Chapter LXXXIII: Part 6: Literature, book reviews, drama, etc. Part 7—Two short stories (2)

“Mr Wister’s purpose in his new book commands our sympathies. He has
good intentions, but he is just a shade too friendly. He presses our
hand a little too enthusiastically.”

− + =Ath= p825 Je 25 ’20 730w

=Booklist= 16:332 Jl ’20

“Mr Wister is too good a writer of fiction to be quite satisfactory as
a historian. He relies too much upon imagination and invention; he
deals with historic personages as though they were characters in a
novel, to be managed as the requirements of the plot dictate. The fact
is that this book of Mr Wister’s, like his earlier ‘Pentecost of
calamity,’ is a product of war psychology. It is a case of off with
the old hate, on with the new.” R. L. Schuyler

− =Bookm= 51:566 Jl ’20 1000w

=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ’20 150w

“Hysterical and rather silly book. To put it bluntly, Mr Wister has
far to go before he recovers from the panic psychology of the war. Mr
Wister is the victim of economic innocence and of a sincere
admiration, which does him credit, for English civilization.” H. S.

− + =Freeman= 1:549 Ag 18 ’20 900w

“Makes many true and effective points, but is a little exclusive in
its attitude towards nations outside the frontiers of Anglo-Saxondom.”

+ − =Ind= 103:292 S 4 ’20 40w

“Mr Wister’s frivolity and fatuity are basic. He has his grip on the
facts of Anglo-American history. In this region he escapes being a
jingo and, what is more, he escapes being a toady, at least nine times
out of ten. But once he tries to grip the facts of the world, outside
Anglo-America, he is dangerously sentimental and at sea.” F. H.

− =New Repub= 22:319 My 5 ’20 1250w

“His is not a calm judicial mind; he is very much a partisan and a
fighter. His vehemence now and then runs to the choler of the elderly
man who dogmatizes angrily from his club window. Apropos of America’s
attitude toward England, we learn the writer’s opinion of Roosevelt,
of Secretary Daniels, of Admiral Sims, and so on. I for one regret his
occasional fling of cynicism.” H. W. Boynton

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p13 My 8 ’20 1150w

“Mr Owen Wister has written a good book; and in writing it he has done
a good deed. Mr Wister knows the English at home and abroad; he is an
American of the Americans, but he is a grandson of Fanny Kemble and he
has both relatives and relations in England. He is therefore unusually
well equipped to discuss the social usages and the national
peculiarities of the two countries.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= 25:235 My 9 ’20 2300w

“A very readable book. We do not agree with him, or with the
politicians and the press men, in thinking that friendship can be
ensured by books, and speeches, and leading articles.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:404 My 1 ’20 1550w

“Unfortunately, the book will not attain its end. For this Mr Wister
is himself to blame. Much of the work is trivial arguments. It will
not be any better to write our history with deliberate sympathies than
with deliberate antipathies.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 18 ’20 350w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p263 Ap 29 ’20 550w

=WITHAM, GEORGE STRONG.= Modern pulp and paper making; a practical treatise. il $6 Chemical catalog co., 1 Madison av., N.Y. 676

20–19275

The author has had thirty-seven years’ practical experience in the
pulp and paper industry. He is now manager of mills for the Union bag
and paper corporation, Hudson Falls, N.Y. His aim in this book has
been “to describe the equipment and processes actually used in pulp
and paper plants on this continent today.... No attempt has been made
to describe every piece of equipment ever used in the industry.
Neither has the author attempted to deal with the historical aspect.
Also, while recognizing the great importance of chemistry in
connection with papermaking, no chemical considerations have been
introduced which would not readily be comprehended by one with no
special knowledge of that science.” (Preface) Contents: Processes by
which pulp is produced; Materials from which pulp is produced;
Varieties of paper; The saw mill; The wood room; The sulphite mill;
The acid plant; The soda process; The sulphate process; The ground
wood mill; Bleaching; The beater room; The machine room; The finishing
room; General design of pulp and paper plants; The power plant;
Testing of paper and paper materials; Paper defects: their cause and
cure; Personnel; Useful data and tables; Index. There are over 200
figures in the text.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:101 D ’20

“This is the first book on the subject of paper-making that we have
ever read that is really worth while; it is a practical treatise on
paper technology that bears the stamp of genuine authority. One
subject, however, in the book which has been somewhat summarily dealt
with is that relating to the dyeing and coloring of paper. In its
typographical makeup the present volume is a credit to its
publishers.”

+ − =Color Trade J= 7:118 O ’20 460w

“For ‘the man on the job’ this is, on the whole, a much more
satisfactory work than that of Cross and Bevan; moreover it deals only
with American practice. The practical aspect of the book should be
emphasized.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p69 Jl ’20 100w

=WITWER, HARRY CHARLES.= Kid Scanlan. *$1.75 (2½c) Small

20–10733

Kid Scanlan, welterweight champion, goes into the movies and this is
the story of his adventures as told by his manager, Johnny Green.
Among the titles of chapters, each of which constitutes a short story,
are: Lay off, Macduff; Pleasure island; Lend me your ears; The unhappy
medium; Life is reel! Hospital stuff.

* * * * *

“This book may be scoffed at by the more intellectual, but the
wideness of its appeal is evident.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 25 ’20 340w

“A humorous mixture of extravagance and slang in Witwer’s happiest
vein.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 110w

=WITWER, HARRY CHARLES.= There’s no base like home. il *$1.75 (3c) Doubleday

20–9784

A combination of baseball and the movies. Ed Harmon, “the undisputed
monarch of the diamond,” continues the series of letters to his friend
Joe, and tells what happened after he brought his French wife, Jeanne,
to New York. Jeanne not only learns English, she undertakes to teach
that language to her husband. She also goes into the movies, and drags
her reluctant husband with her. Jeanne’s relatives come from France to
pay a surprise visit, but as suddenly return, inspiring their
son-in-law to give three cheers for prohibition. The stories are:
There’s no base like home; She supes to conquer: A fool there wasn’t;
So this is Cincinnati!; The merchant of Venus; The freedom of the
shes; A word to the wives; The nights of Colombus; The league of
relations.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:76 N ’20

“Abounding in picturesque slang, unusual figures of speech and shrewd
comment on present-day tendencies and foibles.”

