Pelée and the tragedy of Martinique,” was in Martinique at the time of
the great eruption in the summer of 1902 and has visited the islands
twice since that time, ascending Pelee many times. This volume is an
illustrated study of the great West Indian volcano, and the strange
tower of lava which rose so mysteriously from the crater’s mouth, and
crumbled away in constantly falling fragments. He also gives the
after-history of the tower and explanations of the phenomena.
“An important contribution to our knowledge of the ways of volcanoes.
The book is written with more care than preceding volumes from the
same hand.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 203. Mr. 16, ‘05. 240w.
“It is in the wide and sympathetic interest stirred by the tragic fate
of St. Pierre that Professor Heilprin’s volume finds its
justification. Author is a man of versatile scientific attainment, a
general naturalist and geographer rather than a geologist or
volcanologist, and with the journalist’s eye for the effective (albeit
not always essential or accurate) details. A tendency to introduce
irrelevant matter. In giving the results of Prof. Moissan’s analysis
of fumerole gases from St. Pierre, the author curiously omits nitrogen
which formed 55 per cent of the whole.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 137. F. 16, ‘05. 1730w. (Abstract of contents.)
Reviewed by J. S. F.
+ =Nature.= 72: 101. Je. 1, ‘05. 170w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 531. Ag. 12, ‘05. 490w.
=Outlook.= 79: 145. Ja. 14, ‘05. 100w.
“His study is both scientific and popular.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 251. F. ‘05. 100w.
“The illustrations, indeed, can hardly be matched, so effective is
their representation of the volcanic phenomena.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 223. F. 11, ‘05. 170w.
* =Helm, W. H.= Aspects of Balzac. **$1. Pott.
“The greater part of the book is reprinted from the ‘Empire
review.’ ... Two articles run through the women and men of Balzac, and
another deals with Balzac’s idea of the English and his admiration for
various English authors. In ‘Balzac and Dickens’ essential differences
between the French realist and the ‘respectable English author’ are
well indicated.... In ‘Literary references in Balzac’ ... the
influence of Sterne and Richardson is rightly pointed out.”—Ath.
* “He gossips freely and with abundance of humour (which seems
occasionally introduced for the purpose of mollifying the general
reader) concerning the characters in Balzac’s immense world, and sets
down the main conclusions about the novelist which most expert readers
have reached.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 493. Ap. 15. 260w.
* “It contains entertaining information about the novelist and his
novels, presented in a clear, direct, offhand manner, which agreeably
does not exact too much patience from the reader.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 838. D. 2. ‘05. 530w.
=Henderson, Charles Hanford.= Children of good fortune: an essay in
morals. **$1.30. Houghton.
The philosophy that preaches salvation thru good fortune is set forth
under the headings: The problem; Human conduct; Right and wrong;
Efficiency; Worth; The moral person; Individual morality; The cardinal
virtues; The doctrine of automatic goodness; Social welfare; The
morality of the four institutions; Occupations; Immediacy; The moral
outlook.
* “The work is written in a charming style, and possesses keen
penetration and moral insight.” W. C. Keirstead.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 781. O. ‘05. 880w.
* + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 798. D. 9. 390w.
“Mr. Henderson’s books, moreover, are not written from strange heights
which none but the moral philosopher can scale. They are clear and
simple, showing a rare firsthand knowledge of the larger life. They
combine to an unusual extent the attitudes of the observer and the
experimentalist; they are at once dispassionate and enthusiastic.”
Edith J. R. Isaacs.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 354. My. 16, 05. 1840w.
“At all events the book is good reading, fit to stimulate thought and
apt even to produce effects upon conduct itself.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 460. Jl. 8, ‘05. 640w.
“Such a book is a moral tonic.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 343. Je. 3, ‘05. 450w.
“Dr. Henderson’s book is stimulating, and represents an interesting
attempt to provide a working basis for moral conduct.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 100w.
=Henderson, Charles Richmond, and others.= Modern methods of charity.
**$3.50. Macmillan.
An account of the public and private systems of relief in the
principal countries of Europe, the British empire, and the United
States; also a special treatment of Jewish charities. It is a book for
active workers in any field of philanthropy, as well as for students.
=Acad.= 68: 151. F. 18, ‘05. 350w.
* “It is not philosophy, it is not theory; but it is a foundation upon
which theory and philosophy may be erected. It is the product of the
hardest and most tedious delving, searching, translating, comparing
and verifying.” Ernest P. Bicknell.
+ + — =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 426. N. ‘05. 790w.
“Encyclopaedic compend.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 556. Ap. ‘05. 710w.
“The book is almost encyclopaedic in character, and hence more likely
to be referred to on special topics than to be read through as a
treatise. The volume has too many details which are not digested and
which are not of valuable significance, and altogether too many
statements which do not convey clear and helpful ideas; while some
information that should be found in it is unhappily lacking.... The
misleading generalizations which the editor has allowed to appear at
frequent intervals throughout the volume.” B.
+ — =Charities.= 14: 639. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1870w.
Reviewed by Max West.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 269. Ap. 16, ‘05. 560w.
“We regret to say, the editor seems to have a very inadequate
conception of the comparative method of study and of scientific
methods in general.”
— — =Nation.= 80: 422. My. 25, ‘05. 960w.
“It is a scientific study in what we may call the methodology of
public relief for public poverty.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 902. Ap. 8, ‘05. 340w.
“A useful compendium.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 127. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
=Henderson, George Francis Robert.= Science of war; ed. by Neil Malcolm.
*$4. Longmans.
The author of “Stonewall Jackson” called the Herbert Spencer of
military tactics was a master of the theory and practice of the art of
war. This collection of essays and lectures which separately have been
regarded as authoritative along their respective lines of thought,
treat such subjects as “War,” “Strategy,” “The tactical employment of
cavalry,” “Tactics of the three arms combined,” “Training of the
infantry for the attack,” “Military criticism and modern tactics,”
etc. The fourteen essays are preceded by a memoir by Col. Henderson’s
staunch admirer and patron, Lord Roberts.
“Henderson is at his best in driving home with quiet persistence, and
with the help of countless apt examples, the lessons of pure military
warfare.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 728. Jl. 15, ‘05. 810w.
“In the present volume there are many contradictions. So, too as
regards style itself.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 687. Je. 3, 670w.
“Reading them we get the real measure of the man; we realize the
extraordinary compass of his knowledge, the wise way in which he
looked on professional things, his power to put before his hearers or
his readers matter for deep thought, and repaying any amount of
thought bestowed on them.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 200. Je. 23, ‘05. 2270w.
“It is rare for the reviewer to open the pages of a book in which
there is so little to criticise, so much to admire.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 346. O. 26, 05. 730w.
“Those in the volume before us are minor only in the matter of
quantity, not at all in that of quality.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 660. O. 7, ‘05. 1020w.
“An admirable contribution to the serious study of the art of war.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 153. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1580w.
=Henderson, Henry F.= Religious controversies of Scotland. *$1.75. imp.
Scribner.
“The story of the dozen storms that differences of opinion have
generated in the Scottish church during the last two centuries....
Some of the chapters in this volume relate to recent contentions about
the higher criticism; others to conflicts equally serious in their
time, but now forgotten.”—Outlook.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 120w.
“Generally. Mr. Henderson has treated a very difficult subject in a
satisfactory way.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 755. My. 20, ‘05. 300w.
=Henderson, Howard.= Ethics and etiquette of the pulpit, pew, parish,
press and platform. $1. H. A. Schroetter, Covington, Ky.
A second revised edition of this manual of manners for ministers and
members, which may prove helpful to those who have had no home
training and who know nothing of common social usages.
=Henderson, John.= West Indies; painted by A. L. Forrest; described by
John Henderson. *$6. Macmillan.
The text deals almost wholly with Jamaica and its people, chiefly its
negroes. Much information upon the flora, the commerce, and various
matters of interest to the tourist are given. The illustrations are
done in color.
“Mr. Forrest has done better in this volume than he did in its
predecessor, ‘Morocco.’ Mr. Henderson’s text falls considerably short
of the artistic level of its illustrations.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 217. Ag. 12. 260w.
“Their joint work is a very attractive book. Its illustrations are
charming. Mr. Henderson’s descriptive chapters are not to be taken too
seriously; they are light, bright, and rapid, not to say slap-dash
here and there, and they display, as is only to be expected, not a few
of the defects of those attractive qualities.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 199. Je. 23, ‘05. 580w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 361. Je. 3, ‘05. 200w.
“The book is very interesting, and within the limits which we think we
have found, is valuable as a study of some of the phases of
subtropical America.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 451. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1410w.
“The pictures of negro types are full of character and individuality.
The reproductions are unusually good. The text of the book consists of
the observations of a traveler, chatty and genial, but not penetrating
to any great depth.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 696. Jl. 15, ‘05. 60w.
* =Henderson, R. S.= Earthwork tables. 2 pts. $1.50. Eng. news.
This useful book of tables is divided into two parts: Part I.
Preliminary earthwork tables, giving cubic yards per 100 feet for
level sections, to which is added a graphical method of estimating
quantities from a profile. Part II. Earthwork tables, giving the
volume in cubic yards of prismoids 100 feet long by the average end
area method.
* “The reviewer knows of no other similar table that equals it for
range.” Halbert P. Gillette.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 54: 650. D. 14, ‘05. 640w.
=Henderson, William James.= Pipes and timbrels. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
“A new volume of poems.... Pictures, music, dreams, and reminiscences
of the classic world are the flowers that grow in Mr. Henderson’s
garden, and from these he makes a most acceptable bouquet of the
pretty old-time ‘mixed’ variety.”—N. Y. Times.
“There are poems in blank verse, sonnets, songs, and in all the meter
is good, in some excellent. There is thought in all the poems, and it
is poetic thought.” Eltweed Pomeroy.
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 219. Ag. ‘05. 280w.
“A certain compliance with the rules of prosody, a flavor of the
sentiment of poetry, an inspiration toward the best, characterize
these verses.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 566. Je. ‘05. 60w.
Review by W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 67. Ag. ‘05. 240w.
“Contains many lovely lines and a few successful technical
experiments.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 265. Ap. 22, ‘05. 300w.
* =Henry, Arthur.= Lodgings in town. †$1.50. Barnes.
“To interest yourself in others, to go with the tide of the great city
and observe closely every possible condition, is Mr. Henry’s recipe
for happiness. Add to this an especial care for one person in
particular—like Nancy—and the picture is complete. The faith that kept
firm hold of the youth who began his New York life possessed of one
clean collar and a poem must be the kind that moves mountains.
Particularly good are the descriptions of the office where Nancy
worked and the Baxter street lodgings where she and her poet
lived.”—Outlook.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 527. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 663. N. 18, ‘05. 350w.
=Henry, Arthur.= Unwritten law. †$1.50. Barnes.
The purpose of this book is to show how, in our modern social system,
ignorance of the laws themselves and of the crime done in breaking
them often leads to tragedy. A German engraver, who loses his savings
thru the speculations of his banker, sets innocently to work to
support his family by engraving bank notes for himself, the result is
Sing Sing. One daughter, simple and unlearned, comes to grief, while
her sophisticated and selfish sister marries well. The book treats of
both the upper and the lower classes, and of the many problems of
modern life. The setting is New York.
“Handful of tragedies in the guise of a novel.”
— =Acad.= 68: 759. Jl. 22, ‘05. 420w.
“The book is animated by a fine seriousness, a single-minded
sincerity, which pertain to the best and highest in American art and
thought. It exhibits a certain crudeness, a certain toughness of
fiber, which may militate against its right appreciation by the
fastidious.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 778. Je. 24. 750w.
* “Is an encouraging example of that best sort of realism. The style
is simple, at times almost to the point of baldness. It will
inevitably provoke discussion; it will arouse some antagonism; but it
cannot fail to make people think.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 267. My. ‘05. 980w.
