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Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich Philipp August. Evolution of man: a popular scientific study; tr. by Joseph McCabe. [*]$10. Putnam.
The present translation has been made from “the fifth (enlarged) edition of the German work. The abstruse and puzzling phenomena of embryology occupy the whole first volume.... The second volume is devoted to the vexed problem of our ancestry—beginning with the lowest forms of life and working upwards thru ‘Our worm-like ancestors,’ ‘Our fish-like ancestors,’ ‘Our five-toed ancestors,’ and ‘Our ape-like ancestors.’ But besides these we have some luminous chapters on the evolution of the nervous system, sense organs, vascular system, and so on. A summary on the ‘results of anthropogeny’ closes the book.” (Acad.)
Reviewed by W. P. Pycraft.
| + + — | Acad. 68: 489. My. 6, ‘05. 1680w. |
[*] “As always, he is prodigious of learning, fertile alike in illuminating suggestion and extraordinary new words; and as always, totally at sea as to what may reasonably be said in a popular book.” E. T. Brewster.
| + + — | Atlan. 96: 682. N. ‘05. 410w. |
[*] “A translation which is, on the whole, excellent.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 512. D. 21, ‘05. 360w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 224. Ap. 8, ‘05. 330w. |
“The broad fact of development and the main details of the process are undeniably given by Prof. Haeckel with a wealth of illustration and a positiveness of statement which aids both understanding and memory, even if it somewhat obscures the complexity of the problem and the insecurity of the conclusions to which one is lead.” Joseph Jacobs.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 569. S. 2, ‘05. 1660w. |
“It is unfortunate that more care has not been taken with the translation and proof-reading, in the latter especially with regard to proper names. On the whole, however, the translation is readable and set forth in idiomatic English.” J. P. McM.
| + + — | Science, n.s. 22: 137. Ag. 4, ‘05. 1550w. |
Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich. Wonders of life. [*]$2. Harper.
This volume is supplementary to the author’s “Riddle of the universe,” and is an answer to the thousands of letters and the many published attacks the first work called forth. It contains a quantity of biological information and is probably too technical to be popular. “His whole method of argument is based on the continuity of life, the unity of nature, and his metaphysics grows out of his biology. The book is divided into four parts, in which he treats respectively of the knowledge, the nature, the functions and the history of life. Altho he is now in his seventy-second year he has not lost the skill in classification and terminology which has given him his special reputation, and he uses effectively the tabular form and parallel columns to elucidate his theories and to contrast them with those of his opponents.” (Ind.)
“The chapters on ‘Forms of life,’ ‘Monera,’ and ‘Nutrition’ are written by a master in these fields and tend to compensate for the enormous mass of paralogisms and unproved assertions that constitute perhaps the greater part of the remaining chapters.” C. W. Saleeby.
| + — | Acad. 68: 82. Ja. 28, ‘05. 700w. |
“Yet the book must be respected for its learning, and is absorbing even when not convincing.”
| + + — | Critic. 46: 383. Ap. ‘05. 130w. |
“The book is translated into good English, but there are various slips or misprints in names and technical terms.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
| + + — | Dial. 38: 232. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1000w. | |
| Ind. 58: 206. Ja. 26, ‘05. 1130w. |
“It [the translation] is on the whole clear and vigorous, but it betrays inexpertness. The translator has not the vaguest idea of what he is translating. Defective proofreading.... This book expresses the sincere convictions of a veteran who has done much for biology.”
| + — | Nature. 71: 313. F. 2, ‘05. 1550w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w. |
“Notwithstanding this obscurity in parts, the whole book is fairly clear as to its tendency.” Joseph Jacobs.
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 570. S. 2, ‘05. 1210w. | |
| Outlook. 79: 505. F. 25, ‘05. 390w. |
“After one wades through this terrible terminology of the scientific philosopher he is gratified, however, to find that he has been led always to a clear conclusion. Such is the nature of the question that much depends on the original bias of the reader.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 38: 214. F. 11, ‘05. 860w. | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 383. Mr. ‘05. 100w. |
“Has been well translated by Mr. Joseph McCabe.”
| + + — | Spec. 94: 788. My. 27, ‘05. 200w. |
“On the whole we find it disappointing. In the present book we got a mass of biological information, often of the most obscure kind, set forth with all the ability of an acknowledged master in this branch of science: but in conjunction with this we get a considerable quantity of loose thinking of a kind which passes for philosophical often presented in a very superficial manner.”
| + — | The Westminster R. 163: 103. Ja. ‘05 530w. |
Haenssgen, Oswald H. Suction gas. $1. Gas engine pub.
“Written, according to the author, to supply the lack, in this country, of information on the subject of suction gas producers, and more briefly of their first cost, cost of running and possible utility and development.”—Engin. N.
Reviewed by Alfred B. Forstall.
| + + | Engin. N. 53: 184. F. 16, ‘05. 220w. |
Hafiz, Mohammed Shems-ed-Din. Odes from the Divan of. Freely rendered from literal translations by Richard Le Gallienne. [*]$1.50. Page.
“Hafiz has the epicureanism of Omar Khayyam without his philosophy. He sings of nothing but wine and love.... Mr. Le Gallienne has not merely translated, he has transmuted the odes into true English poetry, and any one but an antiquarian will prefer to read them in this form rather than in the literal versions.”—Ind.
“In short, while Mr. Le Gallienne has not found much more to tell us in this than in his last Persian study, he has not shown any greater poetical merit; but, on the contrary, by his more ambitious metrical scheme and greater dependence upon himself, he has been led into worse technical blunders.”
| — | Acad. 68: 1123. O. 28, ‘05. 980w. |
“The only fault we have to find with Mr. Le Gallienne is that he is inclined to make his task easy by diluting his poetry until it flows freely. With more pains he might have kept more of the terseness and spirit of the original.”
| + + — | Ind. 59: 687. S. 14, ‘05. 540w. |
“His work is frankly not a translation by a scholar, but a poet’s version of another poet. Jarring notes like these are the more discordant when one thinks of the beauty of so much of his version, and remembers the undoubted ability of Mr. Le Gallienne.”
| + — | Lit. D. 31: 665. N. 4, ‘05. 710w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 330w. |
“Many of these odes have the lyrical quality, and that while they may not be in all points acceptable to Oriental scholars, they give to the reader sufficiently well the effect of Persian imagery and the essence of the poet’s feeling.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 44. S. 2, ‘05. 220w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 511. O. ‘05. 120w. |
Haggard, Andrew Charles Parker. Silver Bells, [†]$1.50. Page.
Stories of hunting and fishing abound in this tale of a man who leaves home and friends for the care free life of the Canadian Indians. Silver Bells, an Indian girl, is the heroine.
“Col. Haggard has gone back to Fenimore Cooper for his model in this story. The story may amuse boys, perhaps.”
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 347. My. 27, ‘05. 370w. |
Haggard, (Henry) Rider. [Ayesha: the return of “She.”] [†]$1.50. Doubleday.
In this sequel to “She.” the book which thrilled and fascinated twenty years ago, “Holly and Leo search full sixteen years for Ayesha and find her at last, the priestess of a strange religion, half Isis-worship, half fire-worship, on a lonely mountain in no man’s land at the back of beyond, there are hair-breadth escapes from avalanches and from mad Khans who hunt people to death with bloodhounds, mysterious doings in great temples and on the roof of the world, fierce battles, in which nature fights for Ayesha against her old foe Amenartas.... And Leo Vincey having won, after many an ordeal, his bride, dies on the eve of bliss and Ayesha herself, now half goddess, half weak and wilful woman, passes away from the earth forever.” (Lond. Times.)
“Not all the wishes that we could form of submitting our imagination to that of the author result in a moment of illusion.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 1026. O. 7, ‘05. 260w. |
“‘Ayesha’ fails to exercise the fascination of ‘She’; and the reason must, perhaps, be sought, not in Mr. Haggard, but in ourselves. ‘Ayesha’ deserves indeed a vogue only second to that of her previous incarnation.”
| + + | Ath. 1905. 2: 538. O. 21. 230w. |
“Has our taste changed and our discrimination grown keener through the intervening years, or has the pen of Mr. Haggard lost its magic?” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + — | Bookm. 22:236. N. ‘05. 510w. |
“If the reader will lay aside doubt and scepticism for the old ready belief, he cannot fail to feel again the old pleasure, the old interests, and the old thrills.”
| + | Critic. 47: 477. N. ‘05. 140w. |
“‘Ayesha’ is not ‘She,’ and the lovers of ‘She’ are a little stiffer in the mental joints.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 329. O. 6, ‘05. 460w. |
“No doubt, allowing for the disillusionment of years, this sequel is as well-wrought as its original. Probably it is even superior geographically, ethnologically, theologically, and pyro-technically.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 649. O. 7, ‘05. 310w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 39:572. O. 28, ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “‘Ayesha,’ continuing ‘She,’ betokens no weariness and no decay.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 762. D. ‘05. 70w. |
“The novel shows fine imagination, but it is surely an artistic mistake to throw doubt on the reincarnation story which readers of ‘She’ were bound to accept.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 595. N. 4, ‘05. 880w. |
“As in all Mr. Haggard’s stories, there are some admirable adventures, and the tale is told with much skill.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 657. O. 28, ‘05. 370w. |
Haggard, (Henry) Rider. Gardener’s year. [*]$4. Longmans.
There are two gardens described in this book, one on the eastern shore of Suffolk, where the author, by planting a certain beach-grass, has successfully checked the inroads of the sea, and the other at Ditchingham, where he has three acres under cultivation. He has six glass houses and two ponds in which he grows aquatic plants. With the assistance of two gardeners he raises fruit, vegetables and flowers, making a specialty of orchids. There are 25 illustrations from photographs.
“In the volume under notice he details his joys and sorrows as a gardener in a manner which is well nigh certain to prove very acceptable to the vast army of garden lovers.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 60. Ja. 21, ‘05. 630w. | |
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 503. Ap. 15. 350w. | |
| + + | Nation. 80: 296. Ap. 13, ‘05. 920w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w. | |
| + + | Spec. 94: 553. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1840w. |
Haggard, (Henry) Rider. Poor and the land; being a report of the Salvation army colonies in the United States and at Hadleigh, England; with a scheme of national land settlement, and an introduction by H. Rider Haggard. 75c. Longmans.
By permission of the British government, Mr. Haggard’s report to parliament of the results of his investigation of the Salvation army colonies is re-printed in book form. It contains full descriptions of these colonies with reports of conversations with the colonists, letters, etc., and is illustrated from photographs.
| + + | Outlook. 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 440w. |
“Any one who believes in state-aided emigration as a cure for some of our graver social evils will be grateful to Mr. Haggard for his thorough investigation of the question and his thoughtful proposals towards a solution.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 354. S. 9, ‘05. 1580w. |
Haile, Martin. Mary of Modena, her life and letters. [*]$4. Dutton.
“The biography of the ‘fascinating’ princess—the only Italian queen who ever shared the English throne—as it appears in her own letters and the dispatches and letters of her contemporaries.... The volume is illustrated with photogravures.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “A valuable addition to the history of her time.”
| + | Acad. 68: 1197. N. 18, ‘05. 130w. |
“But it is heaped together rather than written, and the author has no gift of historical portraiture. Here and there interesting facts emerge; there is, alas, no life in the whole.”
| — + | Lond. Times. 4: 361. O. 27, ‘05. 720w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 361. Je. 3, ‘05. 340w. |
“An interesting book on the life of a young woman of little importance.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 840w. |
[*] “Is a sympathetic survey of Mary’s life. The interest is both historic and sentimental.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 150w. |
“The one source of regret is that Mr. Haile, manifestly tireless in research and an adept in converting the results of research into narrative has not preserved a judicial attitude.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 250w. |
Haines, Alice Calhoun. See Knipe, Emilie Benson.
Haines, Alice Calhoun. See Mar, Alice.
[*] Haines, Henry Stevens. Restrictive railway legislation. [**]$1.25. Macmillan.
This volume is made up of twelve lectures given by the author in April and May, 1905, at the Boston university school of law, “the purpose being to present the manner in which legislation and judicial decisions have affected the operations of railway corporations in their relations to the public.”
[*] “Perhaps the most interesting portion of Col. Haines’s book, and a unique and valuable record to the student, is the historical matter which it contains.”
| + + | Engin. N. 54: 533. N. 16, ‘05. 930w. | |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 50w. |
[*] “The author discusses in an academic spirit, and without heat, questions which are the subject of very heated discussion by the press and by public men. The volume will be valuable to all students of this subject whether they deal with it from the point of view of the publicist or of the railroad manager.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 430. O. 21, ‘05. 190w. |
[*] “Conservative discussions of the whole question, conducted in a judicial temper.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 938. D. 16, ‘05. 120w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 637. N. ‘05. 80w. |
Haines, Jennie Day, comp. Sovereign woman versus mere man: a medley of quotation. [**]$1. Elder.
In these well chosen quotations from writers of both sexes and many ages the compiler has compared and contrasted man and woman in various phases and stages of their being. The left hand page applies to sovereign woman, the one facing it to mere man, and they are presented as heroines and heroes, spinsters and bachelors, wives and husbands, and as related to love, matrimony, fads, fame, ways, work, religion and many other things. The marginal decorations and general get up make the volume an attractive gift-book.
[*] “The quotations, which are of very miscellaneous authorship, possess more than a superficial aptness, and there is a refreshing absence of that attempt at epigrammatic smartness which spoils most books of this type.”
| + | Dial. 39: 384. D. 1, ‘05. 80w. | |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1384. D. 14, ‘05. 120w. |
Hains, Thornton Jenkins. Black barque. [†]$1.50. Page.
The adventures of a sailor aboard the slave-ship, Gentle Hand, on her last cruise in the year 1815, form the subject of this new romance of the sea.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + — | Bookm. 21: 519. Jl. ‘05. 130w. |
“In spite of its exaggerations, it is probable that one does not get from this story a very erroneous idea of slave ships, as they were in 1815.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 315. My. 13, ‘05. 610w. |
“Language somewhat surprising for the rough character he makes himself out to be.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 60w. |
“Mr. Hains’s story—one of pure adventure—is vivid and exciting.”
| + | Reader. 6: 473. S. ‘05. 90w. | |
| * | + | Sat. R. 100: 600. N. 4, ‘05. 180w. |
Haldane, J. W. C. Life as an engineer; its lights, shades and prospects. [*]$2. Spon.
“This volume would make an excellent present for a lad with a taste for mechanics, or for a young man thinking of an engineer’s occupation.... The reader learns something not only of the marvels of machinery ... but of the likelihood of earning a living in this particular line.... The author has given an autobiographical form to his book, relating his experiences at various great centres of industry, as at Glasgow and at Birkenhead.”—Spec.
| Spec. 94: 147. Ja. 28, ‘05. 300w. |
Hale, Edward Everett. [Man without a country.] [*]25c. Little.
A new edition of a story “written in the darkest period of the Civil war to show what love of country is.” A young army officer, court-martialed for treason charges, curses the United States and wishes that he may never hear its name again. As punishment his wish is granted, and for fifty years he is “a man without a country.” He is carried on one long cruise after another by government vessels and barred from hearing or seeing a word from home.
Hale, Edward Everett, jr. Dramatists of to-day. [*]$1.50. Holt.
Rostand, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Pinero, Shaw, Phillips, Maeterlinck: being an informal discussion of their significant work. This book is exactly what it declares itself to be in the fore-going sub-title, but in its informal discussion is matter of much interest, for the dramatists and their dramas are discussed from the viewpoint of both literature and the stage. They and their works are chatted about and compared in a fireside fashion that makes the reader feel as tho he had entertained a pleasing and instructive guest, one who can vividly revive memories of “Cyrano de Bergerac,” “L’Aiglon,” “Die versunkene glocke,” “Magda,” “Sweet lavender,” “The second Mrs. Tanqueray,” “Candida,” “Paolo and Francesca,” and “Ulysses.”
“These papers are what is called readable: chatty, urbane, a little ostentatiously inconsequent, perhaps, and familiar not always in the best sense.” H. W. Boynton.
| + | Atlan. 95: 842. Je. ‘05. 580w. |
“Strangely immature judgments and ... oddly egotistic digressions from which the author forgets to return. He has an amazing capacity for misunderstanding the things he writes about.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
| — — | Critic. 47: 90. Jl. ‘05. 160w. | |
| + + | Dial. 38: 357. My. 16, ‘05. 240w. |
“An amiable and quite unacademic vagueness is ... the chief characteristic. His English style leaves much to be improved.”
| — | Nation. 81: 14. Jl. 6, ‘05. 420w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 249. Ap. 15, ‘05. 290w. |
“His little book, modest in style and also in spirit, is a fresh and entertaining piece of writing.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 138. My. 13, ‘05. 240w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 50w. |
Hale, Harris Grafton. Who then is this? a study of the personality of Jesus. [*]$1.25. Pilgrim press.
“The personality of Jesus is exhibited as in a normally human development, attaining thru communion with God a transcendence beyond all measure of comparison. The work avoids technical theology, but its Christological view is clearly of the Ritschlian type. Mr. Hale is a Congregational minister.”—Outlook.
“Not without attractiveness from a literary point of view.”
| + | Ind. 59: 151. Jl. 20, ‘05. 160w. |
“This is, on the whole, a strong book. The method of the work is inductive, and its style is clear and vigorous.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 196. My. 20, ‘05. 140w. |
Hale, William. Dauntless viking. $1.50. Badger.
The foreword states that “this story of the Gloucester fisheries is a conscientious study of the local life and color as it actually exists.” It follows the fortunes of a young viking who comes to America and casts his lot among the fishermen of Cape Ann, and is told in the broken English of the sons of Norway. It describes a hard life and does not close upon a happy ending, but lets the hero win success and happiness, and then ends grimly.
Hall, Charles Cuthbert. Christian belief interpreted by Christian experience. [*]$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
These lectures were delivered in India, Ceylon and Japan on the Barrows foundation, 1902-1903, and are now submitted to Western readers in book form that they may see “the manner and style of the work done in India for Indians.” Written in that spirit of broad sympathy which is essential if the Christian would successfully approach the non-Christian mind, they appeal to all creeds, to all ages, to all seekers after God.
“The foremost merit of President Hall’s ‘Barrows lectures’ is their supreme tact, their gracious Christian courtesy.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 752. S. 28, ‘05. 490w. | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 558. Ag. 26, ‘05. 140w. |
“The tone of the book is ironic and characterized by the true Christian spirit of a broad catholicity.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 413. S. 23, ‘05. 530w. |
Hall, Edward. Henry VIII.; with an introd. by C: Whibley. 2v. [*]$12. Grafton press.
This text is reprinted from the folio edition of 1550. In its quaint English it gives an account of the social rather than the political phases of the reign of the “high and prudent prince, King Henry the Eighth, the indubitate flower, and very heire” of Lancaster and York. It gives a brilliant and interesting picture of the early 16th century, it narrates faithfully, but lets many great heads go to the block without comment. It was safer so in those times.
“Admirable alike in print, paper, format, style, and introduction.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 9. Ja. 7, 1030w. |
“This present book disarms critics, so far as concerns Hall’s gift of seeing things, and of using a dignified old English which now and then ... rises to something like splendour.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 291. F. 25, ‘05. 1620w. |
[*] Hall, Jennie. Men of old Greece. [†]$1.50. Little.
Four chapters graphically sketching history and biography are “Leonidas,” “Themistocles,” in which this hero is set in the midst of the events that led up to the victories of Marathon and Salamis, “Phidias and the Parthenon,” and “Socrates.” The illustrations include eight full-page plates and a number of drawings suggestive of types, customs and dress.
[*] “Makes good reading for the boys of to-day.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 220w. |
Hall, R. N., and Neal, W. G. Great Zimbabwe, Mashonaland, Rhodesia. [*]$6. Dutton.
“This is a detailed account of two years’ (1902-1904) examination work on behalf of the government of Rhodesia.... Mr. Hall writes briefly on the area of the ruins, burial places of the old colonists, absence of inscriptions, two periods of gold manufacture, the Elliptical temple, the Acropolis ruins.... Chapters are given to the Acropolis, the people, their customs, manners, religions and habits, the ruins, ancient architecture, relics and finds, the Elliptical temple, etc.... The volume is profusely illustrated from drawings and photographs.”—N. Y. Times.
“However fascinating these researches into hoary antiquity may be, the great value of Mr. Hall’s work consists in its ample and careful description of the ruins as they are, and in the plans and photographs which illustrate it.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 501. Ap. 15. 1250w. | |
| + | Nation. 80: 507. Je. 22, ‘05. 610w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 185. Mr. 25, ‘05. 390w. |
“In the main his account is intended for the archæologist rather than for the general reader.”
| + | Outlook. 80:139. My. 13, ‘05. 330w. |
Halsey, R. T. H. Boston port bill as pictured by a contemporary London cartoonist. Grolier club.
“Through the associations of the remarkable series of cartoons described and beautifully reproduced the author is led to tell directly or incidentally almost everything that is known about the Port bill ... [He] traces, through little-known letters, newspaper accounts, and pamphlets, public and private opinion about the Port bill both in England and America.... Five of the mezzotint cartoons ... were the work of one man, Philip Dawe, a pupil of Hogarth.... Other humorous mezzotints ... were put forth by anonymous cartoonists, and the subject is further fitly illustrated by portraits from contemporary prints and pictures of statues and famous historical buildings.”—Outlook.
| + + | Outlook. 79:907. Ap. 8, ‘05. 580w. |
Halstead, George Bruce. Rational geometry. $1.75. Wiley.
Altho Euclid still holds its place as the one authoritative text book on geometry, modern criticism tends to make pure reason the only court of appeal, and doubts the reliability of the intuition of our senses. This “Rational geometry” upholds this view, using points, lines and planes as the names of things, the physical conception of which is not necessary. “The object is to deduce the conclusions which follow from certain assumed relations between these things, so that if the relations hold, the conclusions follow, whatever these things may be. Space is the totality of these things; its properties are solely logical, and varied in character according to the assumed fundamental relations. These assumed relations which develop space concepts that are apparently in accord with vision constitute the modern foundations of Euclidean space.” (Science). At a hasty glance the book does not appear to differ from ordinary text-books, diagrams are given, but not as essential to the argument. Altho the method of development is new, all the school propositions of both plane and solid geometry are eventually developed.
[*] Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
| Atlan. 96: 682. N. ‘05. 180w. |
“The aim of modern rational geometry is to pass from premise to conclusion solely by the force of reason. Mr. Halstead is the first to write an elementary text-book, which adopts a modern view, and in this respect his ‘Rational geometry’ is epoch-making. It seems as if the present text-book ought not to be above the heads of the average elementary students, and that it should serve to develop logical power as well as practical geometrical ideas.” Arthur S. Hathaway.
| + + | Science, n. s. 21: 183. F. 3, ‘05. 1090w. |
Hamilton, Sylla W. Forsaking all others: a story of Sherman’s march through Georgia. $1.50. Neale.
A Union soldier, by persistent kindness to a fiery daughter of the South wins her, and makes her see that though her home lies devastated in the wake of Sherman’s army, and her childhood’s lover lies dead upon the battle field, a great right has grown out of these many wrongs. The book gives a vivid picture of Georgia’s sufferings during the war, and of the brutality of Sherman’s men.
Hammond, Captain Harold. Pinkey Perkins: just a boy. [†]$1.50. Century.
Wholesome fun pervades this story of Pinkey, the boy, his pranks, his love affairs, and his troubles. The reader’s sympathy is wholly with him in his contests with an over-zealous teacher, in his celebration of April fool’s day, and July fourth, and in his encounters with old Hostetters, for Pinkey is always quick-witted, and never malicious.
“Is a little different from most boys’ books. He is never monotonous, however.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 722. O. 28, ‘05. 150w. | |
| + | Outlook. 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 80w. |
Hammond, Mrs. L. H. Master-word, [†]$1.50 Macmillan.
A story of Tennessee, which treats of the race question. Viry, whose mother is three parts white and whose father is a Southern gentleman, feels the call of the white race but is doomed to be relegated to the black. Loathing any affiliation with them, she is one of them, and the slight arguments used by her dead father’s wife, who forgives her husband and nobly tries to do her duty by his alien child, neither help her nor solve the problem. There are other characters and an account of the development of the phosphate region.
“It is the first compassionate, intelligent interpretation ever written by any white person, North or South, of that pathetic class of men and women who suffer the loneliness and humiliation of a peculiar condition. The sympathetic attitude of the book merits all praise, and it is a story full of incident and interest.”
| + | Ind. 58: 902. Ap. 20, ‘05. 470w. |
“The author has written with sincerity and with a high purpose; and, although there are things regrettable in her book, and she has fallen short of her aim, she has done some admirable work, and has achieved a striking story, quite out of the ordinary.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 130. Mr. 4, ‘05. 790w. |
“The story is unusual in its nobility of spirit and its sanity.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 773. Ap. 1, ‘05. 150w. |
“It is admirably constructed and well carried out save for a somewhat forced and over-pathetic conclusion.”
| + + — | Pub. Opin. 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 100w. |
“‘The master-word’ is a book that stands far above the average of contemporary fiction.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 245w. |
Hampson, W. J. Radium explained. [**]50c. Dodd.
“This little book ... will ... serve a useful purpose in giving an elementary acquaintance with the subject of radio-activity, so far as that is accessible to those with little scientific knowledge.... Probably one of the most valuable chapters in the book is that on the medical aspects of radium.”—Nature.
“The language is simple and clear and should be comprehensible to any one with the ordinary knowledge of chemistry and physics.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1366. Je. 15, ‘05. 140w. | |
| — — | Nation. 81: 33. Jl. 13, ‘05. 160w. |
“The explanations given of the experimental properties of radium are, so far as we have observed, clear and accurate.” R. J. S.
| + + — | Nature. 71: 530. Ap. 6, ‘05. 610w. |
“As a preparation for the further study of the new element, or for those who wish merely to keep well abreast of the world to-day, his little volume has an important place.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 442. Jl. 1, ‘05. 310w. | |
| Outlook. 80: 447. Je. 17, ‘05. 30w. |
“Dr. Hampson has a fine sense of value and proportion, both in subject matter and style.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 470w. | |
| + + | Spec. 94: 294. F. 25, ‘05. 180w. |
Hanauer, J. E. Tales told in Palestine; ed. by H. G. Mitchell, [*]$1.25. Jennings.
A collection of folk-lore stories of ancient and modern Palestine, gathered by a long-time resident of that land, and a contributor to the publication of the Palestine exploration fund. The folk-tales fall into five groups: “Anecdotes more or less historical,” “Legends of saints and heroes,” “Stories of modern miracles,” “Tales embodying popular superstitions,” and “Specimens of oriental wit and wisdom.” There are a few helpful notes and numerous illustrations.
“As entertaining as any book of travel could be. Its combinations of shrewdness and superstition, naiveté and astuteness, its worldly wit and wisdom so other-worldly than our own, furnish an agreeable and wholesome mental recreation for a leisure hour.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 145. Ja. 14, ‘05. 80w. |
“Charming weird folk-lore tales.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 250. F. ‘05. 60w. |
Hanchett, Henry Granger. Art of the musician: a guide to the intelligent appreciation of music, [**]$1.50 Macmillan.
The purpose of this book is “to supply the demand of those mature lovers of music who wish to understand the aims and purposes of a composer, some of the methods of his work, and to get some ground for fairly judging his attainments and results. It aims to supply such information as should make concert-going more satisfactory, listening to music more intelligent, and that may assist in elevating the standards of church, theatrical and popular music.”
“Undoubtedly there is need of books of this kind, but it is to be feared that this one will not accomplish its excellent object, because of the author’s diffuseness and lack of lucidity.”
| — | Critic. 46: 480. My. ‘05. 90w. |
“A unique and useful book, and one which goes far to demonstrate his theory that music can be thoroughly and usefully taught without teaching the art of performance.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 419. Je. 16, ‘05. 420w. |
“In short, it is a treatise on how to listen to music that he gives us, and it is a very good one.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 693. S. 21, ‘05. 640w. | |
| + + | Nation. 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 410w. |
“And while Mr. Hanchett may not have got to the bottom of all that he discusses, much of what he says is useful and much will be illuminating to the intelligent student who follows him through his discourse and scrutinizes the examples he gives.” Richard Aldrich.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 410w. |
“Useful, however, as this book is sure to be, it is not free from certain evident defects.”
| + + — | Outlook. 80: 343. Je. 3, ‘05. 400w. | |
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 835. My. 27, ‘05. 250w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 70w. |
Hancock, Harrie Irving, and Higashi, Katsukuma. Complete Kano jiu-jitsu, [*]$4.50. Putnam.
