The book review digest, volume 13, 1917 (part 4 of 10)
“These chapters were written as a series of articles for the Century Magazine. At the time of the Russian revolution and the intervention of the United States, the chapters on Poland and Constantinople had already been published and the others were in print.” (Foreword) Mr Gibbons treats some events in outline only, and makes references that assume the reader’s knowledge of modern European history. His chapters all deal with the wrongs of small nations, whom he shows to have been ill-treated by the Entente allies as well as by Germany, and with the way the small nations should be treated to secure a durable peace. Despite his “horrors and detestation of what Jews and Poles and Armenians and Belgians and Serbians are being made to suffer,” he does not think that the punishment of and a change in the political status of Russia, Turkey, Germany, and Austria-Hungary would prevent the renewal in the very near future of wrongs inflicted upon small and weak nations, but believes the formula for the readjustment of the world to be “government by the consent of the governed.” He therefore argues that the reconstituted Polish state must not be subject in any way to either Germany or Russia and that its boundaries must be determined by ethnological, economic and political, rather than historical, considerations; that Constantinople must be considered “in the light of principle and not as a pawn”; that the peace conference must prove the intention of Europe to put “local Mohammedan interests ahead of European interest in Mohammedan countries”; and that the Entente powers must “guarantee the Balkan peninsula to the Balkan peoples,” as otherwise “Germany will keep the hegemony in the Balkans that she has already won.”
=A L A Bkl= 14:19 O ‘17
“The book interprets for us the passionate racial desires for freedom, and the inalienable right to enjoy that freedom, of all the minor weaker states now in the whirlpool of war.” S. A.
=Boston Transcript= p6 S 12 ‘17 410w
+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 60w
“The author writes from long and intimate knowledge of eastern European politics, and his suggestions are worthy of the earnest attention of statesmen and diplomats.” F: A. Ogg
+ =Dial= 63:583 D 6 ‘17 520w
=Ind= 91:475 S 22 ‘17 250w
+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 29 ‘17 370w
“The attitude of the writer is rather that of a thoughtful observer than an incisive critic. He has no definite solution to offer for any of the problems which are sure to plague mankind after peace negotiations shall have begun.”
+ — =Nation= 105:609 N 29 ‘17 500w
“Mr Gibbons is the author of two recent and very valuable works, ‘The new map of Africa’ and ‘The new map of Europe.’ In the present work he departs from his special forte of describing what has happened in the way of territorial changes to suggest changes that may happen in the future. ... The value of the work consists far more in the information given regarding the past status of these countries than in what he suggests for the future. ... In his past work he was on sure ground, in this it is unavoidably different.” J. W.
+ — =N Y Call= p15 S 2 ‘17 400w
“Mr Gibbons gives a lucid and vigorous presentation of the issues at stake in Poland and the Near East, pointing out that if the war is to continue in the character of a struggle for democracy against autocracy, the issues must be defined to meet the requirements of democracy. .... In his point of view he is accurately representative of American nationalism.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:306 Ag 19 ‘17 540w
“A useful work of historical reference and suggestion. It should have an index.”
+ — =Outlook= 117:26 S 5 ‘17 360w
=Pittsburgh= 22:825 D ‘17 90w
“An important contribution to the literature on American foreign relations emphasizes that the principles of American policy concerning the Near East are fundamentally and necessarily different from those of our allies. ... The author sets right misled public opinion in this country concerning the nature of Panislamism and the Islam conception of the state.” Bruno Lasker
+ =Survey= 38:550 S 22 ‘17 720w
=GIBBONS, JAMES, cardinal.= Retrospect of fifty years. 2v *$2 (1½c) Murphy, J: 282 17-88
These two volumes contain a selection from the essays and sermons of Cardinal Gibbons. His introduction expresses the belief that they may be of historical importance as a record of the times in which he has lived. He says “I have lived a long time, and I have lived through a very critical time. Not only have I held office many years, but I have held office during a time of transition, when the old order was changed.” A large part of the first volume is devoted to the Vatican council (1869-1870), of which Cardinal Gibbons is the last surviving member. Other miscellaneous papers of general interest included in the two volumes are: The Knights of labor; The church and the republic; Irish immigration to the United States; Patriotism and politics; Will the American republic endure?
“The reader will not find in this book any aids to an exact knowledge of historic facts, nor will the non-Catholic find any arguments to persuade him to join the church, but he will feel that the country has been very fortunate to have had a man of broad sympathies, of generous temper, of great patience and Christian charity at the head of the Catholic church in America during the last fifty years.” H: D. Sedgwick
=Am Hist R= 22:887 Jl ‘17 1050w
“Of interest to both Catholics and Protestants alike.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:285 Ap ‘17
“He was already a priest during the Civil war, followed Abraham Lincoln’s body in procession when it was brought to Baltimore, and has been personally acquainted with most of the American presidents since Lincoln’s death.”
+ =Ath= p255 My ‘17 120w
“The essay on the Knights of labour is one of the most important, as the part played by Cardinal Gibbons in their behalf is one of his noblest achievements. ... In every essay, the character of the man is unconsciously made clear. And one arises from such reading with the conviction that this man is greater than any of his writings or deeds, and that such a man is one of the greatest assets of a nation or a church.” F. P. Lyons, C. S. P.
+ =Bookm= 45:193 Ap ‘17 1000w
“Many of the papers and addresses embraced in the ‘Retrospect’ deal with civic affairs. .... In these we get an ineffaceable impression of the distinguished author as the type of the militant citizen who rebukes the wrong and defends the right, and yet through all retains an unshakable faith in his country and its institutions which glows like a torch to guide all who call themselves Americans.”
+ =Cath World= 104:689 F ‘17 800w
+ =Lit D= 54:911 Mr 31 ‘17 950w
=R of Rs= 55:667 Je ‘17 80w
=GIBBS, GEORGE FORT.= Secret witness. il *$1.50 Appleton 17-22296
“The author, in an explanatory final chapter, seems to claim that some evidence exists of the truth of the incidents described in the novel as preceding the assassination of the Austrian archduke at Sarajevo. According to this theory, the German Kaiser and the Archduke had formed a secret alliance in which, after the death of Emperor Francis Joseph, they were to divide between them Austria, Serbia, Poland, and other territory, the Archduke to hold the eastern section and to found a dynasty through his children, whose right to succeed him was denied by Austria. The story gives an Austrian origin to the plot and assassination. The secret interview between the Kaiser and Archduke is overheard by a young Austrian countess and a young English diplomat who are in love with each other and who conceive it to be their duty to report the matter—one to the Austrian emperor, the other to the English ambassador. Out of this naturally come plots and counterplots and adventures of startling character.”—Outlook
=A L A Bkl= 14:95 D ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 O 6 ‘17 300w
“Not so skillfully written as Buchan’s ‘Greenmantle,’ but of similar interest.”
+ — =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 70w
=Dial= 64:78 Ja 17 ‘18 60w
“A technically adroit, plausible and attractively written story.”
+ =New Repub= 12:226 S 22 ‘17 200w
“There is plenty of variety in the scenes which are laid in many and very different places, including a Turkish harem and an ancient, supposedly abandoned castle high up in the Tatra range of the Carpathians. ... A swift-moving, entertaining story with an ingenious plot.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:343 S 16 ‘17 320w
=Outlook= 117:142 S 26 ‘17 160w
=Pratt= p51 O ‘17 10w
“A second ‘Prisoner of Zenda’ in its headlong pace, picturesque situations, adventure and love interest.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:556 N ‘17 200w
=GIBBS, PHILIP.= Battles of the Somme. *$2 (2c) Doran 940.91 17-3464
This is Mr Gibbs’s second war book. “The soul of the war” was written while he was a free-lance journalist in France and Belgium. He is now an officially accredited correspondent with the British armies in the field. In this book he has brought together articles written in the three months following July 1, 1916. He is one of the most brilliant men writing from the front. He kept close to the fighting forces, and makes the daily life of the men in action very vivid. There are two folding maps.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:345 My ‘17
“Mr Gibbs’s book is the war. ... The reader sees and senses the horror and the nastiness and the incredible folly of it all; but, shining through the sombreness, the glory of those golden lads who, knowing the war and hating it like the hell it is, went steadfastly forward into the flames with smiling eyes and a jest on their lips.” A. R. Dodd
+ =Bookm= 45:196 Ap ‘17 600w
“No man who writes from the front writes more sensitively than does Philip Gibbs. ... His best pictures are of men.” W. A. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 950w
+ =Ind= 90:472 Je 9 ‘17 140w
+ =Lit D= 54:1708 Je 2 ‘17 550w
+ =New Repub= 10:sup16 Ap 21 ‘17 550w
“If Mr Gibbs can see the saving humors in the warring days, he can see the hideousness, too, and the fineness, and the tenderness that so often goes hand in hand with the heroism. It is because he can see all of these things—and makes us see them—that his book is so good.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:57 F 18 ‘17 500w
+ =Outlook= 116:75 My 9 ‘17 50w
=Pratt= p40 O ‘17 20w
+ =Spec= 118:239 F 24 ‘17 600w
“The two excellent maps appended to the book, while they fulfil the purpose of their insertion by recording the progress made in the early weeks of the battle, are of no use in following the present movement. The Germans have been backed clean off them.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 13 ‘17 550w
“His record appeared from day to day, in either the Daily Telegraph or the Daily Chronicle. ... On the tanks Mr Gibbs speaks with a certain guarded enthusiasm. ... ‘If we had enough of them—and it would be a big number—trench warfare would go for ever and machine-gun redoubts would lose their terror.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p38 Ja 25 ‘17 700w
=GIBBS, WINIFRED STUART.= Minimum cost of living. *$1 Macmillan 331.83 17-10221
“This work is based on a methodical study of the food habits, as compared with the scientifically-estimated food requirements, of a number of New York families cared for by the Association for improving the condition of the poor; this study seems to have succeeded in multiplying the effectiveness of the money spent in relieving want, and as an unintentional byproduct food economies are suggested which are undoubtedly feasible on a larger scale. The contribution of the book to present needs lies in these statistics of food use and food needs.”—Springf’d Republican
“An accurate laboratory contribution to family budget literature, of use to every student of social conditions. Further, it demonstrates the practicability of using the family budget as a lever to raise the living standards both of dependent and of independent families, and will, therefore, be of service to every social worker.” W. E. Clark
+ =Am Econ R= 7:665 S ‘17 500w
Reviewed by Florence Nesbitt
=Am J Soc= 23:277 S ‘17 60w
=A L A Bkl= 14:6 O ‘17
“It must be kept in mind, however, in reading this book that the budgets given are not to be set up as standards for the cost of living. The clothing estimate is admittedly inadequate even when eked out by gifts of clothing from relations.” N. D. H.
+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:237 Jl ‘17 90w
“While primarily a book for charity visitors and district nurses, it should interest all social workers for it records with modesty a fine piece of constructive work to help families left without an adult male wage-earner, to spend their incomes wisely.”
+ =Cleveland= p77 Je ‘17 60w
=Dial= 63:351 O 11 ‘17 120w
=J Pol Econ= 25:1059 D ‘17 60w
“Of peculiar interest, now that the war has given prominence to the question of food-economy.”
+ =Nation= 105:272 S 6 ‘17 360w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:90 Je ‘17 50w
=Pittsburgh= 22:689 O ‘17 40w
=Pratt= p25 O ‘17 20w
Reviewed by Graham Lusk
+ =Science= n s 46:18 Jl 6 ‘17 230w
“The explanatory text is rather incoherently assembled, but there are enough figures in handy form to give the amateur economist a good working basis.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 3 ‘17 440w
“It gives concrete evidence for the philanthropist, the law-maker, and the employer regarding the now undeniable interrelation between human progress and the minimum wage.” L. B. Mendel
+ =Survey= 38:531 S 15 ‘17 200w
=GIBSON, CHARLES R.= War inventions and how they were invented. il *$1 Lippincott 355 (Eng ed 17-1948)
“An attractive book which answers a good many of the questions—about guns and shells and range-finding, for instance—which the layman is always asking himself or others equally ignorant.” (Spec) “Contents: How guns were invented; How guns were made to shoot straight; Guns that fire 1,000 shots per minute; Giant guns; What is an explosive? How shells were invented; How we came to make iron ships; Ships that go under the sea; Some questions about submarines; About the deadly torpedo; How torpedoes and mines are exploded; A very dangerous occupation; The eye of the submarine; Measuring the distance to the enemy; Ships that go up in the air; War in the air.” (Pittsburgh)
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:434 My ‘17 80w
“Mr Gibson is not afraid to begin at the beginning and explain the very elements of gunnery and torpedo-work, and he has a clear and pleasant style.”
+ =Spec= 117:sup685 D 2 ‘16 60w
=GIBSON, HUGH.= Journal from our legation in Belgium. il *$2.50 (2½c) Doubleday 940.91 17-29362
This volume is the private journal of the first secretary to the American legation in Brussels “jotted down hastily from day to day in odd moments, when more pressing duties would permit.” (Introd.) It runs from July 4 to December 31, 1914. Appended to it as a final chapter is an article on the case of Miss Cavell, which has appeared in the World’s Work. “Much material has been eliminated as of little interest. Other material of interest has been left out because it cannot be published at this time.” (Introd.) Most of the matter about the early history of the Commission for relief in Belgium has been eliminated, because Mr Gibson felt that his record of it was inadequate and knew that Dr Vernon Kellogg was to publish an authoritative account of the Commission’s work. There are numerous illustrations from photographs. Among these are portraits of Edith Cavell, Herbert C. Hoover and Cardinal Mercier. There is no index.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:89 D ‘17
+ =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 100w
“This is one of the best books which the war has given us. The writing is not beautiful or fine, but the story is so surpassingly good that it never is tiresome or dull.”
+ =Nation= 105:665 D 13 ‘17 2350w
“What one gleans from this book, even more than the sensations of Belgium invaded—amplified as they are by numerous photographs and proclamations—is a pronounced impression of the Germany that invaded her, the Germans that went to make up that formidable force which Mr Gibson observes so sensibly, with such disintegrating critical gaze.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 13:101 N 24 ‘17 1750w
“In this long and absorbing record of early war days there is much to clear up perplexities and to give us new facts and new light on old knowledge. ... Simple, vivid, concrete, informative, it is to repeat, a book that every American ought to read.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:439 O 28 ‘17 1500w
“His knowledge of the mind and spirit of the invaded, coupled with his power to portray the Germans, renders his narrative unusually absorbing and convincing.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:826 D ‘17 80w
“This is one of those exceptionally privileged volumes which make the great mass of current war literature seem tame and commonplace.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 92:2025 D 8 ‘17 450w
“It forms a vivid and convincing story of what went on in Belgium during the first year of the war. It should be read by all who have any remaining doubts as to the spirit and intent of the German administration in Belgium.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:101 Ja ‘18 170w
“The poignant merit of this book consists, not in the novelty of the facts, which are but too familiar, but in the authority of the writer.”
+ =Sat R= 124:506 D 22 ‘17 1300w
=GIBSON, WILFRID WILSON.= Livelihood; dramatic reveries. *$1.25 Macmillan 821 17-1621
Mr Gibson has brought together twenty of his recent poems. They are narratives of humble life, stories of men and women who, “in spite of everything,” have learned “to take their luck through life and find it good.” They bring out some of those imperishable qualities in human nature which neither hardship nor poverty nor war has power wholly to destroy.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:391 Je ‘17
+ =Ath= p200 Ap ‘17 270w
“He is truly a poet of the people. ... To be a poet of the people, the people must understand you; they must do more, they must know you understand them.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 20 ‘17 1600w
“The muse of Mr Gibson drowses in ‘Livelihood.’ ... Equally unfortunate is the lapse of that faculty of enlargement which gave compass and vista to those low-life themes which cramp the unsympathetic or unimaginative mind. Comparatively speaking, the persons in ‘Livelihood’ are passive, and their sorrows oppress rather than excite us. Exceptions occur, or the volume would hardly be Mr Gibson’s. ‘The news’ is an affecting though dilated story, and ‘The old nail shop’ illustrates the resurgence of vigor.” O. W. Firkins
– + =Nation= 105:66 Jl 19 ‘17 350w
“Not that Gibson is faultless; he has at times a distressing tendency to take the phrase or word that comes first into his head; he does not always labor until he has secured the inevitable and creative phrase, as, for instance, Robert Frost usually does. But this does not detract from the beauty he often achieves, or his significance as a poet of labor.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p14 Ap 29 ‘17 660w
“Very tender and gentle is Mr Gibson’s touch upon life in these poems, wherein he sees only the solemn glory in each humble soul and has no eyes for its baseness.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:14 Ja 14 ‘17 900w
+ =R of Rs= 55:211 F ‘17 50w
“Though these tales in verse are not poetry in the fullest and highest sense, though they are too merely individual and too photographic for that, yet they are what every one may well be grateful for. ... There is not a dull page in them; the book is a compound of constant cleverness, much sympathy, some imagination, scarcely any music of speech.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p79 F 15 ‘17 1300w
“The chief defect in the book is a want of the joy of life; there is a sombreness over it all; there is resignation rather than happiness. The chief delight of his men and women is in the remembering of past days. It may be that ‘Between the lines’ gives a clue to this: the shadow of the war has not yet fallen upon us.” E: B. Reed
+ =Yale R= n s 6:862 Jl ‘17 150w
=GIBSON, WILFRID WILSON.= Poems (1904-1917). il *$2.25 Macmillan 821 17-24679
The publishers state that “here is brought together in one volume all of Mr Gibson’s writings which he wishes to preserve.” Contents: Akra the slave; Stonefolds; Daily bread; Womenkind; Fires; Thoroughfares; Borderlands; Battle; Friends; Livelihood.
=A L A Bkl= 14:66 N ‘17
“His work is simple, rough-hewn and frequently unbeautiful, but his sympathies penetrate to the innermost heart of humble life.”
+ =Cleveland= p121 N ‘17 60w
“It is, of course, too early to attempt a placing of Mr Gibson. For the present it is enough to say that he has developed a style peculiarly effective, and valuable too for its influence on contemporary poetry. Mr Gibson has clearly proved that poetry can deal with the commonplaces of daily life,—with the bitter and trivial and powerful and universal commonplaces of human consciousness,—and do it with force and beauty.” Conrad Aiken
+ =Dial= 63:453 N 8 ‘17 700w
“Such sketches of the individual soldier in the trenches as make up the section ‘Battle’ are so brief, so compact, so single in their purpose that every lyric suggests the flight of a bullet. And, like bullets, these war poems either hit altogether or not at all. They are all perfect; tho three or four of them are perfect failures. ... In war and peace alike, Gibson selects by preference the themes that are commonplace or even disagreeable and makes them splendid by revealing the heroism and kindliness which lie deep in the hearts of common folk.”
+ — =Ind= 92:62 O 6 ‘17 250w
=Lit D= 55:32 N 3 ‘17 120w
“He has diction, but hardly phrase; he has passion, but hardly drama; he has humanity, but hardly character. He is concise, but is prodigal of concision. A master of point when he wills, he keeps that mastery in habitual abeyance. Yet so abounding, so dominating, are his diction, his passion, his humanity, that the negations, in the hour of contact, are scarcely credible or visible.” O. W. Firkins
+ — =Nation= 106:89 Ja 24 ‘18 730w
“Wilfrid Wilson Gibson gets into these idylls the kindliness of the English folk. Through his work we see England, not as a great imperial system, but as a not too prosperous nationality where a laborious, poorly rewarded folk love their soil and love their kind.” Padraic Colum
+ =New Repub= 13:sup11 N 17 ‘17 1000w
“What he has done, here grouped together, makes him one of labor’s strongest voices; we are justly proud of him.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p16 Ja 19 ‘18 650w
“Like Wordsworth, Mr Gibson has a plain, severe way of writing which degenerates only too often into aridity and baldness; ... like Wordsworth, too, he is almost exclusively interested in the lives of the simple and the poor. There, unfortunately, the resemblance stops.”
— =N Y Times= 22:383 O 7 ‘17 450w
=GIDDINGS, HOWARD ANDREW=, comp.[2] Handbook of military signaling. il *60c Appleton 623.7 17-28811
A revised edition of a handbook published in 1896 with the title “Instructions in military signaling.” The preface says, “The changes in codes and signaling systems have been so extensive that the handbook is in effect a new one. The signal codes, conventional signals, letter codes, emergency signals, etc., are taken from the Signal book, U.S. army, 1916.”
“Useful, compact little volume.”
+ =Nation= 106:120 Ja 31 ‘18 40w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:187 D ‘17 10w
=R of Rs= 57:102 Ja ‘18 20w
=GILBERT, ARTHUR WITTER=, and others. Potato. (Rural science ser.) il *$1.50 Macmillan 635 17-10445
“The author states in his preface that the book is intended to give brief and practical suggestions on the growing, breeding and marketing of potatoes.” (Science) “Mr Dean is a grower of potatoes on a large scale and has studied the business of potato growing in all parts of the United States. His chapters in the book deal with the practical work of planting and cultivating, Dr Barrus’s with the diseases of the potato and how to treat them, and Dr Gilbert’s with the different varieties and what each needs in the way of soil and care.” (N Y Times)
“Unquestionably one of the most important agricultural books of the year.”
+ =Agricultural Digest= 2:504 Je ‘17 60w
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:433 Jl ‘17
=Cleveland= p95 Jl ‘17 30w
“Has the usual solid merits of the volumes in Professor Bailey’s Rural science series. Of timely value is the chapter on the problems of marketing and storage.”
+ =Nation= 105:154 Ag 9 ‘17 550w
+ =N Y Times= 22:165 Ap 29 ‘17 130w
=Pratt= p21 Jl ‘17 20w
=St Louis= 15:174 Je ‘17
“This publication, in addition to being up-to-date in its cultural directions, devotes considerably more attention to the subject of potato breeding than any of our preceding American treatises on the potato. ... The discussion of potato diseases and their control is clear and convincing and should prove very helpful to both the farmer and the student. A chapter on ‘Markets, marketing and storage’ is both suggestive and helpful, as is also that on the cost of growing potatoes.” W: Stuart
+ =Science= n s 45:462 My 11 ‘17 300w
=GILBERT, GEORGE HOLLEY.= Jesus for the men of today; when science aids religion. *$1 Doran 232 17-17183
“‘Jesus: for the men of today,’ by Prof. George H. Gilbert, is a life of Christ in story form. The main facts of the gospel narrative are made to live again amid the homely human surroundings of Galilee and Judea.”—Ind
“It reveals the human and lovely character of Jesus with the power of a poet’s interpretation; it discloses the soul of the writer as well, and the vision is most beautiful. The book must have been written originally more or less in blank verse or else the writer unconsciously pens prose that admits scanning.”
+ — =Bib World= 50:315 N ‘17 210w
“The ample historical and archeological knowledge of the author guarantee the accuracy of the picture, and the characters are sketched with the modern touches of realism.”
+ =Ind= 91:354 S 1 ‘17 70w
=GILBERTSON, HENRY STIMSON.= County—the “dark continent” of American politics. $2 National short ballot organization 352 17-12496
“Since 1910, when the American political science association gave the county a place on the program of its annual meeting, a number of valuable studies of the county have been made. ... The work under review by H. S. Gilbertson, secretary of the New York short ballot organization, is the first attempt to set forth within the covers of a single book ‘the outlines of a very real and important “county problem.”’ The purpose of the work, as stated in the preface, is to stimulate a ‘much wider and more thorough research into the subject than has yet been attempted’ and ‘to throw a new light upon the “democratic experiment” in America.’ Within the first 119 pages the author presents his ‘indictment of the county.’ This is followed (86 pages) by a constructive program of county reform. An appendix of 77 pages contains a number of valuable constitutional and legislative documents relating to county government. ... A comprehensive bibliography and an adequate index enhance the value of the book.”—Am Pol Sci R
=A L A Bkl= 14:6 O ‘17
Reviewed by O. C. Hormell
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:587 Ag ‘17 650w
+ =Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 20w
“The political student and worker will find this book truly useful, the more so if he keep in mind how easy it is whenever a bad spot is found in officialdom to assault the governmental system.”
+ =Ind= 90:555 Je 23 ‘17 80w
=Pratt= p9 O ‘17 40w
“Since Mr Gilbertson began the inquiry, something has been done here and there towards untangling the county knot, for example, the work of the Public efficiency society of Cook county, Ill., the Westchester research bureau of New York, and the Tax association of Alameda county in California—and the results of his work justify a degree of optimism for the future.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:326 S ‘17 210w
=St Louis= 15:170 Je ‘17
=GILMAN, STEPHEN.= Principles of accounting. $3 LaSalle extension univ. 657 16-15136
“‘Principles of accounting,’ for trained bookkeepers, is a complete discussion, made clearer by careful illustration, of the forms and values of accurate accounting in its modern meaning where the aim of the business man is not merely a balancing of accounts, but such a comparison of facts and values as will give him the truest estimate of his business transactions.”—Ind
“On the whole, it may be said that the book does not undertake to advance new theories but to present clearly the principles underlying the best accounting practice. The point of view is modern, the treatment comprehensive and usually adequate, and the style simple and clear. Effective use is made of charts, examples, problems, and summaries. ... The author’s acquaintance with accounting theory, however, is evidently not equalled by his knowledge of economic theory, else why say: ‘In a natural state, water may be obtained without effort; hence it has no utility?’” C. C. Huntington
+ =Am Econ R= 7:133 Mr ‘17 1500w
+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:228 Jl ‘17 100w
+ =Ind= 87:242 Ag 14 ‘16 60w
=GIRAULT, ARTHUR.= Colonial tariff policy of France; ed. by C: Gide. *$2.50 Oxford 337 (Eng ed 16-23596)
“This is one of the two initial publications issued by the Division of economics and history of the Carnegie endowment for international peace; the other being Grunzel’s ‘Economic protectionism.’ ... The book gives a narrative and critical account of the colonial policy of France. A first part, comprising about half the contents, gives a historical sketch of that policy. The second and concluding part takes up the present colonies one by one—the small colonies, Indo-China, Madagascar and dependencies, West Africa, Equatorial Africa, Algeria, Tunis, and Morocco—and describes and discusses their present relations with the mother country.”—Am Econ R
“In style and arrangement it is a typical and creditable example of French scholarly work. It is fluently and clearly written, well arranged, supplied with convenient introductions and summaries; and there is a good index. The passages that involve criticism and reasoning are sensible, but cannot be said to show a thorough grasp of general economic theory or of the principles of international trade.” F. W. Taussig
+ =Am Econ R= 7:155 Mr ‘17 900w
“Professor Girault is at his best in the historical and descriptive parts of the work. A certain looseness and inconsistency characterizes his generalizations and his deductions as well as his reasoning as to the policy which France of to-day should pursue towards some of her colonies. ... The real merit of this work lies in the analysis of the causes of the colonial tariff policies under the changing governments of France and in a careful presentation of the effect of these policies upon the economic status of each colony; as such it forms an important contribution to the study of the subject.” Simon Litman
+ — =Am Hist R= 22:904 Jl ‘17 600w
Reviewed by R. S. MacElwee
=Ann Am Acad= 71:234 My ‘17 470w
=St Louis= 15:357 O ‘17 60w
“The severity and lucidity of the main argument, the incontrovertibility of the historical facts built into the exposition, and the wealth of the statistical evidence certainly establish its title to be a work of reference for historians, economists, and the public; but it would require more than one expert thoroughly to sift the premises and test the conclusions stated with moderation but with an impressive conviction by the author. Professor Girault is handling a subject the general principles of which he had worked out in his ‘Principles de colonisation et de legislation coloniale’; and he is careful to correlate the specific analysis of the French system with the wider principles of colonial policy in general. ... Professor Girault has provided the French delegates at the future conference with an indispensable dossier.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p59 Ja 25 ‘17 1900w
=GLADSTONE, WILLIAM EWART.= Speeches; descriptive index and bibliography; with a preface by Viscount Bryce. *12s 6d Methuen & co., London 308 (Eng ed 17-14978)
“Mr Bassett has compiled an invaluable supplement to Lord Morley’s ‘Life of Gladstone,’ comprising an index to his speeches from June 3rd, 1833, to May 4th, 1897, and a bibliography of his writings. ... The index is briefly annotated and gives the length of each speech. Fourteen of the most notable orations are reprinted in full, with useful introductions by Mr Herbert Paul. They include his attack on Palmerston’s foreign policy (1850), his denunciation of the treaty of Berlin (1878), and his famous opening speech in the Midlothian campaign of 1879, expressing a detestation of the Turk. His first Budget speech and his speech introducing the first Home rule bill are of much historic interest.”—Spec
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+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p569 N 30 ‘16 650w
=GLAENZER, RICHARD BUTLER.=[2] Beggar and king. *$1 Yale univ. press 811 17-29491
Contains among its best pieces “Masters of earth,” “Sure, it’s fun!” “The golden plover,” “Measure for measure,” and “April’s fool.” A handful among the sheaf are steeped in orientalism. Others sing loud and exultantly, drowning “sneers of humankind.” Some are war songs. One of the latter, “The new beatitude,” with a few strokes sets ruined Picardy and Poland before the eye, where “rasps through the reek this whisper raucous and low, Blessed are they which died a year ago!”
“Mr Glaenzer’s volume is somewhat of a disappointment. With a few exceptions the works he has chosen to include are of ordinary significance. It is his workmanship rather than theme or conception that does him the greater credit. ‘Sure, it’s fun!’ one of the recent flashing bits of verse brought forth by the war shows how well Mr Glaenzer can succeed in being poetical; and the charming poem ‘To a vireo’ ... proves that when he abandons himself to light moods he can sing effectively and graciously. It is when he strives to be more ambitious, to sound the vague and complex depths of human experience that he fails to satisfy and merely irritates the reader by producing clever workmanship.” W. S. B.
– + =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 250w
“The workmanship is thorough, but the volume seems somewhat to lack the freshness that makes much of today’s poetry interesting.”
– + =N Y Times= 23:33 Ja 27 ‘18 140w
“He is thoroughly original in everything he writes, with the possible exception of lyrics which only in notable cases differ radically in the year 1917. Mr Glaenzer delights in cynicism. His lyrics are tinged and also tarnished by this trait. Try as he may to climb to the subjective hights of lyricists, there is always some repelling incident to make him slip. For this reason he never effervesces nor thrills with emotional ecstasy. The coquette amuses him. There is always some regret or failing in his theme to dull the brilliance of the glittering peak.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 650w
=GLEASON, ARTHUR HUNTINGTON.= Inside the British Isles. *$2 (2c) Century 942.08 17-14222
A series of papers on Great Britain in wartime, arranged in four groups: Labor; Women; Ireland; Social studies, followed by a study of Lloyd-George and a conclusion. In concluding the author says, “I have sought to show the passing of England,—Little England, Old England,—the crumbling of its caste system, and the emergence of the England of John Bull and Cromwell’s soldiers from inarticulateness into power. And a yet greater thing has come—the advent of the new British commonwealth.” He adds further, “I am convinced that our own future is bound up with that of England, that together with England and France we can face the world with security, and gradually and painfully make the democratic principle prevail.”
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“The impression he creates is of a mind previously made up, and using only those facts which will support his thesis. ... In other words, Mr Gleason is a special pleader rather than a philosophic investigator, and it is only a philosophic investigator who could convincingly treat such a subject as that of the present book.”
— =Cath World= 106:261 N ‘17 510w
=Cleveland= p99 Jl ‘17 70w
“Everyone is there—Mr Lansbury, Mr Zimmern, Mr Lionel Curtis, Mr Webb. Labels of identification are attached to them all. An ordinary Englishman like myself may again and again have real difficulty in recognizing some of the portraits. Mr Gleason works rapidly, and he is a little naïve. But his book has a real interim value as a cinematograph and it is extraordinarily pleasant reading.” H. J. Laski
=Dial= 63:15 Je 28 ‘17 80w
“Contains uncommonly keen analyses of certain aspects of the national characteristics. Thus, his grasp on the Irish problem in relation to the gulf of feeling and sentiment separating the Irish from the English people goes true to the very bone of the difficulty.”
+ =Ind= 90:553 Je 23 ‘17 300w
“Mr Gleason writes with a rush and a whirl. He offers a minimum of specific data and a maximum of generalization. Yet we feel sure that no one will put down Mr Gleason’s book without a clear impression that England is today in revolution. His account is, beyond question, the most comprehensive and the most stimulating that has thus far appeared.”
+ — =Nation= 105:246 S 6 ‘17 1100w
“Mr Gleason is to be complimented in his piecing together of all the fragmentary information, heretofore available only from time to time in the hurriedly read columns of the press, and furnishing a fairly synthetic picture of all that has taken place. ... He is careful to tell us that ‘Marxian socialism’ is ‘obsolete.’ And this is the only thing in the volume that he doesn’t apparently know anything about.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p14 Je 3 ‘17 570w
“Sometimes one wonders if perhaps Mr Gleason in his enthusiasm exaggerates the importance of the changes he observes going on, thinks them significant of deeper forces than they represent, mistakes the temporary adjustment to suit temporary conditions for permanent evolution. ... Nevertheless, whether one agrees or not, the book has peculiar interest and high importance. ... But the volume contains a half dozen or more pages on ‘The new Americanism’ which might very well have been omitted because they are utterly irrelevant to the subject of the book and because they amazingly misunderstand and misinterpret facts and conditions in this country.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:231 Je 17 ‘17 800w
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“The advantage possessed by Arthur Gleason as an interpreter of English life for Americans is that he has a fresh and active mind and knows what aspects of England American readers would like to hear about. The disadvantage is that his familiarity with British affairs—if familiarity is the proper word—is apparently a very recent growth. ... Having a keen and alert eye and a facile habit of deduction, he seldom fails to be interesting, though he frequently does fail to be significant.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 1100w
“The primary value of this book to the student of contemporary events is its description of tendencies, accompanied in nearly all cases by sufficient evidence to allow the reader to judge for himself what amount of intended or unconscious exaggeration there may be in the predictions made.” Bruno Lasker
+ =Survey= 38:548 S 22 ‘17 850w
=GLEASON, ARTHUR HUNTINGTON.= Our part in the great war. il *$1.35 (2c) Stokes 940.91 17-13604
This book is made up of four sections. Section 1, Americans who helped, consists of accounts of relief work in France, based on the author’s experience with an ambulance corps. Section 2, Why some Americans are neutral, has chapters on: Neutrality: an interpretation of the Middle West; Social workers and the war; Forgetting the American tradition, etc. Section 3, The Germans that rose from the dead, is based largely on gleanings from German war diaries. Section 4, The peasants, is a series of sketches, drawn from the author’s experience in Belgium and France. In addition there are two letters in an appendix addressed To the reader and To neutral critics.
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“So rapidly have events moved that Mr Gleason’s book has become, in ways, somewhat out of date even by the day of its publication. And that is a pity, for it contains so much valuable contribution to our knowledge of the war and is written in a spirit so earnest and, in the best sense, so patriotic that the reading of it ought still to have a tonic effect.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:270 Jl 22 ‘17 550w
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=GLOVER, TERROT REAVELEY.= Jesus of history; with a foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury. *$1 (1c) Assn. press 232 17-9479
This work was prepared for the British Student Christian movement and published in Great Britain by that organization. It is based, however, on lectures given in India in the winter of 1915-16 by the author, who is fellow of St John’s college, Cambridge, and university lecturer in ancient history. The aim of the book, the author says “is, after all, not to achieve a final presentment of the historical Jesus, but to suggest lines of study that will deepen our interest in him and our love of him.” Contents: The study of the gospels; Childhood and youth; The man and his mind; The teacher and the disciples; The teaching of Jesus upon God; Jesus and man; Jesus’ teaching upon sin; The choice of the cross; The Christian church in the Roman empire; Jesus in Christian thought.
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“Will appeal to those who find experience and life a guide to the understanding of the gospels rather than technical theology.” James Moffatt
+ =Hibbert J= 15:679 Jl ‘17 100w
“The prolix and involved presentation, however, make the argument difficult to follow; and one lays down the work with a sigh of disappointment, at the little this eminent scholar has contributed to our knowledge or understanding of Jesus.”
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Reviewed by M. K. Reely
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“In the foreword which the Archbishop of Canterbury contributes to this book he speaks of its author’s ‘rare power of reverently handling familiar truths or facts in such manner as to make them seem to be almost new.’ In saying that he expresses what every one will feel to be the chief distinction of the book.”
+ =Spec= 119:143 Ag 11 ‘17 620w
“Dr Glover’s gifts of vivid description and graphic exposition have enabled him to provide a study of the central figure of the synoptic gospels which must evoke and retain the interest of even the least sympathetic readers. ... It is certainly unconventional and sometimes daring in its interpretations, but it is always reverent and full of the force of a man who has a strong personal grasp of what he believes to be ‘the fact of Christ.’”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p80 F 15 ‘17 500w
=GODFREY, THOMAS.= Prince of Parthia. il *$2.50 Little 812 17-14983
This book is a reprint of “the first tragedy ever composed by a native American and produced on the professional stage in the United States.” (R of Rs) It has heretofore been available only in the original edition of 1765, and “is now published in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its production [in Philadelphia], without variation from the original, and accompanied by a biography and historical and critical introduction by Archibald Henderson.” (R of Rs) Only 550 copies were printed for sale.
Reviewed by Algernon Tassin
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“Godfrey was in no sense a great poet, not even a poet of great promise; but he was remarkable for the number and the variety of the English masters whom he was able, at the age of twenty-three, to echo in a way that showed appreciation if not originality. ... Many known facts go to show that his real importance in the history of eighteenth-century American literature has not been adequately recognized.”
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“The tragedy has many passages of great beauty. ... This is the first adequate account of Thomas Godfrey, and one that presents a picture drawn from historical data, of the literary and cultural conditions of American society in Philadelphia and Wilmington 1750-67.”
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=GOGOL, NIKOLAI VASILIEVITCH.= Inspector-general; a comedy in five acts; tr. from the Russian by T: Seltzer. (Borzoi plays) *$1 Knopf 891.7 17-78
“In this satire (written in the third decade of the last century) Gogol takes you to a little town of provincial Russia and introduces you to conditions there. Great excitement prevails in the town; for news of the coming of a government inspector has reached the town officials, and they tremble at the prospect of an investigation. ... In their panic fear they take the first man who arrives in town for the dreaded ‘Revizor.’ He happens to be a penniless adventurer from Petrograd, and to him each of the local officials, from the governor down, comes to reveal the venality of the others. ... The play is an unsparing castigation of ‘official’ incompetence, dishonesty and baseness.”—N Y Call
“It is theatrical, it is obvious. ... But it is irresistible fun.” O. M. Sayler
+ =Dial= 62:142 F 22 ‘17 120w
Reviewed by L. S. Friedland
=N Y Call= p15 F 25 ‘17 350w
“A Russian critic writes: ‘Russia possesses only one comedy, “The inspector general.”’ This volume is a new and complete version of Gogol’s four-act play written in 1835, which, by holding up to ridicule the officials of a typical municipality, struck a definite blow at the tyrannous bureaucracy of the Russian government.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:440 Ap ‘17 50w
“Means very much more to the Russian than even ‘The school for scandal’ or ‘She stoops to conquer’ does to the English-speaking world. ... Also known by its more literal title of ‘The revizor.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 22 ‘17 70w
=GOLDMAN, MAYER C.= Public defender; a necessary factor in the administration of justice. *$1 (7c) Putnam 343 17-7209
The author bases his plea for the establishment of the office of public defender on two principles: “(1) That it is as much the function of the state to shield the innocent as to convict the guilty; (2) That the ‘presumption of innocence’ requires the state to defend as well as to prosecute accused persons.” He discusses the subject in eight chapters: The public defender idea; The injustice of the “assigned counsel” system; Public prosecution and prosecutors; Analysis of the public defender; The ancient conception of crime; Specific objections considered; Other remedies inadequate; The march of the movement. The author is a member of the New York bar and the book has a foreword by Justice Wesley O. Howard of the Appellate division, New York Supreme court.
“‘The author has approached the subject from many angles and we believe has presented an exceptionally able brief in support of his premise and has answered in full, all criticisms and objections which have been raised.’”
+ =Cleveland= p92 Jl ‘17 110w (Reprinted from American Law Review)
“A valuable feature of the book is an appendix giving the chronology of the movement in this country and setting forth the most important facts regarding its present employment.”
+ =Dial= 63:30 Je 28 ‘17 330w
=New Repub= 11:142 Je 2 ‘17 160w
“The author is an attorney who drew both the bills for a public defender which were introduced into the New York legislature in 1915.”
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:59 Ap ‘17 60w
+ =N Y Call= p14 Mr 18 ‘17 200w
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=Pittsburgh= 22:769 N ‘17 80w
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“The public defender idea has met opposition from bar associations, judges, newspapers and others who have believed that accused persons are sufficiently protected in our courts under existing safeguards. Meanwhile, it has won increasing attention from the public generally.” W. D. Lane
=Survey= 38:361 Jl 21 ‘17 520w
=GOLDSMITH, ROBERT.= League to enforce peace; with a special introduction by A. Lawrence Lowell. *$1.50 (2c) Macmillan 341.1 17-6558
The “League to enforce peace,” organized in June, 1915, with ex-President Taft, A. Lawrence Lowell, and others as its promoters, is one of the associations that are trying to work out a practical program for the insurance of peace. A discussion of this program is the substance of the present work. It is divided into three parts. In part 1, the author considers The forces that failed, examining some of the agencies that broke down in 1914. Part 2 is devoted to an exposition of the principles and platform of the League to enforce peace. Part 3 is an examination of The creed of militarism, with a refutation of the militarist arguments. Endorsements of the League, etc., are given in an appendix. There is a bibliography and an index.
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“The author of this comprehensive discussion of the subject is a working member of the League and his book has had the examination and approval of several of its officials.” F. F. Kelly
+ =Bookm= 45:183 Ap ‘17 400w
“An unusually thin mess of intellectual porridge. ... The book slides along from easy platitude to easy platitude, without any genuine criticism or even analysis of the idea it professes to expound.” Randolph Bourne
— =Dial= 62:387 My 3 ‘17 1050w
“The book, tho rather diffuse in thought and arrangement, is nevertheless sound in principle, comprehensive, and well written. It should do much, especially in schools and colleges, to spread the idea that the coöperation of nations and not the competition of nations will alone insure eternal peace when the war ends.”
+ =Ind= 90:380 My 26 ‘17 120w
“An excellent bibliography of books on the war and reconstruction is appended to a volume which does its admirable ‘bit’ towards making an old idea fresh and alive.”
+ =New Repub= 10:sup20 Ap 21 ‘17 250w
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“Throughout the book, both in his exposition of the league’s proposals and in his discussion of conditions out of which it has grown and of opinions concerning those conditions, Mr Goldsmith never loses sight either of the ideal that is aimed at nor of the practical steps by which it can be attained.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:64 F 25 ‘17 800w
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“A ‘League to enforce peace’ ought to do much toward keeping us in intellectual equilibrium, not so much perhaps because of the startling or unusual in its pages as for the simplicity with which oft-expressed ideas are set forth.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 6 ‘17 480w
=GOLTZ, HORST VON DER.= My adventures as a German secret agent. il *$1.50 (2½c) McBride 940.91 17-29598
Chance slipped the young von der Goltz into the hands of the Prussian intelligence bureau and after years of shaping he was turned out a finished secret diplomatic agent. His adventures as secret agent in Russia, France, Spain, Switzerland, Mexico, the United States and England came to an abrupt end when England caught him and put him in prison. In this autobiographical volume he betrays Germany and divulges the entire structure and workings of her efficient spy system as it has been operative among the Allies. Of the United States he says: “Let me repeat again that Germany has installed in this country thousands of men, whose nationality and habits are such as to protect them from suspicion, who work silently and alone, because they know that their very lives depend upon their silence, and who are in communication with no central spy organization, for the very simple reason that no such organization exists. ... Eternal vigilance, here as elsewhere, is the price of security.”
“He makes an exciting tale, though it may be hard to believe everything he says, and most of the intrigues have already been exposed in the papers.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:123 Ja ‘18
“Interesting as is Baron von der Goltz’s exposure of German character, it yet fails in the appeal to our sympathies that its author evidently intended. Like every German he supposes that the average human mind works as the German mind works. He builds the whole structure of his book about his ridiculous slander against the late Empress Frederick. The American is accordingly prepared to believe nothing. Nevertheless, the rest of the narrative rings true.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 D 8 ‘17 430w
=Dial= 64:36 Ja 3 ‘18 90w
“The volume is interesting, however the reader may regard it. If it is considered as fiction, it has its merits; and equally so if it is considered as fact.” Joshua Wanhope
+ =N Y Call= p14 O 28 ‘17 700w
=N Y Times= 22:435 O 28 ‘17 880w
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=GOODMAN, PAUL, and LEWIS, ARTHUR D.=, eds. Zionism; problems and views. *$1.50 Bloch 296 17-4978
“This book consists of twenty-three papers by as many Anglo-Jewish contributors, with an introduction by Dr Max Nordau, the present leader of the movement of Zionism. ... What the capacities of the Jews are for national life, what they have done in Palestine already, may be read in this book. It is a study of the Jews, full of information little known to the Gentile, which appeals at least to intellectual curiosity, and very considerably to the sympathies of all educated readers.”—Sat R
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:13 Ja ‘17 70w
=Pittsburgh= 22:53 Ja ‘17 5w
+ =Sat R= 122:137 Ag 5 ‘16 1200w
=GORDON, GEORGE ANGIER.= Appeal of the nation. *75c (4½c) Pilgrim press 172 17-13744
Five patriotic addresses by the minister of Old South church, Boston. Contents: American freedom; The foreign-born American citizen; Christian and citizen; American loyalty; The nation and humanity.
“These lecture-sermons are as Christian as they are patriotic.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 19 ‘17 300w
“Of the five stirring addresses that make Dr George A. Gordon’s ‘Appeal of the nation,’ all are worth reading, but that on our foreign-born citizens preaches an understanding sympathy that it were well if all native Americans could feel.”
+ =Ind= 90:555 Je 23 ‘17 40w
=GORDON, JAN.= Balkan freebooter. il *$3 Dutton (Eng ed 17-9486)
“‘A Balkan freebooter’ is a picturesque account, for whose truth the author vouches, of a Servian outlaw and comitaj whose career, still unfinished, is a compound of those of Robin Hood and Raffles. His name is Petko Moritch, and his biographer has had his story from Petko’s own lips, altering only the names of the principals, including Petko’s.”—Springf’d Republican
“The story of his eventful life rings with the romance that only truth, that strangest thing in the universe, is able to supply. It shows the fighting character of the modern Serb, who, like Petko, has tramped the plain of Kossovo, fleeing mountainwards, and by some miracle of survival, by some quality of superhuman strength, is winning his way back into freedom. Mr Gordon’s narrative is particularly timely and interesting.” R. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 14 ‘17 600w
“A fascinating book.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:88 Mr 11 ‘17 700w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 11 ‘17 250w
=GORDON, KATE.= Educational psychology. il *$1.35 (2c) Holt 370.1 17-25490
“The course of study which this book presents is designed for students of pedagogy in colleges and normal schools. It presupposes an elementary knowledge of psychology. In the earlier chapters ... a certain amount of child psychology has been included. ... In later chapters, as on memory and reasoning, the procedure of certain class experiments has been reported in some detail. ... The last three chapters take up some of the concrete questions of teaching in three quite dissimilar school subjects. They are intended to illustrate the way in which psychological applications can be made.” (Preface) The three subjects referred to are Language teaching, Drawing and Arithmetic. An eight-page list of references and an index complete the work. The author is assistant professor of psychology in the Carnegie institute of technology.
“While the book does present a rather useful collection of experimental facts with reference to certain phases of psychology as related to education, it is defective as a text in educational psychology because of its too great emphasis upon the psychological aspect of the subject, because of its style, which is unsuited to relatively immature students, and because of its uneven emphasis upon different topics.” F. N. Freeman
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=GORELL, RONALD GORELL BARNES, 3d baron.= In the night. *$1.25 (3c) Longmans 17-29538
This detective story was planned by Lord Gorell in a base-hospital in France, and written during recovery at home. The author who has been irritated by writers of detective stories that do not take the reader into their confidence, states that in his tale, “every essential fact is related as it is discovered and readers are, as far as possible, given the eyes of the investigators and equal opportunities with them of arriving at the truth.” Sir Roger Penterton is found by his secretary, in the middle of the night, lying dead in the hall of his country home. The house is occupied by the dead man’s wife, their daughter, another young woman, the daughter’s most intimate friend, Sir Roger’s secretary, and the servants. Miss Temple, the friend, working on lines of her own, is able to give some assistance to Inspector Humblethorne. Various theories are developed to account for the crime, all of which prove wrong in the end when the mystery is finally solved.
“The author has worked out his theme ingeniously, developing various theories to account for the crime and find the guilty person, and finally, when he nears the end, providing a double climax of surprises before the mystery is finally solved.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:279 Jl 29 ‘17 330w
+ =Spec= 118:732 Je 30 ‘17 30w
“It is an exciting tale. It seems to be straightening itself out, and all of a sudden it is in a tangle again. During the short hour or two that the reading of it takes, the size of a shoe becomes of more importance than the Hindenburg line. We come back, blinking, to a world which we are grateful to the author for helping us to forget.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p236 My 17 ‘17 300w
=GORKY, MAXIM, pseud. (ALEXEI MAXIMOVITCH PYESHKOFF).= In the world. *$2 (1½c) Century 17-21677
“A year after ‘My childhood’ comes ‘In the world,’ a record of Gorky’s experiences whose closing pages find him still a boy. It purports to relate the true story of his early life, and it does narrate with an extraordinary particularity the scenes he saw, the people he encountered and the events of which he was a part during a few of his boyhood years. He drifts hither and thither through Russia, inevitably returning again and again to the wonderful old grandmother with whom he first made us acquainted in ‘My childhood.’ He is a veritable jack-at-all-trades, becoming at intervals a shoe-store boy, an assistant in an ikon shop, an architect’s helper and a cook’s assistant on a Volga steamboat. And during the greater part of this period he read many books, and began to make attempts at the writing of prose and verse.” (Boston Transcript) The translation is by Mrs Gertrude M. Foakes.
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“The book contains many sayings embodying a deep-rooted philosophy of common life.”
+ =Ath= p675 D ‘17 160w
“He wrote fiction as if it were autobiography; he writes autobiography as if it were fiction. ... The result is essentially a novel, with himself as its hero.” E. F. E.
* + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 8 ‘17 1400w
“Everywhere in this, the second, volume of his life, one finds the shining virtues of brevity, concreteness, vigor—always unfailing vigor. That there is also a moving sincerity goes without saying, since Gorky is in the great Russian tradition. ... The volume gives us two or three years only of his life in the world. ... Thus it is still almost a child’s world in which we are moving—a world seen with that fascinating mixture of sophistication and simplicity which his genius made possible.” G: B. Donlin
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+ =Ind= 92:68 O 6 ‘17 340w
“It is difficult to understand wherein lies any fascination in these pages, which chronicle cruelty, brutality, and a life of coarse and often loathsome surroundings, but fascinating they are, grippingly interesting, brutally frank, and full of a faith in the Russian race.”
+ =Lit D= 55:40 N 17 ‘17 290w
“Out of the rubble of human existence his genius is building up one of the great life-stories in literature.” R. B.
+ =New Repub= 13:26 N 3 ‘17 1200w
“There is much in the book that is terrible; there is no little beauty, too; and there is a vast amount of fascinating portraiture. Gorky’s grandmother is here again, with her strength, her idealism, her superstitions, her sympathy. ... The book is crowded with people, each sharply individualized, hauntingly alive, fascinating.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:297 Ag 12 ‘17 1450w
+ =Outlook= 116:626 Ag 22 ‘17 50w
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+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 10 ‘17 440w
“It is a wonderfully penetrating piece of self-analysis. It displays every great literary quality except charm. But charm is lacking. One feels very sorry for the ugly duckling of the steppes whose mental fumblings are so elaborately portrayed; but one is never drawn to like him, and one never gets away from the painful impression of a world full of people whom it would be very unpleasant to associate with.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p514 O 25 ‘17 1050w
=GORKY, MAXIM, pseud. (ALEXEI MAXIMOVITCH PYESHKOFF); ANDREIEFF, LEONID NIKOLAEVICH; and SOLOGUB, FEODOR, pseud. (FEDOR KUZMICH TETERNIKOV)=, eds. The shield; with a foreword by W: English Walling; tr. from the Russian by A. Yarmolinsky. *$1.25 (4c) Knopf 296 17-14798
The original work from which the selections translated for this volume are taken was published last year in Petrograd. It consists of studies, essays, stories and poems bearing on the Jewish problem in Russia. The editor of the English edition says, “In making a selection for the present volume, I have thought it advisable to give decided preference to the publicistic articles of the original collection. [It] contains practically all the various important studies and essays of the Russian ‘Shield,’ while most of the stories have been omitted, without great detriment to the book.” Among the contributors are Maxim Gorky, writing of Russia and the Jews; Leonid Andreyev, The first step; Paul Milyukov, The Jewish question in Russia; M. Bernatzky, The Jews and Russian economic life; Prince Paul Dolgorukov, The war and the status of the Jew; Fyodor Sologub, The fatherland for all. William English Walling in commending the book says that the rebirth in Russia cannot be understood apart from the Jewish problem.
“A truly remarkable revelation of the spirit and purpose of the best elements of that New Russia which is now in the making.” Abraham Yarmolinsky
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“The work is not a defense of the Jews,—praise be! ‘The shield’ has the historic interest of a great and noble document, not only because of the prominence of the contributors to the volume, but also because it is a voluntary and free recognition of human rights, a sort of Magna charta to all those who are downtrodden and humiliated.” L: S. Friedland
+ =N Y Call= p14 S 9 ‘17 600w
“The viewpoint of the Russian educated class is nowhere so clearly presented as in ‘The shield,’ a volume published in Russia by the Society for the study of Jewish life (in which no Jews are allowed membership) and now offered in an English translation. ‘The shield’ is significant in that fifteen men of letters, publicists, and scientists unite in demanding the abrogation of Jewish disabilities in Russia.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:101 Jl ‘17 100w
=St Louis= 15:419 D ‘17 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 1150w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p600 D 6 ‘17 80w
“Apart from the foreword, the book deserves recognition as a striking indication of the fact that before the revolution the leading Russian writers were overwhelmingly in favour of the total abolition of the shocking disabilities to which the Jews had long been subject in Russia. Unfortunately neither Mr Walling nor any one of the distinguished Russian editors has thought of informing us when the various articles that make up this little book were written. The book gives us no word as to the actual position today.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p606 D 13 ‘17 970w
=GOSSE, EDMUND WILLIAM.= Life of Algernon Charles Swinburne. il *$3.50 Macmillan 17-12487
The only memoir of Swinburne that had been published before the appearance of this volume was the sketch contributed by Mr Gosse to the “Dictionary of national biography” in 1912. This sketch has been used as the basis for this more complete work. Much new material has come to the author’s hands however, and he says, “My narrative is therefore not merely much fuller than it would have been in 1912, but in various respects more accurate.” Contents: Childhood—Eton (1837-1853); Oxford (1853-1859); Early life in London (1859-1865); “Atalanta in Calydon,” “Chastelard”; “Poems and ballads” (1866); Songs of the republic (1867-1870); The middle years (1870-1879); Putney (1879-1909); Personal characteristics. Additional letters are given in appendixes. The illustrations are worthy of special note.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:57 N ‘17
“Mr Gosse has written a discriminating and worthy biography of a great poet, and has created a strikingly vivid picture of one who might truthfully be described, without irreverence, as an illustrious oddity. ... The book is biography, not criticism; but we are given particulars relating to ‘Atalanta in Calydon,’ ‘Chastelard,’ ‘Poems and ballads,’ ‘Songs before sunrise,’ ‘Tristram of Lyonesse,’ and much of Swinburne’s other work, which will be read with interest by every admirer of the poet.”