+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 70w

“In a certain way, Witwer’s stories remind one of Keystone comedies,
although, of course, they are not quite so far-fetched in their
incongruous situations. This kind of patter is handled with skill by
Mr Witwer, who hardly ever descends to a too-obvious cheapness.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 25 ’20 340w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 200w

=WODEHOUSE, PELHAM GRENVILLE.= Little warrior. *$2 (1½c) Doran

20–18298

Jill Mariner is an American girl brought up in England. In her,
cheerfulness and impulsive kindliness are counterbalanced by pride and
quick temper. Between the two she never succumbs to any situation, but
fights her way through. There are abrupt changes in her circumstances.
From possessing a fortune and being engaged to an English peer, she
drops to the position of chorus girl in an American musical comedy.
After a brief but stormy career of a tragi-comical nature—with the
emphasis on the comical—and after being wooed a second time by Sir
Derek, she decides that she loves Wally Mason, her girlhood chum and
now a writer of musical comedy in New York, best.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:162 Ja ’21

“So much of current fiction is touched with glowering realism or
sour-mouthed cleverness that such real spontaneity and good humor as
Mr Wodehouse’s is irresistible.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 52:343 Ja ’21 290w

“The author manages to play upon even such a light-eroded spot as
Forty-second street and Broadway with such piquant and Americanesquely
touch-and-go ironical sparkle, such color and deft comedy tempo, as to
leave with the reader an illusion of freshness and a complex of
winning aftertones.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 6 ’20 200w

“The gay comedy-romance is a top-notcher of its kind. The reader who
doesn’t chuckle over this melange of English and American slang will
have to be determinedly gloomy.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 O 10 ’20 530w

“The tale is capital burlesque with a warm touch of human nature.”

+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 50w

=WOLCOTT, THERESA HUNT=, ed. Book of games and parties for all occasions. il *$2 Small 793

20–19282

The material for the book has largely been compiled from the
entertainment page of the Ladies’ Home Journal. The contents are
intended to furnish entertainments for home, school and church
parties, beginning with New Year’s Eve, extending throughout the year
and taking in all the holidays of a general and private character,
with invitations, menus for special occasions, appropriate rhymes and
poetry, illustrations and an index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:104 D ’20

=WOOD, CLEMENT.= Jehovah. *$2 Dutton 811

20–8539

A long narrative poem with frequent lyric interludes. The time is 1034
B. C., in the reign of David. David’s forces under Joab, sweeping
south, spoiling and conquering in the name of their God, Jehovah, meet
the resistance of the Kenites, the hill dwellers of Mount Sinai whose
tribal God Jehovah is. Demanding tribute for their king and worship
for their God, the Israelites are faced with the Kenites’ claim for
priority in Jehovah worship, Moses having learned it from his Kenite
father-in-law, Jethro. In the conference that follows two conceptions
of Jehovah are set forth. The tribal god of the Kenites is opposed to
the imperialist god of Israel. By trickery Joab outwits the weaker
forces and falls upon them unawares to slay and exterminate, all for
the glory of Jehovah. Toward the end a new conception of God is
developed, the God of brotherhood as visioned by the prophet Jotham.
The poem was awarded one of the Lyric poetry prizes for 1919.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:148 Ja ’21

“If it won the Lyric prize, it was hardly for its lyrism. Still, the
poem is dramatic, the characterization interesting, and some of the
passages genuinely powerful.”

+ − =Dial= 69:435 O ’20 90w

“When Clement Wood wrote ‘Jehovah’ he took the chance at being dull on
the bigger chance of successfully writing a poem about an evolving
god. He fails, and he is dull; but there is a sort of leaden grandeur
about the attempt.” R. D.

− + =Freeman= 1:382 Jl 7 ’20 120w

“It has, curiously, a flavor of ‘Beowulf’ rather than of the Hebrew
poets and prophets. It is written in a variety of verse forms, many of
them interesting.”

+ − =Ind= 104:246 N 13 ’20 80w

“‘Jehovah’ suffers from a too constant strenuousness of reach and a
too mighty savagery of diction; there is more motion than flow, more
activity than strength. Yet certain of the songs genuinely mount; and
Uz, the wrinkled patriarch, spokesman for the Kenites, is a triumph in
portraiture.” Mark Van Doren

+ − =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 120w

“The various songs about Jehovah sung by the two conflicting tribes of
warriors, are replete with beauty that is made more significant and
meaningful because there are depths to the thoughts expressed. There
is an unmistaken classic air about Clement Wood’s ‘Jehovah.’” Alvin
Winston

+ =N Y Call= p10 Jl 18 ’20 430w

“The grim expectancy in the tale is a strong point. There are cases,
unfortunately, in which the vocabulary, not the conception, is
herculean, in which it is only the dictionary that bares its thews.”
O. W. Firkins

+ − =Review= 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 380w

“The poem is a faithful attempt to produce a visualization of men and
events of 3000 years ago. It is hardly distinguished, but it shows
considerable knowledge of the subject.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 210w

=WOOD, CLEMENT.= Mountain. *$2.50 Dutton

20–8518

“Pelham Judson grows up on the mountain, the son of the successful
exploiter of its resources in iron; goes to Yale and absorbs the
conventional social ideals (including an exploit as a strikebreaker);
leads an almost preposterously chaste life, which he compensates for
after his marriage to Jane by a delayed affair with Louise; returning
to Adamsville after graduation, becomes converted to the cause of
labor and socialism and is one of the leaders in the long drawn-out
strike in the mines. The result of the conversion is, of course,
permanent estrangement from his father and mother, the former the
leader of the standpat forces.”—New Repub

* * * * *

“A heterogeneous mass of capital and labour, love and catastrophe. Mr
Wood’s masterful portrayal of the negro race, however, furnishes a
background which puts his high-lights to shame and leaves us the hope
that he will visualize the white race with equal clarity.”

