again meet in Goshen street.

* * * * *

“Interesting, well written, a truthful picture of Connecticut farm
people.”

+ =Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21

“Although the scenes in New York are interesting, and although David’s
wife Sylvia is an artistic triumph, particularly because she is so
difficult, it is Goshen street itself, David’s ancestral home, and his
father, mother and brother, to which my memory returns most fondly.
The descriptions of the street are admirable examples of English
style. This book has such fine quality that it sharpens one’s appetite
for the next.” W: L. Phelps

+ =N Y Times= p8 O 31 ’20 330w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:196 N ’20 130w

=WILLIAMS, WHITING.= What’s on the worker’s mind. il *$2.50 Scribner 331.8

20–17086

“Mr Williams was a prominent official in a large steel fabricating
concern. He wished to fit himself for the position of employment
manager, and thought it a part of his preparation to find out what it
was like to be a workman. Therefore he left home with a few dollars in
his pocket and looked for a job. This is the story of his adventures
in a basic steel plant, a rolling mill, a coal mine, an oil refinery,
a shipyard, and other resorts of toil.”—Nation

* * * * *

“Reveals without bitterness or antagonizing radicalism the
unsatisfactory lives of the workers. Vivid and worth while, but will
not be popular.”

+ =Booklist= 17:96 D ’20

Reviewed by Harold Waldo

+ =Bookm= 52:556 F ’21 640w

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 22 ’21 390w

“An unusual and interesting book.”

+ =Cleveland= p111 D ’20 30w

“As a first-hand account of actual working and living-conditions in
the great basic industries, Mr Williams’s ‘What’s on the worker’s
mind’ is of considerable value for the author is an excellent
reporter. But as an analysis of what the worker is actually thinking
and doing about his problems, and in so far as it proposes solution
for these problems, the book falls far short of its mark.” W: Z.
Foster

+ − =Freeman= 2:404 Ja 5 ’21 880w

“The narrative of his adventures is of extraordinary interest and his
conclusions are worth attention.”

+ =Ind= 105:170 F 12 ’21 100w

Reviewed by G: Soule

=Nation= 111:533 N 10 ’20 650w

“Short as the book’s economic perspective is, its central contribution
remains intact; its psychological analysis is penetrating and
original. Its educational value can be literally tremendous.” Ordway
Tead

+ − =New Repub= 25:266 Ja 26 ’21 1500w

+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 90w

“Not only are the observations obviously timely, but they have a force
that results from their having been derived from actual experience.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 1150w

=WILLIAMS-ELLIS, CLOUGH, and WILLIAMS-ELLIS, A.= Tank corps; with an introd. by H. J. Elles. il *$5 (4½c) Doran 940.4

20–3588

Major-General Ellis commander of the tank corps, in his introduction
to the volume, calls attention to the “difficulties of dealing
concisely, even by comment, with the kaleidoscopic events of two and a
half crowded years—with the questions of organisation, training,
personnel, design, supply, fighting, reorganisation, workshops,
experiments, salvage, transportation, maintenance.” This states in a
nutshell the enormous problem solved by the tank in its rapid and
forced evolution while the war was in process. The first chapter is
intended for the civilian who, thanks to the censorship, “has had no
opportunity of making himself familiar with the tactical opportunities
and problems that the use of tanks has introduced or with the
conditions under which tank crews fight.” It contains several plans
and diagrams showing the general arrangement and construction of this
formidable machine. There are other illustrations and an index.

* * * * *

=Ath= p64 Ja 9 ’20 90w

“Excellent and well illustrated book.”

