an improvement over its predecessor that it deserves special
commendation.”
+ + =Science=, n.s. 21: 816. My. 26, ‘05. 230w.
=Grove, Sir George=, ed. Dictionary of music and musicians; new and
thoroughly rev. ed.; ed. by J. A. Fuller Maitland. **$5. Macmillan.
In undertaking the revision of Sir George Grove’s dictionary which
appeared twenty-five years ago, the editor aims mainly to bring the
work down to date. Mr. Maitland, “a man of erudition, good taste and
sound judgment, has critical acumen, and while he is inclined to a
thoroughly safe conservatism, such critical remarks as have been
admitted are for the most part such as are likely to give the reader a
general idea of the special characteristics of the musicians dealt
with.” (Ind.)
* “If the succeeding volumes contain as many valuable additions and
amplifications as the first, the work will suffice for many years to
come, and will remain for all time a monument to the learning,
patience, and judgment of the editor.” W. J. Henderson.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 851. D. ‘05. 1100w. (Review of v. 1.)
“At last we have an English musical dictionary not only worthy to be
compared with the French and German dictionaries, but surpassing them
all in the lateness of its information and in its comprehensive scope.
Some of the portraits are unworthy of the general high standard.”
George P. Upton.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 310. My. 1, ‘05. 2770w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 671. Mr. 23, ‘05. 600w. (Review of vol. I.)
* “Ably and judiciously edited, and it promises to be an indispensable
compendium for those who are genuinely interested in music or in
music-makers.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1161. N. 16, ‘05. 70w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The editing has on the whole been admirably done, and ... Mr. Fuller
Maitland has amply proved, not only his great ability in dealing with
a difficult task, but the foresight of those responsible for his
selections.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 226. Jl. 14, ‘05. 2020w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Unquestionably the most valuable work of the kind in English, and at
present superior to any other in any language, considering its
encyclopaedic character and the substantial quality of its most
important articles.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 296. My. 6, ‘05. 1710w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Guiney, Louise Imogen.= Hurrell Froude: memoranda and comments. *$3.
Dutton.
This volume is in two parts, the first, a sketch of Hurrell Froude and
his life, consisting mainly of letters and journals, the second, a
collection of comments upon him and his connection with the Oxford
movement. Outside of those interested in English religious movements,
Hurrell Froude, brother of the historian, and John Henry Newman’s most
intimate friend, is perhaps little known, and this book gives in
detail the man’s influence upon his associates and the religious
movements of his time, as well as his personality and character.
“The author’s style is not always unintelligible and precious, and by
dint of a great deal of quotation we are brought fairly near to that
strange inspirer of Newman.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 656. My. 27. 230w.
“It is a work of unusually distinguished merit. In the first place,
Miss Guiney allows Hurrell Froude to tell his own story. And a second
feature of this book which calls for praise is that in the pages which
the biographer has written herself, the style is splendid.”
+ + + =Cath World.= 80: 826. Mr. ‘05. 580w.
“As a whole the book lacks literary unity, but it is initiative and
gives an intimate glimpse into a circle of singularly real and fervent
men. Valuable it is as being illustrative of a phase of the nineteenth
century.”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 381. O. ‘05. 380w.
“She has brought to her task abundant sympathy and much careful
preparation. If her judgment is at fault, she has furnished us the
means of correcting it in no halting fashion. Her collection of
comments is no mere device for confirming her own views.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 214. Mr. 16, ‘05. 2090w.
“Miss Guiney’s book, which she does not call a biography, though in
effect it is one, is a sympathetic account of his life, his character,
and his work.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 602. S. 16, ‘05. 380w.
“The editing has been done sympathetically, and, in spite of the
opportunity offered for the exercise of a rich and rather over-refined
literary style, with restraint.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 400. F. 11, ‘05. 390w.
=Spec.= 94: 180. F. 4, ‘05. 320w.
=Gulick, Sidney Lewis.= Evolution of the Japanese. **$2. Revell.
A fourth edition, revised and enlarged. “It contains a new preface and
numerous changes in the text, which have been turned into notes and
placed at the end of the chapters to which they belong.” (N. Y.
Times.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 370w.
=Gulick, Sidney Lewis.= White peril in the Far East. **$1. Revell.
The author, an American missionary who has lived long in Eastern Asia,
discusses the significance of the Russo-Japanese war, which he
considers a turning point in the world’s history. He holds that there
is no cause to fear the yellow peril, that Japan is western in spirit
and civilization, but that the white peril menaces the Orient to-day.
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 559. My. 6. 260w.
“While in no way profound, it is rich in novel and suggestive points
of view. It contains one of the best statements of the real causes of
the war with Russia yet published, and gives an interpretation of the
Japanese attitude toward the conflict that is agreeably clear,
concise, and illuminating.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 356. My. 16, ‘05. 580w.
“A concise, clear and comprehensive presentation of the national and
international interests involved in present movements and tendencies,
viewed as growing from the past.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 910. Ap. 8, ‘05. 120w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 755. My. 13, ‘05. 280w.
“Is a model of compactness and illumination.”
+ + + =Reader.= 6: 591. O. ‘05. 280w.
=Gunsaulus, Frank W.= Paths to power; Central church sermons. *$1.25.
Revell.
The first group of Dr. Gunsaulus’ sermons to be published. They
emphasize his right to be classed with such men as Beecher, Brooks and
Spurgeon. “But to feel their power one must surrender for the time to
the speaker’s wand and not dissolve the spell by a critical mood.”
(Outlook.)
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 150w.
=Gwynn, Stephen.= Thomas Moore. **75c. Macmillan.
The author, who is already known as a novelist and a critic of
English-Irish literature, is also an Irishman and consequently found
an unusually happy subject in Thomas Moore. The romantic rise of Moore
from the Dublin grocery store to London’s rank and fashion is
detailed. The critical estimate of his work is fully given, and his
part in the last century’s remarkable advance in poetical technique is
enlarged upon.
“His life is excellently set forth in this volume, the author having
evidently put before him as the object of his task the painting of a
faithful portrait. Mr. Gwynn has added considerably to his already
very considerable repute by this capital little book, in which he does
justice to his subject and to himself.” W. Teignmouth Shore.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 79. Ja. 28, ‘05. 710w.
“Mr. Gwynn had accomplished no easy task with tact and literary skill,
if not with accuracy.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 327. Mr. 18. 2340w.
“A sympathetic treatment of the man and his works.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 20w.
“Mr. Gwynn’s book is compact with information and well-balanced
criticism.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 70. Ag. 1, ‘05. 450w.
“Delightful little volume.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1128. My. 18, ‘05. 330w.
+ =Nation.= 80: 253. Mr. 30, ‘05. 610w.
“Considered as a portrayal of Moore’s character, this book of Mr.
Gwynn’s is adequate and satisfactory. It is not, however, eminently
successful in evoking for the imagination the world in which the poet
lived. As a literary estimate, while it neither observes its subject
from a new angle, nor throws new light upon it, it is upon the whole a
thoroughly competent and workmanlike performance—an orderly,
trustworthy, and comprehensive statement of the established critical
opinions regarding Moore’s poetry and prose. Mr. Gwynn has shown
himself a safe, if neither a brilliant nor remarkably painstaking
critic.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 97. F. 18. ‘05. 2580w.
“Mr. Gwynn has given us an eminently readable book.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 251. F. 1, ‘05. 290w.
“Mr. Gwynn’s estimate of Moore is the most noteworthy thing in the
volume.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 214. F. 11, ‘05. 370w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 381. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
“We feel that Mr. Gwynn is making quite a nice and workmanlike book to
fill a supposed cap in a respectable series; we admire his visible yet
sober efforts to impart a tinge of enthusiasm.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 740. Je. 3, ‘05. 2180w.
“Mr. Gwynne, who has done his work with much skill and sympathy, has
never allowed his judgment to be influenced.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 555. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1890w.
=Gwynne, Paul.= Bandolero, †$1.50. Dodd.
A book which gives a vivid picture of Spanish peasant life. The story
concerns the only son of the Marquis de Bazan who is kidnapped by his
father’s enemy, a “bandolero,” and brought up on an Andalusian farm.
The boy falls in love with his playmate, the bandit’s daughter, and
altho her father violently opposes their marriage, he at last not only
gives his consent but sacrifices his life for the son of his enemy.
Altho the plot is melodramatic, the scenes of country life are homely
and humorous.
“The romance is thoroughly interesting, and has a considerable degree
of literary charm.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 208. O. 1, ‘05. 290w.
“A good melodramatic novel. The author must know his Spain far better
than most men.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 191. Mr. 25. ‘05. 300w.
“As has been said by some one, Mr. Gwynne knows the Spanish peasant as
well as Miss Wilkins knows the New England farmer. It is this part of
this book, as it was with his former story, which attracts us in Mr.
Gwynne’s work. The plot of the story ... seems to us on the
melodramatic order and less worthy of praise.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 704. Mr. 18, ‘05. 180w.
“A logical, well-atmosphered story whose interest is steadily
sustained and whose denouement is satisfactory.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 473. S. ‘05. 180w.
“Mr. Gwynne has painted for us the large sun-lit landscape of the
Andalusian plains and the slow comedy of village life with a certainty
of touch and a depth of colour which are entirely admirable. But apart
from merits of atmosphere and scenery, he has a very stirring story to
tell and much excellent character-drawing. Mr. Gwynne, though he deals
with the favourite constituents of melodrama, is always a serious
novelist, and his characters are as carefully studied as his plot. Mr.
Gwynne has found a field in which he need fear no rival, and we
welcome a book so full of freshness and vitality.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 90. Ja. 21, ‘05. 400w.
H
=Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich Philipp August.= Evolution of man: a popular
scientific study; tr. by Joseph McCabe. *$10. Putnam.
The present translation has been made from “the fifth (enlarged)
edition of the German work. The abstruse and puzzling phenomena of
embryology occupy the whole first volume.... The second volume is
devoted to the vexed problem of our ancestry—beginning with the lowest
forms of life and working upwards thru ‘Our worm-like ancestors,’ ‘Our
fish-like ancestors,’ ‘Our five-toed ancestors,’ and ‘Our ape-like
ancestors.’ But besides these we have some luminous chapters on the
evolution of the nervous system, sense organs, vascular system, and so
on. A summary on the ‘results of anthropogeny’ closes the book.”
(Acad.)
Reviewed by W. P. Pycraft.
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 489. My. 6, ‘05. 1680w.
* “As always, he is prodigious of learning, fertile alike in
illuminating suggestion and extraordinary new words; and as always,
totally at sea as to what may reasonably be said in a popular book.”
E. T. Brewster.
+ + — =Atlan.= 96: 682. N. ‘05. 410w.
* “A translation which is, on the whole, excellent.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 512. D. 21, ‘05. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 224. Ap. 8, ‘05. 330w.
“The broad fact of development and the main details of the process are
undeniably given by Prof. Haeckel with a wealth of illustration and a
positiveness of statement which aids both understanding and memory,
even if it somewhat obscures the complexity of the problem and the
insecurity of the conclusions to which one is lead.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 569. S. 2, ‘05. 1660w.
“It is unfortunate that more care has not been taken with the
translation and proof-reading, in the latter especially with regard to
proper names. On the whole, however, the translation is readable and
set forth in idiomatic English.” J. P. McM.
+ + — =Science=, n.s. 22: 137. Ag. 4, ‘05. 1550w.
=Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich.= Wonders of life. *$2. Harper.
This volume is supplementary to the author’s “Riddle of the universe,”
and is an answer to the thousands of letters and the many published
attacks the first work called forth. It contains a quantity of
biological information and is probably too technical to be popular.
“His whole method of argument is based on the continuity of life, the
unity of nature, and his metaphysics grows out of his biology. The
book is divided into four parts, in which he treats respectively of
the knowledge, the nature, the functions and the history of life.
Altho he is now in his seventy-second year he has not lost the skill
in classification and terminology which has given him his special
reputation, and he uses effectively the tabular form and parallel
columns to elucidate his theories and to contrast them with those of
his opponents.” (Ind.)
