Deals in outline with the history, architecture and art of the towns of
northern Italy which lie within the triangular plain bounded on the
north by the Alps, on the west by the Apennines, and on the east by the
Adriatic sea.
* * * * *
“Well adapted for use by clubs doing advanced work, by prospective
travelers and by readers already familiar with the region.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 42. F. ’09.
“More care and research are needed to make the volume satisfactory.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 1: 404. Ap. 3. 600w.
“He writes delightfully, and his characterizations are so clear and
beautiful that they linger in the mind.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 459. D. 16, ’08. 120w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1461. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“The general impression he makes is that of an intelligent and
sympathetic companion, who never discourses long enough on any subject
to weary his hearers. Quantitatively, he seems to succeed in imparting a
larger number of facts than is usual in books of this kind.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 578. D. 10, ’08. 250w.
“In Mr. Headlam’s text we find the same attractiveness which we have
found in his description of other places—Oxford, Chartres, Nuremberg.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 66. Ja. 9, ’09. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 759. D. ’08. 40w.
“The author has considerable knowledge and has used very considerable
diligence; his style flows pleasantly and rarely jars; his observation
is keen, and his art judgments are often both penetrating and just. To
tell the truth, in what should be a thrilling history there is scarce a
single thrill. And throughout there is the assumption that the reader is
well-informed enough to be content with generalisation and the allusive
method of writing history.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 733. D. 12, ’08. 650w.
+ =Spec.= 103: 689. O. 30, ’09. 40w.
=Headland, Isaac Taylor.=^{[11]} Court life in China: the capital, its
officials and people. **$1.50. Revell.
9–27282.
To apply the scientific method to the study of the Chinese royal family
seems like taking forbidden liberties. Yet the author has accomplished
his purpose, and, shows that what he has done has been possible only
within the past ten years, during which time the Empress Dowager has
come out from behind the screen and the court has entered into social
relations with Europeans. The author tells the story of the Empress
Dowager’s life, piecing together the meager facts obtainable, and gives
intimate glimpses of life at court.
* * * * *
“An excellent and an instructive book.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 455. D. 1, ’09. 250w.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1041. N. 4, ’09. 220w.
“The book is just to all, appreciative of the Chinese, and hopeful that
increasing knowledge among us will result in greater respect for Chinese
statesmanship and honesty.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 560. N. 6, ’09. 140w.
“Full of interesting descriptions of court procedure and conditions in
the celebrated empire such as the western world does not often have set
before it.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 758. D. ’09. 120w.
=Hearne, R. P.= Aerial warfare; with an introd. by Sir Hiram S. Maxim.
**$2.50. Lane.
War9–11.
“Mr. Hearne’s text goes pretty fully into the various forms of
air-craft—flying machines of many types, balloons pure and simple,
dirigible balloons with rigid and semi-rigid envelopes—and indicates
what has already been done with each type. This part of the book is
provided with many useful illustrations from photographs. From what has
been accomplished thus concretely, the author advances to the
possibilities and probabilities of the air-ship in war, and arrives at
the conclusion that it must be considered a very important factor in all
future military calculations for attack or defense.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 104. Ap. ’09.
“In reading some parts of this book one wonders if the author intends
what he says to be taken seriously; certainly he fails to be convincing
to any one with technical training and, of course, it is from the
viewpoint of such a person that the book is here considered.”
− =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 46. Ap. 15, ’09. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 129. Mr. 6, ’09. 800w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 382. Mr. ’09. 80w.
“We commend this book to the attention of our readers.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 270. F. 13, ’09. 70w.
=Hedges, Florence E. Blake-.=^{[6]} Story of the catacombs. *$1. West.
Meth. bk.
9–10945.
A treatment of the catacombs as a factor in the mighty testimony of the
Christian religion’s earliest achievements. It covers the origin,
construction, and extension of the catacombs; the life, worship and
martyrdom of Christians in them; and the catacomb period of Christian
art which had its birth in the tomb.
* * * * *
“The design is to inform the general reader who may be merely curious as
well as to edify the Christian whose interest is special and religious.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 371. Je. 12, ’09. 160w.
=Heidenreich, E. Lee.= Engineers’ pocketbook of reinforced concrete.
