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Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August. Last words on evolution: a popular retrospect and summary; tr. from 2nd ed. by Joseph McCabe. *$1. Eckler.
Three lectures which reiterate Professor Haeckel’s views of human life and destiny as affected by the doctrine of evolution. They are as follows: The controversy about creation, The struggle over our genealogical tree and The controversy over the soul.
Dial. 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 80w. Ind. 61: 1291. N. 29, ’06. 480w. Nature. 74: 27. My. 10, ’06. 330w. Spec. 97: sup. 467. O. 6, ’06. 300w.
Hagar, Frank Nichols. American family: a sociological problem. $1.50 Univ. pub. soc.
“The author brings to his task the special training of a lawyer and considerable reading in the history of institutions. He discusses sex, theories of primitive and historical forms of domestic life, the decadence of the Yankees, occupations of women, matrimonial law, divorce, free love, education, industrial influences, democracy.... The volume illustrates the fact that men with legal training can render a valuable service to sociology by calling attention to the obstacles which the law itself presents when it is no longer fitted to contemporary conditions.”—Am. J. Soc.
“It is a serious work with a conservative purpose. Perhaps the most useful and instructive parts are the discussions of the decadence in the Yankee stock, the danger of foreign inundation, and the law of property affecting husband and wife.” C. R. Henderson.
+ Am. J. Soc. 11: 703. Mr. ’06. 300w.
“Dispatching many of the grave questions connected with the family in sweeping generalizations, the author is too generally loose, vague, and incoherent. His wide discursiveness has resulted in a work lacking in due proportion and unity.”
– + Cath. World. 82: 415. D. ’05. 770w.
“It is a decidedly interesting and by no means contemptible argument.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 527. Ag. 12, ’05. 580w.
Haggard, (Henry) Rider. Ayesha: the return of “She.” †$1.50. Doubleday.
Dial. 40: 20. Ja. 1, ’06. 150w. + – Ind. 59: 1537. D. 28, ’05. 250w.
Haggard, (Henry) Rider. Poor and the land; being a report of the Salvation army colonies in the United States and at Hadleigh, England; with a scheme of national land settlement, and an introduction by H. Rider Haggard. 75c. Longmans.
“The report deserves a wide reading here, and careful consideration.”
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 236. Ja. ’06. 160w. + Ath. 1905, 2: 333. S. 9. 840w.
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
+ Atlan. 97: 843. Je. ’06. 390w. + Ind. 59: 1538. D. 28, ’06. 320w. Quarterly R. 204: 243. Ja. ’06. 1600w.
Haggard, Henry Rider. Spirit of Bambatse; a romance. †$1.50. Longmans.
The ingredients out of which H. Rider Haggard’s story is compounded are “Zulu warriors, buried treasure, underground passages, a standard villain, an English maiden of surpassing beauty and bravery, much hypnotism on the part of the villain, and considerable sonorous prophecy on the part of an ancient native priest.” (Ath.)
“Here is the old touch, the old fascination; and the tale—a constant stream of excitement—ends as such tales should end, happily.”
+ Acad. 71: 266. S. 15, ’06. 160w.
“A story bristling with adventure and thoroly readable. It reminds us of ‘King Solomon’s mines’ and certain other of Mr. Haggard’s stories but that may be its best passport to popularity.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 330. S. 22. 120w. Lond. Times. 5: 329. S. 28, ’06. 330w. – Nation. 83: 287. O. 4, ’06. 190w.
“The man who likes his interest kept at white heat and who doesn’t mind having his feelings harrowed a bit, will find in this book plenty of the diversion and entertainment he seeks.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 594. S. 29, ’06. 410w.
“Mr. Rider Haggard is treading an old road with wonderful buoyancy.”
+ Sat. R. 102: 433. O. 6, ’06. 230w.
Haile, Martin. Mary of Modena, her life and letters. *$4. Dutton.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 465. Ja. ’06. 30w.
“Mr. Haile has told the story fully, and with a judicious use of documents.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 661. Je. 2. 760w.
“The author of this biography has made good use of the wealth of materials which in recent years have become available for his purpose.”
+ Cath. World. 83: 397. Je. ’06. 330w.
“While clearly in sympathy with his subject, Mr. Haile writes in a calm, temperate manner, and has produced a readable biography.”
+ + Dial. 40: 332. My. 16, ’06. 310w.
“Is a distinct addition to the historical literature of the close of the Stuart era.”
+ Ind. 60: 1285. My. 31, ’06. 290w.
“Mr. Haile has done as well as he could do on behalf of his heroine, and several of the documents he includes are well worth exhuming.”
+ Nation. 81: 530. D. 28, ’05. 540w. + Spec. 96: sup. 1007. Je. 30, ’06. 2370w.
Haines, Henry Stevens. Restrictive railway legislation. **$1.25. Macmillan.
Reviewed by H. Parker Willis.
+ + Dial. 40: 83. F. 1, ’06. 680w.
“On the whole it is an exceedingly lucid and fair-minded review of the railway situation in its present-day aspects.”
+ + Ind. 60: 281. F. 1, ’06. 150w.
“The breadth of view manifested in his analysis of problems is not always found in men who are doing things.”
+ J. Pol. Econ. 14: 122. F. ’06. 390w.
“Where he speaks as a technical expert, he is surest of his ground. Where he essays a theory of reasonable rates, he is weakest. Where, finally, he attempts a philosophic resume of the underlying forces which have been operative in our railroad history, he attains a very high degree of success.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 204. Mr. 8, ’06. 970w.
Reviewed by Frank Haigh Dixon.
+ + Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 150. Mr. ’06. 760w.
“Mr. Haines has written one of the best treatises on this bothersome and much-discussed problem which we have seen in recent years. His book is to be recommended to all who desire an unprejudiced view.”
+ + + Pub. Opin. 40: 218. F. 17, ’06. 320w.
Hains, Thornton Jenkins. [Voyage of the Arrow to the China seas: its adventures and perils, including its capture by sea vultures from the Countess of Warwick] as set down by William Gore, chief mate. $1.50. Page.
A tale of thrilling sea-adventure thru which runs the romance of the Arrow’s first mate and the captain’s niece. The reader is subjectively a part of the boat’s company, breathes the salt air, enjoys the rough, out-spoken ways of the captain, delights in the Irish grit of Larry O’Toole and enters into the thick of the fight with the convict pirates. There is swift action in the narrative, and many a strong dramatic climax.
“It is written with feeling and conviction, without gross negligence of truth, and with a swing and zest which should commend it particularly to young people.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 363. S. 29. 150w.
“That the author of this tale knows the ocean and the men who sail upon it is undeniable, and he writes with a zest reminding one of Mr Clark Russell, though he has not that novelist’s literary skill.”
– + Critic. 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 110w. + – N. Y. Times. 11: 376. Je. 9, ’06. 230w.
Haldane, Elizabeth S. Descartes: his life and times. $4.50. Dutton.
“Miss Haldane has hit upon a fortunate analysis of the life of Descartes, and its distribution under three general heads: His education, from 1596 to 1612; his ‘Wanderjahre,’ from 1612 to 1628, spent in seeing the world, in travel and warfare, and, finally, what may be called his constructive period, ‘after his warfare was over, and this dates from 1628 to 1650.’... In tracing his experience in each of the periods Miss Haldane gives much and very intelligent attention to the environment, historical and personal, in which it was passed; and this has the merit not only of bringing out more distinctly the true picture of Descartes, but of rendering the general reader, for whom obviously the work is done, more at home with the man, since he is realized in his surroundings.”—N. Y. Times.
“If Miss Haldane’s ‘Life of Descartes’ smacks rather of a description of genius in a dressing gown, what it lacks in breadth of outlook it certainly gains in possessing the personal note, no small merit when we consider how comparatively uneventful was the philosopher’s history.”
+ + – Acad. 71: 82. Jl. 28, ’06. 660w.
“Miss Haldane has given us the standard life of Descartes. Its interest is not merely biographical, for it throws light on many points of difficulty in Descartes’s philosophy, and on his relations to the philosophers and scientists of his time.” R. Latta.
+ + Hibbert J. 5: 205. O. ’06. 1580w. + Ind. 59: 1538. D. 28, ’05. 320w.
“Is by far the fullest and most interesting account of Descartes’s life and times in English.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 35. F. 2, ’06. 1640w.
“The nature and character of the man are insufficiently considered. The style of the book is easy and unperiodical; a little too much so, perhaps.”
+ – Nation. 82: 242. Mr. 22, ’06. 1870w.
“It is Descartes the man that appeals to her, and she traces the course of his experience and development patiently, minutely, with sympathy, and with simplicity that verges on the naïve. The style is unaffected, direct, almost colloquial.” Edward Cary.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 77. F. 10, ’06. 1380w.
“Has finely told the story of the honest, constructive skeptic.”
+ Outlook. 82: 568. Mr. 10, ’06. 150w.
“Miss Haldane’s interesting biography of Descartes will be welcomed by the student of philosophy as well as by the general reader.”
+ Spec. 97: 402. S. 22, ’06. 1630w.
Haldane, Joseph. Old Cronnak. $1.50. Decker pub.
Here the muck-raker is at work and brings to view the evil side of life as it defies the code of the moral law. Incontinence is bared for the negative lesson’s sake, and characters are set forth which do not easily find their way into books. Yet in the midst of all this shines the strong, pure love of Joseph Haldane and Alice Carter, which forms the main thread of the story.
Hale, Edward Everett. [Man without a country.] $1. Century.
Uniform with the “Thumb-nail series” this volume contains an introduction and the author’s preface to the edition of 1897.
Hale, Edward Everett. [Man without a country.] **50c. Crowell.
A holiday edition of Mr. Hale’s great lesson in patriotism.
Hale, Edward Everett. Tarry at home travels; il. **$2.50. Macmillan.
Dr. Hale’s description serves as a field glass to the ordinary observer. These travels are concerned with New England mainly, with an exception made of the state of New York and of the city of Washington. “It is a talkative sort of book, with bits of description and bits of history and bits of geology and bits of agricultural and horticultural information and bits of biography all run in together and fused into a coherent whole by Mr. Hale’s long knowledge of men and events and his active participation in the life of his time.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It contains much that is old—old enough, for the most part, to have become new again to Dr. Hale’s readers; and it is laden with reminiscences from a day more remote in feeling than in time.” Wallace Rice.
+ Dial. 41: 390. D. 1, ’06. 250w. + – Nation. 83: 398. N. 8, ’06. 330w.
“Rapid as has been his survey, he has said more things and opened more avenues of interest and stimulated the reader’s thought more than do most books of travel either at home or abroad.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 843. D. 1, ’06. 340w.
Hale, Louise Closser. Motor car divorce. †$1.50. Dodd.
Peggy Ward fostering notions from her club that preaches “liberty of thought,” “wider horizon,” and “freedom after ten years from the tyrant man,” has a whim for divorce and is humored in it by her husband. “Hence ‘A motor car divorce.’ It was in this clever way the author found a peg on which to hang the description of a tour in Europe.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Lacks coherence as a piece of fiction.”
+ – Critic. 48: 572. Je. ’06. 60w.
“The chief ingredients thereof are modern slang, trivial humor, frothy sentiment, and pickings of a guide-book information.” Wm. M. Payne.
– Dial. 40: 366. Je. 1, ’06. 110w.
“Her work is filled with a kind of wit that is delightful because it is real humor, and more because it is really womanly.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 239. Ap. 14, ’06. 510w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
“A gay and rather foolish tale.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w. Sat. R. 102: 53. Jl. 14, ’06. 120w.
Hall, Charles Cuthbert. Christian belief interpreted by Christian experience. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
“Even as a study in homiletics no minister should lose sight of this volume.” W. Douglas Mackenzie.
+ + Am. J. Theol. 10: 376. Ap. ’06. 830w. R. of Rs. 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 30w.
Hall, Charles Cuthbert. Universal elements of the Christian religion: an attempt to interpret contemporary religious conditions. **$1.25. Revell.
Six lectures delivered before Vanderbilt University, dealing with religious conditions as distinguished from theological systems. “In these lectures Dr. Hall has tried to discover the deeper tendency of the religious thinking of the present time, in which the critical movement, the modern view of the Bible, the declining interest in sectarianism, the increased cosmopolitanism, and the large reconception of world Christianization are powerful elements. He speaks from the point of view of one holding the Pauline and Johannine view of the Person and work of our blessed Lord.” (N. Y. Times.)
Reviewed by Clarence Augustine Beckwith.
Am. J. Theol. 10: 373. Ap. ’06. 1460w.
“They contain an arraignment of sectarianism as earnest as it is gracious, and a plea for church unity full of noble and convincing eloquence.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1498. D. 20, ’06. 270w.
“Dr. Hall’s lectures are not only pervaded by this spirit of open-mindedness ... but no less by that spirit of devotion which is so distinctly characteristic of oriental thinking, and so often, unhappily, lacking in our occidental thinking.”
+ + Outlook. 82: 39. Ja. 6, ’06. 1510w. + + R. of Rs. 32: 752. D. ’05. 200w.
Hall, Clare H. Chemistry of paints and paint vehicles. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
“The general scheme which the author has attempted to follow is to take up in Chapter 1 the elementary constituents of paints with the quantitative methods for their determination; in Chapter 2 the dry materials entering into the manufacture of paints with a short description of their physical properties and the separation of their elementary constituents by methods given in Chapter 1; in Chapter 3 the analysis of samples consisting of a mixture of two or more of the raw materials described in Chapter 2; in Chapter 4 an interpretation of results previously obtained where it is desired to duplicate the sample analyzed; and finally in Chapter 5, descriptions and methods for determining the purity of paint vehicles.”
“The scope of the volume is indeed extremely limited, since it deals with the examination of only a few common pigments, and by no means exhaustively even with these; about some vehicles and diluents the information to be found in these pages is less meagre. This little book, with all its imperfections and its immaturity, is not destitute of merit.”
+ – Nature. 75: 4. N. 1, ’06. 640w.
Hall, Florence Howe. Social usages at Washington. **$1. Harper.
The social usages of Washington, the seat of federal government and the home of a large official world, differ in many important respects from those of the rest of the country and these differences are made clear in this little volume which “covers not only the fixed etiquette of official circles but also the new social issues that have come up under the Roosevelt administration.” It will prove of value to all visitors at the national capital who wish to enjoy its public functions and meet its public people without being entangled in the intricacies of its etiquette.
Hall, H. Fielding. People at school. $3. Macmillan.
Mr. Hall says: “Some years ago I wrote ‘The soul of a people.’ It was an attempt to understand the Burmese, to see them as they do themselves, to describe their religion and its effect on them. This book is also concerned with the Burmese.... This is of the outer life, of success and failure, of progress and retrogression judged as nations judge each other.”
+ Acad. 70: 450. My. 12, ’06. 630w.
“‘A people at school’ will never, we think, attain the popularity of ‘The soul of a people:’ the tonic is never sought like the sweet. But it deserves to be read in conjunction with the other book, and no one can read it without learning much about some ten millions of our fellow-subjects.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 322. Mr. 17. 1340w.
“The work has little literary charm, but it is sane, lucid and instructive.”
+ – Lit. D. 32: 770. My. 10, ’06. 130w.
“Interesting if not very exhaustive, nor always entirely convincing.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 162. My. 4, ’06. 880w.
“Despite ... errors of fact and judgment and the decline in style as compared with the previous volume, there is an honesty in Mr. Hall which makes his studies attractive, and it is always refreshing to get a first-hand impression.”
+ – Nation. 82: 372. My. 3, ’06. 680w.
“That this book is rather suggestive than conclusive is one of its charms, and no one who cares for the mysterious and vanishing East should fail to read this study of a people at school.” Archibald R. Colquhoun.
+ – Nature. 74: sup. 7. My. 3, ’06. 930w. N. Y. Times. 11: 156. Mr. 10, ’06. 240w.
“If there be any to whom the secret of England’s genius of empire is still hidden—in spite of all that Mr. Kipling has done to reveal it—the unenlightened one has only to read understandingly H. Fielding Hall’s ‘A people at school.’”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 288. My. 5, ’06. 1460w. + Sat. R. 101: 760. Je. 16, ’06. 820w.
Hall, Henry Foljambe, ed. Napoleon’s notes on English history made on the eve of the French revolution; illustrated from contemporary historians and refreshed from the findings of later research. **$3. Dutton.
Of Napoleon as a student of eighteenth century history, the compiler says: “Napoleon’s almost invariably right judgment seems marvelous, and his verdicts, generally the very opposite of those of his author, who kept to the orthodox ruts of eighteenth century opinion, are those of a hundred years later.” Further Mr. Hall discusses the “note books,” and furnishes notes on Napoleon’s probable authorities—Barron, Rapin, and Carte.
+ Acad. 70: 203. Mr. 3, ’06. 550w.
“Mr. Foljambe Hall appended very complete notes to this volume, respecting the manner in which Bonaparte used his authorities; and it is here, of course, that the chief value of the book lies. On certain topics, perhaps, the notes are needlessly full, and we have noticed occasional slips.”
+ + – Ath. 1905, 2: 684. N. 18. 710w.
“Nowhere are they illuminated by any of that prodigious precocity which hero-worshippers like to find. There are, however, some entertaining passages.”
+ – Ind. 61: 43. Jl. 5, ’06. 360w.
“The value of the book is not in the editor’s work, but entirely in the translation.”
+ Nation. 82: 62. Ja. 18, ’06. 490w. + N. Y. Times. 10: 876. D. 9, ’05. 820w.
“Mr. Hall’s own observations are original and instructive, albeit not always as critical as could be desired.”
+ – Outlook. 81: 1085. D. 30, ’05. 120w.
“Napoleon’s notes are worth reading for their own sake; as given in this volume, with abundant—if not superabundant—and minute explanations, they constitute a most valuable survey of a most important portion of British history.”
+ + Spec. 96: sup. 646. Ap. 28, ’06. 530w.
Hall, Prescott F. Immigration and its effects upon the United States. *$1.50. Holt.
Volume one of the “American public problems” series, edited by Ralph Curtis Ringwalt, is a handbook upon immigration intended for the American people at large. Part 1, Immigration and emigration, presents the history, causes and conditions of immigration; Part 2, discusses The effects of immigration, Part 3, Immigration legislation, gives the history of past immigration and describes various proposed remedies for existing evils; Part 4 deals with Chinese immigration. Appendices contain copies of the federal immigration acts now in force.
“Notwithstanding blemishes ... the book seems to me a valuable summary of the recent history and the present aspects of a great national problem; and with the exception of Mayo-Smith’s book the best general discussion of immigration into the United States.” W. F. Willcox.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 11: 921. Jl. ’06. 810w.
“The volume under review is the most comprehensive book on the subject of the last decade. It discusses practically all of the questions which have arisen and of the suggestions made for avoiding the dangers. It deserves careful attention in spite of its very serious defects.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + – Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 346. S. ’06. 650w.
Reviewed by Robert C. Brooks.
+ – Bookm. 23: 653. Ag. ’06. 660w.
Reviewed by Cyrus L. Sulzberger.
– – Charities. 115: 924. Mr. 31, ’06. 5830w.
“The book reads well, and one is struck by the author’s skill in condensation where the temptation to more or less diffuse writing must have been very great.” Frederick Austin Ogg.
+ + Dial. 40: 258. Ap. 16, ’06. 440w. Ind. 60: 983. Ap. 26, ’06. 710w.
“The book would make an even more favorable impression if the footnotes did not sometimes indicate a lack of discrimination in the use of materials. It may be accepted, however, as a trustworthy general guide; and to college debating societies ... it should prove a godsend.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 280. Ap. 5, ’06. 190w.
“Mr. Hall writes with conviction, but not with prejudice or passion. He holds a brief, but his argument is sober and reasonable. Perhaps nowhere else can be found equally full and conveniently arranged statistics, and as good an epitome of legislation.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ + + N. Y. Times. 11: 141. Mr. 10, ’06. 1200w.
“He gives, with evident intention of fairness, both sides of the various questions he raises; but he reaches certain definite conclusions which he urges upon his readers. In some respects we think he argues upon false premises.”
+ – Outlook. 83: 577. Jl. 7, ’06. 630w. + + R. of Rs. 30: 509. Ap. ’06. 80w.
“Taken as a whole, the book is a well-balanced treatment of the subject, and does not deserve the violent criticism which it has received in some quarters.” William B. Bailey.
+ + – Yale R. 15: 332. N. ’06. 310w.
Halpin, Rev. P. A. Apologetica: elementary apologetics for pulpit and pew. *85c. Wagner, J. F.
“This volume, whose author has frequently given proof that he reads the signs of the times, is a step in the right direction. It presents the fundamental facts of Christianity in the light of reason, with the least possible appeal to revelation.... Every one of his fifty-two sketches deals with an objection that is in the atmosphere which Catholics breathe to-day, and against which they require the strengthening tonic of sound instruction, as frequently as it can be administered.”—Cath. World.
+ Cath. World. 83: 268. My. ’06. 120w.
Hamilton, Angus. Afghanistan. *$5. Scribner.
To material gathered from various books and official papers the author has added his own first hand information producing more of a gazetteer than a volume of travel in the ordinary sense. “He gives trade statistics for every town, elaborate measurements of all railway lines and distances, and he endeavours to set out the kind of detail as to the various defences which might be expected in a confidential report to some Army intelligence department.” (Spec.)
“If the author has erred at all, he has erred in not restricting himself to his subject.”
+ + – Acad. 71: 58. Jl. 21, ’06. 800w.
“The book is not to be commended on literary grounds. It contains a great deal of repetition. The map is far from good.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 2: 11. Jl. 7. 1490w.
“Is heavy, but it is substantial and instructive reading.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + Dial. 41: 239. O. 16, ’06. 1090w.
“To those who know something of Afghanistan, to soldiers and statesmen, the work of Mr. Angus Hamilton will be welcome; but to the general reader the painstaking and admirably minute descriptions of the divisions and routes of Afghanistan will be difficult and perhaps tedious.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 246. Jl. 13, ’06. 1410w.
“The book is heavy reading, for Mr. Hamilton is not concerned with the usual traveller’s picturesque account of the strange manners and customs of a strange country. He gives us statistics ... such data as appeal to the man who wants a thorough working knowledge of Central Asian affairs.”
+ + Nation. 83: 309. O. 11, ’06. 900w.
“To the serious traveller, the politician, the trader, and the soldier Mr. Hamilton’s work has great value. It is a compendium of all that is known about one of our most permanent frontier questions, and though the author prefers facts to generalizations, there is ample guidance in his book as to the greater questions of policy.”
+ + – Spec. 97: 232. Ag. 18, ’06. 1460w.
Hamilton, Sir Ian Standish Monteith. Staff officer’s scrapbook during the Russo-Japanese war. *$4.50. Longmans.
“Facts as they appeared to the First Japanese army while the wounded still lay bleeding upon the stricken field.” From the standpoint of the soldier of insight there are impressions of the Japanese army, its leaders, some acquaintances, the march from Tokio to the Yalu, the battle of the Yalu, an account of the visit from the Chinese General, entertainments for the attachés, and “snap shots” and impressions and opinions of other battles in which the First army engaged and which Hamilton witnessed.
“Although in many respects a disappointing production ... is a very welcome addition to the extensive but unsatisfying literature that has been the outcrop of the campaign. In certain instances Sir Ian Hamilton succeeded where others failed in piercing the veil of secrecy at least partially.”
+ Acad. 69: 1224. N. 25, ’05. 1840w.
“Sir Ian Hamilton’s book is of great interest, though the volume forms but a fragment and breaks off suddenly.”
+ Ath. 1905, 2: 755. D. 2. 1690w.
“Under the above modest title Sir Ian Hamilton has produced by far the most interesting book on the Russo-Japanese war that has yet appeared from the pen of an eye-witness.”
+ + Lond. Times. 4: 414. D. 1, ’05. 1020w.
“Attractive for its personal or literary quality. Sir Ian evidently became highly popular at the Japanese headquarters, and obtained much technical information not generally accessible. His ‘Scrapbook’ is not only valuable for this reason, but delightful for the personality of the writer.”
+ + Nation. 82: 79. Ja. 25, ’06. 330w.
“The author gives almost no dates. His is a good book by a good observer. Even if one is tired of war, he can read this with interest.”
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 87. F. 10, ’06. 1100w.
“Sir Ian will often amuse his readers, he will certainly startle them, and he will occasionally instruct them. So we welcome a very readable volume. There is in fact a fatal want of ballast about the book.”
+ + – Sat. R. 100: 752. D. 9, ’05. 1320w.
“We might indeed search the whole army through without finding such a combination of qualities as this distinguished General brings to the making of his book. Not only is he a soldier revelling, as some old pagan hero would revel, in the grand game of war, but he is poet, humorist, sentimentalist, and descriptive writer as well. The result is that his scrapbook, most fitly so called, is a delightful medley of grave and of gay, of pleasing sentiment and excellent good sense.”
+ + Spec. 95: 1124. D. 30, ’05. 2170w.
Hammond, Harold. Further fortunes of Pinkey Perkins. †$1.50. Century.
Recollections of a real live healthy boyhood in a country town must lie behind these stories of boy fun and boy ingenuity; for Pinkey Perkins is as full of wholesome mischief in this story as he was in the earlier volume which bears his name and his experiences as his own Santa Claus, as a philanthropist, a visitor at the County fair, or midnight adventurer, will not hurt the boy of to-day and will bring a reminiscent chuckle to the boy of yesterday.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 80w. R. of Rs. 34: 767. D. ’06. 30w.
Hammond, Mrs. L. H. Master-word. †$1.50 Macmillan.
“Taken in its place, it is full of significance, and should be neglected by no one who wishes to follow contemporary conditions.” Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 97: 50. Ja. ’06. 70w.
Hamp, Sidford Frederick. Dale and Fraser, sheepmen: a story of Colorado sheep raising; il. †$1.50. Wilde.
The wool-grower’s west is pictured from real happenings. There are descriptions of the wolf hunt, the great sheep drive, the prairie fire which threatened the ranch and the western blizzard.
Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
Hancock, Harrie Irving. Physical culture life: a guide for all who seek the simple laws of abounding health. **$1.25. Putnam.
“It is certain that were much of the advice in this book generally followed, a lot of doctors’ shingles would very speedily come down.”
+ Reader. 7: 562. Ap. ’06. 230w.
Handel, Georg Friedrich. Songs and airs; ed. by Ebenezer Prout. pa. $1.50; cl. $2.50. Ditson.
+ + Dial. 40: 133. F. 16, ’06. 120w. Ind. 60: 226. Ja. 25, ’06. 50w.
“Ebenezer Prout ... displays, both in the introduction and in the editing of the songs, the scholarship which is expected of him.”
+ + Outlook. 82: 477. F. 24, ’06. 130w.
“Dr. Prout has made his selections with great discrimination.”
+ + R. of Rs. 33: 255. F. ’06. 90w.
Hanks, Charles Stedman (Niblick, pseud.). Camp kits and camp life. **$1.50. Scribner.
“This is a compilation of explicit and prac- shooting, fishing, or merely rusticating. There are excellent chapters on camps and campfires, camp cooking, what to do when lost in the woods, some remedies for sickness or accidents in camp, and other topics of suggestive interest to intending campers.”—R. of Rs.
+ Critic. 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 180w. + Ind. 60: 1369 Je. 7, ’06. 120w. + – Nation. 82: 449. My. 31, ’06. 290w. R. of Rs. 33: 764. Je. ’06. 80w. + + World To-Day. 11: 763. Jl. ’06. 110w.
Hannah, Rev. Henry King, comp. Bible for the sick. **$1. Whittaker.
Selections have been made from the Old and New Testament alike which are intended for the sick to read themselves.
Hanotaux, Gabriel. Contemporary France, tr. from the French. 4v. ea. *$3.75. Putnam.
“The book is more than a history, it is the reflection of attitudes of mind of a contemporary Frenchman of fine type. This enhances the value of the book which aims to interpret for us contemporary France.” Henry E. Bourne.
+ Dial. 40: 295. My. 1, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The translator ... has performed his task far better than in the previous volume, and it must be allowed that the pregnant and spasmodically emphatic style of M. Hanotaux is one very difficult to translate into clear and idiomatic English.” P. F. Willert.
+ + – Eng. Hist. R. 21: 400. Ap. ’06. 500w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Compared with Justin McCarthy’s popular ‘History of our own times,’ this volume by Hanotaux ... is less picturesque, less witty, more solid, more detailed and more given to philosophising.”
+ + – Ind. 61: 694. S. 20, ’06. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)
“M. Hanotaux, shines more by his pen than by his philosophy. We do not feel that he has got to the bottom of the question he discusses. Nevertheless the book is most interesting—as interesting a piece of contemporary history as has appeared for many a year.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 533. Je. 28, ’06. 1630w. (Review of v. 2.)
“M. Hanotaux shows here to more advantage than in his first volume. On the whole the translation is satisfactory. M. Hanotaux must study compression.”
+ + – Sat. R. 101: 206. F. 17, ’06. 1690w. (Review of v. 2.)
Harben, William Nathaniel (Will N., pseud.). [Ann Boyd.] $1.50. Harper.
Ann Boyd had been unfairly dealt with by her fellow-villagers, her reputation sullied, her finer sensibilities crushed. Yet, single-handed she ran her farm, made money, invested it and became the envy of all her maligners. The two forces fighting for mastery in Ann are hatred born of resentment and the power of love which is awakened thru the one soul which she considers white—that of her protégé, Luke King. The love interest centers about Luke and the daughter of Ann’s bitter enemy. The tangle finally straightens and Ann forgives and is at peace with the world.
“In some portions of the book the writer has succeeded in imparting a suggestion of the rude pathos and unaffected sentiment that we associate with the peasant pictures of Millet.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 513. O. 13, ’06. 200w.
“There is difficulty in reaching the old enthusiasm over ‘Ann Boyd.’”
– N. Y. Times. 11: 669. O. 13, ’06. 740w.
“The story is injured by the tendency of the characters to excessive monologue.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 335. O. 6, ’06. 240w.
“The story has a certain elemental vigor which is characteristic of all Mr. Harben’s work.”
+ Outlook. 84: 712. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
Harben, William Nathaniel. [Pole Baker]; a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
“In the shuttling of these well-proven motifs of the book, Mr. Harben shows himself a practiced and skillful craftsman, keeping his threads caught up and unbroken, and working out a clear, bright design. The result is a texture not especially dainty or beautiful, but a homespun stuff of fast color and good wear.”
+ + Lit. D. 32: 216. F. 10, ’06. 620w.
Hardie, Martin. English coloured books. $6.75. Putnam.
A recent addition to the “Connoisseur’s library” which enlightens the reader on the various processes employed in the production of colored illustrations. “Premising that, like Gaul of old, the subject is divisible into three parts, the author gives an account first of coloured illustrations printed from wood blocks, secondly of those printed from metal plates, and thirdly of those printed from stone, devoting special chapters to men who have played a leading role in evolution of colour printing in this country.” (Int. Studio.)
