Lectures given in an employees’ course on rules, methods and appliances
in use in the safe operation of railways. “About 70 pages are devoted to
signaling, interlocking and the block system, and 20 pages to the
Westinghouse and vacuum brakes. A short chapter deals with accidents and
wrecking, and another describes how freight traffic is handled. One
chapter briefly describes a system of ‘slip coupling,’ by which a
conductor in a rear car of a fast train detaches his car so that it will
stop at an intermediate station.... An interesting little chapter
discusses railway sketching, or the making of explanatory sketch plans
to accompany reports as to proposed alterations, etc.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 75. N. ’09.
“It forms a handy primer and contains much valuable information, but is
entirely adapted for British railways, and while the general subject is
of interest to railway men everywhere, the special applications as
treated in this book are of little practical value to American railway
men.”
+ − =Engin. D.= 6: 248. S. ’09. 120w.
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 78. Je. 17, ’09. 180w.
=Haggard Andrew Charles Parker.=^{[11]} Louis XVI and Marie
Antoinette. 2v. *$6. Appleton.
“The often told tale of Marie Antoinette and the sixteenth Louis is
retold in two large volumes with infinite detail.... The history is a
simple narration of events; the writer has no conception of the
philosophic or evolutionary value of the revolution. He tells us what
happened, nor does he hesitate to paint many an atrocity in sufficiently
vivid terms, though, as he says, he refrains from transcribing some
passages ‘which even the French authors prefer to print in the Latin
tongue.’”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The author is a trifle dry, but he gives us a clear notion of the
early, gay years and the following long tragedy, and, too, of the
culminating horror.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 634. O. 23, ’09. 360w.
“Colonel Haggard’s style of writing cannot be called literary; it is
both confused and spasmodic. But these faults, [are] probably owing to
the want of careful arrangement of an enormous mass of material, and of
critical study and re-reading before publication.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 242. Ag. 14, ’09. 1050w.
=Haggard, Henry Rider.=^{[7]} Lady of the heavens. $1.50. Lovell, F.
F.
8–17553.
“Mr. Haggard’s new story is woven around the personality of a white
girl, the daughter of an English missionary in Zululand. Her parents
having been murdered by a native chief, this girl went mad and cursed
the tribe. She was then sold to a dwarf people in the interior. Her
adventures make up the substance of this weird tale.” (R. of Rs.) “Of
such—they tell us—are the dreams born of the opium pipe. Certain
wizards, like Mr. Haggard, have the power, working directly upon the
imagination with words, to conjure up the dreams and spare you the
necessity of resorting to the drug. The effect—in a milder form, of
course—is much the same.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“An exciting narrative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 348. My. 29, ’09. 580w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 124. Jl. ’09. 120w.
=Haines, Alice Calhoun.=^{[12]} Cock-a-doodle Hill. †$1.50. Holt.
9–28116.
A sequel to “The luck of the Dudley Grahams” which is really the story
of Ernie’s chicken farm. It pictures country scenes, country adventures
and country happiness found in a rambling, open-windowed old white house
“set among flowery meadows, pine woods, and river land.”
=Haines, Charles Grove.=^{[12]} Conflict over judicial powers in the
United States to 1870. (Studies in history, economics and public
law, ed. by the Faculty of political science of Columbia univ., v.
35, no. 1.) *$1.50. Longmans.
9–18185.
“Deals respectively with the judicial powers before the adoption of the
federal constitution; the early conflicts over judicial nullification by
federal courts; the extension of federal judicial authority; the
conflicts over the extension of judicial authority; the principles of
the Jacksonian democracy, and judicial powers from 1856–1870.”—Ann. Am.
Acad.
* * * * *
“To the student who desires a general knowledge of the subject and
familiarity with the arguments advanced by the strongest advocates, pro
and con, this little book will prove of value. The author has been happy
in his selection of material and is unusually clear and concise in
statement.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 604. N. ’09. 240w.
“For the historian Dr. Haines’s volume will have much value.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 353. S. 4, ’09. 90w.
=Haldeman, Isaac Massey.= Christian science in the light of Holy
Scripture. **$1.50. Revell.
9–6857.
An attack upon Christian science which is conducted judicially and which
aims to show that its teachings are wholly outside the Bible and have no
right to the name “Christian.” The author’s method is that of
juxtapositional treatment of the fundamental propositions of Christian
science and the testimony of the Holy Scriptures.
* * * * *
“The author’s point of view is that of the average, traditional
interpreter. His refutation of Christian science, however, can scarcely
be termed scientific.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 33: 359. My. ’09. 90w.
=Outlook.= 93: 645. N. 20, ’09. 30w.
=Hale, Louise Closser.= The actress. †$1.50. Harper.
9–5702.
A simple story with little plot told by the actress herself, which runs
intimately near to the real happenings in the every-day life of the
stage. It concerns the love of a New York broker for a hard working
young actress who crosses the ocean and pursues her work in London only
that Aaron Adams may forget her. A devoted lover’s strategy reveals to
the girl her own heart, and a happy ending ensues.
* * * * *
“A readable, sentimental story, showing the lighter side of stage life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 113. Ap. ’09. ✠
“A perfectly healthy, thoroughly humorous story of an ordinary
love-affair of ordinary people, told with a more than ordinary degree of
literary capacity.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 92. Jl. 24. 170w.
“The graphic, realistic, intimate chronicle of life behind the
footlights ... is the part of the book that one cares about, and
certainly it is extremely well done.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 191. Ap. ’09. 230w.
=Ind.= 66: 1297. Je. 10, ’09. 150w.
“The book abounds in clever character-drawing, the descriptions of
English society being particularly well done.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 467. My. 6, ’09. 250w.
“Slight as it is for a novel, a mere love story of the most ordinary
kind, with everyday folks for its hero and heroine, with no remarkable
ingenuity of plot, involving no modern ‘social problem,’ ‘The actress’
is a noteworthy book. We have found her book informing and delightfully
inspiriting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 111. F. 27, ’09. 1400w.
“Delightful and enthralling story.”
+ =No. Am.= 189: 782. My. ’09. 280w.
“It is fairly bright and interestingly told, but for a young lady who
prides herself on being amusing, and who despises the British sense of
humour, the heroine is decidedly disappointing as a specimen of American
brightness.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 264. Ag. 28, ’09. 120w.
“Brightly told.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 65. Jl. 10, ’09. 40w.
=Hall, Alfred Daniel.=^{[12]} Fertilizers and manures. **$1.50.
Dutton.
A sequel to the author’s volume, “Soil.” “In the history and evolution
of the practice of keeping up the crop-producing power of the soil Mr.
Hall examines critically the various theories of manuring adduced from
time to time, and the experiences upon which they are based, and the
study of merely this part of the work will be of supreme importance to
the practical man and to the student in showing how experiments may be
misconstrued and conclusions of the most erroneous description drawn.
The recommendations as to the manuring of farm crops are tempered with
sound advice, and the impossibility of prescribing more than a generally
suitable method of manuring without a careful study of soil and climatic
conditions extending over some years is well demonstrated.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“This is a sound and scientific book which should be in the hands of
every practical agriculturist as well as in those of the student, the
teacher, and the manufacturer.” M. J. R. D.
+ =Nature.= 81: 483. O. 21, ’09. 650w.
“The work before us is valuable because an authoritative and painstaking
account of the origin, character, and particular uses of all the manures
and fertilisers now in the service of the agriculturist.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 492. O. 2, ’09. 310w.
=Hall, Alfred Daniel.= Soil: an introduction to the scientific study
of the growth of crops. 2d ed., rev. and enl. *$1.50. Dutton.
Agr9–663.
An edition revised to include results of the latest experiment for
determining the functions of bacteria and fungi in the soil. “Mr. Hall’s
book is not only for the scientific student of soil problems, who can,
by the use of the bibliography in the appendix, become familiar with the
most important research on the subject, but the practical man will find
a very considerable portion of the book of interest and value to him,
and the carefully reasoned conclusions will assure him of the
reliability of the recommendations.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“A careful revision of one of the most authoritative works in print.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 194. Je. ’09.
“Will be of interest and value to all those who have occasion to go into
those subjects for engineering or other reasons. From the agricultural
viewpoint, the book seems to be comprehensive and thorough.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 53. Ap. 15, ’09. 130w.
“This edition has evidently been most carefully revised in the light of
modern investigation, and is an accurate record of existing knowledge on
the soil considered from its mechanical, chemical, and biological
aspects.” M. J. R. D.
+ =Nature.= 79: 127. D. 3, ’08. 550w.
“A helpful bibliography of works on the soil and its organisms is
appended, and the absence of a too severe technical style should render
Mr. Hall’s treatise on the soil of genuine instructive interest to all
who are seeking practical scientific aids in improved methods of
agriculture.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 42. Ja. 23, ’09. 900w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 127. Ja. ’09. 60w.
“It is at once authoritative and wide in scope, and it gives the reader
an impression of the difficulties of the subject which is not conveyed
by some writing on soil problems.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 158. Ja. 30, ’09. 140w.
=Hall, Bolton.=^{[7]} Garden yard: a handbook of intensive farming;
introd. by N. O. Nelson. $1. McKay.
9–14704.
Not a scientific book on agriculture but a book that shows how the plain
man or woman who has a back yard or back lot can make a living. He has
combined his own experience and that of friends with information
contained in bulletins, books and catalogs and tells “how to lay out the
land, how to prepare and plant the harvest, and how to make life
joyous.” Intelligence and care exercised as the author outlines will
insure a bare living the first year, a good living the second, and the
beginning of a bank account the third.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 13. S. ’09. ✠
“While planned along similar lines, the book falls distinctly below the
standard set by such books as Bailey’s ‘Principles of vegetable
gardening.’”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 605. N. ’09. 140w.
“In spite of being a book of decided value, has an amateur flavor.
However, take this book thru and thru, and you will be surprised to find
how little there is to criticise, especially when you consider what an
infinite number of topics are discussed.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 600. S. 9, ’09. 600w.
“For its size the book is very comprehensive, and its treatment of the
subject is simple and practical.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 147. Ag. 12, ’09. 120w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 384. S. ’09. 70w.
=Hall, Charles Cuthbert.=^{[5]} Christ and the eastern soul: the
witness of the oriental consciousness to Jesus Christ. (Barrows
lectures, 1906–1907.) *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–10502.
“To thoughtful Indians of all faiths these lectures are dedicated
respectfully by a citizen of the west who believes in the unity of the
human race and who looks with reverence on the India of the past, with
affection on the India of the present and with ardent expectation on the
India of the future.” The lectures delivered in many Indian cities aim
to put the sacred lore of the east into normal relation to the Truth as
revealed in Jesus Christ.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 167. Je. ’09.
“Missionaries, missionary boards, and all concerned with the propagation
of Christianity among the oriental peoples may learn much from these
lectures.”
