Gallipoli campaign, his experiences with the Royal commission after
the South African war. Never again would he trust his military memory
without the black and white of his diary. It was a help to him in his
work at the time, and he expects it to be his justification before the
verdict of his comrades. Volume one dates from March 1915 to July 1915
and volume two from July to October 1915. There are illustrations,
maps and an index.
* * * * *
“It is not so much for its literary qualities—for these have been a
little exaggerated—that the book is one to read, but for the insight
which it gives into a mind extremely sensitive to impressions not only
of actual experience, but of the imagination. What he calls ‘the
detachment of the writer’ enabled him to look at his force, his
superiors, his subordinates, and, above all, himself, as elements in a
stirring picture.” O. W.
+ =Ath= p795 Je 18 ’20 1500w
“It is a tragical story Sir Ian tells, but tells with all the art of a
poet and the precision of a soldier.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p12 D 8 ’20 1700w
“Sir Ian exposes the system he represents in its horrible imbecility.
His ‘Diary’ has changed the barrenness of disaster into a world
service. As a member of the tribunal he selects, I vote for his
acquittal.” W: J. M. A. Maloney
+ =Nation= 111:sup653 D 8 ’20 2000w
“It is the personal narrative of the failure of a great man in a great
adventure. It is history more enthralling than any fiction.” F. L.
Minnigen
+ =N Y Times= p9 N 7 ’20 1900w
“As the reader turns page after page of these volumes he may be
surprised to find that he is getting not only a valuable narration of
a particularly interesting campaign; he will find that the military
man who writes the account is frequently capable of brilliantly
atmospheric and poetic text.”
+ =Outlook= 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 130w
“For the general public the greatest charm of his diary lies in its
characterizations of great leaders like Kitchener and Churchill, and
its sketches of the principal officers of the expedition. At the same
time military experts will find in its pages much new and valuable
material by way of criticism of war policy.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 150w
“We confess that, while the matter of the narrative absorbs our
interest, we are repelled by the slangy style in which it is written.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:518 Je 5 ’20 1400w
=Spec= 124:762 Je 5 ’20 1400w
=HAMMOND, ARTHUR.= Pictorial composition in photography. il *$3.50 (7c)
Am. photographic pub. co. 770
20–11849
This work by the associate editor of American Photography takes up
such subjects as spacing, mass, linear perspective, line composition
applied to figure studies, tones in portraiture, etc. A knowledge of
elementary principles is taken for granted and for the technical and
scientific aspects of photography the reader is referred to other
volumes in the series. The author’s purpose here is “to try to point
out to the artist in photography some of the universally recognized
rules of composition, and to give as much practical help as is
possible in dealing with a phase of artistic work in which the
personal equation is so important a factor.” (Chapter 1) The book is
beautifully illustrated with forty-nine pictures from photographs.
* * * * *
“The simple, common-sense suggestions about picture-making in this
book, backed as they are by thorough technical knowledge and wide
experience, will make the volume of real, practical use to ambitious
amateur photographers. The ‘soft-focus’ illustrations hardly do
justice to the text.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:715 Ag 25 ’20 50w
“Nothing that the most ambitious worker may need is omitted by the
author, whose equipment for the self-imposed task is remarkably
complete. Modesty and self-repression, rather than egotism and
presumption, characterize the mental attitude of the author throughout
his engrossing volume.”
+ =Photo-Era= 45:104 Ag ’20 760w
=HAMMOND, DARYN.= Golf swing, the Ernest Jones method. il *$3 Brentano’s
796
(Eng ed 20–16277)
“Mr Hammond sets forth the views of Ernest Jones, the Chislehurst
professional, on the golf swing, and they certainly deserve a
sympathetic and attentive hearing, because Jones’s swing has stood the
severest possible test. In March, 1916, he lost his right leg just
below the knee, in France.... His new gospel, very briefly put, is
that the golfer should first get a clear ‘mental picture’ of the shot
he wants to play, then concentrate his mind entirely on the right
action of hands and fingers, and let everything else take care of
itself.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“The book is an interesting contribution to the theory of golf, but,
in our opinion at least, it is too narrow in its range, and too
exhaustive in that range, for a satisfactory volume of instruction.”