+ =Ath= p256 My ‘17 170w
“Excellent as is his very careful and most interesting account of Swinburne’s life and character and work, there are in it here and there such evidences of personal bias and even of bitterness as are, at least, surprising. This is the more deplorable since there was no one so well equipped as Mr Gosse for the writing of a full and authoritative biography of Swinburne.” G. I. Colbron
+ — =Bookm= 45:290 My ‘17 450w
“The reader will receive from Mr Gosse’s biography a clear series of impressions of both Swinburne and his work. But it leaves so much unsaid, it refers so vaguely to so many significant episodes in Swinburne’s career, that the real and complete biography of him remains to be written.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 2250w
“Will probably remain the standard life of Swinburne.”
+ =Cath World= 106:259 N ‘17 600w
“An extraordinarily vivid and many-sided characterization, with some tantalizing reticences and many features of unique interest, such as the chapters on Swinburne as a parodist and as a poet of children.”
+ =Cleveland= p115 S ‘17 80w
“Mr Gosse’s volume is chronological and anecdotal, there is hardly a page that is not enriched by some delightful incident or jest concerning Swinburne’s time and associates. ... The work speaks from the atmosphere of intimacy, and in that position one can sympathetically understand the instinctive ‘reticence, tact and diplomacy’ for which the English reviewers are so heartily praising him. But as an ‘authentication’ of the sacred legend the volume is not wholly successful. For, in spite of biographer and reviewers, Swinburne wrote and was unashamed of that unique volume, the first series of ‘Poems and ballads.’” B. I. Kinne
=Dial= 63:21 Je 28 ‘17 1800w
=Ind= 92:65 O 6 ‘17 300w
“The biographer has succeeded in presenting a substantially truthful as well as a vivid picture. He succeeds in conveying the right impression, that is to say, the impression which seems to have been formed by nearly every one who knew Swinburne intimately, that he was a sort of ‘lusus naturæ.’ ... The record of his life which has now been given to us does not seem likely to be superseded.”
+ =Nation= 105:201 Ag 23 ‘17 2050w
“One of the most interesting volumes of biography to come from the presses in a long time. ... Mr Gosse’s attitude toward Theodore Watts-Dunton, with whom Swinburne spent the last thirty years of his life, seems unfair, at the very least.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:181 My 6 ‘17 1700w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:745 N ‘17 50w
=Pratt= p48 O ‘17 30w
+ =R of Rs= 56:103 Jl ‘17 320w
“Mr Gosse’s ‘Life of Swinburne’ is a brilliant affair in which the results of long and careful study come out as easily as if he had been at no pains to delve here and there to clear up the difficulties which usually attend the careers of men of letters, and to put casual misconceptions straight. ... He has not found room to supply an estimate of Swinburne’s comparative place in literature, and particularly in the history of poetry, but his comments on the various poems as they pass under review are usually sound and always neat. The volume includes some excellent portraits.”
+ =Sat R= 124:sup3 Jl 7 ‘17 1350w
“As a friend of thirty years’ standing, a poet, and an accomplished critic and man of letters, Mr Edmund Gosse comes to his difficult task with an equipment which raises high expectations, largely fulfilled by the result. He has given us an extremely interesting and skilful memoir of an extraordinary man, and though the limitations necessarily imposed on him prevent it from being a complete picture, it is not likely to be superseded for a good many years to come. These limitations are due to a regard for the living as well as the dead.”
* + =Spec= 118:462 Ap 21 ‘17 1800w
* + =Spec= 118:490 Ap 28 ‘17 1900w
“A concrete, well-balanced portrait, the more entertaining for the judiciously selected anecdotes and incidents, and the more valuable for the authentic glimpses of contacts with other very interesting people.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 4 ‘17 1200w
“You cannot glance at this book without reading it through; and having read it you will wish to read the poems again. ... There is in his book that real reverence which does not fear to tell the affectionate truth.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p169 Ap 12 ‘17 1500w
“Mr Gosse has condensed the last thirty years of the poet’s life into a single chapter, and has devoted the bulk of his volume to the years before 1879. He has made his hero a vital if not a very admirable figure. He has given us clear sight, though not always full sympathy. This vitality of portraiture is likely to be the abiding value of Mr Gosse’s book. Faults it has: it is quite too fragmentary to be a definite biography; it leaves too much unsaid; there are many passages in the life of the poet which are obviously glossed over.” C. B. Tinker
+ — =Yale R= n s 7:195 O ‘17 900w
=GOUDGE, HENRY LEIGHTON=, and others. Place of women in the church. (Handbooks of Catholic faith and practice) *$1.15 Young ch. 396 A17-1510
The American edition of a volume which was brought out in England and to which eight men and women have contributed chapters strongly opposing the right of women to exercise any official ministry in the churches. Contents: The teaching of St Paul as to the position of women; Ministrations of women in church; The ministry of women and the tradition of the church; The claim of the priesthood for women; The ordination of women; The medical ministry of women; The religious life for women; Younger women and the church.
“The longest and most important is from the pen of Canon Goudge, who deals with ‘The teaching of St Paul on the position of women.’ It is an instructive exposition of the Apostle’s teaching, but it scarcely does justice to the plea of those who urge that the Apostle’s arguments and directions deal with circumstances altogether different from those of the twentieth century. This volume will be welcomed by those who desire to know how it is proposed to meet the arguments of Canon Streeter and Miss Picton-Turberville and Mr Allworthy in which they plead for some extension, under proper safeguards, of the ministry of women in the church.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p329 Jl 12 ‘17 540w
=GOUDIE, WILLIAM JOHN.= Steam turbines. il *$4 Longmans 621.1 17-14113
“A text-book for engineering students [which] describes clearly the various types of land and marine types now on the market (including the Ljungström); expounds the theory underlying design and action; gives calculations on consumption, efficiency, and the various sources of loss; and the design of typical turbines of the various classes, including a set of marine turbines of 18,000 shaft horse-power. The allied subjects of condensers and condensing plants, however, are not included. Clearly illustrated, also well supplied with mathematical and steam tables.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
=A L A Bkl= 14:80 D ‘17
=Cleveland= p110 S ‘17 30w
“‘Altogether this is an excellent treatise, well gotten up, and published at a very reasonable price, and although it is described as a text-book for engineering students, it should prove of great value to the marine engineer, to whom a knowledge of the steam turbine is becoming of increasing importance. We can recommend it with the utmost confidence.’”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p12 Ap ‘17 130w (Reprinted from Shipbuilding and Shipping Record F 22 ‘17)
=Pittsburgh= 22:662 O ‘17 10w
=St Louis= 15:174 Je ‘17
=GOUGH, GEORGE W.= Yeoman adventurer. il *$1.40 (1c) Putnam 17-26322
A tale of adventure in the days of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Master Oliver Wheatman is a young Staffordshire farmer who, in spite of bookish tastes, yearns for a life of action. The fate that keeps him tied down to his ancestral acres, while his chum Jack Dobson goes off to fight for the king, seems most unkindly. Then the adventure for which he longs is brought into his life most unexpectedly with the advent of Mistress Margaret Waynflete, and he finds himself enlisted in the Jacobite cause. Exciting incidents follow thick and fast and Master Oliver, the yeoman turned soldier, has no longer cause to complain of inactivity, and when at the end, he returns to his home, he does not come alone.
=A L A Bkl= 13:353 My ‘17
“The characters are all delightfully modern, both in speech and in action; consequently they are thoroughly lifelike, the bad as well as the good, instead of being mere puppets dressed in the costumes of 1745.”
+ =Ath= p195 Ap ‘16 80w
“The author has been unusually fortunate in the way in which he has succeeded in making the period real to his readers.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 9 ‘17 250w
“Told with an unflagging zest.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ‘17 320w
“A rather commonplace tale in which youth and beauty play the leading parts. ... As a narrative it is neither better nor worse than most of its sort.”
=Dial= 62:313 Ap 5 ‘17 90w
“A costume story, if you like, an affair of pleasant superficial illusion, but of illusion which, one feels, the author himself cheerfully and spontaneously shares.”
+ =Nation= 104:460 Ap 19 ‘17 150w
+ =N Y Times= 22:136 Ap 15 ‘17 250w
“An unusually good specimen of the old-fashioned semi-historical romance.”
+ =Outlook= 115:668 Ap 11 ‘17 30w
“As this is a first novel and is of remarkable promise, we may perhaps be allowed to advise the author to avoid making use of ‘types’ in his characters, and to describe rather ‘hungering, thirsting men.’”
+ — =Spec= 116:555 Ap 29 ‘16 150w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 8 ‘17 120w
“Mr Gough is so intent on his tale that he has little time to spare for much artistry, but he keeps Oliver’s view-point steadily before him and merits a big share of the praise due to his hero’s robust and tireless efforts.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p164 Ap 6 ‘16 350w
=GOURVITCH, PAUL PENSAC.= How Germany does business. *$1 (4½c) Huebsch 382 17-31429
An exposition of Germany’s methods of export and finance, with chapters on: Politics and economics; Banking facilities; Credits; Germany’s merchant marine; Export articles; Reducing the buyer’s effort to the minimum; Germany’s economic expansion as a beneficial factor in international development; The export of men; Imitation and counterfeiting; The cost of labor; etc. The author writes with particular reference to the business relations of Germany and Russia. The book has a preface by Dr B. E. Shatsky, of Petrograd.
“It is written with a manifest prejudice against Germany, and hence cannot be taken as an entirely reliable survey of German business methods in foreign trade. ... This book should be of interest to American exporters. However much we may disagree with Germany’s motives in trade development and with certain of her export practices we acknowledge that she built up a remarkable foreign trade and we may profit by the adoption of many of the principles here briefly set forth.” H. T. Collings
+ — =J Pol Econ= 26:102 Ja ‘18 710w
+ =New Repub= 13:258 D 29 ‘17 450w
“Outside of trifles which we dare say will be corrected in future editions, the work is on the whole well written, and both interesting and instructive.” J. W.
+ — =N Y Call= p14 Ja 5 ‘18 540w
“The author of ‘How Germany does business’ appears sometimes to be disingenuous—or, at least, if he is not that, he is either lacking in information (which seems improbable) or takes the complaisant view that whatever succeeds is right. ... Especially blind, ethically, is the opening chapter on the general question of Germany’s commercial expansion in recent years.”
– — =N Y Times= 22:574 D 23 ‘17 650w
=R of Rs= 57:101 Ja ‘18 70w
=GRABO, CARL HENRY.= Amateur philosopher. *$1.50 (2c) Scribner 204 17-7480
“As introduction to his book the author says: ‘Because I believe the construction of a philosophy to be the chief end of man, I have made bold to write the following pages.’ ... ‘The amateur philosopher’ is the personal record of one man’s search for a philosophy of life in this present complex day. Dr Grabo was born and brought up in a middle western town, conservative, comfortable, orthodox. He was educated at an American college. He is now a professor in an American university. It is highly probable that thousands of Americans, reading his book, will chuckle or sigh over moments of what amounts to pure reminiscence from their own lives. ... The writer is old enough, too, to possess both perspective and tolerance, while he is essentially young in the sense of being, not an eager youth who thinks the world can be set right by the wish for upheaval, but an active, forward-thinking worker, ‘in the prime of life,’ in the world of today.”—N Y Times
“It has been criticized as being ‘destructive in tone, without the substitution of anything better.’”
=A L A Bkl= 13:391 Je ‘17
“Most of the deep emotional experiences of life were unknown to him. And so the value of the book is in the author’s account of the way he found a place for the spiritual realities in his scheme of things.”
=Boston Transcript= p7 My 19 ‘17 600w
+ =Cleveland= p66 My ‘17 80w
“His critique of the college is forceful and true. ... In these first chapters full of charm, Mr Grabo details his universal experience. Then suddenly, as if stung with modesty, he slips into an impersonal outline of his matured philosophy. The result is not happy.” R. B.
+ — =New Repub= 10:383 Ap 28 ‘17 450w
“It is in response to the average American’s need that his book is unique and valuable. ... In all the fourteen chapters of ‘The amateur philosopher’ there is not a word of dogmatism, intolerance, arrogance of thought or faith. The book is written with a freshness, a sanity, a sympathetic understanding of human need that give it a well-nigh universal quality.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:67 F 25 ‘17 900w
=Pratt= p37 O ‘17 10w
Reviewed by Robert Lynd
+ =Pub W= 91:592 F 17 ‘17 600w
“Mr Grabo is a trifle disappointing in that he fails to live up to his interesting title. Still for one unfamiliar with the terminology of philosophers, Mr Grabo’s book will be very welcome. His style is simple and clear.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 210w
=GRAHAM, JOHN WILLIAM.= William Penn. il *$2.50 Stokes
“The present work, by the principal of Dalton Hall, Manchester, is adapted for the English reader; and no ‘Life’ in the usual sense has, so Mr Graham states, ever been written by an English Friend.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The book comprises extracts from Penn’s voluminous writings, controversial and other; an interesting description of the trial of Penn and Mead at the Old Bailey, where the accused gloriously defended and asserted the liberties of Englishmen; an account of the foundation of Pennsylvania; a sketch of the enlightened system of government established in the province, and of Penn’s delightfully humane relations with the Indians; and many details of the anxieties, trials, and misfortunes which beset the founder in his later years.” (Ath) “It is not a book which represents original research, but it is a well-written, sympathetic biography, and one of moderate scope; with bibliography and many illustrations, notes about which are given in an appendix.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
+ =Ath= p365 Jl ‘17 290w
“Having access to all available material and possessing a strong biographical sense, the author has presented interestingly and concisely one of the best stories of the Quaker colonizer extant.” F. P. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 5 ‘17 780w
“In style the book is a trifle disconcerting, but it offers an ample reward to the reader that approaches it with an open mind.”
+ — =N Y Times= 23:3 Ja 6 ‘18 500w
“Mr Graham’s style is fluent and unpretentious. He arranges his narrative clearly and tells it vividly. He lets his hero speak for himself where possible, and where he has to summarize or assign motives, we have no doubt he correctly interprets Penn’s attitude.”
+ =Spec= 118:91 Jl 28 ‘17 1400w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p250 My 24 ‘17 140w
“The writer, indeed, is at home with his reader and addresses to him many asides bearing upon the interests of the present hour, as for example upon the Society for psychical research and the maxims of George Bernard Shaw. But the interest of the book will centre for most readers in the account of the ‘Holy experiment’ in Pennsylvania, where an attempt was made to order a society on the generous and humane principles which Penn laid down.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p269 Je 7 ‘17 1500W
=GRAHAM, STEPHEN.= Priest of the ideal. *$1.60 (1½c) Macmillan 17-25855
A piece of fiction that has drawn largely upon the imagination of the writer rather than upon the world of facts. It represents the clash between modern material greed and early church mysticism. An American, representing a syndicate with some billions of dollars to spend, approaches the English in this state of mind: “As a result of the expense of war you English are now much poorer, we Americans are rich. You must be ready to sell certain things to raise money.” His hope is to buy out of England’s superfluity of castles, abbeys, monuments, historical buildings, etc., enough to serve as a much needed background for the new American race. In company with a wandering priest the American visits objects of his quest, learning meantime from the lips of this idealist that “there is nothing in England which has been outlived and which, therefore, could be sold or given away; that it was futile to covet the spiritual background of England, the only way to acquire material things that symbolize ideals is to fight for the ideals.”
“We hardly think the author has hit upon the literary form appropriate to his idea or his own capacities.”
— =Ath= p596 N ‘17 80w
“In a sense, Mr Graham’s ‘priest of the ideal’ is merely another of those pseudo-Christs whom every modern novelist seems to feel free to create in his own image; and the action in which he is concerned is very tenuous and impalpable indeed.” H. W. Boynton
– — =Bookm= 46:600 Ja ‘18 700w
“In Mr Graham, there is a voice as fearless if not as exceptional as Tolstoy’s. His book is, in fact, a review of England through Russian eyes, in Russian terms.”
+ =Dial= 64:115 Ja 31 ‘18 470w
“Some of the descriptions are well done, but the book as a whole is tiresome, and its religious mysticism is more than slightly touched with hysteria. There is not a single character in it who is real for an instant, and while there are a few interesting bits of comment, they are not numerous.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:442 O 28 ‘17 370w
“The romance repays perusal if only for the exquisite delicacy of style and the high level of its spiritual perception.”
+ =Outlook= 117:475 N 21 ‘17 60w
“The strength of the book lies, not in the actuality of its characters or in any exciting stir of incident, but in its handling of the vital problem which is ever present and never completely solved—the conduct of our daily lives. We have one very minor and incidental point to urge against Mr Graham before we finish: he owes it to himself to pay more attention to the rhythm of his style. Some of his most impressive passages are spoiled by the suggested lilt of a verse metre.”
+ — =Spec= 119:sup623 D 1 ‘17 1500w
“In its sluggish, eventless speculativeness, it is a Russian kind of a book. Only a Russian would have done it far better. It is Mr Graham’s first novel—if, indeed, it can be classified as a novel—and, one believes, his first complete failure.”
– — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 700w
“A book into which the author has poured his thoughts and feelings as they came to him, with more care for their immediate expression than for the form of the whole. Yet the reader may fairly ask himself how much of his dissatisfaction—his sense of having looked up and not been fed, but swollen with wind and mist—may be due to some lack of time and opportunity which compelled Mr Graham to be careless of the whole. ... If it is inconsistent, self-contradictory, vague, and here and there (doubtless owing to that lack of time and opportunity at which we have hinted) nothing else than flabby, it is bright with beautiful thoughts and warm with a passion for beautiful living.”
+ – — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p503 O 18’17 820w
=GRAHAM, STEPHEN.= Russia in 1916. il *$1.25 (4½c) Macmillan 914.7 17-6752
The author believes that the people of the two allied countries, Great Britain and Russia, should keep in touch with one another, and publishes this little book of impressions in the interests of a better understanding. He writes of: A journey to Ekaterina; The dark haven; The new Archangel; The cost of living; Life in the country; A Russian countess; Russian literature in 1916: Without vodka, beer, or wine, etc.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:349 My ‘17
“There is neither insight nor foresight in this ‘little book of the hour.’” Abraham Yarmolinsky
– — =Bookm= 46:482 D ‘17 160w
“A slender volume of less than two hundred pages, but it reveals, as always in everything Mr Graham writes, the ability to understand Russia and a skill at making her understood by the people of other nations.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 7 ‘17 1350w
“The information contained is of precisely the sort that the average reader is most eager for.”
+ =Cath World= 105:536 Jl ‘17 470w
Reviewed by L: S. Friedland
=Dial= 63:265 S 27 ‘17 500w
“Slight, but based on three seasons’ personal observations.”
+ =Ind= 90:269 My 12 ‘17 30w
“There is nevertheless much here which the practical reader will find of uncommon interest. The descriptions of Ekaterina and Archangel are admirable. The world has been waiting for just the kind of knowledge regarding Russia’s new Arctic port that Mr Graham gives us.”
+ =Nation= 104:430 Ap 12 ‘17 1550w
“Discount the politics and the war prophecies, and much that is genuinely revelatory and illuminating does emerge. ... His picture of the mood in which Russia accepts the war will endure. Even at the risk of displeasing the western political radicals Mr Graham should not be frightened from his attempts to convey to us the religious background of Russia. He can bring out the shadows and spiritual chiaroscuro of the thrilling panorama of revolution.” H. S.
+ — =New Repub= 11:165 Je 9 ‘17 950w
“When Stephen Graham splutters: ‘The Russia which Gorky attacks is just that which is spiritually interesting to us in England—the mystical and impractical Russia,’ he reveals himself a downright dilettante, an epicurean, an ‘intellectual’ gourmand.” D: Rosenstein
— =N Y Call= p15 Ag 12 ‘17 1450w
+ =N Y Times= 22:108 Mr 25 ‘17 850w
“An entertaining record of his experiences, although naturally it is hardly a work of permanent value.”
+ =Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 40w
=Pratt= p46 O ‘17 30w
+ =R of Rs= 55:552 My ‘17 130w
=St Louis= 15:374 O ‘17 30w
+ =Spec= 118:392 Mr 31 ‘17 110w
“He belongs to that class of English writers who took it upon themselves to whitewash the Russian autocracy and so misrepresent all those who had fought against it for more than half a century. I do not believe that anybody cares to know now anything about the devotion of the Russian people to Czar Nicholas II, or about his angelic disposition and his artistic soul.” H.
— =Survey= 38:76 Ap 21 ‘17 70w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p99 Mr 1 ‘17 420w
“Mr Graham’s style, often slipshod and careless, occasionally, under the inspiration of deep feeling, rises to a height of real beauty.” W: L. Phelps
+ — =Yale R= n s 7:187 O ‘17 200w
=GRAHAME-WHITE, CLAUDE, and HARPER, HARRY.= Air power; naval, military, commercial, il *$3 Stokes 623.7 (Eng ed War17-85)
“The authors regard the greatest lesson of the war as being that in the future a nation which dominates the aerial highways will dominate also those of the land and sea, and that a dominion of the air must mean, ultimately, the dominion of the world. They illustrate this view in a series of chapters dealing with the war in the air, problems in construction, after-war policy, factors of safety (the phrase is used in more than the engineering sense), popularizing travel by air, laws of the air, and the commercial era of flight. They draw an alluring picture of the time when a man will be able to dine one evening in New York and the next in London, and when aerial excursions will be possible at rates which will put them within the reach of all.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=A L A Bkl= 14:80 D ‘17
“The programme outlined is scarcely ever outside the bounds of possibility, but views on aviation will have changed greatly long before the programme is completed.”
+ — =Nature= 99:481 Ag 16 ‘17 670w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p3 Jl ‘17 60w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p192 Ap 19 ‘17 130w
=GRANT, ARTHUR.=[2] On the wings of the morning. *$2 Dutton 828
“Echoes of George Borrow, of Gilbert White, of Richard Jefferies sound forth from the pages of Mr Grant’s book of essays. As he journeys ‘On the wings of the morning’ into the heart of historic Britain he sees there the glory of her past and the beauty of her present. ... Every corner of the island whence has arisen a mighty empire contains its historic scenes, and in every hill and valley is to be found something quaint, something picturesque and something of alluring grandeur. Much of all this Mr Grant has witnessed and much of it he records in his book. And through it all runs an undercurrent of thought that reflects the spirit of the day in which it is written, that reveals how constantly in all our minds is the present fighting of Britain and her many Allies ‘for God and the right, for a world-peace that can only come through sacrifice.’”—Boston Transcript
“His book should be received with appreciation by those familiar with the places named and their literary associations, and attract many others to enjoy them.”
+ =Ath= p524 O ‘17 90w
“The linking of people with places, and of places with people, gives to Mr Grant’s essays one of their principal charms.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 29 ‘17 1200w
=GRANT, MADISON.= Passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European history, maps *$2 (4c) Scribner 572 16-22372
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“The book contains much solid scientific and historical truth set forth with dignity and clearness, although often with a lack of coherence. It affords evidence of minute and careful study, even though the author never cites his authority for particular statements and supplies but a limited bibliography in the appendix. ... But the ‘Passing of the great race’ is not so much an objective scientific treatise as a carefully reasoned argument in support of preconceived convictions. ... The argument of the book must stand for what it is worth. To the present reviewer it is unconvincing, partly because it rests on debatable assumptions, partly because the method of the argument seems itself unsound. ... His determinations often rest on the most questionable evidence. ... Mr Grant’s book can hardly be regarded as an important contribution to historical science. Its dogmatic assurance and its partizanship impair its value to learning. Its main thesis is not established, and, in the present state of scholarship, is not capable of establishment. For guidance in matters relating to European race problems American students of history will continue to depend, as they have done for nearly twenty years, on Ripley’s solid and discriminating ‘Races of Europe.’” A. B. S.
– + =Am Hist R= 22:842 Jl ‘17 850w
“Brevity often forces a more dogmatic opinion than the author probably holds, but so many extreme statements are made that the reader often wonders what evidence there is. Little mention is made of other writers, and even in the bibliography the names of Ammon, Lapouge, Reibmayr, Schallmaier, who have advocated similar claims, and opponents like Finot and Novicow, are omitted. In spite of many defects the position of the author has much to commend it. The volume should be studied by all who are interested in the future of our own country and in democracy at large.” C. K.
+ — =Ann Am Acad= 70:330 Mr ‘17 180w
“The migrations of the three races during different periods are illustrated by a series of striking maps.”
=Ath= p250 My ‘17 190w
“We had thought that this species of race ecstasy, this enthusiasm for laying stress on the racial basis of European history, with which the name of Houston Stewart Chamberlain is associated, was going out of fashion, even in Germany. But that a writer in democratic America should give currency to these doctrines is passing strange.”
— =Ath= p347 Jl ‘17 650w
“Mr Madison Grant echoes the absurdities of Mr Houston Chamberlain.” H. M. Kallen
— =Dial= 62:432 My 17 ‘17 920w
“Mr Grant’s account of the distribution of the different races is interesting and no doubt as accurate as such speculations can be made, but the superstructure of theory and policy which he builds thereon must be judged by each reader for himself.”
– + =Ind= 89:362 F 26 ‘17 180w
+ — =Int J Ethics= 28:295 Ja ‘18 160w
“We do not recall any other single work which presents, within the limited space of one volume, so comprehensive a survey of heredity, eugenics, racial characteristics, ruling dynasties, and the steady elimination of the unfit.”
+ =Lit D= 54:2000 Je 30 ‘17 450w
“Three brief chapters present a résumé of our knowledge of prehistoric man in the stone and bronze ages. It is interesting to note that the detailed treatment begins where Professor Osborn’s recent monumental work on ‘Men of the old stone age’ leaves off, and in certain ways may be regarded as directly supplemental. ... Slight reference is made to the European war, but the application of all the data which Mr Grant has assembled to the causes, psychology, and ultimate results of this conflict is plainly evident. This and the intelligent attention which is directed to the unparalleled mixing of races in our own country are the two most potent memories of a perusal of this volume. ... A bibliography and thorough index round out a volume of marked originality and considerable interest.”
+ =Nation= 104:466 Ap 19 ‘17 770w
=Nature= 99:502 Ag 23 ‘17 620w
“For our part, we should like to have the facts examined with much more care than Mr Grant has paid them before accepting his doleful predictions as true, or even probable.”
— =Spec= 119:385 O 13 ‘17 1550w
Reviewed by E. G. Balch
— =Survey= 39:262 D 1 ‘17 550w
“All that can be said of some of the statements brought forward by Mr Grant as scientific evidence of his thesis is that they are incorrect.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p209 My 3 ‘17 1450w
“Many readers will question Grant’s conclusions, and some will resent them. ... Yet his statement of the problem demands serious consideration, and his sketch of the development and expansion of the Nordic races is an excellent historical résumé. ... The whole lesson of biology is that America is seriously endangering her future by making fetishes of equality, democracy, and universal education. They are of great value, but only when they have good hereditary material upon which to work. The books of Morgan, Conklin, and Grant all show that we must drastically revise our immigration policy and must strive even more diligently to perpetuate the rapidly diminishing type of strong-willed idealists who have been the country’s chief leaders.” Ellsworth Huntington
+ =Yale R= n s 6:670 Ap ‘17 400w
=GRAY, VIOLET GORDON.=[2] Margery Morris. il *$1.25 (1½c) Penn 17-29733
Margery Morris, the young heroine of this story for girls, comes from California to spend a summer with her grandfather in a small Quaker village in New Jersey. An unknown boy cousin meets her at the train and tells her that her grandfather is away. Margery, who is something of a little snob, finds it necessary to adapt herself to the simple living of a plain old-fashioned farm house. She learns to like the two boys who call themselves her cousins; makes friends with two jolly girls, and only later learns that thru confusion of names she has come to visit in the wrong house. Other books in the series are promised.
=N Y Times= 22:547 D 9 ‘17 70w
=GREEN, JOHN RICHARD.= Short history of the English people; rev. and enl., with epilogue by Alice S. Green. maps *$2 Am. bk. 942 16-18300
“The present one-volume edition now given to the public contains all the material except the illustrations in the four-volume edition of 1887 and, in addition, some modifications in the history of Ireland which Mrs Green believes her husband would have incorporated had he been living. They are due to new material discovered in the last thirty-five years since the ‘Short history’ was published.”—Outlook
“The ‘Epilogue’ is a summary written with a fervid eloquence which makes it in its own way singularly attractive. But the fervour sometimes leaves the facts obscure; for instance, no one who did not know the sequence of events could extract the truth from the summary of the Crimean war; whilst an account of the mutiny which does not mention John Lawrence and has but a bare reference to his brother can only be described as a curiosity. The ‘Epilogue’ is not indeed a ‘history,’ and as a review it is written with a definite outlook, which if stimulating and suggestive, makes it hardly suitable for instruction to those who are not already fairly familiar with the facts.” A.
=Eng Hist R= 32:149 Ja ‘17 250w
+ =Outlook= 115:208 Ja 31 ‘17 200w
“In the latest reprint Mrs J. R. Green has added an epilogue of one hundred and seventy-two pages covering the century from 1815 to 1914. A spirited sketch of the social changes and of the imperial and foreign problems which have confronted us, it is as dogmatic, as biassed, and almost as entertaining as J. R. Green’s own work, though he might not have given so much prominence to the so-called Celtic influence in British politics. He would certainly have described the causes of the war more clearly and more accurately, instead of veiling Germany’s direct responsibility for the conflict. An historian of the English people ought, we think, to be perfectly definite about this important matter. Mrs Green handles it gingerly, as if she doubted our good faith and our intense desire to keep the peace.”
=Spec= 117:348 S 23 ‘16 140w
“The keenest-eyed literary critic would find it difficult to determine from internal evidence where J. R. Green laid down the pen and Mrs Green has taken it up. There is the same picturesque style, the same gift of epigrammatic expression and faculty for seizing the essential detail, the same command of apt quotation, the same imaginative intuition, broad outlook on human affairs, and sympathy with national and democratic movements.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p365 Ag 3 ‘16 600w
=GREEN, LILIAN (BAYLISS) (MRS ALBERT RANDOLPH GREEN).= Effective small home. il *$1.50 McBride 640 17-8603
The author was formerly editor of the Little house department of the Ladies’ Home Journal. To help those who live on small incomes and in small quarters is her aim in this book. Part 1 is personal. In it she writes of her own varied experiences in housekeeping. Part 2 is amplified from material prepared for the Ladies’ Home Journal, and has chapters on: Suggestions for furnishing, Lighting fixtures, The hanging of curtains, Floor coverings, etc. In addition there are appendixes giving suggestions for cleaning, recipes, etc. There is a short bibliography and an index.
“The book is full of personality, has some charm and many suggestive ideas. It makes a contribution in regard to the treatment of apartments and very small rooms. It contains no principles or standards by which to decorate, and is a record of ingenuity and taste rather than of principles and artistic standards.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:387 Je ‘17
“A practical book for young housekeepers of moderate means.”
+ =Cleveland= p114 S ‘17 60w
“A pleasantly personal tone pervades Mrs Green’s contribution.”
+ =Nation= 105:608 N 29 ‘17 250w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:75 My ‘17 80w
+ =N Y Times= 22:201 My 20 ‘17 30w
=Pittsburgh= 22:666 O ‘17 50w
=Pratt= p25 O ‘17 10w
“The work points out many short cuts for women who are anxiously striving for beauty in the home.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 27 ‘17 110w
=GREEN, MARY, pseud. (MRS MARIETTA [MCPHERSON] GREENOUGH).= Better meals for less money. *$1.25 Holt 641.5 17-13798
“It is the plan of this book,” says the author, “to include a variety of (1) recipes which require only a small amount of meat; (2) recipes for vegetable dishes which can take the place of meat; (3) recipes for the economical use of cereals, dairy products, and other common inexpensive foods; (4) recipes for breads, cakes, and desserts requiring only a small amount of butter and eggs; and (5) recipes for a few relishes, condiments, and other accessories which lend variety and interest.” The first chapter is devoted to General suggestions for economy.
“The general suggestions for economy are useful but the title is rather misleading as no meals are planned and the book is just another good cook book of selected recipes, well indexed, with an appendix which gives tables of weights and measures, temperature, caloric values, time tables for cooking and a list (2p.) of government publications on foods and cooking.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:434 Jl ‘17
+ =Cath World= 105:412 Je ‘17 110w
=Cleveland= p87 Jl ‘17 90w
“Not intended as a complete guide to cookery, this new book, so admirable in form and contents, presupposes an elementary knowledge of the care and preparation of food, and imparts much knowledge that is not elementary.”
+ =Lit D= 55:40 N 3 ‘17 120w
“Altogether this little book is indispensable for owners of small kitchens.”
+ =Nation= 105:347 S 27 ‘17 330w
“We have personally tested many of the recipes for salads and puddings and found them excellent. The author preaches a sort of sensible economy which the housewife can practice with much profit.” M. G. S.
+ =N Y Call= p14 My 20 ‘17 120w
+ =N Y Times= 22:173 Ap 29 ‘17 80w
=Pratt= p26 O ‘17 40w
“The preface gives general suggestions for economy—the kind a sensible housewife can really practise.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:554 N ‘17 90w
“Another good point about the book is the binding, which is of the practical kind that may be handled without soiling.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 14 ‘17 250w
=GREENE, CARLETON.= Wharves and piers; their design, construction and equipment. il *$3 McGraw 627 17-9604
“The book is frankly a catalog of standard designs. There appears little attempt to expand theory, but as a catalog, using that word in its best sense, there is little to be wished for. The main section, is devoted to the structure of the piers and wharves themselves. The following and less exhaustive part takes up the design of sheds for wharves and piers and a final and still less ambitious section is devoted to cargo-handling machinery. Finally, a number of detail costs afford some general information on that important subject.”—Engin News-Rec
=Cleveland= p111 S ‘17 20w
“In no branch of engineering have there been so many strides forward in the past decade as in the design and construction of wharves and piers for harbors. ... In spite of this great advance, or perhaps because of it, the literature on the subject is most meager. Practically everything that can be found on recent wharf and pier construction must be sought in the files of technical magazines and society publications. Mr Greene has, therefore, done a considerable service for the profession in collecting the many types which appear in his new book.”
+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:325 Ag 16 ‘17 300w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17
“The drawings, most of them dimensioned, are clearly executed.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p6 Ap ‘17 70w
“‘The subject of pile-driving has not been treated at length in this book.’”
=Pittsburgh= 22:453 My ‘17 50w (Reprinted from Journal of the Western Society of Engineers p122 F ‘17)
=Pratt= p19 Jl ‘17 40w
=GREENE, FREDERICK STUART=, ed. Grim thirteen. *$1.50 (1½c) Dodd 17-23978
Edward J. O’Brien, editor of “The best short stories of 1916,” in his introduction, tells us that six people, four writers, two critics and a publisher, talking over the short story became convinced that “a grim story, no matter whether it was a literary masterpiece or not, was hoodooed.” They then decided to select and publish in book form thirteen good stories that had been repeatedly rejected by American magazines. All of these stories were praised by editors who rejected them. Contents: The day of Daheimus, by Vance Thompson; Rain, by Dana Burnet; Old fags, by Stacy Aumonier; The head of his house, by Conrad Richter; The Abigail Sheriff memorial, by Vincent O’Sullivan; Easy, by Ethel Watts Mumford; The draw-keeper, by Wadsworth Camp; The razor of Pedro Dutel, by Richard Matthews Hallet; Knute Ericson’s celebration, by Robert Alexander Wason; The parcel, by Mrs Belloc Lowndes; Back o’ the yards, by Will Levington Comfort and H. A. Sturtzel; The end of the game, by William Ashley Anderson; The black pool, by Frederick Stuart Greene.
“They form a protest against the commercial standards which have shown these writers that ‘some of their finest imaginative work could not achieve magazine publication without sensible modification.’ Not written for immature minds.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:60 N ‘17
“Capt. Greene has proved all he has undertaken to prove and suggested very potent reasons for the freeing of our creative literature from the shackles at present imposed upon it.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 26 ‘18 1000w
“There is not one story in the volume that is mechanical, mediocre, or of the merely competent order that suffices for our monthly fiction. And what is similarly surprising is the distinguished style, the poetic perception, the high literary quality revealed in most of the rejected thirteen.” L: Untermeyer
+ — =Dial= 64:70 Ja 17 ‘18 1150w
“There is not a story with the indubitable touch of genius to lift it from the ‘grim’ to the tragic. Half of them are written in the same style, the American Magazine or, let us say, Saturday Evening Post style, and might have been written by the same brisk, ingenious hand.”
— =Nation= 105:694 D 20 ‘17 370w
“The circumstances under which the book is spun out at the public over the heads of the rejecting editors are an indictment of the magazine editors of the whole country. ... And it is a mighty good thing that somebody has had the spirit and the confidence in the American public to make such a test of its intelligence. ... Some of the thirteen stories reach a much higher level of literary quality than do others. For it is easy to see, with some of them, that gruesome theme or unhappy ending was not the sole reason for their untoward fate in magazine offices. But some of them are so true in their picturing of life, so fine in their artistry, and so high in their literary quality that one marvels at their continued rejection.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:329 S 9 ‘17 1800w
“In tone and atmosphere the stories must be classified with that grimly imaginative school of which Poe was the master. Still each plot is distinctly original. Each one is vivid, thrilling and direct, and many of them display a keen intuition and a sense of psychological values.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 360w
=GREENE, HARRY PLUNKET.= Pilot, and other stories. il *$2 (5c) Macmillan 16-22978
“Pilot,” the longest of the six stories in this book, is the story of a dog. Pilot is an English dog with a fondness for poaching, and his adventures are many and amusing. The remaining stories are about children and animals; among them there is one story for fishermen. Bight of the illustrations are in color.
+ =N Y Times= 22:41 F 4 ‘17 80w
“Our notice must not end without a few words of praise for the admirable illustrations of Mr H. J. Ford, so long and honourably associated with the fairy books of the late Andrew Lang. Here, however, he shows a range and versatility for which we were hardly prepared, and has collaborated with the author with most delightful results, whether his aim has been realistic, grotesque, or fantastic.”
+ =Spec= 117:706 D 2 ‘16 700w
“The story of his doings is so entertainingly and humorously told that the book should prove interesting to readers of all ages.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 2 ‘16 70w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p603 D 14 ‘16 350w
=GREENE, HOMER.= Flag. il *$1.25 (2c) Jacobs 17-22701
In a school-boy snowball battle, one of the two leaders wraps himself in the American flag as a means of protection in an assault, but his opponent, Penfield Butler, tears it from him and it is trampled and torn under their feet. Made to feel that his act was unpardonable, called “Benedict Arnold” by his companions, Penfield is forced to leave school. Thereafter he goes branded, is refused admission to the national guard, but finally takes part in the European war and thereby regains his good name.
“Marred by sentimentality.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:173 F ‘18
=Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 30w
=Pittsburgh= 22:840 D ‘17 50w
“A wholesome story of military patriotism for boys told in a manly, straightforward style.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 23 ‘17 80w
=GREENE, KATHLEEN CONYNGHAM.= Little boy out of the wood, and other dream plays. *75c Lane 822 16-23242
A collection of fanciful little plays for reading. The titles are: The little boy out of the wood; Night watch; The poppy seller; The first Christmas eve; The vision splendid; The princess on the road; The two bad fairies. A note says, “Of the plays that form this book only one—‘The two bad fairies’—was written for a stage. The other six are dreams.”
“Recalling in the delicate allegory Olive Schreiner’s ‘Dreams’ comes ‘The little boy out of the wood.’ These are ‘dream plays,’ tragic and comic, and exquisite in workmanship.”
+ =Ind= 89:274 F 12 ‘17 30w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:21 F ‘17 30w
“Arranged for reading aloud.”
=R of Rs= 55:441 Ap ‘17 70w
=GREENOUGH, CHESTER NOYES, and HERSEY, FRANK WILSON CHENEY.= English composition. il *$1.40 Macmillan 808 17-15557
“Professor Greenough and Mr Hersey have prepared a most interesting text-book on ‘English composition,’ What they term ‘mechanics,’ that is troublesome points of grammar, punctuation, spelling are touched in short final chapters. The main chapters are on exposition, argument, description, narration, structure, with clear and suggestive discussion of the topics, and fine examples. The first chapter on gathering and weighing of material is especially to be noted, for it gives the pupil all sorts of practical, helpful hints that students must usually work out for themselves slowly at great waste of time or never work out at all.” (Ind) Dr Greenough is professor of English at Harvard university.
“Occasionally a volume appears which from its preface onward towers above the jumble of its competitors. Such a volume is this ‘English composition.’ The arrangement of the contents is unexceptionable. Better even than the arrangement, however, is the excellence of the presentation.”
+ =Dial= 63:410 O 25 ‘17 120w
+ =Ind= 91:235 Ag 11 ‘17 100w
“If a criticism were to be made it would be that the authors treat composition as chiefly an exhibition of cleverness. They send a chiel out into the world notebook in hand and eye alert chiefly for the technical tricks of the trade. ... Beyond such technical matters a book on composition is perhaps not bound to go: within this field it would be difficult to find one that functions more efficiently; it makes one cast about at once for a sharp pencil. An interesting concession to the present interest in the spoken word, the book contains a rather prim little chapter on pronunciation.”
+ =Nation= 105:260 S 6 ‘17 220w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:124 Ag ‘17
“The first work of its kind to bring the student ample descriptive extracts from famous writers illustrated with photographs of the actual scenes described by them.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:216 Ag ‘17 290w
=GREGOR, ELMER RUSSELL.= White Otter. il *$1.35 (2c) Appleton 17-8586
A sequel to “The red arrow.” White Otter is the young Sioux who was the hero of that tale. In this story he is again pitted against his tribal enemies, the Pawnees. In a great battle his grandfather, the Sioux chieftain, is taken prisoner and White Otter, following on the enemy’s trail, sets him free. It is a story of Indian life before the coming of the white man.
=A L A Bkl= 13:453 Jl ‘17
=N Y Times= 22:314 Ag 26 ‘17 50w
=St Louis= 15:401 N ‘17 20w
=GREGOROVITSH, DIMITRY.= Fishermen. *$1.50 (1½c) McBride
Dimitry Gregorovitsh was a contemporary of Tourgeniev. Angelo S. Rappoport, in the introduction to this novel, says that he is rightly considered one of the best exponents of the life of the Russian working people. The present story, here translated into English for the first time, centers about the family of Glyeb Savinitsh, a fisherman. Vania, Glyeb’s youngest son, and Grishka, an adopted child, are boys of the same age who grow up together, sharing alike in the family fortunes. Indeed, in spite of his shortcomings, Grishka seems to hold first place in the affections of the father. Knowing that Dounia, the girl both young men come to love, has given herself to Grishka, Vania takes his foster brother’s place as conscript in the army. Grishka, left free, marries Dounia and wrecks her happiness as he does that of the family that has sheltered him. An evil influence in the story is that of Zakhar, a product of the factory system, which, at the time that the book was written, was only beginning to invade the rural villages of Russia.
+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 60w
“Grigorovich lacked deep psychological insight; he was more of a careful landscapist and an ethnographic observer than a vivisector of the human soul. Only in exceptional cases did he succeed in depicting a boldly outstanding character, as, for instance; in the old fisherman Glyeb.”
+ — =Nation= 106:20 Ja 3 ‘18 330w
“Though ‘The fishermen’ has a slightly oldfashioned air about it, it is an air of sentiment rather than of sentimentality, and gives to realism the balance necessary to save it from becoming naturalism. ‘The fishermen’ reminds one of George Sand’s pastoral tales; it possesses a charm which is not glamour and a truth which is not all ugliness.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:570 D 23 ‘17 600w
=Pratt= p51 O ‘17 10w
“The author stands only in the second or third rank of Russian literature, has no life-message as Dostoevsky and Tolstoy have, and the picture which he gives of Russian life is not distinctive. ... The patriarchal life of Glyeb’s family ought to be interesting, but one never gets into the midst of it, and evidently the author himself is an outsider, having only a partial sympathy. ... The translation is without charm, and if the author is prolix the translator emphasizes the defect.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p42 Ja 25 ‘17 850w
=GREGORY, JACKSON.= Wolf breed. il *$1.40 (2c) Dodd 17-25854
The North woods provide the setting of a tale of avarice, jealousy and passion among men who, for greed of gold or refuge from the law, collect there in strange ill-assortment. Among the habitues of a frontier settlement house is No Luck Drennen who had grown hard, cynical, and evil-minded thru loss of faith in men he had trusted. He knows where to find gold; others know that he knows. Drennen becomes suspicious that every body is trying to pry into his secret and wrest from him his prospects. He includes in his suspicions a southern girl who mysteriously appears at the settlement. Woman hater tho he be and sharp of tongue he finds a match in Ygerne Bellaire whose clever fencing wins the admiration and love of the “lone wolf.” Treachery and misunderstanding make their romance a difficult one but they find a way out to happiness.
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 190w
“It may be summed up as a tale of red blood pumped up by machine.”
— =Nation= 105:667 D 13 ‘17 90w
“The tale of these fights and entanglements, the thrill and the zest of it, is well told. It is like nothing so much as the novelization of one of the famous ballads of Robert W. Service.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:469 N 11 ‘17 250w
“It is a lively and quite impossible tale.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 320w
=GREGORY, RICHARD ARMAN.= Discovery; or, The spirit and service of science. il *$1.75 Macmillan 504 (Eng ed A16-1381)
“The spirit in which men of science devote themselves to the investigation and understanding of nature, the results of their discoveries in the increase of man’s power—these are the themes of the book.” (Sat R) “In his references to the life and work of men like Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Darwin, Huxley, Kelvin, and Pasteur, the author illustrates the spirit of the discoverer—his fanaticism for the sanctity of truth, his disinterestedness and impersonal detachment, his delight in his work, and his cautious yet alert recognition of the possibility of error. ... Much of the book is an eloquent commentary on the text: ‘The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.’” (Nature)
“The essays, twelve in number, are readable, concrete in their treatment, and meant for the layman.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:382 Je ‘17
+ =Cleveland= p149 D ‘16 40w
Reviewed by J. A. Thomson
+ =Nature= 97:438 Jl 27 ‘16 950w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:154 O ‘16
=Pittsburgh= 22:239 Mr ‘17
=Pratt= p15 Ap ‘17 20w
+ =Sat R= 122:89 Jl 22 ‘16 1000w
“The appearance of this book could not well have been more timely.” T. B. Robertson
+ =Science= n s 45:143 F 9 ‘17 300w
=GREW, EDWIN SHARPE, and others.= Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener; his life and work for the empire. 3v il *25s 6d Gresham pub. co., London
A life of Lord Kitchener complete in three volumes. “The first volume deals with Kitchener’s early years, his work in Palestine, and the Egyptian campaign. The second volume begins with the Fashoda incident, and then deals with the Boer war.” (Ath) “The third volume treats of the present war, of Lord Kitchener’s magnificent work in raising the new armies, and of his death in the ‘Hampshire’ on June 5th last.” (Spec)
“A useful and careful piece of work. ... At the same time we should welcome a little more biography and a little less history.”
+ =Ath= p599 D ‘16 70w (Review of v 1 and 2)
“Carefully written and contains a good deal of new matter.”
+ =Spec= 117:448 O 14 ‘16 80w (Review of v 1)
+ =Spec= 118:368 Mr 24 ‘17 70w (Review of v 2 and 3)
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p454 S 21 ‘16 80w (Review of v 1)
“Cooperative biography is not an ideal arrangement, but in this case the chapters blend surprisingly well, and the whole narrative flows with an ease which makes it a pleasure to read throughout.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p612 D 14 ‘16 450w (Review of v 1 and 2)
=GREY, ZANE.= Wildfire. il *$1.35 (1½c) Harper 17-2028
Wildfire, an untamed red stallion, is the hero of this story. Lucy Bostil, the pride of her father’s heart and a girl who doesn’t know the meaning of fear, is its heroine. Lin Slone, who tracks Wildfire up from Utah and captures him, is the horse’s nominal owner, but Lucy is the real owner, for it is to her the beautiful wild horse gives his heart. Lucy rides him once in a race against her father’s favorite, Sage King. She rides him again in a race for life against prairie fire. It is an exciting story of the days when Colorado was less settled and civilized than it is today.
“More sensational than some of his other stories.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:315 Ap ‘17
“The story would make an excellent foundation for a moving-picture scenario. But still, ‘Wildfire’ possesses certain virtues of its own—the virtue of being straight, clean, and exciting, and the virtue of lacking the psychological sickliness and the maunderings of much of our third-rate fiction.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 17 ‘17 230w
“After one has followed the story even with intensity, it fades a little in the mind in the days that come after, while one still remembers the atmosphere of the book or the characters.” E: E. Hale
+ =Dial= 62:105 F 8 ‘17 500w
“Will add nothing to the author’s reputation. It lacks the atmosphere of his early novels and falls short of their restrained power. It is a shallow and sensational story.”
— =Ind= 90:87 Ap 7 ‘17 50w
+ =N Y Times= 22:21 Ja 21 ‘17 350w
“It is not like other books. It’s a horse story and—actually—unique.” M. A. Hopkins
+ =Pub W= 91:210 Ja 20 ‘17 350w
“Compares favorably with Mr Grey’s best stories.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 11 ‘17 200w
=GRIBBLE, FRANCIS HENRY.= Women in war. *$2.75 Dutton 920.7 (Eng ed 16-23097)
“This book, so eminently topical, was yet written, Mr Gribble tells us, before the world-war was talked of. It is an interesting account of individual women or groups of women noted for deeds of bravery, adventurous exploits, or for some special association with war from the time of Boadicea to that of Florence Nightingale. In an epilogue, in which Mr Gribble endeavours to bring the record somewhat up to date, he tells us that he was interned in Germany, and has something to say of German women in war time. ... The epilogue also records the experiences of some of the women who have served in the Russian and Austro-Hungarian armies—‘no fewer than twenty of them in the Voluntary Ukraine legion alone’—and of the women doctors and nurses who went through the Serbian campaign.”—Spec
“Mr Gribble writes of Jeanne d’Arc in detail, and with an open mind attempts to give her a proper place in history, conceding neither to M. Anatole France that she was merely the tool of the clergy, nor to Andrew Lang that she was the great military leader he thought her. His searching desire for fairness toward Jeanne d’Arc gives one confidence in the author’s estimate of other women warriors with whose reputation the reviewer is less familiar.”
+ =Dial= 63:166 Ag 30 ‘17 230w
“It sketches in a light superficial manner the heroic or eccentric doings of a motley group of thirty or forty women, ranging in point of time from Countess Matilda of Tuscany to Miss Edith Cavell. The only nexus among them all is that each was in some way connected with war, either leading it like Jeanne D’Arc, or in supposedly causing it like the Empress Eugénie, or in suffering from it like Lady Sale, or in some other more or less remote fashion.”
=Nation= 105:204 Ag 23 ‘17 350w
“Mr Gribble has made for himself more or less of a reputation as an entertaining but superficial writer on some of the intimate phases of history, especially those connected, and too often scandalously, with women. In this book he has collected with great industry an immense amount of information about what specific women have done in war and in the influencing of countries or individuals in times of war and as companions of warriors.”
=N Y Times= 22:348 S 16 ‘17 140w
“Reading Mr Gribble’s pages, one can hardly realize that they record historical facts. The stories that he relates have all the fascination of fiction.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:215 Ag ‘17 120w
+ =Spec= 117:632 N 18 ‘16 210w
Reviewed by L. A. Mead
=Survey= 38:553 S 22 ‘17 230w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p532 N 9 ‘16 1000w
=GRIERSON, RONALD.= Some modern methods of ventilation. il *$3 Van Nostrand 697 17-12836
“The author’s expressed purpose is to present, in as simple and concise a form as possible, the general principles and practice of design of a modern ventilating plant. This is accomplished as fully as could be expected in a book of less than 200 pages. ... Although based upon English practice, it presents American practices more fully and correctly than any other British book on this subject known to the reviewer. Many of its 40 tables are from American authorities, and all are in accordance with the most modern practice. A similar statement would apply to the illustrations.”—Engin News-Rec
=Cleveland= p113 S ‘17 30w
“Although the book will scarcely meet the needs of the student beginner in this subject, nor completely satisfy the needs of the well-informed engineer, yet it may well interest both and it is a desirable addition to any library on the subject of ventilation. The descriptions and definitions are models of conciseness and clearness. ... As a whole, the book appears to be the product of one who is thoroughly versed in the theory and practice of modern ventilating work.” D. D. Kimball
+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:602 Je 21 ‘17 350w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:106 Jl ‘17
“‘The author of this contribution to a literature which is admittedly scanty has not attempted an exhaustive theoretical treatise. He has sifted with a good deal of skill bred of intimate knowledge of the practical side of his subject. Moreover the plant, instruments and methods of which he treats are up-to-date and fairly comprehensive, so that the result is a satisfactory and useful statement of things as they are.’”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:453 My ‘17 70w (Reprinted from Ironmonger p186 Mr 24 ‘17)
=Pittsburgh= 22:518 Je ‘17
=GRIFFITH, IRA SAMUEL.= Carpentry. il $1 Manual arts press 694 17-1599
“This is really the complete story of the building of a modern house, from surveying and staking out to hanging the windows and doors.”—School Arts Magazine
“A textbook for use by trade apprentices, students in vocational and trade schools and students of manual arts. It is a clear treatise on the every-day problems of the carpenter and house builder. As a textbook on carpentry, it meets every requirement of the student. No other publication has ever undertaken to cover the essentials of house building in a manner adapted for school use as this book on ‘Carpentry.’”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:453 My ‘17 100w (Reprinted from Furniture Manufacturer and Artisan p139 Mr ‘17)
“Author is an experienced carpenter and is chairman of the Manual arts department, University of Missouri. He has written several excellent elementary books on woodworking, which are recommended.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 70w
“There are more than 150 illustrations. It is a book for apprentices, trade school students, and anybody who wants to know how houses are built.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 16:356 Ap ‘17 60w
“One of the best textbooks for students beginning a study of this subject.” F. M. Leavitt and Margaret Taylor
+ =School R= 26:63 Ja ‘18 120w
=GRIFFITH, WILLIAM.= Loves and losses of Pierrot. il *$1 Shores 811 16-22429
“In his ‘Loves and losses of Pierrot,’ William Griffith again proves the validity of his poet-gifts and the great charm of a suggestive sketch-book manner of using the old meters. ... Aside from the origins of the Pierrot legend, there are many suggestions that Mr Griffith has gone deep into the study of eighteenth-century France.”—N Y Times
+ =Dial= 61:543 D 14 ‘16 90w
“A slender book of delicately alluring lyrics finely and gracefully wrought.”