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 432. Je. ’09. 90w.
=Ind.= 66: 1346. Je. 17, ’09. 240w.
“With rare tactfulness and grace Dr. Hall undertook to discover
‘elements of sublimity in the Oriental consciousness.’”
+ =Nation.= 88: 486. My. 13, ’09. 140w.
=Hall, Rev. Charles Cuthbert.=^{[7]} Silver cup: simple messages to
children from one who loved them. **$1.25. Houghton.
9–8405.
A posthumous volume of sermons preached during special afternoon
services for children while Dr. Hall was pastor of the First
Presbyterian church of Brooklyn.
* * * * *
“They would be helpful for parents, Sunday-school teachers and
ministers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 190. Je. ’09.
+ =Ind.= 66: 1348. Je. 17, ’09. 80w.
+ =Nation.= 88: 486. My. 13, ’09. 80w.
=Hall, Henry Fielding.= One immortality. †$1.50. Macmillan.
9–4484.
“True marriage, founded upon love and nurtured by romance, is one
immortality. Three loves dominate the world, each justified in its own
immortality—the love of man and woman, the love that draws families into
nations, the love that holds the world to God. With this thesis, the
author depicts the experiences of a group of travelers whose goal is
India. Two Englishmen are attracted by a girl in the care of a Mr. and
Mrs. Holman, who furnish the happy, hopeful, sensible element in the
party. Two other youths flutter for a time about a young woman of India
returning after some years in Germany to her home. An ill-matched
couple, a German scientist, and a group of nuns make up the ship’s
company.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The reader will find no plot, and no action in the story. Mr. Fielding
Hall is a poet in feeling, and if on this occasion he is disappointing
as an exponent of the East to the West, there is beauty both in his
ideas and his expression of them.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 220. F. 20. 160w.
“The best definition of its subject, form and style would be to call it
a prose poem of love. It is eminently a wholesome book, full of an
unquenchable faith in the happiness and the sanctity of love and
marriage.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 76. Mr. ’09. 300w.
“The people have a phonographic effect, as tho they were reeling out the
record of the author’s voice, a little thin and strange, and saying
undisputed things in a metallic way.”
− + =Ind.= 66: 1141. My. 27, ’09. 300w.
“Sententious is the word for this book. The author, with little
distinctly in mind to say, invents a few named figures and a situation
as excuse for the multitudinous and, alas! often platitudinous apothegms
which for some hundreds of pages flow from his pen.”
− =Nation.= 88: 364. Ap. 8, ’09. 250w.
“For the most part the book is a pack of irrelevant commonplace and
sentimental nonsense. The gleams which have already been noted are well
enough, but they might all be concentrated into a magazine article of,
say, two pages.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 76. F. 6, ’09. 370w.
“There is some good talk, but more that is ineffective. Underneath all,
however, is a wholesome, practical faith in the power of love and in its
inevitableness. The story is too slight to command real interest, and
the philosophy lacks substance. In point of style, ‘One immortality’
does not equal in beauty ‘The inward light.’”
− + =Outlook.= 91: 533. Mr. 6, ’09. 210w.
“Mr. Hall shadows forth a mystical theory of love with much of that
quiet charm which we are accustomed to look for in his books. The
story—what there is of it—has been naïvely constructed to afford a peg
for the mysticism. Even the most exact scientist may admire the deft
word-pictures of sea and sky and shore, done quite simply.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 278. F. 27, ’09. 300w.
“The characterization throughout is too misty to be effective. The real
charm of the book resides in the author’s digressions.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 230. F. 6, ’09. 950w.
=Hall, Hubert=, ed. Formula book of English official historical
documents. *$2. Putnam.
9–4070.
“A handbook of two hundred and twenty-five classified specimens of
English official documents, ranging in date from the eighth to the
nineteenth centuries.... Besides the examples of individual types, the
editor has at certain points brought together a series of writs or
letters which show a connected sequence of transactions, as in the grant
of letters patent to Connecticut in 1661–1662.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“A collection at once more convenient and more scientific than the
‘Formulare’ of Madox with which the student has hitherto been obliged to
content himself. The method of printing the documents will not command
universal assent.” C: H. Haskins.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 558. Ap. ’09. 250w.
“To criticize his work is easy; but to produce a better one is hardly
likely to be the good fortune of any scholar of the present generation.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 600. N. 14. 320w.
“The work is admirably done and its usefulness is beyond dispute.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 463. My. 6, ’09. 240w.
=Spec.= 102: sup. 645. Ap. 24, ’09. 100w.
=Hall, Hubert.= Studies in English official historical documents.
*$3.75. Putnam.
9–4071.
“The first systematic attempt in modern times to deal with the
diplomatic of our official records as a consecutive whole.” (Ath.) “Mr.
Hall divides his work into three parts: the first relating to the
history, classification, and analysis of the archives; the second, to
the diplomatic study of official documents; and the third to
palaeography, its requirements and uses. Each part is accompanied by a
series of appendices, containing tables, lists, outlines, and
classifications too elaborate for insertion in the text.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“As is inevitable in so vast and so little cultivated a field, the book
disclaims anything like completeness or finality but it covers a wide
range of topics compactly and from the sources, and is everywhere
suggestive and full of meat. Some topics are dismissed too briefly and
some not touched.” C: H. Haskins.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 558. Ap. ’09. 1000w.
“For the future Mr. Hall’s books will be the inseparable companions of
all engaged in original investigation of the English middle ages. It
must be recognized that, with all Mr. Hall’s learning and devotion, his
style and method sometimes lack that incisive clearness which guides the
student straight to the point of which he is in quest, and never
overwhelms him in a sea of semi-relevant detail. Sometimes we are rather
at a loss to discover what Mr. Hall is driving at; and occasionally he
indulges in generalizations that do not seem to us specially helpful
towards his immediate ends.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 600. N. 14. 1000w.
“No other work, British or Continental, combines in such an admirable
manner the learning of the archivist, the grasp of the historian, and
the suggestiveness of the teacher.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 657. D. 31, ’08. 640w.
=Halsey, Forrest.= Fate and the butterfly. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
9–9466.
A cross-section of contemporary American society. Against a background
shifting from New York, Egypt, Italy, back to New York, is enacted a
drama of ill-assorted loves. A young society woman tricked into marriage
with a morphine-drugged man of millions leaves him for the man of her
early dreams only to find the prince charming unworthy, and is finally
reclaimed by a rising politician to save whose career she makes the
supreme sacrifice.
* * * * *
“A remarkably clever first story. The determination to have a pleasant
ending—or perhaps it was only the necessity—or it may have been an
overendowment of youthful sentiment—has proved too much for the author’s
sense of the grim logic of life.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 279. My. 1, ’09. 240w.
=Hamilton, Angus.=^{[8]} Problems of the middle East. *12s. 6d. Nash,
London.
9–18475.
“In this volume the author writes concerning the Young Turks, the
Baghdad railway, our interests in the Persian Gulf, the Turkish railway
through Arabia, and Japanese actions in Korea. The most valuable part of
the book is that upon the Baghdad railway, and we commend the careful
survey of Mr. Angus Hamilton upon a subject which he has considered with
less partiality than most British writers.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The non-strategic portion of Mr. Angus Hamilton’s volume may be
commended, especially that dealing with the Baghdad railway in its
commercial and narrowly political aspects.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 527. My. 1, 300w.
“It is a pity that this book, to which we have not the space to do full
justice, suffers from the weakness of advocating constitutional
government for countries unsuited to it.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 726. Je. 5, 09. 650w.
“The chapter on the present and the late Amirs of Afghanistan is a
careful piece of history, much of which is very little known. Mr.
Hamilton is one of the few journalists who can write of Afghanistan from
first-hand knowledge. But the chief importance of Mr. Hamilton’s book
lies in the political chapters, where he offers advice on the foreign
policy of Britain.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 166. Jl. 31, ’09. 900w.
=Hamilton, Cecily Mary.=^{[11]} Marriage as a trade. **$1.25. Moffatt.
9–23010
Miss Hamilton advocates woman’s economic independence, and, all
sentiment of marriage aside, constructs a theory of marriage which would
make it a real partnership, “not merely a partnership in social and
parental affairs.” No longer will she serve man for her mere food and
shelter, but she will be able to demand premium wages.
* * * * *
“Marked prejudices and cynicism weaken the effect of the work, which is
not without value.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 75. N. ’09.
Reviewed by Leonard Curtis.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 265. N. ’09. 660w.
“An instructive and somewhat startling volume. Even a mere man ... may
see that there is much truth in what she says. But he may also suspect,
with all polite deference and proper diffidence, that there is much
wrong also.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 578. O. 2, ’09. 1150w.
=Hamilton, James Shelley.=^{[11]} New sophomore. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–26954.
A continuation of college life at Tresham in which the old hero, Butt
Chanler, reappears but permits one Ridgeway Bill to play the role of
hero. His right to the title is demonstrated thru some clever detective
work in restoring to the institution a lost statue of Sabrina.
=Hamilton, W. Wistar.= Sane evangelism. **75c. Am. Bapt.
9–3366.
Addresses contributed by eight divines in which are revealed the
present-day possibilities of sane evangelism. The volume deprecates vast
movements away from the church, and advocates well-planned,
well-organized efforts in the church.
=Hammerton, J. A.=^{[8]} George Meredith in anecdote and criticism.
*$4. Kennerley.
A generous volume whose chief concern is criticism but which also gives
in “orderly narrative some slight account of Meredith’s life and
friendships.” The chapter headings are suggestive of the scope of the
work: Outline of life and work; The eighteenth birthday; Personal
characteristics; Friendships and home life; Some early appreciations;
Literary characteristics; In parody and caricature; The novels in
contemporary criticism; His heroines and women-folk; His poetry; The
comic spirit; His philosophy of life; Judged by his fellow-novelists;
His place in literature; The continental view of Meredith; Illustrators
of the poems and novels; Index.
* * * * *
“Altogether, the book in the hands of a judicious reader will be of
considerable service until the biography by Mr. Edward Clodd or another
is given to the world.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 94. Jl. 24. 300w.
“Mr. Hammerton’s book is a sort of ‘Literary guide to Meredith’—the
‘filler’ for a good Meredith smoke.” Archibald Henderson.
+ =Forum.= 42: 387. O. ’09. 1350w.
“Yet withal we regard the book as distinctly valuable and even to a
certain degree, despite the necessary repetition of ideas, interesting.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 281. S. 23, ’09. 770w.
“Mr. Hammerton’s work is rather a reference book than a biography for
general reading. The immense amount of research and study makes it an
invaluable contribution to Meredithiana, and the illustrations, many of
them reproductions from the original editions of the novels and poems,
lend it an exceptional interest.” Anne Peacock.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 461. Jl. 31, 09. 1900w.
