The republication in one volume of the three works entitled “Coast and
moorland scenes,” “Dales and fells,” and “Vales and wolds.” “Famous
houses and ruins, great churches, moorland and sea-coast, the many
things that put Yorkshire so high among English shires are to be found
here.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Home knows well how to give variety of interest to his pages.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 462. D. 16, ’08. 170w.
“Mr. Home’s text is chiefly descriptive, and suffers a little from the
monotony due to such writing and from an uncertain taste when the purple
patches are in order. His pictures are more to our liking.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 180w.
“A volume of great and varied interest.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 951. D. 5, ’08. 90w.
=Hoover, Bessie Ray.=^{[9]} Pa Flickinger’s folks. †$1. Harper.
9–22182.
A story of Ma and Pa Flickinger and their family, types of ordinary
working people in every day life. The author convincingly portrays the
fun they get out of life, the philosophical way in which they look upon
all hardships when influenced by their belief that everyone is fitted
for his burdens and all things come right.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 55. O. ’09. ✠
“A friendly, optimistic realism is the great merit of a volume of
sketches linked together by a slight plot and the unity of their
characters. A modest, slight little book, but worth while.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 550. S. 2, ’09. 180w.
“The family hopes, fears, merrymakings, and misadventures brawl along in
a channel of noisy humor, comic, cheerful and clean.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 381. O. 21, ’09. 130w.
“There isn’t any doubt that Miss Hoover writes of these people with full
knowledge of the class of which they are types, nor that the book is a
faithful portrayal of the life with which it is concerned.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 549. S. 18, ’09. 230w.
=Hope, Laurence (Violet Nicolson) (Mrs. Malcolm Nicolson).=^{[7]}
Songs from The garden of Kama. **$3. Lane.
9–30426.
Poems steeped in Oriental atmosphere. The author “holds the gorgeous
East in fee; and through her we hear our own dreams of it—of fierce joys
and pains, a swarming vividness of life, a fate cruelly smiling,
death-cries trodden under the feet of interminable generations and
sultry fevers of desire. It is a new dream, intensely modern and a
little unhealthy; but it has a tone and a colour of its own, and it will
find its place in our literature and live there.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“A volume which has that character of its own that a real book ought to
have. Like the poems themselves, [the photographic illustrations] make
India curiously real.” Brian Hooker.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 371. Je. ’09. 250w.
“Love songs in the Oriental vein are a severe test for any poet. In this
book they maintain a perfect level of unexciting fluency.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 693. My. 29, ’09. 120w.
“A remarkable, if undisciplined, book.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: sup. 153. Ja. 30, ’09. 30w.
=Hopkins, Alphonso Alva.= Profit and loss in man. **$1.20. Funk.
8–37659.
The new gospel of patriotic, economic, and political common sense on the
temperance question. It is a strong plea for prohibition.
* * * * *
“The author has done a good work. He has not exhausted the subject, but
he has brought together in a readable and impressive way matter that
temperance people are much in need of. It is very fortunate that the
author can see the overthrow of the liquor traffic only through the
agency of the Prohibition party.” F. W. Collier.
+ − =Arena.= 41: 393. Mr. ’09. 580w.
“The speaker is terribly in earnest, though never so much so that he
cannot stop to introduce a jocular remark or anecdote.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 120. Ap. ’09. 70w.
“It is full of facts, statistics, anecdotes, and illustrations, and
would furnish quite a treasury of material to temperance or prohibition
lecturers, as well as to preachers. Yet it is extremely lively and
interesting reading for the home.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 386. Mr. 6, ’09. 100w.
=Hopkins, Margaret Sutton (Briscoe).=^{[12]} Image of Eve. †$1.25.
Harper.
9–28152.
A womanly matron, happily married, who was dubbed a Subrikinque—meaning
“a super-qualified chaperon, warranted by birth and by education to
fulfil all the plenipotentiary duties, large and small, that might
properly attach to the cult”—for a long season thrusts a matchmaker’s
finger into the private affairs of Peter, well devoted to both husband
and wife, and is punished for it by his carrying off her own Daphne. “It
was not in my mind to marry off my own little daughter at eighteen.... I
will buy me a muzzle if I cannot learn to hold my foolish,
matrimony-praising tongue. No, I shall never be called Subrikinque
again.”