The Kano system of jiu-jitsu, the official jiu-jitsu of the Japanese government is dealt with in this volume. It also contains chapters on the serious and fatal blows and on kuatsu, the Japanese science of the restoration of life.
| + + | Critic. 47: 383. O. ‘05. 100w. |
“Beyond doubt, it is the most comprehensive work on the subject in England.” Adachi Kinnosuké.
| + + + | Ind. 59: 389. Ag. 17, ‘05. 140w. | |
| + + | Nation. 81: 118. Ag. 10, ‘05. 230w. |
“The volume is the most helpful and comprehensive treatise on jiu-jitsu that has yet been published.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 571. S. 2, ‘05. 1130w. |
“A manual of the most approved form of the Japanese art of combat.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 836. Jl. 29, ‘05. 60w. |
“So far as we have examined, every trick is sufficiently pictured and explained.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 415. S. 23, ‘05. 550w. | |
| Spec. 95: 263. Ag. 19, ‘05. 30w. |
Hancock, Harrie Irving. Physical culture life: a guide for all who seek the simple laws of abounding health, [**]$1.25. Putnam.
The purpose of this book is “to represent in a clear and succinct way, the real aims and methods of the physical culture movement that is marching onward in England and the United States.” The reader is urged to follow “the plain and easily learned laws of physical culture.” and is told how to exercise the individual muscles of his body, and how much depends upon water and fresh air. The volume is well illustrated.
Reviewed by Eustace Miles.
| — + | Acad. 68: 491. My. 6, ‘05. 760w. | |
| + | Dial. 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 80w. | |
| + | Ind. 59: 271. Ag. 3, ‘05. 40w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 89. F. 11, ‘05. 340w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 215. Ap. 8, ‘05. 260w. | ||
| Pub. Opin. 38: 634. Ap. 22, ‘05. 140w. |
Hand, James Edward, ed. Ideals of science and faith: essays by various authors. [**]$1.60. Longmans.
A series of ten essays, each from a different hand, and divided into two groups. The first six are included under the general title, “Approaches through science and education,” and deal “with the possible contemporary relations between science and religion (relations of an ironical nature) from the standpoint of the lay expert.” (Science). They are as follows: Physics, Sir O. Lodge; Biology, J. A. Thompson; Psychology, J. H. Muirhead; Sociology, V. V. Branford; Ethics, B. Russell; General and technical education, P. Geddes. The second group, entitled “Approaches through faith,” presents the clerical standpoint in its various phases as follows: The Presbyterian approach, J. Kelman; A Church of England approach, R. Payne; The church as seen from the outside, P. N. Waggett; The Church of Rome, W. Ward.
| Atlan. 95: 702, My. ‘05. 640w. |
“Is conceived after an admirable plan. The minority of essays, which are good, are so thoroughly good, that they lift the work up to a high rank as a sadly-needed eirenicon.”
| + + — | Cath. World. 80: 675. F. ‘05. 1150w. |
“A rather prosy introduction. The essays are of various degrees of merit.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
| + — | Dial. 38: 87. F. 1, ‘05. 640w. |
“It deserves to be commended. A very remarkable series.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 41. Ja. 5, ‘05. 970w. (Summary of book.) |
Reviewed by Charles M. Bakewell.
| * | + | Int. J. Ethics. 16: 105. O. ‘05. 3530w. |
“The plan of the work is novel, even daring, and conjures up piquant expectancy. No doubt the work is tentative, not conclusive. The collection remains notable and has everything to recommend it to reflective men, no matter on which side of the fence their main pre-suppositions happen to lie.” R. M. Wenley.
| + + — | Science, n.s. 21: 26. Ja. 26, ‘05. 760w. |
[*] Handel, George Frederick. Songs and airs; ed. by Ebenezer Prout. pa. $1.50; cl. $2.50. Ditson.
The two volumes of Handel’s songs, one for high voice, the other for low, are recent additions to “The musicians library.” The songs in each are prefaced by a sketch of Handel’s life and a brief note on his different compositions.
[*] Hanotaux, Gabriel. Contemporary France, tr. from the French. 4v. ea. [*]$3.75. Putnam.
This “record of the inner diplomacy of the great powers of Europe during the last thirty years” is issued in four volumes, each complete in itself. The political figures of each period are brilliantly described. Volume I. France in 1870-1873, treats of the Franco-Prussian war and the close of the second empire; Volume II., France in 1874-1878, gives the history of the Broglie cabinets together with the attempt to restore the monarchy. Volume III., covers 1879-1889 and Volume IV., 1890-Dec. 31, 1900.
[*] “The part of the volume which deals with art and letters strikes us as poor.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 541. O. 21. 260w. (Review of v. 2.) |
[*] “The most interesting chapters are perhaps those which attempt to survey the soul of France, as it expressed itself in literature and the arts in the years succeeding the war.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 385. N. 10, ‘05. 630w. (Review v. 2.) |
[*] “The second volume of M. Hanotaux’s monumental work emphasizes the good qualities of its predecessor. First of all, the narration bears the marks of intimate experience. The volume is thus a distinct and notable contribution to history.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 240w. (Review v. 2.) |
[*] Harben, William Nathaniel. [Pole Baker; a novel.] [†]$1.50. Harper.
Another story of northern Georgia of which Pole Baker, who has already appeared as a humorous character in “Abner Daniel,” is the central figure. He is here made not only humorous but forceful and even dramatic and he tells many good yarns and plays an important part in the love affair of an unsteady young merchant and a girl named Cynthia.
[*] “A somewhat crude if spirited story. There is no part of the narrative that impresses one either with its reality or its charm. As a novel, it cannot be considered a success.”
| — | Critic. 47: 578. D. ‘05. 30w. |
[*] “The translations given of the sadness and splendor of married love, the whimsical veracity of the whole conception, shows this to be the author’s best work in fiction so far.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1228. N. 23, ‘05. 210w. |
[*] “If they are occasionally innocently coarse they are yet very truly and forcibly moral in intention.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 100w. |
Harbottle, Thomas Benfield. Dictionary of battles from the earliest date to the present time. [*]$2. Dutton.
This book is a companion volume to “Dictionary of historical allusions.” The author, who has compiled several excellent dictionaries of quotations, died while this work was going to press, so the proof-reading and indexing was done by Colonel P. H. Dalbiac, who had collaborated with him in earlier works. The book is brought close to date—there are five entries under the heading Russo-Japanese war.
“The more modern battles are more efficiently dealt with than the ancient, and we look in vain for any mention of the wars of the ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, and Israelites. With this exception the book is adequate.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 35. Ja. 14, ‘05. 140w. |
“It is a handy compendium, but must be used with caution. Too many details are given to insure freedom from error.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 481. Je. 15, ‘05. 140w. |
“A little more pains on his part, however, would have improved his book exceedingly. The location of the various battlefields is invariably omitted.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 322. My. 20, ‘05. 310w. |
“Such a book has an evident if rather limited scope of usefulness.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 391. Je. 10, ‘05. 90w. |
“We have fairly tested the Dictionary of battles and have not found it wanting.”
| + + | The Westminister Review. 163: 233. F. ‘05. 160w. |
[*] Hardy, Rev. Edward John. John Chinaman at home, [**]$2.50. Scribner.
The author “for over three years was chaplain to His Majesty’s forces at Hong Kong.... His volume is a very medley of things Chinese,—Chinese cities with their local peculiarities; Chinese food, medicine, clothes, houses and gardens, servants and laborers; customs of marriage, burial, and mourning; Chinese boys, women, and girls, their manners, education, punishments; religions, superstitions, spirits, monks and priests, foreign missionaries, New Year devotions and rites, government,—and much more.”—Dial.
[*] “A simple-minded, chatty and amusing work.”
| + | Acad. 68: 1111. O. 21, ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “For one who contemplates a hurried journey through the lands of the ‘Son of Heaven,’ Mr. Hardy’s book will be a most acceptable eye-opener to Chinese characteristics.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + + | Dial. 39: 379. D. 1, ‘05. 320w. |
[*] “To write so readable a book on China, in a vein both sympathetic and critical, is in itself no mean feat.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 505. D. 21, ‘05. 430w. |
[*] “The author’s style is extremely readable and vivacious. His book contains a great deal of real information.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “If the author is not always judicial in his conclusions nor strictly accurate in his statements, he is very readable and gives a fair all-round view of the Chinaman that is slowly being transformed by the very agencies he is here shown to despise.”
| + + — | Sat. R. 100: 598. N. 4, ‘05. 940w. |
[*] Hare, Christopher. Dante the wayfarer. [*]$2.50. Scribner.
“As the author remarks in his preface, Dante’s great poem is ‘a marvellous record of travel,’ and the book follows his journeys from first to last, recording, as the poet does, all the varied incidents of his wayfaring, his observations of man and beast and bird, the vicissitudes of climate and weather, and whatever else, however trifling, could enter into the itinerary.”—Critic.
[*] “In this book ‘he’ has many times miswritten, mismetred, and misinterpreted his author. Sometimes it appears that he is merely careless or genuinely ignorant; at others that he is wilful. Indeed the inception of the book seems due to wilfulness.”
| — + | Acad. 68: 1075. O. 14, ‘05. 1030w. |
[*] “How much this record must illustrate the poem one would hardly imagine before reading the book.”
| + | Critic. 47: 580. D. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “Tourists intending to visit the places he describes cannot do better than secure his book. As an authority on Dante—that is another matter.” Walter Littlefield.
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 848. D. 2, ‘05. 940w. |
[*] “It has a delicate biographical flavor, is not without critical value, and may be commended alike to students of the master and to those who have yet to penetrate the depths with him, and with him ascend the heights.”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 716. N. 25, ‘05. 210w. |
[*] “If the author’s first idea is not new, he has carried it out entirely on his own lines, and in an attractive manner.”
| + + — | Spec. 95: sup. 789. N. 18, ‘05. 1410w. |
[*] Harland, Marion, pseud. (Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune), and Van de Water, Virginia. Everyday etiquette. [**]$1. Bobbs.
A practical manual of social usages which sets forth the “Gospel of Conventionality” for the especial benefit of those who thru changed fortune find themselves in a new social environment. There are chapters upon such subjects as; invitations, calls, letter-writing, weddings, the debutante, the chaperon, gifts, mourning, the table, etiquette at home and in public, the church, and mistress and maid. The book does not cover a brilliant social season, but it is a helpful volume for the home and concerns itself with daily conduct and modest entertainment.
Harnack, (Carl Gustav) Adolf. Expansion of Christianity in the first three centuries; tr. and ed. by James Moffatt. 2v. [*]$3. Putnam.
“Dr. Moffatt ... is a competent translator of Prof. Harnack’s notable work. Since its publication in Germany in 1902 the book has commanded attention; and as it is the first exhaustive history of the Christian mission, it is well that it should be in the hands of those English readers whose ignorance of German does not interfere with their interest in the beginnings of Christianity and the advance of the early church.... One of the most valuable parts of Prof. Harnack’s book is that which deals with the extension of Christianity down to 325 A. D.”—Ath.
[*] “It is the best account that we have yet had of the way in which Christianity spread over the civilized world. Where the book is disappointing is in its attempted explanation of the remarkable way in which Christianity spread, and in its inadequate treatment of external influences.”
| + + — | Acad. 68: 1258. D. 2, ‘05. 670w. (Review of v. 2.) |
“It hardly requires to be said of any work by Prof. Harnack that it is marked by richness of historical detail; and it may be confidently asserted that this one will maintain his high reputation as an ecclesiastical historian.”
| + + | Ath. 1905. 2: 463. O. 1730w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
[*] “It is an indispensable work of reference as to Christian activities in that period.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1159. N. 16, ‘05. 60w. |
“It has many of the characteristic defects of the author, but it has also, in a very marked degree, his particular merits; it is vigorous, original, full of life, and, above all, draws its material straight from the original sources.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 298. S. 22, ‘05. 1330w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) |
“Much of this is now ‘common form,’ after the researches of Schürer, not to speak of the now antiquated work of Dollinger, but Harnack puts his points with less pedantry than the former, and with better equipped scholarship than the latter. Yet much will be new even to the expert student.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 580w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The subject of course is interesting; the treatment is not, except to those who dig deeply into theology.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 676. O. 14, ‘05. 220w. (Review of v. 2.) | |
| + + | Outlook. 81: 333. O. 7, ‘05. 370w. (Review of v. 1.) | |
| + + | Spec. 95: 656. O. 28, ‘05. 1590w. |
Harold, Childe, pseud. See Field, Edward Salisbury.
Harper, Vincent. Mortgage on the brain. [†]$1.50. Doubleday.
“The strange woman who is the central personage of this queer story has three distinct personalities.... [She] is Lady Torbeth, the cultivated, self-centered, high-minded wife of a British peer.... She is also a Miss Errington, neurotic and erotic, and a Miss Leighton, sentimental and innocent.... The problem is to expel the two superfluous personalities from the brain of Lady Torbeth. This is accomplished by ... the employment of radio-activity, electricity, hypnotism, and mumbo-jumbo jargon.”—N. Y. Times.
“The story is almost plausible. It is deeply interesting, even thrilling.” Albert Warren Ferris.
| + | Bookm. 22: 67. S. ‘05. 1200w. | |
| — | Critic. 47: 285. S. ‘05. 80w. | |
| + | Ind. 59: 576. S. 7, ‘05. 200w. |
“As a story Mr. Harper’s novel is ill-constructed and unsatisfactory.”
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 248. Ap. 15, ‘05. 600w. | |
| + | Outlook. 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 60w. |
“Mr. Harper weaves a strange and fascinating web of incidents, somewhat bewildering in its shifting, glimmering improbability, but none the less suggestive and taking.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 763. Je. ‘05. 80w. |
Harper, William Rainey. Critical and exegetical commentary on Amos and Hosea. [**]$3. Scribner.
“Dr. Harper is in thorough sympathy with the modern analytical method of the study of the Bible. He correctly says that the reconstruction of the text is the first duty of a commentator in the study of such writers as Amos and Hosea.... He also recognizes the profound moral and spiritual significance of the Old Testament history.”—Outlook.
“It is painstaking, accurate and thorough in scholarship, fair and sound in judgment, full and impartial in the statement of contrary opinion, and mindful of its text. In general, President Harper represents the view of the modern critical scholarship. His views on many particular passages will be questioned.”
| + + — | Ind. 58: 1131. My. 18, ‘05. 580w. |
[*] “President Harper’s ‘Amos and Hosea’ fully sustains the reputation of American Old Testament scholarship, and are the best and fullest exposition of those most important prophets.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 60w. |
“But taken as a whole his book combines thorough technical scholarship with large measure of ethical and spiritual insight, and we think his ‘Commentary on Amos and Hosea’ will take its place among the best in this very excellent series.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 340w. |
[*] “Professor W. R. Harper’s commentary on these two prophets is the fullest that has appeared in English. Our chief complaint is that it is too full; the original scripture lies almost buried under the mass of authorities and opinions.”
| + + — | Sat. R. 100: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 1300w. |
Harper, William Rainey. Priestly element in the Old Testament: an aid to historical study for use in advanced Bible classes. [*]$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
A revised and enlarged edition of Dr. Harper’s work in which there are new chapters upon the Literature of worship, legal, historical, hymnal, and on the Permanent value of the priestly element.
“It is a valuable aid to the historical study of the worship, ritual and laws of the Old Testament and is especially full in its references to authorities.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1131. My. 18, ‘05. 50w. |
“As a standard type of excellence among manuals for Biblical study this volume, available for various methods of teaching, is unsurpassed.”
| + + + | Outlook. 79: 900. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w. |
Harper, William Rainey. Prophetic element in the Old Testament, $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
These studies are intended primarily for students in colleges or theological seminaries, but the author has endeavored to make them suitable also for advanced classes in Sunday schools. Part 1, covers The general scope of the prophetic element in the Old Testament; Part 2, The history of prophecy through Hosea. The studies are concise and scientific in treatment. Appendices include A table of important dates, A chronological table of the religious life of Israel, The prophetic vocabulary, and An analysis of the Hexateuch.
“It is a complete guide to this period of prophetic work. Its method is inductive and constructive.”
| + + | Bib. World. 26: 398. N. ‘05. 70w. |
“This is the needed complement to Dr. Harper’s work on ‘The priestly element.’”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 140w. |
Harper, William Rainey. Religion and the higher life: talks to students. [*]$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
Religion as presented by President Harper in these talks to students is an attractive but very serious thing, to be gotten and kept only by the bravest struggle. He summons his hearers to meet the peculiar and tremendous responsibilities which rest upon them as college men, and tells them with an almost fatherly sympathy and undertone of pleading how religion will help them in a most practical way to meet the sufferings and temptations which await them. Noteworthy are the chapter on Our intellectual difficulties, in which he shows that doubts are not inconsistent with the Christian life, but are in fact inevitable, and the chapter entitled Bible study and religious life, in which he argues that the supreme spiritual value of the Bible is independent of the literary and historical criticism to which it is properly subjected.
“The sympathy with young life is unmistakable. The altruistic spirit breathes through every address. The treatment of religious difficulties is robust and sensible.”
| + + | Am. J. of Theol. 9: 603. Jl. ‘05. 440w. | |
| Atlan. 95: 706. My. ‘05. 200w. |
“His moral counsels, admonitions, and warnings are simple and straightforward, his tone is natural, his language without pretence.”
| + + — | Cath. World. 81: 125. Ap. ‘05. 350w. | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 253. F. ‘05. 100w. (States doctrine of essays.) |
Harper, William Rainey. Trend in higher education. [*]$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
Dr. Harper presents a series of observations which have been made along the way towards the yet unreached goal of a formulated philosophy of the trend in higher education. He shows that the conspicuous elements which characterize the movement—among them college self-government, freedom from ecclesiastical control, and right of free utterance—all point towards the “growing democratization of higher educational work.” Some of the chapters are, “The university and democracy,” “Some present tendencies of popular education,” “The university and religious education,” “Waste in higher education,” “Dependence of the West upon the East,” “The business side of the university,” “Are school teachers underpaid?” “Why are there fewer students for the ministry?” “University training for a business career,” “Coeducation,” etc.
“The articles, with the exception of some brief occasional addresses, are vital and frank almost to the point of bluntness. The treatment is fair, and no attempt is made to criticize a particular institution by insinuation. Dr. Harper takes a vigorous and business-like attitude, modern but not radical.” Henry Davidson Sheldon.
| + + | Dial. 38: 271. Ap. 16, ‘05. 2210w. | |
| + + | Ind. 59: 273. Ag. 3, ‘05. 60w. |
“He makes no attempt to deal with the subject in a systematic way; the papers are somewhat desultory and disconnected.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 259. Ag. 11, ‘05. 880w. |
“On the whole the book is that of a man of learning of no very pronounced views, who may be called an educational opportunist.”
| + | Nation. 81: 259. S. 28, ‘05. 360w. |
“The value of the book and the chief interest of it consists in the total effect of the assembled material.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 164. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1130w. |
“What gives most vital value to the volume is its discussion of what the university and the church have to do with the problems of democracy and religion, as well as with those of education. Such criticisms from such a source cannot be waived aside; they may be thought too sweeping; exceptions exist; but Dr. Harper’s ‘record of observations here and there’ is a needed reveille.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 220w. |
Harriman, Karl Edwin. Girl and the deal. [†]$1.25. Jacobs.
On his journey across the continent from Boston to San Francisco, a young Harvard man wins the girl he loves and learns thru her to understand the spirit of the West. With the girl he wins her “Uncle Jack” the capitalist whose support for one of his father’s business ventures he has come so far to seek. There is a detailed account of the trip over the Santa Fé and a description of the Grand canyon.
“The note of personality in the author’s pictures of things Western is the best feature of the story, which for the rest, lacks something of high-bred delicacy in its portrayal of young love and is of the slightest texture.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 478. Jl. 22, ‘05. 190w. |
Harris, Charles. Pro fide: a defence of natural and revealed religion. [*]$3. Dutton.
“The author, an accomplished theologian of the Anglican church, has written for intelligent laymen, as well as for the clergy and students preparing for the ministry. He is well versed in the literature of his subject, whether hostile or friendly to his purpose of vindicating the rationality of Christian theology. His standpoint is indicated by his belief that the sayings of Jesus to his disciples ‘undoubtedly confer a supernatural authority of some kind’ upon the Church.”—Outlook.
“While his work in a number of points fails of meeting the full demand of a strictly scientific apologetic, its spirit is admirable. Its full repertory of the evidences and arguments advanced by parties in the great debate presents materials for independent judgment as well as for views for which he contends.”
| + — | Outlook. 80: 694. Jl. 15, ‘05. 220w. |
“Mr. Harris’ text-book on Christian apologetics like Mr. Pullan’s on early Church history, will be extremely useful to those who are already on his side and are in need of a short, clear, able statement of their case; but we doubt whether it would convince an opponent.”
| + — | Sat R. 100: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 240w. |
Harris, J. Henry. Fishers. $1.50. Lane.
A poor fishing-village in Cornwall forms the setting of this novel, and the narrow views of the simple, superstitious fisher-folk are strongly contrasted with the broad-minded outlook of Uncle Zack, who is a progressive power, and a wholly charming character. The romance of the story is furnished by Robert Pendean the son of a successful Wall street speculator. Robert, while at Harvard develops a taste for Utopian social ideals and his father gives him five million dollars and sends him to Europe in the hope that he will acquire a taste for “high finance.” He drifts into Cornwall, falls in love with Mary Vaughan, and these two, to the joy of Uncle Zack, develop a co-operative enterprise among the fishermen and build a model fishing village near the dilapidated old town.
“A thoughtful and well-written novel, a romance in which the common life of a poor fishing village is invested with rare charm, while with a few exceptions the ethical ideals evinced are wholesome. It is to us a matter of much surprise to find a writer who while not evincing the bravery of thought or grasp of fundamental principles that mark the writings of advanced economists and practical idealists among modern social philosophers, is nevertheless far in advance of many conventional religious, ethical and social teachers, striving to justify the gaining of wealth through speculation in Wall street.”
| + — | Arena. 33: 108. Ja. ‘05. 920w. (Story of plot.) |
Harris, Joel Chandler (Uncle Remus, pseud.). Told by Uncle Remus, [†]$2. McClure.
The inimitable Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox are just as entertaining as ever in this new series of escapades in spite of the fact that Uncle Remus says “I done got so ol’ dat my min’ flutters like a bird in de bush.” The book is characteristically illustrated by A. B. Frost, Frank Verbeck and J. M. Condé.
| * | Critic. 47: 576. D. ‘05. 25w. |
[*] “Permeated by the same sly humor that has given Uncle Remus his unique position among lovers of good stories.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 444. D. 16, ‘05. 190w. | |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1385. D. 14, ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “Shows the familiar vein unexhausted.”
| + | Nation. 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 130w. |
[*] “Joel Chandler Harris’s new Remus stories are as full of the humor and charm of negro lore as ever.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 864. D. 2, ‘05. 610w. |
[*] “It is the same old Uncle Remus, and the same old marvelous tales of animal lore, full of gentle humor and kindly negro wisdom.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 753. D. ‘05. 60w. |
Harrison, Edith Ogden (Mrs. Carter Henry). Moon princess. [**]$1.25. McClurg.
The youngest and most beautiful of the princesses of the moon asks as a boon of her moon-queen mother that she and her brother, the sun prince Dorian, may spend their honeymoon upon the earth. They and their retinue pass down a silver ladder made for them by the moon sprites, and visit all parts of the earth and the caves of the ocean. They are told about the little dwellers of the marsh, and the rainbow sisters, and hear stories of the jewelled beach, the lost ocean, the princess Sunset and many others. The book is full of fanciful conceits and is charmingly illustrated in color by Lucy Fitch Perkins.
[*] “A nice new fairy story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 190w. |
[*] “A simply told and prettily fanciful tale.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 20w. |
Harrison, Frederic. Chatham, [**]$1.25. Macmillan.
“Fundamentally out of sympathy with the work which is Chatham’s chief glory—the creation of the British empire” (Spec.), Mr. Harrison follows Pitt’s career “through the long years in opposition, through the days of savage attacks upon Walpole, upon ‘the brilliant Carteret, the vacillating Pulteney, the tricky Newcastle,’ the king’s ‘Hanoverian policy,’ the rivalries in the Commons with Henry Fox and Murray, who was later Lord Mansfield; the tenure of the Pay office and the marvel of Pitt’s perfect honesty, the support of the Pelham ministry (and certain inconsistencies thereto appertaining), till at last, in 1756, ‘the terrible cornet of horse,’ the bugbear of governments, became ‘First minister,’ though under the nominal leadership of the Duke of Devonshire.” (N. Y. Times.)
“A life of William Pitt, the elder, without sympathy and without conviction.”
| — — | Acad. 68: 267. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1830w. |
“Mr. Harrison brings much freshness of treatment to bear upon Chatham’s career, particularly during its earlier periods. A singularly dignified portrait of a figure of lonely majesty.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 394. Ap. 1. 1480w. |
“With all its brevity, Mr. Harrison’s study of the elder Pitt is as would be expected, of the most finished character.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + | Atlan. 96: 277. Ag. ‘05. 310w. |
“Mr. Harrison is no indiscriminate eulogist.”
| + | Bookm. 21: 527. Jl. ‘05. 200w. |
“A compact but comprehensive biography of the great statesman.”
| + + + | Critic. 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 80w. |
“Mr. Frederic Harrison’s monograph, however, is for the present the best study there is of Chatham.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 96. Jl. 13, ‘05. 600w. |
“No one who has dealt of late with the career of the Great Commoner has shown a deeper admiration of his nobler and more positive qualities.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 266. S. 28, ‘05. 1400w. |
“Mr. Harrison begins dryly enough, but in the end he has managed to convey to his reader something—a vital something—of his own feeling for the bigness, the nobility, the splendor of the man and his ideas.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 196. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1420w. |
“Mr. Harrison has painted Pitt in language which, without bringing the great commoner from the pedestal whereon posterity has placed him, enables us to measure him in due proportion both as man and as statesman.” H. Addington Bruce.
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 384. Je 10, ‘05. 2620w. |
“Mr. Harrison has pierced the veil of mystery that shrouded the great Chatham and shown him as he must have been.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 190w. |
“Mr. Harrison had a magnificent opportunity, but English readers when they wish a short satisfactory account of Chatham in their own tongue must still rely on Macaulay’s two superb essays supplemented by Mr. Walford Green’s recent admirable and sober biography.”
| + — | Sat. R. 99: 632. My. 13, ‘05. 810w. |
“Mr. Harrison has produced an interesting and spirited book, but it is disfigured by this fatal lack of sympathy and in consequence by a tone of petty and irrelevant criticism.”
| + — | Spec. 94: 512. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1330w. |
Hart, Albert Bushnell, ed. American nation: a history from original sources by associated scholars. v. 1-5. [*]$9; v. 6-10. [*]$9. Harper.
This series, of which the present volumes form the first section, is to contain twenty-six volumes with one volume of index and one of maps. Section one is in five volumes. Vol. I., The European background of American history, by E. P. Cheney: vol. II., Basis of American history, by Livingston Farrand; vol. III., Spain in America, by E. G. Bourne; vol. IV., England in America, by Lyon G. Tyler; vol. V., Colonial self-government, by Charles M. Andrews; vol. VI., Provincial America, by Evarts B. Green: vol. VII., France in America, by Reuben G. Thwaites. With frontispieces and maps.
