cities ... is one that deserves all encouragement not alone for
economic but also for higher interests.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 112. O. ’08. 360w.
“His argument is marred by many divagations of one sort or another.”
− =Educ. R.= 36: 522. D. ’08. 80w.
“Lacks in systematic and personal apprehension of the question, but is
full of stimulant.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 950. O. 22, ’08. 400w.
“The book should be read not only by those who are immediately
interested in improving their life’s prospect, but by those whose
prosperity enables them to consider means for the betterment of others
less fortunately situated in the matter of worldly goods.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 375. Jl. 4, ’08. 770w.
“All readers who became interested in the suggestions offered by Mr.
Hall in the introductory book will find the facts given in its sequel
to be even more valuable and to the purpose.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 80w.
+ − =Spec.= 101: 372. S. 12, ’08. 520w.
=Hall, Francis Joseph.= Authority: ecclesiastical and biblical.
**$1.50. Longmans.
8–10429.
A discussion of the subject from “the viewpoint of the anti-Protestant
wing of the Episcopal church. The author notes and makes acute if not
convincing replies to the objections of Protestant writers, who
understand ‘ecclesiastical infallibility’ differently from
him.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“It is difficult to reconcile his idea of authority with the modern
world, which is insistent on the freedom of inquiry, and is filled
with the spirit of democracy. Dr. Hall’s reconciliation is not likely
to stand; he must go one way or the other, or else sit down between
two stools.” E. S. Drown.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 140w.
− =Outlook.= 89: 128. My. 16, ’08. 200w.
=Hall, Rev. Francis Joseph.= Introduction to dogmatic theology.
**$1.50. Longmans.
7–14566.
“The first of an intended series of ten volumes, covering the entire
theological field as commonly outlined. The aim is instructive rather
than investigative.... The declaration that ‘every particular Catholic
church’ possesses ‘authority in doctrine,’ and his claim that ‘these
doctrines are contained in a deposit of faith which was committed to
the church of God in pentecostal days; that it is the double advantage
of a Catholic theologian that he is taught the premises of his science
by the Spirit-guided church, and receives sacramental grace within the
church to master the truth thus conveyed to him,’ sufficiently
indicate his accepted limitations and the class of readers he may
expect to reach.”—Am. J. Theol.
* * * * *
Reviewed by George Cross.
=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 162. Ja. ’08. 140w.
“It requires but moderate acquaintance with the writings of
representative Anglicans to be aware that this work will not be
accepted as a standard by the Anglican church as a body, but at most a
strong minority party in it, the so-called Anglo-Catholics.”
− =Outlook.= 87: 46. S. 7, ’07. 210w.
=Hall, H. Fielding.= Inward light. **$1.75. Macmillan.
8–2180.
A book to be read in connection with the author’s “Soul of a people.”
It develops the “great and vital principle of truth that underlies
Buddhism.” It analyzes the evolution of a soul as it comes into the
consciousness of its spiritual power and manifests symbolic perfection
of body.
* * * * *
“Charming, even enchanting in style, but lacks serious acquaintance
with facts, and mingles beauty and truth with partial statements and
actually false conclusions.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 237. O. ’08.
“This work contains twenty-two chapters, not one of which the
thoughtful reader will be willing to leave unread. Many of them will
call for a second perusal because of the light they throw on many
problems that have for ages perplexed the brain of man.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 39: 486. Ap. ’08. 3500w.
“It is impossible to deny that the ‘call of the East’ is clear and
alluring in these pages, or that the ‘long long thoughts’ of which the
book is a presentation are not quietly and effectively set forth.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 12. Jl. 4. 380w.
“Charming, even enchanting, is this bit of philosophy disguised as a
work of fiction. But as a presentation of Buddhism it lacks all the
marks of serious acquaintance with originals or reality.” W: E.
Griffis.
− + =Dial.= 44: 243. Ap. 16, ’08. 650w.
“In the discussion of various details, such as transmigration, the law
of recompense, etc., Mr. Hall is a safe enough guide; but in his tone,
in his interpretation of the spirit, he is at the antipodes of the
truth.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 283. Mr. 26, ’08. 450w.
“It would be hard to find a better expression of the gentle spirit of
Gautama, the Buddha, than is given in this book. The book is a joy to
read.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 131. Mr. 7, ’08. 1100w.
“A mingling of beauty and truth with partial statements and actually
false conclusions. It will attract the superficial reader by its
glowing language and entertain the more sober mind by its constant
challenge to his thought.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 561. Mr. 7, ’08. 550w.
“The style is charming.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 512. Ap. ’08. 50w.
=Hall, S. Roland.= How to get a position and how to keep it, with
special hints to various classes of applicants. **50c. Funk.
8–22077.
Hard work is the keynote to the success which Mr. Hall preaches. He
gives practical advice on the choice of an occupation; on letters of
application; on personal application and letters of recommendation.
There are also special hints to various classes of applicants, and a
closing chapter on Keeping positions and winning promotions.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 439. Ag. 20, ’08. 50w.
=Lit. D.= 37: 672. N. 7, ’08. 100w.
“Even those who have already had practical experience, as well as the
business novitiate in wage-earning, can learn much from Mr. Hall’s
book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 453. Ag. 15, ’08. 150w.
=Hamel, Frank.= Famous French salons. *$3.50. Brentano’s.
The salon history of French society from early in the seventeenth to
early in the nineteenth century—from the Marquise de Rambouillet to
Madame Récamier. Each of the nine leaders of salons is sketched in the
light of her special gift for attracting and holding the brilliant
minds of the day; as, for instance, the wit of Madame du Deffaud and
the literary tastes of Mme. Récamier.
* * * * *
“The narrative is in each case well told, and the author is skilful in
selecting from his authorities the passages which have abiding human
interest.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 363. S. 26. 440w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 400. Jl. 18, ’08. 380w.
“A pleasant and interesting book on an agreeable subject. He has
chosen nine famous ladies ... in some instances his choice cannot be
disputed; in others it can.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 710. My. 2, ’08. 470w.
=Hamilton, Cecily.= Diana of Dobson’s. †$1.50. Century.
8–19716.
A London shop-girl of spirit chafing under the tyranny of Dobson’s
drapery establishment comes to open rebellion upon the eve of a
windfall. She inherits three hundred pounds, determines to go straight
to Paris and to enjoy clothes, freedom, and fun so long as her little
fortune lasts. At the end of a month she is penniless but has found a
lover, a titled Englishman, whom she dismisses but finds again in a
later state of great want.
* * * * *
“Lively, unobjectionable story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 269. N. ’08. ✠
“Though as literature this novel cannot be said to rank high, it is
incomparably better than the general popular novel that appeals to the
summer reader. It is a bright, interesting and rather unique love
story, but it possesses a merit far beyond this.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 393. O. ’08. 870w.
“The impression remains with the reader of a brisk little story
written with perfect taste, while it is at heart a genuine song of the
sons and daughters of Martha.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 170w.
“The decided charm of this book lies in its clear, unlabored
delineation of character.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
=Hamilton, Clarence G.= Outlines of music history. $1.50. Ditson.
8–7604.
A concise survey of the entire field of musical development, presented
in the light of recent research. It is designed for the general reader
and the student. It treats alien musical systems; mediaeval music;
epoch of vocal counterpoint; development of monophony; Bach, Handel,
Gluck; perfection of the sonata form; transition to the romantic
style; nineteenth century romanticists, opera, and composers; and the
music of the present day.
* * * * *
“It is an excellent little book, fully abreast of modern musical
scholarship.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 280. My. 1, ’08. 50w.
“A concise survey of the whole field of musical development.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
“A volume commendably free from superfluous facts.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 339. Ap. 9, ’08. 220w.
=Hamilton, Clayton Meeker.= Materials and methods of fiction; with
an introd. by Brander Matthews. **$1.50. Baker.
8–17693.
A constructive study of the art of fiction from which amateurs who
have the professional goal in view may see how great fiction has been
and must be written. From a study of novels and short stories the
author deduces and formulates the general principles of the art of
fiction, emphasizing well the importance of understanding the relation
between fact and fiction, the distinction between the actual and the
real. The book recommends itself to college students, young authors,
club members, circulating libraries and general readers. The best
specimens of short story which literature affords are used thruout for
the illustration of principles.
* * * * *
“Particularly well adapted for general reading. It does not cover the
subject completely and is of comparatively small value for serious
study beside Perry’s ‘Study of prose fiction.’”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 259. N. ’08.
“In general the book is no less admirable in expression than in
conception: clear and concrete, full of delightful niceties of detail,
and not seldom rising into style.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 53. Jl. ’08. 1650w.
“There is plenty of real cerebration, and thoughtful novel readers may
gain considerable information and some points of view that will be
both new and valuable.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 841. O. 8, ’08. 300w.
“It is, all in all, a suggestive, informing, and thoroughly
interesting book, if not profound. The subject scarcely warrants
profundity. The book becomes a sort of general survey of the best
fiction, helping to revive pleasant memories, to introduce the young
readers to writers previously known only by repute. It is a good plan
and well worked out.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 401. Jl. 18, ’08. 660w.
“It is not too much to say that the very real value of Mr. Hamilton’s
book depends far less upon direct and specific research involved in it
than upon a certain wise and healthful outlook upon life in general,
that lies at the basis of his careful and logical subdivision of his
book. It has this vital quality of a book that is really worth while,
that where it fails to convince it helps you to clarify your own
reasons for believing just the opposite.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =No. Am.= 188: 621. O. ’08. 830w.
“Should be of value to college students, to young authors, and to
literary clubs.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 60w.
=Hamilton, James Shelley.= Butt Chanler, freshman. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–27804.
A rousing college tale with intimate characterizations of the
prevailing customs among American college students of to-day. The hero
is a young freshman who is subjected to the usual round of initiatory
hazing, to the usual athletic physical hardening process: and in spite
of misunderstandings and misrepresentations, is proven to be morally
straight and true. There is the usual campus and gridiron setting.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 90w.
=Hamlin, Myra Sawyer.= Persis Putnam’s treasure. †$1.25. Little.
8–30931.
One of the “Nan” stories which follows the rescue of a wealthy girl
from morbidness by a group of healthy happy campers.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
=Hammerton, John Alexander.= In the track of R. L. Stevenson and
elsewhere in old France. *$2.40. Scribner.
7–38531.
The author, an enthusiastic follower of Stevenson, devotes nearly a
half of his book to the track of the Travels with a donkey and An
inland voyage. He goes over the ground supplementing his observations
with extracts from what Stevenson wrote about places in the course.
Further rambles in Le Puy, in the country of the Camisards and in the
town of Tartarin are equally interesting.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 45: 169. S. 16, ’08. 330w.
“A parasitic growth, and a fairly heavy one.”
− =Nation.= 87: 313. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
“It would be a delightful thing to devote three or four months to a
journey in France, with Mr. Hammerton’s book to show the way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 388. Jl. 11, 08. 800w.
“This is a pleasant book, and may give some hints for future
holidays.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1101. D. 28, ’07. 160w.
* =Hammond, Eleanor Prescott.= Chaucer: a bibliographical manual. *$3.
Macmillan.
8–28623.
“Without including annotation of the Chaucerian text (except a few
well-known cruces), or allusions to Chaucer, or the lighter ‘literary’
essays, or ‘third-hand’ biographies, the author has nevertheless
filled a volume of nearly six hundred pages with references, well
digested abstracts, independent criticisms, and judiciously selected
extracts dealing with all phases of Chaucer’s life and works, as well
as the works (in a group by themselves) which have been printed with
Chaucer’s or attributed to him.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“As far as we have tested the book, all the important works on Chaucer
are noted in the proper places, and there are very few errors of
citation or misprints. The index is good. As far as the author’s work
is concerned, then, we have little but praise of the volume, which
represents the labor of years.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 348. N. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Her book, as a rule, is marked by a freshness which does not belong
to the mere compiler’s work. It is to be regretted, however, that Miss
Hammond should so frequently neglect to give the dates of the
manuscripts. There is only one omission worth mentioning.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 380w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 640. N. ’08. 30w.
* =Hamp, Sidford Frederick.= Trail of the badger: a story of the
Colorado border thirty years ago. †$1.50. Wilde.
The subject of desert reclamation is handled here in a vivid picture,
of life on the southern border of Colorado “where the fringes of two
discordant civilizations overlapped each other—the strenuous
Anglo-Saxon and the easy-going Mexican.” Two boys, alert, and
physically fit, encounter all sorts of dangers in the way of enemies
and wild animals while endeavoring to reclaim a stretch of worthless
desert waste.