“The chapters on ‘Forms of life,’ ‘Monera,’ and ‘Nutrition’ are
written by a master in these fields and tend to compensate for the
enormous mass of paralogisms and unproved assertions that constitute
perhaps the greater part of the remaining chapters.” C. W. Saleeby.
+ — =Acad.= 68: 82. Ja. 28, ‘05. 700w.
“Yet the book must be respected for its learning, and is absorbing
even when not convincing.”
+ + — =Critic.= 46: 383. Ap. ‘05. 130w.
“The book is translated into good English, but there are various slips
or misprints in names and technical terms.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 232. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1000w.
=Ind.= 58: 206. Ja. 26, ‘05. 1130w.
“It [the translation] is on the whole clear and vigorous, but it
betrays inexpertness. The translator has not the vaguest idea of what
he is translating. Defective proofreading.... This book expresses the
sincere convictions of a veteran who has done much for biology.”
+ — =Nature.= 71: 313. F. 2, ‘05. 1550w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w.
“Notwithstanding this obscurity in parts, the whole book is fairly
clear as to its tendency.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 570. S. 2, ‘05. 1210w.
=Outlook.= 79: 505. F. 25, ‘05. 390w.
“After one wades through this terrible terminology of the scientific
philosopher he is gratified, however, to find that he has been led
always to a clear conclusion. Such is the nature of the question that
much depends on the original bias of the reader.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 214. F. 11, ‘05. 860w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 383. Mr. ‘05. 100w.
“Has been well translated by Mr. Joseph McCabe.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 788. My. 27, ‘05. 200w.
“On the whole we find it disappointing. In the present book we got a
mass of biological information, often of the most obscure kind, set
forth with all the ability of an acknowledged master in this branch of
science: but in conjunction with this we get a considerable quantity
of loose thinking of a kind which passes for philosophical often
presented in a very superficial manner.”
+ — =The Westminster R.= 163: 103. Ja. ‘05 530w.
=Haenssgen, Oswald H.= Suction gas. $1. Gas engine pub.
“Written, according to the author, to supply the lack, in this
country, of information on the subject of suction gas producers, and
more briefly of their first cost, cost of running and possible utility
and development.”—Engin. N.
Reviewed by Alfred B. Forstall.
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 184. F. 16, ‘05. 220w.
=Hafiz, Mohammed Shems-ed-Din.= Odes from the Divan of. Freely rendered
from literal translations by Richard Le Gallienne. *$1.50. Page.
“Hafiz has the epicureanism of Omar Khayyam without his philosophy. He
sings of nothing but wine and love.... Mr. Le Gallienne has not merely
translated, he has transmuted the odes into true English poetry, and
any one but an antiquarian will prefer to read them in this form
rather than in the literal versions.”—Ind.
“In short, while Mr. Le Gallienne has not found much more to tell us
in this than in his last Persian study, he has not shown any greater
poetical merit; but, on the contrary, by his more ambitious metrical
scheme and greater dependence upon himself, he has been led into worse
technical blunders.”
— =Acad.= 68: 1123. O. 28, ‘05. 980w.
“The only fault we have to find with Mr. Le Gallienne is that he is
inclined to make his task easy by diluting his poetry until it flows
freely. With more pains he might have kept more of the terseness and
spirit of the original.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 687. S. 14, ‘05. 540w.
“His work is frankly not a translation by a scholar, but a poet’s
version of another poet. Jarring notes like these are the more
discordant when one thinks of the beauty of so much of his version,
and remembers the undoubted ability of Mr. Le Gallienne.”
+ — =Lit. D.= 31: 665. N. 4, ‘05. 710w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 330w.
“Many of these odes have the lyrical quality, and that while they may
not be in all points acceptable to Oriental scholars, they give to the
reader sufficiently well the effect of Persian imagery and the essence
of the poet’s feeling.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 44. S. 2, ‘05. 220w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ‘05. 120w.
=Haggard, Andrew Charles Parker.= Silver Bells, †$1.50. Page.
Stories of hunting and fishing abound in this tale of a man who leaves
home and friends for the care free life of the Canadian Indians.
Silver Bells, an Indian girl, is the heroine.
“Col. Haggard has gone back to Fenimore Cooper for his model in this
story. The story may amuse boys, perhaps.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 347. My. 27, ‘05. 370w.
=Haggard, (Henry) Rider.= Ayesha: the return of “She.” †$1.50.
Doubleday.
In this sequel to “She.” the book which thrilled and fascinated twenty
years ago, “Holly and Leo search full sixteen years for Ayesha and
find her at last, the priestess of a strange religion, half
Isis-worship, half fire-worship, on a lonely mountain in no man’s land
at the back of beyond, there are hair-breadth escapes from avalanches
and from mad Khans who hunt people to death with bloodhounds,
mysterious doings in great temples and on the roof of the world,
fierce battles, in which nature fights for Ayesha against her old foe
Amenartas.... And Leo Vincey having won, after many an ordeal, his
bride, dies on the eve of bliss and Ayesha herself, now half goddess,
half weak and wilful woman, passes away from the earth forever.”
(Lond. Times.)
“Not all the wishes that we could form of submitting our imagination
to that of the author result in a moment of illusion.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1026. O. 7, ‘05. 260w.
“‘Ayesha’ fails to exercise the fascination of ‘She’; and the reason
must, perhaps, be sought, not in Mr. Haggard, but in ourselves.
‘Ayesha’ deserves indeed a vogue only second to that of her previous
incarnation.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905. 2: 538. O. 21. 230w.
“Has our taste changed and our discrimination grown keener through the
intervening years, or has the pen of Mr. Haggard lost its magic?”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 22:236. N. ‘05. 510w.
“If the reader will lay aside doubt and scepticism for the old ready
belief, he cannot fail to feel again the old pleasure, the old
interests, and the old thrills.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 140w.
“‘Ayesha’ is not ‘She,’ and the lovers of ‘She’ are a little stiffer
in the mental joints.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 329. O. 6, ‘05. 460w.
“No doubt, allowing for the disillusionment of years, this sequel is
as well-wrought as its original. Probably it is even superior
geographically, ethnologically, theologically, and pyro-technically.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 649. O. 7, ‘05. 310w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39:572. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.
* “‘Ayesha,’ continuing ‘She,’ betokens no weariness and no decay.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 762. D. ‘05. 70w.
“The novel shows fine imagination, but it is surely an artistic
mistake to throw doubt on the reincarnation story which readers of
‘She’ were bound to accept.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 595. N. 4, ‘05. 880w.
“As in all Mr. Haggard’s stories, there are some admirable adventures,
and the tale is told with much skill.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 657. O. 28, ‘05. 370w.
=Haggard, (Henry) Rider.= Gardener’s year. *$4. Longmans.
There are two gardens described in this book, one on the eastern shore
of Suffolk, where the author, by planting a certain beach-grass, has
successfully checked the inroads of the sea, and the other at
Ditchingham, where he has three acres under cultivation. He has six
glass houses and two ponds in which he grows aquatic plants. With the
assistance of two gardeners he raises fruit, vegetables and flowers,
making a specialty of orchids. There are 25 illustrations from
photographs.
“In the volume under notice he details his joys and sorrows as a
gardener in a manner which is well nigh certain to prove very
acceptable to the vast army of garden lovers.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 60. Ja. 21, ‘05. 630w.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 503. Ap. 15. 350w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 296. Ap. 13, ‘05. 920w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 553. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1840w.
=Haggard, (Henry) Rider.= Poor and the land; being a report of the
Salvation army colonies in the United States and at Hadleigh, England;
with a scheme of national land settlement, and an introduction by H.
Rider Haggard. 75c. Longmans.
By permission of the British government, Mr. Haggard’s report to
parliament of the results of his investigation of the Salvation army
colonies is re-printed in book form. It contains full descriptions of
these colonies with reports of conversations with the colonists,
letters, etc., and is illustrated from photographs.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 440w.
“Any one who believes in state-aided emigration as a cure for some of
our graver social evils will be grateful to Mr. Haggard for his
thorough investigation of the question and his thoughtful proposals
towards a solution.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 354. S. 9, ‘05. 1580w.
=Haile, Martin.= Mary of Modena, her life and letters. *$4. Dutton.
“The biography of the ‘fascinating’ princess—the only Italian queen
who ever shared the English throne—as it appears in her own letters
and the dispatches and letters of her contemporaries.... The volume is
illustrated with photogravures.”—N. Y. Times.
* “A valuable addition to the history of her time.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1197. N. 18, ‘05. 130w.
“But it is heaped together rather than written, and the author has no
gift of historical portraiture. Here and there interesting facts
emerge; there is, alas, no life in the whole.”
— + =Lond. Times.= 4: 361. O. 27, ‘05. 720w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 361. Je. 3, ‘05. 340w.
“An interesting book on the life of a young woman of little
importance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 840w.
* “Is a sympathetic survey of Mary’s life. The interest is both
historic and sentimental.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
“The one source of regret is that Mr. Haile, manifestly tireless in
research and an adept in converting the results of research into
narrative has not preserved a judicial attitude.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 250w.
=Haines, Alice Calhoun.= See =Knipe, Emilie Benson.=
=Haines, Alice Calhoun.= See =Mar, Alice.=
* =Haines, Henry Stevens.= Restrictive railway legislation. **$1.25.
Macmillan.
This volume is made up of twelve lectures given by the author in April
and May, 1905, at the Boston university school of law, “the purpose
being to present the manner in which legislation and judicial
decisions have affected the operations of railway corporations in
their relations to the public.”
* “Perhaps the most interesting portion of Col. Haines’s book, and a
unique and valuable record to the student, is the historical matter
which it contains.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 54: 533. N. 16, ‘05. 930w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.
* “The author discusses in an academic spirit, and without heat,
questions which are the subject of very heated discussion by the press
and by public men. The volume will be valuable to all students of this
subject whether they deal with it from the point of view of the
publicist or of the railroad manager.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 430. O. 21, ‘05. 190w.
* “Conservative discussions of the whole question, conducted in a
judicial temper.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 938. D. 16, ‘05. 120w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 637. N. ‘05. 80w.
=Haines, Jennie Day=, comp. Sovereign woman versus mere man: a medley of
quotation. **$1. Elder.
In these well chosen quotations from writers of both sexes and many
ages the compiler has compared and contrasted man and woman in various
phases and stages of their being. The left hand page applies to
sovereign woman, the one facing it to mere man, and they are presented
as heroines and heroes, spinsters and bachelors, wives and husbands,
and as related to love, matrimony, fads, fame, ways, work, religion
and many other things. The marginal decorations and general get up
make the volume an attractive gift-book.
* “The quotations, which are of very miscellaneous authorship, possess
more than a superficial aptness, and there is a refreshing absence of
that attempt at epigrammatic smartness which spoils most books of this
type.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 384. D. 1, ‘05. 80w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1384. D. 14, ‘05. 120w.
=Hains, Thornton Jenkins.= Black barque. †$1.50. Page.
The adventures of a sailor aboard the slave-ship, Gentle Hand, on her
last cruise in the year 1815, form the subject of this new romance of
the sea.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 519. Jl. ‘05. 130w.
“In spite of its exaggerations, it is probable that one does not get
from this story a very erroneous idea of slave ships, as they were in
1815.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 315. My. 13, ‘05. 610w.
“Language somewhat surprising for the rough character he makes himself
out to be.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 60w.
“Mr. Hains’s story—one of pure adventure—is vivid and exciting.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 473. S. ‘05. 90w.
* + =Sat. R.= 100: 600. N. 4, ‘05. 180w.
=Haldane, J. W. C.= Life as an engineer; its lights, shades and
prospects. *$2. Spon.
“This volume would make an excellent present for a lad with a taste
for mechanics, or for a young man thinking of an engineer’s
occupation.... The reader learns something not only of the marvels of
machinery ... but of the likelihood of earning a living in this
particular line.... The author has given an autobiographical form to
his book, relating his experiences at various great centres of
industry, as at Glasgow and at Birkenhead.”—Spec.
=Spec.= 94: 147. Ja. 28, ‘05. 300w.
=Hale, Edward Everett.= Man without a country. *25c. Little.