“There is no kind of excuse for the excessively plain speaking in
which this book indulges. It impresses one as the work of a reporter
rather than that of a constructive novelist.” Wm. M. Payne.
— — =Dial.= 39: 115. S. 1, ‘05. 200w.
“The book has, perhaps, no merely literary merit, it is crude in plot
and exhibits much bad taste in incident, but it has a certain
sincerity in strength, and a vividness, too, in places.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 220. Ap. 8, ‘05. 710w.
=Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Cabbages and kings. $1.50. McClure.
The author, who has lived many years among the people of the South
American republics, draws upon his fund of experience in this breezy
story which recounts the adventures of an energetic American in the
land of popular revolutions. “The characters range from the native
brown-skinned maiden to the daughter of an American banker, and from a
peon to an absconding president. The game proceeds much like a
rattling good comic opera—and the characters have many opportunities
to spin yarns of the kind that have already made famous the name of
‘O. Henry.’” (Pub. note.).
“A book of very unusual interest and cleverness. The general
popularity will necessarily be limited by the fact that it is
essentially a man’s book. A number of the chapters might be taken
bodily from the book and held up as admirable examples of short-story
telling.” Stanhope Searles.
+ =Bookm.= 20: 561. F. ‘05. 530w.
+ =Critic.= 46: 189. F. ‘05. 90w.
“The inimitably breezy style of story telling is retained in the main
episodes. Has weakened the structure of the whole. The characters, so
delightful in the original stories become less real, less convincing
on their new stage.”
— + =Ind.= 58: 328. F. 9, ‘05. 210w.
“Pure burlesque, but lively, ingenious, and slangily humorous, South
American intrigue, Yankee resource, the colossal impudence of the
American fakir, and the romance of unusual love complications, are all
worked together into a semi-connected story, parts of which have been
already used as magazine tales.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 94. Ja. 7, ‘05. 50w.
=Herbert, George.= English works, newly arranged and annotated and
considered in relation to his life, by G. Herbert Palmer. 3v. *$6.
Houghton.
“Herbert, though a minor poet, is established in English literature as
are few minor poets of the seventeenth century. His poems have been
constantly reprinted for general readers.... The form of this edition
is altogether admirable. The print is clear and restful to the eye,
the margins are wide ... and the volumes comfortable to hold. The
notes to the poems are printed opposite to the poems, so that one has
the poem on the right-hand page, the corresponding notes on the
left-hand. The illustrations are interesting and apt. The portrait of
Herbert published here, for the first time as the frontispiece to
volume I., is a notable addition to literary portraiture.”—Nation.
* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “Of the more specific work of the editor one may say that it is at
once scholarly and literary, minute in its exegesis yet mindful always
that a poet and not a ‘corpus vile’ is under discussion.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1230. N. 23, ‘05. 870w.
“The annotations are very thorough. The study of the matter and style
is exhaustive.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 384. N. 9, ‘05. 1880w.
“It will ever hold its place, as one of the triumphs of American
scholarship in editing English classics, alongside such works as those
of Furness and Child. These latter are bigger and on bigger subjects,
but they are not better done.” Cameron Mann.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 757. N. 11, ‘05. 2470w.
“Has done his work as biographer and editor con amore.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 50w.
* “Every help to the reader’s eye and mind for the appreciation of
Herbert will be found in these volumes, so great is the labor of love
which Professor Palmer, with his own fine intelligence and training,
has wrought for the most lovable and the most human of our religious
poets.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 827. D. 2, ‘05. 1480w.
* =Herford, Brooke.= Eutychus and his relations. *70c. Am. Unitar.
Under this profound title appear the witty old-time pulpit and pew
papers written from a layman’s point of view, which were first
published anonymously during the early years of their author’s
ministry, 1860-1861. They include quaintly humorous disquisitions
upon: A ‘lay’ view of sleeping in church; Some people who always come
late; Praising God by proxy; Pews; A country tea party; Over-much
discourse; Unsocial worship; Parsonic acid, and other kindred
subjects.
=Herford, Charles Harold.= Robert Browning. **$1. Dodd.
“The biographical element is sufficient, but is subordinate to the
exposition of the poet’s work in the order of its production. The true
biography of Browning can be written in no other way.... A clear
perception of this fact, and a definite though not a rigid application
of this fact to his material, give Professor Herford’s study a true
biographic as well as an interpretative quality.”—Outlook.
“Prof. Herford’s study of Browning is in many respects complementary
to that of Mr. Chesterton’s published last year. The style is, for the
most part sober and balanced though there are occasional flashes of
rather loose rhetoric, and the author has an odd habit of falling at
intervals into comments which are banal or tasteless.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 14. Jl. 1, 1580w.
“In scale it stands midway between Mr. Chesterton’s and Prof.
Dowden’s; in quality it is to be compared rather with the latter.” H.
W. Boynton.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 279. Ag. ‘05. 760w.
“There could hardly be a better brief estimate of Browning’s genius
than Professor Herford has given us.” Edward Fuller.
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 247. S. ‘05. 390w.
“The commentator knows his Browning well, has availed himself of the
best and latest authorities, and manifests a considerable degree of
sympathetic appreciation; but he is hampered in his presentation by a
clumsiness of expression. Numerous misquotations from the poems ... do
not strengthen our confidence in Professor Herford or his book.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 44. Jl. 16, ‘05. 400w.
“The necessity to be poetic, to live up to his matter, has been too
much for him.”
— + =Ind.= 59: 457. Ag. 24, ‘05. 220w.
“This is likely to stand as one of the best of the numerous short
critical lives of its provocative poet.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 531. Je. 29, ‘05. 350w.
“His treatment of Browning the poet and man shows considerable insight
and unusual sanity.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 304. My. 6, ‘05. 280w.
“His study of Browning is intelligent, sympathetic, and well
balanced.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 1015. Ap. 22, ‘05. 280w.
“He has a gift of selection and juxtaposed selection which remarkably
increases the pleasure of reading this sort of criticism. But the
scheme of the book runs parallel with how many others.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 849. Je. 24, ‘05. 110w.
“We are not wholly in agreement with his estimate of the poet. Our
chief difference is in regard to Browning’s literary form. The
criticism generally, we greatly admire.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 558. Ap. 15, ‘05. 580w.
* =Herrick, Christine Terhune=, ed. Lewis Carroll birthday book. 75c.
Wessels.
A little birthday book that will delight “Alice in wonderland”
admirers.
* “As a birthday book, it is hardly a success, and the selections do
more credit to the compiler’s familiarity with her author than to her
sense of appropriateness.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 490. D. 14, ‘05. 110w.
* “Mrs. Christine Terhune Herrick has made the selections for the
volume and nobody could have done it with more sympathy and
understanding.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 895. D. 16, ‘05. 230w.
=Herrick, Francis Hobart.= Home life of wild birds: a new method of the
study and photography of birds. **$2. Putnam.
The “new method” consists in carrying away the nest with its eggs or
young birds and also its immediate surroundings and setting it up
before a green tent where it may be watched and photographed at
leisure. 150 photographs of thirty species of our common birds attest
the value of this method. The author also gives the results of his
close observation of the nests.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 396. Je. 1, ‘05. 80w.
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1152. Je. 1, ‘05. 180w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 263. S. 28, ‘05. 320w.
Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 402. Je. 17, ‘05. 530w.
“The volume is a valuable contribution to the scientific knowledge of
bird habits.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 392. Je. 10, ‘05. 150w.
=Herrick, Robert.= Common lot. $1.50. Macmillan.
The story is of a young architect who has grown up in the belief that
he is heir to his uncle’s millions. When the fortune is left to
charity, he takes up the common lot of toil unwillingly and is weakly
led away from his young ideals by the desire for money. When his
personal and professional honor are compromised, he is held to his
expiation by his young wife whose unflinching faith in him forces him
to be the man she thinks he is. It is a vivid representation of
business life in Chicago, and the philosophy of the book is summed up
in the closing sentence—“Fortunately there are few things that do make
any great difference to real men and women,—and one of the least is
the casual judgment of their fellow-men.”
“‘The common lot’ is worthy of wide circulation. It cannot fail to do
good.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 450. Ap. ‘05. 460w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 11. Ja. 7. 280w.
“An interesting and impressive story.”
+ =Engin. N.= 53: 181. F. 16, ‘05. 230w.
+ + =Reader.= 5: 258. Ja. ‘05. 570w.
“There is a good deal of character drawing in the book that is at once
delicate and strong, and the story of how Francis Hart did not inherit
the millions he hoped for, took up the common lot of toil, and what
came of it, is among the best in recent fiction.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 118. Ja. ‘05. 110w.
=Herrick, Robert.= Memoirs of an American citizen. †$1.50. Macmillan.
A country boy, tired of his lot runs away to Chicago to make his
fortune. His autobiography follows with an unusually strong personal
note even for a self-told tale of the career which starts with service
as a grocery wagon driver and reaches the ranks of the Chicago
capitalist. The way is made by “turning Texas steers into dressed beef
and Iowa hogs into leaf lard and sausage,” which would seem honorable
enough did not analysis of his methods of operation reveal a dulled
sense of moral obligation to people at large, the city, and any
competing organization.
“No more absolute unswerving merger of the author in the character of
his hero, of his self-effacement in the interest of good art, could
ever be conceived of.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 132. O. ‘05. 970w.
“Professor Herrick does not appear to have a powerful imagination, and
his literalness, and even his unusual power of penetration, do not in
themselves suffice to carry a story otherwise deficient.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 476. N. ‘05. 170w.
“The story seems to be rooted in bitter cynicism and to embody the
very philosophy of despair.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 114. S. 1, ‘05. 510w.
“Is not in so happy a vein. The author sees things too big, and he has
not enough confidence in the virtue of the American people, which will
outlast transient vices.”
— =Ind.= 59: 1154. N. 16, ‘05. 70w.
“This is not a book that we should care to see in the hands of youth.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 205. S. 7, ‘05. 730w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
“Mr. Herrick’s book is a book among many and it comes nearer
reflecting a certain kind of recognizable, contemporaneous American
spirit than anybody has yet done.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 482. Jl. 22, ‘05. 620w.
“The story is worked out with extraordinary virility, realism, and
truth. Deserves reading, not only because of its subject and its moral
force, but because of the thorough, faithful, and even artistic way in
which the material is handled.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 935. Ag. 12, ‘05. 290w.
* “It is penetrated by genuine intensity of spirit, and shows the hand
of a high-minded and accomplished workman.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 707. N. 25, ‘05. 160w.
“One of the most refreshing qualities of the story is its sanity.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 330w.
* “But one thing Prof. Herrick has achieved in spite of himself; he
has somehow put,—no, hammered,—together a rough image of the American
self-made man.”
— + =R. of Rs.= 32: 757. D. ‘05. 150w.
=Hess, Isabella R.= St. Cecilia of the court. †$1.25. Revell.
“In Flanery Court, where Cecilia (otherwise Angelina Sweeney) lives,
poverty rules.... Miss Hess ... has told a pathetically pretty story
of the life of a poor little red-haired saint—her struggles against
the hardships of life, her drunken mother, her little brother
Puddin’.... There is Jim Bellway, who taught the make-believe saint,
quite unconsciously, how to become a real one; and there is Mr.
Daniels, who Cecilia, quite unconsciously, brought back to the
straight and narrow path—and so on; and though the story wades through
tears, it nevertheless ends in a burst of sunshine.”—N. Y. Times.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 648. S. 30, ‘05. 200w.
“Touches portraying the generosity, loyalty, and cheerfully borne
privations of the poor are the best feature of this story of New York
tenement life.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 136. S. 16, ‘05. 70w.