+ =Review= 3:712 Jl 7 ’20 630w

“The tank corps was one of the miracles of the war, and its history
was bound to be one of the best romances. It is good to have the full
story told so soon and by such competent chroniclers. The authors give
us all the technical information that is needed, and at the same time
they fit the achievement of the tank corps into the great movements of
the campaign. The style is never for a moment ponderous or dull.” J:
Buchan

+ =Spec= 123:691 N 22 ’19 2100w

“A vivid military treatise.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 600w

“A confused collection of details instead of a coherent story. The
confusion is not helped by the absence of maps. The book is a
disappointment; but no mistakes can entirely rob of their interest the
first full accounts that have been published of the terrible struggles
of the tanks in the Flanders mud during the third battle of Ypres.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p660 N 20 ’19 850w

=WILLIAMSON, CHARLES NORRIS, and WILLIAMSON, ALICE MURIEL (LIVINGSTON) (MRS CHARLES NORRIS WILLIAMSON).= Second latchkey. il *$1.60 (2c) Doubleday

20–7290

Annesley Grayle meets the man who calls himself Nelson Smith under
romantic circumstances and marries him without knowing his real name
or anything about him. As paid companion to a crabbed old lady she has
found life dreary and colorless. He brings love and joy into it and
she adores him and asks no questions. Shortly after it becomes
apparent to the reader that the man is a very clever jewel thief. The
heroine however is slower witted and when the truth is forced home to
her she is crushed and believes her love dead. There follows a period
of estrangement and penitence spent on the hero’s ranch in Texas,
followed by reconciliation.

* * * * *

“A tale of plot, whose surprises and thrills are never balked by the
improbable.”

+ =Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20

“The Williamsons have succeeded in concentrating our entire interest
in their plot, and though—as is natural in this type of story—we
should not be likely to read the book a second time, it is equally
likely that we should be inclined to read the next Williamson book
upon the recommendation of this.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 22 ’20 550w

“The authors have not allowed a trifle like probability to stand in
their way, but the tale holds the reader’s interest, and Annesley is a
charming heroine. Smoothly and pleasantly written, ‘The second
latchkey’ is an agreeable and an entertaining romance of things as
they are not.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:219 My 2 ’20 500w

=WILLIS, GEORGE.= Philosophy of speech. *$2.50 Macmillan 404

(Eng ed 20–17996)

“Mr Willis’s book is not so much a connected system of philosophy as a
series of thoughts on various subjects connected with the faculty of
speech. Beginning with a discussion of the origins of speech, he goes
on to show the connection of the history of speech with the history of
thought; he devotes a chapter to metaphor, another to grammar, another
to the question of spelling and spelling reform, others to purism and
correct speech, and a final section to speech and education.”—Ath

* * * * *

=Ath= p383 Mr 19 ’20 130w

“One does not always agree with Mr Willis, but one can never find him
anything but very entertaining and stimulating.”

+ − =Ath= p601 My 7 ’20 600w

“This is, indeed, a strange book. It seems to be a survival from the
linguistic dark ages. The author does not disclose any intimacy with
Anglo-Saxon, with Gothic or with old high English, nor does he show
any scholarship in comparative philology.” Brander Matthews

− =N Y Times= 25:24 Je 27 ’20 2500w

“The present writer has not for years come across a book in which
highly disputable assertions were mixed up with facts with such
complete impartiality. Nothing could be more admirable than the
author’s attack upon the ordinary grammar-books, and his exposition of
the causes which have led to the extraordinary muddle-headedness of
these compilations.”

+ − =Spec= 124:523 Ap 17 ’20 780w

=WILLOUGHBY, D.= About it and about. *$5 Dutton 824

(Eng ed 20–10519)

“These essays, most of which appeared in Everyman, consist of comment
on questions of the day, written from a ‘moderate’ point of view.”
(Ath My 21 ’20) “Roughly speaking, Mr Willoughby touches on all the
burning or still glowing topics of the day, on peace and war, on
housing, on labour, on Ireland, on servants civil and domestic, and
many other more or less immediate doubts and difficulties.” (Ath Je 11
’20)

* * * * *

“Readably and brightly written.”

+ =Ath= p686 My 21 ’20 40w

“The rational good-humor characteristic of the book, a really precious
quality at this time, naturally brims over in laughter, spontaneous
and frequent enough to convey to the reader a feeling of expectant
animation. Occasionally, the easy note of mirth has been forced.” F.
W. S.