A new edition of a story “written in the darkest period of the Civil
war to show what love of country is.” A young army officer,
court-martialed for treason charges, curses the United States and
wishes that he may never hear its name again. As punishment his wish
is granted, and for fifty years he is “a man without a country.” He is
carried on one long cruise after another by government vessels and
barred from hearing or seeing a word from home.
=Hale, Edward Everett=, jr. Dramatists of to-day. *$1.50. Holt.
Rostand, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Pinero, Shaw, Phillips, Maeterlinck:
being an informal discussion of their significant work. This book is
exactly what it declares itself to be in the fore-going sub-title, but
in its informal discussion is matter of much interest, for the
dramatists and their dramas are discussed from the viewpoint of both
literature and the stage. They and their works are chatted about and
compared in a fireside fashion that makes the reader feel as tho he
had entertained a pleasing and instructive guest, one who can vividly
revive memories of “Cyrano de Bergerac,” “L’Aiglon,” “Die versunkene
glocke,” “Magda,” “Sweet lavender,” “The second Mrs. Tanqueray,”
“Candida,” “Paolo and Francesca,” and “Ulysses.”
“These papers are what is called readable: chatty, urbane, a little
ostentatiously inconsequent, perhaps, and familiar not always in the
best sense.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Atlan.= 95: 842. Je. ‘05. 580w.
“Strangely immature judgments and ... oddly egotistic digressions from
which the author forgets to return. He has an amazing capacity for
misunderstanding the things he writes about.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
— — =Critic.= 47: 90. Jl. ‘05. 160w.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 357. My. 16, ‘05. 240w.
“An amiable and quite unacademic vagueness is ... the chief
characteristic. His English style leaves much to be improved.”
— =Nation.= 81: 14. Jl. 6, ‘05. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 249. Ap. 15, ‘05. 290w.
“His little book, modest in style and also in spirit, is a fresh and
entertaining piece of writing.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 138. My. 13, ‘05. 240w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 50w.
=Hale, Harris Grafton.= Who then is this? a study of the personality of
Jesus. *$1.25. Pilgrim press.
“The personality of Jesus is exhibited as in a normally human
development, attaining thru communion with God a transcendence beyond
all measure of comparison. The work avoids technical theology, but its
Christological view is clearly of the Ritschlian type. Mr. Hale is a
Congregational minister.”—Outlook.
“Not without attractiveness from a literary point of view.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 151. Jl. 20, ‘05. 160w.
“This is, on the whole, a strong book. The method of the work is
inductive, and its style is clear and vigorous.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 196. My. 20, ‘05. 140w.
=Hale, William.= Dauntless viking. $1.50. Badger.
The foreword states that “this story of the Gloucester fisheries is a
conscientious study of the local life and color as it actually
exists.” It follows the fortunes of a young viking who comes to
America and casts his lot among the fishermen of Cape Ann, and is told
in the broken English of the sons of Norway. It describes a hard life
and does not close upon a happy ending, but lets the hero win success
and happiness, and then ends grimly.
=Hall, Charles Cuthbert.= Christian belief interpreted by Christian
experience. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
These lectures were delivered in India, Ceylon and Japan on the
Barrows foundation, 1902-1903, and are now submitted to Western
readers in book form that they may see “the manner and style of the
work done in India for Indians.” Written in that spirit of broad
sympathy which is essential if the Christian would successfully
approach the non-Christian mind, they appeal to all creeds, to all
ages, to all seekers after God.
“The foremost merit of President Hall’s ‘Barrows lectures’ is their
supreme tact, their gracious Christian courtesy.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 752. S. 28, ‘05. 490w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 558. Ag. 26, ‘05. 140w.
“The tone of the book is ironic and characterized by the true
Christian spirit of a broad catholicity.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 413. S. 23, ‘05. 530w.
=Hall, Edward.= Henry VIII.; with an introd. by C: Whibley. 2v. *$12.
Grafton press.
This text is reprinted from the folio edition of 1550. In its quaint
English it gives an account of the social rather than the political
phases of the reign of the “high and prudent prince, King Henry the
Eighth, the indubitate flower, and very heire” of Lancaster and York.
It gives a brilliant and interesting picture of the early 16th
century, it narrates faithfully, but lets many great heads go to the
block without comment. It was safer so in those times.
“Admirable alike in print, paper, format, style, and introduction.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 9. Ja. 7, 1030w.
“This present book disarms critics, so far as concerns Hall’s gift of
seeing things, and of using a dignified old English which now and
then ... rises to something like splendour.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 291. F. 25, ‘05. 1620w.
* =Hall, Jennie.= Men of old Greece. †$1.50. Little.
Four chapters graphically sketching history and biography are
“Leonidas,” “Themistocles,” in which this hero is set in the midst of
the events that led up to the victories of Marathon and Salamis,
“Phidias and the Parthenon,” and “Socrates.” The illustrations include
eight full-page plates and a number of drawings suggestive of types,
customs and dress.
* “Makes good reading for the boys of to-day.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 220w.
=Hall, R. N., and Neal, W. G.= Great Zimbabwe, Mashonaland, Rhodesia.
*$6. Dutton.
“This is a detailed account of two years’ (1902-1904) examination work
on behalf of the government of Rhodesia.... Mr. Hall writes briefly on
the area of the ruins, burial places of the old colonists, absence of
inscriptions, two periods of gold manufacture, the Elliptical temple,
the Acropolis ruins.... Chapters are given to the Acropolis, the
people, their customs, manners, religions and habits, the ruins,
ancient architecture, relics and finds, the Elliptical temple, etc....
The volume is profusely illustrated from drawings and photographs.”—N.
Y. Times.
“However fascinating these researches into hoary antiquity may be, the
great value of Mr. Hall’s work consists in its ample and careful
description of the ruins as they are, and in the plans and photographs
which illustrate it.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 501. Ap. 15. 1250w.
+ =Nation.= 80: 507. Je. 22, ‘05. 610w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 185. Mr. 25, ‘05. 390w.
“In the main his account is intended for the archæologist rather than
for the general reader.”
+ =Outlook.= 80:139. My. 13, ‘05. 330w.
=Halsey, R. T. H.= Boston port bill as pictured by a contemporary London
cartoonist. Grolier club.
“Through the associations of the remarkable series of cartoons
described and beautifully reproduced the author is led to tell
directly or incidentally almost everything that is known about the
Port bill ... [He] traces, through little-known letters, newspaper
accounts, and pamphlets, public and private opinion about the Port
bill both in England and America.... Five of the mezzotint
cartoons ... were the work of one man, Philip Dawe, a pupil of
Hogarth.... Other humorous mezzotints ... were put forth by anonymous
cartoonists, and the subject is further fitly illustrated by portraits
from contemporary prints and pictures of statues and famous historical
buildings.”—Outlook.
+ + =Outlook.= 79:907. Ap. 8, ‘05. 580w.
=Halstead, George Bruce.= Rational geometry. $1.75. Wiley.
Altho Euclid still holds its place as the one authoritative text book
on geometry, modern criticism tends to make pure reason the only court
of appeal, and doubts the reliability of the intuition of our senses.
This “Rational geometry” upholds this view, using points, lines and
planes as the names of things, the physical conception of which is not
necessary. “The object is to deduce the conclusions which follow from
certain assumed relations between these things, so that if the
relations hold, the conclusions follow, whatever these things may be.
Space is the totality of these things; its properties are solely
logical, and varied in character according to the assumed fundamental
relations. These assumed relations which develop space concepts that
are apparently in accord with vision constitute the modern foundations
of Euclidean space.” (Science). At a hasty glance the book does not
appear to differ from ordinary text-books, diagrams are given, but not
as essential to the argument. Altho the method of development is new,
all the school propositions of both plane and solid geometry are
eventually developed.
* Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
=Atlan.= 96: 682. N. ‘05. 180w.
“The aim of modern rational geometry is to pass from premise to
conclusion solely by the force of reason. Mr. Halstead is the first to
write an elementary text-book, which adopts a modern view, and in this
respect his ‘Rational geometry’ is epoch-making. It seems as if the
present text-book ought not to be above the heads of the average
elementary students, and that it should serve to develop logical power
as well as practical geometrical ideas.” Arthur S. Hathaway.
+ + =Science,= n. s. 21: 183. F. 3, ‘05. 1090w.
=Hamilton, Sylla W.= Forsaking all others: a story of Sherman’s march
through Georgia. $1.50. Neale.
A Union soldier, by persistent kindness to a fiery daughter of the
South wins her, and makes her see that though her home lies devastated
in the wake of Sherman’s army, and her childhood’s lover lies dead
upon the battle field, a great right has grown out of these many
wrongs. The book gives a vivid picture of Georgia’s sufferings during
the war, and of the brutality of Sherman’s men.
=Hammond, Captain Harold.= Pinkey Perkins: just a boy. †$1.50. Century.
Wholesome fun pervades this story of Pinkey, the boy, his pranks, his
love affairs, and his troubles. The reader’s sympathy is wholly with
him in his contests with an over-zealous teacher, in his celebration
of April fool’s day, and July fourth, and in his encounters with old
Hostetters, for Pinkey is always quick-witted, and never malicious.
“Is a little different from most boys’ books. He is never monotonous,
however.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 722. O. 28, ‘05. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 80w.
=Hammond, Mrs. L. H.= Master-word, †$1.50 Macmillan.
A story of Tennessee, which treats of the race question. Viry, whose
mother is three parts white and whose father is a Southern gentleman,
feels the call of the white race but is doomed to be relegated to the
black. Loathing any affiliation with them, she is one of them, and the
slight arguments used by her dead father’s wife, who forgives her
husband and nobly tries to do her duty by his alien child, neither
help her nor solve the problem. There are other characters and an
account of the development of the phosphate region.
“It is the first compassionate, intelligent interpretation ever
written by any white person, North or South, of that pathetic class of
men and women who suffer the loneliness and humiliation of a peculiar
condition. The sympathetic attitude of the book merits all praise, and
it is a story full of incident and interest.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 902. Ap. 20, ‘05. 470w.
“The author has written with sincerity and with a high purpose; and,
although there are things regrettable in her book, and she has fallen
short of her aim, she has done some admirable work, and has achieved a
striking story, quite out of the ordinary.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 130. Mr. 4, ‘05. 790w.
“The story is unusual in its nobility of spirit and its sanity.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 773. Ap. 1, ‘05. 150w.
“It is admirably constructed and well carried out save for a somewhat
forced and over-pathetic conclusion.”
+ + — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 100w.
“‘The master-word’ is a book that stands far above the average of
contemporary fiction.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 245w.
=Hampson, W. J.= Radium explained. **50c. Dodd.
“This little book ... will ... serve a useful purpose in giving an
elementary acquaintance with the subject of radio-activity, so far as
that is accessible to those with little scientific knowledge....
Probably one of the most valuable chapters in the book is that on the
medical aspects of radium.”—Nature.
“The language is simple and clear and should be comprehensible to any
one with the ordinary knowledge of chemistry and physics.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1366. Je. 15, ‘05. 140w.
— — =Nation.= 81: 33. Jl. 13, ‘05. 160w.
“The explanations given of the experimental properties of radium are,
so far as we have observed, clear and accurate.” R. J. S.
+ + — =Nature.= 71: 530. Ap. 6, ‘05. 610w.
“As a preparation for the further study of the new element, or for
those who wish merely to keep well abreast of the world to-day, his
little volume has an important place.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 442. Jl. 1, ‘05. 310w.
=Outlook.= 80: 447. Je. 17, ‘05. 30w.
“Dr. Hampson has a fine sense of value and proportion, both in subject
matter and style.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 470w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 294. F. 25, ‘05. 180w.
=Hanauer, J. E.= Tales told in Palestine; ed. by H. G. Mitchell, *$1.25.
Jennings.
A collection of folk-lore stories of ancient and modern Palestine,
gathered by a long-time resident of that land, and a contributor to
the publication of the Palestine exploration fund. The folk-tales fall
into five groups: “Anecdotes more or less historical,” “Legends of
saints and heroes,” “Stories of modern miracles,” “Tales embodying
popular superstitions,” and “Specimens of oriental wit and wisdom.”
There are a few helpful notes and numerous illustrations.