* * * * *
“It is a slight story, but it is cleverly told, with much insight into
human nature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 751. N. 27, ’09. 200w.
“Both grace of style and cleverness of thought may be found in the
book.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 876. D. 18, ’09. 170w.
=Hornblow, Arthur.=^{[7]} By right of conquest. †$1.50. Dillingham.
9–12277.
A fearless, interesting handling of a hackneyed situation. When a liner
goes down during a tempest in the Indian ocean a coal stoker rescues a
New York heiress. They are cast upon an uninhabited island. This peril
and the succeeding struggle for daily food level the differences between
them while the refining influence of the young woman holds the man close
to a high sense of honor. Rescued and carried home the girl returns to
her luxurious life and the man to a day laborer’s work. Then fortune
takes up the game, turns her wheel, and shows the hero to be the heir to
his father’s English title and estates. This turn in the tide of his
affairs gives the hero courage to woo the girl, but not until he had won
her does he announce his changed fortune.
* * * * *
“Less carefully done the story might have degenerated into the sort of
tale whose chief excuse for being is its appeal to the baser side of
human nature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 375. Je. 12, ’09. 250w.
“Mr. Hornblow has not by any means been adequate to his idea. He has not
even treated it bona fide. But it must be said in his favor that he has
treated his rather delicate theme without offense.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 401. Je. 26, ’09. 300w.
=Hornibrook, Isabel.= From keel to kite. †$1.50. Lothrop.
8–31470.
A story of Gloucester which tells “how a young boy, Oakley Rose, who has
inherited a love of vessels, after years of apprenticeship, constantly
confronted by difficulty, becomes a naval architect. The boy has many
thrilling experiences, especially on a voyage to the Arctic waters,
where he is astray in a dory for days.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 500. Ja. ’09. 60w.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
=Ind.= 65: 1479. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“There is the genuine sea twang to the atmosphere.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=Hornung, Ernest William.=^{[10]} Mr. Justice Raffles. †$1.50.
Scribner.
9–24258.
Another thrilling chapter in the life of Mr. Hornung’s fascinating
gentleman-burglar. Raffles’ masterfully handled episode in this new
instalment of experiences is that of kidnapping a money lender, cracking
a safe, slipping away from the police—and all for the sake of seeing
justice rendered to a young cricket player who was writhing in the toils
of the notorious Shylock.
* * * * *
“The book is a sequel well up to the standard of what has gone before,
excellently written, and lightened by a pretty touch of sentiment.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 357. S. 25. 80w.
“There is a good, readable plot, and the same deftness and dexterity and
careful workmanship which from the beginning raised the stories about
Raffles far above the ordinary shocker.”
+ =Bookm.= 30: 216. N. ’09. 140w.
“If the action drags slightly over occasional half-pages, there is full
compensation towards the end. When Mr. Hornung falls into full swing he
gets perceptibly away from the pretty graces of style with which he
enmeshes Raffles in his quieter moments. The high merits of the style we
would not deny.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 356. O. 14, ’09. 400w.
“He is a most amusing and entertaining scamp, and he continues to be
much more likable than many heroes of far greater propriety.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 598. O. 9, ’09. 230w.
=Outlook.= 93: 515. O. 30, ’09. 110w.
“Mr. Hornung’s delivery is losing its power, and he ought to be taken
off.”
− =Sat. R.= 108: 668. N. 27, ’09. 140w.
=Horsburgh, E. L. S.= Lorenzo the Magnificent and Florence in her
golden age. *$4.50. Putnam.
9–8732.
While Lorenzo de Medici is the central figure of this sketch the main
purpose has been “to produce not a personal study but a sketch of
political conditions and movements.” All the forces of this golden age
are reviewed, and the manner in which they operated thru art,
literature, and philosophy.
* * * * *
“Of service to scholars though written in popular tone for the general
reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 41. O. ’09.
“If Mr. Horsburgh’s work is not exactly a contribution to knowledge, it
is at least a very agreeable presentment of what is known, and is
written pleasantly and lucidly, without that touch of preciosity one
often finds in books dealing with this period.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 344. Mr. 20. 750w.
“Mr. Horsburgh’s work is a distinct contribution to Italian literature
and humanism, as well as to Florentine history.” P. A. Martin.
+ =Dial.= 46: 294. My. 1, ’09. 1450w.