+ =Ind= 89:235 F 5 ‘17 40w
+ =Lit D= 54:209 Ja 27 ‘17 130w
“‘Spring life and spring sadness,’ is Mr Le Gallienne’s deft characterization of these songs, and little more is to be said.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:55 F 18 ‘17 150w
=GRIMM, MINERVA E.=, comp. Translations of foreign novels: a selected list. (Useful reference ser.) *$1 Boston bk. 016.8
This bibliography aims to bring together in convenient form some of the translations of foreign fiction. The general arrangement is by language. French and German first, these being the largest divisions. Then follow in alphabetical order: Belgian; Chinese; Danish; Dutch; Egyptian; Flemish; Greek; Hungarian; Italian; Norwegian; Polish; Roumanian; Russian; Spanish; Swedish; Yiddish. Under each language there is an alphabetical arrangement by author. The title index is arranged alphabetically according to title, with the language designated after each author and with cross references from other titles for the same book. The list was originally compiled as a bibliography presented for graduation in the New York library school in 1914, and was brought up-to-date before publication. “Each book in the list was examined at the time of compilation. It was available either in the reference department, the circulation department, or in the Library school of the New York public library. Some of the earlier publications are probably out of print, but entries were made for every book in fair condition, with a reasonable length of life before it.” (Preface)
=GRISAR, HARTMANN.= Luther; authorized tr. from the German, by E. M. Lamond; ed. by Luigi Cappadelta. v 6 *$3.25 Herder 15-12670
The final volume of Father Grisar’s study of Luther comes from the press in the year of the 400th anniversary of the reformation. In conclusion the author says that his constant endeavor has been “to get as close as possible to the real Luther and not to present a painted or fictitious one.” The volume contains the index for the entire work.
“The sixth volume of Prof. Grisar’s biography of the reformer displays, equally with the previous volumes, the author’s scholarship, industry, and endeavour to write with impartiality.”
+ =Ath= p418 Ag ‘17 50w
“The readers of these six volumes of Father Grisar must indeed recognize that he has written the most objective, the most thorough and most unprejudiced life of Luther.”
+ =Cath World= 106:247 N ‘17 600w
“As a Jesuit, the author has no sympathy for Luther, but he has spared no pains to state the facts about the reformer, and his general estimate of Luther’s character, especially in its mystical and its intolerant phases, is well worth reading.”
+ =Spec= 119:16 Jl 7 ‘17 100w
“Perhaps it is in the nature of the case impossible that a man who is so identified with the Roman system as an earnest and able Jesuit must needs be should be able to appreciate the motive force of its most deadly opponent. He is so absorbed in his psychological theories, and in minute points of historical accuracy, that he fails to grasp and to describe the great currents of Luther’s thought and action. Professor Grisar does not give a living history, but an elaborate and critical commentary on the history.”
* – + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p521 N 1 ‘17 3750w
=GRONER, AUGUSTA.= Joe Muller, detective; tr. by Grace Isabel Colbron. *$1.25 Duffield
“A little, mild-looking, meek-mannered, gentle-voiced man—and the best, most famous detective attached to the Secret service of the Austrian police; such is Joe Muller, the hero and principal figure in the five ingenious tales which make up this little book. The first and longest, a novelette, in fact, rather than a short story, is the one entitled ‘The lamp that went out.’ One of those murder cases which seem so simple and obvious, and are really so very complicated, is this tale of the man whose dead body was found in a lonely road.” (N Y Times) The other titles are: The case of the registered letter; The case of the pocket diary found in the snow; The case of the pool of blood in the pastor’s study; The case of the golden bullet.
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:131 S ‘17 30w
+ =N Y Times= 22:276 Jl 22 ‘17 230w
=GROSVENOR, JOHNSTON.= Strange stories of the great valley. il *$1 (2½c) Harper 17-12138
A story of the Ohio valley one hundred years ago. The young hero, Obadiah Holman, a New England boy, floats down the Ohio river, with his parents, to find a new home in Indiana. He meets and makes friends with many of the great men of the time and with one boy who was to become a great man, Abraham Lincoln. Of the incidents of the book, the author says, “They are almost true. ... In substance they are a faithful picture of the sort of adventures that helped pioneer lads of the great valley to grow into the full measure of men.”
“A really good, human book for children.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:314 Ag 26 ‘17 70w
“Each story is complete in itself, but they fit together and are all the better for it; and Mr Grosvenor is a capital story teller.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 190w
=GROTIUS, HUGO.= Freedom of the seas; or, The right which belongs to the Dutch to take part in the East Indian trade. *$1 Oxford 341 16-10705
“A translation of Grotius’s famous treatise, one of the foundations and sources of international law. The book contains the Latin text of 1633, revised and an English translation by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin, associate in Greek and Roman history, and Roman archaeology in the Johns Hopkins university. There is an introductory note by James Brown Scott, director of the division of international law of Carnegie endowment. Grotius’s treatise was naturally not altogether popular in England in the 17th century because he denied to any nation the right to claim large tracts of the open sea for its own particular use. The work was not, however, directed against England. It was written to make good the right of the Dutch to continue trading with the East Indies.”—Springf’d Republican
=Springf’d Republican= p6 O 15 ‘17 200w
“The work is singularly unsuggestive as to present or probable future controversies.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p86 F 22 ‘17 1250w
=GRUMBACH, S.=[2] Germany’s annexationist aims; tr., abbreviated and introduced by J. Ellis Barker. *$1.50 Dutton 327.43 17-29849
“Mr Barker is familiar with the politics, language, and literature of Germany, and held international rank as an authority in regard thereto before war began. In his introduction to this book he says that ‘Germany’s war-aims are not sufficiently known in this country’; and he proceeds to speak of ‘Herr S. Grumbach’s monumental volume. “Das annexionistische Deutschland,” published by Payot & Co., at Lausanne, in 1917,’ as affording the information not hitherto accessible here. To render it so has been his wish, as translator and abbreviator. It is his conviction, well based, as his numerous quotations and excerpts prove, that German annexationists, belonging to all classes of society, have formed almost boundless plans of conquest in Europe and on the continents beyond.’”—Lit D
=Ath= p671 D ‘17 110w
=Lit D= 56:39 Ja 12 ‘18 250w
+ =Spec= 119:sup474 N 3 ‘17 100w
“On some points his book shows the result of haste in its compilation, but none the less it is a very useful piece of work, which should be widely known.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p522 N 1 ‘17 850w
=GRUNSKY, CARL EWALD, and GRUNSKY, CARL EWALD, jr.= Valuation, depreciation and the rate-base. diags *$4 Wiley 338 17-1339
“This volume is a notable addition to the small number of books that treat at all fully the subject of valuation and related problems. It contains an introductory discussion; carefully written definitions of many of the terms used; a statement of fundamental principles; a full discussion of the various matters that effect valuation and rate making; chapters relating to the value of real estate, water rights and reservoir and watershed lands; a special chapter by Carl Ewald Grunsky, jr., on the valuation of mines and oil properties ... tables giving the probable useful life of various articles and expectancy of life and remaining value upon a given theoretical basis; and a series of tables relating to compound interest, present worth, annuities, amortization and depreciation.”—Engin N
“Less a comprehensive and systematic discussion of valuation and rate making in accordance with present procedure than the presentation of particular views based on personal experience and study. There is commendable omission of numerous elementary commonplaces, but unfortunately particular points are uselessly repeated over and over and, in general, material, much of it irrelevant, is presented in a very disorganized fashion.” J: Bauer
+ — =Am Econ R= 7:634 S ‘17 1000w
+ =American Gas Engineering Journal= p302 Mr 24 ‘17
=Cleveland= p107 S ‘17 10w
“While, as indicated above, the book in some of its main features seems not to make recommendations along practical and progressive lines, it is the result of personal contact, long experience and much study of the valuation problem, has been written with much care and contains many valuable ideas, so that it should have a place in the library of all those interested in valuation.” F: P. Stearns
+ =Engin N= 77:434 Mr 15 ‘17 1100w
“Chapter 12, on the accounting system, is not up to date. ... The reviewer commends the book to the libraries of valuation men, not because it is a model of clearness, nor even because he thinks the depreciation problem is as desperately complex as the authors make it, but because the authors have painstakingly expounded a fair-minded theory about which valuation men should know something, and because they have presented some remarkably complete tables.” C. W. Stark
+ =Engin Rec= 75:475 Mr 24 ‘17 850w
“This work on the valuation of utilities and mines contains little new material for most students of the subject. It is primarily an exposition of established practices in valuation without much critical appraisal of their soundness. Students beginning the study of valuation, however, will find the work a clear and helpful presentation of the subject.”
+ — =J Pol Econ= 25:757 Jl ‘17 370w
“The book is not suited for popular reading, but has value for technicians. Its preparation marks a decided step in the regulation of utilities. We hear so much about it that it might be thought an old art. In fact, it is so new that it has hardly developed its science.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:174 Ap 29 ‘17 220w
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:336 Ap ‘17 50w
“The engineer or utility official ... will probably find the mathematical and tabular information of considerable value.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:453 My ‘17 170w (Reprinted from Electric Railway Journal p674 Ap 7 ‘17)
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:822 D ‘17 20w
+ =Railway Review= p539 Ap 14 ‘17
=GRUNZEL, JOSEF.= Economic protectionism; ed. by Eugen von Philippovich. *$2.90 Oxford 337 (Eng ed 16-23811)
“This volume is the first published by the Division of economics and history of the Carnegie endowment for international peace. ... The book covers a much wider range of topics than is ordinarily covered in books on the protective question. Not duties upon imports alone are considered, but also the regulation and manipulation of railway rates for the purpose of affording protection, and administrative measures which, though nominally for hygienic and sanitary purposes, in reality are designed to impede importation. Export duties naturally receive attention; and further, the import and export of capital, and immigration and emigration.”—Nation
Reviewed by A. L. Bishop
=Am Econ R= 7:659 S ‘17 600w
“The volume will be chiefly valuable as a general presentation of a subject, too much neglected by American writers, which is bound to attract greater attention in the immediate future. More particularly the second part will be useful, for few people realize the wide extent of the measures already adopted by various countries in carrying out this policy. But as a theoretical discussion of the economic soundness and political wisdom of the policy as a whole it is inadequate.” C. W. Wright
+ — =Am Hist R= 22:851 Jl ‘17 700w
“It has been strongly criticized for its protectionist bias.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:376 Je ‘17
“Its purpose is to survey the problem of protectionist policy as a whole, and summarize the results of the past research. The committee wisely committed this task to a scholar who believed in protection. The result is a most useful volume, although it throws little light on the problem of the causation of war.”
+ — =Ath= p22 Ja ‘17 1450w
“Professor Grunzel’s chief field of activity seems to be in the Austrian ministry of commerce, as adviser and administrator; and this accounts for the fulness of his information upon such concrete matters as were just referred to. No doubt it serves also to account for the general character of the present performance. The book is not such as would come from a scholar or from any one having capacity for intellectual discrimination. It is frankly, almost naïvely protectionist; indeed, exhibits protectionism in its vulgar form. The verdict, alas, must be that it is full of superficialities, question-begging phrases, muddy reasoning. ... As an intellectual performance, it is negligible. But as an indication of the ways, and purposes of the economic politician, it is of sad and portentous significance.”
— =Nation= 104:239 Mr 1 ‘17 1400w
=GUÉRARD, ALBERT LÉON.= Five masters of French romance. *$1.50 Scribner 843 17-26178
“The present volume is, in the main, independent of politics, though we do not overlook the introductory and concluding chapters—‘The twilight of a world,’ ‘Geniuses as cannon-fodder and survival of the unfittest,’ ‘Regeneration,’ and so on. The writers studied are Anatole France, primate of French literature; Pierre Loti, exotic representative of French Protestantism, ‘and on the surface the least Protestant of all’; Paul Bourget, ‘the most skilful technician’; Maurice Barrès, ‘defender of tradition’; and Romain Rolland, author of ‘one of the world’s classics.’”—Dial
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:257 Mr ‘17
“The criticism is sane, the argument popular, the substance interesting and the tone serious, while the style sparkles with a true French vivacity which has not had to suffer by translation. ... While it would be impossible to subscribe to every one of M. Guérard’s appreciations, he would be himself the first to disavow any such necessity.”
+ =Cath World= 104:694 F ‘17 350w
“Professor Guérard is a well-read man and he has written a useful book of a secondary sort. His book is, as his college lectures doubtless are, highly instructive to those who are not already well informed in the field traversed. His exposition of French novels and French culture is discreet and balanced, and his knowledge of American life, its standards, and limitations, adds to his conservatism in the present work. There is no heat or passion here, either for men or works or ideas, and the level style and equal temper of the essays make them all the more judicious and all the less inspiring.”
+ — =Dial= 62:113 F 8 ‘17 350w
+ =Ind= 91:351 S 1 ‘17 130w
+ =N Y Times= 22:187 My 13 ‘17 920w
=Outlook= 115:116 Ja 17 ‘17 100w
“Peculiarly circumstanced for interpreting to Americans the personal and literary characteristics of modern French authors is Albert Leon Guérard, a Frenchman born and bred, but now an American of more than ten years’ standing who is professor of French in the Rice institute, at Houston, Tex.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 10 ‘17 350w
“He wants to be on the side of the heavy angel, sociology, yet he is by inclination a connoisseur of literature. ... He is so anxious to convince Texas that French yellow-backs are worthy of serious attention that he is a little unscrupulous as to the kind of attention he secures for them. Secretly convinced that they are to be judged as literature, he has not the courage of his conviction, and serves them up as documents of social history. Unsteadiness of aim makes a bad book, and Mr Guérard’s is not a good one. And yet it might have been had not the American conscience so much perturbed the French taste.”
— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p622 D 21 ‘16 700w
“Useful for readers who wish short-cuts to a knowledge of these French writers and their novels, but are hardly equal to Miss Stephens’ ‘French novelists of today.’”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:156 My ‘17 70w
=GUEST, EDGAR ALBERT.= Heap o’ livin’. *$1.25 Reilly & B. 811 16-21963
“Mr Guest chooses the old familiar themes of domestic joys and sorrows, the ups and downs of life, the high hopes and the grievous disappointments common to our lot. ... This is by no means his first appearance in print, and to his old friends he needs no introduction. Let those who still have before them the pleasure of making his acquaintance try his quality in such poems of the present collection as ‘My creed,’ ‘Spring in the trenches,’ ‘The other fellow,’ ‘Father,’ and ‘Mother.’”—Dial
“Those who like Will Carleton and James Whitcomb Riley will not dislike Mr Guest.”
+ =Dial= 61:355 N 2 ‘16 200w
“Homespun poetry, full of health and vigor.”
+ =Lit D= 53:1727 D 30 ‘16 360w
“Inspiration may or may not lie between its covers; but love and good solid, spiritual fellowship for the common man are there.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 1 ‘17 250w
=GUEST, FLORA (BIGELOW) (MRS LIONEL GEORGE WILLIAM GUEST).= Cow and milk book. il *75c (3c) Lane 636 17-12845
A series of short, practical chapters on dairying by a woman who writes from personal experience in Canada. Emphasis is placed on cleanliness, careful inspection, etc. Among the subjects taken up are: Beef versus milk, The care of milk, The price of milk, Housing the cattle, Housing calves, To start a herd on economical lines, Advanced registry of cattle, How to choose a dairy cow, Stall-fed cows, Bedding, Watering the cattle.
“Will be found as helpful as the more scientific guides, most of which have the herd owner in mind.”
+ =Ind= 90:516 Je 16 ‘17 40w
“Mrs Lionel Guest was the daughter of the late John Bigelow. ... She has a successful dairy farm near Montreal which she superintends, and this little book offers the results of her own experience. It is thoroughly practical and deals with all the phases of the subject.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:167 Ap 29 ‘17 150w
=GUIMERÁ, ANGEL.= La pecadora (Daniela); a play in three acts; tr. by Wallace Gillpatrick. (Pub. of Hispanic soc. of Am.) pa *$1.25 Putnam 862 16-22623
For the English version of this play by the author of “Marta of the Lowlands,” we are indebted to Mexico City. The translator saw its first performance there in 1902 and, impressed with its merits, obtained permission from the author to translate it into English. The scene is in a little Spanish village. A great singer, after fifteen years of absence, has just returned to her childhood home. She is broken in health and her hopes of renewing her strength among well-loved scenes are frustrated by the suspicions of her old friends, and especially by the jealousy of the wife of her one-time sweetheart.
“Wallace Gillpatrick has translated ‘La pecadora’ and has brought over into English most if not all of the hot and fluid passion of the original. ... For acting purposes, at least with us, some of the scenes, notably the first half of the first act, would have to be condensed, but it makes easier reading as it stands, affording the opportunity to come slowly and surely under the spell of the emotions and the sensibilities of another race.” O. M. Sayler
+ =Dial= 62:142 F 22 ‘17 120w
“For sheer dramatic intensity the second act has been equalled by few plays in the past half century. ... Guimerá’s play should be accessible in the theater. It probably will not be. There is too much of the primitive and the true in it, and nothing whatever of the veiled sex appeal. ... As a reading play it is fascinating, and we fortunately have it in an admirable translation.” Frank Macdonald
+ =N Y Call= p14 Mr 11 ‘17 850w
=Pratt= p36 O ‘17 10w
+ =R of Rs= 55:441 Ap ‘17 160w
=GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY.= Dynamic of manhood. *75c (3c) Assn. press; *$1 (4c) Doran 170 17-21790
Dr Gulick says that human desires, or hungers, may be divided into two classes: (1) those that seek some benefit for one’s self; and (2) those that seek some benefit for others. The first are stomach-hungers—or Hunger; the second are heart-hungers—or Love. It is with these “heart-hungers” that his book is concerned. Contents: The two major motives; Hunger for a friend; Hunger for woman; Hunger for children; Hunger for God. The two editions are printed from the same plates, altho that issued by the Association Press is in smaller form.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:149 F ‘18
“His conclusions coincide with and add weight to the best thought of the day, from the viewpoint of religion as well as from that of science.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 100w
“The opening chapter on unsexed persons gives the book an excessively physiological keynote, and does not establish the author’s thesis. Dr Gulick has, however, an excellent chapter on the dangers of talking sexual subjects so as to arouse pruriency in children and his presentation of the ideal of romantic marriage is sincere and high-principled.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 150w
=GULLIVER, JULIA HENRIETTA.= Studies in democracy. *$1 (6c) Putnam 321.8 17-6232
Three addresses by the president of Rockford college for women. In the first, The essence of democracy, delivered as a baccalaureate address in 1915, the author expresses the belief that “the impulse toward expansion, which underlies the present world-upheaval, is the impulse toward the democratizing of Europe.” The second, The twentieth-century search for the Holy Grail, delivered before the State federation of women’s clubs in Rockford, Ill., in 1915, is a study of the work of American women along economic, civic and legislative lines. The third, The efficiency of democracy, a baccalaureate address of 1916, is given to a comparison of the methods of a democracy and an autocracy, as represented by the United States and Germany, with suggestions as to what each can learn from the other.
“While it contains nothing that is novel or striking, the book is interesting, cogent in its expression of ideas and possesses more literary merit than most brief discussions of its kind.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:366 My ‘17 80w
=Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 280w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:43 Mr ‘17 10w
=R of Rs= 55:444 Ap ‘17 20w
“The fact that two of them are baccalaureate sermons may explain their limitations, for nothing seems to stultify original thought like the necessity of imparting it to June graduates.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 200w
=GUTHRIE, WILLIAM DAMERON.= Magna carta, and other addresses. *$1.50 (2c) Columbia univ. press 342.7 16-17474
The address on Magna carta which opens this volume was delivered before the Constitutional convention of the State of New York in 1915. The other addresses, also prepared for special occasions, are: The Mayflower compact; Constitutional morality; The eleventh amendment; Criticism of the courts; Graduated or progressive taxation; The duty of citizenship; Nominating conventions; Catholic parochial schools; The France-America committee of New York.
“Mr Guthrie’s addresses add very little to the discussion of the problems which they are concerned with, but they have their value as a statement of the conservative view by a learned and clear-thinking student and teacher of the law. The essay on ‘Magna carta’ is perhaps the least valuable of the entire collection. In this paper the author presents the older view of the content and purpose of this document, a view that has long since lost credit among English historians.”
=Dial= 62:112 F 8 ‘17 250w
“On every page there is to be found cogent argument, happy illustration and sound setting forth of vitally important legal and constitutional principles.”
+ =Educ R= 52:529 D ‘16 90w
“Mr Guthrie’s predilection for quasi-historical arguments prevents him from dealing with any issue on its merits. However, in the essay on the income tax, he shows his moral insight and social wisdom in his condemnation of a graduated income tax.” M. R. Cohen
– + =New Repub= 9:sup18 N 18 ‘16 800w
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 12 ‘17 450w
=GWATKIN, HENRY MELVILL.=[2] Church and state in England to the death of Queen Anne; with a preface by the Rev E. W. Watson. *$5 (3c) Longmans 274.2 17-27958
Dr Gwatkin did not live to revise his manuscript, and it is offered with some imperfections which the editors deemed presumptuous to tamper with. It is not a textbook for beginners but for “informed and intelligent students” who wish a survey of England’s secular and ecclesiastical development, in due coordination and proportion. A good index is provided.
“If, in consequence of the lamented author’s death, some portions of the book are not quite abreast of the most recent knowledge there is compensation in the broadminded and comprehensive treatment of the weighty theme to which Prof. Gwatkin wholeheartedly addressed himself.”
+ =Ath= p590 N ‘17 190w
“As a scamper through English history this posthumous work, edited by Dr E. W. Watson, is clever. Here and there we find shrewd remarks and phrases. But, whereas the modern historian strives painfully to be coldly neutral, Gwatkin’s bias was so vehement that he seldom troubles to argue, or even to be accurate.”
– + =Sat R= 124:465 D 8 ‘17 1500w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p507 O 18 ‘17 70w
“No references are given, but they are hardly to be expected in a compendium of facts which derives its interest from the personality of the author and the independence of his views. There is no lack of learning, and the book is wonderfully compressed. The character sketches are always interesting, and some of the generalizations on collateral subjects, like the remarks on English foreign policy on page 237, would do credit to a specialized monograph. No ecclesiastical historian has written with a broader outlook on the human side of English history.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 D 20 ‘17 1300w
=GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS.= Mrs Humphry Ward. (Writers of the day) *60c (3c) Holt 823 (Eng ed 18-1392)
This study of Mrs Humphry Ward is added to a series which already includes books on Anatole France, Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and others. It is Mrs Ward’s great and long continued popularity that draws critical attention to her work. As Mr Gwynne says, “Such a success as she has achieved and consolidated does not dictate to critical opinion, but it compels appraisement to be made.” Following the introduction, are chapters devoted to: “Robert Elsmere”; Novels of the general world: “Helbeck of Bannisdale” and “Eleanor”; Novels with a historical basis: “The case of Richard Meynell”; Later novels and general appreciation.
“Mr Gwynn takes the candid and reasonable view that the popularity of Mrs Humphry Ward justifies a critical attention which her books hardly deserve on mere literary grounds.”
+ =Ath= p594 N ‘17 130w
“While he has apparently read Mrs Ward’s novels thoroughly, he has little understanding of their purpose. A serious mistake was made by the editor of the series in inviting him to contribute the study of Mrs Humphry Ward.” E. F. E.
— =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 650w
“At times his criticism is most caustic, more than is usually found in sketches of this character.” D. F. K.
+ =N Y Call= p14 Ja 5 ‘18 160w
“It is with unmixed joy that we greet this critical estimate of Mrs Humphry Ward, not because it is vital to have an estimate of Mrs Ward, but because in itself this little study is of unusual value. This critique is excellent from a critical point of view, and well worth reading for its own sake.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 440w
“It is a remarkably spirited and readable appreciation, even though one may not fully agree with the conclusions.”
+ — =R of Rs= 57:217 F ‘18 80w
“Mr Gwynn shows himself at once a sympathetic and a severe critic.”
+ =Spec= 119:529 N 10 ‘17 140w
“Mr Gwynn has not a few shrewd things to say as to Mrs Ward’s mental attitude. His opening pages seem to be imbued with the highly unintelligent view that there must be something suspicious about a large circulation. This leads him to impose upon the reader at the outset what seems to us a wholly unfair view of his subject, and one which he does not prove himself able to substantiate.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p519 O 25 ‘17 470w
=GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS, and TUCKWELL, GERTRUDE M.= Life of the Rt Hon Sir Charles W. Dilke. 2v il *$10.50 Macmillan (Eng ed 17-29369)
“It may be expected that this ‘Life of Sir Charles Dilke’ will at once take its place among standard works of reference, for much of it records in his own words, from notes made day by day, the important events in British and European history of the second half of the nineteenth century in which he took a prominent part. ... Sir Charles Dilke’s activities were many-sided, and his biographers have tried to present a picture of the complete man. Sections are allotted to his lifelong efforts to improve the conditions of the working classes, his care for the rights of native races, and his literary work and interests; and Mr Spenser Wilkinson contributes the chapters describing the active part taken by Sir Charles Dilke in impressing upon the nation the necessity of preparations for imperial defence. In all the activities of the second half of his life Sir Charles had a devoted co-worker in Lady Dilke, and Miss Tuckwell has provided a delightful picture of happy home life.”—Ath
“The two volumes are a notable addition to the socio-political history of the last generation. For in the realm of social politics Dilke established a new tradition. In the sphere of foreign policy or imperial policy, on questions relating to the army and navy, he undoubtedly possessed an almost unrivalled knowledge; but these matters were, in a sense, the stock-in-trade of all politicians. In the field of social politics, however, he stood alone—a pioneer.”
+ =Ath= p504 O ‘17 1900w
“The reader feels that he is a privileged spectator in the actual making of history, and is enabled to realize the personalities of the chief characters who directed the course of events.”
+ =Ath= p530 O ‘17 480w
“His biographers appear to have magnified his strong and engaging qualities and minimized his failings, which is not an uncommon practice with biographers who are also loving friends. It is unfortunately to be noted that the publishers of this work found it necessary or desirable to give the book a fragile and mechanically poor binding.” H. S. K.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 O 17 ‘17 900w
“There has been no English political biography so valuable as this since Lord Morley summarized an epoch in his life of Gladstone. ... From whatever angle this life is regarded it is a valuable supplement to what we already possess.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 13:320 Ja 12 ‘18 2450w
+ =N Y Times= 22:532 D 2 ‘17 600w
“It is impossible to praise too highly the industry and tact with which Miss Tuckwell has discharged her task of compiling what will certainly rank as a great political biography. ... Miss Tuckwell’s comments are sparing and relevant; and while she obviously writes as a loving disciple, there is no indiscriminate or emotional eulogy.”
+ =Sat R= 124:sup3 S 29 ‘17 1200w
“We cannot think of Sir Charles Dilke as a possible prime minister. ... Miss Tuckwell, however, has unquestionably shown that Sir Charles Dilke was a greater force in Liberal politics before 1885 than many people supposed.”
+ — =Spec= 119:327 S 29 ‘17 2050w
“It is for their spiritual quite as much as for their historical value that these volumes will take their place in English literature. ... We find, with some disappointment, in the passages dealing with labour questions a lack of that intimacy, that private estimation of personalities and tendencies, which is so fascinating in other chapters of the book.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p451 S 20 ‘17 1950w
=GWYNNE, WALKER.=[2] Primitive worship and prayer book; rationale, history, and doctrine of the English, Irish, Scottish, and American books. *$2.50 Longmans 264 17-15175
A study made timely by the work of revision of the prayer book in England, the United States and Canada. The writer traces the origin and development of Christian worship to the present form for English-speaking people. The second part of his work is devoted to a clear explanation of what the church teaches by means of the prayer book—by means of the formularies, traditional customs and interpretative scripture embodied in the prayer book. The book seeks an audience among students, general readers, teachers and candidates for Holy orders.
=Pittsburgh= 22:698 O ‘17
“The chapters contain the result of considerable reading in the modern literature on the subject, and show that the writer has the gift of interesting exposition.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p519 O 25 ‘17 210w
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=HAGEDORN, HERMANN.= You are the hope of the world! *50c (5½c) Macmillan 172 17-23664
Mr Hagedorn appeals to the boys and girls of America, especially to those between the ages of ten and seventeen, to realize the responsibility laid upon their shoulders by the great war. He asks them to think squarely about their country, to realize that “democracy isn’t a success—yet,” that we are wasteful, materialistic, improvident and indifferent, and then to “create a tradition of alert citizenship, a tradition of public service.” “Your elder brothers will have to fight with guns. ... To you is given a work every bit as grand as dying for your country; and that is, living for the highest interests of your country! Those interests are the interests of democracy. If, therefore, you live for the highest interests of America, you live at the same time for the highest interests of the world. You are the hope of the world!”
=A L A Bkl= 14:136 Ja ‘18
“Such a book as this cannot be reviewed. It must be read if its mission is to be understood. And all should read it, all Americans who know, who fear to know, or who are anxious to know what America stands for in this war.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 270w
+ =Cleveland= p119 N ‘17 50w
“Mr Hagedorn has compiled all the patriotic persuasion that he can cram into 100 pages or so, and from a literary point of view, his appeal is well worth reading. It is curious to note how he traverses what ‘teacher’ told the boys and girls in school about the faultless democracy of Uncle Sam ... and how we have always been morally, ethically and spiritually right, and those who opposed us wrong.” J. W.
=N Y Call= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 400w
“This appeal to patriotism is praiseworthy in Its musical simplicity of style, and the wholesome tenor of his arguments. ... If Mr Hagedorn can make this war teach the lesson of obligation and responsibility to our over-fed and under-worked youth, that will be one consolation left us.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 16 ‘17 320w
=HAGGARD, SIR HENRY RIDER.= Finished. il *$1.40 Longmans 17-24205
“That mighty African hunter and adventurer, Allan Quatermain, who has so often filled the roles of hero and narrator of H. Rider Haggard’s romances, is once more pressed into service in ‘Finished.’ ... While this story is complete in itself, it forms the concluding unit of a trilogy, of which ‘Marie’ and ‘Child of storm’ are the preceding numbers ... The story embodies the last episode in the wizard Zikali’s mysterious career; but to give it a proper setting, Mr Haggard recounts the events preceding the Zulu-British war of 1879, together with events in the early stages of the strife. Historical facts are, of course, suitably cloaked in romance, and arranged to the needs of the plot.”—Springf’d Republican
=A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17
“Our old friend, Allan Quatermain tells this story. And he tells it well, even if some of the old glamour seems to be missing.”
+ — =Ath= p527 O ‘17 60w
“Thirty years have passed since we first heard of Allan Quatermain and he is as much alive today as ever. ... He is and will remain one of the dominant characters of English romantic fiction.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 15 ‘17 1150w
“The council at the ‘Valley of bones’ is the most thrilling and picturesque part of a lively, exciting and readable narrative.”
+ =Lit D= 55:42 O 27 ‘17 200w
+ =Nation= 105:694 D 20 ‘17 150w
“A fascinating mixture of fact and fiction.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:353 S 23 ‘17 880w
“This latest volume, with its ominous title, ‘Finished,’ shows us two things clearly: One is that this particular type of romance of adventure, ... with its long-winded periods and utter lack of characterization in dialog needed a rich imagination that provided thrills in plenty and all the action required to sweep the reader along in a fascination that forgot the cumbersome writing; and the second thing is that Rider Haggard’s once so enviably rich and fertile imagination is, if not exactly finished, at least slowing down to an extent that necessitates a change of style to make his books acceptable.” G. I. Colbron
+ — =Pub W= 92:804 S 15 ‘17 570w
=R of Rs= 56:557 N ‘17 100w
“The author re-creates, as no other novelist can, the mysterious, legendary Africa of exploration days, and his stories, which are the outgrowth of a personal knowledge of African pioneering, convey a thrill and interest shared by few adventure tales of the present.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 320w
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p428 S 6 ‘17 570w
=HALASI, ÖDÖN.= Belgium under the German heel. *$1.50 Funk 940.91 17-21999
“M. Halasi, a well-known Hungarian writer, ‘succeeded in gaining the confidence of the German authorities and was allowed in 1916 to spend a few months in Belgium, being given unusual facilities for travelling and seeing everything within the occupied territory.’ The record of his experiences has been given to the anonymous translator, who has supplemented it by information conveyed by another Magyar, M. Ernö Lovass, who spent eighteen months in Belgium during the war.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“It is evident that Mr Halasi’s sympathies are with the Belgium people. ... He sketches the present condition of Antwerp, Louvain, Namur, Dinant, Liège, and Malines, in the order named, and tells to what extent they have suffered or escaped the horrors of war. He closes his book with a picture of Cardinal Mercier and his efforts on behalf of his fellow-countrymen.”
+ =Ath= p368 Jl ‘17 350w
=Lit D= 55:43 D 8 ‘17 160w
“The description offers nothing sensational. The author apparently left Belgium before the time of the deportations; we have here nothing of the nature of the harrowing scenes described in M. Passelecq’s book.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p279 Je 14 ‘17 400w
=HALDANE, JOHN SCOTT.= Organism and environment as illustrated by the physiology of breathing. (Mrs Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures) *$1.25 Yale univ. press 612 17-9380
“Four lectures dealing respectively with the regulation of breathing; the readjustment of regulation in acclimatization and disease; the regulation of the environment, internal and external; organic regulation as the essence of life—inadequacy of mechanistic and vitalistic conceptions.”—Cleveland
“Of interest to biologists, physiologists, philosophers, and physicians.”
+ =Cleveland= p94 Jl ‘17 50w
“Four addresses of dynamic interest, but from two very distinct points of view. The first three are predominantly physiological and technical rather than popular. ... The fourth lecture is of superlative interest, and is a masterly application of the facts of physiology to the modern theories of life.”
+ =Nation= 104:764 Je 28 ‘17 600w
“The special value of the book to students lies in the fact that the function of respiration is treated simply as one aspect of the activities of the organism as a whole, as a chapter in the unending series of adaptations, internal and external, which make up the life of an individual.” F. H. S.
+ =Nature= 100:241 N 29 ‘17 1050w
=Pratt= p20 O ‘17 50w
“From its detailed study of the processes connected with breathing under so many diverse conditions, the book will be of interest to physicians and physiologists. From its consideration of the conflicting theories of life from the standpoint primarily of breathing, it deserves a place on the shelf of the biologist and natural philosopher.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 29 ‘17 700w
“Dr Haldane was invited by Yale university to give the Silliman lectures in 1915. At that time there were expectations about the duration of the war which made it natural that postponement of one year should be asked and granted. In 1916 it was determined to wait no longer, and the events of 1917 have fully justified the judgment. The lectures (on the ‘Physiology of breathing’) were delivered and are to appear in book form before long. But since they contained much that is technical, Dr Haldane gave also four public lectures on ‘points of more general interest,’ which are printed in the present volume. There is still enough of technicality left to make it hardish reading for the layman in places, but the reading is well worth while.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p364 Ag 2 ‘17 1750w
=HALE, EDWARD EVERETT, jr.=[2] Life and letters of Edward Everett Hale. 2v il ea *$5 (2c) Little 17-31921
Not a criticism, neither an estimate of the life of Edward Everett Hale, but a portrayal of his personal character and achievements. Making use of a vast amount of material including letters, diaries, day books, sermons, lectures and various contributions to literature the son of Dr Hale has followed the progress of his father’s career thru its nearly ninety years. After graduation from Harvard he spent a few years making up his mind what he would do; then turned to the ministry. Middle age found him a leading clergyman; a leader and organizer in and out of his especial denomination, full of ideas for public service; a man of letters who had ahead of him long, useful years before the American public. The spirit of the great American has been immortalized in the story that won him continuous fame, “A man without a country.”
“Books of this kind are as rare and as universal in their interest as the characters with which they deal.”
+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 8 ‘17 140w
“A word of praise should go to Mr Hale not only for the painstaking care, fine discrimination and judicial mind with which he has done this work, but also for the excellent spirit of literary craftsmanship in which the whole work has been conceived and carried out. For it is what one might call, for lack of a better term, creative biography. He has used his materials as a sculptor would use clay, and out of them has made a clear and luminous figure which stands out from the pages, a real and authentic portrait of the man as he was. He has not even allowed his filial love to obscure or to gild or to make deceptively roseate what he felt to be the true lineaments of his subject or the true estimate of his character, his work, and his influence.”
+ + =N Y Times= 22:553 D 16 ‘17 1600w
“We have had to wait eight years for this story of his life. It was worth waiting for. His son has written, or rather we should say edited, this life with reverencing candor—a combination rare in biographers.” Lyman Abbott
+ =Outlook= 118:146 Ja 23 ‘18 2800w
“It is good to have this biography of vivid and vivifying life. It will bring closer to the man thousands of readers who have known his books and who may well wish to come, thru this biography, into more direct touch with his personality. The illustrations help toward this end.” R. R. Bowker
+ =Pub W= 93:216 Ja 19 ‘18 850w
+ =R of Rs= 57:99 Ja ‘18 210w
=HALL, BOLTON.= Thrift. *$1 (1½c) Huebsch 304 17-2049
Education, the cooperative movement, intensive cultivation of the land and natural taxation are some of the subjects discussed in this book. The author does not write of thrift in the vein of Samuel Smiles. It is not a system of saving pennies that he advocates, but rather an organization of all one’s resources to the end that life may be enriched. He advocates efficiency, too, but it is not the machine-made efficiency of the experts.
=A L A Bkl= 13:330 My ‘17 (Reprinted from Survey)
“Evidence of the up-to-date business promoter sticks out on almost every page. His is the clever, incisive, staccato style.” H. S. K.
=Boston Transcript= p8 F 21 ‘17 330w
=Cleveland= p38 Mr ‘17 150w
“It would not be just to imply that there aren’t some good things in this book. These good things might have been condensed into a pamphlet. There is chapter 13, for example, on ‘Institutional garden thrift.’ There is an interesting discussion of coöperatives; and another of taxation of land values. Mr Hall’s dissertation on prohibition appears to the reviewer to be partially misleading. Loose thinking characterizes it.” D: Rosenstein
– + =N Y Call= p15 Je 10 ‘17 770w
=Pittsburgh= 22:325 Ap ‘17 20w
“The best chapter preaches ‘thrift in happiness,’ and points the way to love without possession and to joy that is not dependent upon material success.”
=R of Rs= 55:444 Ap ‘17 110w
“Addressed to wage earners. A sensible discussion of personal efficiency, waste and extravagance, investments and practical success.” P. B.
+ =St Louis= 15:107 Ap ‘17 20w
“It is full of bright turns, but it is more than bright,—it is sensible and practical. ... The argument [about temperance], as far as it goes, is sound, but it doesn’t get far into the merits of the question. It is the shallowest part of the book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 9 ‘17 330w
“How to become prosperous without petrifying in the process really is Mr Hall’s theme; and, though we may not agree with him in every detail of his plan, no one can read this little book without getting benefit from his warm human counsel.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 37:585 F 17 ‘17 180w
=HALL, GERTRUDE.= Aurora the magnificent. il *$1.40 (1c) Century 17-10200
Mrs Aurora Hawthorne and her friend Miss Estelle Madison drop on the little Anglo-American colony in Florence, determined to see and to spend and to enjoy. They, in particular Aurora, possess all the failings of the “typical” American abroad, but the Anglo-American colony, led by the American consul and his family, accept Aurora and Estelle without question. The reader can do no less, for there is something about them, particularly Aurora, that is compelling. The Fosses, the American consul’s family, are delightful, and worthy of a book all of themselves, but this story as it develops becomes more and more the story of Aurora and Gerald Fane, poor, over-wrought, artistic Gerald alternately moved by a desire to shake Aurora and an impulse to rest his tired head on her generous shoulder.
“Published in the Century.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:353 My ‘17
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 45:413 Je ‘17 550w
“The story is simple and comprehensible, the mystery untangling itself bit by bit, as mysteries really do. It is natural and not melodramatic; amusing and thoroughly readable.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 11 ‘17 330w
+ =Cath World= 105:555 Jl ‘17 80w
“People who frankly enjoy love-mazes will like this story; it is written with grace and simplicity, and an honest insight into the thoughts and experiences with which most folk most of the time are engrossed. Those who yearn for light on the vaster perplexities of the human struggle en masse, might as well pass it by.”
=Dial= 62:401 My 3 ‘17 230w
“Aurora is that rare thing in popular fiction, an individual, a new personality.”
+ =Ind= 90:471 Je 9 ‘17 130w
“The main thing, and the overwhelming thing, is our faith in Aurora’s greatness as a woman, in her adequacy for life, upon whatever terms it may challenge her. ... Our Aurora’s triumph over us and her Gerald is that we exult in her as she is.”
+ =Nation= 104:581 My 10 ‘17 470w
“The story is a very fine and generous comedy of Americanism abroad. There is no denying Aurora, or the wholesome elemental womanhood, the ripeness of character, that underlies her outrageous bloom.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Nation= 105:601 N 29 ‘17 90w
“The novel is clever and written with a good deal of charm, but the author has spread her slight plot over far too many pages.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:114 Ap 1 ‘17 330w
“Reading ‘Aurora the magnificent’ is like taking a railway journey thru pleasant enough but rather uneventful country and all at once getting somewhere.” Doris Webb
+ =Pub W= 91:973 Mr 17 ‘17 550w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 60w
=HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY.= Jesus, the Christ, in the light of psychology. 2v *$7.50 (2c) Doubleday 232 17-8497
A psychological study of Jesus is regarded by the author as the logical next step following the historical and critical research of recent years. The introduction says, “It is this step that the author attempts to take in this volume. ... He regards himself as a pioneer in a new domain in which he is certain to be followed by many others, and is convinced that the psychological Jesus Christ is the true and living Christ of the present and of the future. He is the spiritual Christ of the resurrection whom alone Paul knew and proclaimed, although he is here described in modern terms, and it is this that now chiefly matters rather than what an historical person was or did in Palestine, two thousand years ago.” It is Dr Hall’s hope that such a study may go far toward the reinterpretation of Christianity which is necessary if it is to remain a vital religion for the modern world. Volume 1 consists of chapters on: Jesus’ physical personality; Jesus in literature; Jesus’ character, negative views; The nativity; Beginnings of the supreme pedagogy. Volume 2 has chapters on: Messianity, sonship, and the kingdom; Jesus’ eschatology, his inner character, purpose, and work; Jesus’ ethics and prayer; The parables of Jesus; The miracles; Death and resurrection of Jesus.
“The title is likely to mislead the general reader; the work is not a contribution to the study of Jesus, but to the study of genetic psychology. Librarians need to note this in cataloguing it. The student who wishes to know what Jesus said and did, or to understand the gospels, will find only incidental benefit here; it is not the psychology of Jesus which is treated, but the psychology of those who have reflected on Jesus. How the human mind has reacted upon this name; above all, how a modern encyclopedic mind, superlatively trained in psychological analysis, reacts upon it, is exhaustively and illuminatingly presented.” C. R. Bowen
* + – =Am J Theol= 21:612 O ‘17 3200w
“A book for scholars and serious students.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:39 N ‘17
“That the work will prove valuable will hardly be questioned. ... Dr Hall will not expect all to agree with his conclusions. We think very few will. But hardly any will fail to appreciate the fine spirit of the author; the great mass of material, gathered by the toil of many years; and his introducing them to a method which is sure to throw much light upon him whom the author calls ‘the best of all beings.’” F. W. C.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 My 19 ‘17 1700w
— =Cath World= 105:245 My ‘17 1400w
+ =Cleveland= p91 Jl ‘17 60w
=Dial= 63:70 Jl 19 ‘17 530w
“A notable contribution to the understanding of Jesus. Probably no other man possesses either the equipment or the sympathy necessary to write this book.”
+ =Educ R= 56:173 F ‘18 60w
“In his first chapters Dr Hall treats with notable comprehensiveness the conceptions of Christ’s physical appearance and character that have been set forth in art and literature from earliest times down to the immediate present, discussing and weighing each with care and thoroughness and judicial temper. Among the very recent books thus considered in which Christ or Christian teachings are the theme are, to mention only a very few of the large and diverse list, Kennedy’s ‘The servant in the house,’ Jerome’s ‘Passing of the third floor back,’ Maxwell’s ‘The ragged messenger,’ Moore’s ‘The Brook Kerith,’ Selma Lagerlöf’s ‘Miracles of Anti-Christ,’ Zangwill’s ‘The next religion,’ while discussion at some length is given to the cult of the superman, which Dr Hall calls ‘The chief and most extraordinary literary phenomenon of our time.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:246 Jl 1 ‘17 800w
“Whether God, Jesus Christ, and Christianity are anything more than psychic phenomena according to Dr Hall’s philosophy he does not make clear; but he makes it quite clear that he thinks this a question not important to answer.”
– + =Outlook= 117:65 S 12 ‘17 330w
=Pittsburgh= 22:437 My ‘17 40w
=St Louis= 15:136 My ‘17 7w
“It is unfortunate that a work containing so much learning and so authentic vision should be expressed in such heavy and difficult English. The style often obscures the ideas it seeks to express. Otherwise, the book is a valuable contribution from one of America’s leading psychologists to the pressing religious problems of the time.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 22 ‘17 600w
“The mind of President Hall is singularly unfit for his undertaking. He not only is destitute of historical judgment; he does not even realize that his task requires it.” B. W. Bacon
— =Yale R= n s 7:211 O ‘17 1850w
=HALL, JENNIE.= Our ancestors in Europe; ed. by J: Montgomery Gambrill and Lida Lee Tall. il *76c Silver 940 16-14054
“Jennie Hall’s book is made up of three main parts, viz.: The ancient world. The newer nations, and Beginnings of our own times. The titles of these parts suggest their contents. One hundred and forty pages are devoted to part 1, one hundred and four to part 2, and eighty-two to part 3. The list of illustrations is a very long one. There is also a considerable number of maps and plans scattered throughout the book. At the end of each chapter one finds a long list of questions. Following the last chapter is a list of important dates.” (School R) “The book is designed to furnish pupils in the sixth grade with a background for their imminent study of American history.” (Nation)
“The author, Miss Jennie Hall, of the Parker school of Chicago, has shown considerable skill both in selecting the incidents and figures on which to dwell and in making the narrative simple without making it dull or childish.”
+ =Nation= 105:268 S 6 ‘17 90w
“Generally speaking the make-up of the text is attractive, and the contents deal with concrete material well in the range of the understanding of the pupils for whom the book was written.” R M Tryon
+ — =School R= 25:684 N ‘17 180w
=HALL, JOHN LESSLIE.= English usage; studies in the history and uses of English words and phrases. *$1.50 Scott 420.4 17-14826
“A reference book for high school pupils or for teachers. Unlike similar books, it aims to give authorities on both sides, leaving the choice to the reader. It is a protest against the rigid rules of the purists in grammatical form.”—Ind
=Ind= 91:234 Ag 11 ‘17 80w
“As a history of opinion on the chief disputed points of usage the book is valuable. Its value would have been increased if instead of statistical lists we had more often before us the passages in their context.”
– + =Nation= 105:261 S 6 ‘17 330w
“In reading the book, one feels less confident than before as to what ‘good usage’ really is, and also recognizes the danger of concluding that a wrong use of words by a good author makes good usage.”
+ =Outlook= 116:593 Ag 15 ‘17 120w
Reviewed by E. F. Geyer and R. L. Lyman
+ =School R= 25:607 O ‘17 120w
=HALL, MAY EMERY.= Roger Williams. il *$1.25 (3c) Pilgrim press 17-24423
The story of Roger Williams forms a chapter in the history of the struggle for personal liberty in America, and the author has told it in a popular style that will be attractive to young people. She has based her account on recognized sources. There are several illustrations to add interest to the book.
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:173 F ‘18
“Very brightly is the story written, delightfully fascinating and especially attractive in the naïve manner in which she rushes into the forum as a special pleader in behalf of her client. For Mrs Hall is confessedly an ardent and enthusiastic admirer of the character of Williams, so ardent and so enthusiastic that she fails to discern his undoubted failings.” E. J. C.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p9 O 20 ‘17 850w
“His story is always worth retelling, and Mrs Hall’s volume is, in its way, a public educator. Issued at smaller cost, as one believes it might be, it would be an excellent work for reading in the schools.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 400w
=HALLER, WILLIAM.=[2] Early life of Robert Southey, 1774-1803. (Columbia univ. studies in English and comparative literature) *$1.50 (1½c) Columbia univ. press 17-25840
The first portion of the life of a poet who has no adequate detailed biography. It covers the first twenty-nine years of Southey’s life: his boyhood at school and university; his reactions to literary and political movements in his youth; his early associations with Coleridge, Lamb, Wordsworth, and others; his share in attempting to establish a communistic society in America; his characteristics as a young man, poet, and man of letters; his connection with the “lake school” of poetry; and his settling down in what became his permanent home in Keswick.
=Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ‘17 1000w
“Southey played so prominent a part in the intellectual and literary generation that sprang from the French revolution that a competent study of him has long been needed. That need is now being supplied. The mere bulk of his writings has frightened scholars. Yet the story of this man is not only worth the telling; it is rich in interest besides.”
+ =Dial= 64:73 Ja 17 ‘18 470w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 D 20 ‘17 130w
=HALSEY, FRANCIS WHITING=, ed. Balfour, Viviani and Joffre; their speeches and other public utterances in America. *$1.50 (1½c) Funk 940.91 17-24227
Mr Halsey has collected and arranged, with descriptive matter, as compiled from contemporary accounts, the speeches and other public utterances in America of Mr Balfour, M. Viviani and Marshal Joffre, together with those of Italian, Belgian and Russian commissioners during the great war. To these he has added an account of the arrival of the United States warships and soldiers in England and France under Admiral Sims and General Pershing. The period covered is April 21 to July 4, 1917. The material used was first published in the Congressional Record and Canadian parliamentary reports, the great American and Canadian dailies, the London Times and Morning Post, the Paris Temps and La Victoire, the Literary Digest, etc. The book has no index.
“Newspaper ‘clippings,’ it would seem, should hardly be given unedited to posterity. They could not include, in this case, much that was of importance concerning these visits; hence the record is neither complete nor accurate.” A. I. A.
– — =Am Hist R= 23:433 Ja ‘18 350w
=A L A Bkl= 14:53 N ‘17
“Mr Halsey’s collection of the speeches of the commissioners is a useful work of reference rather than a readable book, for one must grant that the average of eloquence, despite the frequent ‘lift’ in M. Viviani’s addresses, is low, while the passages that are insignificant and that duplicate one another are very numerous indeed.”
+ — =Dial= 63:594 D 6 ‘17 200w
+ =Ind= 91:512 S 29 ‘17 100w
“Even a hasty reading of the book, however, creates two impressions which one ventures to believe will not later be unjustified by the results of complete investigation. The first is that Mr Balfour is a master of the shrewd, weighed phrase, a genius at resolving dangerous difficulties and at allaying any nascent suspicions. M. Viviani, on the other hand, is easily the most eloquent orator that we have heard in America for a generation.”
+ =New Repub= 13:355 Ja 19 ‘18 200w
=R of Rs= 57:214 F ‘18 40w
+ =Spec= 119:sup474 N 3 ‘17 130w
=HAMILTON, CLAYTON MEEKER.= Problems of the playwright. *$1.60 (2c) Holt 792 17-29336
A companion volume to “The theory of the theatre and studies in stage-craft” which the writer calls “a sort of suffix” to the earlier work. “In this book, the kaleidoscopic field of the contemporary drama is considered from various points of view,—that of the critic, the dramatist, the stage-director, the scenic artist, the manager, and the theatre-going public.” Among the chapters, a good many of which have had magazine publication, are: Contrast in the drama; Surprise in the drama; The troublesome last act; Strategy and tactics; Harmony in presentation; High comedy in America; The George M. Cohan school of playwrights; Yvette Guilbert; The magic of Mr Chesterton; Criticism and creation in the drama; A kiss for Cinderella; Dramatic talent and theatrical talent; Stevenson on the stage; The plays of Lord Dunsany; The mood of Maeterlinck; Euripides in New York; Romance and realism in the drama; The new stagecraft; The non-commercial drama; A democratic insurrection in the theatre; What is wrong with the American drama?
=A L A Bkl= 14:84 D ‘17
“Mr Hamilton’s dominant characteristic as a dramatic critic is his desire always to go behind the specific example, often possessing only a fleeting interest, to the law which controlled it. ... His enthusiasm is cautiously controlled; and it is set free only when his head is convinced and his heart is touched. He does not allow his judgment to be unduly influenced by the vagaries of public opinion; and the ardent admirers of Mr Galsworthy’s plays and the uncritical worshippers at the shrine of Mr Shaw will probably be rudely shocked by the chilly analysis of the merits and demerits of these two favourites of the moment. ... Mr Hamilton’s criticism is consistently interesting because it has the support of knowledge and the savour of individuality.” Brander Matthews
+ =Bookm= 46:355 N ‘17 1300w
+ =Cleveland= p135 D ‘17 20w
“He isn’t a radical in matters dramatic, and he isn’t a reactionary. He doesn’t champion the newer movements, nor does he evade condemning the older schools. The indecision is largely due to Mr Hamilton’s indefinite opinions, and also to his apparent refusal to trace a theme to his logical end. It is a good book with which to interest those who are not interested at all, but it will not appeal to students who have made some progress.” L: Gardy
– + =N Y Call= p16 Ja 19 ‘18 340w
“The title of Clayton Hamilton’s ‘Problems of the playwright’ is as unfortunate as it is alliterative, for the idea it suggests of the technical side of writing plays is much too narrow to cover the many and varied and suggestive discussions of the contemporary drama.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:578 D 30 ‘17 220w
“For sheer power to entertain no other writer on stagecraft excels Clayton Hamilton.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:108 Ja ‘18 110w
“The book deals in general observations, but they are observations that are pertinent because they are fortified by knowledge, earnestness and critical sense. They are not, however, co-ordinated into a study. Mr Hamilton’s book has little unity of purpose, though a unity of spirit does pervade it.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 1100w
“Of interest to satisfy the reader’s curiosity as to the author’s opinion of certain plays or playwrights, rather than of value as dramatic criticism.”
+ — =Wis Lib Bul= 14:30 Ja ‘18 50w
=HAMILTON, COSMO.= Joan and the babies and I; being certain chapters from the autobiography of John Mainwaring, the novelist. il *$1 (6c) Little (Eng ed 16-15133)
A story which can be summed up in a few words. An Englishman, suffering from nerves and over-indulgence in self analysis, spends a summer on the Massachusetts coast. He makes friends on the beach with two small children, meets their mother, falls in love with her and marries her. It may be that the reason for existence of the book is explained in this sentence, “Being male I intended to follow the law of nature and be the dominating factor—a law which if adopted by American husbands would save many thoughtless women, over-burdened with freedom, from making epic fools of themselves.”
“There is a certain sentimental intimacy that some authors affect in relation to their characters that is more repulsive than the most outspoken language of your Fieldings or your Smolletts. ... Condemned by his own confession, he stands as an exemplar of that lack of reticence—or lack of frankness, it is hard to say which—that is the besetting sin of American literature.”