“As entertaining as any book of travel could be. Its combinations of
shrewdness and superstition, naiveté and astuteness, its worldly wit
and wisdom so other-worldly than our own, furnish an agreeable and
wholesome mental recreation for a leisure hour.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 145. Ja. 14, ‘05. 80w.
“Charming weird folk-lore tales.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 250. F. ‘05. 60w.
=Hanchett, Henry Granger.= Art of the musician: a guide to the
intelligent appreciation of music, **$1.50 Macmillan.
The purpose of this book is “to supply the demand of those mature
lovers of music who wish to understand the aims and purposes of a
composer, some of the methods of his work, and to get some ground for
fairly judging his attainments and results. It aims to supply such
information as should make concert-going more satisfactory, listening
to music more intelligent, and that may assist in elevating the
standards of church, theatrical and popular music.”
“Undoubtedly there is need of books of this kind, but it is to be
feared that this one will not accomplish its excellent object, because
of the author’s diffuseness and lack of lucidity.”
— =Critic.= 46: 480. My. ‘05. 90w.
“A unique and useful book, and one which goes far to demonstrate his
theory that music can be thoroughly and usefully taught without
teaching the art of performance.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 419. Je. 16, ‘05. 420w.
“In short, it is a treatise on how to listen to music that he gives
us, and it is a very good one.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 693. S. 21, ‘05. 640w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 410w.
“And while Mr. Hanchett may not have got to the bottom of all that he
discusses, much of what he says is useful and much will be
illuminating to the intelligent student who follows him through his
discourse and scrutinizes the examples he gives.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 410w.
“Useful, however, as this book is sure to be, it is not free from
certain evident defects.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 343. Je. 3, ‘05. 400w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 835. My. 27, ‘05. 250w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
=Hancock, Harrie Irving, and Higashi, Katsukuma.= Complete Kano
jiu-jitsu, *$4.50. Putnam.
The Kano system of jiu-jitsu, the official jiu-jitsu of the Japanese
government is dealt with in this volume. It also contains chapters on
the serious and fatal blows and on kuatsu, the Japanese science of the
restoration of life.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 383. O. ‘05. 100w.
“Beyond doubt, it is the most comprehensive work on the subject in
England.” Adachi Kinnosuké.
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 389. Ag. 17, ‘05. 140w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 118. Ag. 10, ‘05. 230w.
“The volume is the most helpful and comprehensive treatise on
jiu-jitsu that has yet been published.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 571. S. 2, ‘05. 1130w.
“A manual of the most approved form of the Japanese art of combat.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 836. Jl. 29, ‘05. 60w.
“So far as we have examined, every trick is sufficiently pictured and
explained.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 415. S. 23, ‘05. 550w.
=Spec.= 95: 263. Ag. 19, ‘05. 30w.
=Hancock, Harrie Irving.= Physical culture life: a guide for all who
seek the simple laws of abounding health, **$1.25. Putnam.
The purpose of this book is “to represent in a clear and succinct way,
the real aims and methods of the physical culture movement that is
marching onward in England and the United States.” The reader is urged
to follow “the plain and easily learned laws of physical culture.” and
is told how to exercise the individual muscles of his body, and how
much depends upon water and fresh air. The volume is well illustrated.
Reviewed by Eustace Miles.
— + =Acad.= 68: 491. My. 6, ‘05. 760w.
+ =Dial.= 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 271. Ag. 3, ‘05. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 89. F. 11, ‘05. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 215. Ap. 8, ‘05. 260w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 634. Ap. 22, ‘05. 140w.
=Hand, James Edward=, ed. Ideals of science and faith: essays by various
authors. **$1.60. Longmans.
A series of ten essays, each from a different hand, and divided into
two groups. The first six are included under the general title,
“Approaches through science and education,” and deal “with the
possible contemporary relations between science and religion
(relations of an ironical nature) from the standpoint of the lay
expert.” (Science). They are as follows: Physics, Sir O. Lodge;
Biology, J. A. Thompson; Psychology, J. H. Muirhead; Sociology, V. V.
Branford; Ethics, B. Russell; General and technical education, P.
Geddes. The second group, entitled “Approaches through faith,”
presents the clerical standpoint in its various phases as follows: The
Presbyterian approach, J. Kelman; A Church of England approach, R.
Payne; The church as seen from the outside, P. N. Waggett; The Church
of Rome, W. Ward.
=Atlan.= 95: 702, My. ‘05. 640w.
“Is conceived after an admirable plan. The minority of essays, which
are good, are so thoroughly good, that they lift the work up to a high
rank as a sadly-needed eirenicon.”
+ + — =Cath. World.= 80: 675. F. ‘05. 1150w.
“A rather prosy introduction. The essays are of various degrees of
merit.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 87. F. 1, ‘05. 640w.
“It deserves to be commended. A very remarkable series.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 41. Ja. 5, ‘05. 970w. (Summary of book.)
Reviewed by Charles M. Bakewell.
* + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 105. O. ‘05. 3530w.
“The plan of the work is novel, even daring, and conjures up piquant
expectancy. No doubt the work is tentative, not conclusive. The
collection remains notable and has everything to recommend it to
reflective men, no matter on which side of the fence their main
pre-suppositions happen to lie.” R. M. Wenley.
+ + — =Science,= n.s. 21: 26. Ja. 26, ‘05. 760w.
* =Handel, George Frederick.= Songs and airs; ed. by Ebenezer Prout. pa.
$1.50; cl. $2.50. Ditson.
The two volumes of Handel’s songs, one for high voice, the other for
low, are recent additions to “The musicians library.” The songs in
each are prefaced by a sketch of Handel’s life and a brief note on his
different compositions.
* =Hanotaux, Gabriel.= Contemporary France, tr. from the French. 4v. ea.
*$3.75. Putnam.
This “record of the inner diplomacy of the great powers of Europe
during the last thirty years” is issued in four volumes, each complete
in itself. The political figures of each period are brilliantly
described. Volume I. France in 1870-1873, treats of the
Franco-Prussian war and the close of the second empire; Volume II.,
France in 1874-1878, gives the history of the Broglie cabinets
together with the attempt to restore the monarchy. Volume III., covers
1879-1889 and Volume IV., 1890-Dec. 31, 1900.
* “The part of the volume which deals with art and letters strikes us
as poor.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 541. O. 21. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)
* “The most interesting chapters are perhaps those which attempt to
survey the soul of France, as it expressed itself in literature and
the arts in the years succeeding the war.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 385. N. 10, ‘05. 630w. (Review v. 2.)
* “The second volume of M. Hanotaux’s monumental work emphasizes the
good qualities of its predecessor. First of all, the narration bears
the marks of intimate experience. The volume is thus a distinct and
notable contribution to history.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 240w. (Review v. 2.)
* =Harben, William Nathaniel.= Pole Baker; a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
Another story of northern Georgia of which Pole Baker, who has already
appeared as a humorous character in “Abner Daniel,” is the central
figure. He is here made not only humorous but forceful and even
dramatic and he tells many good yarns and plays an important part in
the love affair of an unsteady young merchant and a girl named
Cynthia.
* “A somewhat crude if spirited story. There is no part of the
narrative that impresses one either with its reality or its charm. As
a novel, it cannot be considered a success.”
— =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “The translations given of the sadness and splendor of married love,
the whimsical veracity of the whole conception, shows this to be the
author’s best work in fiction so far.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1228. N. 23, ‘05. 210w.
* “If they are occasionally innocently coarse they are yet very truly
and forcibly moral in intention.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 100w.
=Harbottle, Thomas Benfield.= Dictionary of battles from the earliest
date to the present time. *$2. Dutton.
This book is a companion volume to “Dictionary of historical
allusions.” The author, who has compiled several excellent
dictionaries of quotations, died while this work was going to press,
so the proof-reading and indexing was done by Colonel P. H. Dalbiac,
who had collaborated with him in earlier works. The book is brought
close to date—there are five entries under the heading Russo-Japanese
war.
“The more modern battles are more efficiently dealt with than the
ancient, and we look in vain for any mention of the wars of the
ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, and Israelites. With this exception the
book is adequate.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 35. Ja. 14, ‘05. 140w.
“It is a handy compendium, but must be used with caution. Too many
details are given to insure freedom from error.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 481. Je. 15, ‘05. 140w.
“A little more pains on his part, however, would have improved his
book exceedingly. The location of the various battlefields is
invariably omitted.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 322. My. 20, ‘05. 310w.
“Such a book has an evident if rather limited scope of usefulness.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 391. Je. 10, ‘05. 90w.
“We have fairly tested the Dictionary of battles and have not found it
wanting.”
+ + =The Westminister Review.= 163: 233. F. ‘05. 160w.
* =Hardy, Rev. Edward John.= John Chinaman at home, **$2.50. Scribner.
The author “for over three years was chaplain to His Majesty’s forces
at Hong Kong.... His volume is a very medley of things
Chinese,—Chinese cities with their local peculiarities; Chinese food,
medicine, clothes, houses and gardens, servants and laborers; customs
of marriage, burial, and mourning; Chinese boys, women, and girls,
their manners, education, punishments; religions, superstitions,
spirits, monks and priests, foreign missionaries, New Year devotions
and rites, government,—and much more.”—Dial.
* “A simple-minded, chatty and amusing work.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1111. O. 21, ‘05. 120w.
* “For one who contemplates a hurried journey through the lands of the
‘Son of Heaven,’ Mr. Hardy’s book will be a most acceptable eye-opener
to Chinese characteristics.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 379. D. 1, ‘05. 320w.
* “To write so readable a book on China, in a vein both sympathetic
and critical, is in itself no mean feat.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 505. D. 21, ‘05. 430w.
* “The author’s style is extremely readable and vivacious. His book
contains a great deal of real information.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 150w.
* “If the author is not always judicial in his conclusions nor
strictly accurate in his statements, he is very readable and gives a
fair all-round view of the Chinaman that is slowly being transformed
by the very agencies he is here shown to despise.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 598. N. 4, ‘05. 940w.
* =Hare, Christopher.= Dante the wayfarer. *$2.50. Scribner.
“As the author remarks in his preface, Dante’s great poem is ‘a
marvellous record of travel,’ and the book follows his journeys from
first to last, recording, as the poet does, all the varied incidents
of his wayfaring, his observations of man and beast and bird, the
vicissitudes of climate and weather, and whatever else, however
trifling, could enter into the itinerary.”—Critic.
* “In this book ‘he’ has many times miswritten, mismetred, and
misinterpreted his author. Sometimes it appears that he is merely
careless or genuinely ignorant; at others that he is wilful. Indeed
the inception of the book seems due to wilfulness.”
— + =Acad.= 68: 1075. O. 14, ‘05. 1030w.
* “How much this record must illustrate the poem one would hardly
imagine before reading the book.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “Tourists intending to visit the places he describes cannot do
better than secure his book. As an authority on Dante—that is another
matter.” Walter Littlefield.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 848. D. 2, ‘05. 940w.
* “It has a delicate biographical flavor, is not without critical
value, and may be commended alike to students of the master and to
those who have yet to penetrate the depths with him, and with him
ascend the heights.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 716. N. 25, ‘05. 210w.
* “If the author’s first idea is not new, he has carried it out
entirely on his own lines, and in an attractive manner.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: sup. 789. N. 18, ‘05. 1410w.
* =Harland, Marion, pseud. (Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune), and Van de
Water, Virginia.= Everyday etiquette. **$1. Bobbs.
A practical manual of social usages which sets forth the “Gospel of
Conventionality” for the especial benefit of those who thru changed
fortune find themselves in a new social environment. There are
chapters upon such subjects as; invitations, calls, letter-writing,
weddings, the debutante, the chaperon, gifts, mourning, the table,
etiquette at home and in public, the church, and mistress and maid.
The book does not cover a brilliant social season, but it is a helpful
volume for the home and concerns itself with daily conduct and modest
entertainment.
=Harnack, (Carl Gustav) Adolf.= Expansion of Christianity in the first
three centuries; tr. and ed. by James Moffatt. 2v. *$3. Putnam.