“The history itself is told in a pleasant and interesting fashion,
though the interest is somewhat marred by a good deal of repetition and
some padding. Mr. Horsburgh seems to have a special animus against
Venice.” K. D. V.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 403. Ap. ’09. 220w.
“The reviewer finds himself forced to reply to readers who ask: ‘We
cannot read both Armstrong and Horsburgh; which shall we choose?’ It is
safe to reply that either gives a safe survey of Lorenzo’s life and
times. Armstrong is more compact; Horsburgh more detailed. Horsburgh
pays more attention to the state of Italy, and to renaissance
civilization in general. We have marked many ‘corrigenda,’ especially in
the Italian proper names.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 385. Ap. 15, ’09. 950w.
“A more detailed study of Lorenzo as poet and author than in any other
biography of which we know.” G: S. Hellman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 110. F. 27, ’09. 740w.
“It is written, not primarily for scholars, but for the average
cultivated reader who knows Italy and its history in a general way and
is glad to know more. The style, which it were unfair to call slip-shod,
is yet lacking in distinction, but perhaps it is all the happier medium
for a temper so ingenuous, straightforward and sincere.”
+ − =No. Am.= 189: 778. My. ’09. 250w.
“He has evidently devoted himself to honest and thorough study of the
period of which he treats, and if his conclusions are not often very
original they are, at all events, the results of his own thought.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 18. Ja. 2, ’09. 870w.
“His book, if it is somewhat dry, has at least the merit of being
instructive.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 839. N. 21, ’08. 450w.
=Horstmann, Henry Charles, and Tousley, Victor Hugo.=^{[10]} Practical
armature and magnet winding. mor. $1.50. Drake, F: J.
9–19614.
“The practical side of armature and magnet winding is presented in this
book, enabling the student to see the exact manner in which the work is
done, but sufficient of the theory has been given to enable the reader
to comprehend why certain precautions and methods are necessary. The
titles of the chapters are: Elements of armature design; Mechanical
considerations; Armature windings—diagrams; Ring armatures; Drum
armatures; Commutator construction; Armature troubles; Armature
calculations; Magnet winding; Useful formulas and tables.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 6: 248. S. ’09. 100w.
“This small book is suitable for the ambitious worker who has some
slight knowledge of the laws of electricity and magnetism and who wishes
to know something of the application of principles to actual machinery
that may come into his hands daily. Books of this class are too often
carelessly written and their elucidations fail to elucidate even to the
well trained. The reverse is true of this book.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 16. Ag. 12, ’09. 250w.
=Horton, Robert Forman.=^{[6]} My belief: answers to certain religious
difficulties. **$1.25. Revell.
9–4141.
“A collection of brief essays dealing with essential phases of religious
life.... The spirit of modern thinking is taken constantly into account,
and the mood of the average man. Christian doctrines are briefly
restated in terms of present-day convictions. It does not exhibit the
same background of articulated principles as does President King’s book,
but offers rather a series of concrete treatments of aspects of
doctrine. It aims indeed not at a formal scientific apologetic, but
consists rather, according to its subtitle, of ‘answers to certain
religious difficulties.’ It ought to have a ministry where a
conservative and yet thoughtful and vital discussion of religious
problems in a modern spirit is needed.”—Am. J. Theol.
* * * * *
“The book is rational, devout and practical. It is a popular book in the
best sense.” H. A. Youtz.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 313. Ap. ’09. 140w.
“Dr. Horton in large measure represents distinctively modern theology.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 585. Mr. 13, ’09. 500w.
=Hosmer, George Leonard.=^{[9]} Azimuth. $1. Wiley.
9–12206.
A handbook that “gives just the ordinary methods for checking the angles
of a survey by observation of the sun and stars, but the book is removed
from the commonplace by the conciseness of its instructions and the
numerous practical hints given at all the necessary points. The tables
for computing the results are given in the latter part of the book, and
the examples are worked out on specimen forms calculated to obviate
clerical errors.”—Nature.
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 6: 155. Ag. ’09. 120w.
“A very compact and complete handbook.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 2. Jl. 15, ’09. 80w.
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 111. Jl. 24, ’09. 180w.
“It is a handbook for the practical surveyor, and, as such, should prove
very useful.” W. E. R.
+ =Nature.= 81: 126. Jl. 29, ’09. 150w.