− + =Dial= 69:663 D ’20 60w

“Love, it may be said, Mr Wood presents more convincingly than
economics. The characters of his story, never clearly realized, make
sudden and inexplicable shifts of attitude to meet the necessities of
a somewhat vaguely conceived plot, just as his social theories are
strained to make destructive facts work toward constructive ends.” H.
S. H.

+ − =Freeman= 1:574 Ag 25 ’20 360w

“One looks in vain for a single passage of supreme beauty, for one
arresting phrase; yet there is in the book an undercurrent of power
rare in a first novel.”

+ − =Grinnell R= 15:285 N ’20 620w

“From the point of view of art the mind is unpersuaded and the
imagination a blank. The book is all haste and over-eagerness. The
creative hand has scarcely touched it yet.”

− =Nation= 111:276 S 4 ’20 340w

“This is an uncommonly fine bit of work, for a first novel. The
working class type is a real one, not a caricature. Yet the chief
protagonists, Pelham Judson in particular, do not come into the
reader’s experience with that unerring finality which is always the
mark of sure imaginative creation. They are not inconsistent; they are
plausible; they are unfailingly interesting. But they are mere
sketches, not realities.” H. S.

+ − =New Repub= 23:286 Ag 4 ’20 1250w

“With ‘Mountain’ Clement Wood has added 335 pages to the little heaps
of worthwhile contemporary literature.” A. W. Welch

+ =N Y Call= p10 Ag 15 ’20 600w

− =N Y Times= 25:21 Jl 11 ’20 330w

“The novel reflects truthfully and interestingly an ardent if not
entirely substantial type of temperament.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 300w

=WOOD, ERIC FISHER.= Leonard Wood: conservator of Americanism. il *$2 (3c) Doran

20–3861

The author admires the subject of his biography as the conservator and
champion of Americanism, for his work at Plattsburg, his pleas for
preparedness and his dignified reticence about himself. His flawless
record in the past the author hopes gives just grounds for predicting
a still greater career for him in the future. “He has ever been a true
prophet in all matters pertaining to the political and military
welfare of his native land, its allies and dependencies. He has never
had to make excuses, for although the administrative tasks
successively allotted to him have been vast in scope, he has never in
any one of them fallen short of exceptional success.” (Conclusion)
Contents: Ancestry and boyhood; Personal characteristics; As a
surgeon; The Geronimo campaign; The Spanish-American war; Governor of
Santiago; The Wood method; Appointed governor of Cuba; Governor of
Cuba; Turning their government over to Cubans; The conquest of yellow
fever; The Rathbone case; Governor of the Moro province; Dato Ali; The
military administrator; The conservator of Americanism; The world war;
Illustrations, appendix and index.

* * * * *

=Dial= 68:540 Ap ’20 60w

=R Of Rs= 61:444 Ap ’20 220w

“A most interesting and most readable book.”

+ =Spec= 124:48 Jl 10 ’20 1900w

“Although Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Wood is an indifferent biographer,
his book contains several oases of competent writing. Thus he gives a
graphic sketch of the Geronimo campaign, and his account of the Cuban
operations is soldierly and useful.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p382 Je 17 ’20 850w

=WOOD, FREDERIC JAMES.= Turnpikes of New England and evolution of the same through England, Virginia and Maryland. il $10 Jones, Marshall 386

20–1059

“A detailed history of each of the many turnpike companies, such as is
here furnished, offers a great deal to interest the engineer, and,
from one point of view, summarizes the economic development of the
country from the close of the revolution to the middle of the
nineteenth century.” (Review) “The author, an engineer, has included
everything—engineering problems, history, finance, management,
vehicles, description.” (Booklist)

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:230 Ap ’20

“It is written in a fascinating style, full of good humor, replete
with stories and historical incidents, and its enthusiastic verve
carries the reader from start to finish.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 28 ’20 1000W

“A handsome volume of which both author and publisher have reason to
be proud.”

+ =Review= 2:311 Mr 27 ’20 300w

=WOOD, IRVING FRANCIS.=[2] Heroes of early Israel. il *$2 Macmillan 220.9

20–17159

“‘Heroes of early Israel’ is one of the Great leaders series. It seeks
to tell in a popular manner the stories of the old Hebrew heroes whose
lives are too often lost for the young in the more difficult portions
of the Bible.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:93 D ’20

“The book is intended especially for use in schools, but many will
like to put it into the hands of their children as an introduction to
Biblical study.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 70w

=WOOD, LEONARD.= Leonard Wood on national issues; comp. by Evan J. David. pa *$1.25 (8c) Doubleday 308

20–7495

“In compiling this book the object has been to collect representative
statements from the speeches and writings of General Leonard Wood on
national problems.” (Compiler’s introd.) Among the subjects covered
are: How Cuba won self-determination; Capital, labor and the golden
rule; American women—today and tomorrow; War and peace; The league of
nations; The farmer—his rights and wrongs; Teachers, moulders of the
future; Immigration without assimilation: Americanization. In addition
to the compiler’s introduction there is a foreword by Edward S. Van
Zile.

=WOODBERRY, GEORGE EDWARD.= Roamer, and other poems. *$1.75 Harcourt 811

20–7800

The greater part of the book is taken up by “The roamer,” a long poem
in four books symbolizing the soul’s pilgrimage through the ages and
its upward progress. A sonnet sequence, Ideal passion, Poems of the
great war, and a group of Sonnets and lyrics complete the volume.

* * * * *

“For those who like conventional, idealistic poetry.”

+ =Booklist= 16:339 Jl ’20

“Mr Woodberry’s lines are penned with such precision, dignity, and
grace, and express so noble an enterprise, that one feels they should
not be allowed to perish without protest. And yet they fail to stir.
Is it that Mr Woodberry is too much merely the inheritor of Victorian
maladies and philosophies?” L. M. R.