“Dr. Moffatt ... is a competent translator of Prof. Harnack’s notable
work. Since its publication in Germany in 1902 the book has commanded
attention; and as it is the first exhaustive history of the Christian
mission, it is well that it should be in the hands of those English
readers whose ignorance of German does not interfere with their
interest in the beginnings of Christianity and the advance of the
early church.... One of the most valuable parts of Prof. Harnack’s
book is that which deals with the extension of Christianity down to
325 A. D.”—Ath.
* “It is the best account that we have yet had of the way in which
Christianity spread over the civilized world. Where the book is
disappointing is in its attempted explanation of the remarkable way in
which Christianity spread, and in its inadequate treatment of external
influences.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 1258. D. 2, ‘05. 670w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It hardly requires to be said of any work by Prof. Harnack that it is
marked by richness of historical detail; and it may be confidently
asserted that this one will maintain his high reputation as an
ecclesiastical historian.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905. 2: 463. O. 1730w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
* “It is an indispensable work of reference as to Christian activities
in that period.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1159. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“It has many of the characteristic defects of the author, but it has
also, in a very marked degree, his particular merits; it is vigorous,
original, full of life, and, above all, draws its material straight
from the original sources.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 298. S. 22, ‘05. 1330w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“Much of this is now ‘common form,’ after the researches of Schürer,
not to speak of the now antiquated work of Dollinger, but Harnack puts
his points with less pedantry than the former, and with better
equipped scholarship than the latter. Yet much will be new even to the
expert student.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 580w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The subject of course is interesting; the treatment is not, except to
those who dig deeply into theology.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 676. O. 14, ‘05. 220w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 333. O. 7, ‘05. 370w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Spec.= 95: 656. O. 28, ‘05. 1590w.
=Harold, Childe=, pseud. See =Field, Edward Salisbury.=
=Harper, Vincent.= Mortgage on the brain. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“The strange woman who is the central personage of this queer story
has three distinct personalities.... [She] is Lady Torbeth, the
cultivated, self-centered, high-minded wife of a British peer.... She
is also a Miss Errington, neurotic and erotic, and a Miss Leighton,
sentimental and innocent.... The problem is to expel the two
superfluous personalities from the brain of Lady Torbeth. This is
accomplished by ... the employment of radio-activity, electricity,
hypnotism, and mumbo-jumbo jargon.”—N. Y. Times.
“The story is almost plausible. It is deeply interesting, even
thrilling.” Albert Warren Ferris.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 67. S. ‘05. 1200w.
— =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 576. S. 7, ‘05. 200w.
“As a story Mr. Harper’s novel is ill-constructed and unsatisfactory.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 248. Ap. 15, ‘05. 600w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 60w.
“Mr. Harper weaves a strange and fascinating web of incidents,
somewhat bewildering in its shifting, glimmering improbability, but
none the less suggestive and taking.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 763. Je. ‘05. 80w.
=Harper, William Rainey.= Critical and exegetical commentary on Amos and
Hosea. **$3. Scribner.
“Dr. Harper is in thorough sympathy with the modern analytical method
of the study of the Bible. He correctly says that the reconstruction
of the text is the first duty of a commentator in the study of such
writers as Amos and Hosea.... He also recognizes the profound moral
and spiritual significance of the Old Testament history.”—Outlook.
“It is painstaking, accurate and thorough in scholarship, fair and
sound in judgment, full and impartial in the statement of contrary
opinion, and mindful of its text. In general, President Harper
represents the view of the modern critical scholarship. His views on
many particular passages will be questioned.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1131. My. 18, ‘05. 580w.
* “President Harper’s ‘Amos and Hosea’ fully sustains the reputation
of American Old Testament scholarship, and are the best and fullest
exposition of those most important prophets.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“But taken as a whole his book combines thorough technical scholarship
with large measure of ethical and spiritual insight, and we think his
‘Commentary on Amos and Hosea’ will take its place among the best in
this very excellent series.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 340w.
* “Professor W. R. Harper’s commentary on these two prophets is the
fullest that has appeared in English. Our chief complaint is that it
is too full; the original scripture lies almost buried under the mass
of authorities and opinions.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 1300w.
=Harper, William Rainey.= Priestly element in the Old Testament: an aid
to historical study for use in advanced Bible classes. *$1. Univ. of
Chicago press.
A revised and enlarged edition of Dr. Harper’s work in which there are
new chapters upon the Literature of worship, legal, historical,
hymnal, and on the Permanent value of the priestly element.
“It is a valuable aid to the historical study of the worship, ritual
and laws of the Old Testament and is especially full in its references
to authorities.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1131. My. 18, ‘05. 50w.
“As a standard type of excellence among manuals for Biblical study
this volume, available for various methods of teaching, is
unsurpassed.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 900. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w.
=Harper, William Rainey.= Prophetic element in the Old Testament, $1.
Univ. of Chicago press.
These studies are intended primarily for students in colleges or
theological seminaries, but the author has endeavored to make them
suitable also for advanced classes in Sunday schools. Part 1, covers
The general scope of the prophetic element in the Old Testament; Part
2, The history of prophecy through Hosea. The studies are concise and
scientific in treatment. Appendices include A table of important
dates, A chronological table of the religious life of Israel, The
prophetic vocabulary, and An analysis of the Hexateuch.
“It is a complete guide to this period of prophetic work. Its method
is inductive and constructive.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 26: 398. N. ‘05. 70w.
“This is the needed complement to Dr. Harper’s work on ‘The priestly
element.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 140w.
=Harper, William Rainey.= Religion and the higher life: talks to
students. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
Religion as presented by President Harper in these talks to students
is an attractive but very serious thing, to be gotten and kept only by
the bravest struggle. He summons his hearers to meet the peculiar and
tremendous responsibilities which rest upon them as college men, and
tells them with an almost fatherly sympathy and undertone of pleading
how religion will help them in a most practical way to meet the
sufferings and temptations which await them. Noteworthy are the
chapter on Our intellectual difficulties, in which he shows that
doubts are not inconsistent with the Christian life, but are in fact
inevitable, and the chapter entitled Bible study and religious life,
in which he argues that the supreme spiritual value of the Bible is
independent of the literary and historical criticism to which it is
properly subjected.
“The sympathy with young life is unmistakable. The altruistic spirit
breathes through every address. The treatment of religious
difficulties is robust and sensible.”
+ + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 603. Jl. ‘05. 440w.
=Atlan.= 95: 706. My. ‘05. 200w.
“His moral counsels, admonitions, and warnings are simple and
straightforward, his tone is natural, his language without pretence.”
+ + — =Cath. World.= 81: 125. Ap. ‘05. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 253. F. ‘05. 100w. (States doctrine of essays.)
=Harper, William Rainey.= Trend in higher education. *$1.50. Univ. of
Chicago press.
Dr. Harper presents a series of observations which have been made
along the way towards the yet unreached goal of a formulated
philosophy of the trend in higher education. He shows that the
conspicuous elements which characterize the movement—among them
college self-government, freedom from ecclesiastical control, and
right of free utterance—all point towards the “growing democratization
of higher educational work.” Some of the chapters are, “The university
and democracy,” “Some present tendencies of popular education,” “The
university and religious education,” “Waste in higher education,”
“Dependence of the West upon the East,” “The business side of the
university,” “Are school teachers underpaid?” “Why are there fewer
students for the ministry?” “University training for a business
career,” “Coeducation,” etc.
“The articles, with the exception of some brief occasional addresses,
are vital and frank almost to the point of bluntness. The treatment is
fair, and no attempt is made to criticize a particular institution by
insinuation. Dr. Harper takes a vigorous and business-like attitude,
modern but not radical.” Henry Davidson Sheldon.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 271. Ap. 16, ‘05. 2210w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 273. Ag. 3, ‘05. 60w.
“He makes no attempt to deal with the subject in a systematic way; the
papers are somewhat desultory and disconnected.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 259. Ag. 11, ‘05. 880w.
“On the whole the book is that of a man of learning of no very
pronounced views, who may be called an educational opportunist.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 259. S. 28, ‘05. 360w.
“The value of the book and the chief interest of it consists in the
total effect of the assembled material.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 164. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1130w.
“What gives most vital value to the volume is its discussion of what
the university and the church have to do with the problems of
democracy and religion, as well as with those of education. Such
criticisms from such a source cannot be waived aside; they may be
thought too sweeping; exceptions exist; but Dr. Harper’s ‘record of
observations here and there’ is a needed reveille.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 220w.
=Harriman, Karl Edwin.= Girl and the deal. †$1.25. Jacobs.
On his journey across the continent from Boston to San Francisco, a
young Harvard man wins the girl he loves and learns thru her to
understand the spirit of the West. With the girl he wins her “Uncle
Jack” the capitalist whose support for one of his father’s business
ventures he has come so far to seek. There is a detailed account of
the trip over the Santa Fé and a description of the Grand canyon.
“The note of personality in the author’s pictures of things Western is
the best feature of the story, which for the rest, lacks something of
high-bred delicacy in its portrayal of young love and is of the
slightest texture.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 478. Jl. 22, ‘05. 190w.
=Harris, Charles.= Pro fide: a defence of natural and revealed religion.
*$3. Dutton.
“The author, an accomplished theologian of the Anglican church, has
written for intelligent laymen, as well as for the clergy and students
preparing for the ministry. He is well versed in the literature of his
subject, whether hostile or friendly to his purpose of vindicating the
rationality of Christian theology. His standpoint is indicated by his
belief that the sayings of Jesus to his disciples ‘undoubtedly confer
a supernatural authority of some kind’ upon the Church.”—Outlook.
“While his work in a number of points fails of meeting the full demand
of a strictly scientific apologetic, its spirit is admirable. Its full
repertory of the evidences and arguments advanced by parties in the
great debate presents materials for independent judgment as well as
for views for which he contends.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 694. Jl. 15, ‘05. 220w.
“Mr. Harris’ text-book on Christian apologetics like Mr. Pullan’s on
early Church history, will be extremely useful to those who are
already on his side and are in need of a short, clear, able statement
of their case; but we doubt whether it would convince an opponent.”
+ — =Sat R.= 100: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 240w.
=Harris, J. Henry.= Fishers. $1.50. Lane.
A poor fishing-village in Cornwall forms the setting of this novel,
and the narrow views of the simple, superstitious fisher-folk are
strongly contrasted with the broad-minded outlook of Uncle Zack, who
is a progressive power, and a wholly charming character. The romance
of the story is furnished by Robert Pendean the son of a successful
Wall street speculator. Robert, while at Harvard develops a taste for
Utopian social ideals and his father gives him five million dollars
and sends him to Europe in the hope that he will acquire a taste for
“high finance.” He drifts into Cornwall, falls in love with Mary
Vaughan, and these two, to the joy of Uncle Zack, develop a
co-operative enterprise among the fishermen and build a model fishing
village near the dilapidated old town.
“A thoughtful and well-written novel, a romance in which the common
life of a poor fishing village is invested with rare charm, while with
a few exceptions the ethical ideals evinced are wholesome. It is to us
a matter of much surprise to find a writer who while not evincing the
bravery of thought or grasp of fundamental principles that mark the
writings of advanced economists and practical idealists among modern
social philosophers, is nevertheless far in advance of many
conventional religious, ethical and social teachers, striving to
justify the gaining of wealth through speculation in Wall street.”
+ — =Arena.= 33: 108. Ja. ‘05. 920w. (Story of plot.)
=Harris, Joel Chandler (Uncle Remus, pseud.).= Told by Uncle Remus, †$2.
McClure.
The inimitable Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox are just as entertaining as
ever in this new series of escapades in spite of the fact that Uncle
Remus says “I done got so ol’ dat my min’ flutters like a bird in de
bush.” The book is characteristically illustrated by A. B. Frost,
Frank Verbeck and J. M. Condé.
* =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 25w.
* “Permeated by the same sly humor that has given Uncle Remus his
unique position among lovers of good stories.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 444. D. 16, ‘05. 190w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1385. D. 14, ‘05. 70w.
* “Shows the familiar vein unexhausted.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 130w.
* “Joel Chandler Harris’s new Remus stories are as full of the humor
and charm of negro lore as ever.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 864. D. 2, ‘05. 610w.