“It is the invasion of cheap journalism into the preserves of
literature. All unity of impression is broken by balancing contradictory
estimates, and the point of view is shifted often enough to keep the
reader dizzy.”
− + =No. Am.= 190: 559. O. ’09. 420w.
“This is exactly the sort of book for readers who could not read
Meredith to save their lives, but have found out from the newspapers
that he was a great man they ought to be able to talk about.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 822. Je. 26, ’09. 370w.
“Mr. Hammerton’s book is so good and so useful for students of Meredith
that it is to be hoped that he will publish a second edition correcting
a few errors and supplementing a few deficiences. Among the errors we
have noticed a very incomplete index.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 98. Jl. 17, ’09. 1500w.
=Hancock, Albert Elmer.=^{[11]} Bronson of the rabble: a novel.
†$1.50. Lippincott.
9–25822.
Philadelphia in 1812 and the years following forms the setting for this
story of the blacksmith’s son who is a true American and by his own
effort wins his countrymen’s esteem as soldier and politician until he
penetrates into the hearts and homes of the Federalist aristocrats of
lace and knee-buckles. His love story follows his fortunes and he rises
above a plebian attachment, which ends in disaster, to win the Judge’s
niece, the girl who has been brought up to look down upon him and has
learned to look up to him.
=Hancock, Albert Elmer.= John Keats: a literary biography. **$2.
Houghton.
8–28422.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“Supplements Sidney Colvin’s ‘Keats’ and duplicates it comparatively
little.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 12. Ja. ’09.
“Unless it be a dash or two of gossip, he has added little to Mr.
Colvin’s delicate sketch. This is a book neither for students of Keats
nor for the fastidious in literature.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 1: 8. Ja. 2. 950w.
“Somewhat too smart in style, with a frequent straining for effect. Yet
it is an admirable book, accurate and well-founded in its learning, and
judicial in its verdicts.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1617. D. 31, ’08. 750w.
“The style is of that spasmodic sort which allows the reader no rest,
and the critical tone is of the ultra-romantic.”
− =Nation.= 87: 386. O. 22, ’08. 180w.
“This is quite as much a book of criticism as of biography, and it is
criticism of unusual quality.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 488. Ja. ’09. 1000w.
“An eminently successful biography.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 125. Jl. ’09. 100w.
=Hancock, Edward Lee.= Applied mechanics for engineers. *$2.
Macmillan.
9–1597.
“Prepared for the instruction of engineering students of the Junior
year, and while little new in the way of principles is presented, yet
many novel applications of these principles are introduced.” (Engin. D.)
“It is characterized by more attention to problems relating to moment of
inertia, center of gravity, work and energy, friction and impact than
most elementary text-books, by the use of vectors in the treatment of
couples, and by an excellent collection of problems.” (Engin. Rec.)
* * * * *
“Is more mathematical than Perry’s ‘Applied mechanics’ and disregards
graphical methods, which receive brief attention in Perry. Not a work
for engineers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 117. D. ’09.
“No textbook dealing with the subject that has reached us is better or
simpler.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 99. Je. ’09. 50w.
“Will be found decidedly helpful to engineers as well as to students.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 296. Mr. ’09. 180w.
“There are also a number of minor errors both in the text and in the
figures.” A. H. Knight.
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 33. Mr. 18, ’09. 670w.
“There is an unsatisfactory looseness of statement in some places. The
book is such a thorough one in some branches that it may prove useful in
a good many schools.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 59: 251. F. 27, ’09. 210w.
+ =Ind.= 67: 307. Ag. 5, ’09. 70w.
“A modest but sound work.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 416. Ap. 22, ’09. 10w.
“The book is certain to prove a useful one to all those who are engaged
in teaching the subject of mechanics to engineering students, and the
number of well-selected examples makes it a particularly satisfactory
book for the student himself.”
+ =Nature.= 81: 332. S. 16, ’09. 450w.
=Haney, Lewis Henry.=^{[6]} Congressional history of railways in the
United States to 1850. v. 1. (Reprinted from v. 3. of the Bulletin
of the Univ. of Wisconsin, economics and political science ser.)
50c. Univ. of Wis.
8–24289.
=v. 1.= The first instalment of a three volume work. “The present volume
is divided into three ‘books,’ which deal respectively with the Rise of
the railway question, Aid to railways, and Railways to the Pacific, in
so far as these questions came before Congress. As is indicated in the
title, the work is a study of Congress and the railway, and to a lesser
degree a history of the railway as illustrated by congressional debates
and legislation.” (Econ. Bull.)
* * * * *
“The criticism most likely to be passed upon the volume is that it shows
too evidently its earlier form of a monograph. Evidences of a prentice
hand are not infrequent. This volume in connection with those to appear
later will form a distinct contribution to economic history.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 164. O. ’09. 670w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The volume as a whole indicates a large amount of systematic work, and
though its scope is chiefly limited to congressional activity, it is a
valuable contribution to the early periods of railway history.” G: G.
Huebner.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 732. My. ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The errors into which the author has fallen are those of lack of
discrimination rather than of misstatement of fact.” E. L. Bogart.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 30. Ap. ’09. 850w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Haney’s monograph is a well-written and thorough piece of
investigation. The author has relied mainly upon congressional documents
for his material and few measures or proposals seem to have escaped his
notice.” W. B. Hammond.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 233. Ap. ’09. 1200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“He takes up in an interesting way the rise and development of the
railways, and especially the subject of land grants, which is treated
more fully than in any previous work.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 191. Mr. ’09. 110w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Hanks, Charles Stedman.=^{[9]} Our Plymouth forefathers. **$1.50.
Estes.
9–9526.
“Beginning with a chapter on ‘The English separatists.’ which gives the
commonly accepted account of King Henry VIII’s rupture with Rome, the
author traces the course of the Pilgrims from Scrooby to Holland and
America, the greater part of the book being naturally devoted to the
vicissitudes of the colony at Plymouth. Due honor is paid to
Provincetown, as the place of our forefathers’ first landing; and some
account is also given of the Buzzard’s Bay, Connecticut River, and
Penobscott River trading posts, with one chapter on ‘The Puritan
settlement at Boston.’” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Suited to the needs and tastes of young students of American history
and good reading for their elders.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 75. N. ’09 ✠
“The book is well suited to the needs and tastes of young students of
American history, and is good reading for older persons also.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 104. Ag. 16, ’09. 200w.
“The attention which Mr. Hanks devotes to the business side of the
enterprise and the shrewd common sense which the colonists displayed in
developing and making the most of their resources gives to the book a
special interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 318. My. 22, ’09. 250w.
=Hanotaux, Gabriel-Albert-Auguste.=^{[9]} Contemporary France; tr.
from the French by E. Sparvel-Bayly. v. 4. *$3.75. Putnam.
=v. 4.= 1877–1882. Covers the political records of France from 1877
until 1882 on thru seven ministries, from that of the Duc de Broglie to
that of Duclerc.
* * * * *
“Indispensable to large libraries.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 14. S. ’09. (Review of v. 4.)
“Errors, which are the joint production of the author, the translator,
and the index-maker, are most serious, and are numerous beyond our
experience. In many cases the result will be to deceive the very elect.
We cannot explain the extraordinary difference between the concluding
pages of the French and the English versions.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 2: 94. Jl. 24. 630w. (Review of v. 4.)
“This volume, like its predecessors, shows qualities of style which
remind the reader that the author is a member of the Academy, but
occasionally the habit of epigrammatic expression merges in a fondness
for obscure Delphic utterances.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 185. S. 16, ’09. 550w. (Review of v. 4.)
“M. Hanotaux maintains the high level of the earlier parts; but the
period treated (1877–1882), being less dramatic than the years
preceding, its story is perforce less thrilling.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1209. N. 25, ’09. 320w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The author of this work has kept up the interest of the reader from the
beginning to the close of his narrative.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 538. O. 2, ’09. 360w. (Review of v. 4.)
“In this last volume M. Hanotaux’s style retains all its vivacity and
its finish. It is with regret that we part from this animated narrative
of events fateful for France and for Europe, which so intelligent and
well-informed an observer has given us.”
+ + − =Nation.= 89: 253. S. 16, ’09. 2850w. (Review of v. 4.)
“We do not deny that M. Hanotaux’s volume, principally on account of its
personal and intimate atmosphere, makes entertaining reading. M.
Hanotaux has no perspective and offers no hypotheses, while his
narrative is burdened with opinions, judgments and even impressions,
which the future is as likely as not to prove wrong.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 499. Ag. 21, ’09. 1250w. (Review of v. 4.)
“This fourth volume is much the best of the work, and is more worthy of
the author’s reputation than those which preceded it.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 292. S. 4, ’09. 1550w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The book is alive with personal and general interest, and no
intelligent person is likely to lay it down unfinished.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 918. D. 4, ’09. 450w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Hanscom, Elizabeth Deering=, comp. Friendly craft. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–33897.
An anthology of letters which have been gathered together under such
heads as The news from home, Little men and little women, Students’
tales, Lovers and friends, Genial gossip, Makers of history, Quips and
cranks, and The fine art of living.
* * * * *
“A more interesting collection to the American reader than Lucas’ ‘The
gentlest art.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 41. F. ’09.
“Everyone who owns ‘The gentlest art,’ will want ‘The friendly craft’ to
place beside it on his shelves.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 464. D. 16, ’08. 140w.
“The editor of the collection has an unerring taste for literary
quality, and a sense of humor which shows itself in prankish headlines.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 638. Mr. 25, ’09. 160w.
“The volume is, in our opinion quite as entertaining as Mr. Lucas’s, and
that is saying a great deal. The pages contain abundant humor, with now
and then a touch of pathos.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
“There should be a copy of this delightful book in the collection of
every lover of that which is choice in literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 116. F. 27, ’09. 560w.
+ =Outlook.= 91: 151. Ja. 23, ’09. 130w.
“A quite admirable book.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 464. Mr. 20, ’09. 840w.
=Hanus, Paul Henry.= Beginnings in industrial education; and other
educational discussions. *$1. Houghton.
8–21612.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“Able, practical papers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 289. D. ’08.
“The most valuable contribution is made by the chapter on ‘The
industrial continuation schools of Munich.’”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 195. Ja. ’09. 60w.
“The busy man will find the meat of these essays in the first one, which
gives title to the volume.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 22. F. 18, ’09. 300w.
“Professor Hanus puts the case clearly and convincingly.” L.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 383. Je. ’09. 180w.
“Each of the eight brief essays makes the reader sigh for more of the
same kind.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 412. Ap. 22, ’09. 160w.
“It is a help to have these miscellaneous presentations brought together
at the time when the first excitement of the revival is over and men
realize the necessity of taking their bearings before going farther.” F.
A. Manny.
+ =School R.= 17: 203. Mr. ’09. 470w.