“A manual for the use of collector’s and students is urgently required, and it could not come from a better source than from a librarian in the Art library at South Kensington, nor appear under better auspices than those of Mr. Cyril Davenport.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 2: 555. N. 3. 1430w. + Ind. 61: 1403. D. 13, ’06. 270w.
“Mr. Hardie’s exposition throughout is clear and concise, and he writes with the authority of one whose knowledge of the subject is probably unequalled.”
+ + Int. Studio. 30: 90. N. ’06. 480w.
“There can be nothing but praise for Mr. Hardie’s thorough treatment and pleasant style.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 266. Jl. 27, ’06. 760w.
“Appendixes valuable to book and print collectors, an index, and many color prints beautifully reproduced make this volume a necessary book for certain libraries. Along with the text that keeps the reader’s interest there is a mass of information which gives the advantage of a book of reference.” C. de Kay.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 885. D. 22, ’06. 380w.
“From the point of view of the bibliographer and the printer the volume could hardly be improved.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 336. O. 6, ’06. 210w.
Hardy, Rev. Edward John. John Chinaman at home. **$2.50. Scribner.
“Writes in a very bright and breezy way of his observations in China. The account is rambling, jumping from city to city with no special attempt at system.”
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 236. Ja. ’06. 130w. – + Ath. 1905, 2: 834. D. 16. 820w.
“He furnishes a readable book, without notable characteristics.” John W. Foster.
+ Atlan. 97: 544. Ap. ’06. 90w.
“This is one of the most readable books about the country whose population and peculiarities are permanently exaggerated in most of our text-books.” W. E. Griffis.
+ + Critic. 48: 372. Ap. ’06. 200w.
“Not at all distinguished, not always in the best of taste, but readable throughout, and well adapted to the needs of the middle-class book-buyer.”
+ – Spec. 97: 270. Ag. 25, ’06. 250w.
Hardy, Edward John. What men like in women. **$1. Dillingham.
From invincible youth to graceful age, the author sketches the likable characteristics and qualities of women. In every chapter he sounds the depths of the permanent and trustworthy elements that make for life happiness.
“Out of the serious often cometh forth humor. The wheat is in about the same proportion to the chaff as history is to fiction in an historical novel.”
+ – Critic. 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 150w.
Hardy, Ernest George. Studies in Roman history. *$1.60. Macmillan.
“A new edition of the author’s well-known work on ‘Christianity and the Roman government,’ supplemented by half a dozen other essays, two of which originally appeared in the English historical review, three in the Journal of philology, and one as part of an introduction to an edition of Plutarch’s ‘Lives of Galba and Otha.’”—Nation.
“At its first appearance Hardy’s work was not marked by much originality, and hence it is questionable whether any justification can be found for a second edition in which no account has been taken of recent developments. Some of the special studies ... which form the concluding portions of the book are decided contributions to the literature of Roman administration.” Patrick J. Healy.
+ – Am. Hist. R. 11: 931. Jl. ’06. 410w.
“Present volume is indispensable to all serious students of the Roman empire.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 576. My. 11. 990w.
“All are of a most scholarly, some even of an extremely technical character; and hence all are deserving of the careful attention of the special student.”
+ + Bookm. 23: 455. Je. ’06. 130w.
“Dr. Hardy presents his case with utmost candour of mind and cleanness of language, and there is no point of importance on which the present writer is unable to accept his conclusions. Altogether the book is one which will certainly be read with interest and deserves to be studied with respect.” W. A. G.
+ + Eng. Hist. R. 21: 610. Jl. ’06. 450w.
“They show what instructive results a patient reading of inscriptions may yield to any one with sufficient knowledge to find and hold the clue.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 386. N. 16, ’06. 700w. Nation. 82: 222. Mr. 15, ’06. 190w. N. Y. Times. 11: 377. Je. 9, ’06. 670w.
“Eminently sane and judicious. The work is always accurate and reliable. Their tone is admirable, and the writer does his best to set out the particulars fairly and fully. The author writes with less obvious prepossessions than almost all who have attempted to deal with the matter.”
+ + – Sat. R. 102: 271. S. 1, ’06. 630w. + + – Spec. 97: 301. S. 1, ’06. 710w.
Hardy, Thomas. [Dynasts]: a drama of the Napoleonic wars. In three parts. Part 2. *$1.50. Macmillan.
The first part of this work of nineteen acts and one hundred and thirty scenes appeared about two years ago. With the completion of this second part “There is a disposition ... to look into the matter more closely and more reverently. As its huge proportions are slowly developed, this drama of the making of history takes on grandeur in the reviewer’s eyes. They are no longer troubled to identify, reasonably, the Spirits sinister, the Chorus of the pities, the ancient spirit of the years, the Recording angels These are but personifications of human and normal influences after all.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The great drama of ‘The dynasts’ ... proves him not merely a great novelist but an essayist, a poet and a dramatist and, I might add, an acute historical critic.” Robert Ross.
+ + – Acad. 70: 206. Mr. 3, ’06. 1080w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“The poetry of the piece is not so much in the brickish verse as in some of the stage directions in prose.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ – Atlan. 96: 422. S. ’05. 220w. (Review of pt. 1.)
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne,
+ + – Dial. 40: 325 My. 16, ’06. 1090w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“There is probably little, if any, great dramatic poetry throughout the multitude of scenes; but there is some good, and a great deal of passable verse; there is some excellent prose; and there is a continuous manifestation of imagination and intelligence for which I am glad to acknowledge myself deeply grateful.” W. P. Trent.
+ + – Forum. 38: 86. Jl. ’06. 4150w.
“‘The dynasts’ is a gloomy and powerful epic, but it is not a drama.”
+ – Ind. 60: 807. Ap. 5, ’06. 320w. (Review of pt. 2.) Lit. D. 32: 609. Ap. 21, ’06. 1580w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“There can be no possible question of the importance and high literary excellence of his latest book. ‘The dynasts’ is a work of exceptional power. It is a thing compact with imagination.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 49. F. 16, ’06. 2120w. (Review of pt. 2.) + – Nation. 82: 325. Ap. 19, ’06. 530w. (Review of pt. 2.) N. Y. Times. 11: 132. Mr. 3, ’06. 270w. (Editorial on pt. 2.)
“This work has in it the substance, in short, of a true prose masterpiece. Mr. Hardy has nothing of the poet in him.” H. W. Boynton.
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 160. Mr. 17, ’06. 1910w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“It is absolutely hopeless as a poem.”
– Outlook. 82: 808. Ap. 7, ’06. 260w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“However it all may strike the historian’s mind as a spectacle of predigested history, to the lay mind Mr. Hardy has made a wonderful gift. He has invented a new sensation.”
+ + – Putnam’s. 1: 254. N. ’06. 570w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“The diction is strained, and when metaphysics begin we flounder among quasi-technical platitudes. But in spite of a hundred faults, there is a curious sublimity about the very immensity of the scheme.”
+ – Spec. 96: 645. Ap. 7, ’06. 300w. (Review of pt. 2.)
Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert, and Baddeley (Welbore) St. Clair. Sicily. **$1. Dutton.
The guide-book prepared by the late Augustus C. Hare is now published in a new edition revised and brought admirably down to date by St. Clair Baddeley. The volume is pocket size and contains maps and photographs.
“In general the practical information which it contains has been brought up to date. The historical sketch with which the volume opens is clearly written, and will be helpful to the traveler who has not read Freeman; but it is defective in one or two points.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 13. Ja. 6. 500w. + + Ind. 60: 871. Ap. 12, ’06. 80w.
“The author’s great fund of information is presented in compact style. The style might have been made somewhat clearer, however—especially with regard to ambiguity in the use of relative pronouns—without any necessity of increasing the text.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 571. Mr. 10, ’06. 110w.
Hare, Christopher. Dante the wayfarer. *$2.50. Scribner.
“Mr. Hare’s fine compilation is fitted to be of such incalculable use to the earnest student of Dante that it seems needful, if a little ungracious, to point out the fact that the text of the present edition teems with minute typographical errors.”
+ + – Atlan. 97: 558. Ap. ’06. 780w. + Ind. 60: 399. F. 15, ’06. 650w.
Hare, Christopher. Queen of queens, and the making of Spain. **$2.50. Scribner.
“There are few more striking figures in European history than Isabel, the Catholic, Queen of Spain.... The subject of the book is wide. It is by no means a study of the Queen’s life alone, but a good swift, picturesque sketch of the history of Spain, beginning with the conquest of the Moors in A. D. 711, and going on to the gradual recovery of power and territory by the Christian Goths who fled before them to the mountains of Asturias. Then comes the rise of the Christian kingdoms ... then the fusion of these, after much fighting and confusion and many romantic episodes, including the immortal story of the Cid, into the two kingdoms of Castile and Leon and Aragon and Catalonia.”—Spec.
“The book adds little to our knowledge; at its best, it summarizes the chapters in some unrevised edition of Prescott’s work, and it is disfigured by interpolated errors which could never have been made by any one acquainted with Spanish. Decidedly this is a book not to be trusted.”
– – Ath. 1906, 2: 12. Jl. 7. 470w.
“He quotes too much from others to produce a vivid effect, and most of the lines in his portrait are those common to the great ladies who lived at the same time as Isabella.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 218. Je. 15, ’06. 980w.
“The historian would be scientific, in sad truth, whom Isabella the Catholic would not carry off his feet. That he seems hardly to have read his proof-sheets is another matter; to be balanced perhaps by the excellent illustrations.”
+ – Nation. 83: 419. N. 15, ’06. 780w.
“Mr. Hare is not himself an eloquent writer, and the most of his purple patches, especially those dealing with the Moorish wars and the story of the Queen’s dealings with Columbus, are taken verbatim from Irving.”
– + N. Y. Times. 11: 515. Ag. 18, ’06. 570w.
“Mr. Hare always writes with evidence of so much research, and with such a real enthusiasm for his subject, that we cannot help regretting some literary lapses in his style. This book, for instance, would have been greatly improved in value and dignity if he had read through his proofs more severely, cut out various ornamental passages, and tightened up certain slovenly sentences. As we have already said, the book is agreeable and picturesque, and we have read it with interest and enjoyment.”
+ + – Spec. 96: 987. Je. 23, ’06. 1400w.
Harker, Mrs. Lizzie Allen. Concerning Paul and Fiammetta; with an introd. by Kate Douglas Wiggin. †$1.25. Scribner.
While in England a year ago, Kate Douglas Wiggin discovered in the children of Mrs. Harker’s “A romance of the nursery” such delightful little people that she asked for the privilege of introducing to her own American readers Mrs. Harker’s next story. And so Paul and Fiammetta have come to take their place beside Rebecca, Timothy and Polly Oliver. “‘Fee’ is a travelled, hotel-bred child, who had learned experience without losing her good manners.” (Lond. Times.) Paul has a mania for reading, and is devoted to dogs no less than to his friend Tonks.
“The story has many appealing qualities,—its gayety, sympathy, humour, and lifelikeness; and perhaps to American readers one of its chiefest charms will be that it is so thoroughly English,—as English as a hedge-rose or a bit of pink hawthorne,—yet, with all its local colour, sounding the human and universal note.” Kate Douglas Wiggin.
Foreword to book.
“It is easy to imagine many parties both in the school room and downstairs where these sketches will be read aloud and approved enthusiastically.”
+ Acad. 70: 288. Mr. 24, ’06. 210w. + Critic. 48: 572. Je. ’06. 60w.
“In the main, the book is rather about children than for them. Children ... would never notice the delicacy, the strength, and the sympathy with which Mrs. Harker has worked.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 104. Mr. 23, ’06. 450w. + Nation. 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 30w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 193. Mr. 31, ’06. 420w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 140w. + Outlook. 82: 810. Ap. 7, ’06. 80w.
“The way in which the four children are differentiated and each endowed with a well-marked individuality is extremely clever. In a book which strikes so true a note all through the critic may be forgiven for wishing that the simplicity of the original keynote has been preserved to the concluding sentence.”
+ + – Spec. 96: 623. Ap. 21, ’06. 700w.
Harnack, (Carl Gustav) Adolf. Expansion of Christianity in the first three centuries; tr. and ed. by James Moffatt. 2v. *$3. Putnam.
“There are certain dangers into which the modern aggressive historian is apt to fall, and does fall if Harnack and Knopf are to be taken as fair representatives of the class. If he has successfully found his way out of the swamp of sectarian prejudice on the one hand, he seems likely to wander, on the other, into the dense forest of conjecture, wherein he will see all sorts of fantastic forms in the dim light.” Andrew C. Zenos.
+ – Am. J. Theol. 10: 334. Ap. ’06. 1420w.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
+ Atlan. 97: 413. Mr. ’06. 460w.
“Dr. Harnack, in fine, has produced what is as yet the most satisfactory, if not the most striking and original, of the noble series of works in which he is casting new light upon Christian history. We wish that we could say that a worthy translator had been found for him.”
+ + – Sat. R. 101: 19. Ja. 6, ’06. 740w.
Harper, William Rainey. Critical and exegetical commentary on Amos and Hosea. **$3. Scribner.
“Students of the Old Testament have now, for the first time in many years, an adequate commentary on Amos and Hosea. The treatment of the text is on the whole conservative, the emendations adopted being generally those which the soberest scholarship of the present day would approve.” Charles Torrey.
+ + Am. J. Theol. 10: 309. Ap. ’06. 1840w.
“Judging from his own point of view Dr. Harper has succeeded fairly well. He has not the initiative of Marti, but when he selects from the emendations of others, he may count on the approval of most liberal-conservative scholars.” T. K. Cheyne.
+ + – Hibbert J. 3: 824. Jl. ’05. 4710w.
Harper, William Rainey. Priestly element in the Old Testament: an aid to historical study for use in advanced Bible classes. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
+ + Bibliotheca Sacra. 63: 375. Ap. ’06. 340w.
Harper, William Rainey. Prophetic element in the Old Testament. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
“For the student who is willing to do his own thinking, and to reach his own conclusions, there will be found in this volume stimulus, suggestion, and guidance, such as will be found, in this particular form, nowhere else.” John E. McFadyen.
+ + Am. J. Theol. 10: 317. Ap. ’06. 440w.
“A careful study of this work would lead to a highly specialized knowledge of the subject. This suggests the only criticism that might be ventured on the book. Is it not too taxing upon the average student, except when used by such a pedagogical genius as Dr. Harper himself?” Kemper Fullerton.
+ + – Bib. World. 28: 154. Ag. ’06. 320w.
“For one interested in the analysis of modern biblical criticism, this manual will be in a high degree valuable; and if one is in an early stage of scriptural study, it will be almost indispensable.”
+ + Cath. World. 82: 703. F. ’06. 330w.
Harraden, Beatrice. Scholar’s daughter. $1.50. Dodd.
“Geraldine Grant is the daughter of an austere and self-centred scholar who lives a life of seclusion in a lonely country house, engaged in the compilation of a colossal dictionary. Soured by the unfaithfulness of his wife, shortly after his daughter’s birth, no woman is admitted to his house.... Heredity it is to be supposed will out and Geraldine practices her powers of fascination on the three middle-aged men secretaries who assist her father.... A lightning love-tale and the very obvious identification as his wife of a famous actress, Miss Charlotta Selbourne, on her casual appearance at the professor’s house make up this slender story.”—Sat. R.
“We venture to think that this story would do better as a light play than as a novel.”
+ – Acad. 70: 182. F. 24, ’06. 200w.
“Compared with ‘Ships that pass in the night’ and even with one or two of the succeeding novels, this story is a grievous disappointment.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 259. Mr. 3. 150w.
“It all savours pleasantly of comic opera, with soothing little melodies running through it; and undeniably leaves a pleasant, if transitory, taste behind it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 23: 416. Je. ’06. 330w.
“The book is amusing reading for an idle hour.”
+ Critic. 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 40w.
“If we consider the book as a serious novel, its superficiality irritates us, or if we take it as a short story we are wearied by the protracted explanations.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 52. F. 16, ’06. 260w.
“There is a freshness and strength in the pen-painting of people who inhabit this new novel.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 306. My. 12, ’06. 370w.
“Is a triumph of ‘manner.’”
+ Sat. R. 101: 401. Mr. 31, ’06. 280w.
“A highly agreeable romance, suffused with graceful sentiment and containing a half-a-dozen pleasant portraits.”
+ Spec. 96: 263. F. 17, ’06. 740w.
Harriman, Karl Edwin. Girl and the deal. †$1.25. Jacobs.
“The very kind of a tale to rest an overtired brain or to relieve the tedium of a long journey.”
+ Arena. 35: 223. F. ’06. 200w.
Harriman, Karl Edwin. Girl out there; il. by A. Russell. †$1.25. Jacobs.
Mr. Harriman finds his heroine of the title in a little rural town whither a young journalist goes to recuperate after a run of fever. The simple folk of the village from Alec Truesdale, the close-fisted man who nibbles crackers by the hour in the little weather-grayed grocery, much to the discomfiture of the owner, to Herb Jenkins, stout of heart and generous of purpose, are cleverly sketched. The new comer wins the heart of the girl that Herb Jenkins loves, and how Herb crushes his own hope and gains for the two the blessing of an obdurate father is an example of fine unselfishness.
“As a study of the ways and manners of the inhabitants of a small New England village the book is not without merit, but it lacks both plot and incident.”
– + Ath. 1906, 2: 153. Ag. 11. 110w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 435. Jl. 7, ’06. 220w.
Harris, J. Henry. [Cornish saints and sinners.] †$1.50. Lane.
“The fabled land of Lyonesse is supposed to lie under the sea off the coast of Cornwall, and the country abounds in legends of saints, giants and fairies to say nothing of numerous tales in which his Satanic majesty figures more or less prominently. Many of these old folklore stories are retold by Mr. Harris as he heard them from the natives, but with an added touch of humor all his own.”—Arena.
“We find Mr. Harris feebly and coarsely imitating Mark Twain at his very worst, with the result that the feelings of any person of taste must be shocked.”
– + Acad. 70: 557. Je. 9, ’06. 160w.
“Delightfully humorous account of the travels of three friends.” Amy C. Rich.
+ Arena. 36: 211. Ag. ’06. 160w.
“Many more pretentious chronicles of travel have been less entertaining.”
+ + Critic. 49: 283. S. ’06. 170w.
“In spite of these mistaken efforts, most of the book is agreeable reading, and Mr. Harris shows real interest in Cornwall, and sympathy, mixed with a certain condescension, for the people he describes.”
+ – Nation. 83: 230. S. 13, ’06. 420w. N. Y. Times. 11: 439. Jl. 7, ’06. 130w.
Harris, William Charles, and Bean, Tarleton Hoffman. Basses, fresh-water and marine. **$3.50. Stokes.
“The brook brings you into pleasant contact with nature, even if the trout refuse to rise, and if one possesses a fairly active imagination the book may do the same, even if it fails to satisfy all applicable objective tests of good literature. It is chiefly from this point of view that we must commend the sumptuous volume which Mr. Rhead has devoted to the basses.” (Nation.)
“If any important facts about the bass have been overlooked it would be difficult to specify what they are.”
+ + Critic. 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 70w. + Ind. 60: 1371. Je. 7, ’06. 140w. + Lit. D. 32: 984. Je. 30, ’06. 120w.
“One does not really find any striking positive merits to distinguish it from other literature available on the same subject.”
+ – Nation. 82: 268. Mr. 29, ’06. 530w.
“While the volume is mainly intended for the fisherman, the natural history side has not been forgotten.”
+ Outlook. 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’06. 110w.
“It is a carefully planned survey of the entire field. The joys and trials of the fisherman’s life are so charmingly described that the book is an exceptional companion for the shore or library.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 543. Ap. 28, ’06. 80w.
Harrison, Constance Cary (Mrs. Burton Harrison). Carlyles, The: a story of the fall of the confederacy. †$1.50. Appleton.
A Civil war story whose opening chapters give a detailed account of the evacuation of Richmond. When the city is set on fire, the home of Monimia Carlyle is protected by a Union officer who supplants in the young maiden’s affection the place of her accepted Confederate cousin. Molly Ball, a Confederate spy “of that never extinct Amazon brood that springs from sleep at the trumpet’s call” (Nation) calls the cousin off from his initial love pursuits and rather monopolizes the remainder of the story.
“There is no doubt as to the charm of the book and the accuracy of the picture it presents of certain aspects of post-bellum life in Dixie.”
+ Critic. 48: 190. F. ’06. 180w.
“The several parts, though not unrelated, are not smoothly connected, and, in the later chapters, the charming heroine is seriously neglected for metal less attractive.”
+ – Nation. 81: 510. D. 21, ’05. 360w. Outlook. 81: 680. N. 18, ’05. 60w.
Harrison, Edith Ogden (Mrs. Carter Henry). Moon princess. **$1.25. McClurg.
“With a simple, unaffected style, the writer has narrated a child’s story of lively interest.”
+ Critic. 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 30w.
“Is full of delicate shades.”
+ Ind. 59: 1386. D. 14, ’05. 50w.
Harrison, Frederic. Chatham. **$1.25. Macmillan.
“Care coupled with his style has given us a monograph on Chatham of abiding value.” Edward Porritt.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 710. Ap. ’06. 230w.
Harrison, James Albert. George Washington: patriot, soldier, statesman, first president of the United States. **$1.35. Putnam.
In Professor Harrison’s life Washington’s heart and head unite in admirable mastery over problems of humanity, war and state. The sketch gives an intimate view of Washington from boyhood up, showing how well America’s hero developed his birthright powers to meet the demands of leadership. Martha Washington is portrayed as “an ideal of the gentler motherhood that preceded the era of the Amazon, and consecrated itself altogether to the sacred office of friendship.”
“Rhetorical descriptions abound, and there are digressions not a few; but the portrait presented in the work is hazy and inadequate in all that relates to Washington’s public life.”
– + Dial. 41: 212. O. 1, ’06. 160w.
“Its style—inflated, involved, obscure, often ungrammatical—furnishes a fairly accurate model of all that an historical writer’s work should not be.”
– Lond. Times. 5: 374. N. 9, ’06. 90w.
“The Washington depicted in this volume is the familiar heroic and half-deified figure of the older panegyrists. As a whole the style is that of the romanticist, embellished with imagery and superlatives. It is not too much to say that the quotations are the best part of this work.”
– + Nation. 83: 286. O. 4, ’06. 490w.
“We know of no other life of Washington within moderate compass which presents so clear a picture of the man and maintains so well throughout a pleasing narrative style.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 1005. Ag. 25, ’06. 130w.
“Has done full justice to his attractive subject, treating it with thorough scholarship, patriotic sympathy, and felicity of style.”
+ + Putnam’s. 1: 253. N. ’06. 130w.
“Professor Harrison has succeeded remarkably well in presenting an eminently readable biography.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 382. S. ’06. 90w. Sat. R. 102: 370. S. 22, ’06. 50w.
“The historian has his duty of self-effacement as well as the biographer. The biographer must not intrude his own personality; the historian must not intrude his style. This is what Professor Harrison is perpetually doing.”
– Spec. 97: 405. S. 22, ’06. 280w.
Harrison, Jane Ellen. Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides. *$1.75. Macmillan.
Dr. Harrison sets forth a new view of the character and limits of ancient Athens, based on the evidence of Thucydides and the recent excavations of Dörpfeld.
“She illustrates her book with good plans and photographs, but apart from these it is hard to see what useful purpose it can serve.”
– + Acad. 70: 526. Je. 2, ’06. 1020w. Am. Hist. R. 11: 729. Ap. ’06. 60w.
“Even those who are not prepared to accept the author’s theories will welcome the presentation, in so convenient a form, of the recent researches both of other archaeologists and of the author herself.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 521. O. 27. 660w.
“In her mythological excursions, Miss Harrison is less likely to secure the ready reference of her reader.”
+ – Nation. 82: 511. Je. 21, ’06. 590w.
“In one curious detail in an otherwise convincing argument, Miss Harrison has unsuspectingly followed her leader into a gaping trap.”
+ + – Sat. R. 102: 367. S. 22, ’06. 1180w.
“Learned volume.”
+ Spec. 96: 1045. Je. 30, ’06. 150w.
Harrison, Newton. Electric wiring, diagrams and switch boards. 15th ed. rev. and enl. *$1.50. Henley.
“Mr. Harrison’s work is intended to help practical wiremen to do a better grade of work by informing them of the reasons for what they do.... The author ... devotes his attention to statements of the practical matters connected with the installation of electric machines, including the necessary switchboards and the wiring connecting these with the supply circuits.”—Engin. N.
“In the opinion of the reviewer, the book would be better without the last two chapters. It should be useful not only to artisans, but also to architects, builders and others who are responsible for the proper installation of electric circuits.” Henry H. Norris.
+ + – Engin. N. 55: 310. Mr. 15, ’06. 780w.
Harrison, Peleg D. Stars and stripes and other American flags; il. **$3. Little.
Their origin and history, army and navy regulations concerning the national standard and ensign, flag making, salutes, improvised, unique, and commercial flags, flag legislation, and many associations of American flags, including the origin of “Old Glory,” with songs and their stories.
“The material is largely undigested but the industry of the author in collecting miscellaneous facts and fables pertaining to his subject has been immense, and his enthusiasm is contagious.”
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 826. D. 1, ’06. 1410w.
Harry, Myriam. Conquest of Jerusalem. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.
“This story of modern Jerusalem is really a study of what is known as the ‘artistic’ temperament worked out in a morbid fashion. Hélie’s apostasy from the Roman Catholic religion upon his marriage with a deaconess of a protestant church destroys eventually the religious instinct in his nature. Many of the details of the novel are revolting.”—Critic.
“It is unwholesome and unpleasant.”
– Critic. 48: 572. Je. ’06. 60w. – N. Y. Times. 11: 297. My. 5, ’06. 190w.
“An excellent translation.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 572. My. 5, ’06. 810w.
Hart, Albert Bushnell, ed. American nation: a history from original sources by associated scholars. 28v. per. v. *$2. Harper.
Group II of this series of histories, volumes 6–10, is devoted to the “Transformation into a nation,” including Provincial America, by Evarts Boutell Greene; France in America, by Reuben Gold Thwaites; Preliminaries of the Revolution, by George Elliott Howard; The American Revolution, by Claude Halstead Van Tyne; and The confederation and the constitution, by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin. The first volume of Group III, which division includes volumes 11–15 and treats the “Development of the nation,” is a discussion of The federalist system, by John Spencer Bassett. The author says, “On its political side this volume treats of three principal facts; the successful establishment of the government under the constitution, the organization of the Republican party on the basis of popular government, and the steady adherence of the government to a policy of neutrality at a time when we were threatened with serious foreign complications.” The author follows the program of establishing an effective government while the nation faced a new constitution and trying international situations.
Number twelve in this “American nation” series is a discussion of “The Jeffersonian system” by Edward Channing. It “emphasizes the innate tendency to expansion of territory, of which Louisiana, West Florida, and Oregon were all examples. The special and successful purpose of the author is to make clear how it was possible for the nation to expand in territory and in spirit, and for the federal government to gain consequence and authority, while at the same time the government was growing more democratic: it is a study in imperial democracy.”
Number fourteen in this series is the “Rise of the new West” by Frederick Jackson Turner of the University of Wisconsin. “Professor Turner takes up the west as an integral part of the Union, with a self-consciousness as lively as that of the east or south, with its own aims and prejudices, but as a partner in the councils and the benefits of the national government which, as a whole, it is the aim at this volume to describe.” The period covered is that from 1815 to 1830. The panic of 1819, the Missouri compromise, The Monroe doctrine in particular and the tariff disputes, internal improvements and foreign trade relations in general are fully treated.
The fifteenth volume of “The American nation” series is Dr. William McDonald’s discussion of “Jacksonian democracy.” The aggressive personality of Andrew Jackson is made to dominate the solution of the great questions of national policy paramount during the years 1829–37. The study reveals the president and man, and shows the evolution of the political principles upon which a new democratic party was founded.
In volume seventeen the expansion movement which extended the boundaries of the United States from the western edge of the Louisiana purchase to the Pacific ocean, is described “in such a way as to indicate the real forces which gave it impulse, and how they actually worked, and especially to show how it was affected by, and how it reacted upon, the contemporaneous sectionalizing movement which finally ended in civil war.”
In volume 18 of “The American nation” Dr. Smith has covered the subject of “Parties and slavery from 1850 to 1859,” that transition period, which saw old party organization dissolve and new ones crystalize. The aim of the volume is “to bring out the contrast between the old parties and their aims and the new and imperious issues.” The efforts to prevent the crisis which resulted in the Civil war, and the rival habits of thought which made it inevitable are clearly shown, the effects of the struggle upon parties, legislation and the courts as well as the social and economic changes brought about by railroad development and the growth of cotton are carefully detailed.
“The first part of volume nineteen in the “American nation” series discusses political divergences in the light of sectional rivalry and mutual dislike revealed by the election of Lincoln to the presidency. The author presents the full significance of the John Brown raid, pictures the attitude of Buchanan and his unsuccessful attempts at compromise. discusses the status of the federal forts, pays tribute to the high minded attitude of Lincoln and closes with the fall of Sumter.”
“In scholarship and construction he has produced the best synopsis of the subject existing within the limits of a single volume, and ... his careful references and a valuable bibliography enhance the utility of the book to the student who desires to inquire for himself.” M. Oppenheim.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 11: 394 Ja. ’06. 2180w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Mr. Greene has handled his problem with the grasp of a true historical artisan, and his book is a definite contribution to American history.” Carl Russell Fish.
+ + + |Am. Hist. R. 11: 411. Ja. ’06. 1310w. (Review of v. 6.)
“In regard to style it must be pronounced very defective. Summing up one is obliged to say that, while the book shows industry and knowledge, its faults in regard both to style and to accuracy are so numerous as to make it hardly worthy of the high reputation of its author.” George M. Wrong.
+ – – Am. Hist. R. 11: 413. Ja. ’06. 1580w. (Review of v. 7.)
“It may be doubted whether either volume adds much to the thoroughly exploited facts in its respective field.” H. A. C.
+ Am. Hist. R. 11: 907. Jl. ’06. 1270w. (Review of v. 8 and 9.)
“More exact dates would be in some of the chapters desirable. The volume is quite worthy of recognition as a model history of the time.” Austin Scott.
+ + –|Am. Hist. R. 11: 916. Jl. ’06. 1910w. (Review of v. 10.)
“The book itself is so sanely written that it seems ungrateful to call attention to what are very small defects.” Worthington Chauncey Ford.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 12: 155. O. ’06. 1300w. (Review of v. 11.)
“Considering the limitations imposed by the nature of the task assigned to them, the credit of fully maintaining the high standard set in the preceding volumes of the ‘American nation’ series and of closely approximating the ideal standard for works of this class must be accorded both to Professor Channing and to President Babcock.” Marshall Brown.
+ + + Am. Hist. R. 12: 158. O. ’06. 2600w. (Review of v. 12 and 13.)
“The book is written in an attractive style in which few errors of literary taste occur and is pleasing in appearance. The text seems free from mistakes: but the foot-notes contain some that are troublesome.” Frederick W. Moore.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 12: 162. O. ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 14.)
