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HAGEDORN, HERMANN. That human being, Leonard Wood. *$1 (7c) Harcourt, Brace & Howe
20–8515
A eulogistic sketch of General Wood by one who regards him as the legitimate successor of the late Colonel Roosevelt. It is also an arraignment of the Wilson administration and a campaign document. “Gradually, as month has succeeded month and the presidential election has drawn near, Wood has become the focus of the hopes of an increasing number of men and women scattered over the country who have found in him a symbol of that blunt belief in facts, that respect for training and experience, that love of open dealing, which the administration has offended.... It is not strange that countless Americans, angered at the lack of these qualities in the administration, should seek to make the man who most patently possesses them, the instrument of their indignation.”
“The little book will have no political influence at this time, but it should have a personal influence to inspire better citizenship and continual preparedness.” J. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p11 My 15 ’20 300w
“The briefest and most readable of the various current biographies of General Wood.”
+ R of Rs 61:670 Je ’20 50w
HAGGARD, SIR HENRY RIDER. Ancient Allan. *$1.75 Longmans
20–5230
“‘The ancient Allan’, by Sir H. Rider Haggard, reintroduces some of the characters of ‘The ivory child.’ Lady Ragnall, Allan Quartermain, and his faithful Hottentot Hans, are shown us in a previous incarnation by means of the mysterious Taduki, as ancient Egyptians, warring for the independence of their country against the Lords of the East.” (Sat R) “The new chronicle is chockful of excitement. There are fights with lions and a crocodile, duels to the death, the clash of mighty hosts in battle. There is a signet ring whose bearer commands unquestioning obedience from those who behold it, an attribute which the Allan of bygone centuries finds most useful when his faithful dwarf purloins it from its possessor, the villainous king of kings. There is a white-bearded soothsayer, who keeps dropping in and making solemn prophecies of a brilliant future for the great Captain Shabaka. There are hunters and soldiers, cringing courtiers and solemn priests, warriors and slaves, and the waters of the ancient Nile murmuring through the breathless narrative.” (N Y Times)
Ath p274 F 27 ’20 240w + Booklist 16:347 Jl ’20 Lit D p121 S 18 ’20 1500w
“The tale is told swiftly and simply, as all good Rider Haggard tales are told. It moves so naturally that one overlooks the unreality. ‘The ancient Allan’ is by no means to be named in the same breath with ‘King Solomon’s mines’ and other earlier creations of its indefatigable author. But it will not disappoint the reader who wants thrills without analyzing too closely the methods employed to provide them for him.”
+ N Y Times 25:152 Ap 4 ’20 900w
“It is a very good example of the author at his second best—we can never hope to recover the first thrill of ‘She.’”
+ − Sat R 129:352 Ap 10 ’20 80w
“The story is told in Sir Rider’s customary colorful style and with his gift for creating illusion. Ancient Egypt becomes a vivid reality.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 25 ’20 420w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p104 F 12 ’20 600w
HAIG, DOUGLAS HAIG, 1st earl. Sir Douglas Haig’s despatches. il *$15 Dutton 940.342
20–762
“From the time Field Marshal (now Earl) Haig assumed the chief command of the British armies in France on December 19, 1915, until the close of fighting at the end of 1918, he forwarded to the war office at London in May and December of each year a summary of the operations for the six months preceding. These were intended frankly for the information of the people at home and were quite apart from the detailed, confidential information sent daily from great headquarters in France to the general staff at home. These statements have been collected and edited by Lieut.-Col. J. H. Boraston, private secretary to Earl Haig and published under the title ‘Sir Douglas Haig’s despatches.’ The despatches, which number eight and fill 357 pages of the heavy volume, are preceded by an introduction written by Marshal Foch, and a preface by the field marshal himself. The volume is accompanied by a number of carefully prepared, highly detailed maps in large scale.”—Springf’d Republican
“For those desirous of studying the war as a military event, these despatches furnish information of remarkable clearness and precision. The splendid series of very large and detailed maps which accompanies the volume, not only enables one to follow each detail of every struggle, but appeals to the imagination.”
+ No Am 212:135 Jl ’20 2600w
“Altogether the volume is an invaluable aid to the student of the campaigns that it describes.”
+ R of Rs 62:112 Jl ’20 100w
“The civilian and the soldier alike may profit by reading and re-reading the masterly despatches of Lord Haig.”
+ Spec 123:769 D 6 ’19 1000w Springf’d Republican p8 Mr 23 ’20 950w
HALDANE, RICHARD BURDON HALDANE, 1st viscount of Cloan. Before the war. il *$2.50 (5½c) Funk 327.42
20–3879
The attitude of the author throughout is that of an impartial investigator rather than an accuser. “Few wars are really inevitable,” he says. “If we knew better how we should be careful to comport ourselves it may be that none are so.... How some of those who were deeply responsible for the conduct of affairs tried to think in the anxious years before the war, and how they endeavored to apply their conclusions, is what I have endeavored to state in the course of what follows.” (Introd.) The book is based on personal, official experience and contains several interviews of the author with the kaiser. In the epilog, deprecating the harshness of the treaty, he says: “It is at all events possible that the wider view of a generation later than this may be one in which Germany will be judged more gently than the Allies can judge her today. We do not now look on the French revolution as our forefathers looked on it.... And here some enlargement of the spirit seems to be desirable in our own interest.” Contents: Introduction: Diplomacy before the war; The German attitude before the war; The military preparations; Epilog; Index.
“As a defence of those in power it is sincere and in the blame for the war attributed to Germany, temperate and generously sympathetic. The style is admirable. Interesting for general readers and as a first hand account.”
+ Booklist 17:66 N ’20
Reviewed by Sganarelle
+ Dial 68:799 Je ’20 250w Lit D 64:116 Mr 13 ’20 1250w
“It goes without saying that Viscount Haldane makes out a good case for Great Britain: but he does so in anything but a blindly chauvinistic temper. Without anger or irritation, imputing sinister motives to none, he deals honestly with the facts as he sees them and presents his case with a patient and persuasive reasonableness that lends an air of finality to his conclusions. Nevertheless, what strikes one on reflection is that the discussion never goes below the surface of things.” Carl Becker
+ − Nation 110:692 My 22 ’20 1600w Outlook 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 310w
“Great injustice has been done by the press and the public to Mr Haldane’s work before the war as secretary of state.... The war being over, Lord Haldane publishes his defence, which we hope everybody will read, and having read, will admit to be a refutation of charges hatched in the fever of fear.”
+ Sat R 129:187 F 21 ’20 1250w
“Lord Haldane’s defence of the policy adopted by the liberal government towards Germany between 1906 and 1914 deserves attentive reading. His little volume, mainly composed from the articles which he has published recently in various periodicals, has been hastily put together and contains a certain amount of repetition, but it is an obviously sincere attempt to explain and justify a policy that has brought much unmerited odium on the author.”
+ − Spec 124:83 Ja 17 ’20 950w
HALE, FREDERICK. From Persian uplands. *$5 Dutton 915.5
(Eng ed 20–11662)
“Mr Hale was stationed from 1913 to 1917 at Birjand, in eastern Persia, and from 1917 onwards at Kermanshah, near the western frontier. This book contains his letters to a friend at home, describing the ordinary course of life in sleepy Persia, and touching lightly on the German and Turkish intrigues and the measures taken to counteract them. Mr Hale declares that the Persians are far more intelligent than their neighbors, and that they only need good schools and a tolerable administration. Mr Hale was engaged at Kermanshah in the preparations for General Dunsterville’s romantic little expedition to Baku.”—Spec
“Here is a vivid picture of Persia during the war made by one who can describe his own times in delicate phrasing and neat speech.” R. C. T.
+ Ath p506 Ap 16 ’20 600w
“His comment on current topics ... is extremely diverting, always in good taste, and enlivened with a dash of humor reminiscent of Howells. It is the charming style and manner which make the book worth while.”
+ Bookm 52:272 N ’20 100w
“Mr Hale is a charming writer, and he evidently knows and likes the Persian people. Thus his unpretentious book gives perhaps a truer picture of modern Persia than some more ambitious works.”
+ Spec 124:526 Ap 17 ’20 220w The Times [London] Lit Sup p248 Ap 22 ’20 530w
HALE, LOUISE (CLOSSER) (MRS WALTER HALE). American’s London. il *$2 (1½c) Harper 914.21
20–26752
An American actress goes to London for a season and talks wittily and ramblingly about her experiences on and off the stage. She gives many a glimpse of the aftermath of the war in London streets, in London houses, and in London heads in the form of opinions and judgments. The book is illustrated.
“Pleasing, spontaneously humorous, keen often, and clever, though the author’s self-consciousness will seem to some to be intrusive.”
+ − Booklist 17:111 D ’20
“From her first page to her last, Mrs Hale is distinctly entertaining. Her philosophy of life is a genial one and her style of presenting it agreeably light and pleasantly tinged with humor.” F. A. G.
+ Boston Transcript p4 D 29 ’20 870w
“Mrs Hale has a very pleasant style, a nice discrimination in the incidents she relates, and a gently humorous way of recording her experiences that makes her book delightful reading.”
+ Lit D p94 N 20 ’20 1550w
“‘An American’s London’ is no solemn study of social economics, but it is fully as illuminating as a dozen scholarly tomes and far more likely to make an impression on the lay reader’s memory. Its pages are lightened by a sprightly sense of humor, and the enjoyment of reading is further heightened by the author’s generous sharing of her most intimate confidences.”
+ N Y Times p10 S 26 ’20 2200w
“The book is more Hale than London, but under the circumstances who would have it otherwise?”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 O 21 ’20 280w
HALE, WILLIAM BAYARD. Story of a style. *$2 Huebsch
An analysis of President Wilson’s literary style by the author of “Woodrow Wilson; the story of his life.” “Mr Woodrow Wilson,” says the author, “is a man of words.... What he has accomplished—and his has been a wonderful record of accomplishment—has been accomplished through statement, argument, appeal. His scepter is his—pen; his sword is his—tongue; his realm is that of—words. Therefore it ought to be, it infallibly will be, in his language that Mr Wilson’s real self will be revealed.” Beginning with the essay on “Cabinet government in the United States,” written at the age of twenty-two, Mr Hale examines Mr Wilson’s writings and speeches, pointing out his excessive use of adjectives, his habits of repetition and interrogation, etc., and drawing his inferences therefrom. The book was written before the President fell sick, and was completed on Sept. 26, 1919. Contents: Prophetic symptoms; Aristocratic affectations; Learned addictions; Symbolism; Phonetic phenomena; Doubt and the flight from the fact; A typical manuscript; Concerning popular repute; The story of the League of nations speeches.
HALL, AMANDA BENJAMIN.[[2]] Blind wisdom. *$1.90 (1½c) Jacobs
20–17531
Joan Wister was and remained a character of incorruptible sincerity and spontaneity. Because she was clear as crystal and trusted her own impulses she was a puzzle. Expelled from boarding school on account of her inconvenient questionings of the things that were taught her, she found a friend in Jerry Callendar, her brother-in-law’s law partner. For years he was her friend, adviser and father confessor and when one day Joan found herself precipitantly in love with Bret Ballou and her course beset with obstacles and temptations more than she could bear, she fled to Jerry for protection and demanded that he should marry her, the better to secure this end. Although Jerry truly loved her he took upon himself the rôle of protector only and for a year even gave her every chance to try out her infatuation for Bret. Before the end of the year the make believe marriage had gone through various stages, finally arriving at the real thing.
“The entire book has many delightful descriptions, and some bits of whimsy humor. The ending of the story with its subduing veil of pathos, is a flash of pure inspiration, worthy of the poet as well as the novelist.” W. T. R.
+ Boston Transcript p8 D 1 ’20 600w
“In Joan Miss Hall shows to great advantage not only as a teller of tales but as an acute and dramatic delineator of character.”
+ N Y Evening Post p16 D 4 ’20 520w
Reviewed by Marguerite Fellows
Pub W 98:1886 D 18 ’20 260w
HALL, ARNOLD BENNETT. Monroe doctrine and the great war. (National social science ser.) *75c McClurg 327
20–2059
“The author has aimed ‘to present in simple form an accurate but brief account of the origin and development of the doctrine and some of its relations to the present problems of peace.’ He concludes that the League of nations is the logical method of extending the principles of the Monroe doctrine to the larger diplomatic problems of the present.”—Booklist
“The narrative is generally clear and in most respects quite conventional.” J. S. R.
+ Am Hist R 26:150 O ’20 370w
“A convenient summary.”
+ Booklist 16:262 My ’20 + Dial 68:669 My ’20 80w
“Professor Hall furnishes us with a compendious account of the Monroe doctrine, which not only skillfully skims the cream from more extensive compilations, but churns it, salts it, and serves it up ready for the table. When, however, it comes to making bread and butter of the doctrine and the covenant, Mr Hall’s success is not conspicuous.” E. S. Corwin
+ − Review 3:70 Jl 21 ’20 1100w
HALL, GRACE. Stories of the saints. *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday 922
20–7587
“For children, young and old” these stories of the saints are retold in the form of legends. The contents fall into two parts. Some of the saints whose story is told in part 1 are St Thomas, in The palace of Gondoforus; St Patrick; St Bridgit of Kildare; St Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins; St Edward’s smile, and the seven sleepers; St Louis of France; St Margaret of Scotland; St Anthony of Padua; St Elizabeth of Hungary. Part 2 under the caption “The saints and their humble friends” contains in part: St Francis, the birds and the beasts; St Roch and his dog; St Deicolus and the wild boar; St Felix and the spider. The chronological order of the saints gives a list of the saints according to their century and one according to their days.
Booklist 16:316 Je ’20
HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY. Morale, the supreme standard of life and conduct. *$3 Appleton 170
20–13129
The background of this book, as the war-term “morale” suggests, is the war. The author holds that the war itself revealed the bankruptcy of the old criteria and that our human standards and values must now be subjected to a redefinition. This the book sets out to do, using morale with a psychophysic connotation in its individual, industrial and social applications. “It implies the maximum of vitality, life abounding, getting and keeping in the very center of the current of creative evolution; and minimizing, destroying, or avoiding all checks, arrests, and inhibitions to it.” (Chapter I) The long list of contents is in part: Morale as a supreme standard; Morale, patriotism and health; The morale of placards, slogans, decorations, and war museums; Conscientious objectors and diversities of patriotic ideals; The soldier ideal and its conservation in peace; The labor problem; Morale and feminism; Morale and education; Morale and “The Reds”; Morale and religion; Bibliography.
+ Booklist 17:6 O ’20
“Of course, Dr Hall has many valuable things to say in his book. He colors up his quasi-physical norm of morality with a good dash now and again of Christian sentiment. Still it is a pity that he, like so many of our ‘advanced’ collegiate thinkers, can find so little room for Christ.”
− + Cath World 112:696 F ’21 490w
“The book is keenly analytic, a little coloured by the Freudian trend of what philosophy people will read nowadays, but helpful in its breadth and application, to any one concerned with studying or directing the rest of the race.” E. P.
+ Dial 70:109 Ja ’21 90w
“The style of the book under review is symbolic of its weakness. It appears to be the product of what he calls ‘exuberant, euphorious, and eureka moments.’” Preserved Smith
− Nation 111:595 N 24 ’20 780w
“Some of the psychologic explanations in this volume are undoubtedly ingenious. But as to the reality of the facts which he explains it is not so easy to be certain. But considerations of fact are, after all, not primary in the author’s regard. He believes that facts ‘cannot and must not’ change certain treasured beliefs.”
− + New Repub 24:126 S 29 ’20 1400w
“No writer of modern times has so completely freed himself from every vestige of scholastic methods, nor dared so freely to apply to religion, ethics, education and social reconstruction, every last and newest product of psychogenetic, psychoanalytic, experimental and differential psychology. The result is that Dr Hall’s style is peculiarly stimulating, refreshing and invigorating.” G. T. W. Patrick
+ N Y Times p18 O 24 ’20 1300w
“To speak seriously, these vivacious lectures are the readable improvisations of a clever ready writer who possesses a facility of association that Emerson would have envied, but who persistently overworks and overloads his faculty or facility with undigested reminiscences of his German studies and his subsequent dabblings in all the sciences and all the philosophies.” Paul Shorey
− + Review 3:378 O 27 ’20 1600w
“Dr Hall’s views will often be found ‘stimulating’ for their independence, whether one agrees with them or not. But there is no groundwork of a new ethics or new sociology here. As with some other books of Dr Hall’s, better organization of the material and more careful writing would improve this one.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 8 ’20 1400w
“On the whole the work will hardly enhance the reputation of the author of ‘Adolescence.’ First presented as a series of lectures during the war, it reveals in many places the highly colored effects induced by war-time emotions. Besides it views the psychologic features in life out of all due proportion.” H: Neumann
− Survey 45:332 N 27 ’20 280w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p782 N 25 ’20 190w
HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY. Recreations of a psychologist. *$2.50 Appleton
20–20441
“Vacation skits” the author calls this collection of short stories, whose merit he claims to be their illustration of psychological principles. The first of these stories, “The fall of Atlantis,” is a new version of the Platonic myth, and records what happened to the world after the year 2000—the record purporting to have been made by the writer’s subliminal self while his conscious mind was in a state of amnesia. The other stories are: How Johnnie’s vision came true; A conversion; Preëstablished harmony—a midsummer revery of a psychologist; Getting married in Germany; A man’s adventure in domestic industries; A leap year romance; Note on early memories.
“Dr Hall is in error when he styles his work in these fields ‘crude and amateurish if judged from the standpoint of literature’; he is right when he claims a distinct merit for it as a means to the enunciation of scientific principles. The literary touch and the psychological implication characterize the book throughout.” E. N.
+ Boston Transcript p10 D 8 ’20 500w
HALL, HERSCHEL SALMON. Steel preferred. *$2 Dutton
20–12451
“‘Steel preferred’ is a punning title, the point being that Wellington Gay, born and brought up in the steel industry, can not be tempted away from it. There his personal success or failure must be made, and which it may be is a matter of secondary importance. Steel is his lode-star and his love. All he asks is to be permitted to take a hand somehow, somewhere, in the great game of steel-making. Chance takes him away from Steelburg, as chance has brought him there—in the same boxcar, to round out the coincidence. He has an uncommon knack for clerical work, and is presently offered a promising position in a city office. But chance once more sets him down at Steelburg, and the old spell takes him. Once more he becomes a cheerful drudge, overworked, unrecognized, and happy in the service of his mistress Steel. He is discovered after a while by a new manager, and given his first step upwards on the climb from roustabout to master of Steelburg. The point is that, whether as roustabout or ‘old man,’ the main thing with him is love of work and not love of personal reward or ‘success.’”—Review
“Boys and men will like this.”
+ Booklist 17:32 O ’20
“A good story well told and a vivid picture of the life of a big steel plant are combined in this very readable novel.”
+ N Y Times 25:26 Jl 25 ’20 420w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ Review 3:214 S 8 ’20 650w
“An entertaining and inspiring story.”
+ Springf’d Republican p5a Ja 30 ’21 220w
HALL, JAMES NORMAN, and NORDHOFF, CHARLES BERNARD, eds. Lafayette flying corps; associate editor, Edgar G. Hamilton. 2v il *$15 Houghton 940.44
20–17744
“In offering this record of the Lafayette flying corps to the families and friends of the men who served in it, and to the public at large, the editors feel that a few words of explanation are necessary. Their purpose has been twofold: to furnish a record as complete and authentic as possible, and to reconstruct an atmosphere.” (Preface) The contents of the first volume comprise: The origin of the Escadrille Américaine; The Escadrille Lafayette at the front; The Lafayette flying corps and Biographical sketches. Volume 2 is devoted wholly to letters and personal reminiscences, arranged under the headings: Enlistment and early training; Adventures in action; Life on the front; Combats; Prisoners of war. Lists of dead, wounded, prisoners of war, etc. are given in an appendix. The volumes are very fully illustrated.
+ Booklist 17:108 D ’20
“One hoped, upon learning that such a history was to appear, that at least a fair proportion of the possibilities might be compassed, and it is a great satisfaction to find in the finished book these hopes more than realized and expectations generally surpassed. The editors are to be congratulated and heartily thanked for their achievement.” J. W. D. Seymour
+ Boston Transcript p4 D 31 ’20 1100w + Outlook 126:654 D 8 ’20 120w
“The brief biographies are touched off, not always quite happily, with the jocularity of a college class book. Everything is written from the point of view of the insider. Thus the outsider will have to pick and choose. The picking, however, is excellent.” F. J. Mather
+ − Review 3:476 N 17 ’20 640w
HALLIBURTON, WILLIAM DOBINSON, ed. Physiology and national needs. *$4 Dutton 613
(Eng ed SG20–168)
“The physiologists in this country and in England were called upon during the war to give expert advice in food rationing, food conservation, health preservation, etc., and a series of public lectures on these topics given at King’s college by men of eminence in their profession have now been edited by Mr Halliburton. Some of them are worthy of special notice owing to the amount of new scientific knowledge they contain, knowledge that as yet has hardly penetrated beyond well-informed medical circles. Such, for example is the lecture by Professor Hopkins on vitamines. In the lecture by Professor Harden on scurvy a great deal of new and important information is collected and presented. In the article by Professor Dendy on ‘The conservation of our cereal reserves’ the difficulties connected with the storage of grain are described, and evidence is given for the great saving that might be effected by the adoption of a system of air-tight storage.”—Review
Ath p418 Mr 26 ’20 1300w
“The book as a whole is extraordinarily interesting from many different aspects, as much perhaps for the questions it asks as for those it answers.” A. E. B.
+ − Nature 105:286 Mr 6 ’20 1000w
“The addresses selected for publication are well written in popular style, free from scientific terminology, and may be read with profit by any intelligent person interested in such topics.”
+ Review 3:505 N 24 ’20 370w
“In all probability the reader will find the first three lectures dealing with foods and vitamines the most interesting of the series, but each one is well worth studying.”
+ Spec 124:870 Je 26 ’20 1200w
HAMBIDGE, JAY. Dynamic symmetry: the Greek vase, il *$6 Yale univ. press 738
20–15783
“The life-suggesting quality of Greek art by which generation after generation of art-lovers have been impressed is the true theme of the book. To get back of appearances to the source of this quality has been a task occupying more than twenty years of the author’s concentrated mental labor. Why should the Greek masterpieces suggest the life and growth of nature in their design while inferior designs suggest inertia and fail to stimulate the mind? The secret was simple enough, although it has called for an elaborate and extended process of proving by mathematical tests. It consists in the fact that the Greeks did all their measuring for works of art in areas, and that by finding the proportions of these areas in growing organisms such as plants, and especially the human figure, they provided themselves with a guide to the arrangement of areas in design that enabled them to capture vitality in all their works.”—N Y Times
“The make-up of the book is beautiful and the illustrations and general idea are interesting to the lay student, though the study of the text is for the artist.”
+ Booklist 17:60 N ’20
“What seems to distinguish this study is the effort, apparently quite subconsciously made, to cover the whole matter with an air of mystery. This has been done by the familiar device, prehistoric in origin and perennial in its growth, of creating a new vocabulary. Stripped of its mystery and set forth in simple language it would have been an interesting work.” D: E. Smith
− + Nation 111:326 S 18 ’20 1600w
“A contribution to the literature of art more searching and revealing than anything published within this field during the last century.”
+ N Y Times 25:20 Jl 4 ’20 1700w
“On the side of aesthetic appreciation ‘Dynamic symmetry’ affords, at least to one critic, very little help.... Mr Hambidge’s patient and modestly presented researches should cause a restudy of the whole problem, which can only be beneficial.” F. J. Mather, Jr.
+ − Review 3:456 N 10 ’20 1400w
“In this book through his re-discovery of the principles used by the Greek artists of the classic age, Mr Hambidge has opened up a new field in modern art.”
+ School Arts Magazine 20:187 N ’20 70 w + Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 13 ’20 110w
“At first sight his results appear little short of marvellous, and yet it may be doubted whether they are so convincing as appears to their author.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p700 O 28 ’20 1750w
HAMILTON, CICELY MARY. William—an Englishman. *$1.25 (2c) Stokes
20–8361
Mild-mannered, pale-faced, undersized, painstaking and obedient—thus is William Tully characterized in this biographical novel. At his desk in a London insurance office he is vaguely conscious that his too well regulated life has been ordered by his masterful mother. Her sudden death leaves him adrift and chance lands him among the reformers. Like a new garment he puts on their cult and convictions, finds him a wife among them—and is surprised by the war while on his honeymoon in Belgium. Inwardly and outwardly his world collapses about him and his wife is crushed in the ruins. Stunned he returns to England, his pacifism changed into patriotism. After several rejections he is accepted in the army and eventually finds himself caught in the rat-trap of a military clerkship from whence he is rescued from growing bitterness by an aerial bomb.
+ Booklist 17:32 O ’20
“The book is earnest, realistic and very well written, the emotional and dramatic portions of it getting a real hold on the reader’s imagination. It is an unpretentious volume, and a very moving, very interesting one.”
+ N Y Times 25:307 Je 13 ’20 400w
“Vividness of characters and a keen study of human emotions under abnormal strain, are the more noticeable traits of ‘William—an Englishman.’”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Je 27 ’20 300w
HAMILTON, CLAYTON MEEKER. Seen on the stage. *$1.75 (3c) Holt 792
20–21431
The author wishes this informal collection of essays to be considered as a suffix to his other books on the theatre. In the first paper, “Life and the theatre,” he quotes the Athenians who regarded our world as “the valley of soulmaking” and states that the aim of art should be to provide a sense of life for men who, in themselves, are not sufficiently alive to create art by their very living. Some of the other papers are: Personal greatness on the stage; Hero-worship in the drama; Acting and impersonation; The laziness of Bernard Shaw; Satire on the American stage; Le Théâtre du Vieux Colombier; In praise of puppet-theatres; Understanding the Russians; Ibsen once again; The Jewish art-theatre; Booth Tarkington as a playwright; The Athenian drama and the American audience; A reminiscence of the Middle Ages—Guibour; Edmond Rostand. The book is indexed.
+ Booklist 17:144 Ja ’21
“One of his most thorough criticisms is that of Eugene O’Neill, whom he thinks the greatest dramatist of the present day. Other essays in the volume are of less importance; they are correct but commonplace, and interesting chiefly for the gossip they contain.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p10 D 31 ’20 160w
“He has studied the drama of the past as thoroughly as he has mastered the drama of the present. In other words, his preparation for dramatic criticism is far more than adequate; it is exceptionally ample. To this substantial equipment for his task he adds also the other three qualifications which a critic ought to possess—insight and sympathy and disinterestedness.” Brander Matthews
+ N Y Times p4 Ja 30 ’21 1600w
HAMILTON, COSMO. Blue room. il *$1.90 (2c) Little
20–18662
Bill Mortimer comes back from the war with an intense desire to settle down and be happy with a wife and family. His past has been lurid, and he has memories locked in his “Blue room” which he wishes he could forget. His pal, Teddy Jedburgh, on the other hand, having walked the paths of rectitude in his youth, is inclined to kick over the traces and go the pace now. Both men fall in love with the same girl, a “Miss Respectable,” a “flower of a girl, with the dew on her and a morning hymn in her eyes.” Bill is the successful suitor and plans for the wedding are quickly made. Then just on the eve of the ceremony, Martha discovers Bill’s blue room, and, disillusioned and bitter, knows not which way to turn. It is Teddy who decides for her whether she shall, at the last moment, run away and refuse to marry Bill, or, letting the dead past bury its dead, carry on and marry him.
“The tale is told in a style of consistent and complacent banality, the very style of the movie commentator.” H. W. Boynton
− Bookm 52:342 Ja ’21 360w N Y Evening Post p10 N 6 ’20 100w
“The plot, which is rather simple, at times dovetails in too smoothly to convince the reader. But once it gets fairly under way it carries the reader along without a hitch, to the very end.”
+ − N Y Times p18 N 7 ’20 500w
Reviewed by Caroline Singer
Pub W 98:1194 O 16 ’20 320w
HAMILTON, COSMO. His friend and his wife. il *$1.75 (3c) Little
20–6492
A story of the Quaker Hill colony, an exclusive residential community within commuting distance of New York. Julian Osborn has been unfaithful to his wife and Margaret Meredith to her husband, but in the divorce proceedings a false alibi is provided for Margaret and she returns to her husband, resolved to be a model wife and mother henceforward. Julian and Daisy Osborn are also reconciled, and altho Daisy knows the truth, as do several other people, she joins in the conspiracy to shield Bob Meredith. Their plans are upset however. Mary Miller, the girl who out of gratitude to Margaret had sworn herself to be the guilty party, becomes engaged to one of the colony’s popular young men and the wife of the lawyer who arranged this false testimony, herself a malicious gossip, tells the truth. Tragedy is averted and affairs are settled to everyone’s satisfaction.
“Readable as Mr Hamilton’s style is, it must be admitted that he is not without his difficulties. It must be confessed that there is tedium in the triteness of some of his ideas and situations.” D. L. M.
+ − Boston Transcript p4 My 12 ’20 500w
“The background, cleverly and entertainingly sketched, is very much better than the overdrawn story.”
+ − Ind 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w
“Utterly unconvincing story.”
− N Y Times 25:237 My 9 ’20 350w
“Mr Hamilton’s story moves swiftly and keeps the reader intent on the disentangling of the threads. Two characters stand out clearly—the self-made inventor and the worldly-wise, kindly woman who dominates her little circle.” H. Dick
+ Pub W 97:994 Mr 20 ’20 180w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p442 Jl 8 ’20 180w
HAMILTON, ERNEST WILLIAM, lord. Elizabethan Ulster. *$6 Dutton 941.5
(Eng ed 20–655)
“‘Elizabethan Ulster’ is an account of the stormy days of that Irish province during the reign of Elizabeth of England. Ulster then was in continuous strife with one or another—and occasionally practically all—of the great Irish chieftains, who resisted the English attempt to overrun and colonize their lands. The greater part of the book is given over to the rebellion of the three Hughs—O’Neil, O’Donnell and Macguire—in which most of the chiefs participated. The movement is traced in detail from its earliest stages until after the battle of Kinsale. The closing chapters deal with a few later and weaker revolts and the flight of the Ulster Earls, Tyrone and Tyrconnell, to the continent in the reign of King James.”—Springf’d Republican
Ath p415 My 30 ’19 120w + Boston Transcript p8 Je 5 ’20 550w
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
Nation 110:555 Ap 24 ’20 500w
“It is a dull thing that he has given us, but not without its value. The chief fault of his work is his obvious inability to think himself back into an environment and a mode of life quite different from that of the year 1920.” H. L. Stewart
+ − Review 2:284 Mr 20 ’20 320w
“Every student of the history of Ulster must obtain this most valuable handbook. The publishers have, however, been so remiss as to send it out without either an index or even a table of contents.”
+ − Sat R 127:634 Je 28 ’19 420w
“Lord Ernest Hamilton’s handling of the subject is throughout wonderfully impartial; there are one or two generalizations which betray the side to which his feelings incline him, but he allows no personal prepossessions to interfere with an unbiassed presentation of the facts. The defects of his book are only incidental.”
+ − Spec 122:700 My 31 ’19 1700w + Springf’d Republican p10 Je 22 ’20 260w
“The atmosphere of war-time journalism has penetrated Lord Ernest’s historical study, and even his phraseology has occasionally suffered.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p332 Je 19 ’19 1500w
“‘Elizabethan Ulster’ fails, and partially for lack of the qualities of imagination and felicity of phrase.”
− Yale R n s 10:209 O ’20 150w
HAMILTON, FREDERICK SPENCER, lord. Vanished pomps of yesterday. *$4 (4c) Doran
(Eng ed 20–10129)
This is the second and revised edition of “some random reminiscences of a British diplomat.” His official duties took the author to Rome, Austria, Russia, Germany, Portugal, Brazil and Paraguay and he chats pleasantly of the life he saw. On the pomp and circumstance, the glitter and glamour of the three great courts of eastern Europe the curtain has now been rung down definitely, is his final verdict. There is an index.
+ Booklist 17:84 N ’20
“Seldom does one find a book more completely enjoyable than this collection of the random memories of a British diplomat. It is an ideal companion for an idle hour—an excellent article for suitcase or bedside table—a mine of precious anecdotes.”
+ N Y Times 25:28 Jl 11 ’20 1900w
“His volume really deserves the reviewer’s conventional praise of being impossible to lay down, if once begun. It is as fascinating as it is informing.” Archibald MacMechan
+ Review 3:348 O 20 ’20 900w
“The Russian chapters are the best in this engaging chronicle.”
+ Spec 123:815 D 13 ’19 1800w + Springf’d Republican p6 Je 29 ’20 800w
“There is nothing either indiscreet or malicious in his narrative; for all his lightness of touch, it is concerned with essentials, not with accidents; with conditions that were the growth of centuries, not with moods that are ephemeral; and its interest is permanent rather than startling.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p644 N 13 ’19 800w
HAMILTON, SIR IAN STANDISH MONTEITH. Gallipoli diary. 2v il *$10 Doran 940.42
(Eng ed 20–10127)
The author gives as his reason for keeping a diary during the Gallipoli campaign, his experiences with the Royal commission after the South African war. Never again would he trust his military memory without the black and white of his diary. It was a help to him in his work at the time, and he expects it to be his justification before the verdict of his comrades. Volume one dates from March 1915 to July 1915 and volume two from July to October 1915. There are illustrations, maps and an index.
“It is not so much for its literary qualities—for these have been a little exaggerated—that the book is one to read, but for the insight which it gives into a mind extremely sensitive to impressions not only of actual experience, but of the imagination. What he calls ‘the detachment of the writer’ enabled him to look at his force, his superiors, his subordinates, and, above all, himself, as elements in a stirring picture.” O. W.
+ Ath p795 Je 18 ’20 1500w
“It is a tragical story Sir Ian tells, but tells with all the art of a poet and the precision of a soldier.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p12 D 8 ’20 1700w
“Sir Ian exposes the system he represents in its horrible imbecility. His ‘Diary’ has changed the barrenness of disaster into a world service. As a member of the tribunal he selects, I vote for his acquittal.” W: J. M. A. Maloney
+ Nation 111:sup653 D 8 ’20 2000w
“It is the personal narrative of the failure of a great man in a great adventure. It is history more enthralling than any fiction.” F. L. Minnigen
+ N Y Times p9 N 7 ’20 1900w
“As the reader turns page after page of these volumes he may be surprised to find that he is getting not only a valuable narration of a particularly interesting campaign; he will find that the military man who writes the account is frequently capable of brilliantly atmospheric and poetic text.”
+ Outlook 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 130w
“For the general public the greatest charm of his diary lies in its characterizations of great leaders like Kitchener and Churchill, and its sketches of the principal officers of the expedition. At the same time military experts will find in its pages much new and valuable material by way of criticism of war policy.”