=Hewett, Rev. G. M. A.= The rat. *$2. Macmillan.
Having arrived at the old age of three years, this hoary rat sits down
to write his memoirs, recounting his many adventures in English mills
and cornfields. He discourses on his wives and gives his conclusions
upon boys, men, ferrets, and women. He also gives an exhaustive
treatment of traps. There is much delineation of rat-character, and
the experiences of a traveled friend who had lived in the sewers of
London and Paris are given. The book is illustrated with colored
pictures.
“A work which we commend to young and old alike.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 404. Ap. 1. 160w.
“It is a very English story of a very English rat intended primarily
for English children and supposed to be told by the rat himself.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 43. Ja. 21, ‘05. 520w.
* =Hewlett, Maurice.= Works. Ed. de luxe. IIV. ea. *$3. Macmillan.
The five hundred numbered sets of this edition de luxe are sold by
subscription only. The volumes are appearing one a month in the
following order: The forest lovers; Richard Yea-and-Nay; Little novels
of Italy; New Canterbury tales; The queen’s quair; The fool errant;
The road in Tuscany in two volumes; Earthwork out of Tuscany; Pan and
the young shepherd and songs and meditations in one volume; Fond
adventures.
* + =Nation.= 81: 426. N. 23, ‘05. 280w. (Review of v. 1-3.)
Reviewed by Christian Gauss.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 844. D. 2, ‘05. 2450w. (Review of v. 1-3.)
* + =Outlook.= 81: 525. O. 28, ‘05. 80w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.= Fond adventures: tales of the youth of the
world. †$1.50. Harper.
Four short stories of mediaeval romance, The heart’s key, Brazenhead
the Great, Buondelmonte’s saga, and The love chase.
“Knowing well the possibilities of Mr. Hewlett’s fine ability, we lay
down this latest volume with great disappointment.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 419. Ap. 15, ‘05. 520w.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 716. Je. 10. 220w.
“One feels that in these few crowded, tumultuous pages there is more
of the real essence of Florentine life than in the whole length and
breadth of George Eliot’s ‘Romola.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 515. Jl. ‘05. 600w.
“Mr. Hewlett is at his best in these short stories.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“Taken as a whole, the impression remains that the book is made up of
work done early in Mr. Hewlett’s literary career, and denied
publication until now.”
— =Dial.= 38: 393. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“Not one of these stories is lacking in intrinsic interest, yet one’s
dominant impression in closing the book is not of any of the
characters or events, but of the cleverness of Mr. Hewlett.” Herbert
W. Horwill.
+ + — =Forum.= 37: 111. Jl. ‘05. 230w.
“But it is ‘The love chase,’ the last story of the series, in which
Mr. Hewlett probably surpasses anything he has ever written.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1309. Je. 8, ‘05. 820w.
“A volume of stories, splendid stories, full of action and passion,
with an undercurrent of laughter, all carried off with great spirit
and style. They are told in wonderful words, so apt and abundant.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 440. Je. 1, ‘05. 1130w.
“These four stories of Mr. Hewlett’s are as rich in imagery and as
glowing in color as any that he has ever written.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 810w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“These stories are remarkable rather for atmospheric quality than for
construction or force of characterization.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 200w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 871. Je. 3, ‘05. 190w.
“The tales are medieval; rich in quality, decorative in effect and
fascinating always.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 92. Je. ‘05. 180w.
“The quaint and pleasing title of Mr. Hewlett’s new book serves as a
preface for tales more deserving of the first adjective than the last,
except in so far as artistic work is, in a sense, always deserving of
the term ‘pleasing.’”
+ — =Reader.= 6: 360. Ag. ‘05. 340w.
“His style, his vision, his passion—these are always there.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 756. Je. ‘05. 250w.
+ =Spec.= 94: 680. My. 6, ‘05. 830w.
=Hewlett, Maurice.= Fool errant. †$1.50. Macmillan.
The “fool” of Mr. Hewlett’s new story is an English youth with a very
ardent temperament who goes abroad to complete his studies. He is
guilty of many hot-headed indiscretions, chief among which is his
boyish passion for the wife of his stern tutor. A pilgrimage of
expiation follows his declaration of love for her. Much of the
interest of the tale centers in the phases of Italian life of high and
low degree which he encounters. “He has in his journeyings a
quick-witted companion, who rescues him alike from rash promptings of
his ‘daemon’ and from foes from without.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Maurice Hewlett, it may be said at once, has achieved a notable
success in the latest of his books.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 750. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1440w.
“‘The fool errant’ will not make so wide an appeal to the general
public as several earlier volumes of Mr. Hewlett’s. It lacks the
tumultuous passion of ‘Richard yea-and-nay’, the epic bigness of the
‘Queen’s quair.’”
+ =Bookm.= 22: 36. S. ‘05. 800w.
“The novel shows, on the whole, an advance over its predecessors. Has
proved, by the charm and animation of his tale, that imagination and a
sense of style need not, under favourable circumstances, seriously
interfere with the writing of a good novel.” Edith Wharton.
+ + — =Bookm.= 22: 64. S. ‘05. 1660w.
“It is possible, though the statement is not to be made dogmatically,
that Mr. Maurice Hewlett, in all his succession of legitimately showy
triumphs, has done nothing better than this history of a ‘fool.’”
Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 451. N. ‘05. 370w.
“We feel that he is simply saturated with the life of the time and the
color of the environment and that he has reproduced these things with
marvelous fidelity. This is the chief title of the book to praise, and
a high title it is.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 113. S. 1, ‘05. 510w.
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“Told with sureness of touch and undeniable brilliance.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 225. Jl. 14, ‘05. 430w.
“A story of intense interest and a literary achievement of a very high
order.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 511. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1180w.
“As a faithfully wrought and vigorous piece of fiction-writing the
book is unusual.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 883. Ag. 5, ‘05. 240w.
* “May be counted among the notable books of the second half of the
year.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 708. N. 25, ‘05. 190w.
“Mr. Hewlett draws a brilliant picture of a decadent period.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 260w.
“A book very subtly conceived and very admirably written.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 218. Ag. 12, ‘05. 580w.
“This brilliant study in the picaresque seems to us one of the most
successful of Mr. Hewlett’s works.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 359. S. 9, ‘05. 310w.
=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.= Road in Tuscany. **$6. Macmillan.
Mr. Hewlett’s own words are perhaps best descriptive of the freshness
of his view of life and art in Tuscany. He calls it “a companion of
travel and leisurely, sententious commentary of the country,” and he
strikes its key-note in his opening remarks. “His plan for the book
has the freshness which marks its rendering of details. ‘Let the
history, fine arts, monuments and institutions of a country be as fine
as you please, its best product will always be the people of it, who
themselves produced those other pleasant spectacles. I have always
preferred a road to a church, always a man to a masterpiece, a singer
to his song; and I have never opened a book when I could read what I
wanted on the hillside or by the river bank.’” (Reader). He
consistently subordinates art galleries to peasants, but gives
legends, history, and piquant references to the art and literature of
the country, with a lavish hand.
“Is one of those rare books having charm, and one which gives no less
insight into Mr. Hewlett than into the hearts of all the dead and
living Tuscans of whom he writes. Mr. Hewlett’s one fault, regarded as
a cicerone, is that he gives us life in superabundance; he gives it to
us often at the cost of other things which we are loth to sacrifice.
Now guidebooks the very best of them, while they make excellent
servants, are bad masters, Mr. Hewlett’s not excepted. Flippant he is,
at times, perverse, even arrogant: but he understands the Tuscans, and
he loves them. Whoever goes to Florence without ‘The road in Tuscany’
goes but half equipped.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + — =Bookm.= 20: 557. F. ‘05. 1860w.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 479. My. ‘05. 150w.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 179. Mr. 2, ‘05. 920w.
+ + =Reader.= 5: 500. Mr. ‘05. 830w.
“One of those genial, leisurely, charming books, with a touch of
infinite knowledge, that we find in the combination of the artist and
traveler. It reveals the real Italy, with its color and fragrance,
which is known only to those who get away from the towns and cities.
Typographically, the work is elegant, and the pictures really
illustrate.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 123. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
“His artistic suggestiveness never fails; his ideas and conclusions
especially with regard to such unfamiliar places as Volterra, Cortona,
Arezzo, and many more, seem almost invariably right.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 88. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1870w.
=Heywood, William.= Palio and Ponte. Methuen, London.
This “account of the sports of central Italy from the age of Dante to
the XXth century” dwells upon a phase of Italian history almost
unknown to literature. The Italian idea of sports was closely allied
to the Greek idea of games, and they often grew out of rivalry in
neighboring communities or celebrated some historic or civic event.
Mr. Heywood shows their importance in the life of the mediæval Italian
city, and pictures Lorenzo de’Medici, Sodoma, the painter, and Caesar
Borgia racing their horses at Sienese pali.
“The style throughout is clear and simple,—in general not of marked
quality, but occasionally showing such vigor and even beauty that one
is tempted to wish for more such pages even at the sacrifice of some
of the by-paths of erudition.” Ellen Giles.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 107. S. 1, ‘05. 1490w.
“Mr. Heywood has undertaken his study of these sports in the spirit of
a true historian, and his researches have revealed a new side of Italy
to English readers. But our author is more than a student of archives.
He has bursts of eloquence in his style. He has interwoven a vast
amount of local history, especially Sienese, since no Anglican, save
perhaps Mr. Langton Douglas, knows his Siena better. Mr. Heywood
tastes what he describes. He has gone to sources not merely in his
facts, but in his inspiration. He has not compiled a book, but has
written one for which all lovers of Italy can only be grateful.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 119. F. 9, ‘05. 940w.
“Without a real love of Italy, and an unusually deep understanding of
Italian character, this book could not have been written.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 19. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1970w.
=Hibben, John Grier.= Logic, deductive and inductive. $1.40. Scribner.
“Logic, so far as merely formal, is proverbially dry. In its
application to living interests it becomes a succulent source of
intellectual pleasure. Professor Hibben has aimed to invest it with
this attractiveness, especially in his illustrations of inductive
knowledge.”—Outlook.
“These are not only modern, but fresh in a degree as welcome to the
student as it is unusual, and they are drawn from a wide range of
science.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 605. Mr. 4, ‘05. 100w.
“It is comprehensive and accurate in statement, systematic and free
from trifling and irrelevant subtleties. On the other hand, the
discussions of the early chapters seem to me somewhat too difficult
and technical to afford the beginner the guidance he needs.” J. E. C.
+ + — =Philos.= R. 16: 725. N. ‘05. 1120w.
=Hibbert, Walter.= Life and energy; an attempt at a new definition of
life; with applications to morals and religion. $1. Longmans.
“The thesis of these four addresses—originally delivered at the
Polytechnic institute, London—is that life is not matter, is not
energy, but an unceasing nonfactorial directive control of energy and
its transformations.”—Nature.
“Mr. Hibbert puts most of his points clearly, and much of what he says
has considerable force. But it is doubtful if the range of ideas
within which the book moves is adequate to the problem. The main
position is not unassailable, and the deductions from it in regard to
morals and religion are occasionally fanciful.”
+ — =Nature.= 71: 271. Ja. 19, ‘05. 340w.
“Neither the method of treatment nor the style of the book seems to us
particularly happy.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 400. F. 11, ‘05. 170w.
* =Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Black spaniel and other stories. (†)$1.50.
Stokes.
The story of the black spaniel is an uncanny tale of a man who lost a
dog-friend at the hands of a vivisectionist, of a doctor who met his
death thru the bite of another spaniel on which he was cruelly
experimenting, and of the awful revenge which the dog lover took upon
this dead doctor reincarnated in a third black spaniel. The creepy
atmosphere is well sustained thruout. The volume also contains eleven
shorter stories, most of which have the Arabian desert for a
background, and all of which are most original in theme.