“Not without shortcomings ... (the faults of omission), this work is charmingly simple, direct, and comprehensive. The work must therefore prove a boon to schools and to the general public, which have too long been at the mercy of the hobby-rider and the sensation-monger. It is conservative and refreshingly healthy in tone throughout.” W. H. Holmes.
| + + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 638. Ap. ‘05. 1060w. (Review of vol. II.) |
“In many respects no better introduction to American history could be desired. It seems, moreover accurate in a degree very unusual in general statements covering so wide a field. It is on the side of omissions that the book can be most seriously criticized.” Victor Coffin.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 858. Jl. ‘05. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Dr. Tyler is particularly happy in tracing beginnings. The great fault of the book is Dr. Tyler’s bias against the Puritan and for the cavalier. On the whole Dr. Tyler’s treatment leaves an impression of slightness. Dr. Andrews keeps to the historical point of view ... and his vision is sane and comprehensive. Dr. Andrews has accomplished a great task worthily. It means something not merely to scholarship but even to the comity of nations that at last we have a popular history of our colonial era, untainted by provincialism. Dr. Andrews is always clear and most always forceful; but I venture to call attention to a few errors and weaknesses.” Willis Mason West.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 869. Jl. ‘05. 3440w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.) |
[*] “Judging by the first series, the history will be, when complete, a monumental work fitted to stand comparison with similar productions of the English and German students.” Carl Kelsey.
| + + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 753. N. ‘05. 600w. (Review of v. 1-5.) |
“A series of well-written monographs of undoubted value. Professor Cheney [in vol I] presents such a basis for the study of beginnings of American history that the general reader is under large debt for the information thus put in readable and compact form. Within the scope of his treatment [vol II], however, he has given us a satisfactory piece of work. [Vol. III.] Like the rest of the works, rather written down to what the author considers the standard of public intelligence. Nevertheless it views its subject with a breadth and force that make the treatment commendable. [Vol. V.] Accurate and interesting. The style of the monographs is in general rather dry, and yet it is readable and interesting to those who use the volumes for study.”
| + + + | Baltimore Sun. :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 1120w. |
“The author of this volume [vol. I] has had a difficult task, and has done it admirably. The story is told delightfully and with care; but the necessity for compression causes occasionally a lack of clearness. The author [of vol. II] himself informs us that his task has been one of condensation, and the results are especially evident in the first third of the volume, which is somewhat below the general average of interest. The chief service of this portion of the book will be its suggestiveness and the references in Professor Farrand’s excellent bibliography. The many striking summaries of events and characterizations of individuals which one finds throughout the book [in vol III]. [In vol. IV] President Tyler has given us a scrupulously fair and a very interesting work. The author gives us no detailed study of institutional growth, but a general narrative. Here one inevitably compares President Tyler’s work with that of the late Mr. Fiske, with results not at all to the disadvantage of President Tyler. [Vol. V]. This is very certainly the best general account of this period that has yet appeared. One feels that the author not only has intimate acquaintance with the old sources, but also has been fortunate enough to reach considerable new material. Professor Andrews is especially to be congratulated upon the catholic view of colonial history that he presents to us. As successful as his descriptions of institutions is the author’s delineation of personality. We must not omit commendation of the bibliographical matter appended to each volume. Volumes like that of Professor Bourne will take their place as standard works. For the general reader, ... the work will prove a mine of information interestingly told, well arranged, and attractively published.” St. George L. Sioussat.
| + + — | Dial. 38: 190. Mr. 16, ‘05. 3050w. |
[*] “The editor of the coöperative history of which these volumes form a part deserves congratulation upon the success with which the process of ‘linking,’ which here is so very necessary, has been carried out.” St. George Sioussat.
| + + — | Dial. 39: 236. O. 16, ‘05. 2100w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.) |
[*] “However, from the standpoint of critical scholarship, the authors leave American history very much as they found it. The cooperative plan has precluded a consistent and systematic treatment of the development of British colonial policy and American commercial interests, and the economic analysis is not keen or original.”
| + + — | Ind. 59: 872. O. 12, ‘05. 770w. (Review of v. 6-10.) |
[*] “Tho the series cannot escape some of the limitations of the monographic method, yet it has already taken the place which it will hold for many years of the most important reference history of our country.”
| + + — | Ind. 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 150w. (Review of v. 1-10.) |
“Never fail to be direct and lucid. The value of the series as a whole can hardly be overestimated.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 4: 304. S. 22, ‘05. 3340w. (Review of v. 1-5.) |
“Taking the five volumes as a whole, the general verdict must be one of cordial approval. All the writers have succeeded in attaining brevity and compactness without falling into an elementary style, while the volumes of Professor Bourne and Professor Andrews must be given high rank as substantive contributions in their respective fields. The literary form, though in no case striking, is meritorious and of fairly even quality.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 96. F. 2, ‘05. 2440w. (Review of v. 1-5.) |
[*] “As a condensed account of a peculiarly difficult period, written in the light of modern historical scholarship, the volume is a commendable piece of work, and a worthy addition to the series in which it appears.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 306. O. 12, ‘05. 1200w. (Review of v. 6.) |
“He has made a careful and discriminating use of his material, and apart from a useful text has given us a valuable critical essay on the authorities.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 480. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1110w. (Review of v. 6.) |
“Prof. Thwaites, while hardly possessed of a fascinating style, is always readable. His work is brief, clear, and always to the point.” R. L. S.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 573. S. 2, ‘05. 860w. (Review of v. 7.) |
“Prof. Howard’s work compares favorably with the best volumes of the ‘American nation’ series that have yet appeared.” R. L. S.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 621. S. 23, ‘05. 980w. (Review of v. 8.) |
[*] “Prof. Van Tyne has succeeded in turning out a fresh, original, and, considering the limitations of space imposed, an adequate history of the Revolution.” R. L. S.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 680. O. 14, ‘05. 760w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.) | |
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 837. Jl. 29, ‘05. 230w. (Review of v. 7.) |
“A survey at once broad and specific, and of high value to the student desirous of obtaining the latest word of modern research. It is as a helpful work of reference rather than as a ‘popular’ history, in the usual acceptation of the term, ... it will deservedly win a place on the library shelves.”
| + + + | Outlook. 81: 38. S. 2, ‘05. 1790w. (Review of v. 1-6). |
“Like Professor Van Tyne—and, for that matter, like almost all the writers who have as yet contributed to the series—[Mr. McLaughlin] shows a firm grasp of detail and perspective, and his exposition is such as to leave all that is salient impressed on the scholar’s mind.”
| + + + | Outlook. 81: 331. O. 7, ‘05. 400w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.) |
Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.
| + + — | Reader. 6: 588. O. ‘05. 560w. (Review of v. 1-5.) |
[*] “The scheme of the history is on the whole good, though we are bound to say that some of the writing is uninspired, and not in the same rank of literary production as much of the work by American writers in the volume of the ‘Cambridge modern history’ dealing with the United States.”
| + + — | Spec. 95: 694. N. 4, ‘05. 700w. (Review of v. 1-5.) |
Hart, Albert Bushnell. Essentials in American history (from the discovery to the present day). [*]$1.50. Am. bk.
This is one of a series of text books which includes a volume each on ancient, medieval, modern, and English history. “The volumes are intended for use in secondary schools, and contain lists of references and topical questions, but apart from this pedagogic machinery they have little in common with the ordinary schoolbook. The authors have addressed themselves avowedly only to those things which have been vital and significant to the development of the civilizations treated respectively in the several works.” (Outlook.)
“The somewhat original grouping of topics in the Colonial period is the book’s most distinguishing feature. Upon the whole this work of Professor Hart deserves commendation and should meet with a cordial welcome among a wide circle of teachers.” Frank Greene Bates.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 11: 166. O. ‘05. 1240w. |
“While the historic narrative is necessarily compact and free from all attempts at rhetorical writing or dramatic presentation, the books are essentially selective in that they purposely omit confusing details.”
| + + — | Outlook. 80: 442. Je. 17. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] Hart, Jerome. Levantine log book. [**]$2. Longmans.
All the reverence with which one likes to approach the Holy Land is shattered by the genially sarcastic observations which the author makes upon all his observant eyes saw in the Levant. His Levant includes Stamboul, Smyrna, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Cairo, Luxor, Thebes, Alexandria and other places naturally included in this itinerary, and his log book is a record of cheerful disillusionment, but the pictures he draws are amusing enough to compensate for the shock his revelations bring. The volume is illustrated with photographs, many of which were taken by the author.
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “A gossipy, vivacious account of travel.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 941. D. 16, ‘05. 30w. |
[*] Harte, Francis Bret. [Her letter, His answer, and Her last letter.] $2. Houghton.
“For the present reprint, these old favorites have been literally, as the title-page has it, ‘pictured’ by Mr. Arthur I. Keller.... The illustrations, a few more in number than the stanzas, are in color or in tint, some from wash-drawings and others from pen-and-ink sketches. They catch both the humor and the sentiment of the verses, and the artist has not forgotten that the life of Poverty Flat is now a full generation behind us.”—Dial.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 583. D. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “‘Her letter’ is certainly one of the artistic triumphs of the season’s output.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 190w. | |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1379. D. 14, ‘05. 40w. |
| * | + | Nation. 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 90w. |
| * | + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 712. O. 21, ‘05. 220w. |
| * | + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 90w. |
Hartley, Charles Gasquoine. Pictures in the Tate gallery. [*]$3.50. Dutton.
A study, with twenty reproductions, of the famous gallery presented to the British nation by Sir Henry Tate. There is a general summary of modern English art; the treatment is by epochs represented in the gallery.
“The brief essays ... are well written and instructive ... and the illustrations are thoroughly representative.”
| + | Int. Studio. 25: 273. My. ‘05. 160w. | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 252. F. ‘05. 90w. |
“A general summary of modern English art written in a popular manner, and as such may prove a useful book, for there is discrimination in the criticism.”
| + | Spec. 94: 115. Ja. 28, ‘05. 40w. |
[*] Harwood, Edith. Notable pictures in Florence. [*]$1.50. Dutton.
The author “aims to help the uninitiated in art matters.... Miss Harwood arranges her artists alphabetically, giving us some account of their lives and their most important works, and telling where these are to be found, with small illustrations, good only for assistance in remembering the compositions. She includes the principal artists represented in the Belle Arti, the Uffizi, and the Pitti, along with frescoes in the churches.”—Nation.
[*] “The book is good to read, full of interesting historical detail, and ample in quotations from writers ancient and modern in prose and verse.”
| + | Nation. 81: 402. N. 16, ‘05. 270w. |
[*] “The pleasure it has given the writer to set down her impressions may do something toward removing the suggestion that the book lacks a good reason for existence.” Chas. de Kay.
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 741. N. 4, ‘05. 220w. |
[*] “A book distinctly better than the customary ‘center-table’ variety, the text is better than the pictures, but that is not saying that the text is either original or adequate enough.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 50w. |
Harwood, W. S. New creations in plant life: an authoritative account of the life and work of Luther Burbank. [**]$1.75. Macmillan.
“Following the brief account of Mr. Burbank’s career down to the present time. Mr. Harwood has a chapter on his methods of work in general. He then passes on to a discussion of the individual creations of the breeder, describing the trees created by him, the amaryllis and the poppy, the potato and pomato, lilies, plums, and prunes, the ‘Shasta’ daisy, cacti, breeding plants for perfumes, etc. There are also chapters on breeding and grafting and the commercial aspect of the work; a description of a day with Mr. Burbank, and his personality. The volume is profusely illustrated from photographs.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “Given reasonably clear English and logical presentation, the actual information in this book could be condensed into a magazine article.” C. R. B.
| + — | Bot. G. 40: 459. D. ‘05. 600w. | |
| * | + | Critic. 47: 581. D. ‘05. 80w. |
“Here and there the style is a little difficult to follow. We can recommend this volume as a readable and truthful description of a remarkable career.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 388. N. 9, ‘05. 510w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 709. O. 21, ‘05. 290w. |
[*] “Contains the most complete and comprehensive account of Mr. Burbank’s great achievements, his methods of work, and his personality. His book is eminently readable.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 1039. D. 23, ‘05. 250w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 754. D. ‘05. 130w. |
Hatch, Ernest Frederick George. Far Eastern impressions. [*]$1.40. McClurg.
Impressions of Japan, Korea and China, being the author’s recollections of a tour of those countries made some three years ago. His memory is fortified by facts and opinions collected at the time in his note books and the whole is cast in narrative form. While the industrial and political aspects receive first attention, the historical and social phases are fully and fairly presented and the book will undoubtedly fulfill its object of further stimulating public interest in the great Far Eastern problem. There are three maps and eighty-eight illustrations from photographs.
[*] “Mr. Hatch’s impressions are not mere chance gatherings and ill-digested glimpses; they are acute and weighty observations upon the things that appeal to a business man interested in politics. The volume is well indexed, well illustrated, and written in a clear and forcible style.” H. E. Coblentz.
| + + | Dial. 39: 378. D. 1, ‘05. 390w. |
[*] “A capital book for the investor and fortune seeker.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1479. D. 21, ‘05. 90w. |
[*] “The illustrations seem about as valuable as the text, for little of purely original matter of any great importance enters into the book, which is rather too rich in quotations.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 445. N. 30, ‘05. 290w. |
[*] “The book is an interesting one to read in connection with Lord Curzon’s and Mr. Norman’s much larger and exhaustive volumes on the same subjects.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 80w. |
Hatch, F. H., and Corstorphine, George Stewart. Geology of South Africa. [*]$7. Macmillan.
“The book is divided into five parts. Part I deals with the pre-Karroo rocks.... The Karroo rocks are adequately dealt with in part II.... The coastal system, including the Uitenhage and Umtavuna Cretaceous rocks, profusely illustrated with typical fossils, occupies part III.... Part IV briefly discusses the igneous rocks of doubtful position.... Part V discusses the correlation of the South African strata.”—Nature.
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 278. Ag. 26. 1460w. |
“The volume might be more truthfully entitled ‘A geognostic account of British South Africa.’ Thus regarded the work is good and should prove of much practical value.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 266. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1510w. |
“The authors have certainly succeeded in their self-imposed task ‘to correlate and systematise the valuable results of both official and private work.’” W. G.
| + + | Nature. 72: 346. Ag. 10, ‘05. 980w. |
“Admirable summary provided by these two most competent geologists.”
| + + | Sat. R. 100: 374. S. 16, ‘05. 1620w. | |
| Spec. 95: 198. Ag. 5, ‘05. 180w. |
Hatch, Louis Clinton. Administration of the American revolutionary army. [**]$1.50. Longmans.
A monograph, “Harvard historical series X,” which first treats of the evolution of the Continental army and discusses the relation between Congress and the commander-in-chief. There are also chapters on “Appointment and promotion” of officers, setting forth the states’ jealousies; “Foreign officers;” “Pay and half-pay,” the real contrasted with the apparent pay of the soldiers; “Supplying the army,” its mismanagement and the suffering at Valley Forge; “Newburg addresses;” and “Mutiny of 1786, and disbandment of the army.”
“A valuable chapter on the subject of the ‘Appointment and promotion’ of officers, showing the jealousy of the members of Congress for the rights of their states. The chapter on ‘Foreign officers’ is the least valuable in the volume, adding little to the account in Tower’s ‘Lafayette’ and that in Wharton’s ‘Diplomatic correspondence.’ The following chapter, on ‘Pay and half-pay,’ is, on the other hand, a real contribution. ‘Supplying the army,’ the mismanagement in the feeding and clothing of the army, and the consequent suffering at Valley Forge is, on the whole, the most accurate account we have, and is stated with moderation and without sentimentality. The ‘Newburg addresses’ in the following chapter are, however, treated in a fuller and more conclusive manner. The book is well organized and well written. It is a source study of high merit. There is a valuable bibliography and a good index.” C. H. Van Tyne.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 401. Ja. ‘05. 730w. |
[*] Hatzfeldt, Paul. Hatzfeldt letters: letters of Count Paul Hatzfeldt to his wife; written from the headquarters of the King of Prussia, 1870-71; tr. from the French by J. L. Bashford. [*]$4. Dutton.
“The Countess ... says in her introduction that the letters ‘throw so much light on the great events of 1870-1’ as well as on the character of the writer, that she thinks they will be ‘interesting to many people who only know hitherto of Count Hatzfeldt’s public services.’ ... Candor, however, compels one to deny the accuracy of the first statement.... Count Paul was not behind the scenes in those great events ... his letters ... were merely family letters.... As to throwing light on the diplomat’s character, they may do that; but merely that he loved his family, wanted to be with them.... The letters were written almost daily—sometimes more than one a day—from Aug. 2, 1870, to March 6, 1871, those from and after Oct. 7, being dated from Versailles.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “While, however, a little more care in editing might have avoided some blemishes, we welcome the volume as throwing light on many historical characters and events. The index is unfortunately poor, though fairly accurate as far as it goes. There are a few errors in the text.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 499. O. 14. 1490w. |
[*] “In fact, so far as the public is concerned, the translation is far better than the letters themselves.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 764. N. 11, ‘05. 660w. | |
| * | + | Sat. R. 100: 754. D. 9, ‘05. 1090w. |
Havell, E. B. [Handbook to Agra and the Taj, Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri, and the neighborhood.] [*]$1.50. Longmans.
The object of this volume is “to assist those who visit, or have visited, Agra to an intelligent understanding of one of the greatest epochs of Indian art.” The author, who is the principal of the government school of art at Calcutta, gives a brief historical introduction followed by a detailed treatment of the buildings and tombs at and about Agra. There are 14 illustrations in half-tone from photographs, four plans, an index and footnotes.
| + + — | Nation. 80: 269. Ap. 6. ‘05. 110w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 479. Jl. 22, ‘05. 320w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 9. Ja. 7, ‘05. 240w. |
“The book appears to be at least as good as most books of its kind and better than many.”
Hawkins, Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope, pseud.). [Servant of the public.] [†]$1.50. Stokes.
A story not of the stage, but of an actress: a character study of Ora Pinsent, a creature of whim and folly, and ever behind the failure she makes of living and the cloud her attractive, clinging, and uncertain personality casts over those who cross her path, is the glory of her triumph behind the footlights. There is slight reference to her public career, but its success seems measured by the detailed failure of her private life.
“We cannot regard ‘A servant of the public’ as other than a failure. It is sufficiently interesting to wile away an hour or two, but not so interesting as to fulfil the promise to which the early career of its author gave rise.”
| — + | Acad. 68: 1025. O. 7, ‘05. 820w. |
“Marks an improvement in some ways on ‘Double harness.’ The canvas is less crowded, and the attempt to unravel cross-purposes and conflicting motives is less strenuous yet more successful.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 396. S. 23. 590w. |
“One of the few heroines of this season’s fiction that will not easily be forgotten.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + + | Bookm. 22: 234. N. ‘05. 350w. |
[*] “The ostensibly piquant history of Miss Ora Pinsent is, after all, dull reading.”
| + — | Critic. 47: 578. D. ‘05. 140w. |
[*] “The story is written in a vein of grave comedy, pleasing but not stirring in effect. Its half-dozen chief characters are delicately defined, while its diction is an acceptable compound of natural dialogue, engaging description, and agreeable social philosophy.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 39: 310. N. 16, ‘05. 220w. | |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1151. N. 16, ‘05. 180w. |
[*] “Altho the plot is a little tenuous, yet Mr. Hope treats it with much solidity.”
| + — | Lit. D. 31: 886. D. 9, ‘05. 570w. | |
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 910w. |
“There is a sound as well as subtle philosophy to be read between the lines of this unusual book.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 602. S. 16, ‘05. 880w. |
“As a clever study of a character often met with in real life, but not so often attempted in fiction, this story offers unusual attractions.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 430. O. 21, ‘05. 220w. |
[*] “As an analysis of a temperament and an artistic presentment of individual problems the novel is wrought out with skill and ability.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 140w. |
“Mr. Hope’s fine comedy manner has no better example than ‘A servant of the public.’ Lacking the dramatic vitality of ‘Double harness,’ this story is almost as interesting, for it deals, keenly, good-humoredly, with that fascinating subject, the dramatic instincts of a woman.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 320w. | |
| * | R. of Rs. 32: 759. D. ‘05. 50w. |
“The finish of the story illustrated an art of which Anthony Hope is attaining real control. He gives by a very delicate succession of blunting touches, an admirable imitation of the dulling effect of time.”
| + + | Sat. R. 100: 376. S. 16, ‘05. 630w. |
“Subject to the limitations of his theme, in the choice of which we are ready to admit that opportunity as well as temperament may have been a governing factor, we have little but praise for the skill, the tact, and the subtlety with which Mr. Anthony Hope has handled it.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 395. S. 16, ‘05. 1160w. |
Hawks, Wells. Red wagon stories; or, Tales told under the tent. 50c; pa. 25c. Ottenheimer.
In “these realistic sketches, reminiscent of traveling circus days, ... the men who make the great show go, the bill poster, the press agent, the boss canvasman, the bandmaster, and the ticket seller, give us, in their rough and ready manner, a cheery view of their good-humored personalities in the breezy stories they relate when seated around the ring bark between performances.... In all there are eleven stories.”—N. Y. Times.
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 277. Ap. 29, ‘05. 140w. |
Hawthorne, Hildegarde. Poems. $1. Badger, R. G.
A little volume of delicate poems by the granddaughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
| + + | Critic. 46: 566. Je. ‘05. 160w. |
Reviewed by William Morton Payne.
| + | Dial. 38: 201. Mr. 16, ‘05. 140w. |
“A graceful lyric gift, a vein of pretty fancy, and a habitual mood of ideality are very little inconvenienced by disturbing mental processes.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 150w. |
“In Miss Hawthorne’s work a certain respect for the purity of the poetic impulse is invariably felt. She neither trifles nor bungles with her art, but approaches it sincerely and with intelligence. Her verse, therefore, even when it is of the slightest, has a delicate, veracious property that charms.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 133. Mr. 4, ‘05. 250w. |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. [Marble faun.] $1.25. Crowell.
A volume of the “Thin paper classics,” with an introduction by Katharine Lee Bates, and a frontispiece showing the Grand Salon, in the Capitoline Museum.
Hay, Helen. See Whitney, Mrs. Helen Hay.
Hayden, Arthur. [Chats on old furniture: a practical guide for collectors.] [**]$2. Stokes.
The author “begins with a bibliography, and follows this with a glossary.... He then proceeds to deal separately with various periods of style. The first chapter is given to the French renaissance, the second to the English, the Jacobean and Queen Anne styles, and the styles of the successive Louises, with that of the empire. Finally we have an account of the famous English makers. Each chapter has an appendix of recent sale-prices.”—Spec.
“Is an admirable compendium of all that has been written on the subject.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 272. Mr. 18, ‘05. 900w. | |
| Ath. 1905, 1: 377. Mr. 25. 490w. | ||
| + + — | Sat. R. 99: 846. Je. 24, ‘05. 200w. |
“A useful and instructive volume.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 333. Mr. 4, ‘05. 110w. |
Hayes, Helen. Her memory book. $2. Harper.
An elaborately decorated volume of blank pages in which a young girl may keep a record of her social life, her “coming-out” party, dinners, teas, balls, card parties, and out of door sports, there is even space for samples of her favorite gowns and newspaper notices; the final page is headed by a wee winged figure with veil, and orange wreath.
| + + | Dial. 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 180w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 701. O. 14, ‘05. 280w. | |
| + + | Outlook. 81: 279. S. 30, ‘05. 30w. |
Hazlitt, William Carew, ed. Faiths and folklore. [*]$6. Scribner.
“This is really a new edition of Brand and Ellis’s ‘Popular antiquities of Great Britain,’ but it is now for the first time alphabetically arranged—an immense improvement—and has also been enlarged and improved. The title, as given above, sufficiently indicates the classes of topics treated.”—Outlook.
“The author has collected a good deal of folklore, which it is useful to possess in alphabetical order, but many of the entries would have been improved by revision.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 39. Jl. 8. 1710w. |
“Mr. Hazlitt has added some material to the old book, but neither in quantity nor in quality is it worth while. Most of it is newspaper clippings culled at random, and both in arrangement and in subject shows no sense of proportion or definite plan.”
| — | Dial. 39: 119. S. 1, ‘05. 320w. |
“The work is a rarely quaint storehouse of legend, allusion, antiquarian information, and bygone usages.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 95. Ja. 7. ‘05. 60w. | |
| + + | Spec. 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 420w. |
Healy, Patrick Joseph. Valerian persecution: a study of the relations between church and state in the third century, A. D. [**]$1.50. Houghton.
An historical monograph, which is not a sectarian work, but which sets forth in the light of recent investigation, the true history of this period in which the early Christians suffered much at the hands of the Roman state.
[*] “The character of Dr. Healy’s work may be briefly indicated by saying that, while it satisfies the exacting standards to which the modern writer of history must conform, it will not fail to fascinate the intelligent reader who takes up a book of history, not for severe study, but partly for instruction, partly for entertainment. Clear alike by its methodic arrangement and its simple style, lively and vivid without falling into the rhetorical, the narrative flows smoothly on, and, though abounding in detail, never becomes tedious or monotonous.”
| + + | Cath. World. 82: 403. D. ‘05. 1070w. |
[*] “Painstaking as he has been in piecing together his material, he does not always seem to have understood the sphere to which the statements he copied down applied. This will not prevent his book’s being useful to a large circle of readers to whom the sources from which he draws are not accessible.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 374. N. 3, ‘05. 540w. |
“Dr. Healy’s work is not everywhere selfconsistent.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 346. O. 26, ‘05. 1100w. |
“A carefully written monograph.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 385. O. 14, ‘05. 140w. |
Hearn, Lafcadio. [Exotics and retrospectives.] Shadowings. A. Japanese miscellany. In ghostly Japan, ea. $1.25. Little.
The general title, “Stories and sketches of Japan,” includes in popular form four volumes of the short papers written during the last few years of the author’s life. The volume entitled “A Japanese miscellany,” “would have fitted,” says the N. Y. Times, “the whole series excellently well for it is altogether Japanese.... Bits of antiquarian and ethnological investigation; little papers of research in all kinds of interesting matters relating to the people whom the author loved so well; Japanese stories retold from curious old Japanese books, with Mr. Hearn’s own version of traits and occurrences that have come under his observation; a few of the exquisitely artistic and suggestive tales, impressions, descriptions, which no one but a Hearn could write—these fill the four volumes with such a wealth of entertaining as well as valuable material that, in reading them, one constantly marvels how any one man found time or patience to gather and assimilate it all into one such orderly shape.”
“He does not so much attempt to define, as to convey by means of his charmingly expressed and equally charmingly conceived ideas, some notion of the other half of the world, and the ideals as well as the daily life of the East.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 25: sup. 40. Ap. ‘05. 230w. |
“Together they offer an extraordinary variety of apercus of Japanese character and customs and beliefs, subtly apprehended, and expressed in a style infused with sympathy, phantasy, and color.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 68. Ja. 26, ‘05. 330w. |
“It is here that we gain some idea of the painstaking study, for infinite capacity for details, the special sympathy and appreciation that formed the solid basis of that wonderful power of vivid portrayal and poetic fancy that have made all of Mr. Hearn’s work unique and delightful. Certainly no one can afford to miss the insight into the very spirit of Japan, which is to be gained from these books. He, more than any other English writer, was fitted to be their prophet, and he nobly began his task, even if he did not have opportunity to complete it.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 68. F. 4, ‘05. 1010w. |
Hearn, Lafcadio. [Japan.] [**]$2. Macmillan.
The author, an American journalist, son of a Greek mother and an Irish father, took a Japanese name and a Japanese wife and lived the life of a native teacher, in order to interpret sympathetically the Japanese mind and its products to the Western world. Altho frankly devoted to the country, he surpasses her enemies in admiringly laying bare the realities. “One cannot quote, one must read this work. It shows the Japanese under his armor, modern science. The Japanese, outwardly, are ruled by treaties, diplomacy, governments, codes, imperial diet, armies, and battleships—all modern and external. Inwardly they—that is, forty-nine millions of them—are governed by ghosts. The graveyard is the true dictator. It is ever their ‘illustrious ancestors’ who achieve victories.” (Critic).