“Professor MacDonald’s contribution is, thus far, the best concise and brief essay upon Jackson’s two administrations. For a lucid and temperate statement of all but one of the dominant questions during Jackson’s presidency. Professor MacDonald’s volume is adequate.” Charles H. Levermore.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 12: 164. O. ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 15.)
“One feels, indeed, in this volume as well as in others of the series, the inadequacy of treatment of these deeper undercurrents of economic and social change, not only as concerns the assignment of space, but in the lack of a fresh individual investigation. There is not the intimate knowledge of the field evidenced in the chapter on political history.” Albert Cook Myers.
+ + – Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 245. Ja. ’06. 720w. (Review of v. 6.)
Reviewed by David Y. Thomas.
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 251. Ja. ’06. 760w. (Review of v. 10.)
Reviewed by St. George L. Sioussat.
+ + + Dial. 41: 159. S. 16, ’06. 4150w. (Review of v. 8–13.)
“No better introduction to a detailed study of American history could be desired than these excellent volumes.” H. E. E.
+ + Eng. Hist. R. 21: 621. Jl. ’06. 450w. (Review of v. 1–5.) + + + Ind. 60: 1543. Je. 28, ’06. 1680w. (Review of v. 11–15.) + + + Ind. 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 200w. (Review of v. 11–15.)
“No volume in the series to which it belongs has quite the same charm of freshness or fills quite the same ‘long-felt want.’”
+ + + Lit. D. 33: 358. S. 15, ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 14.)
“In purely literary interest, and in the sure feeling for what is effective or dramatic in historical events, Fiske’s superiority is unquestionable: but in just balance and proportion, in thoroughness of research, and in all-round attention to the various aspects of the subject ... [v. 9 and 10] are far better, not only than Fiske’s work, but also than any other account of the American revolution of equal compass. Professor McLaughlin’s presentation of the political history of the Confederation is, as a whole, of such merit that we can but regret that he has not ploughed more deeply in the economic field.”
+ + Nation. 82: 161. F. 22, ’06. 2620w. (Review of v. 8–10.)
“If any criticism is to be passed on the author’s treatment of Western history, it is that strictly political matters are presented in scanty detail.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 517. Je. 21, ’06. 690w. (Review of v. 14.) + + + Nation. 83: 18. Jl. 5, ’06. 950w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
“No volume of this series thus far exhibits more commendable literary qualities.”
+ + + Nation. 83: 40. Jl. 12, ’06. 620w. (Review of v. 13.)
“Careful investigation, sane conclusions, clear and orderly presentation, are thus the very solid merits of Professor MacDonald’s work.”
+ + Nation. 83: 81. Jl. 26, ’06. 1620w. (Review of v. 15.)
“The text shows an unexpected number of typographical errors.”
+ + – Nation. 83: 230. S. 13, ’06. 480w. (Review of v. 16.) + + – N. Y. Times. 11: 62. F. 3, ’06. 780w. (Review of v. 11.) N. Y. Times. 11: 248. Ap. 14, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 14.)
Reviewed by R. L. S.
+ + + N. Y. Times. 11: 261. Ap. 21, ’06. 990w. (Review of v. 12 and 13.)
“A scholarly and sympathetic history of the rise of the West.” R. L. S.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 319. My. 19, ’06. 810w. (Review of v. 14.)
“The present is one of the most valuable of the volumes in ‘The American nation’ series.” R. L. S.
+ + + N. Y. Times. 11: 341. My. 26, ’06. 850w. (Review of v. 15.) + + N. Y. Times. 11: 491. Ag. 4, ’06. 600w. (Review of v. 16.)
“Each of these volumes, while giving evidence of thorough research and acquaintance with the subject, is devoid of noticeable features.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 894. D. 22, ’06. 690w. (Review of v. 17 and 18.)
“Though ... the presentation is not always as ample as might be desired, his book should be cordially welcomed by students of Revolutionary history.”
+ + – Outlook. 81: 281. S. 30, ’05. 260w. (Review of v. 8.)
“From the literary standpoint his work does not reach any high level. On the score of accuracy, lucidity, impartiality, perspective, and perception of cause and effect, little fault is to be found.”
+ + Outlook. 82: 374. F. 17, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 11.)
“He has, generally speaking, succeeded in investing the well-known facts with a fresh interest. His pages are rich in acute analysis, suggestive comment, and clear-cut portraiture; his style is lucid, direct, and dignified, his tone judicial.”
+ + Outlook. 82: 570. Mr. 10, ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 12.)
“Accuracy and impartiality are also distinctive characteristics, but from the standpoint of proportion there is no room for improvement. Altogether, his is a most creditable addition to this standard work.”
+ + + Outlook. 82: 1006. Ap. 28, ’06. 340w. (Review of v. 13.)
“In some respects Professor Turner’s book differs strikingly from most of its predecessors in the series. Most significant, perhaps, is the emphasis laid upon the necessity of regarding the development of the United States as the outcome of economic and social as well as political forces.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 333. Je. 9, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 14.)
“Much as we must lament the absence of that appeal to the imagination which the historian should make, the merits of the treatise are such that it may be safely commended.”
+ + – Outlook. 83: 766. Jl. 28, ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 15.) + + Outlook. 83: 1004. Ag. 25, ’06. 350w. (Review of v. 16.)
“Is marked by daring and originality and, it is pleasant to be able to add, by scholarship. It is not, however, cast in the most attractive form, being monographic rather than unitary in treatment, and being of the scientific rather than the artistic school of historical writing.”
+ + – Outlook. 84: 938. D. 15, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 17.)
Review by W. Roy Smith.
+ – Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 121. Mr. ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 7.)
Reviewed by W. Roy Smith.
+ + – Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 122. Mr. ’06. 830w. (Review of v. 9.)
Reviewed by W. Roy Smith.
+ + – Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 124. Mr. ’06. 530w. (Review of v. 10.)
Reviewed by George Louis Beer.
+ – Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 126. Mr. ’06. 940w. (Review of v. 6.)
Reviewed by George Louis Beer.
+ – Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 129. Mr. ’06. 2950w. (Review of v. 8.)
Hart, Jerome. Levantine log book. **$2. Longmans.
“There is also a deal of useful information for the tourist.”
+ Critic. 48: 287. Mr. ’06. 100w.
“In form and illustration the book is as pleasing to the eye as the text is to the mind.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + Dial. 40: 234. Ap. 1, ’06. 400w.
“Has all the ease, breeziness, and entertaining information that won such popularity for its author’s earlier travel sketches.”
+ Lit. D. 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 40w.
Hartley, C. Gasquoine, pseud. (Mrs. Walter M. Gallichan). Moorish cities in Spain. *$1. Scribner.
Mrs. Gallichan “describes in welcome and never wearisome detail Cordova, Toledo, Seville, and Granada, and they that dwell therein. We have no guidebook detail, however. The reader is supposed to have Baedeker or Murray at his elbow. But we do find hints not contained in any guide-book.” (Outlook.)
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 759. N. 17, ’06. 310w. + Outlook. 84: 531. O. 27, ’06. 260w.
Harvey, James Clarence. In Bohemia. $1.25. Caldwell.
A medley of verse and prose sketches in which “the author tells the uninitiated how to go to Bohemia and what they may reasonably expect to find there, making a special point of the distinction between the false and the true Bohemianism, whether it is to be found in New York or Damascus.” (Dial.)
“Some of the verse in dialect is very clever.”
+ Dial. 39: 446. D. 16, ’05. 80w. R. of Rs. 32: 511. O. ’05. 40w.
Harwood, Edith. Notable pictures in Florence. *$1.50. Dutton.
“Is a cheap and useful book for laymen visiting the churches and picture galleries of Florence.”
+ Acad. 70: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 160w.
Harwood, W. S. New creations in plant life: an authoritative account of the life and work of Luther Burbank. **$1.75. Macmillan.
“The book is far too popular in style and indefinite to be of real value to those seriously interested in plant-breeding, and it contains very little information meet to be absolutely accredited by the impartial observer.”
– Acad. 70: 379. Ap. 21, ’06. 770w.
“Had it contained more documentary evidence set forth with scientific method, it would have commended itself to naturalists in a higher degree than it is likely to do at present.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 395. Mr. 31. 820w.
“Mr. Harwood is anything but scientific but his picture of the achievements of Mr. Luther Burbank impresses the reader, as no scientific treatise could, with the astonishing command over their material now possessed by the breeders of animals and plants.” E. T. Brewster.
+ Atlan. 98: 424. S. ’06. 160w.
“It is sufficiently full, tolerably well written, authentic, and prepared under the direction of the gardener himself.” Thomas H. MacBride.
+ + Dial. 40: 47. Ja. 16, ’06. 730w.
“The author shows no desire or ability to make a critical examination of his achievements and to arrive at a just estimate of their practical and scientific value.”
– Ind. 60: 803. Ap. 5, ’06. 320w.
“If he will give us his own experiences in his own words, rather than in those of some too partial biographer, the whole world will be the gainer, and the value of Mr. Burbank’s work more accurately gauged than it can be from the perusal of the present volume.”
+ – Nature. 73: 242. Ja. 11, ’06. 800w.
“Mr. Harwood with a certain dash and journalistic swing has brought an important topic from where it might have long remained ambushed by scientific languages, and presented it to the people at large in such a way that it at once becomes a reality.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 64. F. 3, ’06. 260w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ North American. 183: 122. Jl. ’06. 270w.
“Aside from being an account of what is probably the most scientific work done in our country of late, Mr. Harwood’s book is interesting reading.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 757. D. 9, ’05. 560w.
Harwood, W. S. New earth: a recital of the triumphs of modern agriculture in America. **$1.75. Macmillan.
The new earth of Mr. Harwood’s work is the cultivated earth, broad acres, well kept and stocked, that has risen out of the old—“a fine sane resurrection.” It is with the details of this progress as well as with the underlying principles that have governed it that this fully illustrated volume deals.
+ Critic. 49: 288. S. ’06. 110w.
“Mr. Harwood’s knowledge appears to be in general derived at second hand, and he consequently not infrequently falls into error.”
– + Dial. 41: 39. Jl. 16, ’06. 530w.
“The book should be at once put into all the country libraries, especially in the traveling libraries.”
+ + Ind. 60: 1435. Je. 14, ’06. 290w.
“The volume has a certain scrappiness here and there, as if the chapters had first been used in magazines, but on the whole, it is consistent and compact.”
+ – Nation. 83: 65. Jl. 19, ’06. 980w.
“Though his methods still border a trifle too much towards the journalistic for serious book work, he has produced a vivid picture of the present-day husbandry.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 448. Jl. 14, ’06. 490w.
“The book may be warmly commended to the general reader, and it seems to us almost indispensable to the farmer who would make intelligent use of the forces now at his disposal.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 530. Je. 30, ’06. 280w. + + R. of Rs. 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 100w. + Spec. 97: 207. Ag. 11, ’06. 240w.
Hasluck, Paul Nooncree. Book of photography; practical, theoretical, and applied. $3. Cassell.
Photography in all its professional and amateur aspects is dealt with in nearly eight hundred pages, encyclopaedic in scope and profusely illustrated.
“It will prove a veritable boon to amateur and professional photographers alike.”
+ + Dial. 40: 98. F. 1, ’06. 50w.
“Mr. Hasluck’s book seems to us to contain everything about photography that any one should need know.”
+ + + N. Y. Times. 11: 55. Ja. 27, ’06. 570w. + + R. of Rs. 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 80w.
Hatch, Ernest Frederick George. Far Eastern impressions. *$1.40. McClurg.
“A bright and brisk book.” W. E. Griffis.
+ Critic. 48: 372. Ap. ’06. 260w. + R. of Rs. 33: 254. F. ’06. 70w.
Hatch, F. H., and Corstorphine, George Steuart. Geology of South Africa. *$7. Macmillan.
“Gives an excellent account of the ancient rocks of the interior highland.”
+ Nation. 82: 261. Mr. 29, ’06. 150w.
Hatch, Marion P. Little Miss Sunshine and other stories in verse for children. $1. Goff co., Buffalo, N. Y.
A little group of child verse based upon the thought of God’s goodness, omnipotence, omnipresence which teaches a child to trust and not to fear.
Hatzfeldt, Paul. Hatzfeldt letters: letters of Count Paul Hatzfeldt to his wife; written from the headquarters of the King of Prussia, 1870–71; tr. from the French by J. L. Bashford. *$4. Dutton.
“Careful foot-notes give all the necessary information concerning the persons mentioned in the letters, and there is an inadequate index.”
+ – Nation. 82: 325. Ap. 19, ’06. 340w.
Havell, Ernest Binfield. Benares the sacred city. $3.50. Blackie & son, London.
These sketches of Hindu life and religion “are not offered as a contribution to oriental scholarship, or to religious controversy, but as an attempt, to give an intelligible outline of Hindu ideas and religious practices, and especially as a presentation of the imaginative and artistic side of Indian religions, which can be observed at few places so well as in the sacred city and its neighborhood—the birthplace of Buddhism and one of the principal sects of Hinduism.”
“Mr. Havell’s account of Benares is worth more than a passing glance, for he is not to be confounded with the crowd of superficial observers who every winter visit India and find their way to the sacred city.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 575. N. 10. 2070w. Bookm. 23: 571. Jl. ’06. 110w.
“Altogether this scholarly and attractive volume is equally admirable in text, illustrations, and topography.”
+ + Critic. 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 240w.
“One appreciates a calm, dispassionate, well-ordered, and studious unravelling of the labyrinth of Hindu life and religion. Principal E. B. Havell ... has done this in a masterly manner.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + Dial. 40: 361. Je. 1, ’06. 440w.
“A volume of considerable importance.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 307. My. 12, ’06. 340w.
“Well-written and sympathetic book.”
+ Outlook. 83: 139. My. 19, ’06. 340w. + Spec. 96: sup. 1015. Je. 30, ’06. 270w.
Havell, H. A. Tales from Herodotus. 60c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Children’s favorite classics.” Herodotus’ gift for weaving heroic wars and great personal deeds of the Greeks into “tales full of romance and charm” has delighted all ages. Here the tales are adapted for children.
“The historian’s tales in this book deal very largely with the Greek struggle for liberty, and they will prove as helpful and stimulating as they will fascinating to the children fortunate enough to enjoy their reading.”
+ + Arena. 36: 572. N. ’06. 90w. + Ath. 1906, 2: 69. Jl. 21. 30w.
“A particularly desirable sort of preparation for children’s nourishment.”
+ Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 90w. + Spec. 95: sup. 905. D. 2, ’05. 110w.
Haverstick, Alexander C. Sunday school kindergarten: a practical method of teaching in the infant room. *50c. Young ch.
A book that discusses the order of work for little people in Sunday school, the methods, the management and incentives.
Haw, George. Christianity and the working classes. $1.50. Macmillan.
“Eleven papers, dealing with the extent and intensity of the present religious defection, its causes and the means that are available for counteracting it.” (Cath. World.) Representative Englishmen including clergymen, members of parliament and labor leaders are among the contributors.
“The present volume is well worth serious study.”
+ Cath. World. 83: 691. Ag. ’06. 1720w.
“Though written for Englishmen amid English conditions, these papers give timely and helpful suggestions to those who are studying how to cope with similar conditions here.”
+ Outlook. 82: 856. Ap. 14, ’06. 190w.
Hawkes, Clarence. [Shaggycoat; the biography of a beaver]; il. by Charles Copeland. **$1.25. Jacobs.
Shaggycoat easily wins and holds every nature student’s attention. He is a member of a fast vanishing animal family, but sturdily upholds the traditions of his four-footed antecedents. The book reveals the habits, haunts and occupations of the beaver, shows how his nomadic habit leads him close to his enemies at times, and gives now and then a bit of primitive superstition which even greedy trappers heed.
“Mr. Hawkes gives this important animal biography in a simple, straightforward way, and earns our gratitude by leaving it with a happy ending in spite of the fact that the beaver tribe is being ruthlessly wiped out.” May Estelle Cook.
+ Dial. 41: 389. D. 1, ’06. 110w.
Hawkins, Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope, pseud.). [Servant of the public]. †$1.50. Stokes.
“A very discreet book, yet losing nothing by perfect decorum.” Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 97: 58. Ja. ’06. 340w.
“His version of the woman of whims happens to be the most piquant and interesting one in the season’s books.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ + – Bookm. 22: 516. Ja. ’06. 1060w.
Hawkins, Anthony Hope. (Anthony Hope, pseud.). [Sophy of Kravonia.] †$1.50. Harper.
Sophy, an English girl of much spirit and no money goes to Kravonia to seek her fortune and, by a strange chance, saves the life of the crown prince who falls in love with her. The revolution which follows, the struggle between the supporters of her prince and those of his half-brother, and the part which Sophy, with the red star burning on her cheek, took in it all is stirring reading. Altho, by another chance of fate, she loses all she has gained, she carries with her from Kravonia a lasting memory of some enemies and many friends, of strife and conflict, of a crown won only to be lost, and of a great undying love.
“To be quite frank and explicit, this kingdom of Kravonia is one of the dullest realms in which it has been our ill-fortune to wander.”
– + Acad. 71: 365. O. 13, ’06. 1300w.
“It is better reading than some of the author’s recent excursions into latter-day social life.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 508. O. 27. 440w.
“Anthony Hope has at last turned imitator of himself. That fact is the exact measure of the distance between ‘Sophia of Kravonia’ and ‘The prisoner of Zenda’. Well if we can’t have the fine original again, let us be thankful for an imitation so nearly perfect.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ + Bookm. 24: 380. D. ’06. 1100w. + Ind. 61: 1499. D. 20, ’06. 210w.
“Wavering between a study of character and a rattling romance, Mr. Hope misses both opportunities, and his book, though pleasant to read, is disappointing.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 352. O. 19, ’06. 390w.
“The conspiracy which thickens the plot is capitally developed, and long before the matter is solved the reader has quite forgotten that at the outset there was a certain sense of oppressiveness in the very serious marshalling of documentary evidence, as if for the history of a nation or the biography of a nation’s hero.”
+ + – Nation. 83: 352. O. 25, ’06. 260w.
“Taken all in all is not—in spite of the cleverness and entertaining qualities—quite worthy of the author’s genius. Exactly why it is so it is hard to say, for it pretends only to amuse the intelligent and it certainly serves its purpose.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 779. N. 24, ’06. 380w.
“Kravonia is much nearer reality than was Ruritania, and Mr. Hope has never done anything better in its way than the description of intrigues within the palace at Slavna while the old king lay dying and the crown prince, having met Sophy, would not set out to seek a royal bride.”
+ + – Sat. R. 102: 585. N. 10, ’06. 220w. + Spec. 97: 625. O. 27, ’06. 410w.
Haworth, Paul Leland. Hayes-Tilden disputed presidential election of 1876. *$1.50. Burrows.
“This is a complete record of what the writer describes as ‘the most remarkable electoral controversy in the history of popular government.’ The book is based upon the debates in Congress, the evidence gathered by various investigating committees, and the proceedings before the Electoral commission.”—R. of Rs.
“Is the first adequate history of ‘the most memorable electoral controversy in the history of popular government.’”
+ + Dial. 41: 245. O. 16, ’06. 830w.
“A scholarly and detailed study of a political episode.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 30w. + Nation. 83: 371. N. 1, ’06. 100w.
“He does not as yet betray the gifts of an accomplished writer, and his style is marred here and there by unnecessary colloquialisms ... but even they reflect a mind that deals with a complex matter in a spirit of unusual simplicity and candor.” Edward Cary.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 457. Jl. 21, ’06. 1290w.
“The author, although he writes in a judicial spirit, does not indicate that he appreciates the political wrongs perpetrated in the south by so-called Reconstruction governments.”
+ – Outlook. 83: 1004. Ag. 25, ’06. 120w.
“His work is a convenient and valuable digest of a vast amount of material not heretofore sifted for general use.”
+ + R. of Rs. 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 100w.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. [Our old home: a series of English sketches]: with an introd. by Katharine Lee Bates. $1.50. Crowell.
A “Luxembourg” edition of Hawthorne’s twelve English sketches. The introduction gives clippings which record America’s favorable and England’s unfavorable comments upon the work when it appeared in 1863. Miss Bates also suggests that Hawthorne might have used his note-book material to better advantage, mentioning especially the unused descriptive bits on the lake country.
Ind. 61: 1401. D. 13, ’06. 60w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 889. D. 22, ’06. 310w. + Outlook. 84: 385. O. 13, ’06. 60w.
Hawtrey, Valentina. Romance of old wars. †$1.50. Holt.
With a background of war between the French and Dutch of Von Arteveld’s time, the author has built up a pathetic love story. Matthieu de Châtelfors and Huette de Richecour are betrothed at birth. Huette develops into a plain, passionate, rather shrewish young woman whom Matthieu delays marrying on one pretext and another. She is too proud to insist and time drags on. With a promise to marry her on his return, he leaves for the battle-field. There follows a romantic meeting with a pretty peasant girl whose refusal of Matthieu’s love arouses his determination to wed her. The curtain rings down on the death of the one and the repulse of the other at Châtelfors.
Hay, Alfred D. Alternating currents: their theory, generation and transformation. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
A book for students and readers who are familiar with the subject both from practical and theoretical experience. “While the arrangement is logical, it is not systematic enough to make easy reading. Under the direction of a competent instructor, with proper laboratory facilities available, the book can be used as a text with excellent satisfaction.” (Engin. N.)
“It is undoubtedly one of the best books on the subject of alternating currents, and as a reference book for students, manufacturers and users of alternating current machinery it will prove exceedingly valuable.” H. H. Norris.
+ + – Engin. N. 55: 430. Ap. 12, ’06. 830w.
“The only drawback is that he has thus crowded the space devoted directly to the theory of alternating currents. These chapters should have been expanded or omitted altogether.”
+ + – Nation. 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 210w.
Hay, John. Addresses: a collection of the more notable addresses delivered by the late secretary of state during the last years of his life. **$2. Century.
Mr. Hay’s discussion of men and things embodies his maturest thought, and his highest ideals of statehood. Among the twenty-four addresses grouped here are estimates of Franklin in France, Sir Walter Scott, William McKinley, Edmund Clarence Stedman, President Roosevelt, and discussions of international copyright, American diplomacy, Grand army of the republic, The press and modern progress and America’s love of peace.
+ Lit. D. 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 100w. + Nation. 83: 481. D. 6, ’06. 240w.
“Rich in suggestive thought, and at once scholarly and charming in style, is a notable addition to the already large body of the literary remains of American statesmen.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 808. D. ’06. 90w.
“Contains the addresses by which we think he will be best known. It is calculated to make every American reader prouder of our great secretary of state; it will also give to every foreign student of our affairs a higher opinion of the richest American character and attainment.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 841. D. 1, ’06. 580w. + + Putnam’s. 1: 383. D. ’06. 310w.
Hay, Marie. [German pompadour]; being the true history of Wilhelmine von Gravenitz, landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg: a veracious narrative of the eighteenth century, gleaned from old documents. *$3.50. Scribner.
“Wilhelmine von Gravenitz was one of the most fascinating women of the eighteenth century. More passionate, and vastly more intelligent than La Pompadour, her French rival in intrigue and gallantry, she was a nobler type of woman, for she was really in love with Eberhard Ludwig, the reigning Duke of Wirtemburg, and though she played his dull and colorless wife many a cruel trick, and even attempted to assassinate her, our sympathies in spite of ourselves are stirred rather in the favour of the brilliant mistress than of the highly respectable but phlegmatic wife. To depict the life of a woman of this class in a lengthy narrative, without making her offensive, demands unusual insight into human nature.”—Sat. R.
“Her compromise between history and fiction is maintained throughout; she is always guiding herself by authentic facts, and her emotions are regulated by the documents at her side. And here lies the defect of the system. She cannot give her imagination free rein, and yet she may indulge it to such an extent that the reader does not know when he is reading history and when he is reading fiction. The ordinary reader will question whether the record of Wilhelmine might not give off a more pungent odour to other nostrils; and still more will he doubt whether this vagrant air is potent enough to steep three hundred and fifty odd pages with its fragrance. A magazine article or a sonnet were the proper vessel for such sweetness.”
– Acad. 71: 81. Jl. 28, ’06. 1170w.
“A notable piece of work. There is distinction in the style, and the writer shows such evident familiarity with the period and place involved, that certain objections which we feel should be made to the presentation of the narrative may with some show of reason be judged pedantic.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 2: 96. Jl. 28. 2050w.
“The author writes with a clever woman’s knowledge of the human heart, but her style occasionally borders on the luscious. It is a book for the novel reader, not for the student.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ – Dial. 41. 386. D. 1, ’06. 270w.
“The literary style is much inferior to the power of the narrative. We have unqualified gratitude to the authoress-historian for her labor of construction.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 753. N. 17, ’06. 940w.
“This remarkable first attempt at an historical novel leads one to hope that in a future venture Miss Hay will give us, not a more vivid story but a more carefully finished one.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 240. Ag. 25, ’06. 730w.
Haynes, George Henry. Election of senators. **$1.50. Holt.
This volume in the “American public problems” series, aims “to make clear the considerations which led the framers of the Constitution to place the election of senators in the hands of the state legislature; the form and spirit of the elections thus made, and the causes which have led to the recent and pressing demand for popular control over the choice of senators. It attempts also to forecast in some degree the probable effectiveness of such popular control, whether exercised under a loose construction of the present law, or in accordance with a constitutional amendment making possible the election of senators by direct popular vote.” Following the eleven chapters into which this subject has been divided are the resolutions favoring popular election of senators passed by the House of representatives, Recommendations of the Pennsylvania joint committee and a bibliography.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 971. Jl. ’06. 90w.
“Of considerable popular as well as historical interest.”
+ Dial. 41: 93. Ag. 16, ’06. 320w.
“This volume presents a timely and interesting account of the arguments for and against the present system of the election of senators.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 397. S. 22, ’06. 320w.
“The book is so complete and so fair that, but for one circumstance, we should not feel called upon to do more than to refer the reader to it as a lucid and exhaustive compendium. The argument assumes, of course, that the Senate, as it exists, is in need of improvement, This part of the book is more labored than is necessary.”
+ – Nation. 83: 247. S. 20, ’06. 1280w. R. of Rs. 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 180w.
Hazelton, John Hampton. Declaration of independence: its history. **$4.50. Dodd.
“The book begins with 1774, following with the first steps taken by the colonies. Jefferson’s share in the drafting of the Declaration, the help of John Adams, the position of Hancock, and an account of how, when, and where each member signed the document. There is also a description of the effect of the Declaration on this country and England. In another chapter the author writes about the present resting place of the original document. The limited edition of the work will be in two volumes: the regular, in one.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Hazelton has performed creditably a hard task, for which all students of the period will be grateful.” George Elliott Howard.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 913. Jl. ’06. 530w.
“This is not a mere historical canvas filled with stiff figures, but rather a series of character studies of live men,—a set of ‘journals intimes’, which, to employ the language of John Adams, enables one ‘to penetrate the intricate, internal foldings of their souls.’” J. Woodbridge Riley.
+ + Bookm. 23: 289. My. ’06. 1400w.
“Mr. Hazelton has preferred to send out his material in bullion rather than to coin it into currency. As a narrative it suffers in consequence, but it has the greater value for the student.” Edwin E. Sparks.
+ + – Dial. 41: 202. O. 1, ’06. 850w.
“An elaborate work for reference rather than for reading. Unfortunately, his methods have serious defects. Notwithstanding the author’s care, misprints may be found, and curiously careless references to printed books. Yet, in spite of its drawbacks, the volume cannot but be highly useful to the student of sources.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 409. My. 17, ’06. 600w.
“Mr. Hazelton’s work is the result of patient and laborious investigation, set forth without any effort to attain literary attractiveness. It is valuable for a correct understanding of one important phase of the Revolution.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 236. Ap. 7, ’06. 530w.
Headley, John William. Confederate operations in Canada and New York. $2. Neale.
One with the incendiaries who tried to burn New York City Nov. 25, 1864, and who escaped amidst the panic to Canada “gives a detailed account of the several mad undertakings, each of which proved a dismal failure but undoubtedly caused much concern and embarrassment to the federal and State authorities. Captain Headley enlisted in the Confederate army early in the war, and prior to his Canadian mission saw much active service in Kentucky and Tennessee. Of this he also writes, his narrative affording fresh glimpses of the campaigns of Bragg, Forrest, and Morgan. His book is one of adventurous interest.” (Outlook.)
“His book is a useful addition to the literature on the war.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 123. Jl. 28, ’06. 570w.
“Mr. Headley’s book is mostly an inaccurate rehash of the facts of the civil war; but a few chapters contain an account of the New York affair that might, if better presented, have been interesting. As it is, the style is graceless as the narrative is shameless.”
– Nation. 83: 152. Ag. 16, ’06. 360w.
“Although devoid of literary merit and characterized by a pronounced sectional tone, deserves a place on the shelf allotted to literature on the Civil war.”
+ – Outlook. 83: 334. Je. 9, ’06. 220w.
Healy, Most Rev. John. Life and writings of St. Patrick. *$4.50. Benziger.
“Dr. Healy gives us, from an inside standpoint, a copious and exhaustive history of Ireland’s Apostle. The present work, containing over seven hundred and fifty good-sized pages, embodies everything of value that is known, or probably ever will be known, on the subject. Its chief excellence is the wealth of topographical lore which the learned author has brought to his task.... The narrative of St. Patrick’s journeyings is greatly enlivened by the Archbishop’s identification of the various places and landmarks in the modern nomenclature.”—Cath. World.
“There is no reason to expect that any subsequent work will supplant this ‘Life’ with those who will wish to learn all about the Apostle of Ireland, not in the interests of dry scholarship, but from love of faith and country.”
+ + + Cath. World. 83: 102. Ap. ’06. 870w.
Reviewed by T. W. Rolleston.
+ – Hibbert J. 4: 447. Ja. ’06. 1310w.
“For any subsequent writer to ignore the close train of reasoning by which Professor Bury reaches his conclusions is simply to put himself out of the court as a critical authority.”
– + Sat. R. 101: 793. Je. 23, ’06. 860w.
Healy, Patrick Joseph. Valerian persecution: a study of the relations between church and state in the third century, A.D. **$1.50. Houghton.
“The book as a whole is interesting and valuable.” John Winthrop Platner.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 11: 356. Ja. ’06. 740w.
“The tone of the work throughout is candid and temperate, the style is clear and engaging, and the conclusions reached are, with minor exceptions justified by the evidence.” Eri B. Hulbert.
+ + Am. J. Theol. 10: 345. Ap. ’06. 350w.
“We have praised the author’s impartiality: but we may detect a certain prepossession in his account of the fate of Emperor Valerian.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 759. Je. 23. 980w.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
+ Atlan. 97: 415. Mr. ’06. 200w.
“Both in acuteness and erudition this book is a leader.”
+ + Critic. 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 210w.
“This work is evidently based on a careful study of all the sources, ancient and recent, whence our information on the persecution under Valerian is derived.” Alice Gardner.
+ Eng. Hist. R. 21: 552. Jl. ’06. 760w.