* * * * *
“The boys of to-day will find it interesting to compare the conditions
here depicted with those that exist at the present time, a single
generation later.”
+ N. Y, Times. 13: 655. N. 7, ’08. 200w.
=Hancock, Albert Elmer.= John Keats: a literary biography. **$2.
Houghton.
8–28422.
A biography which brings to bear upon the increasing store of facts
concerning Keats’ life, the latter day methods of interpretation and
valuation. This sketch is characterized by “an informing of the
progressive development of Keats’ genius, the filling in of the
background of his life with new authentic and specific details, the
interpretation of his poems by his letters and a brilliant account of
the posthumous growth of his reputation.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Hancock is inclined to write staccato. His first few chapters
especially strain for effect. The interpretative portion of Professor
Hancock’s work, however, is the noteworthy feature of his book.” W. E.
Simonds.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 341. N. 16, ’08. 1150w.
“Its success is due to scholarly co-ordination of facts and sane
reasoning upon them; its failure is simply that Professor Hancock is
too unlike John Keats. Professor Hancock for the most part brings out
admirably those component events and experiences which went to the
making of Keats. He depicts well many phases of the man: what he
misses is the very man himself—the central note of his nature by which
all is to be understood. And yet the book is well worth reading.”
Brian Hooker.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 584. D. ’08. 3000w.
“A book which is indeed the life of a poet, written by a man stirred
by his subject, realizing and making the reader realize those
essentials that made Keats Keats, rather than harping on those
qualities which he shared with ordinary men, Mr. Hancock has made use
of much new material in this book, material which has come to light
since Houghton’s and Colvin’s lives.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 140w.
=Hancock, Elizabeth Hazlewood.= Betty Pembroke. $1.50. Neale.
7–41586.
All about a tender-hearted, true-to-self young Virginia maid and her
friends and lovers.
=Handbook= of learned societies and institutions: America. $4.
Carnegie inst.
=v. 1.= “This first volume deals with societies in the United States,
Canada, Mexico, the West Indies, Central and South America. Each entry
commences with the official name of the society or institution, its
postal address, and the name of the official, if any, to whom
communications should be addressed. Notes of its history are given,
including dates of foundation and incorporation and changes of name
and organisation, and if it possesses a library the number of volumes
is stated; its object; time and place of meeting; number of members
and fees; the exact titles of its publications and any special
publications; the mode of distribution of publications; and a
statement of research funds and prizes.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“Includes neither art museums nor libraries, though the admission of
such libraries and art galleries as publish real contributions to
knowledge would have enhanced the value of the work. The further
omission of medical and agricultural societies and institutions, and
of civic leagues must also be regarded as a serious drawback. Within
its field, however, the book cannot fail to be highly appreciated by
librarians and scientific workers in general.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 207. S. 3, ’08. 470w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Cannot fail to be of great use to those interested in American
societies and their work; its production reflects great credit on all
concerned with its preparation and publication.” H. M.
+ =Nature.= 78: 340. Ag. 13, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Haney, John Louis.= Name of William Shakespeare: a study of
orthography. *$1. Egerton press.
7–18135.
Aims “to present in convenient form the principal facts that have been
elicited concerning the origin and etymology of the name and the
vicissitudes of its orthography at various periods of its history.”
* * * * *
=Dial.= 44: 47. Ja. 16, ’08. 380w.
“Although here and there the essay has a more controversial air,
perhaps, than its author intended, it is, on the whole, a fair,
complete, and clear exposition of the subject. So far as we have
observed, it takes account of every scrap of evidence available, up to
the time that it went to print.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 283. O. 4, ’06. 340w.
=Hanus, Paul Henry.= Beginnings in industrial education; and other
educational discussions. *$1. Houghton.
8–21612.
A practical rather than theoretical treatment of some vital
present-day educational questions. The first part deals specifically
with problems of industrial education in this country, with vocational
education, under state auspices; and the second, with some of the
results obtained in the secondary schools of Germany.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 540. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=Harben, William Nathaniel.= Gilbert Neal. †$1.50. Harper.
8–27805.
The fact that Gilbert Neal for a third time mortgages everything he
possesses to keep a lawless, worthless brother from the penitentiary
plays small part in this tale except to show the qualities of the
young hero’s character. The serious work of the author is the
portrayal of the three characters in a fatal triangle and the
relations of the hero to each. One of the three, the long suffering
wife of a dissolute minister, is the hero’s good angel, who teaches
him moderation by saving him from the rash acts of hot headed
chivalry.
* * * * *
“The only human being in the story is one Daggart, village
store-keeper and money-lender, and, as he says, ‘just a natural man,
by hunky.’”
− + =Nation.= 87: 442. N. 5, ’08. 320w.
=Harding, John William.= Chorus lady; novelized from James Forbes’
play. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–10283.
In this novelization the heroine of the play loses neither her
penchant for testing the whole gamut of slang nor her unafraid
attitude toward sturdy sacrifice.
* * * * *
“It would be absurd to pretend that the book is as delightful as the
play, but it is a creditable and interesting discharge of a difficult
task, and is perhaps the best of recent novelizations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 100w.
=Harding, John William.= Paid in full, by Eugene Walter; a story of
modern American life, novelized from the play by John W. Harding.
†$1.50. Dillingham.
8–16949.
The novelization of a popular play of the season. It is a story of
married life in which a whining, weak-willed husband takes to blaming
capital, his employer, and his own loyal wife for the ill success
which follows in the wake of his anarchism. He becomes a defaulter,
thrusts his wife, at the sacrifice of her womanhood, between him and
the prison walls which loom up before him. She pays in full her debt
of obligation to him by begging his employer, of doubtful morals, for
mercy. In the dénouement, the hard hand of the capitalist puts on the
velvet glove; Jimsy, the faithful friend, proves his allegiance, but
the husband pursues the way of the lost soul to the suicide’s grave.
* * * * *
“There has been no falling off in the dramatic interest and no serious
blurring of the characters.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 329. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
=Harding, John William.= The time, the place and the girl; from the
play of Will M. Hough and Frank R. Adams. †$1. Dillingham.
8–22547.
A story based upon the play, “The time, the place and the girl.”
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 478. Ag. 29, ’08. 180w.
=Hardy, Thomas.= The dynasts. 3 pts. ea. *$1.50. Macmillan.
=pt. 3.= “In this Part III we see the career of Napoleon in a
convulsed Europe draw to its close in the colossal tragedy whose main
features are the burning of Moscow and the retreat of the Grand army
through the horrors of the Russian winter, the battle of Leipzig, the
abdication of the Emperor, Elba, the return, and Waterloo.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“Never has Mr. Hardy’s constructive genius mastered so completely as
in his latest work difficulties arising from mass of material.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 615. My. 16. 1000w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“There is not a line of poetry in ‘Dynasts.’ Had Mr. Hardy attempted
true drama, he must have failed lamentably; but the fact is, he has
attempted something else—to get a certain pictorial effect by
irregular means—and he has not failed.” H. W. Boynton.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 486. Jl. ’08. 1150w. (Review of pts. 1–3.)
“With the third section, now completing the work, we become conscious
of a precipitation, still somewhat cloudy, of the æsthetical, ethical,
and philosophical elements hitherto held in solution, and we feel that
a great task has been worthily performed.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 307. My. 16, ’08. 2000w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“From the beginning of the sixth act in the famous ballroom at
Brussels to the final scene in the wood of Bossu where Napoleon broods
over his defeat, Mr. Hardy is at his very best, and in this kind
outside of the chronicle plays of Shakespeare there is none better.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 353. Ap. 16, ’08. 1800w. (Review of pt. 1 and
3.)
“The stage is enormous and heroic, but the whole vast play is seen in
every corner and from every point of view at once in amazing
particularity and with a remembrance of its part in the cosmic
scheme.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 249. My. 2, ’08. 2500w. (Review of pt.
1–3.)
“Taking the completed poem, we feel that the poet has attained unity,
and that the dramatic quality of the whole is his great achievement.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 462. Mr. 21, ’08. 550w. (Review of pt. 3.)
* =Hare, Christopher.= Courts and camps of the Italian renaissance;
being a mirror of the life and times of the ideal gentleman, Count
Baldassare Castiglione. *$2.50. Scribner.
“Mr. Hare not merely epitomizes Castiglione’s ‘Cortegiano’ itself, but
gives a discursive account of the author’s life and of the stirring
events which he saw. Castiglione’s biography was well worth presenting
in this fashion, and ‘The courtier’ is always in order. The contacts
which such a man has with the great ones of his age, furnish a better
insight into the human side of the renaissance than we often get when
our attention is primarily directed to Alexander VI, or Julius II, or
to the ambitious princes who competed for secular prizes.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Many portraits from well-known paintings enhance the impression of
reality which Mr. Hare’s agreeable narrative makes upon us.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 548. D. 3, ’08. 140w.
“Altogether Mr. Hare awakens an active desire to possess the
‘Cortegiano’ in its entirety, and what more could any enthusiastic
biographer do for his subject?” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 512. S. 19, ’08. 900w.
=Hare, Christopher.= Life of Louis XI, the rebel dauphin and the
statesman king from his original letters and other documents.
*$2.50. Scribner.
W7–182.
A biography whose material has been supplied chiefly by Louis’s
“lettres missives” and “pieces justificatives.” “The two great
figures, Louis of France and Charles of Burgundy, sometimes grotesque
and sometimes terrible, move against a background of civil wars,
desperate sieges, inhuman horrors without end. England with its Wars
of the roses is closely connected with France and French politics
through the unlucky Queen Margaret. Further off in the picture is the
always welcome and delightful presence of her father, the good King
René, happy and beloved through all contemporary storms.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Although based on new material, not scholarly in the highest sense.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 184. Je. ’08.
“A cardinal defect of the book as a whole is that the light is not
sufficiently concentrated. The excellence of the illustrations goes
far to redeem the shortcomings of the text.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 611. N. 16. 1680w.
“This ‘most difficult period of history’ presents a network of tangled
politics and a snarl of interminable feuds; and the patience and skill
with which Mr. Hare has threaded his way through it all deserves
praise.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 421. D. 16, ’07. 530w.
“A new study that aims at supplementing the work of preceding
historians.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 139. Ag. 13, ’08. 600w.
“There is no attempt in this volume to idealize the man, but
dispassionate evidence is adduced to show that his crimes are to be
considered less from the point of view of personal morality than from
their aspect of national purpose in an era when France was struggling
to be released from the evils of feudalism.” G. S. Heilman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 64. F. 1, ’08. 380w.
“Mr. Hare may be congratulated on having opened a fresh field—at least
a fresh point of view—to English readers.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 778. N. 16, ’07. 1460w.
=Harker, Mrs. Lizzie Allen.= His first leave. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–35365.
The author of “Paul and Fiammetta” tells another story in which
sympathy for childhood abounds. The hero is an Indian civil servant on
leave in England, the heroine, a “high-minded, merry-hearted English
girl”; while the other characters are an unprincipled Jew, an English
woman, her neglected child, Roger, and a number of lesser individuals
culled from the Cockshot Hills.
* * * * *
“The plot is very slight but the book contains an interesting group of
characters who are, for the most part, well worth knowing.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 156. My. ’08. ✠
“Mrs. Harker does not always succeed in keeping a tendency to
sentimentality under control; but so healthy is the tone of the book,
and so agreeable its style, that the final impression it leaves is
distinctly pleasing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 723. D. 7. 180w.
“Possesses the initial merit of a genuine charm of style. But, on the
other hand, the construction of the story is distinctly loose.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 398. Je. ’08. 400w.
“A readable little story for women.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 90w.
“A slight, pleasant story which it is a little difficult to appreciate
at its proper value. Perhaps because the author treats her characters
too subjectively, over-editing them, as it were, we feel sure that we
should like them all better if we met them in real life than we do
through anything that they do or say in her pages.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 317. O. 18, ’07. 450w.
“The plot never thickens and the incidents barely link themselves into
a chain; but they are made pleasant reading by the characterization,
which is the strong point of the book.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 448. My. 14, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 130w.
“But the charm of the book lies in the delicate understanding, shown
by the author, of real human nature. The people are distinct
individuals. Each one stands out clearly—faulty, attractive, merry,
and true, just such a circle of associations as we would choose for
ourselves.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 85. My. 9, ’08. 200w.