* “Mr. Hichens, thorough decadent as he is, can make his decadence
big; and it is wrong of him to make it as petty as this.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1079. O. 14, ‘05. 640w.
* “To our thinking, ‘Mr. Greyne’ is the pick of the book.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 608. N. 4. 220w.
* “‘The black spaniel’ occupies only the first third of the book, but
nothing that follows has the least power to blur the effect of the
spaniel’s whine. The following eight stories ... are slight things,
episodes rather artfully and artistically told. They will be read with
pleasure and forgotten without difficulty, while ‘The black spaniel’
will be read with terror and forgotten never!”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 340. O. 13, ‘05. 550w.
* “Not worthy of the genius of the author of ‘The garden of Allah.’”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 90w.
* “The title-story is of the gruesome kind most tediously spun out,
the second ‘The mission of Mr. Eustace Greyne’ is funny and satirical
and the best in the book.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 600. N. 4, ‘05. 130w.
* “Few modern story tellers are more expert in their art, and this
book would be well worth reading for the workmanship alone, had it not
also something of the charm of unfamiliar and unhackneyed material.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 658. O. 28. ‘05. 270w.
=Hichens, Robert.= Garden of Allah. $1.50. Stokes.
A woman, longing for peace, and a renegade monk seeking refuge from
himself and filled with remorse at his desertion of his high calling,
meet and seek rest and happiness in the “Garden of Allah,” the African
desert. The story is one of passion, struggle, and renunciation, the
woman finally leading the monk, who has become her husband, back to
his monastery.
“In brilliancy falls short of ‘The woman with the fan,’ on the other
hand, the intensity with which he reproduces an atmosphere of beauty
creates an almost physical sense of well-being. In addition to a very
genuine gift of imagination, he has learned how to tell his story.”
— + =Atlan.= 95: 697. My. ‘05. 190w.
“The book, from the point of view of writing, is decidedly heavy. The
immorality of the book is, to our minds ... gross. Is not a worthy nor
an artistic creation; it is a reeking monstrosity.”
— — — =Cath. World.= 81: 545. Jl. ‘05. 830w.
“In this striking novel Mr. Hickens immeasurably surpasses all his
previous work.... Is a wonderfully handled tragedy, advancing with
masterly logic from premise to conclusion.... Very rarely in an
English book is there to be found such an exhibition of descriptive
skill.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 474. My. ‘05. 400w.
“In all the three essentials of invention, style and thought, this
performance is highly commendable, and entitles Mr. Hichens to more
serious consideration than ever before.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 388. Je. 1, ‘05. 420w.
“Mr. Hichens has written his masterpiece.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 787. Ap. 6, ‘05. 230w.
* =Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“The critics have seemed to agree that in this novel Mr. Robert
Hichens has done something big, strong and lasting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“A singular but powerful story, in many respects the best work of this
author. An absence of the morbidity that is too common with him. There
are, however, a plain speaking ... that sometimes, it will seem to
many readers, overstep the limits of taste. In manner the romance is
in an intense style, sometimes a little exalté, but never, or rarely,
falling into mere high-flown ‘fine writing,’ although single passages,
taken out of their connection might give that impression. Brilliant
with color and bathed in African atmosphere.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 502. F. 25, ‘05. 130w.
“Mr. Hichens has taken a great stride forward in this unusual story.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 772. Ap. 1, ‘05. 170w.
“It is useless to attempt to describe Mr. Hichens’s word-pictures of
the beauties of the deserts and the emotional paroxysms of Domini and
Boris. They must be read to be appreciated.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 214. F. 11, ‘05. 430w. (Outlines plot.)
* “Beauty and power,—these are nobly conspicuous in Mr. Hichens’ tale,
so loftily free from the small or paltry, so fervently reciting a
grievous fault, a great love, a grand renunciation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 80w.
=Higginson, Thomas Wentworth=, ed. Hawthorne centenary celebration at
the Wayside, Concord, Massachusetts, July 4-7, 1904. **$1.25. Houghton.
The addresses and letters delivered and read at the centenary
celebration, including a speech by Charles T. Copeland. Papers by Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe, Charles Francis Adams, Mrs. Maud Howe Elliot, Julian
Hawthorne, and Moncure D. Conway, and contributions from John S.
Keyes, Frank Preston Stearns, F. B. Sanborn, Mrs. Rose Hawthorne
Lothrop, Dr. Richard Garnett, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Miss Beatrix
Hawthorne, John D. Long, Henry Cabot Lodge, Mrs. Harriet Prescott
Spofford, Robert S. Rantoul, Judge Robert Grant, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps Ward, Dr. Edward Everett Hale, John Hay, and Mrs. James T.
Fields.
+ =Critic.= 47: 96. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“The book is a worthy memorial of an important event in our literary
annals.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 240. Ap. 1, ‘05. 290w.
=N. Y. Times= 10: 105. F. 18, ‘05. 370w. (Outline of contents).
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 207. Ap. 1, ‘05. 520w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 520. Ap. 8, ‘05. 210w.
* =Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.= Part of a man’s life. **$2.50.
Houghton.
“Very enjoyable chapters of reminiscence, observation and reflection,
that have of late been enlivening the pages of the ‘Atlantic.’ Two
chapters have been added ... as also many portraits and facsimile
copies of letters.” (Dial.) The volume contains: The sunny side of the
transcendental period; The child and his dreams; English and American
cousins; American audiences; The aristocracy of the dollar; “Intensely
human”; Letters of mark; Books unread; Butterflies in poetry;
Wordsworthshire; The close of the Victorian epoch; Una Hawthorne;
History in easy lessons; The cowardice of culture.
* “These ripe and scholarly chapters—ripe with the varied experience
of eighty years and more, and scholarly with the scholarship of a
lover not only of books, but of men—have an interest and value far
exceeding anything that another pen might contrive to say about them.”
Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 266. N. 1, ‘05. 2160w.
* “We congratulate the author on carrying to his eighty-second year an
intellect the eye of which is not dimmed, nor its natural vigor
abated.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 428. N. 23, ‘05. 1260w.
* “He has seen much and thought much and done much, and he has the way
of making all that he writes seem interesting. Yet it must be
confessed that a good deal of his reminiscence and anecdote is here
spread out pretty thin.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 783. N. 18, ‘05. 700w.
* “A very interesting if somewhat random collection of experiences,
recollections, and opinions of Col. Higginson.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* “It should not be inferred, however, that the work is obviously
didactic, for the very contrary is the case, so pleasantly have the
lessons read been interwoven with anecdote and reminiscence. And from
the autobiographical standpoint, or rather from the standpoint of
unconscious autobiography, its value is high.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 713. N. 25, ‘05. 390w.
* “There is great scope to a work which stretches all the way from
child-dreaming to problems of philosophy and higher mathematics.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 665. N. 18, ‘05. 200w.
* “Col. Higginson has written several volumes of reminiscences and
autobiography, none of which is more entertaining than his last book.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 755. D. ‘05. 140w.
=Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, and MacDonald, William.= History of the
United States from 986 to 1905. $2. Harper.
This “turns out to be Colonel Higginson’s ‘History of the United
States of America,’ with some revisions of the original text, and
continued from Jackson’s administration down to the present date. It
has a new set of illustrations and maps.”—Dial.
“The whole constitutes a readable and attractive one-volume history,
which ought to supply the demand—if there be one—for a short and
comprehensive narrative.”
+ + =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 946. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
“Is one of the most readable histories of this country ever written.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 360. My. 16, ‘05. 70w.
“On the whole the work is one of the most valuable single volumes
covering the entire period of American history that we have.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 394. Ag. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“Six new chapters have been added, bringing the story down to the
present. Externally these chapters conform to the earlier ones, but
the treatment is less partial and they reflect present scholarship
much better.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 373. My. 11, ‘05. 110w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 180w.
=Hill, David Jayne.= History of diplomacy in the international
development of Europe, v. I. **$5. Longmans.
An exhaustive study of the history of diplomacy complete in six
volumes. Volume I is entitled The struggle for universal empire, and
the following volumes include The establishment of territorial
sovereignty, The diplomacy of the age of absolutism, The revolutionary
era, The constitutional movement, and Commercial imperialism.
“It is refreshing to find one of our public men willing to devote his
energies to scholarly occupations, and able to produce a work of such
high excellence as, judging from the first installment, Mr. Hill’s
‘History of European diplomacy’ promises to be.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 263. N. ‘05. 1150w. (Review of v. 1.)
“What Mr. Hill has written is accurate and readable enough for the
most part, but it will not compare with the books by Bryce and Fisher,
to say nothing of the erudite works of French and German scholars.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 817. O. 5, ‘05. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
* “A carefully written summary of European international history.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 15w.
“In his first volume, coming down to the year 1250, he merely
restates, and not with the hand of a practised mediaevalist, a great
deal that was in no need of such a repetition.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 280. O. 5, ‘05. 300w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It was carefully thought out in the first instance, and then executed
in the most satisfactory manner.” William E. Dodd.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 553. Ag. 26, ‘05. 2800w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The results of investigation are handled with a narrative skill that
invests the driest facts with the interest of freshness; the tone
throughout is scrupulously impartial, and the requirements of
perspective are unfailingly observed.”
+ + + =Outlook= 81: 329. O. 7, ‘05. 1530w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Hill, Frederick Trevor.= Accomplice. †$1.50. Harper.
“A murder mystery treated from a new angle—that occupied by the
foreman of the jury. After this foreman (a scholarly, retiring man)
has been sworn in, he comes into possession of special knowledge of
the case, tries to resign, but is forced to continue, and plays a far
more important part in the drama than might be expected.”—Outlook.
“Sensational the book certainly is; yet there is undeniably some good
realism in it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 518. Jl. ‘05. 180w.
“This book is above the average of its class, and will provide an hour
of entertainment for the most jaded of readers.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 114. S. 1, ‘05. 90w.
“Is worth mentioning because of the unusual way the mystery is
unraveled.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 640. S. 14, ‘05, 60w.
“There is a marked absence of the gruesome in this cheerful little
novel of murder and courtship. Furthermore, the solution of the
mystery is not without originality.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 122. Ag. 10, ‘05. 240w.
“The chief faults of the book are matters of artistic finish.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 338. My. 27, ‘05. 210w.
“In plot and management the story is quite unusual and really
exciting. The love story is by no means so good.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 100w.
“Little more than a fairly good amateur detective story with a dash of
sentiment.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 869. Je. 3, ‘05. 210w.
* =Hill, George Francis.= Pisanello. *$2. Scribner.
A book which offers for the first time to the English reader
information about Pisanello heretofore acquired only from the Italian,
French or German. The sketch of this “greatest of medallists and one
of the most fascinating of Italian artists ... gives us, what we
really want, the fullest and clearest account of Pisanello’s career
that is available from the extant material, and a detailed
characterization of his works.” (Lond. Times.)
* “In treating of his work in painting Mr. Hill’s scholarly monograph
shows an admirable admixture of enthusiasm and restraint. Of his work
as medalist ... Mr. Hill’s erudition almost forbids discussion.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 729. N. 25. 1490w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1483. D. 21, ‘05. 320w.
* + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 32. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “Is written with competence and understanding.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 305. S. 22, ‘05. 750w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 509. D. 21, ‘05. 240w.
* “Mr. Hill has written a scholarly essay, which, on the whole,
reveals very thorough research along what is almost a bypath of art.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 769. N. 25, ‘05. 290w.
* “The volume is one of the most interesting of an interesting
series.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 630. N. 11, ‘05. 190w.
* =Hills, Lucius Perry.= Memory of song. $1. Franklin ptg.
In 1894, when Patti sang at Atlanta, Georgia, the author, inspired by
her voice, wrote a few verses on the back of his program, telling how—
“All the while sweet harmonies crept down into my heart,
And nestled in a home from which they never can depart.”
They were afterward published in a souvenir booklet. This volume
contains these verses, revised, and illustrated from photographs and
paintings from life by V. A. Richardson.
=Hinkson, Katharine Tynan (Mrs. H. A.).= Daughter of kings. $1.25.
Benziger.
A proud Irish girl who traces her family back to Adam, comes, at the
suggestion of her friend, the duchess, who knows of her poverty, to
take charge of the household of John Corbett, a wealthy English
widower who has made his money in trade, and here she learns that
there are gentlemen who are not gently born. There are many love
stories involved and there is a touch of socialism and a description
of Irish peasantry and an epidemic of fever among them.
“The Irish portions of the book especially abound in traits of shrewd
observation and humour which show how different a picture the author,
if only she chose, might have given us.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 587. My. 13, ‘05. 140w.
=Hinkson, Mrs. Katharine Tynan (Mrs. H. A.).= Julia. $1.50. McClurg.
An Irish story, with the simple modern setting of a country estate,
but which has the old-time theme of the fairy tale; for the young lord
sees and loves Julia, the ugly duckling of the family of one of his
tenants, and makes her Lady O’Kavanagh. The crude selfishness of
Julia’s sisters is contrasted with the selfishness found in finer clay
among the gentry, and there are some great characters whose loving
service is in stronger contrast still.
“Under the cunning hand of Mrs. Hinkson the story develops so easily
and plausibly that these seeming improbabilities never tax the
credulity of the reader. All the characters, too, are drawn with
strong individuality.”
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 122. O. ‘05. 260w.
“The book has its charm.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1072. My. 11, ‘05. 140w.
“A pleasant story of Irish country life, charmingly told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 375. Je. 10. ‘05. 450w.
“Her story is a pretty little romance, the charming Irish flavor of
which is more than a matter of nomenclature and appropriate
description.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 90w.
“This is a most delightful little story. The love-story is prettily
given, but the real charm of the book lies in its portraiture and its
Irish atmosphere.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 372. Mr. 11, ‘05. 90w.
=Hiroi, Isami.= Statically-indeterminate stresses in frames commonly
used for bridges. **$2. Van Nostrand.
This work is the outgrowth of a series of lectures given by the author
to his students in Civil Engineering in the Tokyo Imperial university.
It aims to save time and labor by furnishing solutions of those
problems most commonly met with in the practice of a bridge engineer,
and contains chapters upon: Trussed beams; Viaduct bents; Continuous
girders; Arches with two hinges; Arches without hinges; Suspension
bridges; and, Secondary stresses due to rigidity of joints.
* “This book forms an important contribution to the literature of
bridge engineering. It is the first attempt to present in the English
language in a single volume the principal cases of statically
indeterminate stresses occurring in the practice of the bridge
engineer, the solution of which is based exclusively on the method of
least work. The book deserves a place in the library of every bridge
engineer.” Henry S. Jacobi.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 54: 530. N. 16, ‘05. 1730w.
=Hirst, Francis Wrigley.= Adam Smith, **75c. Macmillan.
Mr. Hirst first treats of Adam Smith, the man, the absent-minded, but
keenly observant, Scotchman, and then takes up Adam Smith, the
philosopher, and examines his lectures, his “Theory of moral
sentiments,” and his “Wealth of nations.”
“Indeed it is a distinct service of this little book, which will
doubtless be more generally read than any other life of Smith, that no
reader can leave it with the false impression of Smith as a closet
philosopher interested only in questions of ethical or economic
theory.”
+ + =Am. Hist.= R. 11: 195. O. ‘05. 320w.
“Excellent monograph. A lucid and attractively-written exposition of
Smith’s economic theories.”
+ + =Contemporary R.= 87: 303. F. ‘05. 380w.
“More complete and satisfactory than Roe’s exhaustive ‘Life,’ on
account of new and important material discovered more recently.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 30w.
“The task the author set for himself he has accomplished with
thoroughness and even with interest: for there is about this biography
no suggestion of dullness.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 170. S. 16, ‘05. 300w.
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1128 My. 18, ‘05. 550w.
“He adds little that is new either of information or criticism. Still
the volume should find a welcome. It is well written, graceful and
entertaining, and with an intelligent appreciation of Adam Smith’s
traits of character as well as of the traits of style, method, scope
and insight that have made the ‘Wealth of Nations’ a masterpiece of
the science and of English literature. The most attractive portions of
the book are those that turn about Adam Smith’s intimate life and his
contact with men and affairs.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 136. D. ‘04. 110w.
“Mr. Hirst’s monograph, although not deficient in originality, is
necessarily largely a digest of these the best of its predecessors.
Patient culling of fugitive sources of information is also apparent,
however, and as a conscientious and luminous account of the famous
Scotchman it should be welcomed by all desirous of obtaining an
intelligent idea of the factors shaping his view of life and the
world.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 187. Ja. 21, ‘05. 2250w.
Historians’ history of the world; ed by H: Smith Williams. $72. Outlook.
“A comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as
recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages.” These
twenty-five volumes are composed of long and short extracts taken from
the most eminent authors and most authentic sources for each country
and period. They form not only a world history but also an anthology
of historians.
“In general it seems to me that the series appears at its best in the
volumes on the ancient Orient, Greece, the Roman empire, and perhaps
Russia. Taken all in all, the series has the unevenness of quality of
every historical library.” Edward G. Bourne.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 610. Ap. ‘05. 990w.
“By a curious fatality the portions of an historian’s work upon which
he was least fitted to write are chosen as bits of mosaic suited for
those particular parts of the history. One part of the work of the
editor he has done with remarkable skill and that is the fitting of
the parts so closely and skilfully that the reader rarely feels that
there is any break. Also he has very fairly judged the amount of space
properly assigned to each country and age. Taken as a whole, it is a
magnificent undertaking and serves a great and useful purpose.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 555. Mr. 9, ‘05. 810w.
* “Tho the choice of materials shows a greater sense for literary than
historical merit, yet, for popular use, that is more essential.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 100. P. 18. ‘05. 880w. (Survey of contents
of vols. XIX-XXIII.)
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 750. Mr. 25, ‘05. 2980w.
=Hobart, George Vere.= Silly cyclopedia; containing copious etymological
derivations and other useless things, by Noah Lott (an ex-relative of
Noah Webster); embellished with numerous and distracting cuts and
diagrams by L: F. Grants. 75c. Dillingham.
This little volume declares itself to be “a terrible thing in the form
of a literary torpedo which is launched for hilarious purposes only”
and is “inaccurate in every particular.” It is a collection of jocose
epigrams cast in dictionary form, and if taken in small doses may
prove amusing.
“It is full of the sort of stuff indolent, good-humored folks like to
retail on the piazzas of country hotels. It is all harmless.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 462. Jl. 15, ‘05. 530w.
=Hobart, George Vere (Hugh McHugh; Dinkelspiel, pseuds.).= You can
search me. †75c. Dillingham.
John Henry here figures thru a series of theatrical ventures in
company with his side partner, Bunch Jefferson. “One Signor
Petrikinski, prestidigitator, is the star of the venture, and his
clever handling of not only John Henry and Bunch, but of Uncle Peter
Grant and Mr. William Grey, is amazing reading.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Written in the picturesque and highly descriptive style of the rest
of this series.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 213. Ap. 9, ‘05. 120w.
“Slangy, rather vulgar, funny for those who like the cheaply comic.”
— + =Outlook.= 79: 655. Mr. 11, ‘05. 10w.
=Hobhouse, L. T.= Democracy and reaction. $1.50. Putnam.
“A pessimistic view of modern English society by a ‘Little Englander,’
a disciple of Cobden, a strenuous believer in Jeremy Bentham and in
the Manchester school, who regards all departure from individualism,
whether in industry or politics, as a reaction towards despotism, and
who yet draws back from the conclusions toward which his own reasoning
leads him, and endeavors skilfully, but in our judgment not
successfully, to reconcile the individualistic theories of our own
time.”—Outlook.
“While well written, the book is full of expressions, which lead one
to believe it the work of a disappointed politician, rather than that
of a fair critic.” Ward W. Pierson.
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 603. My. ‘05. 400w.
* “No summary, however, can do justice to the wealth of thought that
this little book contains, to the freshness and power with which
familiar themes are handled, and to the width of outlook which every
page reveals.” G. P. Gooch.
+ + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 499. Jl. ‘05. 1890w.
“All the first part of the book, giving an account of the Reaction and
its causes, is excellent. We do not remember to have seen anywhere, in
so small a compass, a better analysis of the extraordinary changes in
sentiment and opinion produced in the last thirty years. As to the
great body of Liberal doctrine, the author is on firm ground.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 254. Mr. 30, ‘05. 1070w.
“To one who believes, as we do, that the present conditions in England
and America, both industrial and political, are those of a higher
stage of intellectual and moral progress than those of the first half
of the nineteenth century, the volume is chiefly valuable as an
exposition of perils which attend this progress, and of which society
needs to be warned, and against which it needs to guard itself.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 502. F. 25, ‘05. 160w.
“He writes moderately, and does not mar his argument by any of those
personalities which are too freely indulged in by writers of his way
of thinking. His book is, indeed, in its way, scientific.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 119. Ja. 28, ‘05. 340w.
“This is a book which furnishes abundant material both for the active
politician and the student.”
+ + =The Westminster Review.= 163: 106. Ja.
=Hocking, Joseph.= Coming of the king. †$1.50. Little.
The search for a black box in which lay a marriage contract between
Charles Stuart and a Welsh girl, Lucy Walters, whose son, if the
contract were found, would be heir to the English throne, provides the
series of adventures which make up this story. The time is that of the
restoration, the scenes are of court and country. The dashing young
hero fails to find the paper, but finds instead beautiful Constance
Leslie with a price upon her head and marries her.
“A tedious novel of the swashbuckling type.”
— — =Outlook.= 80: 642. Jl. 8, ‘05. 70w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 120w.
=Hodgson, John Evan, and Eaton, Frederick A.= Royal academy and its
members, 1768-1830. *$5. Scribner.
A somewhat pompous history of the Royal academy from the time of its
founding by King George III. in 1768. Its growth, management and
prestige are given and the volume is fully illustrated.
“It is not a glorious record, this of Messrs. Hodgson and Eaton, but
as though to atone for its meagre episodes it is composed in a proud
and vaunting style.”
— + =Acad.= 68: 511. My. 13, ‘05. 1120w.
“Of the work as a whole it may be said that it has a full measure of
that serenity in face of criticism which is eminently characteristic
of official histories.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 696. Je. 3. 2840w.
* =Critic.= 47: 474. N. ‘05. 250w.
“Although rich in historical material, illustrations, and appendices,
and containing valuable biographical sketches, fails to give that view
of art development which the reader would naturally be led to expect.”
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 68. Ag. 1, ‘05. 550w.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 503. Je. 22, ‘05. 350w.
“This record has much that is valuable and interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 355. Je. 3, ‘05. 1170w.
“A comprehensive and interestingly written history.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 394. Je. 10. ‘05. 60w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 110w.
“It tells us very little that is not to be found elsewhere, arranges
it badly, and carries the story no further than 1830.”
— =Sat. R.= 99: 671. My. 20, ‘05. 700w.
=Hoffmann, Franz.= Little dauphin; tr. from the German by George P.
Upton, *60c. McClurg.
The pathetic figure of Louis Charles, second son of Louis XVI. and
Marie Antoinette, figures thruout this story according to the
ordinarily accepted theory that he was confined in the Temple and
after the execution of the King and Queen was at the mercy of the
cruel keeper. The volume belongs to “Life stories for young people.”
=Hoffmann, Julius.= Amateur gardener’s rose book, tr. from the German by
John Weathers, *$2.50. Longmans.
The book is written not so much for professional gardeners and
nurserymen, as for garden lovers who devote special attention to the
cultivation of the rose; the object being to enlarge their knowledge
on the subject, and to reproduce a book that will serve as a practical
and concise adviser.
“The point that makes this volume a necessity to the amateur beginning
his collection of roses is the twenty beautifully colored plates.”
Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 538. Ag. 19, ‘05. 340w.
“Does not approach in usefulness Mr. Foster-Melliar’s ‘Book of the
rose,’ and far less in delightful reading Dean Hole’s ‘Book about
roses.’ However, the book is probably worth adding to a rosarian’s
shelf.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 314. S. 2, ‘05. 1440w.
* + + =Spec.= 95: 472. S. 30, ‘05. 60w.
=Hogg, Ethel.= Quintin Hogg. $3. Dutton.
In this biography of her father, the author gives a complete and
intimate account of his life and work in the London slums. A famous
Eton foot-ball player, he often made his influence felt by sheer
physical force, and this was perhaps the secret of his remarkable
success. He founded the Ragged school, and the famous Polytechnic, and
his life is a story of the most practical kind of philanthropic work.
There is an introduction by the Duke of Argyll.
“The book is needlessly long, and is disfigured by numerous
exclamation points.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 93. F. 2, ‘05. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 53. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1350w. (Condensed
biography.)
+ =Outlook.= 79: 247. Ja. 28, ‘05. 180w. (Survey of Hogg’s life.)
=Holdich, Thomas Hungerford.= India. $2.50. Appleton.
The author’s knowledge of the geographical conditions of India is
reliable as he was at one time superintendent of the survey of India.
After giving an historical sketch of the country, “he proceeds to a
study of the geography of the frontiers bordering Baluchistan and
Afghanistan; he describes Kashmir, the Himalayas, and the Peninsula,
then Assam, Burma, and Ceylon. He tells us about the people, the
political geography, the agriculture, revenues, railways, minerals,
and climate and he puts India before us as we will not find it
elsewhere. The work is amply indexed, and is provided with a wealth of
maps and diagrams.” (Outlook).
“The book and its maps are creditable to all concerned, and will
unquestionably prove of great value to seekers for information about
the region of British India and its dependencies.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 402. Ap. 1. 2080w.
“The results of all former investigations are well digested and
epitomized.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 381. Ap. ‘05. 100w.
“With few exceptions his work will rank high with the other volumes of
the series.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 201. Mr. 16, ‘05. 440w.
“Altogether, as a representative volume on India for the library, this
book is about the best to be had.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 97. Jl. 13, ‘05. 780w.
“This excellent and useful book supplies a real want, and gives to the
reader a broad geographical description of the real continent of
India.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 160. My. 19, ‘05. 1060w.
“Avoiding ‘statistics and details,’ the author has here compressed
into one volume an immense amount of geographical and ethnological
information regarding the peninsula itself and the frontier,
Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Assam, and Burma. The most valuable
part of ‘India’ is, of course, the geographical description, where the
author is on his own ground. The literary-historical side is mortar to
the bricks of the altar.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 117. F. 9, ‘05. 230w.
“He has produced a topographical description of the Indian empire
which, in spite of minor errors.... is not only interesting to read,
but accurate and well proportioned on the whole.”
+ + — =Nature.= 71: 268. Ja. 19, ‘05. 1210w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 2. Ja. 7, ‘05. 570w. (Summary of facts in
book.)
“His volume has the ring of authority on every page. It is equally
valuable for steady reading or as a work of reference.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 95. Ja. 7, ‘05. 150w.
“The product of years of study in the country of which he writes.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 251. F. ‘05. 200w.
=Holdsworth, Annie E. (Mrs. Eugene J. Lee-Hamilton).= New Paolo and
Francesca. †$1.50. Lane.
A modern variation of the old story. The heroine has promised her
dying father that she will wed the elder of her twin cousins, who will
inherit her father’s title and estates. She fulfils her pledge in
spite of the fact that she loves the younger brother, and the result
is tragedy. The story is further complicated by the discovery that her
lover is the true heir, and her husband in reality is the younger
brother, the two having been changed in infancy.
+ — =Acad.= 68: 150. F. 18, ‘05. 460w.
“Nothing but praise, however, is to be said for the art of the author.
In description, in delineation of character and in that subtle and
compelling power by which the imagination of the reader is held
enthralled, the work is noteworthy. It is to be regretted that a story
so charming in its style, so fascinating in its atmosphere and so
powerful in the handling of the theme should be so depressing in its
influence on the mind.” A. C. Rich.
+ — =Arena.= 33: 453. Ap. ‘05. 250w.
“It is well told, and the author has enough coloring matter in her
vocabulary to paint the national history of a whole continent.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 218. Jl. 27, ‘05. 110w.
— + =Sat. R.= 99: 779. Je. 10, ‘05. 170w.
=Holland, Clive.= Japanese romance. $1.50. Stokes.
A young English artist sailing eastward to paint the wonders of Japan,
meets a beautiful English girl on the steamer and admires her
apparently merely in an artistic way. Arriving at Nagasaki he falls in
with two former fellow-students at Paris, one a Japanese, the other a
Scot who has taken a Japanese wife. Thru these he becomes involved in
many social complications and finally marries Mio-Lan, a lovely
Japanese maid. Later he begins to long for the English girl he had met
on the steamer and the story becomes a tragedy for Mio-Lan.
“The merit of the story lies not in the sentiment and flower women,
but in the characters of the modern Japanese, Mr. Yumoto, and the
Scottish expatriate.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 54. Ja. 28, ‘05. 370w. (Outlines plot.)
=Holland, Robert Afton.= Commonwealth of man. **$1.25. Putnam.
“The Slocum lectures of 1904, delivered at the University of
Michigan ... revised by the author in the light of the discussion that
followed the publication of Mr. Edwin Markham’s poem, ‘The man with
the hoe,’ which, in the opinion of Mr. Holland, consisted chiefly of a
series of socialistic fallacies set to stormful music.’”—R. of Rs.
“There are eleven lectures, all pretty vigorous writing and not bad
reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05. 420w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 795. My. 20, ‘05. 310w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
=Holley, Marietta (Josiah Allen’s wife, pseud.).= Around the world with
Josiah Allen’s wife. †$150. Dillingham.
The inveterate traveller, Samantha, accompanied by Josiah Allen and a
sick grandson, for whose health the trip is undertaken, starts on a
journey around the world with a party which includes a Dorothy, who
enlivens the trip by marrying in spite of her chaperone. Samantha’s
characteristic descriptions and comments include much of interest on
Hawaii, the Philippines, India, Egypt, the Holy Land, and many
European states, while she frequently attempts to set right whatever
she thinks may be wrong, even instructing the Empress Si Ann on her
duty.
* + =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 60w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 774. N. 18, ‘05. 200w.
=Holley, Marietta (Josiah Allen’s wife, pseud.).= Samantha at the St.
Louis exposition. $1.50. Dillingham.
Samantha, as unique and widely known as any book character ever
created, is at her best in these “episodin’” bits of wit, pathos, and
clear visioned common sense. In the story, Josiah Allen discovers that
his farm had come into the possession of the Allen family the year of
the Louisiana purchase, that his ancestors had paid fifteen dollars
for it, the same sum, he said, “with the orts left off,” that was
given for Louisiana. The Allens celebrate this discovery by taking a
trip to the Exposition. A group of interesting companions serve only
to enhance the characteristic observations of Samantha, which are
better than ever.
“Feminine frailty and masculine arrogance and the sexual inequalities
of social customs and the laws continue to furnish material for her
satire and weakly witty garrulity.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 212. Ja. 26, ‘05. 110w.
=Hollis, A. C.= Masai, their language and folk-lore. *$4.75. Oxford.
A study of the language, myths, traditions, enigmas, proverbs, and
customs of this fast vanishing East African race by the chief
secretary of the East African Protectorate, assisted by native
authorities.
“Mr. Hollis’s is the fullest study yet made. It is impossible to do
justice in the course of an ordinary notice to this exceedingly
interesting book, which is, moreover, absolutely free from padding of
the ordinary kind.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 742. Je. 17. 2420w.
“In describing the mythology, folklore, and customs of the Masai he
has hit upon a method as scientific as it is original.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 143. My. 5, ‘05. 460w.
“For the first time the civilized world has been presented with an
authoritative work on the Masai language, customs, and folklore, by
Mr. A. C. Hollis. It is the authoritative study of the Masai people;
and it is satisfactory to record that the author confines himself
mainly to facts and not to theories.” H. H. Johnston.
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 83. My. 25, ‘05. 1200w.
“Mr. Hollis’ grammatical treatise is a study in itself. The book is
worthy of the greatest attention.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 309. S. 2, ‘05. 1330w.
=Holmes, Gordon.= Mysterious disappearance. $1.50. Clode.
The usual crime, shrouded in the usual mystery, the rapid succession
of events, the story action that palls not for a moment are all here.
But the book surpasses others of its kind in the clever comparison of
two distinctive types of detectives. There is Claude Bruce, barrister,
“subtle, analytic, introspective,” and there is his foil, the Scotland
yard inspector, a part of the machine, “direct, pertinacious,
self-confident ... a slave to system,” one whose method, as the
barrister comments, “works admirably for the detection of common place
crimes, but as soon as the region of higher romance is entered, it is
as much out of place as a steam roller in a lady’s boudoir.”
=Holmes, Mary Jane Hawes.= Abandoned farm. †$1. Dillingham.
The romance of a young girl who becomes a waitress at a summer house
party on an estate once owned by her grandfather. She is known as
waitress no. 1, and her ladylike mien, even in white cap and apron,
charms the rich young master of the house who loves her even before he
discovers that the estate is really hers. The volume also contains a
story called Connie’s secret, which hinges upon a sham marriage by
which the girl believes herself to be legally bound to the man who has
deserted her.
* =Holmes, Oliver Wendell.= One-hoss shay, with its companion poems.
$1.50. Houghton.
A delightful Christmas edition of Holmes’ humorous poems, “The
one-hoss shay,” “How the old horse won the bet,” and “The broomstick
train,” illustrated by Mr. Howard Pyle in colors and black and white.
* + + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 40w.
* + + =Dial.= 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 170w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 424. N. 23, ‘05. 70w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 120w.
=Holt, Martin.= Out of bondage. $1.25. Benziger.
Renie, a pretty Catholic girl, kept in the country with no knowledge
of life or of her own parentage, serves the cruel Mrs. Sherwood well
until her death and then flies forth into the world to enjoy her
freedom. She encounters many tragic things, but her courage enables
her to straighten out a serious tangle and save the man she loves from
a murderer’s death.
=Holyoake, George Jacob.= Bygones worth remembering. 2 vols. *$5.
Dutton.
The author, who has for many years taken an active part in all
movements toward the bettering of the conditions of the working
classes gives interesting details concerning the progress of the
English nation during the last few decades and reminiscences of
Harriet Martineau, Mazzini, Kossuth, John Stuart Mill, Lord
Shaftesbury, Garibaldi, and Gladstone. There are many illustrations.
“In this later book the gold is beaten rather thin; and, in fact, the
reminiscences—which are none of them to be described as wildly
exciting—are eked out with extracts from newspapers.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 145. F. 18, ‘05. 1230w.
“As a contribution to the history of the political and social progress
of the nation these ‘Bygones’ are of great value.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 232. F. 25, 1490w.
Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 605. Ag. ‘05. 1780w.
Reviewed by Jeanette L. Gilder.
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 156. Ag. ‘05. 1430w.
“Frank egotism is evidenced on every page. Mr. Holyoake has a strong
sense of humor, but his manner of writing is such that it is not
always easy to discover when he is jesting and when he is in earnest.”