“Probably three greater errors were never compressed into a single sentence than this from p. 27: ‘The real religion of Japan, the religion still professed in one form or another by the entire nation, is that cult which has been the foundation of all civilized religion and of all civilized society—ancestor-worship.’ The close and frequent points of influence which religion exercised upon politics and morality in Japan can nowhere else be so well studied as here.” E. Buckley.
| + + — | Am. J. Soc. 10: 545. Ja. ‘05. 2460w. |
“Is a classic in science, a wonder of interpretation. It is the product of long years of thought, of keenest perception, of marvellous comprehension. Hearn outdoes the missionaries in dogmatism, exceeds even the hostile propagandist in telling the naked truth. His book is a re-reading of all Japanese history, a sociological appraisement of the value of Japanese civilization, and a warning against intolerant propaganda of any sort whatever.” W. E. Griffis.
| + + + | Critic. 46: 185. F. ‘05. 710w. |
“Both the prose and the poetry of Japanese life are infused into Mr. Hearn’s charming pages. Nobody, so far as we know, has given a better description of the fascination which Japanese life has at first for such as enter into its true spirit, and of its gradual disappearance. The swan-song of a very striking writer.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 54. Ja. 14, ‘05. 530w. |
Hearn, Lafcadio. Letters from the raven. [*]$5. Mintie press.
In this volume of letters and poems, Hearn tells of his life in the South, gives his views on the negro question, and his impressions of Memphis, New Orleans, and New York. The verses are both light and serious, and there are translations from negro and Creole love songs.
Hearn, Lafcadio. [Romance of the Milky Way, and other studies and stories.] [**]$1.25. Houghton.
“This small posthumous volume ... presents half a dozen ... graceful trifles, all but two Japanese in theme, preceded by a short biographical and appreciative notice ... by Mr. Ferris Greenslet. ‘With the exception of a body of familiar letters now in process of collection,’ says this editor, ‘the present volume contains all of Hearn’s writing that he left uncollected in the magazines or in manuscripts of a sufficient ripeness for publication.’”—Dial.
[*] “The last work of Lafcadio Hearn lacks nothing of that delicacy of expression, of that beauty and depth of thought which caused his earlier books to be sought after and cherished by the ‘many who are yet the few.’”
| + | Acad. 68: 1257. D. 2, ‘05. 850w. |
“The exquisite art of Hearn’s pen stamps the little book as a notable one.”
| + | Dial. 39: 276. N. 1, ‘05. 580w. | |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1478. D. 21, ‘05. 160w. |
| * | + | Nation. 81: 510. D. 21, ‘05. 400w. |
Heath, Dudley. Miniatures. [*]$6.75 Putnam.
“The chief object of the book is to present a historical account of the art which shall be suggestive and stimulating to further study and appreciation rather than to attempt an exhaustive catalog or an authoritative guide for the specialist.”—Ind.
“Mr. Heath has done his work with exceptional thoroughness and skill. The closing pages are given up to ‘Foreign portrait miniaturists’ and we read of Italy, Germany, and France, but not a word of America or the United States.” Charles Henry Hart.
| + + — | Dial. 39: 202. O. 1, ‘05. 1960w. |
“Mr. Heath has taken up the consideration of his subject with enthusiastic zeal as well as with discrimination.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 394. Ag. 17, ‘05. 200w. |
“The present volume has been designed on too ambitious a pattern.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 276. S. 1, ‘05. 940w. |
Heath, William. Heath’s memoirs of the American war: ed. by Rufus Rockwell Wilson, [**]$2.50. Wessels.
“This is the third and decidedly the most important of the ‘Source books of American history’ thus far issued under the direction of Rufus Rockwell Wilson. General Heath’s memoirs, which were originally published in 1798, and, so far as we are aware, have hitherto been reprinted only in a limited edition, are of direct value to the student of the war of the Revolution, constituting a first-hand account of many of the operations connected therewith, and assisting to an appreciation of the men and conditions of the period. The author served as a major-general in the American army throughout the long conflict, his military activity dating from the battle of Concord, where he took part in the harrying of the retreating British.”—Outlook.
“The editor’s introduction, notes, and appendixes are excellent in their way.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 285. Mr. ‘05. 80w. |
“The book is of value also for its accounts of the disposition of Burgoyne after his surrender, of Arnold’s treason, and of the surrender of Cornwallis.”
| + | Dial. 38: 204. Mr. 16, ‘05. 170w. |
“His diary is, as stated, gossipy, redolent of army life and its trifling incidents. Well worth rescuing from the dusty obscurity of library shelves.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 220. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1740w. |
“In its present form it should command a wide audience, its value to the modern student being increased by the intelligent annotations of its present editor.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 95. Ja. 7, ‘05. 340w. |
“In this new dress ... these memoirs form a valuable addition to our source books of American history.”
| + + + | Reader. 5: 626. Ap. ‘05. 330w. |
Heigh, John. House of cards. [†]$150. Macmillan.
The pen-name John Heigh has aroused genuine curiosity among the lovers of a “morsel of mystery.” “The corrupt league between business and politics is the leading note, but the strength and grace of the story lie in the narrative of the life and portrayal of the character of Kriemhild West, of the friendship of Eliot and Cards, of the bluff, hearty and honest personality of John Heigh.” (Ind.)
“The style is epigrammatic without being laboured, the dramatic situations are handled with artistic restraint, and a vein of quiet humor runs all through the book.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 236. Ag. 19. 220w. |
“Written in an exasperating style. There is very little story about the book but instead a great deal of shrewd comment and incisive characterization.” Wm. M. Payne.
| — + | Dial. 39: 209. O. 1, ‘05. 400w. |
“An exceptionally bright and striking story. He has the art of telling a story, of putting each incident, rightly proportioned, in its proper place, of making his characters speak for themselves and justify their existence.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 150w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w. |
“It is not often that a lesson of serious import is conveyed in fiction with such delicacy of style, charm of humour, and literary effectiveness as here.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 692. Jl. 15, ‘05. 140w. |
“Bricks of humor, satire, pathos, a couple of tragedy keystones, and all these joined with the mortar of realism into a magnificent edifice, built upon the rocks of cleverness.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 140w. |
Heilprin, Angelo. Tower of Pelee. [**]$3. Lippincott.
Professor Heilprin, of the Yale scientific school, and author of “Mont Pelée and the tragedy of Martinique,” was in Martinique at the time of the great eruption in the summer of 1902 and has visited the islands twice since that time, ascending Pelee many times. This volume is an illustrated study of the great West Indian volcano, and the strange tower of lava which rose so mysteriously from the crater’s mouth, and crumbled away in constantly falling fragments. He also gives the after-history of the tower and explanations of the phenomena.
“An important contribution to our knowledge of the ways of volcanoes. The book is written with more care than preceding volumes from the same hand.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 203. Mr. 16, ‘05. 240w. |
“It is in the wide and sympathetic interest stirred by the tragic fate of St. Pierre that Professor Heilprin’s volume finds its justification. Author is a man of versatile scientific attainment, a general naturalist and geographer rather than a geologist or volcanologist, and with the journalist’s eye for the effective (albeit not always essential or accurate) details. A tendency to introduce irrelevant matter. In giving the results of Prof. Moissan’s analysis of fumerole gases from St. Pierre, the author curiously omits nitrogen which formed 55 per cent of the whole.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 137. F. 16, ‘05. 1730w. (Abstract of contents.) |
Reviewed by J. S. F.
| + | Nature. 72: 101. Je. 1, ‘05. 170w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 531. Ag. 12, ‘05. 490w. | |
| Outlook. 79: 145. Ja. 14, ‘05. 100w. |
“His study is both scientific and popular.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 251. F. ‘05. 100w. |
“The illustrations, indeed, can hardly be matched, so effective is their representation of the volcanic phenomena.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 223. F. 11, ‘05. 170w. |
[*] Helm, W. H. Aspects of Balzac. [**]$1. Pott.
“The greater part of the book is reprinted from the ‘Empire review.’ ... Two articles run through the women and men of Balzac, and another deals with Balzac’s idea of the English and his admiration for various English authors. In ‘Balzac and Dickens’ essential differences between the French realist and the ‘respectable English author’ are well indicated.... In ‘Literary references in Balzac’ ... the influence of Sterne and Richardson is rightly pointed out.”—Ath.
[*] “He gossips freely and with abundance of humour (which seems occasionally introduced for the purpose of mollifying the general reader) concerning the characters in Balzac’s immense world, and sets down the main conclusions about the novelist which most expert readers have reached.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 1: 493. Ap. 15. 260w. |
[*] “It contains entertaining information about the novelist and his novels, presented in a clear, direct, offhand manner, which agreeably does not exact too much patience from the reader.”
| + | Lit. D. 31: 838. D. 2. ‘05. 530w. |
Henderson, Charles Hanford. Children of good fortune: an essay in morals. [**]$1.30. Houghton.
The philosophy that preaches salvation thru good fortune is set forth under the headings: The problem; Human conduct; Right and wrong; Efficiency; Worth; The moral person; Individual morality; The cardinal virtues; The doctrine of automatic goodness; Social welfare; The morality of the four institutions; Occupations; Immediacy; The moral outlook.
[*] “The work is written in a charming style, and possesses keen penetration and moral insight.” W. C. Keirstead.
| + + | Am. J. Theol. 9: 781. O. ‘05. 880w. | |
| * | + | Ath. 1905, 2: 798. D. 9. 390w. |
“Mr. Henderson’s books, moreover, are not written from strange heights which none but the moral philosopher can scale. They are clear and simple, showing a rare firsthand knowledge of the larger life. They combine to an unusual extent the attitudes of the observer and the experimentalist; they are at once dispassionate and enthusiastic.” Edith J. R. Isaacs.
| + + + | Dial. 38: 354. My. 16, 05. 1840w. |
“At all events the book is good reading, fit to stimulate thought and apt even to produce effects upon conduct itself.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 460. Jl. 8, ‘05. 640w. |
“Such a book is a moral tonic.”
| + + — | Outlook. 80: 343. Je. 3, ‘05. 450w. |
“Dr. Henderson’s book is stimulating, and represents an interesting attempt to provide a working basis for moral conduct.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 100w. |
Henderson, Charles Richmond, and others. Modern methods of charity. [**]$3.50. Macmillan.
An account of the public and private systems of relief in the principal countries of Europe, the British empire, and the United States; also a special treatment of Jewish charities. It is a book for active workers in any field of philanthropy, as well as for students.
| Acad. 68: 151. F. 18, ‘05. 350w. |
[*] “It is not philosophy, it is not theory; but it is a foundation upon which theory and philosophy may be erected. It is the product of the hardest and most tedious delving, searching, translating, comparing and verifying.” Ernest P. Bicknell.
| + + — | Am. J. Soc. 11: 426. N. ‘05. 790w. |
“Encyclopaedic compend.” Winthrop More Daniels.
| + + | Atlan. 95: 556. Ap. ‘05. 710w. |
“The book is almost encyclopaedic in character, and hence more likely to be referred to on special topics than to be read through as a treatise. The volume has too many details which are not digested and which are not of valuable significance, and altogether too many statements which do not convey clear and helpful ideas; while some information that should be found in it is unhappily lacking.... The misleading generalizations which the editor has allowed to appear at frequent intervals throughout the volume.” B.
| + — | Charities. 14: 639. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1870w. |
Reviewed by Max West.
| + + — | Dial. 38: 269. Ap. 16, ‘05. 560w. |
“We regret to say, the editor seems to have a very inadequate conception of the comparative method of study and of scientific methods in general.”
| — — | Nation. 80: 422. My. 25, ‘05. 960w. |
“It is a scientific study in what we may call the methodology of public relief for public poverty.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 902. Ap. 8, ‘05. 340w. |
“A useful compendium.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 127. Ja. ‘05. 130w. |
Henderson, George Francis Robert. Science of war; ed. by Neil Malcolm. [*]$4. Longmans.
The author of “Stonewall Jackson” called the Herbert Spencer of military tactics was a master of the theory and practice of the art of war. This collection of essays and lectures which separately have been regarded as authoritative along their respective lines of thought, treat such subjects as “War,” “Strategy,” “The tactical employment of cavalry,” “Tactics of the three arms combined,” “Training of the infantry for the attack,” “Military criticism and modern tactics,” etc. The fourteen essays are preceded by a memoir by Col. Henderson’s staunch admirer and patron, Lord Roberts.
“Henderson is at his best in driving home with quiet persistence, and with the help of countless apt examples, the lessons of pure military warfare.”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 728. Jl. 15, ‘05. 810w. |
“In the present volume there are many contradictions. So, too as regards style itself.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 687. Je. 3, 670w. |
“Reading them we get the real measure of the man; we realize the extraordinary compass of his knowledge, the wise way in which he looked on professional things, his power to put before his hearers or his readers matter for deep thought, and repaying any amount of thought bestowed on them.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 4: 200. Je. 23, ‘05. 2270w. |
“It is rare for the reviewer to open the pages of a book in which there is so little to criticise, so much to admire.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 346. O. 26, 05. 730w. |
“Those in the volume before us are minor only in the matter of quantity, not at all in that of quality.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 660. O. 7, ‘05. 1020w. |
“An admirable contribution to the serious study of the art of war.”
| + + + | Sat. R. 100: 153. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1580w. |
Henderson, Henry F. Religious controversies of Scotland. [*]$1.75. imp. Scribner.
“The story of the dozen storms that differences of opinion have generated in the Scottish church during the last two centuries.... Some of the chapters in this volume relate to recent contentions about the higher criticism; others to conflicts equally serious in their time, but now forgotten.”—Outlook.
| + + | Outlook. 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 120w. |
“Generally. Mr. Henderson has treated a very difficult subject in a satisfactory way.”
| + | Spec. 94: 755. My. 20, ‘05. 300w. |
Henderson, Howard. Ethics and etiquette of the pulpit, pew, parish, press and platform. $1. H. A. Schroetter, Covington, Ky.
A second revised edition of this manual of manners for ministers and members, which may prove helpful to those who have had no home training and who know nothing of common social usages.
Henderson, John. West Indies; painted by A. L. Forrest; described by John Henderson. [*]$6. Macmillan.
The text deals almost wholly with Jamaica and its people, chiefly its negroes. Much information upon the flora, the commerce, and various matters of interest to the tourist are given. The illustrations are done in color.
“Mr. Forrest has done better in this volume than he did in its predecessor, ‘Morocco.’ Mr. Henderson’s text falls considerably short of the artistic level of its illustrations.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 217. Ag. 12. 260w. |
“Their joint work is a very attractive book. Its illustrations are charming. Mr. Henderson’s descriptive chapters are not to be taken too seriously; they are light, bright, and rapid, not to say slap-dash here and there, and they display, as is only to be expected, not a few of the defects of those attractive qualities.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 199. Je. 23, ‘05. 580w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 361. Je. 3, ‘05. 200w. |
“The book is very interesting, and within the limits which we think we have found, is valuable as a study of some of the phases of subtropical America.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 451. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1410w. |
“The pictures of negro types are full of character and individuality. The reproductions are unusually good. The text of the book consists of the observations of a traveler, chatty and genial, but not penetrating to any great depth.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 696. Jl. 15, ‘05. 60w. |
[*] Henderson, R. S. Earthwork tables. 2 pts. $1.50. Eng. news.
This useful book of tables is divided into two parts: Part I. Preliminary earthwork tables, giving cubic yards per 100 feet for level sections, to which is added a graphical method of estimating quantities from a profile. Part II. Earthwork tables, giving the volume in cubic yards of prismoids 100 feet long by the average end area method.
[*] “The reviewer knows of no other similar table that equals it for range.” Halbert P. Gillette.
| + + + | Engin. N. 54: 650. D. 14, ‘05. 640w. |
Henderson, William James. Pipes and timbrels. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
“A new volume of poems.... Pictures, music, dreams, and reminiscences of the classic world are the flowers that grow in Mr. Henderson’s garden, and from these he makes a most acceptable bouquet of the pretty old-time ‘mixed’ variety.”—N. Y. Times.
“There are poems in blank verse, sonnets, songs, and in all the meter is good, in some excellent. There is thought in all the poems, and it is poetic thought.” Eltweed Pomeroy.
| + + + | Arena. 34: 219. Ag. ‘05. 280w. |
“A certain compliance with the rules of prosody, a flavor of the sentiment of poetry, an inspiration toward the best, characterize these verses.”
| + | Critic. 46: 566. Je. ‘05. 60w. |
Review by W: M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 39: 67. Ag. ‘05. 240w. |
“Contains many lovely lines and a few successful technical experiments.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 265. Ap. 22, ‘05. 300w. |
[*] Henry, Arthur. Lodgings in town. [†]$1.50. Barnes.
“To interest yourself in others, to go with the tide of the great city and observe closely every possible condition, is Mr. Henry’s recipe for happiness. Add to this an especial care for one person in particular—like Nancy—and the picture is complete. The faith that kept firm hold of the youth who began his New York life possessed of one clean collar and a poem must be the kind that moves mountains. Particularly good are the descriptions of the office where Nancy worked and the Baxter street lodgings where she and her poet lived.”—Outlook.
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 527. O. 28, ‘05. 120w. |
| * | + | Pub. Opin. 39: 663. N. 18, ‘05. 350w. |
Henry, Arthur. Unwritten law. [†]$1.50. Barnes.
The purpose of this book is to show how, in our modern social system, ignorance of the laws themselves and of the crime done in breaking them often leads to tragedy. A German engraver, who loses his savings thru the speculations of his banker, sets innocently to work to support his family by engraving bank notes for himself, the result is Sing Sing. One daughter, simple and unlearned, comes to grief, while her sophisticated and selfish sister marries well. The book treats of both the upper and the lower classes, and of the many problems of modern life. The setting is New York.
“Handful of tragedies in the guise of a novel.”
| — | Acad. 68: 759. Jl. 22, ‘05. 420w. |
“The book is animated by a fine seriousness, a single-minded sincerity, which pertain to the best and highest in American art and thought. It exhibits a certain crudeness, a certain toughness of fiber, which may militate against its right appreciation by the fastidious.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 778. Je. 24. 750w. |
[*] “Is an encouraging example of that best sort of realism. The style is simple, at times almost to the point of baldness. It will inevitably provoke discussion; it will arouse some antagonism; but it cannot fail to make people think.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + | Bookm. 21: 267. My. ‘05. 980w. |
“There is no kind of excuse for the excessively plain speaking in which this book indulges. It impresses one as the work of a reporter rather than that of a constructive novelist.” Wm. M. Payne.
| — — | Dial. 39: 115. S. 1, ‘05. 200w. |
“The book has, perhaps, no merely literary merit, it is crude in plot and exhibits much bad taste in incident, but it has a certain sincerity in strength, and a vividness, too, in places.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 220. Ap. 8, ‘05. 710w. |
Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter). [Cabbages and kings.] $1.50. McClure.
The author, who has lived many years among the people of the South American republics, draws upon his fund of experience in this breezy story which recounts the adventures of an energetic American in the land of popular revolutions. “The characters range from the native brown-skinned maiden to the daughter of an American banker, and from a peon to an absconding president. The game proceeds much like a rattling good comic opera—and the characters have many opportunities to spin yarns of the kind that have already made famous the name of ‘O. Henry.’” (Pub. note.).
“A book of very unusual interest and cleverness. The general popularity will necessarily be limited by the fact that it is essentially a man’s book. A number of the chapters might be taken bodily from the book and held up as admirable examples of short-story telling.” Stanhope Searles.
| + | Bookm. 20: 561. F. ‘05. 530w. | |
| + | Critic. 46: 189. F. ‘05. 90w. |
“The inimitably breezy style of story telling is retained in the main episodes. Has weakened the structure of the whole. The characters, so delightful in the original stories become less real, less convincing on their new stage.”
| — + | Ind. 58: 328. F. 9, ‘05. 210w. |
“Pure burlesque, but lively, ingenious, and slangily humorous, South American intrigue, Yankee resource, the colossal impudence of the American fakir, and the romance of unusual love complications, are all worked together into a semi-connected story, parts of which have been already used as magazine tales.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 94. Ja. 7, ‘05. 50w. |
Herbert, George. English works, newly arranged and annotated and considered in relation to his life, by G. Herbert Palmer. 3v. [*]$6. Houghton.
“Herbert, though a minor poet, is established in English literature as are few minor poets of the seventeenth century. His poems have been constantly reprinted for general readers.... The form of this edition is altogether admirable. The print is clear and restful to the eye, the margins are wide ... and the volumes comfortable to hold. The notes to the poems are printed opposite to the poems, so that one has the poem on the right-hand page, the corresponding notes on the left-hand. The illustrations are interesting and apt. The portrait of Herbert published here, for the first time as the frontispiece to volume I., is a notable addition to literary portraiture.”—Nation.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 574. D. ‘05. 30w. |
[*] “Of the more specific work of the editor one may say that it is at once scholarly and literary, minute in its exegesis yet mindful always that a poet and not a ‘corpus vile’ is under discussion.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1230. N. 23, ‘05. 870w. |
“The annotations are very thorough. The study of the matter and style is exhaustive.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 384. N. 9, ‘05. 1880w. |
“It will ever hold its place, as one of the triumphs of American scholarship in editing English classics, alongside such works as those of Furness and Child. These latter are bigger and on bigger subjects, but they are not better done.” Cameron Mann.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 757. N. 11, ‘05. 2470w. |
“Has done his work as biographer and editor con amore.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 50w. |
[*] “Every help to the reader’s eye and mind for the appreciation of Herbert will be found in these volumes, so great is the labor of love which Professor Palmer, with his own fine intelligence and training, has wrought for the most lovable and the most human of our religious poets.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 827. D. 2, ‘05. 1480w. |
[*] Herford, Brooke. Eutychus and his relations. [*]70c. Am. Unitar.
Under this profound title appear the witty old-time pulpit and pew papers written from a layman’s point of view, which were first published anonymously during the early years of their author’s ministry, 1860-1861. They include quaintly humorous disquisitions upon: A ‘lay’ view of sleeping in church; Some people who always come late; Praising God by proxy; Pews; A country tea party; Over-much discourse; Unsocial worship; Parsonic acid, and other kindred subjects.
Herford, Charles Harold. [Robert Browning.] [**]$1. Dodd.
“The biographical element is sufficient, but is subordinate to the exposition of the poet’s work in the order of its production. The true biography of Browning can be written in no other way.... A clear perception of this fact, and a definite though not a rigid application of this fact to his material, give Professor Herford’s study a true biographic as well as an interpretative quality.”—Outlook.
“Prof. Herford’s study of Browning is in many respects complementary to that of Mr. Chesterton’s published last year. The style is, for the most part sober and balanced though there are occasional flashes of rather loose rhetoric, and the author has an odd habit of falling at intervals into comments which are banal or tasteless.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 14. Jl. 1, 1580w. |
“In scale it stands midway between Mr. Chesterton’s and Prof. Dowden’s; in quality it is to be compared rather with the latter.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + | Atlan. 96: 279. Ag. ‘05. 760w. |
“There could hardly be a better brief estimate of Browning’s genius than Professor Herford has given us.” Edward Fuller.
| + + + | Critic. 47: 247. S. ‘05. 390w. |
“The commentator knows his Browning well, has availed himself of the best and latest authorities, and manifests a considerable degree of sympathetic appreciation; but he is hampered in his presentation by a clumsiness of expression. Numerous misquotations from the poems ... do not strengthen our confidence in Professor Herford or his book.”
| + — | Dial. 39: 44. Jl. 16, ‘05. 400w. |
“The necessity to be poetic, to live up to his matter, has been too much for him.”
| — + | Ind. 59: 457. Ag. 24, ‘05. 220w. |
“This is likely to stand as one of the best of the numerous short critical lives of its provocative poet.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 531. Je. 29, ‘05. 350w. |
“His treatment of Browning the poet and man shows considerable insight and unusual sanity.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 304. My. 6, ‘05. 280w. |
“His study of Browning is intelligent, sympathetic, and well balanced.”
| + + + | Outlook. 79: 1015. Ap. 22, ‘05. 280w. |
“He has a gift of selection and juxtaposed selection which remarkably increases the pleasure of reading this sort of criticism. But the scheme of the book runs parallel with how many others.”
| + | Sat. R. 99: 849. Je. 24, ‘05. 110w. |
“We are not wholly in agreement with his estimate of the poet. Our chief difference is in regard to Browning’s literary form. The criticism generally, we greatly admire.”
| + + — | Spec. 94: 558. Ap. 15, ‘05. 580w. |
[*] Herrick, Christine Terhune, ed. Lewis Carroll birthday book. 75c. Wessels.
A little birthday book that will delight “Alice in wonderland” admirers.
[*] “As a birthday book, it is hardly a success, and the selections do more credit to the compiler’s familiarity with her author than to her sense of appropriateness.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 490. D. 14, ‘05. 110w. |
[*] “Mrs. Christine Terhune Herrick has made the selections for the volume and nobody could have done it with more sympathy and understanding.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 895. D. 16, ‘05. 230w. |
Herrick, Francis Hobart. Home life of wild birds: a new method of the study and photography of birds. [**]$2. Putnam.
The “new method” consists in carrying away the nest with its eggs or young birds and also its immediate surroundings and setting it up before a green tent where it may be watched and photographed at leisure. 150 photographs of thirty species of our common birds attest the value of this method. The author also gives the results of his close observation of the nests.
| + + | Dial. 38: 396. Je. 1, ‘05. 80w. | |
| + + | Ind. 58: 1152. Je. 1, ‘05. 180w. | |
| + + | Nation. 81: 263. S. 28, ‘05. 320w. |
Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 402. Je. 17, ‘05. 530w. |
“The volume is a valuable contribution to the scientific knowledge of bird habits.”
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 392. Je. 10, ‘05. 150w. |
Herrick, Robert. Common lot. $1.50. Macmillan.
The story is of a young architect who has grown up in the belief that he is heir to his uncle’s millions. When the fortune is left to charity, he takes up the common lot of toil unwillingly and is weakly led away from his young ideals by the desire for money. When his personal and professional honor are compromised, he is held to his expiation by his young wife whose unflinching faith in him forces him to be the man she thinks he is. It is a vivid representation of business life in Chicago, and the philosophy of the book is summed up in the closing sentence—“Fortunately there are few things that do make any great difference to real men and women,—and one of the least is the casual judgment of their fellow-men.”
“‘The common lot’ is worthy of wide circulation. It cannot fail to do good.” Amy C. Rich.
| + + | Arena. 33: 450. Ap. ‘05. 460w. | |
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 11. Ja. 7. 280w. |
“An interesting and impressive story.”
| + | Engin. N. 53: 181. F. 16, ‘05. 230w. | |
| + + | Reader. 5: 258. Ja. ‘05. 570w. |
“There is a good deal of character drawing in the book that is at once delicate and strong, and the story of how Francis Hart did not inherit the millions he hoped for, took up the common lot of toil, and what came of it, is among the best in recent fiction.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 118. Ja. ‘05. 110w. |
Herrick, Robert. [Memoirs of an American citizen.] [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
A country boy, tired of his lot runs away to Chicago to make his fortune. His autobiography follows with an unusually strong personal note even for a self-told tale of the career which starts with service as a grocery wagon driver and reaches the ranks of the Chicago capitalist. The way is made by “turning Texas steers into dressed beef and Iowa hogs into leaf lard and sausage,” which would seem honorable enough did not analysis of his methods of operation reveal a dulled sense of moral obligation to people at large, the city, and any competing organization.
“No more absolute unswerving merger of the author in the character of his hero, of his self-effacement in the interest of good art, could ever be conceived of.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + + | Bookm. 22: 132. O. ‘05. 970w. |
“Professor Herrick does not appear to have a powerful imagination, and his literalness, and even his unusual power of penetration, do not in themselves suffice to carry a story otherwise deficient.”
| + — | Critic. 47: 476. N. ‘05. 170w. |
“The story seems to be rooted in bitter cynicism and to embody the very philosophy of despair.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + — | Dial. 39: 114. S. 1, ‘05. 510w. |
“Is not in so happy a vein. The author sees things too big, and he has not enough confidence in the virtue of the American people, which will outlast transient vices.”
| — | Ind. 59: 1154. N. 16, ‘05. 70w. |
“This is not a book that we should care to see in the hands of youth.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 205. S. 7, ‘05. 730w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w. |
“Mr. Herrick’s book is a book among many and it comes nearer reflecting a certain kind of recognizable, contemporaneous American spirit than anybody has yet done.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 482. Jl. 22, ‘05. 620w. |
“The story is worked out with extraordinary virility, realism, and truth. Deserves reading, not only because of its subject and its moral force, but because of the thorough, faithful, and even artistic way in which the material is handled.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 935. Ag. 12, ‘05. 290w. |
[*] “It is penetrated by genuine intensity of spirit, and shows the hand of a high-minded and accomplished workman.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 707. N. 25, ‘05. 160w. |
“One of the most refreshing qualities of the story is its sanity.”
| + + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 330w. |
[*] “But one thing Prof. Herrick has achieved in spite of himself; he has somehow put,—no, hammered,—together a rough image of the American self-made man.”
| — + | R. of Rs. 32: 757. D. ‘05. 150w. |
Hess, Isabella R. St. Cecilia of the court. [†]$1.25. Revell.
“In Flanery Court, where Cecilia (otherwise Angelina Sweeney) lives, poverty rules.... Miss Hess ... has told a pathetically pretty story of the life of a poor little red-haired saint—her struggles against the hardships of life, her drunken mother, her little brother Puddin’.... There is Jim Bellway, who taught the make-believe saint, quite unconsciously, how to become a real one; and there is Mr. Daniels, who Cecilia, quite unconsciously, brought back to the straight and narrow path—and so on; and though the story wades through tears, it nevertheless ends in a burst of sunshine.”—N. Y. Times.
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 648. S. 30, ‘05. 200w. |
“Touches portraying the generosity, loyalty, and cheerfully borne privations of the poor are the best feature of this story of New York tenement life.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 136. S. 16, ‘05. 70w. |
Hewett, Rev. G. M. A. The rat. [*]$2. Macmillan.
Having arrived at the old age of three years, this hoary rat sits down to write his memoirs, recounting his many adventures in English mills and cornfields. He discourses on his wives and gives his conclusions upon boys, men, ferrets, and women. He also gives an exhaustive treatment of traps. There is much delineation of rat-character, and the experiences of a traveled friend who had lived in the sewers of London and Paris are given. The book is illustrated with colored pictures.
“A work which we commend to young and old alike.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 1: 404. Ap. 1. 160w. |
“It is a very English story of a very English rat intended primarily for English children and supposed to be told by the rat himself.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 43. Ja. 21, ‘05. 520w. |
[*] Hewlett, Maurice. Works. Ed. de luxe. IIV. ea. [*]$3. Macmillan.
The five hundred numbered sets of this edition de luxe are sold by subscription only. The volumes are appearing one a month in the following order: The forest lovers; Richard Yea-and-Nay; Little novels of Italy; New Canterbury tales; The queen’s quair; The fool errant; The road in Tuscany in two volumes; Earthwork out of Tuscany; Pan and the young shepherd and songs and meditations in one volume; Fond adventures.
| * | + | Nation. 81: 426. N. 23, ‘05. 280w. (Review of v. 1-3.) |
Reviewed by Christian Gauss.
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 844. D. 2, ‘05. 2450w. (Review of v. 1-3.) |
| * | + | Outlook. 81: 525. O. 28, ‘05. 80w. (Review of v. 1.) |
Hewlett, Maurice Henry. Fond adventures: tales of the youth of the world. [†]$1.50. Harper.
Four short stories of mediaeval romance, The heart’s key, Brazenhead the Great, Buondelmonte’s saga, and The love chase.
“Knowing well the possibilities of Mr. Hewlett’s fine ability, we lay down this latest volume with great disappointment.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 419. Ap. 15, ‘05. 520w. | |
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 716. Je. 10. 220w. |
“One feels that in these few crowded, tumultuous pages there is more of the real essence of Florentine life than in the whole length and breadth of George Eliot’s ‘Romola.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + | Bookm. 21: 515. Jl. ‘05. 600w. |
“Mr. Hewlett is at his best in these short stories.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 70w. |
“Taken as a whole, the impression remains that the book is made up of work done early in Mr. Hewlett’s literary career, and denied publication until now.”
| — | Dial. 38: 393. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w. |
“Not one of these stories is lacking in intrinsic interest, yet one’s dominant impression in closing the book is not of any of the characters or events, but of the cleverness of Mr. Hewlett.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + + — | Forum. 37: 111. Jl. ‘05. 230w. |
“But it is ‘The love chase,’ the last story of the series, in which Mr. Hewlett probably surpasses anything he has ever written.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1309. Je. 8, ‘05. 820w. |
“A volume of stories, splendid stories, full of action and passion, with an undercurrent of laughter, all carried off with great spirit and style. They are told in wonderful words, so apt and abundant.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 440. Je. 1, ‘05. 1130w. |
“These four stories of Mr. Hewlett’s are as rich in imagery and as glowing in color as any that he has ever written.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 810w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w. |
“These stories are remarkable rather for atmospheric quality than for construction or force of characterization.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 200w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 38: 871. Je. 3, ‘05. 190w. |
“The tales are medieval; rich in quality, decorative in effect and fascinating always.”
| + + | Reader. 6: 92. Je. ‘05. 180w. |
“The quaint and pleasing title of Mr. Hewlett’s new book serves as a preface for tales more deserving of the first adjective than the last, except in so far as artistic work is, in a sense, always deserving of the term ‘pleasing.’”
| + — | Reader. 6: 360. Ag. ‘05. 340w. |
“His style, his vision, his passion—these are always there.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 756. Je. ‘05. 250w. | |
| + | Spec. 94: 680. My. 6, ‘05. 830w. |
Hewlett, Maurice. [Fool errant.] [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
The “fool” of Mr. Hewlett’s new story is an English youth with a very ardent temperament who goes abroad to complete his studies. He is guilty of many hot-headed indiscretions, chief among which is his boyish passion for the wife of his stern tutor. A pilgrimage of expiation follows his declaration of love for her. Much of the interest of the tale centers in the phases of Italian life of high and low degree which he encounters. “He has in his journeyings a quick-witted companion, who rescues him alike from rash promptings of his ‘daemon’ and from foes from without.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Maurice Hewlett, it may be said at once, has achieved a notable success in the latest of his books.”
| + + — | Acad. 68: 750. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1440w. |
“‘The fool errant’ will not make so wide an appeal to the general public as several earlier volumes of Mr. Hewlett’s. It lacks the tumultuous passion of ‘Richard yea-and-nay’, the epic bigness of the ‘Queen’s quair.’”
| + | Bookm. 22: 36. S. ‘05. 800w. |
“The novel shows, on the whole, an advance over its predecessors. Has proved, by the charm and animation of his tale, that imagination and a sense of style need not, under favourable circumstances, seriously interfere with the writing of a good novel.” Edith Wharton.
| + + — | Bookm. 22: 64. S. ‘05. 1660w. |
“It is possible, though the statement is not to be made dogmatically, that Mr. Maurice Hewlett, in all his succession of legitimately showy triumphs, has done nothing better than this history of a ‘fool.’” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
| + + + | Critic. 47: 451. N. ‘05. 370w. |
“We feel that he is simply saturated with the life of the time and the color of the environment and that he has reproduced these things with marvelous fidelity. This is the chief title of the book to praise, and a high title it is.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 39: 113. S. 1, ‘05. 510w. | |
| + — | Ind. 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 60w. |
“Told with sureness of touch and undeniable brilliance.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 225. Jl. 14, ‘05. 430w. |
“A story of intense interest and a literary achievement of a very high order.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 511. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1180w. |
“As a faithfully wrought and vigorous piece of fiction-writing the book is unusual.”
| + + — | Outlook. 80: 883. Ag. 5, ‘05. 240w. |
[*] “May be counted among the notable books of the second half of the year.”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 708. N. 25, ‘05. 190w. |
“Mr. Hewlett draws a brilliant picture of a decadent period.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 260w. |
“A book very subtly conceived and very admirably written.”
| + + | Sat. R. 100: 218. Ag. 12, ‘05. 580w. |
“This brilliant study in the picaresque seems to us one of the most successful of Mr. Hewlett’s works.”
| + + + | Spec. 95: 359. S. 9, ‘05. 310w. |
Hewlett, Maurice Henry. Road in Tuscany. [**]$6. Macmillan.
Mr. Hewlett’s own words are perhaps best descriptive of the freshness of his view of life and art in Tuscany. He calls it “a companion of travel and leisurely, sententious commentary of the country,” and he strikes its key-note in his opening remarks. “His plan for the book has the freshness which marks its rendering of details. ‘Let the history, fine arts, monuments and institutions of a country be as fine as you please, its best product will always be the people of it, who themselves produced those other pleasant spectacles. I have always preferred a road to a church, always a man to a masterpiece, a singer to his song; and I have never opened a book when I could read what I wanted on the hillside or by the river bank.’” (Reader). He consistently subordinates art galleries to peasants, but gives legends, history, and piquant references to the art and literature of the country, with a lavish hand.
“Is one of those rare books having charm, and one which gives no less insight into Mr. Hewlett than into the hearts of all the dead and living Tuscans of whom he writes. Mr. Hewlett’s one fault, regarded as a cicerone, is that he gives us life in superabundance; he gives it to us often at the cost of other things which we are loth to sacrifice. Now guidebooks the very best of them, while they make excellent servants, are bad masters, Mr. Hewlett’s not excepted. Flippant he is, at times, perverse, even arrogant: but he understands the Tuscans, and he loves them. Whoever goes to Florence without ‘The road in Tuscany’ goes but half equipped.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + — | Bookm. 20: 557. F. ‘05. 1860w. | |
| + + | Critic. 46: 479. My. ‘05. 150w. | |
| + — | Nation. 80: 179. Mr. 2, ‘05. 920w. | |
| + + | Reader. 5: 500. Mr. ‘05. 830w. |
“One of those genial, leisurely, charming books, with a touch of infinite knowledge, that we find in the combination of the artist and traveler. It reveals the real Italy, with its color and fragrance, which is known only to those who get away from the towns and cities. Typographically, the work is elegant, and the pictures really illustrate.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 123. Ja. ‘05. 130w. |
“His artistic suggestiveness never fails; his ideas and conclusions especially with regard to such unfamiliar places as Volterra, Cortona, Arezzo, and many more, seem almost invariably right.”
| + + — | Spec. 94: 88. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1870w. |
Heywood, William. Palio and Ponte. Methuen, London.
This “account of the sports of central Italy from the age of Dante to the XXth century” dwells upon a phase of Italian history almost unknown to literature. The Italian idea of sports was closely allied to the Greek idea of games, and they often grew out of rivalry in neighboring communities or celebrated some historic or civic event. Mr. Heywood shows their importance in the life of the mediæval Italian city, and pictures Lorenzo de’Medici, Sodoma, the painter, and Caesar Borgia racing their horses at Sienese pali.
“The style throughout is clear and simple,—in general not of marked quality, but occasionally showing such vigor and even beauty that one is tempted to wish for more such pages even at the sacrifice of some of the by-paths of erudition.” Ellen Giles.
| + + | Dial. 39: 107. S. 1, ‘05. 1490w. |
“Mr. Heywood has undertaken his study of these sports in the spirit of a true historian, and his researches have revealed a new side of Italy to English readers. But our author is more than a student of archives. He has bursts of eloquence in his style. He has interwoven a vast amount of local history, especially Sienese, since no Anglican, save perhaps Mr. Langton Douglas, knows his Siena better. Mr. Heywood tastes what he describes. He has gone to sources not merely in his facts, but in his inspiration. He has not compiled a book, but has written one for which all lovers of Italy can only be grateful.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 119. F. 9, ‘05. 940w. |
“Without a real love of Italy, and an unusually deep understanding of Italian character, this book could not have been written.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 19. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1970w. |
Hibben, John Grier. Logic, deductive and inductive. $1.40. Scribner.
“Logic, so far as merely formal, is proverbially dry. In its application to living interests it becomes a succulent source of intellectual pleasure. Professor Hibben has aimed to invest it with this attractiveness, especially in his illustrations of inductive knowledge.”—Outlook.
“These are not only modern, but fresh in a degree as welcome to the student as it is unusual, and they are drawn from a wide range of science.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 605. Mr. 4, ‘05. 100w. |
“It is comprehensive and accurate in statement, systematic and free from trifling and irrelevant subtleties. On the other hand, the discussions of the early chapters seem to me somewhat too difficult and technical to afford the beginner the guidance he needs.” J. E. C.
| + + — | Philos. R. 16: 725. N. ‘05. 1120w. |
Hibbert, Walter. Life and energy; an attempt at a new definition of life; with applications to morals and religion. $1. Longmans.
“The thesis of these four addresses—originally delivered at the Polytechnic institute, London—is that life is not matter, is not energy, but an unceasing nonfactorial directive control of energy and its transformations.”—Nature.
“Mr. Hibbert puts most of his points clearly, and much of what he says has considerable force. But it is doubtful if the range of ideas within which the book moves is adequate to the problem. The main position is not unassailable, and the deductions from it in regard to morals and religion are occasionally fanciful.”
| + — | Nature. 71: 271. Ja. 19, ‘05. 340w. |
“Neither the method of treatment nor the style of the book seems to us particularly happy.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 400. F. 11, ‘05. 170w. |
[*] Hichens, Robert Smythe. Black spaniel and other stories. (†)$1.50. Stokes.
The story of the black spaniel is an uncanny tale of a man who lost a dog-friend at the hands of a vivisectionist, of a doctor who met his death thru the bite of another spaniel on which he was cruelly experimenting, and of the awful revenge which the dog lover took upon this dead doctor reincarnated in a third black spaniel. The creepy atmosphere is well sustained thruout. The volume also contains eleven shorter stories, most of which have the Arabian desert for a background, and all of which are most original in theme.
[*] “Mr. Hichens, thorough decadent as he is, can make his decadence big; and it is wrong of him to make it as petty as this.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 1079. O. 14, ‘05. 640w. |
[*] “To our thinking, ‘Mr. Greyne’ is the pick of the book.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 608. N. 4. 220w. |
[*] “‘The black spaniel’ occupies only the first third of the book, but nothing that follows has the least power to blur the effect of the spaniel’s whine. The following eight stories ... are slight things, episodes rather artfully and artistically told. They will be read with pleasure and forgotten without difficulty, while ‘The black spaniel’ will be read with terror and forgotten never!”
| + | Lond. Times. 4: 340. O. 13, ‘05. 550w. |
[*] “Not worthy of the genius of the author of ‘The garden of Allah.’”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 90w. |
[*] “The title-story is of the gruesome kind most tediously spun out, the second ‘The mission of Mr. Eustace Greyne’ is funny and satirical and the best in the book.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 600. N. 4, ‘05. 130w. |
[*] “Few modern story tellers are more expert in their art, and this book would be well worth reading for the workmanship alone, had it not also something of the charm of unfamiliar and unhackneyed material.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 658. O. 28. ‘05. 270w. |
Hichens, Robert. [Garden of Allah.] $1.50. Stokes.
A woman, longing for peace, and a renegade monk seeking refuge from himself and filled with remorse at his desertion of his high calling, meet and seek rest and happiness in the “Garden of Allah,” the African desert. The story is one of passion, struggle, and renunciation, the woman finally leading the monk, who has become her husband, back to his monastery.
“In brilliancy falls short of ‘The woman with the fan,’ on the other hand, the intensity with which he reproduces an atmosphere of beauty creates an almost physical sense of well-being. In addition to a very genuine gift of imagination, he has learned how to tell his story.”
| — + | Atlan. 95: 697. My. ‘05. 190w. |
“The book, from the point of view of writing, is decidedly heavy. The immorality of the book is, to our minds ... gross. Is not a worthy nor an artistic creation; it is a reeking monstrosity.”
| — — — | Cath. World. 81: 545. Jl. ‘05. 830w. |
“In this striking novel Mr. Hickens immeasurably surpasses all his previous work.... Is a wonderfully handled tragedy, advancing with masterly logic from premise to conclusion.... Very rarely in an English book is there to be found such an exhibition of descriptive skill.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
| + + + | Critic. 46: 474. My. ‘05. 400w. |
“In all the three essentials of invention, style and thought, this performance is highly commendable, and entitles Mr. Hichens to more serious consideration than ever before.” W: M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 38: 388. Je. 1, ‘05. 420w. |
“Mr. Hichens has written his masterpiece.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 787. Ap. 6, ‘05. 230w. | |
| * | Ind. 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 50w. |
“The critics have seemed to agree that in this novel Mr. Robert Hichens has done something big, strong and lasting.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w. |
“A singular but powerful story, in many respects the best work of this author. An absence of the morbidity that is too common with him. There are, however, a plain speaking ... that sometimes, it will seem to many readers, overstep the limits of taste. In manner the romance is in an intense style, sometimes a little exalté, but never, or rarely, falling into mere high-flown ‘fine writing,’ although single passages, taken out of their connection might give that impression. Brilliant with color and bathed in African atmosphere.”
| + — | Outlook. 79: 502. F. 25, ‘05. 130w. |
“Mr. Hichens has taken a great stride forward in this unusual story.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 772. Ap. 1, ‘05. 170w. |
“It is useless to attempt to describe Mr. Hichens’s word-pictures of the beauties of the deserts and the emotional paroxysms of Domini and Boris. They must be read to be appreciated.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 214. F. 11, ‘05. 430w. (Outlines plot.) |
[*] “Beauty and power,—these are nobly conspicuous in Mr. Hichens’ tale, so loftily free from the small or paltry, so fervently reciting a grievous fault, a great love, a grand renunciation.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 759. D. ‘05. 80w. |
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, ed. Hawthorne centenary celebration at the Wayside, Concord, Massachusetts, July 4-7, 1904. [**]$1.25. Houghton.
The addresses and letters delivered and read at the centenary celebration, including a speech by Charles T. Copeland. Papers by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Charles Francis Adams, Mrs. Maud Howe Elliot, Julian Hawthorne, and Moncure D. Conway, and contributions from John S. Keyes, Frank Preston Stearns, F. B. Sanborn, Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lothrop, Dr. Richard Garnett, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Miss Beatrix Hawthorne, John D. Long, Henry Cabot Lodge, Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford, Robert S. Rantoul, Judge Robert Grant, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Dr. Edward Everett Hale, John Hay, and Mrs. James T. Fields.
| + | Critic. 47: 96. Jl. ‘05. 70w. |
“The book is a worthy memorial of an important event in our literary annals.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 240. Ap. 1, ‘05. 290w. | |
| N. Y. Times 10: 105. F. 18, ‘05. 370w. (Outline of contents). | ||
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 207. Ap. 1, ‘05. 520w. | |
| + + | Spec. 94: 520. Ap. 8, ‘05. 210w. |
[*] Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Part of a man’s life. [**]$2.50. Houghton.
“Very enjoyable chapters of reminiscence, observation and reflection, that have of late been enlivening the pages of the ‘Atlantic.’ Two chapters have been added ... as also many portraits and facsimile copies of letters.” (Dial.) The volume contains: The sunny side of the transcendental period; The child and his dreams; English and American cousins; American audiences; The aristocracy of the dollar; “Intensely human”; Letters of mark; Books unread; Butterflies in poetry; Wordsworthshire; The close of the Victorian epoch; Una Hawthorne; History in easy lessons; The cowardice of culture.
[*] “These ripe and scholarly chapters—ripe with the varied experience of eighty years and more, and scholarly with the scholarship of a lover not only of books, but of men—have an interest and value far exceeding anything that another pen might contrive to say about them.” Percy F. Bicknell.
| + + + | Dial. 39: 266. N. 1, ‘05. 2160w. |
[*] “We congratulate the author on carrying to his eighty-second year an intellect the eye of which is not dimmed, nor its natural vigor abated.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 428. N. 23, ‘05. 1260w. |
[*] “He has seen much and thought much and done much, and he has the way of making all that he writes seem interesting. Yet it must be confessed that a good deal of his reminiscence and anecdote is here spread out pretty thin.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 783. N. 18, ‘05. 700w. |
[*] “A very interesting if somewhat random collection of experiences, recollections, and opinions of Col. Higginson.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “It should not be inferred, however, that the work is obviously didactic, for the very contrary is the case, so pleasantly have the lessons read been interwoven with anecdote and reminiscence. And from the autobiographical standpoint, or rather from the standpoint of unconscious autobiography, its value is high.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 713. N. 25, ‘05. 390w. |
[*] “There is great scope to a work which stretches all the way from child-dreaming to problems of philosophy and higher mathematics.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 665. N. 18, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] “Col. Higginson has written several volumes of reminiscences and autobiography, none of which is more entertaining than his last book.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 755. D. ‘05. 140w. |
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, and MacDonald, William. History of the United States from 986 to 1905. $2. Harper.
This “turns out to be Colonel Higginson’s ‘History of the United States of America,’ with some revisions of the original text, and continued from Jackson’s administration down to the present date. It has a new set of illustrations and maps.”—Dial.
“The whole constitutes a readable and attractive one-volume history, which ought to supply the demand—if there be one—for a short and comprehensive narrative.”
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 946. Jl. ‘05. 70w. | |
| + + | Critic. 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 50w. |
“Is one of the most readable histories of this country ever written.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 360. My. 16, ‘05. 70w. |
“On the whole the work is one of the most valuable single volumes covering the entire period of American history that we have.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 394. Ag. 17, ‘05. 160w. |
“Six new chapters have been added, bringing the story down to the present. Externally these chapters conform to the earlier ones, but the treatment is less partial and they reflect present scholarship much better.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 373. My. 11, ‘05. 110w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w. | |
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 180w. |
Hill, David Jayne. History of diplomacy in the international development of Europe, v. I. [**]$5. Longmans.
An exhaustive study of the history of diplomacy complete in six volumes. Volume I is entitled The struggle for universal empire, and the following volumes include The establishment of territorial sovereignty, The diplomacy of the age of absolutism, The revolutionary era, The constitutional movement, and Commercial imperialism.
“It is refreshing to find one of our public men willing to devote his energies to scholarly occupations, and able to produce a work of such high excellence as, judging from the first installment, Mr. Hill’s ‘History of European diplomacy’ promises to be.”
| + + | Cath. World. 82: 263. N. ‘05. 1150w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“What Mr. Hill has written is accurate and readable enough for the most part, but it will not compare with the books by Bryce and Fisher, to say nothing of the erudite works of French and German scholars.”
| + | Ind. 59: 817. O. 5, ‘05. 400w. (Review of v. 1.) |
[*] “A carefully written summary of European international history.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 15w. |
“In his first volume, coming down to the year 1250, he merely restates, and not with the hand of a practised mediaevalist, a great deal that was in no need of such a repetition.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 280. O. 5, ‘05. 300w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“It was carefully thought out in the first instance, and then executed in the most satisfactory manner.” William E. Dodd.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 553. Ag. 26, ‘05. 2800w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“The results of investigation are handled with a narrative skill that invests the driest facts with the interest of freshness; the tone throughout is scrupulously impartial, and the requirements of perspective are unfailingly observed.”
| + + + | Outlook 81: 329. O. 7, ‘05. 1530w. (Review of v. 1.) | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 200w. (Review of v. 1.) |
Hill, Frederick Trevor. Accomplice. [†]$1.50. Harper.
“A murder mystery treated from a new angle—that occupied by the foreman of the jury. After this foreman (a scholarly, retiring man) has been sworn in, he comes into possession of special knowledge of the case, tries to resign, but is forced to continue, and plays a far more important part in the drama than might be expected.”—Outlook.
“Sensational the book certainly is; yet there is undeniably some good realism in it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 21: 518. Jl. ‘05. 180w. |
“This book is above the average of its class, and will provide an hour of entertainment for the most jaded of readers.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 39: 114. S. 1, ‘05. 90w. |
“Is worth mentioning because of the unusual way the mystery is unraveled.”
| + | Ind. 59: 640. S. 14, ‘05, 60w. |
“There is a marked absence of the gruesome in this cheerful little novel of murder and courtship. Furthermore, the solution of the mystery is not without originality.”
| + | Nation. 81: 122. Ag. 10, ‘05. 240w. |
“The chief faults of the book are matters of artistic finish.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 338. My. 27, ‘05. 210w. |
“In plot and management the story is quite unusual and really exciting. The love story is by no means so good.”
| + + — | Outlook. 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 100w. |
“Little more than a fairly good amateur detective story with a dash of sentiment.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 38: 869. Je. 3, ‘05. 210w. |
[*] Hill, George Francis. Pisanello. [*]$2. Scribner.
A book which offers for the first time to the English reader information about Pisanello heretofore acquired only from the Italian, French or German. The sketch of this “greatest of medallists and one of the most fascinating of Italian artists ... gives us, what we really want, the fullest and clearest account of Pisanello’s career that is available from the extant material, and a detailed characterization of his works.” (Lond. Times.)
[*] “In treating of his work in painting Mr. Hill’s scholarly monograph shows an admirable admixture of enthusiasm and restraint. Of his work as medalist ... Mr. Hill’s erudition almost forbids discussion.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 729. N. 25. 1490w. | |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1483. D. 21, ‘05. 320w. |
| * | + | Int. Studio. 27: sup. 32. D. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “Is written with competence and understanding.”
| + | Lond. Times. 4: 305. S. 22, ‘05. 750w. | |
| * | + | Nation. 81: 509. D. 21, ‘05. 240w. |
[*] “Mr. Hill has written a scholarly essay, which, on the whole, reveals very thorough research along what is almost a bypath of art.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 769. N. 25, ‘05. 290w. |
[*] “The volume is one of the most interesting of an interesting series.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 630. N. 11, ‘05. 190w. |
[*] Hills, Lucius Perry. Memory of song. $1. Franklin ptg.
In 1894, when Patti sang at Atlanta, Georgia, the author, inspired by her voice, wrote a few verses on the back of his program, telling how—
“All the while sweet harmonies crept down into my heart,
And nestled in a home from which they never can depart.”
They were afterward published in a souvenir booklet. This volume contains these verses, revised, and illustrated from photographs and paintings from life by V. A. Richardson.
Hinkson, Katharine Tynan (Mrs. H. A.). Daughter of kings. $1.25. Benziger.
A proud Irish girl who traces her family back to Adam, comes, at the suggestion of her friend, the duchess, who knows of her poverty, to take charge of the household of John Corbett, a wealthy English widower who has made his money in trade, and here she learns that there are gentlemen who are not gently born. There are many love stories involved and there is a touch of socialism and a description of Irish peasantry and an epidemic of fever among them.
“The Irish portions of the book especially abound in traits of shrewd observation and humour which show how different a picture the author, if only she chose, might have given us.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 587. My. 13, ‘05. 140w. |
Hinkson, Mrs. Katharine Tynan (Mrs. H. A.). Julia. $1.50. McClurg.
An Irish story, with the simple modern setting of a country estate, but which has the old-time theme of the fairy tale; for the young lord sees and loves Julia, the ugly duckling of the family of one of his tenants, and makes her Lady O’Kavanagh. The crude selfishness of Julia’s sisters is contrasted with the selfishness found in finer clay among the gentry, and there are some great characters whose loving service is in stronger contrast still.
“Under the cunning hand of Mrs. Hinkson the story develops so easily and plausibly that these seeming improbabilities never tax the credulity of the reader. All the characters, too, are drawn with strong individuality.”
| + | Cath. World. 82: 122. O. ‘05. 260w. |
“The book has its charm.”
| + | Ind. 58: 1072. My. 11, ‘05. 140w. |
“A pleasant story of Irish country life, charmingly told.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 375. Je. 10. ‘05. 450w. |
“Her story is a pretty little romance, the charming Irish flavor of which is more than a matter of nomenclature and appropriate description.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 90w. |
“This is a most delightful little story. The love-story is prettily given, but the real charm of the book lies in its portraiture and its Irish atmosphere.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 372. Mr. 11, ‘05. 90w. |
Hiroi, Isami. Statically-indeterminate stresses in frames commonly used for bridges. [**]$2. Van Nostrand.
This work is the outgrowth of a series of lectures given by the author to his students in Civil Engineering in the Tokyo Imperial university. It aims to save time and labor by furnishing solutions of those problems most commonly met with in the practice of a bridge engineer, and contains chapters upon: Trussed beams; Viaduct bents; Continuous girders; Arches with two hinges; Arches without hinges; Suspension bridges; and, Secondary stresses due to rigidity of joints.