“A pretty, readable story, a little sentimental in spirit, and
conventional in design perhaps, but fresh and wholesome.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 520. O. 26, ’07. 100w.
* =Harker, Lizzie Allen.= Miss Esperance and Mr. Wycherly. †$1.50.
Scribner.
8–25368.
“This is a story of two charming children brought up by an even more
charming old maid and old bachelor. The older people are Scotch and
the little boys English, and the scene is laid entirely in
Scotland.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Will find appreciative readers among lovers of child life or of quiet
stories like ‘Cranford,’ with which, however, it suffers by
comparison.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 269. N. ’08.
“This is a story of exceptional charm. A good style, idyllic
simplicity, originality, and tenderness add to the attractions of a
work light alike in theme and treatment.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 469. O. 17. 170w.
“Is full of charm and delicacy, with a touch now and then of quiet but
delicious humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 571. O. 17, ’08. 400w.
“All lovers of children should read this delicate little study, which,
if it cannot escape the accusation of sentimentality, is at any rate
very charmingly and sincerely written.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 680. O. 31, ’08. 180w.
=Harland, Marion, pseud.= Housekeeper’s week. **$1.50. Bobbs.
8–23880.
A preliminary chapter entitled Her house in order, is followed by
sixteen chapters outlining work for each day of the week, and eight
chapters on such topics as marketing, sewing and mending day, care of
the body, domestic materia medica, domestic surgery, care of the sick
and miscellaneous hints.
* * * * *
“The book is a compendium of information that will appeal not only to
the young and inexperienced housekeeper, but also to her of longer and
wider experience.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1126. N. 12, ’08. 120w.
“This new work seems to gather up the fragments of her overflowing
domestic knowledge and experience and present them in a clear and
attractive manner.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
“This is a skilful grouping of suggestions regarding the various forms
of housework under the days of the week.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 640. N. ’08. 50w.
=Harnack, Adolf.= New Testament studies; 2, The sayings of Jesus,
the second source of St. Matthew and St. Luke; tr. by Rev. J. R.
Wilkinson. (Crown lib., v. 23.) *$1.75. Putnam.
8–14753.
“Presents Harnack’s recent discussion of ‘Q,’ the common
discourse-source used by Matthew and Luke, to English readers. Harnack
reconstructs this source, and declares it to be the work of the age of
the apostles, perhaps of the apostle Matthew himself, and more ancient
than Mark, for it shows no Pauline influence.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“Harnack’s ‘contribution’ is the most thorough that has yet appeared;
immeasurably superior to the attempts of Wendt and Resch, an advance
also, chiefly by its greater detail, upon the truly scholarly work of
Hawkins, Wernle, and Burton. It suffers, however, from the very
rigidity of the author’s method.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 650. O. ’08. 500w.
“The book will not destroy Prof. Harnack’s reputation as a higher
critic whose scholarship leads him to no wanton attack on religion,
and whose criticisms are distinguished by sobriety of judgment.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 431. O. 10. 550w.
“It is unfortunate that so rigid a two-document hypothesis underlies
this stimulating book.”
− + =Bib. World.= 32: 78. Jl. ’08. 70w.
“The work is an important one for critical study of New Testament
literature and the life of Christ.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 578. Je. 25, ’08. 200w.
Reviewed by E. S. Drown.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“His acuteness, vigour and freshness make the dullest details
interesting. In his reconstruction of the original ‘Q,’ however, we
follow him with caution and some slight misgivings.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 10. O. 24, ’08. 370w.
“We cannot always accept Professor Harnack’s criticism, but it is
acute and enlightening.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 942. Je. 13, ’08. 500w.
=Harper, Robert Francis; Brown, Francis; and Moore, George F.=, eds.
Old Testament and Semitic studies in memory of William Rainey
Harper. 2v. *$10. Univ. of Chicago press.
Twenty-six essays contributed by prominent men in fourteen
institutions of learning which constitute a tribute to the memory of
Dr. Harper and form a worthy expression of the scholarship which it
was his life work to promote.
* * * * *
“The volumes are a mark of progress as well as a testimonial to a
great teacher. Reading them with an open mind we have reason not only
to be thankful for the past but to be hopeful for the future.” H: P.
Smith.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 251. Ap. ’08. 1800w.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 504. Ap. 25. 1100w.
“The whole constitutes a fitting testimony to the esteem felt by
American scholars for a peerless teacher, an eminent scholar, and a
great man.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 238. Mr. ’08. 120w.
“It goes without saying that the book as a whole is worthy of its
purpose in scope, content, and execution, and reflects much credit on
contributors and editors alike.” J: P. Peters.
+ + =Bib. World.= 31: 466. Je. ’08. 3400w.
“Two noble volumes of scholarly treatises.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 280. My. 1, ’08. 250w.
“All the articles are fresh, scholarly studies of serious matters
connected with Semitic or Old Testament learning. A magnificent
monument.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 420. F. 20, ’08. 800w.
+ + =Nation.= 86: 308. Ap. 2, ’08. 1000w.
“The introductory essay ... is a careful and discriminating study of
Dr. Harper and his work. The remaining essays are technical in
character presenting little of interest except to Old Testament
students.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 250w.
“Apart from its memorial significance, this collection of critical
studies is a distinct and valuable contribution to the work to which
President Harper devoted his life.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 658. Mr. 21, ’08. 220w.
“A fitting tribute to a scholar’s memory, and such as a scholar would
desire to have!”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 485. O. 17, ’08. 1000w.
“In scholarship and dignity of form are noble memorials to the
enthusiasm for research that characterized the first president of the
university.”
+ =Univ. Rec.= 12: 160. Ap. ’08. 580w.
=Harper, Walter Benjamin.= Utilization of wood waste by
distillation: a general consideration of the industry of wood
distilling, including a description of the apparatus used and the
principles involved. *$3. St. Louis lumberman, St. Louis, Mo.
7–37257.
Aims to make good “the lack of literature on the subject of wood
distillation, particularly that which relates to the treatment of
resinous woods.” The author presents “the different phases of his
subject in such a manner that it might be readily comprehended by
persons lacking a preliminary scientific education, the information
contained being thought sufficient to enable such, if suitably
located, to establish and operate a distilling plant on a sound
basis.” (Engin. D.)
* * * * *
“Should prove of essential value to lumber men and others interested
in the industry, in furnishing them with a treatise founded on a
correct conception of the subject.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 56. Jl. ’08. 140w.
“A brief bibliography ... unfortunately, for the most part, consists
of titles, only, without dates, publishers, etc.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 659. D. 12, ’07. 370w.
* =Harraden, Beatrice.= Interplay. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–29739.
“The central situation of this story is a new one. A woman, unhappily
married, runs away with a lover, whose sudden death gives her husband
the chance to divorce her, which he had refused to do when it might
have been a merciful act. Years after, she determines, from the
impulse of a new and nobler love, to put away her past, as men do, and
give herself to happiness. The theme of the author is equal morality
for men and women.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
“It is to be added that the story reads interestingly, particularly in
the first half. The characters in modelling and in conversation, are
often original, sprightly, and unexpected, the situations fresh and
seizing. But one would welcome an interval of emancipation from
emancipation.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 497. N. 19, ’08. 370w.
“Miss Harraden has more wit than humor, and she is occasionally overly
sentimental. ‘Interplay’ is the best thing she has done, not even
excepting her still popular first book, ‘Ships that pass in the
night.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 643. O. 31, ’08. 530w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
“The somber stuff that is the substance of the story is elaborately
embroidered with dainty and skillful stitches, making a rich and
original bit of work.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 330w.
“She can think as well as describe, and her characters impress
themselves.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 644. N. 21, ’08. 270w.
+ − =Spec.= 101: 743. N. 7, ’08. 430w.
=Harris, Maurice Henry.= History of the mediæval Jews from the
Moslem conquest of Spain to the discovery of America. 60c. Harris,
M. H.
8–21947.
“Deals with a golden age of the Jews, when their literature had a
splendid development in Spain until they were forced out by cruel
persecution at the end of the fifteenth century. The period includes
the time of the mystic Nachmanides, the philosopher Maimonides (the
author of ‘The guide of the perplexed’), and the poets Jehuda Halevi
and Ibn Gabirol. Translations of some of the works of these poets are
given.”—Ind.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 269. Jl. 30, ’08. 100w.
“A fairly readable and trustworthy summary, whose interest for the
average young person is probably not increased by a slightly homiletic
flavor. It is none the less a marked improvement on the few existing
text-books on the subject.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 216. Mr. 5, ’08. 90w.
=Harrison, Constance (Cary) (Mrs. Burton Harrison).= Count and the
congressman. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–15151.
The rivals for a charming American girl are an impecunious Italian
count and a millionaire congressman. Contrary to the usual situation
the titled foreigner possesses the manhood and the congressman is the
villain. The latter has built his wealth upon the wreck of the girl’s
father’s fortune. She is clever enough to penetrate his scheme,
entraps him and wins back enough money to restore, modestly the
Stelvio estates at Lake Como.
* * * * *
“The personages of the novel are simply convenient dummies for
furthering the simple action of the story. The dialogue lacks
distinction of any sort.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 446. Ag. 15, ’08. 200w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= My Alpine jubilee; articles from London Times,
Westminster review, and Cornhill magazine, 1851–1907. *$1.25.
Dutton.
8–26234.
Ten short articles and letters including six letters written from Lake
Leman last autumn, fifty-six years after the author’s first Alpine
trip, also early essays on mountaineering and Sir Leslie Stephen’s
Alpine writings. These have been collected and published at the
request of the Alpine club of London to aid in the celebration of its
jubilee.
* * * * *
“He writes with the vigour and enthusiasm inspired by the atmosphere
of his beloved mountains.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 449. Ap. 11. 250w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 66. Ag. 1, ’08. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 289. My. 23, ’08. 150w.
“The chapters in Mr. Harrison’s volume are of varying value. But all
are confidently commended to the lover of the Alps.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 625. Jl. 18, ’08. 520w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= National and social problems. **$1.75.
Macmillan.
8–14733.
An appeal to international morality and a plea for social
regeneration. The first part deals with international problems, war
and imperialism; the second part is occupied with questions of labor,
unionism and socialism. “The author purposes a socialism, economic,
moral and religious, whereby the reorganization of society as a whole
will be secured by a new ethical and religious education, entirely
reforming the spirit in which capital, the product of society, shall
be used, enjoyed, and controlled for the good of society alone.”
* * * * *
“A permanent value certainly attached to the second part of the
volume.” A. G. P.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 173. O. ’08. 530w.
“Although many have already read most, if not all, of the essays now
republished, some at least of them possess a curiously fresh interest
at the moment, and are most welcome.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 601. My. 16. 900w.
=Ind.= 65: 613. S. 10, ’08. 340w.
“The half dozen essays in the second section treat of the modern
unrest and the impending revolution in the industrial order. In all
that he has to say upon this problem he is still the consistent and
aggressive Positivist that he has always been.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 288. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
“We doubt whether a man who avers that he has learned almost nothing
in the last forty years of the nineteenth century is qualified to be a
leader of society in the beginning of the twentieth century.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 391. Je. 20, ’08. 530w.
=Putnam’s.= 5: 111. O. ’08. 900w.
“Mr. Frederic Harrison would be a more instructive teacher, and,
generally, a more useful citizen, if he were not possessed with the
dogma of his infallibility.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 640w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= Philosophy of common sense. **$1.75.
Macmillan.
7–36260.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“His volumes are of interest despite the fact that they add little to
what he had already printed.” W: T. Paullin.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 662. O. ’08. 440w.
“The book is the echo of long-drawn-out controversies over worthless
issues.” R. E. Bisbee.
− =Arena.= 40: 474. N. ’08. 380w.
Reviewed by G: Hodges.
=Atlan.= 102: 130. Jl. ’08. 400w.
“The book in question has a certain value. Were it not for the title
of his latest book one might think that this conclusion was a
caricature of common sense.” I. W. Riley.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 663. F. ’08. 1330w.
“The collected issue of these various utterances in defense of
positivism as the one and only common-sense philosophy forms a
valuable and highly readable sequel to the preceding number of the
series.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 18. Ja. 1, ’08. 350w.
Reviewed by S. Waterlow.
=Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 130. O. ’08. 700w.
