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Hadley, Arthur Twining. Baccalaureate addresses and other talks on kindred themes. **$1. Scribner.
7–11555.
Sixteen brief addresses in which President Hadley of Yale dwells “on the grand fundamentals of character and citizenship, of individual and social virtue, and, in the large wholesome sense, of piety and religion.” (Dial.)
“The simple, straightforward style of these addresses is engaging.”
| + | Dial. 42: 290. My. 1, ’07. 330w. |
“The tone of the book is wholesome and optimistic, but one must confess that it deals largely in platitudes.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 410. My. 2, ’07. 70w. |
“They disclose in a manner at once incidental and intimate, the spirit in which Dr. Hadley meets thousands of young men. It is because of their disclosure of this spirit and because of the extreme elevation and devotion of the spirit disclosed that the volume will receive a considerable and a cordial welcome.” Edward Cary.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 216. Ap. 6. ’07. 1280w. |
“Simplicity of style, singleness of aim, earnestness of purpose, an entire absence not only of cant but of professionalism in all its forms, but above all a certain virility of spirit, characterize these addresses.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 77. My. 11, ’07. 270w. |
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 228. N. ’07. 470w. | |
| + | Yale R. 16: 108. My. ’07. 140w. |
Hadley, Arthur Twining. Standards of public morality; the Kennedy lectures for 1906, in the school of philanthropy conducted by the Charity organization society of the City of New York. **$1. Macmillan.
7–21398.
Five essays entitled, The formation of public opinion, The ethics of trade, The methods of corporate management, The workings of our political machinery, The political duties of a citizen. In these chapters the author discusses present evils from the standpoint of the historian, the economist and the good citizen.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 165. O. ’07. S. |
“Excellent though the book is, a little more of the ‘scorn of scorn,’ the ‘hate of hate,’ the love of all ideals of even impossible perfection, might have been expected—and twenty years ago would have been expected—in a New England college president’s treatment of the subjects discussed.”
| + − | Dial. 43: 123. S. 1, ’07. 320w. |
“The book will bear reading and rereading both by officers and by private citizens.”
| + | Educ. R. 34: 210. S. ’07. 60w. | |
| + | Ind. 63: 1309. N. 28, ’07. 570w. | |
| J. Pol. Econ. 15: 569. N. ’07. 100w. |
“The book is worth reading not once, but twice. This is a rich bill of fare spread exactly in the ripeness of appetite for the meal. May good digestion wait on appetite, and the community will be the better for it.” Edward A. Bradford.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 417. Je. 29, ’07. 1460w. |
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 227. N. ’07. 270w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 384. S. ’07. 100w. | ||
| Yale R. 16: 225. Ag. ’07. 160w. |
Hadow, Gerald Elliot, and Hadow, William Henry. Oxford treasury of English literature. 3v. ea. *90c. Oxford.
7–6793.
v. 1. Old English to Jacobean. This volume indicates the chief landmarks in prose and poetry (not dramatic) from Beowulf to the writers of the Jacobean age, with good introductions.
v. 2. Growth of the drama. Under Tragedy, Comedy, and History, are given selections which range from the miracle plays to Ford’s Perkin Warbeck. General introductions and brief bibliographies are provided.
“The introductions, despite the care and knowledge with which they are written, are inevitably insufficient and a little dictatorial: the selections, though chosen with fine judgment, are brief and not wholly representative.”
| − | Acad. 71: 174. Ag. 25, ’06. 2040w. (Reviews of v. 1.) |
“The introductions to the various parts of the book are most valuable and scholarly, and contain a really noble and stimulating appreciation of Marlowe and of Webster.”
| + | Acad. 72: 339. Ap. 6, ’07. 490w. (Review of v. 2.) | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 97. Ap. ’07. S. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Perhaps this section of drama was a difficult one to fill; but we the more regret the arrangement which made it necessary for the editors to fill it. Yet such criticisms do not prevent this being a good and, on the whole, representative manual.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 35. Jl. 13. 1410w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“The work is admirably done, and wholly worthy of the distinction of its Oxford imprint.”
| + | Dial. 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The book is characterized by the nicest scholarship.”
| + | Educ. R. 33: 535. My. ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“The dominant feeling with which one puts down this book is one of pleasure and gratitude. There is everything to learn in it and everything to enjoy, and all the learning is only another kind of enjoying. Nothing could be better than the editorial introductions to the different sections. They are models of what such things should be; as true as if they were written by dulness itself; as striking as if they were made up of wilfulness.”
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 301. S. 7, ’06. 5330w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The introduction to each extract gives just the information that will be needed by the ordinary reader, and the general introduction errs, if at all, only in its brevity.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 339. N. 8, ’07. 1370w. (Review of v. 2.) | |
| Nation. 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 120w. (Review of v. 2.) | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 433. Jl. 6, ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 2.) |
Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich Philipp August. Last words on evolution: tr. from 2d ed. by Joseph McCabe. *$1. Eckler.
6–14562.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 214. Ja. ’07. 270w. |
“The presentation of the subject is marred by a controversial treatment of the work of Wasmann and by an unnecessarily harsh arraignment of Virchow on account his attitude toward evolutionary questions.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 228. Mr. 7, ’07. 150w. |
“That part of his work which deals with science shows him an investigator who will stand with the foremost of his century. He has the rare distinction of having contributed materially to the sum of human knowledge. But all his science has here become only the stair to his philosopher’s tower of ivory. To us this tower is a mere castle in Spain, and the last words on evolution are still unuttered.” Christian Gauss.
| + − | No. Am. 186: 130. S. ’07. 1890w. |
* Haeselbarth, Adam C. Patty of the palms: a story of Porto Rico. $1.25. Kenny pub.
A romance thru which are portrayed some of the conditions in Porto Rico since American occupation showing what degree of success has resulted from attempts at “benevolent assimilation.”
Haggard, Andrew C. P. Real Louis the fifteenth; with 34 full-page portraits, including 2 photogravure plates. 2v. *$5. Appleton.
7–18151.
“Colonel Haggard tells at considerable length the whole story of the reign.... He gives the whole history of the Seven years’ war, the life and adventures of Frederick the Great and of Prince Charles Edward, the history of Stanislas of Poland and of his court at Lunéville, with many other personal narratives not always quite correct in detail.... He attempts to describe all the varying opinions, all the crimes of the Jesuits, the vagaries of the philosophers, the intrigues of unprincipled politicians, and to make us intimately familiar with Fleury, Choiseul, Voltaire, and the Encyclopedists, as well as with the succession of women who influenced ‘this hoggish king’ and through him, to a certain extent, ruled France and poisoned the air of Europe.”—Spec.
“Will hardly rank as a serious contribution to the history of the eighteenth century in France.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 301. S. 15. 260w. |
“If the present volumes on the life of Louis XV. wore what one might call good gossip—‘good’ in the artistic sense, lively, pointed, significant, they would be thoroughly acceptable in spite of their slight historic value. Frankly they are little more than a dictionary of scandal, an encyclopedia of eighteenth century depravity, the results of a research offensive in its thoroughness.” M. B. M.
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 109. F. 23. ’07. 1500w. |
“The author has probably told his kind of story fairly well.”
| − + | Outlook. 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 70w. |
“With all its faults in art and more serious faults in taste, the book makes a sufficiently striking impression.”
| − + | Spec. 97: sup. 758. N. 17, ’06. 1290w. |
* Haggard, Henry Rider. Margaret: a novel of the England of Henry VII. †$1.50. Longmans.
7–32845.
Set in the times of the Tudors, this tale is one of daring adventure by land and sea. “It involves the slaughter of a retainer of the Spanish ambassador in the opening scene, and the escape of an Anglo-Jewish merchant from the Spanish inquisition in the last. The fortunes of the Jew’s daughter—who has been abducted, by a nobleman in the train of De Ayala, the ambassador, and is pursued across the sea by her lover, brave Peter Brome, and his comrades—form the main thread of the story. Incidentally we meet with many well-fancied types of militant and ecclesiastical humanity, with effective portraits of monarchs and great men.” (Ath.)
“There is a reminiscence of Kingsley in much of the story, but Mr. Haggard has no master in this brightly conceived and deftly executed drama of action.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 362. S. 28. 170w. |
“In incompetent hands, a plot for a dime novel and nothing more; but Mr. Haggard has the craft of a born stage manager ... and sends us away with the feeling that we have witnessed a big, spectacular show that was eminently worth while.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 26: 408. D. ’07. 360w. |
“It is all as vigorous, circumstantial, and imaginative as Mr. Haggard can make it; but the effect is often marred by the effort to combine simplicity of diction with a flavour of Tudor English.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 301. O. 4, ’07. 450w. |
“But notwithstanding all its many excellencies, Mr. Haggard’s work does not belong on the high levels of fictional art. There is none of that rich and satisfying quality which invests the pages of novelists who deal with the inner forces of character and temperament.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 743. N. 23, ’07. 1140w. |
“The merchant who is the principal figure in his drama does not convince us. When we come to the story itself all is excellent.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 534. O. 12, ’07. 110w. |
Haggard, (Henry) Rider. Spirit of Bambatse; a romance. †$1.50. Longmans.
6–27709.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We feel that Mr. Haggard’s formula is less satisfying than formerly, and yet a cool analysis tells us that this story has as many good points as the others.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 504. Mr. 30, ’07. 260w. |
Haines, Alice Calhoun. [Luck of the Dudley Grahams: as related in extracts from Elizabeth Graham’s diary.] †$1.50. Holt.
7–32036.
The story of a family of boys and girls who tried to share their mother’s burdens. On the day of selling a dump-cart patent the father had died suddenly without revealing the hiding place of the contract. The family struggles continue until one day the contract is found and the Graham luck turns.
Haines, Henry Stevens. Railway corporations as public servants. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–30619.
A work which to some extent is supplementary to the author’s previous discussion of “Restrictive railway legislation.” “The treatment of the subject is, however, more particularly directed to an amelioration of the existing relations between railway corporations and the public whom they serve.”
“Some of the statements in the book are more striking than true. This volume deals with a large number of topics in connection with railway management and the facilities afforded. While these are not handled in detail, they are presented in an attractive way that ought to stimulate the interest of the general reading public in the question of the efficiency of the American railway service under its present organization.” Ernest R. Dewsnup.
| + − | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 555. N. ’07. 1470w. |
“One of the most timely of the fall books.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 640. N. ’07. 110w. |
Haines, Jennie Day, comp. Christmasse tyde. **$2. Elder.
A collection of seasonable quotations beautifully set to the best things in book accompaniment.
Haines, Jennie Day, comp. Ye gardeyne boke. **$3. Elder.
6–43790.
“The text has been gathered and arranged ... from hundreds of sources, poetical and prosaic.... The various quotations are arranged under about forty heads, and Cardinal Newman offers the first answer to the question, ‘What is a garden?’... Then come such topics as ‘Mediaeval gardens,’ ‘Monastic gardens,’ ‘Old-fashioned gardens,’ and gardens identified with various nationalities—Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish—and so on, and even ‘The poet’s garden,’ and ‘Gardens of the sea’ are not neglected.”—N. Y. Times.
“Garden-lovers need look no further for an appropriate gift.”
| + | Dial. 41: 455. D. 16, ’06. 60w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 190w. |
“Tastefully decorated and beautifully printed.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 48. Ja. 5, ’07. 70w. |
Haldane, Elizabeth S. Descartes: his life and times. *$4.50. Dutton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Miss Haldane’s book seems to me well-proportioned and well-written. The most recent sources of information have been utilized, and the material arranged in clear and orderly fashion. The accounts of the philosophical standpoint and contents of the important works are clear, coherent, and well-suited to the general plan and purpose of the volume, which is intended quite as much for the general reader as for the special student of philosophy. The book is to be welcomed as a real and valuable addition to the literature of philosophy.” J. E. C.
| + + + | Philos. R. 16: 94. Ja. ’07. 220w. |
* Hale, Albert Barlow. South Americans. **$2.50. Bobbs.
7–36231.
An illustrated story of the South American republics, their characteristics, progress and tendencies; with special reference to their commercial relations with the United States. Special attention has been given to the East Andean republics because within their boundaries must take place the great industrial advances of the century.
Hale, Edward Everett. Tarry at home travels. il. **$2.50. Macmillan.
6–35582.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. Hale is rather too fond of applying the epithet ‘dear’ to every person of whom he speaks. We wish also that he had not adopted the slang term ‘Dago’ when speaking of an Italian.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 194. F. 16. 230w. |
“His reminiscences are poured out of a full heart, freely, familiarly, picturesquely.” Harriet Waters Preston.
| + | Atlan. 99: 417. Mr. ’07. 860w. |
“Half mischievous, half militant, he goes wherever his mood takes him, finding only what is good in men, and gently prodding this good to make it better.”
| + | Ind. 63: 159. Jl. 18, ’07. 520w. |
“The purpose and execution of the work are infused throughout with high ideals and generous patriotism.”
| + + | Outlook. 84: 534. O. 27, ’06. 110w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 108. Ja. ’07. 70w. |
Hale, Will T. True stories of Jamestown and its environs. $1. Pub. house M. E. ch., So.
7–19587.
“A little volume whose spirit perpetuates the “human” interest in the past life of this deserted village.”
Hall, Bolton. [Three acres and liberty]; assisted by Robert F. Powell; with an introd. by George T. Powell. $1.75. Macmillan.
7–10568.
A handbook of tested theory regarding land and its possibilities. And Mr. Hall is not satisfied with the mediocre results of a three-acre plot but shows what can be accomplished at the high tide of productive capacity. He shows where the right three-acres may be found, what kind of land must be had, what it will cost, and what must be done with it. The author “has not attempted so much to deal with the technique of agriculture or to give instruction in its requirements, as to awaken active and earnest thought upon the social betterment of our rapidly increasing population.”
“This is, we think, one of the most important volumes of the year.”
| + + | Arena. 38: 211. Ag. ’07. 1260w. |
“The author is not always sufficiently specific in regard to regions adapted to special products, probably assuming that those who are interested in the subject will investigate further.”
| + − | Dial. 43: 67. Ag. 1, ’07. 430w. |
“The book should be highly interesting to amateur farmers and to social workers.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 340w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 360w. | |
| Outlook. 85: 904. Ap. 20, ’07. 120w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 35: 639. Mr. ’07. 140w. |
Hall, Rev. Charles Cuthbert. Christ and the human race; or, The attitude of Jesus Christ toward foreign races and religions; being the William Belden Noble lectures for 1906. **$1.25. Houghton.
6–42357.
“In these lectures ... Dr. Hall ... is concerned with the proper attitude of a Christian man toward the non-Christian religions.... To-day, he affirms, ‘the East denounces Western Christendom, yet in spirit approaches nearer and nearer to the worship of Christ.’ ... In conclusion, Dr. Hall gives the standpoints now to be taken by the Christian educator, physician, and minister in the East.”—Outlook.
Reviewed by A. K. Parker.
| + − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 363. Ap. ’07. 810w. |
“He approaches the East with a courtesy equal to that for which the East is eminent. He is a student as well as a teacher, and expects to receive as well as give.” George Hodges.
| + | Atlan. 99: 562. Ap. ’07. 380w. | |
| Ind. 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 40w. | ||
| Nation. 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 70w. | ||
| Outlook. 85: 237. Ja. 26, ’07. 370w. |
Hall, Charles Cuthbert. Christian belief interpreted by Christian experience. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
5–25392.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“His irenic tone, and tactful, almost adroit, presentation of the points of difference between Christianity and Hinduism, are certainly admirable.” Andrew C. Zenos.
| + | Bib. World. 29: 397. My. ’07. 790w. |
Hall, Edward Henry. Paul, the apostle, as viewed by a layman. **$1.50. Little.
6–19782.
A sympathetic estimate done in the historical spirit of “a great, though very human actor in an important crisis in the world’s spiritual life. Critical scholarship since Baur has been laid under tribute, and me opinions of such students as Pfleiderer, Hausrath, Wernle, and Weizsacher have been diligently compared and carefully estimated.” (Nation.)
“Gives his view of the apostle’s religious character and theological doctrines, in an interesting and instructive way.”
| + | Am. J. Theol. 11: 530. Jl. ’07. 170w. |
“A rapid and suggestive survey.”
| + | Bib. World. 29: 79. Ja. ’07. 20w. |
“A just and sympathetic appreciation. The author’s limitation would appear to be lack of grasp of the importance of the service which Paul rendered to early Christianity.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 250w. |
Hall, Eliza Calvert. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky]; il. by Beulah Strong. †$1.50. Little.
7–12978.
As Aunt Jane cuts squares for patchwork out of “caliker that won’t fade in the first washin’ and wear out in the second,” and fashions them into her wild-goose pattern quilt she grows reminiscent and with pristine verve and histrionism recounts delicious tales of long ago: how Sally Ann delivered her message of denunciation to the men of Goshen church for demanding that their wives be the submittin’ kind, and how the women of the Mite society bought a new organ for the church in spite of the husbands who thought it a frivolous proceeding. Unruly human nature, bits of scandal and gossip are all softened by time, and as Aunt Jane recalls them she touches them up with her quaint philosophy and delightful sentiment.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 177. O. ’07. ✠ |
“The musings of Aunt Jane’s anonymous listener are somewhat startlingly in contrast to the prevailing rusticity and simplicity of the anecdotes. Even a note of great beauty may produce discord; and discord, as the portrayers of New England life have so well realized, is even less desirable than monotony. With this possible exception, the book is one of the most creditable of its kind, and Aunt Jane’s sympathetic optimism should win her many friends.”
| + + − | Cath. World. 85: 688. Ag. ’07. 290w. |
“The author who listens to Aunt Jane, and who records the stories, has added much to their beauty by her sympathy of expression.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1212. My. 23, ’07. 180w. |
“The flavor of the book lies in the point of view of the old woman, in the wise things she says, and the homely way she says them.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 188. Mr. 30, ’07. 860w. |
“In this little volume Eliza Calvert Hall has achieved the unusual—except in the matter of the title.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 250w. |
“Her stories of Aunt Jane’s experiences are full of real human feeling, and awaken thoroughly wholesome emotion.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 150w. |
“A little more humour as pungent and appealing as that in the opening sketch, ‘Sally Ann’s experiences,’ and ‘Mrs. Wiggs,’ would have had a rustic rival.”
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 749. S. ’07. 110w. |
Hall, Florence Howe. Social usages at Washington. **$1. Harper.
6–41786.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 42. F. ’07. |
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| N. Y. Times. 11: 866. D. 15, ’06. 310w. | ||
| + | Outlook. 85: 144. Ja. 19, ’07. 60w. |
Hall, Gertrude. [Wagnerian romances.] **$1.50. Lane.
A volume of essays in which the author takes the poems too often submerged in the Wagner music and reveals the intrinsic value of the myth, poetry and romance in them. Beginning with “Parsifal” and ending with “The flying Dutchman,” she includes ten of the Wagnerian romances.
“There can be no doubt that her conscientious transcript will be welcomed by many opera-goers.”
| + | Nation. 85: 404. O. 31, ’07. 240w. |
“While the author’s method in this book is excellent, and she is able to preserve the intense spirit and mystic atmosphere of the great romances, her English occasionally suffers from too literal a rendering of the German. With that unimportant reservation, one can thoroughly enjoy her conscientious and sympathetic work.”
| + + − | Outlook. 87: 499. N. 2, ’07. 190w. |
Hall, Granville Stanley. Youth: its education, regimen and hygiene. **$1.50. Appleton.
7–30473.
An abridgment of “Adolescence” which offers in briefer form and at less cost the far-reaching pedagogical principles and conclusions of the original volume. There have been added a chapter on moral and religious training and a glossary of seven pages, the latter being useful as well to the larger work.
“The book has been more carefully proofed and the bibliographic references made more complete than in ‘Adolescence.’ Good judgment has characterized the selection and condensation, and normal schools and teacher’s classes, outside of the preferred geographic zone, are certain to find it a useful book, if they can get hold of it.” Will S. Monroe.
| + + | J. Philos. 4: 218. Ap. 11. ’07. 130w. |
“There will be great advantage in the existence of this handbook to ‘Adolescence,’ tho it might be regretted that the terminology and philosophical allusions have not been adapted to the understanding of the layman.”
| + + − | Lit. D. 35: 695. N. 9, ’07. 120w. |
“The anxious parent or teacher, seeking for the light upon his problems of how best to deal with either child or youth, no matter what his troubles are, will be able to find help of some sort in these pages, crammed full as they are, with the wisdom of the scientist, the observer, the lover of his kind.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 581. S. 28, ’07. 960w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
Hall, H. R. Days before history. 50c. Crowell.
7–21361.
A book for children which in story form tells of uncouth men who lived in caves and on floating islands in the days before history.
| Ath. 1906, 2: 732. D. 8. 100w. |
“We congratulate the author on a singularly attractive little book, the very thing for imaginative boys.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 537. My. 4. 60w. |
“The writer has a good subject, although his handling of it is not of the best.”
| + − | R. of Rs. 36: 764. D. ’07. 90w. |
Hall, Prescott F. Immigration and its effects upon the United States. **$1.50. Holt.
6–6769.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“I cannot find that Mr. Hall has inaccurately or carelessly stated or omitted any of the essential facts, though he has not failed to indicate the conclusions he draws from them. Only a few minor errors can be noted, and they proceed from the mistakes of others upon nonessential points, or from the imperfections of government statistics, whose weaknesses Mr. Hall points out. Altogether the book stands out as the most important contribution that has been made to the study of this most important American problem.” John R. Commons.
| + + − | Charities. 17: 504. D. 15, ’08. 400w. |
“The treatise is detailed and exhaustive in summing up the experience of the United States in solving its hydra-headed immigration problem.”
| + + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 125. F. ’07. 130w. |
“A book quite indispensable to serious students of the problem of immigration.” Montgomery Schuyler.
| + + | Putnam’s. 3: 231. N. ’07. 400w. | |
| + − | Spec. 97: 540. O. 13, ’06. 250w. |
Hallock, William, and Wade, Herbert T. Outlines of the evolution of weights and measures, and the metric system. *$2.25. Macmillan.
6–36443.
“The book contains a clear and well-written account (largely taken from M. Bigourdan’s ‘Le système metrique’) of the foundations of the metric system by the French, who were its real inventors, and of its gradual spread since 1872 over nearly the whole of Europe and America with the single exception of these islands.”—Ath.
“The archaeological part, touching, among other things, on the Babylonian cubit and the Egyptian measures, we cannot commend, for there is no evidence that the authors have any first hand knowledge of the subject, and neither Professor Hommel nor the Rev. W. Shaw-Caldecott, whom they quote, is so great an authority upon it as the authors evidently imagine.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 775. D. 15. 210w. |
“The work is an argument for the metric system, but it is not partisan. It is excellently handled and should have general attention; it should certainly be read by every senator and representative at Washington.”
| + | Ind. 62: 504. F. 28, ’07. 360w. |
“This is an admirable piece of work, in which the result of much tedious research is presented in a bright and lucid narrative.”
| + + | Nature. 75: 290. Ja. 24, ’07. 1740w. |
“A noteworthy piece of special pleading.”
| + + − | Outlook. 83: 768. Jl. 28, ’06. 190w. |
“A complete and exhaustive discussion—for the general reader, at least—of the whole subject.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 100w. |
“This book can well be declared the most complete and most authentic work extant on this important subject.” J. H. Gore.
| + + + | Science, n.s. 24: 652. N. 23, ’06. 390w. |
Halsham, John. Lonewood Corner: a countryman’s horizon. *$1.50. Dutton.
Leisure, an unknown luxury to commercial America, fills this volume. “The author has ample time in which to read Theocritus—not in translation—in the beech tree shade on summer mornings, to sit on a log for long June afternoons and look at the landscape ... to perch on the meadow gate by the hour and watch the mowers and the mowing machine ... to wander far and aimlessly across fields and through woods—and afterward to write exquisite water-colors in words describing all he has seen and thought and felt, and delicate little bas-reliefs of the people with whom he has met and talked.” (N. Y. Times.)
“We heartily commend it to all lovers of the contemplative life. The style is admirable—rich without being ornate.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 784. Je. 29. 970w. |
“There is much good browsing in the unpretentious pages of this modestly learned and pleasantly chatty writer.”
| + | Dial. 43: 170. S. 16, ’07. 370w. |
“It is on the whole better reading than ‘Idlehurst,’ written with more gusto and less pedantry. His pessimism does not dismay us, but rather amuses us as a mood which we like to share in holiday hours.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 180. Je. 7, ’07. 1460w. |
“Arrives at a certain charm from its impregnation with the quality—so grateful to some palates—of being unutterably, deeply English.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 211. S. 5, ’07. 420w. |
“It is the sort of book that demands of the reader a sympathetic mental temperament and given that, the sort of book in which such a reader can find a companion and intimate and an unfailing source of pleasure and content. But to those who have not that temperament its pages will be even as the Greek sentence which forms its motto.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 534. S. 7, ’07. 410w. |
“We have read his book twice from end to end and we do not feel we have wasted time. Could critic say more?”
| + + | Sat. R. 104: 515. O. 26, ’07. 1500w. |
“‘Idlehurst’ quickly became a classic; ‘Lonewood Corner,’ its sequel, or second volume, will stand beside it, we fancy, on most shelves where the earlier book has established its footing. If not on all, it is because of a slight suggestion of what is not exactly bitterness, but is rather like it—an added hint of aloofness—that may not be agreeable to the palate of all.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 164. Ag. 3, ’07. 1890w. |
Hamilton, Angus. Afghanistan. *$5. Scribner.
6–41815.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 43. F. ’07. |
“The work required two years to be spent in its preparation and the result is most satisfactory, as the book contains much information under historical, geographical, ethnographical, commercial and political groupings.” Laura Bell.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 610. N. ’07. 220w. |
“It should take a high place as a book of reference. It should be prized not only as that, but for its clear presentation of an inadequately understood subject.” George R. Bishop.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 108. F. 23, ’07. 3590w. |
Hamilton, Anthony Count. [Memoirs of Count de Gramont]; ed. by Allan Fea. *$5. Scribner.
A handsomely illustrated edition of the memoirs of Count de Gramont, “a soldier of fortune, and a boldly unscrupulous gamester and wit in the reign of Louis XIII, and Louis XIV.”
“Mr. Fea also supplies copious footnotes—almost too copious. The half-tones are not always distinct, partly because many of the originals are dimmed with age.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 32. Ja. 10, ’07. 330w. |
“The volume would be desirable if only for the sake of these illustrations, but these represent only a small part of the editor’s work.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 58. F. 2, ’07. 750w. | |
| + | Sat. R. 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 90w. |
* Hamilton, Cosmo. Adam’s clay. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
A diatribe against the thoughtless, heartless, irreverent “woman of the world.”
“In spite of clever delineation of character, plenty of humour, and considerable skill in skating over thin ice, we cannot say that this novel has left a pleasant impression on us.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 193. F. 16. 100w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 10w. |
Hamilton, Sir Ian Standish Monteith. Staff officer’s scrapbook during the Russo-Japanese war. 2v. ea. *$4.50. Longmans.
6–1100.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Powers of Keen observation and the facile pen of a cultured citizen of the world are noticeable on every page, and perhaps the greatest charm of the writer lies in the fact that, while the professional reader cannot fail to profit by his expert criticisms, the layman finds himself led on from episode to episode with ever-increasing interest, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that, full though it be of brilliant and expert professional knowledge and criticism, no work of more enthralling interest could well be placed before a reader.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 212. Mr. 2, 07. 1240w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“It is even better than its forerunner.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 530w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“A vivid and trustworthy account. General Hamilton’s pictures of the atrocious sides of war are among the most striking features of his admirable book.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 723. My. 4, ’07. 490w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“The peculiar charm of this second instalment ... lies in the extreme humility and taking simplicity of language in which he narrates the stirring scenes of which he was a witness. Most fascinating military work.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 60. F. 22, ’07. 1110w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“This really brilliant book deserves a wide public.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 290. Ap. 25, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 2.) | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 124. Mr. 2, ’07. 120w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“Gen. Hamilton has a style that draws the reader irresistibly along with him. His comments from the standpoint of a highly competent military authority, greatly enhance the value of his volumes.” George R. Bishop.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 1120w. |
“This volume is more reticent, is fuller of really useful information, and is altogether more valuable.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 271. Mr. 2, ’07. 1220w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“Undoubtedly a work of first-rate importance.”
| + | Spec. 98: 499. Mr. 30, ’07. 2180w. (Review of v. 2.) |
Hamilton, Joseph. Spirit world. **$1.50. Revell.
6–36932.
The author “thinks that we have not only proof of the existence of a supernatural world, but also knowledge of its inhabitants and governing laws. He bases his views almost entirely upon the accounts given in the Bible of angelic visitations, miraculous events, etc. It is astonishing what an elaborate structure he rears on their foundations. The supernatural world he conceives on the analogy of the natural.... The angelic beings ... have bodies like the human, only more ethereal; senses like the human, only more refined; and are nourished, not by food taken in the mouth, but by elements absorbed from the atmosphere. Fancies like these are multiplied, and curious speculations abound.”—Am. J. Theol.
“One is bound to respect the reverence with which he approaches his subject, and the frank and earnest manner in which he avows his beliefs.” Henry W. Wright.
| − + | Am. J. Theol. 11: 361. Ap. ’07. 340w. |
“Only the need of protesting against it entitles such books to serious notice.”
| − | Outlook. 84: 633. N. 10, ’06. 160w. |
Hamilton, M. First claim. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–5067.
“This is the story of a woman who, having made in extreme youth an uncongenial marriage, is tempted beyond withstanding to skip blithely away with a young subaltern, Charley Osborne, less from love of him than from aversion to her husband.” (Nation.) “It may be a very just punishment for a woman who elopes with another man, leaving a little child behind her, to find that this child is treated with a strictness amounting to cruelty by the woman whom her husband marries after the inevitable divorce. There is, however, no reason why the innocent reader’s feelings should be wrung by such a recital.” (Spec.)
“It is not great creative work, but it is remarkably good of its kind; it is the work of a novelist with an eye for character, a spontaneous sense of humour, and a standard of truth to which every line of the story is adjusted.”
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 360. O. 26, ’06. 450w. |
“The ending in a ghastly triumph of falsehood makes an unsatisfying conclusion to a story of struggle not without genuine power.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 230w. |
“There is no denying that ‘The first claim’ is interesting; but it is an unpleasant tale.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 242. Ap. 13, ’07. 190w. |
“The plot which Miss Hamilton has chosen for her book is carried out with great cleverness and detail; but we feel bound to say that the story is one which very few people will be able to take any pleasure in reading.”
| − + | Spec. 97: 990. D. 15, ’06. 140w. |
Hamilton, Samuel. Recitation. **$1.25. Lippincott.
6–15713.
“The first part of the book treats of the purpose and essentials of the recitation and the art of study; the second part, of the five formal steps of general method; and the third and last part, of the more specific problems of individual method, the use of text-books, oral and written work, English, etc., in the recitation.”—J. Philos.
“A sensible and practical book.”
| + | Ind. 61: 262. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w. |
“Made accessible by marginal topics and synoptical summaries and outlines.” W. F. Dearborn.
| + | J. Philos. 4: 217. Ap. 11, ’07. 420w. |
“The presentation is clear and orderly; the subdivision of topics is minute.” J. H. T.
| + | School R. 15: 239. Mr. ’07. 200w. |
Hammond, Harold. Further fortunes of Pinkey Perkins. †$1.50. Century.
6–30932.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Boy readers can scarcely help being absorbed in his doings.”
| + | Bookm. 24: 529. Ja. ’07. 60w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 34: 767. D. ’06. 40w. |
Hamp, Sidford F. [Boys of Crawford’s Basin: the story of a mountain ranch in the early days of Colorado.] †$1.50. Wilde.
7–26966.
Experiences in ranching, prospecting, and working as a miner in the early seventies has afforded the author a first-hand intimacy with facts and scenes which he records here. He shows how two sturdy young men, prone to honesty and not afraid to work, do their share in advancing the prosperity of the state in its infancy.
Hamp, Sidford Frederick. Dale and Fraser, sheepmen. †$1.50. Wilde.
6–30460.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 82. Mr. ’07. |
Hampson, W. Paradoxes of nature and science. $1.50. Dutton.
W 7–163.
“In this, which may be perhaps regarded as the true type of ‘popular’ science book, Mr. Hampson explains, in language clear to the ordinary man the principle of the boomerang, of the gyroscope, of bird flight, of double vision, and of much else.... ‘Curiosities of freezing and melting,’ and his discourse on ‘Liquid air,’ on which, as a subject he has made his own, he is particularly lucid and informing.”—Ath.
“On one page we find him laying down that electricity is ‘a form of energy.’ This idea, which was popular in the seventies, may be said to have received its quietus at the hands of Prof. Silvanus Thompson. Except for this we have nothing but praise for Mr. Hampson’s book, which is excellent reading, and written with a sense of humour as unexpected as it is pleasant.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 776. D. 15. 320w. |
“His explanations are appeals to prejudices as unscientific as those which gave rise to the appearance of the paradox. Even when his arguments are sound they must convey to a reader a wholly untrue idea of scientific method. But they are not always sound.”
| − | Nature. 75: 341. F. 7, ’07. 160w. |
“His book is an extremely readable one, and in the article on the navigation of the air it supplies many useful and timely hints.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 462. Jl. 27, ’07. 1040w. |
Handasyde. For the week-end. †$1.50. Lane.
“The week-end here is the country house gathering of an exalted social circle, animated, it would appear, by the purpose of philandering with each other’s wives and husbands, while prudently keeping on the safe side of the divorce court—a half-hearted method of procedure which has perhaps suggested the author’s curious pseudonym.”—Ath.