=Hough, Emerson.= 54–40 or fight. †$1.50. Bobbs.
9–2775.
A novel set in the times of the controversy over the boundary of Oregon
and the annexation of Texas. The story is based upon the efforts of the
sturdy Americans to resist England in terminating the Oregon boundary at
54 degrees, 40 minutes north latitude. President Tyler and Calhoun are
prominent figures, while the hero, with the typical historical novel
intrepidity, is put to confusion in affairs of love and state by the
brilliant Baroness von Ritz who plays an important part in shaping
America’s destinies.
* * * * *
“We have read few better descriptions of the marches across the plains
of the caravans of the settlers than is found in the book. A romantic
novel that strongly suggests the romances of Stanley Weyman and which
cannot we think, but impress the reader as being as unconvincing.”
+ − =Arena.= 41: 603. Ag. ’09. 1350w.
“There is probably no one writing to-day who has so well caught the
trick of this particular sort of pseudo-history, in which real
personages and real events are so dexterously interwoven with a tissue
of purely imaginary happenings, and the causes of great international
crises attributed to the audacious intrigues of some charming
adventurers invented expressly for the occasion, as Mr. Hough has
succeeded in doing.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 78. Mr. ’09. 270w.
“Mr. Emerson Hough has become an adept in the ‘big bow-wow’ style.” W:
M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 264. Ap. 16, ’09. 220w.
“Historical novels, we are inclined to believe, ought to cling more
closely to recorded history than does this one. Of the personages in the
story we cannot say that any of them adequately proves his or her
existence.”
− =Ind.= 66: 374. F. 18, ’09. 680w.
“Judged as a novel, Mr. Hough’s book contains many elements that go to
make popular success. Its most doubtful feature is the heroine.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 70. F. 6, ’09. 600w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 375. Je. 12, ’09. 270w.
“A rapidly moving story, full of action and stirring the blood like the
call of a trumpet.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 39: 383. Mr. ’09. 180w.
=House, Edward John.=^{[12]} Hunter’s camp-fires. **$5. Harper.
9–28706.
A book for hunters in which is given a “plain and unvarnished”
description of successful big-game hunts from the Arctic to the equator.
The author is a thoro sportsman, and while justifying the hunter in
legitimate pursuit of big game, he protests against indiscriminate
slaughter. Eighty illustrations accompany the text.
* * * * *
“The territory covered by Mr. House makes it a book of travel as well as
of sport.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1145. N. 18, ’09. 150w.
“We look upon this volume as one of the most remarkable records of
hunting which we have met with.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1073. D. 11, ’09. 160w.
=Houston, Edwin James.=^{[11]} At school in the Cannibal islands.
$1.25. Am. Bapt.
9–23810.
The fourth volume in “The Pacific series.” It tells of the experiences
of three lads who have figured thruout the series and six Polynesian
boys who are enrolled together in a school on Harding island. The
interest centers about the routing of a cannibal invading army and the
thrilling adventures attendant upon it.
* * * * *
“Though the novelty of setting ... and an invasion by a fleet of
cannibal canoes would catch the interest of any lad, yet the chunks of
natural history inserted at fairly regular intervals are likely
gradually to dampen his ardor.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 709. N. 13, ’09. 90w.
=Houston, Edwin James.= In captivity in the Pacific; or, In the land
of the breadfruit tree. †$1.25. Am. Bapt.
9–5522.
The third volume in “The Pacific series.” It furnishes an informing
account of various valuable tropical products and gives a description of
the daily life of the Polynesians, their customs, religious habits and
occupations.
* * * * *
“The story of the adventures of these boys during their captivity is
extremely entertaining, and along with it runs a lot of instructive
matter.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 113. F. 27, ’09. 110w.
=Houston, Edwin James.= Wonder book of light. **$1.50. Stokes.
8–34626.
Treats interestingly such subjects as reflection and refraction, the
microscope, and telescope, the spectrum and the rainbow, looking
glasses, soap bubbles, burning glasses and shaving glasses, the eye,
invisible light, the X-rays, lighthouses, ghosts, etc.
* * * * *
“The only book for young people devoted to light alone.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 94. Mr. ’09. ✠
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 501. Ja. ’09. 100w.
“Is full of information.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1480. D. 17, ’08. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 736. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=Houston, Edwin James.= Wonder book of magnetism. **$1.50. Stokes.
