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.”
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[*] “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.”
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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.
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Hornaday, William Temple. American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. [**]$3.50. Scribner.