— =Dial= 62:403 My 3 ‘17 170w
“In spite of the domestic title of Mr Hamilton’s story, and the two delightfully natural children who usher in the first chapter, the little book is decidedly upsetting to a normally constituted mind. ... It contains some true sentiment and wise conclusions, but, great as are the faults of the present social system, it is more coherent, and certainly, less offensive to good taste than would be a society made up of Johns and Joans.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:155 Ap 15 ‘17 270w
=HAMILTON, COSMO.= Scandal. il *$1.50 (1½c) Little 17-23982
“Beatrix Vanderdyke was extraordinary rich, extraordinarily beautiful, extraordinarily charming, and extraordinarily foolish. ... Her habit of making night time visits to the studio of a rather vulgar portrait painter ... resulted in scandal. Beatrix’s family threatened her with banishment to a cottage in Maine, and to save herself from losing a New York season she declared that she had been secretly married to one of her acquaintances. This gentleman, being a good sport, accepted the challenge and determined to tame the willful Beatrix for the good of her soul. Follows the course of events to be expected in a novel beginning with this kind of a situation, including the usual bedroom scene and ending with the happy conclusion which the reader has long known was sure to come. In the meanwhile there is plenty of sparring between the hero and the more or less unclad heroine, a lady of doubtful antecedents endeavors to intervene, and an obliging fog undertakes the rôle of deus ex machina.”—N Y Times
“There is none of the preaching here which was to be found in ‘The blindness of virtue’ and which the title suggests we may be going to find. It is wholly an entertaining story with those touches of the unconventional with which Mr Hamilton knows so well how to deal.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 26 ‘17 550w
“Need be taken no more seriously than the fashion-plates in a popular magazine. ... Those having a taste for the sort of stories usually told over the cigars, after the women have left the room, will enjoy this bit of journalese.”
– — =Dial= 63:354 O 11 ‘17 140w
“The novel has one character, Beatrix’s English companion, who is really quite like a human being.”
– — =N Y Times= 22:349 S 16 ‘17 270w
“Mr Hamilton fails to make his American characters convincing, but in the case of his heroine’s English duenna from Clapham he is more successful.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 23 ‘17 270w
=HAMILTON, LORD ERNEST WILLIAM.= Soul of Ulster. *$1.25 Dutton 941.5 17-14524
“This volume by the author of ‘The first seven divisions’ is a concise history of Ulster as it affects the Irish question. Lord Ernest Hamilton shows what, in his opinion, is at the back of the demand for Home rule, and what would happen if it were granted.” (Ath) “The book falls into three parts—an historical retrospect, a survey of the situation at the present day, and a forecast of the future possibilities inherent in the Sinn Fein movement. The Ulster question treated historically is, in his view, bound up with the general ethics of colonization. ... Lord Ernest Hamilton writes as the advocate and champion of the Ulster Protestant colonist and the British garrison, and one may search his pages in vain for any indication of the emergence of the type of Young Ulsterman sketched in Mr St John Ervine’s book.” (Spec)
=A L A Bkl= 14:53 N ‘17
=Ath= p257 My ‘17 50w
“Lord Ernest possesses the pen of a ready writer, and is able to retain the reader’s interest from cover to cover. ... He writes from the point of view of the Ulster Unionist, and of his sincerity there can be no doubt. But his judgment and better feelings appear to have been warped by fear, so much so that his conception of Irish character is too black to be credited. ... ‘The soul of Ulster’ deserves to be read as a strong presentation of the Unionist case. Before difficulties can be overcome, they must be clearly seen. Lord Ernest Hamilton’s book skilfully indicates the difficulties of the Ulster problem.”
+ — =Ath= p344 Jl ‘17 750w
“Of that Irish and Catholic half of Ulster, Mr Hamilton knows nothing—or at best, only the worst! Prejudice and bigotry speak from his every page.”
– — =Cath World= 105:826 S ‘17 600w
“Of course ‘The Soul of Ulster’ is no more dispassionate than any Sinn Feiner argument. But it is well for us interested onlookers to see the other side of the perennial Irish question.”
+ =Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 60w
“They do give to the reader who has time to go through them vivid understanding of the difficulties to be encountered by those who would settle Irish affairs. ... It may be also that perusal of such books will do further good in this country. ... It has been to small purpose that some informed neither by Tories abroad nor from newspapers of immigrants in New York have pointed out that England has changed, that whatever the sins of the past she is anxious now to do honorable justice, that of late she has made much amends, and is prevented from settling the whole question partly because of circumstances pertaining to Irishmen and beyond her control. The slight and transient and narrow writings which are appearing more frequently as two Irish parties set forth their cause will make it, no doubt, much easier for people to comprehend what these difficulties are.”
* =Nation= 105:149 Ag 9 ‘17 750w
“It is quite likely that a good many people who do not know nearly as much about Ulster as Lord Ernest Hamilton evidently does will suspect him of prejudice. At any rate, his convictions are very definite and downright and they are expressed with simplicity and force.”
=N Y Times= 22:246 Jl 1 ‘17 650w
“The great surprise of the book is the anticipation that the development of Sinn Feinism, of the origin and organization of which Lord Ernest Hamilton gives a very inadequate and perfunctory account, may provide a solution of the Irish question by its refusal to recognize a standardized religion, and by the consequent fusion of the races by intermarriage. ... His curious book is not conceived or executed in a judicial spirit, though it contains many wholesome truths and much sane criticism.”
=Spec= 118:541 My 12 ‘17 1450w
“Ordinarily we in the United States hear only one side of the Irish question. The other side of the picture is vividly, yet fairly, presented by Ernest W. Hamilton.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 30 ‘17 350w
“Considering the vastness of the literature on Ireland, there is a remarkable dearth of books interpreting the viewpoint of Ulster. Captain Hamilton though he does not perform this service in any scientific spirit and does not assume a judicial attitude which could not be genuine, yet gives us valuable insight into the philosophy of his former constituents by rewriting Irish history as they see it.” Bruno Lasker
+ — =Survey= 38:548 S 22 ‘17 500w
“His book should be read by those who wish to get at a true comprehension of the uncompromising Ulsterman. Lord Ernest Hamilton, who was for some years M. P. for North Tyrone, is also the author of ‘The first seven divisions,’ and he writes lucidly and forcibly.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p167 Ap 5 ‘17 420w
=HAMILTON, LORD GEORGE FRANCIS.= Parliamentary reminiscences and reflections, 1868 to 1885. *$4 Dutton (Eng ed 17-12869)
“Lord George Hamilton was of the House of commons from 1868 to 1906. As son of the Duke of Abercorn, at one time lord-lieutenant of Ireland, he was of the governing class, a fact which accounts for the early age at which a place was found for him in the Disraeli administration of 1874-1880. He was then appointed under-secretary for India, with Salisbury as his chief. In 1878-1880 he was vice-president of the committee of council, practically minister for education. In the short-lived Conservative administration of 1885-1886 he was first lord of the admiralty. He resumed this office when the Unionist administration was formed in 1886, and held it until the Liberals came into power in 1892. From 1895 to 1903, when he retired from the cabinet, he was secretary for India. Only the years from 1868 to 1885 are covered by these reminiscences.”—Am Hist R
“For half a dozen reasons they are likely to be of service to students of British politics of the two decades that preceded the realignment of parties after 1886, when Gladstone had committed the Liberal party to Home rule for Ireland. ... Hamilton went to the India office in 1874, and in detailing his work there as under-secretary, he has written one of the best descriptions of the work of the office, and of its organization, that has ever been embodied in English political memoirs. One other value in these reminiscences has yet to be mentioned. There is more than once in these pages the most sweeping and strongly-worded indictment that has been written or uttered of the Manchester school of politics by any man in the front rank of English political life.” E: Porritt
+ =Am Hist R= 22:855 Jl ‘17 800w
“The author’s attitude is in strong opposition, to the ‘pacificist or Manchester school of politicians’; and conscientious objectors to military service receive small mercy at Lord George Hamilton’s hands. Indeed, there is a good deal of hard hitting in the book.”
=Ath= p50 Ja ‘17 130w
“Lord George is of the type of English public men who are dogged hard workers, and, no doubt, useful servants of the state, but who are little gifted with the pen, which they hold in a heavy hand. And these notes of events during twenty years of parliamentary experience contain little that is novel or exhilarating. ... Many personal characterizations occur in his pages, but few of them are penetrating or enlivening.”
— =Nation= 105:44 Jl 12 ‘17 370w
“One feature of these pages that calls for comment is that Disraeli appears throughout in a softened and unusually advantageous light, an accessible and kindly figure.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:368 S 30 ‘17 600w
=R of Rs= 56:328 S ‘17 50w
“This book is disappointing. ... The historical chapters are a languid rechauffé of events which are, perhaps, too near for historical treatment, but which need not be (as they are) dull. ... Of personal anecdotes or intimate descriptions of Lord George Hamilton’s colleagues—Disraeli, Northcote, Hardy, Beach, Salisbury, Churchill—there are none. ... The really valuable chapter in the book is the last but one, in which Lord George Hamilton tells us of his doings at the Admiralty as first lord.”
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“The book is just what such a book should be; it is full of a simple and mellow wisdom; there is not an idea in it that is not practical and rational; and the political ideas are reinforced or illustrated by a flow of anecdotes which are in themselves a delightful entertainment.”
+ =Spec= 118:136 F 3 ‘17 1950w
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p597 D 14 ‘16 2000w
=HAMILTON, JOSEPH GRÉGOIRE DE ROULHAC, and HAMILTON, MARY THOMPSON (MRS J. G. DE R. HAMILTON).= Life of Robert E. Lee; for boys and girls. il *$1.25 (2½c) Houghton 17-28464
“This book is written with the hope that through it the life and character of Lee may become more real to the generation of young Americans growing up.” (Preface) The authors express the further hope that the book may, by making clearer the purity of motive of Lee and those he represented, hasten the day when all sectional bitterness shall have disappeared. Among the books on which the authors have drawn as sources are: Jones’s “Life and letters of General Robert E. Lee”; “Recollections and letters of General Lee,” by R. E. Lee, jr.; and Bradford’s “Lee, the American.” There are four illustrations and an index.
“A wholesome book for reading by northern children.” J: Walcott
+ =Bookm= 46:496 D ‘17 50w
+ =Cath World= 106:694 F ‘18 150w
“Full of Civil war incidents told from an unbiased standpoint. The character and outlook of the Confederate leader as presented here will appeal to young people.”
+ =Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 40w
“Gen. Lee now belongs to the nation at large, not simply to the South, and the authors have written an enthusiastic as well as historically sound life of their hero. The book should be welcomed by young people all over the country, but it will be quite as interesting to many ‘grown-ups’ as well.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 150w
=HAMILTON, ROBERT W.= Belinda of the Red cross. il *$1.25 (2c) Sully & Kleinteich 17-24969
“The heroine, born in America, is the granddaughter on one side of French and on the other of German ancestors. ... At the beginning of the story she is taking a nurse’s training in a big New York hospital in which one of the surgeons is a famous German, resident for ten years in this country. As she nears the end of her course of training a young aviator who has had a fall and smashed one shoulder is brought in. ... He is Belinda’s last patient, and they find each other mutually interesting. After graduation she decides to join the Red cross service in France, and the young aviator, although neither knows the other’s purpose, goes over to offer his services to the French army. ... Belinda works in the field hospitals and the aviator crosses the battle lines and finally they are both caught by the enemy. ... The two German cousins of Belinda play an important part in the action.”—N Y Times
“A thrilling war story.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:372 S 30 ‘17 280w
“The incidents are highly improbable. The narrative may be found entertaining if the reader is not in a critical mood.”
=Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 180w
=HAMMER, SIMON CHRISTIAN.= William the Second. *$1.50 Houghton 17-26781
“The present volume is an English attempt at a calm, clear-cut analysis of the imperial psychology as disclosed by numerous speeches and contemporary German writings.”—R of Rs
“Author is an Englishman and his remarks are tinged with prejudice.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:53 N ‘17
“Mr Hammer’s picture of the Kaiser will never win him a German decoration, but it bears more of the earmarks of truth than those we are accustomed to.” C. H. P. Thurston
+ =Bookm= 46:290 N ‘17 40w
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 24 ‘17 280w
=Outlook= 117:142 S 26 ‘17 90w
=Pittsburgh= 22:745 N ‘17 70w
=R of Rs= 56:439 O ‘17 100w
=HAMMOND, JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON, and HAMMOND, BARBARA (BRADBY) (MRS JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON HAMMOND).= Town labourer, 1760-1832; the new civilisation. *$3.50 (3c) Longmans 330.9 17-22687
This volume is the first part of a study of the industrial revolution. It attempts to describe the general features of the new civilization, to picture the effect of the great social change which took place between 1780 and 1832 on the lives of the English working-class, and which turned them, according to the authors, into the “cannon-fodder of industry.” About half of the chapters deal with the material surroundings of “the new civilisation”—the “new town,” the conditions in mill, mine, and workshop, the administration of justice, the war on trade unions, the employment of children, etc., and the remainder “with the psychological conditions that resulted from them.” A table of dates and a list of chief authorities are appended. A second volume is to follow which “will give in detail the history of the work-people in various industries, with a full account of the disturbances known as the Luddite rising, and of those connected with the adventures of Oliver, the famous ‘agent provocateur.’” (Preface)
=A L A Bkl= 14:75 D ‘17
“An arresting and appalling picture.”
+ =Ath= p407 Ag ‘17 520w
“In their feeling for class attitudes, for the rationalizations that accompany the economic war, for the sinister manipulation of government by capital, the Hammonds have an intellectual tool which should be in the hands of every one who tries to write of this modern industrial era.” Randolph Bourne
+ =Dial= 63:642 D 20 ‘17 630w
“It is a book to be read by all who are concerned with present labour problems, and conditions of industrial life; for a full understanding of the purgatorial experiences of the working class in the critical years of this great social change is a key to its attitude to-day. The working class, like an oppressed nationality, has its memories.” M. J.
+ =Int J Ethics= 28:281 Ja ‘18 550w
“This book is valuable as an indisputable record of facts, unpleasant enough to our national self-satisfaction—our besetting sin, as Matthew Arnold declared. It would have been more valuable but for the obvious political bias of its authors, who skilfully heap the blame on the back of the Tory party. In truth, the aristocratic Whigs and the Nonconformist manufacturers and tradesmen were just as much to blame as the Tory government for the state of labour in the pre-reform era. ... This is not a mere squalid story of slum misery: it is not a sensational ‘film,’ striking the eyes and ‘gingering’ the emotion, but leaving the intellect unstirred. This tale of trouble sets one on inquiries innumerable, psychological, spiritual, moral, economic, political.”
* + + =Sat R= 124:169 S 1 ‘17 2250w
“The book is pleasant to read because of its literary art and mastery; the subject-matter is extremely gloomy. The misery admits of no denial, but we are not persuaded that Mr and Mrs Hammond have given the right values to the various causes when they enter upon explanations. There is something in the temper in which they write which strikes us as mistaken. ... But we must not express our partial agreement with their spirit at the expense of saying too little about the admirable skill and clearness with which they have presented their facts. They have written the best description of the conditions of the time that we have ever read.”
+ — =Spec= 119:60 Jl 21 ‘17 1550w
“Though the writing of social and industrial history in England has in recent years been carried to a very high point of literary accomplishment combined with careful use of original sources and sound interpretation by such writers as Gilbert Slater, the Webbs, and others, there has been no similar publication so vividly describing this vital period of change. ... In almost every chapter of Mr and Mrs Hammond’s work are lessons of our time. The attitude towards ‘the poor,’ for instance, was in many respects similar to that yet taken in this country towards the negro. The procedure in the case of strikes often seems to have resembled that now frequently in vogue to meet the real or imagined danger of the I. W. W.” Bruno Lasker
+ =Survey= 39:200 N 24 ‘17 1250w
“A companion volume to the important work which the authors published in 1911 on the ‘Village labourer’ during the same period.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p324 Jl 5 ‘17 50w
“A book that should be read by all who are concerned, however indirectly, with what is called ‘the labour problem.’ The story of the Industrial revolution has been told before, but the story of the Social revolution which accompanied it, has never yet received adequate treatment. ... The authors have helped towards a better understanding not only of the early nineteenth century but of some of the most obstinate problems of today.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p339 Jl 19 ‘17 1900w
=HAMMOND, MELVIN ORMOND.= Canadian confederation and its leaders. il *$2.50 (3½c) Doran 971 18-2512
Canadian confederation was perfected in 1867 and has now known a half century of history. It has seemed a fitting time therefore “to examine the part played by the leaders of that great day in the various provinces in bringing about the union.” This has been the object of the author, who has brought together studies of seventeen men, among them Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Oliver Mowat, William McDougall, Sir Alexander T. Galt, Sir George E. Cartier, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Sir Charles Tupper, and others. The choice has been not wholly limited to those who worked for federation. Leaders of the opposition have been included. The book has an introductory chapter, Before confederation, and a closing chapter, Rounding out confederation, and ends with bibliography and index.
“Our author gives a close and searching analysis of the character and personality of each of his subjects.” H. S. K.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 3 ‘17 750w
=Ind= 92:256 N 3 ‘17 40w
+ =R of Rs= 57:104 Ja ‘18 60w
=HANCOCK, HARRIE IRVING.= Physical training for business men; basic rules and simple exercises for gaining assured control of the physical self. il *$1.75 (5½c) Putnam 613.7 17-25762
The man who sits at his desk all day and feels stale at night will find in these pages concise instructions for livening up. The exercises outlined are an antidote for physical slovenliness and mental dulness. They are simple leg, arm, trunk and head movements designed to produce in a short space of time poise, alertness, power. Illustrations of the model performances are from photographs which represent the nearest approach possible to a moving picture on a single plate and are, in consequence, easily followed.
“The plain, common-sense general advice and comment is of great value to any man or woman, and would add to efficiency.”
+ =Dial= 63:466 N 8 ‘17 100w
“Books on physical training are either manuals which most people will open only on doctor’s orders, or they are made more readable with the help of a good deal of matter not strictly relevant. The present volume is of the latter variety; it may be added that its ‘padding’ is interesting and contains many shrewd observations. A. B. Phelan’s synthetic photographs may be clever, but on the whole the diagrammatic illustrations of the old handbooks were easier to understand.” B. L.
+ — =Survey= 39:447 Ja 19 ‘18 330w
=HANDY, AMY LITTLEFIELD.= War food. il *75c (14c) Houghton 664 17-21110
Miss Handy describes practical and economical methods of keeping vegetables, fruits and meats, and urges the importance of preserving and storing perishable food. There is a chapter on “Canning without sugar.” The author hopes that the recipes will prove helpful to those who are trying to carry out Mr Hoover’s instructions.
“Miss Handy is explicit in her directions, which cover, we believe, a very wide field of possibilities in canning.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 110w
“A good little book to own.”
+ =Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 30w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p8 Jl ‘17 20w
“And it is a most valuable book. In the tersest and most practical fashion it sets forth the methods of drying, evaporating, canning, salting, and picking various articles, with special directions for each. And these methods are inexpensive.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:395 O 14 ‘17 480w
=Pittsburgh= 22:668 O ‘17
=Pratt= p26 O ‘17 10w
=Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 90w
+ =R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 60w
=HANKEY, DONALD WILLIAM ALERS (STUDENT IN ARMS, pseud.).= Student in arms. *$1.50 (4c) Dutton 940.91 E17-249
A series of articles written at the front and first printed in the Spectator and the Westminster Gazette. They differ from many other accounts written on the firing line in that they are thoughtful and speculative rather than anecdotal and descriptive. The author writes of: “Kitchener’s army”; An experiment in democracy; Discipline and leadership; The religion of the inarticulate; The army and the universities: a study of educational values, etc. There is an introduction by J. St. Loe Strachey, editor of the Spectator.
“The author was killed in action in October, 1916.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:345 My ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ‘17 750w
“His interpretation limited to some slight degree by its immaturity, is so sweet with the highest spiritual idealism that the reader pauses and marvels.”
+ =Cath World= 105:544 Jl ‘17 220w
“The author treats the subject in a matter-of-fact way, which, by its very rarity, becomes effective.”
+ =Dial= 62:532 Je 14 ‘17 130w
+ =Ind= 90:381 My 26 ‘17 40w
“Desperately sincere, openly the product of brave and unsophisticated youth. It is with a sort of reverence that one finishes a book so thoroughly imbued with the most promising of human tendencies, the wish to be justified on a constructive instead of on a destructive basis.” S. K. Toksvig
=New Repub= 10:sup18 Ap 21 ‘17 850w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:155 O ‘16
+ =N Y Times= 22:78 Mr 4 ‘17 350w
“Where his book is novel is in its sincere and always thoughtful exposition of the philosophy and religion of the trenches, and the changes needed for effective Christianity at home.”
+ =Sat R= 121:sup2 Je 24 ‘16 300w
+ =Spec= 116:722 Je 10 ‘16 1200w
“A book of high spiritual idealism as well as a vivid picture of life in the trenches of Flanders.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 16 ‘17 200w
“The war has given us no other book like this. It is worthy to stand beside Rupert Brooke’s sonnets as an expression of the spiritual attitude of England’s educated and gifted young men.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:123 Ap ‘17 60w
=HANKEY, DONALD WILLIAM ALERS (STUDENT IN ARMS, pseud.).= Student in arms: second series; with an introd. by J. St Loe Strachey. il *$1.50 (5½c) Dutton 17-17623
This collection of sketches, conversations and essays suggested by the war, written, with three exceptions, in France in 1916, were for the most part first printed in the Spectator. “The potentate,” written for the original volume of “A student in arms,” but not published on account of its likeness in subject to Barrie’s “Der tag,” is included here, as is also the essay entitled “Don’t worry.” In addition to these, the new volume contains a good deal of biographical matter: a sketch by Miss Hankey, the author’s sister, entitled “Something about ‘A student in arms’”; a fragment of autobiography entitled “My home and school,” and some notes on the autobiography.
=A L A Bkl= 14:20 O ‘17
“Like the first series, these sketches are the expression of a forthright idealism and give a version of the hopes, fears and beliefs of the men in the trenches, evidently not heightened for literary or humorous effect.”
+ =Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 80w
+ =Dial= 63:213 S 13 ‘17 270w
“The various papers, are not, it must be confessed, of permanent value as literature, but the total impression of this output by a young man of thirty-two, who died leading a charge which gained a few yards of trenches, is of the immense and irretrievable waste of war.”
+ — =Nation= 105:375 O 4 ‘17 260w
“We can’t measure, even approximately, how much ‘good’ these works will do, but we unhesitatingly affirm that they are exceedingly well worth reading.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p14 Ag 19 ‘17 650w
“The general level of the book is not so high as was that of the first, but, nevertheless, it contains some very good things that are well worth reading. Moreover, in the first volume and also in this Donald Hankey revealed himself a personality so interesting and so lovable that the opportunity this ‘Second series’ gives to make acquaintance with the man behind the book will be welcomed.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:295 Ag 12 ‘17 450w
=Pittsburgh= 22:762 N ‘17 50w
“Here we shall prefer to dwell upon the fragments of biography and autobiography. The first thing we have to say is that, though they are so slight, they paint the true ‘Student in arms,’ and show how his life enforced the lessons of his writing. ... No one was ever less of a prig.”
+ =Spec= 118:589 My 26 ‘17 1750w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 20 ‘17 200w
“From Rugby he went to Woolwich; spent six years in the artillery; and retired with a view to entering the church after passing through Oxford. He never actually took orders, but shared the lives of the poor by making his home in Bermondsey, travelling steerage, and enlisting as a private when the war broke out. Thus he came to know the men in the ranks from within, without being so closely identified with them as not to recognize their idiosyncrasies as such. This may be one reason why his weary ‘Tommies’ are not in the least like the epigrammatic comedians of the picturesque writers.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p236 My 17 ‘17 880w
=HANNAY, DAVID.= Diaz. il *$2 (2c) Holt (Eng ed 17-26317)
Two opinions exist regarding Porfirio Diaz: He was a great man and a beneficent ruler; he was an unmitigated tyrant and a curse to the country he ruled. The fact that he is included among the “Makers of the nineteenth century” indicates the attitude taken toward him in this book. The general editor, Basil Williams, says in his preface: “He is worthy of note by the student of the nineteenth century, since he brought his country to a more respectable prominence and to greater prosperity than it had enjoyed since its original conquest by the Spaniards.” The author says in conclusion: “He showed the world what was the utmost that his country was capable of doing in order to qualify itself to take its place among civilised and progressive states.” Mr Hannay is an English journalist and author of “The navy and sea-power.”
“Mr Hannay appears to be a man of talents, candor, and good sense, and his book, in addition to being readable, is worth reading; but it can hardly be described as well-proportioned, scholarly, or sound. ... As might be inferred, the author’s ‘bibliography’ is meagre and his index inadequate.” J. H. Smith
– + =Am Hist R= 22:890 Jl ‘17 670w
“An authoritative, popular account.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:352 My ‘17
“Mr Hannay’s narrative is animated, and well worth reading.”
+ =Ath= p418 Ag ‘17 130w
=Boston Transcript= p8 F 14 ‘17 700w
“It is somewhat tedious and involved; the subject with its fascinating material, could have been made more interesting reading by one whose writing had more of the true charm of a real biographer.”
+ — =Cath World= 105:265 My ‘17 450w
+ =Dial= 63:279 S 27 ‘17 400w
“No dry and superficial statement of facts, but a most readable and enlightening story of Mexico and its people from 1854.”
+ =Ind= 90:257 My 5 ‘17 30w
=Lit D= 54:1080 Ap 14 ‘17 400w
“Mr Hannay has treated his interesting hero with a suitably light touch. He neither eulogizes nor condemns him. He presents facts of population and political development with the insight and sympathy of one who is thoroughly familiar with the winning as well as the repellent side of Spanish-America. Thus he frames Diaz in a Mexican frame, and not, as too many authors are inclined to do, in an American or European frame.”
+ =Nation= 105:461 O 25 ‘17 780w
“Commendable book which might be called ‘A political history of Mexico in the time of Diaz.’”
+ =Outlook= 115:711 Ap 18 ‘17 100w
+ =R of Rs= 55:442 Ap ‘17 90w
=St Louis= 15:153 My ‘17
“How was it that Diaz, alone of all Mexican presidents, contrived to retain power for so long? This is the most interesting question raised by his career, and Mr Hannay answers it somewhat fully.”
+ =Spec= 119:190 Ag 25 ‘17 1600w
“A most scholarly and interesting book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 600w
“But the interest of this volume at the present time is by no means confined to the light it throws on Mexican conditions from the narrow point of view of anxious investors. This brings us to the main lesson of the history of Mexico and of the career of Diaz for the present generation. It should prove a wholesome corrective to those who believe that the world-war is going to be followed by the millennium and that in that blessed word democracy there has been discovered a universal formula for the perfecting of the world’s order.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p327 Jl 12 ‘17 1900w
=HANSCOM, ELIZABETH DEERING=, ed. Heart of the Puritan. il *$1.50 (2½c) Macmillan 974 17-29768
The writer takes exception with Mr George Edward Woodberry who has written “The heart of the Puritan is a closed book.” Miss Hanscom, professor of English at Smith college, has delved into many dusty tomes for material that refutes Mr Woodberry’s contention. She has brought together here excerpts from the letters and journals of Puritans and grouped them under the headings; Of the coming of godly men to these parts; Of Boston; Of affairs domestic and personal; Of matrimony; Of education; Of Indians; Of trade; Of travel; Of holidays; Of episcopacy; Of churches; Of prophecies and warnings; Of witchcraft, and Cor cordium. A valuable aid to the study of history and literature as well as to a study of religious temper in colonial times.
=A L A Bkl= 14:121 Ja ‘18
“Miss Hanscom herself is something of a wit, as is shown by her ‘Praefatio’ and headings; we wish she had been pedant enough to have given the exact provenance of all her extracts. Such an appendix would not have marred her book, but would have added to its interest. Apart from that blemish, the book is excellent. It would be well if some of our smart youths who speak so patronizingly of the Puritans would read this volume of letters, and mark and inwardly digest.”
+ — =Nation= 105:697 D 20 ‘17 160w
“With loving care and a scholar’s sense of accuracy and fitness, Miss Hanscom has preserved the spellings of an age that scorned the arts of spelling, and the abbreviations with which that age larded its written discourse. She has supplied chapter and page headings that pique the reader’s curiosity. Her preface is delightfully self-effacing and appreciative; in fact, the editor’s touch throughout the volume is gracious and good-humoredly keen. The book is meant for reading (in spite of the difficult spellings) and very good reading it makes. Much of Miss Hanscom’s book is in light vein, but it all tends to inculcate that tolerant and respectful view of our New England past of which we are much in need.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 19 ‘17 990w
=HANSHEW, THOMAS W. (CHARLOTTE MAY KINGSLEY, pseud.).= Cleek’s government cases. il *$1.35 (1½c) Doubleday 17-5982
“Cleek of Scotland Yard,” “The riddle of the night,” and “Cleek, the man of the forty faces” are stories that have preceded this. Like the others, this one is made up of distinct episodes in which Cleek, the one time crook, now a detective, displays his skill, but there is a thread of narrative binding the whole together. In the first chapter Cleek finds that his old enemies, the Apaches, are still on his track. He is kidnapped, and after his rescue by his friend, Narkom of Scotland Yard, says, “This is but the first throw of the dice, old friend. ... This is but the beginning; the end, who shall say?”
“Mr Hanshew never lets the plot grow stale, and he does not leave his readers for even a few moments without excitement.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ‘17 150w
“Lovers of detective stories will find a good deal of entertainment in this new volume which tells of ‘Cleek’s government cases.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:115 Ap 1 ‘17 330w
“The book compares unfavorably with the Cleek stories published heretofore.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 130w
=HARBEN, WILLIAM NATHANIEL (WILL N., pseud.).= Triumph. il *$1.40 (1c) Harper 17-22297
“Two brothers form the central pivot of ‘The triumph,’ and one of them has made himself despised by his neighbors because he does not hold the conventional southern view of slavery. Andrew Merlin lives in the little town of Delbridge; his brother Thomas has a plantation some ten miles away and owns many slaves. Because of their opposing opinions, the brothers drift apart, and into Andrew’s immediate family trouble comes, for his wife and son feel keenly the ostracism to which they are subjected, while his daughter Anne is wholly on her father’s side. The war comes, Georgia is up in arms, Thomas Merlin enlists and becomes a Confederate brigadier general, but Andrew, because of his Union sympathies, and especially because he dares to free a slave who has been forced into his hand to pay a debt, is beset on all sides. He is forced to flee for his life, is overtaken by a band of Confederate bushwhackers, and succeeds in saving his life by a ruse. Enlisting in the Union army, he returns home before the end of the war, and by his injudicious behavior only succeeds in making himself more despised than ever.”—Boston Transcript
“It cannot be said that Mr Harben’s aristocrats are as ‘convincing’ as his commonalty; Anne Merlin and Arthur Preston are a singularly wooden pair of leading juveniles.” H. W. Boynton
+ — =Bookm= 46:207 O ‘17 420w
“Mr Harben’s pages contain more accurate knowledge of Georgia men and women, of the Georgia ways of living, of the Georgia passions, than could be revealed in a thousand formal historical narratives. ... In ‘The triumph’ Mr Harben goes back to the Civil war period. Many novels have been written about that era, but few of them have the strong equipoise that dominates its plot and its characters. It is a plea for neither side, it contains nothing of the polemic, it merely seeks to present life as Mr Harben found it in his native state during some five years of the strongest social, moral and political upheaval that could overwhelm a stricken people. ... Something of these Georgians is wholly of Georgia, but something is purely American, and something in them is akin to the peasant character of any country. They are spiritually of the same stuff as the denizens of Hardy’s Wessex, of Phillpotts’ Dartmoor or of Miss Jewett’s New England.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 5 ‘17 1550w
“He really has a good point to make, and he makes it in spite of the commonplace melodrama to which his plot lends itself.”
+ — =Dial= 63:402 O 25 ‘17 150w
“In withdrawing to the Civil war period, Mr Harben has abandoned that main asset of his and Mr Howells’s sort of realism, the thing seen and known at first hand. In consequence, he has not worked freely or spontaneously, and his product is too plainly a made affair. ... The ‘love-interest’ is of the most perfunctory sort.”
— =Nation= 105:316 S 20 ‘17 460w
“Mr Harben’s new novel contains many of the elements that make for real greatness.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:326 S 2 ‘17 580w
=HARDING, ALICE (MRS EDWARD HARDING).= Book of the peony. il *$6 (18c) Lippincott 716 17-13093
This is said to be the first book published on peony culture. It is made up of chapters on: An appreciation of the peony; The mythology, ancient and modern history of the peony; Best varieties and their characteristics; Extending the period of bloom; Purchasing; Where to plant and how to prepare the soil; Planting and cultivation; Propagation; The tree peony—description and history; Tree peonies: cultivation, propagation and best varieties; Various species of the peony. A valuable feature of the book is the “main list” of 125 varieties recommended for garden culture, with supplementary lists based on color. Twenty of the illustrations are in color and there are a number of good half-tone plates in addition.
“The format of this, the first book ever devoted to peonies alone, demands appreciation. Covers and typing are distinctive. While the many illustrations in color and in black-and-white, from photographs of peonies in various noted private gardens of the United States, are of a rare beauty vision alone can adequately disclose.” F. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 18 ‘17 500w
=Cleveland= p113 S ‘17 60w
“Although a large bibliography on the peony is given, no other volume yet published appears to be so complete as this one. ... The two chapters on tree peonies present material new to many gardeners, and Professor H. H. Whetzel’s discussion of ‘Diseases of the peony’ represents the latest research.”
+ =Dial= 62:486 My 31 ‘17 180w
“Should help all flower-lovers to use it for landscape as well as floral value.”
+ =Lit D= 55:37 S 22 ‘17 160w
+ =N Y Times= 22:191 My 13 ‘17 130w
+ =Outlook= 115:711 Ap 18 ‘17 30w
“There is much sound advice for the amateur in the chapter on Purchasing. ... All of the practical chapters of the book are valuable because drawn from the personal experience of the author. It is a beautiful book and a distinct addition to gardening literature.” M. K. Reely
+ =Pub W= 91:1325 Ap 21 ‘17 350w
+ =R of Rs= 55:664 Je ‘17 170w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 27 ‘17 500w
=HARDING, LOUIS ALLEN, and WILLARD, ARTHUR CUTTS.= Mechanical equipment of buildings; a reference book for engineers and architects. 3v v 2 il *$5 Wiley 690
=v 2= Power plants and refrigeration.
“The first volume of this important series was published a few months ago and dealt with the subject of heating and ventilation. The second volume, dealing exhaustively with steam plants and ice and refrigeration machinery, contains a large amount of theoretical and commercial data and discussions of their practical applications.” (N Y P L New Tech Bks) “In order to make the volume more complete, several of the chapters appearing in volume 1 have been reprinted, including the chapters on Heat; Water, steam and air; and Fuels and combustion.” (Heating and Ventilating Magazine)
“As a reference book and a textbook for students it should be most valuable. The free use of manufacturers’ data adds much to the usefulness of this volume. ... There are several forms of boilers largely used by heating engineers not referred to in this volume or the preceding one.” D. D. Kimball
+ — =Engin News-Rec= 79:130 Jl 19 ‘17 220w
“Special mention should be made of the chapter on ‘Chimneys for power boilers’ which is remarkably complete, and also the chapter on ‘Power plant piping.’”
+ =Heating and Ventilating Magazine= 14:51 Jl ‘17 350w
“Unusually well illustrated with line drawings and charts. Many practical problems are solved step by step.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p12 Jl ‘17 70w
“The authors will probably find that in the next printing it would be well to elaborate more upon the index. The excellent character of the book warrants doing so.”
+ — =Power= 46:238 Ag 14 ‘17 770w
=HARDING, MRS RUTH GUTHRIE.= Lark went singing, and other poems; with an introd. by R: Burton. *$1 E. D. Brooks, Minneapolis, Minn. 811 16-24958
“This exquisite little volume of lyrics we owe to the gardening sympathies of Richard Burton. Anyone who noted, some years ago, the little slips of song by Ruth Guthrie Harding, rooted here and there in a magazine page, and had the power of discernment, knew they sprung from the seeds of poetry. There they might have withered and died; but this gardener came along and cultivated an indisputable gift of beauty and joy.”—Boston Transcript
“The quality is wistful, almost evanescent in the embodiment of simple moods and themes.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Bookm= 45:433 Je ‘17 210w
“Here is the whole poetic temperament in this poet, transmitting all that it touches. Every first and last dream, impression, mood, makes you aware of loveliness and nothing but loveliness. This does not mean that experience does not come into the poet’s recognition of life and reality, but coming naked she sends it forth clothed with fabrics of spiritual weaving. And this is recognized all the more deeply because of the intense lyrical note which is one of Mrs Harding’s most distinctive gifts as a poet.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 23 ‘16 850w
“A poet of true promise.” O. W. Firkins
+ =Nation= 104:523 My 3 ‘17 240w
=HARDING, SIDNEY TWITCHELL.=[2] Operation and maintenance of irrigation systems. il *$2.50 McGraw 631 17-22587
“This book is a compilation of the fundamental principles and representative methods of the operation and maintenance of irrigation systems in the United States. ... In the first chapter the subject of general maintenance is treated extensively. ... In the second chapter the relative serviceability, length of life and needful precautionary measures in the maintenance of wooden, steel and concrete structures are discussed. ... The third chapter is given to the problem of organization, outlining and suggesting appropriate plans for systems of varying sizes and conditions based upon experiences so far available. The methods of delivering irrigation water are treated fully in the fourth chapter. ... The measurement of irrigation water is treated exhaustively in the fifth chapter. ... A chapter of fourteen pages is devoted to rules and regulations. ... The proper apportionment of construction and operation charges receives thorough study and analysis, and the results are summarized in a concluding article. ... The eighth chapter is devoted to a brief discussion of miscellaneous phases of irrigation operations. ... At the close a short chapter is given to the subject of accounts.”—Engin News-Rec
“This book is timely and useful. It presents in concentrated form a large range of information not elsewhere compiled and of special value to the student of irrigation engineering. It covers much of great value to the engineer or manager charged with construction, as well as operation and betterment, of irrigation works.” Andrew Weiss
+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:938 N 15 ‘17 780w
“Practical rather than theoretical.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:756 N ‘17 30w
=HARDY, ARTHUR SHERBURNE.= No. 13, rue du Bon Diable. il *$1.35 (3½c) Houghton 17-28186
Mr Hardy has written a new kind of detective story, which begins by telling us just how M. Janvier was murdered, and keeps us intensely interested in the efforts of the detectives to arrive at a solution. M. Janvier is an old bachelor, devoted to his niece Corinne, for whom he has bought a pearl necklace as a birthday present, drawing 30,000 francs from the bank to pay for it. His murderer is finally discovered by M. Joly, the detective who figured in “Diane and her friends.”
“Very well written though not as absorbing as others by this author.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:131 Ja ‘18
“Mr Hardy’s detective story is unusual in many ways. There are actually human characters in it, and a swiftly woven texture of motives, and charming bits of color, local and otherwise. ... In the make-up of the volume there is displayed a feeling for the quality of the text that is seldom found in any but the more expensive books.”
+ =Dial= 63:597 D 6 ‘17 290w
“Mr Hardy’s style has the old distinction; his people are clear-cut as cameos; his psychology is never at fault.”
+ — =Ind= 92:385 N 24 ‘17 100w
“Mr Hardy’s new book differs from the general run of detective stories in that he makes no attempt to mystify or to mislead the reader, but takes him into his confidence at once. The idea is a good one and has some novelty, but one feels that it could have been developed more cleverly and greater ingenuity been shown in the complications.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:500 N 25 ‘17 250w
+ =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 20w
“The reader enjoys the skill with which the author creates the proper atmosphere for the affair and analyzes the psychology of the participants.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 250w
=HARDY, OSWALD HENRY.= In Greek seas, and other poems of travel. il *$1.25 Lane 821 17-23683
Things of the spirit cannot be stifled even by the war, the author of this handful of verse asserts. The poems have been written during busy years and they have served as “a refuge from the engrossing calls of official life, and have served to keep alive memories of inspiring travel and of the earlier days when the great ages of Greece and Rome supplied a constant background of dream and happy thought.” There are two war poems in the group.
“Fluent and pleasing, several of the shorter pieces, such as ‘A mountain pansy’ and ‘The mountain pine,’ merit attention; and some of the lines in the poem which gives its title to the volume, as well as in the verses upon ‘The tomb of Columbus in Seville cathedral,’ are noteworthy and impressive.”
+ =Ath= p469 S ‘17 120w
“In the sense that the author who has travelled much records in verse the scenes he has visited and the impressions made upon him, the poems are inspired, but the inspiration is not transformed by an essentially poetic spirit. The results would have been much better recorded in prose, for they strike no emotional register.”
— =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 300w
=HARE, CHRISTOPHER, pseud. (MRS MARIAN ANDREWS).= Great emperor: Charles V, 1519-1558. il *$3.50 Scribner 17-18588
“This latest biographer of the emperor whose abdication of the throne of Spain was forced in the middle sixteenth century has little except good to write of his subject. The devotion to pious ends and aims, the grief of his devoted family and friends, his benefactions to the church, are all set forth in admiration, while his military glories are fully recounted.”—Boston Transcript
=Boston Transcript= p7 My 12 ‘17 250w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:91 Je ‘17
“The story of Charles V., ... has long been recognized as full of fascination and wonder. Christopher Hare tells it with much historic detail, yet with a keen sense of its picturesque personal qualities, its romantic appeal. ... The book is readable and valuable for the ‘general public’ and for the student.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:197 My 20 ‘17 1450w
“Whatever his bias, our author has succeeded in seeing his subject clearly and seeing it whole; he marshals his facts with certainty and skill, and his narrative runs smoothly from the first page to the last. In all its main features the book is a meritorious piece of work, the result of study and sane enthusiasm; there are excellent chapters on the conquest of Mexico and Peru, and the two sketch maps at the beginning and end of the volume are helpful. Indeed, our only real ground of complaint is to be found in the fact that, with all his accumulated knowledge, Mr Hare does not appreciate the value of accuracy in minor matters.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p125 Mr 15 ‘17 950w
=HARE, WALTER BEN.=[2] White Christmas, and other merry Christmas plays. il 75c Denison 812 17-24880
“The white Christmas” is a morality play in one act. One of the other plays in the collection is a dramatization of Dickens’ “Christmas carol.” The author says, “In these little plays I have tried to bring before the public the two dominant characteristics of the ideal Christmas season, kindness, expressed by ‘good will toward men,’ and the inward joy wrought by kind acts. ... Some of the plays are filled with the spirit of fun and jollity that is always associated with Christmas merrymaking; in others I have tried to emphasize the spiritual blessings brought to the children of men on that first white Christmas night.” Both children and adults take part in the plays. They are meant to be acted and the necessary stage directions are provided.
“Mr Hare’s new volume of plays contains some amusement, but no superlative wit.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 270w
“They are ‘merry plays’ and the instructions for producing them are very complete.”
+ =Ind= 92:444 D 1 ‘17 30w
=HARGRAVE, JOHN.= At Suvla Bay. il *$1.50 Houghton 940.91 (Eng ed 17-1486)
“For the most part Mr Hargrave writes of the Dardanelles campaign. He enlisted as a private at the beginning of the war, going from an outdoor life spent mainly in sketching and writing, to the hardships of camp life. No one reading these notes could doubt that he has seen and experienced all of which he writes. ... The volume is liberally enlivened with the author’s delightful sketches of men and scenes.”—Boston Transcript
“Journalistic and conversational, told with a vivid sense of the picturesque, whether enjoying various types on the way or experiencing the horrors of the campaign itself.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:20 O ‘17
“Mr Hargrave is the author of ‘Lonecraft’ and is a well known scout master, and his work as a scout has made it impossible that he should come to campaigning with the lack of adaptability to conditions which hindered so many of the enlisted men. For this reason, his first chapters describing the hard conditions endured by the soldiers at the beginning of the war have unusual weight.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 320w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:57 Ap ‘17
=Pittsburgh= 22:426 My ‘17
=St Louis= 15:314 S ‘17
=HARKER, MRS LIZZIE ALLEN.= Jan and her job. il *$1.50 (3c) Scribner 17-10199
Janet Ross goes out to India at the call of her younger sister, Fay. Broken in health and deserted by a husband who has proved faithless to a trust, Fay, with two little children dependent on her, calls for Jan. Her death leaves the children in Jan’s charge. She takes them back to England and with the help of a young friend, who insists on acting as nursemaid in cap and apron, brings them up. In India Jan has met Peter Ledgard, and shortly after her departure, Peter finds that he needs a vacation and asks for six months’ leave. The captivating little nursemaid has a love affair too. The story comes to an end with August, 1914.
“Appeared in the Delineator as ‘Jan her work and love.’”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:354 My ‘17
“This capital story has vivacity, freshness, and humour.”
+ =Ath= p204 Ap ‘17 60w
+ =Ind= 90:594 Je 30 ‘17 60w
“A pleasant, conventional little story, easily and simply told.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:131 Ap 8 ‘17 220w
+ =Spec= 118:464 Ap 21 ‘17 430w
“The story does not depend on its plot. Its attractiveness lies in the portrayal of people who do their best to make the world a pleasanter place to live in. As little as possible is said about the disagreeable characters; the others are saved from insipidity by their foibles.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p128 Mr 15 ‘17 420w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 30w
=HARRIS, GARRARD.= Treasure of the land; how Alice won her way. il *$1.25 (1½c) Harper 17-22298
This story, by the author of “Joe, the book farmer,” tells how Alice Warren, a girl of seventeen, and her brother Henry, encouraged and helped by Miss Allen, the new district school teacher, transform the untidy farmhouse in which they live, learn to apply intelligence to the cultivation of the soil, and finally take prizes for their tomatoes and corn. Miss Allen sees that mere book study is almost valueless in such a farming community as that in which she is teaching, that the people “need first to be taught to live, to lighten the burdens upon themselves, and to give the women a chance.” She therefore interests the leading men in raising money for prizes, and gets government experts to organize the boy’s corn-club work and the tomato-club and canning work among the girls.
“An interesting, able novel, whose author shows unusual charm in telling a story and pointing an extremely delicate moral while so doing. He evidently knows life on dreary American farm lands and exactly how meagre is the outlook a girl has, who is brought up amid their desolation. Then too, Mr Harris writes excellent dialogue. It does stagger our intellect somewhat to read that the heroine has grown on one tenth of an acre, canned and sold as well, two thousand, one hundred and twenty-five tomatoes, in two pound cans, realizing eight cents per can.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 O 10 ‘17 350w
“Conveys a lesson of encouragement to the country girl who can see no prospect before her but a lifetime of drudgery, by showing what a scientific efficiency may accomplish when backed by earnest purpose.”
+ =Ind= 92:110 O 13 ‘17 50w
“Mr Harris’s practical story about what a few people were able to achieve in one small region in the Middle West ought to be a very great help to all earnest men and women and baffled young people who are trying to improve conditions in country districts.”
=N Y Times= 22:349 S 16 ‘17 250w
=HARRIS, H. WILSON.= President Wilson; his problems and his policy. il *$1.75 Stokes 18-3535
This book “has been written by [an Englishman] to interpret President Wilson and his measures to English readers. It was published in England just before our declaration of a state of war with Germany, but the recent American edition includes the author’s account of the circumstances leading to the rupture. The book is semi-biographic. The main facts of the President’s nativity and education, of his professional and literary life, are outlined by way of prelude to the larger purpose of exhibiting his acts and motives as a statesman. ... At the conclusion of his book Mr Harris reproduces the President’s address to the Senate on January 21, 1917, and his second inaugural.”—Bookm
=A L A Bkl= 14:24 O ‘17
“Clear and well-written.”
+ =Ath= p233 My ‘17 230w
+ =Ath= p257 My ‘17 120w
“A very compact, well-balanced book. ... The impersonal temper in which with expert brevity the author has aligned and appraised the acts and objects of the President’s domestic policy will be gratifying to his readers on this side. From his ability to look at both sides of a question with admirable disinterestedness, Mr Harris has approached a more complete standard of interpreting the President than Professor Ford [in his volume on Woodrow Wilson] has succeeded in doing.” L. E. Robinson
+ =Bookm= 46:201 O ‘17 2400w
“This volume is by an Englishman who says: ‘I cannot pretend to be entirely free from a certain pro-American bias, though I hope I have not allowed it to color what I have written.’ And it is true that the author is not so pro-American that he is blind to some of the blunders of his hero. American readers will find the book exceedingly interesting.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 15 ‘17 550w
“What may appeal to most Americans as a fundamental error is his assumption that Mr Wilson is primarily an initiating leader. ... To interpret the public will seems to be his chosen ideal for a leader of democracy. To write successfully the life of such a man requires an intimate knowledge of the politics and politicians of his time. This knowledge Mr Harris admittedly lacks. ... Upon international questions Mr Wilson spoke for the people, and his purposes rather than those of our people may be read in those utterances. Mr Harris’s exposition of Wilson as president of humanity—to use the phrase of a hostile critic—is therefore more accurate and illuminating than his well-intentioned but inadequate presentation of Wilson as president of the United States.” D. R. Richberg
+ — =Dial= 63:342 O 11 ‘17 970w
“He does understand and appreciate the importance of those parts of the country that are not on the Atlantic seaboard in the creation and molding of national life. He is one of the very few European writers upon this country who have sensed that fact. ... The book will interest Americans primarily because it gives so clear and well-defined a view, from an English standpoint, of President Wilson and of his political policies and leadership. But they may well find it worth reading also because of its unprejudiced and accurate presentation of American history for the last five years and its résumé of Mr Wilson’s life. For the author has aimed at neither eulogy nor interpretation. He has been satisfied to present his facts as they are, and to allow his readers to form their own judgment. And that is something that, perhaps, no American writer could do at this time.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:269 Jl 22 ‘17 1000w
=Spec= 118:517 My 5 ‘17 1800w
“An excellent short-order biography of Woodrow Wilson. But it is a book which any American of Mr Harris’s gifts and sympathies could have written. For the deeper illumination of ourselves, it is still necessary to go to Bryce.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 700w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p176 Ap 12 ‘17 780w
=HARRIS, WALTER STEWART.= Christian science and the ordinary man. *$1.50 Putnam 615.8 17-7038
The title-page describes this work as “a discussion of some of the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy.” In his foreword the author adds, “This book, in addition to being a discussion of Christian science, is in part an attempt to set forth the essential true elements existing in some other beliefs, to the end that a starting point may be found for greater brotherhood among all churches and beliefs, a basis in Christ for the brotherhood of man.” Contents: A few preliminary thoughts; “Is God all?” Contradictions: Does matter have reality? Does evil have reality? Christ Jesus and the meaning of life; To church members.
“A sincere attempt to view Christian science from an impartial point of view.”
+ =Cleveland= p53 Ap ‘17 13w
=St Louis= 15:107 Ap ‘17
“The writer is a Presbyterian and has never been a member of any Christian science organization, but he finds that much of what he has written is so far in agreement with the views of Mrs Eddy that he would fail in his obligation of acknowledgment were he to speak of the views he expresses as his own. This accounts for the title of the book, which presents a modification of Christian science set out with an earnestness which does not destroy the author’s sense of humour.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p432 S 6 ‘17 80w
=HART, EVANSTON IVES.= Virgil C. Hart: missionary statesman. il *$1.50 (2c) Doran 17-13400
The subject of this biography was founder of the American and Canadian missions in central and west China. The foreword says, “Two great missions in China, of which Dr V. C. Hart was the founder, testify to the comprehensive insight he had of China’s needs, his recognition of her potential powers, and his appreciation of the forces which would free her from her age-long stagnation and lift her into new life and influence.” This story of his life is written by his son.
“This career was not only rich in achievement, but highly picturesque. The biographer, his son, has been able to portray it vividly.”
+ =Bib World= 50:375 D ‘17 90w
“A straightforward narrative of an unusually picturesque career.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:667 Je ‘17 30w
=HARTMAN, LOUIS O.= Popular aspects of oriental religions. il *$1.35 Abingdon press 290 17-13234
“[This book] combines brief surveys of eastern faiths with brief descriptions of the countries where they have their strongholds. ... Mr Hartman makes no pretense at thoroughness, but he supplies a lively and informing account of the principal features of oriental religions and describes the scenes with which they are connected, including some of their sacred spots. He gives the results of his own observation and his reading in authoritative treatises. ... Mr Hartman has words of cordial admiration for the great world-religion of Buddha, and he also does full justice to the aggressive character of Mohammedanism.”—Springf’d Republican
“Remembering the method and purpose, it should be said that the book is written in an attractive literary style and is splendidly illustrated. It should inspire the beginner to delve deeper into the lore of the history of religions.” A. S. W.
+ =Am J Theol= 22:158 Ja ‘18 160w
“One of the very best chapters in the book is that on Zoroastrianism. ... The author is sympathetic but critical, nowhere condemning any of these religions in toto, but finding them inadequate in a progressive civilization. It is an excellent book for the busy person who wishes to know the teachings of these religions, and how these teachings work in practice.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 550w
“Numerous well chosen illustrations add to the interest of the narrative.”
+ =Ind= 90:439 Je 2 ‘17 50w
“An admirable, brief, popular statement of oriental religions. ... The author writes from the Christian point of view, but his spirit is not that of a partisan but of a lover of truth wherever it exists. It will be found especially valuable for those endeavoring to promote in our churches an intelligent interest in foreign missions.”
+ =Outlook= 116:232 Je 6 ‘17 80w
“Mr Hartman conducts his inquiry in the proper spirit of appreciation of the notable ethical and spiritual characteristics of eastern religions, but with an eye also to their defects. He takes a common-sense view of the problems of missionaries.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 13 ‘17 470w
=HARVEY, ALEXANDER.= William Dean Howells; a study of the achievement of a literary artist. *$1.50 (3½c) Huebsch 17-26889
Mr Harvey, who has held editorial positions on the New York Herald, the Literary Digest, and other papers, has been associate editor of Current Literature since 1905, and is the author of several other books, tells us in this volume some of his thoughts on Mr Howells and a great many of his thoughts on other subjects. This is not a life of Howells, whom Mr Harvey calls “the greatest living artist in the field of fiction who uses the English language,” but a “study of his achievements.” The author believes that the lack of appreciation of Howells in this country is due to the fact that American literary judgments are made in England, and that England has always underestimated Howells. Altho Mr Harvey ranks Howells so high, he tells us that “Howells is at the head of the sissy school of American literature” which is responsible for the “renascence of insipidity in Anglo-Saxon literature,” that his influence upon the short story has been “especially mischievous,” that he is “inadequate to the male factor in human experience,” and that were it not for his “intimacy with the soul and the circumstance of woman he could not have written his masterpieces.” To Howells’ women, therefore, a good deal of space is given. The chapter on “The Howells masterpiece” deals with “The rise of Silas Lapham.” The type of the page headlines in the book is pronouncedly unusual.