8–31457.
Discusses magnetic batteries and magnetic currents, lodestones, the
compass, causes of its variations and methods of preventing them,
magnetism and light, the varieties of aurora borealis, the
telephonograph, or “talking newspaper,” etc.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 94. Mr. ’09. ✠
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 501. Ja. ’09. 100w.
“The author shows an excellent knack for stating scientific facts and
principles with such clearness and such happy choice of illustration as
to make them entertaining, even while he preserves scientific accuracy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 736. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=Howe, Maud.= Sun and shadow in Spain. **$3. Little.
8–31668.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 10. Ja. ’09.
“Seldom does the discriminating reader come across a volume of travel
that is at once so informing and so beguiling.”
+ =Arena.= 41: 78. Ja. ’09. 400w.
“Maude Howe met, on terms of friendship and intimacy, many very
interesting Spaniards and enjoyed the hospitality of their homes; so she
is able to present us with some intimate glimpses of Spanish character
and manners.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 549. Ja. ’09. 460w.
“For promoting a more intimate understanding and a warmer friendship
between Americans and Spaniards, this attractive picture of the land and
its people is likely to do good service, besides affording considerable
entertainment.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 200w.
“The book is a delightful addition to the rather limited group of
descriptive travels permeated by the wit and distinctive personality of
a clever woman.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 63. Ja. 9, ’09. 180w.
=Howe, Samuel Gridley.=^{[8]} Letters and journals of Samuel Gridley
Howe; ed. by his daughter, Laura E. Richards; with notes by F. B.
Sanborn. 2v. **$3. Estes.
6–38340.
A two volume biography, the first of which, “The Greek revolution” deals
with the “more adventurous and spectacular circumstances of the years
when Dr. Howe was busy with the struggle between Greek and Turk,
Christianity and Islam, liberty and old-world tyranny,” and the second
with “the habitually more quiet surroundings of his unwearied efforts at
home to alleviate suffering, to illuminate darkness, to lighten the
burden of the lowly.”—Dial.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 76. N. ’09. (Review of v. 2.)
“A faithful portrayal of how life appeared, during the ardent nineteenth
century,—the century of reform succeeding upon revolution,—to an
impetuous spirit intensely harmonious with the philanthropic aspirations
of his time.” Barrett Wendell.
+ =Dial.= 47: 64. Ag. 1, ’09. 1450w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The two stately volumes are not too long to commemorate his
unparalleled career.” F. G. Peabody.
+ =Hibbert J.= 8: 139. O. ’09. 5300w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The second volume ... is of more general interest than the first. To
read his record will make the reader himself feel a better man.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 279. S. 23, ’09. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Mrs. Richards’s work, both in spirit and execution, is in every way
worthy of its subject. She has given us a book of thrilling interest,
and her work as editor and annotator is perfect.” H. P. Spofford.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 437. Jl. 17, ’09. 4000w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“Such a life as this, so filled with varied interest, crowded with
adventure, consecrated to the loftiest ideals, and crowned with the best
success, is worth recording in two stout volumes.” G: Hodges.
+ =Outlook.= 92: 647. Jl. 17, ’09. 2300w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=R. of Rs.= 40: 512. O. ’09. 80w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Howells, William Dean.=^{[10]} Boy life: stories and readings from
Howells, selected and arranged for supplementary reading in
elementary schools by Percival Chubb. *50c. Harper.
9–24966.
Boys, and girls too, in or out of school will read with delight these
selections from Howells’ well known juvenile books: “A boy’s town” and
“The flight of Pony Baker.” The editor has classed his selections under
five headings: Adventures in a boy’s town; Life in a boy’s town; Games
and pastimes; Glimpses of the larger world; and The last of a boy’s
town. This method makes definite subjects easy of access.
* * * * *
“This volume will have some usefulness in school collections.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 145. D. ’09.
“It is unfortunate that a book so excellent as this is in spirit, and
one, moreover, that has been selected with such discrimination, should
be stigmatized on its title-page as ‘supplementary reading in elementary
schools.’ Mr. Chubb’s wise counsel in his introduction would have been
sufficient and the book itself should have been allowed to travel on its
own merits.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1018. D. 4, ’09. 140w.
“Anybody who likes listening to a real boy telling a real story will
have a happy time reading ‘Boy life.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 709. N. 13, ’09. 120w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 766. D. ’09. 30w.