+ R of Rs 62:671 D ’20 150w
“We confess that, while the matter of the narrative absorbs our interest, we are repelled by the slangy style in which it is written.”
+ − Sat R 129:518 Je 5 ’20 1400w Spec 124:762 Je 5 ’20 1400w
HAMMOND, ARTHUR. Pictorial composition in photography. il *$3.50 (7c) Am. photographic pub. co. 770
20–11849
This work by the associate editor of American Photography takes up such subjects as spacing, mass, linear perspective, line composition applied to figure studies, tones in portraiture, etc. A knowledge of elementary principles is taken for granted and for the technical and scientific aspects of photography the reader is referred to other volumes in the series. The author’s purpose here is “to try to point out to the artist in photography some of the universally recognized rules of composition, and to give as much practical help as is possible in dealing with a phase of artistic work in which the personal equation is so important a factor.” (Chapter 1) The book is beautifully illustrated with forty-nine pictures from photographs.
“The simple, common-sense suggestions about picture-making in this book, backed as they are by thorough technical knowledge and wide experience, will make the volume of real, practical use to ambitious amateur photographers. The ‘soft-focus’ illustrations hardly do justice to the text.”
+ − Outlook 125:715 Ag 25 ’20 50w
“Nothing that the most ambitious worker may need is omitted by the author, whose equipment for the self-imposed task is remarkably complete. Modesty and self-repression, rather than egotism and presumption, characterize the mental attitude of the author throughout his engrossing volume.”
+ Photo-Era 45:104 Ag ’20 760w
HAMMOND, DARYN. Golf swing, the Ernest Jones method. il *$3 Brentano’s 796
(Eng ed 20–16277)
“Mr Hammond sets forth the views of Ernest Jones, the Chislehurst professional, on the golf swing, and they certainly deserve a sympathetic and attentive hearing, because Jones’s swing has stood the severest possible test. In March, 1916, he lost his right leg just below the knee, in France.... His new gospel, very briefly put, is that the golfer should first get a clear ‘mental picture’ of the shot he wants to play, then concentrate his mind entirely on the right action of hands and fingers, and let everything else take care of itself.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“The book is an interesting contribution to the theory of golf, but, in our opinion at least, it is too narrow in its range, and too exhaustive in that range, for a satisfactory volume of instruction.” B. R. Redman
+ − N Y Evening Post p12 D 4 ’20 110w + Springf’d Republican p8 Je 19 ’20 130w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p287 My 6 ’20)
“Despite its reiterations the book contains much that is interesting as well as original.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p287 My 6 ’20 250w
HAMMOND, JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON and HAMMOND, BARBARA (BRADBY) (MRS JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON HAMMOND). Skilled labourer, 1760–1832. *$4.50 (*12s 6d) Longmans 330.942
20–4494
“A companion volume to the valuable works by the same writers on ‘The village labourer’ and ‘The town labourer.’ In the latter they described the new life of town and factory introduced by the industrial revolution; they now give the history during the same period of particular bodies of skilled workers:—Miners of the Tyne; The cotton workers; The woollen and worsted workers; The Spitalfields silk weavers; The frame work knitters; The Nottingham, Lancashire, and Yorkshire Luddites.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“This story is not new: but the full and authoritative account of it is, and the historian may here find source-material for which he might otherwise search many weary months. The authors have done their work well. One wishes that they might have been a little less liberal, in the more technical sense of that word, in their attitude toward the ruling classes of the early nineteenth century.” W. P. Hall
+ − Am Hist R 26:324 Ja ’21 800w
“Despite the singularly felicitous style which is the endowment of the Hammonds, and despite the human interest of the book, it will not, probably, prove as charming to the general reader as ‘The village labourer.’” W. F. Woodring
+ − Am J Soc 26:364 N ’20 1050w
“Unfortunately there is not much information concerning the relation of labor to the development of English politics during the period prior to the great reform statute, although this aspect of things is not wholly neglected.”
+ − Am Pol Sci R 14:362 My ’20 110w
“There can be no question as to the very great merits of Mr and Mrs Hammond’s achievement. They have deservedly taken their place in the front rank of social or industrial historians. Their work is conscientious, scholarly, well written, of the greatest interest and the highest importance, and they have the instinct of the born ‘researcher.’ The authors are, however, content to let the facts speak for themselves.” L. W.
+ − Ath p76 Ja 16 ’20 1800w
“In view of the present industrial disturbances this intensive study of an earlier upheaval, written with interesting fact upon interesting fact, is illuminating.”
+ Booklist 17:12 O ’20
“The whole work is a splendid example of enlightened industry and painstaking care, and takes its place immediately among the great classics of English sociological literature.”
+ Cath World 111:404 Je ’20 290w + Dial 68:671 My ’20 100w
“The book is more impartial in its discussion of social questions than the two earlier volumes of the series; though the introduction, which describes the England of the period in terms of ‘civil war,’ is surely an exaggeration.”
+ Eng Hist R 35:624 O ’20 390w
“Brilliant volume. It is in no way inferior to its predecessors, than which there is hardly greater praise.” H. J. Laski
+ Nation 110:594 My 1 ’20 200w Sat R 129:188 F 21 ’20 1350w
“Readers who bear in mind the course of politics and of the Napoleonic wars will have in this book a really instructive commentary, from the workman’s standpoint, on the revolution then proceeding in British industry.”
+ Spec 124:243 F 21 ’20 1000w Springf’d Republican p8 F 7 ’20 90w
“Its timeliness quite apart, this history is one of the most fascinating ever written—perhaps because it renders articulate the masses of toiling people by fitting into a large, animated picture the thoughts, actions and sufferings of obscure individuals; perhaps also because it explains these chronicles with skilful and sympathetic psychological search for motives and current beliefs. It cannot be recommended too warmly.” B. L.
+ Survey 44:313 My 29 ’20 140w The Times [London] Lit Sup p771 D 18 ’19 80w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p95 F 12 ’20 1950w
HAMMOND, MATTHEW BROWN. British labor conditions and legislation during the war. *$1 Oxford; pa gratis Carnegie endowment for international peace 331
19–19930
One of the Preliminary economic studies of the war issued by the Carnegie endowment for international peace. Contents: The social background: English industry and labor at the outbreak of the war; Industrial panic and readjustment; The government and the trade unions; The munitions of war acts; The supply and distribution of labor; The dilution of labor; Wages, cost of living, hours of labor, welfare work and unemployment; Industrial unrest; Industrial reconstruction; Index. The author is professor of economics, Ohio state university, and was a member of the United States food administration.
Reviewed by Edith Abbott
+ Am Econ R 10:841 D ’20 160w
“This is a useful compilation but not altogether a mature treatment of the subject. The garnering has been conscientiously done, and the presentation is full, informing, and lucid.” H. L. Gray
+ − Am Hist R 25:550 Ap ’20 400w
Reviewed by E. H. Sutherland
+ Am J Soc 26:370 N ’20 150w Ath p353 Mr 12 ’20 100w
“We cannot help feeling that Professor Hammond could have added a great deal to the value of his book without unduly enlarging its bulk if he had relied less complacently on the material which he found ready to his hand. His work gives no indication of far-reaching research or first-hand acquaintance with British conditions. Yet it has considerable merit. It is clear and easy in style and remarkably unbiased.” G. S.
+ − Ath p442 Ap 2 ’20 500w
“An interesting preliminary survey written in an uncritical historical way.”
+ Booklist 16:262 My ’20
Reviewed by C. C. Plehn
+ Nation 111:379 O 6 ’20 190w
“The volume gives a documentary history of the reactions of the war on labor in England which future students will find invaluable.” H. W. L.
+ Socialist R 8:252 Mr ’20 100w
“Within its limits the present study is of the highest value. The present reviewer has found it accurate on the matters he happens to know about, and sufficiently detailed to make clear the intentions of the legislature even on comparatively small points.” B. L.
+ Survey 43:781 Mr 20 ’20 300w
HAMSUN, KNUT. Hunger. *$2.50 (3½c) Knopf
20–21963
The book has been translated from the Norwegian by George Egerton and has an introduction by Edwin Björkman. It is an epic of hunger. A young writer has fallen on evil days and is condemned to long spells of hunger between the acceptances of articles now and then by some paper. The physical privations he undergoes are only casually described but the psychology of hunger is enlarged upon with distressing detail. There is black despair suddenly replaced by fantastic mirth, clear mental vision by hallucinations and delirium, complete lassitude by sudden spurts of energy, morbid sensitiveness about his condition by brazen affrontery and mendacity.
“The work belongs to the naturalist movement of thirty years ago. Its belated appearance in America may be excused on the ground that no public could have been found for it earlier.” E. P.
+ Dial 70:106 Ja ’21 70w + Nation 112:122 Ja 26 ’21 200w
“Its artistic quality is indisputable. The book is very real, very frank—distressingly and shockingly frank, some persons will no doubt consider it. But none can deny that it is life, genuine, if appalling.”
+ N Y Times p20 D 12 ’20 1000w
“There are occasional gleams of light, hints of humor, which relieve the tense and depressing atmosphere of a book at once repellent and compelling, highly imaginative and profoundly true.” R. F. Eliot
+ Pub W 98:1884 D 18 ’20 300w
“‘Hunger’ is an extraordinary book, to be read with one’s faculties alert, quickened to a difficult understanding of a supernormal human soul.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 D 7 ’20 490w
HANIFAN, LYDA JUDSON. Community center. (Teacher training ser.) $1.52 Silver 374.28
20–3342
In 1913 the author prepared “A handbook for community meetings at rural schoolhouses” for the use of West Virginia school teachers. The wide and continued demand for this work has led her to treat the subject more comprehensively in the present book. “The aim has been to emphasize strongly two things which the author believes to be fundamental in any plan that may be followed in the improvement of rural life conditions: (1) The redirection of rural forces must be effected by the rural people themselves; (2) for the present, and probably for a good many years to come, the active work of such redirection must be carried on mainly by means of community activities centering around the school.” (Author’s preface) Contents: The community center and the world war; Leadership and the community center; The community center idea; The enjoyment of leisure; Recreation; Social capital—its development and use; The community center as an aid to teaching; First steps in the community center; Special school programs; Miscellaneous activities within the community center; Entertainment programs for community meetings; Country life programs. Each chapter is followed by exercises. There is a general bibliography, in addition to occasional references in the text, and the book is indexed.
Booklist 17:13 O ’20
“Altogether, a most helpful little book, suggestive and with good references for further study.”
+ Survey 44:308 My 29 ’20 120w
HANKEY, DONALD WILLIAM ALERS (STUDENT IN ARMS, pseud.). Letters of Donald Hankey. il *$2.50 Revell
20–4805
These human documents, as letters by the author of “A student in arms” can be called, are published as a tribute of love to one who sleeps in France. The introduction and notes are by Edward Miller, whose glowing picture of a loving personality adds an interest to the letters which, although written for the most part to his family and intimate friends, “run up and down the whole gamut of life.” Here and there are pen and ink sketches reproduced from the letters and charming features of the book are several facsimile letters to nephew and niece. Contents: The subaltern, 1904–1906; The undergraduate, 1907–1910; The traveller, July 1910–July 1912; The emigrant 1912–13; One of the immortal hundred thousand, 1914–1916.
+ Ath p1354 D 12 ’19 90w + Booklist 16:278 My ’20 Nation [London] 26:866 Mr 20 ’20 1300w + Outlook 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 160w R of Rs 61:559 My ’20 80w
“Let us say at once that the first impression on the reader is that Hankey in his letters falls below the high literary inspiration which he displays in a ‘Student in arms.’ Yet the letters if they do not on the surface display the same quality as the essays, reveal when carefully studied a nature free, noble, and humane, combined with a truthfulness deeply impressive from its singular intensity.”
+ − Spec 123:860 D 20 ’19 1900w
“The author’s religion was very rational and wholesome and very advanced in thought for so young a man. Here and there he drops a comment on religion that would be worthy of the profoundest philosopher.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 12 ’20 250w
“These letters reveal the zest of life in a man of deep religious experience, especially quick to respond to the challenge of those on whom the burdens of life bore more heavily than on himself.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p706 D 4 ’19 1050w
HANNAY, JAMES OWEN (GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM, pseud.). Irishman looks at his world. *$2 (3½c) Doran 914.15
20–4485
In this volume an Irishman tells us simply and dispassionately what he knows about his country, its politics, its religion, its social and economic structure and at the end disavows any knowledge of a solution of the Irish problem. He seems strongly to suspect that “we Irishmen, all of us, are spending most energy on what matters least, the form of the state; and far too little energy on what matters most, the making of men.” Contents: Irish politics—the old parties; Irish politics—the new parties; The island of saints—Ireland’s religion;—and scholars—Ireland’s culture; Education—primary, intermediate, university; Education—the Gaelic league and the Irish agricultural organisation society; The Irish aristocracy; The farmers; The middle classes—Dublin—Belfast—the country town; Conclusion.
+ Booklist 16:240 Ap ’20
“Mr Birmingham takes apparently a rather Laodicean attitude. He is not aflame with that determined patriotism which burns in the souls of so many other Irish writers of today. He has applied, on the contrary, his own rather detached, yet pleasantly sympathetic spirit, and the wit and knowledge of human nature that have gone to the making of his novels, to a study of his fellow-Irishmen, and with laudable results.”
+ − Cath World 112:261 N ’20 370w + Dial 68:669 My ’20 110w
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
Nation 110:768 Je 5 ’20 500w
“Mr Birmingham’s book covers a very broad field, and does it with an ease, a lack of hurry and an ever-present sense of humor, which, when the highly controversial nature of the subjects is considered, render it a most unusual volume.”
+ N Y Times 25:117 Mr 14 ’20 900w + Outlook 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 60w
“We can cordially commend Canon Hannay’s book to all who want to know what sort of men inhabit Ireland, what they think about, and in what way they will bear themselves in the hour of trial; we commend it to all who think some working compromise can be devised to inveigle Ulster under a Dublin parliament, and who imagine that because a policy is useful and desirable it must therefore also be practicable.”
+ Spec 124:146 Ja 31 ’20 700w
“This book will be much more helpful than ‘Irish impressions.’ Mr Chesterton found in Ireland the stronghold of the religion of which he is such an able propagandist. George Birmingham, although adherent to the church of Ireland, deals more even justice and displays in his treatment of the religious question that Irish fairness which is as real as Irish bigotry, though far less generally recognized.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p661 N 20 ’19 360w
HANNAY, JAMES OWEN (GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM, pseud.). Up, the rebels! *$1.75 (2½c) Doran
19–15676
Sir Ulick Conolly was a high government official in Ireland whose phlegmatic temperament and easy-going worldly wisdom refused to take the unrest of the Irish Nationals seriously. His policy was not to suppress the rebels but to avert an explosion by letting them blow off steam freely. He did not even suppress his daughter Mona, one of the rebels, who talked in Gaelic and dressed like a Celtic queen; who engaged in conspiracies and led uprisings. But he managed to send her off into the country to her aunt’s, for safe keeping, as he thought. There she organizes the natives and proclaims the Irish republic in the village of Dunally. Her father’s timely interference saves the situation from becoming serious for the rebels and turns the fracas into something of a farce. In the end the girl is put to bed for recuperation under the watchful eye of her aunt.
“The humorous possibilities of the situation are used with delicacy and ingenuity. George A. Birmingham is at his best in this book.”
+ Ath p930 S 19 ’19 120w + Booklist 16:243 Ap ’20
“Never was irony so playful, so kindly an instrument as in Birmingham’s ‘Up, the rebels.’” M. E. Bailey
+ Bookm 51:207 Ap ’20 900w
“To read ‘Up, the rebels!’ is to see new light upon the Irish question. Both as a story and as a study of political and social conditions it is a tribute to the knowledge and skill of a leader among present-day clerical humorists.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p10 Ja 31 ’20 1200w
“Of course it is possible that some persons will not find this tale amusing; there are people who do not find the Gilbert and Sullivan operas amusing. But those who can enjoy wit and a shrewd, ironic treatment of certain human vanities and foibles will undoubtedly chuckle long and deeply over Mr G. A. Birmingham’s new tale.”
+ N Y Times 25:53 F 1 ’20 1150w
“A thoroughly delightful story of Ireland, over which the reader chuckles long if not loud, appreciating and enjoying the whimsical wit and good-natured satire he has some time ago learned to expect from this most entertaining of writers.”
+ N Y Times 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 60w
“Canon Hannay has never written a more satisfying story.”
+ Outlook 124:249 F 11 ’20 100w
“Another of those disconcerting criticisms of Irish life and English government which illuminate the difficulties of affairs in the distressful country. The fact that the book is as amusing as any of its predecessors, even ‘Spanish gold’ or ‘The search party,’ seems merely incidental, but it must be mentioned.”
+ Sat R 129:70 Ja 17 ’20 120w
“We have already had several serious novels inspired by the events of Easter, 1916, but George Birmingham is the only writer who has turned the sequel to humorous purpose, and he is probably the only writer living who could be trusted to do so without offence. The worst that can be said of the book is that, as in ‘The seething pot,’ his first novel, the author sees no way out.”
+ Spec 123:510 O 18 ’19 900w
“The relation between his amusing chronicles and actual life may be remote: no matter, for they were always considered to be descriptive of the kind of events that might occur if people and Ireland had happened to be like the people and the Ireland of George Birmingham’s books.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p514 S 25 ’19 450w
HANSHEW, MARY E., and HANSHEW, THOMAS W. (CHARLOTTE MAY KINGSLEY, pseud.). Riddle of the frozen flame. il *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday
20–9476
“Mr Maverick Narkom, superintendent of Scotland Yard, sat before the litter of papers upon his desk.... ‘Dash it, Cleek!’ he said for the thirty-third time, ‘I don’t know what to make of it, I don’t, indeed!’” So opens the new Cleek story. The mystery referred to is a series of daring bank robberies. But more unusual matters are to follow, involving the riddle of the frozen flames. Sir Nigel Merriton sees them on the first night spent in Merriton Towers and his impulse is to go out onto the fens to investigate, but his horrified servants restrain him with tales of those who have dared this never to return. Sir Nigel, who is very much in love and has just become engaged, has no wish to risk his life and his interest in the supposed supernatural phenomenon lapses. It is only when Dacre Wynne, his unsuccessful rival, disappears, that he is moved to action and carries the strange tale to Scotland Yard, arousing the interest of Cleek, who pursues the mystery to its solution.
“The dénouement is obvious from the first, while the love interest is of the usual stereotyped kind. Even so, ‘The riddle of the frozen flame’ is an infinitely better mystery tale than many others appearing this season.”
+ − Boston Transcript p6 Ag 18 ’20 220w
“‘The riddle of the frozen flame’ is a cleverly conceived tale that will idle away an hour most pleasantly.”
+ N Y Times 25:302 Je 6 ’20 400w Springf’d Republican p9a Ag 29 ’20 200w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p305 My 13 ’20 80w
HANSON, DANIEL LOUIS. Business philosophy of Moses Irons. il *$2.50 (1c) Shaw, A. W. 658
20–19862
A series of chapters, in fiction form, on the methods of conducting a big business today. Moses Irons is the typical self-made business man, shrewd, kindly, humorous and masterful. His ideals, his methods, his relations with his subordinates are set forth in the book, some of the chapters of which are: A romance of business; Live wires and dead ones; Getting a job with Moses Irons; The ironmaster talks advertising; Business diplomacy and trade anarchists; Wives and sweethearts; The ironmaster gets pointers on handling salesmen; The ironmaster invests in junk.
HANSON, OLE. Americanism versus bolshevism. il *$1.75 (2½c) Doubleday 331.87
20–2669
The author speaks of bolshevism and everything he conceives of as coming under the head—communism, syndicalism, I. W. W.’ism—in no uncertain terms. They all, he says, thrive on “murder, rape, pillage, arson, free love, poverty, want, starvation, filth, slavery, autocracy, suppression, sorrow and hell on earth.” (Preface) After giving the above ‘isms more than their due he also mentions the red employers as likewise culpable, but “we should be thankful that every day they become less and soon will be an inconsequential minority in the land.” Among the contents are: The labour situation in Seattle; Something of the rise, trial and failure of bolshevism in Europe; Some of history’s verdicts on reformers, utopias, trade unions, and bolshevism; The causes of Bolshevism in Russia; The origin and development of bolshevism in the United States; Bolshevism in America: its causes and some remedies; Bolshevism contrasted with Americanism.
“The book contains pages of shallow generalizations.”
− Booklist 16:223 Ap ’20
“The value of this book, and the interest of it, is the clearness with which it points out the menace.” I. W. L.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Mr 31 ’20 950w Ind 103:320 S 11 ’20 70w
“The best part of the book is that in which Mr Hanson tells the story of his own fight. The reader is forced to decide whether or not Mr Hanson has attempted too much. For one thing he has endeavored to generalize from his own experiences. His arguments are weak when he delves into the past. Ole Hanson on the subject of remedies is worth reading.”
+ − Lit D p90 My 1 ’20 1050w R of Rs 61:560 My ’20 60w Springf’d Republican p6 Mr 15 ’20 400w
HANUS, PAUL HENRY. School administration and school reports. *$1.75 Houghton 379.15
20–13792
The object of the book is to help principals and teachers as well as superintendents and boards of education to acquire a clearly defined educational and administrative policy and to formulate and justify their opinions and procedure. Contents: The meaning of education; Some principles of school administration; Town and city school reports, more particularly superintendents’ reports; Testing the efficiency of public schools; Courtis arithmetic tests applied to employees in business houses; Measuring progress in learning Latin; How far shall the state go? The German example; German schools and American education; Germany’s kultur; The Harvard graduate school of education.
“One might raise a question as to why such an excellent monograph as the first three chapters would make should be made to carry an equal amount of loosely associated material. The last eight chapters are interesting and have individual value, but are not more closely related to the theme of the book than many other articles which might have been included. The busy school administrator would doubtless appreciate the book more if there were fewer ‘riders’ attached.”
+ − El School J 21:73 S ’20 880w
“The clear-cut statement of principles of school administration and of the bases of determining the efficiency of the administration of a system of schools, and the analysis of typical school reports and the suggestions for their improvement contained in the first four of the essays have in themselves much more than enough of value to justify the volume.”
+ School R 28:710 N ’20 190w
HAPGOOD, NORMAN. Advancing hour. *$2 Boni & Liveright 940.5
20–12808
Mr Hapgood accepts the fact that we are now in the midst of revolution, and accepting that fact, he says “the only question is in what manner it will be conducted, and by whom.” He states his own position, and defines his liberalism: “If a radical is one who by nature prefers sudden change and violent remedies then I am not a radical.... A liberal differs from a radical in humility. He concentrates on certain changes, good in themselves and also carrying the seeds of further change, but he leaves later steps to later times. His faith is that if the next step taken by us is important and of right direction we shall have done all that belongs to our moment.” Contents: In time of revolution; The storm cellar; The blockade of thought; What the issues are; Without a party; Facing bolshevism: our follies in Russia; Facing bolshevism: the future in Russia; Is socialism needed? The answer of cooperation; The answer of liberalism; From Wilsonism to the future; What is our faith?
“A hopeful book which does not attempt to solve all problems at a stroke.”
+ Booklist 17:13 O ’20
“Mr Hapgood always writes interestingly even though his words may not be based upon the soundest philosophy.”
+ Cath World 112:403 D ’20 330w
“Outside of an excellent chapter on the cooperative movement, the volume is chiefly pious platitude, amiable advice to business men not to make fools of themselves in a time of rapid social change like the present.” Harold Stearns
− + Freeman 2:92 O 6 ’20 960w
Reviewed by W: MacDonald
Nation 111:sup427 O 13 ’20 750w
“It is a book worth everyone’s reading, for its notable contribution of facts and ideas, and more especially for its candor of spirit, rare indeed in a day when a great part of our political writers are still more or less disabled morally by their late services to national morale in disseminating lies and misrepresentations for the glory of God and the cause of right.” A. J.
+ New Repub 23:339 Ag 18 ’20 2050w
“Mr Hapgood shows the defects of his good qualities and one of these is at present a lack of knowledge in what these good qualities consist. The volume is stimulating, patriotic without being nationalistic, unselfish and idealistic; but it shows some of the defects of an education which seems to have been entirely American.” M. F. Egan
+ − N Y Times p8 Ag 29 ’20 3550w
“The best chapter in the book is chapter eight on the advantages of co-operation, over both socialism and government regulation of great combinations, as a remedy for industrial injustice. Mr Norman Hapgood is an effective pamphleteer; but excellences in a pamphleteer are fatal defects in a historian.”
− + Outlook 126:111 S 15 ’20 300w
“To one reviewer at least—and one who is not insensible to the part Mr Hapgood has taken in past times in the advocacy of certain social measures—there is provocation on almost every page of this book. But in the two chapters on the Russian problem, as well as in other incidental treatment of this problem, the provocation concentrates in every line.” W. J. Ghent
− + Review 3:230 S 15 ’20 3350w R of Rs 62:333 S ’20 130w
“To see things steadily and clearly is a gift of few. Mr Hapgood possesses fewer blind spots than most, but it may be that he is mistaken in parts of his analysis. However, he stimulates the reader to formulate his own beliefs. The style is a trifle labored, but there is no mistaking the book’s earnestness.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p8a S 19 ’20 320w
“Special mention should be made of Mr Hapgood’s intimate study of President Wilson. It is a helpful antidote to Mr Keynes’ sketch.” L. R. Robinson
+ Survey 45:320 N 27 ’20 720w
HARA, KATSURO.[[2]] Introduction to the history of Japan. *$2.50 (2½c) Putnam
952
The book is the first of a projected series of publications by the Yamato society, whose aim is to make clear the meaning and extent of Japanese culture to other nations, and to introduce the best literature and art of foreign nations to Japan for a promotion of a common understanding. The present volume is intended for those Europeans and Americans who would like to know Japan “not as a land of quaint curios and picturesque paradoxes only worthy to be preserved intact for a show, but as a land inhabited by a nation striving hard to improve itself, and to take its share, however humble, in the common progress of the civilisation of the world.” (Preface) Contents: The races and climate of Japan; Japan before the introduction of Buddhism and Chinese civilisation; Growth of the imperial power; gradual centralisation; Remodeling of the state; Culmination of the new régime; stagnation; rise of the military régime; The military régime; the Taira and the Minamoto; the shogunate of Kamakura; The welding of the nation; the political disintegration of the country; End of medieval Japan; The transition from medieval to modern Japan; The Tokugawa shogunate—its political régime; culture and society (two chapters); The restoration of the Meidji; Epilogue. The objects of and the rules of the Yamato society are given in full and there is an index.
“A carefully evolved and well written synopsis of the many centuries of Japanese national life. There is one especially creditable circumstance about the publication of this book. It is honest Japanese propaganda, and it makes no pretensions of being anything else.” S. L. C.
+ Boston Transcript p4 Ja 22 ’21 420w
HARBEN, WILLIAM NATHANIEL. Divine event. *$1.75 (2c) Harper
20–16796
A story of psychical phenomena. Hillery Gramling, unhappy over the death of his brother, in consultation with a medium is sent to New York’s East side to live among the poor. There he comes in contact with Lucia Lingle, a beautiful young girl who seems to be under the shadow of some awful, mysterious tragedy. He falls in love with her and is anxious to help her. He is aided by Professor Trimble, psychologist, alienist, mental scientist, who becomes deeply interested in Lucia’s case. Thru the mediumship of Madame DuFresne, they discover the exact nature of her trouble, that her half-brother is trying to prove her insane that he may take over her inheritance. Together they fight the thing out, encouraged always by the supernatural aid they receive, thru Madame DuFresne, from those on the other side of death. In the end thru their combined efforts, Lucia is freed from the awful curse that has hung over her, and has the promise of happiness.
“The plot is slight and unconvincing but is evidently meant to be taken seriously and will interest readers inclined to believe in spirit control and guardian angels.”
+ − Booklist 17:158 Ja ’21
HARCOURT, ROBERT HENRY. Elementary forge practice. 2d ed, enl il $1.50 Manual arts press 672
20–19056
A second edition of a work originally published by the author, instructor in forge practice in Leland Stanford Junior university, where it has been used as a text. It is designed for use in technical and vocational schools. Contents: Materials and equipment; Drawing-out, bending and twisting; Common welds; Special welds; Hammer work; Annealing, hardening and tempering steel; Tool forging. There are forty-four plates illustrating as many projects.
“The volume should prove a valuable addition to any shop library as a supplementary text. For the teacher of large classes of beginners it should lift the burden of much class work and explanation if placed in the hands of the pupils as a text.”
+ School R 29:77 Ja ’21 210w
HARD, WILLIAM. Raymond Robins’ own story. il *$2 (4c) Harper 947
20–3007
Colonel Robins was the unofficial representative of the American ambassador to Russia for eighteen months and a close observer of the powers that conducted Russian affairs, and he has had a more intimate acquaintance than any other American or allied representative with the government of Lenin. He is not a socialist and not a bolshevist, but he sees that the danger from the latter, if such there be, lies not in riots and robberies, mobs and massacres, not in its disorder but in its order, in that “the Soviet system is genuinely a system on its own account.... It can be extinguished only in the free air of fair controversy and of fair, practical proof.” There is but one choice left to America, according to Colonel Robins, in dealing with Russia, and that is not intervention but intercourse. The story of the book is told by the author as it was narrated to him by Colonel Robins. The contents are: The arrival of the Soviet; Trotzky’s plans for soviet Russia; The all-Russian congress and the Brest-Litovsk peace; The personality and power of Nikolai Lenin; The bolshevik “bomb”; and many illustrations.
+ Booklist 16:237 Ap ’20
“It stands out in this consecutive form as the most vigorous, the most picturesque, as well as the most truthful record in English of the birth of Bolshevism through the Soviet.” O. M. Sayler
+ Bookm 51:310 My ’20 950w Cleveland p76 Ag ’20 60w + R of Rs 61:446 Ap ’20 180w Springf’d Republican p8 Ap 1 ’20 1000w
“Mr Hard is so carried away with dramatic fervor that he feels it necessary to interrupt himself every now and then to assure us that Mr Robins is a good anti-Bolshevist. But these interludes need not divert the reader from the important parts of the book. Mr Robins’ admirable suggestions as to future American policy toward Russia deserve to be widely read.” Reed Lewis
+ − Survey 44:48 Ap 3 ’20 270w
HARDY, THOMAS. Collected poems, lyrical, narratory and reflective. *$3.40 Macmillan 821
20–26754
“This book contains all of Thomas Hardy’s poetry except ‘The dynasts,’ including poems which have appeared in his prose works.”—Booklist
“There have been many poets among us in the last fifty years, poets of sure talent, and it may be even of genius, but no other of them has this compulsive power of Hardy. The secret is not hard to find. Not one of them is adequate to what we know and have suffered.... Therefore we deliberately set Mr Hardy among the greatest.” J. M. M.
+ Ath p1147 N 7 ’19 2200w + Booklist 17:21 O ’20
“Let it be said straight out that in our opinion, whatever else Mr Hardy’s writing, susceptible to scansion, is, it is not poetry. It is not poetry, because, in the end, poetry is in a sort illusion.... He has been guilty of the last, the unforgivable sin in poetry—* *he has sinned against love, for which there is and should be no forgiveness.”
− + Sat R 128:459 N 15 ’19 1250w Spec 122:512 O 18 ’19 20w
“Mr Hardy, once and for all, set up as poet, then, at an age when Shakespeare left our mortal stage. This book, for that reason alone, is an unprecedented achievement. Apart from that, to read steadily through it—and what severer test of lyrical poetry could be devised?—is to win to the consciousness not of any superficial consistency, but assuredly of a ‘harmony of colouring’; not, however keen the joy manifest ‘in the making,’ of an art become habitual, but of a shadowy unity and design.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p681 N 27 ’19 2450w
HARKER, MRS LIZZIE ALLEN. Allegra. *$1.75 (2c) Scribner
20–161
Allegra is a charming but decidedly self-centered young actress who sees every person and every incident in the light of her career. She is playing in a provincial repertory theater at the opening of the story and it is thru a chance meeting with Paul Staniland that her ambition to appear in London is gratified. Paul is delighted with Allegra and works up a part for her in the play he is dramatizing from one of Matthew Maythorne’s novels. Maythorne is one of those popular novelists whose books sell into the thousands and he fatuously accepts the success of the play as a tribute to himself, giving Paul none of the credit. Allegra’s admiration for the novelist is killed by a reading of his book and she comes to appreciate Paul, but a visit at the country home of Paul’s people, delightful tho they are, convinces her that she belongs to the theater and she returns to the stage.
+ Ath p1208 N 14 ’19 70w
“The plot is not credible in parts, but this does not mar the interest of the story.”
+ − Booklist 16:244 Ap ’20
Reviewed by M. E. Bailey
Bookm 51:205 Ap ’20 260w
“If Paul seems a special creation made to fit Allegra’s need, why quarrel with him? Are we not left with the conviction that here is a really happy ending to a story?”
+ − Boston Transcript p6 Mr 24 ’20 260w
“A number of minor characters are very well drawn.”
+ Cleveland p50 My ’20 70w
“All the minor characters, in fact, are skillfully portrayed, with any number of quaint and understanding little touches which make ‘Allegra’ very agreeable reading—the more agreeable because the author has had the good taste and good sense to avoid the conventional ‘happy ending.’”
+ N Y Times 25:71 F 8 ’20 440w + Sat R 130:380 N 6 ’20 100w
“Altogether it is a slight but pleasing little story without any probing into psychology or any tremendous conflict of forces.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Ap 11 ’20 160w
“Allegra, a little hard and egotistical, and passionately devoted to her art, is well studied. And the whole tale (which moves among well-bred people throughout) is on a good level, though we think a little below that attained in other books by the author.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p594 O 23 ’19 100w
HARPER, GEORGE MCLEAN.[[2]] John Morley, and other essays. *$1.60 Princeton univ. press 814
20–10290
“Professor Harper, of Princeton university, author of various books of literary criticism (including the substantial and able work on Wordsworth), here puts together eight essays—on John Morley; Victor Hugo (these from the Atlantic Monthly); Michael Angelo’s sonnets; Balzac; W. C. Brownell (an American critic); Wordsworth at Blois; Wordsworth’s love poetry; and ‘David Brainerd: a Puritan saint.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“His generalizations are just, and he is not ridden by them; he knows when to generalize and when to forget his generalizations.”