“The work exhibits a philosophical Bourbon who learns nothing and
forgets nothing.” I. W. Riley.
− =J. Philos.= 5: 444. Jl. 30, ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Harrison’s clear style and perfectly frank spirit lend a charm to
his work that insure him a hearing with every one interested in
philosophical discussion.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 228. Ag. 15. ’08. 430w.
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 144. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
“The student of nineteenth century philosophy who desires to conceive
aright of the spirit, method, and aims of the system of thought
inaugurated by Auguste Comte will find them nowhere delineated more
clearly and adequately than in this volume by the most prominent and
able of Comte’s disciples.” E. Ritchie.
+ =Philos. R.= 17: 558. S. ’08. 460w.
=Sat. R.= 104: 672. N. 30, ’07. 860w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= Realities and ideals: social, political,
literary and artistic. (Collected essays, v. 4.) **$1.75.
Macmillan.
8–26402.
The fourth volume in a series of the author’s essays based on “one
coherent scheme of thought—a positivist synthesis—a reorganization of
life, at once intellectual, moral, and social, by faith in our common
humanity.” This group includes social and political subjects dealing
with the relations of England and France, the future of woman,
marriage laws, use of Sunday, prohibition, the church, parliamentary
reform, etc.; and, under the subject of literature and art, discusses
the revival of the drama, decadence in modern art, and concludes with
a dozen sketches of prominent past-century Englishmen.
* * * * *
“Of sheer good writing this volume is full. Of that dignified and
impressive eloquence of which Mr. Harrison is a master no better
example could be found than in the piece with which the volume opens.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 638. N. 21. 1350w.
“The second part of the book, embracing chapters on literature and
art—the first part being devoted to social and political questions—is
especially attractive.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 348. N. 16, ’08. 270w.
“The essential characteristic of Mr. Harrison’s writing is always
earnestness, tho he often buries it in bland humor or carries it home
with stinging wit.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1125. N. 12, ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Harrison ranks among living Englishmen with John Morley as an
essayist of originality, weight, and charm, who has also supreme gifts
in expression.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 600. O. 24, ’08. 160w.
“Everything that Mr. Harrison writes is so ‘meaty’ and
thought-provoking that it seems scarcely necessary to call attention
to these qualities in the collection of essays that make up the
present volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 170w.
=Harrison, Jane Ellen.= Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides.
*$1.65. Putnam.
“The little volume of 168 pages takes the form of a commentary on the
famous chapter of Thucydides (II. 15) in which the historian
demonstrated the small compass of primitive Athens by the fact that
the oldest shrines are all either on the Acropolis or in the adjoining
precinct to the south (or southwest). Miss Harrison discusses all the
old topographical problems.... She tells us all that is known and much
that is conjectured of the earlier pre-Persian Athens on which Pater’s
imagination so fondly dwelt, and of the earliest Mycenaean Athens on
the Acropolis.” (Dial.) Admirably illustrated.
* * * * *
“Is by no means too technical to be enjoyed by any intelligent reader
who has visited or intends to visit Athens.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 135. Mr. 1, ’08. 340w.
“Things are not really quite so simple and certain as they appear to
Miss Harrison’s loyal enthusiasm for Dr. Dörpfeld’s theories. We can
recommend to the student or tourist no better introduction to the
whole subject than this.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 423. My. 7, ’08. 500w.
=Hart, Albert Bushnell=, ed. American nation: a history from
original sources by associated scholars. 27v. per v. *$2. Harper.
=v. 25. Latané, John Holladay.= America as a world power.
7–41116.
Professor Latané takes up the thread of history where “National
problems” left it at the election of 1896. The main field covered is
the Spanish war of 1898 and its consequences on the spirit and policy
of the American people, and the administrative and economic questions
which have demanded solution.
=v. 26. Hart, Albert Bushnell.= National ideals historically traced.
7–41115.
This final volume of the series is a restatement of the
achievements and ideals of the American people, illustrated from
by-gone events which show the meaning and extent of national
progression. The factors of geographic environment, of race and
social conditions, political organizations, social and economic
activities, relations with other nations are successively treated,
and the volume closes with a discussion of the future of American
democracy.
=v. 27. Matteson, David Maydole=, comp. Analytic index.
8–2970.
This general index is a consolidation of the compiler’s indexes in
the separate volumes of the series, with some additions and
corrections. It covers every important event, noted person and
historical fact mentioned in the preceding twenty-six volumes, and
fully supplements the separate indexes.
* * * * *
“A worse fault and the only one we find in the book that is at all
serious—his presentation falls short at one point of what his task
would seem to call for in any view whatever. It is somewhat
onesided and ‘northern,’ not in temper or purpose, in both which
respects it is commendably broad, but in matter.” E. B: Andrews.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 371. Ja. ’08. 1100w. (Review of v. 22.)
“With much that is good, and much that is helpful, ‘The American
nation’ is not an epoch-making work, it is rather epoch-marking.” Max
Farrand.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 591. Ap. ’08. 2400w. (Review of v. 1–27.)
“The work seems remarkably free from errors.” A. S. Hershey.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 625. Ap. ’08. 850w. (Review of v. 25.)
“This volume must be classed with the studies of American democracy
made by De Tocqueville and Bryce. On the historical side Professor
Hart’s work is more complete and stronger than either of the other
studies. On the philosophic side, it compares less favorably with the
work of the French and the English student.” C. E. Merriam.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 626. Ap. ’08. 550w. (Review of v. 26.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 42. F. ’08. (Review of v. 26.)
“Not an exhaustive study, but is clear and concise.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 45. F. ’08. ✠ (Review of v. 25.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 81. Mr. ’08. (Review of v. 27.)
“The author presents a brilliant summary of the last decade of our
foreign policy.” C. L. Jones.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 525. Mr. ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 25.)
“With its many excellences, it is to be questioned whether the series
as a whole has demonstrated the impossibility or the uselessness of
the attempt to attain unity or uniformity in the work of a single
master hand.” St. G: L. Sioussat.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 309. My. 16. ’08. 3200w. (Review of v. 22–27.)
“The chapters on the national supervision of railroads and the money
question touch on a number of new points and are the best in the
book.” F. L. McVey.
+ + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 122. Je. ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 24.)
“Professor Dunning has produced the only brief history of the period
that commands respect.” (Review of v. 22.)
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 368. F. 13, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 22–26.)
“The volume starts better than it finishes.” (Review of v. 23.)
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 368. F. 13, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 22–26.)
“When perspective shall have been corrected by distance the historian
will still find in this volume much to commend in its calm statement
of current facts.” (Review of v. 24.)
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 368. F. 13, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 22–26.)
“Many of its chapters have a definiteness unusual in current history.”
(Review of v. 25.)
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 368. F. 13, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 22–26.)
“We are not certain what the editor has tried to do with his ‘American
ideals historically traced.’... His volume of essays, some of them
interesting and suggestive upon ‘Territorial concepts,’ ‘The man who
leads,’ ‘I want to know,’ and the like, is of doubtful value in a
great historical work.” (Review of v. 26.)
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 368. F. 13, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 22–26.)
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 569. N. ’07. 120w. (Review of v. 23 and
24.)
“No volume in this notable series has supplied a more distinct want
than Professor Dunning’s.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 25. Ja. 4, ’08. 270w. (Review of v. 22.)
“Two points only in this volume seem to call for comment. The
first ... deals with a transition period, in the point of view. How
well the author has adhered to his purpose, even a cursory examination
of his book would suffice to show. The other point is the author’s
judgments of men. Towards the Republican policy as a whole, Professor
Dunning’s attitude is prevailingly critical. On the whole, his
sympathies seem to lie in this respect with the Liberal Republicans.
In his estimates of Republican leaders, however, his criticism is
caustic.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 16. Ja. 2, ’08. 780w. (Review of v. 22.)
“The chronicle of events is reasonably full, and on the whole
well-balanced and skilfully arranged, but the narrative is left, as a
rule, to tell its own story, with but rare intrusion of the author’s
personal judgment.... Their clear and impartial narratives should
perform a needed service in discriminating the numerous and
conflicting elements of which American politics has of late come to be
compounded.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 83. Ja. 23, ’08. 1180w. (Review of v. 23 and
24.)
+ =Nation.= 86: 285. Mr. 26, ’08. 1200w. (Review of v. 25–27.)
“The worst fault one has to find with the book is the inadequate
treatment, in the chapters on ‘International arbitration’ and on ‘The
forcible collection of public debts’ of the proceedings and
discussions of the second Hague conference.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 6. Ja. 4, ’08. 780w. (Review of v. 25.)
“Prof. Hart seems anxious to avoid the reproach of saying undisputed
things in a solemn way. He prefers to say highly disputable things in
a way as far as possible from solemn, in a style combined of the
‘monographic’ and the journalistic. He has not even taken the trouble
to read proofs so far as to avoid repetitions. Inaccuracies are
painfully frequent.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 27. Ja. 18, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 26.)
“It is too early yet to write of the period with any finality, but
Professor Sparks’s volume certainly affords a comprehensive view of
its happenings and its tendencies.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 878. D. 21, ’07. 300w. (Review of v. 23.)
“After reading his chapters on organized labor, the trusts, the
tariff, the silver struggle, and the national supervision of railways,
the student cannot fail to have a clearer idea, not only of the
situation as it was ten and twenty years ago, but of the situation as
it now is.... Greatest value attaches to Professor Dewey’s account of
the beginnings of the trust movement. His handling of the strictly
political occurrences of the twelve years is scarcely so successful.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 277. F. 1, ’08. 260w. (Review of v. 24.)
=Outlook.= 88: 379. F. 15, ’08. 320w. (Review of v. 25.)
“The chapters on government are especially valuable, showing as they
do a sure knowledge of the views and practices of the past and a keen
perception of present conditions; and warm praise should also be
extended to Professor Hart’s summaries of our religious, social,
intellectual, and territorial development.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 562. Mr. 7, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 26.)
“The publishers, for some unfathomable reason, have omitted to
indicate on the binding the numerical progression of the volumes—an
omission which, of course, militates greatly against the usefulness of
the work for ready reference.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 884. Ap. 18, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 27.)
“Excellent on the whole as is his work of digest and exposition, it
still cannot be said to be an authoritative survey, even on the
documentary side and from the American viewpoint. This lack of an
authoritative grasp is revealed in what may be termed the
two-sidedness of his book.” J. A. LeRoy.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 715. D. ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 25.)
“Professor Latané elaborates [his themes] with historical accuracy and
illumines with his attractive style.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 507. Ap. ’08. 220w. (Review of v. 25.)
“Such a series has some advantages over a work by a single author, and
also serious disadvantages. The chief ones for our purposes are that
the volumes are very uneven, and the point of view of the successive
authors is constantly changing. For teachers the first of these
defects is the important one, for high-school pupils the second one.”
Webster Cook.
+ − =School R.= 15: 715. D. ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 8–14.)
=Hart, Albert Bushnell.= Manual of American history, diplomacy, and
government, for class use. $2. Harvard univ., Cambridge, Mass.
8–15335.
“Not only contains a careful selection of the best material from
earlier volumes but embodies also significant topics and essential
bibliographies adequate to bring the narrative down to the present.”
(Am. Hist. R.) “Three detailed courses of ninety lectures each are
outlined on the subjects of American history, diplomacy and
government. Three shorter courses of thirty lectures each on the same
subjects follow. These outlines are supplemented by suggestions for
class topics, term reports, etc., and by a valuable chapter on methods
and materials, giving directions for the use of books and preparation
of reports.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“This volume will be welcomed by the alert teacher even though he may
not have access to the wealth of material suggested. It is to be
regretted that an index has not been provided.” J. A. James.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 920. Jl. ’08. 270w.
“The arrangement of the volume, and the general character of the
material to which reference is made, make the volume of value to the
general student.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 444. S. ’08. 130w.
“The volume would doubtless be more serviceable and less formidable to
the undergraduate if it were broken into three parts, dealing with
history, diplomacy and government separately.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 572. S. ’08. 140w.
“So profuse are these citations that many a college student will be
confused by their very number. The instructor and graduate student
will profit by Professor Hart’s work more than will undergraduates.”
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 243. Ag. ’08. 200w.
=Hart, James Morgan.= Development of standard English speech in
outline. *$1. Holt.
7–2750.