=Howells, William Dean.=^{[6]} Mother and the father: dramatic
passages. **$1.20. Harper.
9–14596.
Right from life are chosen the three phases of this drama. First the
father and mother looking down upon their new-born infant marvel at the
wondrous love able to bring to consciousness a living soul that can
know, feel and think. Second they face the hour of their child’s
marriage staunching the wound of separation with the calm reflection
that she now needed the whole of her love as they had found it in each
other. The third momentous hour is that of death which the parents face
hand in hand, suffering, struggling, overcoming thru the might of love
in which now as always the child lives.
* * * * *
“The psychology of these crucial experiences has been translated into
speech that is remarkable for its simplicity and directness and for its
beauty of thought and depth of feeling.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 169. Je. ’09. ✠
“When we have finished the book our chief sympathy is for the daughter
who had to bear with the nerves of her parents and the husband who had
to be a foil for his wife’s hysteria.”
− =Ind.= 67: 1318. D. 9, ’09. 400w.
“The spirit of the book is poetic, but the verse is not felicitous. But
the spirit of the book transcends the accident of form, and the spirit
is rarely beautiful and fine.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 342. My. 29, ’09. 750w.
“An exquisite poem which is of the real Victorian flavor.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 123. Jl. ’09. 250w.
=Howells, William Dean.=^{[11]} Seven English cities. **$2. Harper.
9–28285.
Mr. Howells tells his readers the secret of his modest liking for
Liverpool, lets them know his ideas on the merits of Manchester, pauses
with them in smokiest Sheffield, shows them a nine-days’ wonder in York,
relates to them two Yorkish episodes, spends with them a day at
Doncaster and Durham, grows reminiscent over the history of Cambridge,
the “mother of our American Athens,” turns into Wales to enjoy
Aberystwyth and Llandudno, and closes with some intimate estimates of
English character.
* * * * *
“Mr. Howells is usually at his best in travel sketches of this sort but
one or two of these will impress even his most faithful admirers as
below the standard.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 118. D. ’09.
“He is as gossipy and entertaining as ever.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 459. D. 1, ’09. 400w.
“A pure delight, because it reveals so gracefully the beauty of the
purely technical side of his talent, and the playful ease with which it
can turn the least promising of material into something worth the doing,
and so superlatively well worth the reading.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1144. N. 18, ’09. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 658. O. 23, ’09. 60w.
+ =No. Am.= 190: 839. D. ’09. 130w.
“One only wishes that Mr. Howells’s ‘Seven English cities’ were
seventeen. He has the irresponsible, free-from-guide-book-bonds attitude
that only an old traveler attains, and as a literary travel companion he
is even more enjoyable than as critic and story-writer.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 788. D. 4, ’09. 90w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 760. D. ’09. 50w.
=Hoyt, Arthur Stephen.=^{[8]} Preacher: his person, message and
method: a book for the class-room and study. **$1.50. Macmillan.
9–4142.
Shows a keen consciousness of modern pulpit problems. “In Part 1 of his
book Professor Hoyt makes a remarkably satisfactory analysis of the
elemental factors in pulpit power. The chapters on ‘The social message,’
‘Ethical sermons,’ and ‘The ethics of pulpit speech’ are especially
valuable.” (Am. J. Theol.)
* * * * *
“The book is a timely contribution to the better training of ministers.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 499. Jl. ’09. 80w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 138. My. ’09.
“Dr. Hoyt’s counsels are discreet, if not brilliant.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 486. My. 13, ’09. 100w.
=Hoyt, Charles Oliver.= Studies in the history of modern education.
*$1.50. Silver.
8–33791.
Emphasizes the evolution of educational doctrines and their influence
upon present day theory and practice. “Professor Hoyt has cut loose from
the traditional methods of presenting this subject, has confined himself
to really important men and movements in modern educational theory, and
has brought together a large amount of ancillary material of
suggestiveness and value.” (Educ. R.)
* * * * *
“A more than usually interesting book. It is a book for students and
teachers, and might well find a wide use in normal schools. His book
ought to be widely used. The bibliographies and questions are
particularly full and carefully made.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 314. Mr. ’09. 110w.
=Ind.= 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 511. Ap. ’09. 50w.