* “It is the same old Uncle Remus, and the same old marvelous tales of
animal lore, full of gentle humor and kindly negro wisdom.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 753. D. ‘05. 60w.
=Harrison, Edith Ogden (Mrs. Carter Henry).= Moon princess. **$1.25.
McClurg.
The youngest and most beautiful of the princesses of the moon asks as
a boon of her moon-queen mother that she and her brother, the sun
prince Dorian, may spend their honeymoon upon the earth. They and
their retinue pass down a silver ladder made for them by the moon
sprites, and visit all parts of the earth and the caves of the ocean.
They are told about the little dwellers of the marsh, and the rainbow
sisters, and hear stories of the jewelled beach, the lost ocean, the
princess Sunset and many others. The book is full of fanciful conceits
and is charmingly illustrated in color by Lucy Fitch Perkins.
* “A nice new fairy story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 190w.
* “A simply told and prettily fanciful tale.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 20w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= Chatham, **$1.25. Macmillan.
“Fundamentally out of sympathy with the work which is Chatham’s chief
glory—the creation of the British empire” (Spec.), Mr. Harrison
follows Pitt’s career “through the long years in opposition, through
the days of savage attacks upon Walpole, upon ‘the brilliant Carteret,
the vacillating Pulteney, the tricky Newcastle,’ the king’s
‘Hanoverian policy,’ the rivalries in the Commons with Henry Fox and
Murray, who was later Lord Mansfield; the tenure of the Pay office and
the marvel of Pitt’s perfect honesty, the support of the Pelham
ministry (and certain inconsistencies thereto appertaining), till at
last, in 1756, ‘the terrible cornet of horse,’ the bugbear of
governments, became ‘First minister,’ though under the nominal
leadership of the Duke of Devonshire.” (N. Y. Times.)
“A life of William Pitt, the elder, without sympathy and without
conviction.”
— — =Acad.= 68: 267. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1830w.
“Mr. Harrison brings much freshness of treatment to bear upon
Chatham’s career, particularly during its earlier periods. A
singularly dignified portrait of a figure of lonely majesty.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 394. Ap. 1. 1480w.
“With all its brevity, Mr. Harrison’s study of the elder Pitt is as
would be expected, of the most finished character.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 277. Ag. ‘05. 310w.
“Mr. Harrison is no indiscriminate eulogist.”
+ =Bookm.= 21: 527. Jl. ‘05. 200w.
“A compact but comprehensive biography of the great statesman.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 80w.
“Mr. Frederic Harrison’s monograph, however, is for the present the
best study there is of Chatham.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 96. Jl. 13, ‘05. 600w.
“No one who has dealt of late with the career of the Great Commoner
has shown a deeper admiration of his nobler and more positive
qualities.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 266. S. 28, ‘05. 1400w.
“Mr. Harrison begins dryly enough, but in the end he has managed to
convey to his reader something—a vital something—of his own feeling
for the bigness, the nobility, the splendor of the man and his ideas.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 196. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1420w.
“Mr. Harrison has painted Pitt in language which, without bringing the
great commoner from the pedestal whereon posterity has placed him,
enables us to measure him in due proportion both as man and as
statesman.” H. Addington Bruce.
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 384. Je 10, ‘05. 2620w.
“Mr. Harrison has pierced the veil of mystery that shrouded the great
Chatham and shown him as he must have been.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“Mr. Harrison had a magnificent opportunity, but English readers when
they wish a short satisfactory account of Chatham in their own tongue
must still rely on Macaulay’s two superb essays supplemented by Mr.
Walford Green’s recent admirable and sober biography.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 632. My. 13, ‘05. 810w.
“Mr. Harrison has produced an interesting and spirited book, but it is
disfigured by this fatal lack of sympathy and in consequence by a tone
of petty and irrelevant criticism.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 512. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1330w.
=Hart, Albert Bushnell=, ed. American nation: a history from original
sources by associated scholars. v. 1-5. *$9; v. 6-10. *$9. Harper.
This series, of which the present volumes form the first section, is
to contain twenty-six volumes with one volume of index and one of
maps. Section one is in five volumes. Vol. I., The European background
of American history, by E. P. Cheney: vol. II., Basis of American
history, by Livingston Farrand; vol. III., Spain in America, by E. G.
Bourne; vol. IV., England in America, by Lyon G. Tyler; vol. V.,
Colonial self-government, by Charles M. Andrews; vol. VI., Provincial
America, by Evarts B. Green: vol. VII., France in America, by Reuben
G. Thwaites. With frontispieces and maps.
“Not without shortcomings ... (the faults of omission), this work is
charmingly simple, direct, and comprehensive. The work must therefore
prove a boon to schools and to the general public, which have too long
been at the mercy of the hobby-rider and the sensation-monger. It is
conservative and refreshingly healthy in tone throughout.” W. H.
Holmes.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 638. Ap. ‘05. 1060w. (Review of vol. II.)
“In many respects no better introduction to American history could be
desired. It seems, moreover accurate in a degree very unusual in
general statements covering so wide a field. It is on the side of
omissions that the book can be most seriously criticized.” Victor
Coffin.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 858. Jl. ‘05. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Tyler is particularly happy in tracing beginnings. The great
fault of the book is Dr. Tyler’s bias against the Puritan and for the
cavalier. On the whole Dr. Tyler’s treatment leaves an impression of
slightness. Dr. Andrews keeps to the historical point of view ... and
his vision is sane and comprehensive. Dr. Andrews has accomplished a
great task worthily. It means something not merely to scholarship but
even to the comity of nations that at last we have a popular history
of our colonial era, untainted by provincialism. Dr. Andrews is always
clear and most always forceful; but I venture to call attention to a
few errors and weaknesses.” Willis Mason West.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 869. Jl. ‘05. 3440w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
* “Judging by the first series, the history will be, when complete, a
monumental work fitted to stand comparison with similar productions of
the English and German students.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 753. N. ‘05. 600w. (Review of v. 1-5.)
“A series of well-written monographs of undoubted value. Professor
Cheney [in vol I] presents such a basis for the study of beginnings of
American history that the general reader is under large debt for the
information thus put in readable and compact form. Within the scope of
his treatment [vol II], however, he has given us a satisfactory piece
of work. [Vol. III.] Like the rest of the works, rather written down
to what the author considers the standard of public intelligence.
Nevertheless it views its subject with a breadth and force that make
the treatment commendable. [Vol. V.] Accurate and interesting. The
style of the monographs is in general rather dry, and yet it is
readable and interesting to those who use the volumes for study.”
+ + + =Baltimore Sun.= :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 1120w.
“The author of this volume [vol. I] has had a difficult task, and has
done it admirably. The story is told delightfully and with care; but
the necessity for compression causes occasionally a lack of clearness.
The author [of vol. II] himself informs us that his task has been one
of condensation, and the results are especially evident in the first
third of the volume, which is somewhat below the general average of
interest. The chief service of this portion of the book will be its
suggestiveness and the references in Professor Farrand’s excellent
bibliography. The many striking summaries of events and
characterizations of individuals which one finds throughout the book
[in vol III]. [In vol. IV] President Tyler has given us a scrupulously
fair and a very interesting work. The author gives us no detailed
study of institutional growth, but a general narrative. Here one
inevitably compares President Tyler’s work with that of the late Mr.
Fiske, with results not at all to the disadvantage of President Tyler.
[Vol. V]. This is very certainly the best general account of this
period that has yet appeared. One feels that the author not only has
intimate acquaintance with the old sources, but also has been
fortunate enough to reach considerable new material. Professor Andrews
is especially to be congratulated upon the catholic view of colonial
history that he presents to us. As successful as his descriptions of
institutions is the author’s delineation of personality. We must not
omit commendation of the bibliographical matter appended to each
volume. Volumes like that of Professor Bourne will take their place as
standard works. For the general reader, ... the work will prove a mine
of information interestingly told, well arranged, and attractively
published.” St. George L. Sioussat.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 190. Mr. 16, ‘05. 3050w.
* “The editor of the coöperative history of which these volumes form a
part deserves congratulation upon the success with which the process
of ‘linking,’ which here is so very necessary, has been carried out.”
St. George Sioussat.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 236. O. 16, ‘05. 2100w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
* “However, from the standpoint of critical scholarship, the authors
leave American history very much as they found it. The cooperative
plan has precluded a consistent and systematic treatment of the
development of British colonial policy and American commercial
interests, and the economic analysis is not keen or original.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 872. O. 12, ‘05. 770w. (Review of v. 6-10.)
* “Tho the series cannot escape some of the limitations of the
monographic method, yet it has already taken the place which it will
hold for many years of the most important reference history of our
country.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 150w. (Review of v. 1-10.)
“Never fail to be direct and lucid. The value of the series as a whole
can hardly be overestimated.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 304. S. 22, ‘05. 3340w. (Review of v. 1-5.)
“Taking the five volumes as a whole, the general verdict must be one
of cordial approval. All the writers have succeeded in attaining
brevity and compactness without falling into an elementary style,
while the volumes of Professor Bourne and Professor Andrews must be
given high rank as substantive contributions in their respective
fields. The literary form, though in no case striking, is meritorious
and of fairly even quality.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 96. F. 2, ‘05. 2440w. (Review of v. 1-5.)
* “As a condensed account of a peculiarly difficult period, written in
the light of modern historical scholarship, the volume is a
commendable piece of work, and a worthy addition to the series in
which it appears.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 306. O. 12, ‘05. 1200w. (Review of v. 6.)
“He has made a careful and discriminating use of his material, and
apart from a useful text has given us a valuable critical essay on the
authorities.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 480. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1110w. (Review of v. 6.)
“Prof. Thwaites, while hardly possessed of a fascinating style, is
always readable. His work is brief, clear, and always to the point.”
R. L. S.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 573. S. 2, ‘05. 860w. (Review of v. 7.)
“Prof. Howard’s work compares favorably with the best volumes of the
‘American nation’ series that have yet appeared.” R. L. S.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 621. S. 23, ‘05. 980w. (Review of v. 8.)
* “Prof. Van Tyne has succeeded in turning out a fresh, original, and,
considering the limitations of space imposed, an adequate history of
the Revolution.” R. L. S.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 680. O. 14, ‘05. 760w. (Review of v. 9 and
10.)
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 837. Jl. 29, ‘05. 230w. (Review of v. 7.)
“A survey at once broad and specific, and of high value to the student
desirous of obtaining the latest word of modern research. It is as a
helpful work of reference rather than as a ‘popular’ history, in the
usual acceptation of the term, ... it will deservedly win a place on
the library shelves.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 38. S. 2, ‘05. 1790w. (Review of v. 1-6).
“Like Professor Van Tyne—and, for that matter, like almost all the
writers who have as yet contributed to the series—[Mr. McLaughlin]
shows a firm grasp of detail and perspective, and his exposition is
such as to leave all that is salient impressed on the scholar’s mind.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 331. O. 7, ‘05. 400w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.
+ + — =Reader.= 6: 588. O. ‘05. 560w. (Review of v. 1-5.)
* “The scheme of the history is on the whole good, though we are bound
to say that some of the writing is uninspired, and not in the same
rank of literary production as much of the work by American writers in
the volume of the ‘Cambridge modern history’ dealing with the United
States.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 694. N. 4, ‘05. 700w. (Review of v. 1-5.)
=Hart, Albert Bushnell.= Essentials in American history (from the
discovery to the present day). *$1.50. Am. bk.
This is one of a series of text books which includes a volume each on
ancient, medieval, modern, and English history. “The volumes are
intended for use in secondary schools, and contain lists of references
and topical questions, but apart from this pedagogic machinery they
have little in common with the ordinary schoolbook. The authors have
addressed themselves avowedly only to those things which have been
vital and significant to the development of the civilizations treated
respectively in the several works.” (Outlook.)
“The somewhat original grouping of topics in the Colonial period is
the book’s most distinguishing feature. Upon the whole this work of
Professor Hart deserves commendation and should meet with a cordial
welcome among a wide circle of teachers.” Frank Greene Bates.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 166. O. ‘05. 1240w.
“While the historic narrative is necessarily compact and free from all
attempts at rhetorical writing or dramatic presentation, the books are
essentially selective in that they purposely omit confusing details.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 442. Je. 17. ‘05. 70w.
* =Hart, Jerome.= Levantine log book. **$2. Longmans.
All the reverence with which one likes to approach the Holy Land is
shattered by the genially sarcastic observations which the author
makes upon all his observant eyes saw in the Levant. His Levant
includes Stamboul, Smyrna, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Cairo, Luxor, Thebes,
Alexandria and other places naturally included in this itinerary, and
his log book is a record of cheerful disillusionment, but the pictures
he draws are amusing enough to compensate for the shock his
revelations bring. The volume is illustrated with photographs, many of
which were taken by the author.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* “A gossipy, vivacious account of travel.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 941. D. 16, ‘05. 30w.
* =Harte, Francis Bret.= Her letter, His answer, and Her last letter.
$2. Houghton.
“For the present reprint, these old favorites have been literally, as
the title-page has it, ‘pictured’ by Mr. Arthur I. Keller.... The
illustrations, a few more in number than the stanzas, are in color or
in tint, some from wash-drawings and others from pen-and-ink sketches.
They catch both the humor and the sentiment of the verses, and the
artist has not forgotten that the life of Poverty Flat is now a full
generation behind us.”—Dial.
* + =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “‘Her letter’ is certainly one of the artistic triumphs of the
season’s output.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 190w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1379. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 90w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 712. O. 21, ‘05. 220w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 90w.
=Hartley, Charles Gasquoine.= Pictures in the Tate gallery. *$3.50.
Dutton.
A study, with twenty reproductions, of the famous gallery presented to
the British nation by Sir Henry Tate. There is a general summary of
modern English art; the treatment is by epochs represented in the
gallery.
“The brief essays ... are well written and instructive ... and the
illustrations are thoroughly representative.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 25: 273. My. ‘05. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 252. F. ‘05. 90w.
“A general summary of modern English art written in a popular manner,
and as such may prove a useful book, for there is discrimination in
the criticism.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 115. Ja. 28, ‘05. 40w.
* =Harwood, Edith.= Notable pictures in Florence. *$1.50. Dutton.
The author “aims to help the uninitiated in art matters.... Miss
Harwood arranges her artists alphabetically, giving us some account of
their lives and their most important works, and telling where these
are to be found, with small illustrations, good only for assistance in
remembering the compositions. She includes the principal artists
represented in the Belle Arti, the Uffizi, and the Pitti, along with
frescoes in the churches.”—Nation.
* “The book is good to read, full of interesting historical detail,
and ample in quotations from writers ancient and modern in prose and
verse.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 402. N. 16, ‘05. 270w.
* “The pleasure it has given the writer to set down her impressions
may do something toward removing the suggestion that the book lacks a
good reason for existence.” Chas. de Kay.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 741. N. 4, ‘05. 220w.
* “A book distinctly better than the customary ‘center-table’ variety,
the text is better than the pictures, but that is not saying that the
text is either original or adequate enough.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 50w.
=Harwood, W. S.= New creations in plant life: an authoritative account
of the life and work of Luther Burbank. **$1.75. Macmillan.
“Following the brief account of Mr. Burbank’s career down to the
present time. Mr. Harwood has a chapter on his methods of work in
general. He then passes on to a discussion of the individual creations
of the breeder, describing the trees created by him, the amaryllis and
the poppy, the potato and pomato, lilies, plums, and prunes, the
‘Shasta’ daisy, cacti, breeding plants for perfumes, etc. There are
also chapters on breeding and grafting and the commercial aspect of
the work; a description of a day with Mr. Burbank, and his
personality. The volume is profusely illustrated from photographs.”—N.
Y. Times.
* “Given reasonably clear English and logical presentation, the actual
information in this book could be condensed into a magazine article.”
C. R. B.
+ — =Bot. G.= 40: 459. D. ‘05. 600w.
* + =Critic.= 47: 581. D. ‘05. 80w.
“Here and there the style is a little difficult to follow. We can
recommend this volume as a readable and truthful description of a
remarkable career.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 388. N. 9, ‘05. 510w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 709. O. 21, ‘05. 290w.
* “Contains the most complete and comprehensive account of Mr.
Burbank’s great achievements, his methods of work, and his
personality. His book is eminently readable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 1039. D. 23, ‘05. 250w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 754. D. ‘05. 130w.
=Hatch, Ernest Frederick George.= Far Eastern impressions. *$1.40.
McClurg.
Impressions of Japan, Korea and China, being the author’s
recollections of a tour of those countries made some three years ago.
His memory is fortified by facts and opinions collected at the time in
his note books and the whole is cast in narrative form. While the
industrial and political aspects receive first attention, the
historical and social phases are fully and fairly presented and the
book will undoubtedly fulfill its object of further stimulating public
interest in the great Far Eastern problem. There are three maps and
eighty-eight illustrations from photographs.
* “Mr. Hatch’s impressions are not mere chance gatherings and
ill-digested glimpses; they are acute and weighty observations upon
the things that appeal to a business man interested in politics. The
volume is well indexed, well illustrated, and written in a clear and
forcible style.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 378. D. 1, ‘05. 390w.
* “A capital book for the investor and fortune seeker.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1479. D. 21, ‘05. 90w.
* “The illustrations seem about as valuable as the text, for little of
purely original matter of any great importance enters into the book,
which is rather too rich in quotations.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 445. N. 30, ‘05. 290w.
* “The book is an interesting one to read in connection with Lord
Curzon’s and Mr. Norman’s much larger and exhaustive volumes on the
same subjects.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 80w.
=Hatch, F. H., and Corstorphine, George Stewart.= Geology of South
Africa. *$7. Macmillan.
“The book is divided into five parts. Part I deals with the pre-Karroo
rocks.... The Karroo rocks are adequately dealt with in part II....
The coastal system, including the Uitenhage and Umtavuna Cretaceous
rocks, profusely illustrated with typical fossils, occupies part
III.... Part IV briefly discusses the igneous rocks of doubtful
position.... Part V discusses the correlation of the South African
strata.”—Nature.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 278. Ag. 26. 1460w.
“The volume might be more truthfully entitled ‘A geognostic account of
British South Africa.’ Thus regarded the work is good and should prove
of much practical value.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 266. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1510w.
“The authors have certainly succeeded in their self-imposed task ‘to
correlate and systematise the valuable results of both official and
private work.’” W. G.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 346. Ag. 10, ‘05. 980w.
“Admirable summary provided by these two most competent geologists.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 374. S. 16, ‘05. 1620w.
=Spec.= 95: 198. Ag. 5, ‘05. 180w.
=Hatch, Louis Clinton.= Administration of the American revolutionary
army. **$1.50. Longmans.
A monograph, “Harvard historical series X,” which first treats of the
evolution of the Continental army and discusses the relation between
Congress and the commander-in-chief. There are also chapters on
“Appointment and promotion” of officers, setting forth the states’
jealousies; “Foreign officers;” “Pay and half-pay,” the real
contrasted with the apparent pay of the soldiers; “Supplying the
army,” its mismanagement and the suffering at Valley Forge; “Newburg
addresses;” and “Mutiny of 1786, and disbandment of the army.”
“A valuable chapter on the subject of the ‘Appointment and promotion’
of officers, showing the jealousy of the members of Congress for the
rights of their states. The chapter on ‘Foreign officers’ is the least
valuable in the volume, adding little to the account in Tower’s
‘Lafayette’ and that in Wharton’s ‘Diplomatic correspondence.’ The
following chapter, on ‘Pay and half-pay,’ is, on the other hand, a
real contribution. ‘Supplying the army,’ the mismanagement in the
feeding and clothing of the army, and the consequent suffering at
Valley Forge is, on the whole, the most accurate account we have, and
is stated with moderation and without sentimentality. The ‘Newburg
addresses’ in the following chapter are, however, treated in a fuller
and more conclusive manner. The book is well organized and well
written. It is a source study of high merit. There is a valuable
bibliography and a good index.” C. H. Van Tyne.
+ + =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 401. Ja. ‘05. 730w.
* =Hatzfeldt, Paul.= Hatzfeldt letters: letters of Count Paul Hatzfeldt
to his wife; written from the headquarters of the King of Prussia,
1870-71; tr. from the French by J. L. Bashford. *$4. Dutton.
“The Countess ... says in her introduction that the letters ‘throw so
much light on the great events of 1870-1’ as well as on the character
of the writer, that she thinks they will be ‘interesting to many
people who only know hitherto of Count Hatzfeldt’s public
services.’ ... Candor, however, compels one to deny the accuracy of
the first statement.... Count Paul was not behind the scenes in those
great events ... his letters ... were merely family letters.... As to
throwing light on the diplomat’s character, they may do that; but
merely that he loved his family, wanted to be with them.... The
letters were written almost daily—sometimes more than one a day—from
Aug. 2, 1870, to March 6, 1871, those from and after Oct. 7, being
dated from Versailles.”—N. Y. Times.
* “While, however, a little more care in editing might have avoided
some blemishes, we welcome the volume as throwing light on many
historical characters and events. The index is unfortunately poor,
though fairly accurate as far as it goes. There are a few errors in
the text.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 499. O. 14. 1490w.
* “In fact, so far as the public is concerned, the translation is far
better than the letters themselves.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 764. N. 11, ‘05. 660w.
* + =Sat. R.= 100: 754. D. 9, ‘05. 1090w.
=Havell, E. B.= Handbook to Agra and the Taj, Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri,
and the neighborhood. *$1.50. Longmans.
The object of this volume is “to assist those who visit, or have
visited, Agra to an intelligent understanding of one of the greatest
epochs of Indian art.” The author, who is the principal of the
government school of art at Calcutta, gives a brief historical
introduction followed by a detailed treatment of the buildings and
tombs at and about Agra. There are 14 illustrations in half-tone from
photographs, four plans, an index and footnotes.
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 269. Ap. 6. ‘05. 110w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 479. Jl. 22, ‘05. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 9. Ja. 7, ‘05. 240w.
“The book appears to be at least as good as most books of its kind and
better than many.”
=Hawkins, Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope, pseud.).= Servant of the public.
†$1.50. Stokes.
A story not of the stage, but of an actress: a character study of Ora
Pinsent, a creature of whim and folly, and ever behind the failure she
makes of living and the cloud her attractive, clinging, and uncertain
personality casts over those who cross her path, is the glory of her
triumph behind the footlights. There is slight reference to her public
career, but its success seems measured by the detailed failure of her
private life.
“We cannot regard ‘A servant of the public’ as other than a failure.
It is sufficiently interesting to wile away an hour or two, but not so
interesting as to fulfil the promise to which the early career of its
author gave rise.”
— + =Acad.= 68: 1025. O. 7, ‘05. 820w.
“Marks an improvement in some ways on ‘Double harness.’ The canvas is
less crowded, and the attempt to unravel cross-purposes and
conflicting motives is less strenuous yet more successful.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 396. S. 23. 590w.
“One of the few heroines of this season’s fiction that will not easily
be forgotten.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 234. N. ‘05. 350w.
* “The ostensibly piquant history of Miss Ora Pinsent is, after all,
dull reading.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 140w.
* “The story is written in a vein of grave comedy, pleasing but not
stirring in effect. Its half-dozen chief characters are delicately
defined, while its diction is an acceptable compound of natural
dialogue, engaging description, and agreeable social philosophy.” Wm.
M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 310. N. 16, ‘05. 220w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1151. N. 16, ‘05. 180w.
* “Altho the plot is a little tenuous, yet Mr. Hope treats it with
much solidity.”
+ — =Lit. D.= 31: 886. D. 9, ‘05. 570w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 910w.
“There is a sound as well as subtle philosophy to be read between the
lines of this unusual book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 602. S. 16, ‘05. 880w.
“As a clever study of a character often met with in real life, but not
so often attempted in fiction, this story offers unusual attractions.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 430. O. 21, ‘05. 220w.
* “As an analysis of a temperament and an artistic presentment of
individual problems the novel is wrought out with skill and ability.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 140w.