+ − =Ath= p764 Je 11 ’20 640w

“A witty, animated, keen-sighted, judicious and mature product of
journalism. Informing and revealing sentences abound.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 1 ’20 660w

“The author is implicit in it—‘his vaunts, his feats.’ He is often
amusing. Mr Willoughby’s detachment is aloofness; from his Olympian
height he scans the depths—or would if the depths were not shallows.
His knowledge, however, does not come of patient observation, but from
the study of the authorities.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p291 My 13 ’20 630w

=WILLOUGHBY, WESTEL WOODBURY.= Foreign rights and interests in China. $6 Johns Hopkins 327

20–8714

“Professor Willoughby, of the Johns Hopkins university, served as
legal adviser to the Chinese republic during the war. He has used his
special knowledge to compile a statement of the rights conferred by
treaties or agreements of an official character upon foreigners and
foreign powers in China. As he says, the situation is ‘complicated in
the extreme,’ for China permits all kinds of extra-territorial rights
and suffers ‘spheres of interest, “special interests,” war zones,
leased territories, treaty ports, concessions, settlements and
legation quarters’ to infringe on her sovereignty, to say nothing of
commercial concessions and revenue services under foreign
control.”—Spec

* * * * *

“As a work of reference the volume may be highly commended.”

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:138 O ’20 500w

“His explanations and comments are thorough-going and illuminating.
They are never wearisome, as legal discussions sometimes are.” E. B.
Drew

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:727 N ’20 500w

“It has a quality that renders it easily read from beginning to end.
This happy issue must be ascribed in due degree to the author’s
admirable style and control of his material; but while the book is a
model of what a thesis should be, it possesses, besides its usefulness
as a work of reference, a human interest that is altogether
compelling.” F: W. Williams

+ =Nation= 111:sup421 O 13 ’20 1100w

+ =Spec= 124:767 Je 5 ’20 210w

“The work is well done and is an addition of permanent value to the
literature on the Far East.” W. R. Wheeler

+ =Yale R= n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w

=WILSON, CAROLYN CROSBY.=[2] Fir trees and fireflies. *$1.75 Putnam 811

Poems on varied themes. Among the titles are: Mid winter; The
patchwork quilt; Houseless; On the arrogance of lovers; Roads;
December; Two songs for my child; Late March. These miscellaneous
verses are followed by a series of love sonnets. Some of the pieces
are reprinted from Vanity Fair, New Republic, Pagan and Vassar
Miscellany.

* * * * *

“There is a certain nicety of phrasing, evenness and melody of line
that raises them out of the ordinary and yet they are by no means
pallid bits. Throughout, there is upon these poems, some greater, some
less, the unmistakable hallmark of distinction.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ja 29 ’21 300w

“At its best Miss Wilson’s verse has a tight-lipped irony about it; or
it may even develop into humor that is broad but never blatant. At its
worst her poetry is quite a different matter; without ever being badly
written, it is pompously and conventionally emotional.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 31 ’20 80w

=WILSON, EDWIN BIDWELL.= Aeronautics. il *$4 Wiley 629.1

20–4713

“The introduction to the book includes the ideas underlying simple
flight and the aerodynamics of aerofoils. In the chapter on ‘Motion in
two dimensions’ are collected with proofs the fundamental theorems in
dynamics. The principles are carried step by step to the consideration
of stability, and are then illustrated by example. The study of motion
in three dimensions is committed to a following chapter. The last
chapter in the section devoted to rigid dynamics applies the equations
developed to the stability of the aeroplane. The rest of the book is
devoted to ‘Fluid mechanics.’”—Nature

* * * * *

“It is very clearly written, and will be particularly valuable to
advanced students of the subject for many reasons. On the other hand,
it will not appeal strongly to the less advanced worker.”

+ =Nature= 106:173 O 7 ’20 600w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p4 Ja ’20 50w

=WILSON, MRS MARY A.= Mrs Wilson’s cook book. *$2.50 Lippincott 641.5

20–17378

According to the title page the author was “formerly Queen Victoria’s
cuisiniere,” as well as instructor in domestic science in the
University of Virginia summer school and for the United States navy.
The present volume contains her best recipes, set forth, as she says,
not in the heavy cook book style, but in a more intimate manner “as if
housewife and author were conversing upon the dish in question.” The
recipes follow one another without arrangement or order but an index
provides a guide to the contents.