+ − =Freeman= 2:21 S 15 ’20 320w

“As an occasional poet Mr Woodberry is not exciting after the occasion
has passed; in the present period of enforced listlessness toward the
war, his poems on that occasion, at least, seem good work thrown away,
seem good words robbed of their right to ring. Mr Woodberry is more
surely a poet when he is a Platonist, as in ‘Ideal passion,’ on the
whole the most vibrant portion of his recent output.” Mark Van Doren

+ − =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 220w

“Professor Woodberry’s book must be accounted one of the genuine
poetical achievements of the year, but it will hardly make a wide
appeal to this generation.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 25 ’20 380w

“‘Ideal passion’ is excellent, while the ‘Roamer’ is valuable only to
specialists in literature or disciples of Mr Woodberry. The shorter
poems in the volume are vastly better than the ‘Roamer,’ but attain no
equality with ‘Ideal passion.’” O. W. Firkins

+ − =Review= 3:170 Ag 25 ’20 800w

=WOODHOUSE, HENRY.= Textbook of applied aeronautic engineering. il *$6 Century 629.1

20–5220

“The bulk of this book is devoted to a description of existing
machines, but in the first chapter the author declares that for
commercial success the aeroplane should be built to carry twenty tons
of useful load, and considers how this can be done. Other chapters
consist largely of reprints of papers and documents, many from
American sources, relating to aeroplane and seaplane engineering in
the U.S.A. navy, the theory of flight, rigging, alinement, maintenance
and repairs, and the value of plywood in fuselage construction.”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 400w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p474 Jl 22 ’20 80w

=WOODHOUSE, THOMAS, and KILGOUR, P.= Cordage and cordage hemp and fibres. (Pitman’s common commodities and industries ser.) il $1 Pitman 677

20–7601

An introductory chapter suggesting something of the early history of
cordage is followed by: Definition of cordage and sources of fibres;
Classification of fibres; The cultivation of hemp; Retting, breaking
and scutching; The cultivation of plants for hard fibres; The
preparing and spinning machinery for hemp and other soft fibres; The
preparing and spinning machinery for manila and other hard fibres;
Twines, cords and lines; Ropes and rope-making; Yarn numbering;
Marketing. There are 31 illustrations and an index. The authors are
connected with the Dundee technical college and school of art.

* * * * *

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p41 Ap ’20 50w

=WOODS, ARTHUR.= Policeman and public. *$1.35 Yale univ. press 352.2

20–1368

“‘The policeman and public,’ by Lieut.-Col. Arthur Woods, former
police commissioner of New York city, places in book form the author’s
lectures in the Dodge course at Yale on the ‘Responsibilities of
citizenship.’ Points discussed are: The puzzling law; The policeman as
Judge; The people’s advocate; Methods of law enforcement; Esprit de
corps; Reward and punishment; Grafting; Influence; Police leadership;
and The public’s part.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“Throughout the book is a sympathetic discussion of the problems from
the standpoint of the policeman. At the same time Mr Woods appreciates
the reasons for the sometimes hostile attitude of the public toward
the police.” J. L. Gillin

+ =Am J Soc= 25:794 My ’20 600w

Reviewed by G. H. McCaffrey

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:527 Ag ’20 340w

“A popular and interesting presentation of the problems and methods of
the police, and of the ways in which the public may cooperate to add
effectiveness to the service.”

+ =Booklist= 16:190 Mr ’20

“Colonel Woods has done a great service to the policemen of the entire
country by putting their case fairly before the public.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 120w

“The little book is instructive and intensely interesting.”

+ =Cath World= 111:118 Ap ’20 220w

+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 70w

“Entertaining and instructive, not only to those connected with an
important branch of municipal government and to applicants for places
therein but to the public generally.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 30 ’19 300w

“They are made lively reading by a mass of illustrative anecdotes.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p287 My 6 ’20 100w

=WOODS, GLENN H.= Public school orchestras and bands. il $2 Ditson 785

20–9484

In realization of the growing importance of music in our educational
curriculum this book is offered to meet in particular the needs of the
teacher who has no knowledge of instrumental music. It emphasizes
three essentials for the instrumental work in the public school
system: that the instruments for the band and orchestra be supplied to
the children; that the work begin in the lower grades of the
elementary schools and be carried through the high school; and that
the instruction be given by special teachers of instrumental music.
Among the contents are: Importance of instrumental instruction;
Preparation of teachers: How to organize instrumental instruction;
Instruction in the elementary schools; Instruction in the high
schools; Conducting; Suggestions about tuning; How to assemble an
orchestra score; Transposition; List of band and orchestra music, and
instruction books. There is an appendix and numerous illustrations.

* * * * *

“For music leaders who lack professional training this book will be
most helpful. It is practical, concise, and is written by one who has
first-hand knowledge of the problem.”

+ =El School J= 21:318 D ’20 220w

=WOODWORTH, HERBERT G.= In the shadow of Lantern street. *$1.75 (1½c) Small

20–3063

The hero of this story is a little boy in China when the story opens.
He knows nothing of his parentage and believes himself to be Chinese.
But he really is white and his American father, altho unwilling to
recognize his son, still takes him, at sixteen, back to the United
States and educates him. Most of the story is taken up with the tale
of the young man’s striving to accommodate himself to American ideals,
especially in relation to women. Two women come into his life, Bess
and Barbara. To Bess he found marriage to mean the reversal of the
Chinese idea—her husband was to become her chattel. Fortunately he
found out in time and with Barbara is promised the happiness that
comes with love that means partnership.