Hearn, Lafcadio. [Romance of the Milky Way, and other studies and stories.] **$1.25. Houghton.
“This posthumous book is full of prettinesses, much of the character and value of those admirably set forth in English in the author’s former works.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 388. Mr. 31. 870w.
Reviewed by W. E. Griffis.
+ Critic. 48: 222. Mr. ’06. 630w.
Hearn, Lafcadio. [Some Chinese ghosts.] **$1.50. Little.
Mr. Hearn sought especially for “weird beauty” in preparing the legends grouped here. The six tales possess the charm of a poet’s touch and are as follows: The soul of the great bell, The story of Ming-Y, The legend of Tchi-Niu, The return of Yen-Tchin-Kny, The tradition of the tea-plant and The tale of the porcelain god.
“New and most attractive edition of a delightful book.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 230w. Outlook. 84: 503. N. 9, ’06. 40w.
Heigh, John. House of cards. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 97: 44. Ja. ’06. 200w.
“The book is of almost painful interest, but is no mere political pamphlet.”
+ Sat. R. 100: 219. Ag. 12, ’05. 220w.
Heilprin, Angelo. Tower of Pelee. **$3. Lippincott.
“It will be difficult, even for those geologists who hesitate to accept all of Lacroix’s brilliant reasoning and explanation in regard to the physical manifestations of Pelée’s eruptions, to agree with Professor Heilprin’s views, largely because the manner in which they are presented must in many cases fail to convince the reader.” Ernest Howe.
+ – – Science, n.s. 23: 29. Ja. 5, ’06. 1240w.
Heilprin, Angelo, and Heilprin, Louis, eds. Lippincott’s new gazetteer. *$10. Lippincott.
The best of all the editions of fifty years has been retained, the unnecessary amplification cut out, and the latter-day material which the march of improvement orders has been added to this semi-centennial volume of Lippincott’s gazetteer. It is complete, condensed and monumental.
“Is a work of great value and contains an up-to-date, reliable and well-selected summary of the most important geographical information.” Emory R. Johnson.
+ + + Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 247. Ja. ’06. 440w.
“All the modern advances of geography are capably exhibited, as might have been expected from the editors.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 136. F. 3. 230w.
“The latest changes in geographical conditions are to be found in this new edition.”
+ + + Critic. 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 700w. + + + Dial. 40: 97. F. 1, ’06. 140w.
“In omissions and errors the Territory of Alaska fares worst.”
+ + – Ind. 60: 282. F. 1, ’06. 710w.
“We gladly recognize that it has substantial claims to distinction as a reference work of great usefulness to all who require geographical information. For such, indeed, there is no other work of equal scope. And if only because of this fact it is to be hoped that in future editions greater care will be exercised to secure both freedom from error and ease of consultation.”
+ + – Lit. D. 32: 253. F. 17, ’06. 1110w. + + + Nation. 82: 123. F. 8, ’06. 1340w.
“There is little with which fault can be found, and abundance to praise in the volume.”
+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 778. N. 18, ’05. 1150w.
“In its new form will be as indispensable as is an unabridged dictionary.”
+ + + Outlook. 81: 1084. D. 30, ’05. 260w.
“This work of Messrs. Heilprin cannot be too highly praised—the devotion to detail has not only been conscientious to a degree, but they have also shown an intelligent discrimination which is a large portion of the value of the book.”
+ + + Pub. Opin. 39: 828. D. 23, ’05. 200w.
“The work as a whole is far more comprehensive in scope than ever before. Its treatment of the recently acquired possessions of the United States gives it a distinctive value to Americans such as no other book of its class now has.”
+ + + R. of Rs. 33: 256. F. ’06. 160w.
“Have done their work of bringing this gazetteer up to date very thoroughly.”
+ + + Sat. R. 101: 84. Ja. 20, ’06. 70w.
“As far as we have been able to examine the book, we have found it complete.”
+ + + Spec. 96: 152. Ja. 27, ’06. 180w.
Heisch, C. E. Art and craft of the author; practical hints upon literary work. *$1.20. Grafton press.
Miss Heisch’s book is full of practical hints upon literary work. “Her advice may be boiled down into the old golden precepts; Be honest; be patient; be industrious.” (Acad.) Yet there are specific suggestions for a writer along the line of principles which should guide him, objects he should keep in view and the methods of carrying them out.
“Her advice is always good, and her book is well-arranged and clearly written.”
+ Acad. 70: 189. F. 24, ’06. 160w.
“Authors with some experience as well as beginners will find profit in these pages.”
+ Critic. 48: 569. Je. ’06. 140w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 324. My. 19, ’06. 270w.
“She says judicious things, and she fortifies her precepts with good illustrations.”
+ Spec. 96: 625. Ap. 21, ’06. 120w.
Heller, Otto. Studies in modern German literature. *$1.50; school ed. *$1.25. Ginn.
Three essays devoted respectively to Sudermann, Hauptmann and women writers of the nineteenth century.
“Herr Heller is not a very great or original critic, but he is genuinely interested in his subject, and that goes for much; he has read and assimilated a great deal of the best German criticism bearing on the matter, and his outlook is generally sensible.”
+ Ath. 1905, 2: 685. N. 18. 530w.
“Suggestive and interesting work.”
+ – Lond. Times. 4: 317. S. 29, ’05. 660w.
“Very able treatise on modern German literature.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 40: 510. Ap. 21, ’06. 160w.
Helm, W. H. Aspects of Balzac. **$1. Pott.
“His book is a useful addition to Balzac literature.”
+ + Critic. 48: 470. My. ’06. 90w.
“Mr. Helm’s method furnishes us with a number of unpretentious chats, that commend themselves by intelligence and discrimination, and move in the middle region of appreciation between fanatical zeal and grudging recognition.”
+ Dial. 40: 52. Ja. 16, ’06. 110w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 122. F. 24, ’06. 900w.
Henderson, Charles Hanford. Children of good fortune: an essay in morals. **$1.30. Houghton.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
+ Atlan. 97: 419. Mr. ’06. 130w.
“One feels disposed to say that Dr. Henderson has written a most immoral book about morality.” Edward Fuller.
+ – Critic. 48: 212. Mr. ’06. 270w.
Henderson, Ernest Flagg. Short history of Germany; new ed. [2v. in 1.] *$2.50. Macmillan.
The two volumes of Mr. Henderson’s history which appeared four years ago have been combined in one volume for the present edition. “The author assumes, as his starting-point, the preëminence of Germany as the guiding thread to lead the student through the intricacies of general European history. All the great international struggles, he points out, have been fought out on German soil, from the Thirty years’ war to the great struggle against Napoleon. The two great ever-present factors of the entire medieval period—the Papacy and the Empire—fought out their differences on German soil and through German personages.... This volume, which is excellently printed and provided with indexes and notes, is also supplied with several maps and bibliographical lists.” (R. of Rs.)
+ + Nation. 82: 117. F. 8, ’06. 60w.
“It is a book that is most needful.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 313. My. 12, ’06. 240w.
“Those who are really interested in German history, however, will not be satisfied with such a condensation, admirably as it has been done.”
+ + Outlook. 82: 522. Mr. 3, ’06. 110w.
“Not the least valuable part of the book is a careful bibliography introducing each chapter and covering the subject matter of the chapter.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 40: 541. Ap. 28, ’06. 130w. + + R. of Rs. 33: 381. Mr. ’06. 160w.
Henderson, Henry F. Religious controversies of Scotland. *$1.75. imp. Scribner.
Reviewed by Eri B. Hulbert.
Am. J. Theol. 10: 354. Ap. ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Henderson’s book is not exhaustive. Full information on the religious controversies of Scotland will have to be sought elsewhere. The book was manifestly intended to be a popular account of its subject, rather than a professional and scientific one.” T. Johnstone Irving.
+ – Bib. World. 28: 74. Jl. ’06. 720w.
Henderson, John. [West Indies]; painted by A. L. Forrest; described by John Henderson.
+ Spec. 95: 1041. D. 15, ’05. 90w.
Henderson, M. Sturge. Constable. *$2. Scribner.
A late addition to the “Library of art.” The volume furnishes a short, condensed life of the English landscape painter, “who, by virtue of a naturalism that was unique in two respects—his ‘fearless adoption of “unpicturesque” localities as subjects for his pictures, and his practice of using fresh, bright color’—pointed out to his successors ‘the way to a new kingdom.’” (Ind.) Much of the material has been drawn from C. R. Leslie’s “Life.” There are 38 half-tone reproductions from the artist’s paintings, sketches and studies.
“The author not only indulges in restrained criticism, but presents the actions and interests of the artist in a vivid and chronological manner.”
+ Critic. 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“The beautiful simplicity of Constable’s life and art are admirably expressed in this book, and those who read it carefully will learn much more than they have known before about the simple and homely but great English master.” Walter Cranston Larned.
+ + Dial. 40: 256. Ap. 16, ’06. 1350w.
“His critical comment, besides being sound, has the further merit of clear and concise expression.”
+ + – Ind. 59: 1483. D. 21, ’05. 210w. + Int. Studio. 27: sup. 32. D. ’05. 140w. + Int. Studio. 27: 374. F. ’06. 50w.
“It is well enough done, but there was no great necessity of doing it at all, and there is nothing in it that is not readily enough to be found elsewhere.”
+ – Nature. 81: 509. D. 21, ’05. 100w.
“The present volume challenges comparison with Mr. Holmes’s excellent biography published four years ago. Both biographers are notable for clearness, vigor, and discrimination.”
+ + Outlook. 81: 628. N. 11, ’05. 180w.
Henderson, Mary Foote. Aristocracy of health. $1.50. Harper.
The author outlines the path royal for the would-be health aristocrat,—the being who achieves strength, self-reliance, success, influence long life, and happiness. The way lies close to physical culture, abstinence from poisons, and dietetic care. The author views the subject of human degeneracy from the standpoint of different countries, and so leads up to her suggestion that a national and international league be formed for the advancement of physical culture.
“Laborious and enthusiastic volume.”
– N. Y. Times. 11: 659. O. 6, ’06. 480w.
“The material is thrown into popular form and although it could easily be reduced in bulk, the book is readable. As an argument against the use of stimulants, it carries weight; as a general philosophy of living it has its limitations.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 428. O. 20, ’06. 430w.
Henderson, T. F. Mary, Queen of Scots: her environment and tragedy. *$6 Scribner.
A biography satisfactory for students because of its wealth of footnotes and references. “To sum up, the presentation of Queen Mary ... is good and true to nature for the period in which she can be observed in freedom, while she displayed to the world her great and royal heart, facing her enemies in the field of battle, meeting diplomatists in the council chamber, and discharging with grace and gaiety the duties of hostess, or the functions of a queen, and Mr. Henderson can make allowances for the strong temptations which led to her fall. But in her long and cruel confinement he loses touch with her. Without adequate conception of her rights, or of the part which as a queen and a Catholic she should have played, he considers her now as an actress, a devote, a mischief-maker. But her conduct at her trial and execution again appeals to him and he concludes with a fitting testimony to her great qualities.” (Acad.)
“Mr. Henderson’s volume is at least the fourth separate biography of her which has appeared during this year alone. Of all these lives Mr. Henderson’s is without doubt the best and most thorough. His advantages over his rivals are many.” J. H. Pollen.
+ + – Acad. 69: 1351. D. 30, ’05. 1530w.
“His book is both a narrative biography and a critical study. The value of the book lies chiefly in its clear presentation of general conditions underlying the crises of Mary’s career and particularly of the influence of foreign affairs upon their shaping and development.” O. H. Richardson.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 890. Jl. ’06. 860w.
“Some readers will be inclined to question not only the soundness of many of Mr. Henderson’s criticisms, but also his presentation of some of the facts. The book is vigorously written and displays much critical acumen; but some of the phrases are rather inelegant, and one or two savor of slang.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 319. Mr. 17. 2030w.
“It is a pity that several mistakes have been allowed to creep into the text, and that, in giving the date of the month, in nearly every instance that date of the year has been omitted; also that the author has permitted himself the use of so many unusual words.”
+ – Critic. 48: 472. My. ’06. 400w.
“He has brought together for the first time many facts that were formerly to be sought only in scattered and more or less inaccessible books or magazine articles, and he has added not a little entirely new matter, important to a proper understanding of the life of Mary Stuart and of those around her.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ – Dial. 41: 63. Ag. 1, ’06. 390w.
“His survey is thorough, extensive and precise, missing scarcely a detail of the stormy and adventurous career.”
+ + Lit. D. 32: 917. Je. 16, ’06. 960w.
“Though we differ widely from Mr. Henderson on many points, his book is a valuable contribution to the controversy, and it will be indispensable to the student. The general reader will find it fresh and clear and well-informed. We feel bound to add that it is to a considerable extent spoiled by Mr. Henderson’s irritating habit of correcting his predecessors on points of detail. Sometimes he is right, but more often it seems to us, there is as much evidence for their view as for his.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 4: 449. D. 15, ’05. 830w.
“His book not only claims to be free from prepossessions, but succeeds much better than most works on Mary Stuart in preserving the mood of objectivity.”
+ Nation. 82: 409. My. 17, ’06. 580w.
“Mr. Henderson may have Mary’s history at his fingers’ ends ... but he has not succeeded in telling what he knows convincingly, or with clearness or fullness. Mrs. MacCunn’s biography is not only far more interesting, but it is fuller.”
– N. Y. Times. 11: 159. Mr. 17, ’06. 430w.
“His is a book for advanced students, and these will find it richly informative.” H. Addington Bruce.
+ + – Outlook. 84: 279. S. 29, ’06. 2920w.
“We have mentioned points susceptible of improvement in the book, but it will be very welcome to the relatively large public which studies the history of the unhappy queen.”
+ Spec. 95: sup. 899. D. 2, ’05. 1780w.
Henderson, William James. Art of the singer; practical hints about vocal technics and style. **$1.25. Scribner.
The results of twenty-five years of study are summed up for the teacher, the student and the lover of singing. “Probably the best thing in Mr. Henderson’s book, the ‘Art of the singer,’ is his defence of that art. In reply to the declaration of an acquaintance that singing is an artificial achievement, he says: ‘The truth is that while speaking is nature, singing is nothing more than nature under high cultivation.’” (Nation.)
“A real acquisition to the library.”
+ + Bookm. 24: 271. N. ’06. 560w.
“While the book is to some extent technical, it is written in a clear, comprehensive style and can be enjoyed by the mere lover of singing.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 514. O. 13, ’06. 230w. + + Nation. 83: 291. O. 4, ’06. 630w.
“Mr. Henderson’s book is a most valuable and useful one. It makes for the preservation and integrity of something that cannot possibly be spared in the musical world.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 666. O. 13, ’06. 1080w. + R. of Rs. 34: 512. O. ’06. 60w.
Henry, Arthur. Lodgings in town. †$1.50. Barnes.
+ Critic. 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 140w.
“The intimate, straightforward and lively style in which Mr. Henry writes, and his large and convincing optimism, make a strong appeal to the reader’s sympathy.”
+ Dial. 40: 19. Ja. 1, ’06. 170w.
Henry, Arthur. Unwritten law. †$1.50. Barnes.
“It is a truer reproduction of contemporaneous cosmopolitan existence than are most historical essays that claim to represent things as they are, and being instinct with the higher realism ... the work holds the interest of the reader from cover to cover.”
+ + Arena. 36: 573. N. ’06. 190w. + Sat. R. 100: 218. Ag. 12, ’05. 270w.
Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter). [Four million.] †$1. McClure.
“In the four million people of New York city their daily living and working and playing, Mr. Henry has found the material for comedy, and tragedy, for laughter and tears. With a few deft touches he weaves the fabric of romance in East side tenements, Wall street brokers’ offices or along Fifth avenue. His sketches—they are hardly stories—are remarkable for their terseness, sympathy and humor, and for their deep insight into the inner life of the great city.”—Pub. Opin.
“These sketches of New York life are among the best things of the kind put forth in many a day.”
+ + Critic. 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 80w. + Ind. 61: 161. Jl. 19, ’06. 120w.
“The work is not even, of course, and some of it is not up to the mark—but on the whole it expresses the spirit of New York wonderfully. And it is clever and entertaining always.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 290. My. 5, ’06. 640w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 220w.
“Little stories, each with its individual point, and all pervaded with genuine fun and here and there a touch of sentiment or pathos.”
+ Outlook. 83: 42. My. 3, ’06. 120w.
“His work is a living proof of the oft-repeated statement that literature depends for its value not on the quality of the material but on the eye of the beholder.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 604. My. 12, ’06. 120w.
Henshaw, Julia W. Mountain wild flowers of America: a simple and popular guide to the names and descriptions of the flowers that bloom above the clouds. *$2. Ginn.
Three hundred plants which the wanderer in mountain regions may meet with at any turning are introduced to the reader of this volume by both their popular and scientific names, while one hundred of them are further identified by means of full-page pictures reproduced from photographs taken by the author. The flowers are classified according to color, an explanation of all botanical terms used is given, and there is one index to the scientific names and another to the English.
“Among the best of the numerous popular works on nature issued during recent years.”
+ + Bookm. 24: 73. S. ’06. 110w. + Dial. 41: 73. Ag. 1, ’06. 60w.
“Even one ignorant of botany will be able to make use of the book.”
+ Ind. 60: 1371. Je. 7, ’06. 120w.
“Is certain to stimulate as well as delight all tourists to the wonderland of our great common Northwest.”
+ Nation. 83: 108. Ag. 2, ’06. 540w.
“An interesting and practical volume to the unenlightened.” Helen R. Albee.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 567. S. 15, ’06. 330w.
Herbert, George. English works, newly arranged and annotated and considered in relation to his life, by G. Herbert Palmer. 3v. *$6. Houghton.
“The edition is an elaborate and worthy monument to the gravely sweet and original genius.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 415. Ap. 7. 1700w.
“He has done a work never attempted before, and it is so final in its results that henceforth every student of Herbert must reckon with it.” A. V. G. Allen.
+ + + Atlan. 97: 90. Ja. ’06. 8090w.
“Wide and intimate scholarship and a rare insight born of a lifetime of close fellowship are met together in this work.” Frances Duncan.
+ + – Critic. 49: 183. Ag. ’06. 1640w.
“Professor Palmer’s essays are terse, direct, and pithy, felicitous in their combination of tireless scholarly research and infectious enthusiasm.”
+ + + Dial. 40: 129. F. 16, ’06. 410w.
“He has run the risk of misleading the general reader by imposing upon the arrangement an interpretation of the poet’s character which is peculiarly his own, and unsustained by internal or external evidence.”
+ + – Ind. 61: 1164. N. 15, ’06. 100w. Lit. D. 32: 209. F. 10, ’06. 780w.
“Excellent as an annotator, the present editor does not appear to us so happy as a biographer.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 4: 456. D. 22, ’05. 2050w.
“It is probably the most complete, and critically speaking, the final edition of the English poet’s works.”
+ + R. of Rs. 33: 110. Ja. ’06. 190w.
Herrick, Albert Bledsoe. Practical electric railway hand-book. 2nd ed. rev. & corrected. *$3. McGraw pub.
The results of practical experiences along the lines of improvement in the operation of electric railways have been arranged here in convenient form for reference. “The material is logically arranged in the following nine sections: General tables, testing, track, power station, line car house, repair shop, equipment and operation.”
“The second edition of this handbook ... is greatly improved in many ways.” Henry H. Norris.
+ + Engin. N. 55: 673. Je. 14, ’06. 580w.
Herrick, Christine Terhune, ed. Lewis Carroll birthday book. 75c. Wessels.
+ Dial. 40: 98. F. 1, ’06. 50w.
Herrick, Robert. [Memoirs of an American citizen.] †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The story is told in a clear, personal narrative which never strays into a false key.” Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 97: 43. Ja. ’06. 130w.
“It is in the life-like portraits of Carmichael and other business men that he excels, and in the description of the purely business side of life.”
+ Sat. R. 101: 308. Mr. 10, ’06. 100w.
Herrmann, Wilhelm. Communion of the Christian with God. Authorized tr.; new cheaper ed. **$1.50. Putnam.
A translation of the last German edition issued in a more convenient form than the first American issue and at a popular price.
“It is assuredly one of the important doctrinal treatises of a generation, and it is well that it is rendered into English from the text which is likely to be the author’s final revision.”
+ + Ind. 61: 880. O. 11, ’06. 1050w.
“It is a book which has entered into the life of our time, and its work has been in behalf of sincere piety and true devotion.”
+ + Nation. 83: 168. Ag. 23, ’06. 590w.
“We are glad to see so rational and so devout a book published in a form which brings it within the reach of others than professional students. For it is more than a book of theology; it is an exposition and interpretation of religious experience.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 428. O. 20, ’06. 390w.
Herzfeld, Elsa G. Family monographs: the history of twenty-four families living in the middle of the west side of New York city. For sale by Brentano’s and Charity organization soc., N. Y.
Miss Herzfeld says, “The object of these studies is to throw light on the family of the New York tenement-house dweller. The majority of the families studied are fairly typical of the German and Irish, foreign and native born, tenement-house population of New York.” While not the most thriftless type they live from hand to mouth. The work is based on wide sociological observation.
“Fragmentary as the study is, it is an authentic document by a shrewd observer and interpreter of social motives.” C. R. H.
+ + Am. J. Soc. 11: 706. Mr. ’06. 50w.
“The monograph is valuable and will be very serviceable to students of city life.”
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 236. Ja. ’06. 90w.
“The book is one that the general reader will enjoy; for interest has not been sacrificed to scientific colorness, and humor and pathos are alike to be found here.” E. A.
+ + J. Pol. Econ. 14: 255. Ap. ’06. 130w.
“It is not, in fact, a literary work in any sense, or a ‘book’ in any but the most restricted sense. It is a tract.”
+ + – N. Y. Times. 10: 712. O. 21, ’05. 210w.
Hewitt, Randall H. Across the plains and over the divide: a mule train journey from East to West in 1862, and incidents connected therewith. $1.50. Broadway pub.
The untamed West of the Civil war days, with its primitive grandeur and unrestraint is reproduced in these pages for the benefit of the younger generation. The journey covers a zigzag course from Illinois to Washington, over wild country, with no end of perilous encounters.
Hewlett, Maurice. Works. Ed. de luxe. 11v. ea. *$3. Macmillan.
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 638. My. 19, ’06. 970w. (Review of v. 1–9.)
Hewlett, Maurice Henry. Fond adventures: tales of the youth of the world. †$1.50. Harper.
“Here again he shows his virtuosity in creating a magic haze, beyond which his mediaeval figures move upon their fate.” Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 97: 53. Ja. ’06. 340w.
Hewlett, Maurice. [Fool errant.] †$1.50. Macmillan.
“Can it be that Mr. Hewlett after all grows genial?” Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 97: 54. Ja. ’06. 30w.
Heyward, Janie Screven. Wild roses. $1.25. Neale.
Some thirty verses, simple to a fault, upon homey subjects—with a touch here and there of strong Southern feeling. The volume opens with a poem on Confederate reunion 1899, and closes with The Confederate private.
Heywood, William. Palio and Ponte. Methuen, London.
“For the present volume all those who love the history of sport or of Italy will be grateful. It is as light as it is learned, while the excellent illustrations and pleasant type and form give it an added charm.” E. Armstrong.
+ + Eng. Hist. R. 21: 153. Ja. ’06. 1000w.
Hichens, Robert Smythe. Black spaniel and other stories. †$1.50. Stokes.
“They have not the epigrammatic flash of his earlier books nor the substantial impressiveness of his latest.”
– Critic. 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 130w.
Hichens, Robert Smythe. [Call of the blood]; il. by Orson Lowell. †$1.50. Harper.
An Englishman ten years younger than his “ugly though brilliantly clever and intellectual” bride finds, under the sunny skies of Sicily whence they go for their honeymoon, that he cannot resist the cry of youth and beauty. The strain of Sicilian blood in his veins is responsible for his aptitude in dancing the tarantella and for his yielding to the quick call of love—dishonourable tho it be, and tragic tho it prove.
“It is a full-blooded stirring story—a work which, if Mr. Hichens had not written ‘The garden of Allah,’ we might hail as the greatest novel of passion in the century.”
+ + Acad. 71: 266. S. 15, ’06. 150w.
“Mr. Hichens at any rate is open to the accusation of taking a long time to tell a simple story.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 362. S. 29, 370w.
“Mr. Hichens envelops himself in rather artificial motives and seems quite oblivious of the influences that must really move his characters to act with consummate naturalness to an inevitable end.” Duffield Osborne
+ – Bookm. 24: 377. D. ’06. 780w.
“So far as the matter of scene painting goes, ‘The call of the blood’ recalls the splendid richness of colour in ‘The garden of Allah’ while in all other respects it serves only to emphasize the marked superiority of the earlier volume.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 24: 386. D. ’06. 330w.
“Mr. Hichens, it seems, has committed the strategic crime of not making his new novel even better than its predecessor. Yet ‘The call of the blood’ is a good book, perhaps even a great book.”
+ + – Current Literature. 41: 699. D. ’06. 820w.
“There is not enough power in this story and too much decadent fineness.”
– + Ind. 61: 1229. N. 22, ’06. 710w.
“The book is entertaining and well worth reading.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 210w.
“Some of the Sicilian descriptions are quite as remarkable as anything Mr. Hichens has done.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 70w. + – Lond. Times. 5: 305. S. 7, ’06. 510w. + – Nation. 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 450w.
“The story is written with much dramatic power and with fine restraint as well. The chief fault of the novel, is that at times, notably in the last hundred pages, the action drags.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 719. N. 3, ’06. 690w. N. Y. Times. 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“The latter part of the story is tragic and moves with some vigor—but too late!”
– + Outlook. 84: 581. N. 3, ’06. 140w.
“The author’s style has an even carefulness. It has no compelling illumination, no gift for happy phrase, and is never impregnated with the sense of character; but it lends itself to the landscape passages of which he is fond, and retains throughout a literary finish.”
+ Sat. R. 102: 401. S. 29, ’06. 730w.
“Mr. Hichens’s style harmonises excellently with his subject. Its colour is at times rather hectic, but in the main it seems to heighten the effect of a remarkably interesting and dramatic study of the survival of pagan and primitive instincts.”
+ Spec. 97: 404. S. 22, ’06. 810w.
Hichens, Robert. [Garden of Allah.] $1.50. Stokes.
“From the standpoint of the author, in so far as he has vouchsafed to disclose it, the ending of the story is forced and inartistic.” Duffield Osborne.
– Bookm. 24: 378. D. ’06. 760w. Edinburgh R. 203: 79. Ja. ’06. 2260w. Living Age. 248: 736. Mr. 24, ’06. 2260w. (Reprinted from Edinburgh R.)
Higgins, Hubert. Humaniculture. **$1.20. Stokes.
“A phrase of the author’s states the subject matter of this book: ‘The problem has now shifted its ground from how to cure a man ... in a hospital to the cure of a man in a sanitarium. The real problem still remains; how to prevent a man in a home from acquiring disease.’... It is now known that only through the exercise of the faculty of mastication and insalivation can the stomach and intestines perform their functions in a non-poison-producing way.... The real significance of this act has only recently been demonstrated, and by an American, Mr. Horace Fletcher. The first half of Dr. Higgins’s book is devoted to analysis and eulogy of Mr. Fletcher’s theories.”—Outlook.
“To do him justice there is more truth in his theories than in some others with which a long-suffering public has been afflicted.”
+ Critic. 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 60w.
“Dr. Higgins is neither a ‘crank’ nor a faddist. While his book is, unfortunately, diffuse in style and not clear in construction, it is worth reading.”
+ Outlook. 83: 579. Jl. 7, ’06. 410w.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Part of a man’s life. **$2.50. Houghton.
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 134. F. 3. 300w.
Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ + Atlan. 97: 115. Ja. ’06. 860w.
“It is pleasant to see, in regard to this intensely human part of a man’s life, that he can still point a pen not greatly corroded by the rust of days.”
+ + Ind. 59: 1341. D. 7, ’05. 670w.
“Has seldom written to better purpose than in this semi-biographical volume of reminiscences and impressions.”
+ + Lit. D. 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 490w.
“This volume with its rich fund of story and observation, garmented in graciousness and adorned with many interesting portraits and autograph facsimiles, will win for its author an increasing measure of esteem and affection.”
+ + Reader. 7: 338. F. ’06. 570w.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, and MacDonald, William. History of the United States from 986 to 1905. $2. Harper.
“The revision and enlargement will tend to prolong its space of public favor for another score of years.”
+ + Reader. 6: 724. N. ’05. 290w.
Hight, George Ainslie. Unity of will: studies of an irrationalist. **$3. Dutton.
“Mr. Hight’s treatise is quite in line with the present trend of philosophy. This, reversing the long-prevalent and still popular conception of will as the instrument of reason, recognizes will as the master and intellect as its servant, both in the individual and in the universe.... By will is broadly meant the self-active principle manifested in all loving, hating, seeking, shunning, striving.”—Outlook.
Ath. 1906, 1: 731. Je. 16. 230w.
“The book was written throughout in an attractive and readable style; to this is added the merit of brevity, unusual in philosophic works of this sort. At the end a series of ‘First principles’ sums up in concise form the main views of the author, which, although, as has been pointed out, they do not always fit in with those of one more used to a psychological and epistemological method of approach, still are calculated to present to all much food for profound and beneficial reflection.” Robert Morris Ogden.
+ – J. Philos. 3: 715. D. 20, ’06. 1340w.
“His argument is carried forward with a directness, a logic, a careful avoidance of unnecessary technicalities that are admirable.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 499. Ag. 11, ’06. 1760w.
“Whatever be its defects, Mr. Hight’s line of thought is soundly practical, and its effect is tonic and uplifting.”
+ + – Outlook. 83: 580. Jl. 7, ’06. 420w.
Higginbotham, Harlow Niles. Making of a merchant. $1.50. Forbes.
A thoroly practical handling of a subject most vital to young men entering upon a business career. Mr. Higinbotham writes from experience and discusses the foundation, advancement, qualities that make a merchant, details that spell success, buying merchandise, treatment of employers, the department store and its management, and the extension of credit in its various phases.
+ Lit. D. 33: 768. N. 24, ’06. 200w.
Hildreth, Richard. Japan as it was and is: a handbook of old Japan: a reprint, ed. and rev., with notes and additions by Ernest W. Clement; introd. by William Elliot Griffis. *$3. McClurg.
The material of the 1861 edition of Hildreth’s “Japan” has been revised and reprinted with copious illustrations and adequate editorial matter. The work is no less important now than when it first appeared in 1855, for the fact that it is a compilation from all the important European writings on Old Japan establishes its permanent value. In the revision, the author has harmonized the spelling of Japanese words with the modern system of Romanization, and has added such other notes and explanations as might be necessary.
Dial. 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
Hildt, John C. Early diplomatic negotiations of the United States with Russia. Johns Hopkins press.
This volume of the “Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and political science” forms an introductory study of the relations of the United States with Russia, and narrates “the history of the rise and progress of the early diplomatic relations of the American government to that country and the steps by which the negotiations were carried forward.” The missions of Dana, Adams, and Pinckney, the question of consular immunity, Spanish-American affairs, and the treaty of 1824 all receive careful consideration.
