A Selective Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Richard Whiteing

44 A SELECTIVE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WRITINGS ABOUT RICHARD WHITEING By V/endell V. Harris (University of Colorado) The following bibliography excludes unpublished theses, newspapers other than the TIMES (Lond), and all instances in which Whiteing's name figures in a mere list of writers. Atherton, Gertrude. ADVENTURES OF A NOVELIST. NY: Liveright, 1932. Pp. 162, 169, 249-5I, 262, 386. Passing mention of W as having "kept house" in Paris with George Moore, as a visitor at the William Sharp's, as guest among other writers at Mrs. T. P. O'Connor's garden parties, as living with the Corkran sisters. [Ws name misspelled as "Whiting" throughout.] Baker, Ernest A. THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL. Lond: H. F. 6- G. Witherby, 1938, 1939. IX, 234; X, 253.' Brief ref to No. 5 JOHN STREET as a "highly serious sociological study of the poor. . . , thrown not ineffectively, into the form of a novel." THE ISLAND is bracketed in a single sentence with Bellamy's LOOKING BACKWARD as one of "two very diverse excursions of sociological fancy." Bicknell, Percy F. "Retrospects of an English Journalist," DIAL (Chicago), LX (13 Apr I9I6), 375-76. A rev of MY HARVEST consisting primarily of a summary of W's life and views as there presented. "The Bookman's Diary," BOOKMAN (Lond), LXXIV (Aug 1928), 258. Notice of W's death, stressing his never-wavering idealism. "Brief Comment and Gossip of Authors," CURRENT LITERATURE, XXXVI (Feb 1904), 23839 . A brief notice of W's position in literature, arguing that a good journalist will not necessarily be a poor novelist, and listing some of his journalistic endeavors and his novels. "Democracy is the keynote of his thought and realism the vehicle which he chooses to present it to his readers." Chesterton, G. K. "New Books: THE YELLOW VAN," BOOKMAN (Lond), XXV (Dec I9O3), I36-37. On the whole a favorable rev, but Chesterton finds that the novel does suffer from one difficulty: "It is not . . . that political affairs are too serious for fiction. It is rather that fiction is too serious for political affai rs." "Civil List Pensions," TIMES (Lond). 11 July 1910, p. 12. Included In list of pensions granted during the year ending 31 Mar 1910 is the following entry: "Mr. Richard Whiteing, in consideration of the literary merits of his writings, b 100." Colburn, Grace Isabel. "Richard Whiteing's THE YELLOW VAN," BOOKMAN (NY), XVIII (Feb 1904), 649-50. W has a clear realization of social problems, but vague remedies. V/'s writing a bit forced at the beginning and end, but simple and powerful in the rest of the novel. 45 Elwîn, Malcomb. OLD GODS FALLING. NY: Macmillan, 1939. Pp. 105, 106, 198. Passing refs; W, Is mentioned as a "one-book [NO. 5 JOHN STREET] author." "Fiction and Philanthropy," EDINBURGH REVIEW, CXCI (Apr 1900), 305-33. W is a gifted writer who has exaggerated the number and luxury of the rich and the number of the poor. W's economics are wrong—the luxury of the rich does not cause misery of the poor. The picture of the living conditions of the very rich is inaccurate of the very poor as quite realistic. "Mr. Whiteing and the class or emotional reformer represented by him may render the cause of progress good service with their hearts, but, if this is to be so, the counsel which their hearts offer must be rigorously controlled and modified by quite other people's heads." Flidlater, Jane Helen. "The Slum Movement in Fiction," NATIONAL REVIEW, XXXV (May 1900), 447-54; rptd STONES FROM A GLASS HOUSE. Lond: James Nisbet, 1904. Pp. 65-88, espec 76-77. Though true, there is little new in NO. 5 JOHN STREET. Horrors of one more unwholesome trade are shown dramatically, but th their cure, as depicted in the novel, is old and another is not needed to illustrate it. [ESL] Frierson, William C. THE ENGLISH NOVEL IN TRANSITION. Norman: University of Oklahoma P, 1942. Pp. 46, 93-98, 319, 320. The central ref is largely a trans from L'INFLUENCE DU NATURALISME [below] but It places W's work further outside naturalism than does the earlier version. ........ L...