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=Haaren, John Henry, and Poland, Addison B.=^{[5]} Famous men of modern times. *50c. Am. bk.
9–9441.
The last of the “Famous men” series written to create a deeper interest among the young in the study of history. In brief chapters twenty-three men are presented from the point of view of their greatest service to the world. Among them are discoverers, warriors, statesmen, scientists and rulers.
=Habberton, John.= Budge and Toddie; or, Helen’s babies at play: being an account of the further doings of these marvelously precocious children. $1. Grosset.
8–33785.
To an aunt and uncle falls temporarily the care of Budge and Toddie. Their methodical life is woefully outraged by the lively escapades of the two youngsters who in very truth act out a sequel to “Helen’s babies.”
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“Their proclivity to mischief is undiminished but their ‘doings’ are less interesting than in the earlier book.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 91. Mr. ’09.
“While it is still too verbose and indulges in too much skippable conversation between the grown-ups, the two dreadful infants are still just as adorably and ingenuously naughty as they were in their first annals.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 52. Ja. 23, ’09. 150w.
=Hackett, Frank Warren.=^{[10]} Deck and field: addresses before the United States Naval war college and on commemorative occasions. *$1.25. Lowdermilk.
9–15219.
Twelve addresses on commemorative occasions. “They are quite free from the oratorical bombast and ‘we love our country’ sentimentality that creep in and pollute the speeches of some of the greatest men. They are truly patriotic.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=Ind.= 67: 372. Ag. 12, ’09. 130w.
“He is rather slow generally in getting under way, and he labors too often under the disadvantage of a trite subject. On the other hand, when he deals with things outside the ordinary course, he is very interesting.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 309. S. 30, ’09. 220w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 453. Jl. 24, ’09. 120w.
=Hackwood, Frederick W.=^{[11]} Inns, ales, and drinking customs of old England. *10s. 6d. Unwin, T. Fisher, London.
9–29527.
Traces briefly the story of the British public-house thru the phases of the Roman-British posting-house, the Saxon ale-house, the mediaeval inn, the wine tavern, the coaching-house to the rise of the modern hotel, with mention of the inn-yard, of inn signs and of tavern tokens; it deals with inn-keeping and inn-keepers; with brewers and vintners, and the introduction of spirits; it treats of the ale-drinking habit, of the influence of the church on the national habit; of trade customs, licensing, and restrictive measures; and of drinking customs, mugs, and mysteries.
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“All who hanker after the old tavern life will find much of interest in Mr. Hackwood’s book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 3. S. 25, ’09. 1550w.
“There is much entertaining reading to be found in this volume.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 561. O. 9, ’09. 500w.
=Hadley, Edward S.=^{[10]} Railway working and appliances; to which are added a chapter and diagram on railway sketching. *50c. Longmans.
W9–187.
Lectures given in an employees’ course on rules, methods and appliances in use in the safe operation of railways. “About 70 pages are devoted to signaling, interlocking and the block system, and 20 pages to the Westinghouse and vacuum brakes. A short chapter deals with accidents and wrecking, and another describes how freight traffic is handled. One chapter briefly describes a system of ‘slip coupling,’ by which a conductor in a rear car of a fast train detaches his car so that it will stop at an intermediate station.... An interesting little chapter discusses railway sketching, or the making of explanatory sketch plans to accompany reports as to proposed alterations, etc.” (Engin. N.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 75. N. ’09.
“It forms a handy primer and contains much valuable information, but is entirely adapted for British railways, and while the general subject is of interest to railway men everywhere, the special applications as treated in this book are of little practical value to American railway men.”
+ − =Engin. D.= 6: 248. S. ’09. 120w. + =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 78. Je. 17, ’09. 180w.
=Haggard Andrew Charles Parker.=^{[11]} Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. 2v. *$6. Appleton.
“The often told tale of Marie Antoinette and the sixteenth Louis is retold in two large volumes with infinite detail.... The history is a simple narration of events; the writer has no conception of the philosophic or evolutionary value of the revolution. He tells us what happened, nor does he hesitate to paint many an atrocity in sufficiently vivid terms, though, as he says, he refrains from transcribing some passages ‘which even the French authors prefer to print in the Latin tongue.’”—N. Y. Times.
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“The author is a trifle dry, but he gives us a clear notion of the early, gay years and the following long tragedy, and, too, of the culminating horror.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 634. O. 23, ’09. 360w.
“Colonel Haggard’s style of writing cannot be called literary; it is both confused and spasmodic. But these faults, [are] probably owing to the want of careful arrangement of an enormous mass of material, and of critical study and re-reading before publication.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 242. Ag. 14, ’09. 1050w.
=Haggard, Henry Rider.=^{[7]} Lady of the heavens. $1.50. Lovell, F. F.
8–17553.
“Mr. Haggard’s new story is woven around the personality of a white girl, the daughter of an English missionary in Zululand. Her parents having been murdered by a native chief, this girl went mad and cursed the tribe. She was then sold to a dwarf people in the interior. Her adventures make up the substance of this weird tale.” (R. of Rs.) “Of such—they tell us—are the dreams born of the opium pipe. Certain wizards, like Mr. Haggard, have the power, working directly upon the imagination with words, to conjure up the dreams and spare you the necessity of resorting to the drug. The effect—in a milder form, of course—is much the same.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“An exciting narrative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 348. My. 29, ’09. 580w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 124. Jl. ’09. 120w.
=Haines, Alice Calhoun.=^{[12]} Cock-a-doodle Hill. †$1.50. Holt.
9–28116.
A sequel to “The luck of the Dudley Grahams” which is really the story of Ernie’s chicken farm. It pictures country scenes, country adventures and country happiness found in a rambling, open-windowed old white house “set among flowery meadows, pine woods, and river land.”
=Haines, Charles Grove.=^{[12]} Conflict over judicial powers in the United States to 1870. (Studies in history, economics and public law, ed. by the Faculty of political science of Columbia univ., v. 35, no. 1.) *$1.50. Longmans.
9–18185.
“Deals respectively with the judicial powers before the adoption of the federal constitution; the early conflicts over judicial nullification by federal courts; the extension of federal judicial authority; the conflicts over the extension of judicial authority; the principles of the Jacksonian democracy, and judicial powers from 1856–1870.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“To the student who desires a general knowledge of the subject and familiarity with the arguments advanced by the strongest advocates, pro and con, this little book will prove of value. The author has been happy in his selection of material and is unusually clear and concise in statement.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 604. N. ’09. 240w.
“For the historian Dr. Haines’s volume will have much value.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 353. S. 4, ’09. 90w.
=Haldeman, Isaac Massey.= Christian science in the light of Holy Scripture. **$1.50. Revell.
9–6857.
An attack upon Christian science which is conducted judicially and which aims to show that its teachings are wholly outside the Bible and have no right to the name “Christian.” The author’s method is that of juxtapositional treatment of the fundamental propositions of Christian science and the testimony of the Holy Scriptures.
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“The author’s point of view is that of the average, traditional interpreter. His refutation of Christian science, however, can scarcely be termed scientific.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 33: 359. My. ’09. 90w. =Outlook.= 93: 645. N. 20, ’09. 30w.
=Hale, Louise Closser.= The actress. †$1.50. Harper.
9–5702.
A simple story with little plot told by the actress herself, which runs intimately near to the real happenings in the every-day life of the stage. It concerns the love of a New York broker for a hard working young actress who crosses the ocean and pursues her work in London only that Aaron Adams may forget her. A devoted lover’s strategy reveals to the girl her own heart, and a happy ending ensues.
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“A readable, sentimental story, showing the lighter side of stage life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 113. Ap. ’09. ✠
“A perfectly healthy, thoroughly humorous story of an ordinary love-affair of ordinary people, told with a more than ordinary degree of literary capacity.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 92. Jl. 24. 170w.
“The graphic, realistic, intimate chronicle of life behind the footlights ... is the part of the book that one cares about, and certainly it is extremely well done.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 191. Ap. ’09. 230w. =Ind.= 66: 1297. Je. 10, ’09. 150w.
“The book abounds in clever character-drawing, the descriptions of English society being particularly well done.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 467. My. 6, ’09. 250w.
“Slight as it is for a novel, a mere love story of the most ordinary kind, with everyday folks for its hero and heroine, with no remarkable ingenuity of plot, involving no modern ‘social problem,’ ‘The actress’ is a noteworthy book. We have found her book informing and delightfully inspiriting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 111. F. 27, ’09. 1400w.
“Delightful and enthralling story.”
+ =No. Am.= 189: 782. My. ’09. 280w.
“It is fairly bright and interestingly told, but for a young lady who prides herself on being amusing, and who despises the British sense of humour, the heroine is decidedly disappointing as a specimen of American brightness.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 264. Ag. 28, ’09. 120w.
“Brightly told.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 65. Jl. 10, ’09. 40w.
=Hall, Alfred Daniel.=^{[12]} Fertilizers and manures. **$1.50. Dutton.
A sequel to the author’s volume, “Soil.” “In the history and evolution of the practice of keeping up the crop-producing power of the soil Mr. Hall examines critically the various theories of manuring adduced from time to time, and the experiences upon which they are based, and the study of merely this part of the work will be of supreme importance to the practical man and to the student in showing how experiments may be misconstrued and conclusions of the most erroneous description drawn. The recommendations as to the manuring of farm crops are tempered with sound advice, and the impossibility of prescribing more than a generally suitable method of manuring without a careful study of soil and climatic conditions extending over some years is well demonstrated.” (Nature.)
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“This is a sound and scientific book which should be in the hands of every practical agriculturist as well as in those of the student, the teacher, and the manufacturer.” M. J. R. D.
+ =Nature.= 81: 483. O. 21, ’09. 650w.
“The work before us is valuable because an authoritative and painstaking account of the origin, character, and particular uses of all the manures and fertilisers now in the service of the agriculturist.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 492. O. 2, ’09. 310w.
=Hall, Alfred Daniel.= Soil: an introduction to the scientific study of the growth of crops. 2d ed., rev. and enl. *$1.50. Dutton.
Agr9–663.
An edition revised to include results of the latest experiment for determining the functions of bacteria and fungi in the soil. “Mr. Hall’s book is not only for the scientific student of soil problems, who can, by the use of the bibliography in the appendix, become familiar with the most important research on the subject, but the practical man will find a very considerable portion of the book of interest and value to him, and the carefully reasoned conclusions will assure him of the reliability of the recommendations.” (Nature.)
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“A careful revision of one of the most authoritative works in print.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 194. Je. ’09.
“Will be of interest and value to all those who have occasion to go into those subjects for engineering or other reasons. From the agricultural viewpoint, the book seems to be comprehensive and thorough.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 53. Ap. 15, ’09. 130w.
“This edition has evidently been most carefully revised in the light of modern investigation, and is an accurate record of existing knowledge on the soil considered from its mechanical, chemical, and biological aspects.” M. J. R. D.
+ =Nature.= 79: 127. D. 3, ’08. 550w.
“A helpful bibliography of works on the soil and its organisms is appended, and the absence of a too severe technical style should render Mr. Hall’s treatise on the soil of genuine instructive interest to all who are seeking practical scientific aids in improved methods of agriculture.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 42. Ja. 23, ’09. 900w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 127. Ja. ’09. 60w.
“It is at once authoritative and wide in scope, and it gives the reader an impression of the difficulties of the subject which is not conveyed by some writing on soil problems.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 158. Ja. 30, ’09. 140w.
=Hall, Bolton.=^{[7]} Garden yard: a handbook of intensive farming; introd. by N. O. Nelson. $1. McKay.
9–14704.
Not a scientific book on agriculture but a book that shows how the plain man or woman who has a back yard or back lot can make a living. He has combined his own experience and that of friends with information contained in bulletins, books and catalogs and tells “how to lay out the land, how to prepare and plant the harvest, and how to make life joyous.” Intelligence and care exercised as the author outlines will insure a bare living the first year, a good living the second, and the beginning of a bank account the third.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 13. S. ’09. ✠
“While planned along similar lines, the book falls distinctly below the standard set by such books as Bailey’s ‘Principles of vegetable gardening.’”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 605. N. ’09. 140w.
“In spite of being a book of decided value, has an amateur flavor. However, take this book thru and thru, and you will be surprised to find how little there is to criticise, especially when you consider what an infinite number of topics are discussed.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 600. S. 9, ’09. 600w.
“For its size the book is very comprehensive, and its treatment of the subject is simple and practical.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 147. Ag. 12, ’09. 120w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 384. S. ’09. 70w.
=Hall, Charles Cuthbert.=^{[5]} Christ and the eastern soul: the witness of the oriental consciousness to Jesus Christ. (Barrows lectures, 1906–1907.) *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–10502.
“To thoughtful Indians of all faiths these lectures are dedicated respectfully by a citizen of the west who believes in the unity of the human race and who looks with reverence on the India of the past, with affection on the India of the present and with ardent expectation on the India of the future.” The lectures delivered in many Indian cities aim to put the sacred lore of the east into normal relation to the Truth as revealed in Jesus Christ.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 167. Je. ’09.
“Missionaries, missionary boards, and all concerned with the propagation of Christianity among the oriental peoples may learn much from these lectures.”
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 432. Je. ’09. 90w. =Ind.= 66: 1346. Je. 17, ’09. 240w.
“With rare tactfulness and grace Dr. Hall undertook to discover ‘elements of sublimity in the Oriental consciousness.’”
+ =Nation.= 88: 486. My. 13, ’09. 140w.
=Hall, Rev. Charles Cuthbert.=^{[7]} Silver cup: simple messages to children from one who loved them. **$1.25. Houghton.
9–8405.
A posthumous volume of sermons preached during special afternoon services for children while Dr. Hall was pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Brooklyn.
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“They would be helpful for parents, Sunday-school teachers and ministers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 190. Je. ’09. + =Ind.= 66: 1348. Je. 17, ’09. 80w. + =Nation.= 88: 486. My. 13, ’09. 80w.
=Hall, Henry Fielding.= One immortality. †$1.50. Macmillan.
9–4484.
“True marriage, founded upon love and nurtured by romance, is one immortality. Three loves dominate the world, each justified in its own immortality—the love of man and woman, the love that draws families into nations, the love that holds the world to God. With this thesis, the author depicts the experiences of a group of travelers whose goal is India. Two Englishmen are attracted by a girl in the care of a Mr. and Mrs. Holman, who furnish the happy, hopeful, sensible element in the party. Two other youths flutter for a time about a young woman of India returning after some years in Germany to her home. An ill-matched couple, a German scientist, and a group of nuns make up the ship’s company.”—Outlook.
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“The reader will find no plot, and no action in the story. Mr. Fielding Hall is a poet in feeling, and if on this occasion he is disappointing as an exponent of the East to the West, there is beauty both in his ideas and his expression of them.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 220. F. 20. 160w.
“The best definition of its subject, form and style would be to call it a prose poem of love. It is eminently a wholesome book, full of an unquenchable faith in the happiness and the sanctity of love and marriage.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 76. Mr. ’09. 300w.
“The people have a phonographic effect, as tho they were reeling out the record of the author’s voice, a little thin and strange, and saying undisputed things in a metallic way.”
− + =Ind.= 66: 1141. My. 27, ’09. 300w.
“Sententious is the word for this book. The author, with little distinctly in mind to say, invents a few named figures and a situation as excuse for the multitudinous and, alas! often platitudinous apothegms which for some hundreds of pages flow from his pen.”
− =Nation.= 88: 364. Ap. 8, ’09. 250w.
“For the most part the book is a pack of irrelevant commonplace and sentimental nonsense. The gleams which have already been noted are well enough, but they might all be concentrated into a magazine article of, say, two pages.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 76. F. 6, ’09. 370w.
“There is some good talk, but more that is ineffective. Underneath all, however, is a wholesome, practical faith in the power of love and in its inevitableness. The story is too slight to command real interest, and the philosophy lacks substance. In point of style, ‘One immortality’ does not equal in beauty ‘The inward light.’”
− + =Outlook.= 91: 533. Mr. 6, ’09. 210w.
“Mr. Hall shadows forth a mystical theory of love with much of that quiet charm which we are accustomed to look for in his books. The story—what there is of it—has been naïvely constructed to afford a peg for the mysticism. Even the most exact scientist may admire the deft word-pictures of sea and sky and shore, done quite simply.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 278. F. 27, ’09. 300w.
“The characterization throughout is too misty to be effective. The real charm of the book resides in the author’s digressions.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 230. F. 6, ’09. 950w.
=Hall, Hubert=, ed. Formula book of English official historical documents. *$2. Putnam.
9–4070.
“A handbook of two hundred and twenty-five classified specimens of English official documents, ranging in date from the eighth to the nineteenth centuries.... Besides the examples of individual types, the editor has at certain points brought together a series of writs or letters which show a connected sequence of transactions, as in the grant of letters patent to Connecticut in 1661–1662.”—Am. Hist. R.
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“A collection at once more convenient and more scientific than the ‘Formulare’ of Madox with which the student has hitherto been obliged to content himself. The method of printing the documents will not command universal assent.” C: H. Haskins.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 558. Ap. ’09. 250w.
“To criticize his work is easy; but to produce a better one is hardly likely to be the good fortune of any scholar of the present generation.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 600. N. 14. 320w.
“The work is admirably done and its usefulness is beyond dispute.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 463. My. 6, ’09. 240w. =Spec.= 102: sup. 645. Ap. 24, ’09. 100w.
=Hall, Hubert.= Studies in English official historical documents. *$3.75. Putnam.
9–4071.
“The first systematic attempt in modern times to deal with the diplomatic of our official records as a consecutive whole.” (Ath.) “Mr. Hall divides his work into three parts: the first relating to the history, classification, and analysis of the archives; the second, to the diplomatic study of official documents; and the third to palaeography, its requirements and uses. Each part is accompanied by a series of appendices, containing tables, lists, outlines, and classifications too elaborate for insertion in the text.” (Nation.)
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“As is inevitable in so vast and so little cultivated a field, the book disclaims anything like completeness or finality but it covers a wide range of topics compactly and from the sources, and is everywhere suggestive and full of meat. Some topics are dismissed too briefly and some not touched.” C: H. Haskins.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 558. Ap. ’09. 1000w.
“For the future Mr. Hall’s books will be the inseparable companions of all engaged in original investigation of the English middle ages. It must be recognized that, with all Mr. Hall’s learning and devotion, his style and method sometimes lack that incisive clearness which guides the student straight to the point of which he is in quest, and never overwhelms him in a sea of semi-relevant detail. Sometimes we are rather at a loss to discover what Mr. Hall is driving at; and occasionally he indulges in generalizations that do not seem to us specially helpful towards his immediate ends.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 600. N. 14. 1000w.
“No other work, British or Continental, combines in such an admirable manner the learning of the archivist, the grasp of the historian, and the suggestiveness of the teacher.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 657. D. 31, ’08. 640w.
=Halsey, Forrest.= Fate and the butterfly. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
9–9466.
A cross-section of contemporary American society. Against a background shifting from New York, Egypt, Italy, back to New York, is enacted a drama of ill-assorted loves. A young society woman tricked into marriage with a morphine-drugged man of millions leaves him for the man of her early dreams only to find the prince charming unworthy, and is finally reclaimed by a rising politician to save whose career she makes the supreme sacrifice.
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“A remarkably clever first story. The determination to have a pleasant ending—or perhaps it was only the necessity—or it may have been an overendowment of youthful sentiment—has proved too much for the author’s sense of the grim logic of life.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 279. My. 1, ’09. 240w.
=Hamilton, Angus.=^{[8]} Problems of the middle East. *12s. 6d. Nash, London.
9–18475.
“In this volume the author writes concerning the Young Turks, the Baghdad railway, our interests in the Persian Gulf, the Turkish railway through Arabia, and Japanese actions in Korea. The most valuable part of the book is that upon the Baghdad railway, and we commend the careful survey of Mr. Angus Hamilton upon a subject which he has considered with less partiality than most British writers.”—Ath.
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“The non-strategic portion of Mr. Angus Hamilton’s volume may be commended, especially that dealing with the Baghdad railway in its commercial and narrowly political aspects.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 527. My. 1, 300w.
“It is a pity that this book, to which we have not the space to do full justice, suffers from the weakness of advocating constitutional government for countries unsuited to it.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 726. Je. 5, 09. 650w.
“The chapter on the present and the late Amirs of Afghanistan is a careful piece of history, much of which is very little known. Mr. Hamilton is one of the few journalists who can write of Afghanistan from first-hand knowledge. But the chief importance of Mr. Hamilton’s book lies in the political chapters, where he offers advice on the foreign policy of Britain.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 166. Jl. 31, ’09. 900w.
=Hamilton, Cecily Mary.=^{[11]} Marriage as a trade. **$1.25. Moffatt. 9–23010
Miss Hamilton advocates woman’s economic independence, and, all sentiment of marriage aside, constructs a theory of marriage which would make it a real partnership, “not merely a partnership in social and parental affairs.” No longer will she serve man for her mere food and shelter, but she will be able to demand premium wages.
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“Marked prejudices and cynicism weaken the effect of the work, which is not without value.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 75. N. ’09.
Reviewed by Leonard Curtis.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 265. N. ’09. 660w.
“An instructive and somewhat startling volume. Even a mere man ... may see that there is much truth in what she says. But he may also suspect, with all polite deference and proper diffidence, that there is much wrong also.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 578. O. 2, ’09. 1150w.
=Hamilton, James Shelley.=^{[11]} New sophomore. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–26954.
A continuation of college life at Tresham in which the old hero, Butt Chanler, reappears but permits one Ridgeway Bill to play the role of hero. His right to the title is demonstrated thru some clever detective work in restoring to the institution a lost statue of Sabrina.
=Hamilton, W. Wistar.= Sane evangelism. **75c. Am. Bapt.
9–3366.
Addresses contributed by eight divines in which are revealed the present-day possibilities of sane evangelism. The volume deprecates vast movements away from the church, and advocates well-planned, well-organized efforts in the church.
=Hammerton, J. A.=^{[8]} George Meredith in anecdote and criticism. *$4. Kennerley.
A generous volume whose chief concern is criticism but which also gives in “orderly narrative some slight account of Meredith’s life and friendships.” The chapter headings are suggestive of the scope of the work: Outline of life and work; The eighteenth birthday; Personal characteristics; Friendships and home life; Some early appreciations; Literary characteristics; In parody and caricature; The novels in contemporary criticism; His heroines and women-folk; His poetry; The comic spirit; His philosophy of life; Judged by his fellow-novelists; His place in literature; The continental view of Meredith; Illustrators of the poems and novels; Index.
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“Altogether, the book in the hands of a judicious reader will be of considerable service until the biography by Mr. Edward Clodd or another is given to the world.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 94. Jl. 24. 300w.
“Mr. Hammerton’s book is a sort of ‘Literary guide to Meredith’—the ‘filler’ for a good Meredith smoke.” Archibald Henderson.
+ =Forum.= 42: 387. O. ’09. 1350w.
“Yet withal we regard the book as distinctly valuable and even to a certain degree, despite the necessary repetition of ideas, interesting.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 281. S. 23, ’09. 770w.
“Mr. Hammerton’s work is rather a reference book than a biography for general reading. The immense amount of research and study makes it an invaluable contribution to Meredithiana, and the illustrations, many of them reproductions from the original editions of the novels and poems, lend it an exceptional interest.” Anne Peacock.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 461. Jl. 31, 09. 1900w.
“It is the invasion of cheap journalism into the preserves of literature. All unity of impression is broken by balancing contradictory estimates, and the point of view is shifted often enough to keep the reader dizzy.”
− + =No. Am.= 190: 559. O. ’09. 420w.
“This is exactly the sort of book for readers who could not read Meredith to save their lives, but have found out from the newspapers that he was a great man they ought to be able to talk about.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 822. Je. 26, ’09. 370w.
“Mr. Hammerton’s book is so good and so useful for students of Meredith that it is to be hoped that he will publish a second edition correcting a few errors and supplementing a few deficiences. Among the errors we have noticed a very incomplete index.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 98. Jl. 17, ’09. 1500w.
=Hancock, Albert Elmer.=^{[11]} Bronson of the rabble: a novel. †$1.50. Lippincott.
9–25822.
Philadelphia in 1812 and the years following forms the setting for this story of the blacksmith’s son who is a true American and by his own effort wins his countrymen’s esteem as soldier and politician until he penetrates into the hearts and homes of the Federalist aristocrats of lace and knee-buckles. His love story follows his fortunes and he rises above a plebian attachment, which ends in disaster, to win the Judge’s niece, the girl who has been brought up to look down upon him and has learned to look up to him.
=Hancock, Albert Elmer.= John Keats: a literary biography. **$2. Houghton.
8–28422.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“Supplements Sidney Colvin’s ‘Keats’ and duplicates it comparatively little.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 12. Ja. ’09.
“Unless it be a dash or two of gossip, he has added little to Mr. Colvin’s delicate sketch. This is a book neither for students of Keats nor for the fastidious in literature.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 1: 8. Ja. 2. 950w.
“Somewhat too smart in style, with a frequent straining for effect. Yet it is an admirable book, accurate and well-founded in its learning, and judicial in its verdicts.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1617. D. 31, ’08. 750w.
“The style is of that spasmodic sort which allows the reader no rest, and the critical tone is of the ultra-romantic.”
− =Nation.= 87: 386. O. 22, ’08. 180w.
“This is quite as much a book of criticism as of biography, and it is criticism of unusual quality.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 488. Ja. ’09. 1000w.
“An eminently successful biography.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 125. Jl. ’09. 100w.
=Hancock, Edward Lee.= Applied mechanics for engineers. *$2. Macmillan.
9–1597.
“Prepared for the instruction of engineering students of the Junior year, and while little new in the way of principles is presented, yet many novel applications of these principles are introduced.” (Engin. D.) “It is characterized by more attention to problems relating to moment of inertia, center of gravity, work and energy, friction and impact than most elementary text-books, by the use of vectors in the treatment of couples, and by an excellent collection of problems.” (Engin. Rec.)
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“Is more mathematical than Perry’s ‘Applied mechanics’ and disregards graphical methods, which receive brief attention in Perry. Not a work for engineers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 117. D. ’09.
“No textbook dealing with the subject that has reached us is better or simpler.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 99. Je. ’09. 50w.
“Will be found decidedly helpful to engineers as well as to students.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 296. Mr. ’09. 180w.
“There are also a number of minor errors both in the text and in the figures.” A. H. Knight.
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 33. Mr. 18, ’09. 670w.
“There is an unsatisfactory looseness of statement in some places. The book is such a thorough one in some branches that it may prove useful in a good many schools.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 59: 251. F. 27, ’09. 210w. + =Ind.= 67: 307. Ag. 5, ’09. 70w.
“A modest but sound work.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 416. Ap. 22, ’09. 10w.
“The book is certain to prove a useful one to all those who are engaged in teaching the subject of mechanics to engineering students, and the number of well-selected examples makes it a particularly satisfactory book for the student himself.”
+ =Nature.= 81: 332. S. 16, ’09. 450w.
=Haney, Lewis Henry.=^{[6]} Congressional history of railways in the United States to 1850. v. 1. (Reprinted from v. 3. of the Bulletin of the Univ. of Wisconsin, economics and political science ser.) 50c. Univ. of Wis.
8–24289.
=v. 1.= The first instalment of a three volume work. “The present volume is divided into three ‘books,’ which deal respectively with the Rise of the railway question, Aid to railways, and Railways to the Pacific, in so far as these questions came before Congress. As is indicated in the title, the work is a study of Congress and the railway, and to a lesser degree a history of the railway as illustrated by congressional debates and legislation.” (Econ. Bull.)
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“The criticism most likely to be passed upon the volume is that it shows too evidently its earlier form of a monograph. Evidences of a prentice hand are not infrequent. This volume in connection with those to appear later will form a distinct contribution to economic history.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 164. O. ’09. 670w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The volume as a whole indicates a large amount of systematic work, and though its scope is chiefly limited to congressional activity, it is a valuable contribution to the early periods of railway history.” G: G. Huebner.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 732. My. ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The errors into which the author has fallen are those of lack of discrimination rather than of misstatement of fact.” E. L. Bogart.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 30. Ap. ’09. 850w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Haney’s monograph is a well-written and thorough piece of investigation. The author has relied mainly upon congressional documents for his material and few measures or proposals seem to have escaped his notice.” W. B. Hammond.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 233. Ap. ’09. 1200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“He takes up in an interesting way the rise and development of the railways, and especially the subject of land grants, which is treated more fully than in any previous work.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 191. Mr. ’09. 110w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Hanks, Charles Stedman.=^{[9]} Our Plymouth forefathers. **$1.50. Estes.
9–9526.
“Beginning with a chapter on ‘The English separatists.’ which gives the commonly accepted account of King Henry VIII’s rupture with Rome, the author traces the course of the Pilgrims from Scrooby to Holland and America, the greater part of the book being naturally devoted to the vicissitudes of the colony at Plymouth. Due honor is paid to Provincetown, as the place of our forefathers’ first landing; and some account is also given of the Buzzard’s Bay, Connecticut River, and Penobscott River trading posts, with one chapter on ‘The Puritan settlement at Boston.’” (Dial.)
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“Suited to the needs and tastes of young students of American history and good reading for their elders.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 75. N. ’09 ✠
“The book is well suited to the needs and tastes of young students of American history, and is good reading for older persons also.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 104. Ag. 16, ’09. 200w.
“The attention which Mr. Hanks devotes to the business side of the enterprise and the shrewd common sense which the colonists displayed in developing and making the most of their resources gives to the book a special interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 318. My. 22, ’09. 250w.
=Hanotaux, Gabriel-Albert-Auguste.=^{[9]} Contemporary France; tr. from the French by E. Sparvel-Bayly. v. 4. *$3.75. Putnam.
=v. 4.= 1877–1882. Covers the political records of France from 1877 until 1882 on thru seven ministries, from that of the Duc de Broglie to that of Duclerc.