“Not a history of the language, not even in the barest outline, but
merely an attempt to show how the Englishman or American of today has
come by his pronunciation.” “It is substantially an abridged Middle
English phonology, with consideration, however, of the main sound
changes in Old and Middle English.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“We need hardly say that the information given in this little book is
sound, and it is only on the question of aim that we take issue with
its author.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 33. Jl. 11, ’07. 250w.
“Furnishes the best existing introduction to the subject of which it
treats.” E: M. Brown.
+ =School R.= 16: 270. Ap. ’08. 650w.
=Hartley, Percy J.= My lady of Cleeve. 2 col. il. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–5574.
Set in the times of the Jacobite uprising this story throws into the
foreground one Captain Adrian Cassilis, loyal to the claims of
William, and the beautiful but shrewish lady of Cleeve, daring in her
devotion to the cause of the Stuart restoration. It is the story of a
Petruchio and a Katharine whose hostility is echoed in the din of
warfare about them. Petruchio subdues his Katharine’s turbulent pride
thru service, and wins her for his bride.
* * * * *
“Not specially well written, but contains a swash-buckle flavor that
is attractive.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 220. Je. ’08.
“An unusually good example of the modern Dumas romance, the sort that
we expect from Stanley Weyman at his best.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 184. Ap. ’08. 200w.
=Ind.= 65: 549. S. 3, ’08. 50w.
“Second-rate historical romance.”
− =Nation.= 86: 219. Mr. 5, ’08. 220w.
“The workmanship is excellent, there is a twist to the language which
gives it an adventurous, generations-back flavor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 200w.
“It is one not especially distinguishable from the large number of its
companion romances.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
=Harvey, George B. M.= Women, etc.: some leaves from an editor’s
diary. **$1. Harper.
8–30295.
A series of “fugitive observations” which so far as they are concerned
with women deal with casuistry, greed, friendship, age, ignorance in
management of men, second wives and husbands, taxation of spinsters
and bachelors, love, fiction and learning, osculation, woman suffrage,
and unequal conditions of men and women. The “Etc.” deals with a
variety of subjects including the folly of worry and its cure,
disadvantage of great riches, and honesty in advertising.
* * * * *
“Whoever has read, marked, learned, and inwardly digested these wise
follies is armed and equipped for any occasion when men and women meet
and the quips pass around.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 672. N. 14, ’08. 370w.
=Outlook.= 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 100w.
=Harwood, William Sumner.= New creations in plant life: an
authoritative account of the life and work of Luther Burbank. 2d
ed. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–33936.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Mr. Burbank has really done some good work, but the critical reader
of ‘New creations in plant life’ will be still uncertain both as to
its amount and kind.”
− =Dial.= 44: 109. F. 16, ’08. 550w.
“All who are interested in the work which Luther Burbank is doing
among flowers and plants should read this book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 222. Mr. 5, ’08. 70w.
=Hasse, Adelaide Rosalie.= Index of economic material in the
documents of the states of the United States; prepared for the
Department of economics and sociology of the Carnegie institution
of Washington. Carnegie inst.
Maine (1820–1904). 75c.
7–24018.
New Hampshire (1789–1904). 50c.
7–29730.
New York (1789–1904). $3.75.
8–9802.
Rhode Island (1789–1904). 75c.
8–14941.
Vermont (1789–1904). 50c.
7–40267.
“Each volume is divided into two parts. Part 1 contains references to
general sources of information and descriptive matter arranged
according to the character of the publication. Part 2 contains
references to particular series of reports, and particular topics,
arranged alphabetically. The references under each topic are divided
into two groups, viz., ‘serial’ and ‘non-serial.’ Within each of these
divisions the arrangement is chronological.”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 79. Mr. ’08. (Review of 3 parts.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 185. Je. ’08. (Review of 2 pts.)
“All of this work is pioneer work in the vast store of state documents
and fortunately it has all been done by trained library workers who
had exceptional opportunities in compiling the material. When these
series shall have been completed the economist will have at hand the
keys for unlocking most of the state material to which he desires to
have access.” L. C. Marshall.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 567. N. ’07. 750w. (Review of 3 pts.)
+ =Nation.= 87: 261. S. 17, ’08. 220w. (Review of 1 pt.)
=Hastings, James=, ed. Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels. 2v. ea.
$6. Scribner.
6–44352.
=v. 2.= Labour—Zion. This volume completes Dr. Hastings’ undertaking.
Among the valuable articles are those on the gospels: Matthew, by W.
C. Allen; Mark, by A. J. Maclean; Luke, by A. Wright; The text of the
Gospels, by P. M. Barnard; and The virgin birth, by G. H. Box.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 668. My. 30. 680w. (Review of v. 2.)
“A stately volume.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 399. My. ’08. 50w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The same excellences and defects that characterized the first volume
of this work run through the second volume.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 87: 404. Je. ’08. 900w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The work is designed especially for preachers, for whom it
unquestionably makes accessible many facts suitable for homiletic use.
The extreme conservative point of view, however, noted in the first
volume is maintained in the second.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 306. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 2.)
“On the whole the completed work makes a better impression than did
the first volume alone.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 257. My. 2, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The work is as comprehensive as unique.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 265. My. 30, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 2.)
“There is a great deal of overlapping; the same subjects are treated
under three or four heads and sometimes twice under the same head. The
appendix to the ‘Dictionary’ contains perhaps the most important part
of all.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 209. Ag. 15, ’08. 630w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Hatcher, William Eldridge.= John Jasper, the unmatched negro
philosopher and preacher. **$1. Revell.
8–23140.
The life story of a negro who as slave and freeman was a preacher of
unusual power. “In Dr. Hatcher’s sketch of John Jasper one has a
glimpse of an actual character than which there are few more
deliciously humorous, more naïvely primitive, more original in the
pages of fiction. Jasper was one of the most unique preachers—black or
white—who ever filled a pulpit or swayed with his eloquence, acrobatic
quite as often as vocal, the throngs that came to hear him.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 65: 788. O. 1, ’08. 220w.
“Dr. Hatcher has rescued a bit of literature, rough hewn and of the
soil though it is, that one could ill afford to lose in a world where
the over-refinement of the makers of books becomes at times a
weariness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 494. S. 12, ’08. 1350w.
=Hatfield, Richard=, ed. Geyserland: empiricisms in social reform;
being data and observations recorded by the late Mark Stubble: a
tentative ed. $3. Richard Hatfield, 1310 Green court, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
8–19013.
A sketch of a reconstructed society. Geyserland is conceived to be a
ring-shaped island within the Arctic circle. The inhabitants are a
fragment from a wreck of antediluvian cultured people. It is the chief
aim of this volume to show how the laws of altruistic Geyserland make
the customs, dogmas and restraints of present society seem artificial
and futile. In the author’s scheme there is no family life, marriage
is regulated by the state, the state owns everything and awards
everything.
* * * * *
“It would be superfluous to condemn the ideas set forth, for the book
is its own best condemnation.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 425. Ag. 1, ’08. 950w.
=Hauch, Ernst Friedrick, and Rice, Philip Durkee.= Tables of
quantities for preliminary estimates. *$1.25. Wiley.
7–36877.
Tables “giving station yardages to the nearest cubic foot, computed
from the prismoid formula, for roadway widths from 12 to 32 feet,
increasing by arguments of 2 feet, for side slopes from 5° to 35°
increasing by 5°, and heights increasing by units from 1 to 50
feet.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The railway surveyor will find the volume of use when making
preliminary estimates according to the method employed by the
authors.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 74. Ja. ’08. 110w.
“The only criticism to be made is that there should have been given
more complete directions as to the methods of using the tables and a
more definite analysis of their mathematical deduction.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 652. D. 12, ’07. 180w.
=Haupt, Paul.= Book of Nahum; a new metrical translation; with an
introd., restoration of the Hebrew text, and explanatory and
critical notes. *50c. Johns Hopkins.
“Dr. Haupt has the courage of his investigations, and uses all his
scholarship to revise the Hebrew text and assign its portions to
various periods of Hebrew history. He holds that Nahum is a liturgical
compilation in honor of the glorious victory of Judas Maccabaeus over
Nicanor in 161 B. C. There are, he says, four poems, of which the two
last are taken from much older poems written by one who saw the fall
of Nineveh in 606 B. C., while the two first are of the Maccabean
period.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“It will be of value only to the special student, and that too not for
its main contentions, which are largely arbitrary, but for the
abundance of materials brought together, especially on lexicographical
and archaeological topics.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 159. F. ’08. 50w.
=Ind.= 63: 1373. D. 5, ’07. 220w.
“Explanatory and critical notes string together much curious and not
always strictly pertinent learning. The positiveness of these
divinatory pronouncements is equalled only by the arbitrariness of the
critical procedure.”
− =Nation.= 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 140w.
=Hawkes, Clarence.= Black Bruin: the biography of a bear. †$1.50.
Jacobs.
8–27116.
A short introduction giving some of the characteristics of “Ursus, the
droll” is followed by the life history of a bear from cubhood, during
which he was a household pet, on thru dancing and circus-bear periods
to the wild again whither he escapes after killing his trainer.
* * * * *
“The author has skilfully woven into his story much of the natural
history of the bear, and he has produced a readable story, but yet
‘Black Bruin’ is not typical.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 899. O. 15, ’08. 180w.
“A marvelous nature story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 80w.
=Hawkins, Anthony Hope.= Great Miss Driver. †$1.50. McClure.
8–25366.
In which an unambitious secretary to the Great Miss Driver sketches
her career—the career of a masterful young woman of wealth, a dictator
and financier, the possessor of a man’s perspective and sense of
justice and the heart of a woman. To her, shortcomings in big men may
well be overlooked. “They have their big lives, their big selves, to
look after. They can’t spend all the time thinking whether they are
doing justice to a woman.”
* * * * *
“Anthony Hope’s new novel is in its way as good as anything he has for
some time produced. The air of the story is somewhat artificial, but
there are human sentiments and situations.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 397. O. 3. 400w.
“There is no exaggeration in saying that in literary technique and
human interest and the various other qualities that go to make good
fiction ‘The great Miss Driver’ is easily the biggest, best rounded,
and altogether worthiest story he has ever written.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 28: 379. D. ’08. 760w.
“The ease and politeness of manner with which the story is told may be
compared with that of an intelligent, cultivated man who tells a story
fascinatingly, yet with a certain deprecatory air, as if he said, ‘But
do not let me tire you’ and the reader’s response is, ‘Pray go on,
sir; you could not tire me if your tale lasted till morning.’”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1002. O. 29, ’08. 970w.
“In this book he shows less humor and verbal dexterity than he has led
us to expect; but he goes about his task with the air of a man who can
handle the tools of the trade, and he produces a novel that, if not
extraordinary, is at least entertaining.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 270w.
“This is not in the least reminiscent of Anthony Hope, but it’s a good
story all the same.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 554. O. 10, ’08. 560w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 70w.
“An extremely clever but perhaps a little over-protracted study of a
forceful and willful young woman.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 120w.
“Even with what he gives in the earlier half, Anthony Hope does not
quite make Jenny Driver credible, though he makes her human, and
delightful and new; so human, indeed, that his handling suggests that
he is not himself quite sure how far he understands her.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 6. S. 26, ’08. 830w.
“When he writes with the subtlety and finish, the acuteness and
sympathy, that are displayed in ‘The great Miss Driver,’ we are
reconciled to his abandonment of the domain of fantastic and
adventurous romance in which he won his earliest and most resounding
successes. There is something artificial in the machinery employed to
enable Jenny to turn the tables on her judges and detractors.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 636. O. 24, ’08. 860w.
=Hawkins, Anthony Hope.= Love’s logic and other stories. †$1.25.
McClure.
8–10617.
Fifteen short stories with the title piece, a little drama, buried in
the middle of the book. The best of them are Mrs. Thistleton’s
princess, Miss Gladwin’s chance, and The prince consort. A bit of art
in the first of the three is suggested by the fact that the author
keeps his scheme to the short story length by causing the principal
character—who with money might have been developed into a hero—to be
in a chronic penniless state with an overdrawn bank account.
* * * * *
“Short stories, good, bad, and indifferent.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 156. My. ’08.
“Cleverly made stories.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 500. Jl. ’08. 660w.
“Unusually well told in the musing, gently reminiscent manner of the
old friend of the family.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1150. My. 21, ’08. 50w.
“Good enough for magazines, but distinctly not worth publication in
permanent form.”
− =Nation.= 86: 310. Ap. 2, ’08. 150w.