+ Ath p838 D 17 ’20 110w Booklist 17:68 N ’20 The Times [London] Lit Sup p762 N 18 ’20 70w
HARRIS, CORRA MAY (WHITE) (MRS LUNDY HOWARD HARRIS). Happily married. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–3192
The scene is an exclusive southern town, the time that summer of intense war activity, 1918, and the characters several married pairs. Two of these are Mary and Pelham Madden, and two others Ellen and Barrie Skipwith. Mary is one of those calm, maternal and beautifully placid women, a perfect housekeeper and mother of four children. Ellen is a childless woman with red hair and baby blue eyes. Mary has just found a note in her husband’s pocket addressed to Dear Pep. Ellen has just turned in a Red cross subscription list with an anonymous contribution of $1000. How Mary wakes up and learns to practice the old womanly wiles is the theme of a story that is told amusingly with touches of satire.
“Entertaining in spite of its hackneyed plot.”
+ Booklist 16:281 My ’20
“Mrs Harris makes no attempt to inject novelty into the situation. She relies on her knowledge of men and women and her happy faculty in phrasing her reflections thereon for the pleasure of her readers. And these easily suffice.” F. A. G.
+ Boston Transcript p11 Mr 27 ’20 500w
“The entertaining and shrewd comment upon married life, adds ginger to a somewhat conventional vamp story.”
+ − Cleveland p71 Ag ’20 100w + Lit D p99 My 1 ’20 2300w
“An immense quantity of mildly entertaining and occasionally shrewd comment strung on a very slight, very much worn thread of plot, constitutes Corra Harris’s new novel.”
+ − N Y Times 25:4 F 29 ’20 300w + Outlook 124:562 Mr 31 ’20 30w
“Mrs Harris’s thesis does not command unfaltering acquiescence. For those, however, who collect novels as others collect butterflies, the book will have a great deal of interest.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p383 Je 17 ’20 500w
HARRIS, CREDO FITCH. Wings of the wind. *$1.75 (1½c) Small
20–11301
Jack Bronx, returning from the war, is packed off by his fond parents on their private yacht, with one of his army pals. On the way to Havana they pick up a stranger who turns out to be a secret envoy from the Kingdom of Azuria, in search of a lost princess. Chance favoring they trace the princess as one of the passengers on another yacht. Great is the chase, thrilling the adventures which eventually take the party to the Florida swamps into the ancient haunts of the Seminoles. The princess is rescued, Jack falls violently in love with her, and the old emissary hard put to it to save her, under the circumstances, for the throne of Azuria. Jack’s resourceful friend settles the matter by demonstrating to everybody’s satisfaction that the emissary’s orders to deliver the princess did not contain the provision that she must be single when found.
Boston Transcript p6 Jl 28 ’20 650w
“The story teems with thrilling incidents. The plot, however, is trite.”
+ − Cath World 112:552 Ja ’21 90w N Y Times 25:28 Jl 25 ’20 530w
HARRIS, H. WILSON. Peace in the making. il *$2 Dutton 940.314
20–6966
“‘What I have endeavored to produce is an account, checked by such official documents as are available, which will convey to the general reader some not wholly inadequate impression both of what the conference did and how it did it.’ (Preface) The author was for three months the special correspondent of the London Daily News to the conference.”—Wis Lib Bul
+ Ath p95 Ja 16 ’20 200w + Booklist 17:66 N ’20
“Mr Harris is well-informed and his pen-pictures of the personality and policy of the leading diplomats, tho less lively than those of Mr Keynes, are far closer to the facts.”
+ Ind 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 50w
“His plan is less ambitious than that of Dr Dillon, for he leaves out most of the historical summaries which are a valuable feature of Dr Dillon’s volume, and also tells fewer incidents. His account of the Prinkipo episode, and of the apparently deliberate intermeddling of France to insure that the proposed conference should come to naught, should be read by anyone who still cherishes confidence in the good faith of the Paris negotiators.” W: MacDonald
+ Nation 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 150w N Y Times p15 S 19 ’20 50w
“Those readers who are interested in finding an account of the peace conference to supplement the somewhat opinionated statements of Keynes and Dillon would do well to provide themselves with a copy of ‘The peace in the making.’ The book as a whole, while not itself history in the fullest sense, may well be regarded as a contribution to history.”
+ R of Rs 61:669 Je ’20 140w Springf’d Republican p9a Ag 29 ’20 220w
“His summary of the deliberations of the conference is just a little too summary, and the chapter on Lenin and Bela Kun is vague and unsatisfactory. On the other hand, Mr Harris’s judgments of the personalities of the conference are generally temperate and just.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p23 Ja 8 ’20 220w Wis Lib Bul 16:119 Je ’20 60w
HARRIS, JAMES RENDEL. Last of the Mayflower. (Manchester univ. publications) *$2 (*5s) Longmans 974.4
20–14551
“In this publication of the John Rylands library Dr Rendel Harris tries to find an answer to the question, ‘What became of the “Mayflower“?’ The name was a common one for ships in late Tudor and early Stuart times; hence the tracing of the authentic ‘Mayflower’ has entailed much research. Some ten years after the landing of the Pilgrims (1620), she was employed on a similar service, that of transporting the remainder of the Leyden colony to New Plymouth. Then she is traced in the whale-fishery, and to her last owner and master, Mr Thomas Webber of Boston. Not long after 1654, the author says, ‘one is tempted to conjecture that she died (in a nautical sense). Most likely she was broken up in Boston, or perhaps in the Thames on her last voyage to London.’ ”—Ath
Ath p591 Ap 30 ’20 140w
Reviewed by W. A. Dyer
Bookm 52:125 O ’20 40w
HARRISON, AUSTIN. Before and now. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane 304
20–6972
This collection of papers, reprinted in a revised form from the English Review, are critical and partly satirical and humorous impressions of conditions in England previous to and during the war. They were “journalism then, today they are prophetic,” says the author. It is the disintegration of old conceptions and the birth-pangs of new that form the subject-matter of the papers, which are: Jingoism; The coming of Smith; “Surrey in danger”; Peace, perfect peace; St George’s stirrup; The duke’s buffalo; A “Christian” Europe and afterwards; Our gentlemen’s schools; Authority and privilege; The new “Sesame and lilies”; The Christian drum; What is ours is not ours; The country of the blind; “Leave them ‘orses alone!”; Foreign politics; “Minny”; The awakening; Musings at Fort Vaux; Foundations of reconstruction.
“Some of these reprinted articles from the English Review are worth reading again, as the contemporary views of a very independent critic.”
+ − Ath p1136 O 31 ’19 120w
“Although the intimate knowledge of men and events which the author demands of his readers will be a drawback to many, the interest of his criticisms will hold the attention of the more thoughtful and well informed.”
+ − Booklist 16:305 Je ’20
“The papers are stimulating and thoughtful.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p7 Ap 14 ’20 480w
“Mr Austin Harrison is unfortunate enough to live in a between-age. Actually he belongs to the Victorian era, but his generation and his intelligence will not leave him at peace, and push him into a rather uncomfortable ultra-modern attitude. Of all his essays the musings at Fort Vaux are the most illuminating, because they are at once the most sincere, the least preconceived.”
+ − Nation 111:224 Ag 21 ’20 220w N Y Times p17 S 12 ’20 50w
“What he has given us is very suggestive, and one is grateful to any man who can stir up general interest in our social problems by the use of such a facile pen. He has the same sort of literary gift as Mr H. G. Wells, though in a slighter degree. But he has not so far shown anything like the rich literary nutritiousness that belongs to the work of his distinguished father [Frederick Harrison].” H. L. Stewart
+ − Review 2:600 Je 5 ’20 1000w
“Mr Harrison has a vigorous and effective pen, which often runs away with him and never quite knows when to stop; but his chief fault, as this book reveals it, is a love for exaggeration which detracts considerably from the value of his words.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p609 O 30 ’19 1150w
HARRISON, MARY ST LEGER (KINGSLEY) (MRS WILLIAM HARRISON) (LUCAS MALET, pseud.). Tall villa. *$1.75 (4c) Doran
20–3
The outstanding characteristic of this novel is that it is a ghost story. After her husband’s financial failure, Frances Copley betakes herself away from Grosvenor square and London high society and buries herself in Tall villa, a maternal inheritance and a preposterous piece of architecture, while her husband goes to seek a new fortune in South America. There the ghost of an ancient relative, a suicide from disappointed love, makes itself known to her and moved by pity she resolves to consecrate her life to his redemption. They hold daily concourse and by the time his earth-bound spirit has been released through her martyrdom, the latter for her had turned into rapture. Her spirit too, now longs for release and when the ghost makes its final appearance it is to free her too from earthly thralldom.
Ath p767 Je 11 ’20 460w
“The story is kept sane by means of the other people, the Bulparcs, Lady Lucia and her baby, and Charlie Montagu. Therefore it is cleverly done. But no one who has not been drawn by a spirit lover to the fairer clime can tell if the rest of it is really correct. To review the volume rightly one needs a ouija board.”
+ − Boston Transcript p6 Ag 14 ’20 520w
“The story, a modern fairy tale, is handled with much restraint and artistry.”
+ Cleveland p50 My ’20 50w Dial 68:665 My ’20 50w
“Those who are desirous of finding something to laugh at and to ridicule in any tale of the supernatural will readily discover all that they desire in ‘The Tall villa’; even those who are ready and willing to take the novel with the same high and intense seriousness with which it is written will find it difficult to refrain from smiling over some of the high-flown speeches addressed by Frances Copley to the ghost of Alexis Lord Oxley. Yet there is much of charm in the book.”
+ − N Y Times 25:2 F 22 ’20 900w
“The character of Frances Copley is exquisitely etched. The rare distinction of Mrs Harrison’s carven style is at its best in this unusual and dexterously handled romance, which is finely free from the over-frank emphasis of the senses found in ‘Sir Richard Calmady.’” Katharine Perry
+ Pub W 97:601 F 21 ’20 400w
“The book will rank with the best of the author’s.”
+ Sat R 130:300 O 9 ’20 110w
“It is a sad confession to make, but we are Philistine enough to prefer those portions of the story in which normal events and personages predominate.”
+ − Spec 124:728 My 29 ’20 450w
“The dialog is invariably stilted, and the generally formal tone robs the situation of reality and those startling qualities inherent in it. The heroine herself is delicately portrayed. The story is not long and stirs only a mild interest.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a My 9 ’20 560w
“This novel is excellently written; but a ghost story should make the flesh creep, and that is the one function which, in spite of its excellences, it certainly does not perform.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p284 My 6 ’20 460w
HARROW, BENJAMIN.[[2]] Eminent chemists of our time. il *$2.50 Van Nostrand 540.9
The author has chosen eleven scientists “whose work is indissolubly bound up with the progress of chemistry during the last generation or so.” His aim has been “to write a history of chemistry of our times by centering it around some of its leading figures.” Contents: Introduction; Perkin and coal-tar dyes; Mendeléeff and the periodic law; Ramsay and the gases of the atmosphere; Richards and atomic weights; Van’t Hoff and physical chemistry; Arrhenius and the theory of electrolytic dissociation; Moissan and the electric furnace; Madame Curie and radium; Victor Meyer and the rise of organic chemistry; Remsen and the rise of chemistry in America; Fischer and the chemistry of foods. Reading references follow the chapters and there is an index.
HARROW, BENJAMIN. From Newton to Einstein; changing conceptions of the universe. il *$1 (6½c) Van Nostrand 530
20–7594
The booklet gives in simple popular language an outline of Newton’s great discovery and of the various steps in scientific achievements which led up to Einstein’s conception of the universe and theory of relativity. It shows how Einstein’s conception of time and space led to a new view of gravitation and explains some facts which Newton’s law was incapable of explaining. The three essays of the book are: Newton; The ether and its consequences; Einstein.
“Dr Harrow’s account is altogether too inadequate. The chapter on ‘Einstein’ utterly fails to bring out the central conceptions of the ‘Relativity theory’; it is not that the treatment is obscure; it is that very important points are slurred over, misstated, or ignored.”
− Ath p377 S 17 ’20 240w + Booklist 17:57 N ’20
“It contains egregious mistakes, minor errors, misplaced emphasis, wrong interpretation, and a modicum of information.” R: F. Deimel
− Freeman 1:423 Jl 14 ’20 60w + Nature 106:466 D 9 ’20 40w N Y P L New Tech Bks p36 Ap ’20 70w
“A lucid little book.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p603 S 16 ’20 20w
HARTLEY, OLGA. Anne. *$1.90 (2c) Lippincott
Anne is an orphan and still a child at seventeen when young Gilbert Trevor, one of her self-appointed guardians, falls in love with and marries her, while her other self-appointed guardian, John Halliday, continues to hover over her with a more selfless devotion. Anne never grows up but remains an ardent, wilful, fascinating child with a child’s sincerity and purity of heart. It leads her into dangerous situations and causes complications during which, at a crucial moment, Gilbert fails her. She forces the estrangement and after some mad escapades follows the dying John to Scotland, resolved to give him all the love that he deserved and of which Gilbert has proved himself unworthy. But the latter’s love and manhood stand the final test and his protecting arms once more hold Anne safe.
“Anne’s future sister-in-law, Francesca, is a likeable character; but the heroine herself is difficult to understand, almost to the end of the book.”
+ − Ath p783 Je 11 ’20 100w
“The author’s handling of the heights and depths of the story towards its climax deserves high praise for restraint, for absence of sensationalism while it yet holds and thrills.”
+ Cath World 112:407 D ’20 260w
“Whether one has patience with the violent-tempered, erratic heroine or not, it cannot be denied that here is a soundly-constructed, well-written novel.”
+ − N Y Times p26 D 19 ’20 260w
Reviewed by Caroline Singer
Pub W 98:658 S 18 ’20 300w
“The development and gradual ripening of the heroine’s character (she needed it) are very well done, and we commend the book to our readers.”
+ Sat R 130:379 N 6 ’20 80w
HARTMAN, HARLEIGH HOLROYD. Fair value. *$2.50 Houghton 338
20–6119
The book is one of the series of Hart, Schaffner, and Marx prize essays in economics and the thesis is concerned with the meaning and application of the term “Fair valuation” as used by utility commissions. The usage of the term is a loose one and open to much confusion on the part of the public as well as of the courts. The author’s inquiry rests on the points: “that the public utility is essentially different from other industry; that private property devoted to the public use is not the same as other private property, and does not enjoy the same legal protection; that the service rendered is governmental in its nature, and; that the purpose of regulation is curtailment of ‘private rights’ and the encumbrance of ‘private property.’” The book falls into two parts: 1, The meaning of the term “fair value” contains: The basis of regulation; The purpose of regulation; Valuation and regulation; The theory of valuation; Valuation methods. 2, The application of the theory of fair value, contains: The valuation of tangible property; Valuation of intangible property; Depreciation; The return on the investment; Conclusion. There is also a selected bibliography, a table of cases, and an index.
“The first is far the more significant part. A valid criticism of the book is that it overstrains legal definitions and logical legal relationships.” J: Bauer
+ − Am Econ R 10:822 D ’20 880w
“A useful and opportune classifying of a large mass of scattered material.”
+ Booklist 16:329 Jl ’20
“‘Fair value’ is, withal, a most exhaustive and illuminative work on current economics, with principles, laws, court decisions and commission opinions all set forth in such a fashion that even the uninitiate in such matters are able to grasp Mr Hartman’s theories of valuation.” G. M. H.
+ Boston Transcript p11 My 22 ’20 550w
Review 3:448 N 10 ’20 1100w
R of Rs 62:447 O ’20 120w
Reviewed by E. R. Burton
+ Survey 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 340w
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. DRAMATIC CLUB. Plays of the Harvard dramatic club. *$1.25 Brentano’s 812.08
“The little volume of one-act plays, edited by Professor George Pierce Baker, contains only four pieces, all of them dealing with American themes and all of them the result of their several authors’ studies in the dramaturgic laboratory which the editor has successfully conducted at Harvard. In his brief prefatory note he explains the activities of the Harvard dramatic club and tells us that the four plays he has chosen for inclusion have been selected ‘as a group which perhaps gives the volume best variety and balance.’” (N Y Times) The titles are “The harbor of lost ships, by Louise Whitefield Bray; Garafelia’s husband, by Esther Willard Bates; The scales and the sword, by Farnham Bishop; and The four-flushers, by Cleves Kinkead.” (Brooklyn)
Brooklyn 12:66 Ja ’20 30w
“Professor Baker has worked earnestly, unostentatiously, and with only one failing, a somewhat lively fear of being academic.” K. M.
+ − Freeman 2:310 D 8 ’20 190w
Reviewed by Brander Matthews
N Y Times p10 Ag 8 ’20 150w
HARVEY, LUCILE STIMSON. Food facts for the home-maker. il *$2.50 Houghton 613.2
20–6498
The book is intended to help the young housekeeper without either knowledge of science or technical skill, and to give the experienced cook a scientific foundation, but primarily to show mothers how to feed their children. “Few women realize the great importance of the proper feeding of the family. Undernourishment among our children in the United States is far more prevalent than is generally supposed, and is found quite as often in the homes of the well-to-do as in those of the poor.” (Preface) Although the book contains recipes it is not intended to compete with cook-books, but rather to supplement them. Among the contents are: The importance of food; The composition of foods; Milk and eggs; Meat; Cheese and legumes; Cereals; Fruits and vegetables; Fats; Sugar; The use of food in the body; The measurement of food values; Food for infants and young children; Food for school-children; Food for invalids. There is a bibliography and an index.
Booklist 16:334 Jl ’20
“A highly important and serviceable book.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 28 ’20 230w
“Throughout the volume is an excellent manual that is well arranged, written in an informal and untechnical vein and well fitted to meet the demands of the ordinary household.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 25 ’20 140w
Reviewed by E. A. Winslow
+ Survey 44:592 Ag 2 ’20 110w
HASBROUCK, LOUISE SEYMOUR. Hall with doors. il *$1.75 (4c) Womans press
20–8235
A story for girls with a vocation moral. In their junior year in high school a group of friends form the V. V. club (the initials standing for vacation-vocation), and in the chapters of the book their various experiences in the world of work are followed. After college one group goes to New York to attack business, advertising, interior decorating and tearoom management. One girl stays at home and finds her vocation in a recreation center. One country girl leaves the farm to go to college and then comes back to teach a country school and make over a rural community. One girl, who is a misfit in business, succeeds as athletic director and organizer of a summer camp. The girls are bright and natural, the stories are interestingly told and the romance that has a part in all real-life stories is not omitted.
HASKINS, CHARLES HOMER, and LORD, ROBERT HOWARD. Some problems of the Peace conference. *$3 Harvard univ. press 914.314
20–12208
“It will be remembered that Professor Haskins and Professor Lord were two of the experts who accompanied President Wilson to the peace conference. Prof. Haskins served as chief of the division of western Europe and he was American member of the special committee of three which drafted the treaty clauses on Alsace-Lorraine and the Sarre valley. Professor Lord served as American adviser on Poland and related problems, both at Paris and in Poland itself. The lectures published in this volume were delivered last winter at the Lowell institute and are now given with only incidental changes. The effort of the two men has been to present each of these problems in its historical setting, revealing at the same time, the reason of its importance to the conference.”—Boston Transcript
“In respect both to extent and to content, the book leaves much to be contributed to the subject in the future, by the present authors or by other scholars. It does provide what is most needed at this time, a well-informed and fairminded sketch of the background and of the probable issue of the territorial settlement. One noteworthy contribution of the book is the first chapter on Task and methods of the conference.” Clive Day
+ Am Hist R 26:334 Ja ’21 1400w
“May be regarded, without question, as the most important work on the conference that has yet appeared. It should do much to counteract the overdrawn and splenetic sketches of Keynes, Dillon, or Creel.” C: Seymour
+ Am Pol Sci R 14:734 N ’20 420w
“It is improbable that this particular book, with the accurate knowledge it displays and the authoritative position which its authors held in the actual negotiations, will ever be replaced as an historical record.”
+ Boston Transcript p7 Ag 14 ’20 280w
“By far the best account of the Paris conference which has yet appeared.”
+ Ind 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 130w
Reviewed by W: MacDonald
Nation 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 500w
“Their book will meet the needs of the many now looking for just such a graphic account of the methods of the peace conference in dealing with important questions.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Je 30 ’20 180w
“The book is to be welcomed warmly just because the Peace conference did not accomplish (whether it could have done so we need not here discuss) the enormous task it set itself, and Americans will be forced again and again to take a stand on new disputes arising from the settlements made.” B. L.
+ Survey 45:104 O 16 ’20 260w
“Within its limits the book, which is admirably written, is of great value. It contains a scholarly, open-minded, impartial account of such matters as the problem of Slesvig, and the questions concerning the status, and territorial extension of Belgium. It will do much good, for it serves as a useful antidote to the criticisms, often so ignorant and so partisan, of the territorial settlement.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p526 Ag 19 ’20 950w
HASLETT, ELMER. Luck on the wing; thirteen stories of a sky spy. il *$3 Dutton 940.44
20–8364
The personal narrative of a young American aviator in France. “The author records at the very outset how he preferred the clean air to the rat-haunted trenches, and it was that human desire to escape from the muddy, disagreeable ground that made him become a flying man. The book reads more like a novel than the record of a warrior.” (Bookm)
“Hardships and adventures are told with a youthful verve, without overstraining and with an ever ready appreciation when the joke is on himself.”
+ Booklist 17:66 N ’20
“Major Elmer Haslett has written, in ‘Luck on the wing,’ just the kind of book we need, now that we all have some perspective—though little, I admit—on the war. It is full of the fire and fervor of youth, good-natured, natural—a splendid picture of the fighting airman.” C: H. Towne
+ Bookm 52:77 S ’20 430w
“For those who have shared our ignorance of the aerial observer, this book should be of value.”
+ N Y Times p24 S 26 ’20 500w
HASLUCK, EUGENE LEWIS.[[2]] Teaching of history. (Cambridge handbooks for teachers) *$3.20 Macmillan 907
“After defining certain legitimate reasons for teaching history in schools, and distinguishing these from ‘false and shallow justification,’ a statement is presented of the basis of selection of materials for pupils of different age groups and a detailed plan is outlined for organizing courses in English history for upper-grade pupils in either a one, two, three, or four years’ sequence. Further discussion concerns the nature and use of the history textbook and the effective use of supplementary historical and literary source material, with specific reference to a number of especially valuable ones; types of historical exercises which may be employed as aids to the stimulation of interest and the retention of historical facts; and different ways of utilizing general, local, and recent history. Three specimen lesson-units are given in outline form—one illustrating a unit of pure narrative, one which describes a particular social situation, and one which centers about a national character. A final chapter points out some of the most common pitfalls which beset the teacher of history, and suggests means of avoiding them.”—School R
“This slender volume is of interest to American teachers for two reasons: first, for the information it gives directly or by implication upon the state of history-teaching in England, and, secondly, for the practical quality of its criticisms and suggestions, so wholly unaffected by the airs and attitudes of the professional pedagogue.” H. E. B.
+ Am Hist R 26:353 Ja ’21 390w Ath p140 Jl 30 ’19 940w
“On the study of history, and the study of teaching as applied thereto, Mr Hasluck writes as an expert. Where there is life, there is hope. And even the formal categories of this handbook bear witness to a vitality, widespread and abounding in promise.”
+ Sat R 130:120 Ag 7 ’20 750w + School R 28:793 D ’20 320w
“Suggestive and helpful.”
+ Spec 125:281 Ag 28 ’20 190w
HASTINGS, MILO MILTON. City of endless night. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–15704
Great changes had taken place on the earth’s surface in 2150. The German empire had been wiped out and all that was left of it was the roof of Berlin looming up to the height of three hundred metres out of a bomb-torn desert that had once been Germany. The German people themselves now lived underground, three hundred million of them. It was an American chemical engineer who, during one of his experiments, was by accident exploded into their domain and by a cunning strategy managed to live and work among them; to escape by submarine and by means of his knowledge to be instrumental in the overthrow of that stronghold and in the liberation of those millions. All the qualities that the Germans have been credited with before, during and since the war, are utilized in the story with satiric exaggeration.
“Mr Hastings has succeeded in interweaving into this book a love story that always escapes being bizarre, no mean accomplishment in a tale depicting a society ‘that never was on land or sea’ outside of an author’s imagination.”
+ N Y Times p26 S 12 ’20 420w
HAWES, CHARLES BOARDMAN. Mutineers. il $2 (2c) Atlantic monthly press
20–26982
“A tale of old days at sea and of adventures in the Far East as Benjamin Lathrop set it down some sixty years ago.” (Sub-title) It was young Ben’s first voyage and although only a ship’s boy he was in the midst of all the adventures that happened. He was the first to detect treason aboard, to suspect that it was not the pirates they encountered who killed the captain and first mate, and to join the mutineers against the crafty usurpers of power. He was set adrift with the mutineers in a boat, had an exciting encounter with Malay savages who helped them regain control of the ship and, after more thrilling experiences, in the course of which the culprits met their doom, the ship and its precious cargo was saved, and when the “Island Princess” returned to its home port there was indeed a story to tell.
“Told with skill and an evident knowledge of the sea and seamen. Older boys will find it absorbing. Good make-up.”
+ Booklist 17:163 Ja ’21
“This is a story that has the sort of appeal carried by ‘Treasure island.’ It is a book written with swing and go, windy of the high seas, full of the wild doings of those early days.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ N Y Times p9 D 12 ’20 80w
“There’s not one element of the ideal sea story lacking.” L. H. Seaman
+ Pub W 98:1200 O 16 ’20 320w
“It is a tale with the true flavor of the time it professes to portray, and will have the genuine attraction for boys of all ages that similar stories by Stevenson and other lovers of the South sea and its shores possess.”
+ Springf’d Republican p7a N 28 ’20 140w
HAWKES, CLARENCE. Master Frisky. new ed il *$1.50 (6c) Crowell
The author is a well-known naturalist, author of “Wood and water friends,” and other books. Master Frisky is a collie puppy and in telling his story many other animal friends of barnyard and field are introduced. There are interesting chapters on the training of dogs, on dog signs and language and dog friendships.
“A worthy addition to our delightful literature of dogdom.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 N 16 ’20 140w
HAWKES, CLARENCE. Trails to woods and waters; foreword by W: T. Hornaday. il *$1.60 (3c) Jacobs 590.4
20–6752
In driving the cows to and from pasture as a barefoot boy, the author tells us, he learned to love nature, he learned to “see” things, he learned to endow the growing, running, flying things in the woods with personality. He makes his young readers feel that they are coming in touch with sentient things, with personalities, when they read about the trees, brooks and animals of the stories. Contents: The trail to woods and waters; A tale from the skidway; The story of willow brook; A little dapple fool; The family of Bob-White; The busy bee; Downstream in a canoe; Jacking and moose-calling; In Beaver-land; One’s own back door-yard; A wary mother; A lively bee hunt; The speckled heifer’s calf; Camping with old Ben; Forest footfalls; In the hunter’s moon; A winter walk; Camp fire legends of the wood folks. Some of the material of the book has appeared in two earlier works now out of print.
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Ag 29 ’20 200w
HAWKINS, SIR ANTHONY HOPE (ANTHONY HOPE, pseud.). Lucinda. *$2 (2c) Appleton
20–18612
The scene is all set for a fashionable London wedding, but at the last moment something goes wrong. The wedding is “unavoidably postponed.” As a matter of fact the bride has disappeared. Waldo Rillington, the bridegroom, is about to start in pursuit of the pair, for he rightly assumes that she has gone with Arsenio Valdez, but the war intervenes and for years Lucinda is lost to her English friends. Julius Rillington, Waldo’s cousin, meets her once in the interval, comes upon her unexpectedly in the year 1916 in a town in southern France. She tells him her story but he refrains from telling it to the others and keeps the meeting secret. Julius is thereafter much involved in Lucinda’s affairs, and when she is set free, he marries her. Lucinda is a heroine who serenely refuses to be downed by fortune. She takes good or ill with the same imperturbability and so always has the better of her rival, Nina, later Lady Dundrannan.
“The canvas is small and the theme has no great originality, but it is treated with the delicately humorous grace which has always distinguished this author.”
+ Ath p763 D 3 ’20 130w
“There is some very clever characterization of the group of people involved in the delinquency.” S. M. R.
+ Bookm 52:371 D ’20 100w
“Light, whimsical, ironic, sophisticated, the history of ‘Lucinda’ is pleasantly diverting.”
+ N Y Times p26 D 19 ’20 600w
“One feels that Mr Hope is now writing to please his own ideals of the art of fiction rather than to amuse the crowd. The novel is on original lines and has underlying humor.”
+ Outlook 126:558 N 24 ’20 110w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p777 N 25 ’20 560w
HAWORTH, PAUL LELAND. United States in our own times, 1865–1920. *$2.25 Scribner 973.8
20–14454
“This book is designed to meet the needs of students who desire to know our country in our own times. In it I have devoted a large share of space to social and industrial questions, but I have been on my guard against swinging too far in this direction. After all, the business of government is still of prime importance to the welfare of the nation, and it is essential that our citizens should understand our past political history.” (Preface) The contents are in part: The aftermath of war; President Johnson’s plan of reconstruction; Mexico, Alaska, and the election of 1868; The fruits of reconstruction; Foreign relations and the liberal Republican movement; The passing of the “Wild West”; Hard times and free silver; The war with Spain; “Imperialism”; “Big business” and the Panama canal; The Progressive revolt; America enters the great war; The peace conference. The book contains eight maps, some suggestions for further reading and an index.
“Not only has the author failed to show the interaction between the social and industrial problems of the country and the evolution of our law, but also he has failed to indicate the relation of these problems to our political life. Two attributes, however, of this work stand out so strikingly as to make its reading well worth the while of the student of recent American history. In the first place the ‘Suggestions for further readings,’ giving as they do page references to selected portions of various works, are excellent; secondly, and more important, Mr Haworth has produced a work which is so readable as to justify the claim of the publishers that it is as ‘fascinating as a story.’” B. B. Kendrick
+ − Am Hist R 26:349 Ja ’21 520w Booklist 17:108 D ’20
“The author uses no little self-restraint in his endeavor to be impartial. The style is attractive, and the author has hit upon a happy medium between a mere outline and excessive details. This work is the best of its kind that has been published.” F. W. C.
+ Boston Transcript p6 S 1 ’20 580w
“His book deserves no serious consideration, save in so far as it may be used to befuddle the minds of our children.” Harold Kellock
− Freeman 2:93 O 6 ’20 650w
Reviewed by C: A. Beard
Nation 111:sup417 O 13 ’20 460w
“It is possible to detect errors, for, though Dr Haworth’s method has apparently been to study thoroughly each standard authority on each particular phase of his subject, standard authorities on very recent events sometimes need a good deal of overhauling.... When it comes to the war itself, Dr Haworth gives about as lucid and understandable an account of it as we have met with anywhere. In his treatment of the social question no extremist on either side will find much comfort, but it will be applauded by all who want a sane and intelligent account.”
+ − N Y Times p22 S 5 ’20 3000w + R of Rs 62:445 O ’20 150w
“The text is notably readable with a delightfully simple style. The judgments passed on the actors in the difficult times of reconstruction and on such characters as Arthur, McKinley and Taft follow closely the estimates by Rhodes and the authors in the American nation series, which is to say they are eminently fair. The last chapters, dealing with the war and the peace conference, do not represent such mature or impartial judgments.” R. D. Leigh
+ − Survey 45:579 Ja 15 ’21 440w
HAWTREY, R. G.[[2]] Currency and credit. *$5 (*15s) Longmans 332
19–19368
“Mr R. G. Hawtrey’s ‘Currency and credit’ is a series of essays on subjects connected with money, which the writer has put together with the intention of presenting ‘a systematic analysis of currency and credit movements.’ His ‘analysis’ takes the form of a description of the mechanism of exchange and of the way it works in practice, in the course of which he supplies an exposition of the nature of financial crises. Two chapters are devoted to the discussion of the financial problems which have to be faced in time of war, and two more to ‘The assignats’ and ‘The bank restriction, 1797.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
Am Pol Sci R 14:362 My ’20 80w
“The book as a whole is in danger of falling between two stools: it is not easy or simple enough for beginners, and it does not take enough for granted to appeal to those who are already familiar with the theory of money. It could have been improved a good deal by rearrangement and a redistribution of emphasis. It is, however, the product of an acute intellect which reasons closely and threads its way through what are sometimes rather tortuous paths of abstraction.” G. S.
+ − Ath p1120 O 31 ’19 460w
“The last two sections of the book are, on the whole, the best portions of it. Mr Hawtrey’s history of the assignats is so well done that it could hardly be improved upon; it is clear, concise, and covers all the points which require bringing out. In selecting these few chapters for special praise we do not deny merit to the rest of the book.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p568 O 16 ’19 720w
HAY, JAMES. Melwood mystery. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–4958
Washington is the scene of this mystery story. Zimony Newman, suspected of being a German spy, is murdered in her apartment in the Melwood. Suspicion rests chiefly upon John Thayer, a young senator, and Knowles, an inventor who had once employed Miss Newman as his secretary. Other characters are Felix Conrad, a retired German-American manufacturer, and his secretary, David Gower, and Rosalie, Conrad’s daughter, who is engaged to John. Two detectives are occupied with the case, one the typical secret service man, working with conventional methods, the other Hastings, who whittles away with his jack knife and thinks.
“A well worked out detective story. Although conventional, the characters are interesting and the climax unexpected.”
+ Booklist 16:312 Je ’20
“The author’s style, simple, terse and gripping makes it easy to follow the dramatic happenings that finally lead to the dénouement.”
+ N Y Times 25:165 Ap 11 ’20 650w Springf’d Republican p8a S 19 ’20 140w
HAY, JAMES. “No clue!” *$1.75 (2½c) Dodd
20–15703
Like most mystery stories, this one begins with a murder. The victim is a young girl, Mildred Brace, the scene the lawn in front of “Sloanehurst,” the time, around midnight on a rainy night in summer. With so much known, it is left to Jefferson Hastings, an elderly detective who happened to be staying at Sloanehurst at the time, to discover the murderer and the motive. Also at Sloanehurst as week-end guests were Berne Webster, Lucille Sloane’s fiancé, and Judge Wilton, Mr Sloane’s close friend. From circumstantial evidence, Webster seemed guilty, as he had recently discharged Mildred from his office and she had since annoyed him with threats of a breach of promise suit. But Hastings mulled over the case and was not satisfied with circumstantial evidence. He got in touch with Mrs Brace, the girl’s mother, and upon discovering what manner of woman she was, became convinced that she held the key to the mystery in her hands. He played on her weakness, love of money, and eventually brought to light the facts that he had been sure existed—which completely cleared Webster and brought the criminal to justice.
“The story holds interest throughout, though it is of rather commonplace people, and devoid of dramatic circumstances, until the moment of fastening the guilt on the unexpected person.”