*$3. Clark, M. C.
9–71.
“The author realizes the constantly changing standards of the industry
and offers his book as a snapshot, so to speak, of the present stage, to
be revised with the development of the art.... The chapter headings are:
Material and machines; Design and construction of buildings; Design and
construction of bridges; Abutments and retaining walls; Culverts,
conduits, sewers; Pipes and dams; Tanks, reservoirs, bins and grain
elevators; Chimneys, miscellaneous data, cost keeping, estimating,
specifications, etc.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The book affords in convenient form judiciously chosen formulas, tables
and collateral data.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 295. Mr. ’09. 250w.
“It is necessarily incomplete, but it has compactness, good arrangement,
clearness and a fair selection, all valuable attributes of the good
handbook. The chapter on bridges treats only the elastic arch, and that
not at all satisfactorily, and includes some very incomplete notes on
construction.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 5. Ja. 14, ’09. 240w.
“Like all others, the author has compiled freely from many sources, but
his selections have been well made and his own wide experience furnished
a large amount of information and many useful suggestions and schemes
for executing the details of work. While the work is largely elementary
in character, the tables are not always sufficiently complete to answer
the requirements of an inexperienced draftsman.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 59: 111. Ja. 23, ’09. 270w.
=Heil, Adolf, and Esch, W.=^{[11]} Manufacture of rubber goods: a
practical handbook. *$3.50. Lippincott.
9–35784.
“A translation of Heil and Esch’s ‘Handbuch der gummiwarenfabrikation,’
adapted to English usage in respect of the machinery generally employed
in this country.” (Nature.) The handbook gives the plan and arrangement
of a factory for carrying out the operations involved in manufacture of
rubber goods from the raw materials. The volume is fully illustrated.
* * * * *
“A thorough manual.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 14. S. ’09.
“The text is generally lucid, though occasionally with a leaning to
Teutonic stolidity. Except in this respect, the translator has
eliminated any lingual indication of the origin of the book, which can
be recommended as a very practical and useful work.” C. S.
+ =Nature.= 81: 391. S. 30, ’09. 720w.
=Heilman, Ralph Emerson.= Chicago traction: a study of the efforts of
the public to secure good service. (American economic assn.
quarterly, 3d ser. v. 9, no. 2) $1. Am. economic assn., Princeton.
8–25382.
“Under a somewhat misleading main title,—since the study is confined to
the street railways of Chicago, and, moreover, omits any discussion of
the financial operations even of these,—Mr. Heilman traces the history
of the surface traction companies of the city from 1858 to a date within
ninety days following the Chicago election of April 2, 1907. The
historical study is followed by an analysis of the present situation and
a statement of the writer’s view of the probable future.”—Econ. Bull.
* * * * *
“The book contains numerous typographical errors.” G: R. Wicker.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 346. D. ’08. 870w.
“Within the limitations suggested the treatment is a valuable history of
the franchise grants to street railways with a fairly good summary of
the provisions of the latest ordinances.” Spurgeon Bell.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 41. Ja. ’09. 750w.
=Helm, W. H.=^{[11]} Jane Austen and her Country House comedy. 7s. 6d.
Nash, London.
A work whose aim is to bring “new members into the large but
comparatively restricted circle wherein she is regarded, not always as
the first of English novelists, but at least as second to none in the
quality of her work.” “It is favourite dogma nowadays with the superior
person that literary criticism has nothing to do with biography, and
that in estimating an author’s work no attention should be paid to the
facts of his life. The method adopted by Mr. Helm is in direct
opposition to this theory. In the meagre annals of Jane Austen’s career
he diligently seeks for the raw material of her novels, and from the
novels in turn deduces the realities of her personal experience.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“He is never dull, and though much of what he says has been said before,
it is always expressed in a style which redeems it from the stigma of
obviousness. To add that he is never irritating is to signalize a virtue
of the rarest among writers of literary criticism. His appreciation
contains perhaps too much of the critical element to be wholly
acceptable to the straitest sect of Jane Austen enthusiasts; but his
applause is as ungrudging as it is discriminating, and has the note of
personal affection.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 454. O. 16. 1450w.
“Mr. Helm’s admiration is sane and well balanced.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 352. S. 18, ’09. 1650w.