“He gives a careful and clear, but pedestrian account, based on the printed American materials and, after 1816, on an extensive use of the manuscript materials in the archives of the Department of state.”
+ Am. Hist. R. 12: 177. O. ’06. 190w.
Hill, David Jayne. History of diplomacy in the international development of Europe, v. 1. **$5. Longmans.
“But what is much more striking is the industry, the insight, and the thoroughness with which, on the whole, even in its vast introductory field, he has acquainted himself, as to all points cardinal to his theme, with the best and the latest of the teeming literature of his subject. As for petty slips ... they are exceptionally few.” George L. Burr.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 11: 358. Ja. ’06. 1150w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The misfortune of the volume is, in short, that it lacks a true perspective. If, however, the work be considered as merely a new general history, on the international side, it has many excellent features, being very well written, clear, accurate and even entertaining, while the source references at the end of each chapter, the lists of treaties, the maps, and a comprehensive index render it a valuable reference work.” E. D. Adams.
+ + – Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 248. Ja. ’06. 570w. (Review of v. 1.)
“On the whole the book has the qualities of a competent American work, being well written, but a little dull, very dependent on European scholarship, and lacking in freshness.”
+ + – Ath. 1905, 2: 334. S. 9. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is valuable, however, for bringing into one view the larger facts of the period treated, and emphasizing their influence upon the growth of national states.” David Y. Thomas.
+ Dial. 40: 9. Ja. 1, ’06. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A word of praise is due to the bibliographies which are appended to each chapter, and to the regnal tables, maps, and index.” H. W. C. Davis.
+ + – Eng. Hist. R. 21: 344. Ap. ’06. 920w. (Review of v. 1.)
Hill, Frederick Trevor. Lincoln the lawyer. **$2. Century.
The author believes that in the vast amount of material on the life of Abraham Lincoln too little can be found which sums up the great President’s legal career. So this sketch starts with Lincoln’s mythical birthright to the law, locates the real source of his professional aspirations, follows him through his workshop apprenticeship to his admission to the bar, and on, step by step, to the presidency. The whole discussion particularizes the stages of legal growth that is usually assumed in the presentation of Lincoln the statesman.
“Is, on the whole, something of a contribution to the Lincolniana already so vast.”
+ Ind. 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
“Mr. Hill has made a distinct contribution to Lincoln biography. By this we mean a contribution of original material, not a new interpretation, or new presentation, of material already in existence.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 70w. Lit. D. 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
“No layman—not to mention the lawyer—can fail to be interested by evidence so carefully sifted and a story so well told. Indeed, many parts of the book have almost the value of original documents.”
+ Nation. 83: 459. N. 29, ’06. 260w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 841. D. 1, ’06. 520w.
“Mr. Hill writes for laymen, in a clear, simple, and non-professional style, and has made an interesting as well as valuable volume. He has done his work so well that we regret that he has not done it better.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 628. N. 10, ’06. 480w.
“A real contribution to history. Mr. Hill’s researches have brought to light a vast amount of interesting data concerning the bench and bar of Illinois in Lincoln’s time.”
+ + R. of Rs. 34: 639. N. ’06. 180w.
Hill, G. Francis. Historical Greek coins. **$2.50. Macmillan.
A sidelight on Greek history. It is “not a popular work in the broad sense of the term. It is rather a handbook to the most interesting items in the British museum.... The material in the introduction is naturally encyclopedic.... It presupposes a general knowledge of numismatics on the part of the reader, which is only to be gathered from the present volume by careful perusal. The coins are taken up one by one—in many cases most excellently reproduced in half-tone—and studied from the point of view of their material, pictures, and inscriptions, their historical period being described in such a way as to bring its customs and manners vividly before the reader.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The selection of documents can be criticised, of course, both for its inclusions and its omissions. But it is quite sufficiently representative to serve as an introduction to the use of numismatic evidence in historical study, which we take to be the main object of the book.” D. G. Hogarth.
+ + – Eng. Hist. R. 21: 547. Jl. ’06. 700w.
“The author is the most competent that could be found in this country. If we think that, written on a somewhat different plan, it might have been more valuable, we hasten to admit that its actual value is very great. It will widen the outlook of every historical student who consults it.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 250. Jl. 13, ’06. 880w.
“Here and there in the volume we find passages containing information which long ago should have been employed as footnotes to history.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 606. S. 29, ’06. 520w.
“The reader will find most of the great problems of Greek numismatics adequately discussed, with a laudable terseness and much sound judgment.”
+ + Sat. R. 102: 400. S. 29. ’06. 810w.
“Mr. Hill has a way of making his learning attractive.”
+ + Spec. 96: 1044. Je. 30, ’06. 280w.
Hill, George Francis. Pisanello. *$2. Scribner.
“Mr. Hill paints his portrait and interprets his art with a skill worthy of the theme.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ Atlan. 97: 281. F. ’06. 190w.
“Pisanello, the painter and the medalist, together with his brother workers upon the little reliefs, have been comprehended here in a distinct and lucid manner.”
+ Critic. 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 50w.
Hill, Headon, pseud. (Francis Edward Grainger.) One who saw. $1.50. Victoria press (Stitt pub. co.).
There is a mystery in this story which “hovers around a haunted tower. The deus ex machina is a small boy with a cockney accent, a bona fide burglar (with a jimmy that he calls a James,) for a father, and a remarkable facility for climbing up precipices and other apparently impossible places, a facility, by the bye, which stands everybody in the book in good stead before the end is reached. Of course, the hero does nothing but pose and bluster. Of course, the heroine looks beautiful and suffers patiently, like the ‘hangel’ that she is to the small Tommy. And, of course, the small Tommy in question is, as anyone with half an imagination could guess, ‘The one who saw.’” (N. Y. Times.)
Ath. 1905, 1: 395. Ap. 1. 300w. N. Y. Times. 11: 107. F. 17, ’06. 230w.
Hill, Janet McKenzie (Mrs. Benjamin M. Hill). Up-to-date waitress. **$1.50. Little.
Mrs. Hill, editor of the Boston cooking-school magazine, says “This book is intended as a guide to what may be called good, perhaps ideal, service for waitresses under all circumstances, and not as a set of hard and fast rules from which there is no appeal.” It gives complete information on the care of the dining room, the arrangement of the table, the serving of food, and the preparing of certain dishes.
“It should be in every household.”
+ Ind. 61: 155. Jl. 19, ’06. 60w.
“It is a most useful and interesting volume. The mistress of the house cannot afford to be without it.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 318. My. 19. ’06. 220w. + Outlook. 83: 531. Je. 30, ’06. 140w.
Hill, Mabel. Lessons for junior citizens. 50c. Ginn.
A little text-book in civics which aims to arouse children to take an intelligent interest in the activities of their local government. Each chapter contains a short story concerning some municipal or political function, such as, the police department, board of health, fire department, school system, park commission, immigration, and naturalization, etc. Each chapter is followed by a series of questions which fit the book for school use.
Hill, Sarah C. Cook book for nurses. *75c. Whitcomb & B.
A collection of recipes in a condensed form which will prove valuable to nurses and all those who wish to prepare proper food for the sick. Various rules for fluid diet, soft or convalescent diet, special diets and formulae for infant feeding are given while blank leaves are left for additional recipes.
Hind, Charles Lewis. Education of the artist. $2.50. Macmillan.
“How Claude Williams Shaw was educated in art is set forth in Mr. Hind’s volume. It tells how, at the age of thirty-three, certain persistent glimmerings of a suspicion that life is a larger tapestry than the pattern woven by the author of ‘Self-help’ broke into flame; how that flame was fanned by an artist who crossed his path; how casting about for a way to express his temperament, he decided upon painting; how he studied art in Cornwall and in the Paris studios; how he traveled through Italy, Austria, Germany, and Belgium, studying the pictures of the world in pursuit of his art education; and how in the end of the true awakening of his temperament began, and he discovered that his education was but beginning.”
“The public which delights in his writing will be just the public that can only pretend to admire the artists of his choice.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 372. S. 29. 1560w.
“Is the record of the impressions of an alert, sensitive, and cultivated, if rather capricious, taste. We shall find no guide-book information, nor quotations from other people; the judgments are independent and personal.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 336. S. 28, ’06. 760w.
“These make pleasant, if not especially profitable reading.”
+ Nation. 83: 446. N. 22, ’06. 330w.
“The book may not interest the serious student; to the beginner it should be a kind of Bodley book in art.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 100w.
Hinkson, Mrs. Katharine Tynan (Mrs. H. A. Hinkson). Dick Pentreath. †$1.25. McClurg.
Dick Pentreath, plain gentleman, pursues his way among the commonplaces of life buoyantly enough until on the eve of his marriage a foolish drinking bout changes the course of true love. Dorothea scorns him, and in his anger he rushes headlong into a union with an ill-bred woman who brings him shame and humiliation. Had Dick but yielded even to the instinct of his dog Sancho who estimated Susan unerringly, the mistake would have been averted. His burden is lightened now and then by the kindly encouragement of his sister confessor Lady Stella, and by the ready devotion of faithful Sancho. The journey which “bleached Dick Pentreath white” does finally end in lovers meeting.
“A story of more substance and a wider range of interest than we remember in any of this author’s previous novels, and much better written.”
+ Acad. 69: 1201. N. 18, ’05. 330w.
“The author can do better than this.”
– Ath. 1905, 2: 829. D. 16. 90w.
“Everything about the novel is slip-shod.”
– Critic. 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 130w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 270w.
“It is not equal in charm to many of the novels which Miss Tynan has recently given us.”
+ – Spec. 96: 304. F. 24, ’06. 120w.
Hishida, Seiji G. International position of Japan as a great power. (Columbia univ. press studies in history, economics and public law. v. 24, no. 3.) *$2.50. Macmillan.
“Dr. Seiji G. Hishida carefully traces Japan’s historic policy in dealing with foreign nations. Incidentally he makes frequent reference to the diplomatic and commercial history of Europe and America, to the principles of international and other law, as well as to certain phases of economics and sociology, in order to elucidate with scientific precision the relations between the Orient and the Occident.... After relating the history of ancient and modern Japan, Dr. Hishida describes the Empire’s definite entry into the comity of nations, the Russo-Japanese rivalry in Korea, the various struggles of the great Powers in China, the Boxer rebellion, and the Russo-Japanese war. An appendix appropriately contains the text of the Russo-Japanese and Anglo-Japanese treaties.”—Outlook.
Am. Hist. R. 12: 189. O. ’06. 80w.
“Mr. Hishida’s work is a thoroughly creditable performance. Were it not for the fact that it lacks an index it would serve as a compact reference book on the international history of Japan, China and Korea.” Frederick C. Hicks.
+ + – Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 247. S. ’06. 1180w.
“Exhibits the most ambitious effort yet put forth by an Oriental to master the facts and philosophy of Western politics in their latest aspects. It contains a mass of general Japanese history, industriously gathered and clearly arranged, much of it not generally known, but which every American who takes an interest in our international relations should be familiar with.” George R. Bishop.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 240. Ap. 14, ’06. 2540w.
“Dr. Hishida’s volume has distinct value for students of history and politics.”
+ Outlook. 82: 618. Mr. 17, ’06. 340w.
Historians’ history of the world; ed. by H: Smith Williams. $72. Outlook.
“The index ... seems to have been prepared with intelligence and care.” E. G. Bourne.
+ + + Am. Hist. R. 11: 430. Ja. ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 25.)
“The plan and execution betray the uninitiated, and notwithstanding the literary ability of the author, the book serves as a good evidence that a history of Egypt can be written only by an Egyptologist, at least at the present time. These illustrations are, perhaps, the most objectionable feature of the well-intending book.” W. Max Muller.
– – Bib. World. 27: 292. Ap. ’06. 1390w. (Review of v. 1, pt. 2.)
“On the whole ... gives a fair picture of Babylonian and Assyrian life and culture. In treating of the religion of the Babylonians, the editors have overlooked the latest and best work.” George A. Barton.
+ – Bib. World. 27: 295. Ap. ’06. 1050w. (Review of v. 1, pt. 3.)
“The difficulties met by the editor in fitting together his various sources must have been enormous. That he has not succeeded fully in overcoming the difficulties will be clear on examination. There are too many typographical errors in the work; the references which are intended to give the reader knowledge of the sources of the work are often too indefinite.” Henry Preserved Smith.
+ – – Bib. World. 27: 298. Ap. ’06. 1610w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 4.)
“Most of its defects are due to the attempt to make a consistent story by piecing it together from the works of authors who wrote from different standpoints and in different times or ages, some of them cautious and discriminating, others credulous and uncritical.” J. F. McCurdy.
– + Bib. World. 27: 301. Ap. ’06. 610w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 5.)
“The chief fault of the general treatment is that in the nomenclature no distinction is drawn between districts or countries or races and peoples.” J. F. McCurdy.
– + Bib. World. 27: 302. Ap. ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 6.)
“On the whole, however, one not a specialist would get from this work an interesting and tolerably correct picture of the history and life of these ancient lands.” George A. Barton
+ Bib. World. 27: 297. Ap. ’06. 310w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 7.)
“The method of compilation employed ... is its least desirable feature. The scale of the work is in the main well proportioned. It is no exaggeration to say that these volumes devoted to England and the United States represent the scholarship of half a century ago.” Edward Fuller.
+ – Bookm. 23: 86. Mr. ’06. 2140w.
Hobbs, Roe Raymond. Court of Pilate, a story of Jerusalem in the days of Christ. $1.50. Fenno.
The love of Cestus, the young centurion for the beautiful Jewess, Myra, and the intrigues of the unscrupulous Paulina, who is high in favor at the court of the Roman Procurator of Jerusalem, and who is determined to win Cestus at any cost, form the main plot of this story but into it are woven accounts of the licentious life at the court of the governor, stirring scenes or the clash of Jew and Roman, engendered by a fierce race hatred that led to the crucifixion of the Messiah, and detailed pictures of barracks, prison, cottage, and market place.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 705. O. 27, ’06. 150w.
Hobbs, Roe Raymond. Gates of flame. $1.50. Neale.
An innocent man is accused and convicted of a crime thru a chain of circumstantial evidence. The problems that this sort of legal blunder gives rise to are met and handled for general enlightenment while the story interest is maintained in the prosecuting attorney’s conflict between his duties to the state and his love for the sister of the accused man.
Hobbs, Roe Raymond. Zaos: a novel. $1.50. Neale.
Reincarnation is the theme of this story. Hal Raolin, a Harvard student, recognizes himself as having lived in Egypt six thousand years ago as Phyros, commander of the king’s guards, and the lover of Zaos, “the beloved of Thebes.” In a trance state he lives over events that marked the tragic course of his life. His vision calls him to Egypt whither he goes and where strange adventures befall him.
Hobhouse, L. T. Democracy and reaction. $1.50. Putnam.
“We cannot speak too highly of this excellent piece of work. The present treatise will not suffer in comparison with the best writing done in England.” John Cummings.
+ + + J. Pol. Econ. 14: 181. Mr. ’06. 1350w.
Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawney, and Hammond, John Lawrence Le Breton. Lord Hobhouse: a memoir. *$4. Longmans.
The biography of a conscientious public servant who “was the incarnation of the intelligent Liberalism of 1850 to 1870.” (Nation.) His official career began with his appointment as a Charity commissioner in 1866, and ended with his retirement from the Judicial committee of the Privy council in 1901. For the remainder of his life municipal affairs occupied his attention. “There is scarcely a stroke of humor in the book from one end to the other, and scarcely a touch of pathos.” (Spec.) “But it has value for those who care for the kind of work in which Lord Hobhouse was engaged.” (Sat. R.)
Reviewed by George M. Wrong.
Am. Hist. R. 12: 141. O. ’06. 770w.
“Compact and eloquent memoir.”
+ Ath. 1905. 2: 858. D. 23. 960w. + Lond. Times. 5: 6. Ja. 5, ’06. 840w. + Nation. 82: 327. Ap. 19, ’06. 1650w.
“It proves substantial reading of a not very exciting kind.”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 210. F. 17, ’06. 220w.
“We read the story of his life with respect, and even admiration, so steady and effective a worker was he, but with little sympathy or stirring of heart.”
+ Spec. 96: 386. Mr. 10, ’06. 240w.
Hobson, Robert L. Porcelain, Oriental, Continental and British. **$3.50. Dutton.
A book whose object is “to give in inexpensive form all the facts a collector needs, with as many practical hints as can be compressed in a general work of portable size.” He deals with the porcelains of all countries showing that paste, glaze and decoration are surer guides in classification than the manufacturer’s mark. The work is handsomely illustrated.
“The chapters on Oriental porcelain will be of special service to the amateur, and the illustrations are to be commended, because they are chosen, not as supurb specimens, but as typical pieces.”
+ Ind. 61: 520. Ag. 30, ’06. 490w.
“Notwithstanding the great dimensions which ceramic literature has now assumed, there is, so far as we are aware, no published work which quite answers the purpose which this ‘handy book of reference for collectors’ is intended to serve.”
+ Int. Studio. 29: 273. S. ’06. 180w.
“There is a loss of practical usefulness in the failure to study wares of recent design and manufacture. What is given in the book is generally admirable.”
+ – Nation. 83: 106. Ag. 2, ’06. 1080w. N. Y. Times. 11: 369. Je. 2, ’06. 310w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 460. Jl. 21, ’06. 400w.
“His book accomplishes a great deal in a small space for the education of the unlearned and untutored.”
+ Outlook. 83: 863. Ag. 11, ’06. 230w.
“If there are a few points open to criticism in the pages under review, notably in connexion with the early employment of bone-ash in English soft porcelain, still the ceramic collector and connoisseur who desires to possess a trustworthy guide in a single volume of moderate dimensions and price, ought to be thankful to Mr. Hobson.”
+ + Sat. R. 102: 519. O. 27, ’06. 1200w. + Spec. 96: 795. My. 19, ’06 50w.
Hodges, George. Happy family. **75c. Crowell.
The very chapter headings of Dean Hodges’ book suggest the practical manner of treatment; “The business of being a wife,” “The business of being a mother,” and “The business of being a father.” The essential qualities and characteristics to be fostered in the home are enumerated so humorously that even the reader “hard hit” will smile and resolve to reform.
Hodges, Rev. George, and Reichert, John. Administration of an institutional church: a detailed account of the operation of St. George’s parish, in the city of New York; with introds. by President Roosevelt, Bishop Potter, and Dr. Rainsford. *$3. Harper.
In outlining the management and methods of the parish of St. George’s church, the authors make record of a great sociological as well as spiritual movement. The institutional church of which Dr. Rainsford has been the chief organizer and promulgator has been brought to the busy working life of the city of New York. The organization and the elements that vitalize it stand for the best things in human progress.
Hodgson, Rev. Abraham Percival. Thoughts for the King’s children. *75c. Meth. bk.
Fifty-two short talks to children on scriptural texts. It is designed as a help to all workers among children, leaders in young people’s societies and Sabbath school teachers.
Hodgson, Geraldine. Primitive Christian education. *$1.50. Scribner.
Miss Hodgson’s “main purpose is to prove the falseness of the statement, often made in exaggerated language, that the Christian fathers were enemies of education, and to show, by illustrative extracts from the writings of representative teachers of the early church, what were really their methods and the character of their educational work. A sketch of Graeco-Roman education, as given in the schools of the Roman empire, is followed by an account of the catechetical system of the fathers. Separate chapters are devoted to St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Clement of Alexandria, and St. Jerome. The attitude of the Christian teachers to pagan learning is examined, and their methods are set forth and justified.” Lond. Times.
+ Bib. World. 28: 160. Ag. ’06. 20w.
“She has searched the sources diligently, but not always used them critically, nor constructed from her mass of material a consistent and orderly edifice of fact.”
+ – Ind. 61: 937. O. 18, ’06. 110w. Lit. D. 33: 549. O. 20, ’06. 310w.
“Miss Hodgson has brought together some interesting and suggestive passages, which any student of teaching would gain by reading, and she has given pleasant glimpses by the way of the human side of the early Christian society.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 126. Ap. 6, ’06. 670w.
“Miss Hodgson has shed light on a subject imperfectly known.”
+ Outlook. 83: 44. My. 3, ’06. 110w.
“On account of its polemical spirit, the book is not very conclusive in its argument, and the material, of which there is an abundance, is not well organized.”
+ Yale R. 15: 337. N. ’06. 130w.
Hodgson, John Evan, and Eaton, Frederick A. Royal academy and its members, 1768–1830. *$5. Scribner
Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.
+ Atlan. 97: 272. F. ’06. 440w.
Hoffding, Harald. Philosophy of religion. *$3. Macmillan.
The main thesis of Dr. Höffding’s work is that the essence of religion consists in a belief in the “conservatism of value.” The subject is divided into three parts—epistemological, psychological, and ethical. His aim is to treat all of the essential aspects of the religious problem “not only with the intellectual interest which cannot fail to be excited by so great and comprehensive a subject-matter, but also in the frame of mind evoked by the consciousness that he has here before him a form of spiritual life in which, for centuries long, the human race has stored up its deepest and innermost experiences.”
“As compared with the highly concentrated ‘Problems of philosophy,’ where we never for a moment lose sight of the main issue, this book presents a tangled skein. It needs not merely a bold man, but also a wise one, to grasp as Prof. Höffding grasps, at the sense of the whole and of the parts together—to do justice as he seeks to do, and does at once to religion and to the religions.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 569. My. 11. 2140w.
“There is a personal note which lifts the book above the level of professional treatises on philosophy. He speaks as a man to men, and his book claims the respectful attention of all who are prepared to discuss seriously and without prejudice the ultimate questions of human thought.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 286. Ag. 24, ’06. 2630w.
“A comparison of the translation with a considerable portion of the German text shows the rendering to be reasonably correct. As is apt to be the case, however, the style does not escape the influence of the original. The index which the translator has supplied is a valuable addition to the book.” F. C. French.
+ + – Philos. R. 15: 554. S. ’06. 420w.
Hoffding, Harald. Problems of philosophy; tr. by Galen M. Fisher; with preface by W. James. *$1. Macmillan.
“The work contains but four chapters, and they deal, respectively, with the problems of consciousness, knowledge, being and values—the ethical and religious problems being comprised in the latter. The author seeks to resolve these four into one, the problem of continuity, and in so doing to show their fundamental interdependence. At the same time, the various continuities are defined not as absolutes of existence, but as ideals; they are not philosophical fact, but philosophical aim.”—Bookm.
“Since it is so compact and profound, will be of more service as a résumé of philosophic theory for advanced students than as an introduction for beginners.” George B. Foster.
+ + Am. J. Theol. 10: 370. Ap. ’06. 380w.
“‘Small and precious’ ... is the verdict which every lover of philosophy will pass on this book.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 441. Ap. 14. 2650w.
“The book is brief, clear, and concise.” H. B. Alexander.
+ + Bookm. 22: 526. Ja. ’06. 350w.
“An abstract discussion of abstract principles, his style carries him beyond the possibility of accompaniment by the layman.”
+ – Dial. 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 170w.
“The most general criticism, however ... will be that the compass of the work is so restricted. The translation ... is well done.” A. C. Armstrong.
+ + – J. Philos. 3: 77. F. 1, ’06. 920w.
“This little book ... is strong meat for beginners, and needs the expository preface supplied by Professor James. To digest its condensed thought, conveyed in abstract and technical form, this will be serviceable as pepsin even to some who are not babes in the philosophy.”
+ + Outlook. 81: 891. D. 9. ’05. 180w.
“Acquaintance with the subject is necessary to appreciate its argument, which is often in technical form. The translation is apparently ‘faithful, if not elegant,’ as the preface says. An occasional roughness in its style may be pardoned for the sake of its conciseness.” Edmund H. Hollands.
+ – Philos. R. 15: 553. S. ’06. 830w. R. of Rs. 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 70w.
Holbrook, Richard Thayer, tr. Farce of Master Pierre Patelin, composed by an unknown author about 1469 A. D. **$2. Houghton.
“The first English version of a curious English drama, written about 1469, and made from the editor’s manuscript copy of the only extant exemplar of the Lyons edition, printed about 1486. There is also but one copy known of an edition of about 1489, and the present version is illustrated with fac-similes of the quaint woodcuts in that edition. No earlier samples of these old farces have come down to our day. This play was wonderfully popular, and attained a fame unparallelled in the history of the early stage and seldom equalled since. All students of the drama will be interested in it.”—Critic.
“His book is a fine specimen of the scholarship of his country. The translation is, like the original, idiomatic and rollicking. Its author catches the lights and shades; he sees and renders all the humour. He is, at times, it is true a little stilted.”
+ + – Acad. 70: 158. F. 17, ’06. 1010w. Critic. 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 100w. + Dial. 39: 449. D. 16, ’05. 40w.
“The translator has well accomplished a difficult task.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 146. F. 15, ’06. 440w. + Spec. 96: 391. Mr. 10, ’06. 250w.
Holbrooke, George O. Verses. $1. Broadway pub.
The humanitarian note is strong in these poems, which give to life at its worst hope, altho there is a touch of fatalism, and give to the reader picturesque visions of the New York poor. There are also verses which tell of a pretty deed done by Lafayette; of the dazed return of Knickerbocker to his old haunts; and there are songs of other times and other places.
Holder, Charles Frederick. Life in the open; sport with rod, gun, horse and hound in southern California. **$3.50. Putnam.
“A spirited account of the hunt for hare, wolf, lynx, and fox in the foothills of the Sierra Madre, and of the deer, bighorn, and mountain lion amid the crags and precipices of the Southern Sierras.... A number of pages are devoted to the varied sport which the angler finds with tuna, black sea-bass, and yellowtail, with deep-sea trolling and still-angling off the shores of Southern California and its adjacent islands, and with the trout of the clear mountain streams of the Coast range and of the high Sierras. The work is superbly illustrated with many reproductions from photographs of scenery, the old missions of California, and fishing scenes about Avalo and the famous Santa Catalina island.”—Dial.
“The weak points of the book, at any rate for a European reader, are that too minute topographical detail is tacked on to some of the chapters, which consequently have rather the effect of a guide book without maps; and the use of local terms which are not generally understood.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 98. Jl. 28. 590w.
“The charm of the work lies in its spirited and enthusiastic appreciation of out-of-door life, of the possibilities of the enjoyment of nature, even though one go a-hunting or a-fishing.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.
+ Dial. 40: 357. Je. 1, ’06. 320w.
“Among the books of the season on open air sports, Holder’s ‘Life in the open’ is foremost on account of its typographical beauty, comprehensiveness and practicality.”
+ Ind. 60: 1369. Je. 7, ’06. 230w. + Lit. D. 32: 984. Je. 30, ’06. 140w.
“Will take hold of the book-lover at once, regardless of contents; but it would be a pretty exacting reader who could feel any material disappointment after its perusal.”
+ + Nation. 83: 16. Jl. 5, ’06. 530w.
“We have never read anything that gave so attractive a description of any country.”
+ Spec. 97: 19. Jl. 7, ’06. 250w.
Holder, Charles Frederick. Log of a sea angler; sport and adventures in many seas with spear and rod. **$1.50. Houghton.
One portion of Mr. Holder’s book is devoted to angling adventures along the Florida keys, the other portion relates to experiences in the waters of Lower California, Texas and the New England coasts, while the catch ranges from “turtle to shark, from tarpon to gentler and lesser spoil.”
“In the main, keen observation of nature’s secrets, and wide experience with the sea and its life, are revealed in these anglers’ tales, and there is an occasional bit of spirited writing as well.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.
+ + – Dial. 40: 356. Je. 1, ’06. 1150w.
“All in all we shall be surprised if the present season brings forth any comparable offerings in the way of outdoor literature.”
+ + Nation. 83: 16. Jl. 5, ’06. 530w.
“One man in a thousand is a fishing enthusiast. But the lay brother enjoyed the reading immensely, so, in all probability, will the nine hundred and ninety-nine.” Stephen Chalmers.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 238. Ap. 14, ’06. 920w. N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 90w. + Pub. Opin. 40: 543. Ap. 28, ’06. 100w.
Hollams, Sir John. Jottings of an old solicitor. **$3. Dutton.
Reminiscences which are a record “of a full, prosperous, happy, and honourable life, of strenuous years rewarded by success. But it is much more. It is a history, unpretentious, truthful, and vivid, of the inner working of English law during more than a half a century. The first pages introduce one to a state of things, legal and social, which has long passed away; to a London with only one railway open, that to Greenwich; to days before the penny post, when letters from Kent cost seven-pence, with double postage if there was an enclosure; when the invariable price of the best oysters was sixpence a dozen and the maximum price for a cigar was threepence.” (Lond. Times.)
“His book is full of interest.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 638. My. 36. 550w.
“There is much that will appeal to American lawyers and law students who are interested in law as a science, particularly as regards changes in law procedure and law reform during the last sixty years.”
+ Ind. 61: 1060. N. 1, ’06. 220w.
“In the main the book is written in a cheerful, hopeful spirit, with ungrudging recognition of the fact that the great changes which the author has witnessed have been improvements, though he sees room for many amendments. It is a book for solicitors to study. The oldest may profit by it, and the youngest draw from it hope and encouragement.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 210. Je. 8, ’06. 950w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 656. O. 6, ’06. 150w.
“His volume of reminiscences cannot be called important but contains many personal anecdotes of an amusing kind.”
+ Outlook. 83: 1005. Ag. 25, ’06. 60w.
“The greater part of this volume is too technical in its criticism of the system of judicial procedure to appeal to any but members of the profession.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 208. Ag. 18, ’06. 1050w. + Spec. 97: 333. S. 8, ’06. 240w.
Holland, Clive. [Warwickshire], painted by Frederick Whitehead, described by Clive Holland. *$6. Macmillan.
“Kenilworth, Coventry, Stratford-on-Avon, Rugby, Warwick Castle, Birmingham—these are some of the names that catch the eye as one glances at the sketch-map of the large, handsome volume on ‘Warwickshire,’ and suggest to the most casual reader the wealth of historical, literary and architectural material at the disposal of the author and artist. Good use has been made of it and ... there are 75 full-page color-type prints from water-color sketches.”—Ind.
“Mr. Whitehead ... is at his best in his broader sketches, where his vigorous colour touches atone for the weakness of his draughtsmanship, and atmosphere is not lost by the over-elaboration of unimportant details. Mr. Clive Holland says a great deal about Warwickshire, though very little that has not been said sufficiently before.”
+ – Acad. 71: 163. Ag. 18, ’06. 420w.
“The book is full of errors which a little more pains would have avoided. We cannot help regretting that the text was not entrusted to Mr. Sidney Lee or some other writer who had more first-hand knowledge of our central shire.”
– + Ath. 1906, 2: 233. S. 1. 1710w. + Ind. 61: 754. S. 27, ’06. 110w.
“On the whole the ‘Warwickshire’ can be heartily commended as both beautiful and entertaining.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 626. O. 6, ’06. 580w.
“Water-color paintings by Mr. F. Whitehead, may be cordially praised, with a special word of commendation for the artist’s restraint in color-effects. Mr. Holland knows and loves his subject, and deals with both its historic and romantic sides thoroughly and agreeably.”