+ − Boston Transcript p12 D 8 ’20 420w
“It is no better and no worse than the general run of detective stories that will stand beside it on the booksellers’ shelves. Its author’s faults are typical of contemporary detective fiction. Of these faults, the most glaring is Mr Hay’s failure to arouse interest in his automaton-like characters.”
+ − N Y Times p27 S 12 ’20 300w
“A cleverly constructed detective story, but one with very little genuine human interest.”
+ − Outlook 126:378 O 27 ’20 40w
HAYDEN, ARTHUR. Bye-paths in curio collecting. il *$6.50 Stokes 749
20–15722
“This is another of Mr Hayden’s useful books. He classifies a heterogeneous collection of objects in a practical, if slightly unscientific way under such headings as ‘Boxes,’ ‘Man and fire,’ ‘The land,’ ‘The boudoir,’ etc.” (Ath) “Among the less usual antiquities to be collected, which Mr Hayden describes, are tobacco-stoppers, early examples of which embody portraits of King Charles I.; keys, many of them beautifully decorated, playing-cards, children’s toys, and tea-table accessories.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“There is a fairly good index. Mr Hayden’s advice is sound, and his insistence that the function of the curio collector is to rescue works of art is welcome in these days of indiscriminate high prices. The half-tone illustrations are clear.”
+ Ath p193 F 6 ’20 90w
“Always delightful is Mr Hayden, and in this latest book of his, he is just as charming and even more discursive. Like most English writers, too, he has the advantage of a very firm historical basis.”
+ Boston Transcript p7 O 2 ’20 400w
Reviewed by B. R. Redman
+ N Y Evening Post p14 O 23 ’20 400w
“An introductory note to the book, written with the grace and charm of a delightful essay, is full of lively comments on collecting in general. Fascinating information on a wide miscellany of subjects peeps at us from every paragraph of ‘Bye-paths in curio collecting.’”
+ N Y Times p10 S 12 ’20 2250w
“Mr Hayden belongs, quite frankly, to the sentimental school, finding, if not beauty, at least a genuine charm in the chattels of our forefathers; and his book, without being exactly ‘popular,’ is of human rather than technical interest.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p757 D 18 ’19 3050w
HAYES, CARLETON JOSEPH HUNTLEY. Brief history of the great war. *$3.50 Macmillan 940.3
20–8603
The author states that he has essayed to sketch tentatively what seem to him to be the broad outlines of the war, the “domestic politics of the several belligerents no less than army campaigns and naval battles,—and in presenting his synthesis to be guided so far as in him lay by an honest desire to put heat and passion aside and to write candidly and objectively for the instruction of the succeeding generation.” (Preface) After giving in due order the various events and phases of the war the last chapter—A new era begins—is devoted to the settlement, the losses and the landmarks of the new era. The three appendices contain: The covenant of the league of nations; American reservations to the treaty of Versailles; and Proposed agreement between the United States and France. The book contains a select bibliography, an index, ten maps in color and numerous sketch maps.
“This is the best single-volume history of the great war which has so far appeared, and it is one of the very few which deserve serious consideration by professional students of history. It is written with a high degree of scientific responsibility, and not for mere purposes of journalism or propaganda. At present it holds practically a unique place for fullness of information, fairness, balance, and accuracy.” W: S. Davis
+ Am Hist R 26:91 O ’20 1250w
“Useful as a school text or reference.”
+ Booklist 17:24 O ’20
“In mastery of detail, in perspective, in proportion, in perspicuity, in philosophic grasp of his subject as a whole, he outclasses all rivals, whether they have written in English, in French, or in German. Even his faults, such little ones as may be picked out here and there, are but the excesses of his virtues. Thus, in his desire to make everything perfectly clear, he verges on the pedagogical. Certainly, by his lucidity and his impartiality he has attained a result unsurpassed by the poets and thinkers who have written on the war, by Sassoon or Barbusse, by Keynes or Bertrand Russell.” Preserved Smith
+ − Nation 111:46 Jl 10 ’20 850w
Reviewed by C: A. Beard
New Repub 25:114 D 22 ’20 880w
“Considering the time and the circumstances under which it was composed, Professor Hayes has written a good brief history of the war.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p12 O 23 ’20 850w
“As a book of reference it will be highly useful, for it has an admirable index, abundance of maps and sketches, a good bibliography, and its table of contents, with the titles of chapters and sub-chapters at once suggests the true proportion of the different events of the war. But the breath of life is lacking which would convert these cold recitals into a vivid picture of the war as a whole.” F. V. Greene
+ − N Y Times 25:8 Jl 11 ’20 1900w
“The author’s acquaintance with European politics enabled him to supply the appropriate background for his pictures.”
+ R of Rs 62:112 Jl ’20 100w
“Well adapted for use in the schools. While it does not attain at all times to scientific objectivity of view, it shows a broad and judicial comprehension of events, and is as strong on the military side as the political. The bibliography is very faulty.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Je 20 ’20 280w
“It is written with a commendable absence of subjective theory or tendency and will be of value as a textbook when, owing to changes in popular sentiment, other war ‘histories’ written so soon after the events will have proved little more than political treatises. In short, a book worthy of a permanent place in any library.” B. L.
+ Survey 44:501 Jl 3 ’20 120w
“Will be found useful for general readers and students.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p670 O 14 ’20 90w
HAYES, ELLEN. Wild turkeys and tallow candles. *$2.50 Four seas co. 977.1
20–19252
A book in which the author, formerly professor of astronomy in Wellesley college, recreates something of the atmosphere of pioneer days in Ohio, drawing on printed records and her own memories. In explanation of her title she says, “The turkey and the candle serve fairly well to indicate the early and the late colonial times. With the passing of the candle and the coming of the kerosene lamp modern life was fairly introduced. As my own memory runs back to a prekerosene time I am able to describe at first hand some phases of Granville township life that were essentially pioneer.” Part 1, Wild turkey period, has chapters on Early Ohio; The pioneer journey; The wilderness home, etc., and among the chapters of Part 2, Tallow candle period, are An octagon of education; The Wolcott homestead; The year around; The county fair; A child of the Ohio eighteen-fifties.
“The effect achieved is a brilliant painting of sturdy scenes that linger in the imagination after the book is laid down.”
+ N Y Evening Post p11 O 30 ’20 200w + Outlook 126:654 D 8 ’20 50w
“This book should have three classes of readers, those who are interested in the early settlement of Ohio, those who like small history personally written, and those who are quite justifiedly interested in the early life and background of Ellen Hayes.” M. C. C.
+ Survey 45:329 N 27 ’20 300w
HAYNES, EDMOND SIDNEY POLLOCK. Case for liberty. *$2.50 Dutton 323.4
(Eng ed 19–19932)
“Mr Haynes here develops the argument which he outlined three years ago in ‘The decline of liberty in England.’ He associates himself, subject to some reservations, with Mr Belloc in restating the case for personal liberty in the old radical sense. ‘The vitally important aspect of liberty today,’ he says, ‘is its function in combating the sort of anarchy which threatens civilization all over the world; for this anarchy is the inevitable result of war lords and their imitators despising the normal aspirations of the individual human being to a brief period of normal happiness.’ The book is in the main a review of the more recent tendencies of politics in England with the object of showing that the individual human being is marked for destruction as such by the plutocrat on one side and the collectivist on the other. The political remedies he proposes are the referendum and the revival of the process of impeachment.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
Nation 112:90 Ja 19 ’21 410w
“His little book is replete with rare and robust commonsense; his reasoning is consequent; and his illustrations are occasionally witty.”
+ − Sat R 128:201 Ag 30 ’19 1300w + − Spec 122:220 Ag 16 ’19 180w + − Springf’d Republican p8 S 13 ’19 290w (Reprinted from the Times [London] Lit Sup p415 Jl 31 ’19) Springf’d Republican p9a Ag 29 ’20 470w
“Mr Haynes’s book will not command universal agreement, but it is a real contribution to current political discussion.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p415 Jl 31 ’19 280w
HEAD, JOSEPH. Everyday mouth hygiene. il *$1 Saunders 613.4
20–1616
The author, dentist to the Jefferson hospital, Philadelphia, sounds a serious note of warning against imperfectly cleaned teeth, which, through infection, cause “directly or indirectly one-half of the fatal diseases.” Rheumatism, heart disease, ulcer of the stomach and many other fatal diseases can be reduced fifty per cent if decay of the teeth and gum infection are stayed. How this can be done the book tells minutely in word and picture. It contains besides some closing remarks on the irregularity of children’s teeth and has an index.
Booklist 16:227 Ap ’20
“Considering the appalling prevalence of digestive and nerve diseases due to bad teeth, the detailed instruction here given for tooth preservation deserves wide circulation.”
+ Survey 43:592 F 14 ’20 80w
HEADLAM, ARTHUR CAYLEY. Doctrine of the church and Christian reunion; being the Bampton lectures for the year 1920. *$4 Longmans 280
20–18237
“Dr Headlam is Regius professor of divinity in the University of Oxford. He traces the doctrine of the church from the four gospels down to the Lambeth conference. He says that Christ ‘created the church as a visible society. He instituted ministry and sacraments. He gave authority for legislation and discipline.’ ‘But he gave no directions as to the form or organization of the new community, and the actual organization which was ultimately developed was different from anything which he personally established.’ Episcopacy ‘was the creation of the church.... It had its origin in the apostolic church; it represents a continuous development from apostolic times; but we cannot claim that it has apostolic authority.’ Dr Headlam defends the historic episcopacy and the Nicene creed as a basis for organic church union, not on the ground that they have the direct authority of Jesus Christ, but because their value has been recognized by an overwhelming majority in the Christian church from a very early age.”—Outlook
“The writer, condemning himself, well says; ‘Only too often the professed adoption of the historical method appears to be but a device for concealing one’s bias’; for on page after page he misrepresents and misinterprets the evidence that lies plainly before him.”
− Cath World 112:543 Ja ’21 600w
Reviewed by Lyman Abbott
+ Outlook 126:689 D 15 ’20 390w Sat R 130:459 D 4 ’20 1650w
“It should not only be read, but studied; and, in particular, it should be in the hands of every member of the Lambeth conference.”
+ Spec 125:779 D 11 ’20 2000w + Springf’d Republican p9a O 24 ’20 1150w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p486 Jl 29 ’20)
“No other recent book on the church and its ministry matches this volume in importance. It brings out the essential elements of the problems with which it deals clearly and dispassionately. Students of this subject will appreciate the fact that there is apparently not a single ambiguous sentence in the book.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p486 Jl 29 ’20 2200w
HEAGLE, DAVID. Do the dead still live? or, The testimony of science respecting a future life; new foundations for man’s great hope. *$1.50 Am. Bapt. 218
20–9221
The purpose of the book is to present in popular form all the arguments in support of a belief in human immortality. The sources drawn from are science, philosophy and religion, but the scientific proofs are especially enlarged upon. The book has an introduction by Bishop Samuel Fallows who calls it a whole library of condensed information on the subject. The discussion is outlined in the first chapter—Preliminaries. The rest of the contents are: The older arguments, from philosophy and religion; The argument from biology—from physics—from physiology—from psychology (normal and abnormal)—from spiritism scientifically examined; Conclusions, and possibilities of further discovery; Supplement—related matters and objections, with opinions of eminent philosophers and scholars; Notes and a bibliography.
Booklist 16:297 Je ’20 Boston Transcript p6 Jl 31 ’20 400w
“An earnest and well-meaning intention will not atone for the lack of critical discrimination. The book is an unfortunate example of juggling with incommensurables.” Joseph Jastrow
− Dial 69:209 Ag ’20 210w
“The work is, perhaps, unique in its comprehensive and succinct survey of the argument for personal survival after death.”
+ N Y Times 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 240w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
Review 3:41 Jl 14 ’20 80w
HEARN, LAFCADIO. Talks to writers. *$2 Dodd 814
20–19452
These chapters are reprinted from the author’s “Interpretations of literature” and “Life and literature”—lectures delivered at the University of Tokyo. Hearn writes as a craftsman and looks upon literature as an emotional art, a moral art and one requiring unceasing discipline. He insists on clearness of vision, on exactness in the use of words and holds that literature must grow out of the vernacular. He advises translating as a literary practice and preliminary discipline. The book is edited with an introduction by John Erskine and is indexed. Contents: On the relation of life and character to literature; On composition; Studies of extraordinary prose; The value of the supernatural in fiction; The question of the highest art; Tolstoi’s theory of art; Note upon the abuse and the use of literary societies; On reading; Literature and public opinion; Farewell address.
“The content, not the style, is here of first importance; these lectures, as they stand, not only furnish light on an interesting side of Hearn’s personality, but represent adequately his point of view as it had been ripened by study and thought.” F. N. A.
+ Freeman 2:501 F 2 ’21 360w
“Addressed to alien students, they are necessarily often elementary in subject matter and always simple in style. Out of the latter necessity Hearn made a virtue and achieved a naive charm, so that, as writing, the lectures are, like everything else he wrote, beautiful.”
+ Nation 112:sup248 F 9 ’21 340w
“No one who is beginning to write, or who is a student of composition, can afford to miss these lectures.” W. P. Eaton
+ N Y Call p10 N 21 ’20 290w N Y Evening Post p8 N 6 ’20 190w
“There is real suggestiveness and stimulation in these dissertations.”
+ Outlook 126:470 N 10 ’20 70w
“The first three chapters, which deal more directly with the workmanship of good writing and good books, contain more common sense on the subject than all the books on ‘how to become a writer in 30 lessons’ on the market.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Ja 11 ’21 220w
HEATLEY, DAVID PLAYFAIR. Diplomacy and the study of international relations. *$3.75 Oxford 327
20–4112
“The purpose of this book, as stated by its author, is ‘to portray diplomacy and the conduct of foreign policy from the stand-point of history, to show how they have been analyzed and appraised by representative writers, and to indicate sources from which the knowledge thus acquired may be supplemented.’ The first third of the volume consists of an essay of a general character on Diplomacy and the conduct of foreign policy, written from a British point of view. The remaining two-thirds of the book consist of a general discussion of the literature of international relations.”—Am Hist R
“The bibliography on treaties, maps, and supplementary reading is rather scanty. It should be added that, whatever may be the estimate of this volume in other respects, its tone is scholarly and gives evidence of much painstaking in its preparation.” D: J. Hill
+ − Am Hist R 25:698 Jl ’20 1000w
“A valuable and scholarly work.”
+ Ath p782 Je 11 ’20 80w Booklist 17:52 N ’20
“This is a very valuable source book for students of international law. This is a book for the student, not for the general reader—a record of careful, conscientious scholarship, containing new material, but somewhat dry in style.” M. R. F. G.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 24 ’20 700w
“The arrangement of ‘Diplomacy and the study of international relations’ is so far from orderly that its usefulness is very much impaired, and one has even some doubt as to what the author really aimed at doing. Much of the matter thus put together is of great interest, but as the book stands at present, it is rather a note-book than a finished work.”
+ − Eng Hist R 35:629 O ’20 170w
“A repertory of historical information that is not easily found elsewhere.”
+ Spec 124:465 Ap 3 ’20 170w
HEATON, ELIZA OSBORN (PUTNAM) (MRS JOHN LANGDON HEATON). By-paths in Sicily. il *$3.50 Dutton 914.58
20–12460
“The late Mrs Heaton was a clever New York journalist who for reasons of health had to spend seven years in Sicily. She devoted herself to the study of the Sicilian peasantry, their customs and their dialects. We are told that after the Messina earthquake this American lady was called in as an interpreter between Italian officers from the North and the peasants. Her book shows that she made many close friends among the poor and gained an unusual knowledge of their ways. Six of the chapters are given to descriptions of fairs and festivals.”—Spec
“The author was a gifted writer whose perceptions struck far below the surface and who could see her material in historical perspective as well as with rare human understanding.”
+ Booklist 17:27 O ’20 + Bookm 52:345 D ’20 40w + N Y Times p22 D 12 ’20 280w
“A book which possesses both charm and real value. The high quality of the vivid and sympathetic realism with which the scenes and characters are described recalls the best regional writers of Italy.”
+ Review 3:390 O 27 ’20 660w + Spec 125:282 Ag 28 ’20 190w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p528 Ag 19 ’20 900w
HEIDENSTAM, KARL GUSTAF VERNER VON. Birth of God. *$1.25 Four seas co. 839.7
20–6852
This one act play, translated from the Swedish by Karoline M. Knudsen, is a symbolic presentation of the human soul’s eternal search after God. It is a moonlit scene in the street of the Sphinxes at Karnak, where a modern and an ancient man meet on the same quest with the old animal idols dancing about. The quest comes to an end when they both realize that it is in their faith in the unknown God and their search for him that they possess him and build him altars and sacrificial fires.
Booklist 16:306 Je ’20 Boston Transcript p4 My 5 ’20 150w
“The dialogue is not ineffective and von Heidenstam punctuates it adequately with stage effects. Yet its rather oratorical progress is not entirely convincing.” F. E. H.
+ − Freeman 1:478 Jl 28 ’20 130w
Reviewed by Ludwig Lewisohn
Nation 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 110w
Reviewed by O. W. Firkins
Review 2:609 Je 5 ’20 100w
“‘The birth of God’ is possibly less direct than its predecessor, ‘The soothsayer.’ The movement is slow. Nor is the treatment as striking in originality.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p9a N 14 ’20 580w
HEILNER, VAN CAMPEN, and STICK, FRANK. Call of the surf. il *$3 (4½c) Doubleday 799
20–16781
This is the first book on surf fishing and its authors are enthusiasts for the sport. The purpose of the book is threefold: “to afford some small entertainment to brother fishermen on those long evenings when the north wind howls and winter’s sleet drives against the window pane; to attract the stranger to a sport in which the authors have found a vast measure of happiness, and to make somewhat smoother his trail to the Big-Sea Water.” (Authors’ note) The illustrations are from photographs and from paintings by Frank Stick. Contents: Surf fishing; In quest of the channel bass; Gold medal fish and others; Down Barnegat way; The tiger of the sea; With the tide runners of the inlets; On the offshore banks; The channel bass of Gray Gull Shoals; The smaller brethren; By western seas; Beach camping; Equipment.
“The delights of surf fishing are shown forth after the manner of an accomplished essayist, in the opening chapter. Others than fishermen will find much pleasure in reading this book.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p4 S 29 ’20 600w
“It is written with a threefold purpose, which it triumphantly achieves. Both Mr Heilner and Mr Stick are surfmen whose enthusiasm for the sport about which they write is most contagious. They won one convert in the reviewer; he’s going a-fishing with them next spring ‘when the red gods call.’”
+ N Y Times p10 O 10 ’20 1050w
“With three good sports collaborating in this friendly fashion the book ought to be pretty good—and it is.”
+ Springf’d Republican p7a D 26 ’20 340w
HENDERSON, ARCHIBALD. Conquest of the old Southwest. il *$3 (5c) Century 976
20–8247
It is “the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740–1790,” (Sub-title) now known as the old Southwest, that is told in this volume. The author points out two determinative principles in the progressive American civilization of the eighteenth century as: the passion for the acquisition of land; and wanderlust—the inquisitive instinct of the hunter, the traveler, and the explorer. They gave rise to a restless nomadic temperament which in its turn formed the sub-soil of a buoyant national character. What it did for democracy in the second half of the eighteenth century is the theme of the book. The contents in part are: The migration of the peoples; The cradle of westward expansion; The back country and the border; The Indian war; The land companies; Daniel Boone and wilderness exploration; The regulators; Transylvania—a wilderness commonwealth; The repulse of the red men; The lure of Spain—the haven of statehood; List of notes, bibliographical notes, index and illustrations.
“One expects from Mr Henderson a well-told story, and this volume realizes this expectation. The narrative will interest the scientific historian as well as the lay reader. It is evident that there are grave limitations to Mr Henderson’s interpretation of old Southwest history.” C. W. Alvord
+ − Am Hist R 26:116 O ’20 580w
“An interesting economic and social story to all who know the Mississippi valley settlements mainly as exploits of Boone and George Rogers Clark”
+ Booklist 17:25 O ’20
“This volume is a very condensed history, with a great number of witness-references showing the care with which Mr Henderson has done his work. He has added a valuable and convenient treatise concerning a somewhat overlooked section to the group of histories of the states, and to the history of the formation of the United States of America.” J. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 3 ’20 650w Freeman 2:69 S 29 ’20 190w + N Y Times p14 Ag 29 ’20 2550w
“All in all, this is a book to be strongly recommended.” G. I. Colbron
+ Pub W 97:1293 Ap 17 ’20 350w R of Rs 62:335 S ’20 60w
“An important contribution to history.” C. L. Skinner
+ − Yale R n s 10:183 O ’20 940w
HENDRYX, JAMES BEARDSLEY. Gold girl. il *$1.75 (3c) Putnam
20–6633
Following her father’s death, Patty Sinclair goes West to locate his claim. She has only his map with the directions she is too unskilled to read to guide her, but she follows his example in playing a lone hand and will not ask advice. She soon learns that her movements are watched and that in her absence her cabin is being searched. Suspicion might fall on two men and she picks the wrong one. Vil Holland knows that she distrusts him but that makes no difference in his attitude toward her. He knows too her opinion of the brown jug she has seen attached to his saddle, but out of perversity he continues to carry it. In the end the true villain is unmasked and the race for the registry office that follows her finding of the claim has a different meaning and a different outcome from the one she had anticipated.
“Bright and interesting story.”
+ Ath p687 My 21 ’20 70w
“The book is colorful and well written.”
+ N Y Times 25:23 Jl 11 ’20 340w
“We should like to believe that the book gives a picture of life anywhere or at any time, but somehow the author fails to convince us.”
− Sat R 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 50w
“The plot of the story is one to intrigue the interest from the outset.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a Ag 15 ’20 130w
HENRY, AUGUSTINE. Forests, woods and trees in relation to hygiene. (Chadwick library) il *$7.50 (*18s) Dutton 634.9
(Eng ed Agr20–233)
“The book is an amplification of the Chadwick lectures delivered by Prof. Henry at the Royal society of arts in 1917, and the author no doubt looks upon it in large measure as propaganda in the cause of tree-planting on a national scale. The first three chapters, however, deal with matters of profound scientific importance—the influence of forests on climate, the sanitary influence of forests, and forests as sites for sanatoria. The greater part of the volume is devoted to a question of national importance—the afforestation of water-catchment areas, with particulars of the extent to which the work has already proceeded.”—Nature
+ Booklist 17:58 N ’20
“Prof. Henry has read up the subject widely, but the nature of his book makes it impossible for him to focus the results sharply enough. He does, indeed, direct the attention of his readers to many recent investigations which it is most useful to have brought together, and for this guidance the student who wishes to go farther should be sincerely grateful.” H. R. Mill
+ − Nature 105:158 Ap 8 ’20 1250w
HENRY, ROBERT MITCHELL. Evolution of Sinn Fein. *$2 (3c) Huebsch 941.5
The book is a complete survey of the historical struggle of the Irish for independence. The author asserts that at no time did the English government aim at anything less than the complete moral, material and political subjugation of Ireland—nor did the Irish at any time yield in their assertion of their national independence. How this spirit of independence finally culminated in the birth of the Sinn Fein movement and in the course of the war developed into open rebellion is the subject of the book. The introductory deals with Irish nationalism before the nineteenth century and the chapters following are: Irish nationalism in the nineteenth century; Sinn Fein; The early years of Sinn Fein; Sinn Fein and the republicans; The volunteer movement; Ulster and nationalist Ireland; Sinn Fein, 1914–1916; After the rising; Conclusion.
“It displays generally the gift of patient research into the details of the newest development of revolutionary Ireland, and in this respect supplies much information from the writings and ideals of the present leaders which must be of considerable value to future historians. From the historic point of view the weak point is that the case of England—politically and strategically—is hardly considered at all.” P. B.
+ Ath p507 Ap 16 ’20 1850w
“As a history of the party, it makes very good reading, but unfortunately the author is partisan, almost blindly so, and Sinn Fein is the only matter in Ireland that he finds for praise.”
+ − Boston Transcript p4 D 31 ’20 200w The Times [London] Lit Sup p158 Mr 4 ’20 80w
HENRY, STUART. Villa Elsa. *$2 Dutton
20–2260
“‘Villa Elsa’ is the actual, everyday family life of the middle-class German before the war—nothing glossed over, nothing exaggerated or fanciful. It is Mr Henry’s personal experience expressed in the form of a novel. The Bucher family lived in Loschwitz, a suburb of Dresden. Herr Bucher, the father, is a stolid, unwashed, collarless, healthy and obese German ‘Vater’; his wife, Frau Bucher, is coarse, red-faced, heavy-handed, snarling and shouting, at the top of her lungs, her fierce hatred of England. Elsa, the only daughter, has the usual tow hair, is stupidly healthy, reads Heine, tries to be sentimental, but is essentially matter of fact. Rudolph, the eldest son, is in secret a government spy, reporting upon their visitor, Gard Kirtley, from America. He is a spruce young engineer, militaristic, dissolute, despising all decent women, and continually hinting of Der Tag. Ernst, a pale boy of fifteen, studies eighteen hours out of the twenty-four, quotes falsified history, and particularly discredits all American institutions. Gard Kirtley believes he has fallen in love with Elsa, but her stolid indifference and phlegmatic stupidity finally overpower him.”—Bookm
“The chief merit of the book is that the reader is bound to feel its truth. There is no attempt at fine writing or that easy familiarity with aristocratic court life, so often affected by English novelists, which, while it adds a gloss to the story, never wears the features of actual experience.” J: S. Wood
+ Bookm 51:361 My ’20 1600w
“While the story is not uninteresting in itself, it loses both in vividness and in artistic value by being constantly kept subservient to the author’s determination to inform and to teach.”
+ − N Y Times 25:164 Ap 11 ’20 1000w Review 2:436 Ap 24 ’20 180w
“For English readers this book has probably come to birth too late by some six years. His picture is unconvincing too, because it is the outcome of a mood which, in this country at least, has exhausted itself.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p13 Ja 6 ’21 450w
HENSLOW, GEORGE. Proofs of the truths of spiritualism. 2d ed, rev il *$2.50 Dodd 134
An inquiry into, and exposition of the nature of spiritualism, with its abundant material for evidence discussed and described in detail, such as automatic handwriting, apports, poltergeists, levitation, spirit lights, spirit clouds, “spirit-controlled” painting and drawing, psychographs, etc. Some of the chapter titles are as follows: Practical methods of substantiating the truths of spiritualism; Testing the spirits’ sight; Babies, children and adult spirits, reappearing as children; The gradual development of spirit photography; Psychographs across ordinary photographs of sitters; Materialisations. A religious atmosphere pervades the book. The text is supplemented by fifty-one illustrations, some of them reproductions of spirit-photographs.
“From a scientific point of view Professor Henslow’s book is utterly valueless, as it is evident from the opening of his first chapter that he himself is a spiritualist of the most pronounced type. But as an extraordinarily definite account of experiments and results with all the various phenomena of the reputable private seance room, the book is as marvelous as an Arabian nights’ story and much more satisfactory because such things actually happened.” C. H. O.
+ − Boston Transcript p6 Mr 31 ’20 580w
“His book, slovenly as it often is in statement, is another moment in the accumulating mass of evidence which can not be laughed or sneered or denounced away.”
+ − Review 2:337 Ap 3 ’20 250w
HENSLOW, GEORGE. Religion of the spirit world; written by the spirits themselves. *$2 Dodd 134
20–15944
The book is a compilation of famous communications from the spirit world for the purpose of proving their religious significance. The author’s object is to show that the life beyond is but a continuation of life on earth, that we reap what we have sown, that every character development here on earth counts beyond and that, in a certain sense, there is a judgment day awaiting us. The contents are in part: The necessary pre-acquired mental conditions for securing happiness in the next world; The laws of eternal life; The gospel of character, preached and practised in the next life; The acquisition of the Christ-like character and conduct is everything hereafter, and must be striven for on earth; The true spiritual meaning of “heaven” and “hell”; The fate of the suicide—a terrible warning; The nature of man, here and hereafter.
“He gives out matters of opinion constantly as matters of faith. If such a world as the contributors to this volume depict really existed, the fact ought to be concealed, in the interests of the preachers of immortality.” M. F. Egan
− N Y Times p17 S 26 ’20 160w
HENSON, HERBERT HENSLEY, bp. of Hereford, and others. Church of England; its nature and its future. *$1.75 Macmillan 283
(Eng ed 20–16630)
“Those who arranged this series of lectures took care to secure a thoroughly representative group of English clergymen. Their live lectures taken together set out with considerable force the views of high, low, and broad churchmen, with two academic pronouncements from a couple of Oxford professors. The Rev. W. R. Matthews, dean of King’s college, London, where the lectures were delivered, in a short preface, states that their purpose was to bring together exponents of the different tendencies within the church and to secure from them full and frank statements of their views on the great problem which gives its title to the book.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
Nation 110:773 Je 5 ’20 250w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p173 Ap 3 ’19 650w
HERBERT, ALAN PATRICK. Bomber gipsy, and other poems. *$1.50 Knopf 821
(Eng ed 20–1081)
With a few exceptions these poems are reprinted from Punch. They are spirited and humorous pictures of life at the front. Besides the title poem some of the pieces are: Ballade of incipient lunacy; The rest-rumour; At the dump; The atrocity; The ballad of Jones’s Blighty; The trench code; The mischief-makers; The deserters; Free meals; The cookers: a song of the transport; A song of plenty.
+ Booklist 17:61 N ’20
“Because he has a sense of humor, a great deal of common sense and the good sense to make what is merely good verse and in no way pretends to be serious poetry, Mr Herbert has given us a very likable book about the Tommy.” Marguerite Williams
+ N Y Times p24 Ag 22 ’20 100w + Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 22 ’20 160w
HERBERT, ALAN PATRICK. Secret battle. *$2 (4c) Knopf
20–628
He was a sensitive, romantic and imaginative lad, lacking confidence in himself but pathetically eager and conscientious about doing the right thing, not to make a mess of it, to measure up and more than measure up to what was required of him. He always exacted a bit more of himself than could reasonably be expected. He distinguished himself at Gallipoli in the most trying part of the war until he was carried down to the ship in a high fever. Later in France, his record was the same, always doing the over and above his power of endurance that was bound in the end to undermine his power of existence. When the strain had become too great and petty jealousies of fellow officers and the bullying arrogance of the commander had done their deadly work, the fatal move was made and one of the bravest men the war knew was shot for cowardice.
“Mr Herbert’s is one of the most interesting and moving English war books.”
+ Ath p572 Jl 4 ’19 180w
“The story is told with a quiet restraint, with no attempt to pile up horrors, but with a relentless insistence on the central tragedy. Very fine work with a limited appeal.”
+ Booklist 16:281 My ’20
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 51:78 Mr ’20 580w
“It is simply and vividly told. It reads not like fiction but like fact, which perhaps it is.”
+ Ind 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 280w
“He evidently and perhaps rightly considered that to draw any ultimate consequences from his story in the world of conduct would have diminished its inherent force. That force is very great.”
+ Nation 110:115 Ja 24 ’20 500w
“Very simply, very quietly and naturally, the author builds up the structure of events, some of them apparently trivial at the time, but destined later to become of dreadful portent, which at the last crushes and breaks Harry’s nerve. The logic of it all is unassailable and perfectly convincing.”
+ N Y Times 25:11 Ja 11 ’20 1100w
“Vivid, convincing, written in a style at once strong and flexible and revealing an unusual gift for character portrayal. ‘The secret battle’ is one of the few really big novels of the world war.”
+ N Y Times 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 200w
“Being the work of a cultivated Englishman, it has the restraint of the famous public-school tradition. It wishes to betray too little rather than too much feeling. Its manner is tense with sympathy, but its matter approaches dryness.” H. W. Boynton
+ − Review 2:257 Mr 13 ’20 350w Spec 122:800 Je 21 ’19 100w
“The indictment against the verdict is stated quietly and without passion. The issue it raises is of interest to all ex-service men; how far must the army treat men as things, how far can and should it treat them as persons?”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 F 5 ’20 320w
“Needless to say, it is a painful book. Comfortable people who do not like their feelings harrowed will no more find it to their taste than they found ‘Justice’ or ‘Jude the obscure’, to their taste. To the former, indeed, the last part of ‘The secret battle’ offers a striking parallel. Not in detail, for it is pitched in a quieter key, and its author expressly states that he is not attempting to indict a system.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p356 Jl 3 ’19 500w
HERGESHEIMER, JOSEPH. San Cristóbal de la Habana. *$3 (4c) Knopf 917.29
20–21412
In a passively receptive mood the author went to Havana and drifted thru his days taking in impressions of the city, of the people, of the social atmosphere, of its all-pervading romance. “There was never a more complex spirit than Havana’s, no stranger mingling of chance and climate and race had ever occurred; but, remarkably, a unity of effect had been the result, such a singleness as that possessed by an opera.... It was its special charm to be charged with sensations rather than facts; a place where facts ... could be safely ignored.”
“Mr Hergesheimer, translating the spell of Havana into words of great imagery and color, has visualized its wonderful charm.”
+ Bookm 52:367 Ja ’21 70w
“Half the time we see the city through his meticulously observant eyes, and the other half he plays Boswell to his own personality and ideas. The result is an engaging series of vignettes, a most understanding interpretation, and a remarkably honest human document.” J. S. N.
+ Freeman 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 230w
“A production at once original and excellent. Mr Hergesheimer possesses to an extraordinary degree the power of subjectifying the objective, which is another way of saying that he can make external realities his very own. In consequence of this happy ability his book is about one-tenth Havana and nine-tenths Hergesheimer.”
+ N Y Times p22 D 12 ’20 2000w
“Not the least interesting of Mr Hergesheimer’s remarks refer to the creation of literature, his own and others.’”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 Ja 7 ’20 350w
HERRICK, CHEESMAN ABIAH. Outstanding days. *$1.25 Am. S. S. union 394
20–4985
A book of selections for readings and recitations for day school and Sunday school. Each section is prefaced by a discussion of the origin and meaning of the special day under consideration. “A collection of nearly a hundred literary selections is presented in connection with the several studies. Some of these are old favorites which can never be out of date. Others are relatively recent, furnishing an expression of the thought and feeling of the present on the subjects discussed.” Contents: Place of special days; New Year’s day; Lincoln’s birthday; Washington’s birthday; Good Friday; Easter Sunday; Mother’s day; Memorial day; Children’s day; Flag day; Commencement day; Independence day; Labor day; Beginning school; Thanksgiving day; Christmas day.