* * * * *

“It is apparent that Mr Woodworth knows China well, for he has framed
in these early pages a picture that is very foreign and that contains
a large number of realistic details. If Mr Woodworth had succeeded in
keeping his entire novel as vivid as these early chapters it would
have been no mean achievement.” D. L. M.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p9 My 8 ’20 1000w

“There is some good material in the book, but the treatment lacks
color, and shows no sense either of dramatic values, of style or of
character. Such faint interest as the story has flickers out entirely
as soon as the hero leaves China, which he does on the sixty-third
page.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:4 Mr 7 ’20 300w

“The early portions of the narrative are interesting because of an
atmosphere of adventure and exploration; the later phases are
speculative and analytical.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 250w

=WOOLF, LEONARD SIDNEY.= Empire and commerce in Africa; a study in economic imperialism. *$7 Macmillan 960

(Eng ed 20–3421)

“Omitting consideration of Egypt, Mr Woolf records in detail the
history of those portions of Africa which fell under the influence of
European imperialism. Separate chapters are devoted to Algeria, Tunis,
Tripoli, Abyssinia, Zanzibar, and the Belgian Congo. In all cases the
sequence of events as disclosed by the narrative is much the same. The
awakening of covetous desire in the hearts of European statesmen; the
entering wedge of commercial or financial enterprize, ostensibly
promoted by private initiative but in reality fostered by the state;
the eventual declaration by the home government of its intention to
guarantee the integrity of the economic advantages thus gained by its
citizens; the marking out of spheres of influence; the friction
aroused between the powers by the crossing of imperialistic purposes,
and the threat of war; the adjustment of these international
differences by the devious methods of diplomacy, and the final
emergence of the victor secure in the possession of the spoils. No
patriotic bias is shown in the record. France, Italy, England,
Germany, and Belgium are accused impartially of sordid motives and
heartless conduct. A generous equipment of maps illustrates the text,
and a reproduction of the necessary documents lends support to the
narrative of diplomatic intrigue.”—Am Econ R

* * * * *

“A high order of merit is shown by the writer in his skillful
disentangling of the strands of intrigue in which the imperialistic
aims of the rival states are involved, and in the accomplishment of
his main intent: to set forth clearly the sequence of events which
discloses the true purpose of Europe in its penetration into Africa.
Even those readers who cannot agree that a single motive actuates the
modern state in its imperial policy will find this study of the
progress of empire in Africa illuminating and suggestive.” E. S.
Furniss

+ − =Am Econ R= 10:575 S ’20 1100w

Reviewed by W. E. B. Du Bois

=Nation= 111:352 S 25 ’20 580w

“This is a book of great value and startling candor. It will remind
some of a Veblen satire, but it is more concrete and human than that.”
W. E. B. Du Bois

+ =Survey= 44:310 My 29 ’20 700w

“The merits of the book are that it bears evidence of much research,
though always on the one side and directed to proving what the author
wants to prove, and that it is not greatly disfigured by
indiscriminate abuse or by anti-patriotic bias.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p75 F 5 ’20 1950w

=WOOLF, VIRGINIA (STEPHEN) (MRS LEONARD WOOLF).= Night and day. *$2.25 Doran

20–19042

A long and slow-moving story dealing with a criss-crossing of love
affairs. Katharine Hilbery, granddaughter of the poet Alardyce, is
engaged with her mother in writing the poet’s life. Her father is
editor of a literary review and all her associations are of a literary
character. In secret however her predilections are for mathematics and
she spends lonely midnight hours with Euclid. She becomes engaged to
William Rodney, author of poetic dramas, altho she feels herself drawn
to Ralph Denham, a masterful young man of no family or position. Ralph
maintains a platonic friendship with Mary Datchet, a suffrage worker,
who loves him and refuses his lukewarm offer of marriage for that
reason. Katharine’s cousin Cassandra comes to town and captivates
William, setting Katharine free to marry Ralph. This leaves everyone
provided for except Mary, who continues to devote her life to causes.
Considerable care is devoted to the delineation of minor characters.

* * * * *

“It is impossible to refrain from comparing ‘Night and day’ with the
novels of Miss Austen. There are moments, indeed, when one is almost
tempted to cry it Miss Austen up-to-date. It is extremely cultivated,
distinguished and brilliant, but above all—deliberate. There is not a
chapter where one is unconscious of the writer, of her personality,
her point of view, and her control of the situation.” K. M.

+ − =Ath= p1227 N 21 ’19 1350w

“The half expressed thought, the interrupted sentences by which the
action of ‘Night and day’ proceeds, are baffling. Carry this sort of
thing a few steps further and you have Maeterlinck. Yet even this
intent study of a fragmentary and delicate thing strikes one as in the
spirit of Tennyson’s ‘flower in the crannied wall’ whose complete
comprehension means comprehension of what God and man is.” R. M.
Underhill

+ − =Bookm= 51:685 Ag ’20 350w

“‘Night and day’ is perhaps less fine than ‘The voyage out’; it is not
quite all of a piece as the other book almost miraculously is, or
perhaps the ancient fact that comedy is less impressive than tragedy
weighs in its effect. But it is an ample book.” C. M. Rourke

+ =New Repub= 22:320 My 5 ’20 350w

“This novel of Mrs Woolf’s is profoundly irritating. She has devoted
such fine ability, such remarkable understanding, to the description
of the doings of people profoundly unimportant and insignificant.”

− + =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 200w

“All of the characters are drawn with art; their thoughts and actions
are minutely observed and dissected. In point of literary style the
book is distinctive.”

+ =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 450w

“The narrative moves tardily along, and to the story, as such, one
becomes somewhat indifferent. But in fresh characterization of its
people and in charming pictures of England, especially of London, the
work never fails.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 7 ’20 200w

“Round each scene and round the tale as a whole sound sympathetic
notes, that are not definitely struck, but respond to those which are.
We feel the dignity of a love-story worthily told. We see much more
than we are shown. ‘Night and day’ is a book full of wisdom.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p607 O 30 ’19 1250w

=WOOLF, VIRGINIA (STEPHEN) (MRS LEONARD WOOLF).= Voyage out. *$2.25 (1½c) Doran

20–8627

In this kaleidoscopic picture of real life, people come and go with
all their commonplace attributes. They are natural people and act
naturally without any dramatic high lights to throw them into relief.
To make the events transpire in a little world of their own a
shipboard is chosen and a tourist’s hotel on a South-American mountain
side. Helen Ambrose, wife of a Greek scholar, is put in charge of a
niece, twenty years her junior, who at the age of twenty-four is still
a child in world wisdom and experience. Helen, with rare insight and
good sense, undertakes to initiate her into a larger life. In South
America they meet the tourists—a variety of types compressed into a
miniature world. Here Rachel unfolds and the greatest of experiences,
love, comes her way, and there it all ends. Rachel falls a victim to
the treacherous climate.