=Henderson, Charles Richmond.= Industrial insurance in the United
States. *$2. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–3310.
Substantially an English version of “Die arbeiter-versicherung in den
Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-America.” New material has been added to
bring the text to date, and statistics have been compared in many cases
with primary sources. A summary of European laws on industrial insurance
prefaces the work to indicate the tendencies of thought and activity in
the field. The author discusses the social policy for industrial
insurance in the United States, Social relief societies, Benefit
features of trade unions, Insurance of fraternal societies, Employers’
liability law, Private insurance companies, Firms and corporations,
Insurance plans of railway corporations, Pension systems, and Protective
legislation. The appendix contains regulations of several schemes of
insurance, drawn up by actuaries, with the best legal and business
advice.
* * * * *
“A valuable and timely presentation.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 77. Mr. ’09.
“An English book on this important subject is timely and for the present
this volume supplies the deficiency.” G: B. Mangold.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 207. Jl. ’09. 250w.
“The book brings together a mass of material, properly classified, and
revealing long and patient inquiry.” J: R. Commons.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 55. Ap. ’09. 900w.
“Its usefulness has been considerably enhanced by the addition of a
succinct summary of the legislation along this line of every European
country of importance, thus furnishing a good background for comparison
with the situation in this country.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 308. My. ’09. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 83. F. 13, ’09. 300w.
=Spec.= 103: 243. Ag. 14, ’09. 110w.
=Henderson, Charles Richmond.= Social duties from the Christian point
of view: a text book for the study of social problems. $1.25. Univ.
of Chicago press.
9–8935.
Full of suggestions for the concrete and practical religious and moral
instruction whose aim is to right and stimulate the thought that impels
conduct. The author discusses social duties relating to the family, to
neglected children, to workingmen, and social duties in rural
communities; the public health, economic interests, educational
agencies, church and municipal duties in urban life; charities and
corrections; rights and responsibilities of the great corporations; and
social duties relating to the business and leisure classes, to
government and social duties in international relations.
* * * * *
“Professor Henderson has labored so fruitfully in various portions of
this whole social territory that he is well qualified to give advice in
a general textbook.” N: P. Gilman.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 15: 119. Jl. ’09. 280w.
“Written from a broadly human viewpoint and in an admirable spirit; sane
and stimulating to right thinking and living.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 138. My. ’09. ✠
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 359. My. ’09. 40w.
=Henderson, Ernest Flagg.=^{[11]} Lady of the old régime. *$2.50.
Macmillan.
9–27596.
It is a coincidence that two biographies of the same woman, Arvède
Barine’s “Madame, mother of the regent” and Mr. Henderson’s “A lady of
the old régime” should appear the same month. Mr. Henderson portrays the
Duchesse d’Orleans, true to her “child-of-nature” instincts, guileless
in her artificial surroundings, practical and sensible in everything
except her inordinate jealousy of Madame de Maintenon. His delineation
of court scenes and people of Louis XIV’s court are sprightly and vivid.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 47: 458. D. 1, ’09. 220w.
“An entertaining and judicious compilation in which he has permitted the
heroine of the tale, so far as possible, to speak for herself.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 684. O. 23, ’09. 650w.
“The weakness of Mr. Henderson’s work is its lack of chronological
sequence; its chief interest lies in its discursive account of life in
the palaces of the Grand Monarque. In one respect Mr. Henderson’s work
is far more enjoyable than the English version of Arvède Barine’s: his
style is good, whereas the language of the other, though correct enough,
is still unmistakably a translation.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 547. D. 2, ’09. 350w.
“Mr. Henderson treats the subject with perhaps less sympathy than Madame
Barine.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 40: 756. D. ’09. 50w.
=Henderson, Percy E. (Selim, pseud.).= British officer in the Balkans:
the account of a journey through Dalmatia, Montenegro, Turkey in
Austria, Magyarland, Bosnia and Hercegovina. *$3.50. Lippincott.
9–14694.
“An entertaining account of a journey in Montenegro, Bosnia, and their
neighbourhood. The reader will not be bored with useless discussion of
those insoluble problems that are raised in most writings concerned with
the Balkan peninsula.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Covers some of the ground that Jackson’s ‘Shores of the Adriatic’ does,
but in a more popular and less exhaustive manner.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 168. Je. ’09.