=Hsiang Yuan-p’ien.= Chinese porcelain; sixteenth-century colored
illustrations with Chinese ms. text; tr. and annot. by Stephen
Wooton Bushell. *$50. Oxford.
A work of great importance to the task of reconstructing the story of
Chinese ceramics. It is a reproduction of the famous album prepared by
Hsiang Yuan-p’ien in 1575 in which are described and illustrated
eighty-three pieces of porcelain. “The importance of bringing before the
public interested in Chinese ceramics this authoritative work, in a
complete form, will be recognised by those who know how often the album
of Hsiang Yuan-p’ien has supplied material, of which the source has not
always been acknowledged, to several writers on Chinese porcelain.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
“It may be described, in the terms he applies to some of his own
specially cherished vases, as ‘a beautiful ornament for a scholar’s
library.’”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 615. N. 14. 1400w.
“Most interesting and instructive album.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 381. Mr. 6, ’09. 770w.
=Hubbard, Charles Lincoln.= Heating and ventilation: a working manual
of approved practice in the heating and ventilating of
dwelling-houses and other buildings, with complete practical
instruction in the mechanical details, operation, and care of modern
heating and ventilating plants. $1.50. Am. school of correspondence.
8–30358.
“Written in a semi-popular vein, an endeavor having been made to pay
special attention to the practical side of the subject rather than to
the theoretical. The book is devoted principally to descriptions of the
various forms of apparatus, directions concerning their installation and
operation, and outlines of the generally accepted methods of
calculation. There are numerous well-selected problems, with
answers.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“It is a book that will give a good working knowledge of the principles
and practice of modern heating and ventilation to those who can read and
comprehend simple English, and who can solve arithmetical problems.”
+ =Engin. D.= 6: 431. N. ’09. 140w.
=Engin. N.= 60: sup. 695. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
“Is rather more than a mere introduction, having so much practical
information as to render it useful as a handbook.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 566. N. 14, ’08. 180w.
=Hubbard, Mina Benson.= Woman’s way through unknown Labrador: an
account of the exploration of the Nascaupee and George rivers.
**$1.50. McClure.
8–35700.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Hubbard’s book is less informing and entertaining than ‘Lure of
the Labrador wild’ and is marred by depreciation of Wallace’s services,
but as a vivid recital of a dangerous trip is well worth reading.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 290. D. ’08. ✠
“The book is naturally of the highest interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 673. N. 7, ’08. 380w.
“The topographical results were of slight value, and the book is almost
devoid of notes on flora and fauna. In a word it is as a volume of
entertainment that the work is recommended, for it is excellently
written, in a natural style, and with much vivacity.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 114. F. 4, ’09. 330w.
“The account, brief as it is, of the meeting with the Montaignais and
Nascaupees is full of interest, and Mrs. Hubbard used her eyes and ears
to some purpose in her short study of these wild people.” J. G. Millais.
+ =Nature.= 79: 401. F. 4, ’09. 1300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 623. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=Huckel, Oliver.=^{[7]} Mental medicine: some practical suggestions
from a spiritual standpoint. **$1. Crowell.
9–17602.
Presents the “latest and sanest” conclusions on the mental and spiritual
factors in health and healing. The chapters are based on a series of
lectures given by the author at Johns Hopkins medical school showing how
physicians and ministers may rationally co-operate in the work of
healing. The following conferences or lectures are included: Mental and
spiritual factors in the problems of health; The therapeutic value of
faith and prayer; Possibilities in the control of subconsciousness; Some
elements in morbid moods; Higher factors in the re-education of the
nerves.
* * * * *
“The author’s attitude is somewhat conservative, and his exposition of
the psychology of the subject much simpler than Dr. Worcester’s in
‘Religion and medicine.’ One of the best books for readers who approach
psychotherapy through religious belief.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 42. O. ’09. ✠
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 376. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 487. Ag. 14, ’09. 180w.
=Outlook.= 93: 644. N. 20, ’09. 30w.
=Hudson, W. H.=^{[10]} Afoot in England. *10s. 6d. Hutchinson, London.