* * * * *

“To the reviewer, the opportunity to read about people who are real,
but intelligent, is an unusual delight. These people employ
self-control and common sense, even as you and I, and the plot
proceeds without misunderstanding or murder.” R. M. Underhill

+ =Bookm= 51:685 Ag ’20 350w

“The story is strangely lacking in construction. It has neither
beginning nor end nor single point of view, but it is thoroly
interesting, a distinctly unusual book.”

+ − =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 250w

“For all its tragic interest ‘The voyage out’ is not low-keyed; it
even has a slight buoyancy of tone, as if clear perception itself
brought a continual zest to its writer. Mrs Woolf has the diversity of
power which makes the great writer of narrative.” C. M. Rourke

+ =New Repub= 22:320 My 5 ’20 1150w

“This English novel gives promise in its opening chapters of much
entertainment. Later, the reader is disappointed. That the author
knows her London in its most interesting aspects there can be no
doubt. But aside from a certain cleverness—which, being all in one
key, palls on one after going through a hundred pages of it—there is
little in this offering to make it stand out from the ruck of mediocre
novels which make far less literary pretension.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:308 Je 13 ’20 450w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:318 O 13 ’20 620w

“As a first novel, it shows promise but is not well-rounded. Portrayal
of women and scholarly elderly men is keen and well handled; that of
younger and ‘red-blooded’ young men somewhat unsatisfactory.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 380w

=WOOLMAN, MRS MARY (SCHENCK).= Clothing: choice, care, cost. (Lippincott’s family life ser.) il *$2 Lippincott 646

20–26997

“This book faces the every-day living conditions of the people and
treats clothing in its selection, use, care and cost. It is the result
of many years of personal experience in technical and popular
instruction in textiles and clothing to college students, ... to
women’s clubs, to young wage earners, ... to buyers and managers in
the retail trade, and recently, during the war, as a textile
specialist in the service of the government among home keepers and
extension leaders.” (Preface) Contents: Thrift in clothing; Woolen and
worsted clothing; Cotton clothing; Silk clothing; Linen for clothing
and household; Clothing accessories; Clothing and health; Intelligent
shopping; Serviceable clothing; The clothing budget and the wardrobe;
The care, repair and renovation of clothing; Dyeing, laundry and spot
removal; A clothing information bureau; Planning for clothing
progress; Appendix—made-over garments, with charts, bibliography,
glossary; Illustrations and index.

* * * * *

“Useful to students, housekeepers and retail dealers.”

+ =Booklist= 17:102 D ’20

=WORKS, JOHN DOWNEY.= Juridical reform. *$1.50 (3c) Neale 347

20–1529

“A critical comparison of pleading and practice under the common law
and equity systems of practice, the English judicature acts, and codes
of the several states of this country, with a view to greater
efficiency and economy.” (Sub-title) “This little book is intended not
only to point out some of the changes in the laws of pleading,
practice, and procedure, necessary to mitigate present conditions
resulting in interminable delays and enormous expense in maintaining
the courts and the administration of justice, but also to show that a
large part of the delays, and consequent unnecessary expense of
litigation, is not brought about by defective laws alone but by the
dilatory and faulty administration of the laws we have.” (Preface)
Contents: Courts; Actions; Pleadings; The demurrer; Empaneling juries;
Examination of witnesses; Taking cases under advisement; Briefs;
Written opinions; Findings; Continuances; Appeals; Rules of court;
Reports of decisions; Efficiency; Appendix.

* * * * *

“He writes with an apparent knowledge of his subject and with a high
degree of common sense and authority.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 28 ’20 120w

“There is much in this little volume that entitles it to the attention
of every voter, certainly of every public-spirited lawyer.” E: S.
Corwin

+ =Review= 3:449 N 10 ’20 380w

=WRAY, W. J., and FERGUSON, R. W.=, eds. Day continuation school at work. *$3 (*8s 6d) Longmans 374.8

20–18400

“The editors have brought together the discussions of twelve
individual contributors, each paper constituting a chapter of the book
and dealing with some more or less specific phase of the writer’s
experience in organizing and conducting the scheme of training
described. The introductory chapter, written by one of the editors, is
a general discussion of the necessity for continued education and the
relation of day continuation schools to the national educational
system. The next chapter is a rather full description of the plan of
administration of a girls’ continuation school, written by the
head-mistress. This is followed by a similar account of a boys’ school
by its head-master. In each case explicit statements are made
concerning the curriculum, grading, discipline, and the usual problems
of administration. The several chapters following, each written by an
instructor in one or the other of these schools, take up such topics
as Problems of class teaching in a boys’ day continuation school, The
teaching of mathematics and science in a day continuation school for
boys, Physical training in a girls’ school, and Arts and crafts. The
last two chapters present the employers’ own statement of their
attitude toward continuation education and their impressions of the
value of the plan here described.”—School R

* * * * *

=School R= 28:714 N ’20 400w

“‘A day continuation school at work’ has particularly interesting
sections dealing with camp and outdoor schools, but it does not
achieve quite the modern spirit.”