“This book is slight, but what there is of it is true, direct, and simple.”
| + | Acad. 72: 539. Je. 1, ’07. 290w. |
“The style, though marred by grammatical lapses, shows considerable facility both in dialogue and description.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 660. Je. 1. 110w. |
“The character drawing is excellent, the atmosphere is well preserved, and the details in excellent taste.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 70w. |
“The writer seems to be a rather inefficient disciple of Mr. E. F. Benson.”
| − | Sat. R. 103: 787. Je. 22, ’07. 110w. |
Haney, William H. Mountain people of Kentucky. $1.50. W: H: Haney, P. O. box 431, Lexington, Ky.
6–26563.
A book whose purpose is to show the existing conditions in the mountains of Kentucky and the attitude of the people of this region toward the improvement of the conditions affecting life and character.
“The style is not always clear and one at times is not quite sure just how much of a given statement is one of fact and how much is what a young and optimistic teacher hopes to see realized. On the whole, however, the author has shown up the modern, progressive side of the mountain people in a very creditable manner.” Samuel MacClintock.
| + − | Am. J. Soc. 13: 273. S. ’07. 920w. |
“The work is rather crudely arranged and written.”
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 637. My. ’07. 130w. |
“Most interesting sketch.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 638. N. ’07. 100w. |
Hankin, St. John. Three plays with happy endings. French, S:
The three plays are “The prodigal’s return,” “The charity that began at home” and “The Cassilis engagement.” “They have no plots, present no conflicts of character, and are practically destitute of dramatic action.... Familiar as most of the personages are in the world of the footlights—the rich and vulgar parvenu, the complacent parson, the self-excusing wastrel, the East Indian military bore, the quack, the music hall siren, her mother, and their rich young dupe—they are sketched with such happy dexterity and vivacity that they assume a certain semblance of freshness and reality.” (Nation.)
“Since realism has come to mean something violent, something even indecent, let us call Mr. Hankin a naturalist who is doing for the English stage what Constable did for European landscape. He contrives beauty and interest, decoration even, by keeping the tones and values of drama in their true relation to life. He is a fairy godmother who has saved the rather vulgar coach from being run over by the motor-car of realism.”
| + | Acad. 73: 941. S. 28, ’07. 1280w. |
“He has a fine, fastidious, deft talent, as any one who reads the three plays in his present volume (and skips the preface) will agree.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 278. S. 13, ’07. 1070w. |
“As a dramatist Mr. Hankin has a good deal to learn, but there ought to be a future for a man who can see the humorous side of things so clearly.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 288. S. 26, ’07. 400w. |
Hannis, Margaret. Emancipation of Miss Susana. **40c. Funk.
7–24766.
The story of Susana Adams who relieves the monotony of her spinster life by going to New York and entering upon a fictitious matrimonial venture which finally leads to a real one.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 683. O. 26, ’07. 100w. |
Hanotaux, Gabriel. Contemporary France; tr. by John C. Tarver. 4v. ea. *$3.75. Putnam.
v. 3. France from 1874–1877 occupies this volume. It includes the latter days of the National assembly with its work on the constitution, the first year’s sittings of the Chamber and the Senate, and closes with Marshal MacMahon’s opposition to Gambetta and the Left majority, announced in his letter to M. Jules Simon of May 15th, 1877.
“The translation appears to be fairly executed, but we regret to find that the serious blunders in the French original pointed out in our review are not corrected, even in cases where they concern English facts and names.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 758. Je. 22. 590w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“M. Hanotaux’s third volume is in no way inferior in interest to the first and second. The English translator, who has to attempt no easy task in rendering M. Hanotaux’s picturesque periods and somewhat violent metaphors, improves by practice. But he might do better still if he took more pains.” P. F. Willert.
| + + − | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 817. O. ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“It is indeed a historian’s history of the Third French republic.”
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 489. O. 5, ’07. 710w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“While M. Hanotaux leaves the impress of a painstaking scholar, while he records a statesmanlike judgment on wellnigh every page, he also leaves a deeper impress—that of a psychologist and of a philosopher.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 355. O. 19, ’07. 450w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“When he philosophises, as he does in chapter v. at length, he is far from convincing, and the tale of later years has not unfortunately revealed to us those qualities of ‘abnegation, conciliation, and persevering optimism’ for which he hopes.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 276. Ag. 31, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“It will not be surprising if the general public find the present volume rather less readable than its forerunners.”
| + | Spec. 99: 484. O. 5, ’07. 1700w. (Review of v. 3.) |
Hapgood, Hutchins. Spirit of labor. **$1.50. Duffield.
7–8549.
The author of “The autobiography of a thief” offers in this volume a first hand study of the life of a Chicago labor leader and trade unionist. After a long search Mr. Hapgood found a German who, both as a type and a person, combined the desired temperament, character and experience for his impressionistic study. Born in Germany, Anton came to America as a child, shifted much of the time for himself, lived thru the various stages of tramp life, rural, sordid conditions, worked off and on at odd jobs, finally married and settled down in Chicago as a wood-worker. His quick intelligence discovered the injustice of organised society on every hand and led him to the basic principles of radicalism with which the book deals.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 165. O. ’07. S. |
“It is extremely well done, and particularly admirable is the adroitness with which Mr. Hapgood has extracted from the ‘inexpressive ego’ of semi-illiterate labour such salient facts as are here assembled. The trouble with ‘The spirit of labour’ regarded thoughtfully is, that it has in it very little of the spirit and less of labour.” Florence Wilkinson.
| + − | Bookm. 25: 294. My. ’07. 530w. |
“A faithful and photographic picture of aspects of the urban activity.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
| + | Dial. 42: 287. My. 1, ’07. 480w. |
“Tho the book deserves the severest censure for its false coloring, its fatuous confusion of the anomalous with the typical, and its obliviousness of many of the distinctive characteristics of the movement, there are other respects in which it deserves cordial praise.”
| − + | Ind. 63: 340. Ag. 8, ’07. 600w. |
“For those who would see the industrial world as the workingman sees it, the book is invaluable.”
| + + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 572. N. ’07. 170w. |
“Throws much fresh light upon that radical political movement loosely denominated socialism.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 330w. |
“It is all extremely interesting, valuable as a human document, and still more valuable as a contribution to the study of laboring men and their conditions. But it will not do to call the man a type.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 173. Mr. 23, ’07. 680w. |
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 232. N. ’07. 530w. |
“A highly informative volume, containing, no doubt, large quantities of substantial, solid truth.”
| + − | R. of Rs. 35: 761. Je. ’07. 200w. |
Hapgood, Isabel Florence. Service book of the Holy orthodox-Catholic apostolic (Greco-Russian) church; comp., tr., and arranged from the old church-Slavonic service books of the Russian church and collated with the service books of the Greek church. $4. Houghton.
7–526.
“This volume contains the order of services as prescribed for vespers, compline, matins, the communion, the great feasts, ordination, marriage, unction, ‘the office at the parting of the soul from the body,’ the burial of the dead, requiem offices, services for the founding and consecration of churches, thanksgivings and various special prayers. For the Scripture lessons, as translated into English, the King James’s version is used, and for the ‘Psalms and verses’ the prayer-book version of the Psalter.”—Outlook.
“Reverence can call forth such labors of devotion as this compilation.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 141. Mr. 9, ’07. 310w. |
“This laudable volume should be of value, not only to American ecclesiastics and their congregations, but also to students of liturgies and to sojourners in the various lands where the Eastern church exists, and to all who would become better acquainted with its undeniable majesty, impressiveness, and exquisite symbolism of ritual.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 524. Mr. 2, ’07. 720w. |
Harben, William Nathaniel. [Ann Boyd.] †$1.50. Harper.
6–32356.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Marked by genuine power and real emotion.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 210w. |
“Easily the strongest piece of work that Mr. Harben has thus far produced.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 150w. |
“For the first time the author has met the demands of literary art in the construction of his book.”
| + | Ind. 62: 211. Ja. 24, ’07. 590w. |
Harben, William Nathaniel. [Mam’ Linda.] †$1.50. Harper.
7–29431.
A story with a Georgia setting which involves the negro question, politics and romance. The champion of Mam’ Linda, a faithful negro mammy, and her “no count” boy who, however, is unjustly accused of murder, is a young southern attorney. He takes up the cudgels of defense, and in so doing overcomes time-honored prejudice, fights lawlessness, and outwits lynching bands. The story is permeated with southern atmosphere.
“At last the South has produced an author who writes with strength and beauty and absolute veracity about living issues. Here is Harben with his message told with such simplicity that few will recognize its great value.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1058. O. 31, ’07. 890w. |
“Mr. Harben’s novel is the most significant book that has appeared relating to the negro since Bishop Haygood wrote ‘Our brother in black.’”
| + | Ind. 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 80w. |
“This is a simple, straightforward, and readable book.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 795. N. 23, ’07. 310w. |
“The hero and heroine behave themselves in the usual situations with about as much ease as an English peasant in his Sunday clothes. But this is insignificant beside the impression which he gives us of a vigorous young population striking out with arms and legs, careless as yet of the proprieties.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 301. O. 4, ’07. 520w. |
“A modern story of the south with a pretty love story and a plot involving a significant new attitude on the negro question.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“Mr. Harben, who may have sketched a Georgia cracker or two with some faithfulness, is not on that account a novelist.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 764. N. 30, ’07. 230w. |
“The romance inevitable in Southern novels is as wholesome and sweet as possible.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 100w. |
“Illustrates afresh his direct and effective style and his ability to tell a love story full of purity and sweetness in a natural and delightful way.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 30w. |
Harboe, Paul, pseud. (Paul Christensen). Child’s story of Hans Christian Andersen. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–29563.
The life of deprivation and penury which falls to the lot of the man renowned for fairy tales was at variance with the results of his fine imagination. The sketch follows the cobbler’s son thru the sore trials of his early life to his day of fame, which proved a sad realization inasmuch as it was bereft of the fulfilment of his one romance.
“An interesting, trustworthy account, simple and straightforward in telling. Will, perhaps, be enjoyed best by the children of an age most interested in the fairy tales if read aloud to them, for the style is adapted, rather to older children.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 207. N. ’07. |
“There is not much attempt at coherent construction in the little book. Anecdotes are given sometimes without much point or much connection. And the style reminds us frequently that the author is writing in a language other than the one to which he was born.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
| + − | Bookm. 26: 418. D. ’07. 570w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 130w. |
“There is a touch of quaint stiffness in the style of the book that harmonizes with the childlike temper of the Danish romancer.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 120w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 767. D. ’07. 50w. |
Harcourt, Mrs. Charles. Good form for women: a guide to conduct and dress on all occasions. $1. Winston.
7–12681.
Believing that all commendable conventionalities are more or less directly traceable to some altruistic or utilitarian principle, the author presents the fundamental features of good form by combining ethics with etiquette. She aims particularly to help girls who have not had the benefit of proper home training.
Harcourt, L. W. Vernon. His grace the steward, and the trial of peers: a novel inquiry into a special branch of constitutional government. *$5. Longmans.
A two part work. “The first describes the evolution of the Lord High Steward of England up to the reign of Henry VIII., and the second treats of the gradual working out of the principle that peers shall be judged only by their peers. In both sections it is Mr. Harcourt’s delight to show the fraudulent basis of what have been honored as historic English institutions.” (Nation.)
“The interest of Mr. Vernon Harcourt’s book lies less in the main theme than in his often original and always acute interpretations of men and motives, and the side-lights he throws on many disputed points of constitutional history.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 66. Jl. 20. 790w. |
“We have here, in short, a notable contribution to our institutional history not merely for the results attained, but also for its rigid investigation, reminding us how often close inquiry may modify accepted views. One rises however from its perusal with the feeling that, however impartially the appendices may set the evidences before us, the author has throughout a case to prove, is a counsel speaking to his brief. And that case is prejudiced rather than assisted by the use of forensic methods.” J. H. Round.
| + + − | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 778. O. ’07. 2420w. |
“This lengthy and erudite work ... is scarcely intended for general reading.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 332. O. 10, ’07. 680w. |
“We suspect that Mr. Harcourt is not really very interested in the stewardship; he uses it only as convenient padding to his pet theory that procedure in the trial of peers is founded on a forged document; and herein he has expended a great deal of useless energy.”
| − | Sat. R. 104: 337. S. 14, ’07. 640w. |
“He is steeped in the political and personal history of his period, he possesses a sense of humor, and that gift of imagination without which the past is a sealed book alike to those who write and those who read. We are paying a high, but not an excessive, compliment when we say that no better piece of work of its class has been accomplished since Bishop Stubbs penned the last of his prefaces in the ‘Rolls series.’”
| + + + | Spec. 99: 198. Ag. 10, ’07. 2300w. |
“If the reader grants the right of the author to choose what subject he pleases he can feel only admiration for the manner in which the study is executed.”
| + | Yale. R. 16: 334. N. ’07. 100w. |
Harcourt, Leveson Francis. Sanitary engineering with respect to water supply and sewage disposal. *$4.50. Longmans.
7–35189.
A valuable general text-book. “In addition to a very complete discussion of the subject of water supplies in all its aspects, including sources, collection and storage, purification, distribution and statistics of water consumption, and a rather brief summary of the methods of sewage disposal, the writer takes up very fully the whole subject of sewerage, and more briefly that of garbage disposal.” (Technical Lit.)
“Important book.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 97. Ap. ’07. |
“We think we do the author no injustice in saying that throughout his book he writes like a person experienced in general civil engineering construction rather than like a sanitary engineer, at least as we in America now understand that term. Nevertheless he has epitomized a considerable part of water-works and sewage practice, including purification in each field, and seems to have produced a book remarkably free from errors and vagaries.”
| + + − | Engin. N. 57: 551. My. 16, ’07. 670w. |
“An addition of undoubted value to an engineer’s library. Its pleasing style, moreover, makes it a very readable work, while the abundant references to historical and current engineering work, its general breadth of view and full citations of original sources of information, commend it, in particular, to the student and to the engineer in general practice or specializing in other branches. The book lacks proper balance as a book on sanitary engineering.” Earle B. Phelps.
| + + − | Technical Literature. 1: 176. Ap. ’07. 1870w. |
Hare, Christopher. High and puissant Marguerite of Austria, princess dowager of Spain, duchess dowager of Savoy, regent of the Netherlands. *$2.50. Scribner.
7–25681.
A full biography which incidentally makes use of the interesting events of Marguerite’s life and leadership for reflecting the royal customs of her century.
“That writer has given evidence in previous works of various excellent qualities, such as sincerity and literary charm; but she lacks grip, and shows the defect much more in this than in her last book. Although the author is usually accurate in her facts, a few slips will be found in her text.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 2: 90. Jl. 27. 940w. |
“Character-study is not Mr. Hare’s strong point. He is more skilled in the art of setting forth his story and weaving his fairly copious material. It is a book worth reading, concerning persons not too well known. And the story is clear and well outlined.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 132. Ap. 26, ’07. 2260w. |
“Mr. Hare has written a book which at the lowest appreciation is creditable. Our worst censure is directed against a style of composition.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 497. N. 28, ’07. 870w. |
“Mr. Hare has drawn with minute and loving detail—for his sympathy with his subject is evident on every page—a complete picture of a very interesting character. The reader wishes heartily for more of the historical background.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 740w. |
“The subject and the period of this book could not be more interesting, the treatment perhaps is a little too ambitious.”
| + − | Spec. 99: sup. 465. O. 5, ’07. 460w. |
Harnack, Adolf. Luke the physician. (Crown theological lib., no. 21.) *$1.50. Putnam.
“In Dr. Harnack’s view, Luke as a historian is inferior to Luke as a stylist; he is uncritical, and blunders for want of exact information. But the author contends that the present trend of criticism is toward the belief that between A. D. 30 and 70 the primitive Christian tradition as a whole took the essential form it has since attained.”—Outlook.
| + | Bib. World. 30: 240. S. ’07. 30w. |
“The assertion that the language of both Gospel and Acts betrays the hand of one familiar with Greek medicine is not new, but never before has the argument received such skilful treatment.”
| + | Ind. 63: 940. O. 17, ’07. 630w. | |
| Ind. 63: 1379. D. 5, ’07. 240w. |
“Whatever be one’s opinion of the proposition on which Harnack lays chiefest stress, the value of the book as a contribution to the history of the fixing of the evangelic tradition cannot be questioned.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 163. Ag. 22, ’07. 340w. | |
| Outlook. 86: 792. Ag. 10, ’07. 170w. | ||
| + + | Spec. 99: 252. Ag. 24, ’07. 1950w. |
Harnack, Adolf, and Herrmann, Wilhelm. Essays on the social gospel; tr. by G. M. Craik. *$1.25. Putnam.
Containing “The evangelical history of the church,” and “The moral and social significance of modern education,” by Dr. Harnack, and “The moral teachings of Jesus,” by Dr. Herrmann. “Dr. Harnack insists that the chief task of the church is still the preaching of the message of redemption and of eternal life, and insists, too, that the church has a social mission.” (Ath.)
“The essay by Herrmann will be the most welcome part of the book.” Gerald Birney Smith.
| + | Am. J. Theol. 11: 708. O. ’07. 340w. | |
| Ath. 1907. 1: 695. Je. 8. 470w. |
“The essay is not light reading, but the reader who takes the pains to work his way into its spirit will be rewarded.”
| + | Ind. 63: 457. Ag. 22, ’07. 350w. |
“These essays by distinguished German theologians throw instructive side-lights upon the social problem of the modern church.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 569. Je. 13, ’07. 280w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 50w. | ||
| Spec. 98: 566. Ap. 13, ’07. 1480w. |
Harris, J. Henry. Cornish saints and sinners. †$1.50. Lane.
7–35146.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 67. Mr. ’07. |
“Assuredly Mr. Harris is not witty, but his animal spirits are inexhaustible.” Harriet Waters Preston.
| + − | Atlan. 99: 418. Mr. ’07. 500w. |
Harris, Miriam Coles. Tents of wickedness. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–31979.
“Types of the New York smart set are vividly portrayed in this story. The chief female figure, is a young, motherless American girl, who has been brought up in a French convent. She is a Roman Catholic, and is shocked at many of the things she sees, and has only one congenial friend among her father’s many acquaintances. This friend is the hero, from whom she is separated through misunderstandings.”—N. Y. Times.
“The book treats in an able way a theme of the utmost practical importance to-day, and we bespeak for it an encouraging and hearty welcome.”
| + | Cath. World. 86: 403. D. ’07. 430w. |
“If this book were not marred by one or two unnecessary bits of artificial coarseness, one would be tempted to say that after skimming through a dozen linotype historical romances here at last is a novel to sit down and read.”
| + − | Lit. D. 35: 759. N. 16, ’07. 200w. | |
| Nation. 85: 378. O. 24, ’07. 220w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 70w. |
“This is a novel of more than ordinary length, but it is by no means wearisome, and will better repay attention than most of the stories offered in such profusion to a long-suffering public.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 230w. |
Harrison, Frederic. Creed of a layman: apologia pro fide mea. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–16987.
The author calls his book “my simple story of conversion and conviction,” an account of a “regular and calm development of thought.” He expresses a hope that the story of how spiritual rest might be achieved may “prove useful to some ‘perturbed spirit’ in our troubled times.” The exposition of his creed includes chapters upon: Day of all the dead, Septem contra fidem, A Socratic dialogue, Pantheism and cosmic emotion, Aims and ideals, A positivist prayer, The presentation of infants, Marriage, Burial, Day of humanity, and a Valedictory, Twenty one years at Newton Hall.
“Mr. Harrison begins with a somewhat narrow egotism, and his first pages are irritating, meagre, and disappointing; but the latter half of the book becomes universal in its interest, and cogent in its claims, so that these essays well repay the reflective reading which they acquire.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 751. Je. 22. 1460w. | |
| + − | Dial. 43: 94. Ag. 16, ’07. 370w. |
“May not attract new proselytes to the gospel of humanity as expounded by Auguste Comte; but, in spite of its rather uncompromising polemic, it compels respect by its manifest sincerity and genuine fervour of conviction.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 157. My. 17, ’07. 1830w. | |
| Nation. 85: 124. Ag. 8, ’07. 1320w. |
“A sense of humour is a sense of proportion. And if Mr. Harrison had had a deeper sense of proportion he would not have taken himself quite so seriously, and he would have been saved from some of the solemn absurdities of the positivist religion.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 550. S. 14, ’07. 460w. |
“We do not ... know of any book which will give to the curious and interested reader so good an interpretation of the religion of humanity as this volume of Mr. Frederic Harrison’s.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 523. Jl. 6, ’07. 540w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 383. S. ’07. 80w. |
“This indifference to facts is characteristic of the whole book; it marks both Mr. Harrison’s criticism of Christianity and defence of his own creed. When we turn from Mr. Harrison’s criticism to this construction, we are still in the same abstract region. Facts are still held of no account.”
| − | Spec. 98: 945. Je. 15, ’07. 1100w. |
“It may be safely predicted that this book will take a permanent and conspicuous place among the too few similar works of distinguished men and women.” Arthur Ransom.
| + + | Westminster R. 168: 49. Jl. ’07. 3440w. |
Harrison, Frederic. Memories and thoughts: men—books—cities—art. **$2. Macmillan.
6–35547.
“This volume is a collection of articles which appeared during the past twenty-four years in various American and English periodicals of the better class. By the author the book is described as ‘a chapter from certain Memoirs that [he] intends to retain in manuscript penes se.’ The articles are occasional in origin, and in character they are miscellaneous, varying in topic from discussions of card-playing and tobacco to appreciations of Tennyson and Renan on the occasion of their deaths.”—Am. Hist. R.
| Am. Hist. R. 12: 422. Ja. ’07. 260w. | ||
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 67. Mr. ’07. |
“At one time Mr. Harrison goes to the bottom of his subject, at another he merely touches its surface. Still these ‘Memories and thoughts,’ if approached with an open mind, will be found to reflect seriousness of purpose and insight into life. They frequently provoke dissent, they never forfeit respect.”
| + + − | Ath. 1906. 2: 476. O. 20. 940w. |
“It is the fine tone, the genial atmosphere, the rich suggestiveness, of Mr. Harrison’s writings that attract the reader and win him over to the cause of good literature.”
| + | Dial. 41: 212. O. 1, ’06. 140w. |
“But the papers are not all of equal value and interest. He presents them ‘as permanent impressions left on his mind by a somewhat wide experience.’ Some of these permanent impressions will appear to many readers to be not much more than rather violent and persistent prejudices.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 342. O. 12, ’06. 1080w. |
“The personal note is dominant throughout Mr. Harrison’s book, which leaves us with a sense of friendly and close acquaintance with a writer in whom seriousness of purpose, firm convictions, broad culture, and generous sympathies combine with the thinker’s love of truth, the artist’s love of beauty, and a keen zest for the joys of living.” Horatio S. Krans.
| + + | Outlook. 84: 1076. D. 29, ’06. 930w. |
“If they are not marked by the quality which we call ‘artistic’ or ‘literary’ they at least express a freshness and alertness by no means common in men of letters who have passed their prime of years.” H. W. Boynton.
| + | Putnam’s. 1: 632. F. ’07. 780w. |
“About the bulk of [these papers] the most we can say is that unless one has an exaggerated opinion of the significance of Mr. Harrison’s personality, their interest expired with their occasion.”
| − + | Sat. R. 103: sup. 2. F. 23, ’07. 750w. |
“The American paper is particularly well worth studying. So much, doubtless, may be said of the whole of the volume, one or two minor articles possibly excepted.”
| + + | Spec. 97: 1080. D. 29, ’06. 1710w. |
* Harrison, Frederic. Philosophy of common sense. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–36260.
A companion to “The creed of a layman.” “It is designed to form a summary of the philosophical grounds on which the preceding work was based; and it carries on the autobiographical account of the stages by which the author reached those conclusions.”
“He has been well advised to gather these trophies of his skill for a newer generation, which ought to find them of interest.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 748. N. 23, ’07. 850w. |
Harrison, Mary S. K. (Lucas Malet, pseud.). [Far horizon.] †$1.50. Dodd.
7–983.
“Mrs. Harrison’s first work in five years. It deals with the acts and opinions of a foreign-born man, who, after many years of hard work, becomes suddenly possessed of a moderate fortune and leisure. The time covered is from 1899 to 1901. Matters of modern finance, manners, and morals, theatrical and religious, are touched upon.”—N. Y. Times.
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 78. Mr. ’07. |
“The merits of the book are more obvious than its defects.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 729. D. 8. 690w. |
“There is little humour in the book, no lovemaking, and the hero is a man of between fifty and sixty, and yet from what might be called unpromising material the author has given us a story of never-flagging interest, rich in thought and feeling.” Mary K. Ford.
| + | Bookm. 24: 595. F. ’07. 1560w. |
“The book is a vivid, masterful, human document, fulfilling the strictest demands of great art. We need but add that any one who does not read it, and read it thoughtfully, will suffer a distinct loss. ‘The far horizon’ is worthy to take its place among the great English novels.”
| + + | Cath. World. 85: 538. Jl. ’07. 1770w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 343. Mr. ’07. 1360w. |
“May be reckoned among the more considerable fictional productions of the season.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 42: 225. Ap. 1, ’07. 420w. |
“A story so well told; so finely finished, with such real people of the British middle-class sort moving thru its pages, that the critical faculty is disarmed from the first, and one yields to the charm of unique art.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 739. Mr. 28, ’07. 420w. |
“Of Charles Kingsley’s purely literary talents and graces of style his daughter, the author, evinces hardly a trace.”
| + − | Lit. D. 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 200w. |
“A clever and an interesting book. But it would be more than that if the main story were only as good as its setting.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 394. N. 23, ’06. 500w. |
“It does not strike one as a book which had to be written, or will have to be read. But it possesses the treasure of a really original and affecting central motive.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 39. Ja. 10, ’07. 460w. |
“It is readable in no ordinary way. One does not hurry through its pages intent only on the story, but it both invites and repays leisurely attention. One reads, also, with no very distinct sense of the author’s style, which is unobtrusive and free from vagaries.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 18. Ja. 12, ’07. 750w. |
“‘The far horizon’—with its very obvious faults—has one great virtue: creative spontaneity; and that is so precious, in the mass of perfunctory work, that criticism must be delicate.” M. B. M.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 77. F. 9, ’07. 1110w. |
“A certain subjectiveness of style distinguishes it, a sort of reminiscent touch, which by some conjuror’s trick becomes the most objective thing in the world, and as a result the characters actually live and move and have a very real existence.” Madison Cawein.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 1440w. |
“It is more than a little puzzling that a writer of Lucas Malet’s experience and skill should have produced a novel bearing so many dreary resemblances to a ‘first book.’” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
| − | No. Am. 184: 645. Mr. 15, ’07. 1380w. |
“One notes first that it has the negative merit of being entirely devoid of any passages of questionable taste. Affirmatively speaking, its highest merit is in the distinction and quiet nobility of its chief figure, Dominic Iglesias.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 310w. |
“It seems incongruous, almost unseemly, as coming from the pen of one born a Kingsley.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.
| − + | Putnam’s. 2: 183. My. ’07. 740w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 760. Je. ’07. 450w. |
“Is the dreariest and dismallest novel we have ever read. Its tragedy does not make us weep; its comedy does not make us laugh: it bores us acutely.”
| − | Sat. R. 102: 744. D. 15, ’06. 630w. |
“‘The far horizon,’ while fully as clever as ‘Sir Richard Calmady,’ is free from the ugly blemishes which disfigured that brilliant but conspicuously uncomfortable novel. The theme and its treatment are higher and finer, there is less reliance on violence or sensationalism, and the narrative has ‘shining moments’ which transcend the capacities of ordinary talent. On the other hand it cannot honestly be contended that this is a pleasing or a satisfying book.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 937. D. 8, ’06. 1020w. |
Harrison, Newton. Practical alternating currents and power transmission. $2.50. Hedenberg.
6–39743.
“Of the fifteen chapters comprising the volume, the first two are devoted to conditions governing the different forms of electric lighting, the third and fourth to the factors entering into the various methods of alternating-current distribution; fifth, sixth, and seventh, to the principles and performance of transformers; the eighth to thirteenth inclusive, to alternators and a practical consideration of the current generated; the fourteenth to transformer testing and operation, and the fifteenth to definitions and formulas associated with alternating-current practice.”—Engin. N.
“One of the few successful attempts thus far made to discuss alternating currents without the use of mathematics. In clearness and originality of expression, neat press work, and general appearance, the book is a credit to both the author and publisher.”
| + | Engin. N. 56: 527. N. 15, ’06. 250w. |
Harrison, Peleg D. Stars and stripes and other American flags. il. **$3. Little.
6–42447.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Am. Hist. R. 12: 719. Ap. ’07. 50w. | ||
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 43. F. ’07. |
“Something of this inclusiveness might profitably have been sacrificed for a more methodical arrangement and a more critical spirit of inquiry.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 1095. My. 9, ’07. 340w. |
“Mr. Harrison has interwoven many interesting incidents of history with his history of the national flag.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 177. F. 2, ’07. 230w. |
Hart, Albert Bushnell, ed. American nation: a history from original sources by associated scholars. 28v. per v. *$2. Harper.
v. 20. Hosmer, James Kendall. Appeal to arms.
7–4798.
A work with which its successor, “Outcome of the civil war,” is intended to afford a brief, compact and impartial view of the military and civil side of the civil war. Not so much a study of contestants’ motives as their behavior on the field. Dr. Hosmer says “I have tried to criticize men in the light of their opportunities at the time.”
v. 21. Hosmer, James Kendall. Outcome of the civil war.
7–7446.
Although independent in field and in arrangement, this volume is a continuation of Dr. Hosmer’s “Appeal to arms,” the foregoing volume of this series. It takes up the story from midsummer, 1863 and carries it forward to the surrender of Lee, the collapse of the confederacy and the assassination of Lincoln.
v. 22. Dunning, William Archibald. Reconstruction, political and economic.
This volume is the first in the last group of the series devoted to “National expansion.” The purpose of the study is “to show that reconstruction, with all its hardships and inequities, was not deliberately planned as punishment and humiliation for those formerly in rebellion.” It deals with “the stormy administration of Johnson, the year of trouble and unrest in the south, the gradual recovery from the strain of war, the great industrial developments, and railroad building to the Pacific, the stormy Hayes-Tilden contest.”
v. 23. Sparks, Edwin Erie. National development (1877–1885).
7–33222.
Professor Sparks’ volume begins with the year 1877 that marks the break between old issues and the intermediate, vital question of the adaptation of American government to the industrial and social needs of the country. The first five chapters are devoted to a summary of the social and economic conditions of the time; six to eight, to the party struggles due to President Hayes’ withdrawal of the federal troops from the south; nine to twelve discuss silver coinage and the national civil service; thirteen and fourteen discuss the Isthmian canal and the exclusion of the Chinese; fifteen and sixteen follow the effect on the nation of the rapid settling up of the west; seventeen to nineteen deal with conditions which Cleveland found in 1884.
v. 24. Dewey, Davis R. National problems.
7–33614.
Beginning with the new economic conditions that the Cleveland administration of 1884 found, Professor Dewey traces the course of the national problems to 1897. He deals with organized labor, civil service, the tariff, silver, railroads, foreign relations, the reorganization of the Republican party, foreign policy, commercial organization, currency, and the free coinage campaign of 1896.
“The merit of this volume is the thoughtful and judicial treatment of a period of complicated political conditions and of problems new to the national life. If any fault is to be found with the book, it is in its lack of proportion. This, however, appears to be due rather to the plan of the work than to the author’s execution of it.” Jesse S. Reeves.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 673. Ap. ’07. 980w. (Review of v. 17.) |
“Our author is eminently fair in his treatment of the South, though the parts of the book dealing with that section exhibit less complete information than do other portions.”