“Mr. Hudson proclaims that his purpose is to teach the charm of the
unknown, and the joy of discovering and exploring for oneself; and on
the whole this is a very good description of the spirit of the book. It
consists mainly of disconnected papers, all informed with the same
idea—the delight of the vagabond in English lanes and by English fields
and woods.... He wanders far afield, but confesses that the most
attractive haunts for him are between Reading and Basingstoke, among the
South Wiltshire downs, in the flat country of the Severn, in
Cambridgeshire and East Anglia.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“He has long been known as a writer of nature, and the most enjoyable
passages of his latest book are perhaps those dealing with nature. But
for the most part he is here not dealing so much with nature as with
human nature and human emotions. It is generally a chronicle of small
beer, but the beer has a relish.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 265. S. 4. 600w.
“Much of these twenty-five delightful chapters is of wild and solitary
paths in cloud and mist and wind; of walks over downland in a storm of
hail, through fogs set like a wall at the foot of slopes of sunlit
green, along cliffs above nesting herring-gulls; and here and there Mr.
Hudson plays with some strange fancy, born of loneliness and haunted
ways.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 204. Ag. 7, ’09. 1650w.
=Hudson, William Henry.= Land’s End: a naturalist’s impressions in
west Cornwall. *$3. Appleton.
8–33922.
Observations of bird and plant life, comments upon climate and scenery,
and impressions concerning the racial problems presented by the people
of Cornwall provide an interesting text for the general reader as well
as the scientific student.
* * * * *
“Refreshing originality, absolute candour, and a complete lack of
self-consciousness are equally characteristic of the author, who has a
definite charm that is peculiarly his own.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 306. S. 12. 1700w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 652. D. 31, ’08. 180w.
“Of the birds he writes charmingly, disclosing both his love for the
feathered tribe and his knowledge of it, but we are sure that most
persons who read his book will find their greatest enjoyment in what he
has to say about the men and women who live in the territory around
Land’s End.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 420w.
“That it is written well, and with much attraction; that it is
literature; that once begun it cannot be dropped goes without saying. We
ourselves could not give the book up, though frankly we do not like it.
As a whole it is irritating.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 367. S. 19, ’08. 1400w.
“It is as the study of a Cornish character, with all its strange
inconsistencies and inversions, that the book will take its place among
the best and most discerning that have been written of rough, natural
man.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 58. Jl. 11, ’08. 1500w.
=Hueffer, Ford Madox.=^{[8]} “Half Moon.” **$1.35. Doubleday.
9–35786.
A book which while timely for the Hudson tercentenary chooses a wider
field than the perils of discovery for its theme. The events center
chiefly about Edward Coleman who to escape the death that a woman’s
wrath had prescribed flees from the English town of Rye to Holland and
sets sail for the new world with Hendrick Hudson in the Half Moon. “The
plot has been used by Mr. Hueffer as the framework for a careful and
very vivid picture of seventeenth century bigotry, ignorance, and
superstition; of the final struggle between mediævalism and modernity;
and of the desperate lengths to which a proud, powerful, and
undisciplined woman will go in her attempt to avenge the wrongs of her
slighted beauty.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“The story is heavy and unwieldly, the characterization indistinct, the
superstitious schemes of the witch who dominates the plot distasteful
and unconvincing.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 27. S. ’09.
“Perhaps the most attractive portion of this book is its strong
archæological element. The characters, for all the author’s straining
after a certain archaic forcefulness, are shadowy and unconvincing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 525. My. 1. 140w.
“Belongs to that better sort of historical novel that refuses to
purchase popularity at the cost of honest narrative and careful style.”
F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 648. Ag. ’09. 250w.
“The introductory dedication to this story is better than the story
itself: a very accomplished little essay, rather in the Stevensonian
manner.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 278. S. 23, ’09. 420w.
“A book which would be welcome at any time for its careful and skillful
art, and for the human interest of the story which he has to tell. The
connection of the book with the tercentenary is incidental and inferior
to the story itself. No one need be afraid of finding anything of a
Baedeker sort, and whoever ventures will find entertainment as well as
an edifying historical study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 451. Jl. 24, ’09. 530w.
“A timely story, full of incident, entertainingly written, and full of
historic allusion.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 253. Ag. ’09. 50w.
“In spite of certain mannerisms which are apt to be a little trying at
times, Mr. Hueffer is an excellent story-teller.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 633. My. 15, ’09. 150w.
“The end is also weak.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 864. My. 29, ’09. 220w.
=Hueffer, Oliver Madox.=^{[5]} Book of witches. *$2.50. McBride, J: