Hugo, Victor Marie, viscomte. [Les miserables]; tr. by Isabel F. Hapgood. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper two volume sets,” this usually large work is reduced to the compass of two pocket volumes.
Hulbert, Archer Butler. [Pilots of the republic; the romance of the pioneer-promoter in the middle west]; pors. and drawings by Walter J. Enright. **$1.50. McClurg.
“Pioneers’ axe chanted a truer tune than ever musket crooned or sabre sang.” And it is the pioneer who with epic courage extended America’s boundaries and built up her bulwark that fill Mr. Hulbert’s volume. Among them are Washington, Richard Henderson, Rufus Putnam, George Rogers Clark, Henry Clay, Morris and Clinton, Thomas and Mercer. Lewis and Clark, Astor, and Marcus Whitman.
Hulbert, Homer Beza. Passing of Korea; il. from photographs. **$3.80. Doubleday.
Mr. Hulbert “compares Korea in its present plight in Japanese hands, and with Japanese immigration flooding it with Poland, Armenia, and the Congo ‘Free’ State. To save Korea, and he adds it will be to our material advantage to do so, we must bring modern education to the Koreans, and for this purpose he asks us to open our purses. His book is a history of the so-called ‘Hermit’ kingdom from the earliest times, concluding, of course, with a survey of present conditions, manners, and customs of the people, and the resources of the country. It is profusely illustrated.”—Putnam’s.
“The book is written in an attractive style and is a notable addition to the recent literature of the Orient.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 913. D. 15, ’06. 250w.
“Books on Korea may be named by the dozen but this is the book.”