“All are pervaded with that gentle irony, mildly whimsical humor, and
amused acceptance of human foibles with which the author is wont to
spice his romantic tales.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 253. My. 2, ’08. 200w.
=Hawley, Frederick Barnard.= Enterprise and the productive process.
**$1.75. Putnam.
7–39068.
A theory of economic productivity presented from the point of view of
the entrepreneur and based upon definitions secured thru deduction of
the scope and fundamental terms of the science of economics. The
author aims to present authoritative notions upon the definition,
scope, and method of his reconstructed economic theory and discusses
fully the four productive factors, land, capital, labor and
enterprise.
* * * * *
“Not a great book, but a serviceable one for students of advanced
economic theory.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 185. Je. ’08.
“An acquiescence in the author’s general conclusions necessitates an
acceptance of his risk theory of profits, of his perhaps too
pronouncedly entrepreneur point of view, and of his extremely
restricted conception of the scope of economics.” R. V. Phelan.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 729. My. ’08. 300w.
“The chief contribution of the book is its point of approach. Anyone
who will read Mr. Hawley’s argument will also be convinced that he is
in contact with a mind of unusual force and acumen. The argument is
well planned and consistently worked out. The present writer is not
convinced, however, that the author’s method and point of view are
inherently superior to those of the classical school.” T. N. Carver.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 123. Je. ’08. 460w.
=Ind.= 64: 419. F. 20, ’08. 330w.
“On the whole it must be said that the author comes out much better in
his conclusions than one is likely to expect after a reading of his
introductory chapters wherein he expounds his method and sets forth
his point of view.” T. N. Carver.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 111. F. ’08. 960w.
“It would be hard to mention another work that has appeared within the
past three or four years which is freighted with more solid thinking
upon economic fundamentals.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 291. S. 24, ’08. 830w.
“Novel and original contribution to political economy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 141. Mr. 14, ’08. 1250w.
“Is an original contribution to economic discussion both in method and
point of view. However, if we find it impossible to indorse Mr.
Hawley’s principal contention, his book is helpful in many ways.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 136. S. 19, ’08. 500w.
“Mr. Hawley’s work does not appear, to the reviewer at least, to have
produced theoretical results of a high degree of value.” A. S.
Johnson.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 532. S. ’08. 1850w.
“The economist will find Mr. Hawley’s working out of his theory of
economic productivity exceedingly interesting and original, even
though neither premise nor conclusion can be accepted without doing
violence to established economic tradition.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 755. Je. ’08. 180w.
=Hay, Alfred.= Introductory course of continuous current
engineering. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
W 8–37.
“The purpose of this book is to acquaint the reader, assumed to be
already familiar with the elements of electricity and magnetism, with
the construction of the component parts of an electrical installation.
It is largely descriptive, the text being illustrated with diagrams of
electrical devices and circuits.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The work has been prepared for use as an introductory text on
continuous current engineering; it is exceptionally well arranged for
this purpose.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 731. Ap. 4, ’08. 120w.
Reviewed by H: H. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 297. Mr. 12, ’08. 550w.
“The matter is well presented and the work forms a fine companion
volume to the author’s excellent treatise on ‘Alternating currents.’
It combines within the same covers the fundamental phenomena and their
applications.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 50w.
=Hay, Oliver Perry.= Fossil turtles of North America, pa. $7.
Carnegie inst.
8–26862.
“A work which not only makes it possible to gain speedy and accurate
knowledge of the group of which it treats, but completely paves the
way for further progress in its study.” (N. Y. Times.) “The author
finds that there are 266 well-defined species of North American fossil
turtles—or more than now survive on all the continents. From this it
is evident that the turtles are a disappearing group, though yet so
abundant as to lend a deep interest to all problems connected with
their origin and distribution.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“It is far in advance of any [work] that has hitherto been written on
its subject, or on the turtle fauna of any other country.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 343. O. 8, ’08. 330w.
“Almost the only fault we have to find with the volume is the absence
of a good table of contents, or of a classified synopsis, whereby the
serial positions of all the genera and species might be seen at a
glance. In all other respects we heartily congratulate Mr. Hay on the
completion of such a valuable and heavy piece of palæontological
work.” R. L.
+ − =Nature.= 79: 91. N. 26, ’08. 600w.
“This ponderous and splendidly illustrated volume affords naturalists
a compact statement of quite all that is known to date of the ancient
turtle life on this continent; many of the forms being new to
science.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 200w.
“The Carnegie institution is to be congratulated on the publication of
this valuable and useful work.” S. W. Williston.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 803. D. 4, ’08. 700w.
=Hayes, Hiram W.= Paul Anthony, Christian. *$1.50. Reid pub. co.
7–42007.
A story whose scenes are principally laid in Burma in which a young
American engineer, a Christian scientist, antagonizes a missionary
leader and an army surgeon while winning thru his livable,
demonstrable religion most of the other characters of the story. It is
interesting as a romance and reveals fundamentally what Christian
science “teaches in regard to man’s relation to God, his fellowmen,
the problems of sin and sickness and how they are destroyed, and the
ideal of life.” (Arena.)
* * * * *
“It is a book that Christian scientists would do well to circulate
very widely, and it is a deeply interesting romance that is very pure
and uplifting in its influence and atmosphere,—a good book that merits
wide reading.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 251. F. ’08. 950w.
=Ath.= 1908, 2: 297. S. 12. 160w.
“Written with more skill than is usual with propagandist novels.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 695. Mr. 26, ’08. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
=Hays, Joseph W.= How to build up furnace efficiency. 50c. J. W.
Hays. 601 Hartford building, Chicago.
A book which deals with the “most common furnace losses and their
causes in detail, and makes a strong argument for a liberal use of the
Orsat apparatus for furnace gas analysis.” (Engin. Rec.)
* * * * *
“A booklet that will indicate to the man in charge of a boiler plant
where to look for the causes of fuel waste and how to go about
stopping them.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 1308. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 429. O. 15, ’08. 90w.
“It cannot fail to prove of value to every operating engineer.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 363. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
=Hazard, Caroline.= Scallop shell of quiet. **$1. Houghton.
8–243.
A book of religious verse containing forty Lenten sonnets, an
Interlude of fifteen poems, and eight final sonnets composing A cycle
of grief ever the death of a friend.
* * * * *
“[Has] the grace of a deep sincerity.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 180w.
“Shows the subjectiveness of a thinker to whom the world does not
present itself in images of form and color, but in whisperings and
prayers.” E. L. Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 424. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Letters from The Raven; being the correspondence
of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin; with introd. and critical
comment by the editor, Milton Bronner. $1.50. Brentano’s.
7–34585.
In Hearn’s early youth he formed a friendship with Watkin, a
Cincinnati printer, who became the “Old man” or “Dad” while he
himself, because of his gloomy tendencies and love for Poe, was dubbed
“The Raven.” These letters from “The Raven” to Watkin cover the
former’s experiences in New Orleans, offering a series of “vignettes
of his strange Creole life,” experiences in the West Indies, and in
Japan.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 186. Je. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 573. My. 9. 200w.
“Though Lafcadio Hearn’s literary reputation will not be enhanced by
the publication of ‘Letters from The Raven’ these unstudied early
writings give an insight into phases of his personality not revealed
by what he wrote for the world at large, nor, except in small measure,
by the numerous private letters printed in his ‘Life and letters’ by
Miss Elizabeth Bisland.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 46. Ja. 16, ’08. 470w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
“Perhaps there is an advantage in having them by themselves in this
little book. Their flavor gains a certain pungency by this isolation
from his general correspondence.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 447. N. 14, ’07. 650w.
“Amid much that is dull and scarcely worth while in these letters of
Hearn’s written to Mr. Watkin ... there is also a touch now and again
of the curious Hearn imagination and the haunting delicacies of
thought that we know in his later writings.” Florence Wilkinson.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 43. Ja. 25, ’08. 1050w.
“These letters have little, if any, intrinsic importance.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 598. My. 9, ’08. 1200w.
=Heck, Robert C. H.= Steam engine and other steam motors. 2v. ea.
*$5. Van Nostrand.
5–4757.
=v. 2.= Deals with The form, construction and working of the engine;
and The steam turbine. Whereas the first volume contained theoretical
discussions, this one relates to the actual engine and its
performance. It is fully illustrated.
* * * * *
“Very full treatise of specialized character, suitable for large
libraries.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 138. My. ’08. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Painstaking and scientific work.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’08. 300w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The two volumes are far from being a complete treatise on the steam
engine, and they are scarcely suitable for text-books, but, for
reference books, they are to be recommended as giving a better and
fuller treatment of some works on this subject.” William Kent.
+ − =Technical Literature.= 2: 456. N. ’07. 800w. (Review of v.
2.)
=Heineman, Theodore William.= Physical basis of civilization: a
revised version of “Psychic and economic results of man’s physical
uprightness.” $1.25. Forbes.
8–13635.
A demonstration that two small anatomical modifications determined
physical, mental, moral, economic, social and political conditions.
The author says, “When sexual reproduction among mammalian creatures
resembling the quadrumana produced a variation in the ento-cuneiform
bones of their posterior extremities and shifted the occipital foramen
magnum to a position a little back of the base of the skull, then was
the birthday of the human race.”
* * * * *
“It is only on the side of ethnographic and sociological facts that he
is weak. To those who are interested in tracing out the biological
roots of human institutions, especially of the family, therefore, the
book is to be commended as well worth reading.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 412. N. ’08. 420w.
“The weakness of the book is found in its assumptions. The author has
done a good piece of work, especially strong and suggestive in its
biological aspect; and he has shown himself to be an able, original
and independent thinker.” F. W. Collins.
+ − =Arena.= 40: 478. N. ’08. 450w.
“There is room for a difference of opinion as to the force of this
‘demonstration.’”
− =Ind.= 65: 1070. N. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Helleu, Paul C.= Gallery of portraits. *$7. Longmans.
A book of plates accompanied by an introduction by Frederick Wedmore.
There are reproductions of twenty and more portraits of prominent
women. Mr. Wedmore says, “The Duchess of Marlborough, depicted here,
is far, very far, from being the only instance of a type drawn from
moneyed and, no doubt, cultivated America. The Comtesse de Noailles—a
young dame du monde who has found time to give to France more than one
volume of introspective poetry—represents the Faubourg and the
chateau, and the literary salon where tender and gifted Melancholy
leaves Flirtation no chance, and rhythmic Sorrow is poured out with
the tea.”
* * * * *
“Except in one or two of these reproductions, we do not quite
recognize the magic for which [M. Helleu’s] name once stood.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 775. D. 14. 180w.
“One of the most elaborate and interesting art books of the season.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 120w.
“Prominent women are presented in the vivacious style of this most
brilliant of modern dry-point etchers, who gives a note of piquancy to
all his sitters.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 836. D. 14, ’07. 310w.
=Helmolt, Hans Ferdinand and others=, eds. World’s history: a survey
of man’s record; with an introd. essay by James Bryce. 8v. ea. $6.
Dodd.
7–42036.
=v. 8.= Western Europe in the nineteenth century—The Atlantic ocean.
The subjects treated are The French revolution, Napoleon and reaction;
The political and social changes, in Europe between 1830 and 1859; The
unification of Italy and of Germany from 1859 to 1866; A summary of
important events which occurred in Western Europe between 1866 and
1902. The last chapter “suggests, without describing, the significance
of the Atlantic ocean in history (1) as a great dividing barrier, (2)
as the training school of nations, and (3) as a medium of world
commerce.”
* * * * *
“The work of the translator has been uniformly well performed
throughout the volume. Of minor faults (there are no great ones) we
note a few misprints. For the rest of the book is a truly remarkable
compendium of a little understood and less appreciated section of the
world.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 814. Ag. 24, ’07. 2350w. (Review of v. 5.)
“[The first] four chapters are more or less open to two points of
criticism. First, none of the writers has shown at all satisfactorily
the great influence of religion, romanticism, capitalism and the
improvement in the means of communication in shaping the history of
the nineteenth century; they too often lapse into the conventional
juiceless political narrative. The fault is not theirs but the
editor’s; they fear to be guilty of repetition, in as much as these
subjects have already been completely developed as separate topics in
volume 7. In the second place, the point of view and the allotment of
space seem excessively German. While three chapters are disappointing
in that they rather fall from the lofty principles and novel features
of the earlier volumes, they nevertheless deserve a place among the
best scholarly one-volume accounts of the nineteenth century.” S. B.