=Hapgood, Hutchins.=^{[8]} Anarchist woman. **$1.25. Duffield.
“A book belonging to the same general order as Mr. Hapgood’s
‘Autobiography of a thief’ and ‘The spirit of labor.’ It is a report of
‘low’ life tinged with almost morbid sympathy.” (Nation.) It portrays
the mental life of a woman who possessed the “temperament of revolt.”
The man to whom she abandoned herself is little else than a drunkard in
whom the author finds “a perfect type of the idealist.” Thru these two
rebellious slum folk Mr. Hapgood shows under what conditions, in
connection with what personal qualities, the anarchistic habit of mind
arises.
* * * * *
“If you agree with Mr. William Winter’s criticism of Ibsen or approve
the policy of Anthony Comstock toward Bernard Shaw, this is no fit book
for you to read.” F. M. Colby.
− =Bookm.= 29: 637. Ag. ’09. 3200w.
“Mr. Hapgood’s chief fault is lack of humor, and the effect of it in
this instance is rather appalling. Mr. Hapgood’s story is largely made
up of letters. They are extremely frank letters, but they have little
beside frankness to recommend them.”
− =Nation.= 88: 608. Je. 17, ’09. 600w.
=Harben, William Nathaniel (Will N., pseud.).=^{[10]} Redemption of
Kenneth Galt. †$1.50. Harper.
9–25184.
Once more Mr. Harben introduces his readers to his favorite Georgian
setting. The story follows the awakening and regeneration of Kenneth
Galt, brilliant and well-born, who, when success is within his very
reach, betrays a young girl, and leaves her to bear her burden of
village ostracism while he goes out into the world to win power and
fame. Six years later he returns and thru the influence of his own child
has the courage to atone for his cowardly action and face a situation
which during all these years had been allowed to implicate an innocent
man.
* * * * *
“The book has astonishingly little excuse for being, even in this age of
incontinent pens. The plot and characters are as hackneyed as the title,
and the quality of the English, which is richly journalese, differs
sadly from that of mercy.”
− =Nation.= 89: 407. O. 28, ’09. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 591. O. 9, ’09. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 636. N. ’09. 30w.
=Hard, Miron Elisha.=^{[6]} Mushroom, edible and otherwise; its
habitat and its time of growth. $4.75. Mushroom pub. co., 210
Schultz bldg., Columbus, O.
8–24898.
A guide to the study of mushrooms, with special reference to the edible
and poisonous varieties, with a view of opening up to the student of
nature a wide field of interesting and useful knowledge. “This volume
chiefly on account of its excellent half-tone illustrations, which
include almost all of the common species, will be of good service to
those who wish a book less expensive and voluminous than McIlvaine’s,
and at the same time comprehensive enough to enable them to identify the
plants they pick up in fields and woods.” (Bot. Gaz.)
* * * * *
“Will be useful for reference in large libraries but for identification
purposes is not so good as Atkinson’s ‘Studies of American fungi’ or
Marshall’s ‘Mushroom book.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 167. Je. ’09.
“It is evident that the author has no adequate technical training in
taxonomy or morphology; and in presenting such matters, neither his keen
powers of observation nor his enthusiasm could prevent him from falling
into errors both of form and fact. It will indeed be a welcome addition
to public, school, and college libraries, where there is always a demand
for well-illustrated books of this kind, and it will probably do good
service in awakening an interest in mushrooms. It certainly treats
wisely the matter of testing the edibility of mushrooms and no one who
follows Mr. Hard’s advice will come to harm. Thus it has a real field of
usefulness. But it is not for the mycologist.” C. R. B.
+ − =Bot. Gaz.= 47: 414. My. ’09. 450w.
“An exceedingly interesting and valuable book upon a subject, in which
every one is interested, whether he is a botanist or not. Without doubt
this is the finest and most carefully arranged set of half-tone figures
of American agarics to be found in a single book.” R. J. Pool.
+ =Science=, n.s. 29: 263. F. 12, ’09. 340w.
=Hardie, J. Keir.=^{[9]} India, impressions and suggestions. $1.
Huebsch.
Conclusions and the reasons for forming them which were reached by the
author during two months spent in traveling in India and in interviewing
officials or representative men of all stations in life and of all
creeds, castes and classes.
* * * * *
“One can but feel, in reading these interesting sketches, that the
author went to India to criticise, yet there is so much current official
praise of the English administration of India that we welcome any
discussion from the other side.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 605. N. ’09. 200w.
“Mr. Hardie has not, we may say, assimilated all his information
gathered in his two months’ stay in India, but he has written a book
that will interest and instruct everyone who is interested in Great
Britain’s major problem.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 240. O. 1, ’09. 270w.
“The greatest lack of this book is that it is practically silent
concerning those features of the India of to-day which, in the last
analysis, mean infinitely more to Hindustan than do verbal and picric
acid bombs.”
− =Nation.= 89: 411. O. 28, ’09. 520w.
“It does not follow necessarily that Mr. Hardie is unjust in his views
concerning the British administration in India, but it is of course
material to know that he did not go East with an open mind, and that
what he has written is not the outcome of prolonged, painstaking, and
unbiased effort to know the truth.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 664. O. 23, ’09. 680w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 512. O. ’09. 60w.
“His arguments are recklessly and wilfully perverse. We are astonished
that he should have taken so little trouble to make some of them even
superficially plausible. As a narrative the work is very poor, the
descriptions leaving little impression upon the mind, and making one
reflect on the immense superiority of such work as that of Mr. Sidney
Low.”
− =Spec.= 102: 937. Je. 12, ’09. 2100w.
=Hardie, Martin.=^{[6]} John Pettie. *$6. Macmillan.
A monograph which furnishes “a delightful picture of the kindly,
generous, tremendously forceful Scotch artist, and makes up for
meagreness of biographical incident by fulness of descriptive matter
about Pettie’s paintings. Diligent search through the artist’s
note-books and in exhibition and sale catalogues, as well as in
correspondence of interviews with private owners of his work, has
resulted in a practically complete catalogue, chronologically
arranged.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Both as an individual study and as a contribution to the history of
Scotch art in the last century, Mr. Hardie’s biography is well worth
while.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 267. Ap. 16, ’09. 210w.
“When the author writes of his uncle’s works as an artist, he does so
with a commendable personal detachment. The book is profusely
illustrated by reproductions in colour of almost all of Pettie’s
principal pictures, and the catalogue of his works is not the least
valuable portion of the volume.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 37: 253. My. ’09. 320w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 24. N. ’09. 70w.
+ =Nation.= 88: 205. F. 25, ’09. 60w.
=Harding, John William.= City of splendid night. †$1.50. Dillingham.
9–4958.
Reveals the heart of a man and of a woman, who after fifteen years of
separation, divorce, remarriage for the husband, and death of the second
wife, are brought to a reconciliation.
* * * * *
“After the title the best things in it are the many pages of description
of the varied aspects of New York city by night and by day, under
various conditions of weather. These show sensibility to beauty and good
descriptive power. Not one of the characters shows any sign that the
author knows anything about men and women except what he has learned
from other novels.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 147. Mr. 13, ’09. 130w.
=Harding, Samuel Bannister=, comp. and ed.^{[11]} Select orations;
with an introduction on oratorical style and structure, and notes by
J: Mantel Clapp. *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–26305.
A book for schools, clubs and teachers’ institutes. The purpose,
primarily, historical, has been that of bringing together selections
that illustrate the political history and development of the United
States; while oratorical excellence has also been considered. The
orations are grouped under the following heads: The revolution; The
constitution adopted; National government established; The conquest on
slavery; Civil war and reconstruction.
* * * * *
=Educ. R.= 38: 426. N. ’09. 50w.
=Hardy, Blanche Christabel.=^{[7]} Princesse de Lamballe. *$3.50.
Appleton.
9–18960.
“This is a sympathetic study of a supremely touching figure in French
history, a martyr to loyalty and friendship in whose innocent life
nothing had ever happened to merit one of the most frightful
deaths—perhaps the most frightful of all—in the annals of the
revolution.” (Spec.) “The Princess de Lamballe had been superintendent
of the household of Marie Antoinette, and we have here, among other
things, a remarkably telling picture of how a queen lived in the days
before the revolution.” (N. Y. Times.) The author draws clear portraits
of “the sad Queen Maria Leczinska ... the once reckless and
pleasure-loving Marie Antoinette ... the stolid, lumbering, pathetic
Louis XVI, the faithless Duc d’Orléans ... and the Princesse herself.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The author is as a rule laudably guarded in her judgments concerning
conjecture and evidence. We have but slight reservations to make as to
style and accuracy.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 811. D. 26. 1500w.
“She gives us a distinctly lifelike picture of the woman in her life of
every day, treating her with all becoming reverence, omitting nothing in
this record of her heroism and devotion, setting down naught in malice,
and yet letting us see through to the little failings that make her
woman. She gains in being thus humanized, and the author has given us a
work that is at once interesting and authentic.” Christian Gauss.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 385. Je. 19, ’09. 1100w.
“Little exception can be taken to the history of this volume.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 486. O. 17, ’08. 780w.
“This was not an easy book to write. The author has overcome that
difficulty very well, and has kept the later story of his heroine clear
against the background of confusion and storm.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 886. N. 28, ’08. 550w.
=Hardy, E. G.=^{[9]} Studies in Roman history, 6s. Sonnenschein,
London.
“The title of this important but unpretentious little volume would fitly
have been ‘Studies in Roman military history,’ for it specially deals
with that branch of historical research, and will be particularly
valuable to those interested in it.” (Sat. R.) “Largely an historical
commentary on Tacitus. In the first section Dr. Hardy discusses the
German frontier, a subject which appears again and again in the period
(14–70 A. D.) covered by the ‘Annals and histories.’... The second
section is given to the subject which occupies nearly all that survives
of the ‘Histories.’... Finally, he gives us an illuminating account of
the struggle between Pompey and Caesar, which ended at Philippi.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
“When one considers the circumstances in which research is alone
possible to the author, the errors are trifling, nor do they matter much
to the few who will verify them; but it is a pity that Dr. Hardy did not
get a pupil to spend a few hours in checking the citations. The printing
is not at all good. This is a pity, as the volume is indispensable to
students of Roman military history.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 297. S. 11. 330w.
“These essays would be infinitely more instructive and interesting had
maps been supplied in adequate number, and we trust that in any
subsequent edition of this book almost the only flaw we have discovered
in it may be removed.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 138. Jl. 31, ’09. 1000w.
=Spec.= 103: sup. 1008. Je. 26, ’09. 150w.
=Hardy, Rev. Edward John.=^{[12]} How to be happy though civil. **$1.
Scribner.