“The criticism often made by us on narratives of travel, to the effect
that their authors have not sufficiently wide experience to distinguish
circumstances of interest from those which are well known because
widespread, may be directed against Major Henderson. Far more than the
usual writer of traveller’s gossip he is a guide worth following, and
his pages are readable by all.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 161. F. 6. 770w.
“Those who are more concerned with the domestic manners and the everyday
life of the people in pleasure and business, will find the book replete
with stories, incidents, and customs of a people who are
now—unhappily—very prominent in the public eye.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 46: 367. Je. 1, ’09. 160w.
“At any rate it is most readable, being both interesting and amusing. We
feel grateful to the author for the pains he has taken in collecting
information of all kinds with regard to the cities, buildings, and
national types he met with.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 852. My. 15, ’09. 280w.
“It is a sort of revision of Baedeker, indispensable for any one
contemplating a trip to the picturesque country.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 361. Ap. 8, ’09. 300w.
“The writer brings to his subject a keen vision and mature experience.
Yet he is painstaking to a fault in his avoidance of discussion and
partisanship.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 189. Ap. 3, ’09. 1100w.
“An interesting record.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 228. Ap. 10, ’09. 20w.
“The book has a certain archæological value in its description of the
Bogumilite monuments in Bosnia.”
+ − =Outlook.= 92: 70. My. 8, ’09. 270w.
“If anyone wants to know what Austria has effected in thirty years in a
country which when she took it over was as wild and barbarous as
Macedonia, he can gather it from these extremely matter-of-fact pages.
This indeed gives the book the only merit it possesses, and it carries
conviction far more successfully to the mind than if it were the
strongly worded work of a partisan.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: sup. 6. My. 22, ’09. 200w.
“May be described as an enthusiastic guidebook. It is traveller’s
narrative which looks little below the surface. It assumes no knowledge
and usefully suggests routes.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 500. Mr. 27, ’09. 30w.
=Henderson, Walter George.= Norah Conough. $1.25. Outing pub.
9–15204.
Ranch life in New South Wales is depicted in this story full of
atmosphere and the human element. Two brothers take up a selection
(Australian for claim) and develop it. Closely related to their struggle
in the bush are their respective courses of true love; in the one case
moderately smooth-running, in the other, turbulent to the point of
heartbreak.
* * * * *
“A love story that is fresh and wholesome, but lacking in subtlety and
skill in character drawing. Good as a picture of social and domestic
life in a crude new country.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 187. Je. ’09.
“The inn-keeper’s daughter, and her rough champion are the figures which
give the pleasant story such distinctiveness as it can lay claim to.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 163. Ag. 19, ’09. 230w.
“There are some strong emotional situations in the story and much
account, made quite skillfully a vital part of the story, of
out-of-doors life in that quarter of the world.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 241. Ap. 17, ’09. 160w.
“For readers upon the other side of the world the book has the charm of
the unaccustomed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 375. Je. 12, ’09. 250w.
=Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).=^{[12]} Options. †$1.50. Harper.
9–27747.
Sixteen O. Henry stories, true to life, clever and full of rare
entertainment. In fact, this collection is called an “edition de luxe”
of O. Henry. It contains the best stories he has written in the past two
years. Besides two prize stories, “Thimble, thimble,” and “Supply and
demand,” there is at least one other that ought to have had a prize. It
is “The third ingredient.” To say that the third ingredient is an onion,
and that about that onion, the necessity for it and the daring it took
to secure it for a certain shop-girl’s stew, centers the story with its
neat plot, clever characterization and swift action, seems to be
admitting great possibilities for small things.
* * * * *
+ − =Nation.= 89: 540. D. 2, ’09. 380w.
“Contains very few examples of O. Henry’s best. Full of good
stories—wonderfully good stories of men and women—most of them still
rather young—stories that flash upon you things which your stupidity or
inattention has missed when you have looked with your own uncoached eyes
upon the identical common life they are concerned to picture.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 728. N. 20, ’09. 400w.
=Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).=^{[8]} Roads of destiny. †$1.50.