Edith J. R. Isaacs.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 106. S. 1, ‘05. 1180w.
* =Ind.= 59: 988. O. 26, ‘05. 230w.
“He states many facts, he corrects many fallacies, that should claim
the consideration of historians of British politics during the
nineteenth century. Seldom have we read a book breathing a more
tender, tolerant, and judicial spirit.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 127. Ag. 10, ‘05. 1380w.
“These pages and people are all interesting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 372. Je. 10, ‘05. 1590w.
“A further characteristic of the author’s opinions and reminiscences
is a whole-souled optimism which, pervading his book, manifests itself
perhaps most impressively in the final chapter.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 85. S. 9, ‘05. 2280w.
“We are not sure that all the ‘Bygones’ which Mr. Holyoake recalls are
‘worth remembering.’”
— =Spec.= 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 340w.
* =Home, Andrew.= Boys of Badminster. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A tale of English schoolboy adventure whose hero is Jack Coverdale,
broad shouldered enough to bear the burden of his own scrapes and
those of less honorable companions. “There is an attempt at
kidnapping, with exciting cricket games and boys’ pranks, all of which
must be read to be appreciated. There is another good story, ‘A row in
the sixth,’ at the end of the book, which is a big one.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* “Good characterization and plenty of humor should make this a
success.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 30w.
* + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 761. N. 11, ‘05. 320w.
* “Mr. Home has the happy knack of rousing an expectancy which he
never disappoints.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 7. D. 9, ‘05. 100w.
* “Mr. Home does his best, not wholly without success, to make it seem
possible, and constructs a good story out of it, as school stories
go.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 693. N. 4, ‘05. 100w.
=Home, Gordon Cochrane.= Evolution of an English town. *$3.50. Dutton.
The old town and castle of Pickering in Yorkshire, and the country of
Pickering vale are dealt with here from pre-glacial times down to the
beginnings of 1905. “It is really surprising to find how much may be
learned relating to ethnology, archæology, and ancient customs from
this curious piece of local antiquarian study.” (Outlook.)
* “The quality and number of the illustrations greatly enhance the
value of the book. We have only noticed one misprint.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 922. S. 9, ‘05. 750w.
“The book furnishes a pleasing type of local history to which other
essays in that field will do well to conform.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 211. O. 1, ‘05. 330w.
“The book commends itself to special readers more than to the general
traveler.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1111. N. 9, ‘05. 110w.
“Makes altogether a charming book for lovers of things old,
picturesque and curious.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 497. Jl. 29, ‘05. 810w.
=Outlook.= 80: 691. Jl. 15, ‘05. 110w.
* =Home, Gordon.= Normandy: The scenery and romance of its ancient
towns. *$3.50. Dutton.
The author has profusely illustrated this volume with colored plates
and pen-and-ink sketches. “Mr. Home says his book is not a guide, but
simply ‘an attempt to convey by pictures and description a clear
impression of the Normandy which awaits the visitor.’ But it will
serve as a guide if need be, for the author, with that curious naiveté
of the Englishman, names inns and hotels without fear of being accused
of advertising; and as he says, ‘any one using the book as a guide
would find in his path some of the richest architecture and scenery
that the province possesses.’” (N. Y. Times.)
* “Is chiefly of interest for its beautiful colored plates, which give
clearer impressions of Normandy’s varied and wonderful scenery ...
than any words, however perfectly chosen, could hope to do. Mr. Home
is sufficiently an artist to write, as well as paint, like one. He
wins the reader’s approbation by his first sentence.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 170w.
* “A very successful attempt has been made to convey, by means of
pictures and description, a clear impression of the Normandy which
awaits the visitor.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 110w.
* “The book will certainly give us a better notion of Normandy than
Mr. Menpes’s much more multitudinous blots can convey to us of
Brittany or any other place.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21, ‘05. 180w.
* “A charming book on Normandy. The book is one to read and keep, and
to take with one on his trip to the old duchy it describes.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 851. D. 2, ‘05. 510w.
* “Its text is illuminative, graphic, and sympathetic. Mr. Home has
produced a work on Normandy to appeal to every one who has ever
visited that interesting region.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 9, ‘05. 40w.
* “Mr. Home knows something of architecture and describes with feeling
and taste.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 14, D. 2, ‘05. 240w.
=Hooker, Katharine.= Wayfarers in Italy. **$2. Scribner.
A fourth edition of a book about the out-of-the-way places of Italy,
by one who has left the beaten and over-described paths to hunt for
old books and lost Madonnas, and study the life, habits, and
temperament of the village and country folk.
“Is well deserving of the many editions it has passed through.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 172. Mr. 18, ‘05. 410w.
“A fresh, informing, and thoroughly charming book in one of the oldest
fields in the world.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 140w.
=Hope, Anthony=, pseud. See =Hawkins, Anthony Hope.=
=Hopekirk, Helen=, ed. Seventy Scottish songs. $2.50. Ditson.
These seventy songs include the folk-music student’s favorites. They
have been gathered from the Lowlands and the Highlands, from the
remote mountainous regions and from the western isles. The volume is
uniform with the “Musicians library.”
* “A very interesting and valuable work.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 70w.
* “Those who care only for popular tunes with any serviceable
accompaniment will find this selection acceptable; whereas the epicure
who likes his folk-music pure and unadulterated will be likely to
object to many passages in which the arranger has exercised her
faculty of harmonizing with too little regard for the racial essence
of the tunes.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 110w.
=Hoppenstedt, J.= Problems in manoeuvre tactics; with solutions for
officers of all arms, tr. by J. H. V. Crowe, *$1.60. Macmillan.
In this volume the original German organizations have been adapted to
those of the British army in order to assist its officers in studying
for examinations, and furthering their knowledge of the art of war.
Four maps have been provided.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 492. Jl. 22, ‘05. 70w.
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 671. My. 20, ‘05. 920w.
=Hornaday, William Temple.= American natural history; a foundation of
useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. **$3.50.
Scribner.
“The author has had many years’ experience as a field naturalist in
America and the far East, and as director of the New York zoölogical
park, gives much information in an interesting style, illustrating his
text with maps, charts, and drawings. “The object of this book is to
make nature available to laymen; it is also particularly addressed to
teachers and parents.” It is intended to be plain, practical and
direct, as well as systematic and scientific.... The field covered
includes all the principal types of vertebrates found in North
America.” (Science.)
“We find here much practical and economic zoölogy, invaluable matter
on the extinction of American species, and the setting right of many
ancient and silly myths. Clear exposition is exhibited in many
sections of the book. The drawings, while of uneven merit, are full of
life and action and have good teaching value. The author aims to amuse
as well as to instruct.” W. K. Gregory.
+ + — =Science=, n. s. 21: 346. Mr. 3, ‘05. 1510w.
* =Home, C. Silvester.= Common sense Christianity. *35c. Meth. bk.
“This book aims at being a popular contribution to the art of
Christian defence.” The author believes that a policy of vigorous
attack is necessary to oppose the work of many who maintain that for
the twentieth century a new religion is needed.
=Horner, Joseph.= Engineers’ turning. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.
A well-illustrated text which considers the principles and practice in
the different branches of turning. A feature of the book is the
important section devoted to modern turret practice; boring is another
subject treated fully; a chapter on tool holders illustrates a large
number of representative types; screw-cutting is treated at length;
and the last chapter contains a good deal of information relating to
the high-speed steels and their work.
=Horner, Joseph.= Tools for engineers and woodworkers. *$3.50. Van
Nostrand.
A comprehensive work whose object is “to give an account of such tools
as are commonly used by engineers and woodworkers, written chiefly
from the standpoint of the men who have used them, and who desire to
understand the principles which underlie the forms in which those
tools are found. Practical instruction for their employment, as
suggested by the writer’s own experience, have been added.”
“Although there is necessarily a good deal of the descriptive
catalogue in a work of this kind, yet this one is so well put
together, its brief descriptions are so clear, and above all the
endless varieties of tools enumerated are brought to one’s notice in
so logical an order, their classification is so essentially
scientific, that it may be regarded as in a sense a finished monograph
of one phase of evolution.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 280. Ag. 26. 420w.
* “The author has written a clear and comprehensive description of
various groups of tools.”
+ =Engin. N.= 54:529. N. 16, ‘05. 120w.
=Hornung, Ernest William.= Stingaree. †$1.50. Scribner.
Stingaree, a one-time London clubman, now a robber in Australia,
“sticks up” (Australian for hold up) mail coaches and banks in a
manner both theatrical and gentlemanly. On one occasion he operates
among a company of amateurs, forcing them to give a concert, and makes
use of the occasion to introduce a girl with a beautiful voice to a
prominent composer. He is afterward released from jail just in time to
don evening clothes and hear this girl as a prima donna.
“Of no importance from the literary standpoint, the present volume yet
contains ten very readable and ingeniously worked out stories.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 716. Je. 10, 180w.
“The stories are all fluent, ingenious, and diverting, and will be
found readable enough.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 90w.
“Series of ingenious tales.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 292. My. 6, ‘05. 250w.
“On the whole, his adventures being as hazardous and exciting as those
of his predecessor he should be equally well beloved.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“The tales ... are dashing, daring, entertaining, and show
considerable inventiveness without disclosing any special literary
power.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 160w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 869. Je. 3, ‘05. 210w.
“He is a real creation.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 593. O. 05. 220w.
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 90w.
“Mr. Hornung who has much aptitude for sensational fiction has
exhibited little ingenuity or originality in these tales.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 140w.
* =Hornung, Ernest William.= Thief in the night: further adventures of
A. J. Raffles, cricketer and cracksman. †$1.50. Scribner.
The third series of the adventures of Raffles goes back to the
earliest days of the cracksman and Bunny, his foil. One of the nine
tales portrays the disloyalty of the thief in losing for Bunny his
sweetheart, another, and quite the most ingenious of the group, is
that of a little “job” at Lord Thornaby’s town house where Raffles
diverted from himself the suspicions of the “Criminologists’ club.”
All thru Raffles is still the same terrible expert burglar.
* + =Acad.= 68: 1177. N. 11, ‘05. 310w.
* “Unfortunately the reader’s taste has been whetted for better
things, and he looks in vain for the quick turns and the conquering of
difficult situations of the earlier yarns.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “The newer stories, while they seem somehow to lack the snap and go
of the earlier ones, are nevertheless not very different in quality,
and if you are not tired of the old Raffles they may be trusted to
furnish entertainment for an idle hour.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 727. O. 28, ‘05. 160w.
* “Those unacquainted with the cracksman will find admirably written
stories retailing the exploits of a gentleman burglar of the most
marvelous skill and finesse, and an unusually winning personality.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 530. O. 28, ‘05. 70w.
* “His mind works with all its old rapidity and originality, but he is
less convincing and beguiling.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.
* “It is not so mischievous as its predecessors, because it is not
nearly so well done.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 871. N. 25, ‘05. 90w.
=Horsley, Walter C.=, tr. =See La Colonie, Jean Martin de.=
=Hort, Fenton John Anthony.= Village sermons. * $1.75. Macmillan.
Dr. Hort, a noted scholar and Christian gentleman, writes with
simplicity for the country folk with whom he had to deal as the parson
of a Hertfordshire village. The sermons “are generally founded on some
incident of the day’s service, some sentences in a psalm, or more
often some petition in a collect.” (Lond. Times.)
* + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 470w.
* + — =Outlook.= 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 70w.
* “We must confess that the sermons strike us as being highly
conscientious but a trifle dull. Yet here and there, genius shows
itself in the easy power of expressing a great deal in a few words.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 190. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w.
=Horton, George.= Monk’s treasure. $1.50. Bobbs.