[*] “This book forms an important contribution to the literature of bridge engineering. It is the first attempt to present in the English language in a single volume the principal cases of statically indeterminate stresses occurring in the practice of the bridge engineer, the solution of which is based exclusively on the method of least work. The book deserves a place in the library of every bridge engineer.” Henry S. Jacobi.
| + + + | Engin. N. 54: 530. N. 16, ‘05. 1730w. |
Hirst, Francis Wrigley. Adam Smith, [**]75c. Macmillan.
Mr. Hirst first treats of Adam Smith, the man, the absent-minded, but keenly observant, Scotchman, and then takes up Adam Smith, the philosopher, and examines his lectures, his “Theory of moral sentiments,” and his “Wealth of nations.”
“Indeed it is a distinct service of this little book, which will doubtless be more generally read than any other life of Smith, that no reader can leave it with the false impression of Smith as a closet philosopher interested only in questions of ethical or economic theory.”
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 11: 195. O. ‘05. 320w. |
“Excellent monograph. A lucid and attractively-written exposition of Smith’s economic theories.”
| + + | Contemporary R. 87: 303. F. ‘05. 380w. |
“More complete and satisfactory than Roe’s exhaustive ‘Life,’ on account of new and important material discovered more recently.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 30w. |
“The task the author set for himself he has accomplished with thoroughness and even with interest: for there is about this biography no suggestion of dullness.”
| + + + | Dial. 39: 170. S. 16, ‘05. 300w. | |
| + + + | Ind. 58: 1128 My. 18, ‘05. 550w. |
“He adds little that is new either of information or criticism. Still the volume should find a welcome. It is well written, graceful and entertaining, and with an intelligent appreciation of Adam Smith’s traits of character as well as of the traits of style, method, scope and insight that have made the ‘Wealth of Nations’ a masterpiece of the science and of English literature. The most attractive portions of the book are those that turn about Adam Smith’s intimate life and his contact with men and affairs.”
| + | J. Pol. Econ. 13: 136. D. ‘04. 110w. |
“Mr. Hirst’s monograph, although not deficient in originality, is necessarily largely a digest of these the best of its predecessors. Patient culling of fugitive sources of information is also apparent, however, and as a conscientious and luminous account of the famous Scotchman it should be welcomed by all desirous of obtaining an intelligent idea of the factors shaping his view of life and the world.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 187. Ja. 21, ‘05. 2250w. |
[Historians’ history of the world]; ed by H: Smith Williams. $72. Outlook.
“A comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages.” These twenty-five volumes are composed of long and short extracts taken from the most eminent authors and most authentic sources for each country and period. They form not only a world history but also an anthology of historians.
“In general it seems to me that the series appears at its best in the volumes on the ancient Orient, Greece, the Roman empire, and perhaps Russia. Taken all in all, the series has the unevenness of quality of every historical library.” Edward G. Bourne.
| + + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 610. Ap. ‘05. 990w. |
“By a curious fatality the portions of an historian’s work upon which he was least fitted to write are chosen as bits of mosaic suited for those particular parts of the history. One part of the work of the editor he has done with remarkable skill and that is the fitting of the parts so closely and skilfully that the reader rarely feels that there is any break. Also he has very fairly judged the amount of space properly assigned to each country and age. Taken as a whole, it is a magnificent undertaking and serves a great and useful purpose.”
| + + — | Ind. 58: 555. Mr. 9, ‘05. 810w. |
[*] “Tho the choice of materials shows a greater sense for literary than historical merit, yet, for popular use, that is more essential.”
| + + — | Ind. 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 50w. |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 100. P. 18. ‘05. 880w. (Survey of contents of vols. XIX-XXIII.) | ||
| + + + | Outlook. 79: 750. Mr. 25, ‘05. 2980w. |
Hobart, George Vere. [Silly cyclopedia; containing copious etymological derivations and other useless things], by Noah Lott (an ex-relative of Noah Webster); embellished with numerous and distracting cuts and diagrams by L: F. Grants. 75c. Dillingham.
This little volume declares itself to be “a terrible thing in the form of a literary torpedo which is launched for hilarious purposes only” and is “inaccurate in every particular.” It is a collection of jocose epigrams cast in dictionary form, and if taken in small doses may prove amusing.
“It is full of the sort of stuff indolent, good-humored folks like to retail on the piazzas of country hotels. It is all harmless.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 462. Jl. 15, ‘05. 530w. |
Hobart, George Vere (Hugh McHugh; Dinkelspiel, pseuds.). [You can search me.] [†]75c. Dillingham.
John Henry here figures thru a series of theatrical ventures in company with his side partner, Bunch Jefferson. “One Signor Petrikinski, prestidigitator, is the star of the venture, and his clever handling of not only John Henry and Bunch, but of Uncle Peter Grant and Mr. William Grey, is amazing reading.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Written in the picturesque and highly descriptive style of the rest of this series.”
| — + | N. Y. Times. 10: 213. Ap. 9, ‘05. 120w. |
“Slangy, rather vulgar, funny for those who like the cheaply comic.”
| — + | Outlook. 79: 655. Mr. 11, ‘05. 10w. |
Hobhouse, L. T. Democracy and reaction. $1.50. Putnam.
“A pessimistic view of modern English society by a ‘Little Englander,’ a disciple of Cobden, a strenuous believer in Jeremy Bentham and in the Manchester school, who regards all departure from individualism, whether in industry or politics, as a reaction towards despotism, and who yet draws back from the conclusions toward which his own reasoning leads him, and endeavors skilfully, but in our judgment not successfully, to reconcile the individualistic theories of our own time.”—Outlook.
“While well written, the book is full of expressions, which lead one to believe it the work of a disappointed politician, rather than that of a fair critic.” Ward W. Pierson.
| + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 603. My. ‘05. 400w. |
[*] “No summary, however, can do justice to the wealth of thought that this little book contains, to the freshness and power with which familiar themes are handled, and to the width of outlook which every page reveals.” G. P. Gooch.
| + + + | Int. J. Ethics. 15: 499. Jl. ‘05. 1890w. |
“All the first part of the book, giving an account of the Reaction and its causes, is excellent. We do not remember to have seen anywhere, in so small a compass, a better analysis of the extraordinary changes in sentiment and opinion produced in the last thirty years. As to the great body of Liberal doctrine, the author is on firm ground.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 254. Mr. 30, ‘05. 1070w. |
“To one who believes, as we do, that the present conditions in England and America, both industrial and political, are those of a higher stage of intellectual and moral progress than those of the first half of the nineteenth century, the volume is chiefly valuable as an exposition of perils which attend this progress, and of which society needs to be warned, and against which it needs to guard itself.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 502. F. 25, ‘05. 160w. |
“He writes moderately, and does not mar his argument by any of those personalities which are too freely indulged in by writers of his way of thinking. His book is, indeed, in its way, scientific.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 119. Ja. 28, ‘05. 340w. |
“This is a book which furnishes abundant material both for the active politician and the student.”
| + + | The Westminster Review. 163: 106. Ja. |
Hocking, Joseph. [Coming of the king.] [†]$1.50. Little.
The search for a black box in which lay a marriage contract between Charles Stuart and a Welsh girl, Lucy Walters, whose son, if the contract were found, would be heir to the English throne, provides the series of adventures which make up this story. The time is that of the restoration, the scenes are of court and country. The dashing young hero fails to find the paper, but finds instead beautiful Constance Leslie with a price upon her head and marries her.
“A tedious novel of the swashbuckling type.”
| — — | Outlook. 80: 642. Jl. 8, ‘05. 70w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 39: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 120w. |
Hodgson, John Evan, and Eaton, Frederick A. Royal academy and its members, 1768-1830. [*]$5. Scribner.
A somewhat pompous history of the Royal academy from the time of its founding by King George III. in 1768. Its growth, management and prestige are given and the volume is fully illustrated.
“It is not a glorious record, this of Messrs. Hodgson and Eaton, but as though to atone for its meagre episodes it is composed in a proud and vaunting style.”
| — + | Acad. 68: 511. My. 13, ‘05. 1120w. |
“Of the work as a whole it may be said that it has a full measure of that serenity in face of criticism which is eminently characteristic of official histories.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 696. Je. 3. 2840w. | |
| * | Critic. 47: 474. N. ‘05. 250w. |
“Although rich in historical material, illustrations, and appendices, and containing valuable biographical sketches, fails to give that view of art development which the reader would naturally be led to expect.”
| + + — | Dial. 39: 68. Ag. 1, ‘05. 550w. | |
| + — | Nation. 80: 503. Je. 22, ‘05. 350w. |
“This record has much that is valuable and interesting.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 355. Je. 3, ‘05. 1170w. |
“A comprehensive and interestingly written history.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 394. Je. 10. ‘05. 60w. | |
| R. of Rs. 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 110w. |
“It tells us very little that is not to be found elsewhere, arranges it badly, and carries the story no further than 1830.”
| — | Sat. R. 99: 671. My. 20, ‘05. 700w. |
Hoffmann, Franz. Little dauphin; tr. from the German by George P. Upton, [*]60c. McClurg.
The pathetic figure of Louis Charles, second son of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, figures thruout this story according to the ordinarily accepted theory that he was confined in the Temple and after the execution of the King and Queen was at the mercy of the cruel keeper. The volume belongs to “Life stories for young people.”
Hoffmann, Julius. Amateur gardener’s rose book, tr. from the German by John Weathers, [*]$2.50. Longmans.
The book is written not so much for professional gardeners and nurserymen, as for garden lovers who devote special attention to the cultivation of the rose; the object being to enlarge their knowledge on the subject, and to reproduce a book that will serve as a practical and concise adviser.
“The point that makes this volume a necessity to the amateur beginning his collection of roses is the twenty beautifully colored plates.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 538. Ag. 19, ‘05. 340w. |
“Does not approach in usefulness Mr. Foster-Melliar’s ‘Book of the rose,’ and far less in delightful reading Dean Hole’s ‘Book about roses.’ However, the book is probably worth adding to a rosarian’s shelf.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 314. S. 2, ‘05. 1440w. | |
| * | + + | Spec. 95: 472. S. 30, ‘05. 60w. |
Hogg, Ethel. Quintin Hogg. $3. Dutton.
In this biography of her father, the author gives a complete and intimate account of his life and work in the London slums. A famous Eton foot-ball player, he often made his influence felt by sheer physical force, and this was perhaps the secret of his remarkable success. He founded the Ragged school, and the famous Polytechnic, and his life is a story of the most practical kind of philanthropic work. There is an introduction by the Duke of Argyll.
“The book is needlessly long, and is disfigured by numerous exclamation points.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 93. F. 2, ‘05. 180w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 53. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1350w. (Condensed biography.) | |
| + | Outlook. 79: 247. Ja. 28, ‘05. 180w. (Survey of Hogg’s life.) |
Holdich, Thomas Hungerford. India. $2.50. Appleton.
The author’s knowledge of the geographical conditions of India is reliable as he was at one time superintendent of the survey of India. After giving an historical sketch of the country, “he proceeds to a study of the geography of the frontiers bordering Baluchistan and Afghanistan; he describes Kashmir, the Himalayas, and the Peninsula, then Assam, Burma, and Ceylon. He tells us about the people, the political geography, the agriculture, revenues, railways, minerals, and climate and he puts India before us as we will not find it elsewhere. The work is amply indexed, and is provided with a wealth of maps and diagrams.” (Outlook).
“The book and its maps are creditable to all concerned, and will unquestionably prove of great value to seekers for information about the region of British India and its dependencies.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 402. Ap. 1. 2080w. |
“The results of all former investigations are well digested and epitomized.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 381. Ap. ‘05. 100w. |
“With few exceptions his work will rank high with the other volumes of the series.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 201. Mr. 16, ‘05. 440w. |
“Altogether, as a representative volume on India for the library, this book is about the best to be had.”
| + + + | Ind. 59: 97. Jl. 13, ‘05. 780w. |
“This excellent and useful book supplies a real want, and gives to the reader a broad geographical description of the real continent of India.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 160. My. 19, ‘05. 1060w. |
“Avoiding ‘statistics and details,’ the author has here compressed into one volume an immense amount of geographical and ethnological information regarding the peninsula itself and the frontier, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Assam, and Burma. The most valuable part of ‘India’ is, of course, the geographical description, where the author is on his own ground. The literary-historical side is mortar to the bricks of the altar.”
| + + — | Nation. 80: 117. F. 9, ‘05. 230w. |
“He has produced a topographical description of the Indian empire which, in spite of minor errors.... is not only interesting to read, but accurate and well proportioned on the whole.”
| + + — | Nature. 71: 268. Ja. 19, ‘05. 1210w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 2. Ja. 7, ‘05. 570w. (Summary of facts in book.) |
“His volume has the ring of authority on every page. It is equally valuable for steady reading or as a work of reference.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 95. Ja. 7, ‘05. 150w. |
“The product of years of study in the country of which he writes.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 251. F. ‘05. 200w. |
Holdsworth, Annie E. (Mrs. Eugene J. Lee-Hamilton). New Paolo and Francesca. [†]$1.50. Lane.
A modern variation of the old story. The heroine has promised her dying father that she will wed the elder of her twin cousins, who will inherit her father’s title and estates. She fulfils her pledge in spite of the fact that she loves the younger brother, and the result is tragedy. The story is further complicated by the discovery that her lover is the true heir, and her husband in reality is the younger brother, the two having been changed in infancy.
| + — | Acad. 68: 150. F. 18, ‘05. 460w. |
“Nothing but praise, however, is to be said for the art of the author. In description, in delineation of character and in that subtle and compelling power by which the imagination of the reader is held enthralled, the work is noteworthy. It is to be regretted that a story so charming in its style, so fascinating in its atmosphere and so powerful in the handling of the theme should be so depressing in its influence on the mind.” A. C. Rich.
| + — | Arena. 33: 453. Ap. ‘05. 250w. |
“It is well told, and the author has enough coloring matter in her vocabulary to paint the national history of a whole continent.”
| + — | Ind. 59: 218. Jl. 27, ‘05. 110w. | |
| — + | Sat. R. 99: 779. Je. 10, ‘05. 170w. |
Holland, Clive. Japanese romance. $1.50. Stokes.
A young English artist sailing eastward to paint the wonders of Japan, meets a beautiful English girl on the steamer and admires her apparently merely in an artistic way. Arriving at Nagasaki he falls in with two former fellow-students at Paris, one a Japanese, the other a Scot who has taken a Japanese wife. Thru these he becomes involved in many social complications and finally marries Mio-Lan, a lovely Japanese maid. Later he begins to long for the English girl he had met on the steamer and the story becomes a tragedy for Mio-Lan.
“The merit of the story lies not in the sentiment and flower women, but in the characters of the modern Japanese, Mr. Yumoto, and the Scottish expatriate.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 54. Ja. 28, ‘05. 370w. (Outlines plot.) |
Holland, Robert Afton. Commonwealth of man. [**]$1.25. Putnam.
“The Slocum lectures of 1904, delivered at the University of Michigan ... revised by the author in the light of the discussion that followed the publication of Mr. Edwin Markham’s poem, ‘The man with the hoe,’ which, in the opinion of Mr. Holland, consisted chiefly of a series of socialistic fallacies set to stormful music.’”—R. of Rs.
“There are eleven lectures, all pretty vigorous writing and not bad reading.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05. 420w. | |
| Pub. Opin. 38: 795. My. 20, ‘05. 310w. | ||
| R. of Rs. 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 80w. |
Holley, Marietta (Josiah Allen’s wife, pseud.). [Around the world with Josiah Allen’s wife.] [†]$150. Dillingham.
The inveterate traveller, Samantha, accompanied by Josiah Allen and a sick grandson, for whose health the trip is undertaken, starts on a journey around the world with a party which includes a Dorothy, who enlivens the trip by marrying in spite of her chaperone. Samantha’s characteristic descriptions and comments include much of interest on Hawaii, the Philippines, India, Egypt, the Holy Land, and many European states, while she frequently attempts to set right whatever she thinks may be wrong, even instructing the Empress Si Ann on her duty.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 580. D. ‘05. 60w. |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 774. N. 18, ‘05. 200w. |
Holley, Marietta (Josiah Allen’s wife, pseud.). [Samantha at the St. Louis exposition.] $1.50. Dillingham.
Samantha, as unique and widely known as any book character ever created, is at her best in these “episodin’” bits of wit, pathos, and clear visioned common sense. In the story, Josiah Allen discovers that his farm had come into the possession of the Allen family the year of the Louisiana purchase, that his ancestors had paid fifteen dollars for it, the same sum, he said, “with the orts left off,” that was given for Louisiana. The Allens celebrate this discovery by taking a trip to the Exposition. A group of interesting companions serve only to enhance the characteristic observations of Samantha, which are better than ever.
“Feminine frailty and masculine arrogance and the sexual inequalities of social customs and the laws continue to furnish material for her satire and weakly witty garrulity.”
| + | Ind. 58: 212. Ja. 26, ‘05. 110w. |
Hollis, A. C. Masai, their language and folk-lore. [*]$4.75. Oxford.
A study of the language, myths, traditions, enigmas, proverbs, and customs of this fast vanishing East African race by the chief secretary of the East African Protectorate, assisted by native authorities.
“Mr. Hollis’s is the fullest study yet made. It is impossible to do justice in the course of an ordinary notice to this exceedingly interesting book, which is, moreover, absolutely free from padding of the ordinary kind.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 742. Je. 17. 2420w. |
“In describing the mythology, folklore, and customs of the Masai he has hit upon a method as scientific as it is original.”
| + + + | Lond. Times. 4: 143. My. 5, ‘05. 460w. |
“For the first time the civilized world has been presented with an authoritative work on the Masai language, customs, and folklore, by Mr. A. C. Hollis. It is the authoritative study of the Masai people; and it is satisfactory to record that the author confines himself mainly to facts and not to theories.” H. H. Johnston.
| + + + | Nature. 72: 83. My. 25, ‘05. 1200w. |
“Mr. Hollis’ grammatical treatise is a study in itself. The book is worthy of the greatest attention.”
| + + + | Sat. R. 100: 309. S. 2, ‘05. 1330w. |
Holmes, Gordon. [Mysterious disappearance.] $1.50. Clode.
The usual crime, shrouded in the usual mystery, the rapid succession of events, the story action that palls not for a moment are all here. But the book surpasses others of its kind in the clever comparison of two distinctive types of detectives. There is Claude Bruce, barrister, “subtle, analytic, introspective,” and there is his foil, the Scotland yard inspector, a part of the machine, “direct, pertinacious, self-confident ... a slave to system,” one whose method, as the barrister comments, “works admirably for the detection of common place crimes, but as soon as the region of higher romance is entered, it is as much out of place as a steam roller in a lady’s boudoir.”
Holmes, Mary Jane Hawes. Abandoned farm. [†]$1. Dillingham.
The romance of a young girl who becomes a waitress at a summer house party on an estate once owned by her grandfather. She is known as waitress no. 1, and her ladylike mien, even in white cap and apron, charms the rich young master of the house who loves her even before he discovers that the estate is really hers. The volume also contains a story called Connie’s secret, which hinges upon a sham marriage by which the girl believes herself to be legally bound to the man who has deserted her.
[*] Holmes, Oliver Wendell. [One-hoss shay, with its companion poems.] $1.50. Houghton.
A delightful Christmas edition of Holmes’ humorous poems, “The one-hoss shay,” “How the old horse won the bet,” and “The broomstick train,” illustrated by Mr. Howard Pyle in colors and black and white.
| * | + + | Critic. 47: 582. D. ‘05. 40w. |
| * | + + | Dial. 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 170w. |
| * | + | Nation. 81: 424. N. 23, ‘05. 70w. |
| * | + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 120w. |
Holt, Martin. Out of bondage. $1.25. Benziger.
Renie, a pretty Catholic girl, kept in the country with no knowledge of life or of her own parentage, serves the cruel Mrs. Sherwood well until her death and then flies forth into the world to enjoy her freedom. She encounters many tragic things, but her courage enables her to straighten out a serious tangle and save the man she loves from a murderer’s death.
Holyoake, George Jacob. [Bygones worth remembering.] 2 vols. [*]$5. Dutton.
The author, who has for many years taken an active part in all movements toward the bettering of the conditions of the working classes gives interesting details concerning the progress of the English nation during the last few decades and reminiscences of Harriet Martineau, Mazzini, Kossuth, John Stuart Mill, Lord Shaftesbury, Garibaldi, and Gladstone. There are many illustrations.
“In this later book the gold is beaten rather thin; and, in fact, the reminiscences—which are none of them to be described as wildly exciting—are eked out with extracts from newspapers.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 145. F. 18, ‘05. 1230w. |
“As a contribution to the history of the political and social progress of the nation these ‘Bygones’ are of great value.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 232. F. 25, 1490w. |
Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.
| + + — | Bookm. 21: 605. Ag. ‘05. 1780w. |
Reviewed by Jeanette L. Gilder.
| + + — | Critic. 47: 156. Ag. ‘05. 1430w. |
“Frank egotism is evidenced on every page. Mr. Holyoake has a strong sense of humor, but his manner of writing is such that it is not always easy to discover when he is jesting and when he is in earnest.” Edith J. R. Isaacs.
| + + | Dial. 39: 106. S. 1, ‘05. 1180w. | |
| * | Ind. 59: 988. O. 26, ‘05. 230w. |
“He states many facts, he corrects many fallacies, that should claim the consideration of historians of British politics during the nineteenth century. Seldom have we read a book breathing a more tender, tolerant, and judicial spirit.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 127. Ag. 10, ‘05. 1380w. |
“These pages and people are all interesting.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 372. Je. 10, ‘05. 1590w. |
“A further characteristic of the author’s opinions and reminiscences is a whole-souled optimism which, pervading his book, manifests itself perhaps most impressively in the final chapter.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 85. S. 9, ‘05. 2280w. |
“We are not sure that all the ‘Bygones’ which Mr. Holyoake recalls are ‘worth remembering.’”
| — | Spec. 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 340w. |
[*] Home, Andrew. Boys of Badminster. [†]$1.50. Lippincott.
A tale of English schoolboy adventure whose hero is Jack Coverdale, broad shouldered enough to bear the burden of his own scrapes and those of less honorable companions. “There is an attempt at kidnapping, with exciting cricket games and boys’ pranks, all of which must be read to be appreciated. There is another good story, ‘A row in the sixth,’ at the end of the book, which is a big one.” (N. Y. Times.)
[*] “Good characterization and plenty of humor should make this a success.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 30w. | |
| * | + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 761. N. 11, ‘05. 320w. |
[*] “Mr. Home has the happy knack of rousing an expectancy which he never disappoints.”
| + | Sat. R. 100: sup. 7. D. 9, ‘05. 100w. |
[*] “Mr. Home does his best, not wholly without success, to make it seem possible, and constructs a good story out of it, as school stories go.”
| + | Spec. 95: 693. N. 4, ‘05. 100w. |
Home, Gordon Cochrane. [Evolution of an English town.] [*]$3.50. Dutton.
The old town and castle of Pickering in Yorkshire, and the country of Pickering vale are dealt with here from pre-glacial times down to the beginnings of 1905. “It is really surprising to find how much may be learned relating to ethnology, archæology, and ancient customs from this curious piece of local antiquarian study.” (Outlook.)
[*] “The quality and number of the illustrations greatly enhance the value of the book. We have only noticed one misprint.”
| + | Acad. 68: 922. S. 9, ‘05. 750w. |
“The book furnishes a pleasing type of local history to which other essays in that field will do well to conform.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 211. O. 1, ‘05. 330w. |
“The book commends itself to special readers more than to the general traveler.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1111. N. 9, ‘05. 110w. |
“Makes altogether a charming book for lovers of things old, picturesque and curious.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 497. Jl. 29, ‘05. 810w. | |
| Outlook. 80: 691. Jl. 15, ‘05. 110w. |
[*] Home, Gordon. [Normandy: The scenery and romance of its ancient towns.] [*]$3.50. Dutton.
The author has profusely illustrated this volume with colored plates and pen-and-ink sketches. “Mr. Home says his book is not a guide, but simply ‘an attempt to convey by pictures and description a clear impression of the Normandy which awaits the visitor.’ But it will serve as a guide if need be, for the author, with that curious naiveté of the Englishman, names inns and hotels without fear of being accused of advertising; and as he says, ‘any one using the book as a guide would find in his path some of the richest architecture and scenery that the province possesses.’” (N. Y. Times.)
[*] “Is chiefly of interest for its beautiful colored plates, which give clearer impressions of Normandy’s varied and wonderful scenery ... than any words, however perfectly chosen, could hope to do. Mr. Home is sufficiently an artist to write, as well as paint, like one. He wins the reader’s approbation by his first sentence.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 170w. |
[*] “A very successful attempt has been made to convey, by means of pictures and description, a clear impression of the Normandy which awaits the visitor.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 110w. |
[*] “The book will certainly give us a better notion of Normandy than Mr. Menpes’s much more multitudinous blots can convey to us of Brittany or any other place.”
| + | Nation. 81: 503. D. 21, ‘05. 180w. |
[*] “A charming book on Normandy. The book is one to read and keep, and to take with one on his trip to the old duchy it describes.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 851. D. 2, ‘05. 510w. |
[*] “Its text is illuminative, graphic, and sympathetic. Mr. Home has produced a work on Normandy to appeal to every one who has ever visited that interesting region.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 890. D. 9, ‘05. 40w. |
[*] “Mr. Home knows something of architecture and describes with feeling and taste.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: sup. 14, D. 2, ‘05. 240w. |
Hooker, Katharine. Wayfarers in Italy. [**]$2. Scribner.
A fourth edition of a book about the out-of-the-way places of Italy, by one who has left the beaten and over-described paths to hunt for old books and lost Madonnas, and study the life, habits, and temperament of the village and country folk.
“Is well deserving of the many editions it has passed through.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 172. Mr. 18, ‘05. 410w. |
“A fresh, informing, and thoroughly charming book in one of the oldest fields in the world.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 140w. |
Hope, Anthony, pseud. See Hawkins, Anthony Hope.
Hopekirk, Helen, ed. Seventy Scottish songs. $2.50. Ditson.
These seventy songs include the folk-music student’s favorites. They have been gathered from the Lowlands and the Highlands, from the remote mountainous regions and from the western isles. The volume is uniform with the “Musicians library.”
[*] “A very interesting and valuable work.”
| + | Dial. 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “Those who care only for popular tunes with any serviceable accompaniment will find this selection acceptable; whereas the epicure who likes his folk-music pure and unadulterated will be likely to object to many passages in which the arranger has exercised her faculty of harmonizing with too little regard for the racial essence of the tunes.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 110w. |
Hoppenstedt, J. Problems in manoeuvre tactics; with solutions for officers of all arms, tr. by J. H. V. Crowe, [*]$1.60. Macmillan.
In this volume the original German organizations have been adapted to those of the British army in order to assist its officers in studying for examinations, and furthering their knowledge of the art of war. Four maps have been provided.
| N. Y. Times. 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 240w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 492. Jl. 22, ‘05. 70w. | ||
| + | Sat. R. 99: 671. My. 20, ‘05. 920w. |
Hornaday, William Temple. American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. [**]$3.50. Scribner.
“The author has had many years’ experience as a field naturalist in America and the far East, and as director of the New York zoölogical park, gives much information in an interesting style, illustrating his text with maps, charts, and drawings. “The object of this book is to make nature available to laymen; it is also particularly addressed to teachers and parents.” It is intended to be plain, practical and direct, as well as systematic and scientific.... The field covered includes all the principal types of vertebrates found in North America.” (Science.)
“We find here much practical and economic zoölogy, invaluable matter on the extinction of American species, and the setting right of many ancient and silly myths. Clear exposition is exhibited in many sections of the book. The drawings, while of uneven merit, are full of life and action and have good teaching value. The author aims to amuse as well as to instruct.” W. K. Gregory.
| + + — | Science, n. s. 21: 346. Mr. 3, ‘05. 1510w. |
[*] Home, C. Silvester. Common sense Christianity. [*]35c. Meth. bk.
“This book aims at being a popular contribution to the art of Christian defence.” The author believes that a policy of vigorous attack is necessary to oppose the work of many who maintain that for the twentieth century a new religion is needed.