+ Outlook. 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 220w.
“Mr. Holland has packed his chapters so full of historical dates and names of men and things—some of which are not by the way unchallengeable—that he has left himself little scope for style or reflection.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 212, Ag. 18, ’06. 130w.
“The letterpress is in its way as pleasing as the pictures.”
+ Spec. 97: 174. Ag. 4, ’06. 170w.
Holland, Clive. Wessex; painted by Walter Tyndale; described by Clive Holland. *$6. Macmillan.
The Wessex of Mr. Hardy’s novels furnishes the material for Mr. Tyndale’s reproduced paintings. “His paintings are landscapes—glimpses of green spring with apple blossoms on the hills; golden summer meadows, with the willows and rushes and the quiet winding stream; autumn on the moors all red and purple; vistas of country roads with thatched cottages; sweeps of the shore, with the brown shingle and the blue-shadowed sea. Or they are views of sleepy old towns, with the church tower dominating or rolling hills with the sky beyond and a ruin in the middle distance.... The text treats Wessex historically and descriptively by towns and hamlets, and landmarks.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Holland has a very thorough grip of his subject, regarded from every point of view.”
+ Int. Studio. 29: 89. Jl. ’06. 300w.
“At first view Mr. Clive Holland’s book seems to be of the progeny of Hutchins. In the main it is a slight and agreeable infusion of local history made for sojourners and passers-by. Mr. Tyndale’s pictures merit special mention.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 224. Je. 22, ’06. 500w.
“The author conjures you with all the glories of the country and weaves in the glamour of all its poets and heroes.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 305. My. 12, ’06. 870w. + Outlook. 83: 818. Ag. 4, ’06. 120w.
“It is not one of the type of offensive and tedious adulation, and it is easy to see that the author feels what he writes about Dorset. He knows the country and cares for it.”
+ Sat. R. 101: 562. My. 5, ’06. 110w.
Holland, Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3d lord. Further memoirs of the Whig party, 1807–1821; with some miscellaneous reminiscences; ed. by Lord Stavordale. *$5. Dutton.
Lord Holland’s fourth volume of recollections. “The four books or chapters under consideration deal with the period of English history between 1807 and 1827—years fraught with interest for the student and lover of history.... Lord Holland distinctly states that the aim and object of his labors were to record any incidents, anecdotes, or intrigues which were not generally known at the time, and which were unlikely to be found in the recognized histories, periodicals, or journals.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Though Lord Holland was inclined to take himself and his affairs a trifle seriously, his Memoirs are an interesting commentary upon the politics of a bygone age, and they may be read with pleasure, if seasoned with a pinch of critical salt.”
+ Acad. 69: 1251. D. 2, ’05. 1190w.
“[Lord Stavordale’s] introductions to the various chapters supply just the right kind of information that Lord Holland’s somewhat discursive and allusive style requires by way of commentary.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 791. D. 9. 1550w.
“Lose much interest because they come after and not before the Creevy papers.”
+ – Ind. 60: 1284. My. 31, ’06. 390w.
“A historical work of uncommon interest.”
+ + Lit. D. 32: 734. My. 12, ’06. 180w.
“It is written with thorough knowledge, and yet with a singular absence of vanity, egoism, or self-assertion.”
+ + Lond. Times. 4: 379. N. 10, ’05. 2230w.
“Of new information it contains little or nothing; the topics with which it is filled can but slightly interest the readers of to-day.”
+ – Nation. 82: 432. My. 24, ’06. 2450w. N. Y. Times. 11: 259. Ap. 21, ’06. 270w.
“Concise historical summaries ... invest the book with greater interest for the general reader, without impairing its value as a storehouse of information for the historian.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 625. N. 10, ’06. 1940w.
“Lord Holland’s forte is in giving ‘characters’ of the great men he had known.”
+ + Sat. R. 100: 657. N. 18, ’05. 1690w.
“We lay down the book with a feeling of gratitude both to its author and its editor.”
+ + Spec. 95: 818. N. 18, ’05. 1120w.
Holland, Rupert Sargent. Count at Harvard: being an account of the adventures of a young gentleman of fashion at Harvard university. $1.50. Page.
The publishers claim that this book is “the most natural and the most truthful exposition of average student life yet written.” “Mr. Hall relates the count’s doings with sufficient gusto and vividness to make the count a living person: we see him playing tennis, playing golf, playing base-ball (this game we found a little hard to follow); we are with him in the editorial den of the Lampoon; with him as he conducts the rehearsal of his opera; in the examination-room, where he behaves shamefully; at his late breakfasts and his early morning suppers—and his company is always or nearly always pleasant, for he is amusing and irresponsible.” (Acad.)
+ Acad. 70: 454. My. 12, ’06. 260w.
“The book is written in good English, and with a careful avoidance of Americanisms. The author’s constant efforts at brilliancy of conversation occasionally become tiresome.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 542. My. 5. 150w. + – N. Y. Times. 11: 239. Ap. 14, ’06. 460w.
Hollander, Jacob H., and Barnett, George E., eds. Studies in American trade unionism. *$2.75. Holt.
This collection of essays is the result of the detailed study and investigation of certain aspects of the trade-union undertaken by members of the Economic Seminary of the Johns Hopkins University. The eleven essays represent the work of nine investigators and Dr. Hollander has provided an excellent introduction. The subjects treated are: The government of the typographical union; The structure of the cigar makers’ union; The finances of the molders’ union; The minimum wage in the machinists’ union; Collective bargaining in the typographical union; Employers’ associations in the union; Apprenticeship in the building trades; The beneficiary features of the railway unions; and the knights of labor and the American federation of labor.
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 479. Ap. 21. 140w.
“Without exception the writers show painstaking research and fairness of judgment.” R. C. B.
+ + Bookm. 23: 654. Ag. ’06. 260w.
“These tasks were faithfully performed and the product is a careful and concise presentation of various phases of the labor problem.”
+ + Dial. 41: 40. Jl. 16, ’06. 240w.
“An examination of the essays amply justifies the editors in their conclusion to publish, and it is sincerely hoped that their plans of further work will be fulfilled.” John Cummings.
+ + J. Pol. Econ. 14: 454. Jl. ’06. 740w.
“It really consists of material gathered with much industry, but without any attempt at digestion or co-ordination.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 342. O. 12, ’06. 2460w.
“Excellent studies brought together in this volume.”
+ Nation. 82: 280. Ap. 5, ’06. 270w.
“The book may be recommended to both employers and employes who are interested in the topics indicated above, as the treatment is impartial and thorough.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 161. Mr. 17, ’06. 830w.
“The present volume is essentially in the nature of a preliminary inquest. But the scope of its contents is so broad, and its writers have explored their respective topics with such assiduity, that it may unquestioningly be accepted as suggesting a graphic and accurate picture of the constitution and activities of typical American labor organizations.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 674. N. 17, ’06. 870w.
“While the chapters give promise of excellent work and fully justify the pedagogical plan, we must look for the real contributions to economic science and labor problems in the further inquiries of the investigators.” John R. Commons.
+ – Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 722. D. ’06. 640w. + + Spec. 97: 300. S. 1, ’06. 280w.
Holley, Marietta (Josiah Allen’s wife, pseud.). Samantha vs. Josiah: being the story of a borrowed automobile and what came of it. †$1.50. Funk.
The cautious Josiah begins by hitching his old mare to the borrowed auto, thus combining to his satisfaction “fashion and safety,” but later he becomes more reckless and he and his wife meet with many characteristic adventures. A large part of the book is taken up with lively argument in which Josiah by powerful and amazing reasoning, wholly masculine, attempts to refute certain instances of spiritual manifestation brought forward by his wife, who has developed a sudden and alarming belief in ghosts.
“In these latest controversies with Josiah the humor is genuine, and, as usual, there is much good sense mingled with it.”
+ Critic. 49: 286. S. ’06. 60w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 90w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 432. Jl. 7, ’06. 130w.
Holmes, Samuel Jackson. Biology of the frog. $1.60. Macmillan.
This book “aims to introduce college students to all phases of zoölogical study by means of a careful examination of all aspects of the structure and life of the common frog, ‘the martyr of zoölogical science.’ The plan of the book is similar to the now classical ‘Crayfish: the study of zoölogy,’ by Huxley. It is a text book intended to supplement suitable laboratory work. In addition to its place in colleges, it will be a useful reference work for the biological laboratory in high schools.”—Ind.
+ Bookm. 23: 568. Jl. ’06. 140w. + Ind. 61: 260. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.
“Brought together from reliable sources a large amount of useful information. As in most works of the kind, there is too little recognition of the fact that, in many respects, the frog like man, is a morphologic monstrosity.”
+ – Nation. 83: 34. Jl. 12, ’06. 290w.
“The book is one that will prove useful to every teacher of elementary biology, and its usefulness would have been enhanced by a thorough-going biological treatment and simplification of the anatomical details.” F. W. G.
+ – Nature. 74: 560. O. 4, ’06. 770w.
“A most useful addition to our textbooks on the frog.” E. A. A.
+ + – Science, n.s. 24: 112. Jl. 27, ’06. 1080w.
Holt, Hamilton, ed. Life stories of undistinguished Americans as told by themselves; with an introd. by Edwin E. Slosson. †$1.50. Pott.
Sketches of sixteen men and women including “a representative of each of the races that go to make up our nationality and of as many different industries as possible.” The aim of the book is to show how well America’s immigration policy has succeeded, how incomes have been used, how the opportunities offered to earn bread and happiness in this broad land have been embraced.
“The stories are simply told, with evident sincerity, are most fascinating reading, and afford the American an excellent opportunity to see himself as others see him.” W. I. Thomas.
+ Am. J. Soc. 13: 273. S. ’06. 310w.
“These stories are as interesting as any novel with the additional advantage that they are stories of actual life.”
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 176. Jl. ’06. 220w.
“This volume is a book of rare interest, but it is far more than that. Many chapters are in reality sermons of real value for our people, rich in lessons that should be of peculiar worth to young men and women.”
+ + Arena. 36: 320. S. ’06. 6760w.
“The book is not less entertaining than curious.”
+ Critic. 49: 92. Jl. ’06. 150w. + Dial. 41: 94. Ag. 16, ’06. 180w. Ind. 60: 932. Ap. 19, ’06. 140w.
“As far as I know, Mr Hamilton Holt, in compiling his book, has struck an absolutely untrodden oath in the field of literature. I have not seen anything so interesting or suggestive for years as it is.” Rebecca Harding Davis.
+ + Ind. 60: 962. Ap. 26, ’06. 1740w.
“These are surely ‘human documents’ in the real sense of that term, and they have the fascination of such documents.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 290. My. 5, ’06. 1010w.
Holyoake, George Jacob. [Bygones worth remembering.] 2 vols. *$5. Dutton.
+ Critic. 48: 284. Mr. ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 1.)
Holyoake, George Jacob. History of cooperation; rev. and completed. 2v. *$5. Dutton.
“The preface to this revised and complete edition ... is dated January, 1906, and before the end of that month the aged author passed away.... It consists of the two volumes previously published, the first in 1875, the second in 1879, with an addition carrying the story down to the present time. Mr. Holyoake has saved the historian all trouble with regard to co-operation.”—Lond. Times.
“We cannot praise too highly this record, interesting alike to those studying the special subject treated and to the general reader.”
+ + + Ath. 1906, 1: 168. F. 10. 780w.
“What co-operation has accomplished and what it stands for is brought out in the fullest detail in Mr. Holyoake’s history.”
+ + Ind. 61: 97. Jl. 12, ’06. 580w.
“His book is a permanent record, the value of which will only be increased by time. No one else could have written it with the same intimate knowledge and fullness of detail or with the same grasp of principle and personal vivacity. The history is indispensable to students of sociological questions.”
+ + + Lond. Times. 5: 139. Ap. 20, ’06. 810w.
“Had it not been for Mr. Holyoake, many of the most interesting phases of its early progress would, in all probability, have fallen into oblivion.”
+ + Nation. 83: 170. Ag. 23, ’06. 1020w.
“Co-operation has been tried. Mr. Holyoake’s two volumes give what is unquestionably the authoritative history of these experiments.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 809. Ag. 4, ’06. 700w. + R. of Rs. 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 110w.
Home, Andrew. Boys of Badminster. †$1.50. Lippincott.
“A thrilling story of boyish escapades.”
+ Int. Studio. 27: 281. Ja. ’06. 15w.
Home, Gordon Cochrane. [Evolution of an English town.] *$3.50. Dutton.
“It should have been entitled ‘The topography and antiquities of Pickering.’”
+ – Nation. 82: 249. Mr. 22, ’06. 330w. + – Nature. 73: 538. Ap. 5, ’06. 980w.
Home, Gordon. [Normandy: The scenery and romance of its ancient towns.] *$3.50. Dutton.
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 427. Ap. 7. 120w.
Hooper, Charles Edward. Country house: a practical manual of the planning and construction of the American country home and its surroundings; il. by E. E Soderholtz and others. **$3. Doubleday.
“The book is an attempt to save the would-be builder from such expensive and annoying preliminaries by giving him a clear idea both of the difficulties he should avoid and the beauties he may attain to.” (Dial.) It gives helpful suggestions concerning the site, plans of construction, inside and outside finish, the style of doors, windows, fireplaces, stairways, plumbing, heating lighting, ventilation, water supply, and drainage. Hints are also given for interior and exterior beautifying which are aided materially by numerous illustrations.
“To people who are not looking forward to building a country home, Mr. Hooper’s book will be interesting as showing what has been done in that direction in America. Intending builders cannot fail to profit by reading the book.”
+ + Dial. 40: 200. Mr. 16, ’06. 430w.
“Here is a perfect iconographic encyclopedia of house-building and decorating.”
+ + Nation. 82: 100. F. 1, ’06. 420w.
Hope, Laurence. (Mrs. Violet Nicholson). [Last poems]: translations from the book of Indian love. **$1.50. Lane.
“The poems are all concerned with elementary passions. The lament of Yasmini, the dancinggirl, for the lover who was unlike all the others; the playing of Khristna on his flute; the laments of a young bride who is sold to an old King, and of the Queen who is displaced in the zenana by a younger rival: the song of the Camping-ground, which is the heart of India; the story of how Sher Afzul revenged himself on the mistress who had slain his friend; the plaint of the dying Prince who must leave his great possessions.... The finest, to our mind, is ‘Yasin Khan,’ the story of the yearning which overtakes a King who has found his kingdom for the fierce hunted days when he was still in pursuit of it.”—Spec.
“The stamp of her individuality is on all her work, so indelibly that whether it be translated or direct becomes a matter of small importance. Something of the spontaneity and music of the earlier books is missing, and neither her theme nor its expression was of the kind to gain by a more ordered and deliberate method.”
+ + – Acad. 69: 802. Ag. 5, ’05. 1190w.
“These poems are of a piece with the former work of the author of ‘The garden of Kama’ and ‘Stars of the Desert.’ In this last book the passion is beginning to seem forced, the colour is fading.”
+ – Ath. 1905, 2: 299. S. 2. 260w.
“Here, we may claim, if anywhere in our modern day, was the true inheritor of the Sapphic fervor, of the Sapphic song,—and, shall we not add, of the Sapphic catastrophe?” Edith M. Thomas.
+ + Critic. 48: 184. F. ’06. 410w.
“Here is character and force enough, of surprise something, of beauty nothing, of suggestion, or (shall we say?) of the suggestive too much. It is force misapplied, character muddied at the source.”
– + Lond. Times. 4: 267. Ag. 25, ’05. 140w.
“Likely to stand rather as a slightly dubious ‘human document’ than as an addition to the true poetry of passion. Nevertheless, there are in it many pieces of unalloyed poetry.”
+ Nation. 82: 325. Ap. 19, ’06. 440w.
“All are done with a depth of passion and a haunting music which in their kind it would be hard to match. The work has nothing of the depth and calm of the great masters, but it has none the less the living force of poetry.”
+ Spec. 95: 391. S. 16, ’05. 480w.
Hopekirk, Helen, ed. Seventy Scottish songs. $2.50. Ditson.
+ Ind. 59: 1348. D. 7, ’05. 60w.
“The editor has had a difficult task and has performed it well. The introduction she has written to this volume is a sympathetic interpretation of Scottish music.”
+ + Outlook. 82: 477. F. 24, ’06. 110w. + R. of Rs. 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 100w.
Hopkins, Herbert Müller. [Mayor of Warwick.] †$1.50. Houghton.
The college town of Warwick with its campus atmosphere forms the setting of this story of a young college professor, of the bishop’s daughter and of the Mayor of Warwick, an ex-base ball player and street car conductor, who strives to live up to the ideal set for him by the wife who has stooped to a secret marriage with him but refuses to acknowledge it until he rises to her level. His partial success and partial failure form the burden of this story in which his strength and weakness are contrasted, and when in the end he gives the young professor and the bishop’s daughter their happiness one cannot but be sorry for him and for the girl he lost—the bishop’s pretty house-maid.
“Mr. Hopkins may draw strongly individualised portraits of professors and ecclesiastics, but when it comes to the street-car conductors and ward politicians he also suggests comparison to the composite photograph.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 24: 118. O. ’06. 480w.
“The chief defect will be found, we think, in the character of the bishop’s daughter.”
+ – Critic. 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 210w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
– Dial. 40: 365. Je. 1, ’06. 240w. + Ind. 61: 218. Jl. 26, ’06. 200w.
“There are even touches of satire and moments of insight, but it is best to call it as a whole a pedestrian reflective novel built of melodramatic material.”
– + N. Y. Times. 11: 274. Ap. 28, ’06. 810w. N. Y. Times. 11: 292. My. 5, ’06. 300w.
“The manner of the book in spite of the drift of the matter to politics and the leaping of social barriers, is dignified to the point of being academic.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 210w.
“This story has not sufficient charm or brilliancy in the telling to make the plot and characters seem probable.”
– Outlook. 83: 768. Jl. 28, ’06. 160w.
Hopkins, Nevil Monroe. Experimental electro-chemistry. *$3. Van Nostrand.
An introductory chapter discusses the important researches and discoveries which bear upon the theories and laws of electro-chemistry, then follows the text that aims to provide a lecture room and laboratory guide to the subject. There are ample experimental evidences for the theories advanced including exercises in preparing electrolytic compounds and in isolating metals.
“We note that much care has been taken over the illustrations of which there are a hundred and thirty. It is disappointing to find that this standard of excellence has not been maintained in the text.”
– + Ath. 1906, 1: 518. Ap. 28. 570w.
“We advise those interested in electro-chemistry and also those who do not believe in it—and there are a goodly few—to read this book.” F. M. P.
+ + Nature. 74: sup. 6. My. 3, ’06. 1010w.
“The author has endeavored ‘to produce a book that will prove useful both in the lecture room and in the laboratory,’ and the reviewer thinks that he has succeeded.” Edgar F. Smith.
+ + Science, n.s. 23: 812. My. 25, ’06. 460w.
Hopkins, William John. [The clammer.] †$1.25. Houghton.
“Only an uneventful love story, with a man of solitary habits, who digs clams because it amuses him and makes a garden, and keeps clear of his neighbors, a charmingly drawn girl, a rich father who is not spoiled, and a proud mother who is humanized by the birth of a grandchild. There is a good deal of landscape and sky and sea in the narrative, which depends for its charm largely on atmosphere and sentiment.”—Outlook.
“His is a diction which, one is tempted to believe, is born of William John Hopkins, Robert Louis Stevenson, and the various authors of the Bible. It is correct without being prim, well-bred but not distant, and injected with the whimsical humor which never laughs, but has eyes that twinkle.” Stephen Chalmers.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 181. Mr. 24, ’06. 350w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – North American. 182: 928. Je. ’06. 60w.
“Much might be said in praise of its quiet rather old-fashioned style—leisurely, meditative, and well-bred. There is no plot.”
+ Outlook. 82: 759. Mr. 31, ’06. 100w.
“In spite of its verbal facility it must be admitted that there is little evidence in Mr. Hopkins’ book of an ability to produce real fiction.”
– Putnam’s. 1: 127. O. ’06. 240w.
Hopper, James. [Caybigan.] †$1.50. McClure.
Out of Mr. Hopper’s experience while teaching in the Philippines with an imagination riotously at work he has woven an impressionist’s group of tales. Among them are the “Failure,” “the story of a human derelict, whom alcohol and the physical and moral miasma of the tropics have done their best to destroy.” (Bookm.); and “A jest of the gods,” a story of a man who, at the height of his manhood strength, is stricken by a baffling disease which leaves him bald, and without brows and lashes.
“There is a strange, exotic, almost morbid strength in these stories. In vividness and tensity they are on a par with the shorter stories of Joseph Conrad, whose style his own often suggests; a few of them have almost the quality of some of Kipling’s. ‘Plain tales from the hills.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + Bookm. 24: 246. N. ’06. 940w.
“These tales, which Mr. Hopper has frankly offered for hasty perusal, endure very well a second reading.”
+ Nation. 83: 441. N. 22, ’06. 230w.
“It seems likely that the ‘Caybigan’ stories will serve two excellent purposes. They will entertain and they will promote a better understanding among stay-at-home citizens of the real nature of the insular Oriental.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 739. N. 10, ’06. 530w.
“They vary greatly as to merit, but they are all marked by crispness and vitality, and they are extremely tender where the writer trusts to his own vein.”
+ Outlook. 84: 938. D. 15, ’06. 110w.
Hoppin, James Mason. Reading of Shakespeare. **$1.25. Houghton.
There are studies of Shakespeare’s life and learning, nature and style, following which each play is considered separately.
“Under Mr. Hoppin’s title a really good and useful book might have been written. On a preliminary glance we light upon suggestions that are very encouraging, but not followed up.”
– Ath. 1906, 2: 211. Ag. 25. 760w.
“The book is remarkably well written and easy to read and may be recommended as a good introduction to the study of Shakespeare. That there are wiser and better books of the same sort goes without saying.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 292. My. 5, ’06. 330w.
Hornaday, William Temple. Camp fires in the Canadian Rockies. **$3. Scribner.
“This is the narrative of a hunting-expedition for game in the Canadian Rockies, told with literary appreciation of the marvels encountered, and appealing not only to the hunter and sportsman but to the general reader as well, by reason of the magnificence and novelty of the scenes described.”—Lit. D.
“He has written in a careless, happy, holiday vein, which makes inspiriting reading.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 579. N. 10. 530w.
“As was to be expected, the book abounds in vivid descriptions of wild animals; and it gives also many extremely interesting pictures made from photographs taken at ranges almost incredibly close.” Wallace Rice.
+ + Dial. 41: 391. D. 1, ’06. 210w. Ind. 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
“The work is a notable contribution to the recent literature of hunting.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 685. N. 10, ’06. 210w.
“It is valuable as a contribution to knowledge of the country and its natural history.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 80w. + + Nation. 83: 448. N. 22, ’06. 450w.
“Mr. Hornaday is in very close sympathy with nature, abounds in humor, writes well, and, best of all, he abhors the ruthless destruction of animal life.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 733. N. 10, ’06. 690w.
“Not a scientific book, but a thoroughly readable account of outdoor enjoyment in mountain regions of British Columbia.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 531. O. 27, ’06. 130w.
Horne, Herman Harrell. Psychological principles of education: a study in the science of education. *$1.75. Macmillan.
A five part work dealing with the subject as follows: Part 1 is concerned with the general presuppositions of the science of education, being a revision of the author’s discussion of this topic at the World’s congress of arts and sciences at St. Louis; Part 2 treats of intellectual education; Part 3 is concerned exclusively with what pertains to ‘educating the mind to feel’; Part 4 deals with the function, importance, nature and development of the will; Part 5, the concluding division of the book, deals with the problem of the religious consciousness, and the legitimate and practical means for its development.
“The features which do most distinguish its subject matter from that of the earlier books are its emphasis upon emotional education and the inclusion of a separate section, Part 5, on Religious education, or Educating the spirit in man. In this latter the author has given the most helpful discussion of the topic within brief compass that has so far been written.”
+ + + Bookm. 24: 296. N. ’06. 170w.
“If his title is not taken too literally, if the reader is willing to admit the inclusion of ethical and religious considerations, not to be too insistent that the treatment indicate one consistent attitude, the book is likely to prove profitable and entertaining.” Charles Hughes Johnston.
+ – J. Philos. 3: 666. N 22, ’06 1540w.
“Among the various merits of this valuable ‘study in the science of education’ is to be reckoned that of literary as well as scientific finish.”
+ + + Outlook. 84: 430. O. 20, ’06. 170w.
“The style is simple and is easily intelligible to junior and senior students in college classes and to advanced students in normal schools.” Frederic E. Bolton.
+ Psychol. Bull. 3: 365. N. 15, ’06. 270w. R. of Rs. 34: 760. D. ’06. 100w.
Hort, Fenton John Anthony. Village sermons. $1.75. Macmillan.
+ Spec. 96: 501. Mr. 31, ’06. 300w.
Horton, George. Edge of hazard; with pictures by C. M. Relyea. †$1.50. Bobbs.
An ex-member of Boston’s smart set finds it “hard to be philosophical when a man has just lost his girl, his friends and his money.” He accepts an appointment to go to Russia to take care of the American trading company’s stores at Stryetensk, Siberia. His adventures which include being arrested as a spy, and falling under the spell of women spies—Russian and Japanese—are chronicled during the days just preceding the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese war.
“A novel written frankly with no other purpose than to entertain, and as such it can be heartily recommended.” Amy C. Rich.
+ Arena. 36: 107. Jl. ’06. 270w.
“If Mr. Horton had intended to parody the style of Archibald Clavering Gunter, he would deserve to be congratulated on his success.” Frederick Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 23: 284. My. ’06. 340w.
“An excellent story—for people who merely wish to be amused.”
+ – Critic. 48: 475. My. ’06. 90w. + – N. Y. Times. 11: 297. My. 5, ’06. 400w.
Hough, Emerson. [Heart’s Desire.] †$1.50. Macmillan.
“This is a weakly constructed story. The dialogue is occasionally amusing, but generally rather laboured; and the characterisation is inhuman and machine-made.”
– Ath. 1905. 2: 890. D. 30. 110w.
“The author of ‘The girl at the half way house’ will probably not repeat with his present book the popular success of ‘The Mississippi bubble’ ... but in many ways I like ‘Heart’s Desire’ better.” Churchill Williams.
+ Bookm. 22: 367. D. ’05. 760w.
“Mr. Hough has surpassed his best previous efforts for our entertainment.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + Dial. 40: 155. Mr. 1, ’06. 260w.
Hough, Emerson. [King of Gee-Whiz]; with lyrics by Wilbur D. Nesbit; il. by Oscar E. Cesare. $1.25. Bobbs.
All about the adventures of Zuzu and Lulu, twins, in the island of Gee-Whiz. One has hair of malazite blue, and the other of corazine green,—the results of their father’s chemical experiments. Young readers will find their adventures in fairyland captivatingly funny.
N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, 06. 70w.
Houghton, Mrs. Louise Seymour. Hebrew life and thought: being interpretative studies in the literature of Israel *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
“The purpose of these papers ... is not to give forth original ideas, but to bring the more or less cultured but unscientific Bible student into a hospitable attitude toward the new light that scholarship has shed upon the sacred page.” The studies include: The day-book of the Most High, Folklore in the Old Testament, The poetry of the Old Testament, Heroes and heroism, Eastern light on the story of Elisha, Love-stories of Israel, A parable of Divine love, Secular faith, The search for spiritual certainty, The Hebrew Utopia, and The law and modern society.
“The studies will be found suggestive and helpful to the average Bible student.”
+ Bib. World. 28: 159. Ag. ’06. 60w.
“We are sure that many people who never go near a Sunday-school would, if they were to read this book, turn to the Bible with an unaccustomed interest.”
+ Outlook. 83: 862. Ag. 11, ’06. 250w. + R. of Rs. 34: 255. Ag. ’06. 100w.
“Its treatment is farthest possible from the conventional discussion of biblical books, and will infallibly cause any reader to feel new admiration and interest in the Bible.”
+ World To-Day. 11: 1220. N. ’06. 120w.
Houghton, Mrs. Louise Seymour. Telling Bible stories; with an introd. by Rev. T. T Munger. **$1.25. Scribner.
“In a deeper vein Louise Seymour Houghton, in her ‘Telling Bible stories,’ sketches the best way of outlining the Old Testament for young folks.”—Ind.
“The woman already somewhat intelligent in the biblical field, and sufficiently open-minded to adapt herself to modern ways of dealing with biblical material, will find the book most suggestive. Is a valuable contribution to the literature on the religious education of children, and it is hoped, will be carefully studied by leaders in Sunday-school work, and especially those who are planning graded curricula, although there may be difference of opinion as to many of her conclusions.”
+ + – Bib. World. 28: 348. N. ’06. 470w.
“It is a pity that so excellent a book has no index.”
+ + – Dial. 41: 211. O. 1, ’06. 300w.
“Her discussion is of wider interest than mere educational guidance.”
+ Ind. 59: 1387. D. 14, ’05. 30w.
“This is a book of high value for all who would bring to fruitage in mature years the ‘natural piety’ which is latent in the child.”
+ Outlook. 81: 336. O. 7, ’05. 190w.
“Will be found a most valuable help, and we warmly recommend it.”
+ + Spec. 97: 791. N. 17, ’06. 170w.
Houston, Edwin James. Young prospector. †$1.50. Wilde.
Harry Maxwell and his friend Ned Cartwright, two alert, ambitious boys, go West in search of the gold mine where Harry’s father lost his life. The book, aside from being full of adventure illustrates how information useful to boys may be worked into attractive form.
Howard, Bronson. Kate, a comedy in four acts. †$1.25. Harper.
The modern marriage question, the barter of soulless men and women for great wealth and great names, and the final triumph of love and human nature is dealt with in this reading version of Bronsor Howard’s new play. In the course of four acts entitled, When marriage is a farce, Love and legal documents, Stronger than law or rite, and Which would be wife, three mismated couples are re-assorted and all are left happier than if Kate had won her coronet. The dialogue is startlingly frank and pithy, the characters varied and the plot well worked out.
“The play is interesting reading, but carries no conviction with it.”
+ – Nation. 83: 421. N. 15, ’06. 390w.
“Except that the four chapters are called ‘acts,’ the book looks quite like one of those modern novels which are rich in conversation. The effect of the method, which is a new one, is excellent, and no confusion arises from the circumstance that the form is not that of the prompt book.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 685. O. 20, ’06. 880w.
Howard, Burt Estes. German empire. **$2. Macmillan.
In a discussion which aims “to give a broad view of the German government, explaining clearly the main features of the Imperial constitution and the salient doctrines of German constitutional law,” the author gives us “systematic, accurate, unadorned law.”
“The title of the book has raised larger expectations than the contents will satisfy. Thruout the work there are abundant evidences of a full acquaintance with the best German publicists, a careful study of the original legal documents and a persistent tho sometimes belabored accuracy. As things stand now it must go on our shelves with our Bryce, Bodley and Bagehot.”