Fay.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 363. Ja. ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 8.)
“It is addressed more to scholars but is necessarily too brief to
satisfy them. It is pervaded with the spirit of Lamprecht and Ratzel,
but at the same time has drawn heavily from Ranke.” Sidney B. Fay.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 835. Jl. ’08. 1050w. (Review of v. 6.)
“The translator of each section seems to have been free to follow his
or her will, regardless of any one else. These evils are brought out
glaringly by the egregious index, whose compiler was evidently
incapable of recognizing the same word under two separate spellings or
the same person with two qualifications attached to him. We can only
regret that the English rendering of a painstaking and useful
historical work should be marred by such disgraceful slovenliness in
some of its details.” A. C. Coolidge.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 97. O. ’08. 1150w. (Review of v. 5.)
“As a preliminary study for the history of Europe these volumes are in
many ways excellent; one cannot however help wishing for references to
authorities, for occasional notes, and for a general index.” C. A. S.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 610. Jl. ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 6 and
8.)
“The monumental work of Dr. Helmolt is original, attractive, and
thoroughly readable. It places the history of the world in a new
light, basing it upon a foundation of geography and ethnography, while
at the same time it rests upon a solid structure of the most modern
research, and does not suffer, as some other cooperative histories
have done, from the collaboration of different writers. It is in every
sense of the word a possession for ever.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 6. D. 16, ’07. 1540w. (Review of v. 5.)
“It would, perhaps, have been better if [v. 8] had been rewritten for
English readers.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 599. My. 9, ’08. 1600w. (Review of v. 6 and 8.)
“Generally, we may say of these eight volumes that they are full of
original work—originality is one of their special merits—that his work
is of a very high average of value, and that it has been skilfully put
together and methodised by the editor.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 502. Mr. 28, ’08. 1350w. (Review of v. 1–8.)
=Henderson, Charles Hanford.= Lighted lamp: a novel. †$1.50.
Houghton.
8–27806.
A theosophical story in which a legacy and ill health combine to
arouse a Boston spice clerk from the lethargy of a “drab” existence
and to send him to Europe where he “suffers the sea change into
something rich and strange.” Thru contact with the things of life,
with women of flawless, first water type, one in particular who
present or absent represents feminine force that has no beginning or
ending, his spirit expands. When death cuts him off suddenly the
theory is advanced that he had reached his earth limit—he had come to
flower and required another incarnation for further development.
* * * * *
“The reader of this book finds Baedeker daintily disguised by an
embroidered cover of romance. The book will hardy prove as interesting
to the traveller as to the student of the psychic.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 497. N. 19, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“In spite of its refined charm ... the book is almost immoral, for it
arouses in the reader distinctly criminal sentiments. Mr. Henderson
has the ability to charm, a fund of delicate humor, and a background
of deep culture; what he lacks is simply the knowledge of how to ‘let
himself go.’”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 672. N. 14, ’08. 400w.
=Henderson, David, Lt.-Col.= Art of reconnaissance. *$1.50. Dutton.
War 7–139.
The author “does but remind (in a rather ponderous style) those who
may have to undertake reconnaissance, or require it of others, what
are the principles which go to make success. This is no mere textbook,
though it has rules and examples; but it may best serve as a
commentary (it is carefully indexed) for officers who are inclined to
study the subject psychologically as well as tactically, and to give
common sense its due. They will find here the notes of a thinker
rather than the notions of a theorist.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“It is not unfair to say of it, as of many military works, that it
needs viva-voce exposition to make it really intelligible and useful.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 223. F. 22. 600w.
“It contains many valuable hints on one of the most difficult branches
of the soldier’s art, and well repays the few hours’ study it
demands.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 247. Ag. 9, ’07. 400w.
“The virtue of the book is its shining good sense. Col. Henderson’s
style is notably good.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 263. S. 17, ’08. 170w.
=Henderson, George Cockburn.= Sir George Grey. *$4. Dutton.
8–14844.
Scholar, soldier, explorer, governor, Sir George Grey “was the
autocrat of three important colonies for long terms and through
critical periods, and shaped political and ecclesiastical
constitutions, conducted protracted wars, moulded and reconciled
aboriginal peoples, ruled without and with responsible ministers,
conceived smaller and larger federations, and wound up an historic
career by returning as a private citizen to a colony he had
despotically ruled, sitting in the popular branch of its legislature.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“A valuable contribution to the history of the British empire. Mr.
Henderson is to be commended for what he has left out no less than for
the accuracy of his general conclusions.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 2: 578. N. 9. 850w.
“The stern retrenchments and the administrative reconstructions by
which Grey restored financial equilibrium to a bankrupt colony, and
sent it forward on a career of stable prosperity have never before
been so fully or clearly described.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 335. Ap. 9, ’08. 1350w.
“Professor Henderson has written the story of [Sir George Grey’s]
interesting life with justice and with impartial judgment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 200. Ap. 11, ’08. 250w.
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 581. Jl. 11, ’08. 270w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
=Putnam’s.= 4: 493. Jl. ’08. 160w.
“The importance of this study of his achievements, his failures, and
his ideals consists in its lucid suggestion of the lines along which
democracy and empire may march hand in hand.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 7. O. 19, ’07. 750w.
=Henderson, Mrs. May Sturge.= George Meredith, novelist, poet and
reformer. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–37625.
A volume of “detailed and minutely introspective criticism” touching
each of Mr. Meredith’s great works. From her analysis of his “Essay on
comedy” she proceeds to the generalization that the main theme of
Meredith’s novels as well as his poetry is the purification of
rebellious and intemperate youth.
* * * * *
“We cannot affirm that this study of Mr. Meredith appears to us wholly
good, but it is very far indeed from being bad; it is never
egregious.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 286. D. 28, ’07. 1850w.
“This book offers more in the way of the philosophy and general
significance of Meredith, goes deeper, views more broadly than the
faithful, intelligent, informing account of the ‘Novels of George
Meredith’ by E. J. Bailey.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 186. Je. ’08.
“Her book ... affects one like the reading of conscientious journalism
which is no longer new. The book has a useful index, which would make
it really luminous if it could; but an index cannot do everything.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 227. F. 22. 220w.
“All that Mrs. Henderson has to say [is] interesting and her
quotations both beautiful and appropriate.” Eunice Follansbee.
+ =Dial.= 44: 129. Mr. 1, ’08. 550w.
“Mrs. Henderson, undertaking a comprehensive consideration of
Meredith’s works in chronological order, has given us the best general
survey of them that we possess.” E: C. Marsh.
+ + − =Forum.= 39: 385. Ja. ’08. 550w.
“It is thoroughly informed and cleverly executed.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 147. F. 13, ’08. 440w.
“This is one of the most serious of the many serious books which the
Meredith worship of the last ten years has produced. If it errs at
all, it errs in exaggerating Meredith’s own weakness of placing too
much stress upon the philosophy and too little upon the humour as
distinguished from the comedy of life.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 909. D. 7, ’07. 280w.
=Henry VIII., king of England.= Assertio septem sacramentorum; or,
Defence of the seven sacraments; re-edited, with an introd. by
Rev. Louis O’Donovan; with a preface by James Cardinal Gibbons.
*$2. Benziger.
8–5572.
A reprint valuable to the Catholic church both for the orthodox
exposition of the church’s crucial dogmas and for the light thrown
upon a most interesting epoch of church history.
* * * * *
“The abundance of references and the full bibliography which the
editor gives us indicate that the book is the fruit of intelligent and
extensive study.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 258. My. ’08. 550w.
=Henry, George Garr.= How to invest money. **75c. Funk.
8–14682.
Presents the simple principles of investment and aims “to afford the
reader a working knowledge of the various classes of securities which
are available as investments, and their adaptability to different
needs.” (Preface.) The chapter headings are as follows: General
principles of investment, Railroad mortgage bonds, Railroad equipment
bonds, Real estate mortgages, Industrial bonds, Public-utility bonds,
Municipal bonds, Stocks, and Market movements of securities.
* * * * *
=Lit. D.= 37: 163. Ag. 1, ’08. 70w.
* =Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Gentle grafter. †$1. McClure.
Fourteen stories which exploit Jeff Peters’s methods of “unillegal
graft.” He is not to be dreaded by widows and orphans, he is simply a
“reducer of surplusage.” He is not so cock sure in his gentle art that
he is never a victim of his own methods. The last story. The ethics of
pig, shows how an untrustworthy partner plays a clever counter game
and wins.
* * * * *
“O. Henry possesses, in fact, the genius for conveying in a few
strokes, and by the aid of accessories which often seem least
concerned with the thing he is achieving, the essence, the living
spirit of a place or a type.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 685. N. 21, ’08. 1000w.
=Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Voice of the city: further
stories of the four million. †$1. McClure.
Twenty-five “cameos” of metropolitan life make up this book, the third
“Four million” book. The stories are short, clear cut, and leave
distinct impressions first of individuals, second of types.
* * * * *
“Some of the twenty-five short stories collected in the present volume
are in his best vein.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 130w.
“Admirers may call ‘O. Henry’ the American Maupassant, but so long as
he continues to hang so far over the abyss of slang they should put
the accent on American.”
− =Nation.= 87: 12. Jl. 2, ’08. 470w.
“The spirit of the huge town is in each.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“The book reflects life; it is worth reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 240w.
“These are slighter and more ephemeral than ‘The four million.’”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 70w.
* =Henry= of Navarre: a romance of August, 1572. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–30614.
A dramatic story of verve and daring whose scene is laid in Paris
during the memorable month of August, 1572, on the eve of the marriage
of Marguerite de Valois to Henry of Navarre. The horrors of the
massacre of St. Bartholomew, the venom and intrigue that lay back of
the arch-plotting, and the faithfulness and love of a woman are
elements in this vivid, concrete portrayal of facts out of history.
* * * * *
“The story is full of exciting incident, and the action ... moves
rapidly and dramatically to the climax.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 701. N. 28, ’08. 160w.
=Henshall, James A.= Favorite fish and fishing. *$1.25. Outing pub.
8–14724.
An ardent angler and nature lover treats of the gentle art of fishing
in the following chapters: The black bass, the game-fish of the
people; The grayling, the flower of fishes; The trout, the angler’s
pride; His majesty, the silver king (tarpon); Florida fish and
fishing.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4. 186. Je. ’08. ✠
“Lovers of the gentle art will find much that will interest them and
little to criticise in Dr. Henshall’s readable little volume.” G:
Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 608. Ag. ’08. 780w.
“The work is an authentic natural history within its limits, as well
as a guide to the genuine follower of Walton.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
“In this new book Dr. Henshall has given not only information valuable
to the angler, but also it is interesting reading.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1292. Je. 4, ’08. 100w.
=Nation.= 86: 582. Je. 25, ’08. 230w.
“Dr. Henshall is a learned and pleasing writer, and his book has
attractions for a multitude of his kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 330. Je. 13, ’08. 400w.
=Herkomer, Sir Hubert von.= My school and my gospel. *$7.50.
Doubleday.
E8–821.
A discussion that has grown out of twenty-one years’ experiment in art
education at Bushey. “The story of the rise and progress of an
institution from which so much that is good has come is told by Sir
Hubert in this book with charming frankness and simplicity. He makes
no secret of his purpose or of the methods by which he sought to
realize it; and he explains fully both the creed which guided him as a
teacher, and the system he used to make his creed intelligible to the
student who passed through his hands.” (Int. Studio.)
* * * * *
“The story is told in a clear, rapid style, enlivened by frequent
touches of humor, and, with all its fine and high idealism. He has
certainly proved his ability to write an autobiographic narrative not
less interesting in its way than Cellini’s.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 109. S. 1, ’08. 1500w.
“It ranks really as a very important contribution to the literature
available for the information of both masters and students.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 35: 166. Ag. ’08. 570w.
“It is rather discursive, and it takes careful reading to make sure
just what the ‘gospel’ of Bushey was.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 243. S. 10, ’08. 1500w.
=Herrick, Robert.= Master of the inn. **50c. Scribner.
8–14332.
“The central figure of this little story is one of those teachers who
appear from time to time among men, whose function is not only to open
the eyes but to gladden the heart and to restore the soul. This
teacher has about him a little company of men who go to him for
regeneration among the mountains of northern New England. Sooner or
later every man tells him his secret, and with the telling the poison
goes out of his life. There comes finally an overworked surgeon of
great eminence who long resists the impulse to confess, but finally
opens his heart and reveals the one secret which tortures him, only to
find that the wronged man is before him, and to receive not only
absolution but health from his hands.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 244. O. ’08. ✠
“A spirit of sweet wholesomeness pervades the little book, and many
will wish to read it a second time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 286. My. 23, ’08. 120w.