+ − =Spec= 125:404 S 25 ’20 100w

Reviewed by M. C. Calkins

+ =Survey= 45:610 Ja 22 ’21 520w

=WRIGHT, GEORGE E.= Practical views on psychic phenomena. *$1.60 (4c) Harcourt 130

20–27481

There is still much confusion of thought, even among people of
considerable general culture, on the subject of super-normal
phenomena, says the author. In order to help the reader to steer
clear, on the one hand, of illogical skepticism and, on the other, of
unreasoning credulity, the book endeavors to lay down the broad lines
on which an examination of the published records in the chief
departments of psychical research should be carried out, and to
summarize briefly the evidence and put forward the conclusions to
which they have led the author. Contents: Evidence in general;
Telepathy; Physical phenomena; Materialization and spirit photography;
Communication with the disembodied: (1) the methods; (2) the evidence;
Conclusion.

* * * * *

“This sensible and restrained introduction for the layman gives an
unbiased summary of the evidence in the case for psychical research.”

+ =Booklist= 17:138 Ja ’21

+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 30w

Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow

=Review= 3:42 Jl 14 ’20 950w

“He approaches the whole subject in a singularly cautious spirit; and
his careful and candid examination of the nature of evidence in
psychical research and of different theories is worth reading.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Mr 11 ’20 160w

=WRIGHT, HENRY PARKS.= Young man and teaching. (Vocational ser.) *$1.50 Macmillan 371

20–2127

“In ‘The young man and teaching,’ by Henry Parks Wright, the author,
who is dean of Yale college, discusses every aspect of the teaching
profession, laying particular emphasis on the psychological
qualifications of the man who would devote his life to teaching. Among
the chapter headings are the following: Teaching as a profession;
Objections to the vocation considered; Personal qualifications;
Educational preparation; Instruction; Government; Rules and penalties;
Teaching in college, and others.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:332 Jl ’20

“His book is thorough and suggestive.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 3 ’20 130w

+ =Cleveland= p55 My ’20 50w

=N Y Times= 25:296 Je 6 ’20 100w

“Some of the author’s sentiments are tinged with those of the ‘old
school,’ but a majority of his thoughts about teaching are strictly up
to date and unquestionably true.”

+ − =School R= 28:392 My ’20 400w

=WRIGHT, ROWLAND.= Disappearance of Kimball Webb. *$1.75 (3c) Dodd

20–819

Mystery and adventure story centering about a man who disappears as if
by magic the night before his proposed wedding to a beautiful young
heiress. All efforts to find him prove for weeks in vain. Some think
him spirited away by ghosts. Elsie, the heiress, is implored by her
relatives to marry some one else, for if she does not marry soon, by
the conditions of the will, she loses her fortune. But for her there
is no one but Webb. Finally after desperate efforts, and dreadful
adventures, the mystery is solved at last. Webb is brought back in
time to save the fortune, and the “master mind” who has spirited the
bridegroom away and kept him basely hid is one least expected.

* * * * *

“The characters are the mere sketches which pass in most latter-day
mystery fiction. The style is slipshod, the dialogue barren, the
action forced. Mr Wright has a new idea, cleverly developed in its
essential details. With this he stops short.” C. H.

− + =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 20 ’20 320w

“A somewhat new idea is used as vehicle, showing that modern mystery
fiction can be based on a single unsolved point. But the supporting
material is inferior, in comparison, and causes the story to prove
somewhat disappointing.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 220w

=WYATT, EDWIN M.=[2] Blue print reading. il $1 Bruce pub. co. 744

20–16615

“This book is the result of several years teaching of blueprint
reading in night schools and several years teaching of drafting
preceding it.... Essentially it is a tried text, one that has been
used to teach the reading of drawings to one class of mixed trades,
one class of ship carpenters, two classes of house carpenters, and one
class of machinists. It has been designed to suit as wide a range of
trades as possible. Usually each new principle is illustrated by both
a machine and an architectural example.” (Preface) The book is
illustrated with twenty-nine plates, and questions and problems follow
the chapters.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:104 D ’20

“A valuable addition to the library of manual training teachers and
craftsmen wishing to be fluently versed in the universal language of
mechanical drawing.”

+ =School Arts Magazine= 20:244 D ’20 50w

=WYLD, HENRY CECIL KENNEDY.= History of modern colloquial English. *$8 Dutton 420.9

(Eng ed 20–9723)

“This book may be described, in one way, as a documented history of
English pronunciation from Chaucer to the present day; in another, as
an attempt to show that, ‘during the last two centuries at least, the
modifications which have come about in the spoken language are the
result of the influence not primarily of regional, but of class
dialects,’ the final result being the ‘public school English’ which is
now the normal spoken idiom of the educated classes. In chapter I the
author surveys in broad outline the various problems dealt with in
minute detail later in the book. Chapter II, dealing with ‘Dialect
types in middle English, and their survival in the modern period,’
contains an elaborate phonetic description of the three main
contributory dialects. Chapter IV, on ‘From Henry VIII to James I,’
shows us the English language arriving at the self-conscious period.
With chapter V, ‘Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,’ we are on
modern ground. Chapters VI to IX deal with the phonetic history of the
modern language and the origin of inflections. The final chapter, on
‘Colloquial idiom,’ gives us examples of familiar speech from John
Shillingford (1447) to Miss Austen; and there are some final sections
on the trimmings of speech, such as greetings, epistolary formulas,
expletives, compliments, etc.”—Ath

* * * * *

“Professor Wyld is to be congratulated on the accomplishment of a very
valuable, and evidently laborious, piece of work. We would suggest
that he should so far consider the intelligent layman as to publish an
abridged edition, with a few characteristic examples replacing the
ponderous mass of phonetic detail which concludes each chapter, and,
above all, that he should add an index.” E. W.