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 675. Ap. ’07. 790w. (Review of v. 18.) |
“The military and naval situation is presented with unusual clearness, and this whole portion of the book has the ring of a definitive account. Errors are few.” Carl Russell Fish.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 677. Ap. ’07. (Review of v. 19.) |
“Aside from a sometimes too literal following of authorities where opinion rather than fact is stated, Professor Hart has given us the best general description and study of the social and moral aspects of the American slavery controversy that has yet appeared.” J. C. Ballagh.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 902. Jl. ’07. 1230w. (Review of v. 16.) |
“The work under examination, therefore, while an excellent record as far as it goes and on the whole the best civil war history yet written, is too little objective to serve as the final history of that war.” E. Benj. Andrews.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 907. Jl. ’07. 1270w. (Review of v. 20 and 21.) | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 39. F. ’07. (Review of v. 19.) |
“The best survey of its field.”
| + + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 42. F. ’07. S. (Review of v. 17.) |
“Best brief survey of the subject.”
| + + + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 74. Mr. ’07. S. (Review of v. 18.) |
“Perhaps the best general account of the size, and for the price.”
| + + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 97. Ap. ’07. (Review of v. 20 and 21.) |
“It is the most readable account of the period with which the reviewer is acquainted; there is no better treatment of that tangled business of Buchanan, Seward and Lincoln from November, 1860 to April, 1861.” Walter L. Fleming.
| + + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 174. Jl. ’07. 560w. (Review of v. 19.) |
“Some points deserve slight criticism. The author does not seem to have a clear understanding of internal conditions in the south. Some objection might reasonably be made to the comparison between Stonewall Jackson and John Brown, and the ‘craziness’ of Jackson is entirely too much insisted upon.” W. L. Fleming.
| + + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 182. Jl. ’07. 650w. (Review of v. 20.) |
“This undertone of scholarly geniality makes the book not merely easy reading, but gives to it an interest for every intelligent American.” Harry Thurston Peck.
| + + − | Bookm. 26: 166. O. ’07. 1090w. (Review of v. 22.) |
“It is indeed questionable whether the series as a whole is not too large for the general reader, to whose interests it is professedly devoted.” St. George L. Sioussat.
| + + − | Dial. 43: 15. Jl. 1, ’07. 4100w. (Review of v. 14–21.) |
“It is a matter of gratification that all [these books] are good and that there are no very horrible examples.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 1411. Je. 13, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 16–21.) |
“He has brought to his task that somewhat rare quality, historic imagination.”
| + + + | Lit. D. 34: 433. Mr. 16, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 20.) |
“A thoughtful and scholarly study of a period which has long needed impartial examination.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 84. Ja. 24, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 17.) |
“The readableness of Professor Smith’s pages merits particular commendation.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 156. F. 14, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 18.) |
“The most distinctive contribution of Admiral Chadwick’s book, however, is its thorough-going examination of the military and naval situation on the eve of hostilities.”
| + + + | Nation. 84: 202. F. 28, ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 19.) |
“Outside of military affairs, in short, Mr. Hosmer’s narrative is, as a whole, conventional.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 502. My. 30, ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 20 and 21.) | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 24. Ja. 12, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 19.) |
“Mr. Hosmer succeeds in making [military matters] not only intelligible but interesting to the layman.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 133. Mr. 2, ’07. 850w. (Review of v. 20.) |
“He has prepared a splendid bibliography in the final chapter on the authorities, the best in his period which exists.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 21.) |
“The work is marked throughout by scholarship, sound judgment, and critical insight, and is the best short history of the subject with which we are acquainted.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 549. S. 14, ’07. 770w. (Review of v. 22.) | |
| + + + | Outlook. 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 18.) |
“As a narrative it is easy, compact, and lucid. The Admiral, it seems to us, is inclined to take an over-roseate view of Southern slavery, and a rather narrow one of the motives and conduct of those who lent comfort and aid to John Brown.”
| + + − | Outlook. 85: 332. F. 9, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 19.) | |
| + + + | Outlook. 85: 764. Mr. 30, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 20.) |
“His treatment of the assassination of Lincoln is distinctly inadequate.”
| + + − | Outlook. 86: 302. Je. 8, ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 21.) |
“Possibly he over-emphasizes the accentuation of the speculative instinct as one of the results of the war, but there can be but little disposition to question the accuracy and essential fairness of the pictures he draws of the conditions which prevailed, north and south, from the assassination of Lincoln to the election of Hayes.”
| + + − | Outlook. 87: 312. O. 12, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 22.) |
“As to quality the general average is good, and some of the volumes, marked by more originality than could be expected in others, contain distinct contributions to historical knowledge. Out of this comes, however, a certain unevenness of treatment ... and the inequality which comes from having succeeding volumes from men who have different points of view.” John Spencer Bassett.
| + + | Putnam’s. 2: 253. My. ’07. 1090w. (Review of v. 16–21.) |
Harting, James Edmund. Recreations of a naturalist. $4.50. Wessels.
“The writer of the ‘Recreations’ gets much that is stimulating to himself and to his readers out of a marsh walk in May. With notebook in hand he sees and records things that might otherwise easily be overlooked or forgotten. When the enthusiast thus writes down the things that appeal to him because he writes under the spell of enthusiasm he makes the story read with all the greater zest.”—Ind.
“Mr. Harting’s flowing and easy style renders these chapters very agreeable reading, and a considerable amount of information is therein afforded on sport and natural history, often in association with antiquarian research.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 1: 106. Jl. 28. 1290w. | |
| + | Ind. 61: 1405. D. 22, ’06. 90w. |
“These ‘Recreations’ may be cordially recommended to the lover of nature as a companion on his summer holidays.” F.
| + | Nature. 74: 82. My. 24, ’06. 610w. |
“There is a certain dryness about Mr. Harting’s style of writing, and for this reason he is at his best when he has learning to impart.”
| + − | Spec. 96: 583. Ap. 14, ’06. 920w. |
Harvard studies in classical philology; ed. by a committee of the instructors in classics. Harvard univ., Cambridge, Mass.
Among these informing studies are the following: An unrecognized actor in Greek comedy, The battle of Salamis, The origin of Plato’s cave, Notes on Vitruvius, The dramatic art of Aeschylus, The use of the high-soled shoe or buskin, and Five new manuscripts of Donatus on Terence.
“A good specimen of the general character of those preceding it, perhaps more than usually interesting, because it deals more with questions of history and literature, and less with speculations.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
| + + | Acad. 72: 432. My. 4, ’07. 1440w. |
“An especially interesting series of papers in literature as well as in technical scholarship.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 63. Ja. 17, ’07. 840w. |
* Harvey society, New York. Harvey lectures delivered under the auspices of the Harvey society of New York. *$2. Lippincott.
7–2726.
Thirteen lectures given before the Harvey society, an association of physicians organized for the purpose of making the work of investigation better known to the practitioner. “The range of subjects is wide, from the implantation of the ovum to old age.... Even the general reader, not altogether unversed in science, will find it worth while to examine the lectures on trypanosomes, fatigue, tuberculosis, the cause of the heart-beat, and possibly one or two more.” (Nation.)
| + | Nation. 84: 250. Mr. 14, ’07. 120w. |
“The volume constitutes a most valuable collection of first-hand information given by some of the most prominent investigators in this country and Europe.” Victor C. Vaughan.
| + + | Science, n.s. 26: 630. N. 8, ’07. 3860w. |
* Harwood, Edith. Notable pictures in Rome. *$1.50. Dutton.
W 7–135.
Numerous illustrations and an alphabetical list of artists represented in Rome increase the reference value of the book. It “aims to furnish the visitor to that city with a guide by which he can find, and which will help him to understand and appreciate, the important pictures in the galleries, churches, and palaces. The author’s method is to indicate the causes which led to the production of the painting and to tell something of the personality of the artist. Then she describes the work itself and its meaning, with occasional extracts from famous critics.” (N. Y. Times.)
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 194. N. ’07. S. | ||
| Ind. 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 60w. | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 528. Ag. 31, ’07. 120w. |
“As a guide this book might be of great use in Rome. But the unwary must be warned against some of the writer’s fanciful ideas.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 70w. |
* Harwood, William Sumner. New creations in plant life: an authoritative account of the life and work of Luther Burbank. 2d ed. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–33936.
An intimate account of the life, scientific achievements and methods of the foremost plant-breeder in the world. The appearance of this second edition is justified by the facts that Mr. Burbank vouches for the statements both scientific and practical made in the volume, that the interest in the man and his work has steadily increased since the first edition appeared, and that a “closer study of the work during the period since the book was first issued demonstrates that this is one of the greatest constructive enterprises ever established among men.”
Haskell, Helen Eggleston. Billy’s princess. $1.25. Page.
7–29688.
Billy was a boy of ten who ran away from the boarding house after his mother had been carried off to the sanitarium, and his princess was the little French girl whom he found on the streets and befriended to the extent of buying her new clothes with his savings and entertaining her lavishly in his drygoods box home. Then after he had prospered at his trade of news boy he found kind aunts who took him to England to be educated, and who promised the princess that they would some day bring him back to her.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 100w. |
Hasluck, Paul Nooncree, ed. Cassell’s carpentry and joinery: comprising notes on materials, processes, principles, and practice, including about 1800 engravings and 12 plates. $3. McKay.
A practical, exhaustive treatment of the subject with full description of tools and processes commonly found in daily use in the workshop.
Hasluck, Paul Nooncree, ed. Metal working: a book of tools, materials, and processes for the handyman; 2206 il. and working drawings. $2.50. McKay.
Very nearly eight hundred pages are devoted to the practical phases of metal-working, the theory being discussed only where it is an essential preliminary to principle underlying a method, a process or the action of a tool. The scope of the book embraces the whole art of working metals with hand tools and with such simple machine tools as the small engineering shop usually contains.
Hasluck, Paul Nooncree, ed. Woodworking: a book of tools, materials, and processes for the handyman; with 2545 il. and working drawings. $2.50. McKay.
An exhaustive presentation of woodworking. “The book is intended for all those who would handle tools and who, by the use of them, wish to furnish the home and to profit their pockets. The treatment adopted throughout is simple and practical, and there has been a consistent endeavor to combine accurate information, with clear and definite instruction.”
Hastings, James, ed. Dictionary of Christ and the gospels. $6. Scribner.
6–44352.
v. 1. “This volume extends from ‘Aaron’ to ‘Knowledge,’ and the work when completed will ‘include everything that the gospels contain, whether directly related to Christ or not.’”—Ath.
“Apart from varieties of opinion, which are inevitable where many contributors are concerned, the dictionary is a scholarly work, which ought to foster learning among the preachers for whom it is written.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 131. F. 2. 370w. |
“To sum up our judgment on this work, we would say that, from the standpoint of a rather strict conservative scholarship, it is a highly creditable accomplishment; and that it will be of great service to students and preachers whose opinions are free from a tendency to radicalism.”
| + − | Cath. World. 85: 117. Ap. ’07. 1080w. |
“Is learned and decidedly conservative, and is adapted for both the exegetic and homiletic use of the preacher.”
| + | Ind. 62: 566. Mr. 7, ’07. 340w. |
“It will, no doubt, be objected against the ‘Dictionary of Christ and the gospels’ that it contains some otiose matter, such as the somewhat inferior discussion of ‘Art,’ which takes us little if at all further than Westcott’s familiar essay. But equally it will be admitted that the preacher’s purpose is better served than it has ever been before. The articles have a tendency to make him think, and, in so far, they earn the gratitude of his congregation.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 107. Ap. 5, ’07. 1290w. |
“The work contains, in the first place, an intolerable amount of extraneous and irrelevant matter. A far more serious defect is the choice of writers of a decidedly reactionary point of view for articles on important subjects.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 315. Ap. 4, ’07. 780w. |
“Undoubtedly the work contains a great deal that is of value. But it is not to be compared in value with the ‘Dictionary of the Bible.’ And the minister who already possesses that dictionary, and who has not very much money to spend on books, will not find this later work indispensable.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 597. O. 5, ’07. 1180w. |
“The principal criticism indeed that we have to make on this volume is that both editor and contributors have tried too much to be complete; there are too many articles and they are too long.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 498. Ap. 20, ’07. 1050w. |
“Criticism, history, geography, and other matters have not been neglected, but as a whole the book is of a distinctly practical character.”
| + | Spec. 98: 1005. Je. 29, ’07. 220w. |
Hatch, F. H., and Corstorphine, George Steuart. Geology of South Africa. *$7. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The book contains some details that were hardly intended for the student so far away as America, and on the other hand, many general points of vital interest are passed over all too briefly. This is especially true of the physical history and dynamical problems of the region. Nevertheless, the volume is a valuable and welcome summary of the geology of this distant land.” J. E. C.
| + + − | J. Geol. 15: 81. Ja. ’07. 800w. |
Reviewed by W. M. D.
| + | Science, n.s. 24: 684. N. 30, ’06. 600w. |
Hattersley, C. W. Uganda by pen and camera; with preface by T. F. Victor Buxton. $1. Union press.
In which is reflected the progress made by this African province during the years since Stanley’s visit. The author shows how the journey is made from London, describes the natives, their government, religion, schools, the work of missionaries and the results of Christianity.
Haultmont, Marie. By the royal road. *$1.60. Herder.
“The church of Rome is here presented as ‘the living church.’ ... The heroine is a high church member of the English establishment by education, but passes through scepticism to the Catholic fold, while two or three of the most attractive characters remain Protestants. The lively narrative is mainly concerned with provincial society and family life as affected by mixed attachments and marriages between French and English Catholics and Protestants.”—Ath.
“Considerable taste and skill are displayed in structure and characterization and the style occasionally recalls Charlotte Yonge’s work.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 10. Ja. 5. 150w. |
“A good English novel of the old Miss Austen family sitting-room type, written by a woman who understands women, and does not strive to carry her analysis of the masculine soul much below the surface.”
| + | Cath. World. 84: 839. Mr. ’07. 250w. |
Havell, Herbert Lorde. Tales from Herodotus. 60c. Crowell.
6–33586.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 111. Ap. ’07. |
Haw, George, ed. Christianity and the working classes. $1.50. Macmillan.
6–33643.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| J. Pol. Econ. 14: 578. N. ’06. 370w. |
Hawk, Philip B. Practical physiological chemistry. il. *$4. Blakiston.
“Written for students of medicine and general science, who have already secured a good groundwork in the more fundamental branches of chemistry, and presents a very good outline of those facts of physiological chemistry which may be clearly demonstrated in a laboratory course. While the title might be taken to indicate that the work is a laboratory manual only, this is by no means the case, as many of the discussions are full enough to constitute a general treatise on the subject.”—Science.
“Although there is nothing strikingly original in his presentation of the subject, the book he has produced is free from error, is clearly written, is practical, and sufficiently full for most purposes.” W. D. H.
| + + | Nature. 76: 268. Jl. 18, ’07. 100w. |
“Most of [the tests] are clearly described, and are full enough for working conditions, but in a few cases the value to the student would be greatly increased by the addition of fuller explanations.” J. H. Long.
| + − | Science, n.s. 26: 588. N. 1, ’07. 300w. |
Hawker, Mary Elizabeth (Lanoe Falconer, pseud.). Old Hampshire vignettes. $1. Macmillan.
“Twenty-three very short chapters present ‘The valley’ and a score or more of its odd and interesting inhabitants. These portraits are the slightest of thumb-nail sketches.”—Dial.
“She has wit and insight and that quality gratefully and instantly recognized, yet difficult to label, the quality of saying just the thing that should be said in just the words that should express it.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 296. Mr. 23, ’07. 220w. |
“They are newspaper articles of a superior sort, and very pleasantly written, and full of the pathos and humours of the village.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 410. Ap. 6. 60w. |
“Daintily executed, and touched with life and reality.”
| + | Dial. 42: 259. Ap. 16, ’07. 230w. |
“The writer has attempted, for the most part, to catch her pose or quality on the wing as it were; and it says much for her skill that she has almost always succeeded. If she fails it is because her sketch is sometimes so slight as to be almost evanescent; but in most cases she has swiftly touched off the humour or the oddity and bathed the people meanwhile in an atmosphere of tenderest banter.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 94. Mr. 22, ’07. 700w. |
“Miss Hawker has taste, feeling, exquisite nicety. Beyond all doubt she writes of village character better than anyone has written since George Eliot. No one comes near her in her combination of crystal clearness, fine point, discrimination and simplicity. Where she is wanting, of course, is in dramatic power.”
| + + − | Sat. R. 103: 401. Mr. 30, ’07. 420w. |
Hawkes, Clarence. Little water-folks: stories of lake and river. †75c. Crowell.
7–24035.
Dedicated to the boy who sees, these stories sketch intimately the habits of water-dwellers, among them muskrats, otters, frogs, water-weasels, and turtles.
“It is like living in the open to read the stories.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 50w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 768. D. ’07. 50w. |
Hawkes, Clarence. [Shaggycoat; the biography of a beaver.] $1.25. Jacobs.
6–36434.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 21. Ja. ’07. |
Hawkes, Clarence. Tenants of the trees. il. $1.50. Page.
7–20722.
How the author cultivated his acquaintance with his friends of fur and feather makes a most instructive and entertaining chronicle for the youthful lover of tree-folks.
“The coloured illustrations ... are mainly pretty bad. The text, too, contains some curious blunders.” George Gladden.
| − | Bookm. 25: 622. Ag. ’07. 380w. |
Hawkesworth, John. Graphical handbook for reinforced concrete design. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
7–469.
“This book contains 15 plates of diagrams for use in determining the size and the amount of reinforcement for floors, beards and columns of reinforced concrete construction.”—Engin. N.
“Graphical representations have advantages over tabular statements, and these diagrams are to be commended for their simplicity, clearness and convenient form. Such criticisms as are given here show a limit to their usefulness, but it must be remembered that these limitations are partly inherent in the building regulations followed.” Arthur N. Talbot.
| + − | Engin. N. 57: 550. My. 16, ’07. 1200w. |
Hawkins, Anthony Hope. [Helena’s path.] †$1.25. McClure.
7–29569.
An entertaining little comedy over a right of way which involves the dignified but firm refusal of a young woman land holder to allow a young nobleman to continue to pursue his way, adopted by generations before him, across her recently acquired estate to a strip of beach, lying beyond, for his daily swim. The quarrel leads straight to a romance.
“It is several years since Mr. Hope has produced anything so thoroughly artistic.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + | Bookm. 26: 269. N. ’07. 410w. |
“The first chapter of this story is so good that the reader is almost outraged at the inane character of the rest of it.”
| − + | Ind. 63: 1378. D. 5, ’07. 480w. |
“Neither the characters nor their actions are of this earth, earthy; but the tale is not on that account the less vivacious and amusing.”
| + | Nation. 85: 306. O. 3, ’07. 200w. |
“There is much comedy in this little story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 40w. |
“The trouble is that Mr. Hope’s extraordinary versatility has made him in the past nearly all things to all men, and ‘Helena’s path’ comes dangerously near being nothing to anybody.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 678. O. 26, ’07. 350w. |
“Is light-hearted farce, unexpected in incident, witty in dialogue, and wholly entertaining, except the extracts from the hero’s diary, which may be skipped to advantage.”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 30w. |
Hawkins, Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope, pseud.). [Sophy of Kravonia.] †$1.50. Harper.
6–36178.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Current Literature. 42: 230. F. ’07. 1140w. |
“Mr. Hope’s hand has lost little of its cunning since the days when he invented Zenda, and his ‘Sophy of Kravonia’ is a capital story, albeit the type is now somewhat worn.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 42: 142. Mr. 1, ’07. 140w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 30w. |
Hawkins, Anthony Hope. [Sport royal.] †$1.50. Harper.
7–34772.
These chapters record the adventures of an Englishman who, while idling at Heidelberg, becomes unexpectedly drawn into a court quarrel issuing from domestic misunderstandings. He is champion-in-general and possesses the quiet wit and unfailing courage of all of Anthony Hope’s heroes.
“Is a very light and airy trifle, hardly important enough to deserve the special honor of decoration and ornamental binding here given to it. It has, in a minor way, some of the dash of ‘The prisoner of Zenda.’”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 40w. |
Haworth, Paul Leland. Hayes-Tilden disputed presidential election of 1876. *$1.50. Burrows.
6–22324.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The monograph is thoroughly scientific in method and sound in its criticism of fact, but is equally unscientific in spirit and temper. The style occasionally descends perilously near flippancy and vulgarity at the expense of southern democrats.”
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 410. Ja. ’07. 950w. |
“Worthy of notice, although not of first-rate pretensions.” John Spencer Bassett.
| + − | Putnam’s. 2: 255. My. ’07. 160w. |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. In colonial days. $2.50. Page.
6–29091.
“Four of Hawthorne’s delightful stories of the Old Province house in Boston have been grouped under the general title ‘In colonial days,’ copiously illustrated by Mr. Frank C. Merrill.... Anybody would enjoy the tales in their new setting, which ought, however to prove particularly acceptable to younger readers.”—Dial.
“Mr. Merrill’s pictures, redolent of old times and customs, and yet full of life and spirit, are evidently the fruits of congenial and sympathetic effort.”
| + | Dial. 41: 461. D. 16, ’06. 100w. |
“In costumes and other appurtenances he is historically correct, while his figures are animated and lifelike.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 879. D. 15, ’06. 170w. |
Hawtrey, Valentina. Romance of old wars. †$1.50. Holt.
7–8220.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“To those who have admired the author’s previous work it is sufficient to say that [‘Romance of old wars’] reaches her usual high standard in interest and execution.”
| + | Acad. 71: 16. Jl. 7, ’06. 320w. |
“Miss Hawtrey has a real gift for instilling an atmosphere of freshness and vitality into the historical background of her stories.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 182. Ag. 18. 280w. |
“In spite of the sorrows and poverty and the pathetic ending, the author has caught that glamour which is the sunset radiance of the past ever shining behind us.”
| + | Ind. 62: 673. Mr. 21, ’07. 40w. |
“The vividness with which it makes alive and thrilling the life of noble and peasant five centuries and more ago is the book’s special claim to consideration.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 101. F. 16, ’07. 260w. |
“The writer ... sees the past pictorially, romantically, showing the superficial pageant and leaving unexpressed that absolute humanity which makes it as real and living as the present.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 100w. |
Hay, John. Addresses. **$2. Century.
6–30898.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“What he said is valuable first of all because of the content, but it is equally interesting and instructive to one who is in search of standards of graceful English.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 214. Ja. ’07. 200w. |
“Few are the books that possess the charm, apart from their contents, of the recently published ‘Addresses of John Hay.’”
| + + | Dial. 42: 189. Mr. 16, ’07. 160w. |
Hayden, Arthur. Chats on old prints. *$2. Stokes.
7–6391.
“This book is meant for novices and collectors of moderate ambition.... The ‘chats’ give good advice to those who have pounds as well as shillings to lavish on their hobby.”—Ath.
“Written for English readers but interesting and will excite enthusiasm for the subject. Profusely illustrated with half-tones, good as to subject but poor as to execution.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 43. F. ’07. |
“As regards quality, indeed, Mr. Hayden sets the standard all too low. The information given concerning them [early German or Italian masters] is the least satisfactory part of the book. The bibliography and glossary of technical terms are generally good.”
| − + | Ath. 1906, 2: 742. D. 8. 440w. |
“An admirable book, full of information, sound advice and pleasant reading. The sentiment of the sincere collector pervades the volume and the gold value is not, as is usual in collectors’ guide, made the first and last point of consideration.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 150. F. 2, ’07. 100w. |
Haydon, A. L., comp. [Book of the V. C.: a record of the deeds of heroism for which the Victoria cross has been bestowed, from its institution in 1857 to the present time.] $1.50. Dutton.
7–20536.
“Certainly a good idea for a boy’s book is this narrating the stories of exploits by which the Victoria cross has been won by soldier heroes. Some thirty of these narratives are included in this volume.... Altogether 522 men have been decorated by this cross, and some two hundred of these are alive at the present time.”—Outlook.
| + | Dial. 42: 118. F. 16, ’07. 50w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 90w. |
“Mr. Haydon relates the stories of the many deeds of heroism with spirit and in a way to interest all boy readers.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 150w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 40w. |
Haynes, George Henry. Election of senators. **$1.50. Holt.
6–18603.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This work may be recommended as a scholarly, impartial, and rational discussion of a great national problem.” Herman V. Ames.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 400. Ja. ’07. 910w. |
“Arguments for and against popular election of senators ... are fairly and clearly stated, though the author does not hesitate to reveal his sympathies for the affirmative. For his work in bringing before the public the results thus far accomplished Dr. Haynes is deserving of hearty thanks.” David Y. Thomas.
| + + − | Am. J. Soc. 12: 553. Ja. ’07. 1380w. |
“On the whole. Professor Haynes’ work deserves a hearty welcome, for he has succeeded in the difficult task of writing a book which the layman can understand and which is at the same time worthy the attention of the specialist.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 638. My. ’07. 360w. |
“Timely, thorough and invaluable as a reference work. Those who wish to prepare themselves to fight the battles of democracy with intelligence should possess this book.” Robert E. Bisbee.
| + + | Arena. 37: 216. F. ’07. 500w. |
“Professor Haynes has ... very thoroly presented the whole matter from the historical standpoint.”
| + | Ind. 62: 972. Ap. 25, ’07. 210w. |
“A full and fair discussion of an important question.” James Breck Perkins.
| + + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 151. Mr. ’07. 920w. |
Hays, Joseph Weller. Combustion and smokeless furnaces. *$1.50. Hill pub. co.
6–45712.
The matter contained in this volume may not be new to the engineer. “But it may be of service to the layman, and, especially, to members of city councils and others who are wrestling with the smoke problem.... The theoretical part of the book, treating of the chemistry of combustion, contains practically the same matter as is found in other treatises on the subject.... The latter half of the book is devoted to the discussion of smokeless furnaces.”—Engin. N.
“A concise and clearly written treatise.” Wm. Kent.
| + − | Engin. N. 57: 303. Mr. 14, ’07. 1920w. |
Hazen, Allen. Clean water and how to get it. $1.50. Wiley.
7–30139.
A book primarily for mayors and aldermen, and of interest to water-works superintendents and members of water-boards into which the author has put “some of the principles—common sense, technical and financial—to be followed in obtaining and paying for a plentiful supply of clear water.” (Engin. N.)
“The book abounds with facts and suggestions that will be new and valuable to even the veterans of the water-works fraternity.”
| + + | Engin. N. 58: 427. O. 17, ’07. 660w. |
“In a new edition, which is sure to be called for soon, the path to the solid knowledge the book contains might be made easier by a more logical arrangement of its contents and by the addition of two elementary chapters, one outlining, at the beginning of the book, the general characteristics of a good water supply and one, in the middle of the book, on the general plan and principles of water filtration.” C.-E. A. Winslow.
| + + − | Science, n.s. 26: 662. N. 15, ’07. 1100w. |
Headley, Frederick Webb. Life and evolution. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–34602.
“A series of ‘the fairy-tales of science,’ in which we are shown the slow steps by which life crept into higher forms from moneron to man, the text being largely supplemented by excellent illustrations from drawings and photographs. The value of the book lies in the strong impulse it is sure to raise in many readers to verify the statements for themselves, and thereby enlarge the circle of students of science.”—Ath.
“The author has ranged his facts admirably and the book, being written in very simple and almost non-scientific language, should be very widely read.”
| + + − | Acad. 72: 150. F. 9, ’07. 220w. |
“It may be said at once that Mr. Headley has done very well indeed what he set out to do in this book. In the reviewer’s opinion, there exists no other book which in the field covered can compare in general excellence with this.” Raymond Pearl.
| + + | Dial. 43: 209. O. 1, ’07. 550w. |
“It is a book for browsing in and should interest scientific students as well as lay readers.”
| + | Ind. 63: 511. Ag. 29, ’07. 40w. |
“Although the author has written carefully, and has made but few slips of statement, this volume is, in a number of ways, unsatisfactory, and not least so in regard to the mechanical make-up.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 459. My. 16, ’07. 360w. |
“The author has succeeded in producing a very readable and thoughtful book, which deserves a large clientele of readers.” R. L.
| + + | Nature. 75: 434. Mr. 7, ’07. 1140w. |
“While a serious and erudite discussion of many points of a difficult philosophy, is well calculated to be a wonder book for the information and delight of a novice in natural history, or even of a child.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 140w. | |
| + | Spec. 98: 909. Je. 8, ’07. 140w. |
Headley, John William. Confederate operations in Canada and New York. $2. Neale.
6–16287.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Am. Hist. R. 12: 211. O. ’06. 60w. | ||
| Ind. 62: 1267. My. 30, ’07. 160w. |
Heilprin, Angelo, and Heilprin, Louis, eds. Lippincott’s new gazetteer. *$10. Lippincott.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Harriet Waters Preston.
| + + + | Atlan. 99: 426. Mr. ’07. 650w. |
Heine, Heinrich. Works. 12v. $25. Dutton.
The first eight volumes of this edition give Heine’s prose writings translated by Charles G. Leland. After Leland’s death the work was completed by Thomas Brooksbank who translated the ninth volume, “The book of songs” and Margaret Armour who translated the last three volumes of poetry.
“We have noted a number of passages in which the German seems to have been misapprehended, and many others in which it has not been rendered with sufficient fidelity; but otherwise the translation is for the most part distinctly meritorious, for Miss Armour is a skilful and fluent versifier, and often catches the spirit of her author very successfully. Some slips in classical matters ought to have been avoided.”
| + + − | Ath. 1906, 1: 197. F. 17. 280w. (Review of v. 12.) |
“The best of Heine evaporates in translation, no doubt, but readers who possess no German may be congratulated upon having offered to them so close an approach to the original as is found in the present version.”
| + + | Dial. 42: 48. Ja. 16, ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 1–12.) | |
| Ind. 62: 102. Ja. 10, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 1–12.) |
“Yet granting all defects, this edition stands as the best presentation in English of the bulk of Heine’s writings.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 1–12.) | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 760w. (Review of v. 1–12.) |
“With the prose the translators of the present edition have succeeded fairly well. With the lyric poems they have failed, but have come perhaps as near to succeeding as has ever been done.”
| + + − | R. of Rs. 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1–12.) |
Heller, Albert Henry. Stresses in structures and the accompanying deformations. 2d ed. *$4. A. G. Geren, 1602 N. High st., Columbus, O.
7–15561.
Only a portion of Professor Heller’s contemplated treatise was completed before his death. This part includes probably half of what the work was to comprise. “It covers the principles of statical analysis, stresses in beams and in columns, and stresses in simple trusses.” (Engin. N.)
“The work is extremely well done. Simplification and conciseness are secured by the most desirable method. A good knowledge of his subject and a sound view of the underlying facts and conditions are exhibited generally in the work. A full statement of how the phenomena of flexure vary from those expressed in the commonly-used formulas, and remarks on fatigue action and on the elastic properties of iron and steel merit special commendation.”
| + + | Engin. N. 57: 669. Je. 13, ’07. 370w. |
Heming, Arthur. Spirit Lake. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–21229.
In this novel the white man plays but a small part. It is a story of the Indian of to-day, of the hunters of the Hudson bay country, and it tells of their life, their adventures, their superstitions, and their customs; closing like the conventional romance with the marriage of a young brave and an Indian maiden according to the rites of their tribe.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 177. O. ’07. |
“The author would seem to have made instruction his aim rather than artistic excellence.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 210. Ag. 24. 180w. |
“The book is not properly a novel, but it has an abundance of dramatic force and there is a simple directness in its style that makes you feel that you are getting pretty close to the truth about the red man of the Canadian fur-lands.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 25: 602. Ag. ’07. 160w. |
“This is an excellent book for boys just emerging from the stage where they ‘play Indian’ and not yet old enough to relish their Parkman.”
| + | Nation. 85: 58. Jl. 18, ’07. 130w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07, 110w. |
“The book is readable in parts, as it would appear, because those parts really are drawn from the personal observation of the author.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 170w. |
“The book is a pleasant change after the usual run of common novels, and its readers will enjoy the glimpses which it affords of a romantic and still primitive world.”
| + | Spec. 99: 202. Ag. 10, ’07. 300w. |
Henderson, George R. Cost of locomotive operation. $2.50. Railway gazette.
6–34658.
“In discussing this subject the various expenses are classified under three general headings—Supplies, Maintenance and Service—and each heading is subdivided into its elementary items, each of which is examined in regard to all phases of quality and quantity which affect the cost of operation, and also as affected by grade, speed, curves, loading, weather, etc.”—Engin. N.
“Valuable contribution to railway technical literature. A book that should be in the hands of every railroad officer who has in any way to do with the supervision or criticism of locomotive operation and its cost.” Arthur M. Waitt.
| + + | Engin. N. 57: 84. Ja. 17, ’07. 1570w. |
Henderson, John. Jamaica; painted by A. S. Forrest; with 24 full-page il. in col. *$2. Macmillan.
7–20521.
Rather a traveler’s impressions of the country and its people than a “profound or long continued” study. “The author brings out vividly the character and human side of the natives, the commercial needs and difficulties of the Jamaican situation, and makes for the reader scores of little pen-pictures of queer and out-of-the-way features of the life in the island.” (Outlook.)
“Told in a satisfactory style. Many of the illustrations are very good, but some are reproduced in too crude colors even for tropical scenes.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 214. Ta. 24, ’07. 200w. |
“The book, and especially the bright colored pictures, will satisfy the average reader’s wish for a popular account of life as it was lived in the community now suffering under such a calamity.”
| + | Nation. 84: 88. Ja. 24, ’07. 350w. |
“It is written in a notably sprightly style of description and is very far removed either from dull historical writing or from guide-book minuteness.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 331. F. 9, ’07. 180w. |
Henderson, Reuben Stewart. Railroad curve tables. *$1. Eng. news.
6–41298.
A volume which contains a comprehensive table of functions on a one-degree curve, with correction quantities giving exact values for any degree of curve, together with various other tables and formulas, including radii, natural sines, cosines, tangents, cotangents, etc. To which is added a method of finding any function of a curve of any degree or radius without a field book.
“It will find a place with the railroad engineer on account of the excellent table of functions for a one-degree curve.” Charles L. Crandall.
| + | Engin. N. 57: 89. Ja. 17, ’07. 450w. |
Henderson, Thomas F., and Watt, Francis. Scotland of to-day. il. **$2. Pott.
“The authors take up the religion, the art, the literature, the games, the institutions, the food and drink, the education, the wit and humor, of the Scotland of to-day, and treat them all briefly but entertainingly. There is description also of towns and scenery, but preference is constantly given to the human element. But modern Scotland is shown against the background of its history and its achievements of former ages.”—N. Y. Times.
“Small things these, perhaps, to comment upon, but an irritating air of superiority in the writers which is forever cropping up suggests retort.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 920. S. 21, ’07. 760w. |
“There are many indications in this work both of craftsmanship and thought; but bad punctuation and spoiling in many instances mar the enjoyment of the reader.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 325. S. 21. 1590w. |
“Whoever wishes to enjoy a picture of the Scotland of to-day, somewhat sketchy in effect, but still strong and interesting in its outlines, will find it in ‘Scotland of to-day.’”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 563. S. 21, ’07. 170w. |
Henderson, William James. Art of the singer. **$1.25. Scribner.
6–33621.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is eminently practical; and with a minimum of technical phraseology it explains to the student the principal physiological problems in voice training and the best methods of solving them.” Josiah Renick Smith.
| + + | Dial. 42: 11. Ja. 1, ’07. 430w. |
“There are few singers in the world who could not profit at some point from a careful study of Mr. Henderson’s recent book.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 310w. |
“This material is well arranged, and Mr. Henderson’s own views are clearly expressed.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 22. Ja. 18, ’07. 310w. |
Henderson, William James. Sea yarns for boys, spun by an old Salt. †60c. Harper.