+ El School J 20:795 Je ’20 100w
HERRICK, GLENN WASHINGTON. Insects of economic importance. *$2 Macmillan 632.7
20–12386
These “outlines of lectures in economic entomology” are a revised edition of a previous volume. Space considerations prevent the inclusion of all insects of economic importance. “However, the principal pests of our important fruits, vegetables, cereals, farm animals, shade trees, and of the household are discussed. A brief summary of the life habits of each, so far as they are known, is made, and the latest methods of control are outlined. In addition, a concise discussion of insecticides is given together with formulæ and directions for making and applying them.” (Preface) The first twelve chapters are: Losses caused by insects; Useful insects; Entomological literature; Natural methods of insect control; Artificial methods of insect control; Poison insecticides; Poison baits; Contact insecticides; Fumigating substances; Miscellaneous means of insect control; Dusting; Quarantine and insecticide laws. The remainder of the book is devoted to the special insect pests and their victims and an index.
Booklist 17:165 Ja ’21 R of Rs 62:336 S ’20 40w
HERRINGHAM, SIR WILMOT PARKER. Physician in France. (Liverpool diocesan board of divinity publications) *$5 (*15s) Longmans 940.475
(Eng ed 19–19873)
“Preliminary to this narrative the author discusses the surprise of the English at the sudden outbreak of the war. After this preliminary discussion he, in his fifth chapter, begins his personal narrative and relates the early operations of the medical corps in England at the beginning of the war, showing us how the thing was done and the sanitary precautions that were made against sickness among the forces. Continuing, he tells of the organization and work of the Field ambulance corps; of the clearing stations; of the work of transporting the wounded and of the base hospitals and nurses. He then discusses some phases of medical work, especially the management of cases of enteric and other fevers, and of shell shock. He talks of the advance of medicine in the war, of the operations on the plains of Flanders: of the medical headquarters at Hesdin. Diverging, the author, drawing from his experiences abroad, tells of education and the religious question in France and of some interesting contrasts between French and English people, in domestic manners and management and in human characteristics.”—Boston Transcript
“The reasons for his popularity will be apparent to anyone who reads his book, for it exhibits in an attractive form the qualities of his mind and general outlook.”
+ Ath p1401 D 26 ’19 520w + Boston Transcript p10 F 21 ’20 480w
“It is written in ordinary, straightforward language, free from those amateur attempts at the literary manner which make most books written by doctors so tedious. Much of the book is political, and this, except as throwing light on the character of the author, is the least important part. The most entertaining part of the book consists in the record of the author’s observations of French life and its contrasts with our own.” H. R.
+ Nation [London] 26:360 D 6 ’19 1350w
“Entertaining and instructive. The purely medical chapters of the book have their value as a lucid exposition calculated to enlighten the layman and to enlist his sympathy.”
+ Sat R 129:37 Ja 10 ’20 1350w
“In the opening chapters, devoted to a consideration of the causes which led up to the outbreak of the great war, the author exhibits a fine patriotism tempered by broad-mindedness. The book will enhance the author’s reputation, and prove most welcome reading after the publication of so many self-centred memoirs.”
+ Spec 124:245 F 21 ’20 1050w
“Unfortunately, the opening chapters are platitudinous and have nothing to do with the author’s real theme; but the book improves as he gets into his stride, and is best of all in the later chapters, devoted to the differences between the customs and viewpoints of the French and ourselves, which are handled at once frankly and with comprehension and discretion.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p643 N 13 ’19 1250w
HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY. Light heart. *$2 (5c) Holt
20–8858
This tale is a story of men’s friendships. Thormod, of the light heart, is a poet who easily wins the love of women, but his real devotion is given to men, first to his friend Thorgar, whose death he avenges, then to King Olaf. In his preface the author says, “Of this heroic, naked story, three fragments survive in ‘Origines Islandicæ,’ that learned repository; but to compound one plain tale of them it has been necessary to go for the catastrophe to the Saga of King Olaf. As a result of my hunting and piecing I am able to give an orderly account of the life of a young man which, I think, justifies the title I have given it.”
Ath p559 Ap 23 ’20 40w + − Booklist 17:33 O ’20
“While ‘The light heart’ is far less interesting and far less stirring than either ‘Gudrid the fair’ or ‘The outlaw,’ it has one truly splendid moment—that in which Thormod swears his allegiance for life and death to King Olaf.”
+ − N Y Times 25:291 Je 6 ’20 900w
“I confess that for me the starkness, the frugality, the astringency of this tale render it a tougher morsel than some of the Norse fables Mr Hewlett has previously wrought from similar materials. For his sources he shows a reverence almost excessive.” H. W. Boynton
+ − Review 3:110 Ag 4 ’20 340w
“The story is good and unusual. But above all we would commend Mr Hewlett’s short introduction on the nature of the Sagas.”
+ Sat R 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 100w
“The story has retained the legendary atmosphere of the twelfth century Iceland and Norway. The book is written with Hewlett’s usual romantic touch. It is interesting mainly on account of the unusual setting and the strangeness of the characters treated. The author sacrifices plot to faithfulness to his sources.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Je 20 ’20 480w
“Colloquial and prosaic though the telling is—prosaic even in describing dreams and visions—there shines through it a spirit which is high and beautiful.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p255 Ap 22 ’20 1000w
HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY. Mainwaring. *$2 (4c) Dodd
20–19506
The story portrays two extremely opposed types, a man and a woman. Mainwaring is a genius of a sort, grasping everything to himself, ambitious, a demagogue, reckless and unmoral. From obscurity he rises to political power and is only stayed from achieving the highest rung by disease and death. He burns himself out prematurely. While still quite young and out of his mastering passion of grasping everything he wants, he forces a beautiful young working girl to marry him. Lizzy in her selflessness, her poise and sincerity, her obedience to duty, is his opposite. She endures starvation with him but when he asks her to follow him into high life she refuses. She has seen through it at a glance and hates it, and prefers the duties of a housemaid to those of hostess at his banquets. He subjects her to every indignity but willingly accepts her services as a nurse during his last days.
Booklist 17:116 D ’20
“Mainwaring stands before a dull gray background, which is rather bad for the story, but serves the purpose of the novelist in making Mainwaring a crimson figure against this same gray. As usual, Mr Hewlett is fascinatingly facile with his pen, but this same smooth style cannot wholly atone for a very flimsy plot and a succession of avowed characters that are of no more use than a Greek chorus.”
+ − Boston Transcript p7 N 24 ’20 390w
“Lizzy is a human being, strongly conventional in her sense of duty, yet as freshly natural in emotional values as Eve strayed from the garden. On the whole, however, ‘Mainwaring’ is a disappointment as a novel. The author too apparently is doing over again with unconvincing dexterity things once well accomplished in ‘Rest Harrow’.”
− + N Y Evening Post p22 O 23 ’20 300w
“The sharp contrasts between these well-drawn figures, whose souls are silhouetted by the tragic circumstances in which the author places them, afforded Mr Hewlett equal opportunity to display his powers of creating and analyzing character. The artistry and dignity of the story he has written around them make ‘Mainwaring’ a worthy addition to the novels bearing his name.”
+ N Y Times p22 S 26 ’20 560w
“The political part of the story is not excessively interesting, although it has capital pen sketches of Disraeli and Gladstone under slight disguises. Like all Mr Hewlett’s writing, the literary execution of the book is admirable in its finish and quiet effectiveness.”
+ − Outlook 126:333 O 20 ’20 170w
“A brilliant study in its kind; but some of us will feel as we have often felt with Mr Hewlett, that the childlike creature woman rather than the childish creature man gives the story its charm. Mainwaring’s Lizzy is a girl to be remembered.” H. W. Boynton
+ − Review 3:382 O 27 ’20 340w
“The two characters are analyzed in vigorous fashion and will stand as examples of Mr Hewlett’s most finished work.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 31 ’20 450w
HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY. Outlaw. *$1.75 (3½c) Dodd
20–4
This is the fifth of Maurice Hewlett’s saga tales retold. It is the story of Gisli and of Grayflanks, the sword on which a curse was laid when it was turned against its owner. Young Gisli is a craftsman and man of peace, who nevertheless is fated to be the slayer of men, to flee from Norway to Iceland, to become an outlaw, and to die fighting with his back against the wall, his wife, Aud, beside him.
“We cannot help wishing that he had been a great deal more lenient with himself. For the tale, as it stands, is so exceedingly plain, and the fights, murders, escapes and pursuits described upon so even a breath, that it is hard to believe the great, more than life-size dolls minded whether they were hit over the head or not. There is no doubt that the very large number of words of one syllable help to keep the tone low. They have a curious effect upon the reader. He finds himself, as it were, reading aloud, spelling out the tale.” K. M.
+ − Ath p15 Ja 2 ’20 600w Booklist 16:244 Ap ’20
“None of his stories out of the Icelandic sagas is as spirited as ‘The outlaw.’ The vein of romance discovered in them by Mr Hewlett seems to be inexhaustible.” E. F. E
+ Boston Transcript p6 Mr 24 ’20 1150w
“‘The outlaw’ is a noble tale fully and in the main nobly told.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ Nation 111:191 Ag 14 ’20 500w
“A grim tale, full of strong passions and desperate fighting, is this of ‘The outlaw.’”
+ N Y Times 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 1000w + N Y Times 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 70w
“Needless to say, it is masterly in its art and vividness; yet many of the author’s admirers would welcome his return to that type of writing that gave us ‘Half-way house’ and ‘Richard yea-and-nay.’”
+ − Outlook 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w
“Mr Hewlett tells a tense dramatic story, reveals studious research of ancient lore and a singular gift for vitalizing the remote scenes of a vanished civilization. This is no mere approximation of what the Vikings were and what they did. It is a lifelike recreation.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8a Ap 4 ’20 550w
“In reproducing the old story Mr Hewlett mediates with his usual skill between the Scylla of excessive modernity and the Charybdis of an obsolete idiom. It is, however, questionable whether he might not without harm have ventured even closer to Scylla.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p649 N 13 ’19 600w
HEYDRICK, BENJAMIN ALEXANDER, ed. Americans all; stories of American life of today. *$1.50 (1½c) Harcourt
20–14759
The editor of this volume of short stories states in his preface that he believes that the short story is the form which can best stand as the adequate expression in fiction of American life. He says “If it were possible to bring together in a single volume a group of these, each one reflecting faithfully one facet of our many-sided life, would not such a book be a truer picture of America than any single novel could present? The present volume is an attempt to do this.” Contents: The right Promethean fire, by George Madden Martin; The land of heart’s desire, by Myra Kelly; The tenor, by H. C. Bunner; The passing of Priscilla Winthrop, by William Allen White; The gift of the Magi, by O. Henry; The gold brick, by Brand Whitlock; His mother’s son, by Edna Ferber; Bitter-sweet, by Fannie Hurst; The riverman, by Stewart Edward White; Flint and fire, by Dorothy Canfield; The ordeal at Mt Hope, by Paul Laurence Dunbar; Israel Drake, by Katherine Mayo; The struggles and triumph of Isidro de los Maestros, by James M. Hopper; The citizen, by James F. Dwyer. There is a sketch of the author following each story, and at the end a List of American short stories classified by locality, and Notes and questions for study.
“An interesting group of stories.”
+ Booklist 17:158 Ja ’21 Boston Transcript p4 O 9 ’20 280w
“Only two stories in the volume, Myra Kelly’s ‘Just kids’ and William Allen White’s ‘Society in our town,’ have grown instead of being made after a model.”
− + Nation 111:692 D 15 ’20 420w
“Literary merit aside, however, the authors all have a place in a book which seeks not to present the best short stories but rather different phases of American life. ‘American life of today,’ however, is a misnomer. In their steadfast sometimes sentimental idealism, in their passionate belief in democracy, the stories are obviously and pathetically stories of life before the war.” Marian O’Connor
+ − N Y Evening Post p9 N 13 ’20 850w
“An unusually excellent anthology of American short tales.”
+ Outlook 126:201 S 29 ’20 120w
“Considered merely as a vehicle of recreational reading ‘Americans all’ answers its purpose well; for the one who desires to combine recreation with study of the successful short story the text is well selected.”
+ Springf’d Republican p5a Ja 30 ’21 270w Wis Lib Bul 16:194 N ’20 190w
HIBBEN, PAXTON. Constantine I and the Greek people. il *$3.50 (3½c) Century 949.5
20–10649
The book was written in the spring of 1917 after the author had been in Greece, Macedonia and Serbia and constitutes another postwar revelation. It is stated that “during the war and after our entry into it as an ally of France and Great Britain, without our knowledge and consent the constitution of a little, but a brave and fine people was nullified by the joint action of two of our allies: the neutrality of a small country was violated, the will of its people set at naught, its laws broken, its citizens persecuted, its press muzzled. By force a government was imposed on this free people, and by force that government has been and is today maintained in absolute power.” (Foreword) The contents is in three parts: Intrigue; Coercion; Starvation; and there are an epilogue and appendices.
“Interesting to read as a sequel to Mrs Brown’s ‘In the heart of German intrigue.’”
+ Booklist 17:25 O ’20
“This fascinating story of political and military intrigue makes poor reading for those who blindly felt the Allies did no wrong. It constitutes a bitter arraignment of Venizelos.”
+ Cath World 112:691 F ’21 480w Ind 103:442 D 25 ’20 140w
“The book, as a whole, is well done. It is written in a clear, readable style, is carefully documented, and is unusually free from errors. Particularly good are the analysis of diplomatic situations, the different attitudes of parties and foreign powers being excellently portrayed. The book’s only noticeable defects arise from the reflexes of the author’s own temperament. Obviously a man of strong feelings, Mr Hibben seems occasionally to be slightly carried away by them.” Lothrop Stoddard
+ − New Repub 24:48 S 8 ’20 1600w
“Mr Hibben’s book has the defect, on the surface, of being too much of an apologia.... Mr Hibben has given us one of the torches; it does not always burn clearly; he waves it in the air too violently at times: but it is a torch, and its light may help to show how little we understand the temperament and the good qualities of the Grecian people.” M. F. Egan
+ − N Y Times p4 Ag 1 ’20 2850w
“The writer of this book had a full opportunity to study the Balkan situation and above all the Greek question. Unfortunately, all this unusual opportunity has been wasted on a book so full of inaccuracies that it is difficult to determine whether it is the mere result of journalistic carelessness or a calculated attempt to palliate truth.” A. E. Phoutrides
− Review 3:170 Ag 25 ’20 900w
“The story is told with great skill and lucidity, and the volume is one of the most readable that has come out of any of the so-called side-shows of the war.”
+ R of Rs 62:220 Ag ’20 350w Springf’d Republican p8 Je 5 ’20 110w
HICHENS, ROBERT SMYTHE. Snake-bite, and other stories. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
19–11943
“‘Snake-bite’ is a collection of six stories, three in the approved Robert Hichens style, one an excellent little mystery, one a story of a faith healer, and one a dainty little war-time sketch. You have your choice of the familiar East or the unfamiliar West, with or without a touch of colour.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The titles are: Snake-bite; The lost faith; The Hindu; The lighted candles; The nomad; The two fears.
Booklist 16:347 Jl ’20
“As a teller of short stories, Mr Hichens reveals in this collection another phase of his skill. In each he shows his mastery of place and people, and his command of the illusory effects of atmosphere.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 F 25 ’20 1450w
“In the matter of atmosphere and sustained mood, comparable with his best work.”
+ Cleveland p50 My ’20 30w
“Of the six short stories two are dominated by the desert, while one might almost be called a plain ghost story, and these three are so markedly superior to the others that they are quite in a different class.”
+ − N Y Times 25:2 F 22 ’20 900w + N Y Times 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 50w
“We doubt if Mr Hichens has ever done better work than in ‘The snake bite’; the African color and atmosphere are admirably rendered.”
+ Outlook 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 70w + − Springf’d Republican p11a Ap 11 ’20 480w
“These stories are well told, with a brisk, practised pen. The dialogue is interesting, and the touches of light and shade well done.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p311 Je 5 ’19 400w
HICKS BEACH, SUSAN EMILY (CHRISTIAN) (MRS WILLIAM FREDERICK HICKS BEACH). Shuttered doors. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane
20–7653
A story that covers several generations in the life of an English family. The figure of outstanding interest is Aletta Hulse, who is strongly influenced by association in childhood with her aunt, Ann Duller of Duller Place. Aletta inherits a fortune from an old Boer uncle, marries and brings up a family of three children, who in their turn marry. Interest in the latter part of the story centers in Andrew, one of the grandsons, to whom his grandmother bequeaths Duller Place. Andrew is killed in the war leaving an infant daughter to carry on the family tradition.
Ath p194 F 6 ’20 80w
“‘Shuttered doors’ presents one of those pictures of English life before which Americans can only stand and wonder. Perfection of detail in living has not yet been attained by us to such a degree that an entire novel can be built about it with little attention paid to plot, and not even much to characterization.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 N 20 ’20 260w
“This long, slow story of ‘upper middle-class’ life in England never rises above the deadly commonplace. Andy Duller is the most human character in the novel.”
− + N Y Times p23 Ag 8 ’20 330w + Sat R 129:478 My 22 ’20 90w
“Most people will not have very much sympathy with Aletta Hulse, later Aletta Picard, but at any rate her character is consistent to the smallest detail, and the author succeeds in creating a living figure.”
+ − Spec 124:314 Mr 6 ’20 80w Springf’d Republican p11a S 26 ’20 300w
HICKS, FREDERICK CHARLES. New world order. *$3 Doubleday 341
20–14528
The book is the outcome of a course of lectures on International organization and cooperation, delivered at the summer session of 1919, in the department of public law, Columbia university. “The general purpose was to examine the League covenant analytically in its relation to (1) international organization, (2) international law, and (3) international cooperation, using the comparative method whenever precedents could be found.” (Preface) The author’s personal conviction is “that the League of nations should be supported not merely because it provides means for putting war a few steps farther in the background, but because it emphasizes the necessity for cooperation between sovereign states.” (Preface) In strict accordance with the general purpose the contents are in three parts and the appendices contain, besides a complete draft of the treaty of peace with Germany: The Triple alliance; Russo-French alliance; The Holy alliance act; Central American treaties, December 20, 1907; Hague conventions and drafts, 1907; Treaty for the advancement of peace between the United States of America and Guatemala, September 20, 1913; Bibliography and index.
Booklist 17:52 N ’20
“A useful reference manual.”
+ Ind 163:442 D 25 ’20 70w
“For college classes studying the legal aspects of international organization Mr Hicks’s book will doubtless be very useful. The pedagogical apparatus and Mr Hick’s treatment of the problems he discusses are unexceptionable. ‘The new world order’ is an excessively pretentious title for a volume dealing with the League of nations. Such a utopian nomenclature would have prejudiced the case for international organization even if idealism has been triumphant; under existing circumstances it is little short of absurd.” Lindsay Rogers
+ − N Y Evening Post p10 O 23 ’20 1000w
“From the legal and historical points of view, an important exposition of the Versailles treaty has been gathered, coordinated, and written by Columbia’s law librarian.” Walter Littlefield
+ N Y Times p10 O 31 ’20 1600w
“The scope of Mr Hicks’s plan is so impressive and his workmanship is so excellent that it is greatly to be hoped that his volume will not be allowed to fall into oblivion, whatever the outcome of the struggle over the League in this country.” E: S. Corwin
+ Review 3:382 O 27 ’20 800w + R of Rs 62:668 D ’20 180w + Survey 45:221 N 27 ’20 120w
HILL, CONSTANCE. Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings. il *$6 (*21s) (7c) Lane
20–12406
“The name of Mary Russell Mitford—the author of ‘Our village’—is dear to thousands of readers, both English and American, for she has enabled them to see nature with her eyes and to enter into the very spirit of rural life.” (Chapter 1) She was born December 16, 1787, and was a versatile writer not only of stories, but of poems and successful dramas, performed in London with John Kemble and Macready in the leading parts. Many quotations and extracts from her writings acquaint the reader with her style. The book is illustrated with drawings by Ellen G. Hill and has an index.
“Speaking truthfully, ‘Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings’ is not a good book. It neither enlarges the mind nor purifies the heart. There is nothing in it about prime ministers and not very much about Miss Mitford. Yet, as one is setting out to speak the truth, one must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with considerable enjoyment. To come to the point, the great merit of these scrapbooks, for they can scarcely be called biographies, is that they license mendacity.” V. W.
− + Ath p695 My 28 ’20 2400w + Booklist 17:69 N ’20
“Miss Hill has compiled an entertaining volume of literary personalia, and its attractiveness is increased by numerous drawings from her sister’s pencil.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 10 ’20 1300w
“As an introduction to Miss Mitford’s work and personality Miss Hill’s book is an admirable achievement. It presents the women perfectly and brings before the reader again the age wherein she lived.” H. S. Gorman
+ N Y Times p2 Ag 29 ’20 1500w + Outlook 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 50w
“Our feeling on laying it down is that we had better have spent our time in reading Miss Mitford’s own account of herself in ‘Recollections of a literary life.’ Nevertheless, the book is a nice book, a very nice book (if it is largely paste and scissors).”
+ − Sat R 129:454 My 15 ’20 650w Springf’d Republican p8 Je 19 ’20 450w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p283 My 6 ’20) The Times [London] Lit Sup p283 My 6 ’20 1150w
HILL, DAVID JAYNE. American world policies. *3.50 (7c) Doran 341.1
20–11020
As the author points out in his preface, the idea of a league of nations is so generally acceptable that many persons overlook the fact that the covenant prepared at Paris is not a “general association of nations,” but rather “a limited defensive alliance for the protection of existing possessions, regardless of the manner in which they were acquired.” The purpose of this book is to show that the proposed league “not only repudiates the ideas underlying our traditional foreign policy as a nation but presents a contradiction of the fundamental principles upon which our government is based.” The book is composed of eight chapters and as many documents. The chapters, which are reprinted from the North American Review are: Disillusionment regarding the League; The un-American character of the League; The president’s hostility to the Senate; The struggle of the Senate for its prerogatives; The eclipse of peace through the League; The covenant or the constitution? The nations and the law; The solemn referendum; and Epilogue. Among the documents are President Wilson’s “points”; The covenant of the League of nations; The Senate’s reservations of November 19, 1919, and of March 19, 1920. The book is indexed.
Booklist 17:53 N ’20
“Dr Hill’s argument is presented with all the skill of an experienced political writer but the impression is conveyed that he is putting a microscope upon the covenant of the League and is looking for trouble in every line, without offering anything more constructive than the old order in return.”
+ − Cath World 112:399 D ’20 550w Freeman 2:93 O 6 ’20 210w
“His negative part is well done and thoroughly worth consideration. His discussion, while at times heated and failing in logic, is thoughtful and provokes thought.” C. R. Fish
+ − Nation 111:sup426 O 13 ’20 600w
“It is the familiar Republican argument, but it is stated with a force, clearness, and plausibility which do not always characterize that argument. In short, if Senator Lodge could talk as clearly and convincingly as Dr Hill writes, this would make an ideal speech by him.”
− N Y Times p5 S 5 ’20 2450w
“To say that the book is clarifying, enlightening, high-minded, and therefore of a value far transcending that of most political discussions, is only to make a legitimate critical pronouncement.”
+ No Am 212:424 S ’20 1150w
“We do not know of any book so valuable as this for the information of editors, legislators, or other students of the league problem who wish to get in clear and authoritative form the objections to the Wilson or Paris league.”
+ Outlook 126:111 S 15 ’20 160w
“The termination of the campaign against the League of nations as proposed will take from Dr Hill’s book much of its current value; yet when the history of the struggle over the Wilson league comes to be written, the discerning historian will accord to Dr Hill’s labors an important place among the efforts of those who fought to assert the belief that American independence and true internationalism are not incompatible things.” E: S. Corwin
+ Review 3:381 O 27 ’20 1400w R of Rs 62:221 Ag ’20 140w
HILL, FREDERICK TREVOR. High school farces. *$1 Stokes 812
20–19677
A foreword says: “The scarcity of short farces, suitable for junior amateurs seems to justify the publication of this little volume.... The three simple little farces included herein were written for a boys’ club and a boy scout troop.... As they require very little study and a minimum of ‘properties and effects,’ it is thought they may prove useful to those in search of such material.” The first play, “Dinner’s served,” represents a southern scene near a camp during the Spanish American war and introduces two negro characters. The second, “A heathen Chinee,” is set in California, with cowboys, miners and a Chinese cook among the characters. The third, “A knotty problem,” is a boy scout play.
“It is with deep regret that one lays down this book from the pen of the gifted writer of those fine stories, ‘On the trail of Washington’ and ‘On the trail of Grant and Lee,’ for something better had been anticipated.”
− + N Y Evening Post p15 N 13 ’20 130w
HILL, FREDERICK TREVOR. Tales out of court. *$1.60 (3c) Stokes
20–18659
The book is a collection of lawyers’ stories of legal cases and court-room scenes and of unusual incidents and characters. The stories are: Exhibit No. 2; The shield of privilege; The woman in the case; Two fishers of men; The unearned increment; The judgment of his peers; Of disposing memory; Submitted on the facts; The personal equation; In the presence of the enemy; A debt of honor; The weapons of a gentleman; Pewee—gladiator; Peregrine Pickle; Charity suffereth long; War.
“His touch is sure, his pen facile, his plots unusual and fascinating.”
+ N Y Times p19 N 28 ’20 230w Outlook 126:600 D 1 ’20 30w
“The plots are so cleverly manipulated that the reader is sure to get a number of surprises, about at the denouement of each story.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Ja 4 ’21 190w
HILL, HIBBERT WINSLOW.[[2]] Sanitation for public health nurses. *$1.35 Macmillan 614
19–19494
“The development of public health nursing in the United States has naturally created a demand for books on the subject. The book written by Dr Hill endeavors to give in a brief and concise manner the elements of sanitation and public health, with which a nurse must be acquainted in her work.” (Survey F 14 ’20) “It is devoted chiefly to the problems of isolation and immunology and touches but lightly upon such great modern movements as the infant welfare campaign and the campaign for better nutrition among school children.” (Survey S 15 ’20)
“A survey of hygiene and immediately related medical procedures which can be heartily recommended.”
+ Review 3:112 Ag 4 ’20 80w
“Too much space seems to be given to infectious diseases of which the nurse must necessarily learn from a study of other sources, while too little space is devoted to the important questions of food, water, milk, etc., and no space at all to dietetics.” G: M. Price
+ − Survey 43:592 F 14 ’20 170w
“His chapters on the general course of an infectious disease, on the diagnosis and etiology of the commoner specific communicable diseases, on immunity and on epidemiology are sound in substance and brilliant in form.” C. E. A. Winslow
+ − Survey 44:732 S 15 ’20 330w
HILL, JAMES LANGDON. Worst boys in town, and other addresses to young men and women, boys and girls. $2.50 (2½c) Stratford co. 252
20–3809
A collection of addresses, given in all parts of the United States, on righteous moral living for young people, each address based on an appropriate scriptural text. Partial list of contents: The clean sporting spirit; The morals of money; The stick girls of Venice; The sound and robust have no monopoly; Becoming a lady; A difference in cradles; Doing the handsome thing; Modern methods of Christian nurture. Dr Hill is author also of “Favorites of history”; “Memory comforting sorrow”; “The scholar’s larger life,” etc.
+ Boston Transcript p5 N 6 ’20 470w
HILL, JOHN ARTHUR. Psychical miscellanea. *$1.35 (3c) Harcourt 130
20–26542
“Being papers on psychical research, telepathy, hypnotism, Christian science, etc.” (Subtitle) They are a collection of articles, each dealing with some aspect of psychical research, which have appeared in various periodicals. As a psychical investigator his treatment of every subject is sympathetic even where he suspends judgment. This is the case in his attitude towards Christian science to which he is not an adherent, but towards which he keeps “an open mind” for, he says, “I do believe that the power of the mind over the body is so great that almost anything is possible; and I think that the medical advance of the next half-century will be chiefly in this hitherto neglected direction.” Contents: Death; If a man die, shall he live again? Psychical research—its method, evidence, and tendency; The evolution of a psychical researcher; Do miracles happen? The truth about telepathy; The truth about hypnotism; Christian Science; Joan of Arc; Is the earth alive? Religious belief after the war.
“Interesting, but not a representative work to be required by most small or medium sized libraries, although coming from an authoritative source.”
+ Booklist 16:297 Je ’20
“Mr Hill knows the temper of science and presents a brief which the advocate of the opposite view can respect, while he is convinced that it is penetrated with fallacy and shot through and through with an unwarranted personalism.” Joseph Jastrow
+ − Dial 69:206 Ag ’20 400w − Nation 111:49 Jl 10 ’20 290w
“The papers are all of a popular quality, skimming lightly and gracefully over the surface of their subjects and carrying what frequently passes as a literary atmosphere derived from numerous quotations of both prose and verse.”
+ N Y Times 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 170w The Times [London] Lit Sup p635 N 6 ’20 50w
HILL, JOHN WESLEY. Abraham Lincoln, man of God. *$3.50 Putnam
20–21413
The object of the book is not to be a biography of Lincoln, but to reveal his deeply religious soul. “A candid examination of the evidence will show that the religious element in Lincoln’s life was its dominant factor; that his character as a politician and as a statesman was determined by his character as a Christian; and that he drew from the story of the ‘Man of sorrows’ the conclusion that God rules the world in a personal way.” (Preface) The book contains a tribute by Lloyd George, a foreword by Leonard Wood and an introduction by Warren G. Harding. There are appendices, a bibliography and an index.
“If the book had been written solely to prove that Lincoln was an orthodox Christian it would not have been worth the writing or the reading, and the few chapters that Dr Hill devotes to that unprofitable subject are the least worthwhile in the whole work. But the bulk of Dr Hill’s book is of much value.”
+ − NY Times p1 D 5 ’20 800w R of Rs 53:222 F ’21 190w
“Abraham Lincoln has been written about in so many books that the average American would know Lincoln if he met him on the street. Dr Hill in this book has gone a step further and has given an insight into his real character which is worth while. The chapter on ‘The education of a president’ is of especial interest to Americans today. ‘A Christian view of labor’ also is timely.” J: E: Oster
+ Survey 45:579 Ja 15 ’21 180w
HILL, OWEN ALOYSIUS.[[2]] Ethics, general and special. *$3.50 Macmillan 170
20–15460
“From the point of view of Catholic doctrine the author of this work discusses what’s wrong with man and the world as they are determined by modern philosophy and ethics. ‘The whole trouble with modern philosophy,’ he says, ‘is rank subjectivism, and subjectivism is, perhaps, most destructive in the domain of ethics.’” The first half of the work dealing with ‘General ethics,’ discusses the general nature of humanity in its attitude towards morality and in relation to final destiny; the second half discusses ‘Special ethics’ as applied to individual responsibility consequent upon his belief in an acceptance of religious duties.”—Boston Transcript
Boston Transcript p3 D 4 ’20 270w
“The question of Woman suffrage might have been treated more sympathetically and Dr Bouquillon’s treatise on the school question discussed more fairly.”
+ − Cath World 112:690 F ’21 100w
“The style is bright and easy and the English is clear and vigorous. The spirit of Catholicity of course, pervades the whole book. It is the teaching of such men as St Augustine, Bonaventure, Aquinas, and Liguori crystallized in twentieth century English.” C: A. Dougherty
+ N Y Evening Post p8 Ja 8 ’21 610w
“The whole book is well written, fresh and lucid, and in its way thoroughly scholarly, but its main appeal must be to Catholics.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 24 ’20 240w
“The book affords interesting light on the workings of a trained, devout mind. There are Roman Catholic writers on social problems whose views offer in the main much more salutary guidance than Father Hill’s.” H: Neumann
+ − Survey 45:332 N 27 ’20 180w
HILLIS, NEWELL DWIGHT. Rebuilding Europe in the face of world-wide bolshevism. *$1.50 (3c) Revell 940.314
20–2359
The author calls his book “a study of repopulation.” His motives are hatred for Germany and fear of bolshevism. Contents: Germany: her human losses and the reflex influence of the war upon her people; France: the rebuilding of her people; Great Britain: her losses upon land and sea, and her new position among the nations of the earth; Russia, and the fruits of bolshevism; Rebuilding the little nations of the East; The crime of Bolshevists in alienating Americans from America; The United States; and reasons why our citizens should love their country; Notes, and references to authorities.
R of Rs 61:556 My ’20 40w
“Making all allowance for rhetorical effect, and discounting errors due to haste and careless work, the fact remains that America needs several persons of this type to serve as prophets of the greatness of this country and the sanity and sanctity of its fundamental principles.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p10 Ap 23 ’20 520w
HILLYER, ROBERT SILLIMAN. Five books of youth. *$1.50 Brentano’s 811
20–7792
“Mr Hillyer’s five books are headed, A miscellany, Days and seasons, Eros, The garden of Epicurus, and Sonnets. The range is remarkable, from the brilliant alliterative imagery of Esther dancing and the glowing medieval quaintness of Hunters to crisp snatches of epigram and passionate love sonnets. Some of the best work is descriptive of French scenes.”—Springf’d Republican
+ Booklist 17:61 N ’20
“His imagination is foot-feathered, and lifts his utterances, perhaps with more dignity than swiftness, on oracular journeys. It is an imagination that is singularly passionate about the business of beauty; a messenger that carries on an intercourse between the earth of man’s experience and the gods of his dreams.”
+ Boston Transcript p9 Je 5 ’20 1300w
“Mr Hillyer has written a beautiful poem that is streaked with a golden message. Upon it is the dewy freshness of youth’s passion for the ideal, sparkling with the fire and energy of an inspired visionary.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ Boston Transcript p7 N 24 ’20 1050w
“In this, his second book, there is fine performance and no little promise of greater things. He stands, as craftsman, upon the ancient ways, and reminds one at times of the cool lucidity of Matthew Arnold (and, at times, of the jeweled intensity of Rossetti). He is especially successful in the sonnet.”
+ Cath World 112:118 O ’20 90w
“‘The five books of youth’ is marked by a beauty of phraseology and an authentic valuing of poetic qualities that give it a distinct place among the books of the season.”
+ N Y Times 25:16 Je 27 ’20 230w
“Mr Hillyer has skill and conscience, is metrist, artist, atmospherist, and the thoughtful, or at least pensive, melancholy of his lyrics rises on occasion to undoubted charm.” O. W. Firkins
+ Review 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 120w
“There is poetry of great promise as well as actual achievement in ‘The five books of youth.’ Mr Hillyer writes with fluency of phrase and cadence and with dignity; he has technical mastery of verse forms and an adequate vocabulary to express his rich sensuous perception.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p8 Je 24 ’20 150w
HINDUS, MAURICE GERSCHON. Russian peasant and the revolution. *$2 (2c) Holt 914.7
20–14675
In order fully to understand the Russian revolution and its ultimate destiny, says the author, we must understand the Russian peasant who constitutes by far the most important element, and the mightiest force in Russian life. He maintains that the current opinions of him are utterly and thoroughly false. Although ignorant and oppressed by centuries of despotism, he is highly intelligent and has a will and a goal of his own, which has played a part in the revolutionary movement and is destined to play a part in the future of Russia. Contents: The peasant at home; Under serfdom; Education in the Russian village; The legal and social position of the peasant; The peasant as a farmer; Taxation; Home-industries and wage-labor; The other alternatives; The ideology of the peasant (1) political, (2) social; Battling for land; The cadets and the peasants; The social-revolutionaries and the peasant; The bolsheviki and the peasant; The gist of the peasant problem; The co-operative movement and the peasant; Bolshevism, the American democracy and the peasant; Bibliography.