Horner, Joseph. Engineers’ turning. [*]$3.50. Van Nostrand.
A well-illustrated text which considers the principles and practice in the different branches of turning. A feature of the book is the important section devoted to modern turret practice; boring is another subject treated fully; a chapter on tool holders illustrates a large number of representative types; screw-cutting is treated at length; and the last chapter contains a good deal of information relating to the high-speed steels and their work.
Horner, Joseph. Tools for engineers and woodworkers. [*]$3.50. Van Nostrand.
A comprehensive work whose object is “to give an account of such tools as are commonly used by engineers and woodworkers, written chiefly from the standpoint of the men who have used them, and who desire to understand the principles which underlie the forms in which those tools are found. Practical instruction for their employment, as suggested by the writer’s own experience, have been added.”
“Although there is necessarily a good deal of the descriptive catalogue in a work of this kind, yet this one is so well put together, its brief descriptions are so clear, and above all the endless varieties of tools enumerated are brought to one’s notice in so logical an order, their classification is so essentially scientific, that it may be regarded as in a sense a finished monograph of one phase of evolution.”
| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 280. Ag. 26. 420w. |
[*] “The author has written a clear and comprehensive description of various groups of tools.”
| + | Engin. N. 54:529. N. 16, ‘05. 120w. |
Hornung, Ernest William. [Stingaree.] [†]$1.50. Scribner.
Stingaree, a one-time London clubman, now a robber in Australia, “sticks up” (Australian for hold up) mail coaches and banks in a manner both theatrical and gentlemanly. On one occasion he operates among a company of amateurs, forcing them to give a concert, and makes use of the occasion to introduce a girl with a beautiful voice to a prominent composer. He is afterward released from jail just in time to don evening clothes and hear this girl as a prima donna.
“Of no importance from the literary standpoint, the present volume yet contains ten very readable and ingeniously worked out stories.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 1: 716. Je. 10, 180w. |
“The stories are all fluent, ingenious, and diverting, and will be found readable enough.”
| + | Critic. 47: 285. S. ‘05. 90w. |
“Series of ingenious tales.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 292. My. 6, ‘05. 250w. |
“On the whole, his adventures being as hazardous and exciting as those of his predecessor he should be equally well beloved.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w. |
“The tales ... are dashing, daring, entertaining, and show considerable inventiveness without disclosing any special literary power.”
| + | Outlook. 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 160w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 869. Je. 3, ‘05. 210w. |
“He is a real creation.”
| + | Reader. 6: 593. O. 05. 220w. | |
| + — | R. of Rs. 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 90w. |
“Mr. Hornung who has much aptitude for sensational fiction has exhibited little ingenuity or originality in these tales.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 140w. |
[*] Hornung, Ernest William. [Thief in the night: further adventures of A. J. Raffles, cricketer and cracksman.] [†]$1.50. Scribner.
The third series of the adventures of Raffles goes back to the earliest days of the cracksman and Bunny, his foil. One of the nine tales portrays the disloyalty of the thief in losing for Bunny his sweetheart, another, and quite the most ingenious of the group, is that of a little “job” at Lord Thornaby’s town house where Raffles diverted from himself the suspicions of the “Criminologists’ club.” All thru Raffles is still the same terrible expert burglar.
| * | + | Acad. 68: 1177. N. 11, ‘05. 310w. |
[*] “Unfortunately the reader’s taste has been whetted for better things, and he looks in vain for the quick turns and the conquering of difficult situations of the earlier yarns.”
| + — | Critic. 47: 578. D. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “The newer stories, while they seem somehow to lack the snap and go of the earlier ones, are nevertheless not very different in quality, and if you are not tired of the old Raffles they may be trusted to furnish entertainment for an idle hour.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 727. O. 28, ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “Those unacquainted with the cracksman will find admirably written stories retailing the exploits of a gentleman burglar of the most marvelous skill and finesse, and an unusually winning personality.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 530. O. 28, ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “His mind works with all its old rapidity and originality, but he is less convincing and beguiling.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 100w. |
[*] “It is not so mischievous as its predecessors, because it is not nearly so well done.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 871. N. 25, ‘05. 90w. |
Horsley, Walter C., tr. See La Colonie, Jean Martin de.
Hort, Fenton John Anthony. Village sermons. [*] $1.75. Macmillan.
Dr. Hort, a noted scholar and Christian gentleman, writes with simplicity for the country folk with whom he had to deal as the parson of a Hertfordshire village. The sermons “are generally founded on some incident of the day’s service, some sentences in a psalm, or more often some petition in a collect.” (Lond. Times.)
| * | + + | Lond. Times. 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 470w. |
| * | + — | Outlook. 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “We must confess that the sermons strike us as being highly conscientious but a trifle dull. Yet here and there, genius shows itself in the easy power of expressing a great deal in a few words.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 190. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w. |
Horton, George. Monk’s treasure. $1.50. Bobbs.
Ta Castra, an island of the Cyclades, in the Ægean sea, is the scene of a series of adventures in which a young American, buying up Greek argols for his uncle’s firm, and his interpreter, a sturdy Scotchman, figure conspicuously. The American straightway becomes involved in breaking up an alliance between a beautiful Greek bond-girl and her belligerent betrothed, Spiro. Thru treasure, hidden in a monastery, he proves the girl to be a duchess, and outwitting the monks and Spiro alike, escapes with Polyxene and her bags of gold.
“Those who love a story for the story’s sake will be sure to enjoy Mr. Horton’s latest romance.” Amy C. Rich.
| + + | Arena. 33: 565. My. ‘05. 120w. |
“The recovery of the wealth against the cunning machinations of the monks supplies a number of exciting and tragic events to sustain interest in a story which otherwise is rather lightly worked out.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 293. My. 6, ‘05. 280w. |
“Crude romance.”
| — | Outlook. 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 80w. |
“A good story.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 70w. |
Hosking, Arthur Nicholas, comp. and ed. Artist’s year book. $3. Art league pub. assn., Chicago.
A handy reference book wherein may be found interesting data pertaining to artists, and their studio, home and summer addresses for 1905-1906. Recognized merit has been made the standard of selection for this list.
[*] Hough, Emerson. [Heart’s Desire.] [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
Heart’s Desire is a little settlement hidden away in a corner of the West “where men have gone to live at peace—without law and without women.” “The inhabitants dozed in the sunshine, smoked, drank, gambled a little, toiled fitfully, fought occasionally, and dreamed a good deal. Then the railroad came and the dreams were gone. Along with the railroad came Constance and the old vexations that troubled Eden and have troubled every assemblage of men ever since.” (Pub. Opin.) It is a picture of rough Western life with clever character delineation.
[*] “A singularly pleasing story of the west o’ dreams.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “A more vivacious tale of far western life one does not often get.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 576. N. 4, ‘05. 100w. |
[*] “In vigor and spontaneousness it seems to us Mr. Hough’s best work in fiction.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “It is idyllic, impossible, and extremely entertaining.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 220w. |
Houston, Edwin James. Electricity in every-day life. 3v. $4.50. Collier.
“These volumes aim to give to the general reader a comprehensive knowledge of the history of electricity, the principles and laws that govern its action, and its practical applications in every-day life.” (Outlook.) There are eight hundred illustrations which present electricity as applied to modern industry and as used in laboratories, and in the home.
“Without trace of romance and yet in an eminently attractive style, the author has made comparatively clear the vagaries of electricity.”
| + + | Critic. 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 90w. |
“The style is clear and pleasant. Abstruse technicalities are carefully avoided, and no part of the book will be difficult of comprehension for the average well-informed man who has made no specialty of electrical subjects.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 330w. | |
| Outlook. 79: 502. F. 25, ‘05. 30w. |
“He succeeds well in popularizing technical subjects. The present work is voluminous, but never wearisome.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 251. F. ‘05. 90w. |
Howard, George Elliott. [History of matrimonial institutions chiefly in England and the United States.] [*]$10. Univ. of Chicago press.
“In the three volume work ... Prof. George E. Howard deals chiefly with the matrimonial institutions of the English race, prefacing his treatment of the subject with an analysis of the literature and the theories of primitive matrimonial institutions. Professor Howard’s treatise covers practically every phase of the subject that calls for treatment, and gives elaborate biographical data relating, not only to the institution of marriage itself, but to almost every conceivable phase of the sex problem that has been treated in our literature.”—R. of Rs.
“To students of sociology this work is one of importance.” Simeon E. Baldwin.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 607. Ap. ‘05. 1070w. (Abstract of book). |
Reviewed by E. T. B.
| Atlan. 95: 137. Ja. ‘05. 650w. |
“Professor Howard’s volumes are admirable studies and a much needed supplement to the famous works of Starcke and Westermarck.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 784. Ap. 6, ‘05. 720w. |
[*] “A scholarly and profound inquiry.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 40w. |
“For even the general public Professor Howard’s volumes cannot fail to be both interesting and instructive, for they deal attractively with the most human of all institutions, and contain a mass of facts nowhere else obtainable.”
| + + + | Nation. 80: 55. Ja. 19, ‘05. 2270w. | |
| R. of Rs. 30: 756. D. ‘05. 120w. |
“An immense bibliographical index at the end of the third volume completes the usefulness of the work as a book of reference, and it is as a book of reference that it will be chiefly used and valued.”
| + + + | Spec. 94: 617. Ap. 29, ‘05. 830w. |
Howard, John R., comp. See One hundred best American poems.
Howe, Frederick Clemson. City: the hope [*] of democracy. [**]$1.50. Scribner.
“A novel interpretation of municipal affairs.... Mr. Howe ascribes most of the ills to which the American city is heir to economic and industrial, rather than to political or ethical causes.... Mr. Howe’s remedy for the present evil conditions consists in offering opportunity to labor, in taxing monopoly, and in the abolition of privilege.”—R. of Rs.
[*] “Mr. Howe’s main arguments in favor of municipal ownership are strong, and much of his abstract reasoning in favor of the single tax is well put, although less convincing to most people; but the author is too sweeping in his advocacy of the adoption of these measures and in his claims for resulting benefits.”
| + — | Engin. N. 54: 648. D. 14, ‘05. 610w. |
[*] “Dr. Howe, in a spirited and striking description of the American city, interprets its myriad phases from the economic standpoint.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w. |
[*] “Is a good deal of a theorist, but, happily also, he is very much of a student. Mr. Howe’s book, we fear, will not advance that result as much as it might have done had it been more soberly written.” E. C.
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 773. N. 18, ‘05. 970w. |
[*] “His book is a frank discussion of municipal problems as they are actually encountered in the more typical of our American cities. The prevailing note is one of optimism.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 637. N. ‘05. 230w. |
Howe, Maude. See Elliott, Mrs. Maude Howe.
Howells, William Dean. [London films.] [*] [**]$2.25. Harper.
The volume is made up of Mr. Howells’ characteristic talks about London weather, London streets, London noises, churches, parks, buses, slums, children, and bobbies—often with humorous comparison with the corresponding phenomena in New York. He tells, too, about society out of doors in Rotten Row and Piccadilly. Some of the matter has already appeared in some of the magazines. The book is provided with sixteen full-page illustrations and is bound to match the author’s “Literary friends and acquaintances.”
[*] “These films do not amount to so comprehensive or extensive a survey as Emerson achieved. But they are very fascinating, and are written with the clarity and richness of style which constitute Mr. Howells one of our foremost writers of English to-day.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 717. N. 25. 1740w. |
[*] “Its ‘films’ are far more interesting and significant than some that Mr. Howells has shown; they are indeed in his happiest analytic vein.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 381. D. 1, ‘05. 270w. |
[*] “The book is in no whit inferior to those masterly studies in Italian life.”
| + | Ind. 59: 1227. N. 23, ‘05. 880w. |
[*] “A series of delicate and charming impressions of London in many of its aspects, social, civic, and meteorological.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 490. D. 14, ‘05. 820w. |
[*] “Easily takes its place among the few most noteworthy books of the season.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 712. O. 21, ‘05. 130w. |
[*] “He is still master of the gentle irony, the subtle, mischievous suggestion, the humorous backward glance, that have fascinated his readers for years.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 682. N. 18, ‘05. 270w. |
Howells, William Dean. Miss Bellard’s inspiration. [†]$1.50. Harper.
“It was nothing short of inspiration which made Miss Lillias Bellard decide to visit her aunt and uncle, the Crombies, in order to consider quietly the question of marrying a certain eager young Englishman. Mr. and Mrs. Crombie had ... taken a cottage in the New Hampshire hills. Miss Bellard’s intention was to watch the domestic conditions of the Crombie household before rushing recklessly into matrimony. But coincident with her visit came that of the Mevisons, a couple trembling upon the verge of separation. Thus Miss Bellard was treated to a variety of domestic relations which produced varying effects upon her.”—N. Y. Times.
“Charming and idyllic comedy which at once tickles and instructs. Mr. Howells has written no more delightful story for years.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 41. Jl. 8, 310w. |
[*] “The book is undeniably a delicate and diverting piece of satire and full of those illuminating sidelights upon human foibles and frailties that make Mr. Howells inimitable.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 21: 610. Ag. ‘05. 1500w. |
[*] “The charm of Mr. Howells’s style is the only inducement offered the ‘gentle reader’ in this book.” Charlotte Harwood.
| + — | Critic. 47: 452. N. ‘05. 240w. |
“Has a charm altogether out of proportion to its pretensions.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 39: 115. S. 1, ‘05. 280w. | |
| * | Ind. 59: 1152. N. 16, ‘05. 60w. |
“The whole thing is dainty and amusing, and the irony so suavely expended that some readers may fail to detect it, and hence be a little puzzled as to the degree of the author’s facetiousness.”
| + + + | Lit. D. 31: 187. Ag. 5, ‘05. 790w. |
“It is as if Mr. Howells’s vision were being contracted instead of enlarged as the years go on. He stops short now at the surface; and delicately and gracefully as he plays about on it, we regret his arrested development.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 209. Je. 30, ‘05. 520w. |
“Is a light comedy with enough social satire to remind us that Mr. Howells is not just fooling for our summer holiday.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 101. Ag. 3, ‘05. 320w. |
“Mr. Howells has not lost any of his cunning in portraying the delightfully illogical phases of the feminine mental processes. Altogether it is a decidedly entertaining book.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w. |
“Has all the lightness, the charming comedy touch, of his earlier work, and yet is not lacking in serious purpose. The studies of temperament are both skillful and convincing. It is quite certain that Mr. Howells has written nothing in a happier style; the vein of humor which runs through the book is as fresh as in his earlier work, and parallel with it runs a vein of quiet, kindly irony equally effective.”
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 643. Jl. 8, ‘05. 190w. |
“Beyond a doubt the story is amusing, but to Mr. Howells’ real devotees it must be rather hard sledding.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 39: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 650w. |
[*] “Though but a slight love tale, embodies a maturity of conception, a surety of view, a subtle phraseology, an exquisite use of irony, and, withal, a sedate, appeasing dignity.”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 757. D. ‘05. 70w. |
“The book is mainly a study—and a very clever and shrewd study—of one type of American girl. But all the subordinate characters are carefully drawn.”
| + + — | Spec. 95: 124. Jl. 22, ‘05. 830w. |
Howells, William Dean. Son of Royal Langbrith. $2. Harper.
The story is the tragic one of the weakness of a good mother who lacks the courage to tell her son of the iniquities of his dead father. He grows up in the belief that his father is a noble and heroic character, and when the truth is revealed to him, through the courtship of his mother by the country doctor, he suffers greatly in the loss of his ideal. An opium eater and his loyal daughter enter into the story. The setting is a small New England manufacturing town.
“Is in many respects the best bit of work Mr. Howells has done of late years. One is inclined to read it slowly, lingering in enjoyment of the charming style, and appreciating to the full the perfect picture of New England life in the minute details that Mr. Howells so loves to dwell on. It is a pity, however, that in his love of realistic detail, Mr. Howells should be led into writing passages which, to say the least, mar the artistic effect of his work. He has set such a dainty dish before us that we cannot bear even one drop of grease to spoil the taste.” C. Harwood.
| + + — | Critic. 46: 184. F. ‘05. 560w. |
“The one objection which the average reader has been known to make against the work of Mr. William Dean Howells,—namely, that that distinguished novelist is too fond of the insignificant,—cannot be brought against ‘The son of Royal Langbrith.’ That the working out of this theme is masterly it is superfluous to add.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 116. Ja. ‘05. 80w. |
“What lends peculiar charm to Mr. Howells’s best work is the fact that it could only have been written by an American. It is in the delicacy and tact with which it is hand sovereign merit of the story resides.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 22. Ja. 7, ‘05. 960w. |
Hubbard, Arthur John, and Hubbard, George. Neolithic dew-ponds and cattle-ways. [*]$1.25. Longmans.
“The author endeavors to solve the question of the water-supply of the Neolithic dwellers in hill-encampments on the downs in the south of England. There were apparently no wells, and they had to depend on the ‘unfed’ artificial dew-pond.... Closely connected with the dew-ponds are the cattle-ways down which primitive man drove his herds from the entrenched settlement to water.... There are numerous and very clear photographs.”—Nation.
“Altogether the book is one to be read with interest and profit by everyone at all interested in the evidences relating to our ancestors of the stone age.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 589. My. ‘05. 220w. |
“Contains much suggestive and interesting matter, and is very good reading, but not wholly convincing.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 151. Jl. 29, 1080w. |
“The whole study is well worth reading even by those who have no immediate interest in antiquarian topography.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 360. My. 4, ‘05. 830w. |
“The construction of dew-ponds by the early inhabitants of Britain has often been glibly asserted, but few, if any, have furnished such clear and circumstantial evidence as the authors of this short treatise.”
| + + + | Nature. 71: 611 Ap. 27, ‘05. 610w. |
Hubbard, Gardiner Greene. Collection of engravings. See United States, Library of Congress.
Hubbard, Sarah A., comp. See Catch words of cheer.
Huckel, Oliver., tr. Lohengrin, [**]75c. Crowell.
A companion volume to Mr. Huckel’s “Parsifal” which appeared in similar form two years ago. “It is a version for the general reader. It is not a libretto for the music. It gives a cumulative impression, the composite effect of words, scenery, action, and it is hoped, the spirit of the musical interpretation ... the spirit of the original text in a free version rather than in a strictly literal one.”
[*] “The poem is preceded by an admirable introductory chapter relating to the work, the whole forming a little volume which will be highly prized by lovers of this noble music-drama.”
| + | Arena. 34: 557. N. ‘05. 140w. |
“It gives the reader a much better impression of the drama than the ordinary literally translated libretto can furnish.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 40w. |
[*] “The verse is smooth and dignified.”
| + | R of Rs. 32: 751. D. ‘05. 30w. |
Huckel, Oliver. Melody of God’s love; a new unfolding of the twenty-third psalm, [*]75c. Crowell.
An interpretation of the twenty-third psalm which divides it into three melodies: In green pastures, a song of the sweet and pleasant experiences of life; Through the valley of the shadow, a song of the harder and deeper and more sorrowful experiences of life; and, In the house of the Lord forever, a song of the exultant and triumphant and heavenly experiences of life here and hereafter.
“A series of meditative essays in poetic vein, but without great distinction of style.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 20w. |
Huffcut, Ernest Wilson. Elements of business law; with illustrative examples and problems. [*]$1. Ginn.
This volume is intended as a text-book for students in commercial courses in high schools and colleges and it sets forth the fundamental principles of business law, giving simple concrete examples which show them in their actual application to business transactions. Problems taken from decided cases are given at the end of each chapter. The book is based upon the common law and a glossary of legal terms is provided.
Hughes, Hugh Price. Life of Hugh Price Hughes, by his daughter. 3d ed. [*]$3. Armstrong.
“Mr. Price Hughes broke in early life with the traditional conservatism of the Methodist body, and allied himself with the Liberation society.... The greater part of the volume is taken up with the spiritual activities with which” he “occupied his strenuous life. These were very various in kind. Not the least interesting among them is the part which he took in the reunion conferences at Grindelwald.”—Spec.
“She tries to set down all her father ever did or said, with little order of time and not too much of logic; yet large abstractions obscure practical details.”
| — + | Nation. 80: 354. My. 4, ‘05. 630w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 196. Ap. 1, ‘05. 480w. |
“This story of his life will be read in all branches of the Church. It deserves to be. It needs to be.”
| + + + | Outlook. 79: 143. Ja. 14, ‘05. 270w. |
“We must frankly say that there is a certain magniloquence of diction and general exuberance about Miss Hughes’s description of her father’s life and work which we could wish away; but these do not hinder us from recognizing a really striking personality. There are, indeed, more serious faults in Miss Hughes’s book than those of diction and manner. It would not have cost much trouble to ascertain the facts.”
| + — | Spec. 94: 181. F. 4, ‘05. 520w. |
[*] Hughes, Rupert. Zal: an international romance. [†]$1.50. Century.
The tale of a young Polish pianist’s battle for recognition in New York. There is the artist and dreamer’s “deathless enthusiasm” which dominates Ladislav Moniusko and Rose Hargrave, a wealthy New York girl, whose father had set her apart for an English duke.
[*] “The book is of value, not only because of its musical quality, but because it enlarges information and intensifies sympathy for what may truly be called the land of genius.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 856. D. 2, ‘05. 630w. |
[*] “The contrast between the Polish and American natures is excellently indicated.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 70w. |
Hugo, Victor. [Notre Dame de Paris.] $1.25. Crowell.
A volume in the “Thin paper classics” series, translated from the French by Isabel F. Hapgood.
Hugo, Victor. [Toilers of the sea.] $1.25. Crowell.
A translation from the French by Isabel F. Hapgood, uniform with the other attractive volumes of the “Thin paper classics” series.
Hulbert, Archer Butler, and others. [Future of road making in America.] (Historic highways in America.) [*]$2.50. Clark, A. H.
Volume XV closes the series of monographs on the history of America as portrayed in the evolution of its highways of war, commerce, and social expansion, in the “Historic highways of America” series. Besides the first essay, which gives the title to this volume, Mr. Hulbert’s symposium includes “Government co-operation in object-lesson road work,” by Martin Dodge; Maurice O. Eldridge’s “Good roads for farmers,” Prof. Logan Waller Page’s “The selection of materials for macadam roads,” and E. G. Harrison’s “Stone roads in New Jersey.” There will be a final volume devoted to an index.
| + — | Am. Hist. R. 10: 928. Jl. ‘05. 110w. |
“The later volumes of the series present both the merits and defects of the earlier ones. They are entertaining and often suggestive, but always incomplete. The material is ill arranged, and a surprising amount of it is reprinted from other books.”
| + — | Dial. 38: 322. My. 1, ‘05. 290w. (Review of v. 15 and 16.) | |
| + + | Engin. N. 53: 183. F. 16, ‘05. 300w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 132. Mr. 4, ‘05. 390w. |
“A model of what an index should be.”
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 514. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w. (Review of v. 16.) | |
| + + | Outlook. 79: 449. F. 18, ‘05. 120w. |
“[The index] is model work of its kind.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 838. My. 27, ‘05. 120w. (Review of v. 15 and 16.) |
Hume, Fergus. [Mandarin’s fan.] [†]$1.25. Dillingham.
A jade fan causes a deal of trouble in Mr. Hume’s new story. It is at the bottom of a plot which involves the good name of a Chinese official, the fortunes of a worthy young Englishman, the satisfaction of a Chinese god, Kwang-Ho, and the happiness of a young English girl. Never has the author presented so motley an array of men and women from which to select the real criminal.
“His ‘heathen’ are of the conventional and traditional sort, but the dialogue is spicy, the plot intricate, and the personages are set in lively contrast to each other.”
| + — | Critic. 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 70w. |
“Clever as the plot is, there are several woefully weak links, though a rapid reader is pretty sure to overlook these while engrossed in the really thrilling story. Contrary to his usual custom, Fergus Hume has given us better character drawing than plot in this tale of a fan.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 262. Ap. 22, ‘05. 230w. |
“The author appears frequently quite as much in the dark in trying to fix on one of his puppets the crime involved as is the patient and mystified reader. There is here no real flesh and blood.”
| — | Outlook. 79: 706. Mr. 18, ‘05. 70w. |
Hume, Fergus W. [Secret passage.] [†]$1.25. Dillingham.
The secret passage contains all the strange things which are the natural accompaniments of secret passages. An eccentric old lady is found stabbed to death in her room and there is no clue to the murderer. A clever young detective takes up the case and a number of people become involved in it; several love stories past and present serve to make matters more complicated, and in the end it is discovered that the murdered old lady was really somebody else in disguise, and that the only person not suspected of the crime is the guilty one.
“Another of his hide-and-seek, jack-o’-lantern murder mysteries.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 589. S. 9, ‘05. 230w. |
Hume, Martin Andrew S. Spanish influence of English literature. $2. Lippincott.
Ten public lectures re-written fill this portly volume. Its aim is “to provide for English readers a comparative study of Spanish literature in special relation to its points of contact with the literature of our own country.”
“Major Hume does not succeed in persuading us that he has attained to any clear conception of what is meant by literary influence.”
| — | Acad. 68: 99. F. 4, ‘05. 840w. |
“But these faults of arrangement, selection, and taste are minor defects in comparison with the want of knowledge and the inaccuracy which the book shows. Instances of reckless assertion are numerous in every chapter.”
| — — — | Ath. 1905, 1: 365. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1200w. |
“The book, moreover, seems to be pervaded by an exaggerated sense of the importance of its thesis.”
| — | Dial. 39: 93. Ag. 16, ‘05. 240w. |
“A cursory reading of this volume will reveal that it commits two unpardonable sins: first, that on points of scanty information, it jumps at brilliant conclusions without an effort to gather adequate facts; and second, that in matters of minute and detailed learning it generally takes its knowledge bodily from a source nowhere mentioned.”
| — — | Nation. 81: 78. Jl. 27, ‘05. 2810w. |
“These phenomena of European literary history, Mr. Hume presents clearly and intelligently enough, but without that attention to detailed evidence which would have made his principal chapters somewhat more convincing.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 589. S. 9, ‘05. 890w. |
“We are obliged to him for a most interesting book, which brings together facts unknown to ninety-nine in every hundred of the great reading crowd.”
| + | Sat. R. 100: 407. S. 23, ‘05. 2020w. |
“Though we cannot praise unreservedly either Mr. Hume’s style or his arrangement, yet both are greatly superior to Mr. Underhill’s; and it is just in those chapters in which he comes into competition with Mr. Underhill that Mr. Hume is at his best.”
| + + — | Spec. 94: 514. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1180w. |
[*] Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp. [Wives of Henry VIII.] [**]$4.50. McClure.
Major Hume portrays King Henry as “a weak, vain and boastful creature, the plaything of his passions, and the tool of those great minds about him who worked solely to further their own religious and political aims.” Catherine of Aragon claims the longest consideration, in which the “pathetic and noble” picture is offset by the less agreeable light thrown on her period of widowhood. The author “gives a pitiless picture of Anne Boleyn—of her utter lack of generosity, her meanness of spirit, her frivolity, and her vanity.” Katherine Howard furnishes the best subject of study from a “psychological and romantic point of view,” while Katherine Lady Latimer is presented as “amiable, tactful and clever and evidently ‘managed’ her fickle husband with great intelligence.” (Acad.)
[*] “The latest and by far the clearest account of these six queens.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 1196. N. 18, ‘05. 1500w. |
[*] “Major Hume in this, his latest book, and certainly one of the most deeply interesting he has written, is just sufficiently partial to make us feel that he is human.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 603. N. 4. 1420w. |
[*] “Altogether the book is one which supplies the reader with plenty of ideas and impressions, though there are times when one gets lost in the mazes of the game Mr. Hume is exposing, and wonders if the game is all really there.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 896. D. 16, ‘05. 1410w. |
Humieres, Robert d’ vicomte. Through isle and empire; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. [**]$1.40. Doubleday.
“The psychology of the Englishman is a curious subject for a French writer, but it is one very entertainingly treated by Vicomte d’Humières. He divides his book into four parts, following his quarry out of England into Egypt, India, and through Deccan, but always in amiable pursuit; witness Mr. Kipling’s indorsement in a prefatory letter.”—Outlook.