B. R. Redman
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 4 ’20 110w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 19 ’20 130w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p287 My 6 ’20)
“Despite its reiterations the book contains much that is interesting
as well as original.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p287 My 6 ’20 250w
=HAMMOND, JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON and HAMMOND, BARBARA (BRADBY) (MRS
JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON HAMMOND).= Skilled labourer, 1760–1832. *$4.50
(*12s 6d) Longmans 330.942
20–4494
“A companion volume to the valuable works by the same writers on ‘The
village labourer’ and ‘The town labourer.’ In the latter they
described the new life of town and factory introduced by the
industrial revolution; they now give the history during the same
period of particular bodies of skilled workers:—Miners of the Tyne;
The cotton workers; The woollen and worsted workers; The Spitalfields
silk weavers; The frame work knitters; The Nottingham, Lancashire, and
Yorkshire Luddites.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“This story is not new: but the full and authoritative account of it
is, and the historian may here find source-material for which he might
otherwise search many weary months. The authors have done their work
well. One wishes that they might have been a little less liberal, in
the more technical sense of that word, in their attitude toward the
ruling classes of the early nineteenth century.” W. P. Hall
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:324 Ja ’21 800w
“Despite the singularly felicitous style which is the endowment of the
Hammonds, and despite the human interest of the book, it will not,
probably, prove as charming to the general reader as ‘The village
labourer.’” W. F. Woodring
+ − =Am J Soc= 26:364 N ’20 1050w
“Unfortunately there is not much information concerning the relation
of labor to the development of English politics during the period
prior to the great reform statute, although this aspect of things is
not wholly neglected.”
+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:362 My ’20 110w
“There can be no question as to the very great merits of Mr and Mrs
Hammond’s achievement. They have deservedly taken their place in the
front rank of social or industrial historians. Their work is
conscientious, scholarly, well written, of the greatest interest and
the highest importance, and they have the instinct of the born
‘researcher.’ The authors are, however, content to let the facts speak
for themselves.” L. W.
+ − =Ath= p76 Ja 16 ’20 1800w
“In view of the present industrial disturbances this intensive study
of an earlier upheaval, written with interesting fact upon interesting
fact, is illuminating.”
+ =Booklist= 17:12 O ’20
“The whole work is a splendid example of enlightened industry and
painstaking care, and takes its place immediately among the great
classics of English sociological literature.”
+ =Cath World= 111:404 Je ’20 290w
+ =Dial= 68:671 My ’20 100w
“The book is more impartial in its discussion of social questions than
the two earlier volumes of the series; though the introduction, which
describes the England of the period in terms of ‘civil war,’ is surely
an exaggeration.”
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:624 O ’20 390w
“Brilliant volume. It is in no way inferior to its predecessors, than
which there is hardly greater praise.” H. J. Laski
+ =Nation= 110:594 My 1 ’20 200w
=Sat R= 129:188 F 21 ’20 1350w
“Readers who bear in mind the course of politics and of the Napoleonic
wars will have in this book a really instructive commentary, from the
workman’s standpoint, on the revolution then proceeding in British
industry.”
+ =Spec= 124:243 F 21 ’20 1000w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 F 7 ’20 90w
“Its timeliness quite apart, this history is one of the most
fascinating ever written—perhaps because it renders articulate the
masses of toiling people by fitting into a large, animated picture the
thoughts, actions and sufferings of obscure individuals; perhaps also
because it explains these chronicles with skilful and sympathetic
psychological search for motives and current beliefs. It cannot be
recommended too warmly.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:313 My 29 ’20 140w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p771 D 18 ’19 80w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p95 F 12 ’20 1950w
=HAMMOND, MATTHEW BROWN.= British labor conditions and legislation
during the war. *$1 Oxford; pa gratis Carnegie endowment for
international peace 331
19–19930
One of the Preliminary economic studies of the war issued by the
Carnegie endowment for international peace. Contents: The social
background: English industry and labor at the outbreak of the war;
Industrial panic and readjustment; The government and the trade
unions; The munitions of war acts; The supply and distribution of
labor; The dilution of labor; Wages, cost of living, hours of labor,
welfare work and unemployment; Industrial unrest; Industrial
reconstruction; Index. The author is professor of economics, Ohio
state university, and was a member of the United States food
administration.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Edith Abbott
+ =Am Econ R= 10:841 D ’20 160w
“This is a useful compilation but not altogether a mature treatment of
the subject. The garnering has been conscientiously done, and the
presentation is full, informing, and lucid.” H. L. Gray
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:550 Ap ’20 400w
Reviewed by E. H. Sutherland
+ =Am J Soc= 26:370 N ’20 150w
=Ath= p353 Mr 12 ’20 100w
“We cannot help feeling that Professor Hammond could have added a
great deal to the value of his book without unduly enlarging its bulk
if he had relied less complacently on the material which he found
ready to his hand. His work gives no indication of far-reaching
research or first-hand acquaintance with British conditions. Yet it
has considerable merit. It is clear and easy in style and remarkably
unbiased.” G. S.
+ − =Ath= p442 Ap 2 ’20 500w
“An interesting preliminary survey written in an uncritical historical
way.”
+ =Booklist= 16:262 My ’20
Reviewed by C. C. Plehn
+ =Nation= 111:379 O 6 ’20 190w
“The volume gives a documentary history of the reactions of the war on
labor in England which future students will find invaluable.” H. W. L.
+ =Socialist R= 8:252 Mr ’20 100w
“Within its limits the present study is of the highest value. The
present reviewer has found it accurate on the matters he happens to
know about, and sufficiently detailed to make clear the intentions of
the legislature even on comparatively small points.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 43:781 Mr 20 ’20 300w
=HAMSUN, KNUT.= Hunger. *$2.50 (3½c) Knopf
20–21963
The book has been translated from the Norwegian by George Egerton and
has an introduction by Edwin Björkman. It is an epic of hunger. A
young writer has fallen on evil days and is condemned to long spells
of hunger between the acceptances of articles now and then by some
paper. The physical privations he undergoes are only casually
described but the psychology of hunger is enlarged upon with
distressing detail. There is black despair suddenly replaced by
fantastic mirth, clear mental vision by hallucinations and delirium,
complete lassitude by sudden spurts of energy, morbid sensitiveness
about his condition by brazen affrontery and mendacity.
* * * * *
“The work belongs to the naturalist movement of thirty years ago. Its
belated appearance in America may be excused on the ground that no
public could have been found for it earlier.” E. P.
+ =Dial= 70:106 Ja ’21 70w
+ =Nation= 112:122 Ja 26 ’21 200w
“Its artistic quality is indisputable. The book is very real, very
frank—distressingly and shockingly frank, some persons will no doubt
consider it. But none can deny that it is life, genuine, if
appalling.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 D 12 ’20 1000w
“There are occasional gleams of light, hints of humor, which relieve
the tense and depressing atmosphere of a book at once repellent and
compelling, highly imaginative and profoundly true.” R. F. Eliot
+ =Pub W= 98:1884 D 18 ’20 300w
“‘Hunger’ is an extraordinary book, to be read with one’s faculties
alert, quickened to a difficult understanding of a supernormal human
soul.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 7 ’20 490w
=HANIFAN, LYDA JUDSON.= Community center. (Teacher training ser.) $1.52
Silver 374.28
20–3342
In 1913 the author prepared “A handbook for community meetings at
rural schoolhouses” for the use of West Virginia school teachers. The
wide and continued demand for this work has led her to treat the
subject more comprehensively in the present book. “The aim has been to
emphasize strongly two things which the author believes to be
fundamental in any plan that may be followed in the improvement of
rural life conditions: (1) The redirection of rural forces must be
effected by the rural people themselves; (2) for the present, and
probably for a good many years to come, the active work of such
redirection must be carried on mainly by means of community activities
centering around the school.” (Author’s preface) Contents: The
community center and the world war; Leadership and the community
center; The community center idea; The enjoyment of leisure;
Recreation; Social capital—its development and use; The community
center as an aid to teaching; First steps in the community center;
Special school programs; Miscellaneous activities within the community
center; Entertainment programs for community meetings; Country life
programs. Each chapter is followed by exercises. There is a general
bibliography, in addition to occasional references in the text, and
the book is indexed.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:13 O ’20
“Altogether, a most helpful little book, suggestive and with good
references for further study.”