+ + – Ind. 61: 995. O. 25, ’06. 510w.
“The book, as a whole, will prove a convenient manual of the subject viewed in its strictly constitutional aspect.”
+ Nation. 83: 371. N. 1, ’06. 90w.
“The subject has now been further illuminated in very serious and thorough-going fashion by Dr. Howard. Clearly, compactly, intelligently, discriminatingly, but not very picturesquely, he describes for us the founding of the Empire, the individual States which compose it, the position of the Emperor, the Bundesrath, the Reichstag as the voice of the German people.”
+ + – Outlook. 84: 840. D. 1, ’06. 400w.
“He has done well what he chose to do, and his readers may be confident that they are getting from his book the same impressions of the fundamental provisions of the constitution which they would derive from the elaborate treatises of von Rönne, Laband, Meyer, Schulze, Haenel, Zorn, and the rest.” J. H. R.
+ + Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 708. D. ’06. 470w.
“The book should be in the hands of all (and among them are not a few newspaper writers) who have a hazy conception of the Kaiser as an autocrat who can make war when he pleases, whereas in reality he can do nothing of the kind, and of the German people as subjects without rights.”
+ + Putnam’s. 1: 383. D. ’06. 130w. + R. of Rs. 34: 760. D. ’06. 100w.
Howard, Clifford. (Simon Arke, pseud.). Curious facts; interesting and surprising information regarding the origin of familiar names, words, sayings and customs. 50c. Penn.
An analysis of “strange beginnings,” of names—family and geographical nicknames—familiar words, sayings and customs. The fact of strangeness appears only when original forms are compared with present-day meanings and usages.
Howard, John Hamilton. In the shadow of the pines: a tale of tidewater Virginia. $1.25. Meth. bk.
A tale of the Dismal swamp region which spends its energy in clearing up the mystery that shrouds the murder of one of the emissaries of Napoleon III.
“Might have been a good horror story if he had not been afraid to take liberties with his imagination.”
– Ind. 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 100w. N. Y. Times. 11: 441. Jl. 7, ’06. 220w.
Howard, Timothy Edward. Musings and memories. 75c. Lakeside press, Chicago.
Poetic musings upon such subjects as The bells of Notre Dame; Failure; The student; and Indian summer, interspersed with memories of The old church; The stricken ash; Halcyon days; Youth; Books, and Kindred things.
Howe, Frederick Clemson. City: the hope of democracy. **$1.50. Scribner.
Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 237. Ja. ’06. 200w.
“If we except Professor Parsons’ ‘The city for the people’ there is no volume with which we are acquainted that is comparable to this work. It forms an admirable complement to Professor Parsons’ exhaustive storehouse of vital facts.”
+ + + Arena. 35: 544. My. ’06. 7010w.
“It has life, vigor, movement. It is imbued with a healthful optimism. The truth is, Mr. Howe’s enthusiasm sometimes runs away with his judgment.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ – Atlan. 97: 845. Je. ’06. 560w.
“Within its definite rôle, Dr. Howe’s work adds much strength to the literature of reform possibly more to inspiration than to tactics; more to suggestion than to guidance.”
+ – Cath. World. 82: 827. Mr. ’06. 830w.
“An invaluable contribution to municipal literature. Seldom does a writer so successfully justify an ambitious title; rarely is a sentiment, which to many must be a contradiction, so ably defended.” Charles Zueblin.
+ + – Dial. 40: 230. Ap. 1, ’06. 2470w.
“Every leader in city politics will find facts and arguments in this book to stimulate his hope and to pilot his activities.”
+ Ind. 59: 1342. D. 7. ’05. 1150w.
“The book is a really noteworthy contribution to a discussion of vital significance to all Americans.”
+ + – Lit. D. 32: 215. F. 10, ’06. 1030w. Nation. 83: 104. Ag. 2, ’06. 900w.
“The book can hardly take a high place in scientific literature. It can not convince anyone not already inclined to accept its conclusions. But there are many in that position, and to these the author’s evident sincerity of purpose, and even his determination to see only one side of the question, will make a strong appeal.” Alvin S. Johnson.
– + Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 341. Je. ’06. 1760w. Spec. 96: 266. F. 17, ’06. 120w.
Howells, William Dean. [Certain delightful English towns, with glimpses of the pleasant country between.] **$3. Harper.
To be led thru Exeter, Bath, Wells, Bristol, Canterbury, Oxford, Chester, Malvern, Shrewsbury, Northampton, and the country in between seems of itself pleasing but to see it all with Mr. Howell’s eyes, to catch the real spirit of each spot, to be shown at a glance the charm of each place and to enjoy with him the little personal adventures which he met with by the way is truly delightful. And should the reader wish to see with his own eyes, four dozen full page illustrations bid him look.
“The book has the usual charming and idiomatic style of Mr. Howells.” Wallace Rice.
+ + Dial. 41: 391. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
“Mr. Howells travels with open eyes and after seeing describes the thing seen with a keen regard for the value of an incident and with full appreciation of the humorous.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1397. D. 22, ’06. 100w.
“There is nothing essential missed of the historic or literary association of these towns, but what one seems to value even more is the suave, humorous observation of ordinary things which gives one the sense of the highest reality.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
“What will endear its pages to every reader is its unfailing humor, its nice balancing of the emotions and aesthetic impressions by one on whom no charm whether of setting or human association was thrown away.”
+ + Nation. 83: 462. N. 29, ’06. 360w.
“Another permanent contribution to American letters. Throughout the book we find the same genial humor we found so delightful in his ‘Italian journeys’, and ‘Their silver wedding journey’; the same poetically realistic descriptions of places and people; inimitable touches, that bring instantly and vividly the scene or person before the mind’s eye.” Madison Cawein.
+ + + N. Y. Times. 11: 789. D. 1, ’06. 1580w. + + R. of Rs. 34: 753. D. ’06. 70w.
Howells, William Dean. [London films.] **$2.25. Harper.
“The continual references to America are a blemish to the book as a whole. But the book as a whole is delightfully characteristic, and when we put it down we are left with a very near understanding of an invigorating temperament and a charming personality.”
+ + – Acad. 69: 1353. D. 30, ’05. 940w.
“The author’s style, here as elsewhere, is lucidity itself.”
+ + Critic. 48: 189. F. ’06. 180w.
“In fact ‘London films’ is quite the kind of book that we should like to see written about ourselves by a foreign sojourner who sensitively gathered impressions by the way.”
+ + Reader. 7: 226. Ja. ’06. 250w.
“Some of the most charming commentaries on London life and people are to be found in William Dean Howells’ latest reminiscent volume.”
+ + R. of Rs. 33: 128. Ja. ’06. 90w.
Howells, William Dean. Miss Bellard’s inspiration. †$1.50. Harper.
“Mr. Howells’ whole ability (and in reading ‘all the new novels’ one learns the worth of such skill as his) is called forth to show three hapless men in three stages of engulfment by affectionate boa-constrictors.” Mary Moss.
– + Atlan. 97: 51. Ja. ’06. 110w.
Howells, William Dean, and Alden, Henry Mills, eds. Under the sunset. Harper’s novelettes. †$1. Harper.
This volume of novelettes includes “The end of the journey,” “The sage-brush hen,” “The prophetess of the land of no-smoke,” “A little pioneer,” “Back to Indiana,” “The gray chieftain,” “The inn of San Jacinto,” “Tio Juan,” and “Jamie the kid.” Mr. Howells says: “In the immense geographical range of these admirable stories, we have some faint indications of the vastness as well as the richness of the field they touch.”
Critic. 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 60w. Dial. 41: 21. Jl. 1, ’06. 60w.
“Many of them exceedingly good, and the variety, within the broad limits of the Western localization and inspiration, is strikingly wide.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 446. Ag. 11, ’06. 230w. Outlook. 83: 483. Je. 23, ’06. 40w.
Hoyt, Arthur Stephen. Work of preaching. **$1.50. Macmillan.
Dr. Hoyt, professor of homiletics and sociology in the Auburn theological seminary, “claims no original and certain method for the making of pulpit orators, but his remarks on the preparation and delivery of sermons are sane and practical. He has had especially in mind the problem and position of the preacher today, and his book might well be read by those who are familiar with the older homiletical literature.” (Ind.)
“However, it would seem that Dr. Hoyt over-estimates the authoritativeness of a scripture text with a present-day congregation in a progressive community, and thereby fails to appreciate some of the largeness and difficulty of the work of preaching in the present generation.”
+ – Ind. 60: 631. Mr. 15, ’06. 160w.
“They are free from scholasticism, and sensitive to the demands of the present time.”
+ Outlook. 82: 141. Ja. 20, ’06. 220w. + R. of Rs. 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 70w.
Hubback, J. H., and Hubback, Edith C. Jane Austen’s sailor brothers: being the adventures of Sir Francis Austen, G. C. B., Admiral of the fleet and Rear-Admiral Charles Austen. **$3.50. Lane.
Jane Austen’s sailor brothers “were both captains in the British navy during the Napoleonic period, and the extracts from their logs and letters here presented, though of no particular importance, give occasional glimpses of conditions at the time of the great war that are not without interest. The authors attempted to draw a parallel between some passages in Jane Austen’s novels and the actual experience of her brothers at sea.” (Nation.)
“There are frequent slips in respect of technicalities.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 420. Ap. 7. 490w.
“When all is said and done it was written for the Janeans, and they will best appreciate it.”
+ – Critic. 48: 472. My. ’06. 150w. Eng. Hist. R. 21: 621. Jl. ’06. 250w.
“It has been agreeably put together by its joint authors.”
+ Lond. Times. 4: 328. O. 6, ’05. 500w. + Nation. 82: 261. Mr. 29, ’06. 100w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 431. Jl. 7, ’06. 1090w.
“It is simply written and it should be of real interest to all members of the Austen family. It is impossible to say that public purpose is served by it.”
+ – Sat. R. 100: 530. O. 21, ’05. 170w.
Hubbard, Lindley Murray. Express of ’76, a chronicle of the town of York in the war of independence. †$1.50. Little.
An old journal written in Revolutionary days, by General Hubbard, so the author says, forms the basis of this romantic novel of the campaign in New York. The scenes are set vividly before us with a journal’s own detail and, in following the fortunes of Jonathan Hubbard, we see something of Washington, Franklin, Putnam, Burr, Hamilton and others who are as well known as the battles in which they fought. The mysterious lady Claremont, the little Quaker maid, and other maidens, some historic, some semi-historic fill out the plot and make this tale a typical war-time romance.
“The main interest of the book is the intimate approach the reader may have to such men as Washington, Burr, Franklin, Hamilton, and others, who were destined to become great in their country’s service. They are well drawn and carry conviction of their manly reality.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 180w.
“The story is not imaginative or dramatic, but will interest those who enjoy an average presentation of historic material.”
+ Outlook. 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 90w.
Hubbard, Mrs. Sara Anderson (Mrs. James M. Hubbard). Religion of cheerfulness; an essay. **50c. McClurg.
Believing that “a sunny disposition is a boon which confers more happiness on its owner and more happiness on those with whom one comes in contact, than any other which falls to the lot of a human creature,” Mrs. Hubbard preaches the religion of cheerfulness convincingly, urging that “as age increases cheerfulness should increase.”
Huber, John Bessner. Consumption: its relation to man and his civilization, its prevention and cure. **$3. Lippincott.
A serious volume with a wide scope. Dr. Huber requires that economic, legislative, sociological and humanitarian aid be summoned to strengthen the medical forces in fighting the white plague. The author addresses both physician and layman.
“The author has read widely ... but his own style is so peculiar and involved as to make the book difficult to read.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 17. Jl. 7. 400w. + Ind. 61: 940. O. 18, ’06. 450w.
“The book is written with spirit and should be widely read. The style is a little diffuse, but as a whole this is a good and timely piece of work.”
+ – Nation. 83: 34 Jl. 12, ’06. 130w.
“A thorough and instructive book, made with infinite pains, putting before the reader a sane and broad view of a tremendous problem of civilization.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 470. Jl. 28, ’06. 1200w.
“Dr. Huber’s book, which is literally encyclopædic in scope, seems primarily designed for the lay reader.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 377. O. 13, ’06. 2690w.
“Unlike many works in this field. Dr. Huber’s book will be found readable, and even entertaining, from cover to cover.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 130w.
“Several of the chapters in it would make readable magazine articles, but taken as a whole it establishes no pretensions to be considered a valuable contribution to the literature of tuberculosis.”
– + Sat. R. 102: sup. 8. O. 13, ’06. 200w.
“We recommend Dr. Huber’s book to our readers, though we cannot but feel that for practical purposes a much smaller volume would have been more useful.”
+ – Spec. 96: 1045. Je. 30, ’06. 200w.
Huddy, Mary E. Matilda, Countess of Tuscany. $3.50. Herder.
“Mrs. Huddy’s purpose has evidently been to provide a volume of instructive, popular reading, rather than a book for the student. Edification, too, is her object; and she finds in the brilliant virtues of Matilda, and still more in those of Pope Gregory, ample resources to set off the depressing pictures of vice, violence, cruelty and greed which the chronicler of this stormy period of Italian history is obliged to recall.”—Cath. World.
“It certainly is not for the sake of any inferences that she draws from it that Mrs. Huddy’s narrative is valuable. She is equally lacking in the historic and the philosophic sense.”
+ – Acad. 68: 194. Mr. 4, ’05. 1690w.
“Her own pen is fluent, and her book will be a source of considerable pleasure and profit, we have no doubt, to readers who have no knowledge of the subject, and are able to put up with or even enjoy, sentimental exuberance, misplaced rhetoric, and remarks of an edifying nature.”
– + Ath. 1905, 2: 11. Jl. 1. 280w.
“The proportions ... that she has given to the various elements of her narrative, sometimes suggests the historical novel as much as they do strict history.”
+ Cath. World. 82: 564. Ja. ’06. 220w.
“It is an entirely amateurish and unworkmanlike performance, wholly destitute of importance of any and every description. The author’s sentiments are womanly; we have no quarrel with her ideals; her judgments are usually just. To begin with this important work has not yet a shred of an index. The style—the English—is maddening when it is not amusing. There are numberless passages in inverted commas without any references to the authorities. When authorities are indicated volume and page are never given. Not once throughout the whole of this ‘important historical work’ is a single Italian authority referred to. Nearly every Italian word is misspelled.”
– – + Sat. R. 100: 248. Ag. 19, ’05. 1040w.
“The book is strongly partisan. Not only Countess Matilda, but Gregory VII. and the other Popes, her contemporaries, can do no wrong. We must say that the more she deals with historical scenes and facts, and the less with personalities, the pleasanter reading her book becomes.”
+ – Spec. 95: 122. Jl. 22, ’05. 1720w.
Hudson, William Henry. [Purple land.] **$1.50. Dutton.
A new edition of a story written twenty years ago. “The adventures and reflections are ostensibly those of Richard Lamb, a person of English birth but oriental temperament. Richard had begun his career by stealing from a proud man of Argentina his beloved only daughter. With this lovely flower for his bride he fled to Montevideo, and leaving the lady in the charge of a grim aunt person, sought his fortune upon the plains.” (N. Y. Times.) “Young Richard Lamb rides forth an errant knight, and many adventures and desperadoes and fair ladies fall to his share. The country, the people, the customs, the moral and political ideals, all pass in vivid array before us.” (Outlook.)
“Charming narrative of life in South America.”
+ Dial. 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 50w. Nation. 82: 182. Mr. 1, ’06. 280w.
“It appears a rarely fresh, charming and delightful book.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 914. D. 23, ’05. 410w.
“A narrative of unusual charm. The reader who can appreciate literary charm and fresh, almost elemental, or at least mediaeval ideas, will enjoy it to the full.”
+ Outlook. 81: 1087. D. 30, ’05. 220w.
Huffcut, Ernest Wilson. Elements of business law; with illustrative examples and problems. *$1. Ginn.
“The book contains a number of judiciously selected legal forms. It would be improved by citations of the authorities for the cases presented.” R. M.
+ – J. Pol. Econ. 14: 254. Ap. ’06. 120w.
“A book of good proportion, packed full of important matter, attractively and interestingly set forth.” Floyd R. Mechem.
+ School. R. 14: 468. Je. ’06. 160w. + Bookm. 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 90w.
Hughes, Rupert. [Col. Crockett’s co-operative Christmas.] †$1. Jacobs.
Col. Crockett of Waco instituted a unique undertaking last Christmas of gathering together in the auditorium of the Madison square garden “every stranger in New York and his lady.” In two letters to his wife he sketches the “before and after” of his plan which proved successful beyond his anticipation.
“A holiday novelette of the conventional type, varied in this case by the introduction of rather more novelty and less probability than are customary in similar narratives.”
+ – Dial. 41: 399. D. 1, ’06. 70w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 40w.
Hughes, Rupert. Zal: an international romance. †$1.50. Century.
“Otherwise, particularly for a first novel, ‘Zal’ shows very good workmanship.”
+ – Dial. 40: 20. Ja. 1, ’06. 150w. Pub. Opin. 40: 26. Ja. 6, ’06. 260w.
“Gives us a sympathetic and accurate presentation of the Polish character.”
+ + R. of Rs. 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 160w.
Hugo, Victor Marie, viscomte. [Les miserables]; tr. by Isabel F. Hapgood. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper two volume sets,” this usually large work is reduced to the compass of two pocket volumes.
Hulbert, Archer Butler. [Pilots of the republic; the romance of the pioneer-promoter in the middle west]; pors. and drawings by Walter J. Enright. **$1.50. McClurg.
“Pioneers’ axe chanted a truer tune than ever musket crooned or sabre sang.” And it is the pioneer who with epic courage extended America’s boundaries and built up her bulwark that fill Mr. Hulbert’s volume. Among them are Washington, Richard Henderson, Rufus Putnam, George Rogers Clark, Henry Clay, Morris and Clinton, Thomas and Mercer. Lewis and Clark, Astor, and Marcus Whitman.
Hulbert, Homer Beza. Passing of Korea; il. from photographs. **$3.80. Doubleday.
Mr. Hulbert “compares Korea in its present plight in Japanese hands, and with Japanese immigration flooding it with Poland, Armenia, and the Congo ‘Free’ State. To save Korea, and he adds it will be to our material advantage to do so, we must bring modern education to the Koreans, and for this purpose he asks us to open our purses. His book is a history of the so-called ‘Hermit’ kingdom from the earliest times, concluding, of course, with a survey of present conditions, manners, and customs of the people, and the resources of the country. It is profusely illustrated.”—Putnam’s.
“The book is written in an attractive style and is a notable addition to the recent literature of the Orient.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 913. D. 15, ’06. 250w.
“Books on Korea may be named by the dozen but this is the book.”
+ + Nation. 83: 421. N. 15, ’06. 530w.
“It may be safe to say that, apart from a few conclusions which may be regarded as hasty. It is one of the most commendable books on the Hermit kingdom that have issued from the pen of foreign authors.” K. K. Kawakami.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 749. N. 17. ’06. 2020w. Putnam’s. 1: 378. D. ’06. 230w. R. of Rs. 34: 753. D. ’06. 280w.
Hullah, Annette. [Theodor Leschetizky.] *$1. Lane.
A recent addition to the “Living masters of music” series. “The story of Leschetizky’s career from his birth in 1830 down to 1905, is told in the first two chapters of the book. The five chapters following describe Leschetizky’s method of playing and technique, his manner of teaching, his class, and interest in each pupil, and lastly, Leschetizky as ‘the center of the circle.’ There are several pictures of the pianist as well as some showing him with certain pupils.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The story of this concentrated career is well and clearly told by Miss Hullah, who makes the discriminating point that Leschetizky is emphatically an individualist in his work.”
+ + Dial. 41: 18. Jl. 1, ’06. 210w. + Nation. 82: 473. Je. 7, ’06. 210w.
“Miss Hullah has given a lively picture of a personality prominent in the musical world in her work about Leschetizky.” Richard Aldrich.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 227. Ap. 7, ’06. 520w.
Hume, Fergus W. [Lady Jim of Curzon street.] †$1.50. Dillingham.
A titled couple badly in debt fail to excite the sympathy of a wealthy father in their behalf and resort to the means of a sham death in order to secure insurance money. The way of the transgressor was never harder than portrayed in Mr. Hume’s story. Lady Jim’s clever wit is directed toward the perpetration of fraud that results in betrayal and even the contracting of leprosy which is cheated of its lingering terror by an overdose of chloral.
“It is a pleasure to be able unreservedly to recommend this book. The dialogue is all through of the cleverest, and the plot is well conceived and elaborated.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 682. N. 18. 140w.
Hume, Fergus W. Mystery of the shadow. $1.25. Dodge, B. W.
Mr. Hume’s plot centers about the strangling of one Mrs. Gilbert Ainsleigh by some one masquerading as the ghost of a monk. An attempt is made to trace the crime to no less than five persons, and it is no wonder that the reader ejaculates “Pshaw” with the hero when he is put upon the wrong trail.
“There is ability in the book, but the author has shown himself capable of better things.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 417. Ap. 7. 120w.
“The author has given a good measure of mystery, and has kept the assassin’s identity well veiled until the end of the book.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 665. O. 13, ’06. 270w. Sat. R. 101: 369. Mr. 24, ’06. 120w.
Hume, Fergus W. [Opal serpent.] †$1.25. Dillingham.
A struggling young writer, disinherited, at least temporarily, by an irascible father, and the daughter of a fear-shaken man who is a book-stall keeper by day and a pawn broker by night, in the cellar below, live thru a succession of mysteries, fears and catastrophes all of which seem secretly connected with a jewelled serpent. In the tangle-straightening process, Mr. Hume’s usual number of odd types appear.
“All who retain a partiality for tales of mystery and incident will welcome ‘The opal serpent.’”
+ – Ath. 1905, 2: 268. Ag. 26. 190w. Lit. D. 32: 532. Ap. 7, ’06. 140w.
“The matter is the matter of such yarns from the beginning, the manner is the manner or Fergus Hume, which is fair to middlin’—of its kind.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 133. Mr. 3, ’06. 220w. Pub. Opin. 40: 444. Ap. 7, ’06. 150w.
Hume, John T. Abolitionists: together with personal memoirs of the struggle for human rights. **$1. Putnam.
In his sketch of partly biographical, partly historical significance Mr. Hume, a Garrisonian abolitionist, gives many personal recollections of the days of the “underground railroad,” and with characteristic partisanship recounts his movements among the Missouri radicals. “His long life includes the early struggle for human rights, when abolitionists were accounted lawful game for mobs. The names of its heroes and heroines, and the tribulations they fought through, find record in his pages.” (Outlook.)
“In spite of its motif, the volume contains in accessible form much information concerning all these matters which will be of value to the student.”
+ – Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 420. Mr. ’06. 140w. Dial. 40: 333. My. 16, ’06. 240w.
“It is unfortunate that dates and exact particulars are often missing, and are sometimes wrongly given.”
+ – Ind. 60: 1165. My. 17, ’06. 270w.
“Deserves the widest circulation and calm pondering.”
+ + Nation. 82: 143. F. 15, ’06. 1380w.
“Interesting volume.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 921. D. 30, ’05. 1110w. + Outlook. 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’06. 120w.
“While some may disagree with him there is no doubt that he has shed much light on a very obscure period of our country’s history.”
+ – Pub. Opin. 40: 379. Mr. 24, ’06. 200w. R. of Rs. 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 90w.
Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp. [Wives of Henry VIII.] **$4.50. McClure.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 465. Ja. ’06. 60w. + Critic. 48: 473. My. ’06. 240w.
“There is much ... that helps us to understand more fully this difficult age, but the great riddles of the Tudor period still remain unanswered.” Laurence M. Larson.
+ – Dial. 40: 293. My. 1, ’06. 630w.
“If Mr. Hume has not succeeded in making out a good case, he has nevertheless contributed some valuable new material to the study of the history of the reign, and has written a capital series of brief biographies.”
+ + – Lit. D. 32: 216. F. 10, ’06. 130w.
“The plain fact is that Mr. Hume is much too good a man to be wasted upon this kind of ‘pot-boiling,’ appealing as it does to the craving for personal gossip which is an unpromising characteristic of to-day.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 6. Ja. 5, ’06. 790w.
“A clever though inconclusive volume.”
+ – Nation. 81: 530. D. 28, ’05. 500w.
“In this book Major Hume sets forth with great clearness, and in a most interesting and readable way, the gradual deterioration of Henry’s character as he became year by year more of ‘a law unto himself.’”
+ Spec. 96: 60. Ja. 13, ’06. 1760w.
Humphrey, Seth K. Indian dispossessed. **$1.50. Little.
“The matter set forth in the book is free from emotionalism or sentimentalism, being a plain, straight-forward, historic presentation of a shameful page in modern history.”
+ Arena. 35: 104. Ja. ’06. 530w.
“The book might have been strengthened by precise references to the documents and authorities quoted.”
– Cath. World. 82: 831. Mr. ’06. 250w. Critic. 48: 191. F. ’06. 60w. Dial. 40: 21. Ja. 1, ’06. 520w. R of Rs. 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 120w.
Huneker, James Gibbons. [Visionaries.] †$1.50. Scribner.
Music, poetry and the plastic arts furnish the field in which Mr. Huneker lets his imagination soar. There are twenty stories in the group in which “he is merely diverting himself with his pen, letting his fancy do what it will with human beings—improvising, as it were.” (Pub. Opin.)
“The author’s style is sometimes grotesque in its desire both to startle and to find true expression. In nearly every story the reader is arrested by the idea, and only a little troubled now and then by an over-elaborate style.”
+ – Acad. 70: 116. F. 3, ’06. 700w.
“With all this straining after the repellent and lawless, the tales for the most part miss their designed effect. They are cleverly executed, with no insignificant portion of imagination; yet with two or three exceptions they fail to be uncanny.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 228. F. 24. 870w.
“These are pictures, thoughtful, intricate pictures, with a tinge of morbid mysticism, better to be enjoyed by reading one, at intervals, than devoured wholesale at a sitting.” Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 97: 47. Ja. ’06. 150w.
“With every limitation of Mr. Huneker’s creative faculty recognised and even exaggerated, the conviction remains that his is an artistic individuality of rare potency and of welcome value to American letters.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ + – Bookm. 22: 360. D. ’05. 1090w.
“His characters look like posters and talk like Mr. Huneker. Nobody will deny that the result is interesting, but it is not fiction of the first order.”
+ – Critic. 48: 381. Ap. ’06. 220w.
“It seems a pity that any one who can upon occasion write so well should so often let his imagination ride him into the country of the grotesque.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 30. Ja. 26, ’06. 620w.
“They are odd in conception and admirably told.”
+ Outlook. 81: 684. N. 18, ’05. 40w.
“Most of them are fantastic, some of them are decadent, all of them are intensely modern in method. But what he does he does with subtle and finished skill, and the product is interesting reading.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 859. D. 30, ’05. 90w.
“There have always been touches in Mr. Huneker’s work that suggest his possession of positive genius. But ‘Visionaries’ outsteps all bounds of reason, is almost wholly fantastic, esoteric, narcotic.”
+ – Reader. 7: 226. Ja. ’06. 350w.
Hunt, Theodore Whitefield. Literature: its principles and problems. **$1.20. Funk.
The disciplinary value ranks ahead of the culture value in the present discussion; the high-tension qualities of literature being those essential to form and structure. The idea of law and order pervades the study, and it outlines the guiding principles and methods of literature, its scope and mission, its primary aims, processes and forms, the laws that govern its orderly development and its logical relation to other great departments of human thought, its specifically intellectual and esthetic quality, and its informing genius and spirit. Its ultimate aim appears as that of suggestion and stimulus along the lines of inquiry that are opened and examined.
“For older students who want to do something in literary criticism, this book offers a good consideration of the principles and problems involved, because it is logically planned in the main and depends on a wide knowledge of literature and literary criticisms.” E. E. H. jr.
+ Bookm. 23: 453. Je. ’06. 350w.
“A book that is in many respects stimulating and suggestive. But it would be the grossest flattery to say that it is well written, or that one’s appreciation of the best in literature is forwarded by the perusal of it.”
– + Critic. 48: 569. Je. ’06. 190w.
“An unusually able, thoro, and discriminating treatment of literary questions and might be read by all serious students and teachers with great advantage to the clarity of their ideas.”
+ Ind. 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 180w. Lit. D. 32: 680. My. 5, ’06. 480w.
“On the topic of literary criticism we find his paragraphs involving either a slight self-contradiction or else lack of clearness in meaning. In a short chapter on ‘Hebraism and Hellenism,’ we think that the author does serious injustice to Mathew Arnold’s position.”
+ – Nation. 82: 415. My. 17, ’06. 550w.
“Thoughtful readers will acknowledge this to be a work of rare merit. A clarifying and a stimulating work it is, critical and widely informing.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 43. My. 3, ’06. 310w.
“It is comprehensive, capable, and always correct, where accuracy is possible.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 40: 710. Je. 9, ’06. 130w.
Hunt, W. Holman. Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood. 2v. **$10. Macmillan.
“This volume is uniform with the “Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones,” and is devoted to a school that did more than any other to restore life and vitality and meaning to English art during the last century.” “This book has a threefold interest—historical, artistic, and human. Mr. Holman Hunt, as every one knows, was one of the original members of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood.... He is able to tell the story of the beginning and early struggles of the most important movement in modern English painting more fully than it has ever been told before. He is also able to give us a very clear and concise account of the intentions of that movement, and of the state of things which it is proposed to reform.” (Lond. Times.)
“Mr. Hunt has stated his views with a certain literary grace that is pleasant to find: he has taken his own part with a great vigour and has said trenchant things with a refreshing incisiveness.” Ford Madox Hueffer.
+ + – Acad. 69: 1290. D. 9, ’05. 1390w.
“He has indeed a fine gift of narrative, and though he takes his time about telling his stories, and the reader of these two substantial volumes will do well to take his, no one who has begun to listen to him is likely to ask him to stop.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 22. Ja. 6. 2460w.
“The book is absorbing because it gives with minute particularity the reminiscences of a man who was born in 1827, began to paint at an early age, has been painting ever since, and, throughout his long career, has been a man of original ideas and of interesting friendships.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + Atlan. 97: 275. F. ’06. 1420w.
“Taking the book as a whole, it seems, despite its prolixity, curiously incomplete. As a history of a movement in art it is a failure.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
– Critic. 48: 529. Je. ’06. 2090w.
“Holman-Hunt tells his story well, in a style more earnest than lively, and with a memory for detail that is truly marvellous.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
+ + Dial. 40: 113. F. 16, ’06. 2590w. + – Edinburgh R. 203: 450. Ap. ’06. 9790w. + Ind. 60: 572. Mr. 8, ’06. 870w.
“About that important phase in the history of art the ‘Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood,’ no one living can speak with more authority than Holman Hunt, but he was too closely associated with the movement to be an impartial historian of it.”
+ – Ind. 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 40w.
“Probably few of his readers, at this late day, will fully endorse his opinions, but his utterances will no doubt be read with the deference due to the long experience and great achievements of so accomplished a veteran.”