Reviewed by Robert C. Brooks.
| + + — | Bookm. 21: 380. Je. ‘05. 2200w. |
“Admirably translated into English.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 360. My. 16, ‘05. 250w. |
“He uses as sharp a wit as Max O’Rell in describing British customs, manners, sports and institutions; but his criticism is much more just and much less bitter.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 782. Ap. 6, ‘05. 480w. |
“Readers may differ in opinion of the author’s estimate of British character, but all will agree as to the charming quality of the recorded impressions and sketches of travel.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 961. Ap. 15, ‘05. 90w. |
“His description of English manners is not without humour and incisiveness, and his view of India, native and British alike, is marked by sympathy and insight.”
| + | Sat. R. 99: 637. My. 13, ‘05. 220w. |
“Brilliant and lightsome pages.”
| + — | Spec. 94: 592. Ap. 22, ‘05. 2210w. |
Humphrey, Seth K. Indian dispossessed. [**]$1.50. Little.
A plain statement of the wrongs which the Indians have suffered at the hands of the government of the United States, backed by extracts from official records. There is little rhetoric but there are many facts. The crowding out process as it affected various tribes and reservations is given in detail and the final chapters: Dividing the spoils, and Uncle Sam, trustee, make the most ardent patriot stop and ponder. There are sixteen full page illustrations from photographs of Indian chiefs.
[*] “By taking only those instances wherein the Government or its representatives have been conspicuously unfair in dealing with the Indian, Mr. Humphrey succeeds in making out a pretty strong case against the white man. He has used his material well and has made the most of it.”
| — | Ind. 59: 1231. N. 23, ‘05. 410w. |
“We ascribe to this author the best intentions, but we do not think his book will render any real service to the Indian cause. All that he says may be true, but he does not tell all the truth.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 210w. | |
| * | + | Pub. Opin. 39: 668. N. 18, ‘05. 260w. |
Humphreys, Alexander Crombie. Lecture notes on some of the business features of engineering practice. $1. Dept. of business engineering, Stevens institute of technology, Hoboken, N. J.
“This book is, we believe, the first of its kind—namely, a book of lectures on business methods for students of engineering.” (Engin. N.). It contains lectures upon Notes on contracts, Estimates and specifications, three lectures on Accounting, three on Accounting as applied to repairs and depreciation, Systems of classification—taxes, Analysis of a balance sheet and Analysis of data.
“So well does he handle the subject that interest is awakened from the start, and it not allowed to lag.”
| + + + | Engin. N. 53: 635. Je. 15, ‘05. 860w. |
Huneker, James Gibbons. [Iconoclasts: a book of dramatists.] [**]$1.50. Scribner.
Studies of modern continental dramatists. A review of Henrik Ibsen’s work is followed by impressions and criticisms of the dramas of August Strindberg, Henry Becque, Gerhart Hauptmann, Paul Hervieu, “The quintessence” of Shaw, Maxim Gorky’s “Nachtasyl,” Hermann Sudermann, Princess Mathilde’s play, Duse and D’Annunzio, Villiers del Isle Adam, and Maurice Maeterlinck.
“If Mr. Huneker would abandon his strain after originality and epigram, and would be content to be natural and reposeful, his chances of enduring success would be better.”
| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 284. Ag. 26, ‘05. 690w. |
“What one misses in his work is the repose, the finish, the, it may be, studied avoidance of mere epigram, mere cleverness, which gives so stable a charm to such criticism as that of Mr. Symons.” H. W. Boynton.
| + + — | Atlan. 95: 841. Je. ‘05. 1100w. |
“Mr. Huneker’s brilliant book holds substantial refreshment and work of more than transient value. Is saturated with his subject, yet has preserved an invaluable sensitiveness to impressions.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
| + + + | Critic. 47: 89. Jl. ‘05. 380w. |
“Mr. Huneker’s manner of writing is pointed and almost brilliant, but the journalistic origin of his essays is too apparent.”
| + + — | Dial. 38: 357. My. 16, ‘05. 250w. |
“His style is not exactly engaging, and we hold some of his admirations to be misplaced; but, when all is said, ‘Iconoclasts’ is a capital book, lively, informing, suggestive.”
| + + — | Lond. Times. 4: 218. Jl. 7, ‘05. 1040w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 88. F. 11, ‘05. 130w. | ||
| N. Y. Times. 10: 184. Mr. 25, ‘05. 450w. | ||
“Mr. Huneker’s style is brilliant, audacious, often paradoxical, and full of sweeping generalizations. He knows his subject thoroughly.”
| + + — | Outlook. 80: 140. My. 13, ‘05. 370w. |
Hunt, Agnes. Provincial committees of safety of the American revolution. $1. Western reserve university, Cleveland, O.
“The present work comprises five chapters. In the first three the committees or councils of safety in the New England, the middle, and the southern colonies respectively are dealt with; the fourth presents a general view of the character and work of these bodies; while the fifth and last seeks their origin in preceding English and colonial experience. The investigation rests almost wholly upon the sources; and the result is thoroughly enlightening for many important questions connected with the struggle for independence.” (Am. Hist. R.) “Every special student of the American revolution will find this work very useful for its collection of facts, its table of the powers of the committees in the several states, and its convenient bibliography of works relating to the subject.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
Reviewed by George Elliott Howard.
| + + | Am. Hist. R. 10: 689. Ap. ‘05. 390w. |
“Is a real contribution to the study of the American revolution.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 340. Mr. ‘05. 110w. |
[*] Hunt, Violet. Cat. [*]$2. Macmillan.
“The cat’s story of the women folk with whom she lived, and whose sentimental attitude toward herself she inwardly despised while she endured it for the sake of the loaves and fishes. Of course it is a story for girls.... It deals with a cat and her family of kittens and with Auntie May, who is still young, and a love affair of Auntie’s.... Miss Hunt ... arranges it so that the young man who loves Auntie May shall hate cats—hate them so that the very presence of one in the room makes him frantic. And Auntie May, when it come to the test, prefers her man to her cats.”—N. Y. Times.
| * | + | Acad. 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 40w. |
| * | + — | Lond. Times. 4: 404. N. 24, ‘05. 490w. |
[*] “Good reading and wholesome.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 890. D. 6, ‘05. 230w. | |
| * | Sat. R. 100: sup. 12. D. 9, ‘05. 90w. | |
| * | Spec. 95: sup. 909. D. 2, ‘05. 220w. |
[*] Hunt, Rev. William, and Poole, Reginald Lane. Political history of England. 12v. ea. [*]$2.60. Longmans.
This twelve volume work on English political history is announced under the following authorship: Volume I. 1066, Thomas Hodgkin; II. 1066-1216, Professor George B. Adams; III. 1216-1377, T. F. Tout; IV. 1377-1485, C. Oman; V. 1485-1547, H. A. L. Fisher; VI. 1547-1603, A. F. Pollard; VII. 1603-1660, F. C. Montague; VIII. 1660-1702, R. Lodge; IX. 1702-1760, I. S. Leadam; X. 1760-1801, Rev. W. Hunt; XI. 1801-1837, Hon. G. C. Broderick and J. K. Fotherham; XII. 1837-1901, Sidney J. Low.
[*] “The professed student will revel in this book, in its accurate scholarship, in its clearness of style and arrangement, in its maps and indexes, and, above all, in the invaluable appendix which Dr. Hunt’s unique knowledge of the original authorities of the period has enabled him to draw up.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 1097. O. 21, ‘05. 510w. (Review of v. 10.) | |
| * | + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 569. O. 28. 1050w. (Review of v. 10.) |
[*] “There is not much that is new or startling either in Mr. Hunt’s narrative or in his opinions; it is on his sober and wholesome common sense that the reputation of this book will depend, and this is not the least important recommendation of such a series as the present.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 4: 346. O. 20, ‘05. 1380w. (Review of v. 10.) |
[*] “A very useful book, in which the sense of proportion, the volume of information, and the continuity of narrative are good.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 429. N. 23, ‘05. 870w. (Review of v. 10.) | |
| * | N. Y. Times. 10: 716. O. 21, ‘05. 210w. (Review of v. 10.) |
Hunter, (Wiles) Robert. Poverty, [**]$1.50. Macmillan.
The author has been actively engaged for ten years in university-settlement work in New York, Chicago, and London, and his book aims to awaken the unthinking and unseeing to a realization of the grim and terrible conditions existing among our poor. He describes evils, points out remedies, and sets forth the pitiful struggles of the underpaid and underfed wage-earners. The book is divided into seven chapters: Poverty, The pauper, The vagrant, The sick, The child, The immigrant, and Conclusions.
| Acad. 68: 51. Ja. 14, ‘05. 100w. |
“In his volume, entitled ‘Poverty,’ Robert Hunter has rendered for the United States the same service that Frederick Engels rendered to England sixty years ago by the publication of his volume on ‘The condition of the working class.’ No student of philanthropy, or of sociology, can afford to ignore this book. But when all deductions on the ground of inclusiveness have been made, the arsenal of facts here brought to the attention of the critic must command the respect of the candid.” Florence Kelley.
| + + | Am. J. Soc. 10: 555. Ja. ‘05. 370w. |
“The conscience literature of social progress receives an important contribution in ‘Poverty.’ This work, within certain limits, is strong, fine and deserving of great praise. Mr. Hunter’s remedial measures are for the most part sane, reasonable, just and necessary, and they will appeal to tens of thousands who would be frightened if one proposed more fundamental measures. Books like this are of immense value at the present period in our conflict against the sordid materialism that is ranging itself with reaction and subtly, when not aggressively, opposing the ideal of democracy and social progress.”
| + + | Arena. 33: 219. F. ‘05. 1480w. |
“There is a certain literary quality to Mr. Hunter’s book which will insure it a wide vogue. Mr. Hunter’s book is not one that commands our confidence.” Winthrop More Daniels.
| + — | Atlan. 95: 555. Ap. ‘05. 320w. |
“While it will meet with objections and while there is room for differing with many statements of the author, the work is a distinct contribution to the literature of sociology.”
| + + | Baltimore Sun. :8. Mr. ‘05. 590w. | |
| + + | Cath. World. 81: 399. Je. ‘05. 580w. |
“The author shows a wide and intimate knowledge of his subject, and he has recorded his observations and conclusions in a scholarly, frank, and sympathetic spirit. When he speaks of the cure of the difficulty, his position is necessarily less strong and less satisfactory.” Constant Huntington.
| + + | Critic. 46: 90. Ja. ‘05. 660w. |
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
| + + | Dial. 38: 155. Mr. 1, ‘05. 340w. |
“Mr. Hunter has head as well as heart, and his book both convinces and inspires. The best chapter is that on ‘The child.’ The poorest chapter is that on ‘Immigrants.’ ‘Poverty’ is fairly well written and will undoubtedly be a standard book on the subject for the next few years.”
| + + + | Ind. 58: 97. Ja. 12, ‘05. 970w. |
[*] “Impressions are quite elaborately reinforced throughout by statistics and authorities, and, to this extent, they are calculated to mislead the unwary.” Mary E. Richmond.
| + — | Int. J. Ethics. 15: 506. Jl. ‘05. 490w. |
“The author has faced a grave problem resolutely. He has stated it in clear terms. He has gathered together the best and most intelligent thought upon the subject. Mr. Hunter’s book is a landmark in the American literature upon the subject.” S. G. Lindholm.
| + + — | J. Pol. Econ. 13: 277. Mr. ‘05. 1160w. |
“Such a book as this stands in deplorable contrast with Mr. Rowntree’s study of poverty in York.”
| — + | Nation. 80: 70. Ja. 26, ‘05. 380w. |
“The book as a whole, has one aim—namely, to show the grievous need of certain social measures calculated to prevent the ruin and degradation of those working people who are on the verge of poverty. Mr. Hunter’s book on ‘Poverty’ is the most impressive and important book of the year. Every page is crowded with vital matter. There is no high coloring; only a plain, quiet statement of the frightful facts. The book should attract national attention. It should have a million readers.” E. Markham.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 1. Ja. 7, ‘05. 2090w. |
“His volume is sympathetic rather than scientific—the work of one who is first a philanthropist, and second a student. It is human—intensely so. It has the defects of its qualities. Looking at the problem of poverty from the view point of the poor, it is somewhat too somber in its interpretation of existing conditions.”
| + + — | Outlook. 79: 902. Ap. 8, ‘05. 540w. |
“The most telling facts that he presents are facts drawn, not from official reports, but from actual experience and observation. As a record of such data his book is an extremely valuable contribution to sociology.”
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 127. Ja. ‘05. 220w. (States scope of book). |
“It is to be regretted that Mr. Hunter did not make a more judicious and careful use of his statistical material. There is much else that is of interest and value in the books.” J. E. Cutler.
| + + — | Yale R. 14: 86. My. ‘05. 1290w. |
[*] Hurll, Estelle May. Bible beautiful: a history of Biblical art. [**]$2. Page.
“The book aims to trace the development of Bible illustration from the crude pictures of the catacombs to the splendid art of the mediaeval mosaics, cathedral façades, stained glass windows, and mural frescoes, and finally to the modern work, mostly English, of the last two centuries. Three special indices are provided; one of artists, for the art student; one of places, for the tourist; and one of Bible subjects for Bible students.” The volume is uniform with the “Art lover’s series” and about fifty half-tones of various types of sacred art. (Dial.)
[*] “An interesting and comprehensive, though distinctly popular, study of Biblical art.”
| + | Dial. 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 140w. | |
| * | + | Int. Studio. 27: sup. 31. D. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “She well describes the pictures which themselves describe the Bible.”
| + | Outlook. 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 50w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 751. D. ‘05. 70w. |
Husband, T. F., and Husband, M. F. A. Punctuation: its principles and practice. [**]75c. Dutton.
The first part of this book is historical and, beginning with the earliest inscriptions which had no separation of words or punctuation, it traces the development of punctuation and shows why it is needed. How it should be used is the subject of the second part which gives a full discussion of the uses of each stop.
“Messrs. Husband appear to be too sensitive to the look of stops, to the suggestion of a skeleton, and their own sparing use of them is the one fault in a good book.”
| + + — | Acad. 68: 978. S. 23, ‘05. 1150w. |
“A practical little volume, which is also strong on the theoretical side, and may be commended as a guide to a neglected subject.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 469. O. 7. 260w. |
“The book seems to us both widely useful and entertaining.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 618. S. 23, ‘05. 520w. |
“The book does good service in showing the growth of our system of punctuation, and most of the authors’ positions are well taken and carefully reasoned out.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 100w. |
Hussey, Eyre. Miss Badsworth, M. F. H. [†]$1.50. Longmans.
Hugo Badsworth, master of Cranston Hounds has an old-maid sister and a niece, both of the same name, Lavinia. Upon his death, a will, made in jest, is discovered stipulating that unless Miss Lavinia Badsworth follows the hounds upon certain occasions his money is to go to a reprobate nephew. The niece fulfills the terms of this will for her aunt and all is well.
| — | N. Y. Times. 10: 243. Ap. 15, ‘05. 340w. |
“Although somewhat diffuse it is pleasantly told.”
| + — | Sat. R. 99: 709. My. 27, ‘05. 330w. |
“The book ... can best be described by the adjective ‘breezy.’”
| + — | Spec. 94: 681. My. 6, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] Hutchinson, Horace Gordon, ed. Big game shooting. 2v. [*]$7.50. Scribner.
“The ‘Country life’ volumes on Big game shooting under the competent editorship of Mr. Horace Hutchinson, contain an exhaustive account of all the larger game animals of the world, from the Scottish red-deer to the African elephant. The first volume deals with Europe and America.”—Spec.
[*] “The style is graceful, easy, and animated, and the interest never flags, because the author is unaffectedly interested in the subject.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 775. N. 18, ‘05. 580w. | |
| * | + | Spec. 95: 869. N. 25, ‘05. 410w. |
Hutchinson, Horace G. Two moods of a man. [†]$1.50. Putnam.
The two moods which war for the ascendancy in young Hood are one which compels allegiance to the gypsy wife whom he had married after the Romany rite, and another which bids him desert the gypsy and marry a high minded Philadelphian. His philosophy which claims the divine right of the Greek “daemon” to guide him is a cloak for his selfishness. Intense enthusiasm and reactionary suffering show him to be absolutely without poise.
“This is an extremely interesting, yet deceptive story, in which the cleverness of the telling often dazzles and obscures the true significance of incidents and motives.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 759. Jl. 22, ‘05. 390w. |
“It is with exemplary and judicial dispassionateness that Mr. Hutchinson analyzes and depicts his man with two moods. But apart from this non-committal tone of the narrative, the novel deserves nothing but praise.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 73. Jl. 15, 330w. |
[*] “The book is written with a simple distinction, and is filled with suggestive and quotable passages. An unusual character study.”
| + | Critic. 47: 477. N. ‘05. 80w. |
“A book of almost startling originality and of very unusual interest.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 463. Jl. 15, ‘05. 790w. |
[*] “Is hardly a successful novel, though it has merit as a succession of scenes.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 282. Ag. 26, ‘05. 320w. |
“The beginning of the book, with the pictures of life in the gipsy van, though not worked out in detail, furnishes pleasant reading; but Hood’s philosophic utterances are not impressive.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 293. Ag. 26, ‘05. 150w. |
Hutten, Baroness von. He and Hecuba. [†]$1.50. Appleton.
A poor English rector who is atoning for the passionate past by faithful service to his flock at the expense of himself, his invalid wife, and his neglected children, meets a beautiful southern woman who awakens in him his buried youth, and he takes up his pen and writes an anonymous book of his young days and of his downfall. The book sells, but he is obliged to denounce it from the pulpit because of his bishop’s crusade against it. Unhappy complications follow and other characters bring into the story all the elements of tragedy.
[*] “There are excellent bits of portraiture in this story,—bits which make one regret that the book as a whole should be stamped as frankly and crudely melodramatic.”
| — + | Critic. 47: 578. D. ‘05. 120w. |
[*] “This novel is uneven, with some good touches, but, as whole, painfully harrowing, cheaply melodramatic, and decidedly unwholesome in its treatment of love. In an obvious attempt to achieve strength, the author has only compassed a cheap and florid rankness.”
| — | Lit. D. 31: 965. D. 23, ‘05. 580w. |
“She mars, too, by faults of taste, which belong to the current school of fashionable fiction, a story which in its elements is true and strongly human and developed with no little skill and cleverness.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 637. S. 30, ‘05. 460w. |
“There is doubt, however, as to her soundness in dealing with moral questions and the wholesomeness of her manner of making her characters play about the edges of social sin. Those who found it difficult for this reason to like ‘Pam,’ with all its cleverness, will feel the same objection here.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 90w. |
Hutten, Baroness von. Pam. [†]$1.50. Dodd.
The story of Pamela Yeoland whose mother, Lord Yeoland’s daughter, outrages her family by eloping with a popular tenor who deserted his wife and family for her. They live happily, however, in Bohemia, among disreputable and brilliant associates. Little Pam, at the age of ten, is taken from these surroundings by an apparently respectable grandfather, and her observations of her new and conventional life lead her to the conclusion that marriage is both undesirable and unhappy. This belief colors her own love affairs. The book closes when she is still young and her future is undetermined.
“A novel of considerable psychological insight. The book, though written with a light touch, deals subtly with some deep questions.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + | Bookm. 22: 233. N. ‘05. 580w. |
“The novel is artistic to the last degree, and absorbing as a play by Shaw.” Carolyn Shipman.
| + + + | Critic. 46: 474. My. ‘05. 590w. | |
| Ind. 58: 615. Mr. 16, ‘05. 290w. |
“Is quite as interesting from its logical working out of a problem in social ethics as it is for its strong character sketching and literary style.”
| + | Ind. 58: 1008. My. 4, ‘05. 190w. | |
| Ind. 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 60w. |
“It is interesting, even sinfully interesting. To the thoughtful reader ‘Pam’ holds both an immoral and a moral.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 206. Ap. 1, ‘05. 580w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w. |
“The figure of the quaint little girl and her talk are decidedly pleasing and out of the ordinary. We care much less for her when she is a young woman.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 708. Mr. 18, ‘05. 90w. |
“It is the most daring story that has appeared in many months. It is an interesting book of artistic purpose, and therefore a book to be read by the liberal-minded.”
| + + — | Reader. 6: 119. Je. ‘05. 410w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 757. Je. ‘05. 240w. |
“‘Pam’ belongs in the main to the category of the ‘emancipation novel.’ To describe it as dangerous or immoral in tendency would be unfair and unjust, for, while it is emphatically not suitable for the consumption of the young person, no grown man or woman could take harm from its perusal. Yet the lesson ... of the story of Pamela Yeoland is so sound and obvious that, beyond the reserves already made, we are not disposed to insist on the freedom with which it is handled.”
| + | Spec. 94: 144. Ja. 28, ‘05. 900w. |
Hutton, Edward. Cities of Umbria. [*]$2. Dutton.
Mr. Hutton “tells of the cities of Umbria, Perugia, Assisi, Spoleto, Orvieto, Urbino, and others less known; of the art of Umbria, with its great names, Perugino, Pintoricchio, and of Umbria Mystica, the Umbria of Assisi, St. Francis and Brother Elias, of Sta. Clara and Joachim di Flore.... His book is illustrated in color after drawings by Mr. A. Pisa, and a number of photographs of pictures to illustrate the section on Umbrian art.”—Acad.
“There is so much solid backbone of historical and artistic knowledge to support his raptures that they are not merely rapturous.”
| + | Acad. 68: 935. S. 9, ‘05. 300w. | |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 70w. |
“He has ruined his natural power of description by a disastrous attempt to combine the styles of Ruskin, Swinburne, d’Annunzio and Mr. Berenson.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 269. Ag. 25, ‘05. 630w. |
“His book is destined to prove an invaluable companion for the tourist he so heartily scorns. We shall probably wait many a long day for a better book on Umbrian painters and Umbrian saints.”
| + + — | Nation. 81: 246. S. 21, ‘05. 1190w. |
“The book has much that is useful and valuable as a contribution toward the understanding of the Italian life and spirit in their manifold manifestations, much that is suggestive much that is concrete and firmly to be taken hold of.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 671. O. 14, ‘05. 590w. |
“The text is well written, readable, trustworthy, clearly put, and often has atmosphere, but, despite not a few clever touches, it seems to us in the main unoriginal.”
| + + — | Outlook. 81: 277. S. 30, ‘05. 180w. |
Hutton, Laurence. Talks in a library with Laurence Hutton. Recorded by Isabel Moore. [**]$2.50. Putnam.
Informal chats in which Hutton tells of his life, his friends, and his fads. The volume is full of interesting anecdotes for he numbered among his friends the greatest actors, artists and men of letters in England and America, and he had a collector’s mania for death masks, play-bills, inscribed books and portraits.
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 783. Je. 24. 220w. |
“One of the most interesting books of its class that has been written in a long time is ‘Talks in a library with Laurence Hutton.’” Jeannette L. Gilder.
| + + | Critic. 46: 510. Je. ‘05. 770w. |
“On the whole, for its wealth of literary, dramatic, and miscellaneous reminiscences the book is one of the best of its kind. The editor deserves a warm word of praise for her part in the work.”
| + + + | Dial. 39: 17. Jl. 1, ‘05. 490w. |
“Are likely, no doubt, to be found entertaining by those who care for the more gossipy, intimate sort of confidences about public characters.”
| + | Ind. 59: 639. S. 14, ‘05. 120w. |
“It is a miscellaneous collection of literary and personal gossip, a good deal of which is new and most of it decidedly interesting.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 443. Je. 1, ‘05. 610w. |
“As the last word, and the very characteristic word, of a cultivated, genial observer with a genius for friendship, it will give much pleasure.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 325. My. 20, ‘05. 970w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w. |
“This is a very informal book, and gains by its unpretentious intimacy of style.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 643. Jl. 8, ‘05. 270w. |
“One of the most readable books of the year.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 942. Je. 17, ‘05. 460w. |
“The book is rich in stories, and if he sometimes points a moral we suspect he can often adorn a tale.”
| + + | Sat. R. 100: 343. S. 9, ‘05. 900w. |
“An eminently readable book. He is always interesting, always natural, always kindly.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 293. Ag. 26, ‘05. 300w. |
Hyde, William DeWitt. From Epicurus to Christ: a study in the principles of personality. [**]$1.50. Macmillan.
“A lucid exposition of the fundamental principles of the Epicurean, Stoic, Platonic, Aristotelean, and Christian philosophies.... The book is made up of extracts from the founders of each system, together with quotations from modern writers on the subject, as well as scholarly comments on both by President Hyde.”—R. of Rs.
| Atlan. 95: 704. My. ‘05. 410w. |
“An extremely interesting presentation of old principles in a new setting, together with keen suggestions of their modern exponents, tend to convince the reader that Mr. Hyde himself is far from lacking in certain principles of personality.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 202. Mr. 16, ‘05. 220w. |
“Here discourses on ethics and philosophy in a familiar and breezy sort of way.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 1075. My. 11, ‘05. 180w. | |
| * | Ind. 59: 1161. N. 16, ‘05. 30w. |
“The book is hortatory and not historical. The only serious criticism to be made on the book is the order of the chapters.”
| + — | Nation. 80: 212. Mr. 16, ‘05. 460w. |
“The book fulfills its purpose admirably. The author has a firm grasp on the fundamental principles of the systems which he discusses and, in addition, a remarkable insight into the practical merits of the different theories. He writes forcibly and with an abundance of illustration. For general reading the book is interesting, suggestive, and helpful.” H. W. Wright.
| + + | Philos. R. 14: 373. My. ‘05. 530w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 254. F. ‘05. 70w. |
“Professor Hyde has produced a very readable book on Greek and Christian ethics; it is clear and popular.”
| + + | Sat. R. 99: 640. My. 13, ‘05. 290w. |
“Is one of those extremely clever and almost painfully ‘up-to-date’ metaphysico-theological books which America produces in such abundance.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 119. Ja. 28, ‘05. 420w. |
Hyslop, James Hervey. Ethics of Greek philosophers, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. $2. Higgins.
An essay first given as a lecture before the Brooklyn ethical association (1896-7). It treats of the teachings and influence of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle and is illustrated with their portraits. Copious editorial notes by Mr. Higgins and extracts from the works of the philosophers show their close relation to modern thought. The volume concludes with a brief life of Socrates.
“It would be difficult to find a better brief presentation of the matter.” Gerald B. Smith.
| + + + | Am. J. of Theol. 9: 396. Ap. ‘05. 170w. |
“The conspicuous absence of historic insight, of breadth and impartiality of view, of even an approach to scholarly discrimination, forms strange qualifications for the editing of a volume bearing the ambitious title, ‘The evolution of ethics.’”
| — — | Ind. 58: 384. F. 16, ‘05. 290w. |
Hyslop, James Hervey. Science and a future life. [**]$1.50. Turner, H. B.
“An attempt to popularize and condense the evidence buried in the Society for psychical research’s voluminous reports on Mrs. Piper’s trances, for one of the bulkiest and most detailed of which Dr. Hyslop was himself responsible.”—Nation.
“Is the most important critical book relating to psychical research that has appeared during the present year.”
| + + + | Arena. 34: 325. S. ‘05. 3250w. |
“It belongs therefore with a group of books, numerable on the fingers of one hand, which, treating of matters occult, articulate with a body of fact and doctrine in aspect at least scientific.” E. T. Brewster.
| + | Atlan. 96: 689. N. ‘05. 680w. |
“To those who cherish as something precious the reputation of science and the worth and ideals of the votaries thereof, equally with those who draw from religious faith a sensitiveness and a healthy-mindedness that make for intellectual refinement and stability, the volume is nothing less than offensive.”
| — | Dial. 39: 242. O. 16, ‘05. 480w. | |
| * | + | Lit. D. 31: 179. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1580w. |
“He has added to his extracts some sensible comments and a careful comparison of the telepathic and the spiritistic explanation, the latter of which he prefers.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 53. Jl. 20, ‘05. 300w. |
“Altogether, Prof. Hyslop’s book is the broadest and most understandable work in accord with an intelligent ambition for what this new science can and will do that we have read up to date.” Pendennis.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 430. Jl. 1, ‘05. 690w. | |
| Outlook. 80: 1068. Ag. 26, ‘05. 860w. | ||
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 256. Ag. ‘05. 110w. |