“The best chapters are the first eight, which depict the economic and the social life of the peasants.” M. Rostovtsev
+ − Am Hist R 26:364 Ja ’21 490w
“Considering the general demand for information, it must be said that, excellently and sympathetically written as it is, Mr Hindus’s book, ‘The Russian peasant and the revolution,’ is a failure. It is a failure because it contains hardly a word that helps us to understand what is now going on in Russia.” M. L. L.
− + Freeman 2:334 D 15 ’20 360w
“We need this book to get the full significance of the numerous and contradictory reports about Russia that are published in our daily press. For only when we know what the status of the Russian people was before the war can we judge whether conditions in Russia are improved or made worse by the Soviet government. Another signal service that Mr Hindus has performed is the dissipation of the illusions about the soul or the character of the Russian peasant.” J. J. S.
+ Grinnell R 16:307 D ’20 560w
“Such bias as he has is valuable, being the result of his own peasant origin and early associations. There are lucid and concrete chapters, without sentimentality, as remote as possible from the moonshine with which Stephen Graham for some years saturated English readers.” Jacob Zeitlin
+ Nation 112:19 Ja 5 ’21 340w
“The reviewer has not been able to detect a trace of propaganda in it, and can find nobody but the observer and historian. Not that Mr Hindus is colorless. Without becoming a mere annalist, it is hard to see how a writer could be fairer or more impartial.”
+ N Y Times p18 Ag 22 ’20 3050w
HINE, REGINALD L.[[2]] Cream of curiosity: being an account of certain historical and literary manuscripts of the XVIIth, XVIIIth and XIXth centuries. il *$6 Dutton 040
20–18243
“‘The cream of curiosity,’ by Reginald L. Hine is an account by the author of several manuscript collections in his possession. The most interesting of them appears to be the Heath papers, extracts from which throw a true ‘Sidelight on the Civil war.’ The extracts from Harpsfield’s life of Sir Thomas More are familiar. Two of these papers have already appeared in Blackwood; those dealing with Monmouth and Sir Justinian Pagitt. A collection of epitaphs is exceptionally good.”—Sat R
“For the most part the manuscripts which he prints are heavy work. Nor is he always over-happy in the presentation of his documents: the humour drags. Yet he deserves well of readers in general: he sets a liberal example for other owners of mss.; and his book is in its externals one of the best for many months.”
− + Ath p170 Ag 6 ’20 570w
“Possessing a sense of humor, an ability to appraise human nature, and a profound respect for truth, he has given enough of these old manuscripts to reproduce for us a picture of the times in which their writers lived. These papers are not without value to the historian.” G. H. S.
+ Boston Transcript p4 Ja 22 ’21 560w + − Eng Hist R 35:622 O ’20 400w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:619 D 22 ’20 180w
“The book is very well illustrated and printed and will be found an excellent thing to dip into and dally with in the spirit in which it was written. It is a book for the country house table.”
+ Sat R 130:463 D 4 ’20 100w
“His book demands not so much to be read from cover to cover as to be kept within easy reach of one’s most comfortable chair, to be opened at random, and browsed upon in the leisurely, epicurean way in which we can picture the author himself perusing his manuscripts. Nor are they altogether without their value for the historian.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p393 Je 24 ’20 1350w
HINKSON, KATHARINE (TYNAN) (MRS HENRY ALBERT HINKSON). Love of brothers. *$1.75 (2c) Benziger
20–3710
Sir Shawn O’Gara had upbraided his dearest friend, his brother in affection, for having ruined—as he thought—a young girl of the people; and enraged beyond control at Terence Comerford’s careless laugh had lashed the spirited horse, Spitfire, Terence was riding, thus sending him to his death. The shadow of his remorse haunted Sir Shawn throughout his subsequent, unusually blest married life. Retribution overtook him when his own son fell in love with Terence Comerford’s supposedly illegitimate daughter, Stella, and when his horse Mustapha, grandson of Spitfire and as spirited as his ancestor threw and apparently killed him. But he lived and Stella was proven legitimate and of exceedingly fine metal for standing up for and openly loving her mother while still in disgrace.
Booklist 17:33 O ’20
“Her mastery of her material is complete; she shapes it into fresh form, leaving no suggestion of the hackneyed or the improbable.”
+ Cath World 111:542 Jl ’20 160w
“After the production of some sixty-four novels, it is something yet to be able to achieve a story which shows no signs of a worn-out imagination, but a decided quickening of spirit. Katharine Tynan tells her tale simply and with economy of words; yet there is real originality of plot and individuality of outlook, the whole showing a definite form, finely moulded.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p518 S 25 ’19 220w
HISTORY of the American field service in France; Friends of France, 1914–1917; told by its members. 3v il *$12.50 Houghton 940.373
20–15471
“Four years ago, while yet our armies were in the field, was published a volume entitled ‘Friends of France,’ which contained numerous accounts of the work done by American soldiers in France who wore the blue of the poilu. The war was still in progress and some of our regiments were still on the way overseas in danger of submarines and anticipating the serious work which was to follow. The volume, ‘Friends of France,’ was therefore more or less provisional and incomplete. This publication then is designed to supersede the former work; its aim, as expressed by the publishers, is to fill in the gaps and finish the story, to give the final record of all the sections, new as well as old, and of the work of the many hundreds of younger volunteers as well as of the pioneers of 1915 and 1916.”—Boston Transcript
“Very carefully have the selections been made and they are edited with rare skill and discrimination.” E. T. C.
+ Boston Transcript p8 S 15 ’20 700w R of Rs 62:445 O ’20 130w The Times [London] Lit Sup p654 O 7 ’20 70w
HOBBS, WILLIAM HERBERT. Leonard Wood, administrator, soldier, and citizen. il *$2 (4½c) Putnam
20–6726
The emphasis of this account of General Wood’s career is put on his advocacy of military preparedness. The author of the book sees as much danger in pacifism and internationalism as opposed to national preparedness, now as before and during the war. Henry A. Wise Wood writes a foreword to the book in the same spirit. The contents under the two divisions of: The soldier and administrator; and Prophet and organizer of preparedness, are: An American soldier; The builder of republics; Roosevelt’s estimate of Wood; Organizing the American army for defence; The fight against pacifism; The darkening of counsel; “Broomstick preparedness”; At war; A soldier’s reward; Addendum; Partial list of writings of General Leonard Wood; Books and articles concerning General Leonard Wood.
“The book is obviously a campaign document and not a very good one. It is so fulsome in its eulogy of its hero and so bitter in its denunciation of all who disagree with him, but above all of President Wilson, that it overshoots its mark in both directions.” L. B. Evans
− Am Pol Sci R 14:719 N ’20 310w Freeman 1:71 Mr 31 ’20 160w
“Serviceable and readable volume.”
+ R of Rs 61:558 My ’20 70w
HOBHOUSE, STEPHEN. Joseph Sturge. *1.50 Dutton
“A short biography (198 pages) of this earnest-minded Quaker, social reformer, and Chartist, who died in 1859, a year after he had been appointed President of the Peace society (British).” (Brooklyn) “Among the big things which he looked after were temperance, anti-slavery, Chartism and reform, free trade, education, international arbitration and peace.” (Ath)
“Mr Hobhouse has performed his task adequately, with a conscientious enthusiasm for his subject. But it must be confessed that his book is a little heavy, a little leaden.” L. W.
+ − Ath p207 Ap 18 ’19 1050w Brooklyn 12:68 Ja ’20 30w Review 3:95 Jl 28 ’20 90w Spec 122:433 Ap 5 ’19 300w
HOBSON, JOHN ATKINSON. Morals of economic internationalism. (Barbara Weinstock lectures on the morals of trade) *$1 (2½c) Houghton 172.4
20–21968
“It ought not to be the case that there is one standard of morality for individuals in their relations with one another, a different and a slighter standard for corporations, and a third and still slighter standard for nations.” That this, however, actually is the case is the book’s contention. The author makes a plea for an emergency commerce and finance agreement between nations by way of preventing economic ruin and starvation in the war-stricken countries of Europe. “For morality among nations, as among individuals, implies faith and risk-taking.”
Nation 112:sup245 F 9 ’21 370w Survey 45:468 D 26 ’20 230w
HOBSON, JOHN ATKINSON. Taxation in the new state. *$1.75 (3c) Harcourt 336.42
(Eng ed 20–114)
The author holds that the war’s legacies of indebtedness and its large sudden demands of state expenditure for reconstruction, calling for an enormous increase in tax-income, necessitates a re-examination of the principles of tax policy. “Recognizing that the normal annual tax-income can only be derived from the incomes of the several members of the nation ... we are confronted first with the necessity of distinguishing the portions of personal incomes that have ability to bear taxation from those that have not such ability.” (Preface) The object of the book then is to arrive at a clear definition of ‘ability to bear’ and to ascertain the reforms needed to conform the demands of taxation to this principle. The book falls into two parts. Part 1: Principles of tax reform, contains: Ability to pay; The taxable surplus; The shifting of taxes; The taxation of income; Reforms of income-tax: Death duties; Supplementary taxes; Tariffs for revenue. Contents of part 2, Emergency finance, are: Our financial emergency; A levy on war-made wealth; A general levy upon capital; Relations of imperial to local taxation; Index.
“We no doubt adopt philosophies to justify what we want to do or have decided to do, not as a means of ascertaining what we ought to do. By working out the philosophy to justify the tax system which England is apparently heading toward, this book by Professor Hobson will be of outstanding influence.” C. L. King
+ Ann Am Acad 90:172 Jl ’20 700w Ath p570 Jl 4 ’19 40w Booklist 16:330 Jl ’20
“Worth the attention of all students of economics, legislators and taxpayers in the United States as well as in Great Britain.”
+ Ind 104:248 N 19 ’20 70w
“Of the ways and means of ascertaining the taxable capital and of collecting the levy, Mr Hobson does not say as much as one would like. But he is dealing primarily with principle rather than with practice.” R. R.
+ − Nation 110:431 Ap 3 ’20 1000w
“That Hobson has few illusions regarding the nature of the present regime, is clearly evident in the second, more interesting half of this volume.” L: Jacobs
+ − N Y Call p10 Jl 4 ’20 1300w
Reviewed by H. P. Fairchild
+ N Y Evening Post p16 Ap 24 ’20 100w
“That his discussion slips into a discussion of British taxes in particular lessens the value of his conclusions little, if any, so nearly alike is the condition of nations in general as a result of war burdens.”
+ N Y Times p26 Ag 15 ’20 1450w
Reviewed by Lawson Purdy
* + Survey 44:287 My 22 ’20 2800w
“The book is full of assumptions that propositions have been proved when they have only been asserted, and of insinuations regarding facts and inferences from them which it is impossible to make good. The case is, indeed, put before us with an ingenuity which might almost be called Jesuitical, if Mr Hobson were not so audaciously open, and even truculent, in his demand for the increase of the ‘public’ income at the expense of the ‘private surplus,’ in order to supply the assumed ‘needs’ of the state.”
− The Times [London] Lit Sup p395 Jl 24 ’19 1850w
HOBSON, S. G. National guilds and the state. *$4 (*12s 6d) Macmillan 338.6
(Eng ed 20–16216)
“The first part of this book is devoted to a theoretical discussion of the relations between producer and consumer, and their joint relations with the state. It is presupposed that readers are acquainted with the principles and purposes of the national guild movement. The argument is largely the outcome of controversy between the author and Mr G. D. H. Cole, in which different stresses were laid upon the status of the consumer, ‘and, in consequence, upon the structure of the state.’ At the end of the second part, which deals with ‘transition,’ Mr Hobson avers his belief that national guilds are inevitable. ‘There is no student of industry,’ he declares, ‘who ... would deny the possibility of a revolution’; and the author expresses his belief that wage-abolition, with its logical sequel of an infinitely more humane structure of society, will mark a great epoch in the history of western civilization.”—Ath
“This study marks a distinct advance in our knowledge of guild proposals.” J: G. Brooks
+ Am Econ R 10:858 D ’20 750w Ath p383 Mr 19 ’20 150w + Booklist 17:94 D ’20
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
Dial 69:412 O ’20 640w
“Mr Hobson in the first chapter of this book is guilty of substituting dialectic for honest examination. Few better analyses of the shop-steward movement and the tendencies of the unions have been written. They are full of rich thinking and are highly suggestive.” G: Soule
+ − Nation 111:73 Jl 17 ’20 800w
“Continentals and Americans born west of New England will hardly be able to grasp Mr Hobson’s analysis. The present reviewer, not being a theologian, confesses hopelessness in the presence of it. The trouble with Mr Hobson and his brethren is that they are looking for exactness where none can exist, for the separation of that which never can be separated. They are modern utopians. They seek finality.” C: A. Beard
− + New Republic 25:50 D 8 ’20 1900w
“The idea of receiving wages for work done seems to give him positive pain, but his attempt to formulate a practical alternative is a sad failure, though it is veiled in obscure terms.”
− Spec 124:281 F 28 ’20 200w
“Admirably argumentative book.” W: L. Chenery
+ Survey 45:288 N 20 ’20 180w The Times [London] Lit Sup p111 F 12 ’20 40w
“It is long, controversial, ill-knit; lacking in clarity of thought and expression, and in consecutive argument. It gives the impression of being made up largely of fragments written at different times and strung together, not worked out in logical sequence. The writer seems to be striving all the time to get his own thoughts clear as he goes along, and to find the right words for them.”
− The Times [London] Lit Sup p132 F 26 ’20 1050w
HOCKING, JOSEPH. Passion for life. il *$1.90 (1c) Revell
Francis Erskine was given a year to live by his doctor and chooses the Cornwall coast to pass this year in quiet rural seclusion and in finding out, if possible, if there is any hope for a life beyond. He is an unbeliever and has no faith whatever in immortality. His secluded hut on the cliffs turns out to be almost directly over a cave used by the Germans for their secret operations and he soon begins to sense the presence of German spies. He spends his time between cultivating the village folk and clergy, in his quest for a life after death, and in trying to discover what the Germans are doing at the cave. To this last he consecrates himself in patriotic fervor, and succeeds, but apparently dies in a struggle with a spy. During his death trance he has a vision of the two worlds and becomes conscious of the presence of God. He awakes to find that an operation has been performed on him and that a new life and even love is waiting for him.
“There is material for a really worth while book in this novel of Mr Hocking’s and the tale begins well. If the author had only been able to restrain his fondness for sugar and sentimentality he might have been able to maintain the whole at the level of the beginning.”
+ − N Y Times 25:287 My 30 ’20 440w Springf’d Republican p9a Jl 4 ’20 140w
HODGE, ALBERT CLAIRE, and MCKINSEY, JAMES OSCAR. Principles of accounting. *$3 Univ. of Chicago press 657
20–17381
Three classes of students of accounting are considered in this volume: those who aim at understanding its use as a means of social control over business activities—consisting mostly of students of economics; those who expect to qualify as certified public accountants; and those who expect to become business executives of one kind or another. Contents: The meaning and function of accounting; The relationship of accounting to proprietorship; The balance sheet; The statement of profit and loss; The account as a means of classifying information; The construction and interpretation of particular accounts; The construction and interpretation of accounts; The trial balance; The adjusting entries; The closing entries; The source of the ledger entries; Some special forms of the journal; The use of the general journal; Business vouchers and forms; The accounting process; Business practice and procedure; Books of original entry; Controlling accounts; The construction and interpretation of accounts; Accruals and deferred items; The adjusting and closing entries; The classification of accounts; Financial reports; The graphical method of presenting accounting facts; Appendix.
+ N Y Evening Post p10 O 30 ’20 50w
HODGES, FRANK. Nationalisation of the mines; with foreword by J: R. Clynes. (New era ser.) $1.75 Seltzer 338.2
(Eng ed 20–6078)
“Mr Hodges’s case is, briefly, that there is inevitably waste in the production, in the consumption, and in the distribution of coal under the present system of private ownership. He insists that the coal industry should be regarded as a whole; that the accidental frontiers of private ownership are not geological frontiers: that the prime consideration of an industry developed by shareholders’ capital, namely, that a certain monetary return should be obtained within a certain time, is not compatible with the most efficient and scientific development of that industry; and that different and competitive systems of distribution involve needless expenses for superfluous labour. His conclusions are based on figures, and the figures are taken from government reports. His argument is, in fact, the old argument that one great trust controlling a whole industry can work more efficiently and economically than a number of small and overlapping concerns. Here he develops his second argument. We have to consider the psychology of the miners. Rightly or wrongly, they are now reluctant to work for the purpose of creating private profit. No system of profit-sharing will content them; they insist on the dignity of being regarded directly as servants of the community; they have lost all faith in the divine right of employers. That is why the country, and not a trust, must own and develop the coal-mines.”—Ath
“He has arranged his matter in a logical sequence, he confines himself to essentials, and he writes throughout with, at least, an appearance of scientific detachment.”
+ Ath p369 Mr 19 ’20 670w
“The little book is worth reading if only because it shows the extremely vague and unpractical nature of the scheme which Mr Hodges and his colleagues propose to force upon the government and the nation whether they like it or not.”
− Spec 124:355 Mr 13 ’20 240w
“Mr Hodges is studiously moderate in tone and not unmindful of the rules of logic.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p163 Mr 11 ’20 750w
HOERNLÉ, REINHOLD FRIEDRICH ALFRED. Studies in contemporary metaphysics. *$3 (3½c) Harcourt 104
20–4123
The author calls his studies “chips from a metaphysician’s workshop” and in the opening chapter explains what this workshop implies, at the same time justifying its existence in the midst of the vital problems and perplexities of our age. He asserts that there are evidences in plenty of a vigorous philosophic life; that speculative interest and activity have been of recent years increasingly varied and enterprising; and that there has been no lack of originality. What is needed is to understand its spirit, which the author defines as the spirit of wholeness, the attempt to view the universe as a whole in the midst of shifting appearances and accumulative experiences. The contents are: Prologue—the philosopher’s quest; The idol of scientific method in philosophy; Philosophy of nature at the cross-roads; On “doubting the reality of the world of sense”; “Saving the appearances” in the physical world (note on John Locke’s distinction of primary and secondary qualities); Mechanism and vitalism; Theories of mind; The self in self-consciousness; Epilogue—religion and philosophy of religion; Index.
“Good reading for those interested in modern thought movements.”
+ Booklist 16:326 Jl ’20
Reviewed by H. B. Alexander
+ Nation 110:sup482 Ap 10 ’20 1250w
“A book like the present one should go far to supply the real need of a clear and convincing statement of what is admitted to be the most difficult of all philosophical systems. Mr Hoernlé is to be congratulated on a work of permanent value.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a My 9 ’20 900w The Times [London] Lit Sup p215 Ap 1 ’20 100w
HOFFMAN, CONRAD. In the prison camps of Germany. il *$4 Assn. press 940.472
20–21330
Mr Hoffman, of the University of Kansas, went abroad in 1915 to do relief work. He reached Berlin in August of that year and remained in Germany as Secretary of the War prisoners’ aid of the Y. M. C. A. thruout the war. He then staid on for eight months after the armistice to continue the work in behalf of the Russian prisoners still held in Germany. Among the chapters are: First impressions of Berlin; The Britishers at Ruhleben; Christmas in a prison hospital; Prisoners at work and hungry; Help in both worship and study; Working under surveillance; The day of food substitutes; Visiting the first American prisoners; Real Americanism in evidence; First days of the German revolution; Russian prisoners and their guards; A concluding judgment. In one of the appendixes Mrs Hoffman writes of the experiences of an American woman in Berlin.
HOFFMAN, MARIE E. Lindy Loyd; a tale of the mountains. *$1.75 Jones, Marshall
20–8234
“The southern mountains of the Blue ridge, presumably, where the moonshiners find inaccessible places to hide their illicit stills from the ever-vigilant ‘revenoors,’ are the scene of ‘Lindy Loyd.’ Against their background with alluring descriptions of their wild scenery, their birds and animals, the rushing of the mountain torrent, and the tinkling of the hidden stream, Mrs Hoffman places the love story of Lindy Loyd, the course of which, perfect in its beginning, encounters the traditional rough places over which true love is doomed to pass.”—Boston Transcript
“The author knows well the mountains, knows, too, the mountain people, and pictures with fidelity the characteristics, manners and customs engendered by the ruggedness, almost inaccessibility of their environment.” F. M. W.
+ Boston Transcript p4 My 12 ’20 400w
“Less melodramatic than many of its kind and notable for its true local color.”
+ Cleveland p71 Ag ’20 30w N Y Times p17 Je 27 ’20 270w
HOFMANNSTHAL, HUGO HOFMANN, edler von. Death of Titian. (Contemporary ser.) *75c Four seas co. 832
20–6845
This dramatic fragment, written in 1892, was translated from the German by John Heard, Jr. The prologue was added in 1901 when it was acted in Munich as a memorial to Arnold Böcklin. It depicts a scene on the terrace of Titian’s villa, in 1576, at the time of Titian’s death.
“After all, what interest one may have in the play lies in the excellence of the translation, for, as a play, there is no blood in it.”
+ − Boston Transcript p6 S 8 ’20 270w
“The dramatic form, unfortunately for the translator, is only skin-deep. Essential drama, apart from its verbal expression, loses nothing in a new language: poetry, and ‘The death of Titian’ in particular, lose most everything.”
− Dial 69:322 S ’20 50w
“This group of monologues of the old master’s pupils gathered about his death-bed possessed the ecstatic phrasing and the comparative aimlessness of youthful genius. Over all there is a blue-bronze atmosphere which John Heard has not completely lost in his English.” E. E. H.
+ − Freeman 1:478 Jl 28 ’20 150w
“Hofmannsthal fashioned those incomparable verses (which Mr Heard has sensitively read but quite failed to render) because the very pang of beauty wrung them from him. No wonder that such verses are not written today either in Vienna or elsewhere.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − Nation 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 110w
“The slow movement and sluggish dialog give to this little fragment a funereal as well as a memorial aspect. There is too little of the pageant, too much of the orator. Words cloud illusions and crowd out the sympathetic play of the individual imagination.”
− Springf’d Republican p8 S 14 ’20 150w
HOLDEN, GEORGE PARKER. Idyl of the split bamboo. il *$3 Stewart & Kidd 799
20–21340
While the author’s previous book, “Streamcraft,” deals mainly with the open season and actual streamside technic, this one is more a book for winter evenings and the fireside and for the workshop. Building a split-bamboo rod is an operation, the author avows. He describes this operation in every detail but he prepares the reader’s mind for this more tedious process by a long chapter on “The joys of angling.” Nine chapters of the book are devoted to the rod-making. Edwin T. Whiffen contributes a chapter on “Cultivating silkworm-gut at home,” and the two remaining chapters are on Landing-nets and other equipment and The angler’s camp. Besides many full-page illustrations there are diagrams showing the different stages of rod building and details of camp outfit.
“Both the expert and the tyro will find good fishing in these attractive pages.”
+ Outlook 126:768 D 29 ’20 60w
HOLDING, ELISABETH SANXAY. Invincible Minnie. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–5229
As her central figure the author presents one type of the eternal feminine, the ruthlessly domestic and womanly woman who takes what she wants for herself regardless of the results to others. Minnie hasn’t even beauty or charm, but she takes away her sister’s lover, marries him and wrecks his life, marries a second man while the first still lives, bears him a child and accepts his support for the child of the first man, justifies herself when her guilt is discovered and forever after lives on the bounty of the man she has wronged. She is an incompetent housekeeper and a criminally bad mother but she succeeds in creating the impression that she is the true woman, and perhaps she is, writes the author, “perhaps those others, with hearts, with brains, with souls, are ... only the freaks of nature.”
+ Booklist 16:348 Jl ’20
Reviewed by R. M. Underhill
Bookm 51:440 Je ’20 150w
“Only a degree less arresting than her character building, however, is the author’s method of telling the story.” C. M. Greene
+ Bookm 51:565 Jl ’20 550w
“Minnie is real, in life, but she has not been made real in the American fiction of our day until Elisabeth Sanxay Holding created her for us in these pages. Minnie Defoe takes her place as the true American cousin, also the only American cousin, of Ann Veronica, Hilda Lessways, Sonia O’Rane.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p4 Ap 7 ’20 1300w
“‘Invincible Minnie’ is an astounding person. It is no use to say that she is impossible; that is one of the most terrifying things about her, she isn’t.”
+ Ind 103:320 S 11 ’20 200w
“Mrs Holding writes coldly, warily, ruthlessly. She is beyond any passionate concern in the matter. She has moments of a cosmic tolerance for Minnie. But how Minnie must have made her suffer! It is only when we get to the other shore of suffering that we can see with eyes so penetrating and so passionless.”
+ Nation 110:730 My 29 ’20 750w
“It has various minor faults. The scourge of revision has not been ruthlessly enough applied, and the style is marred here and there by a loose carelessness. What makes one indifferent to these defects is the author’s marvellous ability to record and analyze Minnie. Minnie may not be the artistic equal of Becky Sharp, but she is far nearer our common experience.” Signe Toksvig
+ − New Repub 22:357 My 12 ’20 1650w
“It is all done with an art-concealing simplicity and frankness the study of which will repay the best of our modern English ‘realists,’ though they will find it hard to analyze and still harder to imitate.” Oliver Herford
+ N Y Evening Post p3 My 1 ’20 750w
“We can recall no piece of fiction, with the exception of Sudermann’s masterful short story, ‘The purpose,’ which portrays the unmoral woman more unflinchingly than Elisabeth Sanxay Holding has done in her vivid novel.”
+ N Y Times 25:287 My 30 ’20 600w
Reviewed by F: T. Cooper
Pub W 97:1290 Ap 17 ’20 350w
“A bitter book, remorselessly written, and quite against the current stream of tolerance for all human creatures. Perhaps it is wholesome for us to turn now and then from the genial process of admiring the best of us in the worst of us, and to behold how a Minnie looks, pinned fairly on the slide and set under a ruthless lens.” H. W. Boynton
+ Review 2:602 Je 5 ’20 550w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p426 Jl 1 ’20 100w
HOLDSWORTH, ETHEL. Taming of Nan. *$1.90 (2c) Dutton
19–19359
Here’s another tale of the taming of a shrew. She is a Lancashire working woman full of primitive savagery which she lets out in explosions of fiery temper towards her good-natured giant of a husband and her pretty pleasure-loving daughter. When both of the giant’s legs have been cut off by a train, she hammers away at him still, to break him still more, and not until he has found a new strength and a new independence do the fates discover her vulnerable spot and begin the breaking and taming process on her. And not until she has almost lost her soul and her daughter does she find the only outlet for the fierce life-force within her to be love and the ministrations of love.
“This is the old story of the reclaiming of a virago retold with considerable power.”
+ Ath p1018 O 10 ’19 120w
“For those readers who like character studies as well as plots.”
+ Booklist 16:204 Mr ’20
“‘The taming of Nan’ is a very different kind of story from ‘Helen of four gates.’ It is with less concentration but it is constructed upon a broader basis and the whole atmosphere of it is more human, more genial, less tense and stormy.”
+ − N Y Times 25:43 Ja 25 ’20 750w
“While Ethel Holdsworth’s second book, ‘The taming of Nan,’ is less striking and peculiar than her first [‘Helen of Four Gates’], it is more genial and shows growth and a broader knowledge of life.”
+ N Y Times 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 30w
“It is as a study of Polly’s emergence from the blurred prettiness and apparently unprotected amativeness of girlhood to real achievements in character and happiness that the book may especially commend itself to the confirmed yet still hopeful novel reader.” H. W. Boynton
+ Review 2:208 F 28 ’20 340w
“The characterisation is admirable, if slightly idealised, and the book is, as a whole, quite admirable.”
+ Sat R 130:379 N 6 ’20 90w
“The story is wanting in the continuous strength found in the preceding novel. As usual, Mrs Holdsworth reveals keen insight into human nature and does not shrink from picturing the truth however brutal or sordid. But she leans less towards crude realism than heretofore.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 28 ’20 600w
“A study of Lancashire working folk by one who evidently knows them intimately enough to give a genuine picture of them. The whole is by no means lengthy, but it is not less complete on that account. It is the result not only of intimacy on the part of the writer, but of an ordered perception which is not afraid either of cruelty or kindness, but sees in both the movement of life.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p547 O 9 ’19 460w
HOLLAND, FRANCIS CALDWELL. Seneca. il *$4 (*10s) Longmans
20–12858
“Mr Holland’s biographical essay, originally designed to preface a translation of Seneca’s letters to Lucilius, is now allowed to appear ‘on the chance that here or there some readers may be found to share my interest in the subject.’ Into the long and interesting story of Seneca’s literary fortunes it is no part of Mr Holland’s task to enter. He is placing the story of his life against the background of Julio-Claudian Rome. His tone is that of a discriminating apologist.”—Review
“The historical narrative is well written. With regard to the estimate given of Seneca’s character and the view taken of the literary and philosophic value of his works, Mr Holland presents what will seem to many too favourable a picture.” H. E. B.
+ − Eng Hist R 35:467 Jl ’20 460w
“The grave dignity of Mr Holland’s style has somehow the fine sound of the best translations from the Latin, the spirit of his enterprise is ripely philosophical.”
+ Nation 110:828 Je 19 ’20 320w
“His full and agreeably written narrative of the life of the philosopher-statesman should win readers for Seneca.” H. M. Ayers
+ Review 2:521 My 15 ’20 1300w
“If we had more such books, the classics would stand on a firmer footing of human interest, instead of appearing to exist chiefly for the purpose of adding to the incomes of publishers, dons, and schoolmasters.”
+ Sat R 129:350 Ap 10 ’20 1200w
“Mr Francis Holland retells his story in a volume of lively and picturesque narrative. If it adds nothing to the knowledge of the subject for the specialist student, the story is one of interest to any man of liberal education, and a book which tells it over again so agreeably and judiciously may be just the book which many people want.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p345 Je 3 ’20 2350w
HOLLAND, RUPERT SARGENT. Refugee rock. il *$1.75 (3c) Jacobs
20–17657
Three American boys cruising along the coast of Maine land on what is supposed to be a deserted island and find it inhabited by a charming mannered young foreigner, his two servants and his dog. The stranger, Pierre Romaine, is practicing fencing strokes when the boys first come upon him and he at once arouses their curiosity and admiration. They find that two other groups of men are interested in the island, the first, the crew of a fishing smack, the second, a party of three foreigners, apparently Russians. The secret of their interest is solved, Romaine’s enemies are driven off, the treasure he is guarding is saved, and he consents to join his new friends on their cruise.
HOLLIDAY, CARL. Wedding customs then and now. *75c (7c) Stratford co. 392.5
19–13678
This entertaining little volume harkens back to old customs and usages, quoting the opinions of pessimist and optimist alike and has nothing to do with scientific sociological research. Contents: Marriage by force; Buying wives; Marriage taxes; Ancient ceremonies; The wedding feast and wedding cake; Wedding presents; Wedding festivities; Her trousseau; Gretna Green; The best time; The wedding ring; The old shoe; Proverbs.
“There is little that is unfamiliar in Mr Holliday’s recital, but there is much that is interesting in his somewhat flippant narrative.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p10 Mr 6 ’20 120w Springf’d Republican p8 F 26 ’20 180w
HOLLIDAY, ROBERT CORTES. Men and books and cities. *$2.50 (5½c) Doran 917.3
20–20548
Papers that appeared in the Bookman under the pseudonym Murray Hill, Indianapolis, St Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles are the cities, and among the men met on these desultory journeyings were Booth Tarkington, Meredith Nicholson, E. V. Lucas, William Marion Reedy and Carl Sandburg, and various literary editors and book sellers and others.
+ Booklist 17:146 Ja ’21
“No one else has quite Mr Holliday’s faculty for his own particular type of essay. He has captured the art of saying the forever unexpected. He rambles as freely through his pages as one might see him wandering about a city, with his stick upon his arm.” D. L. M.
+ Boston Transcript p1 D 11 ’20 950w
“It resembles a certain coat of many colors in its diversity of interests, and is to be recommended to him of human interests, rather than to the zealous seeker after exact and correlated knowledge.”
+ Cath World 112:692 F ’21 320w
“Seeking to be spirited, informal and impressionistic, Mr Holliday has fallen into the error of self-consciousness. He keeps himself so assiduously in the limelight, that one only catches such gleams of other personalities as may filter through his bulk.” Lisle Bell
− Freeman 2:260 N 24 ’20 120w
“All in all, this is quite an amusing book that manages to cover a surprisingly wide area with a limited stock of vital ideas. And that is where Elia and Murray Hill part company.” Pierre Loving
+ − N Y Call p7 Ja 9 ’21 440w
“Although Mr Holliday displays a humane temper and gives some pleasure by telling of his travels from city to city and from one barber to another, yet his style, his imagination and his humor are hardly sufficient to justify bringing these random pages between book covers.”
− + Springf’d Republican p6 Ja 17 ’21 210w
HOLLINGWORTH, HARRY LEVI. Psychology of functional neuroses. *$2 Appleton 616.8
20–17971
The book deals with those psychoneurotic manifestations that are susceptible to the modifying influences of suggestion, motivation, analysis and reeducation and to the numerous techniques of psychotherapy which the study of these manifestations has developed. As director of the psychoneurotic army hospital at Plattsburg, the author had cognisance of 1200 cases that were examined and treated there. Among the contents are: The mechanism of redintegration; Redintegration in the psychoneuroses: The intelligence of psychoneurotics; The rôle of motivation in the psychoneuroses; Irregularity of profile (scattering) in the psychoneurotic; A statistical study of psychoneurotic soldiers; Reliability of a group survey in the determination of mental age; Mental measurement, methods, and standards; Psychological service in a neuropsychiatric hospital; Index.
HOLME, JOHN GUNNLAUGUR. Life of Leonard Wood. il *$1.50 Doubleday
20–5732
A biography written frankly in the interests of General Wood as a presidential candidate. Contents: Early boyhood and school days; Soldier and surgeon; With Cleveland and McKinley; Commander of the Rough riders; The rescuer of Santiago; Governor and business manager of Cuba; Pacifier of the Philippines; Chief-of-staff of the U.S. army; The awakener of the nation; The champion of law and order. There are four illustrations from photographs.