Doubleday.
9–11539.
A volume of stories many of which deal “with the picturesque riff-raff
floating through the South and West—Mississippi, Texas, Mexico and South
America.” (Nation.) They are: Roads of destiny; The guardian of the
accolade; The discounters of money; The enchanted profile; “Next to
reading matter”; Art and the bronco; Phoebe; A double-dyed deceiver; The
passing of Black Eagle; A retrieved reformation; Cherchez la femme;
Friends in San Rosario; The fourth in Salvador; The emancipation at
Charleroi; On behalf of the management; Whistling Dick’s Christmas
stocking; The halberdier of the little Rheinschloss; Two renegades; The
lonesome road.
* * * * *
“Readable though perhaps inferior to his earlier volumes.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 28. S. ’09.
“Of the particular type of short story which he produces, O. Henry is a
perfectly assured master.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 56. Jl. 15, ’09. 380w.
“The stories are marked by that humor and keen characterization which we
have come to expect from this industrious writer. Though not, on the
whole, quite so worthy of serious praise as the former collections of
Mr. Porter’s work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 319. My. 22, ’09. 180w.
=Henshaw, Nevil Gratiot.= Aline of the Grand woods: a story of
Louisiana. $1.50. Outing pub.
9–3875.
A story set in the Louisiana woods among the Cajuns. It deals with the
development of an orphan child after the death of her father who had
been disinherited on account of his marrying contrary to paternal
wishes. Aline is brought up almost within the shadow of the ancestral
Hall, but her portion is air, sunshine, the breath of flowers and of the
woods. Doubts, longings, misunderstandings and suffering, accentuated by
a troublesome Cajun lover, give way in good season to a generous measure
of happiness.
* * * * *
“The slight plot is rather crudely developed and there is a lack of
reality about the many characters and incidents that detract from the
interest.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 91. Mr. ’09.
“It is a good, downright story in the old-fashioned style, moving along
the paths of real life, which it softens and colors with a tinge of
romance.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 257. My. ’09. 260w.
“One is indeed left wondering why one should waste spring days on pages
like these when the literature of the running brooks is to be obtained
so easily.”
− =Nation.= 88: 337. Ap. 1, ’09. 180w.
“The author shows much dramatic strength in his style, and in his use of
incidents, and much unusual skill in his ability to make the reader feel
the personality of his widely varying characters.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 136. Mr. 6, ’09. 180w.
“The story is dramatic, and many of its scenes are tense with strong
feeling.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 375. Je. 12, ’09. 330w.
“There can be no question of the truth of the picture, though its
composition at times seems somewhat ill-proportioned.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 815. Ap. 10, ’09. 120w.
=Hepburn, Alonzo Barton.= Artificial waterways and commercial
development, (with a history of the Erie canal). *$1. Macmillan.
9–3307.
“A résumé of the relation to commerce of the world’s artificial
waterways.... The book opens with an historical sketch of the world’s
canals, followed by a more detailed history of the Erie canal.... Then
follow a few facts relating to the present conditions of the Panama
canal and a discussion of the waterways question and conservation of our
resources. In an appendix is given a series of tables (1) Relating to
New York canals; (2) Relating to commerce of New York City; (3)
Miscellaneous.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 104. Ap. ’09. ✠
“In discussing the Erie canal, however, much interesting historical data
is presented in a readable form.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 182. Jl. ’09. 140w.
“The historical portion is interesting and the appended statistical
tables helpful, but the arguments for modernization do not seem to
follow as logically from the historical recital as the author would
assume. Two weaknesses which never fail to appear in the arguments of
waterway enthusiasts, must be noted. The one sets forth figures showing
the cheapness of transportation with a modernized canal and fails to
take into account the burden of construction and maintenance charges
thrown upon the people as a whole. The other fails to differentiate the
comparatively short ship-canal connecting great bodies of water from the
long shallow ditch which can only be utilized by craft built especially
for the purpose.” F. H. Dixon.
− + =Econ. Bull.= 2: 38. Ap. ’09. 420w.
“The book is both interesting and instructive.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 295. Mr. ’09. 300w.
“There is no need of a really first rate book in the field which this
one pretends to cover, but it should be written by someone with a
broader viewpoint and greater technical knowledge than the author of
this work.”