“Mr. Hope’s fine comedy manner has no better example than ‘A servant
of the public.’ Lacking the dramatic vitality of ‘Double harness,’
this story is almost as interesting, for it deals, keenly,
good-humoredly, with that fascinating subject, the dramatic instincts
of a woman.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 320w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 50w.
“The finish of the story illustrated an art of which Anthony Hope is
attaining real control. He gives by a very delicate succession of
blunting touches, an admirable imitation of the dulling effect of
time.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 376. S. 16, ‘05. 630w.
“Subject to the limitations of his theme, in the choice of which we
are ready to admit that opportunity as well as temperament may have
been a governing factor, we have little but praise for the skill, the
tact, and the subtlety with which Mr. Anthony Hope has handled it.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 395. S. 16, ‘05. 1160w.
=Hawks, Wells.= Red wagon stories; or, Tales told under the tent. 50c;
pa. 25c. Ottenheimer.
In “these realistic sketches, reminiscent of traveling circus
days, ... the men who make the great show go, the bill poster, the
press agent, the boss canvasman, the bandmaster, and the ticket
seller, give us, in their rough and ready manner, a cheery view of
their good-humored personalities in the breezy stories they relate
when seated around the ring bark between performances.... In all there
are eleven stories.”—N. Y. Times.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 277. Ap. 29, ‘05. 140w.
=Hawthorne, Hildegarde.= Poems. $1. Badger, R. G.
A little volume of delicate poems by the granddaughter of Nathaniel
Hawthorne.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 566. Je. ‘05. 160w.
Reviewed by William Morton Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 201. Mr. 16, ‘05. 140w.
“A graceful lyric gift, a vein of pretty fancy, and a habitual mood of
ideality are very little inconvenienced by disturbing mental
processes.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 150w.
“In Miss Hawthorne’s work a certain respect for the purity of the
poetic impulse is invariably felt. She neither trifles nor bungles
with her art, but approaches it sincerely and with intelligence. Her
verse, therefore, even when it is of the slightest, has a delicate,
veracious property that charms.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 133. Mr. 4, ‘05. 250w.
=Hawthorne, Nathaniel.= Marble faun. $1.25. Crowell.
A volume of the “Thin paper classics,” with an introduction by
Katharine Lee Bates, and a frontispiece showing the Grand Salon, in
the Capitoline Museum.
=Hay, Helen.= See =Whitney, Mrs. Helen Hay.=
=Hayden, Arthur.= Chats on old furniture: a practical guide for
collectors. **$2. Stokes.
The author “begins with a bibliography, and follows this with a
glossary.... He then proceeds to deal separately with various periods
of style. The first chapter is given to the French renaissance, the
second to the English, the Jacobean and Queen Anne styles, and the
styles of the successive Louises, with that of the empire. Finally we
have an account of the famous English makers. Each chapter has an
appendix of recent sale-prices.”—Spec.
“Is an admirable compendium of all that has been written on the
subject.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 272. Mr. 18, ‘05. 900w.
=Ath.= 1905, 1: 377. Mr. 25. 490w.
+ + — =Sat. R.= 99: 846. Je. 24, ‘05. 200w.
“A useful and instructive volume.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 333. Mr. 4, ‘05. 110w.
=Hayes, Helen.= Her memory book. $2. Harper.
An elaborately decorated volume of blank pages in which a young girl
may keep a record of her social life, her “coming-out” party, dinners,
teas, balls, card parties, and out of door sports, there is even space
for samples of her favorite gowns and newspaper notices; the final
page is headed by a wee winged figure with veil, and orange wreath.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 180w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 701. O. 14, ‘05. 280w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 279. S. 30, ‘05. 30w.
=Hazlitt, William Carew,= ed. Faiths and folklore. *$6. Scribner.
“This is really a new edition of Brand and Ellis’s ‘Popular
antiquities of Great Britain,’ but it is now for the first time
alphabetically arranged—an immense improvement—and has also been
enlarged and improved. The title, as given above, sufficiently
indicates the classes of topics treated.”—Outlook.
“The author has collected a good deal of folklore, which it is useful
to possess in alphabetical order, but many of the entries would have
been improved by revision.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 39. Jl. 8. 1710w.
“Mr. Hazlitt has added some material to the old book, but neither in
quantity nor in quality is it worth while. Most of it is newspaper
clippings culled at random, and both in arrangement and in subject
shows no sense of proportion or definite plan.”
— =Dial.= 39: 119. S. 1, ‘05. 320w.
“The work is a rarely quaint storehouse of legend, allusion,
antiquarian information, and bygone usages.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 95. Ja. 7. ‘05. 60w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 420w.
=Healy, Patrick Joseph.= Valerian persecution: a study of the relations
between church and state in the third century, A. D. **$1.50. Houghton.
An historical monograph, which is not a sectarian work, but which sets
forth in the light of recent investigation, the true history of this
period in which the early Christians suffered much at the hands of the
Roman state.
* “The character of Dr. Healy’s work may be briefly indicated by
saying that, while it satisfies the exacting standards to which the
modern writer of history must conform, it will not fail to fascinate
the intelligent reader who takes up a book of history, not for severe
study, but partly for instruction, partly for entertainment. Clear
alike by its methodic arrangement and its simple style, lively and
vivid without falling into the rhetorical, the narrative flows
smoothly on, and, though abounding in detail, never becomes tedious or
monotonous.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 403. D. ‘05. 1070w.
* “Painstaking as he has been in piecing together his material, he
does not always seem to have understood the sphere to which the
statements he copied down applied. This will not prevent his book’s
being useful to a large circle of readers to whom the sources from
which he draws are not accessible.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 374. N. 3, ‘05. 540w.
“Dr. Healy’s work is not everywhere selfconsistent.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 346. O. 26, ‘05. 1100w.
“A carefully written monograph.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 385. O. 14, ‘05. 140w.
=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Exotics and retrospectives. Shadowings. A. Japanese
miscellany. In ghostly Japan, ea. $1.25. Little.
The general title, “Stories and sketches of Japan,” includes in
popular form four volumes of the short papers written during the last
few years of the author’s life. The volume entitled “A Japanese
miscellany,” “would have fitted,” says the N. Y. Times, “the whole
series excellently well for it is altogether Japanese.... Bits of
antiquarian and ethnological investigation; little papers of research
in all kinds of interesting matters relating to the people whom the
author loved so well; Japanese stories retold from curious old
Japanese books, with Mr. Hearn’s own version of traits and occurrences
that have come under his observation; a few of the exquisitely
artistic and suggestive tales, impressions, descriptions, which no one
but a Hearn could write—these fill the four volumes with such a wealth
of entertaining as well as valuable material that, in reading them,
one constantly marvels how any one man found time or patience to
gather and assimilate it all into one such orderly shape.”
“He does not so much attempt to define, as to convey by means of his
charmingly expressed and equally charmingly conceived ideas, some
notion of the other half of the world, and the ideals as well as the
daily life of the East.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 40. Ap. ‘05. 230w.
“Together they offer an extraordinary variety of apercus of Japanese
character and customs and beliefs, subtly apprehended, and expressed
in a style infused with sympathy, phantasy, and color.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 68. Ja. 26, ‘05. 330w.
“It is here that we gain some idea of the painstaking study, for
infinite capacity for details, the special sympathy and appreciation
that formed the solid basis of that wonderful power of vivid portrayal
and poetic fancy that have made all of Mr. Hearn’s work unique and
delightful. Certainly no one can afford to miss the insight into the
very spirit of Japan, which is to be gained from these books. He, more
than any other English writer, was fitted to be their prophet, and he
nobly began his task, even if he did not have opportunity to complete
it.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 68. F. 4, ‘05. 1010w.
=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Japan. **$2. Macmillan.
The author, an American journalist, son of a Greek mother and an Irish
father, took a Japanese name and a Japanese wife and lived the life of
a native teacher, in order to interpret sympathetically the Japanese
mind and its products to the Western world. Altho frankly devoted to
the country, he surpasses her enemies in admiringly laying bare the
realities. “One cannot quote, one must read this work. It shows the
Japanese under his armor, modern science. The Japanese, outwardly, are
ruled by treaties, diplomacy, governments, codes, imperial diet,
armies, and battleships—all modern and external. Inwardly they—that
is, forty-nine millions of them—are governed by ghosts. The graveyard
is the true dictator. It is ever their ‘illustrious ancestors’ who
achieve victories.” (Critic).
“Probably three greater errors were never compressed into a single
sentence than this from p. 27: ‘The real religion of Japan, the
religion still professed in one form or another by the entire nation,
is that cult which has been the foundation of all civilized religion
and of all civilized society—ancestor-worship.’ The close and frequent
points of influence which religion exercised upon politics and
morality in Japan can nowhere else be so well studied as here.” E.
Buckley.
+ + — =Am. J. Soc.= 10: 545. Ja. ‘05. 2460w.
“Is a classic in science, a wonder of interpretation. It is the
product of long years of thought, of keenest perception, of marvellous
comprehension. Hearn outdoes the missionaries in dogmatism, exceeds
even the hostile propagandist in telling the naked truth. His book is
a re-reading of all Japanese history, a sociological appraisement of
the value of Japanese civilization, and a warning against intolerant
propaganda of any sort whatever.” W. E. Griffis.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 185. F. ‘05. 710w.
“Both the prose and the poetry of Japanese life are infused into Mr.
Hearn’s charming pages. Nobody, so far as we know, has given a better
description of the fascination which Japanese life has at first for
such as enter into its true spirit, and of its gradual disappearance.
The swan-song of a very striking writer.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 54. Ja. 14, ‘05. 530w.
=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Letters from the raven. *$5. Mintie press.
In this volume of letters and poems, Hearn tells of his life in the
South, gives his views on the negro question, and his impressions of
Memphis, New Orleans, and New York. The verses are both light and
serious, and there are translations from negro and Creole love songs.
=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Romance of the Milky Way, and other studies and
stories. **$1.25. Houghton.
“This small posthumous volume ... presents half a dozen ... graceful
trifles, all but two Japanese in theme, preceded by a short
biographical and appreciative notice ... by Mr. Ferris Greenslet.
‘With the exception of a body of familiar letters now in process of
collection,’ says this editor, ‘the present volume contains all of
Hearn’s writing that he left uncollected in the magazines or in
manuscripts of a sufficient ripeness for publication.’”—Dial.
* “The last work of Lafcadio Hearn lacks nothing of that delicacy of
expression, of that beauty and depth of thought which caused his
earlier books to be sought after and cherished by the ‘many who are
yet the few.’”
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one.”
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=Heath, Dudley.= Miniatures. *$6.75 Putnam.
“The chief object of the book is to present a historical account of
the art which shall be suggestive and stimulating to further study and
appreciation rather than to attempt an exhaustive catalog or an
authoritative guide for the specialist.”—Ind.
“Mr. Heath has done his work with exceptional thoroughness and skill.
The closing pages are given up to ‘Foreign portrait miniaturists’ and
we read of Italy, Germany, and France, but not a word of America or
the United States.” Charles Henry Hart.
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“Mr. Heath has taken up the consideration of his subject with
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=Heath, William.= Heath’s memoirs of the American war: ed. by Rufus
Rockwell Wilson, **$2.50. Wessels.
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hitherto been reprinted only in a limited edition, are of direct
value to the student of the war of the Revolution, constituting a
first-hand account of many of the operations connected therewith,
and assisting to an appreciation of the men and conditions of the
period. The author served as a major-general in the American army
throughout the long conflict, his military activity dating from the
battle of Concord, where he took part in the harrying of the
retreating British.”—Outlook.
“The editor’s introduction, notes, and appendixes are excellent in
their way.”
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surrender of Cornwallis.”
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“In this new dress ... these memoirs form a valuable addition to our
source books of American history.”
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=Heigh, John.= House of cards. †$150. Macmillan.
The pen-name John Heigh has aroused genuine curiosity among the lovers
of a “morsel of mystery.” “The corrupt league between business and
politics is the leading note, but the strength and grace of the story
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hearty and honest personality of John Heigh.” (Ind.)
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situations are handled with artistic restraint, and a vein of quiet
humor runs all through the book.”
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characterization.” Wm. M. Payne.
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existence.”
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=Heilprin, Angelo.= Tower of Pelee. **$3. Lippincott.