“The author is a newspaper man, well known in Washington, and he has had access to many sources which makes his work authoritative.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 My 29 ’20 160w R of Rs 61:559 My ’20 60w
HOLMES, CHARLES JOHN.[[2]] Leonardo da Vinci. (British academy. Fourth annual lecture on a master-mind. Henriette Hertz trust) *90c Oxford 759.5
20–2853
“In this lecture, delivered on the four hundredth anniversary of Leonardo’s death, Mr Holmes sets out to show that Vasari’s judgment of the master—‘an artist of marvellous gifts who frittered them away on toys and trifles’—is wrong. Today we know more of Leonardo’s mind than did Vasari, so that we may ‘reverse the traditional formula and regard him as a very great man of science, who made a living by his talent as an artist and an engineer.’ Mr Holmes supports his contention by numerous and interesting quotations from Leonardo’s note-books.”—Ath
Ath p1049 O 17 ’19 100w Spec 122:584 N 1 ’19 160w
“A brilliant, though concise, study.”
+ Nation 110:660 My 15 ’20 460w
HOLMES, JOHN HAYNES. Is violence the way out of our industrial disputes? *$1.25 (5c) Dodd 331
20–7773
Is violence the way out of our industrial disputes, which the war, far from curing as it was hoped, has aggravated into a condition of chaos comparable only to the military chaos that went before? In the three addresses in the book, originally prepared for the Community church of New York, the author outlines a doctrine of non-resistance which alone can solve the problem satisfactorily. Between the struggle of capital and labor there can be no compromise. Labor must win but neither can win through violence. The presence of certain psychological elements, not impossible of achievement, are necessary to solve the problem: co-operative good-will on the part of labor, renunciation and confidence on the part of capital, and on both a viewpoint of human relationships taught by the prophet of Nazareth. Contents: The answer for capital; The answer for labour; The better way; Conclusion.
Booklist 17:53 N ’20 Freeman 2:46 S 22 ’20 270w Ind 103:319 S 11 ’20 30w
“Mr Holmes is nothing if not forthright. His mind works through his topic from start to finish with a steady momentum; there is no beating about the bush, no dallying finesse of language, no straining after mere rhetorical or stylistic effect. Even if you are not convinced, you instinctively recognize that you have been listening to the passionate and able pleading of an incorruptible mind.” R. R.
+ Nation 111:220 Ag 21 ’20 600w
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
New Repub 25:210 Ja 12 ’21 50w R of Rs 61:671 Je ’20 80w Springf’d Republican p9a O 3 ’20 250w
Reviewed by Alexander Fleisher
Survey 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 130w
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Collected legal papers. *$4 Harcourt 340
20–22316
These papers are of general interest and consist of speeches and articles collected from various publications between 1885 to 1918. They are: Early English equity; The law; The profession of the law; On receiving the degree of LL.D; The use of law schools; Agency; Privilege, malice and intent; Learning and science; Executors; The bar as a profession; Speech at Brown university; The path of the law; Legal interpretation; Law in science and science in law; Speech at Bar association dinner; Montesquieu; John Marshall; Address at Northwestern University law school; Economic elements; Maitland; Holdsworth’s English law; Law and the court; Introduction to continental legal historical series; Ideals and doubts; Bracton; Natural law.
“Every paper has its own virtues, but there is one which they all share, a rare and delicate charm. These papers bring the touch of romance to philosophy but this must not detract from our realization that the philosophy itself is fine and deep.” S. L. Cook
+ Boston Transcript p4 D 4 ’20 1400w
Reviewed by T: R. Powell
+ Nation 112:237 F 9 ’21 2250w
“The forbiddingly colorless title does grave injustice to an extraordinary book of thoroughly matured human wisdom.” M. R. Cohen
+ New Repub 25:294 F 2 ’21 2450w + Springf’d Republican p8 D 18 ’20 40w
HOLT, HENRY. Cosmic relations and immortality. 2d ed 2v *$10 Houghton 134
20–26562
“Mr Holt’s two volumes on ‘The cosmic relations and immortality’ are a new and enlarged edition of the two-volume work he published just before the breaking out of the war under the title ‘On the cosmic relations.’ He has added a new preface and several new chapters and has modified and brought to date the final summary of the subject in his last section. In the new chapters he takes up what he considers the three most important developments during the years since the work first appeared, which, in his opinion, ‘have added force to the spiritistic hypothesis.’ These are, first, the investigations and conclusions of Dr William J. Crawford, the well-known physicist of Queen’s university, Belfast; second, the appearance of many new sensitives, whose manifestations differ much from one another and from their predecessors; third, the agreement of these sensitives in depicting virtually the same future state.”—N Y Times
Booklist 16:356 Jl ’20
“He guesses frequently and variably; he admits uncertainty; he has a vigorous prejudice against dogmatism. But this philosophy takes its form as rigidly from these bantering guesses, as though other guesses did not exist.... The consequences are lamentable. Standards of credibility are abandoned; subjectivism replaces criticism; and miracles are rampant.” Joseph Jastrow
− Dial 69:204 Ag ’20 820w
“The notable thing about this book, now as in the earlier edition, is the nobility of spirit which informs it.”
+ Nation 111:278 S 4 ’20 130w N Y Times 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 370w
HOLT, LEE. Paris in shadow. *$2 Lane
The author’s novel “Green and gay” was published in 1918. The present book is written in the form of a diary, but it is not possible to determine whether it is an authentic record or a fictional device. A “portrait of the author,” printed as a foreword, says: “In the diary which follows he has noted down the trifling happenings of every day, those little events which more than all show the true spirit of the time. He writes from the standpoint of an American who has lived in France most of his life, but still retains a deep love of his own country. The book was not written in a spirit of criticism, merely to describe the everyday Paris as it was in 1916–1917.”
“It is written with a good deal of literary charm and may fittingly be described by that much abused expression, a ‘human document.’”
+ N Y Evening Post p16 D 4 ’20 80w
“The book is written in an agreeable style, but contains little matter of first-rate interest.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p405 Je 24 ’20 100w
HOLT, LUTHER EMMETT. Care and feeding of children. *$2 (4½c) Appleton 649.1
20–7343
The preface to the tenth edition of this well-known work says, “The constant use of the catechism as a manual for nursery maids has shown the need of fuller treatment of several subjects than was given in the earlier editions.... In this edition a considerable amount of new material has been introduced relative to the growth, nutrition, diet and supervision of older children, thus attempting to fill a need often expressed by mothers who have relied upon the manual as a guide for the period of infancy.”
HOME—then what? the mind of the doughboy, A. E. F. *$1.50 Doran 940.373
20–4692
The Comrades in service company club was started at Gievres, France by Dr O. D. Foster. In May, 1919, a movement was started in the club by Capt. Leon Schwartz to offer three prizes for the three best essays on the topic “Home—then what?” The three prize essays, a number of selected essays, and selected extracts constitute this volume. They have been collected and arranged by James Louis Small, and John Kendrick Bangs has written an illuminating foreword. The prize essayists are: Marcelle H. Wallenstein; Joshua B. Lee; and George F. Hudson.
Review 2:311 Mr 27 ’20 350w
HOOKER, FORRESTINE COOPER. Long dim trail. (Borzoi western stories) *$2 (2c) Knopf
20–17651
The story is a vivid picture of the life in the Arizona cattle country with its teeming beauty during prosperous seasons, its forlorn hope in times of drought, and the colorful variety of its human element. There is the sprinkling of college-bred easterners, the rough cow punchers with the warm loyal hearts, the Mexican, the Chinaman and the desperado. Between them all there is romance and thrilling adventure.
“The suggestion of artificiality is pleasingly absent in ‘The long dim trail.’ The book’s greatest charm lies in the fact that its pictures of life on the cattle ranges of Arizona compel the conviction that they are as accurate as they are vivid.”
+ N Y Times p26 D 26 ’20 480w
“Lovers of stories of adventure, love, villainy and virile men and true women will find the ingredients mixed here in a manner above the average.”
+ Springf’d Republican p7a D 12 ’20 120w
HOPKINS, NEVIL MONROE. Outlook for research and invention. il *$2 Van Nostrand 609
19–16654
The purpose of this book is to stimulate interest “not so much perhaps in what has been known as Yankee invention, but in the broader and more comprehensive American research.” There are eight chapters: The spirit of research; Men of research and their development; Some indifference of the past; American war research; The education for research; Some borderline limits; Research in the factory; The making and protecting of inventions. An appendix lists problems awaiting solution. The book is finely illustrated with a frontispiece and six portraits.
“The book shows the author to be thoroughly familiar with the national and industrial need for research, for he tells in an immensely illuminating manner of what research accomplished during the war and how the need for industrial research still is a pressing one. The book is fascinatingly written and should appeal to anyone with the instinct for solving things.”
+ Electrical R 76:457 Mr 13 ’20 280w
“Research workers, inventors, educators, manufacturers and certain government officials and legislators of the higher type will find stimulus and suggestion in this readable volume. Most of the book is written from the viewpoint of the chemist and physicist rather than of the engineer and nearly all the research problems listed are in the two fields named, but the author writes with knowledge and appreciation of engineering.”
+ Engin News-Rec 84:581 Mr 18 ’20 110w
“Mr Hopkins’s book will be of special interest to young men and women who are interested in research and invention as careers, particularly if they happen to be without the advantages of higher technical education.” B: C. Gruenberg
+ Nation 111:105 Jl 24 ’20 320w + N Y P L New Tech Bks p14 Ja ’20 40w
“The volume belongs to a class of books which suffer somewhat in the appeal that they are capable of making to the humanistically trained intellectuals, because of a certain rawness of cultural outlook as tested by the conventional standards of the literary and humanistic critic. On the other hand, it is replete with indications of wide and substantial scholarship in various scientific branches, it is composed with a somewhat infectious enthusiasm for the beauties of science.”
+ − Review 2:488 My 8 ’20 750w
HORNE, HERMAN HARRELL. Jesus, the master teacher. *$2 Assn. press 232
20–14228
The book has to do with the pedagogy of Jesus, which, the author says, is a discovered and staked-out but unworked mine. The aim of the book is two-fold: “to see how Jesus taught, or is presented to us as having taught,” and “ultimately, to influence our own methods of teaching morals and religion,” and is primarily to be used as a guide to be followed in study classes. A partial list of the contents is: How did Jesus secure attention? His use of problems; His conversations; His questions; His discourses; His parables; His use of symbols; His imagery; Education by personal association; Did Jesus appeal to the native reactions? His attitude toward children; His qualities as teacher; The significance of Jesus in educational history. The appendix consists of topics for further study, and there are illustrations and a bibliography.
HORTON, CHARLES MARCUS. Opportunities in engineering. (Opportunity books) *$1 (5c) Harper 620
20–6879
This little treatise on engineering might well be called an epic, for it sings the praises of the engineer and his work in all its aspects. It is a wonderful profession, perhaps “the topmost of all professions” in its possibilities of world service, and the engineer is both a thinker and a doer and as such has more of the world under his control than falls to the lot of most men. Contents: Engineering and the engineer; Engineering opportunities; The engineering type; The four major branches; Making a choice; Qualifying for promotion; The consulting engineer; The engineer in civic affairs; Code of ethics; Future of the engineer; What constitutes engineering success; The personal side.
Booklist 16:334 Jl ’20 + Boston Transcript p6 Je 30 ’20 100w
HOWARD, ALEXANDER L. Manual of the timbers of the world, their characteristics and uses. il *$9 Macmillan 691.1
“The book is intended to supplement the standard works on timber and aims at giving an account of the important timbers either on the market or likely to be of use to us in the future. The properties and characters of 500 of these woods are considered and suggestions made as to their practical utilization. Quite a large amount of information is given on the cultural conditions necessary for many of the best timber trees and on the possibility of growing them in this country. This special part of the work is followed by a more general one, dealing with the conversion and preservation of timber, specifications and conditions of contract; then comes a very important section dealing with the artificial seasoning of timber.”—Spec
“On the subject of timbers he is a fanatic. His passion leads him into mistakes, but it leads him also into real appreciation of the beauty of woods, and into a prose style that conveys unexpectedly through the technicalities the charm of his subject.” Malcolm Cowley
+ − N Y Evening Post p4 N 27 ’20 570w
“The book is fully illustrated and well arranged; it will be of more use than its author modestly imagines.”
+ − Spec 125:640 N 13 ’20 620w
HOWE, EDGAR WATSON. Anthology of another town. *$2 (5c) Knopf
20–20449
A series of sketches, varying in length from a paragraph to several pages, describing characters from a middle western small town. The title suggests “Spoon River,” but Mr Howe writes in simple, direct prose and without irony. Many of the sketches go back to his boyhood and his own experience as a printer’s apprentice.
“Consists of backyard gossip about the inhabitants of Atchison, Kansas; as such it is unexpurgated and entirely delightful. Mr Howe is not so cosmic as Mr Masters and he is a great deal easier to read.”
+ Dial 70:232 F ’21 90w
HOWE, J. ALLEN. Stones and quarries. (Pitman’s common commodities and industries) il $1 Pitman 691.2
“In this small volume an attempt has been made to place before the reader a broad general view of the stone industry, to show what part it plays in the life of the community and to give an outline of the methods and machinery employed in its development.” (Preface) Chapters on The stone industry. Rocks, stones and minerals and Classification of stones are followed by six chapters devoted to the various types of stones and their modes of occurrence. Then come four chapters on the employment of stone, in building and engineering, roads, etc., and two concluding chapters on Quarrying and The preparation of stone for the market. There is a one-page bibliography and an index.
HOWE, MARK ANTONY DE WOLFE. George von Lengerke Meyer; his life and public services. il *$5 (3c) Dodd
20–726
The book is based on a large collection of papers, in manuscript and in print, among them Mr Meyer’s diary. The contents are: Beginnings; Affairs and politics in Boston and Massachusetts; Ambassador to Italy; Ambassador to Russia; Postmaster general; Secretary of the navy; The final years. Illustrations and an index.
“In the preparation of this work. Mr Howe has followed the golden rule for biographers, by allowing his subject, so far as possible, to tell his own story. Letters and diary entries constitute the record of an interesting, useful and busy life.” G: W. Wickersham
+ Am Pol Sci R 14:345 My ’20 1650w
“The conversations with the Czar and with the Kaiser will be especially interesting.”
+ Booklist 16:310 Je ’20
Reviewed by Lindsay Swift
+ Boston Transcript p9 F 28 ’20 1900w N Y Evening Post p5 Mr 20 ’20 2000w
“The volume, while full, is not graphic, and does not reveal Mr Meyer as a deep or vivid reader of social reactions. It is even disappointing in the inside light it might throw on the official ‘family life’ of two presidents of the United States.”
− + N Y Times 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 130w
“Every chapter of this well-written biography is worth reading.”
+ Outlook 126:515 N 17 ’20 60w
Reviewed by E: G. Lowry
+ Review 2:308 Mr 27 ’20 1950w R of Rs 61:444 Ap ’20 140w
“Because of its accurate and intimate picture of life behind the scenes in the great countries of the world for a period of approximately fifteen years, the work must certainly prove of value to historians in search of material upon which to base comprehensive studies of the world war.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8a Ap 4 ’20 2050w
HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN, ed. Great modern American stories. *$1.75 Boni & Liveright
20–11148
“Twenty-four short stories, ranging from Edward Everett Hale’s ‘My double’ and Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘Circumstance’ of other days, to George Ade’s ‘Effie Whittlesy’ and Theodore Dreiser’s ‘The lost Phoebe’ of the present, make up the contents of an anthology of ‘The great modern American stories.’ The selection is made by none other than William Dean Howells, and to it he contributes an introduction which is by no means the least interesting feature of the volume. It is compressed within eight pages, and it forms a compact summary of the course of American short story writing during the past half-century and more.”—Boston Transcript
“A fascinating collection. One finds old favorites almost forgotten such as ‘The little room,’ while the stories one looks for are here too.”
+ Booklist 17:33 O ’20 + Boston Transcript p7 Jl 14 ’20 700w
“Some of the stories which are given a place cause one to wonder on what possible basis Mr Howells made his choice. Their inclusion might be comprehensible were it not for the brilliant tales which they displace. Mr Howells’ omissions are indeed decidedly more striking than his selections.”
− + Cath World 112:270 N ’20 240w
“A nice adjustment of personal preferences to inevitable inclusions is here revealed.”
+ Dial 69:547 N ’20 50w
“Short story writers may very well take a look at this book, with its soundly native material and integrity of approach. Only two or three of the collection can by any stretch be called great, but they cleave a way and accomplish a measurable result.” C. M. Rourke
+ Freeman 2:91 O 6 ’20 1200w
“No anthology, of course, is final: a dozen other candidates for this volume will occur to any reader at all expert; but if editing can be as nearly classical as writing, this collection may have to be called a classic.”
+ Nation 111:251 Ag 28 ’20 350w
“The two dozen stories all repay reading and reward re-reading; but none of them is more readable than the preface of the editor himself.” Brander Matthews
+ N Y Times 25:179 Ap 18 ’20 2900w
“The volume is undoubtedly interesting, though the kind of interest it begets does not leave one particularly impressed by the merits and dignities of the short story as a kind.”
+ − Review 3:154 Ag 18 ’20 550w + Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 1 ’20 280w
HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN. Hither and thither in Germany. (Harper’s travel companions) il *$2 (4½c) Harper 914.3
20–2699
Basil March, of silver wedding journey fame, has taken the cure at Carlsbad, and for an after-cure he and his wife do a bit of traveling about Germany. Their trip is described in the book, the chapters of which have been selected from the original volume.
Dial 68:666 My ’20 1000w
“The deftest hand which ever drove an American pen has here cut away the meandering narrative of the original and has kept the descriptive parts. But what description this of Mr Howells’s—as easy as an eagle, as flexible as a serpent, as natural and clear as a brook going about its business!”
+ Nation 110:661 My 15 ’20 280w
“In true Howells’ style the narrative rambles along, sometimes with full detail as if photographed, and again with an impressionistic summary of a whole experience in a few words. It may be that in the future, with the smoothing of asperities, the tide of the tourist travel will flow to Germany again. Then if not before, this book of Mr Howells’ should score a large popularity.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 F 24 ’20 340w
HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN. Vacation of the Kelwyns; an idyl of the middle eighteen-seventies. *$2 (2c) Harper
20–16794
Kelwyn, post-graduate lecturer on historical sociology, was rather theoretical than practical. Mrs Kelwyn was conventionally practical, always eager, theoretically, to be fair and generous, but rather fussy, withal; and both were typically New England. They rented an abandoned farm, with one of their “family” houses, of the Shakers for a year, had a farmer and his wife put in charge, and arranged to spend their vacation there. The farmers were shiftless and ignorant. In their world and the Kelwyn’s there was no common meeting ground and the latter’s summer turned out a tragicomedy. The situation was somewhat saved by their cousin, Parthenope Brook, and a stray teacher, a poetic dreamer and idealist and experimenter with life. His experiments even included the kitchen and the cooking of meals in which Parthenope joined him with the inevitable result.
+ Booklist 17:116 D ’20
“Nowhere has Mr Howells shown more clearly his possession of the dual powers of the observer and the chronicler. Many novelists have either the one power or the other. Few possess them both equally, and Mr Howells is one of the few.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p4 S 29 ’20 1500w
“It must be admitted that ‘The vacation of the Kelwyns’ represents Mr Howells in his most uninteresting phase.” F. E. H.
− + Freeman 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 180w
“About this trivial theme play all the warmth and grace and gentleness which marked the later Howells.” C. V. D.
+ Nation 111:510 N 3 ’20 180w
“The trouble with ‘The vacation of the Kelwyns’ is that it makes too little out of the situation presented. The implications of the story hang at loose ends. Worse, the movements of the characters thus tangled in a web of intangible difficulties are not only too often trivial in themselves but they lack the symbolical significance which might have carried the observer into larger regions of reflection.” Carl Van Doren
+ − N Y Evening Post p3 O 23 ’20 1900w
“‘The vacation of the Kelwyns’ is a delightful example of Mr Howell’s method and (every creation being a form of confession) a vivid revelation of the man himself. It takes a simple situation, simple people; but this very simplicity makes us feel anew that the drama of human emotions is never simple.” Alexander Black
+ N Y Times p1 O 3 ’20 1950w
“It is a finely wrought out presentation of American life and character, with interesting sketches of the Shakers and of the reaction of their tenets and practices on the minds of ordinary Americans. It is quiet and restrained, but by no means boresome.”
+ Outlook 126:333 O 20 ’20 80w
“The whole affair has the effect, at least, of something altogether casual and artless. Its range and theme are slight; but only one person could have told it, and we who loved that demure and faultless voice may well be grateful that fate has somehow saved one more hearing of it for us, as a surprise.” H. W. Boynton
+ Review 3:534 D 1 ’20 850w
“The ambling graces of the narrative are not a great matter, but it is really interesting to see that a novelist of this true and distinguished talent, at the end of the long span of his career, had still the freshness and the good faith to tell a simple story with simplicity.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p829 D 9 ’20 850w
HOWLAND, LOUIS. Stephen A. Douglas. (Figures from American history) *$2 Scribner
20–7497
“A study of Douglas as a public character which is necessarily also a picture of his times. The author stresses the fundamental patriotism which the heated party controversies of the day often obscured. Sources are not cited.”—Booklist
+ Booklist 17:69 N ’20 + N Y Times 25:9 Jl 4 ’20 80w
“Mr Howland leaves upon his readers a clear-cut impression of Douglas—of what he did and of what he failed to do. He knows his man and the times in which he lived. Slips are few.” J: C. Rose
+ Review 3:191 S 1 ’19 1700w
HRBKOVA, SÁRKA B., tr. and ed. Czechoslovak stories. (Interpreters’ ser.) *$1.90 (2c) Duffield
20–8884
The author of these translations in a long introductory essay on the people and literature of Czechoslovakia, divides the literature into three periods: the early, the middle and the modern—the last dating from the close of the eighteenth century to the present day. The writers of the stories belong to the most modern group, from 1848 to the present day and consist of Svatopluk Cech; Jan Neruda; Franti[)s]ek Xavier Svoboda; Joseph Svatopluk Machar; Bo[)z]ena Víková-Kunĕtická; Bo[)z]ena Nĕmcová; Alois Jirásek; Ignát Herrman; Jan Klecanda; Caroline Svĕtlá. A short biography of the writer precedes each translation and there are appendices.
“Several in their simplicity and beauty are as fine and true as some of Selma Lagerlöf’s best peasant tales.”
+ Booklist 16:348 Jl ’20
HUBBARD, GILBERT ERNEST.[[2]] Day of the crescent; glimpses of old Turkey. il *$6 Macmillan 949.6
“In the library of the British Foreign office the author of this book stumbled upon a collection of sixteenth and seventeenth century books of Turkish travel, which had been bequeathed to the library by some noble diplomat of the last century who had been attached to the Constantinople embassy. ‘The authors were a cosmopolitan and heterogeneous lot, including among others such diverse characters as a Flemish diplomat, a French artist, a Polish soldier, a Venetian dragoman, and an English man of science. Their stories of how they travelled, painted, plotted, or fought according to their several capacities are full of color and romance, and worthy products of the age of adventure in which the actors lived.’ All these books pictured the ‘golden age’ of Turkey—an age that is almost unknown to us today—and Mr Hubbard decided that it would be a pleasant and profitable task to arrange and compress in one volume the most interesting portions from this collection of old narratives.”—N Y Evening Post
“He has certainly made no wide search for material, nor approached his subject in any critical way, nor attempted to give close unity to his scheme. Under these conditions Mr Hubbard has succeeded in presenting a vivacious, interesting, and thoroughly readable book.” A. H. Lybyer
+ − Am Hist R 26:129 O ’20 560w
“This is certainly the most picturesque of the scores of volumes of which the great war and its surroundings have been the occasion.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p4 O 27 ’20 900w + N Y Evening Post p13 O 30 ’20 180w Spec 124:768 Je 5 ’20 150w
HUDSON, HENRY, 2d., pseud. Spendthrift town. *$2.25 (1c) Houghton
20–22444
New York city is the Spendthrift town of the title. Claire Nicholson is the central character, a young girl brought up in a conservative and aristocratic family who have never moved from their Ninth street house, and whose creed is “Work hard, take care of your property, increase it if you possibly can, and let all idealists and spouters and impractical people alone.” At twenty a series of misfortunes come upon the family, bringing death, dishonor and poverty into Claire’s experience of life, and when wealthy Dudley Orville asks her to marry him, she consents. It doesn’t take many years for her to discover that Dudley values material things too highly and his marriage vows not at all. But she has by now realized, too, that she loves Felix Malette, a young Englishman whom she had previously scoffed at for regarding material things too lightly. She realizes that she has wronged both Dudley and herself by marrying him and they separate, but she refuses to get a divorce as Dudley wishes. She is finally driven to doing so to obtain the allowance that she needs, but feels herself degraded in so doing, and feels that it would be impossible ever to make use of a freedom secured as she had secured hers. Nevertheless the closing page sees her sailing for Europe where Felix is.
“‘Spendthrift town’ is one of the finest bits of realistic American literature which has come to my attention this year.” S. M. R.
+ Bookm 52:371 D ’20 130w
“The book, as a whole, has solid merit and abundant promise and should not be overlooked by readers who care for good work of native origin.”
+ − Nation 111:693 D 15 ’20 380w
“The caste, the manners of these people, suggest Scott Fitzgerald’s more earnest moments, but the story is altogether without that young gentleman’s vigor, ardor and wit.”
− N Y Evening Post p17 D 4 ’20 120w
“The real strength of the story is in the vivid picture it presents of certain phases of metropolitan life, which will be appreciated by New Yorkers as well as by those who know little of the great city.”
+ N Y Times p26 Ja 9 ’21 320w
“In fact all of the characters in the story appear weak, selfish and bored, and one following their apparently aimless existences has no difficulty in falling into the last-named condition, especially as the book is full of descriptions of a rather exhaustive nature.”
− + Springf’d Republican p7a D 26 ’20 210w
HUDSON, JAY WILLIAM. College and new America. *$2 (5c) Appleton 378
20–12841
Social reconstruction, the author holds, requires the aid of the colleges and looks to them for skilled intelligence of a special sort. This requires reform and the first reform needed is that of the college professor himself. He outlines the nature of the college professor’s obligation to the social order, hardly recognized heretofore but upon which lies the ultimate hope of the college. Dr Henry Suzzallo contributes a foreword, and the contents are: The call of the new order; The academic mind; The defense of the academic mind; The obligation to the social order; The failure of the academic mind; How college professors educate; America as an educational motive; The truth worth teaching; Some next things in college education; The meaning of America; The college and American life; The largest terms of culture; How may these things be? Index.
“Although written from the professor’s point of view, all who are interested will find profit in this clarifying consideration of aims.”
+ Booklist 17:94 D ’20
“We somehow feel that Dr Hudson’s ‘New America’ started about 1865, right after the Civil war; that he draws no distinction between what the conscious America of today is trying to be, and what it was permitting itself to be before the late unpleasantness in Europe. Also, though he points out with some acumen the faults of our present system of college education, he does not convince the reader that he has anything very substantial with which to remedy these faults.” J. W. G.
− + Grinnell R 15:261 O ’20 400w
“In formulating the educational problem of the colleges, Dr Hudson has performed a real service such as one could scarcely expect from any one but a practical-minded philosopher, at home alike with realities and with abstractions. Dr Hudson’s remedies are not so convincing as his criticism.”
+ − No Am 212:573 O ’20 1250w
“All in all, if Prof. Hudson’s book had been written before the war it would have come as a startling prophecy, but now it is in the position of the oracle which tells, in faltering accents, that which has come to pass.”
− + Springf’d Republican p10 N 5 ’20 330w
“The book is likely to be subjected to the criticism that it does not tell us what to do. But as a definite challenge to university and college men who are not completely academic to undertake seriously the task of reconstructing the aims and instruments of higher education in America, this book must have wide and serious consideration.” J. K. Hart
+ Survey 45:136 O 23 ’20 450w
HUDSON, STEPHEN. Richard Kurt. *$2.25 Knopf
A long novel concerned with the emotions and reactions of a young Englishman, particularly in his relations with his father, his wife, and a young Italian girl called Virginia. Between himself and his father there is a long standing antagonism. His wife, Elinor, is a woman of social aspirations with one set of values only. She is beautiful and he still apparently loves her, altho there is little sympathy between them. In Italy he meets Virginia, a girl of puzzling character, who alternately intrigues and repulses him. He is ready to leave his wife for her and cannot determine whether her pose of reluctance is the result of genuine naïveté or of deep-seated design. In the end repugnance overcomes him. He leaves her and accompanies his now aged father to London. Midway in the story there is a brief interlude of friendship with an intelligent American woman who exhorts Richard to “be a man,” advice he seems temperamentally incapable of following.
Ath p1153 N 7 ’19 460w
“Mr Hudson combines aloofness of attitude and a complete saturation with his subject. Rarely has a riper first novel appeared. It is solidly founded in its observation, built with a serene sureness of touch, careless of vain graces, disdainful of all appeals save that of its inner veracity.”
+ Nation 110:859 Je 26 ’20 320w
“The very long book is much of it well done. Many of the numerous descriptions are good, and, in short, the author shows himself to be possessed of talent which it seems rather a pity that he should expend on relating the detailed history of a man who was not only a drinker and a gambler, but a sponge, a spineless parasite and cad, too feeble and too monotonous in character to hold the reader’s attention.”
+ − N Y Times p25 Ag 1 ’20 550w
“Three-quarters of the book is weak, trivial, negligible, and but for Virginia the rest would be the same. She alone is something more than an unpleasant hotel acquaintance. There is Virginia and one thing more, the last meeting between Richard and his father. This also, slight though it is, is touched with beauty.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p569 O 16 ’19 650w
HUDSON, W. H. Birds in town and village. il *$4 Dutton 598.2
20–2104
“Sketches of birds done with an intimate understanding of their habits and temperaments; chatty anecdotes and quaint legends, and the out-of-doors make this one of the author’s characteristically charming books. The first part is a revision of his earlier work, ‘Birds in a village,’ now out of print. Eight colored plates by E. J. Detmold.”—Booklist
“Vivid and fascinating descriptions of bird life.”
+ Ath p1137 O 31 ’19 80w + Booklist 16:227 Ap ’20
“Mr Hudson is not an ordinary writer nor his book an ordinary book about birds. One is at loss to decide which is the greater charm of the books, the author’s mastery of style or his knowledge of the birds which he describes and makes real.” J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 28 ’20 730w
“This book is not so whimsical as Mr Hudson’s ‘The book of a naturalist.’ On the other hand, it is a closer and more charming study of natural history.”
+ Outlook 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 80w
“The essays are delightful, even in tone, but with only occasional bits that are Hudson at his best.”
+ Review 3:48 Jl 14 ’20 80w
“It is literary, of course: but the writing is based on solid fact, and though Mr Hudson is sensitive, he is not sentimental.”
+ Sat R 129:107 Ja 31 ’20 400w
“The book is well worth reading.”
+ Spec 123:774 D 6 ’19 100w Springf’d Republican p10 Mr 19 ’20 280w
“Though some of Mr Hudson’s contentions appear disputable, this book is full of his unsurpassed perception and unique charm.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p583 O 23 ’19 1000w
HUDSON, W. H.[[2]] Birds of La Plata. il 2v *$15 Dutton 598.2
“The matter contained in this volume (which forms a companion to Mr Hudson’s famous ‘The naturalist in La Plata’) is taken from his ‘Argentine ornithology’ (1888–9), the matter contributed by the late P. L. Sclater, in order to make a complete list, being omitted along with the synonymy of the species described by Mr Hudson. Fresh species being continually added to the list, the work became out of date, the only thing of permanent interest being Mr Hudson’s account of the birds’ habits. There seems to have been no subsequent volume from any other source about Argentine birds.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
+ Nation 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 70w
“The two volumes are packed full of the little delightful personal touches which make Hudson’s descriptions always a delight. In this book are traces of the carelessness which sometimes appears in Hudson’s writings. The color-plates by Gronvold add much to the beauty of the book, and although not so spirited as those of our own Fuertes they are beautifully done.” S: Scoville, jr.
+ − N Y Evening Post p3 Ja 29 ’21 1300w
“Though the book thus forms no inadequate guide to the birds of at least a large portion of the Argentine territories, it makes a direct appeal to many bird-lovers who may never hope to see any of the species here described in their natural haunts.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p715 N 4 ’20 1450w The Times [London] Lit Sup p706 O 28 ’20 100w
HUDSON, W. H.[[2]] Dead Man’s Plack, and An old thorn. *$2.50 Dutton
20–23046
“‘Dead Man’s Plack’ is a story of a thousand years ago. The story is of Edgar the Peaceful, of Earl Athelwold, and of the beautiful Elfrida who so dreadfully became queen and again so dreadfully became queen mother, and is a simple, savage story of a simple, savage time. It is a happy fortune that has brought ‘An old thorn’ within book covers with ‘Dead Man’s Plack.’ This shorter story, which was originally published in The English Review a number of years ago, is probably the only narrative we have (the only one to Mr Hudson’s knowledge) which deals with ‘that rare and curious subject, the survival of tree worship’ in England. But it will live in the readers’ mind as a piteous and haunting human tragedy—the story of a young countryman who was hanged (and this was only a century ago) for stealing a sheep.”—N Y Times
“In ‘An old thorn’ Hudson is at his best. He moves to his conclusion with that sense of inevitability that is the core of tragedy.”
+ Bookm 52:550 F ’21 140w
“And just as ‘Green mansions’ glows forever with the brilliance of the tropical forest, so here in ‘Dead Man’s Plack’ a Saxon England is recreated for us, and can never die. This new book of Hudson’s must have a permanent place in our libraries.”
+ N Y Times p24 D 19 ’20 1050w
“There is a simple and plaintive charm in the narrative.”
+ Outlook 127:110 Ja 19 ’21 50w
“Here are two short stories by Mr Hudson, good enough for most writers, but not his best. We could praise them for many things; if they were by an unknown writer we should be content to praise; we should even enjoy them more than we do now, knowing the other works of their author; but, as it is, we are perhaps a little ungrateful for their many beauties because we cannot refrain from asking why the short story, even in ‘El ombu,’ does not quite suit Mr Hudson’s genius.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p823 D 9 ’20 960w
HUEBNER, GROVER GERHARDT. Ocean steamship traffic management. *$3 Appleton 387
20–9794
The book is one of a series of manuals for instruction in the various phases of steamship business. Its object is to give in systematic order all the facts and activities that come within the range of the ocean shipping business, for the guidance of individual students studying by themselves and for use as a class text-book. The contents are divided into three parts: Part I: The traffic organization of ocean shipping; Part II: Ocean shipping documents; Part III: Ocean rates and regulation. There is an index.