“Not a book of etiquet, of social forms, perfect familiarity with which,
and scrupulous observation of which, may be, and often are, accompanied
by boorishness, but a treatise on the root of true courtesy, which is
breeding, delicacy of perception, or, as the author himself prefers to
call it, ‘bushido.’ He points his moral and adorns it with many
anecdotes.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“A book that should do some good in a generation where it is, oh, so
badly needed.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1210. N. 25, ’09. 120w.
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 960. N. 27, ’09. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 766. D. 4, ’09. 170w.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 515. O. 30, ’09. 170w.
=Spec.= 103: 937. D. 4, ’09. 1350w.
=Häring, Theodor von.=^{[11]} Ethics of the Christian life; tr. from
the 2d German ed. by James S. Hill; with an introd. by Rev. W. D.
Morrison. (Theological translation lib., v. 25.) *$3. Putnam.
9–7568.
A work that regards modern ethics as “essentially psychological, and of
the world,” instead of belonging “to the realm of the infinite.”
“Specially valuable portions of the volume are those which contrast
Roman Catholic with Protestant ethical teachings, and discuss at length
various questions of social ethics. But it is indefensible to set
Christian ethics in an unreal opposition to normative ethics. ‘I regard
“Christian,”’ said Edward Caird, ‘as the permanent adjective by which we
must define the growing ideal of humanity.’” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The book labors under the disadvantage which is almost inevitable in a
translation from the German, in that it employs a style and a vocabulary
somewhat unfamiliar to English readers. Thus while the volume is full of
wholesome suggestions on various ethical problems, and while it may be
used with advantage and profit by those whose thinking is still
dominated by the deductive method, it will seem to the student of
empirical social ethics to-day like a survival of an outgrown method in
the history of ethical science.” G. B. Smith.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 472. Jl. ’09. 430w.
=Outlook.= 93: 227. O. 2, ’09. 160w.
=Harker, Alfred.=^{[9]} Natural history of igneous rocks. *$3.
Macmillan. GS9–256.
“The scope of Harker’s work may be indicated by the titles of the
chapters which are as follows: (1) Igneous action in relation to
geology; (2) Vulcanicity; (3) Igneous intrusion; (4) Petrographical
provinces; (5) Mutual relations of associated igneous rocks; (6) Igneous
rocks and their constituents; (7) Rock-magmas; (8) Crystallization of
rock-magmas; (9) Supersaturation and deferred crystallization; (10)
Isomorphism and mixed crystals; (11) Structures of igneous rock; (12)
Mineralisers and pneumatolysis: (13) Magmatic differentiation; (14)
Hybridism in igneous rocks; (15) Classification of igneous rocks.”—J.
Geol.
* * * * *
“Mr. Harker’s new work stands, in many respects, alone, and is sure of a
welcome. A book which could be written now only by one who is at the
same time a geologist and a physicist, acquainted with the latest
development of both sciences.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 157. Ag. 7. 1300w.
“It appears that the book is an excellent summary of our present
knowledge, and well suited for use with advanced students of petrology.”
A. N. W.
+ =J. Geol.= 17: 488. Jl. ’09. 700w.
“This is a book for the trained specialist, but it has a message for the
layman. With unexcelled completeness and force, Mr. Harker has presented
the latest ideas as to the nature and activities of the fluid material
emanating from the earth’s interior.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 578. D. 9, ’09. 1050w.
“Mr. Harker has covered so wide a range and compressed so much
information into this brief space that he has achieved a very large
measure of success.” J. S. F.
+ =Nature.= 81: 331. S. 16, ’09. 1100w.
“Mr. Harker’s treatise is for the scholar, and almost for the
specialist. It may not appeal even to all who regard themselves as
trained geologists; but, on the other hand, there is much in it that
will attract both the chemist and the physicist.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 446. O. 9, ’09. 1100w.
=Harland, Henry (Sydney Luska, pseud.).= Royal end: a romance. †$1.50.
Dodd.
9–5217.
A posthumous novel completed by the author’s wife. “The book is offered
to us as the last the author wrote, and it was evidently composed during
his years of ill-health. But for all that it is characteristic of him,
gay, irresponsible, volatile, witty, and audacious.... There are a
prince, an Englishman of good lineage, a beautiful American heiress, and
a useful ‘property’ dog, besides other auxiliaries.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“There is little plot, the charm of the story lying in the clever
conversation. Suffers by comparison with ‘The cardinal’s snuff box’ and
‘The lady paramount.’”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 148. My. ’09.
“If the fairy tale lacks at times the spontaneity of its predecessors,
and is a little less bright and less neat of wit, that is attributable
doubtless to the conditions under which it was written. Nevertheless it
is an agreeable and entertaining romance, the slightness of which will
not concern the admirers of the author’s work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 312. Mr. 13. 240w.
“One never used to care whether anything was doing or not, and the
earlier books could have been quite as shapeless as this (though they
never were) and we would have snapped our fingers. It is the mannerisms
without the manner, the abandonment without the abandon.” Algernon
Tassin.
− + =Bookm.= 29: 409. Je. ’09. 1350w.
“The taste of the novel reader has changed since the ‘Cardinal’s snuff
box’ was published, and for this reason ‘The royal end’ is not likely to
be so popular.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 1083. My. 20, ’09. 200w.
+ =Nation.= 88: 539. My. 27, ’09. 280w.
“Mrs. Harland has done her work faithfully, and it may seem ungracious
to emphasize her failure to capture fully the charm of her husband’s
style. None the less the story is a delightful one, and the royal end is
quite as satisfying as it is unexpected.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 192. Ap. 3, ’09. 500w.
“It is a pleasant tale, not altogether probable in every part, not at
all well planned as to construction, and saved only from mediocrity in
that its conversation is often delicately humorous.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 814. Ap. 10, ’09. 60w.
“The last three of the seven parts are inferior.” H. W. Boynton.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 6: 493. Jl. ’09. 270w.
“The end of the book in America is not so well done.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 672. Ap. 24, ’09. 130w.
=Harnack, Adolf.=^{[6]} Acts of the apostles; tr. by J. R. Wilkinson.
(Crown theological lib. no. 27.) *$1.75. Putnam.
9–3372.
The third volume in Dr. Harnack’s studies on the Synoptic gospels and
the Acts of the apostles. “In ‘Luke the physician’ he presented with
convincing power the evidence on behalf of the Lukan authorship of the
Acts; in the present volume he carries his investigations further and
examines with characteristic thoroughness the internal evidence of the
book as to date, sources, and historical value.” (Sat. R.) “He seeks a
‘more assured judgment’ as to the degree in which Acts is homogeneous,
inquires into the sources and their trustworthiness, and seeks further
proof of the identity of the writer of the we-sections with the author
of the whole.” (Bib. World.)
* * * * *
“The whole is wrought out with Harnack’s characteristic minuteness of
research and illuminating historical imagination.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 647. O. ’09. 80w.
“The chapter which deals with the sources and their value will appeal to
many readers as the most suggestive.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 294. S. 11. 700w.
“It presents a wealth of material relating to Acts, and interestingly
exhibits Harnack’s notable method of inquiry. The translator’s failure
to supply an index is deplorable.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 33: 216. Mr. ’09. 100w.
Reviewed by E. S. Drown.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 258. Ap. 24, ’09. 400w.
“Whether we agree with him or not, we cannot but admire the clearness
and breadth of view with which he treats the puzzling phenomena of the
earlier chapters.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 664. My. 22, ’09. 250w.
“The thirty pages of introduction with which it opens are written with
all his force and charm, but as a whole the book is technical, and will
appeal chiefly to scholars.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: sup. 1008. Je. 26, ’09. 120w.
=Harnack, Adolf.=^{[6]} Mission and expansion of Christianity in the
first three centuries; tr. and ed. by James Moffatt. 2d ed. enl. and
rev. (Theological translation lib.) 2v. *$7. Putnam.
9–8426.
A translation of the second German edition. The two volumes “contain
what is practically a history of the Church’s expansion during the first
three centuries as it is viewed by a critic who rejects every detail and
all data which can not be certified by the tests of modern criticism.”
(Lit. D.) “For the ordinary reader the first volume is by far the more
interesting. Its chapters are substantially monographs, dealing with
characteristics of early Christianity and with the reasons of its
success—reasons at once concerned with its own inward nature, with its
organization, and with its relations both to Judaism and to the Roman
world.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“More than ever in this enlarged form, and with these helpful maps, it
will be indispensable for the interpretation of early Christian
literature and still more of early Christian life, in the stirring and
mysterious centuries before Eusebius and Constantine. We notice a few
misprints.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 495. Jl. ’09. 180w.
“As a critical, comprehensive survey of the extension of Christianity
before Constantine this work is invaluable.”
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 357. My. ’09. 70w.
“This fresh and accurate work will hereafter be an indispensible manual
in teaching or studying church history with critical thoroughness.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 901. My. 22, ’09. 400w.
“It has taken its place as one of Harnack’s most important contributions
to the early history of Christianity. A word of praise should be said
for the admirable translation of Dr. Moffatt.” E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 258. Ap. 24, ’09. 400w.
=Harper, Charles George.=^{[10]} Tower of London: fortress, palace and
prison. **$2.50. Jacobs.
9–27770.
“An introduction, giving a brief history of the building as a whole, is
followed by chapters that present in detail a full account and
description of its several parts, with abundant reference to noted
prisoners once lodged within its walls, and to the famous crimes and
conspiracies and rebellions that furnished occupants for its cells and
dungeons. Some of the horrors of old-time torture and execution are also
revealed, while two chapters reproduce many elaborate stone-carvings to
show how the weary captives sometimes beguiled the long hours by
perpetuating their tragic memory or the memory of those dear to
them.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Recent removal of certain restrictions has opened the Tower more
extensively and freely to visitors than ever before, and this latest
guide-book to its many points of historic interest is timely and
valuable. The evident care and study that have gone to its making place
it on a high level among books of its class.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 187. S. 16, ’09. 220w.
+ =Spec.= 102: 785. My. 15, ’09. 180w.
=Harper, George McLean.= Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve. (French men of
letters.) **$1.50. Lippincott.
9–9445.
A biography which gathers the conditioning elements of this noted French
critic’s life, and presents them topically and chronologically. The
author gives him a place with Taine and Renan in the intellectual
triumverate of modern France, acknowledging him to be one of the world’s
greatest critics in the broad sense—“a man who has thrown the light of
reason upon all great questions of psychology, morality, religion,
politics and art.”
* * * * *
“A scholarly study, showing extensive research and familiarity with the
period.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 168. Je. ’09.
“It has the distinction of being the first book written in English on
the life and work of the most eminent French literary critic, and the
merit of being an unusually careful and scholarly bit of work.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 50. Jl. 16, ’09. 320w.
“When all this has been said, it must still be acknowledged that
Professor Harper has written an intelligible and interesting account of
the great critic.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 478. Ag. 26, ’09. 420w.
“The present work keeps up the high standard of the preceding volumes in
this series.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 1072. Je. 19, ’09. 400w.
“Professor Harper has the distinction of writing the first book on
Sainte-Beuve in English. He gives evidence of long and careful study of
Sainte-Beuve himself, and of most that has been written about him, but
should have reserved space for a more systematic discussion of
Sainte-Beuve’s ideas and his place in criticism. As it is, his work
strikes one as a rather loosely written biography, mainly devoted to
Sainte-Beuve’s youth, or at least to the period before 1848.” Irving
Babbitt.
+ − =Nation.= 88: 622. Je. 24, ’09. 3400w.
“Prof. Harper has done extremely well a work of much difficulty and real
importance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 309. My. 15, ’09. 1600w.
“It was not easy to draw Sainte-Beuve’s portrait: nor was it easy to
analyze this special quality and to bring into clear light his method.
All these three things Professor Harper has done with patience,
sagacity, and scrupulous integrity of attitude. His book is a real
contribution to the subject, as it is a credit to American literary
scholarship.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 422. Je. 19, ’09. 300w.
“A compact and coherent analysis.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 764. Je. ’09. 120w.
“His book is a sympathetic and just endeavour to get at the real
Sainte-Beuve. Concerning the style of the book it is only necessary to
hint that American readers will perhaps enjoy it more than English.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 18. Jl. 3, ’09. 900w.
+ =Spec.= 103: 172. Jl. 31, ’09. 130w.
=Harris, Frank.= The bomb. $1.50. Kennerley.
9–4963.
The story, a history in the most important particulars, of Rudolph
Schnaubelt who “threw the bomb that killed eight policemen and wounded
sixty in Chicago in 1886.” He is a young German of fair education, who
leaves Munich for New York, experiences a round of embittering
hardships, drifts to Chicago, and comes under the influence of Lingg the
Anarchist. The story moves on to a dramatic close in the anarchist plot,
the escape of the bomb thrower, and the trial and execution of Lingg and
his accomplices.
* * * * *
“We find in ‘The bomb’ a love-story, to us unpleasant, and not redeemed
by its truth to life—given the simplicity of the hero. The woman does
not convince us, and the old maxim still holds good: ‘Tout ce qui est
vrai n’est pas bon à dire.’”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 641. N. 21. 450w.
“The theme is plausible, but in its fictional expression it breaks down
in some places and moves clumsily in others, apparently because Mr.
Harris has not the story-telling gift in the first place, and, in the
second, writes fiction with a prentice hand.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 118. F. 27, ’09. 500w.
“Altogether, the book is a thoroughly fine piece of work, worthy of the
creator of Conklin.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 674. N. 28, ’08. 770w.
=Harris, Frank.=^{[12]} Man Shakespeare and his tragic life-story.
*$2.50. Kennerley.
9–28298.
An analytic study of Shakespeare, the man, in which the author finds the
full length portrait of the great dramatist in each of twenty dramas.
Aside from building up the essential outlines of Shakespeare’s character
there is also shown “Shakespeare as he was with his imperial intellect
and small snobberies, his great vices and paltry self-deceptions, his
sweet gentleness and long martyrdom.... Thanks to this book, we now know
Shakespeare in his habit as he lived; we know him in his love and
jealousy and despair; and we are fain to admit with Mr. Harris that
Shakespeare’s suffering and wreck are symbolical of the fate of genius
everywhere and at all times. His life story is therefore of enduring
interest: in its own way a world-tragedy.”
* * * * *
“A remarkable book, ingeniously conceived, and based on a comprehensive
knowledge of the bard’s works. It will interest lovers and students of
Shakespeare, and prove of benefit to them, whatever the conclusion to
which it may lead them.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1137. N. 18, ’09. 300w.
“This is the book for which we have waited a lifetime. We know this now
that it is come: and we mark the day of its publication as a red-letter
day in the history of literature. We have had Shakespeare the dramatist.
Our libraries are filled with his bloodless monuments. Now we want
Shakespeare the poet, Shakespeare the lover, Shakespeare the
sweet-hearted singer, as he lived and suffered and enjoyed. And this is
what Mr. Frank Harris gives us in his book.” Temple Scott.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 685. N. 6, ’09. 3800w.
“Nobody who cares for fine literature, however indifferent he may be to
Mr. Harris’ main thesis, should pass the book by. As a thesis, we call
it a brilliant and fascinating tour de force. As a book concerned with
the greatest poetry, we assign to it critical merit of the first order.
In both aspects we predict for it a permanent importance.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 633. N. 20, ’09. 2250w.
=Harris, Joel Chandler.= Bishop and the boogerman; being the story of
a little truly-girl, who grew up; her mysterious companion; her
crabbed old uncle; the whish-whish woods; a very civil engineer, and
Mr. Billy Sanders, the sage of Shady Dale. **$1. Doubleday.
9–3878.
A charming story of little Adelaide, suddenly orphaned, who with her
imaginary playmate Cally-Lou goes to live in a crabbed uncle’s home.
There is a “Silas Marner” touch to the tale with its softening
little-child influence.
* * * * *
“Slight, uneventful and disconnected, but full of the author’s
characteristic charm and humor.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 113. Ap. ’09. ✠
“The atmosphere of the story is delightful, while the characterization
and the illustrations are adequate.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 403. Ap. 3. 180w.
“This story is effective because it revives in the reader the innocent
emotions of childhood from which it springs.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 171. F. 18, ’09. 300w.
“It is very charming, with its unexpected turns of thought and quaint
forms of expression, its understanding of the child heart and the
workings of the child brain, its kindliness, and its sweet, bubbling
humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 103. F. 20, ’09. 420w.
=Sat. R.= 107: 502. Ap. 17, ’09. 90w.
=Harrison, Alfred H.=^{[6]} In search of a polar continent, 1905–1907.
*$3.50. Longmans.
9–8804.
There is “carefully set forth, with the accompaniment of many excellent
half-tone photographs an account of the writer’s exploration of the
northern section of Alaska and the neighboring islands of the Arctic
Ocean in the period from July, 1905, to September, ^{[1907]}.... It is
the story of a practical man, full of detailed and painstaking
observation, and it is gratifying to read with respect to his polar
aspirations that the author now believes the great project of arctic
travelers to be wholly feasible.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The account of his adventures makes pleasant reading. We consider Mr.
Harrison’s scheme visionary.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 439. Ap. 10. 900w.
“His story of his two years’ wanderings, while neither very exciting nor
particularly novel, is full of interesting details of a country all but
unknown.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
“The book is not one of the most readable, perhaps because it shows no
grasp of a definite problem nor any strong purpose to carry out his plan
of Arctic exploration, perhaps because of the numerous Latin tags and
the irritating frequency of allusions to characters in Dickens who would
have been much surprised to find themselves introduced into a volume of
Polar travel.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 433. Ap. 3, ’09. 630w.
“His chapters on Eskimo life are a valuable contribution to our
knowledge of a virile race.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 502. Mr. 27, ’09. 250w.
=Harrison, Birge.=^{[12]} Landscape painting; with 24 reproductions of
representative pictures. **$1.50. Scribner.
9–29386.
A volume in which the author gathers up twenty-one impromptu talks on
landscape painting given before the Art students’ league of New York
during a summer session at Woodstock, N. Y. The chapters are: Landscape
art in general; Color; Vibration; Refraction; Values; Drawing;
Composition; Quality; Pigments; On framing pictures; On schools; The
arts and crafts; Mural painting; On vision; The importance of
fearlessness in painting; The sub-conscious servant; Temperament;
Character; What is a good picture? The true impressionism; The future of
American art.
* * * * *
“These talks are practical, helpful and enthusiastic; a little positive
here and there, in their expression of opinions.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 1142. N. 18, ’09. 110w.
=Harrison, Edith Ogden.= Flaming sword, and other legends of the earth
and sky. *$1.25. McClurg.
8–37065.
A group of imaginative stories based upon Bible legends.
* * * * *
“A little too much emphasis is placed upon the moral of each tale;
otherwise Edith Ogden Harrison’s attempt to treat biblical material
purely as legendary of earth and sky is by no means deprived of keen
feeling.” M. J. Moses.
− + =Ind.= 65: 1473. D. 17, ’08. 80w.
“The moral attachment is a little too evident.”
− =Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 40w.
“The stories are charmingly written and beautifully imaginative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 120w.
=Harrison, Mrs. Mary St. Leger (Lucas Mallet, pseud.).=^{[8]} The
score. †$1.50. Dutton.
9–19190.
Two stories the first of which, “Out in the open,” tells of a young
member of parliament’s wooing of an actress whose refusal of him results
in his taking her in his arms and nearly crushing the breath out of her;
the second “Miserere nobis,” told in the form of a dying man’s
confession to a priest, deals with a young Italian’s misguided vengeance
for fancied wrong and the later remorse that led to taking his own life.
* * * * *
“The short story does not give quite sufficient scope to this author’s
remarkable gifts. In both of them, however, the situations, though
widely different, are as poignant as original.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 206. Ag. 21. 300w.
“The unquestioned power of Lucas Malet shows itself fully only in the
long and elaborate novel.”
+ − =Atlan.= 104: 686. N. ’09. 190w.
“The stories are to be forgotten—but not the story-teller’s charm and
sparkling if self-conscious grace.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 62. S. ’09. 1150w.
“To us it has the bigness, the thoughtfulness of the old Greek tragedy;
and it excells in the very point in which the Greeks themselves excel.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 820. S. ’09. 1000w.
“Lucas Malet is a dramatist and a preacher. She is a dramatist in two
senses—she has an eye for stage effects and for dramatic ‘lifts.’ But
nothing would save the book from being more than a brilliant monolog if
it were not for the ‘lifts.’ However, Lucas Malet is important to us now
as a preacher.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 824. O. 7, ’09. 870w.
“One is tempted to hazard the guess that the author may have planned or
begun the [second] story as a poem; in its prose form, it is, to say the
truth, strained and ineffective.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 141. Ag. 12, ’09. 400w.
“Mrs. Harrison always writes well and these short stories have an
interest which makes one wish that they were longer.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 468. Jl. 31, ’09. 420w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 635. N. ’09. 70w.
“The first [story] is a brilliant piece of work, though just a little
too determined to deserve that description. The second story is far less
successful, is, indeed, a very ordinary piece of work.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 230. Ag. 21, ’09. 570w.
“These pages are so well done that they have caused us to hope that
‘Lucas Malet’ will recognize soon that her native power and insight can
easily dispense with those adventitious aids to make people ‘feel’ which
are to us extremely unpleasant.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 136. Jl. 24, ’09. 1000w.
=Hartt, Rollin Lynde.=^{[6]} People at play: excursions in the humor
and philosophy of popular amusements. **$1.50. Houghton.
9–15055.