+ Int. Studio. 27: 370. F. ’06. 630w. Lit. D. 32: 315. Mr. 3, ’06. 680w.
“He was, therefore, the man of all others best fitted to tell the story of their prime, and this book of his, though we could wish that some passages in it were less bitter deserves to be read with attention and reverence. We hope that an index will be added to the next edition.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 4: 425. D. 8, ’05. 2330w. + Nation. 82: 177. Mr. 1, ’06. 200w.
“But what much interferes with the value of the work and the pleasure of the reader is, that Holman Hunt ... is entirely preoccupied with a contention and a grievance.”
– + Nation. 82: 263. Mr. 29, ’06. 1830w. + – Nation. 82: 283. Ap. 5, ’06. 2650w. N. Y. Times. 10: 837. D. 2, ’05. 150w.
“Altogether, Mr. Hunt’s book, valuable as it is with its interesting anecdotes of the most interesting set of men England produced in the middle of the last century, does not change the verdict of art-history as to the inception and influence of Pre-Raphaelitism in the wider sense.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 157. Mr. 17, ’06. 1560w. + – Outlook. 83: 810. Ag. 4, ’06. 1610w.
“It is really a history of the art-development in England for half a century, with much that is of fascinating interest in the way of biographical, reminiscent, and travel significance.”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 170w.
“A very interesting book.” D. S. MacColl.
+ + Sat. R. 101: 102. Ja. 27, ’06. 2010w.
“Singleness of aim and determination of purpose everywhere characterise the story of the life recorded.”
+ Spec. 96: 499. Mr. 31, ’06. 2300w.
Hunt, Rev. William, and Poole, Reginald Lane. [Political history of England.] 12v. ea. *$2.60. Longmans.
“Mr. Adams has written an admirable work; scientific—we need hardly say—inclining a little to the bald (in the modern manner) in his statement of events; but always clear, trenchant and forcible in his brief expositions of the results and tendencies of events.”
+ + Acad. 69: 1270. D. 2, ’05. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Mr. Brodrick gloried in a style which hung about him like the folds of a Roman toga, and on one subject he cultivated prejudices of a quite passionate kind. He hated Ireland. With that single exception, he possessed, the judicial mind, and a type of mental patience which admirably qualified him for the kind of summary work which is required in these volumes.”
+ + – Acad. 71: 226. S. 8, ’06. 680w. (Review of v. 11.)
“He has showed commendable zeal in research and in the use of secondary authorities, and his account is for the most part accurate. It is not industry nor honesty that he lacks; it is breadth of mind, it is capacity to see both sides of a question, it is an ability to put aside national prejudices.” Ralph C. H. Catterall.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 11: 382. Ja. ’06. 1390w. (Review of v. 10.)
“Misprints are uncommon. It must be confessed that the whole book is without literary grace or adornment, but serious and even pedestrian as the style is, it is neither dry nor repellant. His book is informed with a large-minded, conscientious desire to see the past as it actually was and to represent it truthfully to men of his own day.” Gaillard Thomas Lapsley.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 11: 639. Ap. ’06. 1730w. (Review of v. 2.)
“On the institutional side Dr. Hodgkin’s work shows very little independent research.” Laurence M. Larson.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 12: 114. O. ’06. 1430w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It covers the field thoroughly, its writer’s views of controverted questions are unusually sound, his judgment is excellent, his temper almost ideal.” Ralph C. H. Catterall.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 12:139. O. ’06. 1500w. (Review of v. 11.)
“It is scholarly, clear and interesting. It is rather a sense of regret that such an inadequate plan has been adopted for this important series, and that so little that is new, stimulating or broad is disclosed in this, the earliest volume to appear.” E. P. Cheyney.
+ – Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 179. Mr. ’06. 900w. (Review of v. 10.)
“It [the whole series] is certainly not an epoch-making work, it is certainly not a pioneer into new paths, it gives no new outlook into English history or new synthesis of its elements; but it is full, clear, scholarly, moderate, and useful.” Edward P. Cheyney.
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 189. Jl. ’06. 1270w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“In the author’s treatment of his theme the most prominent feature is his sobriety of style—a sobriety which, it must be confessed, imparts a certain dullness. He possesses, however, the merit of a sane and broad outlook.”
+ + – Ath. 1905, 2: 825. D. 16. 1210w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is perhaps the first time that the history of the United Kingdom during the years 1801–37 has been thoroughly well told in a single volume.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 2: 64. Jl. 21. 1570w. (Review of v. 11.)
“Dr. Adams deals intelligently with his sources; he steers a safe course between undue scepticism and undue credulity. Dr. Hunt is perhaps somewhat less than fair to the Whigs.” Edward Fuller.
+ + – Bookm. 23: 286. My. ’06. 1100w (Review of v. 2 and 10.)
“The authors evince a freedom from that spirit of bigotry and the denomination of prejudices and prepossessions, which, too often, have rendered non-Catholic contributions to English history confirmation of the saying that ‘history is a conspiracy against the truth.’”
+ + Cath. World. 82: 115. Ap. ’06. 470w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“It is the work of an industrious, conscientious. erudite compiler, rather than of an original historian.”
+ Cath. World. 83: 400. Je. ’06. 610w. (Review of v. 10.)
“Of the volumes thus far published that of Adams in the Hunt series covers somewhat less ground than that of Davis, but as in the main they treat of the same period, they are convenient for purposes of comparison. Hunt has made some slight excursions into this unexplored realm, but the chief merit of his work consists not in the new material brought to light, but in his courage in speaking the truth, both about the victors and the vanquished in the contest leading up to the independence of the United States.” George L. Beer.
+ + Critic. 48: 450. My. ’06. 2210w. (Review of v. 2, 3 and 10.)
“Taken as a whole, the work of Professor Adams covers a difficult period of English history with a combination of unity and depth that neither Sir James Ramsay nor Miss Norgate has completely attained.” St. George D. Sioussat.
+ + – Dial. 40: 122. F. 16, ’06. 2140w. (Review of v. 2, 3 and 10.)
“This richness of suggestion and allusion seems to be the element of greatest originality in Mr. Hodgkin’s volume, which is in no sense a rival of the works of Seebohm, Maitland, or Vinagradoff.”
+ + Dial. 41: 92. Ag. 16, ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Hunt’s lucid and orderly narrative is of none the less value because his conclusions have been inevitably, for the most part, anticipated. A modest protest may be allowed against the period of time chosen for this volume. The strong qualities of Dr. Hunt as an historian are conspicuously manifest in the chapters relating to the American war of independence.” Hugh E. Egerton.
+ + – Eng. Hist. R. 21: 173. Ja. ’06. 860w. (Review of v. 10.)
“It is well-proportioned and with trifling exceptions, accurate narrative, incorporating without unduly obtruding the chief results of the minute investigation to which the Norman and Angevin periods have of late years been subjected. Its treatment of controversial subjects is marked by caution and judicial candour. Yet it cannot honestly be said that the book is very readable.” J. Tait.
+ + – Eng. Hist. R. 21: 566. Jl. ’06. 740w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Dr. Hodgkin has made the best of a not very favourable situation, and given us a book distinguished by all the engaging qualities that have procured so extensive an audience for his earlier works.” Gaillard Thomas Lapsley.
+ + Eng. Hist. R. 21: 755. O. ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 1.)
“With American social and economic conditions of the Revolutionary era Mr. Hunt displays but a poor acquaintance.”
+ + – Ind. 60: 984. Ap. 26, ’06. 1230w. (Review of v. 1–3 and 10.)
“Working within his limitations Dr. Brodrick achieved success.”
+ + – Ind. 61: 334. Ag. 9, ’06. 470w. (Review of v. 11.)
“The editors would have been wiser if they had permitted the writer of the volume to deal with matters outside the general scope of their series. Uniformity of scheme is uniformly mischievous in all such cases. We have laid stress on this weakness of the book, because it seems to us fundamental.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 50. F. 16, ’06. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Of political organization he tells us surprisingly little. Dr. Hodgkin has performed so well what he endeavored to perform that we hardly ought to complain of his not having done something else.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 253. Jl. 20, ’06. 3590w. (Review of v. 1.) + + Lond. Times. 5: 407. D. 7, ’06. 930w. (Review of v. 4.)
“All deductions made, however, (v. 1.) is well written and up to the standard of the series. This habit of superficial generalization is the great drawback to Professor Adams’s work, and becomes at times quite irritating to the careful reader. Professor Tout’s volume ... is excellent in every respect. The style is direct, the scholarship sound, the judgment sane.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 306. Ap. 12, ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 1, 2 and 3.) + + Nation. 83: 372. N. 1, ’06. 1620w. (Review of v. 11.)
“Dr. Hunt makes some errors of fact, but it is his general attitude that lays him open to criticism. He should not have attempted a task that called so conspicuously for unprejudiced treatment.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 10: 924. D. 30, ’05. 2670w. (Review of v. 2, 3, and 10.) + + – N. Y. Times. 11: 535. S. 1, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 11.)
“Mr. Adams, it is satisfactory to find, has acquitted himself creditably both in narration and exposition. It is in dealing with matters of foreign policy that Mr. Tout is weak, and more particularly in discussing the Welsh and Scottish wars. Dr. Hunt’s presentation makes too great a demand not only on the caution but on the patience of the student. On the other hand, his volume, like those of Mr. Adams and Mr. Tout, contains a great mass of important, well-digested, and well-arranged information not usually found in general histories.”
+ + – Outlook. 83: 38. My. 3, ’06. 1470w. (Review of v. 2, 3 and 10) + + – Outlook. 84: 45. S. 1, ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 11.) + + Outlook. 84: 238. S. 22, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)
Reviewed by Herbert L. Osgood.
+ + – Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 350. Je. ’06. 750w. (Review of v. 10.)
“Is a discriminating, accurate and for the most part rigidly objective piece of work. With a sound sense of values, the author has weighed and marshalled the conclusions of many scholars in his field; he has shown the mature judgment of an independent worker in the consideration of his materials; and, despite hampering and artificial chronological limitations, has presented the whole in a clear and measured fashion.” Charles A. Beard.
+ + – Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 531. S. ’06. 1730w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Dr. Hodgkin’s narrative is readable, accurate and well proportioned.” Charles A. Beard.
+ + – Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 699. D. ’06. 760w. (Review of v. 1.)
“While we fully acknowledge the care and industry with which the work has been compiled, it is impossible to describe it as a great book. The original authorities have been so much in the mind of the writer that he has tended to adopt their methods, and, in consequence, his work is somewhat dry and annalistic.”
+ + – Sat. R. 101: 142. F. 3, ’06. 1440w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Mr. Hunt has a wide knowledge of his subject. He is a judicious critic and never hesitates to give his own views, but at the same time he does not adopt the futile plan of judging the politics of the period which he is describing from the standpoint of to-day.”
+ + Sat. R. 101: 207. F. 17, ’06. 1480w. (Review of v. 10.)
“At every step we find him practising the art of selection and rejection. But it is an art which he pursues according to rules of his own making.”
+ + Sat. R. 101: 400. Mr. 31, ’06. 990w. (Review of v. 1.)
“We believe—and this is very high praise—that this volume is the best that Professor Tout has written.”
+ + Sat. R. 101: 464. Ap. 14, ’06. 510w. (Review of v. 3.) + + Sat. R. 102: 679. D. 1, ’06. 1150w. (Review of v. 4.)
“An extremely conscientious and careful volume, which will add much to the considerable reputation of its author.”
+ + – Spec. 96: sup. 639. Ap. 28, ’06. 2080w. (Review of v. 2.)
“We can heartily recommend the work as the most full and succinct narrative of our early history with which we are acquainted.”
+ + Spec. 97: 64. Jl. 14, ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)
“There are no purple, or even very brilliant, passages in the book, much less new and startling theories of political and social incidents.”
+ + – Spec. 97: sup. 763. N. 17, ’06. 500w. (Review of v. 11.) + + – World To-Day. 11: 1219. N. ’06. 450w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
Huntington, William Reed. Good Shepherd and other sermons. *$1.25. Whittaker.
Twenty-five sermons by the rector of Grace church, New York, which will interest all church-men. They are published under such headings as: The wilderness a school of character; A day’s journey away from Christ; Priesthood in the light of the transfiguration; The search after reality; Facing inevitable change; The contemporary Christ: The heavenly friend; The eagle and the stars; The Afro-American; The wickedness of war; and “Inter-church,” or Intra-church,—which?
+ Outlook. 82: 762. Mr. 31, ’06. 120w.
Hussey, Eyre. Girl of resource. †$1.50. Longmans.
A story of “commonplace modern life,” with a heroine who has the habit of inflicting quotations and long harangues on any listener, who enacts scenes from “Sanford and Merton,” and who is “gifted with a keen appreciation of the humorous.”
“The reader may find it hard to smile as often as is expected of him. The fun is from the first to the last a little forced, yet always abounding.”
– – Ath. 1906, 2: 238. S. 1. 70w.
“We suppose we must be sadly dense to find her the very paragon of bores, but such she certainly appears upon these amazing pages. And yet the writer has facility, and he knows his compendium.”
– + N. Y. Times. 11: 513. Ag. 18, ’06. 500w.
“The book is not quite equal to ‘Miss Badsworth, M. F. H.’ in which the author exploited an original idea; but it is agreeable, and would be even more so had it been a little shorter.”
– + Spec. 97: 135. Jl. 28, ’06. 160w.
Hutchinson, Horatio Gordon, ed. Big game shooting. 2v. *$7.50. Scribner.
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 167. F. 10. 1130w. + + – Lond. Times. 5: 12. Ja. 12, ’06. 1720w.
Hutten, Baroness von. Pam decides; il. by B. Martin Justice. †$1.50. Dodd.
“In this sequel to ‘Pam’ we find her twenty-seven years old, on the third floor of a Bloomsbury boarding house, and the author of twenty-two novels, written since we saw her last.... The title of the novel, ‘Pam decides,’ indicates that the readers of ‘Pam’ will be relieved from the strain that has been on their minds for over a year, for the most experienced novel reader could not anticipate the decision of this most capricious of women. We have seldom had a heroine on our hands, an attractive heroine, eligible in every way, who gave us so much trouble to marry off, and we are so relieved to have the matter settled in the last few pages of this volume that we do not care to question whether her choice was the wisest she might have made.”—Ind.
+ Acad. 70: 479. My. 19, ’06. 330w.
“The edge of observation seems less keen, the vitality of the picture not so high either in the heroine herself or in the surrounding figures.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 694. Je. 9. 250w.
“It is really not a sequel at all in the ordinary sense, but a new story—and a strong, well-rounded story too, even better than ‘Pam,’ in some respects.” Frederick Taber Cooper
+ Bookm. 23: 541. Jl. ’06. 270w. + Ind. 60: 1165. My. 17, ’06. 260w
“The book is clever and modern.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 180w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 409. Je. 23, ’06. 660w. Outlook. 83: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 70w.
“It exhibits a firmer touch, a more intimate knowledge of human character than ‘Pam.’”
– + Sat. R. 102: 21. Jl. 7, ’06. 130w.
Hutton, Edward. Cities of Spain. *$2. Macmillan.
The first city described is “Fuentarabia, with her narrow streets and music and white-dressed women. Then comes San Sebastian ... Valladolid, Salamanca, with its university and old monks; Zamora, with its decayed Romanesque buildings ... Avila, with her old men and infinite silence and beautiful cathedral; and so on and on to the grave of Torquemada, to Segovia, to the anomalous city of old and new Castile, where the author lingers long at the Prado gallery, and discusses with loving sympathy, with knowledge and with critical perception the masters of the old Spanish schools.... And then on and on again through Toledo ... through the home of Cervantes, Seville, Cadiz, and then across the sea to Morocco and back again to Granada. Nor are Murcia, Alicante, and Valencia forgotten. Tarragona and Barcelona receive their portion of the tourist’s impressions.” (N. Y. Times.) There are twenty-four illustrations in color by A. Wallace Rimington, and twenty other illustrations.
“At its best Mr. Hutton’s style is verbose, artificial, and over-charged with colour; at its worst ... it is to us intolerable in its violence and exaggeration.”
– Ath. 1906, 2: 183. Ag. 18. 940w. + Ind. 61: 1309. D. 13, ’06. 50w.
“This book is neither good nor bad.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 276. Ag. 10, ’06. 1040w.
“Series of impressions charming in sympathy and intimacy, satisfactory to those who would acquire knowledge through emotions rather than through erudition. For all genuine lovers of Spain, Mr. Hutton’s volume renders stale, flat, and unprofitable the most comprehensive guide books crammed with their lore of statistics and their vague attempts to impart practical information.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 530. S. 1, ’06. 800w.
“Interestingly written and beautifully illustrated.”
+ Outlook. 83: 769 Jl. 28, ’06. 180w.
“It is all felt, there is not a dry word in it; thought comes into it musically, in cadences perhaps at times a little languid, but persuasively, with an engaging frankness.”
+ Sat. R. 102: 269. S. 1, ’06. 1210w.
Hutton, Edward. Cities of Umbria. *$2. Dutton.
+ Cath. World. 82: 113. Ap. ’06. 380w.
“Taking both matter and manner into consideration, Mr. Hutton’s book is perhaps the most exhaustive and attractive of the long list of Umbrian books of the past year.”
+ + Dial. 40: 199. Mr. 16, ’06. 270w.
“So much of his narrative is plainly imaginary, and the commonest things are so distorted in his unreal fashions of speech, that it is often hard to know what he would have us take for fancy and what for fact.”
+ – Nation. 83: 107. Ag. 2, ’06. 440w.
“It is sympathetic and appreciative in tone.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 255. Ag. ’06. 40w.
“We applaud delightedly on one page, and our equanimity is sorely tried on the next. Still it is the work of a genuine devotee of Italy, shedding much light as he goes, and if it needs to be studied critically it at least merits to be read lovingly.”
+ – Sat. R. 100: 786. D. 16, ’05. 540w.
Hutton, Richard Holt. Brief literary criticisms. $1.50. Macmillan.
A volume of literary essays collected by Elizabeth M. Roscoe from Mr. Hutton’s contributions to the Spectator. The author “was a journalist in his attitude rather than in the manner of his work, for many of these short essays are stamped with genuine literary quality. He is at his best in dealing with such subjects as Wordsworth, Cardinal Newman, Carlyle and Arnold, and his best means keen criticism, sympathetic interpretation, and an eminently readable style.” (Outlook.)
+ Acad. 70: 223. Mr. 10, ’06. 1780w.
“We have already hinted that Miss Roscoe’s editorial work has been well done; but these essays should not have been issued without an index, and one regrets that undue reverence for her author has restrained her from occasionally emending his text.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 416. Ap. 7. 530w.
“These additional gleanings from the late R. H. Hutton’s contributions to the ‘Spectator’ are excellent specimens of the reviewer’s art, with the exception of a few slight crudities of style and thought inseparable from the nature of such work.”
+ – Ind. 61: 222. Jl. 26, ’06. 280w. Lit. D. 32: 565. Ap. 14, ’06. 1120w. + Nation. 83: 249. S. 20, ’06. 330w.
“One cannot say that the volume contains anything like a body of critical doctrine. But one can say that it contains a great deal of stimulating and suggestive discourse.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 220. Ap. 7, ’06. 1010w.
“This selection covers a wide range, and brings out the diversity of Mr. Hutton’s gifts, the breadth of his sympathies, and the ease and clearness of his style.”
+ Outlook. 82: 907. Ap. 21, ’06. 160w.
“Carefully chosen and edited.”
+ Sat. R. 101: 340. Mr. 17, ’06. 30w. Spec. 96: 426. Mr. 17. ’06. 260w.
Hutton, Rev. William Holden. Burford papers: being letters from Samuel Crisp to his sister at Burford: and other studies of a century, (1745–1845.). *$2.50. Dutton.
“A number of letters which passed from ‘Daddy’ Crisp, the friend of Fanny Burney, to his sister, Mrs. Gast, who lived in Burford in the house now occupied by Hutton himself. The letters contain nothing very striking and add but little to our own sum of knowledge of Fanny Burney, Johnson, Mrs. Thrale or other famous people of the day.... But they were well worth preserving for the charm of their kindliness and humour, and the picture of the life of the times which they exhibit.... For the rest, Mr. Hutton’s essays are very largely concerned with the literary history of the Cotswolds and the neighborhood—small beer most of it, but refreshing and pleasant. He writes of Shenstone, of Richard Jago ... and other minor poets; and winds up with an able study of George Crabbe, a poet whom he understands and knows better than most.”—Acad.
“Lovers of the Cotswolds and the district cannot do without this book, and other people will find it agreeable reading.”
+ Acad. 69: 1207. N. 18, ’05. 300w.
“The author has fished in the backwaters of eighteenth-century life and thought in England, and he gives us here the results—not very grand, perhaps, but novel and, in their quiet way, most attractive—of his pleasant labour.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 443. Ap. 14. 3620w.
“Mr. Hutton is a true lover of his period, and as such is sure to give enjoyment.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 4. Ja. 5, ’06. 1470w. + Nation. 83: 122. Ag. 9, ’06. 1420w.
“To readers who have the habit of memoirs and ‘ana’ these hitherto unpublished letters will be a distinct and valuable find.” M. S.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 429. Jl. 7, ’06. 1190w. + Outlook. 83: 862. Ag. 11, ’06. 80w. + Sat. R. 101: 23. Ja. ’06. 110w.
“It may be said that the part would have been greater than the whole. There are certain chapters of the book which we could easily have spared.”
+ – Spec. 96: 385. Mr. 10, ’06. 1320w.
Hutton, Rev. William Holden. [Church and the barbarians; being an outline of the history of the church from A. D. 461 to A. D. 1003.] *$1. Macmillan.
Within the compass of ten hundred pages the author has essayed to write “from the point of view of one who believes that the church is charged with the duty of preserving and defending a ‘deposit of faith,’ and who assumes that heresy is error and orthodoxy truth.” (Outlook.)
“Mr. Hutton is overwhelmed by the multiplicity of his facts, and one feels in reading his pages that one is examining a skeleton, not following the development of an organism. The ecclesiastical bias of the writer is somewhat too evident.”
– Nation. 83: 120. Ag. 9, ’06. 230w. Outlook. 83: 578. Jl. 7, ’06. 70w.
“Mr. Hutton has certainly struggled hard and has no doubt done his best; but the result is a book which takes so much for granted that it will be hardly intelligible to the beginner, and which goes over the ground so rapidly that it will be of little value to the advanced student.”
– Sat. R. 102: 372. S. 22, ’06. 140w.
Hyde, A. G. George Herbert and his times. **$2.75. Putnam.
The true George Herbert is the theme of Mr. Hyde’s biography, whose burden is the reconciliation of the elements of a complex nature. “The story of Herbert’s ‘spiritual conflicts’ has been told once for all in the immortal pages of Walton’s ‘Life’; but that golden text requires for these modern days a good deal of expansion and comment, and this Mr. Hyde has sought to supply in the book before us. He has taken pains to collect information about the poet’s environment. He tells about the condition of Westminster school during Herbert’s boyhood; about the status and duties of the oratorship which Herbert held at Cambridge; and he writes chapters upon the church politics of the day and on the poet’s friends and contemporaries.” (Lond. Times.)
“Very interesting, wise and well-written book.”
+ + Acad. 71: 390. O. 20, ’06. 1340w.
“He knows nothing about the theories of Professor Palmer, of Harvard, as to the chronology of the poems. However, it cannot be said that these deficiencies make much difference in a popular book. The merit of Mr. Hyde’s volume is its readableness.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 333. O. 5, ’06. 140w.
“In coming to this theme Mr. Hyde has nothing new to add to our knowledge of Herbert’s life or surroundings. But he has a cultivated style, is well read in the general field, and from the common sources has put together a thoroughly entertaining volume. The weakest part of the book ... is that which pretends to deal with criticism.”
+ – Nation. 83: 329. O. 18, ’06. 670w.
“An admirably sober and scholarly piece of work, in keeping with the spirit of the man of whom it treats, and abundantly appreciative of his achievements.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 753. N. 17, ’06. 1020w. + Outlook. 84: 581. N. 3, ’06. 130w.
“Mr. Hyde has done his part very well.”
+ Sat. R. 102: 583. N. 10, ’06. 730w.
“This is in every way an interesting book.”
+ Spec. 97: 444. S. 29, ’06. 300w.
Hyde, William DeWitt. College man and the college woman. **$1.50. Houghton.
“A book especially for “people” who are concerned, either as parents or teachers or simply as good citizens, with college students. It provokes sympathy with the undergraduate’s point of view; it explains persuasively what it is in college life that makes it worth while; it subjects the college to the tests that the man of plain mind applies without sophistry, and shows how the college does, or ought to, meet those tests; it puts into intelligible language the educational ideals of the enlightened college teacher and administrator; and it states effectively what the public attitude toward a college in a democracy should be.” (Outlook.)
“At every point it is a book that will stimulate reflection at many points, one that will provoke debate.”
+ Bookm. 23: 655. Ag. ’06. 540w.
“Should be put on the open shelves of every library.”
+ Ind. 61: 263. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.
“Dr. Hyde’s book is uneven. Its parts are not well woven together. They are somewhat disparate though not contradictory.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 221. Ap. 7, ’06. 1200w. + Outlook. 83: 333. Je. 9, ’06. 330w. + + R. of Rs. 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 80w.
“Nowhere is the function and value of liberal education bettor stated than in the first chapter, occupying less than a page.”
+ + World To-Day. 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 160w.
Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright. Trials of Commander McTurk. †$1.50. Dutton.
“Commander McTurk on the Retired list of the United States navy employs himself in getting “professional experience elsewhere,” really is struggling to regain lost prestige. His flaxen wig and his red face “with its thousand tiny wrinkles” are at variance with his modest claim to art. He is amusingly sketched in graphic, lively style, but hardly illumined by the vital spark which animated his truculent predecessor [Captain Kettle].” (Ath.)
Acad. 71: 204. S. 1, ’06. 340w.
“The principal blemish in this collection of stories is that it has not been devised primarily for a volume, but for serial publication.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 270. S. 8. 170w.
“Catholicity of taste is a literary virtue, and readers of rigorous health have every justification for enjoying the cumulative absurdities of this robustious patriot.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 290. Ag. 24, ’06. 320w.
“If it were not that he once wrote a book called ‘The adventures of Captain Kettle,’ his new work would be hailed, probably as a maker of reputation.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 703. O. 27, ’06. 550w.
Hyslop, James Hervey. Borderland of psychical research. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.
The ground of normal and abnormal psychology is covered in this volume in a manner to prepare the layman for the consideration of supernormal problems, especially upon the evidential side. The author says “the work must not be adjudged from the point of view of the trained psychologist as an effort to help scholars, but from the standpoint of public education as designed to do what text-books can hardly undertake.”
“The discussions contained in these 400 pages and more, are long and diffuse.”
+ – Nation. 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 230w.
“It treats perplexing questions conservatively, and with a view to create an intelligent public interest in the baffling problems of psychical research. It is a book which none should neglect who are attracted by the recondite mystery to whose solution it looks forward and attempts to clear the way.”
+ Outlook. 84: 629. N. 10, ’06. 250w.
Hyslop, James Hervey. Enigmas of psychical research. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.
Professor Hyslop looks upon this volume as a supplement to his “Science and a future life.” He goes over his whole field of the supernormal, includes an exhaustive discussion on telepathy and apparitions, and has added much material on crystal gazing, coincidental dreams, clairvoyance and premonitions, with some illustrations of mediumistic phenomena.
“The work is a worthy companion volume to ‘Science and a future life.’”
+ Arena. 36: 215. Ag. ’06. 1000w.
“Almost all his evidence had long ago been laid before the curious. The book has no index.”
– Ath. 1906, 1: 800. Je. 30. 600w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
Atlan. 98: 425. S. ’06. 100w.
“It is to be held fortunate that an exponent of a faith that makes slight appeal to those who stand with the reviewer should find a spokesman who in general has so capable a comprehension of the philosophical implications of his enigmas.” Joseph Jastrow.
+ + – J. Philos. 3: 498. Ag. 30, ’06. 1080w.
“He is careful to preserve an attitude of caution, the attitude, in short, of the trained investigator who feels that the end is not yet in sight.”
+ Lit. D. 32: 807. My. 26, ’06. 650w. Nation. 82: 428. My. 24, ’06. 100w.
“Judging Dr. Hyslop’s book as a whole, it is carefully conservative and will appeal to many persons who would be offended by a mere theoretical treatment.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 604. My. 12, ’06. 950w. R. of Rs. 34: 128. Jl. ’06. 120w.
Hyslop, James Hervey. Problems of philosophy; or, Principles of epistemology and metaphysics. *$5. Macmillan.
“In thirteen chapters Dr. Hyslop discusses, first introductory questions (chapters 1 and 2), then (chapters 3–8) the problems of the theory of knowledge, thereafter (chapters 9–12) metaphysical theories, with special reference to ‘materialism’ and ‘spiritualism’; and finally, (chapter 13) he sums up his results in a general discussion of the office, the duties, the prospects, and the ethical significance of philosophy. This final chapter, very readable by itself, even apart from the rest of the book, is probably the one which the student of social and of ethical problems will find the most interesting.”—Int. J. Ethics.
“Professor Hyslop’s style is vigorous and clear. The book will afford valuable collateral readings in philosophical courses, and even where instruction takes issue with it, it should prove a healthy foil. In certain ranges, as the discussion of materialism and spiritualism, it occupies unique territory.” H. B. Alexander.
+ + Bookm. 22: 526. Ja. ’06. 330w.
“The questions discussed are fundamental ones. The spirit is that of an unassuming, modest, but extremely patient, minute, and laborious inquirer, who spares neither his own pains, nor, upon some occasions, his reader’s powers of attention. This book has everywhere an admirable individuality and an unconventionality of procedure which are obvious and wholesome, even when the views themselves which are defended, appear to be less original, or even when, to the present reviewer’s mind, they are least valuable as results. Dr. Hyslop’s English is often unnecessarily hard to follow, not by reason of mere technicalities, but by reason of imperfectly constructed sentences.” Josiah Royce.
+ + – Int. J. Ethics. 16: 236. Ja. ’06. 2320w.
“It is a book which a hostile or wearied critic would have ample excuse for condemning utterly.”
+ – Nation. 82: 329. Ap. 19, ’06. 520w.
“It will not fully commend itself to philosophic thinkers in general.”
+ + – Outlook. 81: 572. N. 4, ’05. 830w.
“The most radical criticism of the book would be to deny the possibility of making any such ultimate distinction as is here made between the theory of knowing and the theory of being.” H. N. Gardiner.
+ – Philos. R. 15: 312. My. ’06. 2400w.
Hyslop, James Hervey. Science and a future life. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.
“Issue must, however be squarely taken with Dr. Hyslop when he denies the ability of philosophers to do anything in this field.” Frederick Tracy.
+ – Am. J. Theol. 10: 170. Ja. ’06. 530w.
“We wish that he carried more of his logic into his ‘metapsychics,’ and that he expressed himself with more clearness and grace.”
– Ath. 1906, 2: 697. D. 1. 1460w.