“The material is exceptionally well arranged.”
+ Am Econ R 10:595 S ’20 80w
“Well organized; written with clearness and precision.”
+ Booklist 17:58 N ’20 + R of Rs 62:224 Ag ’20 40w
HUEBNER, SOLOMON S. Marine insurance. *$3 Appleton 368.2
20–16525
The volume is the first of a series of manuals designed to assist students training for the marine insurance, shipping and exporting business. It is adapted to the needs of beginners and does not aim to discuss highly technical or isolated aspects of the business, such as the specialist of long training may desire. Contents: Nature and functions of marine insurance; Types of underwriters; Types of policies; Analysis of the policy contract; Analysis of the perils covered; Total loss; General average; Particular average; Cargo insurance; Hull insurance; Freight insurance; Builders’ risk insurance; Reinsurance agreements; Marine underwriters’ associations; Rate making in marine insurance; Appendices (including specimens of the various types of policies); Index
Booklist 17:141 Ja ’21 + N Y Evening Post p9 N 6 ’20 140w
“His book is comprehensive and well written and should prove helpful to large numbers of the young generation in the country’s marine insurance offices.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 N 26 ’20 170w
HUGHES, ADELAIDE MANOLA. Diantha goes the primrose way, and other verses. *$1.35 Harper 811
20–6682
The title poem depicts in free verse the drama of a woman who, turning away from her husband-friend to passionate love, sees that love die and leave her desolate. She seeks comfort in work and in an hour of mortal agony grasps the protecting hand of that husband-friend. The other poems are grouped under the headings: Ceremonials, and Beloved objects.
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
Bookm 52:61 S ’20 580w Nation 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 50w
HUGHES, EDWARD ARTHUR. Britain and greater Britain in the nineteenth century. *$1.60 (1½c) Putnam 942.08
(Eng ed 20–3437)
A book written “for the general public, as well as for the upper forms of schools.” The author is assistant master at the Royal naval college, Dartmouth. Part 1, devoted to Great Britain and Ireland, consists of the following chapters: Introductory; England from Waterloo to the great reform bill (1815–1832); English politics from the great reform bill to the outbreak of the Crimean war (1832–1853); The condition of England 1815–1853; Foreign relations to the end of the Crimean war; Palmerstonian England; Ireland 1800–1866; England and Ireland 1868–1885; England and Ireland 1886–1906; Social movements (two chapters). Part 2 devotes a chapter each to Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, India and Egypt, with a concluding chapter on The British empire. There is an index.
“On the whole it is the best short history of modern Britain that has appeared. But there is one serious defect that greatly impairs its usefulness. Not only is there no bibliography but there are no references whatever. Good as it is, it is not particularly dynamic or illuminating.” C. F. Lavell
+ − Am Hist R 26:133 O ’20 350w
“Despite the absence of personal bias, rigorously to be suppressed in a book like this, and the compression of a large subject into 300 pages, we read ‘Britain and greater Britain’ through from start to finish with unabated interest.”
+ Sat R 128:491 N 22 ’19 1350w
HUGHES, GLENN. Broken lights. *$1.50 Univ. of Washington 811
20–11395
From the preface contributed to this collection of poems by Frederick Morgan Padelford, it is to be inferred that the poems were accepted by the English department of the University of Washington in lieu of a thesis for the degree of Master of Arts, on the ground that “the creation of art is at least as severe a test of culture and of refined and disciplined thinking as the ability to reason sagely upon the art created by others.” The poems are grouped under the headings; A garland for Euterpe; Remembrances: Eccentricities: Pro patria.
“Our ‘strong’ young poets will doubtless see too much of softly falling rain or gently moving cloud to please them in the volume, too much of Mother Nature and too little of human nature.”
+ − Boston Transcript p6 N 3 ’20 190w
HUGHES, RUPERT. Momma, and other unimportant people. *$2 (2c) Harper
20–20946
Thirteen short stories with the titles: “Momma”; The stick-in-the-muds; Read it again; The father of waters; Innocence; The college Lorelei; Yellow cords; The split; A story I can’t write; The butcher’s daughter; The quick-silver window; The dauntless bookkeeper; You hadn’t ought to. The stories have appeared in Collier’s and other magazines.
“If the people all belong to about the same class, the stories themselves are of very uneven merit, several of them being very good, while others are distinctly poor. The book gives, take it all in all, an accurate picture of certain phases of American life.”
+ − N Y Times p19 N 14 ’20 580w
HUGHES, RUPERT. What’s the world coming to? il *$1.90 (1c) Harper
20–8631
Bob Taxter, coming home from the war, learns that he has inherited ten thousand dollars. His first thought is that now he will be free to marry April, the girl he has loved and quarrelled with since childhood. But he finds that April too has inherited money, a much larger sum than his own. He straightway sets about making more and turns his attention to oil. And quite opportunely Joe Yarmy and his sister Kate appear on the scene. The old homestead in Texas is all ready to gush oil. They need only capital. Bob bites, but April is sceptical. They quarrel and she returns his ring. Bewildered, Bob finds himself engaged to marry Kate. But there has been another sceptic, old Uncle Zeb, family retainer of the Taxters, now a “professor of vacuum cleaning.” It is he who thwarts the wedding plans, redeems the ten thousand dollars and the Taxter diamonds. This is the story, but the book abounds in an astounding array of other matters, doggerel verses current at the time, statistics, price lists, quotations from the Brewers’ board of trade, and the author’s opinions on prohibition and social conditions generally.
“The plot is fairly complicated, and interspersed with a very great deal of comment and of moralizing, some of which is worth reading, though most of it is exceedingly trite. The novel is inordinately long, but no doubt it will please Mr Hughes’s admirers.”
− + N Y Times 25:280 My 30 ’20 1150w
“The story is a potpourri of post-war conditions and incidents loosely put together.”
− Springf’d Republican p9a O 17 ’20 190w
HUGHES, TALBOT. Dress design, il $4 Pitman 391
The book is one of the Artistic crafts series of technical handbooks edited by W. R. Lethaby, and is “an account of costume for artists and dressmakers.” (Sub-title) The object of the series is to encourage greater consideration for design and workmanship and the object of this particular volume is to emphasize the craftsman and artistic side of costume making and to “separate in some degree the more constant elements of dress from those which are more variable.” (Preface) Although cast into the form of history it is also a book of suggestions to modern dressmakers. The book is profusely illustrated with figures and full-page plates and a special feature has been made of supplying the maker or designer of dress with actual proportions and patterns, gleaned from antique dresses. Beginning with prehistoric dress, both male and female, successive chapters are given to the development of costume in the different centuries including the nineteenth. There is an index and a detailed list of patterns.
HULBERT, ARCHER BUTLER. Paths of inland commerce. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 380
20–4902
“Professor Hulbert is well equipped for writing the story of the early development of the transportation routes of the United States, for he has already published sixteen volumes on the pioneer roads and canals, based upon personal observation and firsthand study. In the monograph under review the author has brought together the best results of his earlier labors and woven them into a connected narrative of the part which trails, roads, canals, and natural waterways have played in our commercial development.”—Am Hist R
“The interest of the author in his subject has at times betrayed him into extreme forms of statement, but on the whole he has maintained a fair balance.” E. L. Bogart
+ − Am Hist R 26:145 O ’20 340w
“The progress both in historical scholarship and in the author’s knowledge is shown by a comparison of this mature and carefully wrought volume with the earlier ‘Historic highways of America’ published some fifteen to eighteen years ago by the same author. The enthusiasm has remained, and has deepened and broadened with the author’s enlarging acquaintance with the subject, until it has evoked a notable epic of transportation.” L. P. Kellogg
+ Mississippi Valley Hist R 7:153 S ’20 550w
“An extremely readable volume.”
+ N Y Times p16 O 31 ’20 130w R of Rs 62:223 Ag ’20 50w
HUMPHREY, ZEPHINE (MRS WALLACE WEIR FAHNESTOCK).[[2]] Sword of the spirit. *$2.50 Dutton
20–8516
“The novel begins with the marriage of a young couple well endowed with this world’s goods, who are ardently infatuated with each other. Every one looks upon it as a most desirable match in every way, and at first the young husband and wife are superlatively happy. Then the little rifts begin to appear. The girl is of a very spiritual nature. The husband lives upon a distinctly lower level, is frankly material in his enjoyment of life. The climax comes with some riotous living on his part, which includes too much toying with the wine cup. The barrier that has grown between them seems impassable, and wreckage threatens their marriage. The situations and developments by which the author chastens and humbles both of them and finally brings them together again are plausible and emotional.”—N Y Times
+ Booklist 17:158 Ja ’21
“Miss Humphrey has shown no lack of temerity and assurance in handling the things of the spirit; but in so doing she has merely revolved around her subject without ever really grappling it. The novel, as a whole, is neither pleasing nor convincing.”
− + Cath World 112:544 Ja ’21 330w
“It is, perhaps, in construction and development and emotional tensity the best work she has yet done. There is, indeed, much fine and keen perception of spiritual beauty throughout the book.”
+ N Y Times 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 380w
HUMPHREYS, ELIZA M. J. (GOLLAN) (MRS DESMOND HUMPHREYS) (RITA, pseud.). Diana of the Ephesians. *$1.75 (1c) Stokes
20–2263
The hero of this story is the incarnation of egotism, self-conceit and arrogant, heartless megalomania. She is a Greek girl of doubtful parentage, her father an Englishman. Claiming the guardianship of an English professor she comes to England at the age of seventeen, consumed with ambition to become a great writer and under the delusion of being the daughter of some great personage. Rough-shod she walks over everybody in the home that has received her; wheedles herself into the good graces of an old lord; has a brief but dazzling and artificial career and sinks into oblivion as the bubble of her genius bursts and the true secret of her humble origin is revealed.
Ath p1386 D 19 ’19 40w
“The story is well written and entertaining, but endows the girl with improbable power.”
+ − Booklist 16:281 My ’20
“The leading character, though exaggerated and decidedly bizarre, is interesting and keeps the reader wondering what she will find to do next. The novel is interesting, and its plot is more than a little out of the ordinary.”
+ N Y Times 25:164 Ap 11 ’20 400w
“The story’s rapid action, its multitude of interesting detail, and the singular character of the heroine engage the reader’s attention throughout 500 closely printed pages.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a S 12 ’20 330w The Times [London] Lit Sup p754 D 11 ’19 250w
HUMPHREYS, ELIZA M. J. (GOLLAN) MRS DESMOND HUMPHREYS) (RITA, pseud.). Truth of spiritualism. *$1.25 Lippincott 134
20–7778
“‘Rita’ has closely examined the different phenomena of spiritualism, with the result that she believes it does reveal more than the church has told us as to the condition of the departed; and that, though not ‘an orthodox religion,’ it is ‘the root and source of all religions.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Rita’s denunciations will hardly make much difference, especially as they are often more eloquent than intelligible.”
− + Ath p1301 D 5 ’19 60w
“A maze of vague, incoherent, unproven assertions, a jumble of rambling nonsense, of stuffy, sickly sentimental Raymondiana, interspersed with impassioned tirades against Christianity as seen through the spectacles of ignorance, prejudice, and calumny, and hovering above all this the arrogant, self-canonized opinion of Mrs Humphreys, run amuck among truths beyond its grasp and appreciation, ignorant, irrational, defiant, indecent and sacrilegious.”
− Cath World 111:553 Jl ’20 320w
“The converted will no doubt read her disquisition with pleasure; but it cannot be said to add anything of importance to the controversy.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p783 D 25 ’19 60w
HUNEKER, JAMES GIBBONS. Bedouins. il *$2 (5½c) Scribner 780.4
20–5751
Some of Mr Huneker’s bedouins, in this collection of essays, are real and some are fictitious. A number of the essays are devoted to Mary Garden, whom the author admires as a “wonderful artiste” and an “extraordinary woman,” others to Debussy, Mirbeau, George Luks, Chopin, Caruso, Anatole France. All partake of the nature of extravaganzas, particularly the fiction. The book falls into two parts: Mary Garden, and Idols and ambergris. Under part 1 some of the titles are: Superwoman; The baby, the critic, and the guitar; The artistic temperament; The passing of Octave Mirbeau; Anarchs and ecstasy; Caruso on wheels; A masque of music. Among the contents of part 2 are: The supreme sin; Venus or Valkyr? The cardinal’s fiddle; The vision malefic.
“We find Mr Huneker unreadable. It is not only the rush and freshness of his style, which has all the marvellous energy of a woman in hysterics, that we find unendurable, but we can attach no meaning to what he says.”
− Ath p145 Jl 30 ’19 280w + Booklist 16:270 My ’20
“He has a marvellous power of suggesting, of stimulating, of suddenly burbanking widely separated notions and as suddenly dissociating them. As some one said about him, his brilliancy and versatility hide his profundity. ‘Bedouins’ is a book without a desert.” B: de Casseres
+ Bookm 51:231 Ap ’20 900w
“James Huneker’s writing is full of sound and fury but it signifies a good deal. His criticism is backed by a real knowledge of most of the arts in most of the centuries.”
+ Ind 102:373 Je 12 ’20 120w
“Maeterlinck wrote: ‘I have marvelled at the vigilance and clarity with which you follow and judge the new literary and artistic movements in all countries.’ ‘Bedouins’ is a new illustration of this vigilance and clarity. His pages on Anatole France, though different in style, are worthy of being included in Henry James’s little read but wonderful book on ‘French poets and novelists.’” H: T. Finck
+ N Y Evening Post p13 My 8 ’20 580w
“Mr Huneker is, to me, the greatest master of English prose living today, and ‘Bedouins’ shows no weakening of his hand.” B: de Casseres
+ − N Y Times 25:144 Mr 28 ’20 1000w
“Mr Huneker’s enthusiasm and good nature win acceptance for his literary caprices; he is always to be distinguished from his imitators of the Mencken-Nathan order.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Ap 11 ’20 650w − The Times [London] Lit Sup p515 Ag 12 ’20 1450w
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
Yale R n s 10:187 O ’20 250w
HUNEKER, JAMES GIBBONS. Steeplejack. 2v il *$7.50 Scribner
20–16114
“Mr Huneker has been for many years one of the best known of the music and dramatic critics in New York. These volumes give an entertaining running account of his relations with musicians, artists, men and women of the stage, and authors, both here and in Europe.”—R of Rs
“Whatever the talk, the brilliant style, the startling paradoxes, and the individuality of the writer’s reactions make it interesting.”
+ Booklist 17:69 N ’20
“His book is the romance of the year.” B: de Casseres
+ Bookm 52:267 N ’20 800w
“Mr Huneker is seen in his confessions as a very human being, rich in experience and mellow in philosophy. His narrative becomes by turns merry, stinging, meditative, instructive; but never dull, hypocritical, or self-laudatory. He has performed a difficult task with the utmost skill, albeit with no dainty hand.” Margaret Ashmun
+ Bookm 52:346 D ’20 140w
“Through all the disjointed mass of youthful recollection Mr Huneker has never been dull. Only when he gets onto the current era, in volume two, does his blast of steam become inconsequential. He pounds his fists, strikes his favorite pose, gesticulates and roars; but when he discusses his contemporaries—puff; his charm is gone. His autobiography as well as his career is for the most part distinctive, versatile, individual.” J. B. A.
+ − Boston Transcript p6 N 10 ’20 1350w
“It is easily the non-fiction book of the year in this country, where there are so many persons and so few individuals. It is the challenge of a cultured superman to his generation. And withal a profoundly human book.” B. D.
+ N Y Times p8 S 12 ’20 2000w
“In a less ebullient individuality the cultivation of the ego would make for boredom; in the case of Mr Huneker a conscious and concentrated development of personality has enriched our insight into contemporary peregrinations of the spirit.” L. R. Morris
+ Outlook 126:469 N 10 ’20 1650w
“The first impression left by this stimulating and quite unconventional autobiography is that of a personally conducted tour thru the literary and artistic ‘Who’s who?’ of the past fifty years. One’s second thought is an involuntary wish, not that Mr Huneker’s life had been less rich in varied scenes and privileged friendships, but that he had given us a narrower and more selective perspective. Yet it would be the sheerest ingratitude to imply that other methods and proportions would have made a better book.” F: T. Cooper
+ Pub W 98:662 S 18 ’20 500w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:292 O 6 ’20 450w
“‘Steeplejack’ should appeal to anyone who cares to recall the artistic, musical, literary, and journalistic history of America in the past thirty years.” E. L. Pearson
+ Review 3:314 O 13 ’20 140w
“Both volumes well repay perusal.”
+ R of Rs 62:447 O ’20 50w
“It is a gay, happy, animated recital, not of high importance as intellectual biography, but preserving a good many recollections worth preserving and giving a full-length picture of a temperament which the reader will agree with possessor in calling more continental than American. ‘Steeplejack’ takes us to three cities—Philadelphia, Paris and New York. Will one’s taste be indictable for dulness if it selects Philadelphia as the most interesting?”
+ Springf’d Republican p8a S 19 ’20 1700w
HUNGERFORD, EDWARD.[[2]] With the doughboy in France. il *$2 (2c) Macmillan 940.477
20–20074
“A few chapters of an American effort” the author calls this book, meaning the work of the Red cross, which seemed to him such an outpouring of affection, of patriotism, of a sincere desire to serve, as he had never before seen. It is not a consecutive narrative but a series of descriptions, well illustrated, under the headings: America awakens; Our Red cross goes to war; Organizing for work; The problem of transport; The American Red cross as a department store; The doughboy moves toward the front; The Red cross on the field of honor; Our Red cross performs its supreme mission; The Red cross in the hospitals of the A. F. F.; “Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag”; When Johnny came marching home; The girl who went to war.
“If one desires to know what our Red cross men and women did for their country, he will find the story here.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p10 D 8 ’20 580w + N Y Times p13 Ja 30 ’21 700w + R of Rs 53:223 F ’21 140w
“The method of the book is to recount in a chatty, journalistic way the general experiences of the Red cross, and, incidentally, of the armies. The total effect, unfortunately, is of triviality.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p8 Ja 13 ’21 180w
HUNT, H. ERNEST. Self-training. *$1.25 (3c) McKay 131
(Eng ed SG19–89)
In laying down the lines of mental progress it is the object of the book to teach men how to become master workmen in the art of living by building up correct dominant ideas into the subconscious. He describes the important part played by the subconscious mind, how our health and our activities are constantly under the control of an accumulated stock of ideas and how this stock of ideas can in turn be controlled by a conscious effort of the will. Contents: The nature of mind; Mind at work; Thought and health; Suggestion; Training the senses; Memory; The feelings; Will and imagination; The machinery of nerves; Extensions of faculty; Self-building; The spiritual basis.
“Good for the discouraged person who is capable of taking himself in hand.”
+ Booklist 16:326 Jl ’20
HUNTER, GEORGE MCPHERSON. When I was a boy in Scotland. (Children of other lands books) il *$1 (4c) Lothrop 914.1
20–7945
The author, who is now a clergyman in the United States, writes of: The place where I was born; My schools and school-teachers; Our games and play; Tales of my grandfathers; High days and holidays in Scotland; Days on the beach and among the heather; Tramps in and around Glasgow, etc. The last chapter tells how he went to sea, returned to Glasgow university, and then came to America.
+ Booklist 16:353 Jl ’20
“To read this book is not only to know a real Scotch lad but to learn many things in a pleasing way.”
+ Boston Transcript p5 D 24 ’20 180w
HURLEY, EDWARD NASH. New merchant marine. il *$3 (3½c) Century 387
20–11687
This is the second volume in the Century foreign trade series. The author was formerly chairman of the United States shipping board and has written “The awakening of business” and other books. In the present work he sketches the history of American shipping but devotes most of his space to future problems of foreign trade. Among the chapters are: Our past glories on the sea; Organization of the United States shipping board; Preparing for ship construction under war conditions; Methods by which tonnage was acquired; The new merchant marine; American commerce in the western hemisphere; American commerce in Australia and the Far East; The economical operation of ships; Reaction of ships upon national industries; Americanization and re-orientation. The book is illustrated, has two appendices and an index.
Booklist 17:53 N ’20 R of Rs 62:224 Ag ’20 110w
“The book contains a wealth of timely suggestions and detailed instruction in practice and methods.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 N 26 ’20 190w
HUSBAND, JOSEPH. Americans by adoption. il $1.50 (4c) Atlantic monthly press 920
20–10511
The volume contains biographical sketches of nine prominent, foreign-born “Americans by choice” with an introduction by William Allan Neilson, himself a foreigner, and president of Smith college. He holds that what men want most is “to count among their fellows for what they are worth.” That America is giving its citizens of foreign birth this opportunity is the underlying reason for the book. Each sketch is accompanied by a portrait and the subjects of the sketches are: Stephen Girard; John Ericsson; Louis Agassiz; Carl Schurz; Theodore Thomas; Andrew Carnegie; James J. Hill; Augustus Saint-Gaudens; Jacob A. Riis.
“An interesting addition to any public or high school library.”
+ Booklist 17:69 N ’20
“Mr Husband’s book, however flowery some of its phraseology may be, is yet a trumpet call.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 7 ’20 1100w
“Now, I am convinced that these interesting records will ‘inspire,’ in the matter of Americanism, only those who are inspired already. Mr Husband does not seem to realize, in the first place, that it is quite impossible for people nowadays to admire very greatly such heroes as Stephen Girard, James J. Hill and Andrew Carnegie. It is an old fallacy of ours to suppose that we alone have produced men of this kind. But Mr Husband makes a virtue of every accident.”
− Freeman 1:382 Je 30 ’20 1600w
“This little volume, beautifully introduced by W. A. Neilson, should have its worthy place in any bibliography of Americanization.”
+ N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes 7:55 N 17 ’20 80w
“The book is highly appropriate as a high-school reader or reference book.”
+ School R 28:636 O ’20 90w
“The book is based on pure fiction, so far as America is concerned. In the first place, since the constitution does not provide for conferring the freedom of the nation on foreigners, there are no ‘Americans by adoption.’ Mr Husband’s portraiture is rather in keeping with the ideas propounded by Mr Neilson in the preface; his heroes are made to look like ‘Efficiency Edgar.’” B. L.
− Survey 45:401 D 11 ’20 480w
HUTCHINSON, EMILIE JOSEPHINE. Women’s wages. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics, and public law) pa *$1.50 Longmans 331.4
19–18237
“This book, submitted as a doctor’s thesis to Columbia university, is a painstaking, clearly written analysis of the wages of women and the factors affecting them. Nearly half the space is given to a discussion of minimum-wage legislation and its possibilities. Trade unionism and vocational training are included with minimum-wage laws as the chief methods of raising the present low standards. The facts presented are drawn almost exclusively from reports prepared before the war, and although occasional references are made to the work of women during the war, and their position after it, the discussion seems not to have been influenced by the changes in the aspects of labor problems since 1914.”—Am J Soc
“The postponement of the publication of this useful laboriously prepared study makes the data seem curiously obsolete.” Edith Abbott
+ − Am Econ R 10:609 S ’20 450w
“It is unfortunate that certain old opinions, which have never had satisfactory statistical proof, such as ‘from five to seven years is the average length of the girl’s wage-earning life,’ are repeated without supporting evidence. As a history of data and opinions before the war the book is useful, and with the persistence of many of the same tendencies in women’s work, it will have continued value.” Mary Van Kleeck
+ − Am J Soc 25:497 Ja ’20 200w Booklist 16:262 My ’20
“‘Women’s wages’ is encouraging in its wholesome lack of optimism.”
+ Nation 110:662 My 15 ’20 220w
“A unique and much needed piece of work.” Signe Toksvig
+ New Repub 21:84 D 17 ’19 1200w
“This admirable study digests with fairness and with intelligence the available data concerning women’s wages in this country. The book she has produced excellently covers its field.” W. L. C.
+ Survey 43:781 Mr 20 ’20 300w
HUTCHINSON, HORATIO GORDON. Portraits of the eighties, il *$4 Scribner 920
(Eng ed 20–22470)
“Since the Right Hon. George W. E. Russell has himself written about so many of his contemporaries, it is fitting that he should hold the place of honor, with a frontispiece portrait, in Mr Hutchinson’s ‘Portraits of the eighties.’ After this introductory chapter dealing with Mr Russell we are given a graphic series of pen portraits of men of such diverse interests as Gladstone, John Bright, Parnell, General Gordon, Archbishop Temple, Professor Huxley, William Morris Swinburne, George Frederick Watts, Sir W. S. Gilbert, Oscar Wilde and W. G. Grace, Mr Hutchinson’s survey of English personalities extending thereby from statesmanship to cricket-playing.”—Boston Transcript
“There are too many (over 30) portraits and groups attempted in these 300 pages; comparatively few lines can be given to each, and Mr Hutchinson is not master of the economy of telling and characteristic strokes. The fortuitous medley of the scrap-book may, however, afford entertainment, and even a degree of instruction.” F. W. S.
+ − Ath p830 Je 25 ’20 550w
“The book is full of important facts brought together in an accessible form. But Mr Hutchinson has little penetration and suffers in any comparison that is drawn between his work, which may be admitted to be good, and the work which is entitled to be called excellent of some recent writers.” Theodore Maynard
+ − Bookm 51:682 Ag ’20 650w
“As an abstract and brief chronicle of its decade, Mr Hutchinson’s book fulfils the promise of its title.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 7 ’20 1350w
“The book does not possess the brilliant style or keen analysis of Mr Strachey’s ‘Eminent Victorians,’ but is discriminating and, if not characterized by any remarkable insight is generally fair in its judgment.”
+ Outlook 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 60w
“Mr Hutchinson is an impressionist, working with a broad and sometimes rather careless brush, yet seldom failing to make his portrait live. A gentle judge of the private characters of his subjects, he is a circumspect critic of their public activities.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p299 My 13 ’20 1350w
HUTTEN ZUM STOLZENBERG, BETTINA (RIDDLE) freifrau von. Happy house. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–1214
Happy house the young bride called her new home, but it soon became a euphemism. Violet Walbridge slaved with her pen to give without stint to a worthless husband and a large thoughtlessly exacting family. As the quality of her novels is falling off into mere rubbish, and with it the quantity of her income, a young journalist discovers her rare character as a woman. He also falls in love with her youngest daughter but the course of his true love does not run smoothly. During his devious courtship of Grisel, his friendship for his would-be-mother-in-law becomes a rejuvenating elixir for the latter and enables her to write a real true-to-life modern story, that reinstates her in the good graces of her publishers.
“A pleasant character study of an interesting group.”
+ Booklist 16:281 My ’20
“The plot itself might well have been composed by its heroine.” M. E. Bailey
+ − Bookm 51:204 Ap ’20 400w
“In ‘Happy house,’ Baroness von Hutten has written a story which should not by rights be readable, but into which she has managed to infuse a certain amount of vitality. It is a ghost but there are moments when its gestures are sufficiently life-like, and despite its rattling bones we follow its motions.” D. L. M.
+ − Boston Transcript p8 My 29 ’20 450w
“As a whole, the book is decidedly pleasing and out of the ordinary.”
+ Cath World 111:407 Je ’20 210w Cleveland p50 My ’20 50w Lit D p97 S 18 ’20 2650w
“‘Happy house’ is a quiet little story of the domestic type, but Oliver Wick and Violet Walbridge make it worth while.”
+ N Y Times 25:116 Mr 14 ’20 600w
“The novel is entertaining rather than deep.”
+ Outlook 124:562 Mr 31 ’20 60w
“Towards the end of the book a few incredible things happen, but one forgives these in gratitude for the careful and convincing character drawing.”
+ − Sat R 129:41 Ja 10 ’20 220w
“In the tragedy of a once popular novelist, who has become something of a fallen star, and in the very casual way in which, even when her star was at its zenith, she has always been regarded by her own family, there are great possibilities. But the Baroness von Hutten scarcely makes the most of it, and dares so little to rely on it that she introduces two sub-plots which, though mechanically linked with this main theme, have no artistic bearing upon it.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p769 D 18 ’19 280w
HUTTEN ZUM STOLZENBERG, BETTINA (RIDDLE) freifrau von. Helping Hersey. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–26758
A book of collected short stories from the pen of this author of many popular novels. The title story is a study of two women, mother and daughter, in their relation to one man, an American, who at first misjudges both and is later led to reverse his opinions. First place in the collection is given to Peterl in the Black forest, a sketch written in 1913 with all the marks of a study from life. The other titles are: In loving memory; Ker Kel; Mrs Hornbeam’s headdress; The common man’s story; The iron shutter; Two Apaches; The principino; Three times; A Berlin adventure.
“Slight but entertaining.”
+ Booklist 17:33 O ’20
“It is decidedly agreeable to find such a variety of stories bound in one volume by one author.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 7 ’20 360w + Outlook 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w
“The Baroness von Hutten’s latest collection of tales displays, as it were, her familiar super-mediocre versatility. And yet to me the most distinguished pieces of writing in the volume are the plotless sketches, ‘Ker Kel,’ a little picture of Brittany, and ‘Peterl in the Black Forest.’” H. W. Boynton
+ Review 3:502 N 24 ’20 100w
HUXLEY, ALDOUS LEONARD. Leda. *$1.50 Doran 821
20–16190
In this collection of poems the title poem describes the Olympian love episode with singular beauty of diction as well as mundane realism. The other poems, some of which are poetic prose, all betray more or less of sardonic humor, as when the poet suddenly finds himself sobered from the “intoxicating speed” of the merry-go-round when he perceives “a slobbering cretin grinding at a wheel and sweating as he ground, and grinding eternally.” Some of the other titles are: The birth of God; Male and female created He them; Life and art; First—Second—Fifth—and Ninth philosopher’s song; The merry-go-round; Last things; Evening party; Soles occidere et redire possunt.
“We cannot accept it. The elements that Mr Huxley has desired to combine, the precious esoteric beauty and the ugliness which were to be blended into a new comprehensive beauty in whose light nothing should appear common or unclean, are still as unmixed as oil and vinegar. If Mr Huxley wishes to be judged, he should elect to be judged, not by ‘Leda,’ nor by any of the shorter poems in this book, but by ‘Soles occidere et redire possunt.’ As for two-thirds of the shorter pieces, we think he would have been well advised never to print them.” J. M. M.
− + Ath p699 My 28 ’20 1500w
“Aldous Huxley exposes the fallacy that the imagination needs any special material in which to exercise the creative spirit of poetry. His book opens with a successful and beautiful poem on a mythical legend. The book closes with an elegy for a friend lost in the war, and here the elements are, one might say, sardonically modern, the very naked realities of life gathered up and fused with a temper that makes the spirit of poetry no less golden than the substance in the more remote Hellenic rumor of the seduction of Leda by Zeus in the form of a swan.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ Boston Transcript p4 S 4 ’20 1850w
“When he is complaining or mocking Mr Huxley can rise to real heights of bombast; at such times he writes good mouth-filling stuff with a little of the Elizabethan spirit, but with more acidity. It is for his satires, then, that he is to be valued, rather than for any gropings toward a philosophy; for his prose poems as long as they are satires; for ‘Soles occidere et redire possunt’ as long as it remains a criticism and a complaint. Most of his other work must be disregarded.” Malcolm Cowley
+ − Dial 70:73 Ja ’21 1100w
“Mr Huxley has neither the courage to love his themes for their own sakes nor the imagination to get the better of them; therefore, he is not a poet, although every line of his book displays a determination to write something better than the conventional prettifications which people usually call poetry.” J: G. Fletcher
− + Freeman 2:141 O 20 ’20 680w
“In ‘Leda’ he offers a volume that will, with all probability, be quite the most unique and interesting addition to the sum total of English poetry for the year. Indeed, it is a book that is unapproached in certain of its manifestations.” H. S. Gorman
+ N Y Times p24 S 19 ’20 1250w
HUXLEY, ALDOUS LEONARD. Limbo. *$1.75 Doran
20–12115
A book that introduces a new English satirist. It opens with Farcical history of Richard Greenow, a curious tale of dual personality. The shorter pieces that follow are: Happily ever after; Eupompus gave splendour to art by numbers; Happy families; Cynthia; The bookshop; The death of Lully.
“‘Limbo’ is startling because it is young and sophisticated, ironic and malicious, delicately and forcefully written—qualities rare enough in the work of old masters, but apparently upsetting to critical standards when found in a first book. ‘Happily ever after’ is the masterpiece of the collection.” E. P.
+ Dial 70:107 Ja ’21 100w
“The one story that must be taken seriously in Aldous Huxley’s collection ‘Limbo’ is ‘The farcical history of Richard Greenow.’ Always the reader should bear in mind that the tragedy of Richard Greenow is as poignant as its humor is pungent, and that below the surface mockery lies a seriousness indicative of that most tragical of all causes of tragedy—social ignorance.”
+ Freeman 1:501 Ag 4 ’20 240w
“Mr Huxley has fulfilled the promise that he intimated in his earlier books to the few who knew him, and demonstrated that he is one of the finest writers of prose in England today. He is finished and fastidious, sophisticated and diverting, an authentic figure of some actual importance and with many potentialities. That he must take a decided place among the younger contemporary writers in England is without doubt.” H. S. G.
+ New Repub 24:172 O 13 ’20 1550w
“In lines, sometimes in paragraphs, and in general atmospheric suggestion, there appears to this reviewer a likeness between Mr Huxley and Max Beerbohm. The mental attitude of the two men is dissimilar in many ways. But through them both runs that great streak of urbanity, of sophistication, of what might almost be termed jadedness at times. ‘Limbo’ is a book of definite promise and of a certain achievement.”
+ N Y Times p28 Ag 15 ’20 650w
“Mr Huxley has a very readable and diverting narrative style, a style with journalism in the first story and literature in the second, and with full permission, but no obligation, to the reader to climb the stairs. Mr Huxley’s low estimate of human nature does not tame the effervescence of his spirits.”
+ − Review 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 300w
“The death of Lully is the only story in which it may occur to the reader that after all Mr Aldous Huxley is sometimes actuated by the ideals and sympathies which move ordinary human beings.”
− + Spec 124:494 Ap 10 ’20 140w
“The most remarkable story in the book is ‘The farcical history of Richard Greenow.’ There is a blunt boyish ring to this which oddly enough induces the uncanny effect that many writers wallow in melodrama to obtain. But Mr Huxley’s product is uneven. ‘Happily ever after’ is as humdrum as the preceding story is distinguished.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a S 5 ’20 460w
“Instead of saying that there are seven short stories in ‘Limbo’ which are all clever, amusing, and well written, and recommending the public to read them, as we can conscientiously do, we are tempted to state, what it is so seldom necessary to state, that short stories can be a great deal more than clever, amusing, and well written. There is another adjective—‘interesting’; that is the adjective we should like to bestow upon Mr Huxley’s short stories, for it is the best worth having.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p83 F 5 ’20 800w