“This is a beautifully conceived piece of work, wrought out with the
care which Mr. Herrick never fails to give his stories.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 200w.
“It is a chapter in American idealism, and it is also an admirable
example of the best contemporary American writing.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 324. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.
=Herrick, Robert.= Together. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–20019.
A strong story “of married lives as lived in America.” Here the veil
is withdrawn which usually conceals the struggles of man and wife from
the moment they leave the altar. Here are the Lanes, the Falkners, the
Johnstons, the Woodyards, and other wedded people working out the
problems common to married life. What marriage means to the husband
and what his nature demands from his wife: what it means to the wife
with her ambition to keep her individuality, to wield social power, to
court favor; with her disposition to spend a little more than the
five, ten, or twenty thousand dollar income; with her yearning for
sentiment, supplied, perchance, by one who has no right to bestow
it—these are the themes of Mr. Herricks’ story with its note of
partnership triumphant.
* * * * *
“A realistic, problem novel, forcibly told, and of literary merit. It
should be considered only for the library which has a restricted
shelf.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 245. O. ’08.
“It is a powerful and compelling novel of real life, and at the same
time it is one of the most masterful studies of the marriage relation
as it obtains in the society of the new-rich in America that has
appeared in fiction.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 40: 376. O. ’08. 2900w.
“The threads binding these numerous interests are altogether
insufficient, and the crowding of the canvas is wearying as well as
inartistic. A few really dramatic scenes tend to relieve the tedium of
a story in which every supernumerary has to have its say.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 469. O. 17. 150w.
“The peculiar conditions of American married life, are treated with
something of the frankness, the breadth, the sweeping generality of
Tolstoi’s ‘Krutzer sonata’ and Zola’s ‘Fécondite.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 580. Ag. ’08. 200w.
“It lacks the virtue of reticence where that virtue is most needed.”
W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 213. O. 1, ’08. 1000w.
“A book of first magnitude, that handles a momentous theme boldly,
wisely, sympathetically, and with an insight into racial traits that
makes it in the best sense a representative American novel.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ + =Forum.= 40: 134. Ag. ’08. 1950w.
“Robert Herricks’ novel, large in its intention and painstaking in its
working out as it is, fails in reality, in humor, in wisdom.”
− =Ind.= 65: 263. Je. 30, ’08. 430w.
“The novelist has apparently overlooked the fact that in America are
still to be found numberless men and women old-fashioned enough to
believe in married happiness and helpfulness.”
− =Lit. D.= 37: 852. D. 5, ’08. 300w.
“Professor Herrick has done nothing so good as this, nothing so full
of energy and truth.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 96. Jl. 30, ’08. 340w.
“A story that is unraveled with rare cleverness and that holds the
reader’s attention, in spite of its intricacies and the too
transparently ethical intention of the author.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 397. Jl. 18, ’08. 1250w.
“With all its defects, however, the novel is serious, earnest, and
thoughtful.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 956. Ag. 22, ’08. 320w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 508. O. ’08. 250w.
=Hewitt, Mrs. Emma Churchman.= How to train children. **50c. Jacobs.
8–21931.
A condensed account of actual experiences of actual mothers.
Suggestions and advice are offered under such headings as Nursery
days, Physical and moral defects, Punishment, Preventive measures,
General deportment, Pride of possession, Work and play, As to schools,
Our future mothers and fathers and The adolescent.
=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.= Halfway house. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–19024.
“A story of the present day—and Meredithian to the core.... A girl,
married to a gentleman twice her age, finds her nascent love stifled
by his egoistic condescension. He is of a great and old family; she, a
child of the ‘lower classes,’ a nursery governess when he meets her,
has had her girl’s affairs of love or what has passed for it.
Believing her an innocent fool, he learns his mistake before the
marriage, but goes on stoically, keeping his secret.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 245. O. ’08.
“With all its brilliant intellectual cleverness, this book does not
show the writer at his best.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 536. O. 31. 250w.
“I think John Germain is, all in all, the most finely delineated of
Mr. Hewlett’s male characters; and he just misses taking the leading
place in this story from its heroine. It is the girl’s character that
gives the book its originality.” E: C. Marsh.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 602. Ag. ’08. 860w.
“It has all the seeming simplicity of the finest literary art, but its
wit, its grace, and its subtle sentiment are qualities that make of it
a far more serious book than it pretends to be.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 215. O. 1, ’08. 600w.
“That Mary seems so real a girl and causes us to speculate on her
motives, or nature rather, for she scarcely has motives, only
sentimental impulses, is a triumph for Mr. Hewlett’s heroine.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 555. S. 3, ’08. 200w.
“No doubt, there is comedy somewhere at the core of it. But it is,
after all, the inadvertent comedy of circumstance and accident, as
things fall out, ludicrous enough, but without any very intelligible
motive.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 212. S. 3, ’08. 500w.
“Such value, as the story possesses comes rather more from the manner
in which it is told than from the story itself.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 365. Je. 27, ’08. 1600w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“The art of the book is fine and delicate, but it is also simple and
true; and the spirit is that of pure romance applied to the conditions
of modern English life.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 956. Ag. 22, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Hewlett’s own careful and distinctive style makes the story his
despite the unfamiliar milieu.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 508. O. ’08. 120w.
“One hopes that ‘Halfway house’ will have many readers, as much out of
regard for them as for Mr. Hewlett, but one hopes that they will not
be numerous enough to confirm him in a method more conspicuous in this
last book of his than even in ‘The stooping lady.’”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 487. O. 17, ’08. 720w.
=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.= Spanish jade. il. **90c. Doubleday.
8–15299.
Manuela, the “Spanish jade,” “who has escaped from the brutality of
her lover, is rescued from the grosser brutality of a rustic mob by
the Englishman errant. The lover pursues, and is killed by the jade
lest he kill the Briton. The casual pair are linked romantically by
the incident, and meet thereafter under the shadow of a Spanish
vengeance which is eventually stayed, not by the magnanimity of the
Englishman, but by the chivalry of a humble Spanish follower of
his.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 221. Je. ’08. ✠
“Brilliant study.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 633. My. 23. 250w.
“The ‘Spanish jade’ may not represent Mr. Hewlett at his best as a
story teller, but as proving him a master of technique it is of
extreme interest.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 500. Jl. ’08. 530w.
=Ind.= 65: 555. S. 3, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Hewlett’s mannerism is less insistent here than in most of his
fiction, perhaps because the substance of the work is less
pretentious.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 468. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
“It is a gallant, romantic story, well worth the telling in any form.
But it is precisely the sort of story that Hewlett tells the best. Mr.
Hewlett’s style is still a little perverse, and a little deliberate in
its perversity. To some extent he is the victim of his own rhetorical
agility.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 285. My. 23, ’08. 1100w.
“The book is remarkable for its imaginative power and the sheer beauty
of its narrative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
=Outlook.= 89: 325. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
“Those who want the real thing in romantic fiction will find it in the
‘Spanish jade.’” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 621. Ag. ’08. 150w.
“The book is a slight romantic sketch, but eminently good of its
kind.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 64. Jl. 11, ’08. 100w.
=Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Egypt and its monuments. **$6. Century.
8–30606.
The Nile journey is here described by Robert Hichens and pictured in
reproduced wash drawings and photographs by Jules Guérin. Mr. Hichens
makes poetry out of the wonders of the valley, arouses the “yearning
hunger of the heart and the imagination,” recalls the shifting spells
cast by sepulchre, temple and mosque; and lends to the narrative the
atmosphere of the “mystery of gold, of the mystery of heat and the
mystery of silence that seems softly showered out of the sun.”
* * * * *
“It is the fascination of the country, and not its hotels and routes
of travel, that the author has dwelt upon, and not a few of the
thousands who now every year visit Egypt, will find pleasure and
stimulus in his pages.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 409. D. 1, ’08. 250w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 80w.
“Aside from its rare literary and artistic value the book will prove
to be an excellent help to the antiquarian or the traveler in Egypt.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 190w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
“A model of literary charm and artistic excellence that places this
volume in the front rank of the season’s notable publications.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 50w.
“We do not recall any American book that equals it in the good taste
and sumptuousness of its appearance and the beauty and delicacy of its
color printing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 773. D. 12, ’08. 600w.
“It would perhaps be impossible to find two other persons as competent
to prepare a fascinating, artistic study of Egypt which should be at
the same time a literary tribute and guidebook of the highest order as
Robert Hichens and Jules Guérin.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 757. D. ’08. 140w.
“As vivid a picturing of ‘Egypt and its monuments’ as we remember to
have seen.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 813. N. 21, ’08. 140w.
=Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Spirit in prison. †$1.75. Harper.
8–25367.
A small island in the Bay of Naples is the scene of this story, the
counterpart of whose emotional lights and shadows is found in the
sunset, the moonlight, the blue waters, the glimmering lights and the
sounds of melody which invariably create atmosphere for Mr. Hichens’
stories. Maurice Delarey betrays his wife for a young peasant girl and
dies leaving his wife in ignorance of his sin. The serious business of
the story turns on the withholding of the secret from the wife for
sixteen years; while a continuation of the mystery touches the lives
of Vere, the daughter, and Ruffino, the unrevealed brother, who are
drawn to one another without ever knowing the secret of the boy’s
birth.
* * * * *
“There is a very pretty play of varied emotions, together with
limitless hints of ‘fine shades and nice feelings,’ while the
abounding descriptive passages are often of a rare beauty.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 160w.
“Deserves to be proclaimed as that rare achievement, a sequel that
surpasses its antecedent in merit and in interest.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 262. N. ’08. 620w.
“He has written one of the most sensuously suggestive novels of the
season.”
− =Ind.= 65: 947. O. 22, ’08. 730w.
“Admirers of Mr. Hichens’s ‘The call of the blood’ will find a
satisfactory sequel in the present story. If the former tale was found
too harrowing, this will afford a compensatory thrill. That habit of
portentous moralizing over the moods of insignificant egoism which we
have noted as characteristic of Mr. Hichens in the past is still his
darling vice.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 340. O. 8, ’08. 300w.
“Told in an ordinary way, ‘A spirit in prison’ would seem utterly
common-place. The mere materials are conventional. But the opulence of
color, the mastery of words are indisputable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 1100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“Would probably be extremely difficult and puzzling reading to any one
who did not remember the earlier book.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 636. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
* =Higgins, Aileen Cleveland.= Dream blocks. $1.50. Duffield.
8–30917.
A book of child verse with fifteen charming full-page illustrations by
Jessie Wilcox Smith.
* * * * *
“The spirit of this little book is better than the execution of its
verse.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.
“The fourteen pictures are of a high artistic merit. The infantile
pathos and humor, the prophetic element in form and feature of the
figures, will cause adults to ponder over the philosophy of child
play.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
* =Higginson, Ella.= Alaska: the great country. **$2.25. Macmillan.
8–33137.
Not so much a guide-book or a history as an unconventional and
picturesque description of the towns, people, resources, scenery and
commercial possibilities of a country of “real splendor, marvellous
beauty and poetic and haunting charm.” A book for every Alaskan
tourist to read from cover to cover.
* * * * *
“A picturesque and unconventional description of the country and the
life of its people, neither a guide book nor a history, and yet
suitable for the traveler to read and carry with him on his trip.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 623. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“A sober, carefully prepared work. A plea for the attractions of the
land of gold and snow as a place of residence was hardly to be
expected from a woman, but in this instance the territory has been
fortunate in its advocate.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
=Higinbotham, John U.= Three weeks in Holland and Belgium. $1.50.
Reilly & B.
8–11792.
Mr. Higinbotham’s swift panorama of Holland and Belgium sights might
become a blur to the leisurely tourist who finds it necessary to
adjust his mental lens to every fresh view and impression. But to the
reader who likes motion and who can “keep up” the author’s
impressionism and confidence are not wearing. In description,
historical allusion, comment on art, and theological opinions, the
author’s mental alertness is commensurate with his tireless activity.
* * * * *
“Mr. Higinbotham’s observations are so acute and well-balanced that we
should like to have fuller records of his journeys.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 348. Je. 1, ’08. 280w.