The old sailor who sat at the end of the pier and looked out over the waves, amused himself and two small sea-eager boys by a series of most remarkable tales. They are all of the couldn’t-possibly-have-happened kind, about a shark that towed a blockade runner, a monkey that was captain of a ship, a merman who dined with the old salt upon a coral reef, a whale, a cannibal king and other strange and equally entrancing things.
“The tales are genuine flights of an imagination that stops at nothing. Moreover, they are adorned with many bits of laughable reflection and wiseacre philosophy of the weatherbeaten brand.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 500w. |
Hendrick, Burton Jesse. Story of life insurance. **$1.20. McClure.
7–17891.
“Mr. Hendrick begins with the scandals growing out of the ‘surplus,’ traces the notorious career of Henry B. Hyde and the others who contributed to the demoralization of American life insurance, gives a sympathetic account of the reforms secured through the good offices of Elizur Wright, presents a concise history of the ‘tontine,’ and describes the race for business, the speculative management, and the actual corruption disclosed a couple of years ago.”—Nation.
“A clean concise, accurate history of life insurance.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 166. O. ’07. S. |
“Such a work ought to perform a useful service in helping to thwart future schemes for evil on the part of unprincipled insurance managers.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 80w. |
“In writing a trustworthy popular account of the evils that have attended the insurance business Mr. Hendrick has performed a distinct public service; his volume should reach a wide circle of readers.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 486. My. 23, ’07. 230w. |
“These articles not only give a good exposition of the somewhat intricate subject of modern life insurance, but contain much historical material not otherwise accessible.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 35: 758. Je. ’07. 130w. | |
| Spec. 98: 986. Je. 22, ’07. 390w. |
Hendrick, Frank. Power to regulate corporations and commerce. **$4. Putnam.
6–38328.
The following paragraph from Mr. Hendrick’s preface states the scope of the volume: “This book is an attempt to define the limits within which the governments of the several States and of the United States may secure freedom of trade by control of the persons and things engaged therein, and to indicate the respective powers of the three departments of the Government in the exercise of such control. The relation of the three departments of the Government of the United States to one another and to those of the State governments in the control of inter-State commerce and of corporations is set forth with references to over two thousand cases involving questions of constitutional law.”
| Ind. 61: 1569. D. 27, ’06. 710w. | ||
| J. Pol. Econ. 15: 60. Ja. ’07. 230w. |
“The author’s discussions are, it must be said, not always intelligible.”
| − + | Nation. 83: 534. D. 20, ’06. 200w. |
“More will be heard of Mr. Hendrick’s proposal of law, for such it must be called rather than an exposition of existing law, despite the trend of recent rulings.” Edward A. Bradford.
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 896. D. 22, ’06. 1900w. |
“The book will be of value to the lawyer engaged in railway or other forms of corporate law; to the legislator who is asked to deal with this general subject; to the journalist who is called upon to instruct his readers respecting pending legislation; and to officials of great corporations whose sins against the law are sometimes sins of ignorance not of willfulness. But the lay reader will find it not only heavy but intricate reading, and will legitimately desire some one to interpret it to him.”
| + + − | Outlook. 84: 894. D. 8, ’06. 370w. |
Henry VIII., King of England. [Love letters of Henry VIII. to Anne Boleyn.] lea. $1.50. Luce, J: W.
7–430.
“Each letter is dated as exactly as the evidence warrants, and there are a few textual notes. A perusal of the letters shows Henry in the character of a fairly ardent though not passionate lover, with a strong tendency to moralize and to lay emphasis upon the practical rather than the sentimental aspects of his affection.” (Dial.) “The format of the book expresses the period in a most satisfactory way, with its woodcut headbands and initials, and titles and running head in Old-English black letter, and folios in black lettered numerals at the foot of each page.” (Bookm.)
“A very satisfactory trade edition.”
| + | Bookm. 26: 103. S. ’07. 110w. |
“A curious little book, fraught with interest both as a historical study and a human document.”
| + | Dial. 42: 81. F. 1, ’07. 350w. |
Henry, Alfred Judson. Climatology of the United States. $10. Chief of the weather bureau, Washington, D. C.
“After an interesting review of climatic records for the United States, 85 pages are devoted to a general discussion of climatology, taking up temperature, precipitation, sunshine, winds and seasonal variations.... Numerous maps and charts are employed by way of illustration.”—Engin. N.
“Contains a vast amount of compact, well-arranged information needed almost daily by engineers, so much, in fact, as to make certain omissions very noticeable and regrettable.”
| + − | Engin. N. 57: 90. Ja. 17, ’07. 510w. |
Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter). [Four million.] †$1. McClure.
6–12856.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In a general way the stories suggest the thumbnail studies of Frapié, Provins, and the other flashlight Frenchmen, but without their pessimism and despair.” Mary Moss.
| + | Atlan. 99: 126. Ja. ’07. 510w. |
* Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter). [Heart of the West.] †$1.50. McClure.
7–33208.
A group of humorous stories of frontier life.
“The whole collection might be taken as an example of how conventional and tiresome the raciest slang may grow, when used in excess, as a means of enlivening flimsy and carelessly conceived commonplaces.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 350w. |
“The funniest stories by this well-known writer have been collected in the volume.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“If he has a fault it is that he sets forth too opulent a spread; like a rich parvenu’s banquet.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 747. N. 23, ’07. 430w. | |
| + | Outlook. 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 70w. |
Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter). [Trimmed lamp], and other stories of the four million. †$1. McClure.
7–16486.
“Free from the too common trick of embellishing actuality with traditional cant, this author wins the intelligent reader through a sympathetic cynicism denoting experience and honesty, the whole expressing itself in most humorous form. Shopgirls and bartenders and pseudo-Bohemians and ‘that sad company of mariners known as Jersey commuters’—such types are hit off with immense cleverness.”—R. of Rs.
“There is something irresistible about the stories, with all their crimes upon them; they are so buoyant and careless, so genial in their commentary, and so pleasantly colored by a sentiment which, if as sophisticated as Broadway itself, is still perfectly spontaneous and sincere.” Harry James Smith.
| + | Atlan. 100: 134. Jl. ’07. 290w. |
“The reader who skips a single story in the collection runs the risk of losing something that he would have liked quite as well as those he read, if not rather better.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 26: 79. S. ’07. 530w. |
“It is with the same humor that he still graces his stories; but there has crept into his work some other qualities which give it a worth and charm that it did not have before.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 880. O. 10, ’07. 370w. |
“For stories of their kind, are fine.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 80w. |
“‘O. Henry’ is actually that rare bird, of which we so often hear false reports—a born story-teller.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 300w. |
“It is not to much to say that O. Henry achieves the Carlylian miracle of taking the roofs off—lifting the lid—and shows what lies beneath.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 430. Jl. 6, ’07. 839w. | |
| + | Outlook. 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 220w. |
“‘The trimmed lamp’ must appeal to all discriminating devotees of local character study, and each one of them will wish to stay acquainted with ‘O. Henry.’”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 766. Je. ’07. 130w. |
Henschel, George. Personal recollections of Johannes Brahms: some of his letters to and pages from a journal kept by George Henschel. $1.50. Badger, R. G.
7–10574.
Excerpts from a journal kept while traveling with Brahms in the seventies form the nucleus of Mr. Henschel’s reminiscent study, to which have been added some recollections and letters. Several reproduced photographs of the great composer are included.
“It is an interesting contribution to the sidelights that have been thrown upon the personality of the great master by a number of his friends and contemporaries since his death.” Richard Aldrich.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 430w. |
Henshaw, Julia W. Mountain wild flowers of America. *$2. Ginn.
6–25647.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The incompleteness of the book, however inevitable, is a more serious drawback than its unscientific plan, and a drawback that must affect all kinds of readers. However, she has, on the whole, made a good selection, and her descriptions are as clear as they can be without the use of botanical terms.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 53. F. 15, ’07. 560w. |
Hensley, Mrs. Sophie M. Heart of a woman. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–3092.
“A book of verses of unobtrusive quality written by Mrs. Hensley, who adds to her poetic gifts the largeheartedness of a woman interested in philanthropic reforms.... The verses are carefully grouped under the different heads, Love lyrics, A woman’s love-letters, Nature poems, Narrative poems, Child poems and songs, Sonnets, and Rondeaus.”—N. Y. Times.
“Though the verses are not tinged with any oppressive ethos, we feel throughout a grace and simplicity of goodness. The meter and rhythm are smooth, the meaning is not too deep-hidden, and the moods vary from grave to gay.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 170w. |
“While there is nothing in the least objectionable in the Heart disclosing itself in these verses, there is also nothing of special value. The lines are of easy, rippling quality, and the sentiment is perhaps as perfectly exemplified in the poem called Prayer as in any of the collection. Real passion never babbles.”
| − + | Outlook. 85: 526. Mr. 2, ’07. 90w. |
* Herbert, Agnes. [Two Dianas in Somaliland: the record of a shooting trip.] il. $4. Lane.
Two young huntresses face lions and leopards in the African wilds as unflinchingly as any toughened game-bagger of the sterner sex. They go for game and adventure, and find it. Their caravan consisted of forty-nine camels, seven horses, about a half hundred camel drivers, men of all work and guides. There is a thrill on almost every page to keep the adventure-lover’s blood tingling.
“The book is exceptionally interesting and well turned out.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 476. O. 19. 870w. |
“This record of adventures and achievements, although realistic and at times heartless, is nevertheless a fascinating one.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 720. N. 9, ’07. 310w. |
“Miss Herbert, judging by her trophies, is readier with the gun than the pen.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 582. N. 9, ’07. 250w. |
“The tone of bravado and devil-may-careness is irksome at first, when it is only a few simple conventions which the Dianas are defying. When it comes to be lions and rhinos and every known discomfort, we are captivated in spite of ourselves.”
| + − | Spec. 99: sup. 749. N. 16, ’07. 630w. |
Herford, Oliver. [Little book of bores.] **$1. Scribner.
6–36032.
“Mr. Herford has discovered twenty-four species of Bores, one for each letter of the alphabet.... One may be assured of finding all his enemies and most of his friends among the bores—and possibly he may discover himself there.”—Dial.
“His rhymes and pictures ... are inimitable.”
| + | Dial. 41: 398. D. 1. ’06. 90w. | |
| Nation. 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 50w. |
Herrick, Albert Bledsoe, and Boynton, Edward Carlisle. American electric railway practice. *$3. McGraw pub.
7–17388.
The first two chapters of the work “cover the general engineering preliminaries, such as estimates and field engineering. Location and construction of track, power stations and overhead circuits are next described and illustrated from the best current practice. The remainder of the volume deals with the many details of operation beginning with the essential features of time-tables, schedules, dispatching and signals.”—Engin. N.
“As a whole, the book is well printed, bound and indexed.... It will be convenient for reference, especially to those engineers who are not regular readers of the electric railway periodicals and to those who do not have access to the bound volumes of the Street railway journal.” Henry H. Norris.
| + | Engin. N. 57: 663. Je. 13, ’07. 610w. | |
| Technical Literature. 2: 97. Ag. ’07. 270w. |
Herrick, Rufus Frost. Denatured or industrial alcohol. *$4. Wiley.
7–19427.
A treatise on the history, manufacture, composition, uses, and possibilities of industrial alcohol in the various countries permitting its use, and the laws and regulations governing the same, including the United States. It appeals to the chemical manufacturer on the one hand, and the engineer who would use it as fuel on the other.
“Probably the best treatise available in English.”
| + + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 166. O. ’07. |
“A careful reading of the book by any one even partly well informed on the subject matter must lead to the conclusion that the author was very unfamiliar with his subject: that he depended almost entirely on other than first hand information: that he was unable or unwilling to criticise this information when obtained.” Charles Edward Lucke.
| − − | Engin. N. 58: 76. Jl. 18, ’07. 1790w. |
“A needed and timely book.”
| + | Nation. 85: 287. S. 26, ’07. 380w. |
Herridge, William Thomas. Orbit of life; studies in human experience. **$1. Revell.
6–33546.
A volume of religious and social essays in which Dr. Herridge “sees life whole, both in extent and content, and aims both to show it as he sees it, and to redeem it from monotony and triviality by putting its emphasis in the right place.” (Outlook.)
“Dr. Herridge has something to say that is worth hearing both for the matter and the manner of it.”
| + + | Outlook. 84: 893. D. 8, ’06. 200w. |
“The book abounds in common-sense, and is full at the same time of religious and ethical suggestion. Dr. Herridge speaks profoundly, and cannot but set his readers thinking.”
| + + | Spec. 97: 204. F. 9, ’07. 1360w. |
Hershey, Amos Shartle. International law and diplomacy of the Russo-Japanese war. **$3. Macmillan.
7–3157.
“A fairly complete history, from the viewpoint of international law and diplomacy, of the war between Japan and Russia. The material is cast in a general narrative form, although each chapter is more or less complete by itself. The rights and duties of belligerents and neutrals are, of course, the main theme, although the questions of war correspondents, wireless telegraphy, and submarine mines come in for treatment. Copious notes and explanatory references, and last but not least, an excellent index, make the contents of the volume very accessible.”—R. of Rs.
“He is judicial, he is temperate, he is sound, he is wonderfully fair and liberal in his citations of authorities. In minor matters here and there one might take issue, but on the other hand there is original well-digested comment on almost every page upon a variety of hotly disputed questions, which will make the book of permanent value.” Theodore S. Woolsey.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 652. Ap. ’07. 1130w. |
“Professor Hershey writes in an easy style and the subject is treated in a way that attracts not only the student of international law but also the general reader. The manner of presentation is semi-historical giving the reader thus a view of the progress of the conflict as well as the diplomatic incidents, and legal questions that arose during its course.” Chester Lloyd Jones.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 656. My. ’07. 750w. | |
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 195. F. 16. 2070w. |
“The most scholarly, exhaustive, and illuminating study of the Russo-Japanese conflict from the standpoint of international law and diplomacy.” J. W. Garner.
| + + | Dial. 42: 285. My. 1, ’07. 1350w. |
“This is a scholarly and authoritative volume, altogether unlike the popular books on this over-written war.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 1473. Je. 20, ’07. 370w. |
“An interesting and suggestive volume.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 860. Ap. 13, ’07. 290w. |
“A valuable book.” G: Louis Beer.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 745. S. ’07. 140w. |
“A particularly useful volume.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 35: 381. Mr. ’07. 140w. |
“Mr. Hershey’s work is a success. He has labored hard to ascertain facts, the existence of which are of great concern to civilization. His judgment thereon has been that of one possessing both a close knowledge of international law and an instinctive sense of justice.” Charles Cheney Hyde.
| + + | Yale R. 16: 98. My. ’07. 1150w. |
Herter, Christian Archibald. Common bacterial infections of the digestive tract and the intoxications arising from them. **$1.50. Macmillan.
A medical work on typhoid fever written essentially for physicians but which, however, contains much that will interest the sanitarian.
“Dr. Herter’s book is bound to have the effect of broadening our conception of the subject of infectious diseases of the digestive tract, and deserves a wide reading.” George C. Whipple.
| + | Engin. N. 57: 661. Je. 13, ’07. 730w. |
“Those to whom the terminology of the bacteriologist is not unfamiliar will find here not only a well written but also an interesting and suggestive study of a rich fauna and a discussion of questions of much import, for they are fundamental in relation to a great human woe, indigestion.”
| + | Nation. 85: 522. D. 5, ’07. 140w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 465. Jl. 27, ’07. 140w. |
Hervey, Arthur. Alfred Bruneau. (Living masters of music ser.) *$1. Lane.
7–29175.
An impartial study of the artist and his work which includes his conservatory days, his work for the musical drama, and his relations with Zola who was a faithful companion and whose stout ally Bruneau became during the Zola trial.
“Those who are interested in French musical developments will be glad to have it.”
| + | Nation. 85: 357. O. 17, ’07. 1840w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 360w. |
Herzfeld, Elsa Goldina. Family monographs. For sale by Brentano’s and Charity organization soc., N. Y.
6–1551.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The generalizations in the first fifty pages are, to the extent that they are generalizations, open to criticism. But taken as an assemblage of related incidents, instead of statements of general truths, they are interesting and valuable. Apparently no effort was made to discriminate between characteristics and beliefs peculiar to tenement-house families and those that are to be found in all economic grades, between conditions which merely impress an observer unaccustomed to life among the poor as exceptional to the neighborhood and those which really are exceptional.”
| + − | Charities. 17: 501. D. 15, ’06. 670w. |
Hewitt, Emma Churchman. Ease in conversation; or, Hints to the ungrammatical. 5th ed. 50c. Jacobs.
7–29161.
A practical little volume for the ungrammatical and for the timid talker devoted to a study of the correct forms of English used in conversation. The errors are of the “genteel” rather than the “vulgar” sort and are discussed in a series of letters written to a group of girls bent upon improving their conversation.
Hewlett, Maurice H. Stooping lady; front. by Harrison Fisher. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–30839.
“‘The stooping lady’ carries us back something less than a hundred years, to the days just preceding the regency in England.... Here the historical background is largely a matter of externals of dress and manner; the spirit is modern enough to require no great backward leap of the imagination.” (Forum.) The story has a London setting and deals with a proud Irish girl who “stoops” to one beneath her in station, but to one whose, “clean fine manhood has taught her to respect and honor him.” (Bookm.)
“We know of no book of Mr. Hewlett’s that is more vivid, more graphic or more engrossing. We delight in his style, his similes, his brilliant flashes of humour, and occasionally in the glimpse we have of the Satyric horns, with which we have become so intimate in, say, ‘The forest lovers,’ or ‘Pan and the young shepherd.’”
| + | Acad. 73: sup. 115. N. 9, ’07. 800w. |
“Carries you swiftly along with an absorbing love story, and charms you with the exceeding grace and skill of its telling.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 201. N. ’07. ✠ |
“This tale is characteristic of his genius. Judged as a mere novel of politics the book is brilliant, outshining the attractive but thin work of Disraeli, and much truer to human nature and history.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 475. O. 19. 310w. |
“Yet, fine as the story is in conception and in workmanship, it somehow lacks the bigness, the finality, the enduring interest of ‘The queen’s quair’ or ‘The fool errant.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + − | Bookm. 26: 160. O. ’07. 1100w. |
“If ‘The stooping lady’ be not positively a great book, it at least has great qualities. Leaving aside a few careless moments, its style is such as cannot be surpassed, if indeed it can be matched, by more than one or two men of our day. It paints the manner of a period with altogether unusual truth and delicacy. Greatest virtue of all, it gives us knowledge of great men and women, displaying them under the stress of emotions that raise them out of the common and make them typical of humanity.” Edward Clark Marsh.
| + + − | Forum. 39: 266. O. ’07. 2040w. |
“All told, it is an admirable story, but as unfaithful in spirit to the times it is supposed to portray as it is loyal to that of the present.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 1173. N. 14, ’07. 740w. |
“Altogether Mr. Hewlett, we are inclined to think, has somewhat lost his way in writing his latest book, though it must not be supposed that it is not readable, and at times even charming.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 309. O. 11, ’07. 670w. |
“The whole book might be taken as conclusive illustration of the disputed truth that a high degree of skill need in no way hamper an author’s individuality or warmth of expression, that a classic restraint of manner by no means reduces the emotional quality to the academic level of an eighteenth century essayist.”
| + | Nation. 85: 377. O. 24, ’07. 560w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 50w. |
“We have Mr. Hewlett writing sheer Meredith, naked and unashamed—one might almost say rewriting ‘Diana of the Crossways.’ And yet the book is his own, one of the most brilliant pieces of work done in our time, with a heroine I, personally, would not exchange for Diana.” Richard De Gallienne.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 709. N. 9, ’07. 1470w. |
“A story which belongs at the head of the autumnal list, but does not quite reach the solid ground on which ‘Little novels of Italy’ rest.”
| + + − | Outlook. 87: 621. N. 23, ’07. 270w. |
“It is because he has given so much that one’s disappointment, when he falls beneath his promise, must plead his very generosity to excuse its air of ingratitude in declining to be content with even the dexterous accomplishment of ‘The stooping lady.’”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 454. O. 12, ’07. 1440w. |
“One obvious criticism may be made in conclusion,—that the author has fallen deeply beneath the sway of Meredithian formula, without, however, lapsing into the obscurity of his great exemplar.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 574. O. 19, ’07. 690w. |
Hichens, Robert Smythe. Barbary sheep: a novel. †$1.25. Harper.
7–24588.
A slight story steeped in the atmosphere, the mystery, the fascination of the Algerian desert. An English nobleman falls in with the whims of his wife who must be amused and takes her to the edge of the Algerian desert. While he hunts Barbary sheep, she succumbs to the wiles of an Arab army officer who practices his hypnotic arts upon her. It is a daring bit of romantic color that Mr. Hichens flings upon his canvas.
“It is merely a small thing supremely well done.” Edward Clark Marsh.
| + + | Bookm. 26: 167. O. ’07. 1240w. | |
| Ind. 63: 939. O. 17, ’07. 500w. |
“As for the style and proportions of the narrative. they suggest ... a distinct advance in the art of the novelist. The purple passages of description are few and not over-long; and there is a general abstention from ‘piling on the agony.’”
| + − | Nation. 85: 211. S. 5, ’07. 300w. |
“Hardly reaches the dignity of a novel either in length or substance.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 535. S. 7, ’07. 510w. |
“On the whole, not a pleasant tale.”
| − | Outlook. 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 80w. |
Hichens, Robert Smythe. [Call of the blood.] †$1.50. Harper.
6–34641.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“When the emotional impulse is lacking, his ideas become singularly dull and his manner quite without distinction. But at the first sting of sensation, the style leaps into vitality; and if always deficient in a certain finality of touch, it continually delights with its resiliency and exuberance.” Harry James Smith.
| + − | Atlan. 100: 129. Jl. ’07. 800w. |
“In respect of scene-painting, dramatic construction, and emotional force alike, the book deserves unusual praise.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 42: 143. Mr. 1. ’07. 230w. |
“On the whole we think that in ‘The call of the blood’ Mr. Hichens’s aim as a romancer and his aim as a novelist were at odds.” Edith Baker Brown.
| + − | No. Am. 183: 923. N. 2, ’06. 1630w. | |
| + − | R. of Rs. 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 220w. |
* Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Life and times of Stephen Higginson. **$2. Houghton.
7–30144.
Here is offered a clear insight into the character of Stephen Higginson and also into post-revolutionary times at Boston. His prominence in New England councils both before and after the revolution, the importance of the “Laco” letters, his career as shipmaster, merchant, patriot and politician are all emphasized in the sketch.
“The attractive touch of the amateur, so noticeable in all of Colonel Higginson’s writings, is peculiarly well adapted to these memorials of his Federalist grandfather.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 613. O. 26, ’07. 540w. |
“A book which though largely a compilation from correspondence and official records, is alive with human interest from the first to the last of its gracefully written pages.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 613. N. 23, ’07. 180w. |
“There is much material in the letters published in this volume which has an important bearing on the manners and politics of that day.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 636. N. ’07. 140w. |
Higinbotham, Harlow Niles. Making of a merchant. $1.50. Forbes.
6–37948.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book before us is unlikely to prove of the slightest value to anybody.”
| − | Acad. 72: 339. Ap. 6, ’07. 220w. |
“The book is full of good business advice, and is especially to be recommended to young business men.” George M. Fisk.
| + + | J. Pol. Econ. 14: 645. D. ’06. 190w. | |
| Spec. 98: 764. My. 11, ’07. 280w. |
Hildreth, Richard. Japan as it was and is. 2v. *$3. McClurg.
6–40974.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 84. Mr. ’07. |
“To this day Richard Hildreth’s book (published in 1855) gives the best pictures of Japan as seen by the various early travelers.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 329. F. 7, ’07. 100w. |
“Had our diplomatists and merchants and missionaries studied Hildreth many costly errors would have been avoided.”
| + | Nation. 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 500w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 50w. |
Hildrup, Jessie S. Missions of California and the old Southwest; with 35 il. from photographs. **$1. McClurg.
7–13929.
An interesting account of the old missions and settlements of the days of Spanish rule. “This is the sort of a book that one loves to pick up and linger over. The profuse and well-executed illustrations catch the eye, the narrative is full of interest, and the historical chapters are brief and accurate, and evidence considerable study.” (Cath. World.)
“It is a bright, popular treatment of the theme, very thoroughly and sympathetically done.”
| + | Cath. World. 85: 684. Ag. ’07. 410w. | |
| Dial. 42: 232. Ap. 1, ’07. 40w. |
Hilgard, Eugene Woldemar. Soils, their formation, properties, composition and relations to climate and plant growth in the humid, and arid regions. *$4. Macmillan.
6–26528.
“Professor Hilgard’s book, in broad outline, deals with the origin and formation, the physics and the chemistry, of soils, and with native vegetation as an aid to the study of the agricultural value of soils.”—Engin. N.
“The section of the most value to engineers as a class is the one on the ‘Physics of soils.’”
| + | Engin. N. 57: 309. Mr. 14, ’07. 300w. |
“The book is a little heavy for classroom use. It contains a larger number of printers’ errors than ought to exist. Yet, when all is said, there is so much valuable matter packed into its six hundred pages ... that it remains indispensable.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 19. Jl. 4, ’07. 140w. |
“This volume should be introduced to a much wider circle of students than those of the agricultural colleges generally. It will be found well suited to serve as the foundation of important seminars in chemistry, in geology and especially in plant physiology and ecology.” F. H. King.
| + + | Science, n.s. 24: 681. N. 30, ’06. 1620w. |
Hill, Constance. House in St. Martin’s street. **$7. Lane.
“The subject of Miss Hill’s book is the Burney family in the last of their London homes; that is, from the autumn of 1774 to the spring of 1783. The author has been fortunate enough to obtain new material in the shape of unpublished letters from the Burney Mss.; and she has also had the use of a copy of Madame D’Arblay’s ‘Diary and letters’ annotated by a granddaughter of its first editor. By interweaving with the new matter passages from the ‘Early diary,’ the ‘Memoirs of Dr. Burney’ and other printed sources dealing with the Burney and Thrale circle, she has produced a most agreeable volume of handsome appearance.”—Ath.
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 647. N. 24. 1760w. |
“If its pages sometimes repeat what should be a familiar tale, they also illustrate and supplement it.” S. M. Francis.
| + | Atlan. 100: 489. O. ’07. 480w. |
“Granted the limitations of her method and of her present opportunity, she deserves nothing but praise for her conscientious and capable investigation of the resources at her command and for her judicious selection and arrangement of her well-chosen material.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
| + | Dial. 42: 177. Mr. 16, ’07. 1480w. |
“Miss Constance Hill writes of the happy little household with all her wonted grace, and the book abounds in quotations from diaries and other documents, hitherto unpublished, and is further enriched with charming illustrations.”
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 376. N. 9, ’06. 770w. |
“Of the tribe of gentlewomen who are exploiting the eighteenth century at their ease, Miss Hill is the least amateurish and most entertaining.”
| + | Nation. 83: 486. D. 6, ’06. 980w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 200w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 72. F. 2, ’07. 560w. |
“Miss Constance Hill has made the happy discovery of a new lode in the Burney mine.”
| + | Sat. R. 102: 742. D. 15, ’06. 960w. |
“She has little to tell us that we do not already know. Her stories have been told a hundred times.”
| − | Spec. 97: 828. N. 24, ’06. 1270w. |
Hill, David Jayne. History of diplomacy in the international development of Europe. 6v. ea. **$5. Longmans.
v. 2. The establishment of the territorial sovereignty.
“Having shown how the struggle between the Empire and the Papacy gave room and occasion for the rise of national monarchies, Dr. Hill now proceeds to trace the evolution of the modern state through the warring efforts of these monarchies to attain, if not supremacy as conceived in the earlier ideal of universal dominion, at least primacy; and their subsequent adjustment to a system of balanced and co-ordinate power based upon the principle of territorial sovereignty.”—Outlook.
“Should take rank among the best of our books of reference.” George L. Burr.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 617. Ap. ’07. 1130w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“In effect, then, Mr. Hill seems to the reviewer to have just arrived at the true beginning of his task—to have expanded in one volume, and in all but one chapter of the second, matter that might have been described and analysed in an introduction of reasonable length.” E. D. Adams.
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 426. Mr. ’07. 1200w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“The book is little more than a résumé of general history from a particular standpoint. We do not say that the thing was not worth doing, for the book is both readable and accurate, and the author keeps fairly close to international interests.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 13. Jl. 6. 380w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“It is perhaps, the most meritorious characteristic of Mr. Hill’s work that he shows a good sense of proportion.”
| + | Cath. World. 85: 258. My. ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“As a history of Europe mainly from the point of view of international relations, Mr. Hill’s work possesses conspicuous merits; but it has only a very limited value for the student of diplomacy.”
| + − | Dial. 42: 189. Mr. 16, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“It is ... a history of diplomacy without the dry and technical features that usually characterize works indicated by this title.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 178. F. 2, ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“By any other name than diplomacy, it would have smelled as much of the lamp.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 520. Je. 6, ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“The book covers an interesting period of the world’s history; it is an honest, able, and well-told story.” Wm. E. Dodd.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 73. F. 9, ’07. 2100w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“As before, Dr. Hill’s tone is admirably impartial and his treatment scholarly. But the promise of that volume is hardly so well fulfilled in the matter of narrative, which is somewhat lacking in the ease and freshness exhibited in the account of the crude diplomacy of the earlier centuries, and is, it seems to us, overburdened with detail.”
| + + − | Outlook. 85: 331. F. 9, ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“Misstatements of detail here and there, bear witness of shortcoming. It represents extraordinarily wide reading in both primary and derived sources; its matter is set forth always conscientiously and often effectively. It may be read with profit.” Earle W. Dow.
| + + − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 711. D. ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“The second volume maintains the high scholarly standard set by the first.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“The reader receives the impression that Dr. Hill selected his subject, set himself to work up the necessary background of history, and found this so novel and engrossing that he felt it must be presented, and as a result, lost sight of his central theme.” Guy Stanton Ford.
| − | Yale R. 16: 105. My. ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
Hill, Frederick Trevor. Decisive battles of the law. **$2.25. Harper.
7–33964.
In this volume are described the great legal contests which have proven to be of the deepest significance in the history of our country. That the full historic value may be appreciated the scene is vitalized and peopled with the human beings who dominated it—the judges, the jury, the witnesses, the lawyers and the laymen. Among the eight “decisive battles” thus presented are the following: the United States vs. Callender: a fight for the freedom of the press; The commonwealth vs. Brown: the prelude to the civil war; and The impeachment of Andrew Johnson: a historic moot case.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 727. N. 16, ’07. 150w. |
“Mr. Hill is not only a well-read lawyer, but also a writer who knows how to make his narrative clear, direct, and often in a high degree dramatic.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 589. N. 16, ’07. 220w. |
“So well does he succeed in humanizing dry records of legal procedure that the readers become, as it were, listening spectators. Few writers upon legal topics have acquired so masterly a skill in narration.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 36: 758. D. ’07. 120w. |
Hill, Frederick Trevor. Lincoln the lawyer. **$2. Century.
6–34845.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Hill has undoubtedly rendered a conspicuous and important service.” Floyd R. Mechem.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 12: 673. Ap. ’07. 560w. |
“This is an extremely interesting and well-written work, a contribution of real value to the already voluminous literature dealing with the life of the great Emancipator. There is one criticism that we think can be justly made. The author lays far too much stress and importance, in our judgment, on Lincoln’s legal training, and attributes a value to it out of all proportion to the proper relation it bears to the action of the great and single-hearted statesman.”
| + − | Arena. 37: 215. F. ’07. 330w. | |
| + | Dial. 42: 20. Ja. 1, ’07. 300w. |
“Mr. Hill has done the public and the profession a favor in showing how it came about that Mr. Lincoln was one of the great lawyers of this country.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 275. Ja. 31, ’07. 440w. |
“No one familiar with the qualities which the legal profession demands and generates in its best representatives needs to be told how much of Lincoln’s strength in the presidency resulted from that daily exercise which the practice of law had provided. It is the special virtue of Mr. Hill’s book that it will bring home to many readers this important fact, and will help them to realize what a great man and a great profession may owe to each other.” M. A. DeWolfe Howe.
| + | No. Am. 183: 1303. D. 21, ’06. 1440w. |
Hill, George Birkbeck. Letters of George Birkbeck Hill, arranged by his daughter, Lucy Crump. *$3.50. Longmans.
7–29013.
A subjective view is afforded in these letters of a man whose chief literary service was rendered thru his edition of Boswell’s Johnson. Unassuming candor and sincerity create an atmosphere in which can be made a sympathetic study of the leader and scholar.
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow.
| + + | Dial. 42: 78. F. 1, ’07. 1560w. |
“His letters, here collected by his daughter, will interest all readers who care to know something of the man, his life, and his work from day to day.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w. | |
| Lond. Times. 5: 375. N. 9, ’06. 860w. | ||
| + | Nation. 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 250w. |
“This is one of the best examples that have been given to the public of that now popular form of biography which allows its subject to speak for himself by means of letters.”
| + + | Spec. 99: 265. Ag. 24, ’07. 2150w. |
Hill, George Francis. Historical Greek coins. *$2.50. Macmillan.
6–45173.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We can speak with great satisfaction of the interest of the book, which is written with caution and sanity.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 173. F. 9. 320w. | |
| Ind. 62: 503. F. 28, ’07. 320w. |
“As an elementary treatise it presents the subject in a clear, straightforward style, unhampered by details, yet with some attention to the historical problems involved. In some cases the reader may be unwilling to accept the author’s view.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 58. Ja. 17, ’07. 460w. |
Hill, George W. Collected mathematical works. (Carnegie inst. of Washington publications.) 4v. ea. $2.50. Carnegie inst.