* * * * *

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 130w

=WILSON, MAY (ANISON NORTH, pseud.).= Forging of the pikes. *$1.90 (1½c) Doran

20–4710

The pikes are forged for the rebels of the Upper Canadian rebellion of
1837. The hero Alan’s sympathies are with the rebels the while his
whole being is in the toils of his love for Barry. Barbara Deveril,
the supposed daughter of the tavern-keeper is Indian in appearance and
in her love for the forest and Indian traditions. She is Alan’s
“Oogenebahgooquay”—the wild rose woman. One day, soon after the
appearance of a dazzlingly handsome stranger, an Englishman, she
disappears from the woods and the countryside, leaving Alan with his
grief and his suspicion. While the rebellion and its dangers, and a
brief sojourn in Toronto engage Alan, Barry is living through her
short and sorrowful romance as the Indian-wed wife of the handsome
Englishman. But they were meant for each other and the sick,
disillusioned and widowed Barry finds herself still linked to life by
her love for Alan.

* * * * *

“The description of country life, of the woods and of nature is vivid.
The historical portions, on the other hand, are unsatisfactory.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p16 My 1 ’20 380w

“The story part of the book is an entirely secondary affair,
conventional and not particularly interesting. To the average American
reader the best of the tale will be the picture it gives of Canadian
life at the time.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:270 My 23 ’20 280w

“The style is flowing and simple and has an agreeable if not strictly
synchronous flavor of Pepys.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 2:463 My 1 ’20 160w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 140w

=WILSON, PHILIP WHITWELL.= Irish case before the court of public opinion. il *$1.25 Revell 941.5

20–12207

“Mr P. Whitwell Wilson, who has more than once written for this Review
and who is now living in the United States as a special correspondent
of the London Dally News, has produced for American readers a little
volume entitled ‘The Irish case before the court of public opinion.’
Mr Wilson was formerly a Liberal member of Parliament and also for a
number of years worked in harmony with men like the late Mr Redmond
and the other nationalist leaders. Mr Wilson, however, is wholly
opposed to the present Sinn Fein movement for a separate Irish
republic, and he undertakes in this book to show how, one after
another, the real grievances of Ireland have been remedied.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“Whether one agrees with Mr Wilson or not, one cannot help admiring
his extremely lucid and convincing defence of Great Britain’s Irish
policy. Partisan it is, but books on the Irish question have a
tendency to be strongly pro-Irish or pro-English, and Mr Wilson sets
forth his case in a very tolerant manner.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 200w

“It is almost unbelievable that any competent journalist who
undertakes to discuss Sinn Fein should be still ignorant of the
meaning of those two words, yet that is the plight of Mr Wilson. Since
he has not yet discovered the meaning of two simple words now
universally familiar to every newspaper reader, it is not surprising
that his references to the financial relations of Ireland and England
teem with incredible misstatements.” E. A. Boyd

− =Freeman= 1:547 Ag 18 ’20 1650w

“A remarkably fair-minded and adequate summary of the reasons for
viewing with distrust the Sinn Fein propaganda.”

+ =Ind= 103:292 S 4 ’20 40w

“Whether or not one agrees with the conclusions presented by Mr P.
Whitwell Wilson, one must appreciate the good temper and moderation
with which he argues.”

+ − =Nation= 111:223 Ag 21 ’20 400w

=N Y Times= p1 Ag 1 ’20 750w

“His book is valuable from the standpoint of its convenient recital of
recent political history in relation to Ireland, and should have a
wide reading.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 240w

=WILSON, THEODORE PERCIVAL CAMERON.=[2] Waste paper philosophy; with an introd. by Robert Norwood. *$1.50 Doran 821

20–20440

The author of these papers and poems had been a schoolmaster before
his enlistment in 1914. He was killed in 1918. Waste paper philosophy,
part I of the book, is composed of short prose essays written for his
son. Part 2 contains his poems, the first of which, Magpies in
Picardy, was printed in the Literary Digest in February, 1917.

