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Preface for Instructors
As experienced teachers, we have learned that in college, writing comes first. For this reason, Foundations First with Readings: Sentences and Paragraphs encourages students to begin every chapter with a writing activity. We also know that students learn writing skills most meaningfully in the context of their own writing. Therefore, this text takes a “practice in context” approach, teaching students the skills they need to become better writers by having them practice in the context of their own writing.
In the fifth edition of Foundations First, we have introduced TEST, a unique tool to help students assess their writing. The letters T-E-S-T stand for Topic Sentence (or Thesis Statement), Evidence, Summary statement, and Transitions, the key elements found in effective paragraphs and essays. Remembering the four TEST letters helps students to identify these four key elements as they read; more important, it enables them to make sure that all these elements are present in their own paragraphs and essays.
In the classroom and in daily life, writing is an essential skill. For this reason, Foundations First begins with thorough coverage of the writing process. Each chapter opens with a Seeing and Writing prompt that asks students to think critically about an image; later in the chapter, they are encouraged to develop their responses into a paragraph.
With comprehensive grammar coverage, online grammar practice, and sixteen professional and student reading selections, Foundations First gets students reading, writing, and thinking critically in preparation for academic, career, and life success. Striking images and a brand-new design appeal to today’s visual learners, as do the graphic organizers for paragraph organization in Unit Two. And with LaunchPad Solo for Foundations First with Readings, we bring the book’s instruction into an online, interactive space, where students can continue their practice of key grammar and reading concepts.
We wrote this book for adults our own interested, concerned, and hardworking students and we tailored the book’s content and approach to them. Instead of offering exercises that reinforce the preconception that writing is a dull, pointless, and artificial activity, we chose fresh, contemporary examples (both student and professional) and developed engaging exercises and writing assignments that are relevant and interesting.
Throughout Foundations First, we talk to students, not at or down to them. We strive to be concise without being abrupt, thorough without being repetitive, direct without being rigid, specific without being prescriptive, and flexible without being inconsistent. Our most important goal is simple: to create an engaging text that motivates students and gives them the tools and encouragement they need to improve their writing.
Organization
Foundations First with Readings has a flexible organization that permits instructors to teach various topics in the order that works best for them and for their students. The book is divided into seven units. Unit One offers critical reading coverage as well as a brief introduction to the college writing process, while Unit Two explains and illustrates the various kinds of paragraphs and fully explains the process of writing paragraphs. This unit also includes a chapter on writing essays. Units Three through Six focus on sentence skills, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics. Throughout these units, marginal callouts direct students to additional online grammar practice via LaunchPad Solo. In addition, LaunchPad Solo includes LearningCurve: innovative, adaptive online quizzes that let students learn at their own pace, with a gamelike interface that keeps them at it. Finally, Unit Seven features sixteen professional and student readings, each preceded by a biographical headnote and followed by critical thinking questions and writing practice prompts.
Features
When we wrote Foundations First, our goal was to create the most useful and student-friendly sentence-to-paragraph text available for developing writers.
In preparing the fifth edition, we have retained all the features that instructors told us contributed to the book’s accessibility, while also making several important additions.
A complete resource for improving student writing. With one comprehensive unit on paragraphs, two units on sentences, two on grammar, one on reading, and numerous examples of student writing, Foundations First provides comprehensive coverage of basic writing in a format that gives instructors maximum flexibility in planning their courses.
An emphasis on the connection between reading and writing. Foundations First presents reading as an integral part of the writing process, offering numerous student and professional examples throughout the text.
Chapter 1, Reading for Academic Success, introduces the basic techniques of critical reading and shows students how to get the most out of their academic and professional reading. Sixteen reading selections (three of them by students) in Chapter 36, Readings for Writers, provide material for writing assignments and classroom discussion.
Word Power boxes. Throughout the text, marginal Word Power boxes help students build their vocabulary by defining unfamiliar words that appear in the text’s explanations and reading selections.
FYI boxes. Throughout the book, these boxes highlight useful information and explain difficult concepts.
Grammar-in-Context boxes. These boxes identify grammar problems related to the rhetorical pattern under discussion. Cross-references to Foundations First’s grammar chapters direct students to sections where they can get additional help on grammar issues they find challenging.
Chapter and Unit Reviews. Featuring Editing Practices and Review Checklists, these reviews challenge students to think critically about their writing and to practice editing skills in paragraphs and essays.
Extensive help for ESL students. Chapter 29 addresses the concerns of nonnative speakers, and ESL Tips throughout the Instructor’s Annotated Edition provide helpful hints for novice and experienced instructors alike.
New to This Edition
TEST A unique tool that inspires student confidence and independence. This simple yet effective assessment tool helps students to remember the key elements to look for in the paragraphs and essays they read. In addition, it enables them to take inventory of their own paragraphs and essays as they begin the revision process. Using TEST as a guide, they can make sure their paragraphs and essays include all the necessary elements: Topic sentence (or thesis statement), Evidence, Summary statement, and Transitions.
Seeing and Writing prompts. These prompts introduce a connected strand of activities, a hallmark of the Kirszner/Mandell approach: students are prompted to respond to an image at the beginning of each chapter, to explore their responses in writing, and then to fine-tune their responses by following the instructions in the TEST-Revise-Edit box at the end of the chapter.
New, streamlined design. A brand-new design is both visually attractive and functional, helping students to differentiate the various elements of the text, keeping them engaged with the content.
Online grammar practice with Launch-Pad Solo. Foundations
First with Readings now comes with access to LearningCurve: innovative, adaptive online quizzes that let students learn at their own pace, with a game-
like interface that keeps them engaged. Quizzes are keyed to grammar instruction in the book, so what is taught in class is reinforced at home. Instructors can also check in on each student’s activity in a grade book. Additional multiple-choice grammar exercises offer students even more practice with their most challenging grammar concepts. The exercises are auto-gradable and report directly to the instructor’s grade book. Marginal callouts throughout the book direct students to these online exercises, part of the book’s LaunchPad Solo.
Support for Instructors and Students
Foundations First with Readings is accompanied by comprehensive teaching and learning support.
Print Online CD-ROM
Student Resources
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LaunchPad Solo for Foundations First with Readings, at macmillanhighered.com/foundationsfirst, provides students with autograded interactive and adaptive grammar exercises.
Re:Writing 3, at macmillanhighered.com/rewriting, gives students even more ways to think, watch, practice, and learn about writing concepts. New open online resources with videos and interactive elements engage students in new ways of writing. You’ll find tutorials about using common digital writing tools; an interactive peer-review game, Extreme Paragraph Makeover; and more all for free and for fun.
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The Bedford/St. Martin’s Textbook Reader, Second Edition, by Ellen Kuhl Repetto, gives students practice in reading college textbooks across the curriculum. This brief collection of chapters from market-leading introductory college textbooks can be packaged inexpensively with Foundations First. Beginning with a chapter on college success, The Bedford/St. Martin’s Textbook Reader also includes chapters from current texts on composition, mass communication, history, psychology, and environmental science. Comprehension questions and tips for reading success guide students in reading college-level materials efficiently and effectively. Package ISBN: 978-1-319-01167-3
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The Instructor’s Annotated Edition of Foundations First with Readings contains answers to all grammar practice exercises as well as many of the exercises that appear throughout the reading and writing instructional chapters, in addition to numerous teaching ideas, reminders, and crossreferences useful to instructors at all levels of experience. ISBN: 978-1-45763361-4
The Instructor’s Manual for Foundations First with Readings
offers advice for teaching developmental writing as well as general teaching suggestions for important aspects of the course, including structure, diagnostics, conferencing, and syllabi. Additionally, this instructor’s manual includes chapter-by-chapter pointers for using Foundations First with Readings in the classroom and gives answers to all of the book’s practice exercises. To download, go to macmillanhighered.com/foundationsfirst/catalog. ISBN: 978-1-45768495-1
Testing Tool Kit: Writing and Grammar Test Bank CD-ROM enables instructors to create secure, customized tests and quizzes from a pool of nearly 2,000 questions covering 47 topics. It also includes 10 prebuilt diagnostic tests. ISBN: 978-0-3124-3032-0
Diagnostic and Mastery Tests for Foundations First with Readings, Fifth Edition, offer diagnostic and mastery tests that complement the topics covered in Foundations First. To download, go to macmillanhighered.com/foundationsfirst/catalog. ISBN: 978-1-45768979-6
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Acknowledgments
In our work on Foundations First, we have benefited from the help of a great many people.