Dr. Hill’s valuable contributions to practical astronomy are collected here, covering seventeen hundred pages. Among his best known papers are those which set forth his theory of the moon’s motion and the theory of Jupiter and Saturn.
| + | Nation. 85: 355. O. 17, ’07. 1010w. (Review of v. 4.) |
Reviewed by R. A. S.
| + + | Nature. 73: 409. Mr. 1, ’06. 990w. (Review of v. 1.) | |
| + + | Nature. 75: 123. D. 6, ’06. 600w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.) |
“It is, indeed, difficult to overstate the interest of the whole volume—at least, to those occupied in the subjects treated of.” R. A. S.
| + + | Nature. 76: 635. O. 24, ’07. 550w. (Review of v. 4.) |
Reviewed by E. W. B.
| + + | Science, n.s. 25: 933. Je. 14, ’07. 1840w. (Review of v. 1–4.) |
Hill, Headon, pseud. (Francis Edward Grainger). The avengers. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
To free her lover from an insane asylum, a young heiress searches out his double, offers him ample remuneration to assume insanity, become an inmate of the asylum, exchange places with the lover and help the latter to escape. The one feigning insanity finds the other too hopelessly mad to execute the commission; so after a few weeks goes forth himself, weds the girl, who supposes him to be her rescued lover, and then the complications begin which involve a vendetta meant for the man shut away in the “refractory cell” but which in reality menaces the life and happiness of the innocent double. The tangle is straightened by the death of the real maniac.
“Immaturity marks the treatment of an idea which promises well.”
| − + | Ath. 1906, 1: 695. Je. 1. 140w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 280w. |
Hill, Marion. Pettison twins. †$1.50. McClure.
6–35942.
A mother, who with the best of intentions strives to bring up her children according to the rigid ideas put forth in child-study books, meets with unexpected set backs due to the vigorous personalities of Rex and Regina, confronting her with problems not dealt by the editor. A series of amusing stories full of gentle sarcasm is the result.
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 51. F. ’07. |
“We defy any one whose sense of humor is not submerged to resist a laugh at Marion Hills fun over the Pettison twins and Fanny Y. Cory’s pictures of them.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 790. D. 1, ’06. 210w. |
Hilliers, Ashton. Fanshawe of the Fifth; being memoirs of a person of quality. †$1.50. McClure.
7–4159.
“Those who relish Besant’s novels, with their quiet movement, gentle sentiment, and abundance of detail, will be apt to like ‘Fanshawe of the fifth.’ The hero, who tells the story of his own life, is the younger son of a noble family. Not succeeding in the army, for which he was intended, he works his way to success through many hardships and perils. There is plenty of adventure.”—N. Y. Times.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 177. O. ’07. |
“The episodes Mr. Hilliers handles with great skill, but he is somewhat at fault in the process of co-ordination. The author’s study of the period must have been profound, and he has absorbed the spirit of the times with remarkable ability. His narrative is thus convincing, except in the London part, which reads almost like a piece of Dickensian caricature.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 161. F. 9. 210w. |
“A book to be cordially commended to the consideration of the discriminating few.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 25: 498. Jl. ’07. 560w. |
“It offers us the real thing, as distinguished from the artificial fabrication of the novelist who ‘gets up’ his subject.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 43: 61. Ag. 1, ’07. 260w. |
“But to be enjoyed, it is a book that must be read at leisure, and when you are in a congenial mood.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Forum. 39: 119. Jl. ’07. 390w. |
“Without affectation, it has a pleasant flavour of sedate Georgian prose, and its polish and lucidity reflect the best qualities of that period.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 45. F. 8, ’07. 450w. |
“The plot is interesting and well sustained, and there are several characters drawn with dramatic insight. It has much quiet charm and is written in a style of marked distinction.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 235. Ap. 13, ’07. 180w. |
“The eighteenth-century manner is well sustained without affectation or strained elegance, the style being indeed throughout of conspicuous and consistent treatment. The series of adventures and experiences ... are admirably conceived and described and the characters, if not brilliant pieces of portraiture, are effective and real.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 244. F. 23, ’07. 130w. |
“The long scenario of Mr. Hilliers’ romance given on his title-page prepares the reader for something unconventional and unusual, and these expectations are richly fulfilled in the contents of this admirably written and engrossing romance.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 335. Mr. 2, ’07. 700w. |
Hillis, Newell Dwight. Fortune of the republic. **$1.20. Revell.
6–41943.
Sturdy optimism is shown thruout these essays and addresses. In the course of his travels thru every state and territory of the Union, Dr. Hillis has found that “‘any darkness there is on the horizon is morning twilight and not evening twilight.’ This evidence is summed up in the growth of the religious spirit, the increasing popularization of education and culture, and the passing of sectionalism. Dr. Hillis believes that everything points to a still greater America.” (Outlook.)
“Such thinking and such writing furnish the soil that will forever produce corruption in business and in politics. Fortunately, it may be said that the optimism, which the author says has been forced upon him by much travel and by the pressure of events, is not the kind that the leading pulpiteers of the country are meeting in their travels and are being forced by the pressure of events to preach to their congregations.” William H. Allen.
| − − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 428. Mr. ’07. 600w. | |
| + | Ind. 62: 1092. My. 9, ’07. 180w. |
“In a word, his book makes for religious and intellectual betterment and for a whole-hearted, robust patriotism that must be up and doing.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 44. Ja. 5, ’07. 290w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 50w. |
Hilprecht, Hermann Vollrat, ed. Babylonian expedition of the University of Pennsylvania. Series A. Cuneiform texts. $6. Dept. of Archaeology of Univ. of Pennsylvania, Phil.
v. 6. pt. 1. Legal and business documents from the time of the first dynasty of Babylon, chiefly from Shippar; by Hermann Ranke. An interesting collection of tablets preceded by a scholarly introduction.
v. 20. pt. 1. Mathematical, metrological, and chronological tablets from the temple library of Nippur. This volume contains “an unusually large number of tablets which may be called the school exercises of a temple school.... There are over thirty including multiplication tables, division tables and square roots.... The metrological texts ... have value. More important is a single tablet containing a dynastic list of some of the kings of Ur and Isin.”—(Ind.)
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 330. S. 21. 820w. (Review of v. 20, pt. 1.) |
“[The] work has been done in an exceptionally satisfactory manner.”
| + | Ind. 62: 44. Ja. 3, ’07. 1540w. (Review of v. 6, pt. 1.) |
“The work is done in a thoro and scholarly way with abundant credit to other scholars as shown by the multitude of citations.”
| + | Ind. 62: 444. F. 21, ’07. 820w. (Review of v. 20, pt. 1.) |
“The value of the entire material is impaired because of the lack of frank and honest statements with regard to the place of discovery and the environments of that material. So far as the actual publication of texts is concerned, Professor Hilprecht’s work seems to be admirably done.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 413. My. 2, ’07. 2600w. (Review of v. 20, pt. 1.) |
Hilty, Carl. Steps of life, further essays on happiness; tr. by Melvin Brandow. *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–6159.
Eight helpful essays which “lead toward the things that are unseen and eternal.” They are entitled, Sin and sorrow, Comfort ye my people, On the knowledge of men, What is culture? Noble souls, Transcendental hope, The prolegomena of Christianity, The steps of life.
“In chapters on the knowledge of men, there is a fund of practical psychology and shrewd observation of a Baconian Quality, but animated with a tenderness and glow of human sympathy to which Bacon was a stranger.”
| + | Cath. World. 85: 549. Jl. ’07. 560w. |
“Many striking passages in his book evoke cordial assent, and some, equally striking, call forth the opposite. The translation is smooth, but has a few unidiomatic or awkward expressions, and at least one slip in grammar.”
| + − | Dial. 42: 188. Mr. 16, ’07. 300w. | |
| Nation. 84: 176. F. 21, ’07. 100w. | ||
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 159. Mr. 16. ’07. 250w. |
“The essay upon Transcendental hope is lofty and most stimulating, reflecting the noblest sentiments, and interpreting life here and hereafter from the disciplined standpoint of a man acquainted with sorrow, sin, and victory.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 78. My. 11, ’07. 260w. |
Hinckley, Frank Erastus. American consular jurisdiction in the Orient. *$3.50. Lowdermilk.
6–29752.
“An exposition of the system of consular extra-territorial jurisdiction under which Americans have been permitted to reside and trade in Oriental countries. In seven chapters—‘Historic forms of extra-territoriality;’ ‘The United States Oriental treaties;’ ‘Acts of Congress establishing the system of consular courts;’ ‘Legal rights under the jurisdiction;’ ‘International tribunals of Egypt;’ ‘The foreign municipality of Shanghai’, and ‘Grounds for relinquishing jurisdiction.’”—N. Y. Times.
“The style in which the book is written is clear, the statement exact. The exhaustive footnotes place the source material easily at the service of one who wishes to consult the original authorities.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 160. Jl. ’07. 270w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 59. F. 2, ’07. 60w. | ||
| Outlook. 85: 857. Ap. 13, ’07. 370w. |
Hind, Charles Lewis. Education of an artist. $2.50. Macmillan.
7–19742.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 145. F. 2, ’07. 650w. |
Hinkson, Henry A. Golden morn. $1.50. Cassell.
The story of a young man fighting ill-health quite as much that a hated uncle may not inherit his property as for the love of life.
“The story is brightly told and full of incident.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 263. S. 7. 160w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
Hinkson, Katharine Tynan. For Maisie. †$1.25. McClurg.
The title sounds the keynote of this story in which an uncouth foster father turns all of his courage and indomitable will to the task of amassing wealth for Maisie. While under his determined hand ruthless industry obliterates the landmarks that tradition and sentiment hold dear, yet right is right and integrity rules him. Maisie, obedient, ambitious, proud-spirited, learns in time that she is kin to the lords and ladies of the adjoining estates.
“Not one solitary event bears the faintest likeness to anything in real life. As a mere narrator, however, she is smooth, practised, and totally unobjectionable.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 400. O. 31, ’07. 230w. |
“There is enough action to keep up the reader’s interest.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 732. N. 16, ’07. 120w. |
Hinkson, Katharine Tynan. Story of Bawn. †$1.25. McClurg.
7–35216.
Bawn is a young Irish girl whose love affairs form the sum total of her life affairs. For a time it looks as tho she might be forced into an undesirable marriage to keep the family skeleton well closeted, but the sacrifice is not exacted. A trusty red setter and faithful Irish servants deserve some share of credit in bringing the tale to a happy close.
| Acad. 71: 374. O. 13, ’06. 150w. |
“Not remarkable in any way, but diverting.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 135. My. ’07. ✠ |
“Is in Mrs. Hinkson’s familiar Irish vein, pleasant, easy, flowing over the surface of life. We notice that the use of ‘shall’ and ‘will’ is still a difficulty, if not with the author, at least with her characters.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 578. N. 10. 160w. |
“A good book for those readers who like their novels to be chronicles of the heart rather than of soul problems, finance, machinery, or economics.”
| + | Nation. 84: 342. Ap. 11, ’07. 100w. |
“It is told with taste and with some skill in the handling of incident and with much evident affection for the quiet life, the beautiful fields, and the contented people of secluded corners of Ireland.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 243. Ap. 13, ’07. 230w. |
“Miss Tynan will not increase her reputation by this book.”
| − | Spec. 97: 790. N. 17, ’06. 120w. |
Hirst, Francis Wrigley. Monopolies, trusts and kartells. *$1. Dutton.
6–14026.
Mr. Hirst contends that competition is still the life of trade and that the greater trusts restrict output and increase price. As to the origin of the trust “Mr. Hirst seems to think that in England it is the child of English law, and that in America it is the child of our ultra tariff. While the German kartell may have this double parentage.” (Outlook.)
| Nation. 82: 37. Ja. 11, ’06. 300w. |
“Persons who believe that the ‘trust movement’ flourishes in a free-trade country like England will learn much to their advantage by perusing the volume in either its English or its American dress.”
| + | Nation. 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 70w. |
“While in the general discussion of the trust problem Mr. Hirst’s book will be a helpful factor, it would have been still more helpful had it included some later information, especially concerning the results of governmental investigation of monopolies in this country.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 767. Mr. 30, ’07. 550w. |
Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, ed. Henley’s twentieth century book of recipes, formulas and processes, containing nearly ten thousand selected scientific, chemical, technical and household recipes, formulas and processes for use in the laboratory, the office, the workshop and in the home. $3 Henley.
7–8246.
A handbook for various processes and recipes needed by every one. “Such information, for instance, as the formula for photographic developer, the composition of the various paint-pigments, the manufacture of glue or of solder, or the thousand and one detailed bits of information which come up, as the title reads ‘in the laboratory, the office, the workshop and in the home’—such a book as this is very useful.” (Engin. N.)
“It seems rather out of its province to endeavor to give in so short a space as can be allowed to any one article any account of the larger materials of engineering.”
| + − | Engin. N. 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’07. 190w. |
Hiscox, Gardner Dexter. Modern steam engineering, in theory and practice. $3. Henley.
6–43049.
A complete and practical work for steam-users, electricians, firemen, and engineers.
“Useful information is contained in this volume, but this information is accompanied by so many inaccurate statements that the book becomes of doubtful value.” Storm Bull.
| − + | Engin. N. 57: 665. Je. 13, ’07. 300w. |
Hishida, Seiji G. International position of Japan as a great power. *$2.50. Macmillan.
6–23069.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“His book, which is based on wide study, is a most useful guide to British and American readers through a region still imperfectly explored, and its value is enhanced by his dispassionate treatment of controversial questions.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 18. Ja. 18, ’07. 1080w. |
Hitchcock, Frederick H., ed. [Building of a book: a series of practical articles by experts in the various departments of book making and distributing] with an introd. by Theodore L. De Vinne. **$2. Grafton press.
6–46354.
Each of the thirty seven chapters constituting this volume is contributed by a person of authority. The articles together furnish all the steps thru which books must pass in their making and distribution.
| + | Ind. 60: 744. Mr. 24, ’06. 70w. |
“A very handy book to have on the open shelves in the public library.”
| + | Ind. 62: 218. Ja. 24, ’07. 120w. | |
| Lit. D. 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 110w. |
“The book may satisfy the curiosity of a good many and prove directly useful to a few.”
| + | Nation. 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 70w. |
“For the layman with a natural curiosity as to methods of handling manuscript and making books this volume should be fascinating in its very concise and incisive statements.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 8. Ja. 5, ’07. 290w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 200w. | |
| Spec. 99: 828. N. 23, ’07. 290w. |
Hoare, J. Douglas. Arctic exploration. *$3. Dutton.
7–35190.
Thirty-three brief but interesting chapters which tell of the sufferings and achievements of those heroic men who braved the dangers of the far North. The work of Hudson, Phipps and Nelson is given, the successive expeditions of Sir John Franklin and of the searching parties, the voyages of Hall, Nares, Greeley, Nordenskiold, De Long, Nansen, Peary, Andree, Wellman, and all the others are described with well chosen detail. The book is illustrated with some 20 full page plates.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 95. Ap. ’07. |
“This work is not in any sense complete, nor is it based upon a scientific study of the constantly increasing collection of Arctic literature.”
| − + | Ath. 1906, 2: 579. N. 10. 400w. |
“Thoroughly good reading.” E. T. Brewster.
| + | Atlan. 100: 261. Ag. ’07. 20w. |
“On the whole the author has given a very satisfactory bird’s-eye view of his subject.”
| + | Dial. 42: 231. Ap. 1, ’07. 280w. |
“The accounts of the expeditions, however, are given in somewhat more detail than those in Greely’s book, and the work certainly has a place among those readers who have not the original narratives at hand.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1149. My. 16, ’07. 160w. |
“Neither in its estimate of researches nor in the analyses of the different journeys do the pages betray special fitness on the part of the author. Indeed, a casual glance at the concluding chapters reveals a carelessness which detracts from the usefulness of the book.”
| − | Nation. 84: 318. Ap. 4, ’07. 280w. |
“The book is well adapted either for entertainment or for edification, as far as it goes.” Cyrus C. Adams.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 298. My. 11, ’07. 210w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 40w. |
“The story of all this adventurous travel, with its attendant hardships and gallantry, is admirably narrated by Mr. Hoare, who condenses into a single volume the essence of a whole library of polar literature.”
| + | Spec. 98: sup. 117. Ja. 26, ’07. 480w. |
Hobart, George Vere. Cinders (diary of a drummer); by Wright Bauer. *75c. Dillingham.
7–9507.
To win a bet a drummer records in diary form all the stories of a printable kind which he hears in the course of one trip, and they are exactly what might be expected.
Hobart, Henry Metcalfe. Elementary principles of continuous-current dynamo design. $3. Macmillan.
7–2318.
“The book consists of a series of statements explaining the way in which a dynamo should be considered as a successful machine or the reverse, and of a short account of several methods whereby the designer may himself estimate the first cost. After preliminary chapters on what may be called the practical theory of the continuous current dynamo, Mr. Hobart deals at length with those considerations which form the limits in the design, namely, heating, sparking, and efficiency.... The book contains a large number of tables in which the various calculations are set out.”—Nature.
“The present book is a model of its class and it is especially adapted to the use of students or others who desire a working knowledge of design practice. The mechanical features of the book are excellent.” Henry H. Norris.
| + + | Engin. N. 56: 523. N. 15, ’06. 640w. |
“The value of the book lies in the essential soundness of this framework, more particularly of the fundamental ideas on which it is itself based than on the framework itself.”
| + | Nature. 75: 221. Ja. 3, ’07. 610w. |
Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawney. Morals in evolution: a study in comparative ethics. 2v. *$5. Holt.
7–11047.
“An encyclopaedic work which is “the outcome of a hundred specialisms.” The first volume deals with the standard of morality and the second with its basis. This means that in the first volume the author considers the lines of conduct that have been approved at different times among different peoples; in the second, the reasons that have been, or may be, assigned for this approval. In accordance with the evolution hypothesis, no line is drawn between human and animal, or even vegetable intelligence.” (Sat. R.)
“He has gone over an immense literature; his quotations are apt and accurate; his interpretations in the main sound. Careless statements are not common. Naturally some slips are inevitable.” Carl Kelsey.
| + + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 180. Jl. ’07. 710w. |
“He has dealt with the different phases and stages of human conduct in a manner that never fails to be lucid and careful; and although he has occasionally allowed his own particular prejudices to be in evidence, he has not only described the different moral forces of which he writes with vigour and learning, but has also criticised them, in the light of their past and future, in a scientific spirit.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 784. Je. 29. 650w. |
“I do not think it is any particular novelty of opinion that constitutes the importance of this book, but the strength of conviction, the absolute frankness and directness, the fervour and power of popular exposition which have brought liberal theology down from the schools into the market-place.” H. Rashdall.
| + + − | Hibbert J. 5: 921. Jl. ’07. 4140w. |
“Every page of Mr. Hobhouse’s book furnishes food for reflection. It is brimful of facts from beginning to end; but his facts are not the ‘disjecta membra’ of a mutilated corpse, but the coherent parts of a living organism.” G. E. Underhill.
| + + − | Hibbert J. 5: 928. Jl. ’07. 2410w. |
“Measuring the work by its own standard, which is not that of originality of theory, one must ascribe to it a unique value as a collection of the facts upon which any interpretation of morality must be based. But there is the interpretation and it does rest upon the facts, and in this consists the essential value of the work.” Norman Wilde.
| + + | J. Philos. 4: 183. Mr. 28, ’07. 1930w. |
“Mr. Hobhouse spends no time in tilting against what is commonly known as ‘metaphysics;’ he has culture enough to know that history and philosophy are not exclusive but complementary, and moreover, that in the reading of history it is impossible to exclude the philosophical ideas of the inquirer. In the historical survey Mr. Hobhouse is lucid and judicious, without any distinctly novel suggestions or original points of view.”
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 414. D. 14, ’06. 1750w. |
“The criticism of customs and of systems of religion and of ethics is generally sound; the part played by the higher religions in supporting moral rules is recognized. The whole discussion is marked by good sense and the careful collection of data will be very useful to the student of ethics.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 568. Je. 20, ’07. 940w. |
“The wonder of these immense volumes to the lay reader who opens the covers with trepidation is that they should be so intensely readable. One cannot but enjoy the curious side lights thrown on our own beliefs and superstitions. The various references to ghosts for example, would, if collected, be in themselves most entertaining.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 93. F. 16, ’07. 1590w. | |
| Outlook. 85: 523. Mr. 2, ’07. 330w. |
“Mr. Hobhouse has produced a very able work, one of the best of its kind that has appeared in many years. It is a careful, interesting, and instructive presentation of the subject, giving evidence of wide reading and characterized by intelligent judgment. It not only gives us facts, but attempts to see a meaning in them; it not only theorizes about the course of ethical progress but bases its conclusions upon human experiences. To be sure, in a discussion covering so broad and rich a field, there will be many points here and there to which the student may take exception.” Frank Thilly.
| + + − | Philos. R. 16: 527. S. ’07. 6000w. |
“It would be applying a false measure to estimate [these volumes] by the amount of information they contain. There is something better than that, a philosophic grasp of principles. We feel that we are in the hands of a genuine thinker, whose conclusions we may accept or reject, but may not neglect.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 400. Mr. 30, ’07. 1150w. |
Hobson, H. Overton. Helouan; an Egyptian health resort and how to reach it. $1. Longmans.
A well illustrated guide book to one of the most prominent health resorts in Egypt. Information about routes, climate, baths, charges, the golf-links, and other amusements, as well as the many places of interest is alluringly given.
“It belongs to the class of books that are not books, so we need only say that it contains all the information which the intending visitor should require.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 805. D. 22. 230w. |
“The information given is extremely practical and reliable, the author having spent six winters at Helouan.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 21. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w. |
* Hobson, John Atkinson. Canada to-day. *$1. Wessels.
7–32187.
Mr. Hobson “handles such questions as the so-called Americanization of Canada, British Columbian problems, the immigration policy of the country, the French in Canada, the colonial preference, etc., with fairness and more than a measure of intelligence. A large portion of the book is devoted to a discussion of Canada’s fiscal policy, past, present, and prospective.”—Dial.
“An excellent book.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 476. O. 20. 260w. |
“His analysis of the Canadian tariffs and their influence upon the growth of Canada’s trade with Great Britain and the United States, respectively, is a valuable addition to the literature of the subject.”
| + | Dial. 43: 256. O. 16, ’07. 320w. |
* Hobson, Richmond Pearson. Buck Jones at Annapolis. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–29590.
Captain Hobson’s own experiences during the days spent at the naval academy at Annapolis furnish material for a story of “solid adventure.”
| Nation. 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 30w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“It certainly carries a serious impression of absolute truth, which occasionally deadens into commonplace reality. Yet it is an attractive story of life at the naval school, and abounds in thrilling events happening to the hero, a really fine fellow, after he entered the service.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 311. O. 12, ’07. 90w. |
Hocker, Gustav. Joseph Haydn; a study of his life and time for youth; tr. from the German, by George P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.
7–30875.
A sketch which reveals all the lovable qualities of a good man and the scholarly attributes of the master. Haydn’s personality is full of charm and furnishes an atmosphere which in itself is an invitation to study the career of the man who created the artistic patterns of the sonata, the quartette, and the symphony, who also enlarged the scope of the orchestra and who became the father of instrumental music.
Hodge, Frederick Webb, ed. Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico. 2 pts. pt. 1. $1.25. Supt. of doc.
7–35198.
Treats of all the tribes north of Mexico, including the Eskimo, and those tribes south of the boundary more or less affiliated with those in the United States. It has been the aim to give a brief description of every linguistic stock, confederacy, tribe, subtribe or tribal division, and settlement known to history or even to tradition, as well as the origin and derivation of every name treated, whenever such is known, and to record under each every form of the name, and every other appellation that could be learned.
“Though confessedly incomplete, the handbook represents a vast amount of research by an army of observers, and students of ethnography will look forward to the publication of the second part with keen anticipation.”
| + − | Nature. 76: 149. Je. 13, ’07. 160w. |
“It is fair to say that in the future, students of the American Indian must have this manual always at hand. The Bureau and the editor are to be congratulated upon this publication which is, in a certain sense, among many contributions to scholarship, the greatest which the Bureau has yet made.”
| + | Yale R. 16: 108. My. ’07. 230w. |
Hodges, Rev. George. Holderness: an account of the beginnings of a New Hampshire town. *$1.25. Houghton.
7–19786.
A little hundred-page volume in which Dr. Hodges tells the story of “a typical little New England hill town, named from the Yorkshire Holderness, and pleasantly situated on Squam lake, not far from Plymouth, in Grafton county.” He makes interesting personalities of the men who built up the town. “There is some modern matter relating to walks and drives and mountain tops, but the main value of the book is historic, and it is a worthy pendant for Mr. Sanborn’s ‘New Hampshire.’” (N. Y. Times.)
| + | Dial. 43: 43. Jl. 16, ’07. 280w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 60w. |
Hodges, Rev. George. Year of grace. **$1. Whittaker.
6–46334.
A book of sermons whose burden is liberty, enfranchisement of religious scholarship, the end of fear and the beginning of faith.
“The author has a sense for what is vital in piety, shows himself a keen observer of the tendencies of modern life, exhibits tact in the encouragement of spiritual living, and plies the lash on current foibles pleasantly, wisely and to good effect.”
| + | Nation. 84: 499. My. 30, ’07. 120w. |
“Their clearness and freshness of presentation, and closeness to the needs of modern thought and life, are such as belong to the best type of university sermons.”
| + | Outlook. 6: 480. Je. 29, ’07. 50w. |
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. **$3. Harper.
6–42355.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 43. F. ’07. | ||
| Ind. 61: 1572. D. 27, ’06. 70w. |
“Everything connected with the work of the church ... is carefully described and well illustrated.”
| + | Nation. 84: 176. F. 21, ’07. 90w. | |
| Outlook. 84: 940. D. 15, ’06. 150w. |
Hodgson, Geraldine. Primitive Christian education. *$1.50. Scribner.
6–41016.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A series of useful essays.”
| + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 448. Ja. ’07. 30w. |
“The interest and value of this educational work of the primitive Christians is brought vividly before us; but while admitting its value, we are inclined to differ from Miss Hodgson as to its efficacy.” Millicent Mackenzie.
| + − | Int. J. Ethics. 17: 259. Ja. ’07. 460w. |
“The materials which the author’s diligence has accumulated are, in themselves, interesting, but scrappy and ill-digested. Everywhere the absence of the large furniture of knowledge, which an investigation of such a subject demands, makes itself felt.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 64. Ja. 17, ’07. 450w. |
Hodgson, Mrs. Willoughby. How to identify old Chinese porcelain; with 40 il. 2d ed. *$2. McClurg.
7–2048.
A book for the amateur. It aims “to assist the tyro or the ordinary collector who may be the fortunate possessor of some fine work upon Chinese porcelain.” It discusses the glazes and enamels, figures and symbols, periods and date-marks.
“A careful study of her brief and accurately worded chapters should enable the beginner to view collections, classify his own specimens, and buy others, with a fair amount of intelligence; and this is more than he could do after perusing many more ambitious but less systematic treatises.”
| + | Dial. 43: 290. N. 1, ’07. 210w. |
Hoffding, Harald. Philosophy of religion. *$3. Macmillan.
6–18580.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Apart from the main argument of the book there are many criticisms and suggestions of real insight and power.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 564. Mr. 7, ’07. 430w. |
“And no one who is aware of the perplexities of the religious mood can read his sympathetic interpretation of its meaning without being grateful for this balanced and well-ordered statement of his conclusions.” J. B. Baillie.
| + − | Int. J. Ethics. 17: 371. Ap. ’07. 3870w. |
“A work of rare philosophical perspicacity and broad religious sympathy.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 909. Ap. 21, ’06. 540w. |
“We do not think that Professor Hoffding possesses the necessary qualifications to write a philosophy of religion. He is a psychologist. He is distinguished in philosophy. But it needs more than this and other gifts than this to write on Christianity. And neither the sympathy nor the theological learning requisite is found in Dr. Hoffding’s book.”
| − | Sat. R. 103: 687. Je. 1, ’07. 1890w. |
Hofmann, Ottokar. Hydrometallurgy of silver, with special reference to chloridizing roasting of silver ores and the extraction of silver by hyposulphite and cyanide solutions. $4. Hill pub. co.
7–15483.
“The book is divided into two parts, of which the first deals with chloridizing roasting of silver ores (154 pages), the second with the extraction of the silver (174 pages). The author points out in the preface that in the hydrometallurgical process for the extraction of silver from complex sulphide ores, the final result depends entirely on the quality of the roasting.”—Engin. N.
“On the whole, the book is well written, in an easy and interesting style, and even if the hypo-sulphite method has seen its day, this volume will be read with interest.” Bradley Stoughton.
| + | Engin. N. 57: 554. My. 16, ’07. 400w. |
Hogg, Ethel M. Quintin Hogg: a biography; with a preface by the Duke of Argyll. *$1.50. Dutton.
A popular edition of the biography of Quintin Hogg which sketches his life and work in the London slums. See volume one of the Book Review Digest.
“The book is too long and contains much that is trivial and unworthy of publication, but as a whole it is a stimulating account of a noble, self-sacrificing life.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 360w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 156. Mr. 16, ’07. 250w. |
Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chlodwig Karl Victor, prince von. Memoirs of Prince Chlodwig of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst; tr. by G: W. Chrystal. **$6. Macmillan.
6–44316.
On the stage which is created by these memoirs, Prince Bismarck is well to the fore. “Prince Hohenlohe says very characteristically that while Bismarck was in power he dominated all, but after his retirement other and smaller personalities swelled like sponges. The light shed on the negotiations preceding the Franco-Prussian war are of historical value. The account of the plenipotentiaries who met to discuss what afterward became the Treaty of Berlin is described with acuteness of vision, and there are many other portions of the book that cannot fail to command attention.” (Acad.)
“Students of politics will no doubt toil conscientiously through the nine hundred odd pages, but we question whether any one will make this exploration for pleasure.”
| + + − | Acad. 71: 604. D. 15, ’06. 390w. |
“The index is as imperfect as is unfortunately usual, but in several cases shows that slips in the text are not to be attributed to the translator—except, indeed, that proofs should have been more carefully corrected.”
| + + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 734. D. 8. 9970w. |
“If the Hohenlohe memoirs do nothing more than arouse men in power to the sacredness of their trust, they will serve an excellent purpose.”
| + + | Canadian M. 28: 398. F. ’07. 380w. |
“The chief source of regret is that Prince von Hohenlohe did not live to supervise the preparation of the work; in that case those elements that have provoked censure would doubtless have been omitted, and the whole work rounded out into a biography in the ordinary sense of the term.” Lewis A. Rhoades.
| + + − | Dial. 42: 71. F. 1, ’07. 2400w. |
“The experienced old diplomat would unquestionably have excised many an indiscretion which the editor has allowed to remain—not diplomatic indiscretions, be it understood, but amusing personalities.”
| + + − | Ind. 61: 1492. D. 20, ’06. 630w. |
“Written in a crisp, epigrammatical style, they present some interesting flash-lights on the history of Europe during the most important part of the nineteenth century. There is lack of continuity in the book, however.”
| + + − | Lit. D. 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 200w. |
“The instant success of scandal which these memoirs attained has resulted in obscuring even their true personal interest. The English translation, so far as we have been able to test it, appears to be fairly satisfactory. It betrays signs of haste, and the printing, especially of French is carelessly done.”
| + + − | Nation. 83: 511. D. 13, ’06. 1470w. |
“Though in the main hard to read, they repay the trouble. It cannot be honestly said that Chlodwig Prince Hohenlohe shines in its pages either as man or politician.” Wolf von Schierbrand.
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 60. F. 2, ’07. 3500w. |
“It shares the faults of the German edition—long-windedness and futile digression—and has a full sufficiency of faults of its own, particularly in the spelling of German words.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
| − | No. Am. 184: 866. Ap. 19. ’07. 1990w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 85: 616. Mr. 16, ’07. 4130w. |
“The greater bulk is of interest only to the special student.” George Louis Beer.
| + − | Putnam’s. 1: 764. Mr. ’07. 1440w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 254. F. ’07. 120w. |
“Is to be recommended without reserve to all students of European history not by reason of any startling revelations it contains, for it contains none, but because it throws much light on a complicated and important series of events and is the record of an upright, courageous and far-seeing statesman.”
| + + | Sat. R. 102: 709. D. 8, ’06. 2590w. | |
| + | Spec. 97: 1049. D. 22, ’06. 550w. |
* Hohler, Venetia. (Mrs. Edwin Hohler). Peter: a Christmas story. †$1.25. Dutton.
7–31482.
“Little Sir Peter Moberley is as charming as little Lord Fauntleroy, and Bill, his ugly pet, the huge and gentle bulldog, is one of the most fascinating of dream-hounds.”—Ath.
“The child-lover will delight in ‘Peter;’ we do not feel sure that the child himself will be greatly attracted.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 732. D. 8. 60w. |
“Is worth while.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 100w. |
* Holbach, Maude M. Dalmatia: the land where the East meets the West. *$1.50. Lane.
A first-hand series of sketches, descriptive and historical of the principal places along the Dalmatian coast. “The architectural glutton has an almost unending feast prepared for him.... The same may be said of all the Mediterranean littoral; but the unique position of this rich coast peopled by a brave race and the home of successive civilisations but little changed by modern conquests must of necessity spell the survival of much that is picturesque and local to the artist.” (Spec.)