Ta Castra, an island of the Cyclades, in the Ægean sea, is the scene
of a series of adventures in which a young American, buying up Greek
argols for his uncle’s firm, and his interpreter, a sturdy Scotchman,
figure conspicuously. The American straightway becomes involved in
breaking up an alliance between a beautiful Greek bond-girl and her
belligerent betrothed, Spiro. Thru treasure, hidden in a monastery, he
proves the girl to be a duchess, and outwitting the monks and Spiro
alike, escapes with Polyxene and her bags of gold.
“Those who love a story for the story’s sake will be sure to enjoy Mr.
Horton’s latest romance.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 565. My. ‘05. 120w.
“The recovery of the wealth against the cunning machinations of the
monks supplies a number of exciting and tragic events to sustain
interest in a story which otherwise is rather lightly worked out.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 293. My. 6, ‘05. 280w.
“Crude romance.”
— =Outlook.= 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 80w.
“A good story.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 70w.
=Hosking, Arthur Nicholas=, comp. and ed. Artist’s year book. $3. Art
league pub. assn., Chicago.
A handy reference book wherein may be found interesting data
pertaining to artists, and their studio, home and summer addresses for
1905-1906. Recognized merit has been made the standard of selection
for this list.
* =Hough, Emerson.= Heart’s Desire. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Heart’s Desire is a little settlement hidden away in a corner of the
West “where men have gone to live at peace—without law and without
women.” “The inhabitants dozed in the sunshine, smoked, drank, gambled
a little, toiled fitfully, fought occasionally, and dreamed a good
deal. Then the railroad came and the dreams were gone. Along with the
railroad came Constance and the old vexations that troubled Eden and
have troubled every assemblage of men ever since.” (Pub. Opin.) It is
a picture of rough Western life with clever character delineation.
* “A singularly pleasing story of the west o’ dreams.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
* “A more vivacious tale of far western life one does not often get.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 576. N. 4, ‘05. 100w.
* “In vigor and spontaneousness it seems to us Mr. Hough’s best work
in fiction.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
* “It is idyllic, impossible, and extremely entertaining.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 220w.
=Houston, Edwin James.= Electricity in every-day life. 3v. $4.50.
Collier.
“These volumes aim to give to the general reader a comprehensive
knowledge of the history of electricity, the principles and laws that
govern its action, and its practical applications in every-day life.”
(Outlook.) There are eight hundred illustrations which present
electricity as applied to modern industry and as used in laboratories,
and in the home.
“Without trace of romance and yet in an eminently attractive style,
the author has made comparatively clear the vagaries of electricity.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
“The style is clear and pleasant. Abstruse technicalities are
carefully avoided, and no part of the book will be difficult of
comprehension for the average well-informed man who has made no
specialty of electrical subjects.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 330w.
=Outlook.= 79: 502. F. 25, ‘05. 30w.
“He succeeds well in popularizing technical subjects. The present work
is voluminous, but never wearisome.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 251. F. ‘05. 90w.
=Howard, George Elliott.= History of matrimonial institutions chiefly in
England and the United States. *$10. Univ. of Chicago press.
“In the three volume work ... Prof. George E. Howard deals chiefly
with the matrimonial institutions of the English race, prefacing his
treatment of the subject with an analysis of the literature and the
theories of primitive matrimonial institutions. Professor Howard’s
treatise covers practically every phase of the subject that calls for
treatment, and gives elaborate biographical data relating, not only to
the institution of marriage itself, but to almost every conceivable
phase of the sex problem that has been treated in our literature.”—R.
of Rs.
“To students of sociology this work is one of importance.” Simeon E.
Baldwin.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 607. Ap. ‘05. 1070w. (Abstract of book).
Reviewed by E. T. B.
=Atlan.= 95: 137. Ja. ‘05. 650w.
“Professor Howard’s volumes are admirable studies and a much needed
supplement to the famous works of Starcke and Westermarck.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 784. Ap. 6, ‘05. 720w.
* “A scholarly and profound inquiry.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
“For even the general public Professor Howard’s volumes cannot fail to
be both interesting and instructive, for they deal attractively with
the most human of all institutions, and contain a mass of facts
nowhere else obtainable.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 55. Ja. 19, ‘05. 2270w.
=R. of Rs.= 30: 756. D. ‘05. 120w.
“An immense bibliographical index at the end of the third volume
completes the usefulness of the work as a book of reference, and it is
as a book of reference that it will be chiefly used and valued.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 617. Ap. 29, ‘05. 830w.
=Howard, John R.=, comp. See =One= hundred best American poems.
=Howe, Frederick Clemson.= City: the hope * of democracy. **$1.50.
Scribner.
“A novel interpretation of municipal affairs.... Mr. Howe ascribes
most of the ills to which the American city is heir to economic and
industrial, rather than to political or ethical causes.... Mr. Howe’s
remedy for the present evil conditions consists in offering
opportunity to labor, in taxing monopoly, and in the abolition of
privilege.”—R. of Rs.
* “Mr. Howe’s main arguments in favor of municipal ownership are
strong, and much of his abstract reasoning in favor of the single tax
is well put, although less convincing to most people; but the author
is too sweeping in his advocacy of the adoption of these measures and
in his claims for resulting benefits.”
+ — =Engin. N.= 54: 648. D. 14, ‘05. 610w.
* “Dr. Howe, in a spirited and striking description of the American
city, interprets its myriad phases from the economic standpoint.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
* “Is a good deal of a theorist, but, happily also, he is very much of
a student. Mr. Howe’s book, we fear, will not advance that result as
much as it might have done had it been more soberly written.” E. C.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 773. N. 18, ‘05. 970w.
* “His book is a frank discussion of municipal problems as they are
actually encountered in the more typical of our American cities. The
prevailing note is one of optimism.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 637. N. ‘05. 230w.
=Howe, Maude.= See =Elliott, Mrs. Maude Howe.=
=Howells, William Dean.= London films. * **$2.25. Harper.
The volume is made up of Mr. Howells’ characteristic talks about
London weather, London streets, London noises, churches, parks, buses,
slums, children, and bobbies—often with humorous comparison with the
corresponding phenomena in New York. He tells, too, about society out
of doors in Rotten Row and Piccadilly. Some of the matter has already
appeared in some of the magazines. The book is provided with sixteen
full-page illustrations and is bound to match the author’s “Literary
friends and acquaintances.”
* “These films do not amount to so comprehensive or extensive a survey
as Emerson achieved. But they are very fascinating, and are written
with the clarity and richness of style which constitute Mr. Howells
one of our foremost writers of English to-day.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 717. N. 25. 1740w.
* “Its ‘films’ are far more interesting and significant than some that
Mr. Howells has shown; they are indeed in his happiest analytic vein.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 381. D. 1, ‘05. 270w.
* “The book is in no whit inferior to those masterly studies in
Italian life.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1227. N. 23, ‘05. 880w.
* “A series of delicate and charming impressions of London in many of
its aspects, social, civic, and meteorological.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 490. D. 14, ‘05. 820w.
* “Easily takes its place among the few most noteworthy books of the
season.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 712. O. 21, ‘05. 130w.
* “He is still master of the gentle irony, the subtle, mischievous
suggestion, the humorous backward glance, that have fascinated his
readers for years.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 682. N. 18, ‘05. 270w.
=Howells, William Dean.= Miss Bellard’s inspiration. †$1.50. Harper.
“It was nothing short of inspiration which made Miss Lillias Bellard
decide to visit her aunt and uncle, the Crombies, in order to consider
quietly the question of marrying a certain eager young Englishman. Mr.
and Mrs. Crombie had ... taken a cottage in the New Hampshire hills.
Miss Bellard’s intention was to watch the domestic conditions of the
Crombie household before rushing recklessly into matrimony. But
coincident with her visit came that of the Mevisons, a couple
trembling upon the verge of separation. Thus Miss Bellard was treated
to a variety of domestic relations which produced varying effects upon
her.”—N. Y. Times.
“Charming and idyllic comedy which at once tickles and instructs. Mr.
Howells has written no more delightful story for years.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 41. Jl. 8, 310w.
* “The book is undeniably a delicate and diverting piece of satire and
full of those illuminating sidelights upon human foibles and frailties
that make Mr. Howells inimitable.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 610. Ag. ‘05. 1500w.
* “The charm of Mr. Howells’s style is the only inducement offered the
‘gentle reader’ in this book.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 452. N. ‘05. 240w.
“Has a charm altogether out of proportion to its pretensions.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 115. S. 1, ‘05. 280w.
* =Ind.= 59: 1152. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“The whole thing is dainty and amusing, and the irony so suavely
expended that some readers may fail to detect it, and hence be a
little puzzled as to the degree of the author’s facetiousness.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 187. Ag. 5, ‘05. 790w.
“It is as if Mr. Howells’s vision were being contracted instead of
enlarged as the years go on. He stops short now at the surface; and
delicately and gracefully as he plays about on it, we regret his
arrested development.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 209. Je. 30, ‘05. 520w.
“Is a light comedy with enough social satire to remind us that Mr.
Howells is not just fooling for our summer holiday.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 101. Ag. 3, ‘05. 320w.
“Mr. Howells has not lost any of his cunning in portraying the
delightfully illogical phases of the feminine mental processes.
Altogether it is a decidedly entertaining book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“Has all the lightness, the charming comedy touch, of his earlier
work, and yet is not lacking in serious purpose. The studies of
temperament are both skillful and convincing. It is quite certain that
Mr. Howells has written nothing in a happier style; the vein of humor
which runs through the book is as fresh as in his earlier work, and
parallel with it runs a vein of quiet, kindly irony equally
effective.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 643. Jl. 8, ‘05. 190w.
“Beyond a doubt the story is amusing, but to Mr. Howells’ real
devotees it must be rather hard sledding.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 650w.
* “Though but a slight love tale, embodies a maturity of conception, a
surety of view, a subtle phraseology, an exquisite use of irony, and,
withal, a sedate, appeasing dignity.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 757. D. ‘05. 70w.
“The book is mainly a study—and a very clever and shrewd study—of one
type of American girl. But all the subordinate characters are
carefully drawn.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 124. Jl. 22, ‘05. 830w.
=Howells, William Dean.= Son of Royal Langbrith. $2. Harper.
The story is the tragic one of the weakness of a good mother who lacks
the courage to tell her son of the iniquities of his dead father. He
grows up in the belief that his father is a noble and heroic
character, and when the truth is revealed to him, through the
courtship of his mother by the country doctor, he suffers greatly in
the loss of his ideal. An opium eater and his loyal daughter enter
into the story. The setting is a small New England manufacturing town.
“Is in many respects the best bit of work Mr. Howells has done of late
years. One is inclined to read it slowly, lingering in enjoyment of
the charming style, and appreciating to the full the perfect picture
of New England life in the minute details that Mr. Howells so loves to
dwell on. It is a pity, however, that in his love of realistic detail,
Mr. Howells should be led into writing passages which, to say the
least, mar the artistic effect of his work. He has set such a dainty
dish before us that we cannot bear even one drop of grease to spoil
the taste.” C. Harwood.
+ + — =Critic.= 46: 184. F. ‘05. 560w.
“The one objection which the average reader has been known to make
against the work of Mr. William Dean Howells,—namely, that that
distinguished novelist is too fond of the insignificant,—cannot be
brought against ‘The son of Royal Langbrith.’ That the working out of
this theme is masterly it is superfluous to add.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 116. Ja. ‘05. 80w.
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=Hubbard, Arthur John, and Hubbard, George.= Neolithic dew-ponds and
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=Hubbard, Gardiner Greene.= Collection of engravings. See =United
States=, Library of Congress.
=Hubbard, Sarah A.=, comp. See =Catch= words of cheer.
=Huckel, Oliver.=, tr. Lohengrin, **75c. Crowell.
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