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“Indispensable to large libraries.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 14. S. ’09. (Review of v. 4.)
“Errors, which are the joint production of the author, the translator, and the index-maker, are most serious, and are numerous beyond our experience. In many cases the result will be to deceive the very elect. We cannot explain the extraordinary difference between the concluding pages of the French and the English versions.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 2: 94. Jl. 24. 630w. (Review of v. 4.)
“This volume, like its predecessors, shows qualities of style which remind the reader that the author is a member of the Academy, but occasionally the habit of epigrammatic expression merges in a fondness for obscure Delphic utterances.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 185. S. 16, ’09. 550w. (Review of v. 4.)
“M. Hanotaux maintains the high level of the earlier parts; but the period treated (1877–1882), being less dramatic than the years preceding, its story is perforce less thrilling.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1209. N. 25, ’09. 320w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The author of this work has kept up the interest of the reader from the beginning to the close of his narrative.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 538. O. 2, ’09. 360w. (Review of v. 4.)
“In this last volume M. Hanotaux’s style retains all its vivacity and its finish. It is with regret that we part from this animated narrative of events fateful for France and for Europe, which so intelligent and well-informed an observer has given us.”
+ + − =Nation.= 89: 253. S. 16, ’09. 2850w. (Review of v. 4.)
“We do not deny that M. Hanotaux’s volume, principally on account of its personal and intimate atmosphere, makes entertaining reading. M. Hanotaux has no perspective and offers no hypotheses, while his narrative is burdened with opinions, judgments and even impressions, which the future is as likely as not to prove wrong.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 499. Ag. 21, ’09. 1250w. (Review of v. 4.)
“This fourth volume is much the best of the work, and is more worthy of the author’s reputation than those which preceded it.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 292. S. 4, ’09. 1550w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The book is alive with personal and general interest, and no intelligent person is likely to lay it down unfinished.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 918. D. 4, ’09. 450w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Hanscom, Elizabeth Deering=, comp. Friendly craft. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–33897.
An anthology of letters which have been gathered together under such heads as The news from home, Little men and little women, Students’ tales, Lovers and friends, Genial gossip, Makers of history, Quips and cranks, and The fine art of living.
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“A more interesting collection to the American reader than Lucas’ ‘The gentlest art.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 41. F. ’09.
“Everyone who owns ‘The gentlest art,’ will want ‘The friendly craft’ to place beside it on his shelves.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 464. D. 16, ’08. 140w.
“The editor of the collection has an unerring taste for literary quality, and a sense of humor which shows itself in prankish headlines.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 638. Mr. 25, ’09. 160w.
“The volume is, in our opinion quite as entertaining as Mr. Lucas’s, and that is saying a great deal. The pages contain abundant humor, with now and then a touch of pathos.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
“There should be a copy of this delightful book in the collection of every lover of that which is choice in literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 116. F. 27, ’09. 560w. + =Outlook.= 91: 151. Ja. 23, ’09. 130w.
“A quite admirable book.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 464. Mr. 20, ’09. 840w.
=Hanus, Paul Henry.= Beginnings in industrial education; and other educational discussions. *$1. Houghton.
8–21612.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“Able, practical papers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 289. D. ’08.
“The most valuable contribution is made by the chapter on ‘The industrial continuation schools of Munich.’”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 195. Ja. ’09. 60w.
“The busy man will find the meat of these essays in the first one, which gives title to the volume.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 22. F. 18, ’09. 300w.
“Professor Hanus puts the case clearly and convincingly.” L.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 383. Je. ’09. 180w.
“Each of the eight brief essays makes the reader sigh for more of the same kind.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 412. Ap. 22, ’09. 160w.
“It is a help to have these miscellaneous presentations brought together at the time when the first excitement of the revival is over and men realize the necessity of taking their bearings before going farther.” F. A. Manny.
+ =School R.= 17: 203. Mr. ’09. 470w.
=Hapgood, Hutchins.=^{[8]} Anarchist woman. **$1.25. Duffield.
“A book belonging to the same general order as Mr. Hapgood’s ‘Autobiography of a thief’ and ‘The spirit of labor.’ It is a report of ‘low’ life tinged with almost morbid sympathy.” (Nation.) It portrays the mental life of a woman who possessed the “temperament of revolt.” The man to whom she abandoned herself is little else than a drunkard in whom the author finds “a perfect type of the idealist.” Thru these two rebellious slum folk Mr. Hapgood shows under what conditions, in connection with what personal qualities, the anarchistic habit of mind arises.
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“If you agree with Mr. William Winter’s criticism of Ibsen or approve the policy of Anthony Comstock toward Bernard Shaw, this is no fit book for you to read.” F. M. Colby.
− =Bookm.= 29: 637. Ag. ’09. 3200w.
“Mr. Hapgood’s chief fault is lack of humor, and the effect of it in this instance is rather appalling. Mr. Hapgood’s story is largely made up of letters. They are extremely frank letters, but they have little beside frankness to recommend them.”
− =Nation.= 88: 608. Je. 17, ’09. 600w.
=Harben, William Nathaniel (Will N., pseud.).=^{[10]} Redemption of Kenneth Galt. †$1.50. Harper.
9–25184.
Once more Mr. Harben introduces his readers to his favorite Georgian setting. The story follows the awakening and regeneration of Kenneth Galt, brilliant and well-born, who, when success is within his very reach, betrays a young girl, and leaves her to bear her burden of village ostracism while he goes out into the world to win power and fame. Six years later he returns and thru the influence of his own child has the courage to atone for his cowardly action and face a situation which during all these years had been allowed to implicate an innocent man.
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“The book has astonishingly little excuse for being, even in this age of incontinent pens. The plot and characters are as hackneyed as the title, and the quality of the English, which is richly journalese, differs sadly from that of mercy.”
− =Nation.= 89: 407. O. 28, ’09. 250w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 591. O. 9, ’09. 230w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 636. N. ’09. 30w.
=Hard, Miron Elisha.=^{[6]} Mushroom, edible and otherwise; its habitat and its time of growth. $4.75. Mushroom pub. co., 210 Schultz bldg., Columbus, O.
8–24898.
A guide to the study of mushrooms, with special reference to the edible and poisonous varieties, with a view of opening up to the student of nature a wide field of interesting and useful knowledge. “This volume chiefly on account of its excellent half-tone illustrations, which include almost all of the common species, will be of good service to those who wish a book less expensive and voluminous than McIlvaine’s, and at the same time comprehensive enough to enable them to identify the plants they pick up in fields and woods.” (Bot. Gaz.)
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“Will be useful for reference in large libraries but for identification purposes is not so good as Atkinson’s ‘Studies of American fungi’ or Marshall’s ‘Mushroom book.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 167. Je. ’09.
“It is evident that the author has no adequate technical training in taxonomy or morphology; and in presenting such matters, neither his keen powers of observation nor his enthusiasm could prevent him from falling into errors both of form and fact. It will indeed be a welcome addition to public, school, and college libraries, where there is always a demand for well-illustrated books of this kind, and it will probably do good service in awakening an interest in mushrooms. It certainly treats wisely the matter of testing the edibility of mushrooms and no one who follows Mr. Hard’s advice will come to harm. Thus it has a real field of usefulness. But it is not for the mycologist.” C. R. B.
+ − =Bot. Gaz.= 47: 414. My. ’09. 450w.
“An exceedingly interesting and valuable book upon a subject, in which every one is interested, whether he is a botanist or not. Without doubt this is the finest and most carefully arranged set of half-tone figures of American agarics to be found in a single book.” R. J. Pool.
+ =Science=, n.s. 29: 263. F. 12, ’09. 340w.
=Hardie, J. Keir.=^{[9]} India, impressions and suggestions. $1. Huebsch.
Conclusions and the reasons for forming them which were reached by the author during two months spent in traveling in India and in interviewing officials or representative men of all stations in life and of all creeds, castes and classes.
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“One can but feel, in reading these interesting sketches, that the author went to India to criticise, yet there is so much current official praise of the English administration of India that we welcome any discussion from the other side.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 605. N. ’09. 200w.
“Mr. Hardie has not, we may say, assimilated all his information gathered in his two months’ stay in India, but he has written a book that will interest and instruct everyone who is interested in Great Britain’s major problem.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 240. O. 1, ’09. 270w.
“The greatest lack of this book is that it is practically silent concerning those features of the India of to-day which, in the last analysis, mean infinitely more to Hindustan than do verbal and picric acid bombs.”
− =Nation.= 89: 411. O. 28, ’09. 520w.
“It does not follow necessarily that Mr. Hardie is unjust in his views concerning the British administration in India, but it is of course material to know that he did not go East with an open mind, and that what he has written is not the outcome of prolonged, painstaking, and unbiased effort to know the truth.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 664. O. 23, ’09. 680w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 512. O. ’09. 60w.
“His arguments are recklessly and wilfully perverse. We are astonished that he should have taken so little trouble to make some of them even superficially plausible. As a narrative the work is very poor, the descriptions leaving little impression upon the mind, and making one reflect on the immense superiority of such work as that of Mr. Sidney Low.”
− =Spec.= 102: 937. Je. 12, ’09. 2100w.
=Hardie, Martin.=^{[6]} John Pettie. *$6. Macmillan.
A monograph which furnishes “a delightful picture of the kindly, generous, tremendously forceful Scotch artist, and makes up for meagreness of biographical incident by fulness of descriptive matter about Pettie’s paintings. Diligent search through the artist’s note-books and in exhibition and sale catalogues, as well as in correspondence of interviews with private owners of his work, has resulted in a practically complete catalogue, chronologically arranged.”—Dial.
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“Both as an individual study and as a contribution to the history of Scotch art in the last century, Mr. Hardie’s biography is well worth while.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 267. Ap. 16, ’09. 210w.
“When the author writes of his uncle’s works as an artist, he does so with a commendable personal detachment. The book is profusely illustrated by reproductions in colour of almost all of Pettie’s principal pictures, and the catalogue of his works is not the least valuable portion of the volume.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 37: 253. My. ’09. 320w. + =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 24. N. ’09. 70w. + =Nation.= 88: 205. F. 25, ’09. 60w.
=Harding, John William.= City of splendid night. †$1.50. Dillingham.
9–4958.
Reveals the heart of a man and of a woman, who after fifteen years of separation, divorce, remarriage for the husband, and death of the second wife, are brought to a reconciliation.
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“After the title the best things in it are the many pages of description of the varied aspects of New York city by night and by day, under various conditions of weather. These show sensibility to beauty and good descriptive power. Not one of the characters shows any sign that the author knows anything about men and women except what he has learned from other novels.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 147. Mr. 13, ’09. 130w.
=Harding, Samuel Bannister=, comp. and ed.^{[11]} Select orations; with an introduction on oratorical style and structure, and notes by J: Mantel Clapp. *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–26305.
A book for schools, clubs and teachers’ institutes. The purpose, primarily, historical, has been that of bringing together selections that illustrate the political history and development of the United States; while oratorical excellence has also been considered. The orations are grouped under the following heads: The revolution; The constitution adopted; National government established; The conquest on slavery; Civil war and reconstruction.
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=Educ. R.= 38: 426. N. ’09. 50w.
=Hardy, Blanche Christabel.=^{[7]} Princesse de Lamballe. *$3.50. Appleton.
9–18960.
“This is a sympathetic study of a supremely touching figure in French history, a martyr to loyalty and friendship in whose innocent life nothing had ever happened to merit one of the most frightful deaths—perhaps the most frightful of all—in the annals of the revolution.” (Spec.) “The Princess de Lamballe had been superintendent of the household of Marie Antoinette, and we have here, among other things, a remarkably telling picture of how a queen lived in the days before the revolution.” (N. Y. Times.) The author draws clear portraits of “the sad Queen Maria Leczinska ... the once reckless and pleasure-loving Marie Antoinette ... the stolid, lumbering, pathetic Louis XVI, the faithless Duc d’Orléans ... and the Princesse herself.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The author is as a rule laudably guarded in her judgments concerning conjecture and evidence. We have but slight reservations to make as to style and accuracy.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 811. D. 26. 1500w.
“She gives us a distinctly lifelike picture of the woman in her life of every day, treating her with all becoming reverence, omitting nothing in this record of her heroism and devotion, setting down naught in malice, and yet letting us see through to the little failings that make her woman. She gains in being thus humanized, and the author has given us a work that is at once interesting and authentic.” Christian Gauss.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 385. Je. 19, ’09. 1100w.
“Little exception can be taken to the history of this volume.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 486. O. 17, ’08. 780w.
“This was not an easy book to write. The author has overcome that difficulty very well, and has kept the later story of his heroine clear against the background of confusion and storm.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 886. N. 28, ’08. 550w.
=Hardy, E. G.=^{[9]} Studies in Roman history, 6s. Sonnenschein, London.
“The title of this important but unpretentious little volume would fitly have been ‘Studies in Roman military history,’ for it specially deals with that branch of historical research, and will be particularly valuable to those interested in it.” (Sat. R.) “Largely an historical commentary on Tacitus. In the first section Dr. Hardy discusses the German frontier, a subject which appears again and again in the period (14–70 A. D.) covered by the ‘Annals and histories.’... The second section is given to the subject which occupies nearly all that survives of the ‘Histories.’... Finally, he gives us an illuminating account of the struggle between Pompey and Caesar, which ended at Philippi.” (Spec.)
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“When one considers the circumstances in which research is alone possible to the author, the errors are trifling, nor do they matter much to the few who will verify them; but it is a pity that Dr. Hardy did not get a pupil to spend a few hours in checking the citations. The printing is not at all good. This is a pity, as the volume is indispensable to students of Roman military history.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 297. S. 11. 330w.
“These essays would be infinitely more instructive and interesting had maps been supplied in adequate number, and we trust that in any subsequent edition of this book almost the only flaw we have discovered in it may be removed.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 138. Jl. 31, ’09. 1000w. =Spec.= 103: sup. 1008. Je. 26, ’09. 150w.
=Hardy, Rev. Edward John.=^{[12]} How to be happy though civil. **$1. Scribner.
“Not a book of etiquet, of social forms, perfect familiarity with which, and scrupulous observation of which, may be, and often are, accompanied by boorishness, but a treatise on the root of true courtesy, which is breeding, delicacy of perception, or, as the author himself prefers to call it, ‘bushido.’ He points his moral and adorns it with many anecdotes.”—Ind.
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“A book that should do some good in a generation where it is, oh, so badly needed.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1210. N. 25, ’09. 120w. + =Lit. D.= 39: 960. N. 27, ’09. 180w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 766. D. 4, ’09. 170w. + =Outlook.= 93: 515. O. 30, ’09. 170w. =Spec.= 103: 937. D. 4, ’09. 1350w.
=Häring, Theodor von.=^{[11]} Ethics of the Christian life; tr. from the 2d German ed. by James S. Hill; with an introd. by Rev. W. D. Morrison. (Theological translation lib., v. 25.) *$3. Putnam.
9–7568.
A work that regards modern ethics as “essentially psychological, and of the world,” instead of belonging “to the realm of the infinite.” “Specially valuable portions of the volume are those which contrast Roman Catholic with Protestant ethical teachings, and discuss at length various questions of social ethics. But it is indefensible to set Christian ethics in an unreal opposition to normative ethics. ‘I regard “Christian,”’ said Edward Caird, ‘as the permanent adjective by which we must define the growing ideal of humanity.’” (Outlook.)
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“The book labors under the disadvantage which is almost inevitable in a translation from the German, in that it employs a style and a vocabulary somewhat unfamiliar to English readers. Thus while the volume is full of wholesome suggestions on various ethical problems, and while it may be used with advantage and profit by those whose thinking is still dominated by the deductive method, it will seem to the student of empirical social ethics to-day like a survival of an outgrown method in the history of ethical science.” G. B. Smith.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 472. Jl. ’09. 430w. =Outlook.= 93: 227. O. 2, ’09. 160w.
=Harker, Alfred.=^{[9]} Natural history of igneous rocks. *$3. Macmillan. GS9–256.
“The scope of Harker’s work may be indicated by the titles of the chapters which are as follows: (1) Igneous action in relation to geology; (2) Vulcanicity; (3) Igneous intrusion; (4) Petrographical provinces; (5) Mutual relations of associated igneous rocks; (6) Igneous rocks and their constituents; (7) Rock-magmas; (8) Crystallization of rock-magmas; (9) Supersaturation and deferred crystallization; (10) Isomorphism and mixed crystals; (11) Structures of igneous rock; (12) Mineralisers and pneumatolysis: (13) Magmatic differentiation; (14) Hybridism in igneous rocks; (15) Classification of igneous rocks.”—J. Geol.
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“Mr. Harker’s new work stands, in many respects, alone, and is sure of a welcome. A book which could be written now only by one who is at the same time a geologist and a physicist, acquainted with the latest development of both sciences.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 157. Ag. 7. 1300w.
“It appears that the book is an excellent summary of our present knowledge, and well suited for use with advanced students of petrology.” A. N. W.
+ =J. Geol.= 17: 488. Jl. ’09. 700w.
“This is a book for the trained specialist, but it has a message for the layman. With unexcelled completeness and force, Mr. Harker has presented the latest ideas as to the nature and activities of the fluid material emanating from the earth’s interior.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 578. D. 9, ’09. 1050w.
“Mr. Harker has covered so wide a range and compressed so much information into this brief space that he has achieved a very large measure of success.” J. S. F.
+ =Nature.= 81: 331. S. 16, ’09. 1100w.
“Mr. Harker’s treatise is for the scholar, and almost for the specialist. It may not appeal even to all who regard themselves as trained geologists; but, on the other hand, there is much in it that will attract both the chemist and the physicist.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 446. O. 9, ’09. 1100w.
=Harland, Henry (Sydney Luska, pseud.).= Royal end: a romance. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–5217.
A posthumous novel completed by the author’s wife. “The book is offered to us as the last the author wrote, and it was evidently composed during his years of ill-health. But for all that it is characteristic of him, gay, irresponsible, volatile, witty, and audacious.... There are a prince, an Englishman of good lineage, a beautiful American heiress, and a useful ‘property’ dog, besides other auxiliaries.” (Ath.)
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“There is little plot, the charm of the story lying in the clever conversation. Suffers by comparison with ‘The cardinal’s snuff box’ and ‘The lady paramount.’”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 148. My. ’09.
“If the fairy tale lacks at times the spontaneity of its predecessors, and is a little less bright and less neat of wit, that is attributable doubtless to the conditions under which it was written. Nevertheless it is an agreeable and entertaining romance, the slightness of which will not concern the admirers of the author’s work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 312. Mr. 13. 240w.
“One never used to care whether anything was doing or not, and the earlier books could have been quite as shapeless as this (though they never were) and we would have snapped our fingers. It is the mannerisms without the manner, the abandonment without the abandon.” Algernon Tassin.
− + =Bookm.= 29: 409. Je. ’09. 1350w.
“The taste of the novel reader has changed since the ‘Cardinal’s snuff box’ was published, and for this reason ‘The royal end’ is not likely to be so popular.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 1083. My. 20, ’09. 200w. + =Nation.= 88: 539. My. 27, ’09. 280w.
“Mrs. Harland has done her work faithfully, and it may seem ungracious to emphasize her failure to capture fully the charm of her husband’s style. None the less the story is a delightful one, and the royal end is quite as satisfying as it is unexpected.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 192. Ap. 3, ’09. 500w.
“It is a pleasant tale, not altogether probable in every part, not at all well planned as to construction, and saved only from mediocrity in that its conversation is often delicately humorous.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 814. Ap. 10, ’09. 60w.
“The last three of the seven parts are inferior.” H. W. Boynton.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 6: 493. Jl. ’09. 270w.
“The end of the book in America is not so well done.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 672. Ap. 24, ’09. 130w.
=Harnack, Adolf.=^{[6]} Acts of the apostles; tr. by J. R. Wilkinson. (Crown theological lib. no. 27.) *$1.75. Putnam.
9–3372.
The third volume in Dr. Harnack’s studies on the Synoptic gospels and the Acts of the apostles. “In ‘Luke the physician’ he presented with convincing power the evidence on behalf of the Lukan authorship of the Acts; in the present volume he carries his investigations further and examines with characteristic thoroughness the internal evidence of the book as to date, sources, and historical value.” (Sat. R.) “He seeks a ‘more assured judgment’ as to the degree in which Acts is homogeneous, inquires into the sources and their trustworthiness, and seeks further proof of the identity of the writer of the we-sections with the author of the whole.” (Bib. World.)
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“The whole is wrought out with Harnack’s characteristic minuteness of research and illuminating historical imagination.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 647. O. ’09. 80w.
“The chapter which deals with the sources and their value will appeal to many readers as the most suggestive.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 294. S. 11. 700w.
“It presents a wealth of material relating to Acts, and interestingly exhibits Harnack’s notable method of inquiry. The translator’s failure to supply an index is deplorable.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 33: 216. Mr. ’09. 100w.
Reviewed by E. S. Drown.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 258. Ap. 24, ’09. 400w.
“Whether we agree with him or not, we cannot but admire the clearness and breadth of view with which he treats the puzzling phenomena of the earlier chapters.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 664. My. 22, ’09. 250w.
“The thirty pages of introduction with which it opens are written with all his force and charm, but as a whole the book is technical, and will appeal chiefly to scholars.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: sup. 1008. Je. 26, ’09. 120w.
=Harnack, Adolf.=^{[6]} Mission and expansion of Christianity in the first three centuries; tr. and ed. by James Moffatt. 2d ed. enl. and rev. (Theological translation lib.) 2v. *$7. Putnam.
9–8426.
A translation of the second German edition. The two volumes “contain what is practically a history of the Church’s expansion during the first three centuries as it is viewed by a critic who rejects every detail and all data which can not be certified by the tests of modern criticism.” (Lit. D.) “For the ordinary reader the first volume is by far the more interesting. Its chapters are substantially monographs, dealing with characteristics of early Christianity and with the reasons of its success—reasons at once concerned with its own inward nature, with its organization, and with its relations both to Judaism and to the Roman world.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“More than ever in this enlarged form, and with these helpful maps, it will be indispensable for the interpretation of early Christian literature and still more of early Christian life, in the stirring and mysterious centuries before Eusebius and Constantine. We notice a few misprints.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 495. Jl. ’09. 180w.
“As a critical, comprehensive survey of the extension of Christianity before Constantine this work is invaluable.”
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 357. My. ’09. 70w.
“This fresh and accurate work will hereafter be an indispensible manual in teaching or studying church history with critical thoroughness.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 901. My. 22, ’09. 400w.
“It has taken its place as one of Harnack’s most important contributions to the early history of Christianity. A word of praise should be said for the admirable translation of Dr. Moffatt.” E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 258. Ap. 24, ’09. 400w.
=Harper, Charles George.=^{[10]} Tower of London: fortress, palace and prison. **$2.50. Jacobs.
9–27770.
“An introduction, giving a brief history of the building as a whole, is followed by chapters that present in detail a full account and description of its several parts, with abundant reference to noted prisoners once lodged within its walls, and to the famous crimes and conspiracies and rebellions that furnished occupants for its cells and dungeons. Some of the horrors of old-time torture and execution are also revealed, while two chapters reproduce many elaborate stone-carvings to show how the weary captives sometimes beguiled the long hours by perpetuating their tragic memory or the memory of those dear to them.”—Dial.
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“Recent removal of certain restrictions has opened the Tower more extensively and freely to visitors than ever before, and this latest guide-book to its many points of historic interest is timely and valuable. The evident care and study that have gone to its making place it on a high level among books of its class.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 187. S. 16, ’09. 220w. + =Spec.= 102: 785. My. 15, ’09. 180w.
=Harper, George McLean.= Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve. (French men of letters.) **$1.50. Lippincott.
9–9445.
A biography which gathers the conditioning elements of this noted French critic’s life, and presents them topically and chronologically. The author gives him a place with Taine and Renan in the intellectual triumverate of modern France, acknowledging him to be one of the world’s greatest critics in the broad sense—“a man who has thrown the light of reason upon all great questions of psychology, morality, religion, politics and art.”
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“A scholarly study, showing extensive research and familiarity with the period.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 168. Je. ’09.
“It has the distinction of being the first book written in English on the life and work of the most eminent French literary critic, and the merit of being an unusually careful and scholarly bit of work.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 50. Jl. 16, ’09. 320w.
“When all this has been said, it must still be acknowledged that Professor Harper has written an intelligible and interesting account of the great critic.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 478. Ag. 26, ’09. 420w.
“The present work keeps up the high standard of the preceding volumes in this series.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 1072. Je. 19, ’09. 400w.
“Professor Harper has the distinction of writing the first book on Sainte-Beuve in English. He gives evidence of long and careful study of Sainte-Beuve himself, and of most that has been written about him, but should have reserved space for a more systematic discussion of Sainte-Beuve’s ideas and his place in criticism. As it is, his work strikes one as a rather loosely written biography, mainly devoted to Sainte-Beuve’s youth, or at least to the period before 1848.” Irving Babbitt.
+ − =Nation.= 88: 622. Je. 24, ’09. 3400w.
“Prof. Harper has done extremely well a work of much difficulty and real importance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 309. My. 15, ’09. 1600w.
“It was not easy to draw Sainte-Beuve’s portrait: nor was it easy to analyze this special quality and to bring into clear light his method. All these three things Professor Harper has done with patience, sagacity, and scrupulous integrity of attitude. His book is a real contribution to the subject, as it is a credit to American literary scholarship.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 422. Je. 19, ’09. 300w.
“A compact and coherent analysis.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 764. Je. ’09. 120w.
“His book is a sympathetic and just endeavour to get at the real Sainte-Beuve. Concerning the style of the book it is only necessary to hint that American readers will perhaps enjoy it more than English.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 18. Jl. 3, ’09. 900w. + =Spec.= 103: 172. Jl. 31, ’09. 130w.
=Harris, Frank.= The bomb. $1.50. Kennerley.
9–4963.
The story, a history in the most important particulars, of Rudolph Schnaubelt who “threw the bomb that killed eight policemen and wounded sixty in Chicago in 1886.” He is a young German of fair education, who leaves Munich for New York, experiences a round of embittering hardships, drifts to Chicago, and comes under the influence of Lingg the Anarchist. The story moves on to a dramatic close in the anarchist plot, the escape of the bomb thrower, and the trial and execution of Lingg and his accomplices.
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“We find in ‘The bomb’ a love-story, to us unpleasant, and not redeemed by its truth to life—given the simplicity of the hero. The woman does not convince us, and the old maxim still holds good: ‘Tout ce qui est vrai n’est pas bon à dire.’”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 641. N. 21. 450w.
“The theme is plausible, but in its fictional expression it breaks down in some places and moves clumsily in others, apparently because Mr. Harris has not the story-telling gift in the first place, and, in the second, writes fiction with a prentice hand.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 118. F. 27, ’09. 500w.
“Altogether, the book is a thoroughly fine piece of work, worthy of the creator of Conklin.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 674. N. 28, ’08. 770w.
=Harris, Frank.=^{[12]} Man Shakespeare and his tragic life-story. *$2.50. Kennerley.
9–28298.
An analytic study of Shakespeare, the man, in which the author finds the full length portrait of the great dramatist in each of twenty dramas. Aside from building up the essential outlines of Shakespeare’s character there is also shown “Shakespeare as he was with his imperial intellect and small snobberies, his great vices and paltry self-deceptions, his sweet gentleness and long martyrdom.... Thanks to this book, we now know Shakespeare in his habit as he lived; we know him in his love and jealousy and despair; and we are fain to admit with Mr. Harris that Shakespeare’s suffering and wreck are symbolical of the fate of genius everywhere and at all times. His life story is therefore of enduring interest: in its own way a world-tragedy.”
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“A remarkable book, ingeniously conceived, and based on a comprehensive knowledge of the bard’s works. It will interest lovers and students of Shakespeare, and prove of benefit to them, whatever the conclusion to which it may lead them.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1137. N. 18, ’09. 300w.
“This is the book for which we have waited a lifetime. We know this now that it is come: and we mark the day of its publication as a red-letter day in the history of literature. We have had Shakespeare the dramatist. Our libraries are filled with his bloodless monuments. Now we want Shakespeare the poet, Shakespeare the lover, Shakespeare the sweet-hearted singer, as he lived and suffered and enjoyed. And this is what Mr. Frank Harris gives us in his book.” Temple Scott.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 685. N. 6, ’09. 3800w.
“Nobody who cares for fine literature, however indifferent he may be to Mr. Harris’ main thesis, should pass the book by. As a thesis, we call it a brilliant and fascinating tour de force. As a book concerned with the greatest poetry, we assign to it critical merit of the first order. In both aspects we predict for it a permanent importance.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 633. N. 20, ’09. 2250w.
=Harris, Joel Chandler.= Bishop and the boogerman; being the story of a little truly-girl, who grew up; her mysterious companion; her crabbed old uncle; the whish-whish woods; a very civil engineer, and Mr. Billy Sanders, the sage of Shady Dale. **$1. Doubleday.
9–3878.
A charming story of little Adelaide, suddenly orphaned, who with her imaginary playmate Cally-Lou goes to live in a crabbed uncle’s home. There is a “Silas Marner” touch to the tale with its softening little-child influence.
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“Slight, uneventful and disconnected, but full of the author’s characteristic charm and humor.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 113. Ap. ’09. ✠
“The atmosphere of the story is delightful, while the characterization and the illustrations are adequate.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 403. Ap. 3. 180w.
“This story is effective because it revives in the reader the innocent emotions of childhood from which it springs.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 171. F. 18, ’09. 300w.
“It is very charming, with its unexpected turns of thought and quaint forms of expression, its understanding of the child heart and the workings of the child brain, its kindliness, and its sweet, bubbling humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 103. F. 20, ’09. 420w. =Sat. R.= 107: 502. Ap. 17, ’09. 90w.
=Harrison, Alfred H.=^{[6]} In search of a polar continent, 1905–1907. *$3.50. Longmans.
9–8804.
There is “carefully set forth, with the accompaniment of many excellent half-tone photographs an account of the writer’s exploration of the northern section of Alaska and the neighboring islands of the Arctic Ocean in the period from July, 1905, to September, ^{[1907]}.... It is the story of a practical man, full of detailed and painstaking observation, and it is gratifying to read with respect to his polar aspirations that the author now believes the great project of arctic travelers to be wholly feasible.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The account of his adventures makes pleasant reading. We consider Mr. Harrison’s scheme visionary.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 439. Ap. 10. 900w.
“His story of his two years’ wanderings, while neither very exciting nor particularly novel, is full of interesting details of a country all but unknown.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
“The book is not one of the most readable, perhaps because it shows no grasp of a definite problem nor any strong purpose to carry out his plan of Arctic exploration, perhaps because of the numerous Latin tags and the irritating frequency of allusions to characters in Dickens who would have been much surprised to find themselves introduced into a volume of Polar travel.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 433. Ap. 3, ’09. 630w.
“His chapters on Eskimo life are a valuable contribution to our knowledge of a virile race.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 502. Mr. 27, ’09. 250w.
=Harrison, Birge.=^{[12]} Landscape painting; with 24 reproductions of representative pictures. **$1.50. Scribner.
9–29386.
A volume in which the author gathers up twenty-one impromptu talks on landscape painting given before the Art students’ league of New York during a summer session at Woodstock, N. Y. The chapters are: Landscape art in general; Color; Vibration; Refraction; Values; Drawing; Composition; Quality; Pigments; On framing pictures; On schools; The arts and crafts; Mural painting; On vision; The importance of fearlessness in painting; The sub-conscious servant; Temperament; Character; What is a good picture? The true impressionism; The future of American art.
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“These talks are practical, helpful and enthusiastic; a little positive here and there, in their expression of opinions.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 1142. N. 18, ’09. 110w.
=Harrison, Edith Ogden.= Flaming sword, and other legends of the earth and sky. *$1.25. McClurg.
8–37065.
A group of imaginative stories based upon Bible legends.
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“A little too much emphasis is placed upon the moral of each tale; otherwise Edith Ogden Harrison’s attempt to treat biblical material purely as legendary of earth and sky is by no means deprived of keen feeling.” M. J. Moses.
− + =Ind.= 65: 1473. D. 17, ’08. 80w.
“The moral attachment is a little too evident.”
− =Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 40w.
“The stories are charmingly written and beautifully imaginative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 120w.
=Harrison, Mrs. Mary St. Leger (Lucas Mallet, pseud.).=^{[8]} The score. †$1.50. Dutton.
9–19190.
Two stories the first of which, “Out in the open,” tells of a young member of parliament’s wooing of an actress whose refusal of him results in his taking her in his arms and nearly crushing the breath out of her; the second “Miserere nobis,” told in the form of a dying man’s confession to a priest, deals with a young Italian’s misguided vengeance for fancied wrong and the later remorse that led to taking his own life.
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“The short story does not give quite sufficient scope to this author’s remarkable gifts. In both of them, however, the situations, though widely different, are as poignant as original.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 206. Ag. 21. 300w.
“The unquestioned power of Lucas Malet shows itself fully only in the long and elaborate novel.”
+ − =Atlan.= 104: 686. N. ’09. 190w.
“The stories are to be forgotten—but not the story-teller’s charm and sparkling if self-conscious grace.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 62. S. ’09. 1150w.
“To us it has the bigness, the thoughtfulness of the old Greek tragedy; and it excells in the very point in which the Greeks themselves excel.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 820. S. ’09. 1000w.
“Lucas Malet is a dramatist and a preacher. She is a dramatist in two senses—she has an eye for stage effects and for dramatic ‘lifts.’ But nothing would save the book from being more than a brilliant monolog if it were not for the ‘lifts.’ However, Lucas Malet is important to us now as a preacher.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 824. O. 7, ’09. 870w.
“One is tempted to hazard the guess that the author may have planned or begun the [second] story as a poem; in its prose form, it is, to say the truth, strained and ineffective.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 141. Ag. 12, ’09. 400w.
“Mrs. Harrison always writes well and these short stories have an interest which makes one wish that they were longer.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 468. Jl. 31, ’09. 420w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 635. N. ’09. 70w.
“The first [story] is a brilliant piece of work, though just a little too determined to deserve that description. The second story is far less successful, is, indeed, a very ordinary piece of work.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 230. Ag. 21, ’09. 570w.
“These pages are so well done that they have caused us to hope that ‘Lucas Malet’ will recognize soon that her native power and insight can easily dispense with those adventitious aids to make people ‘feel’ which are to us extremely unpleasant.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 136. Jl. 24, ’09. 1000w.
=Hartt, Rollin Lynde.=^{[6]} People at play: excursions in the humor and philosophy of popular amusements. **$1.50. Houghton.
9–15055.
A shrewd, genial, sociological study of “people at play” made by an essayist and journalist. His excursions into the realms of popular hilarity have been supplemented by extensive literature on the subject; his attitude is that of the student of comparative ethics. His observations cover the home of burlesque, the amusement park, the dime museum, melodrama, “the world in motion,” “the muses in the back street,” base ball, etc.
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“The author’s thorough understanding of his subject gives the book a decided sociological value, and his humor and wholesome geniality make it good for general reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 168. Je. ’09. + =Cath. World.= 89: 687. Ag. ’09. 240w.
“The book might have been written effectively and at the same time with a little less of appeal to a low standard of literary taste.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 23. Jl. 1, ’09. 270w.
“On the whole the book does not carry a very deep philosophical keel. Its chief value lies in its record of things which few writers have thought worthy of record.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 628. Je. 24, ’09. 340w.
“The book may be heartily commended alike to the student and to the general reader as a unique and interesting contribution to the literature of sociology.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 428. Jl. 10, ’09. 800w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 255. Ag. ’09. 80w.
“The book with its delicious satire is a permanent contribution to the literature of play.” B. L. Israels.
+ =Survey.= 22: 598. Jl. 31, ’09. 350w.
=Hasbach, Wilhelm.=^{[8]} History of the English agricultural labourer; tr. by Ruth Kenyon. *7s. 6d. King, P. S., & son, London.
9–7840.
This translation “has given the author an opportunity to revise his volume and make some additions. New emphasis is laid on the process by which the agricultural laborer obtained his freedom, and the chapter dealing with that topic has been enlarged and rewritten in the light of the latest research. There has been added a brief chapter covering the comparatively uneventful period from 1894, when the first edition appeared, to the present time. The author’s final conclusion is that the reorganization of English agriculture should, in the main, take the form of a great multiplication of small peasant holdings.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“There are several appendices of a scientifically accurate character and, within the bounds of the general subjects mentioned above, a great body of extremely interesting and suggestive historical material.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 603. Ap. ’09. 430w.
“While the agricultural laborer is the central figure in this book, the telling of the story of this one class involves the writing of the history of the growth of all three classes and their interrelations. This task has been admirably performed by the author.” H. C. Taylor.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 436. S. ’09. 240w.
“The book is an excellent study of the condition of a large division of the laboring class of England.” J: L. Coulter.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 126. Je. ’09. 700w. + =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 106. F. ’09. 100w.
“We differ from the author on many points, and it is no doubt the case that he may be tripping in his history here and there, we hope that his book will be read by every country and every townsman who is desirous of obtaining a grip of some of the bottom facts of rural questions.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 465. Mr. 20, ’09. 530w.
“It is by far the best book on the subject treated.”
+ =Yale R.= 18: 105. My. ’09. 330w.
=Hassall, Arthur.=^{[8]} Viscount Castlereagh. *3s. 6d. Pitman, London.
A volume belonging to the “Makers of national history,” a series treating of “important men whose share in the making of national history seems to need a more complete record than it has received.” The book deals pro and con with Castlereagh’s fitness for his management of England’s military affairs at the most critical moment of her existence.
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“If however we cannot admit that it has been left to Mr. Hassall to rehabilitate this great statesman we can welcome a clear, well-proportioned, and well-informed sketch of his career. His judgment is sound enough in the main, but he sometimes goes too far.” E. M. L.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 622. Jl. ’09. 500w.
“The book will be a useful one; no one can read it without considerably improving his acquaintance with the three decades of English history, 1793–1823.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: sup. 157. Ja. 30, ’09. 300w.
=Hastings, G. W.=^{[8]} Vindication of Warren Hastings. *$2. Oxford.
In which the author rebuts the six charges that are the “great crimes” of Macaulay’s essay.
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“The test of the use made of the documents shows in a number of quotations, inaccuracies of spelling and in some instances verbal variations. On the whole, however, the use of the documents has been legitimate.” A. L. P. Dennis.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 146. O. ’09. 340w.
“On the main issues the writer does not add to the fruits of the researches already undertaken by Sir James Stephen and other vindicators of Hastings’s fame, and indeed his eulogy of ‘the greatest man of our race’ is marked rather by piety and enthusiasm than by any subtlety of thought or judgment. Nevertheless the book is handy and useful, and some of its personal information is curious and new.” G. B. H.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 621. Jl. ’09. 250w.
“Though nothing is ever likely to be written which will have a tithe of Macaulay’s audience, this ‘Vindication’ ... deserves a wide circulation as an antidote to the famous essay.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 187. Ag. 26, ’09. 1200w.
“He has written here with much sympathy and reverence. It is a record of Hastings’s public life in India, rather a plea for the defendant than the summing up of the evidence.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 366. Je. 12, ’09. 570w.
“We must be content with commending this ably written volume to the notice of our readers.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 210. Ag. 7, ’09. 120w.
=Hastings, James=, ed. Dictionary of the Bible; ed. by James Hastings, with the cooperation of John A. Selbie, and with the assistance of John C. Lambert and of Shailer Mathews. **$5. Scribner.
9–3371.
“This is a notable volume and should meet a hearty welcome. It is the first and only popular Bible dictionary in which modern methods of interpretation prevail throughout. Furthermore, every article is accompanied by the name of the author. The amount of matter in the volume is astonishingly large, a fact due to economy of space and to the use of a rather small type.” (Bib. World.) “It is not a mere abstract of Dr. Hastings’s larger dictionary, but the principal topics have been committed to other writers and the latest discoveries have been embodied, but, of course, in condensed form.” (Ind.)
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“It is indeed commendable that such a work should avoid fresh adventurous views not yet digested by discussion and should give to the general student what is judged to be the established result of criticism.” F. A. Christie.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 843. Jl. ’09. 300w.
“The text is slightly vitiated by careless proofreading. In the balance of articles according to intrinsic worth, in fairness, thoroughness and lucidity of treatment, and, despite faults that cannot be overlooked, in general usability, this dictionary meets a genuine need of lay students and Christian workers, will be of positive use to the general pastor, and not without interest and suggestion to the biblical scholar.” R. H. Ferris.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 273. Ap. ’09. 1000w.
“The work is well suited to serve the purpose for which it is intended, though it will naturally be in greater favour with those who wish to assimilate the results of modern criticism in a sufficiently full measure than with the more conservative sections of readers.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 341. Mr. 20. 1200w.
“It can be unreservedly commended to the educated layman and Sunday-school teacher.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 33: 215. Mr. ’09. 80w.
“The ‘Hastings’ volume presents a much larger amount of subject-matter than the ‘Standard Bible dictionary.’ It has a type so small as to constitute a serious objection in a popular book. For the most part contributors represent a critical and historical attitude somewhat in advance of that taken by the editors and contributors on the ‘Standard’s’ list.” J: M. P. Smith and S. J. Case.
+ − =Bib. World.= 33: 283. Ap. ’09. 770w.
“It deserves only praise. We commend the volume more heartily, and even to those who possess either Hastings’s or Cheyne’s larger dictionaries for this is later than either of them, and no duplication of either.”
+ + =Ind.= 66: 376. F. 18, ’09. 180w. + =Nation.= 89: 102. Jl. 29, ’09. 340w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 114. F. 27, ’09. 280w. + =Outlook.= 93: 600. N. 13, ’09. 60w.
“We get more reading for our money from Dr. Hastings’ book than from Murray’s dictionary.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 376. Mr. 20, ’09. 600w.
=Hastings, James=, ed. Encyclopaedia of religion and ethics. 10v. subs. ea. *$7. Scribner.
8–35833.
A work which when completed will include about ten volumes. The aim is to give an account of religion and ethics in all ages the world over. All forms of religion will be presented, religious beliefs and practices, philosophy and allied subjects, and people and places associated with religious struggle and development. The contributors are all men of special fitness for the particular articles requested of them, and the work as a whole will furnish the equipment necessary for a study of comparative religion.
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“If one were inclined to be exacting, one would find, I think, that the article on ‘Apologetics’ is not quite adequate, being a bit antiquated in form, as well as misguided in emphasis, to say nothing of its assuming so many things as proofs which themselves require to be proved. In particular, its treatment of miracle and of historical criticism is singularly unsatisfactory from the point of view of modern needs.” G: B. Foster.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 269. Ap. ’09. 800w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The system of cross referencing is good, and the literature cited under each subject is adequate and well chosen.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 14. S. ’09. (Review of v. 1.)
“The general result of our examination enables us to say that the editor has risen to the height of his great undertaking. The work deserves the fullest and best encouragement which the world of readers and investigators can give it.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 713. D. 5. 2000w. (Review of v. 1.)
“As is almost inevitable, the quality of the material is uneven; articles of great value are alongside of others practically worthless. But the work as a whole will constitute an invaluable thesaurus of information in the large field with which it deals.”
+ + − =Bib. World.= 33: 143. F. ’09. 150w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The editorial work deserves the highest praise. Disturbing errors are rare. In articles on Muhammadan subjects, the dates of the Christian era should always be given. There is no reason why the reader should be obliged to reduce dates from one era to another.” Nathaniel Schmidt.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 377. N. 16, ’09. 1650w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This new encyclopedia will be an essential for the library of every student of religion and ethics, and it will provide the material for much theology.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 1060. N. 5, ’08. 820w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is in the matters of editing, allotment of space, and selection of writers for particular topics that room for criticism has been afforded. The reviewer can not help the conclusion that the editing is distinctly empirical, not expert.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 38: 385. Mr. 6, ’09. 600w. (Review of v. 1.)
“In so large a mass of material there will necessarily be points on which specialists differ, but the articles have all been carefully prepared, and in most of them the conclusions are well supported.”
+ + − =Nation.= 88: 173. F. 18, ’09. 630w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Nothing seems to have been overlooked in the wide field.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 91: 245. Ja. 30, ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The line [of inclusion] should have been drawn at the point where metaphysics verges upon theology and ethics.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 107: 145. Ja. 30, ’09. 1300w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Hatfield, Frank, pseud.= Realm of light. $1.50. Reid pub.
8–23532.
Here are set down the experiences of some Chicago business men in the heart of Africa. They discover a mountain inhabited at its summit by a race whose giant size suggests their physical power and whose discoveries and inventions attest their intellectual development.
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“This is one of the best Utopian romances of recent decades.”
+ =Arena.= 41: 88. Ja. ’09. 370w.
“The adventures and experiences of two Chicago business men in the heart of Africa are thrillingly set forth.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1187. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
=Hatfield, Henry Rand.=^{[7]} Modern accounting: its principles and some of its problems. **$1.75. Appleton.
9–8816.
A treatise of scientific interest which goes into the unsettled problem of accounting. “The book begins with a lucid treatment in two chapters of the principles of double-entry bookkeeping. Then follows a chapter on the balance sheet, out of which grow the succeeding chapters which treat of the individual items of the balance sheet and the problems suggested by them. If any chapters were to be selected for special commendation, they would be those on depreciation, profits, and surplus and reserves.” (Nation.)
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“More technical and in some features more exhaustive than Cole’s ‘Accounts’ and more valuable for accountants’ reference use.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 168. Je. ’09.
“The product is scholarly; abundant evidence being present of research in the literature of accountancy, continental, British and American. It also gives evidence of personal contact with affairs and with men who have been in positions of highest administrative responsibility.” F: A. Cleveland.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 235. S. ’09. 780w.
“On the whole, the book is heartily to be commended for the sanity of the author’s individual judgments, for its gathering of information about the practice, or lack of uniformity in practice, of modern accounts, and for its encyclopædic character.” W: M. Cole.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 647. N. ’09. 850w.
“Within the limits that he has marked out for himself, Professor Hatfield has produced the best treatise on accounting that has yet appeared in the United States, and it is difficult to find its superior in the English language.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 584. Je. 10, ’09. 900w.
“Students of accounting will find his work a valuable book of reference.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 289. My. 8, ’09. 200w.
=Haultain, Theodore Arnold.= Mystery of golf: a briefe account of games in generall, their origine, antiquitie, and rampancie, and of the game ycleped golfe in particular, its uniqueness, its curiousness, and its difficultie, its anatomical, philosophicall, and moral properties together with diverse conceipts on other matters to it appertaining. *$5. Houghton.
8–34682.
“Simply a present-day golf-enthusiast’s enamoured account of the delights of his favorite pastime.” (Dial.) “The author ambles pleasantly in discussion of the perversities of golf, its humors, its insoluble problems, its perpetual charm. He discusses the physiological, psychological and social aspects of the game.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The well-convinced and cleverly executed little treatise is amusing, especially to golfists.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 459. D. 16, ’08. 210w.
“This venture of Mr. Haultain’s does justify itself.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 167. F. 18, ’09. 150w.
“Any book lover, any collector, will prize this little book. It is a book for men of good minds; trifling learnedly with a weighty subject. It is charming reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 800. D. 26, ’08. 400w.
“Why the ludicrous, more than Spenserian, extravagance of the rubric notes?”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 505. Mr. 27, ’09. 200w.
=Havell, Ernest Binfield.=^{[9]} Indian sculpture and painting. *$25. Scribner.
9–7586.
“This is a work of exceeding interest to students of Oriental art. The author has studied his subject closely, and writes with an intimate knowledge of the magnificent examples of glyptic art for which India is famous. His definitions of the ideals of the native sculptor are clearly presented, and help his readers to a juster appreciation of the examples which still remain more or less intact as a witness of the æsthetic culture and technical skill of the craftsman in past ages. Among the excellent photographs with which the work is illustrated is a particularly interesting series from the shrine of Bôrôbudûr.”—Int. Studio.
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“A work of extraordinary value and interest.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 245. S. ’09. 230w.
“The book is a pioneer work, and will stand as something of a landmark in the future. His overstatements considerably impair the value of the book as a contribution to knowledge.” Laurence Binyon.
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 38. Ja. 9, ’09. 1700w.
“Those who would know something of the true essence of Indian art will welcome Mr. Havell’s book. Mr. Havell at once goes to the root of the matter, and not only makes us realise that Indian art is totally different in its aim from that of the West, but helps us to understand why this is so.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 641. Ap. 24, ’09. 550w.
=Hawker, George.=^{[11]} Life of George Grenfell. **$2. Revell.
9–30437.
A life of George Grenfell who spent thirty years as missionary among the Congo natives. “Mr. Hawker bases his work upon writings of Mr. Grenfell which have been gathered together since his death in July, 1906, and includes in it many direct quotations from his letters, journals, and other papers.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“A new and interesting life of George Grenfell.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 555. S. 18, ’09. 350w. =Spec.= 102: 863. My. 29, ’09. 450w.
=Hawkes, Clarence.=^{[10]} Shovelhorns: the biography of a moose. †$1.50. Jacobs.
9–25955.
A biography that traces the struggles of the king of the wilderness as with main strength he fights his battles with other dwellers of the forest and uses his “wilderness cunning against the artifices of civilization.” Altho the treatment of the chapters is in the popular vein, moose characteristics are set down with fidelity to scientific fact.
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=Hawkins, George Walter.= Economy factor in steam-power plants. $3. Hill pub.
9–3208.
“The only problem dealt with is the determination of the fuel consumption of a steam plant per unit of power delivered.... The plan of the book is simple. First of all, the performance of the elements of a steam plant are considered; then a number of formulas are built up for the fuel consumption under full load test conditions for steam plants of various types; and finally, factors are determined for taking into account variable load and standing losses.”—Engin. N.
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“Its chief value lies in the large amount of specific information relating to the efficiency of engines, boilers, etc., which seems to have been compiled with exceptional care.”
+ =Elec. World.= 54: 52. Jl. 1, ’09. 120w.
“Those having to do with the economical design of steam power plants will find the book a desirable addition to their working libraries.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 293. Mr. ’09. 380w.
“If he will examine R. H. Smith’s ‘Commercial economy in steam and other thermal powerplants,’ he will find a very much more comprehensive, but at the same time a very different, treatment of the subject. It is to be regretted that the author did not make his work more comprehensive by giving the data for determining the commercial efficiency of steam plants.” L. S. Marks.
− + =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 29. Mr. 18, ’09. 1350w.
=Hayden, Arthur.=^{[11]} Chats on old earthenware. *$2. Stokes.
This volume, a companion volume to the author’s “Chats on English china,” “gives suggestions for collectors and describes various stonewares, Wedgwood products, transfer-printed ware, Staffordshire ware and luster ware. The book is illustrated with numerous productions.” (Int. Studio.)
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=Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 25. N. ’09. 30w.
“For the large and ever-growing class which collects earthenware and stoneware because of its variety and decorative character, and because unimportant specimens can still be obtained at small cost, Mr. Hayden’s ‘Chats’ will be of considerable use.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 174. Ag. 7, ’09. 320w.
“A most serviceable volume.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 722. N. 6, ’09. 140w.
=Hayes, Charles Willard.=^{[12]} Handbook for field geologists. 2d ed., thoroughly rev. *$1.50. Wiley.
8–17308.
“Contains much which is only applicable to members of a government survey in the United States, but is, besides, a very practical little handbook, the treatment of the problems connected with the determination of dip, thickness, and depth of beds being perhaps the least satisfactory part. These problems, if properly put, are of great simplicity; but the beginner, trusting to Dr. Hayes, might well conclude that there was some subtle difference between the dip of a fault plane and the dip of a stratum, and that problems which may be tackled in the one case are insoluble in the other.”—Nature.
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“An attempt has been made to get over the difficulty of making the same work at once a beginner’s guide and an expert’s ‘vade mecum’ by dividing it into two sections, and of the two the latter seems better done.”
+ =Nature.= 81: 455. O. 14, ’09. 340w.
“It can be most highly recommended not merely to geologists and scientific men, but, as many of the points are applicable, to any camper-out, to any one who has to do with mining or civil engineering, and it should be brought to the attention of a wide circle.” A. C. Lane.
+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 371. S. 17, ’09. 430w.
=Hays, Helen Ashe.=^{[7]} Little Maryland garden. **$1.75. Putnam.
9–12050.
Miss Hays describes a garden “made by a transplanted Californian, with many backward longings for the luxuriant growth of the Far West, whereas we had been led by the title to look for an embodiment of some of the countless charms that distinguish the ripe old gardens of Maryland.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“A lover of flowers will find pleasure and inspiration in it.”
+ =Bot. Gaz.= 48: 310. O. ’09. 150w.
“The book is cleverly written and attractively illustrated, and gives many a bit of gardenlore and many helpful words in advocacy of the culture of our native flowers.” S. A. Shafer.
+ =Dial.= 46: 368. Je. 1, ’09. 180w. + =Ind.= 67: 427. Ag. 19, ’09. 110w.
“Here is a garden-book above the average.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 40. Jl. 8, ’09. 380w.
“Delightful contribution to the general subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 384. Je. 12, ’09. 30w.
“It is certainly worth study.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 492. O. 2, ’09. 160w.
=Hazard, Caroline.=^{[11]} Brief pilgrimage in the Holy Land; recounted in a series of addresses delivered in Wellesley college chapel. **$1.25. Houghton.
A series of brief Sunday evening addresses delivered by the president of Wellesley college to her students. She presents some aspects of a three-weeks’ journey in the Holy Land which formed a part of her sabbatical-year experiences. She confines her talks to Carmel by the sea, the Mount of Beatitudes, the sea of Galilee, Capernaum, the plain of Sharon, Joppa, Bethlehem, Jericho, the Jordan and the Dead sea, the wilderness, Jerusalem—the lament, and Jerusalem—the triumph.
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“A series of delightful sketches of various localities. There are a score of pictures, all of them interesting and outside of the range of postcards and stock illustrations.” C: R. Gillett.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 767. D. 4, ’09. 90w.
“Good supplementary reading to Mr. Duncan’s book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 759. D. ’09. 50w.
=Headlam, Cecil.=^{[11]} Inns of Court. *$2. Macmillan.
9–35793.
Describes and pictures the mediaeval and modern buildings around the courts of the Outer and Inner Temple, Lincoln’s Inn and Gray’s Inn. “The development of the Inns of Court as teaching and administering bodies is lucidly described. And then there is the great store of personal interest. Here the literary element may be said to dominate the legal. When we walk through the Temple we think of Johnson, Goldsmith, and Lamb rather than of old-time Chancellors and Chief Justices. All the Inns, present and past, have their due share in Mr. Headlam’s narrative.” (Spec.)
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“Described in a manner combining a maximum of information with a minimum of dullness.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 41. O. ’09.
“Its illustrations deserve high praise. Mr. Cecil Headlam’s letterpress is not an altogether satisfactory ally to the paintings of Mr. Gordon Home.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 220. Ag. 21. 370w. =Sat. R.= 107: 792. Je. 19, ’09. 160w.
“We cannot help thinking that Mr. Headlam’s invective is sometimes a little too violent.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 900. Je. 5, ’09. 350w.
=Headlam, Cecil.= Venetia and northern Italy; being the story of Venice, Lombardy and Emilia. (Old world travel ser.) *$2.50. Macmillan.
W8–178.
Deals in outline with the history, architecture and art of the towns of northern Italy which lie within the triangular plain bounded on the north by the Alps, on the west by the Apennines, and on the east by the Adriatic sea.
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“Well adapted for use by clubs doing advanced work, by prospective travelers and by readers already familiar with the region.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 42. F. ’09.
“More care and research are needed to make the volume satisfactory.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 1: 404. Ap. 3. 600w.
“He writes delightfully, and his characterizations are so clear and beautiful that they linger in the mind.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 459. D. 16, ’08. 120w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1461. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“The general impression he makes is that of an intelligent and sympathetic companion, who never discourses long enough on any subject to weary his hearers. Quantitatively, he seems to succeed in imparting a larger number of facts than is usual in books of this kind.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 578. D. 10, ’08. 250w.
“In Mr. Headlam’s text we find the same attractiveness which we have found in his description of other places—Oxford, Chartres, Nuremberg.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 66. Ja. 9, ’09. 120w. =R. of Rs.= 38: 759. D. ’08. 40w.
“The author has considerable knowledge and has used very considerable diligence; his style flows pleasantly and rarely jars; his observation is keen, and his art judgments are often both penetrating and just. To tell the truth, in what should be a thrilling history there is scarce a single thrill. And throughout there is the assumption that the reader is well-informed enough to be content with generalisation and the allusive method of writing history.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 733. D. 12, ’08. 650w. + =Spec.= 103: 689. O. 30, ’09. 40w.
=Headland, Isaac Taylor.=^{[11]} Court life in China: the capital, its officials and people. **$1.50. Revell.
9–27282.
To apply the scientific method to the study of the Chinese royal family seems like taking forbidden liberties. Yet the author has accomplished his purpose, and, shows that what he has done has been possible only within the past ten years, during which time the Empress Dowager has come out from behind the screen and the court has entered into social relations with Europeans. The author tells the story of the Empress Dowager’s life, piecing together the meager facts obtainable, and gives intimate glimpses of life at court.
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“An excellent and an instructive book.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 455. D. 1, ’09. 250w. + =Ind.= 67: 1041. N. 4, ’09. 220w.
“The book is just to all, appreciative of the Chinese, and hopeful that increasing knowledge among us will result in greater respect for Chinese statesmanship and honesty.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 560. N. 6, ’09. 140w.
“Full of interesting descriptions of court procedure and conditions in the celebrated empire such as the western world does not often have set before it.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 758. D. ’09. 120w.
=Hearne, R. P.= Aerial warfare; with an introd. by Sir Hiram S. Maxim. **$2.50. Lane.
War9–11.
“Mr. Hearne’s text goes pretty fully into the various forms of air-craft—flying machines of many types, balloons pure and simple, dirigible balloons with rigid and semi-rigid envelopes—and indicates what has already been done with each type. This part of the book is provided with many useful illustrations from photographs. From what has been accomplished thus concretely, the author advances to the possibilities and probabilities of the air-ship in war, and arrives at the conclusion that it must be considered a very important factor in all future military calculations for attack or defense.”—N. Y. Times.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 104. Ap. ’09.
“In reading some parts of this book one wonders if the author intends what he says to be taken seriously; certainly he fails to be convincing to any one with technical training and, of course, it is from the viewpoint of such a person that the book is here considered.”
− =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 46. Ap. 15, ’09. 500w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 129. Mr. 6, ’09. 800w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 382. Mr. ’09. 80w.
“We commend this book to the attention of our readers.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 270. F. 13, ’09. 70w.
=Hedges, Florence E. Blake-.=^{[6]} Story of the catacombs. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
9–10945.
A treatment of the catacombs as a factor in the mighty testimony of the Christian religion’s earliest achievements. It covers the origin, construction, and extension of the catacombs; the life, worship and martyrdom of Christians in them; and the catacomb period of Christian art which had its birth in the tomb.
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“The design is to inform the general reader who may be merely curious as well as to edify the Christian whose interest is special and religious.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 371. Je. 12, ’09. 160w.
=Heidenreich, E. Lee.= Engineers’ pocketbook of reinforced concrete. *$3. Clark, M. C.
9–71.
“The author realizes the constantly changing standards of the industry and offers his book as a snapshot, so to speak, of the present stage, to be revised with the development of the art.... The chapter headings are: Material and machines; Design and construction of buildings; Design and construction of bridges; Abutments and retaining walls; Culverts, conduits, sewers; Pipes and dams; Tanks, reservoirs, bins and grain elevators; Chimneys, miscellaneous data, cost keeping, estimating, specifications, etc.”—Engin. N.
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“The book affords in convenient form judiciously chosen formulas, tables and collateral data.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 295. Mr. ’09. 250w.
“It is necessarily incomplete, but it has compactness, good arrangement, clearness and a fair selection, all valuable attributes of the good handbook. The chapter on bridges treats only the elastic arch, and that not at all satisfactorily, and includes some very incomplete notes on construction.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 5. Ja. 14, ’09. 240w.
“Like all others, the author has compiled freely from many sources, but his selections have been well made and his own wide experience furnished a large amount of information and many useful suggestions and schemes for executing the details of work. While the work is largely elementary in character, the tables are not always sufficiently complete to answer the requirements of an inexperienced draftsman.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 59: 111. Ja. 23, ’09. 270w.
=Heil, Adolf, and Esch, W.=^{[11]} Manufacture of rubber goods: a practical handbook. *$3.50. Lippincott.
9–35784.
“A translation of Heil and Esch’s ‘Handbuch der gummiwarenfabrikation,’ adapted to English usage in respect of the machinery generally employed in this country.” (Nature.) The handbook gives the plan and arrangement of a factory for carrying out the operations involved in manufacture of rubber goods from the raw materials. The volume is fully illustrated.
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“A thorough manual.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 14. S. ’09.
“The text is generally lucid, though occasionally with a leaning to Teutonic stolidity. Except in this respect, the translator has eliminated any lingual indication of the origin of the book, which can be recommended as a very practical and useful work.” C. S.
+ =Nature.= 81: 391. S. 30, ’09. 720w.
=Heilman, Ralph Emerson.= Chicago traction: a study of the efforts of the public to secure good service. (American economic assn. quarterly, 3d ser. v. 9, no. 2) $1. Am. economic assn., Princeton.
8–25382.
“Under a somewhat misleading main title,—since the study is confined to the street railways of Chicago, and, moreover, omits any discussion of the financial operations even of these,—Mr. Heilman traces the history of the surface traction companies of the city from 1858 to a date within ninety days following the Chicago election of April 2, 1907. The historical study is followed by an analysis of the present situation and a statement of the writer’s view of the probable future.”—Econ. Bull.
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“The book contains numerous typographical errors.” G: R. Wicker.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 346. D. ’08. 870w.
“Within the limitations suggested the treatment is a valuable history of the franchise grants to street railways with a fairly good summary of the provisions of the latest ordinances.” Spurgeon Bell.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 41. Ja. ’09. 750w.
=Helm, W. H.=^{[11]} Jane Austen and her Country House comedy. 7s. 6d. Nash, London.
A work whose aim is to bring “new members into the large but comparatively restricted circle wherein she is regarded, not always as the first of English novelists, but at least as second to none in the quality of her work.” “It is favourite dogma nowadays with the superior person that literary criticism has nothing to do with biography, and that in estimating an author’s work no attention should be paid to the facts of his life. The method adopted by Mr. Helm is in direct opposition to this theory. In the meagre annals of Jane Austen’s career he diligently seeks for the raw material of her novels, and from the novels in turn deduces the realities of her personal experience.” (Ath.)
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“He is never dull, and though much of what he says has been said before, it is always expressed in a style which redeems it from the stigma of obviousness. To add that he is never irritating is to signalize a virtue of the rarest among writers of literary criticism. His appreciation contains perhaps too much of the critical element to be wholly acceptable to the straitest sect of Jane Austen enthusiasts; but his applause is as ungrudging as it is discriminating, and has the note of personal affection.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 454. O. 16. 1450w.
“Mr. Helm’s admiration is sane and well balanced.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 352. S. 18, ’09. 1650w.
=Henderson, Charles Richmond.= Industrial insurance in the United States. *$2. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–3310.
Substantially an English version of “Die arbeiter-versicherung in den Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-America.” New material has been added to bring the text to date, and statistics have been compared in many cases with primary sources. A summary of European laws on industrial insurance prefaces the work to indicate the tendencies of thought and activity in the field. The author discusses the social policy for industrial insurance in the United States, Social relief societies, Benefit features of trade unions, Insurance of fraternal societies, Employers’ liability law, Private insurance companies, Firms and corporations, Insurance plans of railway corporations, Pension systems, and Protective legislation. The appendix contains regulations of several schemes of insurance, drawn up by actuaries, with the best legal and business advice.
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“A valuable and timely presentation.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 77. Mr. ’09.
“An English book on this important subject is timely and for the present this volume supplies the deficiency.” G: B. Mangold.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 207. Jl. ’09. 250w.
“The book brings together a mass of material, properly classified, and revealing long and patient inquiry.” J: R. Commons.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 55. Ap. ’09. 900w.
“Its usefulness has been considerably enhanced by the addition of a succinct summary of the legislation along this line of every European country of importance, thus furnishing a good background for comparison with the situation in this country.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 308. My. ’09. 90w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 83. F. 13, ’09. 300w. =Spec.= 103: 243. Ag. 14, ’09. 110w.
=Henderson, Charles Richmond.= Social duties from the Christian point of view: a text book for the study of social problems. $1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–8935.
Full of suggestions for the concrete and practical religious and moral instruction whose aim is to right and stimulate the thought that impels conduct. The author discusses social duties relating to the family, to neglected children, to workingmen, and social duties in rural communities; the public health, economic interests, educational agencies, church and municipal duties in urban life; charities and corrections; rights and responsibilities of the great corporations; and social duties relating to the business and leisure classes, to government and social duties in international relations.
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“Professor Henderson has labored so fruitfully in various portions of this whole social territory that he is well qualified to give advice in a general textbook.” N: P. Gilman.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 15: 119. Jl. ’09. 280w.
“Written from a broadly human viewpoint and in an admirable spirit; sane and stimulating to right thinking and living.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 138. My. ’09. ✠ + =Bib. World.= 33: 359. My. ’09. 40w.
=Henderson, Ernest Flagg.=^{[11]} Lady of the old régime. *$2.50. Macmillan.
9–27596.
It is a coincidence that two biographies of the same woman, Arvède Barine’s “Madame, mother of the regent” and Mr. Henderson’s “A lady of the old régime” should appear the same month. Mr. Henderson portrays the Duchesse d’Orleans, true to her “child-of-nature” instincts, guileless in her artificial surroundings, practical and sensible in everything except her inordinate jealousy of Madame de Maintenon. His delineation of court scenes and people of Louis XIV’s court are sprightly and vivid.
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=Dial.= 47: 458. D. 1, ’09. 220w.
“An entertaining and judicious compilation in which he has permitted the heroine of the tale, so far as possible, to speak for herself.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 684. O. 23, ’09. 650w.
“The weakness of Mr. Henderson’s work is its lack of chronological sequence; its chief interest lies in its discursive account of life in the palaces of the Grand Monarque. In one respect Mr. Henderson’s work is far more enjoyable than the English version of Arvède Barine’s: his style is good, whereas the language of the other, though correct enough, is still unmistakably a translation.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 547. D. 2, ’09. 350w.
“Mr. Henderson treats the subject with perhaps less sympathy than Madame Barine.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 40: 756. D. ’09. 50w.
=Henderson, Percy E. (Selim, pseud.).= British officer in the Balkans: the account of a journey through Dalmatia, Montenegro, Turkey in Austria, Magyarland, Bosnia and Hercegovina. *$3.50. Lippincott.
9–14694.
“An entertaining account of a journey in Montenegro, Bosnia, and their neighbourhood. The reader will not be bored with useless discussion of those insoluble problems that are raised in most writings concerned with the Balkan peninsula.”—Ath.
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“Covers some of the ground that Jackson’s ‘Shores of the Adriatic’ does, but in a more popular and less exhaustive manner.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 168. Je. ’09.
“The criticism often made by us on narratives of travel, to the effect that their authors have not sufficiently wide experience to distinguish circumstances of interest from those which are well known because widespread, may be directed against Major Henderson. Far more than the usual writer of traveller’s gossip he is a guide worth following, and his pages are readable by all.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 161. F. 6. 770w.
“Those who are more concerned with the domestic manners and the everyday life of the people in pleasure and business, will find the book replete with stories, incidents, and customs of a people who are now—unhappily—very prominent in the public eye.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 46: 367. Je. 1, ’09. 160w.
“At any rate it is most readable, being both interesting and amusing. We feel grateful to the author for the pains he has taken in collecting information of all kinds with regard to the cities, buildings, and national types he met with.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 852. My. 15, ’09. 280w.
“It is a sort of revision of Baedeker, indispensable for any one contemplating a trip to the picturesque country.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 361. Ap. 8, ’09. 300w.
“The writer brings to his subject a keen vision and mature experience. Yet he is painstaking to a fault in his avoidance of discussion and partisanship.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 189. Ap. 3, ’09. 1100w.
“An interesting record.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 228. Ap. 10, ’09. 20w.
“The book has a certain archæological value in its description of the Bogumilite monuments in Bosnia.”
+ − =Outlook.= 92: 70. My. 8, ’09. 270w.
“If anyone wants to know what Austria has effected in thirty years in a country which when she took it over was as wild and barbarous as Macedonia, he can gather it from these extremely matter-of-fact pages. This indeed gives the book the only merit it possesses, and it carries conviction far more successfully to the mind than if it were the strongly worded work of a partisan.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: sup. 6. My. 22, ’09. 200w.
“May be described as an enthusiastic guidebook. It is traveller’s narrative which looks little below the surface. It assumes no knowledge and usefully suggests routes.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 500. Mr. 27, ’09. 30w.
=Henderson, Walter George.= Norah Conough. $1.25. Outing pub.
9–15204.
Ranch life in New South Wales is depicted in this story full of atmosphere and the human element. Two brothers take up a selection (Australian for claim) and develop it. Closely related to their struggle in the bush are their respective courses of true love; in the one case moderately smooth-running, in the other, turbulent to the point of heartbreak.
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“A love story that is fresh and wholesome, but lacking in subtlety and skill in character drawing. Good as a picture of social and domestic life in a crude new country.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 187. Je. ’09.
“The inn-keeper’s daughter, and her rough champion are the figures which give the pleasant story such distinctiveness as it can lay claim to.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 163. Ag. 19, ’09. 230w.
“There are some strong emotional situations in the story and much account, made quite skillfully a vital part of the story, of out-of-doors life in that quarter of the world.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 241. Ap. 17, ’09. 160w.
“For readers upon the other side of the world the book has the charm of the unaccustomed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 375. Je. 12, ’09. 250w.
=Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).=^{[12]} Options. †$1.50. Harper.
9–27747.
Sixteen O. Henry stories, true to life, clever and full of rare entertainment. In fact, this collection is called an “edition de luxe” of O. Henry. It contains the best stories he has written in the past two years. Besides two prize stories, “Thimble, thimble,” and “Supply and demand,” there is at least one other that ought to have had a prize. It is “The third ingredient.” To say that the third ingredient is an onion, and that about that onion, the necessity for it and the daring it took to secure it for a certain shop-girl’s stew, centers the story with its neat plot, clever characterization and swift action, seems to be admitting great possibilities for small things.
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+ − =Nation.= 89: 540. D. 2, ’09. 380w.
“Contains very few examples of O. Henry’s best. Full of good stories—wonderfully good stories of men and women—most of them still rather young—stories that flash upon you things which your stupidity or inattention has missed when you have looked with your own uncoached eyes upon the identical common life they are concerned to picture.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 728. N. 20, ’09. 400w.
=Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).=^{[8]} Roads of destiny. †$1.50. Doubleday.
9–11539.
A volume of stories many of which deal “with the picturesque riff-raff floating through the South and West—Mississippi, Texas, Mexico and South America.” (Nation.) They are: Roads of destiny; The guardian of the accolade; The discounters of money; The enchanted profile; “Next to reading matter”; Art and the bronco; Phoebe; A double-dyed deceiver; The passing of Black Eagle; A retrieved reformation; Cherchez la femme; Friends in San Rosario; The fourth in Salvador; The emancipation at Charleroi; On behalf of the management; Whistling Dick’s Christmas stocking; The halberdier of the little Rheinschloss; Two renegades; The lonesome road.
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“Readable though perhaps inferior to his earlier volumes.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 28. S. ’09.
“Of the particular type of short story which he produces, O. Henry is a perfectly assured master.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 56. Jl. 15, ’09. 380w.
“The stories are marked by that humor and keen characterization which we have come to expect from this industrious writer. Though not, on the whole, quite so worthy of serious praise as the former collections of Mr. Porter’s work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 319. My. 22, ’09. 180w.
=Henshaw, Nevil Gratiot.= Aline of the Grand woods: a story of Louisiana. $1.50. Outing pub.
9–3875.
A story set in the Louisiana woods among the Cajuns. It deals with the development of an orphan child after the death of her father who had been disinherited on account of his marrying contrary to paternal wishes. Aline is brought up almost within the shadow of the ancestral Hall, but her portion is air, sunshine, the breath of flowers and of the woods. Doubts, longings, misunderstandings and suffering, accentuated by a troublesome Cajun lover, give way in good season to a generous measure of happiness.
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“The slight plot is rather crudely developed and there is a lack of reality about the many characters and incidents that detract from the interest.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 91. Mr. ’09.
“It is a good, downright story in the old-fashioned style, moving along the paths of real life, which it softens and colors with a tinge of romance.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 257. My. ’09. 260w.
“One is indeed left wondering why one should waste spring days on pages like these when the literature of the running brooks is to be obtained so easily.”
− =Nation.= 88: 337. Ap. 1, ’09. 180w.
“The author shows much dramatic strength in his style, and in his use of incidents, and much unusual skill in his ability to make the reader feel the personality of his widely varying characters.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 136. Mr. 6, ’09. 180w.
“The story is dramatic, and many of its scenes are tense with strong feeling.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 375. Je. 12, ’09. 330w.
“There can be no question of the truth of the picture, though its composition at times seems somewhat ill-proportioned.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 815. Ap. 10, ’09. 120w.
=Hepburn, Alonzo Barton.= Artificial waterways and commercial development, (with a history of the Erie canal). *$1. Macmillan.
9–3307.
“A résumé of the relation to commerce of the world’s artificial waterways.... The book opens with an historical sketch of the world’s canals, followed by a more detailed history of the Erie canal.... Then follow a few facts relating to the present conditions of the Panama canal and a discussion of the waterways question and conservation of our resources. In an appendix is given a series of tables (1) Relating to New York canals; (2) Relating to commerce of New York City; (3) Miscellaneous.”—Engin. D.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 104. Ap. ’09. ✠
“In discussing the Erie canal, however, much interesting historical data is presented in a readable form.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 182. Jl. ’09. 140w.
“The historical portion is interesting and the appended statistical tables helpful, but the arguments for modernization do not seem to follow as logically from the historical recital as the author would assume. Two weaknesses which never fail to appear in the arguments of waterway enthusiasts, must be noted. The one sets forth figures showing the cheapness of transportation with a modernized canal and fails to take into account the burden of construction and maintenance charges thrown upon the people as a whole. The other fails to differentiate the comparatively short ship-canal connecting great bodies of water from the long shallow ditch which can only be utilized by craft built especially for the purpose.” F. H. Dixon.
− + =Econ. Bull.= 2: 38. Ap. ’09. 420w.
“The book is both interesting and instructive.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 295. Mr. ’09. 300w.
“There is no need of a really first rate book in the field which this one pretends to cover, but it should be written by someone with a broader viewpoint and greater technical knowledge than the author of this work.”
− =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 30. Mr. 18, ’09. 220w.
“A short but forceful little book.” E. L. Bogart.
+ =Forum.= 42: 92. Jl. ’09. 300w. + =Ind.= 66: 1142. My. 27, ’09. 120w.
“It adds nothing to our previous stock of information upon the subject and contributes about as much to the solution of the much-vexed waterways question.”
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 384. Je. ’09. 150w.
“A timely contribution to the evidence on the subject.”
+ =Nature.= 80: 307. My. 13, ’09. 250w.
“Though inadequate in the treatment of the subjects with which it deals, ... the book is certainly of interest as a primer. It presents an excellent synopsis of the more important incidents in the history of the Erie canal.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 134. Mr. 6, ’09. 330w.
=Herbert, Agnes.=^{[8]} Isle of man *$3.50. Lane.
Deals with the native and the tripper, with the history, archaeology, customs and scenery of Manxland. “She is here on her own ground, and her style is not less racy ... when she was engaged in explaining how she shot lions in Africa or bears in America, and incidentally turned the mere male person into her willing servitor.” (Sat. R.)
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“But, for all its shortcomings, the book is readable, and all the pictures excellent.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 591. O. 9, ’09. 720w.
“A book which is really admirable. Mona’s Isle is never likely to find a more vivacious chronicler.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 5. Jl. 17, ’09. 220w.
“We cannot say that we like [Mr. Maxwell’s drawings] all equally well.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 138. Jl. 24, ’09. 180w.
=Herbert, Alice.=^{[9]} Measure of our youth. †$1.50. Lane.
A story of psychological purport dealing with the sex theme. “England is the setting for all that transpires after the explanatory chapter, in which there is a short history of the liaison that was responsible for the introduction of East Indian blood into the Bewley family. Francis and Adela Bewley, brother and sister, are the principal characters, but from their babyhood to marriage, which is approximately the time covered by the story, they are accompanied by a host of people just as clearly delineated.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“A too colorful story, replete with ‘near’ climaxes, and peopled with familiarly bizarre characters.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 353. Je. 5, ’09. 210w.
“The story is a thoughtful piece of work, sometimes a little naïvely ignorant and crude in its philosophy of life, but written with sincerity and earnestness.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 174. Ag. 7, ’09. 150w.
=Herbert, George.= Priest to the temple; or, The country parson, his character and rule of holy life; with an introd. and brief notes by the bishop of North Carolina. *75c. Whittaker.
8–28972.
A reprint of Herbert’s observations on the duties of a pastor. “Judicious and helpful suggestions abound as to preaching, catechizing, visiting, and other points of pastoral duty, when applied with discrimination, remembering that the letter killeth, and that it is the spirit that giveth life.”
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=Nation.= 87: 579. D. 10, ’08. 90w.
=Hereford, William Richard.=^{[12]} The demagog. †$1.50. Holt.
9–28115.
The demagog of Mr. Hereford’s stirring political novel is the owner of a chain of newspapers who for years had been lying low and scheming persistently for ultimate political power. This story is concerned with his open campaign for the presidency. On the one side are portrayed his schemes for winning the office thru his favorite means—force and stratagem; on the other is the weaving of the net by his opponent from the threads of his past traitorous dealings with fellow men, of unfaithfulness to women and general corruptness, which finally enmeshes him and renders him alike harmless and ignominious.
=Hewitt, Emma Churchman.=^{[7]} How to live on a small income. 50c. Jacobs.
9–18582.
A little volume inscribed to young housekeepers. It aims to open up a train of ideas that will lead the young housekeeper to think for herself and to adjust herself to her environment. The advice rests upon the requirement that a housekeeper shall learn the difference between the words “cheap” and “inexpensive.” Some of the chapters are: Selecting a home; Health problems and sanitation; Floors and their treatment; Furnishings and their care; The finance problem; False economy which is waste; Economy of work; Dress and shopping; Clothes for the little ones; Entertaining; With the home chef.
=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.=^{[6]} Artemision: idylls and songs. **$1. Scribner.
W9–160.
“Three long poems of irregular form, followed by a group of sonnets and these by the lyrics, while the author betrays the same knowledge of early Grecian myth revealed in Mrs. Wharton’s verse [Artemis to Actæon].”—N. Y. Times.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 15. S. ’09.
“Mr. Hewlett’s verse is the verse of the scholar and the man of letters: its sweetness is reminiscent, its ruggedness carefully devised, and its similitudes neither striking nor yet commonplace.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1; 670. Je. 5. 280w.
“One would expect in any writing of his a keen and delicate sense of words, an ear sensitive to the melody of language and a sharp sincerity of emotion. And these expectations are well satisfied in his new volume of verse.” Brian Hooker.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 366. Je. ’09. 400w.
“As a writer of verse he rather emphasizes the Meredithian vice of obscurity than the penetrating Meredithian vision.” W: M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 47: 98. Ag. 16, ’09. 400w.
“The effect of these classic topics as treated in Mr. Hewlett’s peculiar romantic and neorenaissance vein, with a good deal of rhythmical ‘insouciance,’ genuine or affected, is distinctly curious. It is like looking at a clear landscape thru colored glasses—a brilliant and prismatic spectacle, no doubt, but one singularly anomalous and out of character.”
− + =Ind.= 67: 658. S. 16, ’09. 100w.
“Mr. Hewlett’s treatment of classic themes has suffered to some extent from the poet’s temperament.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 55. Jl. 15, ’09. 300w.
“There is a rare quality to this book of Hewlett’s, something it is not easy to define, but which is felt.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 300. My. 8, ’09. 470w.
“The book is one students and lovers of poetry dare not miss.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 704. N. ’09. 330w.
“Much of the sureness of touch and philosophic insight which makes Maurice Hewlett the lineal successor of Meredith appears in the little volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 123. Jl. ’09. 40w.
“Is, in the fullest sense of the word, a distinguished book.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 19. Jl. 3, ’09. 430w.
=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.=^{[10]} Open country. †$1.50. Scribner.
9–35789.
“Those readers who are familiar with Mr. Senhouse in the author’s “Halfway house” will be glad to find him here, four years earlier, rejoicing in the open country as his heritage. He gives us much of the simple philosophy which made him one with nature in his letters to the girl whom he loves. He met her in the open and he loved her well, too well to enslave her by matrimony, but well enough, when the time came, not to count the cost in helping her give herself to the man who had won her heart, a man whom he knew to be less worthy of her than he, he who had inspired her to be the noble woman he thought her. But Senhouse in his own great purity knew her pure and felt that her love justified all things though, because of it, her whole world closed its doors against her.”
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“Will appeal only to cultured readers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 55. O. ’09.
“This story is extremely clever, but it is no more. To tell the truth about Mr. Senhouse, he is wholly unconvincing, and rather a bore.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 325. S. 18. 350w.
“On the whole, the book is a disappointment to those who, admiring Mr. Hewlett’s unquestionable cleverness, have looked for the great comedy which he has sometimes seemed capable of writing.” E: C. Marsh.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 263. N. ’09. 1000w.
“The readers of Mr. Maurice Hewlett’s ‘Halfway house,’ who made the acquaintance of John Senhouse in that charming book, will be glad to have further intercourse with him in the pages of ‘Open country.’” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 237. O. 1, ’09. 630w.
“The performance as a whole hardly shows Mr. Hewlett at his best. Here more clearly than ever his ingenuousness is seen to be ingenuity.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 305. S. 30, ’09. 570w.
“It is as if Mr. Hewlett, perceiving that the world knew little of that actual personal story of Stevenson’s life, proceeded to build it in around Senhouse, making Senhouse act and talk as Stevenson probably did.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 565. S. 25, ’09. 900w.
“We do not read Mr. Hewlett for the story, but for the beauty, and this is in the book in generous measure.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 838. D. ’09. 210w.
“As a story the book is a little less attractive than its predecessor, but Mr. Hewlett’s grace and charming writing have not lost their quality, although they have in some ways changed their form.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 276. O. 2, ’09. 210w.
“We lay down the book rather glad to be done with it. The unceasing click of the epigrams, sham or real: the continual search after fine allusions, the strain to be if not original at any rate unusual, the lack of human, overbrimming humour and the pervading acid tone—all these help to damp our spirits. Still the novel is clever; and, as a great many folk admire cleverness above all things, we presume that Mr. Hewlett has his great admirers.”
− + =Sat. R.= 108: 320. S. 11, ’09. 1500w.
=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.=^{[11]} Ruinous face. †$1. Harper.
9–27262.
Helen of Troy is shown to us as a woman with a soul and a longing to be truly loved as her husband’s companion; but her ruinous beauty dooms her to be merely the object of physical desire. Her hope for a higher affection leads her to betray Paris, to murder Menelaus, and finally to hang herself with her girdle when she reads siren passion in the eyes of each man who loves her. The volume has marginal drawings and a gift-book make-up.
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“Mr. Hewlett brings to this short story all the subtlety, suggestiveness, and finish that make his novels notable.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 464. D. 1, ’09. 70w. =Outlook.= 93: 559. N. 6, ’09. 350w.
=Hichens, Robert Smythe.=^{[11]} Bella Donna. †$1.50. Lippincott.
9–28245.
A humanitarian and great believer in the good that is in mankind marries a notorious ostracized London woman, reputed equally for her beauty and her infamy. He transplants his Bella Donna to Egyptian soil where she finds new health and almost a feeling of youth, and where she comes under the spell of an Alexandrian man of affairs—a man of sinuous cunning. His oriental subtlety finds quick response in her nature, under the sway of which she plans to poison her husband by degrees, but is foiled by a master physician-detective whose friendship for the husband furnishes the fine elements of the story.
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“His story, in spite of its brilliant qualities, is one of the most distasteful we have ever encountered.”
− − + =Ath.= 1909, 2: 522. O. 30. 170w.
“Of all the current studies of feminine unrest, the most strikingly individual and the one hardest to escape from is ‘Bella Donna.’ One feels throughout a taint of the neurotic and the pathological.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 387. D. ’09. 650w.
“Is more direct and forcible than the usual plot of Mr. Hichens. Its treatment, moreover, seems to depend less obviously upon an artificial high flavor. As for the persons, they are more nearly ‘convincing’ than any of Mr. Hichens’s previous creations.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 541. D. 2, ’09. 500w.
“A few carelessly constructed sentences mar the usually clear-cut English of the book, and several typographical errors, notably in the French expressions, have escaped the proofreader. The public has seldom the opportunity to show its appreciation of a novel of such originality, charm, and power. Nor can its tremendous message be ignored, the message inevitable from the fact that materialism is pressed home to its logical conclusion.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 670. O. 30, ’09. 700w.
“Mr. Robert Hichens has never put more careful literary art-work into any of his novels than one finds in ‘Bella Donna.’”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 643. N. 20, ’09. 130w.
“This is one of the best novels we have ever read, and quite the best that Mr. Robert Hichens has written.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 108: 636. N. 20, ’09. 240w.
“The book as a whole is a clever piece of work.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 795. N. 13, ’09. 220w.
=Higginson, Ella.= Alaska: the great country. **$2.25. Macmillan
8–33137.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“It will be useful for reference and would serve the traveler’s needs admirably.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 13. Ja. ’09.
“It has no table of contents and the chapters have no individual headings. The ordinary reader is so much accustomed to having definite topics put before him that the absence of these creates a feeling of hopeless bewilderment.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 182. Jl. ’09. 110w.
“Written in a mood of exalted appreciation.”
− =Ind.= 66: 702. Ap. 1, ’09. 430w.
“The most complete as well as the most attractive work on the subject.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 984. D. 26, ’08. 130w.
“It is thoroughly a woman’s book, emotional, pleasant-tempered, picturesque, and (shall we say it?) in cool accuracy not quite careful, and in discrimination, not quite keen.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 229. Mr. 4, ’09. 360w
“While Alaskan economic resources are described with great fullness, the most salient quality of Mrs. Higginson’s book lies in its description of scenery.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 384. F. 20, ’09. 330w.
“Mrs. Higginson has put into this volume much more than a mere series of fleeting impressions.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 252. F. ’09. 50w.
“Up to the moment when the vessel which proudly conveys Mrs. Higginson sets her prow westward from Sitka, this book has scarcely anything to recommend it, except its pictures. It is marked alternately by a naïve lack and excess of information which merely moves us to smile. But as soon as she gets west of Sitka her book becomes meritorious.”
− + =Sat. R.= 108: 84. Jl. 17, ’09. 850w.
=Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.=^{[12]} Carlyle’s laugh and other surprises. **$2. Houghton.
9–28426.
The title essay “Carlyle’s laugh” occupies only ten pages of this volume while the “other surprises” bring it very nearly to the four-hundred page mark. Of the laugh the author says: “After the most vehement tirade, Carlyle would suddenly pause, throw his head back, and give as genuine and kindly a laugh as I ever heard from a human being. It was not the bitter laugh of the cynic, nor yet the big-bodied laugh of the burly joker; least of all was it the thin and rasping cackle of the dyspeptic satirist. It was a broad, honest, human laugh.” There are twenty-four papers in all in this volume many of which are reprinted from magazines.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 117. D. ’09. + =Outlook.= 93: 650. N. 27, ’09. 160w.
=Hildebrande, Adolph.= Problem of form in painting and sculpture; tr. and rev. with the author’s co-operation by Max Meyer and Robert Morris Ogden. *90c. Stechert.
8–1129.
A translation from the fourth German edition with the preface to the third edition. “Hildebrand discusses the problem of Form, chiefly from the sculptor’s point of view and with reference to the sculptor’s materials. The topics treated are: vision and movement, form and appearance, the idea of space and its visual expression, ideas of planes and depth, the conception of relief, form as an interpretation of life, and sculpture in stone. These topics are handled partly from the technical point of view of the artist and partly from the point of view of psychology.” (Philos. R.)
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“There is a serious typographical error on page 61 which makes some seven or eight lines quite unintelligible. It is an interesting addition to the psychology of imagination.” Kate Gordon.
+ − =J. Philos.= 6: 136. Mr. 4, ’09. 340w.
“No intelligent sculptor, or for that matter no painter who cares for the noble and monumental in art, can read this little treatise without some stimulation of his faculties and clarification of his ideas.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 612. D. 17, ’08. 340w.
“The book is translated into clear English and is a valuable addition to our literature on the psychology of art.” W. A. Hammond.
+ =Philos. R.= 18: 91. Ja. ’09. 860w.
=Hill, Alexander.=^{[6]} Body at work: a treatise on the principles of physiology. *$4.50. Longmans.
9–35903.
“Presents the subject of physiology in such a manner as to be intelligible to those who have acquired no previous knowledge of chemistry, physics, or anatomy.”—Spec.
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“A thorough, well written work, for the educated reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 117. D. ’09.
“It deals with the subject thoroughly in the light of the most recent investigations, and any one who reads carefully through it will have acquired a clear and accurate picture of the present state of a science which grows and changes daily.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 169. F. 6. 550w.
“Dr. Hill has given us a book at once instructive and attractive.”
+ =Nature.= 80: 366. My. 27, ’09. 420w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 276. My. 1, ’09. 210w.
“We have some doubt as to whether his object has been attained. At the same time, the reader who has the courage to take up this volume will gain a very sound general knowledge of the principles of physiology.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: sup. 645. Ap. 24, ’09. 130w.
=Hill, Constance.=^{[12]} Maria Edgeworth and her circle in the days of Bonaparte and Bourbon. **$6. Lane.
“The title [of Miss Hill’s book] is taken from the chapters which tell of Miss Edgeworth’s visits to Paris in the shifting days of empire and monarchy, but the story is by no means confined to France. London also comes into view, with glimpses of Mrs. Barbauld, Joanna Baillie, the Miss Berrys, and other twinkling lights, chiefly feminine. Miss Hill draws on letters preserved by the Edgeworth family and hitherto unpublished.”—Nation.
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“The interest of her work is due to her sprightliness more than to any novelty of material. The book is scarcely as entertaining as her ‘Juniper hall’ and ‘House in St. Martin’s street,’ owing to the fact that the unity of place in those earlier volumes kept her from that scattering of effects which is always the temptation of the anecdotal writer.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 490. N. 18, ’09. 200w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 700. N. 6, ’09. 90w.
“Full praise is due to Miss Hill for the thoroughness with which she has chronicled the travels, the gaieties in high places, the acquaintance, the risks of a visit to Paris and a timely flight home, which have such a curious bearing—or want of bearing—on Miss Edgeworth’s books. This is so capably done, and offers so many clues of reference which are consequent, if at times rather fine-spun, that the reader will probably regret the inclusion of several chapters whose connexion with the subject is thin to the point of invisibility.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 571. N. 6, ’09. 860w.
=Hill, Frederick Trevor.= Story of a street. **$1.60. Harper.
8–31816.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“The book bears evidence of careful study beneath its regrettably journalistic style, and contributes some fresh material.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 146. F. 11, ’09. 470w.
“That the facts could be handled in a more entertaining way than they are in Mr. Hill’s book is doubtful.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 134. Mr. 6, ’09. 410w.
“Altogether the book will be a valuable addition to the history of New York, and will be read by many descendants of those whose names appear in its pages.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 20. Ja. 2, ’09. 230w.
=Hill, Henry Wayland.=^{[7]} Historical review of waterways and canal construction in New York state. (Publications, v. 12.) $4. Buffalo hist. soc., Buffalo, N. Y.
9–13607.
Thirteen years’ training in the New York state legislature naturally lead the author to consider the development of the canal legislation with its accompanying financial and commercial aspects. “Of the 27 chapters of the book, the first five are devoted to a history of the waterways of the state and of the very earliest canals; the next seven chapters discuss the Erie canal from the dreams of the 18th century colonist to the opening in 1825 of De Witt Clinton’s ‘Grand’ canal; the next five chapters treat of the rapid growth of lateral canals in the ensuing 30 years and of the gradual decline in canal traffic due to the inroads of the railway; the final ten chapters are on the movement which culminated in the Barge canal legislation and popular endorsement of 1903.” (Engin. N.)
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“A large part ... deals with the legislative history of the barge canal and the progress of the new canal policy. This part constitutes a valuable contribution by one speaking from the inside. It is singularly fair and free from personal animosities for a work of the kind. However, the spirit of the advocate permeates the whole.” E. J. B.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 190. O. ’09. 350w.
“In his earlier chapters, then, Senator Hill is most happy, because he is there discussing historical facts which no one can deny. But once his history gets to that time when the railway influence on the canal is felt, his enthusiastic partisanship overcomes his historical disinterest. With Mr. Whitford’s book for the engineering history and Senator Hill’s for the legal and economic, a reader should gain a most concise knowledge of the internal waterways of the great state of New York.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 82. Je. 17, ’09. 1100w.
“An important contribution to the literature of the subject. As a historical review, which is its chief purpose, Senator Hill’s book is thorough and peculiarly valuable because it covers ground that has hitherto been neglected.” Forbes Lindsay.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 415. Jl. 3, ’09. 700w.
=Hilliers, Ashton.=^{[10]} As it happened. **$1.35. Putnam.
W9–261.
“This work has the circumstantiality of the eighteenth-century masters. Tom Furley, the gunner turned Quaker, is an historical character. Like most of the other figures, he revolves round that of the orphan heroine, a fine conception. Two old scholars; a good and modest soldier who is a kind of more martial Dobbin; an immodest Irish major who is the villain of the piece; and a strange secretary, the Anointer, make up the cast. Historically the story begins with the mutiny at Madras, and ends with the defence of Gibraltar by Eliott, of whom we see a good deal, with glimpses of Secretary Jenkinson and ‘old Q.’”—Ath.
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“The type used is so small as to seriously interfere with the enjoyment of the story.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 90. N. ’09.
“It combines wealth of incident, variety and originality of character, fine descriptions, and battle-pieces by sea and land. We are not confident in our author as an Indian historian; he follows Wilks and Mill too much; but he is always interesting.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 697. Je. 12. 150w.
“It is loosely knit, rambling, starting apparently from nowhere, and eventually arriving at the same spot.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 30: 189. O. ’09. 330w.
“The range of information is extraordinary; the fitting of walk and conversation to each character most apt; the humor rich.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 329. O. 7, ’09. 330w.
“Exciting novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 652. O. 23, ’09. 20w.
“An essay in fiction much better than most in a literary way at the same time that it is interesting enough—merely as a tale—to keep a reasonably alert reader awake during the greater part of a day’s railway journey. That should be a fairly good rough test.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 729. N. 20, ’09. 480w.
“It demands careful reading, but no intelligent reader will want to skip a single page of a chronicle so rich in incident and humanity, and set forth in a style so engagingly compounded of scholarship and vivacity.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 864. My. 29, ’09. 770w.
=Hillquit, Morris.= Socialism in theory and practice. *$1.50. Macmillan.
9–5098.
Mr. Hillquit says: “Socialism is a criticism of modern social conditions, a theory of social progress, an ideal of social organization, and a practical movement of the masses. To be fully understood it must be studied in all of these phases.” He embodies his conception of the movement in a two part discussion; “the first, the socialistic philosophy and movement, undertakes to state the theory on which socialism is based. The second, socialism and reform, discusses those particular measures of reform which socialists regard as temporary measures, but which they think will alleviate conditions during the transition from the present social order to the one they predict.” (Outlook.)
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“The book would have been of more homogeneous value had the author omitted much elementary and fragmentary treatment of the history of ethics and law, had he bravely eliminated the numerous rhetorical passages into which his sympathies lead him, and had he been more liberal in stating the sources of his statistics. On the whole however he has contributed worthily to the literature of socialism.” A. B. Wolfe.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 15: 264. S. ’09. 750w.
“The best treatment written on the subjects presented by one of the men best qualified to represent the socialist party.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 138. My. ’09.
“The book is a good one, and shows clearly both the strength and the weakness of American socialism.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 183. Jl. ’09. 240w.
“This book marks a great advance over the author’s earlier ‘History of socialism in the United States,’ as it does indeed over most of the earlier literature on the subject of socialism.” E. L. Bogart.
+ =Forum.= 42: 91. Jl. ’09. 450w.
“No one who wishes to know the philosophy, the aims and the achievements of the socialist movement, stated by a man who is a prominent figure, in that movement, can well afford to miss this excellent book.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1398. Je. 24, ’09. 700w.
“This book adds little that is new to socialist literature. Nevertheless it is a valuable work.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 482. Jl. ’09. 80w. =Nation.= 88: 278. Mr. 18, ’09. 320w.
“He has written well.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 144. Mr. 13, ’09. 900w.
“It is on at least two vital points that ‘The Outlook’ takes issue with socialism as Mr. Hillquit presents it.”
− =Outlook.= 91: 765. Ap. 3, ’09. 1050w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 128. Jl. ’09. 100w. =Spec.= 103: sup. 715. N. 6, ’09. 70w.
“Of course the reader feels some distrust of a writer who speaks dogmatically upon subjects of such wide range and difficulty. The ideas are, however, refreshing and stimulating and the book will unquestionably find many interested readers.” W. B. Guthrie.
+ − =Survey.= 22: 406. Je. 12, ’09. 400w.
=Hind, A. M.= Short history of engraving and etching, for the use of collectors, and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers. **$5. Houghton.
9–3076.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“A valuable book for the student and collector, and for art and reference libraries.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 42. F. ’09.
“Although Mr. Hind’s book is in no sense an official publication, it possesses the admirable qualities which we are now accustomed to associate with Mr. Sidney Colvin and his assistants—thoroughness, accuracy, sobriety, and absence of flowery language.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 623. My. 22. 1250w.
“A really important contribution, and will take its place among the best of the present-day authorities on the subject. Nor does it seem that any of the modern etchers or engravers are adequately considered.” Laurence Burnham.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 481. Ja. ’09. 1050w.
“That the author has expended a prodigious amount of trouble and care in the writing of this short history is evident and the extensive knowledge he has brought to bear on the subject, coupled with the judicious way in which he has dealt with the work of individual artists, especially those now living, should ensure for the work a leading place in the literature of this branch of art.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 164. D. ’08. 350w.
“Here and there a critical reader will differ from Mr. Hind’s rapidly sketched positions. We have seen nothing quite so useful for the average person who is concerned with prints.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 342. Ap. 1, ’09. 630w.
“No better guide to prints in general can be imagined.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 803. D. 26, ’08. 350w.
“To the exact perceptions and trained sympathies of the true lover of line Mr. Hind has added, in the preparation of his volume, the minute and precious learning of the specialist.” Christian Brinton.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 620. F. ’09. 210w.
=Hingston, William E.=^{[7]} Forgeries and false entries. $1. Roxburgh pub. co.
9–18389.
A work by an expert examiner of disputed writing, documents, false entries, questioned book accounts, etc., which is based upon the author’s own experience with a strange assortment of crooks. The tricks of the forger and defaulter are uncovered, and safeguards against them are suggested. The book furnishes enlightenment of profit to all business men.
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“The book is likely to prove useful to investors and occasional speculators in the stock market, who are often led astray by an alluring prospectus.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 686. O. 23, ’09. 180w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 439. Jl. 17, ’09. 110w.
=Hirst, Margaret E.=^{[9]} Life of Friedrich List, and selections from his writings; with an introd. by F. W. Hirst. **$2. Scribner.
W9–191.
A story of the life of a man whose economic writings, chiefly his “National system of political economy,” have not been justly appreciated. This work aims to give a “sane appraisal.” “List made a deep impression upon the economic thought of his times and his writings have especial interest for Americans, for two reasons. First, he lived, studied, and wrote on this side of the ocean after having won recognition in his native land, and, secondly, on account of the working out of his theories on a parallel between Germany and the United States.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The author’s presentation is well executed. We have discovered but a single error, where 1787 is given (p. 38) for 1789, as the date of the first Tariff act.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 257. S. 16, ’09. 500w.
“Miss Hirst’s unpretentious but scholarly book will be useful to all interested in these topics.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 500. Ag. 21, ’09. 700w.
“We could wish that the endowment of research always gave us a product as well justified as this very interesting study.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 790. N. 13, ’09. 900w.
=Hiscox, Gardner Dexter.=^{[6]} Compressed air, its production, uses, and applications. 5th ed. rev. and enl. $5. Henley.
9–1598.
A new edition in which the out-of-date material has been cut out and new material added.
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“A complete, up-to-date treatise.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 120. Ap. ’09.
“The treatment of the subject is very comprehensive, and the present edition shows evidence of much revisional work.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 541. My. ’09. 220w.
=Hitchcock, Ripley=, ed.^{[11]} Decisive battles of America, by Albert Bushnell Hart, and others. $1.50. Harper.
9–28142.
A companion volume to Creasy’s “Decisive battles of the world,” whose aim is to set forth the crucial military events in our history, to trace their causes and to provide a clear narrative. It begins with the European contests affecting America and continues to the battle of Santiago, 1898.
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+ =Ind.= 67: 1149. N. 18, ’09. 160w.
“This type of book, carefully planned, with adequate maps and full index, is one that teachers as well as the layman should welcome.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 539. D. 2, ’09. 70w.
“Mr. Hitchcock’s selections seem to be well chosen, and a perusal of them will open the eyes of many as to the measurable amount of this country’s history that has been made by warfare.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 760. D. 4, ’09. 410w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 764. D. ’09. 70w.
=Hobart, Henry Metcalf.=^{[8]} Heavy electrical engineering. *$4.50. Van Nostrand.
9–23813.
“Under the non-committal title assigned to this book the author discusses the over-all efficiency of generating stations and the relation between coal consumption and outgoing electrical energy, the steam-raising plant, piston engines and steam turbines, condensing plant, electric generating plant, the design of generating stations, high-tension transmission lines, the high-tension continuous-current series system, electric traction calculations, traction motors and the electrification of railways. Although design details are omitted the whole book is arranged for use by the designing engineer and the various statements made by the author are based on inter-related facts that are outlined.”—Elec. World.
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“The treatment throughout is interesting and should prove useful to consulting and constructing electrical engineers.”
+ =Elec. World.= 54: 213. Jl. 22, ’09. 380w.
“The book is evidently intended, primarily, for engineers in Great Britain. This is indicated by the method of treatment and by the expression of costs in English currency. The book contains some most valuable tables, which have been carefully and laboriously worked out, and much valuable broad-gage engineering, evidently based on the author’s wide experience. The arrangement of the topics may be criticized.” H: Floy.
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 79. Je. 17, ’09. 730w.
“This book is original from beginning to end; moreover, it is a perfect store of useful practical data and is clearly written, so that the reader always remains in touch with the author and knows what point he wishes to make. These points are not matters of little detail, but the features in a design which really count. It is this ability of Mr. Hobart to take a broad and comprehensive view of his subject which makes this book so eminently readable.” Gisbert Kapp.
+ =Nature.= 80: 392. Je. 3, ’09. 1000w.
=Hobart, James Francis.=^{[10]} Millwrighting. *$3. Hill pub. co.
9–8948.
A thorogoing handbook for the millwright or mechanical engineer that gives instruction on selection of factory location, laying out buildings, laying out foundations, erection of buildings, inspection of buildings, and the installation and adjustment of machinery.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 15. S. ’09.
“The book is written for master builders, but it will prove of equal service to any young engineer who needs to go out into factory construction from time to time. The statements of theory from a workman’s point of view should be novel and often illuminating. It will help put one in a way to see the builders’ opinions of a designer’s ideas. The pages abound in homely suggestions which, in most cases, quickly strike home to the reader.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 71. Je. 17. ’09. 730w.
=Hobson, John Atkinson.=^{[12]} Industrial system: an inquiry into earned and unearned income. *$2.50. Longmans.
9–21894.
“A twofold purpose is discernible in this latest book by Mr. Hobson. The first purpose is purely scientific: ‘to construct an image of the actual, concrete system of industry’ so as to throw light upon distribution by a ‘study of the various sorts of acts of distribution.’ The second purpose, not explicitly stated, but dominating the book as a whole, is to furnish a plausible logical basis for the peculiar radical movement with which Mr. Hobson is identified. The former purpose carries Mr. Hobson through the first three chapters of the book; its definite result is the construction of a static scheme of industrial society, essentially similar to Clark’s group and sub-group system, but executed with greater elaboration. The remainder of the book subserves the propagandist purpose.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“One of the most valuable features of this work is its statement of the problem. The most disappointing thing, however, about the book is its treatment of the concept of marginal productivity, which the author thinks he is refuting.” T. N. Carver.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 349. D. ’09. 480w.
“One is almost forced to the conclusion that Mr. Hobson, in order to give his work an immediate practical significance, unconsciously substituted the taxation projects, now under discussion in Great Britain, for those that might logically be deduced from his theoretical treatment of income. A careful examination of Mr. Hobson’s theory will disclose, under a seeming definiteness of outline, a surprising number of hazy conceptions.” A. S. Johnson.
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 644. N. ’09. 2800w.
“Free traders will naturally welcome the work as an achievement of value, but it is not of less interest to Tariff reformers, because it states the case against Tariff reform as well as it can possibly be stated. We do not remember having seen such an acute mind, so highly fitted for the task, in such hopeless confusion.”
− + =Sat. R.= 108: 137. Jl. 31, ’09. 2000w.
=Hocking, Joseph.=^{[9]} Sword of the Lord. **$1.25. Dutton.
9–10031.
“A story of Tudor England and contemporary Germany, the period of the reformation in Europe, when Luther and Erasmus were most powerful. The hero is Brian Hamilton, known far and wide as a hater of females. Henry VIII sends him to Germany to escort a lady of noble birth to England, whose presence is imperative in the latter country for political reasons.... The narrative is full of little incidents that make the period and its people seem very real. The figure of Luther is life-like and true to history and the great scenes in which he figures—the burning of the Pope’s bull and the Diet of Worms, are made vivid and interesting.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The author has done his best to get the times in and has succeeded but indifferently well.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 424. Ag. 19, ’09. 100w.
“A very readable romance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 335. My. 29, ’09. 250w.
“The scenes in courts and camps are described with animation by this well-known story-teller.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 375. Je. 12, ’09. 170w.
=Hodges, Rev. George.=^{[6]} Apprenticeship of Washington, and other sketches of significant colonial personages. **$1.25. Moffat.
9–4183.
A noteworthy contribution to our historical literature which shows how Washington’s early training fitted him for later service. Contents: The apprenticeship of Washington; The hanging of Mary Dyer; The adventures of Captain Miles Standish; The education of John Harvard; The forefathers of Jamestown.
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“The value of these unassuming papers lies in the new aspect they present of people and events that have been long familiar.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 105. Ap. ’09.
“Five short and readable, as well as scholarly and painstaking, chapters.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 268. Ap. 16, ’09. 250w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 130. Mr. 6, ’09. 220w.
=Hodges, Rev. George.=^{[10]} Garden of Eden: stories from the first nine books of the Old Testament. †$1.50. Houghton.
9–27360.
Forty Bible stories for children, short, clearly told and to the point of the lesson contained in the scriptural source. They are intended to be read or told to children, and appear in attractive holiday binding.
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“The unfortunate attempt has again been made to re-tell some of the grand old Bible stories in language supposed to suit young readers.”
− =Dial.= 47: 442. D. 1, ’09. 250w.
“Dean Hodges’ collection will prove suggestive, and, were it not for these mistaken affectations of style, would have wide reception.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 1018. D. 4, ’09. 120w.
“We have given space to this criticism of a poor book because it is handsomely printed and illustrated, in a manner to attract unsuspecting buyers.”
− =Nation.= 89: 464. N. 11, ’09. 240w.
“Old Testament stories entertainingly retold for children.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 663. O. 23, ’09. 10w.
“Through the volume there runs a vein of quiet humor that emphasizes at once the human quality in which the Old Testament itself is rich, and the reverence which underlies the whole treatment.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 786. D. 4, ’09. 300w.
=Hodson, A. L.=^{[9]} Letters from a settlement. $1.50. Longmans.
9–20784.
Letters describing experiences growing out of London settlement work. “The author, who is evidently an excellent settlement worker, gives some vivid pictures of the London poor; whilst not blind to their weaknesses, she does justice to their good qualities. Almost every feature of settlement work is described. The letters on boys’ clubs are especially interesting. Miss Hodson understands the London boy. The letters throw much light on the work of the charity organization society and reveal the value of that much criticized body.” (Ath.)
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“A series of well-written and interesting letters. The letters were well worth publishing, and prove the great good which is accomplished by a well-organized settlement.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 153. Ag. 7. 180w.
“[The letters] give us a very good inner view of one of those charitable houses in the East End of London.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 444. Jl. 17, ’09. 450w.
“The letters themselves are written with some sympathy, and they are not difficult to read, but they do not go far towards helping anyone who wants to know a little more definitely what, after all, a settlement is, and who is not merely contented with hearing something of what residents of a settlement may do.” Roger Howson.
+ − =Survey.= 23: 140. O. 30, ’09. 1250w.
=Hofmann, Josef.=^{[12]} Piano questions answered; a little book of direct answers to 250 questions asked by piano students. **75c. Doubleday.
9–27752.
Two-hundred and fifty replies to inquiries made thru the columns of the Ladies’ home journal. “The questions that are answered are arranged together under different headings, as technique, (in its many different divisions,) the instrument, the pedals, practice, marks, and nomenclature, phrasing, memorizing, playing for people, bad music, the student’s age, and so on; and there are pages devoted to Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Chopin.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Are many useful specific hints on points of technique or interpretation.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 117. D. ’09.
“Give hints and elucidate points which no text-book has space to dwell upon.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 960. N. 27, ’09. 110w.
“What Mr. Hofmann says is practical, sound, genuine; and there are very few students, or even players beyond the pupilary state, who would not find help and stimulus in it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 744. N. 27, ’09. 400w.
=Hogan, Albert Edmond.=^{[5]} Pacific blockade. *$2. Oxford.
9–6476.
“Pacific blockade is a means of international coercion short of war which first found use in the nineteenth century. The author by this essay gives short historical sketches of the instances in which it has been used and draws conclusions as to its present status and probable future development. The discussion is based on some twenty conflicts, most of them of lesser importance, some of which lasted but a day or two and others of so transitory a nature that the facts are not definitely known. Naturally under such circumstances the discussion must be at many points vague as the author frankly admits.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“In this book the author has discussed a minor topic of international law, fully, fairly and ably. It is the only treatise in English exclusively upon this subject. Except to a person somewhat prejudiced against the entire practice of pacific blockade, Mr. Hogan’s fairminded, moderate statement of the case for it may seem very nearly convincing. Yet there are certain objections. To allow absolutely unrestricted traffic through the lines of a pacific blockade to all ships of third states would in most cases make the blockade so ineffective as to be valueless. It is a pity that the author is not clearer, is not less inconsistent, on this point, for it is the crux of the whole matter.” T. S. Woolsey.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 588. Ap. ’09. 780w. =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 718. My. ’09. 300w.
“His historical work is exceedingly thorough and sound, and he puts most ‘pure historians’ of the period to shame by the abundant knowledge upon which he bases a trenchant vindication of the policy adopted by Palmerston in the affair of Don Pacifico.” G. B. H.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 207. Ja. ’09. 120w.
=Hogarth, David George.=^{[9]} Ionia and the East: six lectures delivered before the University of London. *$1.15. Oxford.
9–23807.
“A summary of all that Mr. Hogarth and “his brother archaeologists have to tell us about the rise of that splendid civilization with which the history of the Hellenic world begins.” (Eng. Hist. R.) His main contentions are that in Ittica the population before the migration to Asia Minor was mainly Aegean mixed with a Danubian element; that the Hittite civilization strongly influenced Hellenic culture in Ionia; and that the Phoenicians played a small part in the development of Greek civilization.”
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“Mr. Hogarth has done more than sift historical data from vain imaginings; he has not only collected the evidence, but has also elicited from it all that it can prove, presenting his results with a brevity, a completeness and a lucidity in startling contrast to the manner of almost every other worker in the same field. In conclusion, attention should also be called to the fact that the book is incidentally a mine of information as to recent archaeological discoveries in the East, and contains several important and interesting discussions.” W. A. Galigher.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 541. Jl. ’09. 1100w.
“The one weak point in Mr. Hogarth’s admirable little book is his disregard of the evidence of physical anthropology.” J. G.
+ − =Nature.= 81: 94. Jl. 22, ’09. 600w. + =Spec.= 103: 386. S. 11, ’09. 120w.
=Hogle, William M.=^{[7]} Internal combustion engines: a reference book for designers, operators, engineers and students. *$3. McGraw.
9–11276.
“The book opens with a description of the usual cycles and some practical comparisons. It then takes up practical details of operation, starting devices, carburetters and vaporizers, producers, fuels and combustion, engine compression and the indicator card. These matters are arranged rather inconsequentially and take up half of the book. The chapters on design follow, and last there are descriptions of governing devices, ignition, engine testing, report of tests and various miscellaneous tables. It is not a reference book, nor is it a book for students, as it does not take up even the elementary theory. It is rather a book for a person with practical experience and no technical training.”—Engin. N.
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“The only part of his book which can in any sense be regarded as a reference book is that part relating to design. It is pretty obvious at once that the author does not know what has been published in the field of gas-engine design or else has not seen fit to take advantage of such publication. It is not without practical value; its greatest fault is in describing itself as something that it certainly is not.” L. S. Marks.
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 59. My. 13, ’09. 600w.
“One of the main features lacking in this book is the ‘why’ and the ‘wherefore,’ rather than the ‘how.’”
− =Engin. Rec.= 59: 755. Je. 12, ’09. 300w.
=Holder, Charles Frederick, and Jordon, David Starr.= Fish stories alleged and experienced; with a little history, natural and unnatural. **$1.75. Holt.
9–5114.
These unusual fishing exploits and capital fish stories, classic and otherwise, prepared by two prominent amateur and professional ichthyologists, are full of entertainment and interest for the angler and the naturalist. Some of the chapters are: Ancient anglers and their literature; Fish stories of the fathers; Izaak Walton; Fishes on the mountains of the sea; Fishing in the air; Boys’ fish and boys’ fishing; and Little stories of strange fishes.
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“Entertaining stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 104. Ap. ’09. ✠
“There is in the volume so much interesting information regarding the natural history and habits of the many species of fishes which, in various parts of the world, have fallen victims to the authors’ piscatorial skill, that the book would have been better if the imaginary part had been left out.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 186. Ag. 14. 700w.
“Most entertaining reading for a sportsman’s idle hours.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 373. Je. 1, ’09. 300w.
“It is interesting in every part, it teems with scientific fact clearly stated, and its facts and fictions do not overlap in that hazy borderland which marks the work of writers who try to elucidate nature with the equipment merely of the sensational journalist.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 421. Ap. 22, ’09. 60w.
“All in all, this is a delightful book for a fisherman and for general readers who are not fishermen, but ought to be.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 163. Mr. 20, ’09. 1000w.
“The book will be pleasurable reading to not only fishermen but those who wish a little entertainment with some information added to it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 375. Je. 12, ’09. 160w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 638. My. ’09. 70w.
“There is plenty of variety and no lack of good reading in the forty unconnected chapters.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 489. O. 2, ’09. 170w.
=Holland, Clive.=^{[8]} Tyrol and its people. **$2.50. Pott.
W9–303.
A guide book less for the wayfarer or climber than for the tourist of the beaten track. It abounds in descriptions of towns; includes history, legends, folklore, customs; and emphasizes the Roman and Italian influences on Tyrol.
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“His book would be improved by a good map, and a careful index. The volume is so badly bound that the coloured plates fell out when first we turned over the pages.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 10. Jl. 3. 370w.
“An exceptionally interesting historical and descriptive account of a delightful land and people.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 39: 83. N. ’09. 50w.
“An exhaustive account.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 722. N. 20, ’09. 180w.
“Mr. Holland’s book is as pleasant to read before or after visiting the Tyrol as it will be useful to the visitor who is fortunate enough to find himself there.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 5. Jl. 17, ’09. 320w.
=Holland, Cornelius Joseph.=^{[12]} Divine story; a short life of our blessed Lord written specially for young people. *$1. Joseph M. Tally, 512 Westminster st., Providence, R. I.
9–8404.
“The life of Christ, as given by the Evangelists, is fragmentary; rehearsed once more in plain speech and with unquestioning faith, it may gather fresh impulse and call out new trust. This is the purpose and this the effect of this little book.”—Dial.
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“This life of our Lord, intended for young persons, comes as near to the ideal as we can reasonably hope for. Though the book professes to be for the use of young persons, it may very well aspire to serve the laity at large.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 89: 835. S. ’09. 150w.
“The directness, confidence, and sincerity of the author call out kindred feelings in the reader.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 390. N. 16, ’09. 300w.
=Holland, Rupert Sargent.=^{[10]} Man in the tower. †$1.50. Lippincott.
9–25178.
A dramatic story based upon the legend of “the invisible prince,” John Christian XX, Prince of Athelstein, whose throne was stolen from him by the regent while he was forced into banishment. The narrative tells how the prince played a winning game in thwarting the conspirator by marrying the very princess whom the regent was depending upon for the carrying out his nefarious schemes.
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“An exciting novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 650. O. 23, ’09. 40w.
=Holland, Thomas Erskine.=^{[8]} Laws of war on land; written and unwritten. *$1.50. Oxford.
9–3067.
“Mr. Holland in this short compilation aims to codify such usages as have by general acceptance become recognized as binding on civilized nations in time of war. Even now after the declaration of the Hague conference of 1907 it must be admitted that there are many important points upon which no declaration has as yet been made. The Hague declarations are made the groundwork about which the discussions of less generally accepted practices are grouped. There are valuable cross-references to the chief authorities. The latter half of the book contains a republication of the more important national instructions as to the laws of war on land, the text of the Hague declarations and an historical review of the chief diplomatic notes relating to the laws of war.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 183. Jl. ’09. 140w.
“Mr. Holland has expended much labor in the preparation of this little book, and the results are presented with the logic and precision which always characterize his work.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 169. Mr. ’09. 320w.
=Holley, Clifford Dyer.=^{[10]} Lead and zinc pigments. *$3. Wiley.
9–22027.
Gives a full description of the manufacture and properties of the various lead and zinc pigments. It traces the history of the paint manufacture in the United States, describes the four processes by which white lead is made. “Sublimed lead (sulphate), zinc-lead and lead oxides are described; lead-poisoning is fully discussed; European practice has a chapter; white zinc and the various ways to make it, and lithopone, are given about fifty pages; and finally about eighty pages are devoted to grinding, painting tests, and physical and chemical examination of both pigments and mixed paints.... Scattered through the book everywhere are found remarks on technical and disputed points of much interest.” (Engin. N.)
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“This is by far the most complete and authoritative book yet written on the subject.” A. H. Sabin.
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 27. S. 16, ’09. 1000w.
“This work is admirably written, well arranged, and excellently gotten out, with profuse illustrations. The general criticism of it is that Dr. Holley too often gives new conclusions as if they were facts without giving the facts on which these conclusions are based.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 60: 390. O. 2, ’09. 550w.
=Hollis, Alfred Claud.=^{[8]} The Nandi: their language and folk-lore. *$5.25. Oxford.
9–14599.
A companion volume to the author’s work on “The Masai” in which he deals with an allied tribe. “The Nandi, for some time one of the most troublesome elements in the Uganda Protectorate, has now been taught a respect for order, and Mr. Hollis anticipates a more prosperous future for them. They seem to occupy an intellectual level which gives at least some of response to a wise and considerate treatment. Mr. Hollis’s volume contains a sketch of the history of the people and of their customs, social and religious. Then we have specimens of their folk-lore, and finally a grammar and vocabulary.” (Spec.)
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“Except in Mr. Hollis’s previous work on the Masai, the student has never before, we think, been furnished with the materials for acquiring so thorough a knowledge of the language of an East African tribe.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 697. Je. 12. 1400w.
“A. C. Hollis, to whom we owe an excellent book on the Masai, now gives us an equally excellent study of the Nandi.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 35. Jl. 8, ’09. 280w.
“It will thus be seen that Mr. Hollis has made a noteworthy contribution to our knowledge of the ethnology of British East Africa.” A. C. H.
+ =Nature.= 80: 249. Ap. 29, ’09. 930w.
“We must be content with expressing our sense of the energy and industry with which the author has dealt with the subject.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 644. Ap. 24, ’09. 270w.
=Holman, Henry.=^{[6]} Pestalozzi: an account of his life and work. *$1.10. Longmans.
E8–706.
A work for the general reader as well as for the student of pedagogy which summarizes the foundation principles of the great educational reformer and discusses the causes of his failure. “In Mr. Holman’s judgment Pestalozzi was ‘one of the world’s greatest benefactors,’ and yet, as one who knew him well observed, ‘in spite of his grand ideal, which comprehended the whole human race, he did not possess the ability and skill requisite for conducting the smallest village school.’” (Spec.)
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“The reader is provided with the data for estimating at its real value the work of Pestalozzi and the influence he has exerted upon education during the last century.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 412. Ap. 22, ’09. 60w.
“The strength of the study lies in its excellent organization, its complete and sometimes fresh treatment of an oft-discussed theme, its liberal use of quotations from Pestalozzi’s less familiar writings, and its brief but suggestive criticism.” Willystine Goodsell.
+ =School R.= 17: 644. N. ’09. 800w.
“Very careful appreciation.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 270. Ag. 22, ’08. 300w.
=Holmes, Charles John.=^{[9]} Notes on the science of picture-making. *$3. Appleton.
A book for “students of art, professional workers and amateur enquirers into æsthetic questions.... The special merit of the book is that it makes no concessions to popular fallacies, but criticises impartially the art that is emptily conventional and that which aims at extravagant novelty: it wisely advocates originality and intelligent experiment as essentials for real artistic progress, but it demands that all good painting, whatever its subject or intention, should have as its foundation decorative qualities of the highest type.”—Int. Studio.
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“Prof. Holmes has done a remarkable and original thing; he has applied common sense to the arts of design in an appropriate way. We may fairly add that since Reynold’s discourses the student has never had put before him such a fruitful and suggestive guide to his endeavours. Certainly no student of painting can afford to neglect the opportunity for improvement here offered.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 414. Ap. 3. 1200w.
“If the book is a little pedantic in manner, and suffers somewhat from the anxiety of the writer to explain and account for the endless varieties of artistic activity, these at any rate are only minor defects. The argument throughout is sane and temperate, inspired by sincere conviction, and presented without any of those affectations and obscurities which have been so often adopted by theorists on artistic practice.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 37: 335. Je. ’09. 400w.
“It offers the fruit of full-grown personal theory and should not be neglected by any reader who keeps abreast of current philosophic art criticism.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 24. N. ’09. 240w.
=Holmes, Thomas.= Known to the police. **$3. Longmans.
9–9569.
First hand knowledge of London’s underworld lies back of these “shrewd, practical studies of criminal psychology, of the individual and of the class, always looking toward the end of benefiting the criminal by reforming him or protecting society by treating him with needful wisdom. Perhaps the most interesting chapter is that in which he compares present conditions among criminals and police courts with the conditions of a quarter of a century ago.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Mr. Holmes has rendered great service by the publication of his book.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 372. Mr. 27. 540w.
“All who are interested in the study of sociological conditions and in the attempts of modern times to bring the underworld into the light will find [this] a very meaty sort of book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 766. D. 12, ’08. 420w.
“Mr. Thomas Holmes is always strong; the book abounds in bold and valuable suggestions.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 18. Ja. 2, ’09. 900w. + =Spec.= 102: sup. 1002. Je. 26, ’09. 1800w.
=Home, Gordon Cochrane.= Yorkshire; painted and described by Gordon Home. *$6. Macmillan.
W9–25.
The republication in one volume of the three works entitled “Coast and moorland scenes,” “Dales and fells,” and “Vales and wolds.” “Famous houses and ruins, great churches, moorland and sea-coast, the many things that put Yorkshire so high among English shires are to be found here.” (Spec.)
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“Mr. Home knows well how to give variety of interest to his pages.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 462. D. 16, ’08. 170w.
“Mr. Home’s text is chiefly descriptive, and suffers a little from the monotony due to such writing and from an uncertain taste when the purple patches are in order. His pictures are more to our liking.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 180w.
“A volume of great and varied interest.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 951. D. 5, ’08. 90w.
=Hoover, Bessie Ray.=^{[9]} Pa Flickinger’s folks. †$1. Harper.
9–22182.
A story of Ma and Pa Flickinger and their family, types of ordinary working people in every day life. The author convincingly portrays the fun they get out of life, the philosophical way in which they look upon all hardships when influenced by their belief that everyone is fitted for his burdens and all things come right.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 55. O. ’09. ✠
“A friendly, optimistic realism is the great merit of a volume of sketches linked together by a slight plot and the unity of their characters. A modest, slight little book, but worth while.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 550. S. 2, ’09. 180w.
“The family hopes, fears, merrymakings, and misadventures brawl along in a channel of noisy humor, comic, cheerful and clean.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 381. O. 21, ’09. 130w.
“There isn’t any doubt that Miss Hoover writes of these people with full knowledge of the class of which they are types, nor that the book is a faithful portrayal of the life with which it is concerned.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 549. S. 18, ’09. 230w.
=Hope, Laurence (Violet Nicolson) (Mrs. Malcolm Nicolson).=^{[7]} Songs from The garden of Kama. **$3. Lane.
9–30426.
Poems steeped in Oriental atmosphere. The author “holds the gorgeous East in fee; and through her we hear our own dreams of it—of fierce joys and pains, a swarming vividness of life, a fate cruelly smiling, death-cries trodden under the feet of interminable generations and sultry fevers of desire. It is a new dream, intensely modern and a little unhealthy; but it has a tone and a colour of its own, and it will find its place in our literature and live there.” (Bookm.)
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“A volume which has that character of its own that a real book ought to have. Like the poems themselves, [the photographic illustrations] make India curiously real.” Brian Hooker.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 371. Je. ’09. 250w.
“Love songs in the Oriental vein are a severe test for any poet. In this book they maintain a perfect level of unexciting fluency.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 693. My. 29, ’09. 120w.
“A remarkable, if undisciplined, book.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: sup. 153. Ja. 30, ’09. 30w.
=Hopkins, Alphonso Alva.= Profit and loss in man. **$1.20. Funk.
8–37659.
The new gospel of patriotic, economic, and political common sense on the temperance question. It is a strong plea for prohibition.
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“The author has done a good work. He has not exhausted the subject, but he has brought together in a readable and impressive way matter that temperance people are much in need of. It is very fortunate that the author can see the overthrow of the liquor traffic only through the agency of the Prohibition party.” F. W. Collier.
+ − =Arena.= 41: 393. Mr. ’09. 580w.
“The speaker is terribly in earnest, though never so much so that he cannot stop to introduce a jocular remark or anecdote.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 120. Ap. ’09. 70w.
“It is full of facts, statistics, anecdotes, and illustrations, and would furnish quite a treasury of material to temperance or prohibition lecturers, as well as to preachers. Yet it is extremely lively and interesting reading for the home.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 386. Mr. 6, ’09. 100w.
=Hopkins, Margaret Sutton (Briscoe).=^{[12]} Image of Eve. †$1.25. Harper.
9–28152.
A womanly matron, happily married, who was dubbed a Subrikinque—meaning “a super-qualified chaperon, warranted by birth and by education to fulfil all the plenipotentiary duties, large and small, that might properly attach to the cult”—for a long season thrusts a matchmaker’s finger into the private affairs of Peter, well devoted to both husband and wife, and is punished for it by his carrying off her own Daphne. “It was not in my mind to marry off my own little daughter at eighteen.... I will buy me a muzzle if I cannot learn to hold my foolish, matrimony-praising tongue. No, I shall never be called Subrikinque again.”
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“It is a slight story, but it is cleverly told, with much insight into human nature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 751. N. 27, ’09. 200w.
“Both grace of style and cleverness of thought may be found in the book.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 876. D. 18, ’09. 170w.
=Hornblow, Arthur.=^{[7]} By right of conquest. †$1.50. Dillingham.
9–12277.
A fearless, interesting handling of a hackneyed situation. When a liner goes down during a tempest in the Indian ocean a coal stoker rescues a New York heiress. They are cast upon an uninhabited island. This peril and the succeeding struggle for daily food level the differences between them while the refining influence of the young woman holds the man close to a high sense of honor. Rescued and carried home the girl returns to her luxurious life and the man to a day laborer’s work. Then fortune takes up the game, turns her wheel, and shows the hero to be the heir to his father’s English title and estates. This turn in the tide of his affairs gives the hero courage to woo the girl, but not until he had won her does he announce his changed fortune.
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“Less carefully done the story might have degenerated into the sort of tale whose chief excuse for being is its appeal to the baser side of human nature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 375. Je. 12, ’09. 250w.
“Mr. Hornblow has not by any means been adequate to his idea. He has not even treated it bona fide. But it must be said in his favor that he has treated his rather delicate theme without offense.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 401. Je. 26, ’09. 300w.
=Hornibrook, Isabel.= From keel to kite. †$1.50. Lothrop.
8–31470.
A story of Gloucester which tells “how a young boy, Oakley Rose, who has inherited a love of vessels, after years of apprenticeship, constantly confronted by difficulty, becomes a naval architect. The boy has many thrilling experiences, especially on a voyage to the Arctic waters, where he is astray in a dory for days.”—Bookm.
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 500. Ja. ’09. 60w.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
=Ind.= 65: 1479. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“There is the genuine sea twang to the atmosphere.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=Hornung, Ernest William.=^{[10]} Mr. Justice Raffles. †$1.50. Scribner.
9–24258.
Another thrilling chapter in the life of Mr. Hornung’s fascinating gentleman-burglar. Raffles’ masterfully handled episode in this new instalment of experiences is that of kidnapping a money lender, cracking a safe, slipping away from the police—and all for the sake of seeing justice rendered to a young cricket player who was writhing in the toils of the notorious Shylock.
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“The book is a sequel well up to the standard of what has gone before, excellently written, and lightened by a pretty touch of sentiment.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 357. S. 25. 80w.
“There is a good, readable plot, and the same deftness and dexterity and careful workmanship which from the beginning raised the stories about Raffles far above the ordinary shocker.”
+ =Bookm.= 30: 216. N. ’09. 140w.
“If the action drags slightly over occasional half-pages, there is full compensation towards the end. When Mr. Hornung falls into full swing he gets perceptibly away from the pretty graces of style with which he enmeshes Raffles in his quieter moments. The high merits of the style we would not deny.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 356. O. 14, ’09. 400w.
“He is a most amusing and entertaining scamp, and he continues to be much more likable than many heroes of far greater propriety.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 598. O. 9, ’09. 230w. =Outlook.= 93: 515. O. 30, ’09. 110w.
“Mr. Hornung’s delivery is losing its power, and he ought to be taken off.”
− =Sat. R.= 108: 668. N. 27, ’09. 140w.
=Horsburgh, E. L. S.= Lorenzo the Magnificent and Florence in her golden age. *$4.50. Putnam.
9–8732.
While Lorenzo de Medici is the central figure of this sketch the main purpose has been “to produce not a personal study but a sketch of political conditions and movements.” All the forces of this golden age are reviewed, and the manner in which they operated thru art, literature, and philosophy.
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“Of service to scholars though written in popular tone for the general reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 41. O. ’09.
“If Mr. Horsburgh’s work is not exactly a contribution to knowledge, it is at least a very agreeable presentment of what is known, and is written pleasantly and lucidly, without that touch of preciosity one often finds in books dealing with this period.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 344. Mr. 20. 750w.
“Mr. Horsburgh’s work is a distinct contribution to Italian literature and humanism, as well as to Florentine history.” P. A. Martin.
+ =Dial.= 46: 294. My. 1, ’09. 1450w.
“The history itself is told in a pleasant and interesting fashion, though the interest is somewhat marred by a good deal of repetition and some padding. Mr. Horsburgh seems to have a special animus against Venice.” K. D. V.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 403. Ap. ’09. 220w.
“The reviewer finds himself forced to reply to readers who ask: ‘We cannot read both Armstrong and Horsburgh; which shall we choose?’ It is safe to reply that either gives a safe survey of Lorenzo’s life and times. Armstrong is more compact; Horsburgh more detailed. Horsburgh pays more attention to the state of Italy, and to renaissance civilization in general. We have marked many ‘corrigenda,’ especially in the Italian proper names.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 385. Ap. 15, ’09. 950w.
“A more detailed study of Lorenzo as poet and author than in any other biography of which we know.” G: S. Hellman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 110. F. 27, ’09. 740w.
“It is written, not primarily for scholars, but for the average cultivated reader who knows Italy and its history in a general way and is glad to know more. The style, which it were unfair to call slip-shod, is yet lacking in distinction, but perhaps it is all the happier medium for a temper so ingenuous, straightforward and sincere.”
+ − =No. Am.= 189: 778. My. ’09. 250w.
“He has evidently devoted himself to honest and thorough study of the period of which he treats, and if his conclusions are not often very original they are, at all events, the results of his own thought.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 18. Ja. 2, ’09. 870w.
“His book, if it is somewhat dry, has at least the merit of being instructive.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 839. N. 21, ’08. 450w.
=Horstmann, Henry Charles, and Tousley, Victor Hugo.=^{[10]} Practical armature and magnet winding. mor. $1.50. Drake, F: J.
9–19614.
“The practical side of armature and magnet winding is presented in this book, enabling the student to see the exact manner in which the work is done, but sufficient of the theory has been given to enable the reader to comprehend why certain precautions and methods are necessary. The titles of the chapters are: Elements of armature design; Mechanical considerations; Armature windings—diagrams; Ring armatures; Drum armatures; Commutator construction; Armature troubles; Armature calculations; Magnet winding; Useful formulas and tables.”—Engin. D.
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+ =Engin. D.= 6: 248. S. ’09. 100w.
“This small book is suitable for the ambitious worker who has some slight knowledge of the laws of electricity and magnetism and who wishes to know something of the application of principles to actual machinery that may come into his hands daily. Books of this class are too often carelessly written and their elucidations fail to elucidate even to the well trained. The reverse is true of this book.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 16. Ag. 12, ’09. 250w.
=Horton, Robert Forman.=^{[6]} My belief: answers to certain religious difficulties. **$1.25. Revell.
9–4141.
“A collection of brief essays dealing with essential phases of religious life.... The spirit of modern thinking is taken constantly into account, and the mood of the average man. Christian doctrines are briefly restated in terms of present-day convictions. It does not exhibit the same background of articulated principles as does President King’s book, but offers rather a series of concrete treatments of aspects of doctrine. It aims indeed not at a formal scientific apologetic, but consists rather, according to its subtitle, of ‘answers to certain religious difficulties.’ It ought to have a ministry where a conservative and yet thoughtful and vital discussion of religious problems in a modern spirit is needed.”—Am. J. Theol.
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“The book is rational, devout and practical. It is a popular book in the best sense.” H. A. Youtz.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 313. Ap. ’09. 140w.
“Dr. Horton in large measure represents distinctively modern theology.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 585. Mr. 13, ’09. 500w.
=Hosmer, George Leonard.=^{[9]} Azimuth. $1. Wiley.
9–12206.
A handbook that “gives just the ordinary methods for checking the angles of a survey by observation of the sun and stars, but the book is removed from the commonplace by the conciseness of its instructions and the numerous practical hints given at all the necessary points. The tables for computing the results are given in the latter part of the book, and the examples are worked out on specimen forms calculated to obviate clerical errors.”—Nature.
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+ =Engin. D.= 6: 155. Ag. ’09. 120w.
“A very compact and complete handbook.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 2. Jl. 15, ’09. 80w. + =Engin. Rec.= 60: 111. Jl. 24, ’09. 180w.
“It is a handbook for the practical surveyor, and, as such, should prove very useful.” W. E. R.
+ =Nature.= 81: 126. Jl. 29, ’09. 150w.
=Hough, Emerson.= 54–40 or fight. †$1.50. Bobbs.
9–2775.
A novel set in the times of the controversy over the boundary of Oregon and the annexation of Texas. The story is based upon the efforts of the sturdy Americans to resist England in terminating the Oregon boundary at 54 degrees, 40 minutes north latitude. President Tyler and Calhoun are prominent figures, while the hero, with the typical historical novel intrepidity, is put to confusion in affairs of love and state by the brilliant Baroness von Ritz who plays an important part in shaping America’s destinies.
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“We have read few better descriptions of the marches across the plains of the caravans of the settlers than is found in the book. A romantic novel that strongly suggests the romances of Stanley Weyman and which cannot we think, but impress the reader as being as unconvincing.”
+ − =Arena.= 41: 603. Ag. ’09. 1350w.
“There is probably no one writing to-day who has so well caught the trick of this particular sort of pseudo-history, in which real personages and real events are so dexterously interwoven with a tissue of purely imaginary happenings, and the causes of great international crises attributed to the audacious intrigues of some charming adventurers invented expressly for the occasion, as Mr. Hough has succeeded in doing.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 78. Mr. ’09. 270w.
“Mr. Emerson Hough has become an adept in the ‘big bow-wow’ style.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 264. Ap. 16, ’09. 220w.
“Historical novels, we are inclined to believe, ought to cling more closely to recorded history than does this one. Of the personages in the story we cannot say that any of them adequately proves his or her existence.”
− =Ind.= 66: 374. F. 18, ’09. 680w.
“Judged as a novel, Mr. Hough’s book contains many elements that go to make popular success. Its most doubtful feature is the heroine.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 70. F. 6, ’09. 600w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 375. Je. 12, ’09. 270w.
“A rapidly moving story, full of action and stirring the blood like the call of a trumpet.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 39: 383. Mr. ’09. 180w.
=House, Edward John.=^{[12]} Hunter’s camp-fires. **$5. Harper.
9–28706.
A book for hunters in which is given a “plain and unvarnished” description of successful big-game hunts from the Arctic to the equator. The author is a thoro sportsman, and while justifying the hunter in legitimate pursuit of big game, he protests against indiscriminate slaughter. Eighty illustrations accompany the text.
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“The territory covered by Mr. House makes it a book of travel as well as of sport.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1145. N. 18, ’09. 150w.
“We look upon this volume as one of the most remarkable records of hunting which we have met with.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1073. D. 11, ’09. 160w.
=Houston, Edwin James.=^{[11]} At school in the Cannibal islands. $1.25. Am. Bapt.
9–23810.
The fourth volume in “The Pacific series.” It tells of the experiences of three lads who have figured thruout the series and six Polynesian boys who are enrolled together in a school on Harding island. The interest centers about the routing of a cannibal invading army and the thrilling adventures attendant upon it.
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“Though the novelty of setting ... and an invasion by a fleet of cannibal canoes would catch the interest of any lad, yet the chunks of natural history inserted at fairly regular intervals are likely gradually to dampen his ardor.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 709. N. 13, ’09. 90w.
=Houston, Edwin James.= In captivity in the Pacific; or, In the land of the breadfruit tree. †$1.25. Am. Bapt.
9–5522.
The third volume in “The Pacific series.” It furnishes an informing account of various valuable tropical products and gives a description of the daily life of the Polynesians, their customs, religious habits and occupations.
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“The story of the adventures of these boys during their captivity is extremely entertaining, and along with it runs a lot of instructive matter.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 113. F. 27, ’09. 110w.
=Houston, Edwin James.= Wonder book of light. **$1.50. Stokes.
8–34626.
Treats interestingly such subjects as reflection and refraction, the microscope, and telescope, the spectrum and the rainbow, looking glasses, soap bubbles, burning glasses and shaving glasses, the eye, invisible light, the X-rays, lighthouses, ghosts, etc.
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“The only book for young people devoted to light alone.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 94. Mr. ’09. ✠
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 501. Ja. ’09. 100w.
“Is full of information.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1480. D. 17, ’08. 30w. + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 736. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=Houston, Edwin James.= Wonder book of magnetism. **$1.50. Stokes.
8–31457.
Discusses magnetic batteries and magnetic currents, lodestones, the compass, causes of its variations and methods of preventing them, magnetism and light, the varieties of aurora borealis, the telephonograph, or “talking newspaper,” etc.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 94. Mr. ’09. ✠
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 501. Ja. ’09. 100w.
“The author shows an excellent knack for stating scientific facts and principles with such clearness and such happy choice of illustration as to make them entertaining, even while he preserves scientific accuracy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 736. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=Howe, Maud.= Sun and shadow in Spain. **$3. Little.
8–31668.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 10. Ja. ’09.
“Seldom does the discriminating reader come across a volume of travel that is at once so informing and so beguiling.”
+ =Arena.= 41: 78. Ja. ’09. 400w.
“Maude Howe met, on terms of friendship and intimacy, many very interesting Spaniards and enjoyed the hospitality of their homes; so she is able to present us with some intimate glimpses of Spanish character and manners.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 549. Ja. ’09. 460w.
“For promoting a more intimate understanding and a warmer friendship between Americans and Spaniards, this attractive picture of the land and its people is likely to do good service, besides affording considerable entertainment.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 200w.
“The book is a delightful addition to the rather limited group of descriptive travels permeated by the wit and distinctive personality of a clever woman.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 63. Ja. 9, ’09. 180w.
=Howe, Samuel Gridley.=^{[8]} Letters and journals of Samuel Gridley Howe; ed. by his daughter, Laura E. Richards; with notes by F. B. Sanborn. 2v. **$3. Estes.
6–38340.
A two volume biography, the first of which, “The Greek revolution” deals with the “more adventurous and spectacular circumstances of the years when Dr. Howe was busy with the struggle between Greek and Turk, Christianity and Islam, liberty and old-world tyranny,” and the second with “the habitually more quiet surroundings of his unwearied efforts at home to alleviate suffering, to illuminate darkness, to lighten the burden of the lowly.”—Dial.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 76. N. ’09. (Review of v. 2.)
“A faithful portrayal of how life appeared, during the ardent nineteenth century,—the century of reform succeeding upon revolution,—to an impetuous spirit intensely harmonious with the philanthropic aspirations of his time.” Barrett Wendell.
+ =Dial.= 47: 64. Ag. 1, ’09. 1450w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The two stately volumes are not too long to commemorate his unparalleled career.” F. G. Peabody.
+ =Hibbert J.= 8: 139. O. ’09. 5300w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The second volume ... is of more general interest than the first. To read his record will make the reader himself feel a better man.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 279. S. 23, ’09. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Mrs. Richards’s work, both in spirit and execution, is in every way worthy of its subject. She has given us a book of thrilling interest, and her work as editor and annotator is perfect.” H. P. Spofford.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 437. Jl. 17, ’09. 4000w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Such a life as this, so filled with varied interest, crowded with adventure, consecrated to the loftiest ideals, and crowned with the best success, is worth recording in two stout volumes.” G: Hodges.
+ =Outlook.= 92: 647. Jl. 17, ’09. 2300w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) =R. of Rs.= 40: 512. O. ’09. 80w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Howells, William Dean.=^{[10]} Boy life: stories and readings from Howells, selected and arranged for supplementary reading in elementary schools by Percival Chubb. *50c. Harper.
9–24966.
Boys, and girls too, in or out of school will read with delight these selections from Howells’ well known juvenile books: “A boy’s town” and “The flight of Pony Baker.” The editor has classed his selections under five headings: Adventures in a boy’s town; Life in a boy’s town; Games and pastimes; Glimpses of the larger world; and The last of a boy’s town. This method makes definite subjects easy of access.
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“This volume will have some usefulness in school collections.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 145. D. ’09.
“It is unfortunate that a book so excellent as this is in spirit, and one, moreover, that has been selected with such discrimination, should be stigmatized on its title-page as ‘supplementary reading in elementary schools.’ Mr. Chubb’s wise counsel in his introduction would have been sufficient and the book itself should have been allowed to travel on its own merits.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1018. D. 4, ’09. 140w.
“Anybody who likes listening to a real boy telling a real story will have a happy time reading ‘Boy life.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 709. N. 13, ’09. 120w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 766. D. ’09. 30w.
=Howells, William Dean.=^{[6]} Mother and the father: dramatic passages. **$1.20. Harper.
9–14596.
Right from life are chosen the three phases of this drama. First the father and mother looking down upon their new-born infant marvel at the wondrous love able to bring to consciousness a living soul that can know, feel and think. Second they face the hour of their child’s marriage staunching the wound of separation with the calm reflection that she now needed the whole of her love as they had found it in each other. The third momentous hour is that of death which the parents face hand in hand, suffering, struggling, overcoming thru the might of love in which now as always the child lives.
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“The psychology of these crucial experiences has been translated into speech that is remarkable for its simplicity and directness and for its beauty of thought and depth of feeling.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 169. Je. ’09. ✠
“When we have finished the book our chief sympathy is for the daughter who had to bear with the nerves of her parents and the husband who had to be a foil for his wife’s hysteria.”
− =Ind.= 67: 1318. D. 9, ’09. 400w.
“The spirit of the book is poetic, but the verse is not felicitous. But the spirit of the book transcends the accident of form, and the spirit is rarely beautiful and fine.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 342. My. 29, ’09. 750w.
“An exquisite poem which is of the real Victorian flavor.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 123. Jl. ’09. 250w.
=Howells, William Dean.=^{[11]} Seven English cities. **$2. Harper.
9–28285.
Mr. Howells tells his readers the secret of his modest liking for Liverpool, lets them know his ideas on the merits of Manchester, pauses with them in smokiest Sheffield, shows them a nine-days’ wonder in York, relates to them two Yorkish episodes, spends with them a day at Doncaster and Durham, grows reminiscent over the history of Cambridge, the “mother of our American Athens,” turns into Wales to enjoy Aberystwyth and Llandudno, and closes with some intimate estimates of English character.
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“Mr. Howells is usually at his best in travel sketches of this sort but one or two of these will impress even his most faithful admirers as below the standard.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 118. D. ’09.
“He is as gossipy and entertaining as ever.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 459. D. 1, ’09. 400w.
“A pure delight, because it reveals so gracefully the beauty of the purely technical side of his talent, and the playful ease with which it can turn the least promising of material into something worth the doing, and so superlatively well worth the reading.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1144. N. 18, ’09. 160w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 658. O. 23, ’09. 60w. + =No. Am.= 190: 839. D. ’09. 130w.
“One only wishes that Mr. Howells’s ‘Seven English cities’ were seventeen. He has the irresponsible, free-from-guide-book-bonds attitude that only an old traveler attains, and as a literary travel companion he is even more enjoyable than as critic and story-writer.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 788. D. 4, ’09. 90w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 760. D. ’09. 50w.
=Hoyt, Arthur Stephen.=^{[8]} Preacher: his person, message and method: a book for the class-room and study. **$1.50. Macmillan.
9–4142.
Shows a keen consciousness of modern pulpit problems. “In Part 1 of his book Professor Hoyt makes a remarkably satisfactory analysis of the elemental factors in pulpit power. The chapters on ‘The social message,’ ‘Ethical sermons,’ and ‘The ethics of pulpit speech’ are especially valuable.” (Am. J. Theol.)
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“The book is a timely contribution to the better training of ministers.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 499. Jl. ’09. 80w. + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 138. My. ’09.
“Dr. Hoyt’s counsels are discreet, if not brilliant.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 486. My. 13, ’09. 100w.
=Hoyt, Charles Oliver.= Studies in the history of modern education. *$1.50. Silver.
8–33791.
Emphasizes the evolution of educational doctrines and their influence upon present day theory and practice. “Professor Hoyt has cut loose from the traditional methods of presenting this subject, has confined himself to really important men and movements in modern educational theory, and has brought together a large amount of ancillary material of suggestiveness and value.” (Educ. R.)
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“A more than usually interesting book. It is a book for students and teachers, and might well find a wide use in normal schools. His book ought to be widely used. The bibliographies and questions are particularly full and carefully made.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 314. Mr. ’09. 110w. =Ind.= 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 80w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 511. Ap. ’09. 50w.
=Hsiang Yuan-p’ien.= Chinese porcelain; sixteenth-century colored illustrations with Chinese ms. text; tr. and annot. by Stephen Wooton Bushell. *$50. Oxford.
A work of great importance to the task of reconstructing the story of Chinese ceramics. It is a reproduction of the famous album prepared by Hsiang Yuan-p’ien in 1575 in which are described and illustrated eighty-three pieces of porcelain. “The importance of bringing before the public interested in Chinese ceramics this authoritative work, in a complete form, will be recognised by those who know how often the album of Hsiang Yuan-p’ien has supplied material, of which the source has not always been acknowledged, to several writers on Chinese porcelain.” (Spec.)
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“It may be described, in the terms he applies to some of his own specially cherished vases, as ‘a beautiful ornament for a scholar’s library.’”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 615. N. 14. 1400w.
“Most interesting and instructive album.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 381. Mr. 6, ’09. 770w.
=Hubbard, Charles Lincoln.= Heating and ventilation: a working manual of approved practice in the heating and ventilating of dwelling-houses and other buildings, with complete practical instruction in the mechanical details, operation, and care of modern heating and ventilating plants. $1.50. Am. school of correspondence.
8–30358.
“Written in a semi-popular vein, an endeavor having been made to pay special attention to the practical side of the subject rather than to the theoretical. The book is devoted principally to descriptions of the various forms of apparatus, directions concerning their installation and operation, and outlines of the generally accepted methods of calculation. There are numerous well-selected problems, with answers.”—Engin. Rec.
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“It is a book that will give a good working knowledge of the principles and practice of modern heating and ventilation to those who can read and comprehend simple English, and who can solve arithmetical problems.”
+ =Engin. D.= 6: 431. N. ’09. 140w. =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 695. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
“Is rather more than a mere introduction, having so much practical information as to render it useful as a handbook.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 566. N. 14, ’08. 180w.
=Hubbard, Mina Benson.= Woman’s way through unknown Labrador: an account of the exploration of the Nascaupee and George rivers. **$1.50. McClure.
8–35700.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“Mrs. Hubbard’s book is less informing and entertaining than ‘Lure of the Labrador wild’ and is marred by depreciation of Wallace’s services, but as a vivid recital of a dangerous trip is well worth reading.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 290. D. ’08. ✠
“The book is naturally of the highest interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 673. N. 7, ’08. 380w.
“The topographical results were of slight value, and the book is almost devoid of notes on flora and fauna. In a word it is as a volume of entertainment that the work is recommended, for it is excellently written, in a natural style, and with much vivacity.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 114. F. 4, ’09. 330w.
“The account, brief as it is, of the meeting with the Montaignais and Nascaupees is full of interest, and Mrs. Hubbard used her eyes and ears to some purpose in her short study of these wild people.” J. G. Millais.
+ =Nature.= 79: 401. F. 4, ’09. 1300w. =N. Y. Times.= 13: 623. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=Huckel, Oliver.=^{[7]} Mental medicine: some practical suggestions from a spiritual standpoint. **$1. Crowell.
9–17602.
Presents the “latest and sanest” conclusions on the mental and spiritual factors in health and healing. The chapters are based on a series of lectures given by the author at Johns Hopkins medical school showing how physicians and ministers may rationally co-operate in the work of healing. The following conferences or lectures are included: Mental and spiritual factors in the problems of health; The therapeutic value of faith and prayer; Possibilities in the control of subconsciousness; Some elements in morbid moods; Higher factors in the re-education of the nerves.
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“The author’s attitude is somewhat conservative, and his exposition of the psychology of the subject much simpler than Dr. Worcester’s in ‘Religion and medicine.’ One of the best books for readers who approach psychotherapy through religious belief.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 42. O. ’09. ✠ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 376. Je. 12, ’09. 200w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 487. Ag. 14, ’09. 180w. =Outlook.= 93: 644. N. 20, ’09. 30w.
=Hudson, W. H.=^{[10]} Afoot in England. *10s. 6d. Hutchinson, London.
“Mr. Hudson proclaims that his purpose is to teach the charm of the unknown, and the joy of discovering and exploring for oneself; and on the whole this is a very good description of the spirit of the book. It consists mainly of disconnected papers, all informed with the same idea—the delight of the vagabond in English lanes and by English fields and woods.... He wanders far afield, but confesses that the most attractive haunts for him are between Reading and Basingstoke, among the South Wiltshire downs, in the flat country of the Severn, in Cambridgeshire and East Anglia.”—Ath.
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“He has long been known as a writer of nature, and the most enjoyable passages of his latest book are perhaps those dealing with nature. But for the most part he is here not dealing so much with nature as with human nature and human emotions. It is generally a chronicle of small beer, but the beer has a relish.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 265. S. 4. 600w.
“Much of these twenty-five delightful chapters is of wild and solitary paths in cloud and mist and wind; of walks over downland in a storm of hail, through fogs set like a wall at the foot of slopes of sunlit green, along cliffs above nesting herring-gulls; and here and there Mr. Hudson plays with some strange fancy, born of loneliness and haunted ways.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 204. Ag. 7, ’09. 1650w.
=Hudson, William Henry.= Land’s End: a naturalist’s impressions in west Cornwall. *$3. Appleton.
8–33922.
Observations of bird and plant life, comments upon climate and scenery, and impressions concerning the racial problems presented by the people of Cornwall provide an interesting text for the general reader as well as the scientific student.
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“Refreshing originality, absolute candour, and a complete lack of self-consciousness are equally characteristic of the author, who has a definite charm that is peculiarly his own.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 306. S. 12. 1700w. + =Nation.= 87: 652. D. 31, ’08. 180w.
“Of the birds he writes charmingly, disclosing both his love for the feathered tribe and his knowledge of it, but we are sure that most persons who read his book will find their greatest enjoyment in what he has to say about the men and women who live in the territory around Land’s End.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 420w.
“That it is written well, and with much attraction; that it is literature; that once begun it cannot be dropped goes without saying. We ourselves could not give the book up, though frankly we do not like it. As a whole it is irritating.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 367. S. 19, ’08. 1400w.
“It is as the study of a Cornish character, with all its strange inconsistencies and inversions, that the book will take its place among the best and most discerning that have been written of rough, natural man.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 58. Jl. 11, ’08. 1500w.
=Hueffer, Ford Madox.=^{[8]} “Half Moon.” **$1.35. Doubleday.
9–35786.
A book which while timely for the Hudson tercentenary chooses a wider field than the perils of discovery for its theme. The events center chiefly about Edward Coleman who to escape the death that a woman’s wrath had prescribed flees from the English town of Rye to Holland and sets sail for the new world with Hendrick Hudson in the Half Moon. “The plot has been used by Mr. Hueffer as the framework for a careful and very vivid picture of seventeenth century bigotry, ignorance, and superstition; of the final struggle between mediævalism and modernity; and of the desperate lengths to which a proud, powerful, and undisciplined woman will go in her attempt to avenge the wrongs of her slighted beauty.” (Bookm.)
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“The story is heavy and unwieldly, the characterization indistinct, the superstitious schemes of the witch who dominates the plot distasteful and unconvincing.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 27. S. ’09.
“Perhaps the most attractive portion of this book is its strong archæological element. The characters, for all the author’s straining after a certain archaic forcefulness, are shadowy and unconvincing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 525. My. 1. 140w.
“Belongs to that better sort of historical novel that refuses to purchase popularity at the cost of honest narrative and careful style.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 648. Ag. ’09. 250w.
“The introductory dedication to this story is better than the story itself: a very accomplished little essay, rather in the Stevensonian manner.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 278. S. 23, ’09. 420w.
“A book which would be welcome at any time for its careful and skillful art, and for the human interest of the story which he has to tell. The connection of the book with the tercentenary is incidental and inferior to the story itself. No one need be afraid of finding anything of a Baedeker sort, and whoever ventures will find entertainment as well as an edifying historical study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 451. Jl. 24, ’09. 530w.
“A timely story, full of incident, entertainingly written, and full of historic allusion.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 253. Ag. ’09. 50w.
“In spite of certain mannerisms which are apt to be a little trying at times, Mr. Hueffer is an excellent story-teller.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 633. My. 15, ’09. 150w.
“The end is also weak.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 864. My. 29, ’09. 220w.
=Hueffer, Oliver Madox.=^{[5]} Book of witches. *$2.50. McBride, J:
W9–147.
Traces the descent of the witch from earliest times to the present day, including reasons upon which her influence has been based, the great persecutions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe and New England, and the reconstruction of the life of the mediaeval witch as pictured by her contemporaries.
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“A light and pleasing narrative.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 169. Je. ’09. + =Dial.= 46: 330. My. 16, ’09. 280w.
“Lovers of the curious will find something to their liking in ‘A book of witches.’”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1086. My. 20, ’09. 160w.
“Altogether, the book cannot be commended for any thoroughness of treatment, but is fairly readable and amusing.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 603. Je. 17, ’09. 130w.
“The ingenious author of a volume combining some erudition with much whimsical entertainment attacks with infinite zest what is perhaps the most fascinating combination of subjects in the wide world.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 317. My. 22, ’09. 1300w.
“In the light, bantering, often brilliant style in which he has written Mr. Hueffer has digested and worked up an immense amount of information. Persecutions ancient and modern, general principles, and particular trials are abundantly given, the least satisfactory portion being an account of some modern witches who do not appear very wonderful specimens.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 243. F. 20, ’09. 1000w.
“Generally we may say that we should like the book better if the tone and temper were more scientific.”
− =Spec.= 102: 588. Ap. 10, ’09. 110w.
=Huelsen, Christian K. F.=^{[7]} Roman forum: its history and its monuments; tr. by Jesse Benedict Carter. 2d ed. rev. *$1.75. Stechert.
A volume that “gives a history of the Forum Romanum from the earliest times through the middle ages and of its exploration since the renaissance. Then follow descriptions of its monuments and of the present condition of its ruins. It is copiously illustrated with maps, plans and cuts.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 194. Je. ’09. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 132. Mr. 6, ’09. 120w.
“It will awaken interest especially with that class of readers who stand half-way between the mere tourists, satisfied with ordinary guidebook information, and the students in history and archaeology. A modest book of reference, rigorously excluding detailed discussions, and condensing his descriptions to well-nigh telegraphic brevity.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 584. Jl. 10, ’09. 350w.
=Hügel, Friedrich, freiherr von.= Mystical element of religion; as studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her friends. 2v. *$6. Dutton.
9–22578.
A book “whose proper place in the library will be the department of philosophy or apologetics.... The biographical narrative is only a framework on which is woven a wide inquiry into the psychological roots of religion itself, as they have manifested their character in the history of mankind.... The two volumes swarm with minute questions of historical criticism, sweeping surveys of philosophic thought and human action, appreciations of rival epistemological theories, analyses of the psychological factors which have shaped the various sects in Christian times, and even those of Pagan and Jewish history.”—Cath. World.
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Reviewed by George Hodges.
=Atlan.= 103: 560. Ap. ’09. 950w.
“A biography, which, from the critical historian’s point of view, is a fine piece of work bearing the evidence of great study directed by rigorous method.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 103. Ap. ’09. 1400w.
“If there is a certain amount of inevitable confusion in these 887 pages, it is from the fact that they are all too few for the wealth of research and learning that is crowded into them. If these volumes are not the last word, they are certainly the fullest word that has been spoken on the subject of mysticism. They include and add to all that has yet been said, and no future addition will be solid that does not include and take account of them. They are difficult reading as well as difficult writing, and make no pretence of closing eternal questions.” G. Tyrrell.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 7: 687. Ap. ’09. 1400w.
“A style that is both intricate and cumbrous, a plan that entails much repetition and yet that does not present itself to the mind of the reader with clearness and illumination, and a subject that is abstruse and encumbered with much that is repulsive to modern ideas, combine to make the two lengthy volumes on ‘The mystical element of religion,’ an impossibility for the general public.”
− =Ind.= 67: 251. Jl. 29, ’09. 340w.
“Such a biography is a contribution to religious psychology. It maintains throughout a spirit that is serious, candid, and hospitable to science.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 539. My. 27, ’09. 1000w.
“In spite of an awkward style, which rather suggests that English is not the writer’s mother tongue, we have a book of great value and importance. It should occupy a permanent place in the history and the psychology of religion. A thorough and a scholarly piece of work.” E: S. Drown.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 96. F. 20, ’09. 1250w.
“The author’s subject is a difficult one, and his style is more than necessarily obscure. The book loses by being over-weighted, but it is a valuable addition to the scholarship and research of mystic literature. No one who attempts to know the strain of mysticism that runs through philosophy or religion can afford to pass the book by.”
+ − =No. Am.= 189: 916. Je. ’09. 570w.
“It is a good book in the highest sense of the term, and its place is beside the works of Philo Judæus.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 630. My. 15, ’09. 1200w.
“The serious faults of the author’s style are mainly due to the influence of German idiom and syntax. It is a lofty ideal, and excuses some faults in construction, and the book is a deeply interesting, learned, and original contribution to the religious thought of our time.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 820. My. 22, ’09. 1550w.
=Hughes, Edwin Holt.=^{[11]} Teaching of citizenship. $1.25. Wilde.
9–26152.
For the purpose of guiding an instinct and training a sentiment, Bishop Hughes suggests certain natural and human starting points for the teaching of patriotism and citizenship. Following a discussion “The need and the method” are nine chapters on the lessons of instinct, of breadth, of cost, of protection, of benefit, of democracy, of liberty, of character and of duty.
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“Very sensible little book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 690. N. 6, ’09. 140w.
=Hughes, Henry Clay.= Philosophy of the federal constitution. *$1.50. Neale.
8–25158.
An analysis of the provisions of the federal constitution prepared for the boys of our land to familiarize them, for citizenship reasons, with “the most complete written document of human rights ever penned” and “a theory of government unique in itself and found nowhere in the world.”
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“In analyzing the various provisions the author occasionally gives his opinion, rather than a philosophical treatment, which the title calls for. The style of the book as a whole is perhaps somewhat too stilted for its purpose. Moreover there is neither table of contents nor index to the volume, nor are references given in the text or in footnotes to aid the reader in getting at additional sources of information.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 196. Ja. ’09. 100w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 336. My. 29, ’09. 200w.
=Hughes, James Laughlin.=^{[9]} Teaching to read. *50c. Barnes.
9–16808.
In accordance with the view that speed is the main consideration in reading, “Mr. Hughes, who is inspector of schools for Toronto, points out that reading consists, not merely in repeating printed words aloud, but in gaining information from them. Hence, learning to read aloud in the ordinary fashion may not in reality be learning to read at all—much less to read effectively. In connection with this idea Mr. Hughes properly calls attention to the fact which has been too frequently overlooked, that in learning to speak and to read there are involved two distinct sets of processes, which should be distinguished accordingly.”—Nation.
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“Intended for teachers but helpful also for parents.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 42. O. ’09.
“Such books as this, dealing in a philosophical, psychological, and yet practical way with the dominant formal studies of the curriculum are needed by many teachers.” S. C. Parker.
+ =El. School T.= 10: 44. S. ’09. 630w.
“His little book deserves consideration.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 297. Ag. 5, ’09. 130w. =Nation.= 89: 208. S. 2, ’09. 170w.
=Huish, Marcus.= American pilgrims’ way in England. $6. Max Williams, New York.
8–2558.
“The work, which has evidently been a labour of love to both author and artist, includes histories of the families of William Penn, George Washington, General Wolfe, Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, the Pilgrim Fathers (the founders of Yale and Harvard universities), the Quaker settlers, and many others, no pains having been spared to identify the sites connected with them.”—Int. Studio.
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“His narrative is generally sound, and it is clear that he has taken pains to secure details on the spot in many cases. The pity of it is that he writes a journalistic style disfigured by clumsy and needless verbiage, and strays repeatedly beyond his subject, which ought to be interesting enough in itself.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 20. Ja. 4. 380w.
“The charming water-colour drawings give sympathetic renderings of many of the surviving homesteads that are so dear to the hearts of the descendants of these heroes of the sixteenth century, and, with the reproductions of details of architecture, facsimiles of letters, inscriptions, etc., form a vivid and pictorial epitome of the text.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 33: 335. F. ’08. 110w.
“The feature of the work is the illustrations.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 578. D. 10, ’08. 160w.
“Although the text is rather wordy and could have been freely bluepenciled with advantage, the author writes an interesting narrative, and one which will be found both entertaining and instructive.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 798. D. 26, ’08. 250w.
=Hull, William Isaac.= Two Hague conferences. *$1.50. Ginn.
8–28855.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 43. F. ’09.
“The book is replete with facts which are fairly well organized, and, as a rule, correctly stated, but Professor Hull rigidly abstains from any criticism or interpretation of these facts. Some of the details furnished are alike uninteresting and unimportant. The style is extremely colorless and formal, and lacks warmth and animation of personality. It has a good index, but contains no references to the literature of the subject with the exception of Holls’s ‘Peace conference’ with which this volume will hardly bear comparison.” A. S. Hershey.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 384. Ja. ’09. 540w.
“Professor Hull’s work is concise and adequate. It is the best popular history of the conferences available for the student’s use.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 459. Mr. ’09. 160w. + =Dial.= 47: 51. Jl. 16, ’09. 280w.
“The book seems to be planned so that it will admirably meet the requirements of teachers and students.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 38. Ja. 23, ’09. 220w. + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 168. Mr. ’09. 150w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 251. F. ’09. 100w.
“A short and clear narrative. It is written for the general reader, and in a spirit of sympathetic optimism.” S. E. Baldwin.
+ =Yale R.= 17: 447. F. ’09. 950w.
=Hume, Fergus W.=^{[9]} Disappearing eye. †$1.25. Dillingham.
9–18023.
The story deals with a weird murder of a woman with a glass eye on the back of which is recorded the hiding place of a fifty thousand pound legacy left to a beautiful girl. Circumstantial evidence points to the girl and also to either of two others who were with the woman the night of her death. Altho the main evidence urged against these suspects was that the glass eye had been seen in the room of each and had immediately vanished, the reader finally learns at the end of the tangle that the real murderer is a fourth person wholly unsuspected of the crime.
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“The tale is as lively as the eye and contains no end of ingeniously contrived and unexpected incident. It is written with all of Fergus Hume’s usual skill in mechanical construction, and with no more literary art than his readers, are accustomed to find in his books—which apparently is as much as they want.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 517. Ag. 28, ’09. 180w.
=Hume, Fergus W.=^{[7]} Solitary farm. †$1.25. Dillingham.
9–7827.
A mystery story built up about the murder of an old sea captain who had quarreled with his daughter and who had offered her hand and his farm to the man he had selected for her if the man in question would kill the girl’s lover. The tangle is an intricate one to straighten whose threads the author makes large demands upon his ingenuity.
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“It cannot be said conscientiously that this is literature, but it is thrilling in spots, and mysterious until the last pages—an excellent vacation book.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 452. Jl. 24, ’09. 400w.
=Hume-Griffith, Mrs. M. E., and Hume-Griffith, A.=^{[6]} Behind the veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: an account of an Englishwoman’s eight years’ residence amongst the women of the East by M. E. Hume-Griffith; with narratives of experiences in both countries by A. Hume-Griffith. *$3.50. Lippincott.
W9–100.
“As the wife of a medical missionary, Mrs. Hume-Griffith saw much of life ‘behind the veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia’ but her book deals with other things than the position of woman there—with religion, material conditions of life, its comforts and discomforts, the beauties of the land of the Sun much more than of the Lion, with manners, customs and superstitions, and the work of the medical missionary.”—Ind.
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“Gives a remarkable insight into the lives and natures of Persian and Arabian women.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 167. Je. ’09.
“A most informing book, readable withal.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1138. My. 27, ’09. 150w.
“Enthusiastically wrapped up in the work of her husband, Dr. Hume-Griffith, his wife has done well to chronicle in so effective a manner the various phases of work and travel which she shared with him, and she has accomplished this in the plainest and most unaffected manner.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 764. My. 1, ’09. 330w.
“The illustrations are more than usually striking, being evidently drawn from other sources than the common stock from which the traveller ordinarily obtains his supply.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 517. My. 20, ’09. 350w.
“Her story is not altogether a new one, but it is not unimportant, for it is the result of a very close association with the people with whom it is concerned, and presents life-pictures which are strong and convincing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 184. Mr. 27, ’09. 1000w.
“Any reporter could have made a better job for them. All the reality has dropped out between the sentences here; all that must have been alive and human and pitiful and kindly or simply comic they have left unsaid.”
− =No. Am.= 190: 414. S. ’09. 330w.
“Too little credit is given to whatever of good there is—and it is beyond question that there is much—in the Mohammedan creed. The suggestion is inevitable that in other matters also the book may not be entirely impartial.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 4. Jl. 17, ’09. 480w.
“It is written in a light colloquial style, and is inspired throughout with a genuine sympathy and affection for the people among whom the author worked.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 166. Jl. 31, ’09. 100w.
=Huneker, James Gibbons.=^{[5]} Egoist: a book of supermen. **$1.50. Scribner.
9–8579.
A keenly critical and analytical study of the following modern poets, philosophers and prose writers whose works embody the individualistic idea as opposed to altruistic and socialistic sentiments: Stendahl, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Anatole France, Huysmans, Barres, Nietzsche, Blake, Ibsen, Stirner and Ernest Hello.
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“Vivid, sympathetic sketches.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 139. My. ’09.
“It is information which he generally conveys, and not knowledge, or even learning. Mr. Huneker has a fair amount of common sense, and towards the end of each essay he often makes use of it. It would have been very much better if he had used it at the beginning, and written entirely from his own point of view.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 95. Jl. 24. 580w.
“It is perhaps inevitable that he has not entirely escaped the contagion of his theme, and so exhibits traits both of style and thought which are not admirable. On the side of the thought, this verbal smartness sometimes leads Mr. Huneker to prefer cynical epigram or the clever half-truth to genuine seriousness of statement. Nevertheless, Mr. Huneker has made a book that is not only entertaining but helpful.” R: Burton.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 327. My. 16, ’09. 520w.
“He is always stimulating, provocative of thought, and by virtue of this quality, not invariably possessed by critics, he is entitled to a distinctive place in American letters.” E: C. Marsh.
+ =Forum.= 41: 600. Je. ’09. 2600w.
“This new volume of literary biographical studies has all the characteristics of Mr. Huneker’s earlier ones; the sympathetic yet not uncritical exposition, the ingenious interweaving of dates, references, and book titles so that they do not interrupt or impede the flow of the theme, the quick-witted sentences, the hints of wide reading in unconventional fields and the abundant quotations.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 920. Ap. 29, ’09. 210w.
“His criticism is a kind of fine spray; he atomizes, rather than anatomizes, his author. His subject diffuses in the warmth of his hand into an impalpable vapor, instead of condensing into its more stable elements.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 492. My. 13, ’09. 600w.
“It is a full book, with an irresistible charm for those who know about certain kinds of literature that seem odd to Anglo-Saxon minds, and packed with sound information, somewhat flamboyantly, but very coherently conveyed, for those who still need to know something of the subjects and have neither the time nor the patience to go to the fountain head.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 196. Ap. 3, ’09. 1050w.
“It is the work of a man who knows his subject thoroughly and who writes frankly and unconventionally, as he ought. It must be added, however, that at times the lawless spirit of some of the men he celebrates gets into Mr. Huneker’s style; it confuses the vocabulary of all the arts; it sins in excess and extravagance; it is needlessly elliptical and paradoxical.”
+ − =Outlook.= 92: 418. Je. 19, ’09. 800w. + =R. of Rs.= 39: 764. Je. ’09. 90w.
“Mr. Huneker is induced to take an attitude to literature which is frightfully complicated—indeed grotesque—by the modern journalist’s passion to be the first to ‘discover’ or rediscover a genius.”
− =Sat. R.= 108; 16. Jl. 3, ’09. 1200w.
=Hunt, Caroline Louisa.= Home problems from a new standpoint. *$1. Whitcomb & B.
8–24278.
A discussion of the responsibilities, opportunities and privileges which for every home are increasing as it becomes a recognized factor in the present-day social problem. Urging upon men and women simplicity in home life, the author discusses more life for woman, for man and for the household employee; more physical vigor; joy in mere living and beauty for all; more pleasure for the producer of household stuff; more conscience for the consumer; and new work for the home.
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“A book of high ideals yet practical and suggestive along definite lines.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 290. D. ’08. ✠ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 459. Mr. ’09. 130w.
“The book has the virtue of brevity, and has more thought-provoking suggestions than many much larger volumes. Nowhere have we seen the power for good or ill of the home in relation to the social problems of the day better revealed than in this little book.” F. W. Collier.
+ =Arena.= 41: 601. Ag. ’09. 340w.
=Hunt, Enid Leigh.= Advent of Arthur. †$2. Lippincott.
“That Joyce, aged sixteen, with a brother aged twelve or thereabouts to look after, should have fared so well when she determines to earn her own living may surprise us a little. But there are some fortunate people, and for Joyce friends grew, so to speak, on every bush. Employment comes to her with marvellous rapidity, and when she is tired of it, then a friendly shelter which enables her to do without it. And when the proper time comes the very perfect knight is not wanting. If this is not like life, so much the worse for life; anyhow, it is pleasant to read about in this prettily told story.”—Spec.
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“The youthful maturity of the heroine has a certain charm; the feeling in the text is somewhat personal and the whole is only a shade removed from a regular novel.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1477. D. 17, ’08. 40w.
“Another English story—a long and interesting one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 50w.
“Though this is a story of common life, no one can complain that it is wanting in the romance which the title seems to suggest.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 26. Jl. 4, ’08. 100w.
=Hunt, Gaillard.= John C. Calhoun. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
8–23726.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“What was most needed, Mr. Hunt has supplied—a description of Calhoun so clear and a judgment of him so sane that there is no room for disagreement as to the main features. And excepting a few slips, no positive errors have been noticed.” F: Bancroft.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 368. Ja. ’09. 650w.
“The best biography for the public library, scholarly yet popular.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 290. D. ’08.
“Mr. Hunt has given an interesting interpretation of the man and the situation.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 489. Mr. 4, ’09. 100w.
“Von Holst is vastly superior in his philosophical grasp, but Hunt is unrivalled in description and literary flavor.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 18. Ja. 7, ’09. 660w.
“He honors the man without advocating his doctrine, and depicts the issues of his time without prejudice but not without intelligible interpretation.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 22. Ja. 2, ’09. 660w.
=Hunt, Rev. William, and Poole, Reginald Lane=, eds. Political history of England. 12v. ea. *$2.60. Longmans.
Descriptive note for set in Annual, 1905.
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“[If] it is not the function of a critic to set up his own standard but to ascertain the purpose of an author and to judge the performance accordingly, [the reviewer] must, on the whole, estimate the present work favorably.” A. L. Cross.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 141. O. ’09. 1250w. (Review of 9.)
“The whole book affords a singularly compact, clear, and well-proportioned account of a complicated period.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 668. Je. 5. 1350w. (Review of v. 9.)
“As might have been expected from Mr. Leadam, the book is noteworthy for its general exactness in point of detail; but there are one or two small matters which require correction or elucidation in future editions.” L. G. W. Legg.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 804. O. ’09. 1200w. (Review of v. 9.)
“Mr. Leadam is at his best unfolding the conflicts of Whigs and Tories in Parliament and drawing on the historical mss. for material. He is quite insufficient when it comes to the atmosphere of his period and its personalities.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 75. Jl. 22, ’09. 160w. (Review of v. 9.) =N. Y. Times.= 14: 462. Jl. 31, ’09. 200w. (Review of v. 9.)
“A scholarly and entrancing volume.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 819. Je. 26, ’09. 1300w. (Review of v. 9.)
“Mr. Leadam has found the common difficulty of keeping the proper proportion between unlimited material and limited space. On the whole, however, Mr. Leadam has given us an effective picture of the period which he describes.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 1036. Je. 25, ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 9.)
=Hunting, Henry Gardner.=^{[11]} Cave of the bottomless pool. †$1.50. Holt.
9–27035.
This is a sequel to “Wittier Whitehead’s own story” but even those boys who have not made Wittier’s acquaintance before will enjoy this detective story in which he plays a leading role. The scene is a summer camp school, and how Wittier escapes the clutches of counterfeiters, the revenge of an ex-convict and death in the cave of the bottomless pool forms a story filled with adventure and mystery.
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“The incidents and plot will hold any boy’s interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 662. O. 23, ’09. 20w.
“Here is a boy detective story told in such a genuine fashion by the boy himself that it seems ‘really true.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 709. N. 13, ’09. 80w.
=Hunting, Henry Gardner.=^{[9]} Silver canoe: the story of the secret that had to be kept. †$1.25. McClurg.
9–22945.
A story of an errand boy in a big metropolitan department store. His honesty is pitted against the dishonesty of one of his co-workers in the winning of a thousand-dollar rebus-prize. Truth triumphs and dishonesty is punished.
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“Though the tale is a highly moral one, there is plenty of adventure and even ‘thrill’ enough to charm any normal boy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 583. O. 2, ’09. 160w.
=Hunting, Henry Gardner.= Witter Whitehead’s own story about a lucky splash of whitewash, some stolen silver, and a house that wasn’t vacant. †$1.25. Holt.
9–6843.
A story for young readers whose youthful hero, a delivery boy in a large department store, rounds up a band of robbers. He is a sturdy, stout-hearted boy, coping with various trying situations, championing unjustly accused fellow employees, and ferreting out the real scoundrels.
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“Is told with sufficient skill to make it seem quite possible.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 178. Mr. 27, ’09. 140w.
=Hurd, Marian Kent, and Wilson, Jean Bingham.=^{[11]} When she came home from college. **$1.15. Houghton.
9–28147.
Here are set down the trials of a Vassar girl during the summer following her graduation when, in the absence of her mother, the burden of household management falls upon her shoulders, with the accompanying problem of keeping four young brothers and sisters satisfied and happy. Her dearly prized theories, and her authorship ambition, suffer serious defeats while she struggles with knotty domestic problems that in the end teach her humanity.
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“Over-done in its naturalness and in the enormity of the heroine’s ignorance, but nevertheless a bright, humorous story, that can be recommended for girls of high school age and older.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 132. D. ’09. ✠
“The librarians complain that it is difficult to supply fiction to girls of the ‘betwixt and between age.’ Here is one book we recommend, as it happens, there is no romance to be followed, but in spite of this there is no lack of interest from beginning to end.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1018. D. 4, ’09. 120w.
“The book contains humor and distinctive character sketching.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 598. D. 16, ’09. 50w.
=Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman=, ed. Handy Bible encyclopaedia: prepared in simple language. $1.50. Winston.
8–23274.
“There is provided under one alphabetical arrangement: A concordance to the Scriptures, a subject dictionary, a Biblical biography dictionary, a Biblical geographical dictionary, a dictionary of archaic and obsolete words that are used in the English Bible, a dictionary of Biblical antiquities, customs, musical terms, plants, animals, and precious stones, and several other instructive features of importance to Bible students. The book is printed from bold face type, and is profusely illustrated.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The work is designed for popular use, but will be found convenient by almost any Biblical student.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 222. Mr. 4, ’09. 150w.
“Sunday school teachers and others who are accustomed to the study of the Bible will find [this] a useful volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 523. S. 26, ’08. 80w.
“The difficulty is that the brevity required and perhaps the demands of extreme conservatives combine to make the information inadequate and sometimes misleading.”
− + =Outlook.= 91: 24. Ja. 2, ’09. 230w.
=Hurtado de Mendoza, Diego.= Life of Lazarillo de Tormes: his fortunes and adversities; tr. from the ed. of 1554 by Sir Clements Markham. *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–5519.
Besides the translation from the 1554 edition, the volume includes a notice of the Mendoza family, a short life of the author, a notice of the work and some remarks on the character of Lazarillo de Tormes.
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“But though this translation leaves so much to be desired, the introductory matter of which we have spoken is useful, and the footnotes that Sir Clements has appended to the text here and there are helpful in elucidating historical and other references. The same may be said of the indexes, and the sketch-map of the route taken by Lazarillo from Salamanca to Toledo.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 6. Ja. 2. 2400w.
“Obviously this new version is published irrespective of easily accessible ‘apparatus criticus.’ In its rendition of the Burgos edition of 1554, the present edition is relatively faithful.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 361. O. 15, ’08. 300w. =Sat. R.= 106: 582. N. 7, ’08. 100w. + =Spec.= 102: sup. 1007. Je. 26, ’09. 200w.
=Hussey, Eyre.=^{[6]} Polly Winford. †$1.50. Longmans.
A young Australian girl left with a fortune looks formidably upon a visit to two maiden aunts in England. She goes to the little town incognita, and there under the name of Polly Winford finds favor with her relatives. “Incidentally there are some capital spirited accounts of hunting and other open-air doings and some clever bits of character-sketching, from the mentally deficient squire to the more or less colourless rector, his small boy Tommy, and his domineering wife.” (Sat. R.)
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“One follows the chapters with a steady if quiet interest. The book will harm nobody, and there is no reason why it should not pleasantly entertain a great many.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 322. My. 22, ’09. 160w.
“The story is fresh and bright, so readers will perhaps be less inclined to resent the many coincidences on which the author depends for the working out of his romance.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 502. Ap. 17, ’09. 310w.
=Hutchinson, Frances Kinsley (Mrs. Charles L. Hutchinson).=^{[10]} Motoring in the Balkans along the highways of Dalmatia, Montenegro, The Herzegovina, and Bosnia. **$2.75. McClurg.
9–27939.
A volume of over three hundred pages which combines geographical instruction and historical information with descriptions of people and scenes along the route from Trieste to the western Balkans. The chapters parallel the pictures snapped along the route over which the reader is hurried from one point to another enjoying the vivacious guide’s description and comment.
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“The whole journey is sufficiently idealized and dramatized and disencumbered of the commonplace to make it into a very inviting book.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 514. D. 16, ’09. 220w.
“The book furnishes good reading, there is so cheerful a holiday atmosphere in its pages.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1043. N. 4, ’09. 120w.
“The value of the book would have been much increased if some account had been given of the methods employed by the Austrian rulers in the development of the recently annexed provinces. The book’s chief value is to be found in the information given as to journeys, whether by motor or by rail and diligence, through a country whose wonderful scenery and picturesque people make it a ‘continuous delight.’”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 545. D. 2, ’09. 480w.
“The journey seems to have been very enjoyable from beginning to end, and the account we get of it is graceful, vivacious, and illuminating.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 705. N. 13, ’09. 180w.
=Hutchinson, Woods.= Instinct and health. **$1.20. Dodd.
8–30538.
A book that seeks its audience not among invalids but ordinary normal individuals. The author’s statement that “it isn’t so very dangerous to be alive” suggests a healthy, fearless cheerful attitude. He discusses the physical necessities of the body and describes methods of securing the greatest efficiency from it. “His knife is out for fads and superstitions, prejudices, and the over-zealous regimen. Diets are as apt to make dyspeptics as to help them. Pleasant things are not inherently noxious, as our Puritanic or proverbial misconceptions lay down, but are in the main pleasant because they are in accord with nature; pleasure is the stamp of approval that nature gives them as their reward.” (Dial.)
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“Invigorating, entertaining talks on the work and needs of the body.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 14. Ja. ’09. ✠
“Dr. Hutchinson’s prescriptions may be freely taken, though the prudent will add their own dose of salt.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 24. Ja. 1, ’09. 260w.
“Vegetarians and patent-breakfast-food cranks should read this work.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 220. F. 6, ’09. 250w.
“Dr. Hutchinson gives considerable advice, often rather indefinite and vague, but on the whole sound. Unfortunately, there is a tendency to overlook what care has done for the [human] machine and to disparage serious investigation of the conditions under which the machine works best.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 609. D. 17, ’08. 220w.
“Dr. Hutchinson is not always quite fair in his statement of other people’s theories, but that foible, of course, has no effect upon the value of his own. And he is always stimulating in his ideas and vigorous and entertaining in their expression.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 664. N. 7, ’08. 1300w.
“One of the most readable and entertaining, if not always convincing, books on the philosophy of health we have ever had the pleasure of reading.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 39: 127. Ja. ’09. 90w.
=Hutchinson, Woods.=^{[12]} Preventable diseases. **$1.50. Houghton.
9–30130.
Nineteen chapters dealing with such subjects as: The body-republic and its defense; Our legacy of health: the power of heredity in the prevention of disease; Colds and how to catch them; Adenoids, or mouth-breathing; Tuberculosis, a scotched snake; The natural history of typhoid fever; Diphtheria: the modern Moloch; The Herods of our day: scarlet fever, measles, whooping-cough; Appendicitis, or Nature’s remnant sale; Germ-foes that follow the knife, or Death under the finger-nail; Cancer, or Treason in the body-state; Headache: the most useful pain in the world; Nerves and nervousness: Mental influence in disease, or How the mind affects the body.
=Hutten zum Stolzenberg, Betsey (Riddle) freifrau von.=^{[12]} Beechy; or, The lordship of love. †$1.50. Stokes.
9–25818.
“The setting of much of the story is Rome, the atmosphere typically and delightfully Italian, and Beechy herself is in reality Bice, the familiar short form for Beatrice. If Bettina von Hutten had any purpose, beyond that of telling the story of an interesting human life, it must have been much the same purpose as that of Frank Danby in writing ‘The heart of a child’—namely, to answer the question whether a woman-child, alone in the world and brought up in the slums, can choose a stage career and, in the face of all its trials and temptations, keep herself unsullied.”—Bookm.
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“Aside from the insincerity of the ending, this is one of the most pleasing books that the author of ‘Pam’ has produced.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 386. D. ’09. 230w.
“Mme. von Hutten avoids the absurdities of most of those who write novels of stage life, and makes her Beechy’s success seem at least possible. The girl herself, with her naturalness, her lack of ability to pose is a fascinating study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 687. N. 6, ’09. 380w. =Outlook.= 93: 559. N. 6, ’09. 40w.
“The histrionic temperament is not merely so uncommon as some people—particularly those who have it—imagine, but its development in the character of the half-Italian girl who is the heroine of the story is sketched in with unusual understanding, sometimes entirely sympathetic, sometimes playfully ironical.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 538. O. 30, ’09. 620w.
=Hutten zum Stolzenberg, Betsey (Riddle) freifrau von.=^{[5]} Kingsmead. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–5216.
The fourth “Pam” book which “introduces Tommy as a grown-up hero, while his sister, Brigid, who fell in love, most reprehensibly, with the picaresque violinist, is a respectable married person with a blighted heart. As for Pam herself, she has white hair.” (N. Y. Times.) “As a friendly, bighearted, and modest aristocrat, Earl Tommy is a favorite, and he is well contrasted with two equally warm-hearted ‘nouveaux riches,’ who drop their h’s, but are sweetly unselfish.” (Outlook.)
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+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 526. My. 1. 200w.
“It is a pity that this volume, which up to a particular point contains the best work that the author has done in several years, should all of a sudden weaken palpably.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 190. Ap. ’09. 450w.
“Without especial nimbleness, one may find incongruities and contradictions in abundance within the bounds of the present story.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 186. Ag. 26, ’09. 350w.
“Mme. von Hutten writes well; she has the gifts of humor and charm, and her stories are always interesting and clever.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 246. Ap. 17, ’09. 340w.
“The ‘dénouement’ does not strike one as probable or pleasant, and almost spoils an amusing story.”
+ − =Outlook.= 92: 19*. My. 1, ’09. 110w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Putnam’s.= 6: 492. Jl. ’09. 330w.
=Hutton, Edward.=^{[9]} In unknown Tuscany: with notes by William Heywood. **$2.50. Dutton.
9–23855.
“The record of a summer passed on Monte Amiata, apparently in the very abbey where Pius II lodged, from which the various castelli, even in the August heat, can readily be reached, and where even ‘a German company mining for quicksilver’ has not been able entirely to destroy the primitive life of rural Tuscany. Incidentally it supplies some new and vivid details concerning the part played by feudalism in the history of the republic of Siena, based upon the researches of Zdekauer, Lisini, Fumi, Calisse, and other distinguished local scholars whose work is still comparatively little known in this country.”—Sat. R.
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“Limited in its appeal to those who know the byways of Italy and seek a renewal of impressions.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 118. D. ’09.
“Of the ways of the people of the mountains, Mr. Hutton writes in a manner that makes the reader for the time a traveller in unknown realms.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 47: 234. O. 1, ’09. 300w. =Ind.= 67: 824. O. 7, ’09. 80w.
“Naturally Mr. Hutton’s business is with his own impressions of the people and scenery—on which topics he is characteristically lyrical—and with the historical narrative, which enlists his more sober manner. The blend if not quite harmonious, is agreeable enough.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 160. Ag. 19, ’09. 500w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 584. O. 2, ’09. 240w. + − =No. Am.= 190: 564. O. ’09. 500w.
“There are but slight blemishes in a very charming and welcome book.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 140. Jl. 31, ’09. 1400w.
=Hutton, Edward.=^{[11]} Rome. *$2. Macmillan.
Mr. Hutton fills a marvelously large self-given order by interpreting to the reader Rome, “eternal and persistent as life, as strangely various, as mysteriously secret.” Her hills, her structures, her art treasures and her Campagna with mountains round about, bear messages into which the author breaths the spirit of hero worship and of poetry.
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“A handy and attractive pocket companion for the traveller, and also offers pleasant reading to the armchair tourist at his own fireside.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 515. D. 16, ’09. 120w.
“Numerous omissions and inaccuracies bring the work below the author’s standard. The book is far from up to date. In short, this book should have begun with its second edition. However, it is enthusiastically written, and will doubtless warm the hearts of those whose Roman days are behind them.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 577. D. 9, ’09. 400w.
“It will not be a disappointment to his readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 657. O. 23, ’09. 30w.
=Hutton, Frederic Remsen.= Mechanical engineering of steam power plants. 3d ed. $5. Wiley.
8–27795.
The work has been entirely rewritten for this edition. “Some of the additions which call for special notice are the treatments accorded to the analysis of the power plant and its diagram, and the separation between the simple and complex phases of this problem; the treatment of the steam pipe as an element of co-ordinate importance with the boiler and engine; the chapters on auxiliaries, the steam turbine and engine mechanism, and the establishment of the philosophy of the expansion of the elastic medium as the basis for the valve gear, the governor, the condensing and the compound engine.” (Engin. D.)
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“While avowedly a text for the enlightenment of technical students, it contains such a wealth of up-to-date engineering detail, admirably expressed, that there are few who have occasion to consider the subjects it treats of, who will not find it of real service in facilitating their work.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 53. Ja. ’09. 470w.
“Is an exceptionally complete work on steam boilers and engines.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 707. D. 19, ’08. 250w.
“On the whole the book will prove useful to anyone engaged in the study of the problem of supplying machinery for the production of power.” R. C. Carpenter.
+ =Science=, n.s. 29: 544. Ap. 2, ’09. 850w.
=Hyatt, Stanley Portal.=^{[9]} End of the road; (English title: Marriage of Hilary Carden.): a novel. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–21867.
“A story of the South Africa that was before the Boer war, of the retreat of the transport rider before the mining engineer, of the invasion of the veldt by the railway—of the lure of the open and the tyranny of the town—and of the coming of the white woman to the frontier which is the province of men, whom she tempts from freedom and lures back to the bonds they had left behind them.”—Ind.
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“A rather ordinary love story, redeemed by its dramatic and picturesque portrayal of South African mining and transportation in pioneer days before the war and by its sympathy with the fascination of the ‘open road.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 55. O. ’09. ✠ + =Ath.= 1909, 2: 297. S. 11. 120w.
“A story that is distinctly worth while.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 187. O. ’09. 570w.
“The story is well worth reading; its simple plot is effective, and its figures and scenes have reality.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 237. O. 1, ’09. 270w. =Ind.= 67: 549. S. 2, ’09. 180w.
“As vivid a picture of life in a distant land as one often finds in a novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 510. Ag. 28, ’09. 200w.
“This story, though rather higgledy-piggledy as a novel, gives a really interesting picture of South African conditions before and since the Boer war.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 306. S. 30, ’09. 180w.
“The book is obviously a direct description of actuality, and the story is really a firsthand ‘human document’ having positive value as information and some dramatic quality also.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 8. S. 4, ’09. 70w.
“This novel is interesting as long as it deals with life in South Africa and with the making of the country as a white man’s dominion.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 386. S. 11, ’09. 160w.
=Hyde, William De Witt.= Self-measurement: a scale of human values, with directions for personal application. (Art of life ser.) *50c. Huebsch.
9–9245.
The ten fundamental relations in which man stands form a scale of self-measurement applicable to every life. These fundamental relations are physique, work, property, pleasure, science, art, family, society, country and religion. Dr. Hyde shows on the one hand receptive, productive and creative benefits resulting from fulfilment, and on the other the defective, perversive and destructive effects of violation.
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“Presents concisely and concretely the qualities that underlie right living and good citizenship, largely in the form of direct personal questions.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 169. Je. ’09. ✠ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 14. Ja. 9, ’09. 170w.
=Hyrst, H. W. G., pseud. (Sidney Harry Wright).= Adventures among wild beasts. (Adventure ser.) *$1.50. Lippincott.
9–5101.
“A bulky collection of anecdotes ranging the whole world over, from the grizzly bears of our own west to the kangaroos of Australia, and from the walrus of the northern ice-fields to the lions of Africa.... Nearly all the tales in this book date back to some time during the first half of the last century or a very little later.”—N. Y. Times.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 800. D. 26, ’08. 160w.
“A book that any boy would be lucky to possess. The ‘adventures’ recorded not only make fascinating reading, but they teach invaluable lessons of courage and resource.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 808. N. 21, ’08. 80w.
=Hyrst, H. W. G., pseud. (Sidney Harry Wright).=^{[12]} Adventures in the Arctic regions. *$1.50. Lippincott.
“Deals with the less famous names of Arctic travel and exploration, ‘the men who, like the obscure craftsmen that laboured on Westminster abbey, left behind them, not a name, but a monument.’ Among these are Samuel Hearne, in the employ of the Hudson bay company, who for four years prosecuted the search for a northwest passage under the most difficult conditions; Alexander Mackenzie, the first white man to cross the Rocky mountains; Ferdinand Baron von Wrangel, who made his way across Siberia; Benjamin Morrell, one of the earliest of Antarctic explorers; and Captain Robert Macguire, who had some exciting adventures among the Eskimos about the middle of the last century. The volume winds up with the discovery of the Franklin relics by McClintock and Hobson.”—Spec.
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=N. Y. Times.= 14: 750. N. 27, ’09. 130w.
“Altogether, this is a most readable volume, and it leaves a pleasant flavour, which all Arctic stories certainly do not.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 719. N. 6, ’09. 150w.
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=Ibañez, Vincent Blasco.=^{[11]} Shadow of the cathedral: a novel; tr. from the Spnish by Mrs. W. A. Gillespie. **$1.35. Dutton.
“The present mental and social decadence of Spain is set forth with startling force and vividness in the pages of this book. The hero, an idealist educated for the priesthood, abjures his faith and becomes a revolutionary. After a life of flight, imprisonment, and torture he comes back to the cathedral in the old, proud decadent city of Toledo and spends his last days under the shadow of this institution, which, with its splendor, its pride, its love of tradition, and its narrowness, so aptly typifies the condition of modern Spain.”—R. of Rs.
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“A serious book this, with a most serious patriotic purpose. A book notable also, for its descriptions of the cathedrals, its splendid past, its obscure present, for its frank review of Spanish history as the world sees it. A picture and a sermon, but not a clarion call.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 548. S. 2, ’09. 350w.
“Mrs. Gillespie’s work is deserving of praise.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 550. S. 18, ’09. 380w.
“Judging by the pages we have compared, Mrs. Gillespie’s translation is reasonably adequate, though neither inspired nor free from blunders. Considered as a story, it must all be voted tedious. Yet one sees a marked and significant ‘tendenz’ running through the rather poor imitation of a story.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 380. O. 21, ’09. 450w.
“It is not often that the English-speaking world is permitted a glimpse into the soul life of another people which is so vivid and impressive as that given by the Spanish novelist Ibañez.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 635. N. ’09. 140w.
=In= American fields and forests, by H: D. Thoreau and others. **$1.50. Houghton.
9–13942.
A collection of representative sketches by six eminent writers on nature: Henry D. Thoreau; John Burroughs; John Muir; Bradford Torrey; Dallas Lore Sharp; and Olive Thorne Miller. The subjects included are birds, beasts, frogs, and fishes; ponds, wild apples, the cow; forests and wild flowers; strawberries and trout-fishing; and the territory covered extends from Massachusetts to California, from the coast of Maine to North Carolina. “The book represents both the literary outcome and the literary inspiration of an important movement in American life.”
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“Useful for supplementary school work and also attractive for general circulation.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 170. Je. ’09.
“A good representative selection. It would have been difficult to choose more wisely.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 46: 362. Je. 1, ’09. 800w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 278. My. 1, ’09. 220w.
=Ingram, Eleanor Barie.=^{[10]} Game and the candle. †$1.50. Bobbs.
9–28032.
Although the plot of this novel centers about the court of a nameless mid-European empire it is not of the swash-buckling order. The villain is kept in the background and his works merely serve to bring out more strongly the characters of the three who share heroic honors; the regent who is building a strong state only that he may turn it loyally over to his cousin, the heir, when he comes of age; the young emperor who keeps his heart true to the regent although enemies beset him with false tales of treachery; and a young Californian who serves them both at the risk of his own life. There is a double love story delicately handled, and there is much political intrigue cleverly worked out. The whole is pleasing reading for an idle hour.
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“To be interesting is all that can be demanded of a story frankly impossible, and this demand is met by Eleanor M. Ingram’s novel.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 724. N. 20, ’09. 250w.
=Innes, Norman.=^{[10]} Lonely guard. **$1.20. Jacobs.
Austria in 1743 under Maria Theresa is the scene of this tale of pretty sword play, wrongs righted, and love won. A young Scotch officer in the Austrian army is sent to Rohn on the lonely frontier to protect her majesty’s interests. Here he finds two beautiful young countesses in possession. The way he wins them to himself and his cause, the price paid and the risks run, form the plot of the story which involves numerous characters, much villainy, and many brave and gallant deeds.
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=N. Y. Times.= 14: 598. O. 9, ’09. 180w.
=International bureau of American republics, Washington, D. C.=^{[8]} Chile: a handbook. $1. International bureau of American republics.
A thorogoing handbook covering the following points: Geography, area and population, boundaries, topography, orography, hydrography, climatology, flora and fauna; Government and constitution, citizenship, rights of foreigners, education, judiciary, army and navy; Political divisions, the capital, its resources, means of communication, banks, public buildings, etc.; Provinces and territory; Agriculture, government lands, land laws; Mining and metallurgy, mining laws; Manufacturing industries, immigration; Commerce, imports and exports, ports, etc.; Finance and banking; Means of communication.
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“Packed with information and statistics.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 830. O. 7, ’09. 110w.
“The text, brief but to the point, has been thoroughly edited, and should prove of interest not alone to persons desiring a business knowledge of the country but to those who care to learn the vital facts about a most interesting land, and one whose development in recent years has been surprising.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 645. O. 23, ’09. 250w.
“A book to be commended.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 9. S. 4, ’09. 270w.
“The work cannot fail to be very useful as a reference work to students and those who have a commercial interest in the Southern continent.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 512. O. ’09. 50w.
=International conference on state and local taxation.=^{[5]} State and local taxation: second international conference under the auspices of the International tax association, held at Toronto, Ontario, October 6–9, 1908: addresses and proceedings. International tax assn., Columbus, O.
9–6973.
A volume which contains a discussion of methods of taxation and assessment, by officials and educators from all parts of the United States and Canada. Problems of administration and the economic effects of legislation are considered from different viewpoints. This volume and that published after the foregoing conference, represent the latest conclusions of administrators in regard to practical problems and the best modern thought.
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“An examination of the volume ... impresses the reader with the variety of subjects considered, the varying degrees of excellence in the papers and the irrelevancy of a too considerable part of the discussion. The International tax association has given us two excellent volumes well edited well arranged and attractively printed.” F. L. McVey.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 546. S. ’09. 1000w.
=International congress of applied chemistry, 7th.=^{[8]} Rise and progress of the British explosive industry. *$5.25. Macmillan.
“The joint product of a number of authorities on the subject which on account of this multiple authorship does not attempt to preserve unity of treatment. It is a series of papers, fairly consecutive, in which the hitherto hidden stories of the development of the explosives trade are given. The titles of the chapters, as follows, will probably give the best idea of the contents: History of gunpowder, Researches of gunpowder, Nitrocellulose, Nitro-glycerine, Permitted explosives, Percussion caps, Safety fuses, Fireworks, Legislation, Bibliography and Chronology. In the latter part of the book there are given short descriptions of all the public and private explosives factories on the British Isles.”—Engin. N.
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+ =Engin. D.= 6: 430. N. ’09. 160w.
“The history of the early days of the industry will have much of interest even to the laity.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 4. Jl. 15, ’09. 220w.
“It is one of the finest examples of what can be done by a committee of scientists and engineers co-operating with intelligence. As a reference book on the history of explosives, it has a unique and permanent value.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 448. O. 16, ’09. 220w.
“It hardly fulfils the expectation that its appearance arouses, for more than half the book is occupied with bibliographical and chronological tables and statistics of the governmental and private factories now existing in England, useful for reference, no doubt, but unreadable.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 82. Jl. 22, ’09. 160w.
“A valuable addition to the literature of explosives.” J. S. S. B.
+ =Nature.= 81: 190. Ag. 12, ’09. 930w.
“A large part of the text could have been omitted without serious loss, yet the research student must examine it in detail. The book is a disappointing one and most so in the matter of statistics.” C: E. Munroe.
− + =Science=, n.s. 30: 309. S. 3, ’09. 700w.
=Irwin, Louise Godfrey.=^{[11]} Secret of Old Thunder-head. †$1.50. Holt.
9–26808.
A story of a summer spent by a city boy and girl with cousins on a Vermont farm. To the joys of out-of-door life are added the interest of hidden treasure and the excitement of finding it.
=Irwin, Wallace Admar.= Letters of a Japanese schoolboy. †$1.50. Doubleday.
9–4915.
“I am a Japanese Schoolboy age 35 years & I come to this Free Country for some following reasons: (1) To save up money for old age; (2) To learn so much I can; (3) To wait on table 14 hours Daily at Boarding house of Mrs. C. W. O’Brien, honorable lady.” So the first letter opens. There pass under his scrutiny America’s practices, tolerated evils, fads and foibles. In his series of observations, included in some forty letters, he touches upon such subjects as The yellow peril. Lady suffergetts and how they do it. Hon. Niggers, was they freed by Lincoln, Hon. Simple life among ambassadors, Hon. Modesty: is it a disease. Hon. Gasolene, My conception of the presidency, High tariff on princes, The servant problem, The Hon. Bomb, The Alcoholic temperance movement, and Fall hats and the ladies inside of them.
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“Clever, humorous, sometimes enlightening.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 114. Ap. ’09.
“Their humour stands the test of continuous reading and survives the passing events that furnished the subjects. They belong to humorous literature as distinct from humorous journalism.” John Macy.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 311. My. ’09. 1050w.
“The book is wholesome in tone, as well as mirth-provoking.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 300. My. 1, ’09. 270w.
“In some of the later letters the Oriental point of view is quite lost sight of. For rapid or intermittent reading, it is not a bad book; it will add to the wholesome laughter of the passing hour.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 309. Mr. 25, ’09. 400w.
“Assisted by an eminent author, poor Togo lost the characteristic naïveté and charming simplicity of his own style, and these letters of his are burdened with words and phrases that he never dreamed of using. This, of course, is not to deny that the book is a fine example of what clever verbal jugglery can produce. Droll, grotesque, humorous, the book makes us merry as we turn its pages.” K. K. Kawakami.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 180. Mr. 27, ’09. 680w.
“Mr. Irwin knows his Japs as well as Mr. Dunne knows his ‘Mr. Dooley,’ and that is saying a great deal.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 255. Ag. ’09. 100w.
=Irwin, William Henry.=^{[12]} Confessions of a con man: as told to Will Irwin. *$1. Huebsch.
9–21868.
A “con” man’s confessions with the value of a human document; for Mr. Irwin takes us into his confidence and tells us that they are real experiences of a real dweller in the underworld. The confidence man tells how he learned to cheat at cards; how the largest profits of a circus came from the confidence outfits and gambling games that accompany it, how new devices are unnecessary for catching the unwary, that three-card monte and the gold brick game are still perpetrated with success.
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“The con man’s revelations of his life and the tricks of his trade are of much curious—and human—interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 525. S. 4, ’09. 600w.
=Irwin, William Henry.= Pictures of old Chinatown, by Arnold Genthe; with texts by Will Irwin. **$1. Moffat.
8–33429.
Dr. Genthe’s fifty-six reproduced photographs making a picture record of Chinatown as it was before the great San Francisco disaster, are supplemented by Mr. Irwin’s word pictures, impressions and recollections of “this bit of the mystic, suggestive East, so modified by the West that it was neither Oriental nor yet Occidental—but just Chinatown.”
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“The pictures are remarkable for the artistic quality of their lights and shades, and of their composition, although the reproductions are not of the best. Mr. Irwin’s text is decidedly readable, but the mellow haze of memory coupled with the gift of words seem to carry him off his feet very frequently and set him floating in a roseate mist of things that never were.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 20. Ja. 9, ’09. 260w.
=Irwin, William Henry.=^{[11]} Warrior, the untamed; the story of an imaginative press agent. †50c. Doubleday.
9–24019.
Upon the pegs of a well-nigh impossible lion story Mr. Irwin hangs some of the trials and tribulations of the publicity member of a circus aggregation. Warrior, the untamed, is a decrepit old lion, and he is used in a balloon ascension and a parachute drop to advertise the show and amuse the crowds. The comedy ends merrily in spite of a few serious moments that threaten catastrophe.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 598. O. 9, ’09. 120w.
=Isham, Frederic Stewart.=^{[8]} Half a chance. †$1.50. Bobbs.
9–25179.
Deals with the regeneration of a debauched but unjustly convicted man, who tho of good New England stock, had battled from pillar to post since childhood. In the hard school of life he had learned one lesson,—“Fight or be beaten.” His soul’s awakening came thru the compassion of a little English girl. The confidence and innocent faith placed in him by this child, caused the good in his nature to take root when by shipwreck he was saved from a convict’s exile in Australia and made an inhabitant of a solitary island. Rescued, he returned to London and became a criminal lawyer sharing his happiness with the girl who had been his good angel.
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“A story of interest for its plot rather than its psychology.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 91. N. ’09. ✠ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 598. O. 9, ’09. 200w.
=Ivins, William Mills.= Control of public utilities; in the form of an annotation of the public service commission’s law of the state of New York. *$7. Baker, Voorhis.
8–33023.
“Gives the Public service commission law of New York, together with the text of the Interstate commerce act and the Rapid transit act of New York, all carefully annotated, with citations of leading American cases. The whole is a bulky volume of nearly 1200 pages, which, with its full indexes, cross-references and judicial precedents, is itself an obvious public utility.”—Nation.
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“To legislators as well as lawyers, this work is of timely interest.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 652. D. 31, ’08. 170w.
“It is possible to praise Mr. Ivins’s presentation of his thesis without assenting to his conclusions.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 790. D. 19, ’08. 1650w.