“It is so easy to be accurate, careful—and tedious. Mrs. Holbach is certainly the two former, and narrowly escapes being the last.”
| + | Acad. 73: 163. N. 23, ’07. 240w. |
“One can hardly glance over these fifty or more plates without at once being seized with a wild desire to start upon an Adriatic trip.”
| + | Dial. 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 80w. |
“In one or two respects it offers hostages to criticism; the style is a little unskilful ... the scholarship is sometimes imperfect. But apart from these blemishes, which can be easily removed, the volume is attractive and entertaining.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 326. O. 25, ’07. 300w. |
“Mrs. Holbach’s account of ‘the land where East meets West’ is picturesque, her description of its people and places of interest being admirably supplemented by the numerous illustrations.”
| + | Sat. R. 104: 486. O. 19, ’07. 220w. | |
| Spec. 99: 673. N. 2, ’07. 210w. |
Holdich, Sir Thomas Hungerford. Tibet, the mysterious. **$3. Stokes.
6–40557.
“The immediate interest in the Tibetan situation is sufficiently acute to demand a handbook which will serve both as an introduction to and a summary of the various expeditions and travels, and of the geographical and political features of that well-nigh impregnable land. Such a book is ‘Tibet the mysterious.’ Colonel Holdich, although not an explorer or traveller in Tibet, has made an exhaustive investigation of all the literature relating to that country, and has summarized his studies in an accurate and systematic manner. For those who wish to plunge ‘in medias res’ concerning Tibet, his book will be most acceptable.”—Dial.
“A volume in every way worthy of the series.”
| + | Acad. 72: 14. Ja. 5, ’07. 130w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 68. Mr. ’07. |
“While the casual reader may wish that the names of the places were less difficult and the different routes less confusing, yet after the first few chapters the book holds the interest.” Lurena Wilson Tower.
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 657. My. ’07. 670w. |
“We fear that in the preparation of this volume he did not sufficiently realize that his acquaintance with the details had become a little rusty. We mention these circumstances as the only explanation we can think of for so experienced a geographer lapsing into inaccuracies.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 50. Ja. 12. 970w. |
“These minor errors, however, detract but little from the otherwise scholarly work of the author, which will be held in high esteem as a general reference-book for the history of exploration and travel in Tibet.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + + − | Dial. 42: 44. Ja. 16, ’07. 440w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 34: 105. Ja. 19, ’07. 190w. |
“The book is marred by repetitions, and in a second edition the author should avoid as poison the iteration, if not the subjects, of tea, dogs, and ants.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 15. Jl. 4, 07. 610w. |
“The present account is disappointing in that its information is neither very trustworthy nor up-to-date. It would be pleasant to be able to congratulate the author on the illustrations, but nearly all of these we have seen elsewhere before. They are not very closely connected with the letterpress nor are the landscapes very characteristic whilst some of them are not what they profess to be.” L. A. W.
| − + | Nature. 76: 346. Ag. 8, ’07. 880w. |
“It is a serious, well-written treatise, worked out from the point of view of the scientist who would contribute something of practical and general value and interest. As a reference book of all expeditions into the ‘forbidden land’ it will be found most comprehensive and convenient.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 250w. | |
| + | Outlook. 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 110w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 50w. |
* Holland, Clive. Old and new Japan; 50 col. pictures by Montagu Smith. **$5 Dutton.
“The text leads open the way for some specially good illustration; for Mr. Holland has much to say about the superstitions, legends, and stories of Japan concerning the national spirit of Japan and her legendary genesis, concerning Japan’s religions, her Buddhist and Shinto temples and ancient shrines, concerning the quaint, pathetic, and beautiful Japanese festivals, concerning Japanese gardens, old and new, and the life of the country folk.”—Outlook.
“An authoritative book.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 10w. |
“This is just the book and these just the illustrations to make one who has not seen Japan long to see it, and to make the one who has sojourned in Japan long to return.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 617. N. 23, ’97. 130w. |
* Holland, Clive. Things seen in Egypt. *75c. Dutton.
W 7–184.
An “expanded Baedeker” containing interesting chapters on Egyptian life, monuments and scenery.
“A little more study on certain points would have improved the treatment and given it a greater value.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 470. N. 21, ’07. 410w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 80w. |
“Contains much of general interest, and is well written.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 80w. |
“It is a handy, convenient size, a small quarto, and altogether a most attractive little book.”
| + | Spec. 99: 719. N. 9, ’07. 40w. |
Holland, Clive. Things seen in Japan. *75c. Dutton.
7–29128.
“A little book about as big as a man’s hand, richly illustrated with Underwood’s photographs, which is full of chat about things and folk seen in Dai Nippon.”—Ind.
“A pleasant hour may be spent with this author, who touches only the surface of things, but that very pleasantly.”
| + | Ind. 62: 329. F. 7, ’07. 50w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 888. D. 22, ’06. 210w. |
“This is a small volume, but it contains admirably arranged and well-written accounts of much that is essential and characteristic.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 80w. |
Holland, Clive. Wessex; painted by Walter Tyndale; described by Clive Holland. *$6. Macmillan.
6–24919.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“For a guide-book it is too heavy in bulk and too full of irrelevant matter; for a serious history it is too ill-arranged and indefinite.”
| − | Nation. 83: 224. S. 13, ’06. 300w. | |
| Spec. 96: sup. 1011. Je. 30, ’06. 50w. |
Holliday, Carl. History of southern literature. $2.50. Neale.
6–41030.
The purpose of Mr. Holliday’s volume is “to make a study of the various literary movements and their results, and to show that the writings of this section are not merely disconnected efforts of isolated thinkers, but, rather, the natural, logical, and continuous productions of a people differing so materially in views and sentiments from their neighbors on the north that even civil war was necessary to prevent their becoming separate nations.” The subject is treated under the following headings: The beginnings, The period of national consciousness, The revolutionary period, The period of expansion, The civil war period, and The new South.
“Not to mince words, it contains 400 pages of elegantly printed platitudes, and little else except an occasional quotation. Apparently, however, the author has been industrious in the collection and careful in the verification of his data, and his work, with its good index and bibliography, should make an excellent reference book for mere facts.”
| − + | Ind. 62: 275. Ja. 31, ’07. 170w. |
“As a critic he is quite without authority and almost equally lacking in insight. He makes some astonishing misstatements.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 2. Ja. 5, ’07. 750w. |
“Seems to be a carefully prepared work.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 256. F. ’07. 30w. |
* Holman, Frederick Van Voorhies. [Dr. John McLoughlin: the father of Oregon.] *$2.50. Clark, A. H.
7–31427.
A great deal of Oregon’s pioneer history is included in this sketch. After the coalition of the Northwest company, which McLoughlin had joined, and the Hudson bay company, he was engaged to manage the company’s interests in Oregon. His work which finally led up to American occupation makes an interesting personal account as well as an informing historical document.
| Lit. D. 35: 759. N. 16, ’07. 390w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 36: 635. N. ’07. 150w. |
Holme, Charles, ed. Old English country cottages. *$2.50. Lane.
6–45169.
“An attempt to preserve some record of these antique buildings that form one of the chief charms of rural England. They are dealt with in the text by counties.... Some 135 pen-and-ink drawings by Mr. Sidney R. Jones, depicting general views and architectural detail with charm and marked artistic skill, are scattered through the text; and in addition there are fifteen beautiful full-page plates in color, after paintings by Mrs. Allingham and others.”—Dial.
“While no attempt has been made to cover the subject thoroughly, a most interesting general outline has been achieved.”
| + | Dial. 41: 396. D. 1, ’06. 250w. |
“The two hundred drawings of old English cottages form a record at once useful and interesting.”
| + | Spec. 98: sup. 119. Ja. 26, ’07. 440w. |
Holmes, Daniel Henry. Pedlar’s pack. $5. E. D. North, 4 E. 39th st., N. Y.
6–26458.
Ninety clever short poems which the author declares are intended to help a “tired man to kill a Sunday,” but they are really better than their mission implies.
| Lit. D. 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 40w. |
“It is, indeed, the temperament of the painter blessed with humor, the temperament of the ‘limb of the spectrum,’ that gives effectiveness to Mr. Holmes’s work.”
| + | Nation. 83: 440. N. 22, ’06. 300w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 254. F. ’07. 20w. |
Holmes, Gordon. [Late tenant.] $1.50. Clode, E. J.
6–34806.
“A bronze young man who has spent his youth on a Wyoming ranch and has gone to London to grow rich and famous ‘in the city,’ rents a furnished apartment in Eddystone Mansions, and there you are. You smell violets, you hear the swish of trailing garments, you get tangled up in the most extraordinary ‘affair.’... There are missing papers to be plotted for, there are serving women to be bribed, there are mad drives in hansom cabs, with the hero on the driver’s perch and the speed regulations of the greatest city in the world set at naught. There are love scenes, hand-to-hand struggles in the dark, dramatic tableau of marriage settlements interrupted, and a dropping of the curtain on the tragic finish of a misguided life.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a story in the ‘genre’ which Miss Brandon popularized and which, whatever may be said by the realists, has never entirely lost favor.”
| + − | Lit. D. 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 220w. |
“It is, in short, too much like the ordinary mystery story by, say, Fergus Hume. Yet if you open the book you will read it through unless something or somebody very important interrupts.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 11: 635. O. 6, ’06. 420w. |
“In the present tale he has grown less clever than he was in ‘The Arncliffe puzzle,’ but he has not ceased to be clever.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 160w. |
Holt, Byron W., comp. Gold supply and prosperity. *$1. Moody corporation.
7–26334.
“An able introduction and conclusion by the author, with a symposium of twenty-two papers by leading authorities on various phases of the gold supply question, make up an interesting and attractive book. In summing up the statements in the various papers of this symposium the following points are brought out: First, that for many years the output of gold will increase rapidly; second, that, therefore, a depreciation in the value of gold will inevitably result.... Like several books, which have appeared during the past few years, the author takes one item, in this case the gold supply, and attempts to show that ‘all the ills that flesh is heir to’ arise from this one cause.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“It is not the part of wisdom to state that all of our problems can be traced to such an artificial thing as the gold supply. On the whole, however, the book is well written, and represents a valuable compilation of knowledge in this field.”
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 160. Jl. ’07. 290w. | |
| + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 560. S. ’07. 240w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 638. My. ’07. 80w. |
Holt, Henry. On the civic relations. *$1.75. Houghton.
7–18299.
Mr. Holt’s “Talks on civics” has been “much amplified, modernized and actualized” (Putnam’s) to produce the present revised edition. The book has been written in the hope of “doing a little something to develop in young people a character of mind which is proof against political quackery—especially the quackery which proposes immediate cures by legislation for the abiding ills resulting from human weakness and ignorance.”
“Those who do not ‘desire to be deceived’ will find much ‘dry light’ in Mr. Holt’s pages on current and burning questions, concerning which there is much more of heat than of light in most current discussion.” Montgomery Schuyler.
| + | Putnam. 3: 231. N. ’67. 330w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 511. O. ’07. 110w. |
“The author takes no pains to conceal his real opinion of the abilities of a very large part of ‘so-called civilized’ mankind, especially that part that labors with its hands for a living. This contempt steams up from every page until it nearly suffocates the appetite of the expectant reader. Yet there is an abundance of food in Mr. Holt’s book for readers with a suitable digestion.” Edward E. Hill.
| − + | School. R. 15: 695. N. ’07. 1440w. |
Homans, James Edward. Self-propelled vehicles: a practical treatise on the theory, construction, operation, care and management of all forms of automobiles; with upwards of 500 il. and diagrams. 5th ed., rev. and enl. $2. Audel.
6–35990.
“The book is thoroughly revised and brought up to date, describing the latest innovations of the present day practice, while all obsolete material has been discarded.”—Engin. N.
“The volume is a useful handbook for the owner of an automobile, and it is also calculated for use as a manual for class instruction.”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 161. Jl. ’07. 100w. |
“It is a very satisfactory production for the man who wants to know the ‘why and wherefore’ of the automobile, as designed to-day, and its proper care and manipulation.”
| + | Engin. N. 57: 198. F. 14, ’07. 120w. |
Homer. [Iliad for boys and girls told from Homer in simple language], by Rev. Alfred J. Church. *$1.50. Macmillan.
7–30639.
To reset classical literature in the language of the child has become a worthy task of the present day. This juvenile renders the thrilling incidents of the Trojan war life-like and true to the Iliad’s text. The illustrations in color are suggestively good.
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 208. N. ’07. ✠ |
“Shows that he understands how to rehearse the classics for childish minds.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 764. D. ’07. 30w. |
“The narrative is suited in every possible way to a child’s understanding; it is childlike without a trace of childishness; and it is a rare pleasure for old readers of Professor Church to see that his zest is as keen as ever, his fact as unfailing, and his instinct for seizing essentials as swift and true.”
| + + | Spec. 99: 712. N. 9, ’07. 290w. |
Homer. Odyssey for boys and girls, told from Homer by the Rev. Alfred J. Church. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–34824.
A simplified version of the Odyssey, attractive in its illustrations, which is intended for young readers.
“The style is much more attractive than that of the author’s ‘Story of the Odyssey.’”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 21. Ja. ’07. ✠ |
“Is a model of what such adaptations should be.”
| + + | Ath. 1906, 2: 653. N. 24. 90w. |
“The story is intact, and the characters are there, but there is not much of that bigness for which Homer was noted.”
| + − | Ind. 61: 1409. D. 22, ’06. 130w. | |
| + | Nation. 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 60w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 70w. |
“Mr. Church has no superior in the art of retelling classical stories so as to interest girls and boys.”
| + + | Outlook. 84: 632. N. 10, ’06. 70w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 34: 764. D. ’06. 50w. |
“We have taken the precaution of having the book submitted to the true arbiter of this form of literature,—a boy under five. He has listened to it with breathless attention and sparkling eyes.”
| + + | Spec. 97: 580. O. 20, ’06. 730w. |
Hone, Nathaniel J. Manor and manorial records. *$3. Dutton.
6–10492.
“Half Mr. Hone’s book is devoted to a reasonably short account of the history of the manor, no undue space being given to the dispute concerning its evolution. With this we have the story of the lord and his tenants and officers and of their daily life and work as a community, the illustrations being for the most part already familiar.... The second half of the book shortly explains the procedure of the manorial courts, and then gives a very well chosen series of examples of court rolls, accounts and extents.”—Acad.
“Mr. Hone’s treatise on the manor offers itself rather as a popular introduction to its history and customs than as an original study of a subject on which much good ink has been spent. The result is a book which may be commended especially to those who are entering upon the study of English topography.”
| + | Acad. 70: 226. Mr. 10, ’06. 1750w. |
“Forms a very suitable introduction for the beginner in the study of manorial court rolls, of which many are in private hands. The translations are not in all respects accurate.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 1: 761. Je. 23. 500w. |
“Is more general and popular than Dr. Davenport’s volume. The first half of Mr. Hone’s work is but slight, and seems scarcely worthy of the large amount of research which he appears to have undertaken.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 693. S. 19, ’07. 410w. |
“We can think of no book which presents in a lucid manner a picture of the mode in which, or the extent to which, our fathers living remote from London were governed; none at all events which gives abundance of extracts from original records.”
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 243. Jl. 6, ’06. 480w. |
“The uninitiated reader, should be grateful to Mr. Hone for giving him an opportunity to obtain a good general idea of old country life without too severe a mental effort.”
| + | Sat. R. 101: 497. Ap. 21, ’06. 860w. |
Hood, Thomas. [Poetical works], ed. by Walter Jerrold. *$1.10 Oxford.
“‘The complete poetical works of Thomas Hood’ ... is added to the excellent Oxford edition of the poets.... Mr. Jerrold has provided a more comprehensive edition of Hood than has hitherto been available, searching out from the magazines whatever could be certainly attributed to him, and adding half a dozen new poems from manuscript.”—Nation.
“We confess ourselves in general hostile to this mania for making up insignificant matter and adding to it the works of writers who already suffer from the preservation of too much that is mediocre. The notes are capital, and the make-up of the volume attractive.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 81. Ja. 24, ’07. 220w. | |
| − | Spec. 98: 90. Ja. 19, ’07. 1790w. |
Hornaday, William Temple. Camp fires in the Canadian Rockies. **$3. Scribner.
6–35980.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Perhaps the chief charm of the book is that he manages so faithfully to convey a sense of the recrudescence of boyish energy and spirits in staid middle-life, aroused under the stimulus of unusual and invigorating surroundings.” G. W. L.
| + + | Nature. 75: 410. Mr. 14, ’07. 1190w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 110w. |
“It is the best of advocates for true sport and game preservation.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 60. Ja. 12, ’07. 310w. |
Hornblow, Arthur. End of the game; il. by A. E. Jameson. †$1.50. Dillingham.
7–14587.
Instead of marrying a shallow-minded girl with a two-hundred-thousand dollar dowery, Roy Marshall chooses to wed his sister’s governess, a girl whose literary career had been checked by her father’s loss of money and subsequent death. From an unsuccessful beginning in life on a New York paper his course is turned into the channel of Pittsburg steel interests and he rises to a multi-millionaire’s position of prominence and power. The loose morals that result in his abandoning and divorcing his wife are astonishingly at variance with his early integrity; he pays a heavy penalty, and the book has a moral.
“The characters, if somewhat tamely drawn, are good human creatures and not the flat paper dolls found in the pages of so much current fiction. It is a thoroughly wholesome story, better for general purposes perhaps than many novels better written.”
| + − | Lit. D. 34: 885. Je. 1, ’07. 190w. |
“The work is creditable—somewhat ‘slow’ and unformed in many of the earlier portions, but gaining constantly in assurance as it progresses.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 316. My. 18, ’07. 690w. |
Horne, Herman Harrell. Psychological principles of education. *$1.75. Macmillan.
6–26518.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The real strength of Dr. Horne’s book is found in its treatment of emotional, moral, and religious education; these vital subjects are handled with breadth, warmth, and frankness, and with an unusually full comprehension of their supreme importance.”
| + − | Dial. 42: 45. Ja. 16, ’07. 630w. |
“Horne’s theoretical assumptions, both in this discussion and thruout the book seem to me to show evidence of a certain confusion of thought of so fundamental a nature as to justify notice here. The author has given to teachers many suggestions of practical value and very likely an inspiration toward better teaching, but he has not based these suggestions upon a consistent and accurate system, of psychology.” Guy Montrose Whipple.
| − + | Educ. R. 34: 317. O. ’07. 1950w. |
Reviewed by Charles Hughes Johnston.
| + + | Educ. R. 34: 478. D. ’07. 5000w. |
“One can but regret casting a disparaging word at so admirably written a book as Horne’s ‘Psychological principles of education;’ but, in spite of its containing much excellent material and many good suggestions for practical teaching, it does not present any particularly original point of view, nor does it mark any advance in the general field of education psychology.” Irving King.
| + − | School R. 15: 227. Mr. ’07. 790w. |
Horner, Joseph G. Modern milling machines: their design, construction and operation: a handbook for practical men and engineering students. $4. Henley.
“The author has endeavored to treat the subject, both in the text and by the illustrations, in such a manner, as will make clear the essentials of the art, and to provide a book which will be useful to both the designer and the operator.” (Engin. N.) He “describes very fully many different types of machines, and probably one of the best chapters is that dealing with the design and manufacture of cutters.”—Nature.
“The skilled workman as well as the amateur will find much that is valuable and worth while and little of the usual padding. Any one collecting a library of shop books should include this volume.” Wm. W. Bird.
| + + | Engin. N. 57: 194. F. 14, ’07. 160w. |
“Chapter 11 is too short, though very interesting; it deals with the subject of feeds and speeds. We can recommend this volume to all interested in machine-shop practice. The machines dealt with are of the latest type, and much useful information will be found scattered through its pages.” N. J. L.
| + + − | Nature. 74: 149. Je. 14, ’06. 460w. |
Horner, Joseph G. Practical metal turning: a handbook for engineers, technical students and amateurs. il. $3.50. Henley.
7–19433.
“The work in all its varied forms is discussed, its many tools and appliances are shown and described and the question of speeds and feeds for various tools and metals is well treated. A good deal of valuable information is given regarding the use of high-speed steel for lathe work.”—Engin. N.
“While nothing new or especially novel is found, the book as a whole is well arranged, the illustrations are good, and a copy is worth owning for those interested in this line of work.” Wm. W. Bird.
| + | Engin. N. 57: 194. F. 14, ’07. 100w. |
Horniman, Roy. Lord Cammarleigh’s secret; a fairy story of to-day. †$1.50. Little.
7–34173.
Anthony Brooke, unwilling to battle for bread, hits upon a bold plan. During his aimless wandering through Grosvenor square he espies Lord Cammarleigh, whom he knows by reputation, in conversation with a woman. Brooke observes the restlessness of his eyes and concludes that he is a man who has a secret, one who is afraid. With none of the malice of blackmail but spurred on by a fortune-hunter’s necessity of the things of life, Brooke looked the peer squarely in the eye and said, “I know your secret.” A private secretaryship, the management of the household affairs and, in truth of the obdurate Cammarleigh himself follow for the imposter in a most surprising manner.
“The book abounds with unfeeling fun, culminating in a rhetorical flourish of impudence. Fortunately for the nerves of the ordinary reader, the victim of blackmail is a puppet; but the other important characters are vigorously drawn.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 546. N. 2. 150w. |
“Granted, however, a single initial impossibility, the story goes on smoothly and naturally enough; and this, we take it, represents a more artistic method of dealing with the impossible than that which demands our acceptance of new miracles in every chapter.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + − | Dial. 43: 319. N. 16, ’07. 230w. | |
| Nation. 85: 417. N. 28, ’07. 210w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“Mr. Horniman is to be congratulated on a capital idea fully but not tediously exploited.”
| + | Sat. R. 104: 519. O. 26, ’07. 180w. |
* Horsley, Sir Victor A. H., and Sturge, Mary M. Alcohol and the human body: an introduction to the study of the subject; with a chapter by Arthur Newsholme. *$1.50. Macmillan.
An indictment against the use of alcohol in which “its ill effects on body and mind, on health and strength, on moral action and intellectual activity, are set forth by argument, by facts, by figures, by representations, gruesome in outline and hue, of the morbid conditions which it induces in the chief organs of the human frame.” (Spec.)
“This book is sound literary performance and an earnest tract for the times but we do not see that it can achieve much.”
| + | Acad. 72: 600. Je. 22, ’07. 1080w. | |
| Ind. 63: 1119. N. 7, ’07. 320w. |
“Though on the main issue we do not feel competent to give judgment—the conflict of evidence is too great—we are bound to record the opinion that a book like that under notice is sure to do a great deal of good, and can hardly do any harm even if it is mistaken in fact.”
| + | Spec. 98: 946. Je. 15, ’07. 190w. |
Horstmann, Henry Charles, and Tousley, Victor Hugo. Electrical wiring and construction tables. *$1.50. Drake, F: J.
7–472.
A pocket hand-book for the wire man, contractor, engineer and architect. “The book contains tables for direct-current calculations, for alternating-current calculations, for the smallest size of wire permissible, and for the most economical loss in different installations. Tables and diagrams are given showing the proper size of conduits to accommodate different combinations or numbers of wires; also tables and data for estimating the quantity of material required for different lines of work.” (Engin. N.)
“Contains much useful information.”
| + | Engin. N. 57: 89. Ja. 17, ’07. 120w. |
Hoskins, Leander Miller. Text-book on hydraulics, including an outline of the theory of turbines. *$2.50. Holt.
6–38547.
A text for the use of instructors of experience and thorough training in the subject, a work giving the fundamental principles in a clear and concise form without elaboration.
“As a whole it may be said that the book presents the laws and theories of hydraulics as they were recognized 20 to 25 years ago. There is authority for most of its statements in the treatises of that time, but it can hardly be said to cover the field as we regard it today.” Gardner S. Williams.
| − | Engin. N. 57: 304. Mr. 14, ’07. 940w. |
“The book is distinctly elementary, and as such is well written and supplied with good examples.”
| + | Nation. 84: 388. Ap. 25, ’07. 210w. |
“This book will be valuable in training engineering students possessing a fair knowledge of mathematics to solve any problems in hydraulics they are likely to meet with in practice, and it will also furnish them with an insight into the principles on which the working and efficiency of turbines are based.”
| + | Nature. 76: 542. S. 26, ’07. 510w. | |
| + | Technical Literature. 1: 177. Ap. ’07. 320w. |
Hough, Emerson. [Story of the outlaw: a study of the western desperado.] il. *$1.50. Outing.
7–5705.
Historical narratives of famous outlaws, the stories of noted border wars, vigilant movements and armed conflicts on the frontier. It is a contemplative study of the American desperado as he is, and in spite of the author’s intention to do away as far as possible with melodramatic thrills, the character of the subject precludes their complete elimination.
“Not particularly interesting, but contains material not easily available elsewhere.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 122. My. ’07. |
“It is a concise, clearly-reasoned, well-balanced and admirably written piece of work—a real contribution to our economic literature, and interesting to the average reader.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 638. My. ’07. 420w. |
“The pages exhale the smell of blood and hemp. The realism is almost too raw for literature.”
| − + | Lit. D. 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 280w. |
“His book certainly shows no trace of a tendency to exaggeration, but on the contrary is distinguished by a scrupulously careful moderation of statement.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 210w. |
“It is all interesting and suggestive, as material lifted bodily from life always is, but a little of it goes a long way.”
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 748. S. ’07. 270w. |
“Mr. Hough’s philosophising is the weak part of his book.”
| + − | Spec. 98: 761. My. 11, ’07. 1950w. |
Hough, Emerson. [Way of a man.] $1.50. Outing pub.
7–27615.
The scene of Mr. Hough’s story is once again laid in the west, chiefly during the time of the westward movement previous to the civil war. It concerns a young Virginian who, tho bound to an eastern girl, finds that he loves his companion of many adventures on the great plains. Their love-making, interrupted for a time by a villainous emissary from the cotton interests in England, and by the war itself, finally terminates happily. It has been the wish of the author to show the effect of a broad strong environment on human beings.
“The style of the hero’s narrative in the opening pages, is too archaic for the period treated, but becomes more appropriate as the story goes forward.”
| + − | Lit. D. 35: 695. N. 9, ’07. 340w. |
“Is chiefly of interest in the illustration it affords of several tendencies in contemporary fiction, as deplorable as they are conspicuous: the glorification of the violent, the primitive, and the crude; a sophomorical searching after effects of style; and a habit of cheap philosophizing.”
| − | Nation. 85: 377. O. 24, ’07. 610w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 60w. |
“Mr. Hough writes a dignified and forthright sort of tale, which, although it has a good plot and plenty of incident, yet moves along quietly and without the clatter-and-bang effect which characterizes so many novels of action. But this mood seems all the time a little overstrained, as if he wrote at high pitch and found it rather painful.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 769. N. 30, ’07. 590w. |
“There is plenty of thrill and suspense—possibly a trifle too much.”
| − + | Outlook. 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 100w. |
Hough, Romeyn Beck. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada, east of the Rocky mountains; photo-descriptive, buck. $8. Hough.
7–31197.
“A new guide-book to the trees of the northern states and Canada devotes two pages to each species. One page bears a photographic reproduction showing a group of leaves (both sides) and fruit. The other page has a photograph of the trunk of the tree, showing the distinguishing peculiarities of the bark, a small map showing by shading the range of the tree’s growth, and a short, clear description of its characteristics.”—Outlook.
“We cannot think of an item which would contribute to greater completeness. Everything that has been attempted seems to have been well planned and well executed. The book may be commended as indispensable for public and school libraries, for all students of trees, and botanical laboratories.” C. R. B.
| + + + | Bot. Gaz. 44: 384. N. ’07. 460w. | |
| + | Educ. R. 34: 535. D. ’07. 30w. |
“There is nothing but praise for the work as a whole. This handbook should be widely useful in nature libraries, schools and colleges.”
| + + + | Nation. 85: 355. O. 17, ’07. 460w. |
“The book is admirably adapted for the average person who wants to be able to tell the trees apart with the least possible study.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 100w. |
“These photographs are of unusual excellence and give to this handbook its distinctive value as a work of reference.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 36: 640. N. ’07. 140w. |
Hough, Theodore, and Sedgwick, William Thompson. Human mechanism; its physiology, and hygiene, and the sanitation of its surroundings. *$2. Ginn.
6–37595.
“This is a textbook of hygiene on new lines. Anatomy, both gross and microscopic, is reduced to the lowest terms, and the emphasis of the book, as stated in the preface, is placed on physiology, hygiene, and sanitation—on function and conduct.”—School R.
“First half of the book ... avoids unnecessary details, but omits nothing essential. It is so lucidly written that the wayfaring man will have to be a terrible fool if he does not understand it. We can award to [the second] part no higher praise than to say that it is as excellent as the preliminary physiological portion. It teems with sound practical common-sense; it points out convincingly, avoiding too great technicality, the scientific reason for their [the authors’] faith.”
| + | Nature. 75: 318. Ja. 31, ’07. 320w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 256. F. ’07. 50w. |
“It seems to be altogether the best work upon the subject for use either as a textbook or for private reading.” Joseph E. Raycroft.
| + + | School R. 15: 308. Ap. ’07. 310w. |
Houghton, Louise (Seymour). Hebrew life and thought; being interpretative studies in the literature of Israel. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–22298.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“One is disappointed that he finds no attempt at the unity of purpose, except to entertain the reader, indicated in the title of the book. We are glad to find that each lecture has a definite purpose, and some of them are admirably treated.” Ira M. Price and John M. P. Smith.
| + − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 150. Ja. ’07. 260w. |
“The aim of the book is good. It breathes a profound faith. Its author loves the Bible all the more because it is not only a book of religious instruction, but appeals to her as literature in the way the ‘Iliad’ or ‘Odyssey’ does. The defects of the book are occasional extravagances of statement, too great an effort to make out biblical laws and family life superior to anything else in antiquity, and an artificial interpretation of such books as Canticles and Ruth.”
| + − | Bib. World. 29: 72. Ja. ’07. 720w. |
“Mrs. Houghton writes with enthusiasm and con amore, and if we were able to name a defect it would be a certain light passing over the limitations and defects of Old Testament morals and belief.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 803. Ap. 4, ’07. 160w. |
Houghton, Louise (Seymour). [Russian grandmother’s wonder tales.] †$1.50. Scribner.
6–32363.
“Louise Seymour Houghton openly confesses to having been prompted by ‘Uncle Remus’ in her mode of treating ‘The Russian grandmother’s wonder tales,’ a collection revealing the simple life of the Slavonians; at the same time in a short preface the author indicates analogies which reveal how close in contact legends of different lands often are. The book is excellently printed and effectively illustrated by W. T. Benda.”—Ind.
“An excellent collection from authentic sources.”
| + + | A. L. A. Bkl. 2: 219. N. ’06. |
“Since Slavonic-tales do not seem yet to be ‘vieux jeu,’ we recommend this charming little work as a gift-book.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 14. Ja. 5. 210w. | |
| + | Bookm. 24: 528. Ja. ’07. 40w. | |
| + | Ind. 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 70w. | |
| + | Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 40w. |
“The tales are exceedingly well written.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 100w. |
“A fascinating little volume.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 34: 512. O. ’06. 30w. |
* Houston, Edwin James. Discovery of the North Pole. [*]$1. Winston.
7–23532.
The second of three volumes in the “North Pole series.” Andree and Eric, two American boys, are the heroes who pass thru thrilling adventures and exciting situations while they are learning many facts of modern scientific discoveries.
* Hovey, Richard. Holy graal, and other fragments by Richard Hovey; being the uncompleted parts of the Arthurian dramas; ed. with introd. and notes by Mrs. Richard Hovey, and a preface by Bliss Carman. $1.25. Duffield.
Fragments of the Arthurian legends which are presented for the sake of the psychological problem involved rather than for their historic and picturesque value as poetic material or for the sake of their glamour and romance. From notes, jottings, and outlines set down in note books or upon scraps of paper, Mrs. Hovey has completed the work of her husband who left it unfinished.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 667. O. 19, ’67. 30w. |
“An inestimable service has been rendered to the memory of Richard Hovey by the publication of ‘The holy graal and other fragments’ of the uncompleted Arthurian dramas; not so much by virtue of the new material which they contain for this is slight, as for the illumination thrown upon the whole scheme of the projected cycle by the introduction and notes of Mrs. Hovey.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 365. D. ’07. 430w. |
Howard, Burt Estes. German empire. **$2. Macmillan.
6–34863.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 68. Mr. ’07. |
“The work makes up in solidity for whatever it lacks in interest. As a whole the book is a serious and concise summary of value in itself and a basis for wider study.”
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 216. Ja. ’07. 380w. |
“We have examined no better book for the American student of German institutions.” Robert E. Bisbee.
| + + | Arena. 37: 216. F. ’07. 150w. |
“Will probably rank among the standard briefer treatises of the Germans. The only criticism worth mentioning relates to the title of this book, which is misleading, since the work relates almost entirely to a single aspect of the German Empire, its constitution.” J. W. Garner.
| + + − | Dial. 42: 105. F. 16, ’07. 1290w. |
“It is, indeed, a defect of the book that it does not present us with a living picture of how the various organs of the constitution perform their functions. Dr. Howard has obviously based his book upon extensive research, and possesses the great merit of writing clearly on legal subjects.” W. M.
| + − | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 412. Ap. ’07. 360w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 37. Ja. 19, ’07. 310w. |
“The text, though specifically juristical, and not, except in place, historical, never falls under the influence of Dr. Dryasdust; it is laboriously accurate, and supported by excellent explanatory notes, which our daily lecturers on foreign affairs should study.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 141. Ja. 26, ’07. 2430w. |
Howard, Earl Dean. Cause and extent of the recent industrial progress of Germany. (Hart, Schaffner and Marx prize essays in economics.) **$1. Houghton.