+ − =Ath= p669 My 21 ’20 1350w

“It may be well to indicate what strikes one as its only defect—that
he takes the insular attitude not uncommon among British scholars.
This caveat once filed, it is only fair to say that Professor Wyld has
done very well indeed what was well worth doing.” Brander Matthews

+ − =N Y Times= p7 Ag 29 ’20 2250w

“No matter how familiar the outlines of the story, no one can follow
Professor Wyld’s version of it without finding his interest in it
quickened and enlarged on every page.” H. M. Ayres

+ − =Review= 3:386 O 27 ’20 1250w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 20w

“Professor Wyld commands a fluent style, but not of the highest order.
Of minor errors and slips there is too large a number. To end on a
fault-finding note would be to give a false impression of our
appreciation of this notable book. We hasten to set down our tribute
to the author’s courage and enthusiasm.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p415 Jl 1 ’20 2100w

=WYLIE, IDA ALENA ROSS.= Children of storm (Eng title, Brodie and the deep sea). *$2 (1½c) Lane

20–18388

The story of an unequal marriage. Ursula Seton, daughter of one of
England’s wealthiest families, and Adam Brodie, son of an humble
grocer, are married as the result of a brief wartime romance. After
the war, and Adam’s return, they try to make the necessary
adjustments. The first attempt is made in Ursula’s home. Although her
family mean to be sympathetic and kind, Adam is independent and
sensitive and the experiment fails. A second attempt is tried out in
Adam’s humble circumstances. Here the pettiness of everyday drudgery
wears upon Ursula until she can stand it no longer. The two seem to
have come to a deadlock when a new element enters into their affairs.
Ursula’s grandfather, who has confidence in Adam, leaves him the
management of the steel industry which has brought the family their
wealth. In grappling with the problems which this position brings,
Adam grows and develops in mind and soul until Ursula sees again in
him the man with whom she had fallen in love.

* * * * *

“The domestic scenes revealing their difficulties are perhaps the best
in the book.”

+ =Ath= p80 Jl 16 ’20 110w

+ =Booklist= 17:162 Ja ’21

“Miss Wylie’s straightforward and felicitous style is an unmixed
delight.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 390w

“The author fails signally to answer the question she raises.
‘Children of storm’ contains some dramatic passages and some
character-revealing dialogue, but the author cannot be said to meet
satisfactorily the artistic demands of her self-imposed, ambitious
theme.”

− + =N Y Times= p18 D 5 ’20 560w

“The final reconciliation of husband and wife through the husband’s
endeavour to settle labour troubles is, however, not quite convincing.
The writer obviously has fine but vague ideals at the back of her mind
for the improvement of the life of the workers, but she does not quite
succeed in imparting them to the reader.”

+ − =Spec= 124:53 Jl 10 ’20 110w

“In the first chapters Miss Wylie writes with truth and without
partisanship, so that you see this struggle from every side,
sympathize with every character and feel their inevitable sorrows. It
is ... partly perhaps that Miss Wylie was in a hurry to bring her tale
out of tragedy to a triumphant conclusion, which makes the end of the
book melodrama. It is good melodrama, but by comparison with the first
part of the book superficial and theatrical.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p422 Jl 1 ’20 600w

=WYLIE, IDA ALENA ROSS.= Holy fire, and other stories. *$1.75 (2c) Lane

20–8791

Michael Gregorovitch, of the title story, is a Russian priest. He was
a man of peace, a non-resistant, he loved and prayed for his enemies
and he kept the lamp burning before the altar of the little church—the
light of God that had not gone out for two hundred years. The night
the village was sacked the women implored him to give the signal from
the belfry, to sound the tocsin, for the peasants to break forth from
their hiding and kill the invaders. But the priest standing before the
holy fire remained firm—although his house was burned, his wife and
little grandson killed, he would not countenance killing. When the
ruffians entered the church, he did not resent their insults—they put
out the holy fire that had burned for two hundred years and the priest
escaped to the belfry and gave the signal. The other stories are:
Thirst; The bridge across; “Tinker—tailor—”; Colonel Tibbit comes
home; “‘Melia, no good”; A gift for St Nicholas; John Prettyman’s
fourth dimension; An Episcopal scherzo.

* * * * *

“Most of them are marked by tense emotion, but frequently there are
gleams of humor.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:30 Je 27 ’20 300w

“Miss Wylie’s work is frankly colored with sentiment. She does not
ignore the sensibility of the race which was not ashamed to sob over
Colonel Newcome and even Little Nell.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:253 S 22 ’20 160w

=WYLLARDE, DOLF.= Temperament: a romance of hero-worship. *$2 (½c) Lane

(Eng ed 20–12952)

Joan Delamere, of English parentage, was born in the tropics and had
an exotic temperament. She was a musical genius, imaginative and
romantic to a degree. She dreamt dreams and fashioned them in music.
While still a child the personality of a certain Lord Oswald Lancaster
fired her imagination and became her hero. Chance encounters with him
at long intervals kept the fire burning, but not till the hero was
sixty and Joan thirty did they come to know and love each other. As a
child she had made a vow never to marry and her union with Lord Oswald
remained an illicit one. When an older obligation claimed the latter,
Joan hid herself from him and the world on her native Seychelles
islands where she died a lonely death in giving birth to her son.

* * * * *

“The book is not quite as compact as the theme demands, and this
diffuseness militates a bit against its complete success but in a
large measure the theme, in its ample treatment, is developed in a
surprisingly interesting manner. The reader will find much to satisfy
him in the book by considering Joan as a feat in portraiture.”

+ − =N Y Times= p26 Ag 22 ’20 780w

“As usual with this author, we are attracted, half in our own despite,
by the sheer cleverness often revealed in dialogue, characterisation
and description.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:100 Jl 31 ’20 240w

“Her sentimental adventures are not completely convincing, and Lord
Oswald Lancaster is of so commonplace and unattractive a type that the
reader will have very little sympathy with Joan Delamere’s obsession.”

− =Spec= 125:216 Ag 14 ’20 50w

“The events of the tale are plausible, and the persons behave quite
naturally and credibly. To that extent the book is a skilful and
successful piece of fiction. Yet it is very far indeed from being a
good novel in any more serious sense than that. The reason is that the
persons, though carefully imitated from life, are only lay figures.
They are the product not of an act of creative imagination, but of
skilled and painstaking manufacture.”