=A L A Bkl= 14:86 D ‘17
“Nothing could be more preposterous than the attitude of Alexander Harvey towards literature in this volume. Nothing pleases him. He attacks everything. He begins with a hatred of the English, and this hatred is reiterated almost to his very last page. Although his theme is ostensibly Howells, he tells us very little about that writer. ... Another of Mr Harvey’s absurd objects of attack is the American book review. He declares that ‘a book review in an American newspaper is either a display of impertinence to an author or of ill-breeding to the public.’” E. F. E.
– — =Boston Transcript= p7 S 5 ‘17 860w
“An entertaining and keen, if rather pert study. The index is an alphabetical epitome of the author’s own philosophy rather than a key to the book.”
+ — =Cleveland= p120 N ‘17 90w
“The author’s text is not so much a book as a tirade, not so much a tirade as a miscellany, and not so much a miscellany as the preface to an index. ... Mr Harvey diverts even while he irritates; and often he is unsurpassably acute. We ask for bread and are given—by no means a stone, but, let us say, a cocktail.” H. T. Follett
— — + =Dial= 63:331 O 11 ‘17 1350w
+ — =Ind= 92:58 O 6 ‘17 70w
“Mr Harvey selects important aspects of Mr Howells’s work for lively and assertive advocacy, but it is abundantly clear from the start that Mr Howells is his point of departure rather than his goal. ... An arduous task confronted Mr Harvey. ... It must be said that in being loosely oracular and discursive, instead of attentive, he has missed his hour.” Francis Hackett
— — + =New Repub= 10:sup3 Ap 21 ‘17 2500w
“Such sheer insanity of prejudice is rarely expressed more bluntly. ... To deny the eminence of British achievements is the giddiest height of fatuity. ... There is a unique critical index at the end of the book which exhausts the reader and presumably the subject.” Max Lustig
— =N Y Call= p15 S 23 ‘17 1000w
“Occasionally you meet with an experience or a thing for which some particular word is the one fit and perfect definition. So with this book. For it the word egregious seems to have been exquisitely invented.”
— =N Y Times= 22:561 D 16 ‘17 880w
“People who admire Mr Howells’s art and intelligence will have little patience with this farrago of impertinences and irrelevancies.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 10 ‘17 420w
=HASLETT, HARRIET HOLMES.= Dolores of the Sierra, and other one act plays. *$1.25 Elder 812 17-20676
A half dozen one-act plays, “bits of drama,” the author calls them, “fragments of the human life about you.” Some of them, “A modern menage” and “When love is blind” commend themselves for acting in the little-theater. The plays are: Dolores of the Sierra; The scoop; Undercurrents; A modern menage; The inventor; When love is blind.
“The promise in the plays of Harriet Holmes Haslett is not so clearly spoken. Her people are types rather than individuals; her plots are more commonplace; her action is too often switched by mere chance; her thought is less mature. She has, however, dexterity in dialogue and has learned to manipulate stage business.” Williams Haynes
– + =Dial= 63:587 D 6 ‘17 220w
=HASTINGS, FRANK SEYMOUR.=[2] Navigation. *75c Appleton 527 17-25796
The purpose of this book is to provide a short course explaining the principal problems met with in ordinary, everyday work at sea. The author is instructor in navigation on the U.S.S. “Granite State.” Contents: Chart sailing; Mean and apparent time; Compass error; Dead reckoning; Soundings; Corrected altitude; Latitude; Latitude by sun on meridian short rule; Longitude; Latitude by sun, ex-meridian; Chronometer reading; Stars and planets; General remarks.
=R of Rs= 57:102 Ja ‘18 60w
=HASTINGS, JAMES, and others=, eds.[2] Encyclopædia of religion and ethics. v 9 Mundas-Phrygians. *$7 Scribner 203 (8-35833)
For descriptive note see Annual for 1909; for reviews of v 8 see Annual for 1916.
+ =Ath= p519 O ‘17 70w
“The work holds its place as one of the greatest and most useful reference works ever published. It has no competitor, as it has made a field for itself which is unique; and it is indispensable to the student of the mental and social sciences, as well as to him who is interested in philosophy and theology.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 2 ‘18 1100w
+ =Lit D= 56:39 Ja 12 ‘18 360w
+ =Outlook= 118:67 Ja 9 ‘18 80w
“This new volume maintains the standard of its predecessors.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p383 Ag 9 ‘17 230w
“Specially attractive contributions are grouped under the titles of ‘Ordeal’ and ‘Nature,’ while the less important subjects, whose number shows the wide field covered by the work, have been entrusted to experts, who inspire the confidence which is half the charm which the ordinary reader feels as he consults a work of this character.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 N 15 ‘17 1150w
=HAUSER, HENRI.= Germany’s commercial grip on the world; her business methods explained; tr. by Manfred Emanuel. *$1.65 Scribner 382 17-14560
“The aim of this work is essentially practical. It is an objective study of facts, not a scientific discussion of economic principles; and its purpose is to promote the future prosperity of France in two ways, a negative and a positive. The first is to avoid the German grip, and the second to apply the lessons to be learnt from German success. ... The most important lesson of all is that German success has in the main been earned by solid work. ... As for those who urge ‘war on Germany’s trade’ with the weapons of passion and force, they are merely talking nonsense. Professor Hauser brings out this lesson better than most writers on the same subject.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=A L A Bkl= 14:41 N ‘17
=Ath= p96 P ‘17 60w
“Of interest to thoughtful business men, legislators and students of economic and current history.”
+ =Cleveland= p92 Jl ‘17 60w
+ =N Y Times= 22:262 Jl 15 ‘17 950w
=St Louis= 15:320 S ‘17
“Professor Hauser’s book was written for Frenchmen, but it well deserves translation and the widest circulation. It is a penetrating and comprehensive analysis of the economic development of Germany, full of detailed information, acute deductions, and sound conclusions. ... Professor Hauser’s treatment is much more thorough than any hitherto attempted in English, and his conclusions are better informed and better balanced than the hasty and somewhat excited counsels pressed upon us here from various quarters.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p3 Ja 4 ‘17 900w
=HAWKES, CLARENCE.= Wood and water friends. il *$1.25 (1½c) Crowell 590 18-2698
A selection from the author’s nature writings. Some of them are sketches from a childhood spent in a happy out-of-door environment, where the foundations were laid for the studies that have been continued even after the loss of eye-sight. The pictures are by Charles Copeland. The selections are arranged miscellaneously without table of contents or index.
“Though physically blind, Mr Hawkes has a wonderful way of making others see. The world is far richer for his book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 5 ‘18 140w
“The stories are varied and will interest children and young people of different ages—some of them speak especially to younger folk, while others have a wider field of interest. There is much to commend in the book as an introduction to nature lore.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:501 N 25 ‘17 300w
“He has developed the happy faculty of telling nature stories that are sometimes true and always interesting. Even the fiction is based on truth.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 150w
=HAWORTH, PAUL LELAND.= On the headwaters of Peace river. il *$4 Scribner 917.11 17-28894
“The journey which Paul Leland Haworth took ‘On the headwaters of Peace river,’ a thousand-mile canoe trip in the northern wilderness of the Canadian Rockies, is not one that would be practicable for the ordinary traveler. ... Outfitting at Edmonton, and making his start, with one man, from Hansard, on the Fraser river, he followed the Crooked and the Parsnip rivers to the junction of the latter with the Finlay to make the mighty Peace river, and then went on up the Finlay and well into the country of the Quadicha river, where the author thinks they were the first white men to penetrate. The many beautiful and interesting pictures are from photographs taken by the author.”—N Y Times
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:92 D ‘17
“Mr Haworth’s story of his trip is peculiarly delightful because of his own zest in every experience and in every inspiring sight of mountain, glacier, forest, or noble river, and because of his faculty for having interesting experiences and meeting people who had had strange and varied contacts with life and nature and were willing to talk about them.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:482 N 18 ‘17 200w
“Will appeal to men who love rifle and canoe.”
+ =Outlook= 117:387 N 7 ‘17 40w
=HAWTHORNE, HILDEGARDE.= Rambles in old college towns. il *$2.50 (3c) Dodd 378 17-29340
Graduates of the following colleges will take keen pleasure in a ramble with Miss Hawthorne to the brightest spot of bygone days: Jefferson’s college, William and Mary, Annapolis, Princeton, Yale, Brown university, Harvard, Wellesley, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Amherst, Smith, Williams, Vassar, West Point and Cornell. It is of the buildings, the campus, the spirit and traditions of these time honored old places of learning that she writes. Of Cornell she quotes: “I don’t see but that, by and large, Cornell doesn’t pretty well express the whole of this country of ours, male and female, rich and poor, in most of its countless activities and interests. A great democratic university, wonderfully beautiful, magnificently situated, thoroughly alive. It’s tremendous!”
=A L A Bkl= 14:76 D ‘17
“Life past and present, scenes as they strike the eye and as they bring memories of bygone days, both of the colleges themselves and of their historic surroundings, appeal directly to Miss Hawthorne, and are made memorable to the reader. ... Miss Hawthorne’s description of Harvard is much too casual and perfunctory.” E. F. E.
+ — =Boston Transcript= p9 O 31 ‘17 650w
“The descriptions of buildings and of elms grow a trifle monotonous, if one reads the book in course, and will doubtless be the most enjoyable to the students and alumni of the institutions portrayed. There is more variety in the historical anecdotes.”
+ — =Dial= 63:534 N 22 ‘17 250w
+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 8 ‘17 110w
“It is the sort of thing for which Miss Hawthorne has a particularly happy faculty. Her mood responds sensitively to every appeal of landscape, tradition, human sentiment, the ever-lasting joyousness of youth, beauty of building or of setting. Her sense of humor is always keen and its expression genial and sunny.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:482 N 18 ‘17 350w
=HAY, JOHN.= Complete poetical works. il *$1.50 Houghton 811
The poems are grouped under the headings: The Pike county ballads; Wanderlieder; New and old; Translations; Uncollected pieces. There is an index of titles and one of first lines. The introduction is by the author’s son, Clarence Leonard Hay. The frontispiece is a portrait of the author.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 7 ‘17 320w
“John Hay cannot be ranked among the greatest poets. ... But there have been few poets whose work maintained a more consistent average of excellence. He was always the competent master of his craft, alike in the delightful ‘Pike county ballads’ and in historical verse of classic dignity.”
+ =Ind= 92:63 O 6 ‘17 120w
“Judged by exacting standards, Mr Hay’s poems are in the main more notable for rich thought and balanced human feeling than for the lyrical quality which creates the emotion of beauty. But their place in American letters is secure. Their importance, too, in American life is established because they reveal the true character of one who in the eyes of men was chiefly the statesman and diplomat.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 18 ‘17 290w
=HAY, MARLEY FOTHERINGHAM.= Secrets of the submarine. il *$1.25 (3c) Dodd 623.8 17-24865
Mr Hay has for seventeen years devoted his time exclusively to the design and construction of submarines. “Touching but lightly on historical development or the technique of hull and engine design (subjects already treated by Burgoyne, Stirling, Hoar, and others), he discusses in clear and simple language the armament of the submarine and the functions of its various mechanisms. ... He describes the way in which these craft are maintained, operated, and fought; the special dangers to which they and their crews are exposed, and the devices by which it is sought to counteract those dangers. He indicates many of the problems connected with them which remain to be solved and he analyzes Germany’s building facilities.” (Nation)
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:80 D ‘17
“Just the book for the man who is looking for a vade mecum on the subject. It answers practically every possible question.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 26 ‘17 300w
+ =Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 30w
“Besides giving America credit for the original invention by Holland, the author might also have mentioned Sperry’s gyroscopic compass, without which submarines could not navigate under water; Admiral Howell’s first employment of the gyroscope to make the torpedo run straight; and the heating of the air in the Whitehead torpedo to gain speed and distance, due to the late Walter N. Hill. The chapter on Submarine antidotes is not encouraging; that on the Sphere of the submarine is conservative, valuable, thoughtful.”
+ + — =Nation= 105:407 O 11 ‘17 300w
=N Y Times= 22:551 D 9 ‘17 70w
“Authentic, up-to-date information.”
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 50w
=HAYES, CARLTON (JOSEPH HUNTLEY).= Political and social history of modern Europe. 2v v 1 *$2; v 2 $2.25 Macmillan 940.5 16-16141
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“In the second volume interest centres in chapters 21-25, which set forth the ‘Social factors in recent European history, 1871-1914,’ and explain the special form these factors took in England, France, Germany, Russia, and the minor states during that time. ... In the sections on France in the eighteenth century, especially during the revolution, are statements which need revision.” H. E. Bourne
+ =Am Hist R= 22:638 Ap ‘17 920w
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:346 My ‘17
“The first volume offers an excellent summary of three centuries (1500-1815) in a volume of 597 pages; while the entire second volume of 767 pages is devoted to the period since 1815. The theory of the economic interpretation of history is, of course, accepted, but it is used with moderation. ... Interesting features are the very full discussion of the eastern question and the expansion of Europe into Asia, Africa, and America. ... Each volume has its own index and may be used separately.” W. R. Smith
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:355 My ‘17 270w
+ =Ath= p52 Ja ‘17 120w
“It is obvious that much which seems almost sacrosanct to the historical specialist must be omitted, but Mr Hayes has been singularly successful in providing a comprehensive, clear, and well-balanced sketch of the development of European politics and society during the last four centuries. There are of course slips, particularly in the sphere of domestic history. Mr Hayes’s maps are distinctly good, except that the map of the religious divisions of Europe in 1600 anticipates the plantation of Ulster and gives an Anglican hue to the lands of Tyrone and Tyrconnell. His genealogical and other tables are elaborate and careful, and his bibliographies almost too detailed; but he gives the impression, not too common, of having really read the books he recommends.” A. F. P.
+ — =Eng Hist R= 32:620 O ‘17 420w
+ =Ind= 89:270 F 12 ‘17 250w
“The bibliographies are excellent, so that the student has at once a manual and a guide to fuller reading.” J. W. T.
+ =J Pol Econ= 25:520 My ‘17 330w
“The central theme is the rise and evolution of the powerful middle class in society—the bourgeoisie—which has done more than all the other social classes put together to create the life and thought of the modern world. There are accordingly such excellent chapters as those on the Commercial revolution of the sixteenth century, Society in the eighteenth century, The industrial revolution, and Social factors, 1870-1914. ... It is an admirable book to ‘grind’ for knowledge.”
+ =Nation= 104:554 My 3 ‘17 300w
=Pittsburgh= 22:425 My ‘17 50w
“Makes an excellent preparation for a study Of the causes and origin of the war.”
+ =Pratt= p41 Ap ‘17 20w
“Particular efforts are made to explain the various economic systems with respect to their merits and defects. Thus we have a description of humanism in the 16th century, the influence of socialism in the 20th; the colonization of the 17th century, contrasted with the partitions of Africa and the expansion in the Far East of more recent times.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 9 ‘17 450w
=HAYES, DOREMUS ALMY.= John and his writings. (Biblical introduction ser.) *$1.75 Meth. bk. 226 17-6228
“An interpretation of the gospel, the letters, and the apocalypse of John the ‘beloved disciple,’ founded on the assumption that the John who wrote the five Johannine books was the Apostle John. Over against the tremendous logical structure of the Pauline gospel, Dr Hayes places the gospel according to John, as the doctrine of the church of the future, since it is founded and consummated in love. He regards the first epistle of John as better than any of the epistles of Paul. ‘John was a prophet; Paul an advocate. ... Paul’s epistles are treatises. ... John makes confident assertion of the truth,’”—R of Rs
“His style is clear and full of human touches that are fascinating in their suggestiveness. ... The discussion of the authorship of the fourth gospel is fair; the various views and their advocates are well and honorably represented. ... The bibliography is excellent, not being overloaded with technical works in foreign languages.”
+ =Bib World= 50:49 Jl ‘17 320w
“As an introduction to the Apostle John and his writings this volume is not only the latest, but the best with which we are acquainted. The bold and broad scholarship of the author is reënforced by a keen insight into human nature. ... Seldom can it be said of a work of introduction to a book of the Bible that it has not a dry or dull page in it; but just that can be said of this work.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 24 ‘17 750w
“The book moves with persuasive eloquence and ample historical perspective and will prove a great satisfaction to Bible students if one excepts the chapters on the Apocalypse. Dr Hayes admits this book to be the most baffling in the Bible and contents himself with presenting a mass of learned opinion on the subject, clinging to certain literalisms that can be easily explained.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:553 My ‘17 180w
=HAYNES, WILLIAMS, and HARRISON, JOSEPH LEROY=, comps. Camp-fire verse. *$1.25 Duffield 811.08 17-25233
In his introduction to this anthology Stewart Edward White points out the change that came over out-door poetry in the period following the nineties, reflecting a change in our attitude to out-door life. In that early verse, he says, “you are apt to have been wearing ‘Lincoln green’ and a feather in your cap at that. But with Kipling’s ‘Feet of the young men’ as a sort of dividing line, later verse takes an entirely new attitude and you don your khaki.” In selecting poems for the volume the compilers have applied a double test: “We have tried to exclude all poems not conceived in the true spirit of the sportsman and to include no poems devoid of literary merit.” (Preface)
=A L A Bkl= 14:86 D ‘17
“This collection is unique and interesting, and is one which any lover of camp life may be glad to have on his shelves. Most of the pieces are by authors who are, to the present reviewer at least, unknown, and many of them are of the undistinguished sort that serve as space-fillers in the better sporting magazines.”
+ — =Dial= 63:529 N 22 ‘17 280w
“An amazingly good collection. An excellent index, both of first lines and of titles, with a table of contents listed according to the authors, makes any of the verses easy to find.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:33 Ja 27 ‘18 390w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Ja 20 ‘18 260w
=HAYWARD, FRANK HERBERT.= Professionalism and originality; with an appendix of suggestions bearing on professional, administrative, and educational topics. *$1.75 (3½c) Open ct. 174 17-17528
Dr Hayward is a school inspector. “His book is a polemic against professionalism. The first part is a catalogue of the vices to which the professional spirit is heir; the second—in intention a study of the characteristics of the living man, i.e., of the original mind—is mainly concerned with the reception which such a mind finds in the world of professionals.” (Int J Ethics)
“There are many shrewd and thoughtful comments upon the existing order of things.”
+ =Ath= p245 My ‘17 70w
“Dr Hayward handles all professions with a fine impartiality. ... The book is important for its trenchant discussion of many questions which are sadly in need of airing.” H. J. W. H.
+ + — =Int J Ethics= 27:541 Jl ‘17 260w
“Dr Hayward obviously knows nothing at first hand of the legal profession, nor, we should suppose, of the clerical and medical professions. He takes all his accusations of the legal profession from a book ‘The lawyer: our old man of the sea,’ by Mr Durran.”
— =Sat R= 123:580 Je 23 ‘17 870w
“A high-strung and loosely co-ordinated attack on all kinds of what we in America call ‘stand-pattism.’ ... He undertakes no philosophical discussion of that law of life which demands of men that they continually make the effort to strike a balance between the old and the new.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 12 ‘17 1450w
=HAYWARD, WILLIAM RICHART.= Money: what it is and how to use it. *80c (3c) Houghton 332 17-11581
The author is principal of the Curtis evening high school in New York city, and this work is a result of both teaching and business experience. Contents: What money is; Barter and primitive money; Development and use of metal money; The relation of money to progress; How money grows; How money is obtained; Keeping account of money; Substitutes for money; Banking; Stocks and bonds; Speculation; Exchange; Money for women; Travel; Buying; Receiving; Paying; Selling; Delivering; Collecting.
“It would make a most desirable textbook for junior high-school commercial courses. The author has been head of the commercial department of a large city high school, has had business experience of several years, has conducted a private business school, and has been editor of the Efficiency Society Journal. He has written into this book the practical outcome of his experience in contact with these different kinds of groups.”
+ =El School J= 17:691 My ‘17 350w
=Ind= 91:267 Ag 18 ‘17 70w
+ =N Y Times= 22:242 Je 24 ‘17 270w
=Pittsburgh= 22:689 O ‘17 50w
+ =Pratt= p12 O ‘17 20w
=St Louis= 15:358 O ‘17 20w
“Matters connected with the use and handling of money that the average person would need to know are briefly, simply and very clearly told.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 130w
=HAZARD, CAROLINE.= Yosemite, and other verse. *$1.25 Houghton 811 17-11824
This book of poems by the ex-president of Wellesley college is made up of three parts. Part 1, California verse, contains the title piece and other poems of the far West, among them a sonnet sequence, “The Court of the ages,” written in San Francisco in 1915. The second part consists of miscellaneous poems, including a group of Hymns and anthems sung at Wellesley college. Part 3 is made up of five Studies in blank verse.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:439 Jl ‘17
“The religious note, the deep undertone of faith which makes explainable all the sadder, darker sides of life, is always present. It is, we think, more characteristic than any other one element of the spiritual aspects of Miss Hazard’s achievement.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 16 ‘17 1050w
=HAZELTINE, ALICE ISABEL=, ed. Library work with children. *$1.50 (1½c) Wilson, H. W. 028.5 17-26973
Miss Hazeltine, compiler of this second volume in the series of “Classics of American librarianship,” is supervisor of children’s work in the St Louis public library. “The volume is an attempt to bring together in accessible form papers representing the growth and tendencies of forty years of library work with children. ... The papers chosen are primarily of historic rather than of present-day value, although many of them embody principles which govern the practice of today. ... Several different phases of children’s work are represented, although no attempt has been made to make the collection comprehensive. ... Book-selection for children has not been included except incidentally, since it is expected that this subject will be treated in another volume as part of the general subject of book-selection. In the same way, material on training for library work with children has been reserved for a volume on library training.” (Preface)
=A L A Bkl= 14:110 Ja ‘18
“Parents who wish to know what the public service is doing for the good of every child will find this book inspiring. And librarians will find much useful matter in the suggestions.”
+ =Lit D= 55:52 D 8 ‘17 130w
=HAZEN, CHARLES DOWNER.= Alsace-Lorraine under German rule. *$1.25 (2½c) Holt 943.44 17-30886
A brief, dependable account of the fate of Alsace-Lorraine since its annexation by the Germans at the end of the Franco-Prussian war. A preliminary chapter traces the history of mediaeval Alsace and Lorraine, thru later acquisition by France, the character of French rule for over two hundred years and the part the provinces took in the French revolution, the Napoleonic wars and the war which wrenched them from France. In the main body of the book are treated the German agitation for the conquest of Alsace-Lorraine, arguments for annexation in 1871, the remonstrance of the two provinces against it, the spirit and methods of German rule since annexation, and the resistance to the persistent attempts at Germanization. The writer is professor of history in Columbia university.
“An authoritative and readable study.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:123 Ja ‘18
“By far the best short, yet actually sufficient, presentment of a question that is at the very heart of the present struggle for liberty. In it is to be found an unanswerable brief for France and a stern indictment of Berlin; for Berlin is now Germany.” S. A.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 5 ‘17 470w
“This book can be depended upon as a complete popular discussion of one of the most important problems of the war.”
+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 8 ‘17 140w
+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 29 ‘17 280w
“Professor Hazen’s new book offers the most complete and, basically, the most trustworthy treatment of the theme that has yet appeared in English. It is, however, not difficult to find many flaws in the new book. Historical, in the highest sense, the book is not, as it shows little of the fine balance and breadth of view which the reader expects from the author of ‘Europe since 1815.’ Rather does it bear frequent evidence of the heat which forged it, of haste, and even of confusion.”
+ – — =Nation= 106:19 Ja 3 ‘18 450w
“The volume has been written with the intention of encouraging Americans and others to continue the strife until the liberation of Alsace-Lorraine is achieved, though, naturally, the author simply assumes that result as a certainty. But while this part is doubtful, the historical portion of the volume has a definite value.” Joshua Wanhope
– + =N Y Call= p15 N 18 ‘17 780w
“An excellent example of point of view and purpose in the presentation of historical facts. The book is not, properly speaking, a history; it is a footnote to history and a plea for the vindication of a principle. ... Professor Hazen writes simply and vigorously. He has not the timidity that seeks refuge in qualification and academic jargon. ... The book is inspiriting and informing, and leaves the reader with a forcible impression of the finality of the issue.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:558 D 16 ‘17 550w
=HAZEN, CHARLES DOWNER.= French revolution and Napoleon, maps *$2.50 (3½c) Holt 944.04 17-8744
The author has brought together in this volume the chapters from his “Modern European history” that deal with the French revolution and Napoleon. He has done this for the convenience of those who wish to review that period of history, as a means to a better understanding of our present crisis. The author says, “Between that period and our own not only are there points of interesting and suggestive comparison but there is also a distinct line of causation connecting the two.”
“A book outwardly attractive and charmingly written; it will probably be a popular text-book and, compared with other volumes of the same size, it will deserve to be popular. Tested by the ideal standard of what such a volume might be, it is more open to criticism. As to the incorrect statements of facts, while there are fewer than in the majority of school-texts dealing with this same period, there are still more than necessary, more than should be allowed to stand in a revised edition of the work. The connection between these periods and the present war is not made especially clear; it is treated very incidentally. Perhaps it could not be made clear in a work that ends with the Congress of Vienna; it might have been shown in two chapters on the great world development that has led to a world war.” F. M. Fling
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:149 O ‘17 750w
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 11 ‘17 250w
+ =Dial= 63:30 Je 28 ‘17 570w
+ =Educ R= 54:96 Je ‘17 40w
“His ‘French revolution’ should really be read in conjunction with Carlyle’s. It is exactly the sort of clear, logical, accurate, historical background which these brilliant, literary pictures demand.”
+ =Ind= 90:516 Je 16 ‘17 240w
=Lit D= 54:1266 Ap 28 ‘17 680w
“The work of Professor Hazen is admirably done. He has a rare talent for the clear and compact statement of complex facts. His sense of historic perspective is just and his power of connected narrative is highly developed. His style is animated, simple and happily colored. His volume is generously illustrated with maps, mostly in color.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:127 Ap 8 ‘17 450w
=Pittsburgh= 22:322 Ap ‘17 20w
=Pratt= p43 O ‘17 10w
+ =R of Rs= 56:215 Ag ‘17 100w
“The author is professor of European history in Columbia university.”
=St Louis= 15:154 My ‘17 10w
“Fundamentally a text-book. ... Prof Hazen leaves nothing to your background of information. ... But the book is splendidly and readably, one might almost say, ingratiatingly, thorough. ... On almost every one of its 350-odd pages Prof Hazen has displayed his truly remarkable gift for packing an immense amount of information—even dry information sometimes—into charming and spirited paragraphs.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 6 ‘17 800w
=HAZEN, CHARLES DOWNER.= Modern European history. (American historical ser.) il $1.75 (lc) Holt 940.9 17-6333
A history of Europe from the French revolution to the European war. The central theme of the book is the struggle for liberty. Two chapters on The old régime in Europe and The old régime in France furnish a background for the story that follows. The one chapter at the end devoted to the European war deals only with causes and the course of events up to the actual outbreak of the conflict. The author is professor of history in Columbia university and author of “Europe since 1815,” published in 1910. This work has been drawn on in writing the present book.
“Essentially a textbook, exceptionally well written, authoritative, and superior to others of its class.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:395 Je ‘17
“The book is invaluable to one who would follow the important events now occurring in Europe, in the light of the story of the past.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 17 ‘17 460w
“As a textbook it will probably find its place in good high schools and in freshman courses in college rather than with more mature college classes. The first two hundred and fifty pages have been published separately in a library edition, without the illustrations, under the title, ‘French revolution and Napoleon.’”
+ =Nation= 104:554 My 3 ‘17 300w
=Pittsburgh= 22:678 O ‘17 100w
“Clear maps set into the chapters which they represent. Profusely illustrated.”
+ =School R= 25:302 Ap ‘17 20w
“For a course in European history since the French revolution there is probably no better text than Hazen’s ‘Modern European history.’” R. N. Tryon
+ =School R= 25:686 N ‘17 170w
=HAZEN, CHARLES DOWNER, and others.= Three peace congresses of the nineteenth century. *75c (4c) Harvard univ. press 341.1 17-13066
The papers on the Peace congresses of Vienna, Paris, and Berlin contained in this volume were written for the meeting of the American historical association held in Cincinnati in 1916. The congress of Vienna is treated by Charles Downer Hazen; The congress of Paris, by William Roscoe Thayer; The congress of Berlin, by Robert Howard Lord. In addition there is a paper on Claimants to Constantinople, by Archibald Cary Coolidge. The problem of Constantinople is pronounced by Henry Eldridge Bourne in his introduction “the most important single question to which the war must furnish an answer.”
“All the papers are interesting and suggestive. Mr Thayer’s alone is rather shabbily dressed so far as literary form is concerned and not exactly punctilious in its impartiality. Mr Coolidge’s article on ‘Claimants to Constantinople’ is a clear, well-balanced, and fair-minded, though appropriately brief, account of the most difficult question in the international relations of modern times. It deals mainly with the political aspects of the problem, and only incidentally with the economic.” C. J. H. Hayes
+ — =Am Hist R= 23:155 O ‘17 1150w
“Deals rather with the social side than with the political results of the negotiations, the personality of the plenipotentiaries than with their achievements. For those who wish to study the history of the questions involved in them, a useful bibliography is provided.” E.
+ =Eng Hist R= 32:626 O ‘17 90w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:88 Je ‘17 30w
=Pratt= p13 O ‘17
“The basis of Russia’s claims apropos of current discussion about the fate of Constantinople is clearly stated.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:108 Jl ‘17 30w
=HEADLAM, JAMES WYCLIFFE.= German chancellor and the outbreak of war. *3s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London 940.91
“This is, in effect, a supplement to the valuable analysis of the diplomatic negotiations immediately preceding the entry of Great Britain into the war which Mr Headlam issued in 1915 under the title ‘The history of twelve days.’ It includes additional evidence—from Germany—which has since become available, and is concerned mainly with events which intervened between the afternoon of Wednesday, July 29, and midnight on July 30. It challenges the view elaborated for the German public by the Chancellor that the act which made war inevitable was the Russian mobilization, and that for this mobilization Great Britain was really responsible. The five chapters are reprinted (with alterations and additions) from the Westminster Gazette.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=Ath= p316 Je ‘17 170w
“In 1915 Mr Headlam completed his book, ‘The history of twelve days,’ which is still the best thing about the immediate causes of the war. Now, in this brief, clearly written volume, he has contributed one of the best supplementary things relating to the subject. It is marred in some places by small errors or too positive statement of that which should be conjecture, but in no essential part is the reasoning thereby affected.”
+ =Nation= 105:369 O 4 ‘17 1250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p191 Ap 19 ‘17 110w
=HEADLAM, JAMES WYCLIFFE.= The Issue. *$1 (3c) Houghton 940.91 17-4974
Four of the papers in this volume are reprinted from the Nineteenth Century and After and one from the Westminster Gazette. They are discussions of the various suggestions for peace that have come from Germany. The author says there are three issues involved in this war, the Atlantic, the Eastern, and the European. It is with the third, the predominance of Germany in Europe, that he is concerned. This is the great issue with which the war began and with which it will close. Contents: Two manifestoes: The party leaders; The German chancellor and peace; Prince Bülow on peace; Central Europe. Mr Headlam is author of a life of Bismarck.
“The appendixes contain translations of the manifestoes of the six industrial associations and of the German professors to the chancellor.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:425 Jl ‘17
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:362 My ‘17 90w
“The evidence of German policy adduced would perhaps have had even more weight with some if it had been allowed to speak for itself than accompanied as it is by the expression of Mr Headlam’s strong feeling.”
=Ath= p96 F ‘17 50w
=Cleveland= p83 Je ‘17 50w
“Certainly he is thoroughly sane.”
+ =Dial= 62:529 Je 14 ‘17 400w
“Of special value to American readers because it states clearly and concisely precisely what the aims of the Allies are in the great war.”
+ =Ind= 90:380 My 26 ‘17 200w
=J Pol Econ= 25:1059 D ‘17 280w
Reviewed by Alvin Johnson
+ =New Repub= 10:301 Ap 7 ‘17 1250w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:57 Ap ‘17 20w
=Pittsburgh= 22:528 Je ‘17 80w
“Mr J. W. Headlam is one of the sanest and best-informed of our critics of German policy.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p619 D 21 ‘16 750w
=HEALY, WILLIAM.= Mental conflicts and misconduct. *$2.50 (3c) Little 136.7 17-9835
Mr Healy is director of the Psychopathic institute, in connection with the Juvenile court of Chicago, and author of “The individual delinquent.” This work on the part mental conflict plays in delinquency is an outgrowth of his experience. In general the conclusions arrived at conform to those of Freud, but the author is not a Freudian disciple. Acknowledgment is made to the psycho-analytic school for enlightenment, but the author’s studies have been followed independently, with no intention of proving any particular theory. The first four chapters are of a general nature, discussing principles, methods, etc. The main body of the book is given up to description and analysis of cases, arranged under such headings as: Conflicts accompanied by obsessive imagery; Conflicts causing impelling ideas; Criminal careers developed from conflicts; Conflict arising from sex experiences; Conflicts arising from secret sex knowledge; Conflicts concerning parentage, etc.
“His exposition of the methods of getting at the mental conflicts, as well as the method itself, is so simple that it obviates much of the occultism of some psycho-analysts. His reliance primarily upon the presentation of the facts of the clinic and the procedure therein makes it a work which must be made a starting-point by any future worker in the same field. It would seem that the cases could have been more carefully classified and presented more systematically. ... The genius of the author as shown in the application of this method of treatment to a class of juvenile offenders cannot be too highly commended.” T: H. Haines, M.D.
+ =Am J Soc= 23:259 S ‘17 560w
“Valuable to the eugenist, intelligent parent, teacher or physician. Too pathological for the general reader.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:39 N ‘17
“No writer in the field of criminological literature has done so much as has the author of this volume to analyze the causation underlying criminality. He has established psychological research as one of the most valuable approaches to the real understanding of the problem. This is the first rational explanation of that class of cases where the criminal confesses to impulses which he cannot explain. Dr Healy establishes the value of psycho-analysis as a genuine scientific procedure. The work is thoroughly scientific and of absorbing interest to all who are handling misconduct problems, especially those of adolescent children.” J. P. L.
+ =Ann Am Acad= 73:245 S ‘17 200w
“Forms a notable contribution to the group of writings, mostly of American origin, distinctive of the applied psychology of crime.”
+ =Dial= 63:219 S 13 ‘17 270w
“To one outside the Freudian fold this theory is unconvincing. The idea of mental conflict is ill-defined, and in the use made of the notion of repression lurk many doubtful assumptions. The sound suggestions given by the author for the treatment of these cases are in no way bound up with the theory of the mental mechanisms with which he connects them.”
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=Pittsburgh= 22:687 O ‘17 30w
=St Louis= 15:171 Je ‘17 14w
“Psychologically, the author’s case-material is of great interest, and the interpretation given, in terms of mental conflict, is likewise of considerable interest, though it does not appear to fit all the cases equally well.” R. S. Woodworth
+ — =Science= n s 46:461 N 9 ‘17 740w
“A work that must prove of absorbing interest to professional people, pastors, judges, court and institution officers, as well as parents and guardians of children. Dr Healy’s findings interpret much that has been hitherto misunderstood by those engaged in close study of delinquency.”
+ =Social Service Review= 5:25 Ap ‘17 100w
“The forty cases are very simply and attractively described and give a picture of an almost uniform pattern bringing home the havoc played in the child’s mind by the lottery of naïveté and partial information on sex topics to which the child is exposed. In contrast to the very direct and perhaps over-simple account of records, the general discussion goes at length into a fairly orthodox though somewhat simplified rendering of the Freudian system of interpretations, general principles, applications and methods, with many interesting and helpful discussions, with much evidence of sound experience.” Adolph Meyer
+ — =Survey= 38:421 Ag 11 ‘17 1700w
=HEARN, LAFCADIO.= Life and literature. *$3.50 Dodd 804 17-31448
Professor John Erskine of Columbia university, editor of Hearn’s “Interpretations of literature” and “Appreciations of poetry,” is editor also of this third volume. The material which has been secured thru Hearn’s Japanese students is in substance the lectures delivered at the University of Tokyo between 1896 and 1902. The volume contains critical comment which confirms Hearn lovers in their impression of his “noble and continuous discrimination, a sustained sympathy, day after day, year after year, towards good books of all sorts, whether contemporary or long published.” Some of the chapters are: On reading in relation to literature; On the relation of life and character to literature; On composition; Literary genius (a fragment); On modern English criticism, and the contemporary relations of English to French literature; The poetry of George Meredith; Note upon Rossetti’s prose; Note on some French romantics; Note upon an ugly subject; Tolstoi’s theory of art; Note upon Tolstoi’s “Resurrection”; Some fairy literature; The most beautiful romance of the middle ages.
“Hearn has rendered a service alike to the West by his interpretations of the Japanese mind and to the East by his suggestive study of western literature, and he is certain that by their extraordinary quality they add something of great value to the body of English literary criticism, and that they stand among the best examples of this form of writing. Their remarkable feature is that they appeal to and contain much of value not merely to beginners in the study of English literature, but also to those who are anxious to amplify their knowledge of it.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ‘17 1200w
“But it all serves admirably for the high-school or university student in our own country, as well as for the older reader who enjoys being freshened up by a series of capable résumés. For matured Anglo-Saxons the most interesting of Hearn’s chapters are the first three, which deal with general opinions and which state his views on the reading and writing of literature—particularly the one in which he gives his ideas of composition.” H: B. Fuller
+ =Dial= 64:68 Ja 17 ‘18 900w
“This third volume is a bit more personal than its predecessors, personal in the sense of bespeaking more clearly the adventure of the critic’s taste. And it is of the utmost significance in the extraordinary quality of its interpretation, its literary criticism, not after the manner of the academic or journalistic schools of judgment, but from the point of view of the creative artist.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:531 D 2 ‘17 900w
=HEATH, ARTHUR GEORGE.= Letters. *$1.25 Longmans 940.91 17-29759
“Arthur George Heath, fellow of New college, Oxford, and lieutenant in the Royal West Kent regiment, fell on the eighth of October, 1915, his twenty-eighth birthday. ... He applied for a commission a few days after the declaration of war, and threw himself whole-heartedly into the necessarily abhorrent task, to carry it through or to die at his post. Gentleness and humor, forgetfulness of self and thoughtfulness for those at home, with a scholar’s studiousness and earnestness, mark these letters from the field, mostly to the writer’s mother, now collected and prefaced with a warmly appreciative memoir by Professor Gilbert Murray, fellow Oxonian and fellow collegian of Heath’s.”—Dial
“The book takes its place beside similar memorials of Dixon Scott and Rupert Brooke and scores of others, as a sad reminder of high possibilities of achievement sacrificed without a murmur, and also of high actualities of achievement in a great cause.”
+ =Dial= 63:218 S 13 ‘17 220w
“There is something in the young Oxford don’s way of facing the facts of his life honestly, with no illusion of the imagination, yet with a steady and at times humorous desire to make the best of them, something in his sense of routine obligation, in the very absence of a transforming imagination, which makes one feel as if standing on the bedrock of truth.”
+ =Nation= 105:153 Ag 9 ‘17 230w
=HEATH, CARL.= Pacific settlement of international disputes. pa *1s Headley bros., London 341 (Eng ed 17-10174)
“This little book by a leading pacifist of advanced views is not a general dissertation but a collection of material; first giving in a concise form for reference the facts as to what has been done in the past by The Hague conventions, the Pacific convention, and International peace commissions; and then considering in order the new propositions for the prevention of war. The recommendations are on international lines. ... At the end of each chapter are references to a few modern books in which its subject is dealt with at greater length.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
=Ath= p96 F ‘17 80w
=Int J Ethics= 27:539 Jl ‘17 70w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p71 F 8 ‘17 150w
=HEINE, HEINRICH.= Poems. il *$2 Holt 831 17-10874
Louis Untermeyer has selected and translated three hundred and twenty-five of the poems of Heinrich Heine. These include not only the well-known “lieder,” but selections from “Die Nord see” and some of the poems from “Die Harz reise” series as well. The translator says, “I have endeavored, by the selections chosen, to show Heine’s lyrical power not only at its best but at its most characteristic. For this reason I have included many poems usually glossed over by his translators; poems that are trivial enough in themselves, but necessary to the series that contains them, and necessary also to a complete appreciation of Heine’s development.” The introduction is important as a piece of criticism, and in his translations Mr Untermeyer has endeavored to retain a quality too often lost in the English versions, the bitter flavor that is so characteristically Heine.
“The poems are translated into vivid English verse.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:50 N ‘17
“Mr Untermeyer approaches Heine from three standpoints—that of the man, of the poet and of the paradox. He clears away at the very beginning much of the rubbish which has collected about the Heine tradition. His translation as a whole is not only satisfactory but deserves the highest praise for its faithfulness to both spirit and text and for the keenness with which he has made more clear the complex genius of Heine.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 1050w
“Heine’s simplicity is a trap for the unwary. That simplicity is the art that conceals art and can be reproduced only by one who is a poet in his own right, responsive to the same medium and claiming the same racial background. It took a Jewish poet to translate the Jewish poet. ... Comment on the volume would be inadequate without reference to Mr Untermeyer’s scholarly (not academic) preface which, except for its failure to praise the translator, constitutes the best possible review of the work.” B: W. Huebsch
+ =Dial= 62:399 My 3 ‘17 930w
“The book will give to those who do not read German a real knowledge of a great poet; it will please those who do read German because it is a true and faithful rendering; and it will take its place as something more than a translation, because, thanks to the introduction and the choice and arrangement of the poems it is an interpretative and critical essay.”
+ =Ind= 90:554 Je 23 ‘17 270w
“The result of Mr Untermeyer’s labor is not merely passing good, it is surpassingly excellent. His knowledge of German—as is evident from the beginning and becomes more so as one studies his translations—is intimate and fundamentally sound. His greatest attainment is that he has caught the spirit of Heine.”
+ =Lit D= 55:36 S 22 ‘17 550w
“Mr Untermeyer has unquestionably brought the reader who has no German closer to the source. If he has not quite succeeded in translating Heine the poet, he has succeeded very often in translating Heine the wit. ... Nevertheless, Mr Untermeyer’s volume is a little of a disappointment. One expected something more than a ‘libretto’ from a poet who takes his calling so seriously. It was really Heine the artist that we wanted.” Paul Rosenfeld
+ — =New Repub= 11:225 Je 23 ‘17 1000w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:78 My ‘17 30w
Reviewed by Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p12 Ap 22 ‘17 230w
“His preface is especially illuminating. ... The defects of the book are small indeed, compared with its qualities. For the first time the English reader is furnished with a genuinely representative selection from Heine’s poems, so translated as to give not the apparent or superficial meaning, but their real significance.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:223 Je 10 ‘17 680w
“It is too much to say that these translations keep Heine’s music. They do, however, fairly—at times brilliantly—present his poetic work and are a valuable addition to any library. The preface is unusually good, well worth publishing alone as a critical and interpretative essay on the great German Jew, whose words are immortal.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:660 Je ‘17 80w
=St Louis= 15:183 Je ‘17
“Except for its irony, it gives but little hope for any great revival of interest in Heine’s poetry. Heine was above all things musical, but this translation, while ingenious and true to the meaning of the original, does not make him remarkably sweet to the ear or appealing to one’s sense of rhythm in words.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 My 6 ‘17 950w
Helen of Four Gates. *$1.50 (2c) Dutton 17-16318
An anonymous story of the north country moors, by an Englishwoman said to have worked in a cotton mill for nearly the whole of the twenty years since she was eleven. Her grip upon the elemental in men and women, her uncanny imagination, her power of picturing cruelty and horror, and love unashamed, remind the reader of Eden Phillpotts, of Emily Brontë and of Edgar Allan Poe. An old and well-to-do farmer, Abel Mason, has never forgiven the sweetheart of his youth for casting him aside because of insanity in his family. After she and her husband have died, Abel adopts their daughter, Helen, whom he passes off as his own child in order to sate his longing for revenge upon her. When Helen falls in love with Martin, a lad working on the farm, Abel tells him that Helen carries the taint of insanity in her blood. Martin refuses either to marry Helen or to leave her, and for years the old man watches their sufferings with delight and invents new tortures until, by cunning schemes, he drives Martin from the farm and forces Helen into marriage with a tramp. The happy ending, though unexpected, is convincing, and does not leave the reader with a sense of anti-climax.
– + =Ath= p362 Jl ‘17 110w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:94 S ‘17 450w
“‘Helen of Four Gates’ is an unusual novel. Its atmosphere is dark and morbid and its characters are nearly all abnormal. Nevertheless, the author has created in it a very real atmosphere of terror, and to some extent also of pity. The best work of the novelist is done in the creation of this terrifying monster, [Abel Mason]. For sheer stark horror his character finds few equals in recent fiction.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 N 24 ‘17 490w
“It is plain that in theme and treatment she has been, probably unconsciously, influenced by the writings of Mr Thomas Hardy and Mr Phillpotts: thus the very considerable powers of expression with which she pictures the rich loveliness of an English countryside in springtime throw into ironical and shocking relief the sins and miseries of the human element. The author has somewhat overshot the mark. The material seems at times to get out of hand, the characters are not always intelligible, and there are unnecessary uglinesses.”
– + =Cath World= 105:837 S ‘17 220w
“It is something more than a merely human struggle that the author has represented, consciously or not. It is the eternal struggle of all elemental, living things to maintain their birthright to freedom of expression in living terms. This is the truth that the ‘ex-mill-girl’ makes you feel. The dénouement is distinctly disappointing, below the level of the rest.” Ruth McIntire
+ — =Dial= 63:211 S 13 ‘17 900w
Reviewed by Clement Wood
– + =N Y Call= p14 Ag 26 ‘17 480w
“It is all written with an imagination that shrinks from no horror, but is always able with sombre power to depict whatever height or depth of passion or suffering the characters rise or sink to. ... One closes the book with the conviction that ‘An ex-mill girl’ has brought a new note to current English fiction, a note that excels in sheer emotional power, in beauty of tone, in imagination, any voice that is now telling stories to the English-speaking peoples.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:265 Jl 15 ‘17 870w
“It is crude, but it has a certain power and vigour which make it worth reading.”
– + =Spec= 119:192 Ag 25 ‘17 30w
“In places the story is well nigh revolting, but in its dramatic tensity and insight into primitive human passions it attains a high degree of power.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 430w
“There is an intensity of emotion in ‘Helen of Four Gates’ a wild, desperate passion that excites while it oppresses the reader. You experience the same kind of sensation—though in a much stronger degree—that you have when you hold a wild bird in your hand.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p262 My 31 ‘17 530w
=HEMENWAY, HETTY.= Four days; the story of a war marriage. il *50c (4½c) Little 17-24973
This is a simply told story of a war marriage—the oft-enacted tale of the young Englishman who comes back from the horrors of the front to his quietly appointed English home with its circle of adoring relatives and his waiting girl bride. It is English in its quiet courage, pathetic in its telling of the stepping aside of the parents that those two might be all in all to each other during the short four days’ leave. It is real in its recording of the simple details and the last goodbye at the station where the two smiled back into each other’s eyes while a voice sounded behind them: “The average life of an officer in the Dardanelles is eleven days,” and above the singing of “Rule Britannia” shrilled the voice of a hunchback “I came that they might have Life.”
“Beautifully told, it holds in its small compass the essence of the tragedy of the war for all young lovers.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17
“A moving and unusually well written short story.”
+ =Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 40w
“The author is a young Boston woman, a protégée of Mrs Deland. It is a profoundly moving little story, told with an appreciation of the virtue of restraint that is noteworthy in a first book.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:343 S 16 ‘17 250w
“One of the best bits of work that we have had in this country since the war started.” E. P. Wyckoff
+ =Pub W= 92:808 S 15 ‘17 250w
=HENDERSON, LAWRENCE JOSEPH.= Order of nature; an essay. *$1.50 Harvard univ. press 575 17-3165
“Evolution is studied from a new standpoint in ‘The order of nature.’ ... The author almost commits himself to the opinion that life is a necessary consequence of the earth’s physical and chemical constitution, an opinion which points to a hitherto unrecognized order existing among the properties of matter. As a setting for the problem the teleological principles of Aristotle and of the philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are sketched, and then the biological and evolutionary doctrines are briefly reviewed. ... The last chapters are given to a discussion of the unique properties of the three elements, hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen. And it is on the examination of the properties and activities of these elements that the author hopes to show the teleological order of the universe. A proof is not pretended.”—Nation
“Valuable and stimulating to readers with a knowledge of chemistry, physics, mathematics, and the researches of J. Willard Gibbs. For the large reference library.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:39 N ‘17
=Ath= p250 My ‘17 90w
=Dial= 63:528 N 22 ‘17 480w
“The adaptation of organic life to its environment has been a favorite theme. As a rule, the physical and chemical aspects of the problem have been neglected, and Professor Henderson, by calling attention to them, has started an investigation which will certainly be continued.”
+ =Nation= 104:739 Je 21 ‘17 250w
“It has come to be assumed that the reason why the physical and chemical environment appears to be specially fitted for life is simply that life has, by natural selection, been so moulded as to fit its environment. Against this conclusion the main chapters of the book are directed; and the argument is the more remarkable and original since the author accepts without question the theory of natural selection. His discussion of Spencer’s conception of evolution is perhaps specially luminous.” J. S. H.
+ =Nature= 100:262 D 6 ‘17 1000w
+ =N Y Times= 22:143 Ap 15 ‘17 60w
=St Louis= 15:327 S ‘17 10w
=HENDERSON, W. E. B.= Behind the thicket. *$1.50 Dutton
“This is a novel with a somewhat unusual theme, placed in a setting which is not unusual at all. The little English village of Wokeborough, near London, is not in the least unlike any number of small English towns. ... Michael is the leading character, a boy of six when the story begins, a young man when it closes. And it is the strange influence upon him of the woods which is the dominant theme of the novel, an influence which shows itself during his childhood and becomes stronger and stronger as the story progresses, ending at last in nymph-love and a tragedy understood only by the old Greek scholar who had been so fond of him always. ... Side by side with it, however, runs an interesting, realistic account of the relations of a mother and daughter, the conflict of two generations which failed to understand each other.”—N Y Times
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 46:206 O ‘17 330w
“Less delicately it treads the ground which Mr Forrest Reid touched recently in ‘The spring song.’”
+ — =Nation= 105:247 S 6 ‘17 270w
“The book is very well written, despite its author’s too great fondness for quotations, and some of the descriptions have in them more than a touch of poetry. If the difficulties inherent in the blending of the mystic, nature-worship theme with that of everyday life are not always entirely surmounted, the attempt is nevertheless a very interesting one.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:250 Jl 1 ‘17 500w
=HENDRYX, JAMES B.= Gun-brand. il *$1.50 (2c) Putnam 17-13183
Perhaps it was a little inconsistent that a girl who “felt the irresistible call of the raw,” who languished in a civilized atmosphere should be obsessed with the idea of carrying the blessings of civilization to the Indian. Nevertheless the school that she is to establish gives the needed pretext for getting Chloe Elliston into the north, and that is all that matters. Once there her interest is divided between two men. Pierre Lapierre and Bob, called Brute, MacNair. Both are free traders and there is rivalry to the death between them. One is a dastard and knave, one an honest man, and, under his crude exterior, a gentleman. But Chloe makes the mistake of misjudging each and confusing the characters of the two. Blood flows freely before the tale is ended and the “raw” for which Chloe had yearned is hers in good measure.
=A L A Bkl= 13:449 Jl ‘17
“Mr Hendryx is a past master in the art of serving up fiction à la northwest. The subtler seasoning of plausibility and characterization are lacking in his handiwork, but the lover of such fiction will find it sufficiently wholesome and stimulating to be worth a hasty reading.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 1 ‘17 200w
“The plot, which of course is the important matter in a book of this type, is sufficiently ingenious. ... Occasionally the author forgets to be grandiloquent, which is fortunate for the book. The story moves swiftly, and will probably please the kind of reader for whom it is written.”
=N Y Times= 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 260w
Reviewed by Joseph Mosher
+ — =Pub W= 91:1317 Ap 21 ‘17 300w
“The reader’s pleasure in ‘The gun brand’ will be in ratio to his credulity. The story is characteristic, but less spontaneous than Mr Hendryx’s earlier tales.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 2 ‘17 320w
=HENNEBOIS, CHARLES.=[2] In German hands: the diary of a severely wounded prisoner; with a preface by Ernest Daudet. (Soldiers’ tales of the great war) *$1.50 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed 16-24983)
“Charles Hennebois was a volunteer in the French army, a poet-acquaintance of Daudet, and fell severely wounded on October 12, 1914, before Saint Michiel after only a few weeks of service. He was left lying uncared for between the lines until the 16th, when the Germans gathered him up, sent him to Metz, and amputated his leg—an operation which another German surgeon later told him was unnecessary. Moved from Metz to Montigny and later to Offenburg in Baden, M. Hennebois was the victim and witness of many German brutalities, and the book is practically the diary he kept during those months. ... Incapacitated for further service, this Frenchman was fortunate enough to be exchanged, and in July, 1915, he was once more back in his home in Toulouse.”—Springf’d Republican
=A L A Bkl= 14:123 Ja ‘18
“A striking exposition of German cruelty and oppression.”
+ =Sat R= 122:420 O 28 ‘16 210w
“Something different from the usual ‘war book.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 28 ‘17 370w
“He is a man of letters by profession, not a writer for this occasion only, and knows how to tell his story instead of merely blurting it out. His tone is scrupulously fair.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p518 N 2 ‘16 530w
=HENRY, FRANCIS AUGUSTUS.= Jesus and the Christian religion. *$3 (2c) Putnam 230 16-22324
In this day of religious questioning, thinks the author, “we cannot do better than to turn from disputation and go back to the fountain-head of Christianity, the life and teaching of Him we call our Lord and Master; to try to enter into His mind and gain an insight of the religion He believed in and lived by. The following pages are an attempt to bring before the reader some of the leading principles of that religion with the purpose and the hope of inducing him to make a thorough study of a subject until recently too much neglected—‘the truth as it is in Jesus,’ and not as it is in the churches or in the Letter-writers of the New Testament.” The trend of the author’s discussion all goes to show that the history of the Christian church has been one of deviation from the teachings of its founder. In this he finds the explanation of the weakness of the church in modern life. He quotes Lessing’s words, “After eighteen centuries of Christianity it is high time to go back to Christ.”
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:188 D ‘16
“The argument is conducted on an extensive scale and with ability.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p131 Mr 15 ‘17 180w
=HERFORD, OLIVER (PETER SIMPLE, pseud.).= Confessions of a caricaturist. il *$1 Scribner 817 17-24407
This little volume consists of thirty-two caricatures, accompanied by Mr Herford’s verses, of Napoleon, Roosevelt, Pierpont Morgan, Arnold Bennett, Peter Dunne, St Paul, John D. Rockefeller, “F. W. Hohenzollern,” and others.