* * * * *

“Among the many poems inspired by the late war, ‘Magpies in Picardy’
has stood out as one of the very best. To every schoolboy in our land
should a copy of ‘Waste paper philosophy’ be given. One closes the
little book tenderly, for here is the record of a rare spirit.” C. K.
H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p2 N 27 ’20 800w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

=Review= 3:648 D 29 ’20 200w

=WILSON, WOODROW.= Hope of the world. *$1 (2c) Harper 353

20–13562

This volume of speeches continues the series that began with “Why we
are at war.” It contains “Messages and addresses delivered by the
president between July 10, 1919, and December 9, 1919, including
selections from his countrywide speeches in behalf of the treaty and
covenant.” In making the selection from the addresses on the peace
treaty and the League of nations the aim has been to avoid repetition
and to present “the more cogent and significant portions of Mr
Wilson’s appeal to the public.” Among the state papers are included
the message on the high cost of living, letter to the national
industrial conference, appeal to the coal miners, and message to the
new Congress.

* * * * *

“Nearly all have in greater or less degree the characteristic merits
with which we have become familiar, and the title chosen for the
collection hits very well the note of earnest, almost wistful,
conviction that gives impressiveness and driving force to practically
everything that President Wilson has said. There is much material here
for reflection, and it is presented with the lucidity and grace that
we have learned to respect.”

+ − =Grinnell R= 15:262 O ’20 150w

=WINDLE, SIR BERTRAM COGHILL ALAN.= Science and morals. *$2.75 Kenedy 215

“Sir Bertram Windle, the distinguished Roman Catholic scientist, now
professor of anthropology in St Michael’s college, Toronto, collects
here (with some revision) nine essays which he has contributed to the
Dublin Review, the Catholic World, America and Studies. Apart from the
title essay he writes on Theophobia and Nemesis; on the narrowness of
the strictly scientific, especially the biological view (Within and
without the system); on the relation of the Roman church to science
(Science in ‘bondage’); Science and the war; Heredity and
‘arrangement’; Special creation; Catholic writers and spontaneous
generation; and he reviews Mr F. H. Osborn’s ‘The origin and evolution
of life.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

=Ath= p126 Ja 23 ’20 50w

“This is worth while and very much worth while. It is worth while as a
readable and popularly rendered contribution to apologetical
literature; it is very much worth while because it is a contribution
from a recognized scientist on a subject of wide scientific
consequence.”

+ =Cath World= 111:253 My ’20 360w

=Int J Ethics= 31:120 O ’20 130w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p158 Mr 4 ’20 100w

=WISE, JENNINGS CROPPER.= Turn of the tide. *$1.50 (3c) Holt 940.373

20–4806

Cantigny, Château Thierry, and the second battle of the Marne are the
three operations in which the American troops made their initial
appearance in battle in the great war and which mark the transition of
the Allies from the defensive to the offensive and the turn of the
tide of victory in their favor. The author was a member of the
Historical section of the General staff of the American expeditionary
force for a number of months after the armistice, had access to the
archives at General headquarters, came in contact with many of the
leaders of the war and visited and made a careful study of every
battlefield of which he writes. The three battles are the subjects of
the three chapters of the book which also has a number of maps and
appendices.

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 150w

=WISTER, OWEN.= Straight deal; or, The ancient grudge. *$2 (2c) Macmillan 327

20–7009

The ancient grudge is the American feeling of ill-will toward England.
This anti-English prejudice is explained by the author as a “complex”
founded on false history teaching in childhood and fostered by Great
Britain’s enemies. He reviews the history of our relations with
England from the revolution down and says in conclusion: “In this
many-peopled world England is our nearest relation. From Bonaparte to
the Kaiser, never has she allowed any outsider to harm us. We are her
cub. She has often clawed us, and we have clawed her in return.... Her
good treatment of us has been to her own interest.... If we were so
far-seeing as she is, we also should know that her good will is
equally important to us.”

* * * * *