− =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 30. Mr. 18, ’09. 220w.
“A short but forceful little book.” E. L. Bogart.
+ =Forum.= 42: 92. Jl. ’09. 300w.
+ =Ind.= 66: 1142. My. 27, ’09. 120w.
“It adds nothing to our previous stock of information upon the subject
and contributes about as much to the solution of the much-vexed
waterways question.”
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 384. Je. ’09. 150w.
“A timely contribution to the evidence on the subject.”
+ =Nature.= 80: 307. My. 13, ’09. 250w.
“Though inadequate in the treatment of the subjects with which it
deals, ... the book is certainly of interest as a primer. It presents an
excellent synopsis of the more important incidents in the history of the
Erie canal.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 134. Mr. 6, ’09. 330w.
=Herbert, Agnes.=^{[8]} Isle of man *$3.50. Lane.
Deals with the native and the tripper, with the history, archaeology,
customs and scenery of Manxland. “She is here on her own ground, and her
style is not less racy ... when she was engaged in explaining how she
shot lions in Africa or bears in America, and incidentally turned the
mere male person into her willing servitor.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“But, for all its shortcomings, the book is readable, and all the
pictures excellent.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 591. O. 9, ’09. 720w.
“A book which is really admirable. Mona’s Isle is never likely to find a
more vivacious chronicler.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 5. Jl. 17, ’09. 220w.
“We cannot say that we like [Mr. Maxwell’s drawings] all equally well.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 138. Jl. 24, ’09. 180w.
=Herbert, Alice.=^{[9]} Measure of our youth. †$1.50. Lane.
A story of psychological purport dealing with the sex theme. “England is
the setting for all that transpires after the explanatory chapter, in
which there is a short history of the liaison that was responsible for
the introduction of East Indian blood into the Bewley family. Francis
and Adela Bewley, brother and sister, are the principal characters, but
from their babyhood to marriage, which is approximately the time covered
by the story, they are accompanied by a host of people just as clearly
delineated.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“A too colorful story, replete with ‘near’ climaxes, and peopled with
familiarly bizarre characters.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 353. Je. 5, ’09. 210w.
“The story is a thoughtful piece of work, sometimes a little naïvely
ignorant and crude in its philosophy of life, but written with sincerity
and earnestness.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 174. Ag. 7, ’09. 150w.
=Herbert, George.= Priest to the temple; or, The country parson, his
character and rule of holy life; with an introd. and brief notes by
the bishop of North Carolina. *75c. Whittaker.
8–28972.
A reprint of Herbert’s observations on the duties of a pastor.
“Judicious and helpful suggestions abound as to preaching, catechizing,
visiting, and other points of pastoral duty, when applied with
discrimination, remembering that the letter killeth, and that it is the
spirit that giveth life.”
* * * * *
=Nation.= 87: 579. D. 10, ’08. 90w.
=Hereford, William Richard.=^{[12]} The demagog. †$1.50. Holt.
9–28115.
The demagog of Mr. Hereford’s stirring political novel is the owner of a
chain of newspapers who for years had been lying low and scheming
persistently for ultimate political power. This story is concerned with
his open campaign for the presidency. On the one side are portrayed his
schemes for winning the office thru his favorite means—force and
stratagem; on the other is the weaving of the net by his opponent from
the threads of his past traitorous dealings with fellow men, of
unfaithfulness to women and general corruptness, which finally enmeshes
him and renders him alike harmless and ignominious.
=Hewitt, Emma Churchman.=^{[7]} How to live on a small income. 50c.
Jacobs.
9–18582.
A little volume inscribed to young housekeepers. It aims to open up a
train of ideas that will lead the young housekeeper to think for herself
and to adjust herself to her environment. The advice rests upon the
requirement that a housekeeper shall learn the difference between the
words “cheap” and “inexpensive.” Some of the chapters are: Selecting a
home; Health problems and sanitation; Floors and their treatment;
Furnishings and their care; The finance problem; False economy which is
waste; Economy of work; Dress and shopping; Clothes for the little ones;
Entertaining; With the home chef.
=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.=^{[6]} Artemision: idylls and songs. **$1.
Scribner.