We are grateful to Randee Falk, who made valuable contributions to the exercises and writing activities in the text, as well as to Mallory Ladd, who helped adapt exercises for online use.
Instructors throughout the country have contributed suggestions and encouragement at various stages of the book’s development. For their collegial support, we thank Steven Adkison, Wallace Community College; Matthew Allen, Wright College; Douglas Armendarez, East Los Angeles College; Valerie Bronstein, American River College; Jill Cadwell, Century College; David Cassick, Los Angeles Trade Technical College; Judy Covington, Trident Technical College; Laurel Gardner, Sierra College; Suzanne Hammond, Dodge City Community College; Karen Henderson, University of Montana Helena College of Technology; Mary Anne Keefer, Lord Fairfax Community College; Mary Jae Kleckner, Mid-State Technical College; Steve Lewis, University of Montana Helena College of Technology; Carl Mason, UMass Lowell; Jennifer McCann, Bay College; Kelly Mieszek, Greenville Technical College; Josie Mills, Arapahoe Community College; Christopher Morelock, Walters State Community College; Lori Morrow, Rose State College; Sandra Nichols, Mid-State Technical College; Robin O’Quinn, Connors State College; Brit Osgood-Treston, Riverside City College; Cara Phillips, Greenville Technical College; Cindy Pierce,
Northwest Mississippi Community College; Marie Reeves, Cincinnati Christian University; Cathy Rusco, Muskegon Community College; Randall Silvis, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania; Anne Smith, Northwest Mississippi Community College; Roberta Steinberg, Mount Ida College; Jamie Tanzman, Northern Kentucky University; Sharon Tippins, Martin University; Sandra Vandercook, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary; Julie Voss, Front Range Community College; Theresa Walther, Rose State College; Julie Warner, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Mary Wilson, Greenville Technical College; and Viktor Zamora, Southwest Los Angeles Community College.
At Bedford/St. Martin’s, we thank founder and former president Charles Christensen, former president Joan Feinberg, and former editor in chief Nancy Perry, who believed in this project and gave us support and encouragement from the outset. We thank Denise Wydra, Karen Henry, and Edwin Hill for overseeing this edition. We are also grateful to Val Zaborski, Samuel Jones, and Peter Jacoby for guiding the book ably through production. Many thanks also go to Christina Shea, senior marketing manager, and Vivian Garcia, market development manager. And finally, we thank our editor, Jill Gallagher, for all her hard work on this project.
It almost goes without saying that Foundations First with Readings could not exist without our students, whose work inspired the sample sentences, paragraphs, and essays in this book. We thank all of them, past and present, who have allowed us to use their work.
We are grateful in addition for the continued support of our families. Finally, we are grateful for the survival and growth of the writing partnership we entered into when we were graduate students. We had no idea then of the wonderful places our collaborative efforts would take us. Now, we know.
Laurie G. Kirszner
Stephen R. Mandell
A Note to Students
It’s no secret that writing will be very important in most of the courses you take in college. Whether you write lab reports or English papers, midterms or final exams, your ability to organize your thoughts and express them in writing will help to determine how well you do. In other words, succeeding at writing is the first step toward succeeding in college. On the job and in everyday life, if you can express yourself clearly and effectively, you will stand a better chance of achieving your goals and making a difference in the world.
Whether you write as a student, as an employee, as a parent, or as a concerned citizen, your writing almost always has a specific purpose. For example, when you write an essay, a memo, a letter, or a research paper, you are writing not just to complete an exercise but also to give other people information or to tell them your ideas or opinions. That is why, in this book, we don’t just ask you to do grammar exercises and fill in the blanks; in each chapter, we also ask you to apply the skills you are learning to a writing assignment of your own.
As teachers and as former students we know how demanding college can be and how hard it is to juggle assignments with work and family responsibilities. We also know that you don’t want to waste your time. That’s why in Foundations First we make information easy to find and use and include many different features to help you become a better writer.
Laurie G. Kirszner
Stephen R. Mandell
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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. ”
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.
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
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
“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
“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.”
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. ”
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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 AngloSaxondom.”
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.”
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
HARRY CHARLES. There’s no base like home. il *$1.75 (3c) Doubleday
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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
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 tragicomical 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
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
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
+ strained to make destructive facts work toward constructive ends.”
N Y Call p10 Ag 15 ’20 600w
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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)
“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.”
+ + Booklist 16:230 Ap ’20
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
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