A shrewd, genial, sociological study of “people at play” made by an
essayist and journalist. His excursions into the realms of popular
hilarity have been supplemented by extensive literature on the subject;
his attitude is that of the student of comparative ethics. His
observations cover the home of burlesque, the amusement park, the dime
museum, melodrama, “the world in motion,” “the muses in the back
street,” base ball, etc.
* * * * *
“The author’s thorough understanding of his subject gives the book a
decided sociological value, and his humor and wholesome geniality make
it good for general reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 168. Je. ’09.
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 687. Ag. ’09. 240w.
“The book might have been written effectively and at the same time with
a little less of appeal to a low standard of literary taste.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 23. Jl. 1, ’09. 270w.
“On the whole the book does not carry a very deep philosophical keel.
Its chief value lies in its record of things which few writers have
thought worthy of record.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 628. Je. 24, ’09. 340w.
“The book may be heartily commended alike to the student and to the
general reader as a unique and interesting contribution to the
literature of sociology.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 428. Jl. 10, ’09. 800w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 255. Ag. ’09. 80w.
“The book with its delicious satire is a permanent contribution to the
literature of play.” B. L. Israels.
+ =Survey.= 22: 598. Jl. 31, ’09. 350w.
=Hasbach, Wilhelm.=^{[8]} History of the English agricultural
labourer; tr. by Ruth Kenyon. *7s. 6d. King, P. S., & son, London.
9–7840.
This translation “has given the author an opportunity to revise his
volume and make some additions. New emphasis is laid on the process by
which the agricultural laborer obtained his freedom, and the chapter
dealing with that topic has been enlarged and rewritten in the light of
the latest research. There has been added a brief chapter covering the
comparatively uneventful period from 1894, when the first edition
appeared, to the present time. The author’s final conclusion is that the
reorganization of English agriculture should, in the main, take the form
of a great multiplication of small peasant holdings.”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“There are several appendices of a scientifically accurate character
and, within the bounds of the general subjects mentioned above, a great
body of extremely interesting and suggestive historical material.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 603. Ap. ’09. 430w.
“While the agricultural laborer is the central figure in this book, the
telling of the story of this one class involves the writing of the
history of the growth of all three classes and their interrelations.
This task has been admirably performed by the author.” H. C. Taylor.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 436. S. ’09. 240w.
“The book is an excellent study of the condition of a large division of
the laboring class of England.” J: L. Coulter.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 126. Je. ’09. 700w.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 106. F. ’09. 100w.
“We differ from the author on many points, and it is no doubt the case
that he may be tripping in his history here and there, we hope that his
book will be read by every country and every townsman who is desirous of
obtaining a grip of some of the bottom facts of rural questions.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 465. Mr. 20, ’09. 530w.
“It is by far the best book on the subject treated.”
+ =Yale R.= 18: 105. My. ’09. 330w.
=Hassall, Arthur.=^{[8]} Viscount Castlereagh. *3s. 6d. Pitman,
London.
A volume belonging to the “Makers of national history,” a series
treating of “important men whose share in the making of national history
seems to need a more complete record than it has received.” The book
deals pro and con with Castlereagh’s fitness for his management of
England’s military affairs at the most critical moment of her existence.
* * * * *
“If however we cannot admit that it has been left to Mr. Hassall to
rehabilitate this great statesman we can welcome a clear,
well-proportioned, and well-informed sketch of his career. His judgment
is sound enough in the main, but he sometimes goes too far.” E. M. L.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 622. Jl. ’09. 500w.
“The book will be a useful one; no one can read it without considerably
improving his acquaintance with the three decades of English history,
1793–1823.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: sup. 157. Ja. 30, ’09. 300w.
=Hastings, G. W.=^{[8]} Vindication of Warren Hastings. *$2. Oxford.
In which the author rebuts the six charges that are the “great crimes”
of Macaulay’s essay.
* * * * *
“The test of the use made of the documents shows in a number of
quotations, inaccuracies of spelling and in some instances verbal
variations. On the whole, however, the use of the documents has been
legitimate.” A. L. P. Dennis.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 146. O. ’09. 340w.
“On the main issues the writer does not add to the fruits of the
researches already undertaken by Sir James Stephen and other vindicators
of Hastings’s fame, and indeed his eulogy of ‘the greatest man of our
race’ is marked rather by piety and enthusiasm than by any subtlety of
thought or judgment. Nevertheless the book is handy and useful, and some
of its personal information is curious and new.” G. B. H.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 621. Jl. ’09. 250w.
“Though nothing is ever likely to be written which will have a tithe of
Macaulay’s audience, this ‘Vindication’ ... deserves a wide circulation
as an antidote to the famous essay.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 187. Ag. 26, ’09. 1200w.
“He has written here with much sympathy and reverence. It is a record of
Hastings’s public life in India, rather a plea for the defendant than
the summing up of the evidence.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 366. Je. 12, ’09. 570w.
“We must be content with commending this ably written volume to the
notice of our readers.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 210. Ag. 7, ’09. 120w.
=Hastings, James=, ed. Dictionary of the Bible; ed. by James Hastings,
with the cooperation of John A. Selbie, and with the assistance of
John C. Lambert and of Shailer Mathews. **$5. Scribner.
9–3371.
“This is a notable volume and should meet a hearty welcome. It is the
first and only popular Bible dictionary in which modern methods of
interpretation prevail throughout. Furthermore, every article is
accompanied by the name of the author. The amount of matter in the
volume is astonishingly large, a fact due to economy of space and to the
use of a rather small type.” (Bib. World.) “It is not a mere abstract of
Dr. Hastings’s larger dictionary, but the principal topics have been
committed to other writers and the latest discoveries have been
embodied, but, of course, in condensed form.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“It is indeed commendable that such a work should avoid fresh
adventurous views not yet digested by discussion and should give to the
general student what is judged to be the established result of
criticism.” F. A. Christie.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 843. Jl. ’09. 300w.
“The text is slightly vitiated by careless proofreading. In the balance
of articles according to intrinsic worth, in fairness, thoroughness and
lucidity of treatment, and, despite faults that cannot be overlooked, in
general usability, this dictionary meets a genuine need of lay students
and Christian workers, will be of positive use to the general pastor,
and not without interest and suggestion to the biblical scholar.” R. H.
Ferris.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 273. Ap. ’09. 1000w.
“The work is well suited to serve the purpose for which it is intended,
though it will naturally be in greater favour with those who wish to
assimilate the results of modern criticism in a sufficiently full
measure than with the more conservative sections of readers.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 341. Mr. 20. 1200w.
“It can be unreservedly commended to the educated layman and
Sunday-school teacher.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 33: 215. Mr. ’09. 80w.
“The ‘Hastings’ volume presents a much larger amount of subject-matter
than the ‘Standard Bible dictionary.’ It has a type so small as to
constitute a serious objection in a popular book. For the most part
contributors represent a critical and historical attitude somewhat in
advance of that taken by the editors and contributors on the
‘Standard’s’ list.” J: M. P. Smith and S. J. Case.
+ − =Bib. World.= 33: 283. Ap. ’09. 770w.
“It deserves only praise. We commend the volume more heartily, and even
to those who possess either Hastings’s or Cheyne’s larger dictionaries
for this is later than either of them, and no duplication of either.”
+ + =Ind.= 66: 376. F. 18, ’09. 180w.
+ =Nation.= 89: 102. Jl. 29, ’09. 340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 114. F. 27, ’09. 280w.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 600. N. 13, ’09. 60w.
“We get more reading for our money from Dr. Hastings’ book than from
Murray’s dictionary.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 376. Mr. 20, ’09. 600w.
=Hastings, James=, ed. Encyclopaedia of religion and ethics. 10v.
subs. ea. *$7. Scribner.
8–35833.
A work which when completed will include about ten volumes. The aim is
to give an account of religion and ethics in all ages the world over.
All forms of religion will be presented, religious beliefs and
practices, philosophy and allied subjects, and people and places
associated with religious struggle and development. The contributors are
all men of special fitness for the particular articles requested of
them, and the work as a whole will furnish the equipment necessary for a
study of comparative religion.
* * * * *
“If one were inclined to be exacting, one would find, I think, that the
article on ‘Apologetics’ is not quite adequate, being a bit antiquated
in form, as well as misguided in emphasis, to say nothing of its
assuming so many things as proofs which themselves require to be proved.
In particular, its treatment of miracle and of historical criticism is
singularly unsatisfactory from the point of view of modern needs.” G: B.
Foster.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 269. Ap. ’09. 800w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The system of cross referencing is good, and the literature cited under
each subject is adequate and well chosen.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 14. S. ’09. (Review of v. 1.)
“The general result of our examination enables us to say that the editor
has risen to the height of his great undertaking. The work deserves the
fullest and best encouragement which the world of readers and
investigators can give it.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 713. D. 5. 2000w. (Review of v. 1.)
“As is almost inevitable, the quality of the material is uneven;
articles of great value are alongside of others practically worthless.
But the work as a whole will constitute an invaluable thesaurus of
information in the large field with which it deals.”
+ + − =Bib. World.= 33: 143. F. ’09. 150w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The editorial work deserves the highest praise. Disturbing errors are
rare. In articles on Muhammadan subjects, the dates of the Christian era
should always be given. There is no reason why the reader should be
obliged to reduce dates from one era to another.” Nathaniel Schmidt.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 377. N. 16, ’09. 1650w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This new encyclopedia will be an essential for the library of every
student of religion and ethics, and it will provide the material for
much theology.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 1060. N. 5, ’08. 820w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is in the matters of editing, allotment of space, and selection of
writers for particular topics that room for criticism has been afforded.
The reviewer can not help the conclusion that the editing is distinctly
empirical, not expert.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 38: 385. Mr. 6, ’09. 600w. (Review of v. 1.)
“In so large a mass of material there will necessarily be points on
which specialists differ, but the articles have all been carefully
prepared, and in most of them the conclusions are well supported.”
+ + − =Nation.= 88: 173. F. 18, ’09. 630w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Nothing seems to have been overlooked in the wide field.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 91: 245. Ja. 30, ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The line [of inclusion] should have been drawn at the point where
metaphysics verges upon theology and ethics.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 107: 145. Ja. 30, ’09. 1300w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Hatfield, Frank, pseud.= Realm of light. $1.50. Reid pub.
8–23532.
Here are set down the experiences of some Chicago business men in the
heart of Africa. They discover a mountain inhabited at its summit by a
race whose giant size suggests their physical power and whose
discoveries and inventions attest their intellectual development.
* * * * *
“This is one of the best Utopian romances of recent decades.”
+ =Arena.= 41: 88. Ja. ’09. 370w.
“The adventures and experiences of two Chicago business men in the heart
of Africa are thrillingly set forth.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1187. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
=Hatfield, Henry Rand.=^{[7]} Modern accounting: its principles and
some of its problems. **$1.75. Appleton.
9–8816.
A treatise of scientific interest which goes into the unsettled problem
of accounting. “The book begins with a lucid treatment in two chapters
of the principles of double-entry bookkeeping. Then follows a chapter on
the balance sheet, out of which grow the succeeding chapters which treat
of the individual items of the balance sheet and the problems suggested
by them. If any chapters were to be selected for special commendation,
they would be those on depreciation, profits, and surplus and reserves.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“More technical and in some features more exhaustive than Cole’s
‘Accounts’ and more valuable for accountants’ reference use.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 168. Je. ’09.
“The product is scholarly; abundant evidence being present of research
in the literature of accountancy, continental, British and American. It
also gives evidence of personal contact with affairs and with men who
have been in positions of highest administrative responsibility.” F: A.
Cleveland.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 235. S. ’09. 780w.
“On the whole, the book is heartily to be commended for the sanity of
the author’s individual judgments, for its gathering of information
about the practice, or lack of uniformity in practice, of modern
accounts, and for its encyclopædic character.” W: M. Cole.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 647. N. ’09. 850w.
“Within the limits that he has marked out for himself, Professor
Hatfield has produced the best treatise on accounting that has yet
appeared in the United States, and it is difficult to find its superior
in the English language.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 584. Je. 10, ’09. 900w.
“Students of accounting will find his work a valuable book of
reference.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 289. My. 8, ’09. 200w.
=Haultain, Theodore Arnold.= Mystery of golf: a briefe account of
games in generall, their origine, antiquitie, and rampancie, and of
the game ycleped golfe in particular, its uniqueness, its
curiousness, and its difficultie, its anatomical, philosophicall,
and moral properties together with diverse conceipts on other
matters to it appertaining. *$5. Houghton.
8–34682.
“Simply a present-day golf-enthusiast’s enamoured account of the
delights of his favorite pastime.” (Dial.) “The author ambles pleasantly
in discussion of the perversities of golf, its humors, its insoluble
problems, its perpetual charm. He discusses the physiological,
psychological and social aspects of the game.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The well-convinced and cleverly executed little treatise is amusing,
especially to golfists.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 459. D. 16, ’08. 210w.
“This venture of Mr. Haultain’s does justify itself.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 167. F. 18, ’09. 150w.
“Any book lover, any collector, will prize this little book. It is a
book for men of good minds; trifling learnedly with a weighty subject.
It is charming reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 800. D. 26, ’08. 400w.
“Why the ludicrous, more than Spenserian, extravagance of the rubric
notes?”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 505. Mr. 27, ’09. 200w.
=Havell, Ernest Binfield.=^{[9]} Indian sculpture and painting. *$25.
Scribner.
9–7586.
“This is a work of exceeding interest to students of Oriental art. The
author has studied his subject closely, and writes with an intimate
knowledge of the magnificent examples of glyptic art for which India is
famous. His definitions of the ideals of the native sculptor are clearly
presented, and help his readers to a juster appreciation of the examples
which still remain more or less intact as a witness of the æsthetic
culture and technical skill of the craftsman in past ages. Among the
excellent photographs with which the work is illustrated is a
particularly interesting series from the shrine of Bôrôbudûr.”—Int.
Studio.
* * * * *
“A work of extraordinary value and interest.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 245. S. ’09. 230w.
“The book is a pioneer work, and will stand as something of a landmark
in the future. His overstatements considerably impair the value of the
book as a contribution to knowledge.” Laurence Binyon.
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 38. Ja. 9, ’09. 1700w.
“Those who would know something of the true essence of Indian art will
welcome Mr. Havell’s book. Mr. Havell at once goes to the root of the
matter, and not only makes us realise that Indian art is totally
different in its aim from that of the West, but helps us to understand
why this is so.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 641. Ap. 24, ’09. 550w.
=Hawker, George.=^{[11]} Life of George Grenfell. **$2. Revell.
9–30437.
A life of George Grenfell who spent thirty years as missionary among the
Congo natives. “Mr. Hawker bases his work upon writings of Mr. Grenfell
which have been gathered together since his death in July, 1906, and
includes in it many direct quotations from his letters, journals, and
other papers.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“A new and interesting life of George Grenfell.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 555. S. 18, ’09. 350w.
=Spec.= 102: 863. My. 29, ’09. 450w.
=Hawkes, Clarence.=^{[10]} Shovelhorns: the biography of a moose.
†$1.50. Jacobs.
9–25955.
A biography that traces the struggles of the king of the wilderness as
with main strength he fights his battles with other dwellers of the
forest and uses his “wilderness cunning against the artifices of
civilization.” Altho the treatment of the chapters is in the popular
vein, moose characteristics are set down with fidelity to scientific
fact.
* * * * *
=Hawkins, George Walter.= Economy factor in steam-power plants. $3.
Hill pub.
9–3208.
“The only problem dealt with is the determination of the fuel
consumption of a steam plant per unit of power delivered.... The plan of
the book is simple. First of all, the performance of the elements of a
steam plant are considered; then a number of formulas are built up for
the fuel consumption under full load test conditions for steam plants of
various types; and finally, factors are determined for taking into
account variable load and standing losses.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Its chief value lies in the large amount of specific information
relating to the efficiency of engines, boilers, etc., which seems to
have been compiled with exceptional care.”
+ =Elec. World.= 54: 52. Jl. 1, ’09. 120w.
“Those having to do with the economical design of steam power plants
will find the book a desirable addition to their working libraries.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 293. Mr. ’09. 380w.
“If he will examine R. H. Smith’s ‘Commercial economy in steam and other
thermal powerplants,’ he will find a very much more comprehensive, but
at the same time a very different, treatment of the subject. It is to be
regretted that the author did not make his work more comprehensive by
giving the data for determining the commercial efficiency of steam
plants.” L. S. Marks.
− + =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 29. Mr. 18, ’09. 1350w.
=Hayden, Arthur.=^{[11]} Chats on old earthenware. *$2. Stokes.
This volume, a companion volume to the author’s “Chats on English
china,” “gives suggestions for collectors and describes various
stonewares, Wedgwood products, transfer-printed ware, Staffordshire ware
and luster ware. The book is illustrated with numerous productions.”
(Int. Studio.)
* * * * *
=Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 25. N. ’09. 30w.
“For the large and ever-growing class which collects earthenware and
stoneware because of its variety and decorative character, and because
unimportant specimens can still be obtained at small cost, Mr. Hayden’s
‘Chats’ will be of considerable use.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 174. Ag. 7, ’09. 320w.
“A most serviceable volume.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 722. N. 6, ’09. 140w.
=Hayes, Charles Willard.=^{[12]} Handbook for field geologists. 2d
ed., thoroughly rev. *$1.50. Wiley.
8–17308.
“Contains much which is only applicable to members of a government
survey in the United States, but is, besides, a very practical little
handbook, the treatment of the problems connected with the determination
of dip, thickness, and depth of beds being perhaps the least
satisfactory part. These problems, if properly put, are of great
simplicity; but the beginner, trusting to Dr. Hayes, might well conclude
that there was some subtle difference between the dip of a fault plane
and the dip of a stratum, and that problems which may be tackled in the
one case are insoluble in the other.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“An attempt has been made to get over the difficulty of making the same
work at once a beginner’s guide and an expert’s ‘vade mecum’ by dividing
it into two sections, and of the two the latter seems better done.”
+ =Nature.= 81: 455. O. 14, ’09. 340w.
“It can be most highly recommended not merely to geologists and
scientific men, but, as many of the points are applicable, to any
camper-out, to any one who has to do with mining or civil engineering,
and it should be brought to the attention of a wide circle.” A. C. Lane.
+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 371. S. 17, ’09. 430w.
=Hays, Helen Ashe.=^{[7]} Little Maryland garden. **$1.75. Putnam.
9–12050.
Miss Hays describes a garden “made by a transplanted Californian, with
many backward longings for the luxuriant growth of the Far West, whereas
we had been led by the title to look for an embodiment of some of the
countless charms that distinguish the ripe old gardens of Maryland.”
(Dial.)
* * * * *
“A lover of flowers will find pleasure and inspiration in it.”
+ =Bot. Gaz.= 48: 310. O. ’09. 150w.
“The book is cleverly written and attractively illustrated, and gives
many a bit of gardenlore and many helpful words in advocacy of the
culture of our native flowers.” S. A. Shafer.
+ =Dial.= 46: 368. Je. 1, ’09. 180w.
+ =Ind.= 67: 427. Ag. 19, ’09. 110w.
“Here is a garden-book above the average.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 40. Jl. 8, ’09. 380w.
“Delightful contribution to the general subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 384. Je. 12, ’09. 30w.
“It is certainly worth study.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 492. O. 2, ’09. 160w.
=Hazard, Caroline.=^{[11]} Brief pilgrimage in the Holy Land;
recounted in a series of addresses delivered in Wellesley college
chapel. **$1.25. Houghton.
A series of brief Sunday evening addresses delivered by the president of
Wellesley college to her students. She presents some aspects of a
three-weeks’ journey in the Holy Land which formed a part of her
sabbatical-year experiences. She confines her talks to Carmel by the
sea, the Mount of Beatitudes, the sea of Galilee, Capernaum, the plain
of Sharon, Joppa, Bethlehem, Jericho, the Jordan and the Dead sea, the
wilderness, Jerusalem—the lament, and Jerusalem—the triumph.
* * * * *
“A series of delightful sketches of various localities. There are a
score of pictures, all of them interesting and outside of the range of
postcards and stock illustrations.” C: R. Gillett.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 767. D. 4, ’09. 90w.
“Good supplementary reading to Mr. Duncan’s book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 759. D. ’09. 50w.
=Headlam, Cecil.=^{[11]} Inns of Court. *$2. Macmillan.
9–35793.
Describes and pictures the mediaeval and modern buildings around the
courts of the Outer and Inner Temple, Lincoln’s Inn and Gray’s Inn. “The
development of the Inns of Court as teaching and administering bodies is
lucidly described. And then there is the great store of personal
interest. Here the literary element may be said to dominate the legal.
When we walk through the Temple we think of Johnson, Goldsmith, and Lamb
rather than of old-time Chancellors and Chief Justices. All the Inns,
present and past, have their due share in Mr. Headlam’s narrative.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
“Described in a manner combining a maximum of information with a minimum
of dullness.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 41. O. ’09.
“Its illustrations deserve high praise. Mr. Cecil Headlam’s letterpress
is not an altogether satisfactory ally to the paintings of Mr. Gordon
Home.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 220. Ag. 21. 370w.
=Sat. R.= 107: 792. Je. 19, ’09. 160w.
“We cannot help thinking that Mr. Headlam’s invective is sometimes a
little too violent.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 900. Je. 5, ’09. 350w.
=Headlam, Cecil.= Venetia and northern Italy; being the story of
Venice, Lombardy and Emilia. (Old world travel ser.) *$2.50.
Macmillan.