7–13001.
The book “is divided into two parts, the first of which treats of the extent of Germany’s recent industrial progress; and the second, the causes. Industrial progress in general is defined in an introductory chapter, as the ‘increase in the amount of goods produced and transported, and the improvement of methods by which this increased production is accomplished.’ The course of this development since the industrial revolution is briefly reviewed.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 166. O. ’07. S. |
“It is a concise, clearly reasoned, well balanced and admirably written piece of work—a real contribution to our economic literature, and interesting to the average reader.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 638. My. ’07. 420w. | |
| Dial. 43: 69. Ag. 1, ’07. 150w. |
“It is a careful and discriminating study, and undoubtedly offers the best concise discussion of its subject that has yet appeared.” O. D. Skelton.
| + + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 562. N. ’07. 300w. |
“It cannot be said that Mr. Howard has made any substantial contribution to our knowledge of the subject.”
| + | Nation. 85: 163. Ag. 22, ’07. 270w. |
“There is no questioning the intrinsic value of his work, which assuredly makes for a clearer understanding of modern Germany and her people.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 438. Je. 22, ’07. 500w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 759. Je. ’07. 50w. |
“The book is well worth perusal, and it does not detract from its value if we add that it is for the most part, and properly so, a careful and moderate exposition of the obvious.”
| + | Spec. 99: sup. 643. N. 2, ’07. 540w. |
Howard, George Bronson. Norroy, diplomatic agent; il. by Gordon Ross. $1.50. Saalfield.
7–5683.
Seven diplomatic detective adventures in which Yorke Norroy figures as secret agent of the United States. He always has in his possession the means to foil his opponent in the big international games being played, and the analysis of his method of securing the trump card reveals shrewd practical imagination at work and the adroit handling of resulting situations.
“The seven stories are good reading at any time, and particularly when the mind longs for diversion.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 181. Mr. 23, ’07. 260w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 200w. |
Howard, John Raymond, ed. Prose you ought to know. **$1.50. Revell.
The editor’s “aim in the present volume is to gather, from a wide range of authorship and subject-matter, a series of brief excerpts, each of which shall be typical of its author’s best style, and, besides exciting a momentary interest, shall ‘at least hint at the richness of an essay, a tale, a history, an oration.’”—Dial.
“Has been edited ... with an intelligence and originality that will make it acceptable even to the avowed enemy of the ordinary book of extracts.”
| + | Dial. 41: 460. D: 16, ’06. 220w. |
“The selections he makes are brief and numerous rather than few and choice.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 31. Ja. 19, ’07. 280w. |
Howard, Newman. Christian trilogy. 3v. ea. *$1.25. Dutton.
“Religions may come and go; the forms of morality may change, and what is right in one age and clime be wrong in another; but the essential virtue remains the same—nothing else than faithfulness to what a man holds to be right. That is the idea running through the three plays which Mr. Newman Howard calls his ‘Christian trilogy.’... Kiartan was, externally, true to his false friend; Savonarola to his false city; Minervina and Crispus, Constantine’s discarded wife and son, to their false husband, wife, and emperor. In each case there lies behind the occasion, the sense of honor, the conviction of the necessity for truth to an ideal of right.”—Lond. Times.
“Mr. Newman Howard’s ‘Christian trilogy’ is real poetry and it is real drama. Mr. Howard’s work is so fine that it seems captious to point out what we feel to be a defect in it. Though in each of his dramas, tragedy is implied in the character of the chief personage, too much of the action is controlled by the persistent malignity of another individual. Free from most of the tricks of the playwright, Mr. Howard still relies too much on his villain.”
| + + − | Acad. 71: 469. N. 10, ’06. 1560w. (Review of v. 1–3.) |
“Starting with the essential idea, he develops it broadly, simply, even severely, preserving always the distinction between what is theatrical and what is dramatic.”
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 345. O. 12, ’06. 1580w. (Review of v. 1–3.) |
“The work of Newman Howard which has but lately made its way to us, though published first some years ago in England, evinces a dramatic talent of a high order, but a talent not yet wholly disciplined.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
| + − | Putnam’s. 2: 350. Je. ’07. 360w. (Review of v. 1–3.) |
v. 1. Kiartan the Icelander: a tragedy.
The motif of the first part of the trilogy is the introduction of Christianity into Iceland.
“In ‘Kiartan the Icelander’ his very care for local colour and characteristic expression makes his meaning sometimes not easy to follow. Possibly in the theatre this difficulty would disappear, though we cannot help feeling that he has been so intent on making his people tenth century Icelanders that they lose something of their probability as men and women.”
| + + − | Acad. 71: 469. N. 10, ’06. 390w. |
v. 2. Savonarola: a city’s tragedy.
A drama filled with the “forlorn anti-pagan hope of Savonarola.” Its interest is centered in “the public career of the Frate, the dramatic incident of the Trial by fire and the tragic spectacle of the Execution.”
“Without any sacrifice of dramatic propriety he has so arranged that you see not only people but their surroundings. As a result, the play is full of the stir and colour of mediaeval Italy. Indeed, though he has handled the central theme in a masterly manner, what will delight most readers is the extraordinary sense of atmosphere created by the minor characters.”
| + + − | Acad. 71: 469. N. 10, ’06. 390w. |
“In ‘Savonarola,’ Mr. Howard’s more recent drama, the lack of sharp definition in the plot and dialogue is much more apparent than in ‘Kiartan,’ since all the rival factions and orders, civil and religious, of that turbulent period are represented in the play and by their machinations so involve the plot that it is difficult to keep the various characters and their allegiance distinct.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
| + − | Putnam’s. 2: 350. Je. ’07. 360w. |
v. 3. Constantine the great: a tragedy.
7–18134.
The establishment of Christianity as the state religion of the Roman empire furnishes the key-note of the third part of the trilogy. “In this play Mr. Howard gets his background, his atmosphere, mainly by a single figure; that of the little degenerate Fabius. By an almost savage piece of irony, Fabius is made the victim of the plot to murder Constantine. The state of paganism at the period of the play is admirably indicated by the priests of Demeter with their pitiful machinery for working an apparition of the goddess Proserpine. Bombo is one of the best clowns out of Shakespeare.” (Acad.)
“Mr. Howard reaches his highest level of workmanship in ‘Constantine the great.’ The chief characters stand out with something of the objective reality of sculpture but with all the life and movement of human beings. The dialog is reduced to its bare essentials, and because no word is allowed for its own sake, every word is not only significant but decorative, so that the texture of the verse is as if woven of some precious metal.”
| + + − | Acad. 71: 469. N. 10, ’06. 390w. |
“When we have put together all the poetical achievements of this tragedy, when we have set them beside its mastery of dramatic speech and structure and when we have dispassionately weighed against these excellencies its defects, we cannot hesitate to place it among all but the highest English dramatic poetry.”
| + + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 398. O. 6. 2160w. |
“The conception—a rare failing—is superior to the art or technique.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 207. F. 16, ’07. 280w. |
“We cannot praise Mr. Howard more highly than by saying that he is one of the very few living poets who stand in the great tradition. It is a book which every lover of good poetry must read and cherish.”
| + + | Spec. 97: 930. D. 8, ’06. 230w. |
* Howard, Oliver Otis. Autobiography. 2v. **$5. Baker.
7–35640.
The volume “takes us once more to the familiar battlefields, shows how campaigns were fought and won and lost, and describes in detail the efforts of the government, after peace had been restored, to relieve the emancipated but helpless slaves whom the war had set at liberty.”—Outlook.
“He takes the reader delightfully into his confidence, and writes with an astonishing recollection of detail. An autobiography at once so full of incident and so free from matters of small importance has rarely been produced.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + | Dial. 43: 244. O. 16, ’07. 1800w. |
“Bulks large on the shelf, but so interesting that the reader will not regret the magnitude.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 609. N. 23, ’07. 410w. |
* Howden, J. R. Boys’ book of locomotives. $2. McClure.
An informing book for young readers which traces with many accompanying illustrations the evolution of the steam engine from its beginning to its replacement by the electric locomotive.
“The book will tempt old as well as young.”
| + | Nation. 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 50w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 767. D. ’07. 90w. |
Howe, Frederic Clemson. British city: the beginnings of democracy. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–21305.
A companion to Mr. Howe’s study of the American city. It is not only an exposition full of historical and statistical detail but is a critical discussion of the workings of the British city and of the lessons contained “for the solution of parallel, but by no means identical, American problems.” The author’s strictly economic point of view accounts for all the motives of a commonwealth’s interests, he has become “convinced that it is the economic environment that creates and controls man’s activities as well as his attitude of mind.”
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 166. O. ’07. |
“No social reformer can afford to be without this volume.” B. O. Flower.
| + + + | Arena. 38: 200. Ag. ’07. 3260w. |
“The book contains a good deal of information, not all of it full or pertinent, but it is not presented with especial attractiveness or force.”
| − + | Educ. R. 34: 430. N. ’07. 70w. |
“In spite of these numerous mistakes and misconceptions, Mr. Howe has formed some very sound and well-grounded opinions as to the working of British institutions.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 880. O. 10, ’07. 420w. | |
| J. Pol. Econ. 15: 441. Jl. ’07. 210w. |
“Mr. Howe never lets himself forget that he is writing for American readers and the contrast which he draws between municipal conditions in the two countries is really the book’s most valuable and illuminating feature.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 81. Jl. 25, ’07. 1220w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 376. Je. 8, ’07. 100w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 547. S. 14, ’07. 530w. |
Howe, Frederic Clemson. City: the hope of democracy. **$1.50. Scribner.
5–33225.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by Lewis E. Palmer.
| Charities. 17: 511. D. 15, ’06. 630w. |
“For our part, we believe that in his main principles the author is right, as also in many of his applications of those principles to judge the success or failure of the British city. We also believe that he carries some of his theories too far.”
| + + − | Engin. N. 58: 533. N. 14, ’07. 1240w. |
“Writes as a propagandist rather than as a student. The work is interesting in style, stimulating in thought and treatment, hopeful in tone, and is well worth a careful reading by the student of municipal affairs.” Clinton Rogers Woodruff.
| + − | Yale R. 15: 463. F. ’07. 710w. |
Howe, Frederic Clemson. Confessions of a monopolist. *$1. Public pub.
6–32427.
An autobiography “showing how easily a man of medium capacity and no scruples can accumulate a fortune by exploiting public franchises and ‘playing Wall street.’” (N. Y. Times.) “Never before has a work appeared in which the methods of the high financiers and political bosses have been more clearly exposed. Here the reader is made to see how certain feats that appear from before the footlights as little short of miraculous are performed. Here he sees how by learning the rules of the game a modern high financier is able to divert the wealth of thousands into the till of the crafty monopolists; how, in short, the thousands are made to labor for the few just as actually as in the days of the feudal lords the serfs slaved for the barons. And here he sees how politics are made the handmaid of the modern plutocracy in its attempt to enslave labor while destroying the soul of democracy.” (Arena.)
“It is far and away the finest political satire on present-day American politics,—a book that every thinking patriotic citizen should read.”
| + + | Arena. 36: 680. D. ’06. 950w. |
“It is not pleasant reading—it is too true to life, though possibly somewhat exaggerated or unnaturally concentrated either for artistic effect or for the sake of argument.” Max West.
| + − | Dial. 43: 121. S. 1, ’07. 310w. | |
| J. Pol. Econ. 15: 125. F. ’07. 120w. |
“The little volume is both interesting and instructive, whether regarded as a vade mecum for those desirous of practising the new high finance, or as an addition to the horrors which our professional purifiers have revealed in order to reform them.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 595. S. 29, ’06. 240w. |
Howe, Malverd Abijah. Symmetrical masonry arches, including natural stone, plain concrete and reinforced concrete arches; for the use of technical schools, engineers and computers in designing arches according to the elastic theory. $2.50. Wiley.
6–33609.
“In the first chapter, fundamental formulas for the elastic arch are derived; in the second chapter, symmetrical arches without hinges and of constant or variable section, are considered.... In chapter 3 the author applies the theory in detail to a segmental circular arch of constant section and also to a reinforced-concrete arch.... The last chapter of the book is devoted to drawings of typical arches. An appendix is given on the physical properties of stone and concrete and data for about five hundred masonry arch bridges.”—Engin. N.
“The book is a strong, sound handling of a difficult subject. The one criticism that can be made of the theory developments in the book is that they are a little too condensed.” Wm. Cain.
| + + − | Engin. N. 56: 522. N. 15, ’06. 980w. |
Howe, Samuel Gridley. Letters and journals of Samuel Gridley Howe; ed. by his daughter, Laura E. Richards; with notes and a preface by F. B. Sanborn. 3v. ea. **$3. Estes.
6–38340.
v. 1. Following a brief story of his early years, Mrs. Richards has sketched her father’s life from his letters and journals written in Greece during his espousal of that country’s fight for independence. “The book gives a convincing picture of the conditions of Greece at the time of the war of independence, and introduces us to an American working among these conditions who was a credit to his country for firmness of character, coolness of judgment, disinterestedness, and humanity.” (Nation.)
“Full of facts and judgments of high historical value. There was hardly a keener eye on Greek affairs than Howe’s; hardly a man of any age who saw so much and interpreted it so well. His incisive judgments of men have, in the main, stood the test of time. Apart from the historical value of this volume, it takes rank with the very best Greek travels of that day.” J. Irving Manatt.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 640. Ap. ’07. 1040w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“If they are to be regarded as historical materials, they require much more annotation to make them generally comprehensible. Their omissions are too serious to give them much weight as a contemporary record of events.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 189. F. 16. 2090w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Mrs. Richards’s prefatory and interspersed notes add no little to the value and completeness of the book as a detailed account of her father’s eventful young manhood.”
| + | Dial. 42: 187. Mr. 16, ’07. 350w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The letters and journals are written in a spirited fashion, but are lacking in notable incident, and deal with few personalities who are of interest to any except special students of this period of European history.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The book is readable throughout.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 51. F. 15, ’07. 550w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Mrs. Richards would probably be well advised were she to use the pruning knife more freely in succeeding volumes. There is no index, and the printing and production of the book leave much to be desired.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 248. Mr. 14, ’07. 680w. (Review of v. 1.) | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 1.) | |
| + | Sat. R. 103: 276. Mr. 2, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“This is an interesting volume, but the reader need not consider himself bound to go thru it from cover to cover.”
| + | Spec. 98: sup. 652. Ap. 27, ’07. 400w. (Review of v. 1.) |
Howell, George. Labour legislation, labour movements, and labour leaders. 2d ed. 2v. *$2.50. Dutton.
A new edition of a work which serves to throw light on the nature, aims and methods of trade-unionism.
| Ind. 60: 1287. My. 31, ’06. 50w. |
“He chronicles a great deal not to be found in other histories, and his book fills a gap for England which needs filling for ourselves.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 176. Mr. 24, ’06. 500w. |
“It is marred by fragmentariness, by repetitions, and by unpolished style, but its merits are so conspicuous that it deserves the thoughtful consideration of every student of economic and social questions.”
| + − | Outlook. 84: 675. N. 17, ’06. 580w. | |
| Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 181. Mr. ’07. 70w. |
Howell, James. Familiar letters of James Howell; with an introd. by Agnes Repplier. 2v. $6; Special ltd. ed. 4v. *$15. Houghton.
7–15871.
An attractive new edition of letters which “speak for themselves, and surely no reader will pine for erudite guidance through the maze of curious anecdote, lively narrative, and characteristically intimate comment and reflection which Howell has constructed, writing always crisply and lucidly, in accordance with his belief that a letter should be ‘short-coated and closely couch’d’ and should ‘not preach but epistolize.’” (Dial.)
“The letters themselves ... possess all the charm and gossipy interest of their time that the letters of Horace Walpole contained a century later.” Laurence Burnham.
| + + | Bookm. 26: 101. S. ’07. 360w. (Review of 4 v. ed.) | |
| + + | Dial. 43: 214. O. 1, ’07. 430w. (Review of 2 v. ed.) |
“In her pleasant way Miss Repplier brings out, by incident and characterization, the qualities which have made his letters the constant reading of lovers of literature since they first appeared.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 357. O. 19, ’07. 280w. (Review of 2 v. ed.) |
“It is a book that seems as fresh to-day as when it was written nearly three centuries ago, and, though it may never be popular, it will always be valued by the discriminating few.” Charlotte Harwood.
| + + | Putnam’s. 2: 446. Jl. ’07. 700w. (Review of 4 v. ed.) |
“The wide careless world will pay little attention to these volumes, but they will have their own sure welcome.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + | Putnam’s. 3: 233. N. ’97. 830w. (Review of 2 v. ed.) |
Howells, William Dean. [Between the dark and the daylight.] †$1.50. Harper.
7–34775.
Of the seven tales told by old friends at the club four are psychological romances, stories of that mental borderland suggested by the book’s title. “A sleep and a forgetting” tells of a strange lapse of memory in a young girl; “The eidolons of Brooks Alford” concerns the visions of a broken down professor and the pretty widow who disperses them; “A memory that worked over time” is a confusion of memory and imagination; and “A case of metaphantasmia” enters into the question of dream-transference. The three stories which conclude the book, “Editha,” “Braybridge’s offer,” and “The chick of the Easter egg” are plain day-light stories, a protest against war, a speculation as to the average proposal, and an amusing Easter comedy.
Reviewed by A. Schade van Westrum.
| + | Bookm. 26: 275. N. ’07. 1000w. |
“They are queer and creepy without being exactly supernatural.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1377. D. 5, ’07. 150w. |
“The stories are graceful social pictures written with charm and humor.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w. |
“We can only congratulate ourselves that he does not sit before his fire enjoying it all to himself, as he might be tempted to do.”
| + + | Outlook. 87: 624. N. 23, ’07. 190w. |
“All the stories are full of delightful reading. They would not be Mr. Howells’s if they were not.”
| + + | Spec. 99: 717. N. 9, ’07. 210w. |
Howells, William Dean. [Certain delightful English towns, with glimpses of the pleasant country between.] **$3. Harper.
6–38895.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is only a Stevenson or a Howells who could achieve fascination for [this task]. But Mr. Howells is triumphantly successful. The American humor, which has always been attuned, in Mr. Howells, to a delicate strain, becomes tender whimsicality. We know no one who writes more beautifully in modern English.”
| + + | Ath. 1907. 1: 435. Ap. 13. 1040w. |
“How dare we use anything so rough and rude as the downright word praise of anything so delicate?”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 100. Mr. 29, ’07. 1590w. | |
| + | Spec. 98: 450. Mr. 23, ’07. 1560w. |
Howells, William Dean. [Through the eye of the needle.] †$1.50. Harper.
7–15545.
Part 1 of this sociological story contains a view of modern New York as seen by a traveler from Altruria. The tall, bleak apartment houses, the social distinctions, and the greed for gain impress him so strongly that he says at the very outset,—“If I spoke with Altrurian breath of the way New Yorkers live, I should begin by saying that the New Yorkers do not live at all.” Part 2 contains an account of Altruria as seen by the American wife whom he takes home with him, and who has a difficult time adjusting her American ideas to a country which has neither money nor social gradations, and, where lord and farmer work happily for their living, side by side.
“Done in the author’s usual delightful manner.”
| + + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 135. My. ’07. |
“Unhappily, these sociological criticisms are not conveyed in an interesting form of fiction. We cannot be absorbed in Mr. Homos’s love affair with an attractive American widow, and we are thrown back for diversion on his strictures on American conditions.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 786. Je. 29. 250w. |
“He is writing, not a thesis on the future economics of the world at large, but a kindly satire, a sort of twentieth century parable.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 25: 394. Je. ’07. 270w. |
Reviewed by A. Schade van Westrum.
| Bookm. 25: 434. Je. ’07. 1230w. | ||
| + | Ind. 62: 1207. My. 23, ’07. 670w. |
“In this novel, dealing with a theme peculiarly congenial to him, we have an example of Mr. Howells’s style arrived at its perihelion.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 885. Je. 1, ’07. 330w. |
“We should rather be thankful for a piece of very grateful fancy, and not the least for a deft and witty introduction which is an almost faultless little piece of irony.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 165. My. 24, ’07. 530w. |
“The account of these plutocrats endeavoring to maintain the forms of an obsolete social order verges perilously upon comic opera. This, however, is of small consequence, the point of interest being that with Mr. Howells’s deep love of humanity as he finds it, the apostle of realism in American fiction should care to spend (almost waste) his precious gifts upon such a toy of the imagination as the island of Altruria.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 134. My. 9, ’07. 690w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 255. Ap. 20, ’07. 170w. |
“Certain it is that whatever be our attitude toward socialism, or our opinion of what we may presume to be Mr. Howells’s own theories, we must needs enjoy the exquisite literary flavor of these letters to and from Altruria, and can hardly fail to be lifted to a higher plane by the author’s own sincere enthusiasm of humanity and widely inclusive sympathies.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 297. My. 11, ’07. 3370w. |
“Mr. Howells has written in his characteristic whimsical vein.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 581. Je. 15. ’07. 210w. |
“Mr. Howells writes, not as a reformer with a grievance, but simply as a lover of his kind, perturbed over current errors but too wise to let them warp his judgment.” Royal Cortissoz.
| + + | No. Am. 186: 127. S. ’07. 650w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 86: 339. Je. 15, ’07. 400w. |
“Somehow, it leaves the reader not half so kindly disposed toward his fellow-men, not half so eager to make this a better world, as he was after reading ‘Lemuel Barker’ or ‘Silas Lapham.’” Vernon Atwood.
| + + − | Putnam’s. 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 290w. |
“It embodies much cogent criticism of every important phase of American life.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 761. Je. ’07. 80w. |
“Mr. Howells is always welcome in whatever guise his message comes, and a special interest attaches to his new romance, since it exhibits his distinguished talent in an unfamiliar light.”
| + + | Spec. 98: 836. My. 25, ’07. 840w. |
Hoy, Mary Lavinia Thompson (Mrs. Frank L. Hoy). Adrienne. $1.50. Neale.
6–46252.
A southern story of Civil war days in which the fair play-day world is transformed for a group of irresponsible Southern girls into a dreary world of waiting and anxiety.
Hoyt, William Henry. Mecklenburg declaration of independence. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–15929.
A study of evidence that the alleged early declaration of independence of Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, on May 20, 1775, is spurious.
“The last page leaves the reader as helpless as the first, in ability to separate hearsay from evidence. But the book is valuable as a history of a controversy.”
| + − | Dial. 43: 123. S. 1, ’07. 400w. |
“The book offers a very good example of an historical investigation, conducted in a judicial spirit, and carries conviction with its conclusions. The illustrations are excellent, but nothing can excuse the absence of an index.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 187. Ag. 29. ’07. 540w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 120w. |
* Hubbard, Elbert (Fra Elbertus, pseud.). [Little journeys to the homes of eminent orators.] (Little journeys, new ser.) $2.50. Putnam.
7–36125.
An unusual aggregation of orators is presented here. The group includes Pericles, Mark Antony, Savonarola, Marat, Ingersoll, Patrick Henry, Starr King, Henry Ward Beecher and Wendell Phillips.
“It is an incongruous array in time, character, and purpose, but the author brings out strongly their common characteristics.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 100w. |
“The book has real interest, especially to that curious boy, or man, who ‘wants to know.’”
| + | Outlook. 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 60w. |
Hubbard, Frank McKinney. Abe Martin, of Brown county, Indiana. il. **$1. Bobbs.
7–15475.
Mr. Meredith Nicholson characterizes Abe Martin as a “Plato on a cracker barrel; or radiant Socrates after Xantippe’s departure to visit her own folks in Tecumseh township.” Cartoons of Abe’s neighbors who are characterized in epigram appear, accompanied by brief bibliographical bits. Then follow the “mirth-provoking epigrams” themselves, which do justice to an Artemus Ward.
Hubbard, George H. Teachings of Jesus in parables. *$1.50. Pilgrim press.
7–16710.
“Mr. Hubbard recognizes the fact that the parables of Jesus were addressed to plain people.... He abstains from dogmatizing and from critical exegesis, and gives a free homiletical exposition of what he sees as the central truth of the short story.”—Outlook.
“These popular and interesting expositions of the parables reveal clear religious insight, practical common-sense, and no small degree of literary skill.”
| + | Bib. World. 30: 79. Jl. ’07. 20w. |
“Fresh thoughts in new points of view make this volume a helpful addition to the abundant literature of its subject. Those who have read any number of works upon the gospel parables find need to supplement or correct one author by another, and this volume, though excellent, occasions no exception to that experience.”
| + − | Outlook. 86: 835. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w. |
Hubbard, Winfred D., and Kiersted, Wynkoof. Water-works management and maintenance. $4. Wiley.
7–21739.
“Part 1., which fills 217 out of a total of 419 pages, deals with the securing of water supplies from various sources, and the selection and installation of pumps; Part 2, 167 pages, discusses more particularly the various features of management and maintenance, but also necessarily contains much that relates to construction work; and Part 3, 35 pages, treats from various points of view the subjects of franchise, water rates and depreciation.”—Engin. N.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 167. O. ’07. |
“The title of this important book is somewhat misleading, as less than half the volume is devoted to the management and maintenance of water-works. Along with a reproduction of many facts already well known to every competent water-works man, and many citations from papers which have already been frequently published, there are a great many useful and practical suggestions nearly all of which are in the line of good modern practice. All of these make the work a valuable addition to water-works literature.” Dabney H. Maury.
| + + − | Engin. N. 58: 294. S. 12, ’07. 1720w. | |
| + | Nature. 76: 517. S. 19, ’07. 340w. |
Huber, John Bessnes. Consumption. **$3. Lippincott.
6–17682.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This work, though burdened by a too ambitious title, is really a very valuable compilation of the facts of the present day anti-tuberculosis campaign in this and other countries.” Christopher Easton.
| + + − | Charities. 17: 493. D. 15, ’06. 980w. |
Huchon, Rene. George Crabbe and his times, 1754–1832: a critical and biographical study; tr. from the French by Frederick Clarke. *$5. Dutton.
W 7–149.
With less of narrative and more of criticism, M. Huchon aims to write “a psychological biography of the poet, with a view to the interpretation of his works.”
“The picture he presents of the young Crabbe is clear and convincing. When in the later portion of his book he is dealing with the actual poems he develops these tendencies at which he has previously hinted, with great skill, so that he brings the reader very close to the intimate side of the poet’s character.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 286. Mr. 23, ’07. 1360w. |
“As a biographer M. Huchon is full, clear, and precise, rivalling the late James Dykes Campbell in his zest for research and verification.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 1: 407. Ap. 6. 2090w. |
“At times the narrative is too discursive ... but on the whole it is a just and clear biography, with sympathetic interpretation.” Annie Russell Marble.
| + + − | Dial. 43: 39. Jl. 16, ’07. 1290w. |
“To speak frankly, a book that proposes to introduce an English poet to the French, and yet in some 700 pages scarcely quotes a line of his verse as he wrote it, seems to us an absurdity. The truth is that it has gone a long way to spoil an admirable book. It is an injustice to the French reader; to the English reader it is a constant annoyance. And yet the book, even as it is, deserves to have plenty of English readers.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 193. Je. 21. ’07. 1370w. |
“Its abundance of literary judgment is presented rather in dispersion than compactness, for the purpose of elucidating the biographical theses; and the complete proportion and harmony preserved throughout may well be considered the crowning achievement of the work.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 1170w. |
“Though the French scholar may have prepared a better biography than the younger Crabbe’s, time will have to judge whether he has written a better book.” H. W. Boynton.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 491. Ag. 10, ’07. 1790w. |
“Is distinctly original and unconventional.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 41. S. 7, ’07. 1720w. |
“Of M. Huchon’s volume (not at all badly translated by Mr. Clarke) we may say, in one word, that it is the work of an expert. If only as a piece of social history the work is full of value. Our main praise, however, we reserve for the judgment and taste with which M. Huchon has made his quotations.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 462. Ap. 13, ’07. 1020w. |
* Huck, A. Synopsis of the first three Gospels arranged for English readers; ed. by Ross L. Finney. *$1. Meth. bk.
An English version of Huck’s “Synopse,” a Greek harmony used widely in Germany as an aid to Holtzmann’s “Hand-commentar.” “The present volume exhibits Mark as the basal work of the evangelic records, the use of Mark by both Matthew and Luke, the collection of Logia, and the material peculiar to each evangelist. The use of this harmony does not blind the student to the special characteristics of the several evangelists and their relations of mutual dependence, as is often the case with the older manuals.”
“The work is faithfully done, but it is based on Huck’s second edition in 1898. This is most unfortunate, as in his recent third edition, 1906, Huck has fundamentally remodeled his work, greatly improving and enriching it.”
| + − | Bib. World. 30: 480. D. ’07. 80w. |
“This is decidedly the best harmony for historical study, and its wide use would promote greatly the knowledge of the New Testament.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1314. N. 28, ’07. 190w. |
“This harmony, which follows the order of Mark, is the most useful in existence for historical students.”
| + + | Nation. 85: 398. O. 31, ’07. 140w. |
Huckel, Oliver. Modern study of conscience. (Boardman lectureship in Christian ethics.) 50c. Univ. of Pa.
7–13922.
The study looks into the origin and nature of conscience, its means of education and enlightenment, and finally considers the grounds for the present and perpetual authority of conscience.
Hudson, Charles Bradford. [Crimson conquest: a romance of Pizarro and Peru.] il. †$1.50. McClurg.
7–32156.
A story of aboriginal America. The events fall in the period of Pizarro’s conquest of the Peruvian chief and his determined hosts. The hero, Viracocha Christoval, is one of the bravest of the Castilian knights and the heroine is an Inca princess for love of whom Christoval fights against his own army. Barbaric splendor and Spanish chivalry combine in producing splendid dramatic coloring.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“There is not a bit of harm in the book, except that it is very long and strikes us as being very dull.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 678. O. 26, ’07. 90w. |
Hudson, William Henry. [Crystal age.] **$1.50. Dutton.
“This is a second edition of a book published in the eighties.... One Smith of Great Britain loses consciousness through a fall and wakes to find himself in a crystal age of organized human beings with senses of exquisite keenness and souls of crystal purity.... The cloud on Smith’s horizon is the strange fact that warmer than fraternal love is unknown. The passion that he conceives for a daughter of ‘The house’ brings him against a blank wall of incomprehension. For the perfecting of the race it has come about that its renewal is vouchsafed only to elect morals who must be fitted for their high office by a sacred training. A cryptic catastrophe ends the story, leaving the reader free to suppose anything.”—Nation.
| Lond. Times. 5: 368. N. 2, ’06. 1060w. |
“Like most stories of the impossible future it contains its touches of the credible among the prevailing absurdities and the occasional touch of the tiresome amid many fascinations. Unlike most, it has the ring of genuine poetry, the zeal of the open air, kinship with beauty of all sorts, and a relieving glint of humor.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 341. Ap. 11, ’07. 400w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 178. Mr. 23, ’07. 230w. |
Hueffer, Ford Madox. England and the English: an interpretation. **$2. McClure.
7–19051.
The three divisions of Mr. Hueffer’s book, “The soul of London,” “The heart of the country,” and “The spirit of the people,” constitute a view of modern life. “Mr. Hueffer here dedicates himself to essays in descriptive impressionism” (Ath.) offering to the traveler in and about London almost every type to be met with and revealing an intimate understanding of prevailing conditions.
“The volume may be profitably read by anyone proposing a trip to England for the introductory impressions it affords of the people and their environment. The reader of serious purpose will feel no little disappointment that the ‘interpretation’ is not more interpretative. The author’s over-fondness for dissertation is a blemish that grows more trying to the reader as he advances.”
| + − | Dial. 43: 255. O. 16, ’07. 370w. |
“Here is an antidote to the tour of the sights which leaves an American visitor far better informed about historical monuments and the homes of distinguished Englishmen than any English resident, but without any real insight into the lives and ideals of the English of to-day. It is a pity that a volume otherwise admirably got up should be marred by so many errors in proofreading. Their number is inexcusable.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 148. Ag. 15, ’07. 400w. |
“As for the success of the book in its desire to interpret for us the spirit of England and her people, that is as it may be. But it does give a wonderful series of pictures—a vitascope, as it were, of life on the island, yet not a photographic one; for each picture is tinged with the personality of the author, if it be no other than the desire he feels that his personality shall not intrude.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 650. O. 19, ’07. 2900w. |
“A voluminous ‘author’s note’ is prefixed, supplemented by one of similar length, in which egotism and over-sophistication of view-point and utterance contend, as, indeed, they do throughout.”
| − | Outlook. 86: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 140w. |
“A rather ambitious volume which, on the whole, fairly reaches its aim.”
| + − | R. of Rs. 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 100w. |
Hueffer, Ford Madox. Hans Holbein the younger: a critical monograph. *75c. Dutton.
6–1911.
Uniform with the “Popular library of art.” “A striking feature of Mr. Hueffer’s text is his comparison of Holbein with Dürer. Both stand between the Old World and the modern, between the old faith and the new learning. With Dürer the old age ends; with Holbein a new age begins.... Dürer stands for the great imaginers who went before—the Minnesingers, the Tristan poets, the great feudal upholders. As defining his country’s great place in art, Holbein represented what Bach did in music—namely, completeness and thoroughness in getting out of a preceding epoch and in getting into our own.” (Outlook.)
“Is a model of what such a study should be.”
| + + | Dial. 41: 285. N. 1, ’06. 240w. |
“Authoritatively informing, sufficiently critical and admirably well written.”
| + + | Ind. 61: 818. O. 4, ’06. 50w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 329. My. 19, ’06. 240w. |
“A worthy addition to that attractive series.”
| + + | Outlook. 83: 670. Jl. 21, ’06. 180w. |
Hugo, Victor. Novels. 8v. ea. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the thin paper sets. The eight volumes included are Les Miserables, two volumes, Notre Dame, Ninety-three, Toilers of the sea, Man who laughs, Hans of Iceland, and Bug Jargal.
Hugo, Victor. [Poems]; ed. by Arthur Graves Canfield. $1. Holt.
6–43525.
A student’s edition of Hugo’s poems in handy form, containing an introduction, biographical summary and notes.
| + | Nation. 84: 387. Ap. 25, ’07. 130w. |
Hugo, Victor Marie, viscomte. Victor Hugo’s intellectual autobiography; tr. with an introd. by Lorenzo O’Rourke. **$1.20. Funk.
7–21356.
A translation of “what will hereafter be regarded as Victor Hugo’s ultimate Confession of faith. The volume dates from the period of the great romanticist’s exile in the English island of Guernsey, to which he fled when Napoleon III. usurped the throne of France. It is composed of a group of rhapsodies on such themes as ‘Genius’, ‘Life and death’, ‘Reveries on God’, in which the most versatile of nineteenth century men-of-letters sets down his final convictions on art, on religion, and on life.”—Ind.
“Of the sons of the nineteenth century, Victor Hugo, it seems to us, was preëminent as a transmitter of the light.” B. O. Flower.
| + + | Arena. 38: 263. S. ’07. 9000w. |
“An interesting and, on the whole, a well-written volume.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 238. Ag. 31. 600w. |
“A graceful and scholarly translation.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1469. Je. 20, ’07. 610w. |
“A well-written and illuminating piece of work, being not only critical but to some extent biographical.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 131. Jl. 27, ’07. 170w. |
“The effect of the volume in its English form is of a wild medley of jerky phrases.”
| − | Nation. 85: 124. Ag. 8, ’07. 540w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 100w. |
“Lorenzo O’Rourke, has contrived to throw into his rendering some of the eloquence of the Titan—more than a suggestion of his volcanic force and white hot rush of his burning words.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 414. Je. 29, ’07. 1050w. |
“The whole book is but a last illustration of Hugo’s incomparable gift of phrase-making, of his self-consciousness, his egotism, his reliance upon a superb, but purely external, literary gift, upon a craftmanship that apparently never was in close communion with its possessor’s essential inner self, which, instead, always looked abroad for stimulation to the intellectual, social or political preoccupations of the hour.” A. Schade Van Westrum.
| + − | No. Am. 185: 783. Ag. 2, ’07. 1470w. | |
| R. of Rs. 36: 636. N. ’07. 90w. |
“We cannot but feel however, that Mr. O’Rourke is not always qualified for his task.”
| − | Spec. 99: 170. Ag. 3, ’07. 250w. |
Hulbert, Archer Butler. Ohio river; a course of empire. **$3.50. Putnam.
6–35979.
The sixth river to be treated in the series known as “Great waterways of America.” “The illustrations which are numerous, are from photographs, old prints, maps, and paintings, and are a distinct contribution to the value of the book.... The age of the canoe, the flatboat, and the steamer, as he names the divisions of the Ohio’s history, are each treated fully and entertainingly, in a fashion to vivify the heroes of each period, from La Salle, Boone, and the Clarks, to St. Clair, ‘Mad Anthony’ Wayne, and the rest of the Indian fighters who in their turn were supplanted by the heterogeneous multitude of pioneers.” (Dial.)
“By far the most valuable portions of the book are those which deal with the distinctly human side of the subject—the conditions of pioneer existence with which the emigrant had to wrestle, the life of flatboatman and trader, the reign of outlaw and rowdy, the intermingling of racial elements, and particularly the jealous contact of Yankee and Virginian on the north and south banks of the river. So far as political history is concerned, the student will find nothing new. The book is unfortunately subject to the limitations and defects of a hasty and somewhat scrappy narrative.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 662. Ap. ’07. 790w. |
“A useful survey, not scientific, but helpful in illustrating the successive phases of social life on the river.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 68. Mr. ’07. |
“Mr. Hulbert brings to his work unusual qualifications, for he unites a local interest and pride in the region of which he writes, with a large perspective, and accuracy and perseverance in research with picturesque and pungent style.”
| + + | Dial. 41: 395. D. 1, ’06. 320w. |
“Fewer extracts and more concise treatment would make for vividness, but the book, with its excellent illustrations, shows careful research and gives a thoro knowledge of the region with which it deals.”
| + + − | Ind. 62: 100. Ja. 10, ’07. 220w. |
“Comes near to being a model of what such a book ought to be.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1233. N. 21, ’07. 140w. |
“Mr. Hulbert has made what we are inclined to think is a most intrinsically important addition yet made to the Messrs. Putnam’s series.”
| + + | Lit. D. 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 140w. |
“There is no chapter in this book which is not of historical interest and value. But without depreciating its genuine worth, it must be said that the treatment should have been more systematic and complete.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 60. Ja. 17, ’07. 910w. |
“On the whole the author has produced a volume of great historic value and interest.”
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 12. Ja. 5, ’07. 2300w. |
Hulbert, Archer Butler. [Pilots of the republic.] *$1.50. McClurg.
6–41537.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
| Am. Hist. R. 12: 721. Ap. ’07. 50w. | ||
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 69. Mr. ’07. S. |
“Narrated in a pleasant popular manner.”
| + | Dial. 42: 147. Mr. 1, ’07. 260w. | |
| + | Ind. 63: 457. Ag. 22, ’07. 270w. |
“The book is a direct and forceful contribution to American history, and is well printed, as its text merits.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 526. Mr. 7, ’07. 200w. |
“Mr. Hulbert’s style is attractive and in general, his presentation of historical facts is good. One of the best chapters of the book is that on Marcus Whitman, the hero of Oregon.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 112. Ja. ’07. 250w. |
Hulbert, Homer Beza. Passing of Korea. **$3.80. Doubleday.
6–32372.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Exhaustive, authoritative, and readable.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 10. Ja. ’07. |
“The author has long resided in the country, and is conversant with its language and literature. He is, we believe, the first writer on Korea who possesses the latter indispensable qualification.”
| + + | Ath. 1906, 2: 765. D. 15. 1720w. |
“Certain fundamental changes which are coming about as results of the late war in the far east are described with insight and vigor.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
| + | Dial. 43: 85. Ag. 16, ’07. 900w. |
“One of the best books on Korea that has yet been written.”
| + + | Sat. R. 103: 114. Ja. 26. ’07. 1440w. |
“In so far as it is a picture of the social life of a backward people, it is intensely interesting; but Mr. Hulbert is bitter when he ventures on politics, so much so that one feels that he should have named his book ‘The betrayal of Korea.’ He has nothing good to say of the Japanese. Mr. Hulbert knows Korea and Koreans thoroughly, and writes of both authoritatively and attractively.”
| + | Spec. 98: sup. 646. Ap. 27, ’07. 620w. |
Huling, Caroline A. Letters of a business woman to her niece. *$1. Fenno.
7–508.
In a series of personal letters to a young woman there is a vast deal of sound sense which forms a general and impersonal contribution to conduct. The writer is a woman of keen observation and ready sympathies who has solved her problems of business life in a great city thru experience, and from her fund of acquired wisdom, talks freely to her niece. Matters of conduct, morals and dress are taught with matter-of-fact allegiance to independence and dignity.
“The advice is sensible, if trite.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 80w. |
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 41. Ja. 26, ’07. 1220w. |
Hull, Walter Henry, ed. Practical problems in banking and currency; being a number of selected addresses delivered in recent years by prominent bankers, financiers, and economists. **$3.50. Macmillan.
7–17036.
The sixty addresses included in this volume cover the period since 1900 and deal authoritatively with practical problems as they affect actual conditions. The papers are grouped in three sections; General banking, Banking reform and currency, and The trust company, and they discuss these subjects in three various subdivisions and from various points of view. The volume is intended as a reference book in connection with studies in banking and currency.
“The collection will be found useful to students of our monetary situation even though few of these papers have any such value as would make them worthy of a permanent place in the literature of money.” L.
| + | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 494. O. ’07. 390w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 296. My. 11, ’07. 60w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 560w. |
“It brings together a mass of valuable information not usually dealt with—or, at any rate, not dealt with in detail—in the standard textbook.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 972. Ag. 31, ’07. 480w. | |
| + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 560. S. ’07. 150w. |
“The present volume is a valuable addition to our knowledge and understanding of the theory of credit, and when this is said no fuller acknowledgment of is importance can be made.”
| + | Spec. 99: sup. 642. N. 2, ’07. 310w. |
Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp. [Through Portugal.] **$2. McClure.
7–25498.
The author says that this volume is a self-prescribed penance for his former injustice toward the most beautiful country and the most unspoiled and courteous peasantry in Southern Europe. So he makes amends for hitherto rating the Portuguese as a Spaniard without any good qualities. His greatest interest centers in such places as “Bussaco, Thomar and Leiria, of which he gives a vivid series of impressions, picturesque, alert, and eminently good-humoured.” (Ath.)
“His vivid description of the scenery and the people, and his observations on art, history and archaeology make up a book of more than usual interest and charm.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 167. O. ’07. S. |
“The easy, flowing style of the book takes one from one scene to another without effort, and the vivid descriptions enable the reader to ‘see without traveling.’”
| + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 594. N. ’07. 140w. |
“The book is charmingly illustrated, and abounds in engaging, sincere enthusiasm.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 350. Mr. 23. 190w. |
“Whatever Mr. Hume describes in and about Oporto, Bussaco, Coimbra, Alcoboca, Cintra, Lisbon, or places of lesser note, is done with a well-considered and creditable enthusiasm, and in an unusually graceful style.”
| + | Dial. 42: 373. Je. 16, ’07. 200w. |
“It ought to be a revelation to those who know Portugal only from a guide book, or who think of it only as an unimportant strip of seashore to be neglected for royal Spain.”
| + | Nation. 85: 236. S. 12, ’07. 490w. |
“The fault we have to find with the clever sketches in colour is that they are somewhat faint in tint and rather too much en vignette.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 190w. |
Hunt, Thomas Forsyth. How to choose a farm. **$1.75. Macmillan.
6–26525.
“The chief elements considered are: First, character and topography of the soil; second, climatic conditions, including healthfulness and water supply; third, location; fourth, improvements. A complete and somewhat technical classification of the soils of the United States is given, along with the crops best adapted to them.... The subject is treated from an economic point of view, abundant statistical data being given in support of statements.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“The book suffers through an attempt to cover too wide a field. The style is ordinary. Though at times involved, it is generally lucid. The subject is treated practically and dispassionately. The book is valuable to persons considering the possibility of owning or living on a farm.”
| + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 216. Ja. ’67. 310w. |
“A remarkable volume for the amount of information that has been compressed without loss of enthusiasm and dryness of style.”
| + | Nation. 83: 467. N. 29, ’06. 270w. |
Hunt, Rev. William, ed. Irish parliament, 1775; from an official and contemporary manuscript. *$1.20. Longmans.
7–26445.
An interesting addition to the literature of Parliament. It is a reprint of a manuscript, supposedly a confidential document, prepared probably with the object of guiding the Irish government in its course of bribing the Parliament. Dr. Hunt has prefixed an introduction describing the regime of the time.
“The volume adds less than might be expected from a document introduced by Dr. Hunt.” C. Litton Falkiner.
| + | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 811. O. ’07. 770w. |
“As a collection of character-portraits by a keen, if prejudiced critic, the black list of Sir John Blaquiere presents a very curious study.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 116. Ap. 12, ’07. 1950w. |
“Had the manuscripts been put forward quite alone it would have told its own sordid story, and more graphically than any monograph on the Irish parliament that now exists it would have exemplified the character of the institution that disappeared at the Union of 1800.”
| + | Nation. 35: 78. Jl. 25. ’07. 1600w. |
“The book adds nothing of the substance to what is already known of the state of politics or of political morality in the period immediately preceding Grattan’s. Though Mr. Hunt’s essay exhibits the acumen and judgment which are characteristic of all his work, it supplies nothing of importance which cannot be as readily found in familiar authorities.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 368. S. 21, ’07. 660w. | |
| Spec. 98: 544. Ap. 6, ’07. 100w. |
Hunt, Rev. William, and Poole, Reginald Lane, eds. [Political history of England.] 12v. ea. *$2.60. Longmans.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“We must confess that Mr. Fisher’s portrait of Henry VII. is not satisfactory.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 159. F. 16, ’07. 1310w. (Review of v. 5.) |
“We leave his book convinced of its very great historical, and we might add literary value.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 247. Mr. 9, ’07. 2270w. (Review of v. 4.) |
“He writes, not as an advocate pleads, but as a judge sums up. And the outcome is real history.”
| + + | Acad. 73: 722. Jl. 27, ’07. 1340w. (Review of v. 7.) |
“In some respects, in a freshness and newness of viewpoint, the volume has an advantage over its predecessors. For this, however, the author must share the credit with the peculiar opportunity offered by the field assigned him. This part of English history has been somewhat neglected by English historians of the last generation.” Benjamin Terry.
| + + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 613. Ap. ’07. 1520w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“One error of real importance is the ascription of arbitrary power to the ‘Warden’ of London, who was appointed by the king when the citizens were deprived of the right to elect a mayor.”
| + + − | Ath. 1906, 1: 165. F. 10. 920w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“Marked both by great merits and considerable defects. Professor Oman’s faults do not much matter; but the accumulated weight of scores of small errors becomes serious. To these limitations must also be added a too rigid adherence to mere chronological order, some want of perspective, a judgment that is not always mature, or even consistent, and occasional weakness of insight into constitutional and economic problems. The result is to diminish the value of an interesting work.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 65. Ja. 19. 3020w. (Review of v. 4.) |
“It is beyond question an admirable example of history treated from the ethical point of view. Probably it is the ablest instance which has been produced in modern days, and some of its descriptions—such as that of Bamburgh and its neighborhood—rival in their own fashion those of Froude or of Macaulay. Here, if any where, history is human and attractive. The emotional interpretation of events has excluded much that is proper matter for the historian.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 468. Ap. 20. 420w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“One most important aspect of the times is too scantily, or at least too allusively, treated. We get no adequate impression of the economic problems which loomed large at this period.”
| + + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 655. Je. 1. 2460w. (Review of v. 5.) |
“There is a something wanting.... It is pulsation, life.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 471. O. 19. 2080w. (Review of v. 7.) |
Reviewed by Ch.-V. Langlois.
| + + − | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 150. Ja. ’07. 1210w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“If, however, we are hardly prepared to endorse all the opinions which are scattered through Mr. Brodrick’s pages we gladly acknowledge the clearness and accuracy of his narrative. We do not know where it is possible to find a better summary of English history during the first third of the nineteenth century.” Spencer Walpole.
| + + − | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 183. Ja. ’07. 1330w. (Review of v. 11.) |
“The book is written from a large and almost exhaustive study of all available sources.” James Gairdner.
| + | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 364. Ap. ’07. 1980w. (Review of v. 5.) |
“Mr. Oman’s clear and forcible narrative presents a review of the period which is in all its main aspects substantially sound.” C. L. Kingsford.
| + + − | Eng. Hist. R. 22: 576. Jl. ’07. 1620w. (Review of v. 4.) |
“The [fifth] volume ... contains what is probably the best account of Henry VIII yet written.”
| + + − | Ind. 62: 1527. Je. 27, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 4. and 5.) |
“Able and exhaustive book. It will be an unfailing resource of the student, while it proves the despair of the captious critic; for its author can never be found nodding, and he puts forward no plausible theories to serve as a target for the enemy’s bullets.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 5: 50. F. 16, ’06. 850w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“The best history that has yet been written of the reigns of the first two Tudor princes. Whether he looks for instruction or for amusement, the reader who takes up Mr. Fisher’s book will not be disappointed.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 6: 21. Ja. 18, ’07. 2010w. (Review of v. 5.) |
“Within the limits thus prescribed for him, Mr. Montague has produced a model book, and if sometimes these limits seem irksome to the reader, they must have been more so to the writer.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 194. Je. 21, ’07. 1360w. (Review of v. 7.) | |
| + + | Nation. 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 410w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.) |
“Although the high praise bestowed on this series in earlier notices must be continued yet as the volumes accumulate certain deep seated weaknesses begin to show more conspicuously.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 146. Ag. 15, ’07. 720w. (Review of v. 7.) |
“His present work is authoritative, and based upon the results of the most recent scholarship. It is a valuable contribution to the literature of one of the most significant periods of English history.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 37. Ja. 19, ’07. 630w. (Review of v. 4.) | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 181. Mr. 23, ’07. 880w. (Review of v. 5.) |
“A little of Macaulay’s art would make his reliable history more entertaining.”
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w. (Review of v. 7.) | |
| + + | Outlook. 85: 96. Ja. 12, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 4.) |
“Perhaps an over-zealousness for detail is manifest, here and there, as, for example, in the discussion of foreign relations, but even where detail is most abundant the sense of continuity and unity and interest is preserved. And, on occasion, Mr. Fisher shows himself capable of rising to heights of superb eloquence.”
| + + − | Outlook. 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 5.) |
“It is regrettable to find economic conditions practically unnoticed.”
| + + − | Outlook. 86: 836. Ag. 17, ’07. 480w. (Review of v. 7.) |
“Professor Tout has done his work well; his volume is essentially military and narrative history, accurate enough and full enough, it may be hoped, to satisfy students and general readers for many a decade.” Charles A. Beard.
| + | Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 700. D. ’06. 620w. (Review of v. 3.) |
“A clear, scholarly and adequate account which will find a serviceable place in the literature of the period.”
| + + | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 188. Mr. ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 4.) |
“Unhappily the volume is marred in many places by vehement expressions and loose characterizations which seem unworthy of so dignified a work.” Charles A. Beard.
| + − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 522. S. ’07. 740w. (Review of v. 11.) |
“As a narrator ... he is admirable; his style is clear and, without striving after epigram, epigrammatic.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 559. My. 4, ’07. 1430w. (Review of v. 5.) |
“We must say, however, that Professor Montague’s flag is hoisted at once, and that there is scarcely an attempt to be fair to the side he does not like. We are not imputing to Mr. Montague any deliberate ‘suppressio veri.’ But his history has a particular focus. It proceeds on the assumption that one man may steal a horse while another may not look over the hedge.”
| + − | Sat. R. 104: 483. O. 19, ’07. 920w. (Review of v. 7.) |
“In style, judgment, and exhaustive knowledge of sources it leaves little to be desired.”
| + + + | Spec. 98: 1011. Je. 29, ’07. 490w. (Review of v. 5.) |
“A broad, accurate, restrained and scholarly book. Admirable in its reliance on this authority and objectivity of the records, it is, however, a book which will appeal to the scholar rather than to the general reader.” Chalfant Robinson.
| + + | Yale R. 10: 324. N. ’07. 900w. (Review of v. 3.) |
Huntington, Arria Sargent. Memoir and letters of Frederic Dan Huntington, first bishop of Central New York. **$2. Houghton.
6–39740.
“In a career so varied as that of Dr. Huntington’s there is much of general interest. Nourished in what might be termed evangelized Unitarianism, and educated by orthodox Congregationalists, he became pastor of a Unitarian church, and subsequently preacher to Harvard University and Plummer professor of Christian morals. On change of view he was made rector of an Episcopal church in Boston, and later, for thirty-five years bishop of central New York.”—Nation.
“The biographer has produced a pleasing picture of one of the most conscientious and useful men of the American church.”
| + | Nation. 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 210w. |
“This book is for the few—for those who find a delight in simplicity and clarity and stability.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 860w. |
* Huntington, Ellsworth. Pulse of Asia. il. **$3.50. Houghton.
7–36725.
A journey in central Asia illustrating the geographic relation between physical environment and man, and between changes of climate and history. Mr. Huntington gathers up the various hypotheses relating to geography, meteorology. archeology, folk-lore and history and combines them into a consistent geographic theory of history. The book is the outcome of personal adventure from which an analytical mind has deduced material which is a worthy contribution to science.
Huntington, Helen. Days that pass. **$1.25. Lane.
7–9785.
Some fifty little verses, slight and pleasing.
“All thoughtfully fashioned and delicate in expression.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 254. Ap. 16, ’07. 110w. |
“A volume of slight but graceful verse.”
| + | Nation. 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 70w. |
Hurll, Estelle May. Portraits and portrait painting, being a brief survey of portrait painting from the middle ages to the present day. il. $2.50. Page.
7–30411.
In this survey the aim has been to show what has been contributed to the art of each age and by each nationality as well as by the several most notable portrait painters. The work sketches history, temperament and types, throwing sidelights on subjects as well as painters. Some famous portraits are included among the illustrations.
“The ability ... to hold the reader’s interest by a crisp style, and by a skilful presentation of salient points and large issues, is evident throughout the book, which is an unusually satisfactory example of its class.”
| + + | Dial. 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 330w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 30w. | ||
| + | Outlook. 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 100w. |
“She has the valuable gift of awakening promptly the desire to examine at first hand the subject of her description.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
| + + | Putnam’s. 3: 357. D. ’07. 280w. |
Huston, Paul Griswold. Around an old homestead; a book of memories. *$1.50. Meth. bk.
6–39445.
“This ‘book of memories,’ though it celebrates a particular house, will serve to stir home memories in the heart of anyone who has lived in the country. It has much to say of the house itself, the open fire, the orchards, the woods, the squirrels, the dogs, and the activities of farm life.”—Dial.
“A finely-made book, whose open print and abundant pictures will especially delight old people.” May Estelle Cook.
| + | Dial. 41: 389. D. 1, ’06. 120w. |
“It is a sympathetic book to handle as well as to read.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 110w. |
Hutchinson, Alfred L. Limit of wealth. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–22404.
A narrative based upon a report made in 1944 by a committee appointed by the Eurasian conference, which represented the allied powers of Europe and Asia to investigate the system of government in the United States, by which that nation had so quickly outclassed the old nations of the world. The narrative presents the findings of this committee and shows us a United States based upon Utopian laws, the most significant being that which allows the accumulation of wealth by any individual but which limits his ultimate sale of it.
| Engin. N. 58: 296. S. 12, ’07. 350w. | ||
| Ind. 63: 1061. O. 31, ’07. 160w. | ||
| J. Pol. Econ. 15: 501. O. ’07. 170w. |
“Mr. Hutchinson’s book is at least written by one who understands present conditions. From these conditions he draws logical conclusions.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 190w. |
“On the whole, we think these publications are more useful in giving the student of the present economic conditions a historical background than in giving to the reformer any clear light on methods for their improvement.”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 539. N. 9, ’07. 360w. |
* Hutchinson, Frances Kinsley. Our country home. **$2. McClurg.
7–36734.
A delightful account of how two people—a man who had always wanted a farm, and a woman who had never wanted a country house—were captivated by a bit of Wisconsin woodland bordering upon a lake. They immediately become the owners of seventy-two acres of this wilderness and in a few year bring about a wonderful transformation, each step of which combining the artistic with the practical, is recorded in this fully illustrated volume.
“Mrs. Hutchinson tells her story most entertainingly, giving many suggestions to readers who are interested in having country homes of their own.”
| + | Dial. 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 300w. |
Hutchinson, Jonathan, jr. Leprosy and fish eating: a statement of facts and explanations. *$3.25. Keener.
The object of this work is stated in the preface to be “to carry conviction to the reader that the fundamental cause of the malady known as true leprosy is the eating of fish in a state of commencing decomposition.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 1: 703. Je. 9. 580w. |
“In criticising Mr. Hutchinson’s theory we do not in the least desire to belittle his work, which is of the greatest interest, and his book is a valuable contribution to the epidemiology of leprosy.”
| + − | Nature. 75: 412. Mr. 14, ’07. 740w. |
“We can lay down Mr. Hutchinson’s book with a feeling of greater respect for his perseverance than for his judicial capacity.”
| − | Sat. R. 102: 244. Ag. 25, ’06. 380w. | |
| + | Spec. 96: 504. Mr. 31, ’06. 180w. |
Hutchinson, Rollin William, jr. Long distance electric power transmission; being a treatise on the hydro-electric generation of energy; its transformation, transmission and distribution. *$3. Van Nostrand.
7–10589.
“One-third of the book is devoted to the principles and practice of hydraulics.... The electrical section of the book opens with a brief study of the electric generator and its accessories.... Following this is a long chapter on the transmission line.... Transformers, motors and rotary converters have each a separate chapter.... The book closes with a few illustrations from actual practice of transmission-plant construction.”—Engin. N.
“As an epitome of the subject indicated in the title, the book is excellent. It is well-balanced in several parts and leaves the reader with an impression that the problem of power transmission is a large one.” Henry W. Norris.
| + | Engin. N. 57: 439. Ap. 18, ’07. 450w. |
“The treatment is concise, the language clear, and the mathematics elementary. A work in which theory and reliable every-day experience are well and judiciously combined.”
| + + | Technical Literature. 1: 270. Je. ’07. 230w. |
* Hutten, Baroness Bettina von. The halo. il. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–36982.
An unusual situation is handled by the author here. To free herself from drudgery and poverty as well as the retinue of ineligibles which her mother has forced upon her, an impulsive girl engages herself to a mere boy and later finds out that it is his father, the wizard of the violin, whom she loves, notwithstanding the fact that there is a wife. “The book is really a study of the artistic temperament.”
“There is about some of the people an air of verisimilitude and actuality; but one looks in vain for that fineness of perception, nicety of phrase, and sense of true contrast which would have added greatly to the whole.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 650. N. 23. 220w. |
“Gives us in ‘The halo’ much the same wide range of life and variety of type that contributed to the popularity of ‘Pam’ and its sequel.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 26: 407. D. ’07. 690w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 50w. |
“Is disappointing, owing to the improbability of the main situation. The situation is intense enough, and novel enough; but it lacks, somehow, that touch of reality, of sympathetic interest, which is ever needed to bring the reader completely en rapport with the joys or tribulations of the dwellers in romance.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 850w. |
“The portrait of the violinist is an admirable sketch in the florid style, and it is a pity that the extreme depravity of mind which taints the atmosphere of the story like an unpleasant odour should prevent readers from enjoying the pictures of Anglo-French life in London, which are both amusingly and picturesquely drawn.”
| + − | Spec. 99: 672. N. 2, ’07. 190w. |
Hutten, Baroness Bettina von. One way out. **$2.50. Dodd.
6–38553.
The hero, who is something of a cad, proposes to three girls in one evening and is refused by each in turn. A fourth proposal, one which promises an acceptance, he does not make. The explanation of all this forms the story.
“The book is a slight rollicking comedy of English life, told with much vivacity and considerable skill in the invention of incident.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 888. D. 22, ’06. 290w. |
“Apart from its holiday make-up, the novelette has little to commend it.”
| − | Outlook. 84: 893. D. 8, ’06. 30w. |
Hutton, Edward. Cities of Spain. *$2. Macmillan.
W 7–52.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“An enthusiastic and well sustained treatment of Spanish life and scenes. At times sentimental and pseudo-philosophic.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 69. Mr. ’07. S. |
“After reading the book, the reviewer suggests, as a more fitting title, ‘Spanish phantasies’ or, ‘Sobs of the desert.’ George G. Brownell.”
| − | Dial. 42: 135. Mr. 1, ’07. 1240w. |
“A piece of the true literature, in which the very spirit of the scenes described has been caught and reproduced.”
| + | Int. Studio. 32: 84. Jl. ’07. 240w. |
Hutton, Edward. Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini: a study of a fifteenth century Italian despot. *$4. Dutton.
7–11548.
A record of fact retold as fiction. “The volume, which is a study of the ‘Quattrocento’ in Italy, with the principal figure an Italian despot, is supposed to be a translation of ‘the memoirs of the most material transactions’ in the life of Malatesta, ‘written in Tuscan by Pietro Sanseverino, with a sketch of his own life and account of his meeting with Leon Battista Albert.’... The book is fully illustrated with photogravures of portraits, documents, etc.” (N. Y. Times)
“As a means of arriving at this result he has invented a contemporary of his hero who shall tell the tale for him. The idea is ingenious and gives rise to some pages of interesting reflection and comment by the old humanist in the course of his narrative. Yet in this very scheme lies also the initial weakness of the book.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 655. D. 29, ’06. 920w. |
“Although the memoir is a fiction the author has held loyally to historic fact and shows remarkable familiarity with the authorities as is evidenced by notes and references.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 122. My. ’07. 110w. |
“Alternately we are tantalized by our author’s refusal, as historian, to go one step beyond his documents, and annoyed by his airy readiness, as novelist, to brush aside a difficulty, without making the slightest effort to clear it up.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 97. Ja. 26. 1420w. |
“A product that is neither history nor romance something that historians will not read because they must regard it as fiction, while novel readers will avoid it because it advertises itself as history. In his attempt to be too clever Mr. Hutton has overreached himself.”
| − + | Ind. 62: 1151. My. 16, ’07. 390w. |
“This is an excellent book, worthy to be read by every lover of good English, and unquestionably the finest piece of work Mr. Hutton has as yet done.”
| + + − | Nation. 83: 559. D. 27, ’06. 850w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 11: 828. D. 1, ’06. 350w. |
“Might perhaps have been as well expressed with slightly less evident straining after effect.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 41. Ja. 5, ’07. 210w. |
“There is but one real blot in Mr. Hutton’s fine work of art, and that should be instantly painted out or painted over; Sanseverino describes as an eye-witness a supposed brutal murder by Sigismund of an Ultramontane lady.”
| + + − | Sat. R. 102: 270. Mr. 2, ’07. 1640w. |
“It is an artistic piece of work, with a few flaws indeed, for only a consummate artist could have kept it quite on the same level throughout.”
| + + − | Spec. 97: 214. F. 9, ’07. 1500w. |
Hyde, A. G. George Herbert and his times. **$2.75. Putnam.
7–2429.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Such virtues as the merely careful and temperate writer, whose gifts do not include art or style, may command, his book has.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 313. Mr. 16. 1820w. |
Reviewed by A. I. du Pont Coleman.
| Putnam’s. 1: 631. F. ’07. 530w. |
Hyde, Henry M. Upstart. †$1.50. Century.
6–34689.
“Pat, ‘the upstart,’ son of a drunken Irish soldier who yet dies a heroic death, and of a bighearted washerwoman, fights his way up bravely, is not ashamed of his mother or of his finespirited and jolly Aunt Bridget, makes his mark as a lawyer and politician, and finally ‘gets the girl’—the daughter of a raging Berserker of a Swede (we suppose it is a Swede, the book says ‘Dootchman’), who is ‘King’ of the country all about, and with his six stalwart boys has terrorized the people.”—Outlook.
“It is a realistic narrative, simple and straightforward, with touches of humor, and unpretentiously successful in its execution.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 100w. |
“Mr. Hyde has written a novel that is interesting as a story and not without value as a document of that phase of American life that is seen in the Middle West.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 130w. |
“The book has some strikingly good qualities which, since it is a first novel, give promise of good work in the future. It has also some strikingly bad qualities. This atmosphere of unconscious democracy is the best thing in the book.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 719. N. 3, ’06. 390w. |
“Altogether, this is a vigorous tale, homely but dramatic.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 584. N. 3, ’06. 130w. |
Hyde, Rev. James. Old faith re-stated. *60c. Warne.
The subjects treated are the cardinal articles of the Christian faith, the titles for the chapters being taken from Scriptures; as “What think ye of Christ?” “The Word was God,” “If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments,” “When the Son of Man shall come in His glory.” The aim of the restatement of faith is to aid the church in getting back to its original foundation.
Hyrst, H. W. G. Adventures in the great deserts, romantic incidents and perils of travel, sport, and exploration throughout the world. *$1.50. Lippincott.
6–45335.
“Desert stories of twenty-four travellers and explorers.... The majority of these explorations belong to the first half of the last century, and the arms and equipment of the men, often single-handed, who undertook them must appear miserably inadequate to any schoolboy.”—Spec.
“This volume is, in stirring details, in no way inferior to its companions.”
| + | Ath. 1906, 2: 511. O. 27. 120w. |
“On the whole, the author has produced a good and entertaining volume. He is content to write simply and let the actual facts supply all the thrills required to stimulate juvenile interests.” Cyrus C. Adams.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 100w. |
“There is material enough to keep a boy’s interest up to the highest pitch, and the book is well put together.”
| + | Spec. 97: sup. 659. N. 3, ’06. 260w. |
* Hyrst, H. W. G. Adventures in great forests. **$1.50. Lippincott.
“The author observes that the period 1760–1860, which is roughly covered by his book, was the golden age of forest wanderings, and not unreasonably deplores the wasteful destruction of one of the finest features of nature. In this volume we are introduced to sportsmen and explorers in all parts of the world, from Stedman on his march through the forests of Guiana to De Saulcy botanizing in the forest region of the Jordan.”—Ath.
“Will revive recollections in adults; and inspire the young reader with something of the spirit of the past.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 110w. | |
| + | Nation. 85: 520. D. 5. ’07. 90w. |
“Recorded in a style which should attract all juvenile readers.”
| + | Nature. 76: 635. O. 24, ’07. 160w. |
Hyslop, James Hervey. Borderland of psychical research. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.
6–33631.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Many of his sentences are so obscure and confused as to be almost unintelligible.” Henry W. Wright.
| − | Am. J. Theol. 11: 361. Ap. ’07. 80w. | |
| + | Arena. 86: 670. Je. ’07. 600w. |
“Its aim is cautious, its method conservative and its theme of absorbing interest.” I. Woodbridge Riley.
| + | Bookm. 25: 79. Mr. ’07. 1380w. | |
| + | Lit. D. 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 160w. |
Hyslop, James Hervey. Science and a future life. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.
5–17300.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by Henry W. Wright.
| Am. J. Theol. 11: 361. Ap. ’07. 150w. |