“Clever caricatures of famous men with an equally clever short rhyme for each picture.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:50 N ‘17
“Here is an American humorist who can write and draw out of an abounding sense of fun, whose brain is fertile in conceits, and who is never insipid when his object is merely to provoke a smile. Best of all, when his purpose is satiric, his genial mood does not depart from him.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 750w
=HERGESHEIMER, JOSEPH.= Three black Pennys. *$1.50 Knopf 17-25287
“The story depicts characteristics in the Penny family. The first is the survival of a strain, appearing in widely separated generations, which had given the possessor the distinguishing title of ‘Black’ Penny; and the second—also an attribute of the strain—a black, scornful mood, an impatience at restraint and an egoistic, antisocial attitude toward life. The story is divided into three distinct parts, in each of which a ‘Black’ Penny moves upon the stage and contributes his share to the drama begun centuries earlier by the first embodiment of the foreign strain.”—Springf’d Republican
“Uncommon as this book [’Secret bread,’ by F. T. Jesse] is in mood and quality, as well as in fitness of style, we have two American novels of the season that may fairly be matched with it. One is Ernest Poole’s ‘His family,’ on which I have already said my enthusiastic say. The second is ‘The three black Pennys.’” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 46:487 D ‘17 900w
“Mr Hergesheimer is a master in his portrayal of the mind of man and the blind, not-understood, forces which urge him to what he does.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 12 ‘17 1650w
“Contributing also to the ultimate failure of the work as a novel is a smaller flaw. The characters move in the setting as though it were a mere stage back-drop. The moods, the thoughts, the spirits of the various characters are in no way changed by those minute influences which make up so large a part of the mosaic of life. Memories of the exquisite blending of man and nature by such men as Meredith, Maupassant, and Flaubert flood into the reviewer’s mind. The virtue of the book is its psychology.” B. I. Kinne
+ – — =Dial= 63:643 D 20 ‘17 1250w
“We do not suggest the quality of the tale; how, in the artist’s hands, this material, which in outline will seem merely clever or sensational, assumes dignity and a kind of beauty such as, if we were to search for an analogue, might lead us to Hawthorne rather than elsewhere.”
+ =Nation= 105:432 O 18 ‘17 400w
“In spite of the sting of its fine artistry, its adroit blend of high literary models, only fitfully and uncertainly does it touch creative height.” H. S.
+ — =New Repub= 12:334 O 20 ‘17 1050w
“Joseph Hergesheimer in this book has shown an exquisite mastery of prose form. The description of the modern iron furnace, for instance, is one of the finest word-paintings in recent fiction.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p18 D 15 ‘17 640w
“He has here fashioned a novel out of distinctively American life on an original pattern, caught the very air and flavor of three widely separated epochs of our history.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:342 S 16 ‘17 1200w
“The chief weakness of the present volume is that while the connection between the several parts is plausible, you feel that there is no inexorable connection between cause and effect. In fact, his work would have lost nothing essential if he had given it to us in the form of three unrelated short stories.” Grant Hosmer
+ — =Pub W= 92:1378 O 20 ‘17 1000w
“He adopts an ambitious plan for a writer who has been before the reading public for so short a time, but he develops his theme with skill and notable success.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 480w
=HERING, CARL, and GETMAN, FREDERICK HUTTON.= Standard table of electrochemical equivalents and their derivatives. il *$2 (7c) Van Nostrand 541.37 17-20864
“The chief purpose of this publication is to serve as a reference book on account of the tables and other data given in it, and not as a treatise on electrochemistry in general; sufficient explanatory text has however been added to enable the data to be used for most purposes without the need of a further treatise on the subject.” (Preface) The table of electrochemical equivalents is based on one worked out by Mr Hering in 1903, but it has been entirely recalculated from the latest and best internationally adopted values, including the atomic weights for 1917. Glossary and index are provided at the end.
=HERRICK, FRANCIS HOBART.= Audubon, the naturalist; a history of his life and time. 2v il *$7.50 (3½c) Appleton 17-29872
The discovery in France of a collection of fresh material bearing on Audubon’s ancestry and early life has enabled the author to write what may be called the first complete biography of the naturalist. Heretofore all that has been written on Audubon’s life has been based almost wholly on a brief sketch which he himself put together hastily in 1835, characterizing it as “a very imperfect account of my early life.” The new material supplements this fragmentary sketch and corrects it in many of its statements of fact. The two volume work, which is very fully illustrated, follows Audubon’s adventurous career in detail. The appendixes contain valuable matter, including the complete text of the French documents, some in the original, others in translation, and a bibliography, containing a fully annotated list of Audubon’s writings, biographies, criticism, and Auduboniana. Volume 2 contains the index for the complete work.
=A L A Bkl= 14:127 Ja ‘18
“One closes Mr Herrick’s notable book with a feeling of keen satisfaction over the pleasure it has afforded and of gratitude to the author for having written it. ... The scores of beautiful and most interesting illustrations also deserve mention.” F. F. Kelly
+ =Bookm= 46:329 N ‘17 250w
“Combines scholarliness with a popular style and is enhanced by many fine illustrations.”
+ =Cleveland= p12 Ja ‘18 70w
“This work by the professor of biology in Western Reserve university, himself a well-known ornithologist, is the first thorough and authoritative biography of the great naturalist whose life was one of the most romantic in American history.”
+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 8 ‘17 140w
“The volumes are beautifully printed and magnificently illustrated, many of the plates being reproductions in color of Audubon’s drawings. For the reader whose interest in Audubon is scientific the book is invaluable; the more general reader will find it a fascinating story of tremendous struggle and great achievement.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:478 N 18 ‘17 1400w
+ =Outlook= 118:31 Ja 2 ‘18 80w
“The present work gives from start to finish a sustained impression of a pioneer work. Even in the chapters that are necessarily based upon old, well-worked material, there is absolute freshness of treatment and point of view. ... As a crowning merit the work is equipped with an admirable bibliography.” Calvin Winter
+ =Pub W= 92:1388 O 20 ‘17 670w
+ =R of Rs= 57:99 Ja ‘18 130w
=HERRON, GEORGE DAVIS.= Menace of peace. *$1 (6c) Kennerley 940.91 (Eng ed 17-13835)
This little book is directed against the “clamour for a peace that shall leave the causes of the war unknown, the embattled questions unanswered,” and argues that “a peace based upon a drawn battle between the Germanic powers and the Allies is nothing else than the capitulation of the world to Prussian might and mastery,” whereas the victory of the Allies “will lead to the banishment of war from our planet.” Mr Herron believes that peace without victory would be to the interest of the munition-makers, because Europe would then continue to arm for war, and to the interest of the Vatican because, if autocracy should perish in Germany, it would perish elsewhere, and “the Catholic power depends upon the subjection of the peoples.”
Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston
— =Bookm= 46:289 N ‘17 10w
“An eloquent appeal to the Allies to endure to the end and win a complete victory for the sake of the spiritual values of humanity.”
+ =Ind= 92:60 O 6 ‘17 30w
“The burden of Dr Herron’s adjuration is ‘Germania est delenda!’ He doesn’t put it in exactly these terms; calls it necessary chastisement, justice and things of that kind. ... It is written with all the powerful and graceful diction of which Dr Herron is an undoubted master. But we cannot in common honesty say that we are greatly impressed with it.” J. W.
+ – — =N Y Call= p14 Jl 8 ‘17 700w
“Few writers upon the subject have stated the case with such comprehensive understanding of its factors, implications, and possible consequences, such compactness of presentation, such sturdy basing of argument upon the democracy that is at stake and such noble utterance.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:344 S 16 ‘17 450w
“Written in the fiery eloquence of style and elegance of diction which have always characterized Dr Herron’s polemic writings. It has incidental interest as another vigorous expression of a well-known American socialist in direct opposition to the Socialist party’s policy of pacifism.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 270w
=HERRON, GEORGE DAVIS.= Woodrow Wilson and the world’s peace. il *$1.25 (5c) Kennerley 940.91 17-25519
The author of “The menace of peace,” a Socialist, has collected in this volume six papers in defense of President Wilson’s policy and against a premature peace. All except the first, which was originally printed in the New Age of London, and afterwards in Die Freie Zeitung of Bern, were written for continental European readers, and published from Dec. 31, 1916, to July 1, 1917. The papers have been “somewhat developed,” but stand substantially as written. “Each paper has had two or more translations into other languages, other countries, than that in which it was originally published.” (Explanations and dedication) The frontispiece pictures the bust of President Wilson modeled in 1916 by Jo Davidson. Contents: Woodrow Wilson and the world’s peace; The man and the president; His initial effort; The pro-German morality of the pacifist; Pro-America; Appendix: an apologia.
=A L A Bkl= 14:89 D ‘17
— =Nation= 106:96 Ja 24 ‘18 300w
“It is exceedingly difficult to adequately review a work of this kind, when one has not the viewpoint of the author, and especially when that viewpoint shifts.” J. W.
— =N Y Call= p14 O 21 ‘17 590w
“Americans ought to be thankful that so sturdy and understanding a fellow-countryman as Mr Herron lives in Europe and endeavors to interpret the mind of America to Europeans. Indeed, a good many Americans who have never been out of their own country will do well to read Mr Herron’s book and gain thereby a less superficial understanding of the policy of this government toward the world war during its first two years and upon other matters.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:359 S 23 ‘17 900w
=HERSEY, HAROLD.= Do’s and dont’s in the army for officers and privates; an introd. to military science. *50c (2½c) Britton pub. 355 17-24260
This small book, made to fit the pocket, has chapters on: The duties and deportment of officers; The duties and deportment of enlisted men; The officer’s equipment; An enlisted man’s equipment; Hygiene; Miscellaneous information; Discipline and morale. The author says that he has “merely endeavored to help the beginner find his way through the tortuous mass of detailed knowledge he must acquire—as well as furnish ready reference for the more experienced.”
=HESLER, LEXEMUEL RAY, and WHETZEL, HERBERT HICE.= Manual of fruit diseases. (Rural manuals) il *$2 Macmillan 632 17-9694
“Fruits are arranged alphabetically from apple to strawberry and under each the known diseases are grouped in order of importance. Symptoms of each disease are given, the cause described, and the best remedy suggested. Descriptions are popular; technical terms are all explained in a glossary. The final chapter is devoted to the preparation and application of fungicides. Short bibliographies given after each disease.” (A L A Bkl) The authors of this manual are the professor and the assistant professor of plant pathology in the New York State college of agriculture, Cornell university.
“This book with Slingerland’s ‘Manual of fruit insects’ (Booklist 11:205 Ja ‘15) forms a very practical guide for the doctoring of fruit trees.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:434 Jl ‘17
“Discusses the subject from an essentially New England viewpoint, omitting from all consideration fruits and diseases that are of major interest in many states and nearly all that are of interest in our tropical possessions. The discussion of such diseases as are treated is in many instances from a local viewpoint rather than of a general nature. This is especially obvious in the treatment of such diseases as apple rust and pear blight. The illustrations are poor. ... Assuming a central New York viewpoint and interest, the book may be said to give a very complete presentation of what is known of fruit diseases, with valuable lists of references to original sources of information. It is, as the authors announce, the first American text to deal wholly with diseases of fruits, and here for the first time are brought together with comprehensive discussion many obscure and little-known diseases. The facts presented are well selected, and the book constitutes a valuable addition to the literature of plant diseases.” F. L. Stevens
+ — =Bot Gaz= 64:254 S ‘17 240w
=Cleveland= p95 Jl ‘17 30w
+ =Ind= 91:297 Ag 25 ‘17 50w
=St Louis= 15:174 Je ‘17
=HEUSSER, ALBERT HENRY.= Land of the prophets. il *$2.50 (3½c) Crowell 915.69 16-23378
The author’s advice to those who wish to visit Palestine is to “see Egypt first.” Our own home land, he says, is so attractive that Palestine suffers by comparison, but “after the burning yellow sands of the Sudan, Syria and Judea will seem to you, as to the Israelites of old, a ‘goodly land, beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth.’” The author is a lecturer for the Department of education of New York city, and his chapters have much of the informality of the spoken lecture. Contents: Port Said to Beyrout; Damascus; Galilee; Nazareth and Samaria; Ancient Jerusalem; Round about Jerusalem; Jericho and Petra; Bethlehem and Jaffa. There are many illustrations from photographs and a map.
=HEWES, AMY.= Women as munition makers, and Munition workers in England and France, by Henriette R. Walter. *75c Russell Sage foundation 331.4 17-28208
The first ninety-two pages of this book are given to a study, by Amy Hewes, professor of economics in Mt. Holyoke college and former secretary of the Massachusetts minimum wage commission, of conditions under which women were making munitions, in 1916, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. “Two articles giving the main results of the inquiry have already been published in advance of this report. ... The second of these articles, that dealing with the munition industry, was submitted in manuscript, in advance of publication, to officials of the Remington arms-union metallic cartridge company for their criticism. This procedure, customary in industrial investigations made by the Russell Sage foundation, was the more necessary in this case, because of the previous refusal of the company to give the Foundation the desired information. In the conferences which followed the reading of the manuscript, some statements were challenged, others verified, and additional material was obtained, especially regarding changes made after the field work of the investigation was completed. In response to the suggestion of the company that no study could be accurate which was not based on data obtained in the plant itself, the Foundation offered to make such a supplementary inquiry before publishing the report. This offer was refused.” (Introd.) The second section of the book (sixty-three pages) is by Henriette R. Walter, investigator for the Division of industrial studies of the Russell Sage foundation, who, under the caption “Munition workers in France and England,” summarizes reports issued by the British ministry of munitions. There is a bibliography of three pages.
Reviewed by Edith Abbott
=Am J Soc= 23:531 Ja ‘18 370w
=A L A Bkl= 14:76 D ‘17
“Although Miss Hewes’s study is confined to the subject of women as munition-makers, its social and economic findings apply generally.” H. M. Kallen
* =Dial= 63:336 O 11 ‘17 1400w
=Ind= 92:193 O 27 ‘17 80w
=HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY.= Thorgils. *$1.35 (3½c) Dodd 17-5127
Like “A lover’s tale” and “Frey and his wife” this is a Norse romance. It is the story of Thorgils of Iceland who sailed with Eric the Red and voyaged to Greenland, where he endured unnumbered hardships. Thorgils lacks the dash of some of Mr Hewlett’s other Norse heroes, notably that Gunnar who married the wife of Frey, but he is a man of might who wields great power by the force of his character.
=A L A Bkl= 13:354 My ‘17
“Mr Hewlett seems to tell his tale without effort or self-consciousness, with a bare vigour which fits his theme; with hardly a trace of verbal archaism.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 45:209 Ap ‘17 430w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 14 ‘17 1350w
“An effect of virility and massive simplicity is produced with the art that is his own; yet the result is not all that we could ask from an author so gifted. It is at once too detached, and too harmonious with the stormy note of today. We feel we have almost a right to demand from Mr Hewlett that he either beguile our troubled eyes with a lovelier vision, or give us substance of hope and inspiration for the present.”
+ — =Cath World= 105:403 Je ‘17 220w
“There are no descriptions, or conversations, or character studies. That is certainly a very different sort of writing from ‘Richard Yea and Nay,’ or ‘The queen’s quair,’ and people nowadays will not like it so well. Yet, like it or not, the result is much the same; out of the book there emerges a pretty definite figure.” E: E. Hale
+ =Dial= 62:189 Mr 8 ‘17 650w
“We seem to visualize the Norse people, their customs and picturesque life.”
+ =Lit D= 54:1087 Ap 14 ‘17 180w
+ =Nation= 104:368 Mr 29 ‘17 380w
“A little saga of the northland, very perfect in its reticence and simplicity and human appeal.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Nation= 104:404 Ap 5 ‘17 110w
“Those who like stories of adventure that deal with simple, hardy, brave men and women will find ‘Thorgils’ an entertaining tale.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:51 F 11 ‘17 350w
+ =R of Rs= 55:664 Je ‘17 50w
“With its lovemaking and fighting, its ship-building and sea sailing, the story makes a capital book for boys, who, unconscious of being instructed, might well be prepared by reading it for the reading of the saga stories.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p212 My 3 ‘17 370w
=HICHENS, ROBERT SMYTHE.= In the wilderness. il *$1.50 (1½c) Stokes 17-5984
Dion and Rosamund Leith spend the first months of their married life in Greece and when they return to England they bring with them something of the Greek spirit. In Rosamund, however, there is a touch of the ascetic. She had once contemplated a religious life, and after the birth of her son she bestows on him all the fervor and devotion of her nature. The tragedy of their life together comes after the death of this child. She holds the father responsible and turns from him. Another woman who has always loved Dion steps in at this crisis, but the danger of losing her husband awakens Rosamund. The later scenes of the story are laid in Constantinople.
+ =Ath= p102 F ‘17 50w
“It runs to nearly six hundred black pages, perhaps four hundred of them frankly through the mire. Mr Hichens is a master of the portentous style. All of his virtuous parts are done in it and are, to tell the truth, pretty dull going: the first book of the present story, before we get comfortably into the mud, is deadly.” H. W. Boynton
— =Bookm= 45:205 Ap ‘17 470w
“If ‘In the wilderness,’ were shorter, it would unquestionably be more forcible. Its nearly six hundred closely printed pages have a lifelike story to tell and an important problem to solve, but their sum and substance could easily be compressed within a third of that space with no loss to either the story or the problem.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 28 ‘17 1400w
“Now and again one has a sense of surfeit. The relentless analysis confuses and fatigues. ... Such, however, is the artfulness of Mr Hichens that one reads his book to the end and lays it down satisfied to have witnessed an achievement fine of its kind.” Alice Bishop
+ — =Dial= 62:313 Ap 5 ‘17 670w
“It is a pitiful hero who is so absolutely at the mercy of any woman, bad or good. The novel, however, is worth reading for its marvelous descriptions of Athens, Olympia, Constantinople and a little cathedral town in England.”
+ =Ind= 90:254 My 5 ‘17 200w
“It exerts a definite and compelling fascination. The hours pass along as one reads, and time seems not to be. ... It is three years since Mr Hichens last gave a novel to the reading public; the present work has no note of hurry in it; it is ripe work, carefully finished and thoroughly felt.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:53 F 18 ‘17 1500w
+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 50w
“The most satisfying love story Robert Hichens has written.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:555 My ‘17 80w
“Written with all Mr Hichens’s usual subtlety and dexterity.”
=Spec= 118:568 My 19 ‘17 90w
“The story commands the reader’s closest attention. Except for the ‘scarlet’ nature of Mrs Clarke, it is largely free from those hectic qualities which have marked several of Mr Hichens’s recent novels.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 18 ‘17 380w
“The theme that Mr Robert Hichens has chosen is the egoism of the religious mystic, and he has developed it in a way to bring out his own talent for describing the East and for suggesting the occult.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p68 F 8 ‘17 850w
=HIGGINS, SYDNEY HERBERT.= Dyeing in Germany and America; with notes on colour production. 2d ed *$1.75 Longmans 667.2 Agr17-505
“About thirty pages larger than the first edition which appeared in 1907 as ‘a report to the electors of the Gartside scholarship of the University of Manchester on the results of a tour in the United States of America and Germany in 1905-1906.’ Intended to give a general survey of dyeing and its allied industries in the two countries. The text has been changed slightly and three chapters have been added, German and English flannelettes, Instruction in dyeing, and a continuation of the chapter on Colour production.”—A L A Bkl
=A L A Bkl= 13:459 Jl ‘17
“The author has been for nine years demonstrator in the dyehouse of the Manchester school of technology and in addition works as chemist and manager.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 25 ‘17 130w
“The author has gained much practical experience in dye and bleach works, the results of which are embodied in the new volume. This has added considerably to its value, particularly in the sections dealing with mercerisation and bleaching. ... The new edition of the book has been largely rewritten throughout, with great advantage. The concluding section deals with the future prospects of the dye-manufacturing industries in Britain, France, and the United States.” W. M. G.
+ =Nature= 99:303 Je 14 ‘17 530w
=HIGGINSON, MRS ELLA (RHOADS).= Alaska, the great country. new ed il *$2.50 Macmillan 917.98 17-12395
“Mrs Higginson’s notable book on ‘Alaska,’ first published nine years ago, has been revised, new material has been added, and the story of ‘the great country’ has been brought down to date. The body of the book, which deals with the scenic beauties, early history, native customs, resources, and the charm of the country, the author has not changed. But in a supplementary chapter she tells what has happened during the past ten years, and what is the present condition in railroad development, in commerce, mining, in the fishing and agricultural industries. ... The work has a map and half a hundred illustrations from photographs.”—N Y Times
“Anyone who has visited Alaska will appreciate the enthusiasm which colors every page of this delightful volume.”
+ =Cath World= 106:545 Ja ‘18 130w
“Mrs Higginson’s descriptions and her photographs of fir-tipped points, of swirling rapids, Eskimos in their parkas, and dog teams harnessed for their run across the frozen spaces, all make one long poignantly for bracing northern air and life among hardy, simple people.”
+ =Dial= 63:350 O 11 ‘17 260w
+ =N Y Times= 22:229 Je 17 ‘17 180w
“Although the material presented is rather unsystematically put together and the style of presentation rather disjointed and unliterary, the book contains such a vast amount of information that it has met with considerable favor, necessitating a number of reprintings. Unfortunately this ‘new edition with new matter’ is produced in the easier and less expensive way of reprinting from the old plates the body of the book and adding a chapter at the end. In this latter is thrown together in an even more formless manner than is employed in the body of the book and, in a way of presentation that is, from the literary point of view, decidedly crude, the necessary information about the development of the last ten years. The original index is reprinted, and thus the new material is not indexed.”
– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 250w
=HILL, DAVID JAYNE.= Rebuilding of Europe. *$1.50 (3c) Century 327.4 17-28774
Dr Hill, former university professor, has been minister to Switzerland and to the Netherlands, and ambassador to the German empire. In this book, based on lectures delivered at Johns Hopkins university, he argues that “the great war is a revolution against the alleged rights of arbitrary force, rendered necessary by the failure to reach the goal of a secure international organization by an evolutionary process”; that the war was caused by “economic imperialism”; that its main issue is “the right of people to dispose of themselves,” that no permanent peace can coexist with the old European idea of state sovereignty. Dr Hill tries to show that the real enemy to be destroyed is not “any particular form of mere state organization,” but this “dogma that the state is a licensed brigand.” Various forms of international organization are discussed, and the author concludes that while “a general international government” is neither possible nor desirable, we may reasonably expect the formation of “a strong, but limited, group of powers, each willing to sacrifice something of its own sovereignty for the purpose of insuring peace and equity.” The last chapter deals with “America’s interest in the new Europe.” Five chapters were in part printed in the Century Magazine for 1917.
=Bookm= 46:286 N ‘17 50w
“An illuminating and forceful presentation of the war, regarded as a revolution against economic imperialism.”
+ =Cleveland= p2 Ja ‘18 50w
“A very helpful exposition of the forces and conditions that have been prevailing in Europe and which must be taken into account when a definite plan for the reconstruction of civilization is undertaken after the war. The story is simple and direct, and the presentation is that of the trained scholar and publicist. The book deserves wide reading.”
+ =Educ R= 54:531 D ‘17 90w
“No man in America was probably better equipped than Dr Hill to treat the momentous topic discussed in this volume. ... He understood the German people and the German mind. He could analyze feelings and facts with rare intelligence and sure skill. He speaks, therefore, as one having authority.”
+ =Lit D= 55:42 D 1 ‘17 600w
“To the socialist reader the treatment of the subject will necessarily appear vague.” Joshua Wanhope
— =N Y Cal=l p19 D 15 ‘17 900w.
=HILL, JANET (MCKENZIE) (MRS BENJAMIN M. HILL).= Cakes, pastry and dessert dishes. il *$1.50 Little 641.5 17-24721
The editor of the Boston Cooking School Magazine has added another to her already substantial list of cook-books. The publishers have given large, clear type and over sixty enticing illustrations reproduced from photographs. The index carries over 500 entries which include the old favorite cakes and desserts as well as many less-known ones.
“A tantalizing collection of recipes to be published in war times. However, it contains bran cookies as well as a twelve-egg torte. There are brief general directions at the head of each chapter which are useful and the recipes are easy to follow.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:80 D ‘17
“A boon indeed to young and old planners of meals. Carefully indexed, attractively illustrated and admirably printed and bound, a most satisfactory production in every particular.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 13 ‘17 110w
=R of Rs= 56:554 N ‘17 50w
“Since desserts are now reckoned among the luxuries of life in many households, the possessor of this book will be obliged to wait some time perhaps before she will feel that all the recipes may be added to her list of available favorites. This does not mean that all the recipes are unduly extravagant, for there are many of moderate cost.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 170w
=HILL, JOHN ARTHUR.= Psychical investigations; some personally-observed proofs of survival. *$2 (2½c) Doran 134 17-13827
Mr Hill has written other books on psychical research. He tells us: “at the beginning of my investigations, my prejudices and wishes were opposed to the conclusions which the facts gradually forced upon me. If I am now biased in favour of the belief in personal life after death, it is objective fact, not subjective preference, that has brought it about. And my judgments have not been hasty. I have worked at the subject for over eleven years.” (Preface) About one-half of the book is given up to verbatim reports of sittings with three different mediums, A. Wilkinson, Tom Tyrrell, and A. V. Peters. At one of the meetings with Mr Peters, occurred some of the incidents related by Sir Oliver Lodge in “Raymond.” Several chapters deal with the methods employed in psychical research. Other chapters deal with: Immortality; Home mediumship; Telepathy and survival; Psychical phenomena in earlier times; Pre-existence and the nature of the after-life; Psychical research and religion.
=N Y Times= 22:281 Jl 29 ‘17 580w
“The special interest of this volume is to be found in the fact that it deals, not with alleged messages from important or well-known people, but with communications, or what profess to be communications, from very ordinary and very often rather dull types of deceased humanity. It is not a book from which any spicy or sensational quotations are to be drawn. Nevertheless, open-minded investigators will find it worth perusal.”
+ =Spec= 118:613 Je 2 ‘17 350w
“An investigator as careful and open-minded as Mr Hill is entitled to the opinion based upon his experience, and is justified in his endeavour to show that the conclusion to which his experience leads him, a decision in favour of the reality of spirit communications, is not incompatible with philosophy or religion.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p150 Mr 29 ‘17 1000w
=HILL, MARION (HILL) (MRS CHARLES R. HILL).= McAllister’s grove. il *$1.40 Appleton 17-13950
“This new novel is a delightfully written little story of a girl, a man, and an orange grove. Laurie McAllister—full name, Annie Laurie—had saved a little bit of money; her aristocratic old grandfather and only living relative suffered greatly from the cold of New York winters, and the advertisements about Florida were most alluring. ... To Florida they went, she and her grandfather, who in Scotland was ‘The McAllister,’ and there she discovered that the grove was in an utterly forlorn and neglected condition, the trees having been starved for years. ... Though she soon learned that the number of ills to which flesh is heir are as nothing compared with those which are the natural inheritance of an orange grove, she struggled along, and while she would certainly have been beaten had it not been for Charles Roycroft and his chivalrous sacrifice, she won out at the end.”—N Y Times
=A L A Bkl= 13:450 Jl ‘17
“A story both cleverly conceived and cleverly told, with a refreshing spontaneity and sincerity.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Jl 14 ‘17 420w
=Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 60w
“An unusually well-written story which does not put too heavy a strain upon the reader’s credulity and which has a vivid charm by way of local color and much genuine humor.”
+ =Dial= 63:74 Jl 19 ‘17 120w
“The book contains an interesting account of the growing and packing of oranges.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:211 My 27 ‘17 400w
=HILL, WILLIAM ELY.= Among us mortals; pictures and legends by W: E. Hill; text by Franklin P. Adams. *$1 Houghton 817 17-30263
Mr Hill’s profession, so Franklin P. Adams says, is helping make the world safe from hypocrisy. The collection of drawings offered in this volume shows some of his best efforts in that direction. Mr Adams says in his “Preface to a preface,” “Hill is popular, by which I mean universal, because you think his pictures look like somebody you know, like Eddie, or Marjorie, or Aunt Em. But they don’t; they look like you. Or, if you prefer, like me.” When the reader finds himself, somewhere in the group, surely the great disillusioning comes. Perhaps one may be the lady laughing at a Ford joke, or one of the two faculty wives having the time of their lives pulling Mrs Prexy to pieces; or perhaps one may be the young man who makes an unfortunate break, or the artist who discovers that the only one of his pictures sold has been hung upside down. It is the sort of glass Cassius would be to Brutus—one that “reveals that of yourself which you yet know not of.”
“Unmistakably American.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:157 F ‘18
“These drawings have attracted much attention in the New York Tribune, striking a new and very penetrating note in American caricature.”
+ =Dial= 64:36 Ja 3 ‘18 60w
“Solving the problem of Yuletide—what to give for Christmas—is a difficult matter. ... ‘Among us mortals’ is the kind of book which can be sent to anybody with perfect safety. The wisest will laugh at Hill’s pictures and F. P. A.’s nonsense, and the foolish will take it seriously.” L. G.
+ =N Y Call= p14 Ja 5 ‘18 230w
=HILLS, RALPH WINCHESTER.= Machine drawing. (Industrial education ser.) il *$1 McGraw 744 17-19718
“‘Machine drawing’ is the title of a new book on this subject prepared in the extension division of the University of Wisconsin, by Ralph W. Hills, instructor in mechanical drawing. ‘The material in this volume is the first half of the instruction papers as developed and used by the extension division. ... The second volume will be devoted to the more specialized lines of work.’ The author avoids needless technicalities and begins at once with ‘real drawings.’”—School Arts Magazine
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p12 Jl ‘17 50w
=Pittsburgh= 22:651 O ‘17
“He pays no attention to perspective effects when sketching freehand, and but little to pleasing arrangement of sheet. It is a reliable guide to mechanical drawing.”
+ — =School Arts Magazine= 17:94 O ‘17 160w
“‘The text and problems have been carefully prepared and arranged so as to develop speed, accuracy, neatness, and a knowledge of the best drafting room practices.’ The above quotation from the preface is thoroughly justified. Supplementing the chapters on principles and those on detail and assembly drawing there is one on Technical sketching that should prove valuable.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 17:228 Ja ‘18 130w
Hindu mind training; by an Anglo-Saxon mother; with an introd. by S. M. Mitra. *$3.50 Longmans 371.4 E17-302
“The author, dissatisfied with various western systems of mind training ... turned her attention to the ancient Hindu system of mind training, into which she was initiated by the writer of the introduction to her book. The system largely depends upon unconscious or preconscious cerebration. ... By a series of psychological questions and answers on subjectmatter previously narrated, the pupil’s mind is prepared, the author states, to receive facts, to interpret them correctly, to distinguish facts from opinions, to reason accurately, to differentiate between the logic of words and the logic of facts, and to make practical use of the information so gained. Character is in this way developed. The book contains many examples of this method of training receptive minds.” (Ath) “Mr Mitra is an Indian writer and teacher of much ability, whose works are well known to those who study Indian thought and politics. ... In an introduction he explains the advantage of the procedure, and also devotes some pages to a comparison between Hindu and Western philosophic thought while he appends, at the close of the book, an essay instituting a comparison between the analytic psychology in ancient Sanskrit literature with that to be found in La Rochefoucauld, under the title ‘Franco-Hindu psychological affinity.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
=Ath= p96 F ‘17 150w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:103 Jl ‘17
=Pittsburgh= 22:692 O ‘17 40w
“A careful perusal of the Hindu stories impressed upon the young in the course of an Anglo-Saxon Mother’s many trials will produce in most minds trained in philosophic thought a profound conviction that neither Hindu philosophy nor Hindu morality is suitable for inculcation in this country. The logical deductions are too divergent from our whole social and moral system. ... This book, if it cannot be regarded as an educational gospel, will do something to provoke interest in Indian moralities.”
=Sat R= 123:sup6 My 19 ‘17 420w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p58 F 1 ‘17 220w
=HINES, JOHN CHESTERFIELD (JACK HINES).= Blue streak. il *$1.35 (3c) Doran 17-25860
Ten stories for young and old of ice bound Alaskan trails whose central figures are fearless, heroic, obedient wolf dogs. These malamutes have a sympathetic champion in the writer who tells of the kind of dog devotion that can lavish the love of a life time upon a supreme effort to save a master; or that can starve and die if need be, in the traces of duty. It is this sort of creature that hears his master exclaim, “What dog words are there that I can bark or howl long enough to proclaim what you are!” The half wild, half domesticated friend and servant of the lonely trapper and miner is well-nigh immortalized in these chapters that proclaim the blue streak in dog nature.
“All of them are vigorous human tales of the Yukon, and they are written obviously by a genuine lover of dogs. Boys will enjoy the adventurous aspect of these stories; and yet the best one of them all does not deal with adventures, but with a trial.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 230w
“The stories are convincingly written because they are not well written. If done in a facile style they would probably be accepted as merely entertaining. But the very faults of redundancy and sentimentalism and occasional failure of action are faults natural to a story-teller who is engaged rather in showing the bravery, beauty, and cleverness of his beloved thoroughbreds than in producing a finished tale.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:414 O 21 ‘17 180w
“Mr Hines reveals himself a delightful story-teller. He does not waste words, but drives straight at the point he intends to illustrate.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 230w
=HINKSON, KATHARINE (TYNAN) (MRS HENRY ALBERT HINKSON).= Middle years. *$3.50 Houghton (*10s 6d Constable & co., London) (Eng ed 17-11336)
“‘Katharine Tynan’s’ earlier volume of reminiscences agreeably whetted the appetite of her readers for further memories, and this record of what she calls ‘the middle years’ eclipses its predecessor in the interest and variety of its contents. In it she describes the close of her girlhood in Dublin and some twenty years of married life spent in England before her return to Ireland shortly before the war. In a sense it is the story of an exile from Erin, because she was never Anglicized, Ireland remained the true home of her heart, and her most intimate friends were Irish or people with Irish affiliations. But though Irish to the core, a devout Roman Catholic, and an intense admirer of Parnell, she does not harbour any anti-English animosity.”—Spec
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:399 Je ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 4 ‘17 670w
“The real centres of interest are about the Meynells, Francis Thompson, and Lionel Johnson. ... And those to whom these names already mean much as the names of leaders in modern letters, will find that their affection deepens in proportion to their more intimate, familiar acquaintance with the objects of that affection.”
+ =Cath World= 105:535 Jl ‘17 600w
“Her record conveys the impression that she has been delightfully busy, tirelessly interested, and exuberantly happy. Her prime gifts, which richly flavor the volume, are her Celtic blood, her quick warm sympathies, her affection for almost all kinds of men and women and all kinds of flowers and pets.”
+ =Nation= 105:459 O 25 ‘17 680w
“Those who read ‘Twenty-five years: reminiscences’ were persuaded that Miss Tynan lives a most enviable life; those who read ‘The middle years’ will be convinced of it. It is a charmingly intimate talk with the author about all her friends, and unconsciously she conveys to us a very lovable portrait of her own cheery self.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:139 Ap 15 ‘17 1400w
“It is really as a novel, veraciously and graciously picturing life, that one reads ‘The middle years.’ The story is a true one, of course, but its spirit is more important than its facts. Even in the fuller portraits, what one thinks of is friendship and character, rather than the details of the picture.”
+ =No Am= 206:131 Jl ‘17 830w
=R of Rs= 55:667 Je ‘17 70w
“These chapters abound in generous and affectionate tributes to those who were near and dear to her, who shared her ideals, encouraged her in her work, and applauded her successes. Her early days in London brought her in contact with many remarkable people in the literary world, and the letters from Mr W. B. Yeats, from ‘Æ’ (Mr George Russell), from Francis Thompson, and from Mr George Wyndham would alone make the book cheap at double the price.”
+ =Spec= 118:272 Mr 3 ‘17 1900w
“Against Katharine Tynan herself the accusation of having substituted literature for life cannot be brought. One learns enough of the woman and the mother to see that her life has been full and very human. There is a mellowness about the last chapters that leaves one warmed.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p579 D 7 ‘16 1100w
=HIRSCH, MRS CHARLOTTE (TELLER).= Diary of an expectant mother. il $1.25 (2½c) McClurg 618.2 17-12627
This is the story of a woman who wanted children but feared the months of waiting before the birth of her first child, and who did not know how to live hygienically under such conditions. In addition to much advice as to her personal life, the nursery, the baby’s outfit, etc., are considered. The book is exceedingly popular in style.
“As a volume for the perusal of other expectant mothers we can heartily recommend this work. It is not loaded with technicalities, and is in no sense a treatise on obstetrics and maternity generally, but rather a sane and excellent preventive against needless worry, while at the same time emphasizing the natural character of the episode of motherhood and recommending the simple, sensible course that should be pursued during the period.” J. W.
+ =N Y Call= p14 S 9 ‘17 370w
=HITCHCOCK, ALFRED MARSHALL.=[2] Over Japan way. il *$2 (3c) Holt 915.2 17-31433
An informing, entertaining book about Japan, handsomely illustrated, which is made up of the impressions of an American tourist with eyes wide open. After six days of “monotonous blue” he lands and claims the reader for companion while he runs the gamut of first sensations, which he remarks, “are cause for grayer hair about the temples.” The rikisha, the tram, the bewildering sights thru “wide streets, narrow streets, narrower street, alleys barely wide enough for a wheelbarrow, dark places and still darker suggest treachery, ambush.” He tells about the inns and hotels, he visits schools from the kindergarten to the university, goes shopping, attends a play, beards a volcano, visits shrines and sacred places and touches the high spots of Japanese scenery. He records lightly his experiences and their play upon his emotions.
“The author writes in an intimate, conversational style. Everything is given with a running fire of humorous side remarks that entertain as well as instruct.”
+ =Lit D= 56:40 Ja 12 ‘18 160w
“The quaint, genial, shrewdly humorous observations of Mr Hitchcock serve to make this an unusual book of travel. No attempt is made to pass over the submerged side of life as seen in the segregated parts of the large cities and in the daily grind of industry.”
+ =N Y Call= p14 Ja 26 ‘18 450w
“Despite obvious drawbacks, the author conveys a distinct and convincing impression of the Japanese scene. He is frankly an outsider and gives his views with some humor, appreciating that his sincerity is not to be confounded with the profundity of the research student.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:10 Ja 13 ‘18 200w
“In text and illustration this latest book on Japan seems in some respects the best of the short accounts.”
+ =Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 30w
“Entertaining travel sketches embellished by a series of beautifully reproduced photographs.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:219 F ‘18 20w
“He has not added much to the substance of our knowledge about Japan, but he has written a book of travel sketches, in which impressions are expressed gracefully and ingratiatingly. There is a graphic touch in his words, and the reader is able to share the images and ideas in the author’s mind.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 3 ‘18 370w
=HITSCHMANN, EDUARD.= Freud’s theories of the neuroses; auth. tr. by Dr C: R. Payne, with an introd. by Ernest Jones. *$2 Moffat 130 17-4719
“What may be called the orthodox or strict Freudian conception of neurotic conditions, briefly set forth by Hitschmann, holds that the neuroses originate in the sex life of the individual, the form of the nervous disturbance differing in accordance with the strain that the sex life has undergone. There are ‘true neurasthenia’ types resulting [from four causes]. ... Freud’s ‘psychoanalytic’ method of treating these conditions is explained and a chapter is devoted to his views regarding prophylaxis.” (Survey) “At the end of the book there is a useful chronological review of Freud’s works from 1893 to 1910, as well as a catalogue of Freudian literature in English.” (N Y Times)
“Hitschmann’s book is aimed primarily at physicians, although it is by far the most readable, and most clearly expressed of the three. [The other two referred to are Adler’s ‘Neurotic constitution,’ and Pfister’s ‘Psychoanalytic method’].” Wilfrid Lay
+ =Bookm= 45:199 Ap ‘17 50w
“The translation, like all of Dr Payne’s translations, is accurate, lucid, and in excellent style.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:331 S 9 ‘17 320w
“An interpretation of Freud which adds little, either in reasoning or examples, to Freud’s own statement of his theories.”
=Springf’d Republican= p6 F 20 ‘17 150w
Reviewed by R. S. Woodworth
=Survey= 38:361 Jl 21 ‘17 200w
=HOAR, ROGER SHERMAN.= Constitutional conventions. *$2 Little 342.7 17-16733
A collection of all of the available law and precedent relating to the nature, powers and limitations of constitutional conventions. The book has been prepared by a former state senator of Massachusetts who was a member of the commission to compile information and data for the use of the Massachusetts convention now in session. With authority and thoroughness the writer answers questions of this character: What gives validity to this method, so frequently used to amend our state constitutions? Is the convention, once launched, subject to either legislative, executive, judicial or even popular control? Is the convention bound by law, or even by the constitution? Can it control the other branches of the government? Can it create a new constitution, without submitting it to the people for ratification? All of these questions, and many more like them, are answered in this book, the only modern and up-to-date text-book on the subject.
“A reliable textbook on a subject which has seldom been treated at any length.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:113 Ja ‘18
Reviewed by J. Q. Dealey
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:143 F ‘18 440w
=Ind= 92:487 D 8 ‘17 30w
“For the statesman, the lawyer, and the student of public affairs, even for the courts, indeed, there is a wealth of useful information within the covers of this book. He has not been altogether successful in keeping to the rôle of non-partisan. Between the lines it is easy to detect, in many instances, Mr Hoar’s own political leanings. His progressivism refuses to stay in the background. Yet this is, after all, a small blemish.”
+ — =Nation= 106:117 Ja 31 ‘18 400w
“Mr Hoar’s careful analysis of the various problems arising whenever a revision of a state’s fundamental law is undertaken, is applicable in every state, and will, no doubt, be the standard treatise for many years to come.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:326 S ‘17 220w
“The index is of special value. The author’s opportunity to produce such a work reliably has been a public advantage.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 330w
=HOBHOUSE, LEONARD TRELAWNY.= Questions of war and peace. *3s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London 940.91 (Eng ed 16-16727)
“There is, as might be expected from a thinker so able as Dr Hobhouse, much that is suggestive in these three papers, two of which—‘The soul of civilization’ (reprinted from the Contemporary Review) and ‘The hope of the world’—are in the form of dialogues. In the first the writer shows how he has come to regard the war as an inevitable clash between two separate civilizations, with two religions, and expresses his belief that there will result from it a more genuine feeling both about nationality and about public right. The second covers much ground—views of the war and its problems, of the conflict between freedom and state control, &c. ... The third paper gives the substance of an address at the National liberal club on January 18 [1916], of which the chief feature is the author’s plea that the existing alliance may form the basis of a much wider one, may point to ‘the ultimate ideal of internationalism at two or three removes.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“‘The hope of the world’ is especially interesting. ... One will go far to find a better brief of discussion of the militarist state, the prospects of democracy, the ‘laws’ of human society, and, in general, the ‘hope of the world,’”
+ =Nation= 104:48 Ja 11 ‘17 300w
=Nation= 105:297 S 13 ‘17 450w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:187 D ‘16
“In these brilliant Platonic dialogues on current questions Professor L. T. Hobhouse, the Martin-White professor of sociology in the University of London, has provided us with a delightful entertainment. This can be safely said without committing ourselves to Mr Hobhouse’s conclusions. He handsomely admits that he was wrong in the past about Germany and that he misjudged Lord Grey of Fallodon’s policy.”
+ =Spec= 118:17 Ja 6 ‘17 1350w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p311 Je 29 ‘16 190w
=HOBSON, JOHN ATKINSON.= Evolution of modern capitalism. il *$1.75 Scribner 331 17-13332
“In this revised edition of his well-known work the author has included a long supplementary chapter, the first part of which deals with industrial and commercial movements during the decade preceding the war. Some of the new economic facts and forces revealed by the experiences of the war, the problems they contain, and the tendencies they exhibit are then set forth, as a contribution towards a speculative forecast of capitalism in the early future.”—Ath
=Ath= p96 F ‘17 70w
=Dial= 63:457 N 8 ‘17 330w
+ =N Y Times= 23:3 Ja 6 ‘18 930w
=HODGE, HAROLD.= In the wake of the war, parliament or imperial government? *$1.50 Lane 328 17-21846
“The late editor of the Saturday Review makes the same allegations about the impotence of the House of commons, the nullity of the rank and file of M.P.’s, etc., as raised such a storm of contradiction when they were made by Messrs Belloc and Chesterton in ‘The party system’ and ‘The servile state.’ He is concerned, however, less with the affairs of the United Kingdom than with the future of the empire; and he proposes to take imperial matters out of the hands of what is mistakenly called the Imperial Parliament, and put them under a separate and independent body. After considering various plans he concludes that, party government being a failure, the best solution would be for the crown ... to appoint a council of ten, five citizens of the Dominions, and five citizens of the United Kingdom. ... In order that it should reflect the will of the citizens of the empire, it should consult them by means of referenda.”—Ath
=Ath= p408 Ag ‘17 270w
=Boston Transcript= p9 D 8 ‘17 580w
“‘In the wake of the war,’ is well written in point of style. ... Mr Hodge is sick of parties and believes they have had their day. ... We go gaily along the path of criticism with Mr Hodge. It is when he arrives at the unmapped region of reconstruction that we reluctantly part company. He proposes to strip Parliament of the powers and duties which make it interesting and respectable and to hand these over to an Imperial council of ten, nominated by the king, and armed with the referendum. To this scheme we object: (1) That Parliament will not allow itself to be stripped. (2) That the king cannot appoint anybody of his own motion. (3) That the referendum in Australia and in the United States (v. the Oregonian constitution) has been a failure. ... We think our author is mistaken in supposing that the Colonies would agree to the common management of imperial affairs.”
+ — =Sat R= 124:29 Jl 14 ‘17 950w
“Whatever scheme may be adopted for imperial government, it will certainly not be Mr Hodge’s.”
— =Spec= 119:121 Ag 4 ‘17 170w
=HODGES, GEORGE.= Religion in a world at war. *$1 (5½c) Macmillan 252 17-14691
Eight short sermons or essays on the relation of Christianity to war, and, more especially, to the present war, by the dean of the Episcopal theological school at Cambridge, Mass.
=A L A Bkl= 14:74 D ‘17
+ =Bib World= 50:375 D ‘17 80w
=Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 40w
“From the standpoint of practical homiletics, as a source of comfort or encouragement, or as a stimulus to action, Dean Hodge’s sermons on the war are rather unimpressive. As the reflection of a point of view they are significant. ... It is evident that Dean Hodges finds the whole subject of the war embarrassing and difficult. The effect of facing his difficulties frankly is, however, to give us a sane and courageous expression of what, it seems, must needs be the attitude of a Christian minister towards the war.”
+ — =Nation= 105:431 O 18 ‘17 550w
“The book really demands no review—it is little more than a collection of drab and conventional biblical paraphrases justifying America’s participation in the war.” Bertram Benedict
— =N Y Call= p14 Ag 19 ‘17 1350w
“This is a book for the nation. It clarifies and confirms our national confession, ‘In God we trust.’”
+ =Outlook= 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 60w
“A most stimulating book that can be read to mental, moral, and spiritual profit.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:329 S ‘17 150w
=HODGSON, RALPH.= Poems. *75c Macmillan 821 17-14542
This collection of twenty-five poems is a reprint of the verses which, before the war, used to appear at intervals in England in tiny booklets with mustard-colored paper covers and decorations, plain or colored, by Mr Lovat Fraser. The writer was recently awarded the Edward de Polignac prize.
=A L A Bkl= 14:86 D ‘17
“There is in his verse a vein of blunt and unsophisticated enthusiasm for ideals.”
+ =Ath= p401 Ag ‘17 1100w
“Mr Hodgson has a place of his own among the minor poets of to-day. None writes more naturally; none has such an objective, simple, and direct style, or aims less at mere literary effects. His is the poetry, not of ideas, but of sights, sensations, raptures. In forms that appear artless because they are such excellent art, it is the spontaneous expression of the lyric ecstasy of life and action, and of the natural faith of one who joys in his being as a particle in a glorious universe, untroubled by the mystery of existence.”
+ =Ath= p413 Ag ‘17 200w
“What gives Mr Hodgson his distinction is his subtle fancy which may be seen at the finest in ‘The song of honor,’ ‘The bull’ (which is a rather wonderful piece of realism) and ‘Babylon,’ as well as in some of the brief lyric catches where a single idea is caught like a bee in a flower. In the whole volume there are only twenty-five titles and in spite of the above-mentioned faults they will be prized by all lovers of poetry.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 11 ‘17 350w
+ =Cleveland= p121 N ‘17 170w
“Mr Hodgson is that rarity in these times, a poet of very small production, and of production on a uniformly high level. ... His chief value lies in what he has to say. There are two arts in poetry: the art of precisely saying what one has in mind; and, even more important (though less regarded), the art of excluding from one’s conception all that is not of pure value. It is particularly in this latter respect that Mr Hodgson excels. The most arresting feature of his work, however, is the fact that though he is essentially a lyric poet he is none the less essentially objective,—never, or seldom, speaking in his own voice, or developing, psychologically, any personal or dramatic viewpoint.” Conrad Aiken
+ + — =Dial= 63:150 Ag 30 ‘17 1700w
“There is not a page in this book that is not beautiful; to come upon a volume of this sort is a real pleasure to the critic wearied with much technically excellent, but commonplace perfunctory, verse. ... Most readers will agree with the London Nation in calling ‘Eve’ ‘the most fascinating poem of our time.’”
+ =Lit D= 55:32 Ag 11 ‘17 1400w
“Mr Hodgson is something of a blend of Davies’ naïveté and de la Mare’s melodic magic; he is less distinctive than either. ‘Eve’ has some undoubted elements of greatness; ‘The bull,’ the short ‘The mystery,’ ‘After,’ and other poems possess great beauty or some striking quality.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 200w
+ =R of Rs= 56:217 Ag ‘17 170w
“That the original queer and charming booklets—original in every sense of the word—will always be treasured and preferred by those who possess them we take to be certain. But in the new volume the poems stand the test of collective and separate presentment well, and promise, it seems to us, to endure as long as anything of our time whether as a rounded achievement on a small scale or as earnest of larger things to come. ... It is the unfailing suggestion of vastness and the beyond, coupled with the insistently vivid realization of the present and the immediate, which gives Mr Hodgson’s work perhaps its most characteristic distinction.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p283 Je 14 ‘17 1450w
Hohenzollerns through German eyes. 1s Hutchinson, London 741
“The book consists of a series of cartoons, all dealing with the Kaiser and the Prussian royal family, selected from the well-known Munich comic paper Simplicissimus, from November, 1903 [March, 1906?] to May, 1914. The paper made it its main business to attack the imperial government, German militarist ideals, and clerical sycophancy.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“To readers unfamiliar with the latitude in respect to criticism of the German emperor and his family permitted, at all events prior to the war, in some of the German satirical journals, this collection of cartoons will be a revelation.”
=Ath= p360 Jl ‘17 80w
“The paper [is] universally known for the excellence of its draughtsmen, amongst whom O. Gulbransson is perhaps the cleverest of all. ... It is rather surprising that material which gives such striking corroboration from the German side to much in our representation of the Kaiser and his entourage, should not have been brought before the British public till now. From the outbreak of the war Simplicissimus has been as strongly nationalist as before it was rebellious.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p269 Je 7 ‘17 500w
=HOLCOMBE, ARTHUR NORMAN.= State government in the United States. *$2.25 (1c) Macmillan 353.9 17-51
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“This will be useful as a reference work or text for advanced students.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:428 Jl ‘17
“The work shows a careful study of the great mass of material and a systematic organization of the data, forming the most important single contribution thus far made to the whole subject.” J: A. Fairlie
+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:344 My ‘17 650w
“An excellent survey of the whole field of state government, its history, tendencies and needs. There is less detail on the administrative side than in Mathews’ ‘Principles of American state administration,’ but the discussion of political reforms is much fuller.”
+ =Cleveland= p68 My ‘17 50w
+ =Educ R= 54:97 Je ‘17 60w
+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:151 Ap 19 ‘17 180w
+ =Ind= 90:252 My 5 ‘17 130w
“The tendency of modern reformers is to concentrate attention upon a single measure and to ignore its effect upon the general system of which it forms a part. Works such as this serve, with those who will attend to them, to check this tendency, and therein lies their special merit.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:127 Ap 8 ‘17 120w
+ =R of Rs= 55:444 Ap ‘17 50w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 14 ‘18 850w
“Very interesting, and by no means without instruction for ourselves, is Mr Holcombe’s account of the working of the party system and of the efforts made by the sovereign people to escape from the tyranny of the ‘machine.’ Of special value is the light which Mr Holcombe throws on the working of the most recent experiments in the initiative, referendum, and recall. The book is not light reading, though of absorbing interest.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p158 Ap 5 ‘17 1800w
=HOLDICH, SIR THOMAS HUNGERFORD.= Political frontiers and boundary making. *$3.25 Macmillan 320.1 16-23414
“It has been the lot of Sir Thomas Holdich to give practical consideration in many parts of the world to problems of boundary settlement. ... His present aim is governed by the fact that among the few writers who treat of this important subject he can find no authoritative opinion based on practical experience, no elementary work in which the stern needs of political discretion are shown to be at variance with the sentiments cherished by idealists. ... The sovereign purpose of a national frontier is to promote friendly relations between neighbour states by putting a definite edge to the territorial and political horizon of both; then trespass cannot be easy in a time of excitement, and secret planned aggression has natural difficulties to overcome before it can do harm to a peaceable country. Sir Thomas Holdich considers these conditions in boundary-making, and shows how they may be made real—or as real as human nature will permit them to be—in a statesmanly choice of a frontier.”—Sat R
“It is with the major premise that most readers of the volume will be tempted to quarrel. ... Apart from the particular theory upon which the volume rests there is much that is of value in the author’s description of the geographic features of boundary lines, and the chapters upon the delimitation of frontiers in Asia, Africa and South America will be read with particular interest.” C. G. Fenwick
+ — =Am Pol Sci R= 11:354 My ‘17 450w
Reviewed by C. L. Jones
+ =Ann Am Acad= 71:237 My ‘17 320w
“Sir Thomas Holdich has known these frontiers from their first formation in the seventies of last century, and is probably better qualified to write of them than any other man alive. The descriptions in his book will be of permanent importance, but the book ranges far from the Pamirs and Andes over broad fields of political theory and the European war, and here it will not go unchallenged.”
+ =Ath= p23 Ja ‘17 1600w
“The author, who served on the Afghan, Asmar, and Argentine-Chile Boundary commissions and was superintendent of frontier surveys of India, here speaks with authority on a theme of timely interest.”
+ =Cleveland= p147 D ‘16 30w
“His book is easily the best discussion of its subject that exists in the English language. I can only hope that in a second edition it will be given the illustrative maps it so badly needs.” H. J. Laski
+ =Dial= 62:96 F 8 ‘17 70w
“The great blemish in his book is the conspicuous absence of index and maps.”
+ — =Nation= 104:405 Ap 5 ‘17 1400w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:187 D ‘16 40w
=St Louis= 15:8 Ja ‘17
+ =Sat R= 122:350 O 7 ‘16 1300w
“A brave, a breezy, a timely, and a suitably optimistic book. ... His conclusions are extremely interesting, they are expressed in admirably clear and striking phrases, they are enlivened by vivid and captivating pictures of the wild hill tracts.”
+ =Spec= 117:sup529 N 4 ‘16 1000w
“He invariably approaches the subject of which he is a master without any marked political prepossessions. Sir Thomas Holdich is a geographer, and not a politician. Yet no frontier-maker can be indifferent to political considerations; and so he tells us that in dealing with problems of boundary settlement his object has been ‘to ensure peace and good will between contiguous peoples by putting a definite edge to the national political horizon, so as to limit unauthorized expansion and trespass.’”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p483 O 12 ‘16 1500w
=HOLDSWORTH, JOHN THOM.=[2] Money and banking. *$2.25 (1½c) Appleton 332 17-24253
The first edition of this work was published in 1914. Of the changes in the new edition, the author says, “the most significant, perhaps, are those involving clearings and collections, Federal reserve currency and foreign finance. ... The discussion of these changes and developments has been introduced with the least possible disturbance to the textual arrangement, but on nearly every page some revisions have been made; many sections have been rewritten, entire new sections have been added; and the last chapter, on the Federal reserve system, has been rewritten in the light of its development to date.” (Preface)
“The revision is well designed to render the book even more acceptable as a text than was the first edition three years ago.” C. A. P.
+ =Am Econ R= 7:882 D ‘17 170w
=R of Rs= 57:220 F ‘18 50w
=HOLLAND, RUPERT SARGENT.= Blue heron’s feather. il *$1.25 (1½c) Lippincott 17-28759
A story of old New Netherland. Nicholas Tappan, silk merchant of Amsterdam, decides to send his son Peter to the new world in company with Derek Keeft, who is to act as superintendent of the vast estate recently acquired along the Hudson. Peter looks forward to new adventures and is not disappointed, for very shortly after his arrival, he is taken captive by Indians. Fortunately he had earlier won the friendship of Manawok, a young brave, who now intercedes for him. Peter learns Indian ways, and after his return to his own people takes a stand for justice and friendly relations toward the red men which results in an unbroken peace between the Dutch and the Mohawks.
Reviewed by J: Walcott
+ =Bookm= 46:496 D ‘17 70w
“One of the most excellent stories of Indian days in the Colonies is that of ‘The blue heron’s feather.’”
+ =N Y Times= 22:466 N 11 ‘17 100w
=HOLLEY, HORACE.= Divinations and Creation. *$1.25 Kennerley 811 17-9237
Mr Holley’s small volume of post-impressionist poems called “Creation” was published in 1915. This group of poems is included as part 2 of this new book. Part 1 consists of an entirely new group, altho some of its individual poems have appeared in Poetry, the Smart Set, the Forum, the Masses and other magazines.
“Between vain sublimities Mr Horace Holley now and then achieves a quiet success. ‘The orchard’ is a specimen.” O. W. Firkins
– + =Nation= 105:245 S 6 ‘17 100w
“His first little book was passionately arresting. And now we find the same extraordinary individuality revealing itself in ‘Divinations,’ which, though it may lack much of the author’s earlier impassioned beauty shows a more constrained power and flexibility.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:201 My 20 ‘17 450w
“Miss Harriet Monroe has selected three of these poems for her anthology of ‘new poetry,’ and W. S. Braithwaite has included ‘Cross patch’ and a sonnet, ‘The orchard,’ in his anthology for 1916.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:439 Ap ‘17 180w
=HOLLINGWORTH, HARRY LEVI, and POFFENBERGER, ALBERT THEODOR.= Applied psychology. *$2.25 (3½c) Appleton 150 17-28082
Untechnical in treatment this volume, by two Columbia university men, offers to men and women of every walk of life assistance towards a dignified and prosperous existence. It is an efficient instrument in producing success in life. The discussions all aiming to assist in systematizing a field hitherto vague and unorganized, include the following chapters: Efficiency and applied psychology; Influence of heredity upon achievement; Family inheritance; Efficiency and learning; Influence of sex and age on efficiency; Environmental conditions [two chapters]; Work, rest, fatigue and sleep; Drugs and stimulants; Methods of applying psychology in special fields; Psychology and the executive; Psychology in the workshop; Psychology and the market; Psychology and the law; Psychology for the social worker; Psychology and medicine; Psychology and education; The future of applied psychology.
=Cleveland= p7 Ja ‘18 20w
“There is little evidence that Messrs Hollingworth and Poffenberger value highly any other kind than business success. We are rarely offered a more naïve revelation of psychological science serving as the handmaid of commercial exploitation.”
— =New Repub= 13:323 Ja 12 ‘18 620w
“For the social worker, teacher or parent the book should be valuable in presenting the latest scientific word on many modern problems. It is written very simply and is free from many technical terms.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 160w
“This new book is the best that has yet appeared in bringing the results of many experiments and excursions in this field within two covers.” F. A. Manny
+ =Survey= 39:267 D 1 ‘17 310w
=HOLLINGWORTH, HARRY LEVI, and POFFENBERGER, ALBERT THEODOR.= Sense of taste. il *$1.25 Moffat 152 17-14044
“‘The sense of taste’ is a book of two hundred pages by two members of the faculty of Columbia university. It is one of a series in preparation by Moffat, Yard & Co., with the title ‘Our senses and what they mean to us.’ It is edited by G. Van N. Dearborn, who contributes an introduction to this volume, which is, as he truly says, ‘at once interesting and scientific up to the hour.’”—Nation
+ =Dial= 63:409 O 25 ‘17 200w
“While it does not purport to solve any of the riddles still presented by this sense, it gives an excellent summary of present knowledge, the writers who have done most to elucidate the subject being, with one exception, duly cited. The authors are more careful than their predecessors in not claiming for the sense of taste what belongs to the allied sense of smell.”
+ =Nation= 105:347 S 27 ‘17 400w
“This first volume in the new series presages an interesting and well-coordinated attempt to synthetize an exposition of the sensory apparatus and its psychologic reflexes.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 5 ‘17 300w
=HOLME, CHARLES=, ed. Art of the British empire overseas. (International studio. Special winter no., 1916-17) il *$3; pa *$2.50 Lane 759 17-15451
“Mr Holme has gathered reproductions of twenty-three pictures by eighteen Canadian artists (one being in color), forty by twenty Australian artists (three in color), twenty-nine by New Zealand painters (five in color), and twenty-three by South African painters. Each section has a brief account of the development of the artistic expression in these four quarters of the world and the outlook for the future. Mr Eric Brown, director of the National gallery of Canada; Mr James Ashton, a prominent painter of Australia; Mr E. A. S. Killick, secretary of the New Zealand academy of fine arts, and Mr Edward Roworth of Cape Town, speak with authority of their respective countries and give many interesting biographical details of the artists represented, besides pointing out the difficulties under which they labor.”—Boston Transcript
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 9 ‘17 410w
=Cleveland= p113 S ‘17 20w
=Ind= 92:488 D 8 ‘17 50w
=Pittsburgh= 22:651 O ‘17 20w
=Pratt= p29 O ‘17 30w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 22 ‘17 750w
=HOLME, CHARLES=, ed. Arts and crafts. (International Studio, Special number) il *$3; pa *$2.50 (6½c) Lane 740 17-6662
A review of the work executed by students in the leading art schools of Great Britain and Ireland. The London and the provincial schools of art are treated separately, the first by W. T. Whitley, the second by the head master or some other person connected with each school. The illustrations have been chosen to show many lines of work.
=A L A Bkl= 13:300 Ap ‘17
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 260w
“Especially useful to American supervisors and teachers. The pictures, to be sure, of work done by the students demonstrate no marked superiority over the output of American schools of similar scope; they show, indeed, a few things which a rigorous censor might have left out.”
+ — =Nation= 105:608 N 29 ‘17 140w
“The text is highly illuminating, enabling the reader to gain a clear idea of the activities of the schools and also the underlying intention governing these activities which is to develop home talent to a degree that will make unnecessary foreign importations of design. The chapters on the provincial schools are even more interesting than those given to the schools of London.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:85 Mr 11 ‘17 350w
“Of intense interest both to students and teachers in this country for purposes of comparison and the stimulation of effort.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:557 My ‘17 110w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 4 ‘17 420w
“There is any amount of talent evident in the works illustrated in this book and a good deal of skill: but both seem aimless. The objects are produced rather for competitions between students than for human beings to use. They do not express the real tastes, the real values, of anyone in particular. Therefore, they are likely to fail economically no less than artistically.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 D 28 ‘16 650w
=HOLMES, JOHN HAYNES.=[2] Life and letters of Robert Collyer, 1823-1912. 2v il *$5 Dodd 17-30357
A full and well-rounded story so told that the great Unitarian divine “speaks for himself and thus reveals the fibre of his soul.” Rev. John Haynes Holmes, one of the foremost leaders of liberal thought of today, has found his task a thoroughly congenial one. Associated in the ministry with Dr Collyer, Mr Holmes says, “He was my colleague, my friend, my brother, my father in the spirit.” The materials used in the preparation of the biography include Dr Collyer’s autobiography; his own writings; autobiographical lectures; his letters; three scrap-books of newspaper and magazine clippings; pamphlets, programs, leaflets and newspapers and magazines covering periods of Dr Collyer’s career. The man whom Mr Holmes holds up to view is Robert Collyer “the blacksmith, preacher, lecturer, author, public leader, but always radiant of spirit, full of grace and truth, touched with the potency of love.”
“Dr Holmes, whose pages, although written in a more sentimental manner, also make, as do Mr Hale’s, a graphic portrayal of his subject and cause the very man himself to stand forth a vital, radiant being, discusses very interestingly Dr Collyer’s relation to his time and the reasons for his wide and potent influence.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:553 D 16 ‘17 500w
“It is hardly to be wondered at if the biographer, in the lawful enthusiasm of his task, may sometimes seem open to the charge of hero worship. At the same time one discovers, briefly, in the summary, that this idol had toes, if not feet of clay, which were usually well shod and covered from general gaze.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 31 ‘17 650w
=HOLMES, JOHN HAYNES.= Religion for to-day; various interpretations of the thought and practise of the new religion of our time. *$1.50 (1c) Dodd 252 17-5458
Thirteen addresses, delivered first as sermons in the Church of the Messiah, New York city, and elsewhere, make up this volume. Each has been selected, the author says, “because of its own especial character as a representative expression of radical thought on religious questions of the day.” In the first essay the essential characteristics of the religion of the future are summed up: it will be a scientific religion, doing away with the old antagonism between science and religion; it will be based on ethical values rather than on theological beliefs; it will stress social rather than individual morality. The last three sermons were preached shortly after the outbreak of the war and reflect the author’s uncompromising attitude on the subject of force.
=A L A Bkl= 13:373 Je ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p8 F 28 ‘17 480w
=Cleveland= p67 My ‘17 40w
“Every reader who is possessed of the social passion and who has seen the social vision will sit up at night to read this book and will go around lending it to his acquaintances. It is the real thing.” L: A. Walker
+ =N Y Call= p14 Ap 15 ‘17 480w
“Trenchantly, yet constructively critical in his attitude throughout, Dr Holmes strives to give enough of the other side which he criticizes to present it fairly if not fully. Especially incisive and conclusive are his social applications of religion to the conditions of life and labor which demand both its destructive and reconstructive power. Dr Holmes is an absolutist in his uncompromising stand for the ultimate ideal of peace as applicable to a world at war, but he fails to show how it could have been, or could be, applied by the peoples facing a war-rampant nation on a rapid march for world conquest.” G. T.
+ — =Survey= 39:264 D 1 ‘17 470w
=HOLT, ANDREW HALL.= Manual of field astronomy. il *$1.25 Wiley 522 17-866
“This textbook for use in civil engineering courses bases it principal claim upon conciseness, and yet completeness, in its treatment of fundamentals. On the whole, the object of the author has been obtained, and practising engineers who only occasionally have to make astronomical observations will find it especially helpful. The treatment of the ofttimes confusing conceptions of the measurement of time is given particular attention, with many illustrative problems solved in excellent form. ... The main text occupies about 76 pages, the appendices on spherical trigonometry and solar attachments for transits about 14 pages, tables about 12 pages, and the sample field notes 20 pages.” (Engin Rec) The author is instructor in civil engineering in the University of Iowa.
“Clearly and concisely written and much more complete than the usual college-student manual.”
+ =Engin N= 77:436 Mr 15 ‘17 90w
“The illustrations and diagrams are clear and well-conceived, the method of presenting the successive operations is logical and the sample field notes show just how best to avoid confusion and error in the important matter of records.”
+ =Engin Rec= 75:276 F 17 ‘17 220w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:27 F ‘17
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p8 Ja ‘17 60w
=Pittsburgh= 22:656 O ‘17 20w
=St Louis= 15:141 My ‘17
=HOLT, LUCIUS HUDSON, and CHILTON, ALEXANDER WHEELER.=[2] History of Europe, from 1862 to 1914. *$2.60 (1½c) Macmillan 940.9 17-31435
A narrative of the chief events of European history from the beginning of Bismarck’s chancellorship to the outbreak of the great war in 1914. Thruout the narrative “emphasis has been laid upon those events which have affected international relations. The narrative of the domestic politics of the separate states has been curtailed, except where such politics had a distinct bearing upon the part which a state played in international affairs. The alliances and the conflict of interests which have brought about the present great war have been discussed in detail. The characters and methods of those statesmen who have had the greatest influence in international issues have been developed at length. It has been our plan thus to give the reader a conception of a true history of Europe rather than to present an aggregation of histories of the separate European states.” (Preface)
=HOLTZ, MATHILDE EDITH, and BEMIS, KATHARINE ISABEL.= Glacier national park; its trails and treasures. il *$2 (4c) Doran 978.6 17-14959
One may travel thru Glacier park on foot, on horseback, by automobile, or, to some extent, by motor boat. The authors of this guide chose the horseback way, but there is plenty of information in their book for those who prefer one of the other means of travel. The chapters are: Nature’s great play-ground; Hotels and chalets; On the Mount Henry trail; Trails and roads; The old Travois trail; Piegan pass—the flower pass; The flower fields of Glacier national park; Some mountain lakes; On glaciers; Types of tourists; A day with the Blackfeet; Some Blackfeet legends and Indian names; Blackfeet historical pictographs. The photographic illustrations are exceptionally good. There are end maps and an index.
“Personal, readable descriptions. Well illustrated and has a United States geological survey map.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:56 N ‘17
+ =Cleveland= p113 S ‘17 30w
+ =Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 30w
+ =N Y Times= 22:229 Je 17 ‘17 230w
“Taken all in all, the book and the park are bound to add to the emphasis of the slogan, so timely just now, ‘See America first.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 28 ‘17 350w
=HOPKINS, TIGHE.= Romance of escapes; studies of some historic flights, with a personal commentary. il *$3 (3c) Houghton 940 (Eng ed 17-12964)
In an introductory chapter (Part 1), “On the art and mystery of escape,” the author reviews briefly many notable escapes. In Part 2, he selects some noteworthy escapes for description in detail, namely: the escapes of Casanova from the Inquisition; the Polish exile Pietrowski’s journey out of Siberia; the Irish midshipman O’Brien’s three exciting efforts to get out of a French prison in the days of Napoleon; the escape of Morgan of the Rough-riders in the Civil war; Haldane’s flight from Pretoria in the Boer war; Louis Napoleon’s flight from the fortress of Ham; the adventures of James Choyce “prisoner of war in two worlds”; Louvet’s 165 days run for life from the vengeance of Robespierre; the escape of the Empress Eugénie from Paris; the hazards of John Mitchell, Irish ‘forty-eighter, between Tasmania and San Francisco; and the adventures of De Buquoit, who claimed to be “the first man who broke the Bastille in 1709.”
“In Casanova’s and Buquoit’s accounts of their exploits the author considers that much may be regarded as apocryphal. The want of an index is a serious defect in a book of this kind.”
=Ath= p485 O ‘16 180w
“Mr Hopkins’s retelling of some famous episodes will interest young readers and old alike.”
=Spec= 117:sup685 D 2 ‘16 150w
=HOPKINS, WILLIAM JOHN.=[2] Clammer and the submarine. *$1.25 (2½c) Houghton 17-25435
Adam and Eve, the clammers, are already well known to readers of the author’s other leisurely stories of the Massachusetts coast. They appear again in this story, which is complicated somewhat by the love affairs of their friends and by the approach of war. In the end Adam enlists in the navy.
“Not as spontaneous as the earlier works.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:131 Ja ‘18
“Its author comes perilously near being a professional purveyor of sentiment. His Adam and Eve of the clam-beds become a trifle cloying. In the end Adam rouses himself from his amiable long-shore loitering and maundering, to enroll himself in the navy. But that act, also, he sentimentalizes.”
— =Nation= 105:540 N 15 ‘17 250w
“Mr Hopkins’s original ‘clammers,’ Adam and Eve, are always pleasant to meet, and always a sense of humor and a spirit of refinement are in his stories. Adam’s awakening to patriotism and war service is true and fine.”
+ =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 30w
“Mr Hopkins deserves a high place as a sentimental writer, using that term in its best sense. The present volume worthily sustains the author’s reputation and provokes a call for more.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 250w
=HORNBECK, STANLEY KUHL.=[2] Contemporary politics in the Far East. *$3 (2½c) Appleton 950 16-18764
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“Professor Stanley K. Hornbeck has given us a really valuable study in the field of Far Eastern politics. He has rarely permitted his feelings to affect his judgment. For the period it covers, his book will win a place as a sound and useful work of reference.” P. J. Treat
* + =Am Hist R= 22:654 Ap ‘17 800w
+ =J Pol Econ= 25:958 N ‘17 600w
“He understands what so few writers on the Far East understand about Japan, that the greater half by far of her so-called aggression and imperialism is self-defence and exaggerated caution. ... Regarding China, particularly with respect to her domestic conditions, he is not so far-seeing. ... His book, in the best tradition of American liberalism, vigorous, realistic, hopeful, broadly planned, and trenchantly written, is the most serviceable contribution in recent years towards America’s proper understanding of her responsibilities in the Far East.”
+ =Nation= 104:681 Je 7 ‘17 650w
“There have been hundreds of books about the Far East in which a few grains of fact have been blown on hot air blasts of personal opinion. Beside them Mr Hornbeck’s wealth of information and judicial, temperate attitude make a volume for which American readers should be grateful.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:169 Ap 29 ‘17 760w
“Dr Hornbeck has lived long enough in China to interpret her views to the West; he has not become so immersed in the current of politics as to forget his academic training or miss the sources of this current in the past.” F. W. Williams
+ =Yale R= n s 6:661 Ap ‘17 870w
=HORNE, HERMAN HARRELL.= Teacher as artist; an essay in education as an æsthetic process. (Riverside educational monographs) *70c (7c) Houghton 371.1 17-5150
“In the following pages the first essay raises the question whether the art of teaching may in a measure become one of the fine arts, and answers in the affirmative, under certain conditions. What these conditions are the second essay attempts to set forth.” (Preface) Teaching is first tested by Professor Tufts’ definition of art: “Any activity or production involving intelligence and skill.” Next it is subjected to the test of fine art: “An activity or product of activity which has æsthetic value or (in the broadest sense of the term) is beautiful.”
=A L A Bkl= 14:42 N ‘17
“Two thoughtful, thought stimulating essays.”
+ =El School J= 17:533 Mr ‘17 20w
=Ind= 91:295 Ag 25 ‘17 60w
“The teacher can find in this book some fine inspiration, and the lay-reader can learn how much and how little, in his private moods, the teacher can think of himself and why.”
+ =Nation= 104:544 My 3 ‘17 330w
=Pratt= p11 ‘17 30w
“The chapter entitled ‘Shriving the inartistic teacher’ offers considerable food for thought.”
=School R= 25:302 Ap ‘17 12w
=HORNER, WARREN MURDOCK.= Training for a life insurance agent. (Lippincott’s training ser.) il *$1.25 (7c) Lippincott 368 17-13557
“This book is written, primarily, for those directly interested in the life insurance business, but in a non-technical manner so that it may be of value to laymen, especially those interested in salesmanship.” (Introd.) The book is published in a series the aim of which is to help those “who want to find themselves,” and it sets forth the necessary qualifications and training for life insurance as a business, with a special chapter on The woman in life insurance. The author is general agent for the Provident life and trust company of Philadelphia in Minnesota, Iowa and the Dakotas.
“Brief and vigorous suggestions for making a success of life insurance.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:6 O ‘17
+ =Cath World= 105:408 Je ‘17 100w
+ =Cleveland= p112 S ‘17 10w
=Ind= 90:352 My 19 ‘17 40w
“The training of a life insurance agent is not the principal topic of the book in spite of its title. The early chapters explain the qualifications and personal characteristics necessary to success as an agent, but the remainder discuss methods of selling insurance and agency organization.”
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:105 Jl ‘17 50w
=HORSCH, JOHN.= Menno Simons; his life, labors, and teachings. $1.25 John Horsch, Scottdale, Pa. 16-6143
A biography of Menno Simons, the 16th century religious leader from whom the Mennonite movement took its name. “That Mr Horsch had almost virgin soil to break is probably due to the fact that the material for a real biography of Menno is so slight. ... He has been compelled to devote most of his space to an account of Menno’s opinions and extracts from his writings. To this he has added refutations of many things falsely charged against Menno, most of them quite convincing; and discussions of the relation of Menno to other radical leaders of the time, like Melchior Hofmann and John of Leyden.”—Am Hist R
“This is a welcome addition to religious literature, since there is no other life of Menno available in any language. ... The historical value of the book is very considerable, the author’s diligence is exemplary, and a quantity of material has been brought together from various sources that has never before been printed in English. ... The author’s diligence and good sense are more in evidence than his literary skill. The book is unnecessarily jejune and dry, because of the great preponderance, in parts, of quotations from documents, the interest of which to a reader is in inverse ratio to their value to a student of history. It is to be feared that this quality will limit the numbers of readers unduly.” H: C. Vedder
+ — =Am Hist R= 22:699 Ap ‘17 400w
“The author is to be commended for the dispassion with which he sets forth events and issues which have been storm centers of controversy. As much may be said for the dignified manner in which he represses all hero-worship. One could wish that such a fine-spirited, well-balanced, and informing biography had found expression in style a little more polished and animated.” P. G. M.
+ — =Am J Theol= 22:150 Ja ‘18 460w
=HOTBLACK, KATE.= Chatham’s colonial policy. *$2.50 Dutton 616 17-8079
“Miss Hotblack’s thesis is a study of how Pitt attempted to make commerce flourish by war. ... The plan of the book has enabled her to give a very clear outline of Pitt’s policy. He is followed successively through the affairs of the African colonies, Canada, the West Indies, and so on, and the commercial side of his work as secretary for the Southern department is well brought out in four very interesting chapters. Similar treatment of the Northern department, over which Pitt’s control seems to have been as complete as over the Southern, and an important chapter on the Stamp act, complete a valuable piece of research. An appendix contains some hitherto unpublished letters.”—Ath
Reviewed by C. E. Fryer
=Am Pol Sci R= 12:133 F ‘18 400w
“Miss Hotblack has enabled the reader to form a much better judgment on the value of Pitt’s work than was possible before.”
* + – =Ath= p234 My ‘17 2000w
=Boston Transcript= p9 O 17 ‘17 600w
“Her book will be useful to all who want to know more of the motives and principles of the creator of British imperialism.”
+ =Spec= 118:729 Je 30 ‘17 1450w
=HOUGH, EMERSON.= Broken gate. il *$1.50 (2c) Appleton 17-21973
“Aurora Lane has been for twenty years the milliner and dressmaker of the village. ... Years before, unwed, she had borne a child; she had sent it away and had said that the infant had died. Pursuing her way quietly and modestly, and earning her scanty living by hard work, she had ever since lived in the village, generally ignored, but secretly respected and outwardly scorned by most of its people. But the child had not died, and when the story opens he has grown to a fine, vigorous young manhood and comes to the village to see his mother. She and her one friend, a crippled woman, have together saved and scrimped and educated the boy, while he has believed himself to be an orphan. He strikes a man on the street who insults his mother, soon after learns from her all the bitter truth, is arrested for assault, and for the next three days the town is in a ferment of excitement and unprecedented happenings. They reach their climax when a man is mysteriously killed, the boy is arrested for the murder, and a mob, seeking to lynch him, is foiled of its purpose and rushes to ravage his mother’s home.”—N Y Times
“It is modern and American enough in scene and detail, but begins with a fantastically improbable situation, and carries the reader’s credulity and sensibility from strain to strain.” H. W. Boynton
– + =Bookm= 46:341 N ‘17 70w
“It is a fine opportunity for pathos, and the author may be counted on to make the most of it.”
— =Dial= 63:647 D 20 ‘17 90w
“It is realistic, small-town melodrama, swift and sharp in its movement, but, notwithstanding its many events crowding close upon one another’s heels, its interest is chiefly emotional. ... Although there is much in the story that the author has failed to make convincing, it has qualities of invention and construction that hold the interest.”
– + =N Y Times= 22:302 Ag 19 ‘17 670w
“In ‘The broken gate’ Emerson Hough is no longer on the solid ground of historical fact. Consequently he flounders between melodrama and tragedy. ... The story hardly attains the standard set in Mr Hough’s preceding romances.”
— =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 16 ‘17 320w
=HOUGH, EMERSON.= Man next door. il *$1.50 Appleton 17-4711
“Pyramus and Thisbe in the terms of Chicago’s North Side and the twentieth century, with the regrettable omission of the lion, is the theme of Mr Emerson Hough’s new novel. ... Curly, the ex-foreman of the Circle Arrow ranch, tells the story of Old Man Wright’s removal to Chicago, of the breaking-in of the fair Bonnie Bell Wright to millionaire row, of the building of the wall, and of the man on the other side thereof.”—Dial
“Told in cowboy dialect.”
=A L A Bkl= 13:354 My ‘17
“Except for the fact that the story is told in an entertaining way, there is very little in the plot of Bonnie Bell’s attempt to make a place for herself in the best circles of Chicago which would attract the attention. ... The excitement lies really in the almost fatal attempts at diplomacy which Curly makes and the calamity which is barely averted.”
=Boston Transcript= p8 My 19 ‘17 400w
“Untrue, insignificant, and generally uninteresting are the terms we must reluctantly attach to Mr Hough’s latest excursion in the realms of fiction.”
— =Dial= 62:247 Mr 22 ‘17 140w
=N Y Times= 22:63 F 25 ‘17 430w
Reviewed by F. M. Holly
=Pub W= 91:206 Ja 20 ‘17 320w
=HOUGHTON, BEATRICE YORK.= Shelleys of Georgia. il *$1.35 (1½c) Lothrop 17-23649
“Captain Gabriel Shelley, his lovely young second wife Madge, and his beautiful daughter and only child Rose are ‘The Shelleys of Georgia’ of the title. The story is principally concerned with the love affairs of Rose, and with the innocent and successful plot by means of which she redeemed the man she had once loved, brought happiness to a much injured woman, and secured the future of a baby which but for her might have been a very unfortunate child indeed. The date of the tale is the time of the Spanish-American war.”—N Y Times
“The novel is entertaining if not very plausible, and presents a rather interesting scheme for the care of those children who for one reason or another become the especial wards of the state.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:336 S 9 ‘17 220w
=HOWARD, KATHARINE.= Two plays, and a rhapsody. pa 60c Katharine Howard, Lee apartments, B and 9th st., San Diego, Cal. 812 17-65
The two plays are allegorical. In the first, The house of future, a series of thirteen brief scenes, the life of a woman who lives on in the lives of her children is pictured. In the house of life, two persons, a man and a woman, move thru the rooms of the house, tasting the experiences it offers and in the end coming out on the roof to find peace and quiet under the stars. The rhapsody describes the vision of a poet who has sought eternal youth.
“Mrs Howard’s inspirational works, ‘Eve’ and ‘The book of the serpent,’ are well known both in this country and in England, and a collection of poems of childhood, ‘The little god,’ has had generous appreciation. The two plays of her last volume in literary style are similar to her moyen-age play, ‘Candle flame.’ Over all of them there is a glamor, a rhythmic beauty peculiar to her poetic prose.”
+ =R of Rs= 55:441 Ap ‘17 150w
=HOWARD, MARGARET WILLET.= Practical cookbook. 72c (2c) Ginn 641.5 17-11592
“This book presents a rather large collection of tested and economical recipes, in such a manner as to show their relation to one another and to the whole question of balanced meals. ... The book has grown out of many years of classroom work, and the arrangement is designed, by omitting all unnecessary directions, to force the student to reason out the recipes for herself. But it is a cookbook, not a textbook, and laboratory directions and explanatory text are purposely omitted.” (Preface) The chapter headings will show the general arrangement: Water; Mineral salts; Starch; Sugar; Proteids; Fats and oils; Frozen desserts; Canning and preserving; Food for invalids; Unclassified recipes; Selection of food.
=HOWARD, WILLIAM LEE.= How to rest. *$1 (3c) Clode, E: J. 613.7 17-11348
This little book on “food for tired nerves and weary bodies” aims “to aid in the prevention of brain fatigue, body weariness and nervous exhaustion.” (Foreword) Dr Howard does not “deal with or refer to real diseases of the brain and nerves—organic troubles, [but tries] to point out the many little symptoms showing the necessity of brain rest and nerve nourishment.” (Foreword) There is a chapter on “How to prevent nervousness in children.”
=HOWE, FREDERIC CLEMSON.= High cost of living. *$1.50 Scribner 338.5 17-29210
“Early in the book, the reader is introduced to the outstanding facts bearing on the present problem—the rapid increase in the price of food, its stationary or decreasing gross production, the discouragement of farmers, the rural exodus, and the alarming relative increase in tenant-farming under conditions making for exhaustion of the soil, under-production and class division of society. ... The present emergency turns out to be no more than an accentuation under the stress of war of conditions brought about by causes which have long been operative in peace times. ... Some of Mr Howe’s recommendations are for organized collection and storage of farm produce under the control of state departments of markets and collective marketing; terminal markets owned by state or city, with adequate cold storage and refrigerator provision and public auctioneering under state control; local public abattoirs, municipalization of milk distribution or public milk-receiving stations delivering to local depots for retail sale over the counter, etc. ... All this is in addition to more fundamental changes which he advocates to free the access to land, such as land taxation, direction of immigrants, opening up of new farming areas, suppression of trading in futures and extension of rural credits.”—Survey
“Most valuable and timely work.” Archibald Henderson
* + =Bookm= 46:468 D ‘17 2800w
“Mr Howe has made one of the most important contributions to the subject ever offered. With his usual comprehensiveness he discusses with clearness and force every important phase of the situation.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 8 ‘17 210w
“The student and serious reader will find this book a mine of valuable information representing progressive legislation.”
+ =Ind= 92:344 N 17 ‘17 300w
+ =Outlook= 117:433 N 14 ‘17 50w
“Goes to the very root causes of the food crises. One does not need to be a student of economics to understand Mr Howe’s book.”
+ =Pittsburgh= 22:832 D ‘17 50w
+ — =Survey= 39:297 D 8 ‘17 580w
=HOWE, LUCIEN.= Universal military education and service; the Swiss system for the United States. 2d ed il *$1.25 (5c) Putnam 355.07
The first edition, issued in 1916, had chapters on: Why any preparation? What preparation is adequate? How shall we prepare? The Swiss and Australian systems; Military education already begun; Supposed disadvantages of universal military education; Advantages of universal military education to the nation; Advantages of universal military education to the individual; Military education—not training—of advantage to girls; But what if—? Conclusion. In the second edition brought out in 1917, there are no changes in the text. An appendix is added, bringing the book up to date.
=A L A Bkl= 13:244 Mr ‘17
“Whether one agrees with his opinions or not there is no gainsaying the fact that Mr Howe has expressed them with brevity, clearness and vigor.”
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:594 Ag ‘17 100w
=Cleveland= p148 D ‘16 30w
“Dr Lucien Howe has some definite notions on preparedness and expresses them with emphasis and directness.”
=Educ R= 52:530 D ‘16 20w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:168 N ‘16
=Pittsburgh= 22:219 Mr ‘17 20w
=St Louis= 15:139 My ‘17 10w
=HOWE, MRS SONIA ELIZABETH=, ed. False Dmitri; a Russian romance and tragedy, described by British eyewitnesses, 1604-1612. il *$2.25 947 A17-978
“An extremely interesting collection of reprints from contemporary reports bearing on the social and political revolution which convulsed Russia from 1598 to 1613, i.e. from the extinction of the old dynasty founded by Ivan Kalitá (1328-1341) till the election of that of the Románovs. In this period Dmitri or Demetrius, who claimed to be the son of Ivan the Terrible by his fifth wife, and actually reigned as tsar from 1605 to 1606 and was a most enlightened ruler, played a principal part. The book really forms a sort of appendix to the authoress’s ‘A thousand years of Russian history.’”—Eng Hist R
“It is largely from narratives written by British residents in Moscow in the early years of the seventeenth century that her material is derived. These narratives are reproduced. While their archaic forms and methods of literary construction are somewhat taxing upon the patience of the modern reader, they do not fail to hold attention or to stir the reader’s emotions.” H. S. K.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 18 ‘16 200w
“The collection has been ably arranged and edited, and contains some interesting contemporary portraits (incidentally, those of Boris Godunóv and Vasíli Shúiski are known to be purely fictitious) and illustrations, and forms a valuable addition to the growing number of books on Russian history.” N. F.
+ =Eng Hist R= 32:152 Ja ‘17 200w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:15 Ja ‘17
“Absorbingly interesting, a valuable book for the student.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:67 F 25 ‘17 600w
=Spec= 117:242 Ag 26 ‘16 170w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p340 Jl 20 ‘16 1550w
=HOWE, MRS SONIA ELIZABETH.= Some Russian heroes, saints and sinners; legendary and historical. il *$2.50 Lippincott 947 17-15658
“‘Some Russian heroes, saints, and sinners’ supplies an interim study between legend and history. It would find its place between Mr Wilson’s song cycles and Mrs Howe’s earlier and more prosaic volume ‘A thousand years of Russian history.’ In our own life and literature the stories of Arthur and the Graal and Lancelot and Merlin, so little known to Russian readers, are of a legendary kind similar to the stories of Ilya Muromets and Sviatogor, which we are now beginning to know. ... Thus Mrs Howe gives Dmitri Donskoi, Alexander Nevski, Oleg the Wise, and other famous Russian characters and stories.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Bibliography (6p.).”
=A L A Bkl= 13:443 Jl ‘17
“The illustrations are rarely interesting. The quaint initial and tail pieces are from ancient Russian MSS. The plates are copies of famous historical paintings.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 300w
“Mrs Howe’s easy style makes her history eminently readable, while detracting naught from the scholarship evident in every sketch. A lover of Russia’s past, she makes no attempt to condone the evils and excesses of Russia’s sinners, nor to exaggerate the saintliness of her spiritual leaders. This balance of scholarship and restraint makes the book a genuine contribution to the growing mass of books on Russia. She is especially happy in her studies of Ivan the Terrible, the Boyaryinia Morozov and the False Dimitri.”
+ =Cath World= 105:834 S ‘17 460w
“She has the gift of painting her characters with vividness, almost as if she had known them face to face.”
+ =Dial= 62:529 Je 14 ‘17 280w
“Mrs Howe, a Russian woman married to an Englishman and resident now in England, has already given us two valuable books about her native land. ‘Some Russian heroes, saints and sinners’ is a study of permanent types in Russian character. The pictures of heroes, sinners, and saints are chronologically arranged.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:337 S 9 ‘17 650w
“Very readable book.”
+ =Spec= 118:276 Mr 3 ‘17 100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p562 N 23 ‘16 60w
“The illustrative work being Russian is full of the Russian spirit, and helps immensely.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p607 D 14 ‘16 400w
=HOXIE, ROBERT FRANKLIN.= Trade unionism in the United States; with an introd. by E. H. Downey. *$2.50 (3½c) Appleton 331.87 17-29740
A book on trade unions that “fills a gap long since recognized in the treatment of labor problems. It does for America what Webb’s ‘Industrial democracy’ does for England, and more, for it excels all treatises in its masterly analysis of the psychology of wage-earners, as seen in the policies and methods of unions. Furthermore, Hoxie’s classification of unions for the first time brings out scientifically the great difference in unions, permits one to see the very complex character of the labor problems and warns against those sweeping generalizations that pretend to offer simple solutions. This leads the author to build up a truly constructive method of dealing with all labor problems according to the actual conditions.” (J: R. Commons)
“As the first student of trade unionism who perceived that, besides varying in type as to organization or structure, labor groups have functional differences through which a clearer understanding of the phenomenon might be secured, the late Prof. Hoxie occupies a unique position in his particular ‘guild.’ A close study of the application of the theory inevitably clears thinking and results in a saner attitude toward the problem.”
+ =Engin News-Rec= 80:132 Ja 17 ‘18 330w
“It seems clear that Professor Hoxie had not yet found time to think out trade-union method in terms of his leading principle. It remains to be seen whether the conception will bear fruit in other hands. Apart from this novel fundamental idea, the book is interesting and suggestive. The glimpses of Professor Hoxie’s method as a teacher are peculiarly attractive and will deepen the sense of loss suffered through his early death.”
+ — =Nation= 105:696 D 20 ‘17 340w
“It will be long before we have a better book to supersede it. For the qualities that distinguish Hoxie’s work are exceedingly rare in scholarship. Where other scholars strive earnestly to deal in certitudes, it was Hoxie’s zeal to preserve an open mind. His devotion to openmindedness is infectious.” Alvin Johnson
+ =New Repub= 13:319 Ja 12 ‘18 1650w
“The value of a sympathetic attitude on the part of the investigator of an institution is seldom seen to greater advantage than in this important work, which will be indispensable to the student of labor conditions in America.”
+ =Outlook= 117:516 N 28 ‘17 80w
“Even though he did not live to see his studies brought out in book form, the work unquestionably stands out as one of the most complete treatises on trade unionism in this country.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 18 ‘18 470w
=HUARD, FRANCES (WILSON) (MME CHARLES HUARD).= My home in the field of mercy. il *$1.35 (2½c) Doran 940.91 17-29627
Mme Huard here continues the story told in “My home on the field of honour” by describing the transformation of the Château de Villiers into “Annex No. 7,” a hospital for French wounded. After “ten days of shoveling out and burying the filth” that had been her “most cherished possessions,” she was cheered by the arrival of Mme Guix, the nurse, the sergeant-infirmier and his four assistants. Then the sick and wounded began to come in. We are told “how they were taken care of, healed, amused, humored, and set to work according to their capacity”; (N Y Times) how the number of beds was increased from 45 to 120, and typhoid patients, some in the worst stages of the disease, were taken in, and how Mme Huard made the trip to Soissons, then under fire, to get tobacco for her patients from Mme Macherez, who risked her life for Soissons when the Germans entered it. The episode of ten-year-old Elvire, “mad with a terrible remembered experience and shrieking at the sight of a man in uniform,” stands out unforgettably, as does also the picture of Mme Huard, driving off to Paris to have her appendix removed, cheered on by her helpers “all standing on the steps waving a fond adieu, and for want of something more appropriate shrieking ‘Vive la France!’”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:123 Ja ‘18
“The book is rather carelessly written but interesting and dramatic.”
+ — =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 60w
“Her book is a wonderful record.”
+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 8 ‘17 130w
“A book that is breathlessly interesting, full of fun in spite of all the danger and the tragedy, lightened with the most delicious pen pictures of the French poilu in all sorts of situations. ... It is a book worth having written and deeply worth the reading. The illustrations by Charles Huard are exquisite drawings, vignettes of battle scenes, characters in the story, visions of France as she looks today.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:492 N 25 ‘17 1100w
=Outlook= 117:521 N 28 ‘17 40w
=Pittsburgh= 22:826 D ‘17 50w
=R of Rs= 57:101 Ja ‘18 90w
“Mme Huard does not dwell on unpleasant details. With an American sense of humor—for she is the daughter of Francis Wilson, the comedian—and with also a touch of dramatic sense, she lightens her book with the quaint sayings and doings of the people around her.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 550w
=HUBBARD, GILBERT ERNEST.= From the gulf to Ararat; an expedition through Mesopotamia and Kurdistan. il *$3.50 Dutton 915 (Eng ed 17-9114)
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“The author has incidentally furnished us with a careful description of those regions in Mesopotamia and Persia that have been fought over by the British, Russian, Turkish, and German armies.” W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez
+ =Dial= 63:394 Oct 25 ‘17 1150w
+ =N Y Times= 22:539 D 9 ‘17 80w
=HUDSON, CHARLES BENJAMIN.= Royal outlaw. *$1.50 (1½c) Dutton 17-17619
This is the story of the early life of David, beginning with his flight from Saul, who tries to take David’s life, picturing his career as an outlaw, and ending with his coronation as king of Israel. The author has filled out the biblical outlines with incidents of his own imagination. “David is portrayed as a young man of quick temper and lightning decision, and as an extremely resourceful military commander.” (Springf’d Republican)
“Delightfully human book ... portrays an interesting period in Hebrew history with accuracy and sympathy. It is a nice combination of Bible facts and the author’s fancy, a spirited tale of adventure and romance charmingly written.”
+ + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 15 ‘17 200w
“Unfortunately, the author appears to have felt that to accomplish his purpose he must eliminate from the incomparable romance its inner significance. The hand with which he has removed the veil of symbolism was curiously maladroit and lacking in ordinary veneration for a literary masterpiece.”
— =Cath World= 106:693 F ‘18 220w
+ — =Ind= 91:189 Ag 4 ‘17 50w
“A perfectly corking story, without a single moral or sign of a moral about it. It is human, and not only credible, but almost convincing. David is a hero after the heart of men and women. ... It will make a thrilling film.” L: A. Walker
+ + =N Y Call= p15 Jl 8 ‘17 340w
“As for adventures and perils and hairbreadth escapes and all manner of fighting, it would be hard to find more of them in any single novel that has been written in many a day. ... Humor enlivens the pages.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:265 Jl 15 ‘17 620w
“A very interesting tale told with spirit and in close adherence to biblical facts. But the principal service it performs is to present David as a man with human passions as well as a writer of poetry.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 350w
=HUDSON, WILLIAM HENRY.= Crystal age; with an introd. by Clifford Smyth. *$1.50 Dutton A17-174
“The crystal age” was published in the eighties. An edition was brought out in America in 1907 and was reviewed in the Digest at that time. The present revival of interest in W. H. Hudson has called for a reprint. “In ‘A crystal age,’ the author visits and describes for us a no man’s land. It may be England, it may be South America, it may be any other country on the face of the globe. Its people and incidents may be of the past, the present or the future. As he himself describes his story, he has written in it ‘a dream and picture of the human race in its forest period.’ ... Although the country and the people of ‘A crystal age’ are obviously of mythical origin, they are visualized none the less vividly by Mr Hudson. We see them as they are, and their manners and customs are explicitly described. Over and around them all, however, is thrown a romantic glamour that is wholly Mr Hudson’s own.” (Boston Transcript)
=A L A Bkl= 13:274 Mr ‘17
“After reading one of Hudson’s books one feels toward him a personal debt so great that one can discharge some small part of it only by handing on to others the news of what he is and does.” F. F. Kelly
+ =Bookm= 45:84 Mr ‘17 850w
“It is of course easily discernible whence Mr Hudson drew his scheme for the social order of this strange gathering of men and women. A student of nature, he saw in the life of the bee a theme for the creation of a human community after their fashion, and he has therefore made ‘A crystal age’ a perfect analogy between the two. If we read it with that knowledge in view, we have a perfect scientific study; if we read it simply as a story, we have a narrative complete in substance and beautiful in form.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 3 ‘17 1400w
“Hudson gives us ‘literary opium’ in its most delightful form, in words so musical that at times one almost forgets the sense.”
+ =Ind= 89:506 Mr 19 ‘17 150w
“In the majority of Mr Hudson’s books—always excepting ‘Green mansions’—the naturalist seems more to the fore than the artist. Here the latter controls the former’s abundant wealth. Nature certainly serves as a well-known and well-loved background. ... Yet the striking thing is rather the artistic and dramatic unity of the volume: the unity of the story, which moves on, picking up anticipations, opening new vistas, down to its poignant close; and the consistency of the character development as seen in the invading Englishman, who quietly acquires a soul as the action progresses.”
+ =Nation= 104:340 Mr 22 ‘17 600w
“W. H. Hudson is one of the very great writers of English.”
+ =N Y Times= 21:575 D 31 ‘16 800w
=Pittsburgh= 22:649 O ‘17 90w
+ =R of Rs= 55:554 My ‘17 140w
“Has too little story, and is too leisurely and too visionary for most novel readers, but both the subject and the fine style of its writing will endear it to some, especially those who liked ‘Green mansions.’”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 80w
=HUDSON, WILLIAM HENRY.= Idle days in Patagonia. il *$1.50 (2½c) Dutton 918.2 A17-394
The author went out to Patagonia to make a study of its bird life. An accident shortly after his arrival rendered him quite helpless for a time and limited the field of his researches. But out of the idle days which resulted from his change of plans grew these sketches, perhaps more intimate because of their narrower range. He writes of Life in Patagonia; Snow, and the quality of whiteness; Bird music in South America; Sight in savages, etc. The book was published some years ago by D. Appleton and company, but has been out of print.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:364 My ‘17
“Its charm, as in everything Mr Hudson writes, is varied, and it appeals to the reader through his understanding of nature, through his reflections upon the lives of men and beasts as he encounters them, through his many interpolated anecdotes, through his visualization of everything he sees, and through the grace of a remarkable and unpretentious English style. Its manner is no less attractive than its substance.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 14 ‘17 1000w
+ =Cath World= 105:404 Je ‘17 140w
+ =Ind= 91:33 Jl 7 ‘17 140w
+ =Nation= 104:526 My 3 ‘17 1000w
Reviewed by Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p15 My 20 ‘17 220w
“Full of exquisite prose-poetry, of careful observation, of keen, live interest in all the life of those ‘idle’ days.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:95 Mr 18 ‘17 770w
+ =R of Rs= 55:555 My ‘17 80w
“The total effect of the book is something the same as if John Burroughs and Joseph Conrad had collaborated—and in a field almost of Conrad’s choice.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 14 ‘17 900w
“The chapter which especially caught my attention in the ‘Idle days in Patagonia,’ as it probably has that of most readers of the book, was the thirteenth.” Arthur Colton
+ =Yale R= n s 6:856 Jl ‘17 1350w
=HUESTON, ETHEL.= Sunny slopes. il *$1.40 (2½c) Bobbs 17-22006
Excepting Connie, the daughters of the parsonage are now all married, and in this volume Connie finds her way through her literary ventures to a cowboy husband. Connie was always the “different” one of the family. But Connie’s affairs are only incidental to the main thread of the story which is concerned with gay little Carol, now the wife of a Presbyterian minister and his mainstay while he fights tuberculosis in New Mexico and Colorado. “It is in New Mexico that they see the ‘sunny slopes’ of the mesas and learn to fight the battle for cheerfulness, to keep in the sunshine and avoid the shadows.” (N Y Times)
“Simple, a trifle sentimental and will be popular.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:26 O ‘17
+ =N Y Times= 22:326 S 2 ‘17 280w
“In spite of the story’s sad trend, it is the reverse of gloomy.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 290w
=HUGHES, JAMES LAUGHLIN.= Training the children. *60c Barnes 173 17-10692
Seven brief chapters on the training of children thru self activity. Thruout, the author contrasts this new idea of training with the old idea of coercion and repression. He writes of: The child’s achieving tendencies; Training through doing; Negative and positive training; Coercion; The child’s need of freedom; The “bad” boy; Some common mistakes of the old training. The author was for many years chief inspector of schools in Toronto. He is author also of “Mistakes in teaching,” “Teaching to read,” etc.
“Here in a tiny volume, entirely within the means of any one, so far as cash or time value to be expended is concerned, we find just such a clear exposition of the eternal principles of education and the relative values of free activity and development contrasted with ‘the negative and coercive ideal’ of old times, as we long to inject into the consciousness of that great majority of adults who, as Dr Hughes aptly says, no longer defend harsh methods of disciplining children, but still retain their faith in the old ideal.” J. L. Hunt
+ =Survey= 38:575 S 29 ‘17 480w
=HUGHES, RUPERT.= In a little town. il *$1.35 (1c) Harper 17-8348
The author’s earlier books have been novels of city life. This is a book of small town stories. The author, however, staunchly protests against the idea that there is any essential difference between a big town and a small one. “A village is simply a quiet street in the big city of the world. Quaint, sweet happenings take place in the avenues most thronged, and desperate events come about in sleepy lanes. People are people, chance is chance.” The scene of the stories is close to the Mississippi. The titles are: Don’t you care! Pop; Baby talk; The mouth of the gift horse; The old folks at home; And this is marriage; The man that might have been; The happiest man in Ioway; Prayers; Pain; The beauty and the fool; The ghostly counselors; Daughters of Shiloh; “A” as in “father.”
“Clever, often amusing, and often keen.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:403 Je ‘17
“It is only that Mr Hughes is at times banal and even cheap in his style, and he is surely inexcusably flippant; it is that we must resent the lack of distinction in writing where the matter cries aloud for sincerity and dignity. The collection is much too good not to be very much better. As it stands, it is always thoroughly readable, and often extremely diverting.”
– + =Boston Transcript= p6 My 2 ‘17 370w
“The promise is not fulfilled. The stories contain excellent material, hastily handled. These cheerful, ordinary, humanly vulgar folk fail to arouse interest because their creator writes of them but not for them. They are crude snapshots rather than artistic photographs. ‘And this is marriage’ strikes the highest note.”
– + =Dial= 62:402 My 3 ‘17 120w
+ =Ind= 90:471 Je 9 ‘17 120w
“The effect is of artifice, of ‘well-made’ plots and character in the sense of the stage rather than of the art which interprets. In short, they are of the magazine formula, and of little account on other grounds.”
— =Nation= 104:633 My 24 ‘17 280w
“Mr Hughes’s collection of fourteen short stories all have their scenes laid in imaginary small towns in the region round about the city of Keokuk, Iowa, a region familiar to his youth.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:93 Mr 18 ‘17 380w
“Almost without exception the stories are diverting in high degree.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 430w
“Not very cheerful on the whole, but well done.”
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 30w
=HUGHES, RUPERT.= We can’t have everything. il *$1.50 (1c) Harper 17-22299
Kedzie Thropp came from a little Missouri town to visit New York with her parents. She ran away from them and began her career by getting a job in a candy-store. Later, she tried Greek dancing and the movies. Her first marriage venture was with Tommie Gilfoyle, an advertising man, her second with Jim Dyckman, one of the richest men in New York society, and her third with the Marquess of Strathdene. Kedzie, the social climber, greedy for all the material good that life can give, is contrasted with Charity Coe Cheever, a woman of assured position in society, who was also divorced and re-married.
“Kedzie is the one person in the story in whom we more or less believe. As for the others, the more strokes the artist puts into their portraits, the less clearly we see them. ... The truth is, Mr Hughes has again, in the thin disguise of a story-teller, taken the floor to have his say about something. ... The book is an argument in favour of tolerably easy divorce, with a laboriously arranged exhibit of what decent people may suffer under the present laws of New York state. If the believer could only have embodied his belief in his story! Unluckily, it is only too clear that his idea and not his people interests him.” H. W. Boynton
— =Bookm= 46:210 O ‘17 960w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ — =Bookm= 46:339 N ‘17 50w
“In the end the reader isn’t sure just who is married. The whole, in its sly sex-suggestiveness and apparent frankness about ostensibly vital problems, is quite characteristic of Rupert Hughes.”
— =Dial= 63:463 N 8 ‘17 110w
“The book has a story to tell, but the narrator appears to be in at least two minds as to what it is all about. Under these conditions there can be no story pure and simple. At best it is a piece of satirical comedy in an elaborate New York setting; we recognize the scene, we marvel at the effectiveness of the lighting and authenticity of the costumes. Unluckily, we also recognize the plot and personæ, less as ‘from the life’ than as from the stockroom of recent fiction.”
– + =Nation= 105:370 O 4 ‘17 470w
“Kedzie is a Rupert Hughes version of a vampire, very beautiful, very modern, very resourceful and capable in adapting herself to surroundings and blooming out afresh with each new possibility of progress. The story comes down to the present and takes in the recent welcome of New York to the French mission.”
=N Y Times= 22:311 Ag 26 ‘17 660w
“Rupert Hughes requires 637 closely printed pages to find the way to happiness for Jim Dyckman and Charity Coe. It could have been found by a shorter route and without sacrificing a single essential of the story. ... The author’s flow of satirical, and often flippant, humor, is more diverting than his exposé of odoriferous social morals, though, needless to say, this is done with Mr Hughes’s grasp of character and sense of atmosphere.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 16 ‘17 300w
=HUGINS, ROLAND.= Possible peace; a forecast of world politics after the great war. *$1.25 (3½c) Century 327 16-23057
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
=A L A Bkl= 13:306 Ap ‘17
“A judicial and admirably dispassionate survey of the unfolding of recent European history, culminating in the war, with discussion of its significance for us and its possible influence upon our future.” F. F. Kelly
+ =Bookm= 45:182 Ap ‘17 450w
=Ind= 89:320 F 19 ‘17 160w
“The author develops his theses with candor and intelligence. The book is not exactly inspiriting, but it is wholesome reading in an epoch in which partisan interpretations and pragmatic conclusions make up the bulk of the literature on international affairs.”
+ =New Repub= 10:52 F 10 ‘17 350w
“His volume is one of the sanest that the war has produced and deserves to rank for its calm, judicial temper, its loyalty to truth, and its illuminative thought with G. Lowes Dickinson’s ‘European anarchy’ and Fried’s ‘Restoration of Europe,’ while not even Romain Rolland’s ‘Above the battle,’ although more passionate in its longing and more inspired in its utterance, is more earnestly and single-heartedly desirous of the ending of the war and the establishment of a more enlightened understanding of one another among the peoples of the earth. So clear and fair and free from all prejudice is Mr Hugins’s marshaling of the facts of recent history and so strictly just his interpretation that his book, along with that by Mr Dickinson—for the two admirably supplement each other—ought to be put on the supplementary reading courses of modern history classics in universities and colleges.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:34 F 4 ‘17 530w
=HULL, ARTHUR EAGLEFIELD.=[2] Great Russian tone-poet, Scriabin. (Library of music and musicians.) il *$1.25 Dutton 17-11131
“Dr Eaglefield Hull devotes his book chiefly to an analysis of Scriabin’s works, both for the pianoforte and for orchestra. The pianoforte works comprise preludes, études, nocturnes, etc., a concerto and ten sonatas; the orchestral three symphonies, the ‘Poem of ecstasy’ and ‘Prometheus.’ There is a brief biography, preceded by the inevitable exposition of the musical awakening in Russia. ... The mystery of Scriabin’s new scales and new chords is expounded. ... In appendices are lists of his works, each with a brief descriptive paragraph. There is a list of Russian and other names.”—N Y Times
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:84 D ‘17
“The author’s style is often confused, and troublesome to the reader. The thought in a book is the test; and this volume comes off well in that respect.”
+ — =Ath= p588 D ‘16 320w
“Whether one reads to damn or praise, the value of Dr Hull’s commentary must be recognized.” Russell Ramsey
+ =Dial= 64:21 Ja 3 ‘18 1500w
“Dr Hull’s comments are intelligent, granting the point of view; and his book should be valuable to the followers of the new and to any who wish to know the new.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:479 N 18 ‘17 410w
“We are more grateful for the matter than for the manner of this book.”
– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p571 N 30 ‘16 970w
=HUMPHREY, SETH KING.= Mankind. *$1.50 (4c) Scribner 575.6 17-24251
A treatise on racial values and the racial prospect. It presents the subject untechnically in its broad social aspect with a view to awakening in the lay reader an appreciation of the fundamental part played in human affairs by inborn racial quality. He examines racial tendencies as factors in human progress, views the race values of the countries at war, shows the necessity of a eugenic system at work in the world that shall effectively cut off the increase of downright human unfitness and forecasts an era when hereditary defects among enlightened peoples are wiped out as a preparatory period to one that shall legitimately insure adequate perpetuation of only superior inheritances.
“An interesting study, vigorous in expression and noteworthy for the laudable independence of the thinking.” Archibald Henderson
+ =Bookm= 46:275 N ‘17 650w
“This book overlooks entirely the economic interpretation of history, the influence of social heredity in calling out the potentialities which for all we know may lie dormant in every individual. The writer’s opinion of woman is influenced by his conception of her value as a means of transmitting a valuable trait down the family line. Other chapters on The nations at war, The immigration problem and The negro all show themselves tinged by dogmatism and the same narrow point of view.” A. E. Watson
— =Survey= 39:445 Ja 19 ‘18 510w
=HUMPHREY, ZEPHINE (MRS WALLACE WEIR FAHNESTOCK).= Grail fire. *$1.50 (2c) Dutton 17-8347
The story of a young man’s search for religious peace of mind. Francis Merwin is the son of a man who is an agnostic and a woman who is a strict Puritan. His mother’s narrow Protestantism seems to him barren and meaningless, and yet he demands something that his father, beauty-loving pagan that he is, cannot give him. In Eleanor Ramsey he finds a companion who sympathizes with him. Together they study the doctrines of the Roman Catholic church, finding themselves repelled by its hard and fast dogmas, altho emotionally it seems to offer what they seek. Finally they discover the Catholic branch of the Episcopal church and in it find the answer to all their doubts and questions. Francis, altho his mother and father are both hurt by his choice, studies for the ministry. Eleanor remains true to him, even tho it seems for a time that his priestly ideals will demand the renunciation of personal happiness.
“‘Grail fire’ barely convinces. ... Those with tendencies towards mysticism will find the novel attractive. The average reader will be somewhat repelled because of its lack of vitality. Without question it is both carefully written and sincere in feeling.”
+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 25 ‘17 190w
“The author must be totally devoid of all sense of humor, for her description of Father Merwin’s first mass with his sweetheart acolyte, and his motley congregation of Jews, Italians and Irish is ludicrous in the extreme.”
— =Cath World= 105:263 My ‘17 200w
“A very charming, if somewhat illogical book. ... Although ‘Grail fire’ may be a bit too idealistic for the average mortal, we predict that all the sixteen-year-olds in the land will find it absolutely true to life.”
+ — =Dial= 62:402 My 3 ‘17 170w
“Despite its theological thesis she has written a novel of vital human interest, which even a casual reader will hardly lay aside until the end is reached.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:125 Ap 8 ‘17 380w
=HUMPHREYS, ELIZA M. J. (GOLLAN) (MRS W. DESMOND HUMPHREYS) (RITA, pseud.).= Rubbish heap. *$1.40 (1c) Putnam 17-13182
A half French nephew who comes to disturb the Victorian propriety and solitude of two maiden aunts, and a little Irish waif brought home by a sea captain to be a companion to his wife, are characters in this story. Christopher, whose artistic tastes and temperament are so puzzling to Miss Augusta and Miss Jane, discovers little Mara and paints her against the background of the curio shop that is her home. The attic of this shop, with its heaped up treasure, proves the means of solving the mystery of the little girl, and shows that between her and Christopher there exists a strange relationship.
“A fairly pretty story tho not very convincing.”
– + =Lit D= 55:34 Ag 18 ‘17 170w
=Nation= 105:40 Jl 12 ‘17 200w
“An ingenious little story and well written, although the coincidences are too numerous to be altogether credible.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:202 My 20 ‘17 280w
=HUMPHREYS, FRANCIS LANDON.= Life and times of David Humphreys, 1752-1818. 2v il *$7.50 Putnam 17-8099
A biography that takes us back to the American revolution. David Humphreys, soldier, statesman, poet and manufacturer, was termed by one of his contemporaries the “belov’d of Washington.” “It may safely be said,” says the author, “that as it is impossible to write the life of Humphreys without including a large part of the life of Washington, so it is almost as impossible to write fully of the career of Washington without presenting, in large measure at least, the life of Humphreys.” The biography is based in part on the Humphreys and Washington correspondence, now in the manuscript department of the Library of Congress. As a manufacturer Humphreys has a present-day interest as founder of the woolen industry in this country.
“An extremely detailed biography; not a brilliant book, but a work which will be useful for reference. The illustrations and the index deserve a word of commendation.”
+ =Ath= p365 Jl ‘17 120w
“A casual reader with endless time will find in them much of miscellaneous interest, and the scholar may make use of them by means of the excellent index. Except for one or two slips that may be chargeable to the printer the work seems accurate and scholarly.”
+ — =Dial= 63:462 N 8 ‘17 550w
“There is, in this varied and useful career, much that is typical of the lives men led in our heroic age. Perhaps for that reason the biographer has yielded to the temptation to be at times, out of the wealth of his material, a little superfluous in his account of well-known events. In spite of the attempt of the biographer to make him out a hero, Humphreys is most interesting as a representative man who deserved either a shorter or a more vivid biography than has fallen to his lot.”
+ — =Nation= 105:455 O 25 ‘17 1350w
“Although he has made considerable use of Colonel Humphreys’s correspondence with Washington which is preserved in the Library of Congress, the author has been somewhat sparing in direct quotation therefrom. Whenever he has done so it is very readable, especially the long reports to President Washington from Spain and Portugal.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:200 My 20 ‘17 750w
+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 150w
=R of Rs= 55:667 Je ‘17 60w
“This biography is singularly opportune, and should find many readers on this side of the Atlantic.”
* + =Spec= 118:62 Jl 21 ‘17 1100w
“The book is well produced and illustrated, and is a useful contribution to American history, particularly that of the period from the close of the Revolution to the adoption of the present constitution. It is, however, too long; its contents could easily and better have been compressed into a single volume. Some of the text is much the same as can be found in an ordinary book of history, and many of Col. Humphreys’s letters have but faint interest for the reading public of to-day.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 28 ‘17 650w
“A biography so constructed inevitably falls between the two stools of biography proper and what the French call ‘Mémoires pour servir.’ ‘It is to be noted,’ says the biographer, ‘that very little of Humphreys’s correspondence is published in these two volumes.’ And yet there is too much. His private correspondence is excellent—full of shrewd observation, terse description, and keen political insight. But his public correspondence belongs to a different category, that of history, not of biography.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p280 Je 14 ‘17 2050w
“Here is a subject for a valuable and interesting biography, and in its preparation there is evidence of persistent scholarship. The records are closely read. The background of historical events, doubtless, is drawn with fidelity to fact. And yet this biography is not interesting.” C: S. Brooks
– + =Yale R= n s 7:437 Ja ‘18 1000w
=HUNEKER, JAMES GIBBONS.= Unicorns. *$1.75 (2c) Scribner 814 17-25117
These thirty essays, copyrighted from 1906 to 1917, deal with Edward MacDowell, Remy de Gourmont, Artzibashef, Henry James, George Sand, Cézanne, Brahms, Huysmans, W. H. Mallock, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Chopin, George Moore, and Richard Wagner; also with such subjects as Style and rhythm in English prose; A synthesis of the seven arts; Pillow-land; Cross-currents in modern French literature; Violinists now and yesteryear; Prayers for the living, etc. The title essay, In praise of unicorns, takes the unicorn as “the symbol of fantasy and intellectual freedom.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:86 D ‘17
=Boston Transcript= p7 O 24 ‘17 750w
=Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 50w
“It is all in the same manner, obligingly informative and genially casual. It has the compactness of pemmican. It is guaranteed by the authority of great names, and shows an agile intellect dovetailing epigrams. Mr Huneker has never escaped from the blight of cleverness that characterized the nineties. ... His great merit is that he has banished solemnity and cant; he talks about books because he loves them, and there isn’t an ounce of pedantry in his whole nature.” G: B. Donlin
+ — =Dial= 63:344 O 11 ‘17 1400w
“Would it be unkind to intimate that he is writing, or at least publishing, in 1917 and not in 1897, and that the world has grown, for terrible reasons, rather weary of trifling with morality?”
– + =Nation= 105:402 O 11 ‘17 980w
“After all that he has done for us, it seems a little ungrateful to be bored with ‘Unicorns.’ Mr Huneker remains a brilliant journalist, instead of developing into an American critic who would respond to the large currents and counter-currents with an individual competence of appreciation.” R. B.
– + =New Repub= 13:130 D 1 ‘17 830w
“Mr Huneker is always brilliant. He is always worth reading. But this collection of essays is more personal than anything else that he has done, and we are not sure that it is not more charming.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:416 O 21 ‘17 820w
“Mr Huneker is amiable, effervescent, always companionable, and in his disdainful talk about ‘conventional morality’ and the like shows none of the hauteur of the modern intellectual egoist who usually uses such phrases. For a time he was our most implacable ‘modern,’ but that distinction, no longer undivided, has passed to a less worthy and less likeable crew.”
+ — =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 19 ‘17 780w
=HUNGERFORD, EDWARD.= Railroad problem. il $1.50 (2c) McClurg 385 17-10892
The railroad is characterized by the author as “the great sick man of the American business family.” He says, “Just at this time, owing to the extraordinary and abnormal prosperity that has come to the United States, largely because of the great war in Europe, he [the railroad] has rallied temporarily. But his illness continues, far too deep-seated to be thrown off in a moment. And the recent extraordinary legislation passed by Congress has done nothing to alleviate the condition of the sufferer. On the contrary, it has been a great aggravation.” In the author’s opinion great opportunities for development lie before the railroad system of the United States, and his purpose, after discussing the present situation and its causes, is to point out the course that it must follow if it is to continue as a privately owned institution. The problems of labor are given five chapters. Other chapters discuss: The railroad and national defense; The necessity of the railroad; Regulation. In part the material of the book has appeared in Collier’s, Every Week and the Saturday Evening Post.
=A L A Bkl= 14:6 O ‘17
=Cleveland= p96 Jl ‘17 30w
“The good red blood of human life runs all through the book. Even the serious student of the railroad problem may profit by its perusal, for it helps to humanize the whole situation.”
+ =Dial= 63:398 O 25 ‘17 200w
=Pittsburgh= 22:758 N ‘17 30w
=Wis Lib Bul= 13:215 Jl ‘17 40w
=HURGRONJE, CHRISTIAAN SNOUCK.= Revolt in Arabia. *75c (2c) Putnam 953 17-7479
A translation of articles that appeared in a Dutch newspaper in July, 1916. Announcement had just come of a revolt in Arabia against Turkish rule. Professor Hurgronje’s purpose was to supply the historical background for an understanding of such an event. The book has a foreword by Richard J. H. Gottheil of Columbia university, and a translation of the proclamation of the Shereef of Mecca is added as an appendix.
“This brief account of the revolt and of the general situation is admirably lucid, and so is the chapter explaining the impropriety, according to Mohammedan law, of the assumption of the title of Caliph by the Sultan of Turkey. It will help western readers to understand questions that are to most of them obscure.”
+ =Ath= p530 O ‘17 100w
“Though we must agree with Prof. Snouck Hurgronje that the Sherifate of Mecca, acting alone, is a negligible quantity in the great war, Arabia, considered as a whole, can undoubtedly become an important factor in its course and its consequential bearing on Near Eastern problems.”
+ =Nation= 104:711 Je 14 ‘17 1600w
=N Y Times= 22:174 Ap 29 ‘17 200w
=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17 20w
“A most instructive little book. The author condemns the attempt of the Young Turks, under German influence, to revive the Caliphate, ‘playing with the fire of religious hate.’ He regards the Shereef’s revolt as ‘a master stroke,’ in reply to this pernicious scheme, which has happily failed in the great Mohammedan countries and is now rejected in Mecca itself.”
+ =Spec= 119:247 S 8 ‘17 1350w
“The author is professor of Arabic in the University of Leiden, Holland. As he also dwelt for some time in Mecca he has been able to get a good insight into the hopes and aspirations of the followers of the prophet. The little work is of value for the light it throws on one of the side issues of the war.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 1 ‘17 90w
* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p377 Ag 9 ‘17 1350w
=HURLEY, EDWARD NASH.=[2] Awakening of business. *$2 (4c) Doubleday 380 16-24342
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:297 Ap ‘17
“In popular, almost journalistic form, the newer point of view as to the relation between government and business is set forth. A valuable chapter on the work of the trade commission shows how the commission prevents law suits. The author is optimistic and singularly devoid of that fear of calamity from either foreign competition or government oppression which permeates the writings and addresses of the older school. His attention is taken up less with ‘grave perils’ than with means of strengthening and expanding business prosperity.” J. T. Y.
+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:236 Jl ‘17 250w
“This book by the former chairman of the Federal trade commission, exhibits those ideas which have given him nation-wide fame. But the careful thinker will not be able to avoid the inference that with all his apparent clearness of thought he has some of those heresies that have made Frank A. Vanderlip term us ‘a nation of economic illiterates.’ The author discusses the Sherman law in a sane way and explains the attitude of the Federal trade commission. At the close of the book the act under which the commission was formed and a part of the Clayton act are published. The book is interesting from cover to cover. Hurley’s meaning is always clear and his ideas always clever.”
+ — =Coal Age= 11:641 Ap 7 ‘17 1250w
=HURST, ARTHUR F.= Medical diseases of the war. *$1.75 Longmans 616
“Dr Hurst discusses certain common diseases in the war, such as trench fever, dysentery and paratyphoid, and shows how infections received at this time may linger and revive through many years in other forms.” (Survey) “The first chapter is devoted to the functional nervous disorders of which so many varieties have been met with during the war. Among these are classed cases of shell shock, neurasthenia, hysteria, and psychasthenia.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
Reviewed by Gertrude Seymour
=Survey= 39:170 N 17 ‘17 80w
“It is a valuable addition to the medical literature of the war.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p4 Ja 4 ‘17 400w
=HUSBAND, JOSEPH.= Story of the Pullman car. il *$1.50 (6½c) McClurg 656 17-15079
The story of the Pullman car is told in the following chapters: The birth of railroad transportation; The evolution of the sleeping car; The rise of a great industry; The Pullman car in Europe; The survival of the fittest; The town of Pullman; Inventions and improvements; How the cars are made; The operation of the Pullman car. One aspect of the subject is not touched on, the labor disturbances that have attended the development of the industry. The illustrations, which include reproductions of cartoons made in the early days of the sleeping car, are interesting.
=A L A Bkl= 14:46 N ‘17
“The majority of people know in a vague way about the town of Pullman and the immense size of this industry, and these exact details of the various inventions and improvements which bring about the comfort and luxury of present day travel make an interesting and instructive book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 12 ‘17 130w
=Cleveland= p112 S ‘17 30w
=Pittsburgh= 22:819 D ‘17 20w
=HUSIK, ISAAC.= History of mediaeval Jewish philosophy. *$3 (2c) Macmillan 181 16-21233
At the suggestion of the Jewish publication society the author has undertaken to write a “history of mediaeval Jewish rationalistic philosophy in one volume—a history that will appeal alike to the scholar and the intelligent non-technical reader.” He points out that no such work exists in any language, and that in English, Jewish philosophy in general is barely touched. This work then seems to fill a gap in the history of philosophy. A general introduction is followed by chapters devoted to eighteen mediaeval philosophers. Bibliography, notes, list of Biblical and rabbinic passages, and index complete the book. The author is assistant professor of philosophy in the University of Pennsylvania.
“The author shows his ability to do pioneer work of this type by the skill with which he handles the obscure and intricate subtleties of his theme. He deals exhaustively with mediaeval Jewish rationalism but omits all reference to mysticism or the Kabbaka.”
+ =Ind= 91:136 Jl 28 ‘17 60w
“Those familiar with the scattered, obscure, and unintelligible material with which Dr Husik had to cope, can best appreciate the value of his excellent work. He has transformed a literary chaos into a systematic presentation, accessible to the modern reader. His study of the texts is deep and thorough; and his clear, simple, and concise style stands in contrast with the obscure interpretations in German.” N. H. Adlerblum
+ — =J Philos= 15:22 Ja 3 ‘18 1600w
=N Y Br Lib News= 3:188 D ‘16
“Most scholarly and illuminating work.”
+ =R of Rs= 56:554 N ‘17 160w
“Dr Husik deliberately restricts his scope to the medieval Jewish rationalism. Within these limits Dr Husik has written a good book. ... He has the two qualifications necessary for his main task. He has a real control of the technique of metaphysics and an independent knowledge of the Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic materials. The skilful exercise of these qualifications has resulted in a notable addition to the history of philosophy.”
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p32 Ja 18 ‘17 1150w
=HUTCHINGS, MRS EMILY GRANT.= Jap Herron; a novel written from the ouija board; with an introd. The coming of Jap Herron. il *$1.50 (3c) Kennerley 17-28757
The sponsors of this story, Emily Grant Hutchings and Lola V. Hays, seem to be convinced that Mark Twain spelled out the tale to them on the ouija board. “Emily Grant Hutchings, who writes the introductory account of how it all happened, is from Hannibal, Mo., the home of Mark Twain’s boyhood, and in her the alleged spirit of the author seems to have put much confidence.” (N Y Times) “Jap Herron is the son of the local drunkard of a village somewhere in Missouri. After his father’s death and his mother’s remarriage ‘to another bum,’ Jap runs away and strays into Bloomtown and the printing office of the Herald. The editor, Ellis Hinton, has already worked and starved himself to the verge of consumption. ... Jap appoints himself assistant, which means chiefly the sharing of Hinton’s thankless toil and pitiful fare. The two become devoted to each other; a good third is added them in the son of the village skinflint, and, later, a fourth in the angelic middle-aged Flossy, who marries Hinton and mothers them all. It is Hinton’s dream that Jap shall grow up to be what he himself has wished to be, a power for righteousness in the community. Jap does: we leave him secure in the esteem and leadership of a rejuvenated Bloomtown.” (Bookm)
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
— =Bookm= 46:208 O ‘17 520w
=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 90w
=Dial= 63:597 D 6 ‘17 200w
“A good deal of the detail does ‘sound like Mark’—as an echo sounds like a voice. The ‘lay-out’ of the tale is natural enough, too, its setting in a little Missouri town, with the village printing office as its closer scene. But that is all. It is a tale of voluptuous domestic sentiment and pathos, with morbid emphasis (strange as coming from a freed spirit!) upon the pathos of death. ... It is a woman’s story of a notably ‘slushy’ type. Its roughness, its Twainish flavor, are external and occasional. Its people are unreal; when they do not remember to talk like Mark Twain, they talk like a best-seller.”
— =Nation= 105:223 Ag 30 ‘17 550w
“The story is short and snappy. ... There are spots of undoubted brilliance. The pathos is much in evidence, and there is a lot of slapstick comedy. ... At its worst, it could be called a decent parody of Mark Twain.” Clement Wood
– + =N Y Call= p14 S 2 ‘17 230w
– + =N Y Times= 22:336 S 9 ‘17 500w
=HUTCHINSON, ROBERT H.= Socialism of New Zealand. *$1 New review pub. 335 16-14591
“Like Mr Walling, the author would apply the term ‘state capitalism’ to the social experiments of New Zealand; and says, with much truth, that they are designed largely for the benefit of the small farmers and shopkeepers, and that the result has been to entrench capitalism more strongly than ever in the affections of the middle class. The ‘Lib-Lab’ alliance, which controlled New Zealand politics for so many years under Ballance, Seddon, and Ward, has reached the limit of its power, and now the small farmers and capitalists, under the leadership of Massey and the so-called ‘Reform party,’ show reactionary tendencies, while the labor leaders and socialists are breaking away from the old entanglements to take a new and more radical path, where true progress lies. ... The experience of New Zealand, as Mr Hutchinson says, indicates the lines of development which the United States is likely to take in the near future.”—Am Econ R
“While this little book gives few unfamiliar facts about New Zealand, it is important in that it shows the point of view of a socialist who has spent a year or more in that country and who wishes to ‘dispel the prevalent idea that her progressive institutions have in any way solved the problems of capital and labor.’ ... Mr Hutchinson’s book is very readable, and shows an intimate knowledge of the subject. Here and there one might cavil at his argument.” J. E. LeRossignol
+ =Am Econ R= 7:176 Mr ‘17 370w
“The book is not a technical treatise, but a brief simple work for the general reader, and is both readable and instructive.” G. S. Dow
+ =Am J Soc= 22:414 N ‘16 430w
=Pittsburgh= 22:689 O ‘17 60w
=Springf’d Republican= p5 Jl 18 ‘16 170w
=Survey= 37:673 Mr 10 ‘17 70w
=HUTTEN ZUM STOLZENBERG, BETTINA (RIDDLE) freifrau von.= Mag Pye. *$1.50 Appleton 17-4712
“This new story by the Baroness von Hutten is, first and foremost, a tale of mystery. There is the mystery of Mag’s mother, and the even greater mystery of Bettany’s disappearance, and several minor secrets connected more or less closely with these two principal ones. Victor Quest, the briefless, or almost briefless, barrister, learned about them all after a while, and it is Victor Quest who tells the story. ... Although the tale ends in the year 1916, the war is but lightly touched upon, with just a glimpse or two of the opinions of various persons as to the relations of England and Germany before August, 1914.”—N Y Times
“Told in a quiet, reflective manner with good characterizations.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:316 Ap ‘17
“The novel is pleasing and wholesome.”
+ =Ath= p102 F ‘17 60w
“A story of graceful humour and unforced sentiment, at its weakest where it bothers with plot.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 45:314 My ‘17 300w
“The novel stands in that host of good, but uninspired, middle-class English fiction.”
+ =Dial= 62:314 Ap 5 ‘17 100w
+ =Lit D= 54:1855 Je 16 ‘17 280w
“As with De Morgan the apparently careless and haphazard manner of its telling veils an adroit and intricate method. ... It is a very graceful and skilful story.”
+ =Nation= 104:432 Ap 12 ‘17 340w
+ =N Y Times= 22:74 Mr 4 ‘17 350w
“Not by any means the author’s best work. The plot is improbable and mechanical. Mag herself is a natural and charming girl.”
– + =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 20w
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 280w
“The Baroness von Hutten is far too well trained a writer to drop into futility, but she is capable of unreality and of dullness. ... The story may satisfy the sentimental, but it is unconscionably long.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p82 F 15 ‘17 80w
=HYAMSON, ALBERT MONTEFIORE.= Palestine, the rebirth of an ancient people. il *$1.50 Knopf 915.69 17-23768
“A detailed presentation of the social, economic, and agricultural conditions in modern Palestine, accompanied by a brief survey of the history of the country since the time of Roman occupation. Palestine has long appeared to be a desert. ... The colonies established under the care of the Zionist movement have proved that Palestine is one of the richest agricultural and fruit-producing countries on the face of the globe. ... What Palestine needs, Mr Hyamson states, is, first, a new vitalized western population, secondly, roads, railways and harbors, and above all a wise, just and stable government. Since the sorry events of Turkish misrule following the war, the Jews of Palestine hope for local autonomy under the protection of a Protestant power that will see fair play between the different elements of the population.”—R of Rs
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:124 Ja ‘18
=Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ‘17 400w
“Mr Hyamson has done his task thoroughly. His book contains all the information necessary on the subject, handled with a nice sense of relative values in a style that is somewhat heavy.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:462 N 11 ‘17 530w
=R of Rs= 56:553 N ‘17 180w
“The unique interest of his work lies in the part concerned with modern Zionism and the actual work of colonisation and education which it has so far achieved.”
+ =Sat R= 124:151 Ag 25 ‘17 1500w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 8 ‘18 310w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p387 Ag 16 ‘17 2250w
=HYDE, WILLIAM DE WITT.= Best man I know. *50c Macmillan 170 17-14119
President Hyde of Bowdoin college died on June 29, 1917. In this, his last book, he has condensed into ninety-five pages some forty-five treatises. “The best man Dr Hyde knows finds the roots of his being in ‘that will for the good of all which is the will of God,’ and from these roots various practical fruits are borne.” (Nation)
“It seems almost mystically appropriate that President Hyde’s last publication should be a message to the world describing ‘The best man I know,’ an ideal which many of the author’s friends and former pupils will think he not only depicted but exemplified. ... Dr Hyde had something very definite to say on each of his topics, and what he has written will make excellent food for reflection for men and women of every age.”
+ =Nation= 105:377 O 4 ‘17 270w
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 90w
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Information annual 1916; a continuous cyclopedia and digest of current events. *$4 Cumulative digest corporation 031 (16-9777)
The second annual cumulation of the monthly numbers of Information. The Foreword says, “With the issue for January, 1917, Information passed into new ownership, tho remaining under the same editorial direction as heretofore. This change of ownership brought an enlarged size and a changed format—which will affect materially the bulk of the new annual volume. The present volume is, however, but slightly larger than that for 1915. The European war, as before, overshadows all other subjects.” The volume is a cyclopedia for the year 1916, bringing the latest cyclopedias up to date. Fremont Rider is general editor, and the work of compilation has been done by Elizabeth Webb.
“Unique in that it follows the news as given in the daily papers upon a great variety of topics with only so much of editorial digestion as is required by brevity and the exclusion of extraneous and repetitious matter. A much larger number of topics are treated than in the excellent ‘American year book’ or ‘New international year book’; the annual has the nature of an edition of the index of the New York Times with brief text under each entry instead of reference to the newspaper files, though it is not so inclusive. Its defects are many and evident. It contains no information except that which appears in the news columns of the press, it is not well written, and it suffers much from incoherence.”
+ — =Nation= 105:100 Jl 26 ‘17 250w
=INGPEN, ROGER.= Shelley in England; new facts and letters from the Shelley-Whitton papers. 2v il *$5 Houghton 17-9463
“Mr Ingpen is known already as the author of ‘The letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley,’ first published about eight years ago. ... Its first-hand offering of the real Shelley as limned by himself in his letters complemented Professor Dowden’s monumental biography and the two together gave what has been thought to be the definite depiction of the poet, his life, career, and character. But new material has been found which adds much of interest to the facts already known. ... Several interesting new facts are revealed, and some portions of Mary Shelley’s life in England are cleared up. Two letters written by Lord Byron and a number by Shelley and his relatives are printed for the first time. Legal documents recently unearthed establishing Shelley’s marriage to Harriet Westbrook in Edinburgh and others concerning her suicide are here first published.”—N Y Times
“Not necessary in the average public library.”
+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:127 Ja ‘18
Reviewed by G. I. Colbron
+ =Bookm= 45:289 My ‘17 1000w
“His story is well known as one of the most romantic in all literary biography. It is told by Mr Ingpen in all its variety with little skill and with a straightforward marshalling of facts old and new. The two volumes contain many valuable additions to authentic Shelleyana, and in an appendix of almost one hundred pages are reprinted a series of documentary texts, and facsimile pages of Shelley’s note-books rescued from the boat that carried him to his death.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 24 ‘17 1460w
“His work is too bulky for a supplement to Dowden’s and too scant for a successor. He deserves much credit, however, for assembling a variety of information which has been accumulated since Dowden’s time. He deserves still more credit for original contributions to our knowledge of Shelley.” Garland Greever
+ — =Dial= 62:521 Je 14 ‘17 1800w
+ =Lit D= 54:1425 My 12 ‘17 430w
“The object is frankly to complement the standard biographies (particularly Dowden’s). Manifestly the work must be judged on its own basis. Taken alone, it is incomplete and has the misfortune, so far as mere interest is concerned, of dealing largely with controversial and subordinate issues. But it is a scholarly and, for its own end, well-constructed narrative. By all odds the most important new matter presented by Mr Ingpen is a considerable series of letters that passed between William Whitton (Timothy Shelley’s solicitor) and the various members of the Shelley family.”
+ =Nation= 105:123 Ag 2 ‘17 950w
+ =N Y Times= 22:61 F 25 ‘17 1750w
=Pittsburgh= 22:672 O ‘17 100w
“The new material, of which Mr Ingpen makes a very workmanlike use, was discovered by the lawyers who succeeded to the business of Whitton, the solicitor of Timothy Shelley, the poet’s father.”
+ =Spec= 118:338 Mr 17 ‘17 1750w
“Here is a book which, on account of the scarcity of paper, has grown to the dimensions of a college dictionary. The publishers were forced to divide the sheets into two sizable volumes, which are now issued in uncut paper label style, and which, notwithstanding their weight, will be found very much worth while if you are a lover of Shelley and of the England of his day.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 24 ‘17 130w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p95 F 22 ‘17 100w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p115 Mr 8 ‘17 750w
“The book will be indispensable to the real student of Shelley, but it does not aim to be a self-sufficient biography for the general reader. The author has so rigorously ‘refrained from moralizing, or attempting any detailed criticism of Shelley’s literary work,’ that his narrative is at times colorless.” C. M. Lewis
+ — =Yale R= n s 7:433 Ja ‘18 760w
=INGRAM, ELEANOR MARIE.= Twice American. il *$1.35 (2c) Lippincott 17-28801
David Noel was called the “Twice-American” because Brazil, on account of services rendered the state, allowed him to become a Brazilian citizen without surrendering his United States citizenship. When David was a lonely, poverty-stricken boy of eleven, a little five-year-old girl gave him her white shoes to sell so that he could replace his own worn out ones. The money received for her shoes, gave him his start in life. He followed the sea for years, then settled in Brazil where he became rich and honored, a general and a statesman. The palace where he lived was known as the “House of the little shoes.” The latter part of the story deals with “Dom David’s” search for and courtship of his “lady of the little shoes,” about whom hangs a mystery; and with the treachery of Jacinto Meyer, his pro-German enemy. “Dom David’s” secretary, Nilo Valdez, and Corey Bruce, an American engineer, released from prison on parole, play prominent parts in the story.
=A L A Bkl= 14:132 Ja ‘18
=Nation= 105:667 D 13 ‘17 80w
“This novel is described as a romance, and if the word is another term for incredible narrative it has been given an apt name.”
— =N Y Times= 22:518 D 2 ‘17 260w
Reviewed by R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 92:2031 D 8 ‘17 340w
=Springf’d Republican= p13 F 3 ‘18 220w
=INNESS, GEORGE, jr.= Life, art, and letters of George Inness; with an introd. by Elliott Daingerfield. il *$4 (7½c) Century 17-26890
America’s greatest landscape artist receives intimate and sympathetic treatment from the son who was his comrade and pupil. To write into these chapters the dynamic energy of his father’s studio hours and the quiet absorption of his out-of-door preparation has been a congenial task for the son. “He has given us a picture of his father, the man and his habits, and with this has told to us incident and story, many of them new, all reflecting most clearly the ingenuous nature of the man.” He attributes Inness’s great success to his honesty and simplicity. The volume is fully illustrated, there being many reproductions of Inness’s paintings.
“An interesting and very appealing picture of a great man. Reading his life cannot fail to give the Inness lover new reverence for his work and it must introduce many who may not know it.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:93 D ‘17
“The book comes most opportunely at the present stage of our artistic development, and it ought to serve, in some measure, as a corrective for some of the fantastic, distorted, barren ideas concerning art that have sprung up and spread offensively during recent years.” F. F. Kelly
+ =Bookm= 46:329 N ‘17 300w
“There is an interesting selection from Inness’s letters, throwing light on his religious opinions and on his own art and that of his contemporaries.”
+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 8 ‘17 130w
+ =R of Rs= 57:99 Ja ‘18 120w
“The reader does not need to be a student or even a great lover of art in order to enjoy this vivid and intimate picture of the greatest of our landscape painters. The son who tells the story was his father’s pupil as well as congenial companion, and yet he is able to look at the artist’s work in a detached, impartial manner, and to describe it in a way to make the book very valuable to students.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 14:30 Ja ‘18 100w
International military digest annual, 1916. *$4 Cumulative digest corporation 355 (17-14742)
“‘The international military digest’ summarizes the contents of eighty-odd periodicals on military science in fourteen languages. It is published monthly as a magazine and in this annual volume the material of the twelve separate issues is rearranged and re-grouped under common heads so as to make a complete, accessible record of the progress in each branch of military science during the year.”—Pub W
+ =Ind= 90:556 Je 23 ‘17 30w
“There isn’t six inches of superfluous matter in the six hundred and thirty pages of double column contents of this book. The type is clear and easy to read. Whether a man be in the regular army, a member of the Officers’ reserve corps, or merely one who is trying to follow the events of the war intelligently it is hard to see how he can afford to overlook this work.” A. B. Guernsey
+ =Pub W= 91:1322 Ap 21 ‘17 600w
=IRWIN, FLORENCE.= Mask. il *$1.40 (2c) Little 17-24816
The mask referred to in the title is the one which the author assumes that we all wear to hide our thought and feelings. Elsa, Alison and Gertrude Terry are the daughters of a father who is a clergyman and a mother who is “a dodger of real issues.” The girls lead a sheltered life in the town of Coningsboro, and grow up innocent and inexperienced. Alison inherits money from an aunt, marries a temperamental young author, Phil Howland, and goes with him to New York. Her husband proves to be selfish, lazy, a gambler, and neglectful of his wife. The way in which Alison bears everything, even the loss through Phil’s carelessness of her baby, how she succeeds as an author, how she remakes her husband, body and soul, form the main theme of this story of married life. The handling of one episode in the book between Alison and a friend of Phil’s recalls the descriptive powers of Mr Theodore Dreiser.
=Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 40w
=N Y Times= 22:401 O 14 ‘17 200w
=IRWIN, GRACE.= Brown-eyed Susan. il *75c Little book pub. 17-9254
Susan Yorke was a pretty little girl whose mother’s original ideas as to clothing her caused the child much suffering. The story carries Susan “through childhood to girlhood, through the normal school to her first position as teacher.” (Boston Transcript)
“‘Brown-eyed Susan’ is a pretty little story of everyday humanity. It will not have a reader who will not long to put it in the hands of at least one person of her acquaintance that some sensitive child may thereby be spared the ordeal of being conspicuously unlike her mates.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 5 ‘17 200w
“The little volume, which is the first book of a young author, should be welcomed as enjoyable in itself, and as a pleasing promise of future work.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:190 My 13 ‘17 200w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 F 17 ‘17 160w
=IRWIN, INEZ (HAYNES) (MRS WILLIAM HENRY IRWIN).= Lady of kingdoms. *$1.50 (1½c) Doran 17-25510
A village on Cape Cod is the scene of the early part of this story and two young women who have grown up in its repressive atmosphere are joint heroines. Both in the words of Matt Hallowell, the village philosopher, are “waste women.” Southward Drake is a beautiful, flashing girl who early exhausts the opportunities Shayneford offers. Her friend Hester Crowell is colorless and uninteresting, her latent qualities remaining undeveloped. A party of New Yorkers who spend a summer in camp in the neighborhood bring contact with the outer world. The two girls visit New York and are introduced to its many sidedness. Southward ultimately marries, and Hester, breaking through the barriers of reserve that have held her, deliberately chooses the difficult way of unmarried motherhood as the solution for her problem.
=N Y Times= 22:367 S 30 ‘17 400w
=IRWIN, M. E. F.= Out of the house. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran (Eng ed 17-15549)
The time of this story is the nineteenth century, but little Carolin Pomfret, who is its heroine, is brought up in an atmosphere that belongs to the century preceding. Left an orphan at five, she comes to live with her relatives Great-aunt Catherine, who had been a belle of the Regency, Great-aunt Lucilla, and her elderly daughter Lavinia, and elderly Cousin James. She is brought up on family history, given family memoirs to read, and because the Pomfrets hold that no Pomfret should marry outside the family if it can be helped, she is all but married to one of them, her weak-willed cousin Antony. But fortunately a big man from Ireland appears in time to take her away, out of the house of Pomfret, to a new life, which altho it does not offer safety and security, yet promises something of freedom and joy.
“The tale as it is told is convincing and very charming.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 14 ‘17 720w
“The book has finish and a certain dainty and deliberate artificiality, but the same things are described, the same ground gone over so often, that it presently becomes more than a little tedious, losing much of the charm it might otherwise have had.”
+ — =N Y Times= 22:31 Ja 28 ‘17 350w
“The book has a quaint old-world flavour. The characters would have figured appropriately had the date been a hundred years ago.”
+ =Spec= 118:241 F 24 ‘17 30w
=IRWIN, WALLACE ADMAH.= Pilgrims into folly: romantic excursions. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-16317
The author of the “Letters of a Japanese schoolboy” here gives us seven short stories, mainly serious in character. “You can’t get away from your grandfather,” “What became of Deegan Folk?” and “He shot the bird of paradise” were published in McClure’s Magazine for April, 1914, February and September, 1915, respectively. Other copyrights are held by the Short Story press corporation and P. F. Collier & Son.
=A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17
“Perhaps one can best recommend Mr Irwin’s first collection of short stories by saying that it is likely to give equal pleasure to the casual and to the analytical reader.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 350w
“One story, ‘He shot the bird of paradise,’ stands out from the rest. It has subtlety and suspense, and is marred only by a touch of amateurishness—a criticism that applies to the entire volume. Mr Irwin is still a little uncertain of his powers, but the present book has definite promise.”
+ — =Dial= 63:403 O 25 ‘17 110w
“Mr Irwin’s versatility is nothing less than astonishing. ... The writer of ‘Random rhymes,’ etc., whose name is suggestive of smiles, presents in his new volume seven short stories, of which pathos, sometimes deepening into tragedy, is the most striking characteristic. They are told with exquisite art, and with a sincerity which makes even impossibilities, as in ‘The highest,’ credible.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:250 Jl 1 ‘17 110w
“The final tale, ‘The ideal gentleman,’ may be voted the best of the group. It is a pathetic story of a waiter’s efforts to make of his son a ‘gentleman’ in the English sense of the term.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 350w
=IRWIN, WILLIAM HENRY (WILL IRWIN).= Latin at war. *$1.75 Appleton 940.91 17-26656
“Mr Irwin’s book on ‘The Latin at war’ makes a connecting link between the French and the Italian soldiers and nations. The first chapter, ‘The city of unshed tears,’ deals with Paris, then the next four take the reader to the Italian front on the Isonzo and up among the fighting men in the high Italian Alps. Afterward he returns to France and carries the reader with him along the French front, where he describes the work of the American ambulance service, and tells of his observations and experiences in the war-swept zone. In the last chapter there is perhaps the most comprehensive and accurate account of the French army, how it is formed, why it is democratic, what are its peculiar qualities, and whence they are derived that has been offered to American readers. The chapters dealing with the work of the Italian army are graphic and full of human interest.”—N Y Times
“A vivid, very readable account of the author’s experiences on the French and Italian fronts in 1916. Some have appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:20 O ‘17
=Ath= p420 Ag ‘17 60w
=Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 60w
+ =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 70w
“The present book should be cut down to half its size. The author is a good observer, he has had excellent opportunities to see the French and Italian armies, and he paints some graphic scenes; but his pages are cluttered up with long descriptions of things that do not count.”
+ — =Dial= 63:348 O 11 ‘17 200w
+ =Ind= 91:474 S 22 ‘17 500w
“No correspondent ‘at the front,’ during this war, has found more of human interest in his experiences than has Mr Irwin. He knows how to find it, and how to record it. His style is terse and graphic. He makes you visualize while you read, because he visualized while he wrote.”
+ =Lit D= 55:40 S 15 ‘17 280w
“His pages may lack the charm of the first-hand narrative of poilu or ambulance driver, but they contain a good deal of intelligent reflection, and there is no bluff and not too much rhetoric.”
=Nation= 105:154 Ag 9 ‘17 220w
“Mr Irwin has remained fundamentally American and naïve and curious to know what the whole thing means in human values to everyday men and women. He is not the professional war correspondent. His human values have remained steady—although convinced of the basic justice of the cause of the Allies, he has not maligned the enemy.”
+ =New Repub= 12:225 S 22 ‘17 650w
+ =N Y Times= 22:266 Jl 15 ‘17 150w
=Pittsburgh= 22:682 O ‘17 60w
+ =Spec= 118:675 Je 16 ‘17 280w
=IZOR, ESTELLE PEEL.= Costume design and home planning. il 90c Atkinson, Mentzer & co. 646 16-17166
“The purpose of this volume is to help establish in the minds of girls ‘a sane sensible well-balanced attitude toward dress,’ and towards the home as ‘the vital center of all life’s activities.’ ... The book is the result of experience in teaching.”—School Arts Magazine
“Elementary enough for children to read.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:249 Mr ‘17
“The best book so far available on elementary costume design and home planning.”
+ =Cleveland= p155 D ‘16 60w
=St Louis= 15:144 My ‘17
“Well written, captivatingly illustrated. ... It is without doubt the best single volume for teachers who are required to teach costume design to junior high school pupils. It will prove helpful, however, to upper grammar and high school teachers everywhere who have to help young people to think seriously about their own personal relation to clothing and shelter.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 16:89 O ‘16 150w
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=JABOTINSKY, VLADIMIR.= Turkey and the war. 6s T. Fisher Unwin, London
“The author begins by attempting to define the objective as distinguished from the subjective aims of the present war, the aims inherent in the situation. ... The destruction and partition of Turkey may be considered the real aim of the conflict because its accomplishment is essential to a durable peace. ... Discussing the various controversial points of the scheme of partitioning the empire, Mr Jabotinsky points out that the present Germano-Turkish alliance would imply the presumably independent Sultanate of Anatolia as the natural field for German commercial expansion, and that the policy of excluding Germany from any such natural expansion must inevitably lead to another war, especially if the proposed plan of an annexation of German markets in allied countries is carried through. He concludes by emphasizing the importance, for its psychological effect, of an allied conquest and military occupation of the great market represented by Asiatic Turkey,”—N Y Times
“M. Jabotinsky pins no faith on a self-controlled, self-directed or stable Ottoman kingdom. In his lucid and somewhat cynical book, brilliant in its exposition, he discloses the salient defect of Turkish rule, or rather of the Young Turks’ rule. ... It comes from a false theory of nationality.” H. S.
+ =New Repub= 12:24 Ag 4 ‘17 1250w
“This essay by the military correspondent of the Moscow Russkia Vedomosti represents some original thinking on the Eastern question. Briefly, it is a more than usually straightforward application of the ‘est delenda’ to the Ottoman empire, supported by a convincing series of facts and arguments.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:323 S 2 ‘17 520w
=JACKS, LAWRENCE PEARSALL.=[2] Life and letters of Stopford Brooke. 2v il *$4.75 Scribner 17-27957
“The facts of Brooke’s life are probably well known. Born in 1832, the son of a poor but well-born Irish clergyman, he was ordained in 1857, was curate at Kensington from 1859 to 1863, took the lease of St James’s chapel in 1865, and left the Church of England in 1880.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “From the moment of his leaving the church Brooke became formally what he had temperamentally been for many years, an independent. ... He was a preacher and a teacher, a poet and a lecturer, and he was interested in science and art, painting being among the joys and recreations of his later years. He wrote many books in addition to the little volume by which he is best known [“A primer of English literature”]. ... Dr Jacks’ biography is throughout a near view of the man in all his aspects. The biographer married Brooke’s daughter and he draws freely upon the letters which in themselves represent clearly the progress of the great preacher’s intellectual life.” (Boston Transcript)
+ =Ath= p32 Ja ‘18 1750w
“To give us a self-revelation of Stopford Brooke is what Dr Jacks strives to do and succeeds in doing. Although he knew his subject so intimately, he practices self-effacement except where the personal recollections and the personal touch are necessary to color and emphasize his story.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 12 ‘17 1500w
“Well worth reading because of its faithful depiction of a sweet, wholesome and beautiful nature expressing itself in manifold activities through a long and busy life.”
+ =N Y Times= 23:20 Ja 20 ‘18 780w
“An adequate and appreciative account.”
+ =Outlook= 118:66 Ja 9 ‘18 30w
“Fascinating volumes.”
+ =Sat R= 124:464 D 8 ‘17 1650w
“This biography has one quality at least which makes it very unlike the usual biography. It has the quality of growth. It is the record of the things that change rather than of the things that happen. The result is a book not of revelations or confessions in the usual sense, but of spiritual development which carries the art of biography a step further in the most interesting direction now open to it—that of psychology.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p581 N 29 ‘17 2050w
=JACKSON, GABRIELLE EMILIE (SNOW).= Silverheels. il *$1 (4½c) Doran 17-30276
Silverheels is a gray horse. His young master, Bob Hughes, is a waif who has run away from the brutal farmer who has mistreated him, taking Silverheels, his one possession, with him. Silverheels is a wonderfully intelligent horse, and it is he who helps Bob find a home with kind people who turn out to be the boy’s own relatives. The story was published in St Nicholas in 1916.
=Lit D= 55:59 D 8 ‘17 60w
“A nice human story of a horse who is much better than some humans and a first-class hero for a story.”
+ =N Y Times= 22:384 O 7 ‘17 30w
“Although this book is not written for the very youngest readers, they will enjoy it as well as those a little older.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ‘17 100w
=JACKSON, J. WILFRID.= Shells as evidence of the migrations of early culture. (Manchester univ. Ethnological ser.) il *$2 Longmans 572
This book consists of a report of the preliminary survey in the field of research suggested by the title. It is made up of a reprint of four papers, first published in the Proceedings of the Manchester literary and philosophical society. The first of the four on The geographical distribution of the shell-purple industry, is concerned with the utilization of shells in the manufacture of the famous dye, “Tyrian purple.” Subsequent chapters take up Shell-trumpets and their distribution in the old and new world; The geographical distribution of the use of pearls and pearl-shell; The use of cowry-shells for the purposes of currency, amulets and charms. Additional data that has come to light since the first printing of the papers is given in appendixes. In his introduction G. Elliot Smith, dean of the faculty of medicine in Manchester university, discusses the magic properties attributed to shells. The book is provided with index, maps and other illustrations.
“Professor Elliot Smith and his colleagues, Mr Jackson and Mr Perry, cannot be praised too highly for their method. Admiration for Professor Elliot Smith’s ingenuity must not blind us to the extremely hazardous character of his theoretical affiliations.”
+ — =Sat R= 124:530 D 29 ‘17 1400w
“Professor Elliot Smith agrees with the author in thinking that so laborious an industry as the preparation of this purple from shell-fish could not have been invented in more than one district, and that its occurrence in eastern Asia and America points to a migration from the Mediterranean. It is a plausible theory, but it is not proved.”
+ — =Spec= 119:301 S 22 ‘17 120w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p454 S 20 ‘17 140w
“If there is some lack of arrangement, if the trees, not to mention the shrubs, do obscure the view of the wood, if the index whenever appealed to affords no clue, still we cannot but admire the diligence and wide reading of the author.”
+ – — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p501 O 18 ‘17 1650w
=JACKSON, MARGARET TALBOT.= Museum: a manual of the housing and care of art collections. il *$1.75 (3c) Longmans 708 17-14148
“The object of this little book is to put before those interested in the administration of collections the result of several years of study of the museums of Europe and America. It cannot claim the distinction of bringing new ideas to a field where so many men of genius have long been working; it can only hope to call attention to the results of the constant experiments being made by those already in the field.” (Preface) The list of museums visited, given in an appendix, shows how extensive have been the author’s studies. Contents: The situation of the museum building; The architectural plan; Preparation for the collections; The formation of collections; The preparation of objects for exhibition; Official questions. The seven illustrations have been chosen to fit the text. The volume is without an index.
=A L A Bkl= 14:48 N ‘17
“As a pioneer in its field this study of the museum is a noteworthy book.”
+ =Dial= 64:74 Ja 17 ‘18 280w
“Nothing would more make for the education of those public-spirited laymen who are our museum trustees than a careful perusal of this volume.”
+ =Nation= 105:44 Jl 12 ‘17 100w
=N Y Br Lib News= 4:110 Jl ‘17 20w
=Pittsburgh= 22:512 Je ‘17 30w
“Save for its unforgivable crime of having no index, her book is extraordinarily good.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p579 N 29 ‘17 420w
=JACKSON, ORTON PORTER, and EVANS, FRANK EDGAR.=[2] Marvel book of American ships. il *$2.50 Stokes 359 17-31922
An informing revelation of the secrets of big ship building. The reader is taken to the ship yards and gets an inside idea of how undersea fighters, superdreadnoughts, all around battle ships, destroyers, sea liners, and all sorts of lesser craft are built. There are accounts of dramatic sea happenings such as sea battles, gun firing and signaling, deep-sea diving and certain tragedies of the seas. Notable features of the book are its more than 400 illustrations from photographs, the chart of the flags used, the signal code and the chart of funnel types and company flags by which ships can be recognized at a distance.
+ =N Y Times= 23:25 Ja 20 ‘18 110w
“A reliable informational book.”
+ =R of Rs= 57:215 F ‘18 140w
=JACKSON, SIR THOMAS GRAHAM, 1st bart.= Holiday in Umbria. il *$3 (7c) Holt 914.5 (Eng ed 17-21517)
Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, who is architecturally responsible for the restoration and addition of so many of the beautiful buildings of the great English universities and public schools, has here given us a second book of travel. It is “a book of historical, architectural, and literary interest, originating in two visits, in 1881 and 1888, to a part of Italy comparatively unfamiliar to British travellers. Ancona, Rimini, Gubbio, Urbino, Pesaro, and other places are described; there is a particularly detailed account of the ducal palace at Urbino; and many pages are devoted to extracts from ‘Il cortegiano’ (’The courtier’), by Count Baldassare Castiglione, ambassador from Duke Guidobaldo I to King Henry VII. These excerpts present a pleasing picture of life at the ducal court.” (Ath)
“The book is very readable, and the illustrations are good.”
+ =Ath= p104 F ‘17 100w
“The author’s contribution to the literature of travel is a valuable one.”
+ =Dial= 64:82 Ja 17 ‘18 120w
“One of the chief sources of information concerning this history is Castiglione’s ‘Il cortegiano,’ and an abstract of this forms the longest and not the least interesting chapter in Sir Thomas’s book, which is made additionally attractive by reproductions of some of his own sketches and a few photographs.”
+ =Int Studio= 61:145 My ‘17 190w
“The book is beautifully produced and illustrated.”
+ =Library World= 19:273 Ap ‘17 130w
+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 8 ‘17 110w
+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 230w
“Books of travel appeal to two classes of people—those who have seen, and those who plan to see. This one will interest especially the first class.”
+ =Outlook= 117:350 O 31 ‘17 50w
“Distinction and insight are the leading characteristics of Sir Thomas Jackson’s contributions to the literature of his art, and they are not lacking in this volume. ... In describing the humours of the road he selects exactly the right sort of experience to lay before his readers; but in the historical scaffolding he raises around the cities and structures he went to see he is less happy.”
+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p79 F 15 ‘17 1050w
=JACKSON, WILLIAM WALROND.= Ingram Bywater. *$3 Oxford 17-28095
This memoir of the Oxford scholar, Ingram Bywater—the undergraduate with Walter Pater at Queen’s, the fellow of Exeter, the college tutor and reader in Greek, and finally the successor to the chair of regius professor of Greek left vacant by the death of Professor Jowett—is written by an intimate friend and fellow Oxonian, the former rector of Exeter college. “Incidentally Dr Jackson tells us all that needs to be told about Bywater’s personal circumstances and surroundings. But essentially the book is a well-balanced appreciation of Bywater’s aims and achievements as a Hellenist of the best and most catholic type.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“A biography which will be read with attentive interest by all who have at heart the intrinsic value of the scholar’s life. ... There is something sound and stimulating in the fellowship of one who seems never to have suffered from the disease so rife to-day among university men—the feeling of despondency over the value of scholarship in and for itself and over the intrinsic dignity of the scholar’s life.”
+ =Nation= 105:98 Jl 26 ‘17 250w
“Those who do read the book can be assured, for two hours, at least, of a perfect haven of rest. It is a happily short book. It has the kind of virtues one associates with a good common-room at Oxford, half-a-dozen flashing epigrams, some good anecdotes about the incomparable Mark Pattison, and the heavy mellowness of old college port above it all.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 12:278 O 6 ‘17 1550w
“Dr Jackson’s memoir is written in choice, good English, but seems a little formal. Here it may be characteristic of his subject.”
+ =Sat R= 123:482 My 26 ‘17 1000w
“Dr Jackson’s memoir reveals Professor Bywater as an attractive human being and illustrates the permanent value of his scholarship.”
+ =Spec= 118:678 Je 16 ‘17 140w
“An admirable little monograph on one of the most learned and brilliant Hellenists that modern Oxford has produced. ... We cannot doubt that all who have known Oxford and its academical life during the later decades of the last century and the first decade of this will heartily welcome the book and read it with keen appreciation. Dr Jackson is singularly well qualified for the task he has undertaken. He has produced a masterpiece of its kind.”
* + + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Ap 12 ‘17 1850w
=JACOBS, WILLIAM WYMARK.= Castaways. *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-2478
Mr Jacobs’s new story takes place half on land and half on sea. He has adopted one of the seven, or is it eleven? original plots as a starting point. A modest and unpretentious bank clerk of quiet tastes inherits a fortune. The diversion from type is furnished by Mr Jack Knight, an irresponsible and audacious young person who is not averse to using Mr Carstairs’s good fortune to further his own ends. His ends happen to concern the niece of Lady Penrose. Mr Carstairs is induced to buy a country house in Lady Penrose’s neighborhood where Mr Knight can be a frequent guest. Later Mr Carstairs is induced to charter a yacht and take the whole party, including Lady Penrose and her niece, Mr Knight and his friends, for a cruise. A prearranged mutiny which takes an amusing and unexpected turn brings on the climax.
+ =A L A Bkl= 13:267 Mr ‘17
“His fun turns invariably either on practical joking or its verbal counterpart of repartee. Perhaps that is why he is, as I believe, almost exclusively a man’s author. ... It is all good fun for the reader who likes the Jacobs kind of thing.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 45:98 Mr ‘17 400w
+ =N Y Times= 22:26 Ja 28 ‘17 350w
Reviewed by Doris Webb
+ =Pub W= 91:205 Ja 20 ‘17 350w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 25 ‘17 250w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p587 D 7 ‘16 450w
=JACOBY, HAROLD.=[2] Navigation. il *$2.25 Macmillan 527 17-28810
The author has aimed to make this a book complete in itself, “so that it should be possible to navigate a ship in any ocean not very near the north or south pole without other books or tabular works, excepting only the nautical almanac for the year in which the voyage is made.” No formal mathematical and astronomical knowledge has been assumed on the part of the reader. The author is professor of astronomy in Columbia university. Contents: The fundamental problem of navigation; Dead reckoning without logarithms; Dead reckoning with logarithms; The compass; Coastwise navigation; The sextant; The nautical almanac; Older navigation methods; Newer navigation methods; A navigator’s day at sea.
“Useful for those who must study without a teacher and convenient for the advanced student.”
+ =A L A Bkl= 14:155 F ‘18