+ =Survey= 44:308 My 29 ’20 120w
=HANKEY, DONALD WILLIAM ALERS (STUDENT IN ARMS, pseud.).= Letters of
Donald Hankey. il *$2.50 Revell
20–4805
These human documents, as letters by the author of “A student in arms”
can be called, are published as a tribute of love to one who sleeps in
France. The introduction and notes are by Edward Miller, whose glowing
picture of a loving personality adds an interest to the letters which,
although written for the most part to his family and intimate friends,
“run up and down the whole gamut of life.” Here and there are pen and
ink sketches reproduced from the letters and charming features of the
book are several facsimile letters to nephew and niece. Contents: The
subaltern, 1904–1906; The undergraduate, 1907–1910; The traveller,
July 1910–July 1912; The emigrant 1912–13; One of the immortal hundred
thousand, 1914–1916.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p1354 D 12 ’19 90w
+ =Booklist= 16:278 My ’20
=Nation [London]= 26:866 Mr 20 ’20 1300w
+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 160w
=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 80w
“Let us say at once that the first impression on the reader is that
Hankey in his letters falls below the high literary inspiration which
he displays in a ‘Student in arms.’ Yet the letters if they do not on
the surface display the same quality as the essays, reveal when
carefully studied a nature free, noble, and humane, combined with a
truthfulness deeply impressive from its singular intensity.”
+ − =Spec= 123:860 D 20 ’19 1900w
“The author’s religion was very rational and wholesome and very
advanced in thought for so young a man. Here and there he drops a
comment on religion that would be worthy of the profoundest
philosopher.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 12 ’20 250w
“These letters reveal the zest of life in a man of deep religious
experience, especially quick to respond to the challenge of those on
whom the burdens of life bore more heavily than on himself.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 D 4 ’19 1050w
=HANNAY, JAMES OWEN (GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM, pseud.).= Irishman looks at
his world. *$2 (3½c) Doran 914.15
20–4485
In this volume an Irishman tells us simply and dispassionately what he
knows about his country, its politics, its religion, its social and
economic structure and at the end disavows any knowledge of a solution
of the Irish problem. He seems strongly to suspect that “we Irishmen,
all of us, are spending most energy on what matters least, the form of
the state; and far too little energy on what matters most, the making
of men.” Contents: Irish politics—the old parties; Irish politics—the
new parties; The island of saints—Ireland’s religion;—and
scholars—Ireland’s culture; Education—primary, intermediate,
university; Education—the Gaelic league and the Irish agricultural
organisation society; The Irish aristocracy; The farmers; The middle
classes—Dublin—Belfast—the country town; Conclusion.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:240 Ap ’20
“Mr Birmingham takes apparently a rather Laodicean attitude. He is not
aflame with that determined patriotism which burns in the souls of so
many other Irish writers of today. He has applied, on the contrary,
his own rather detached, yet pleasantly sympathetic spirit, and the
wit and knowledge of human nature that have gone to the making of his
novels, to a study of his fellow-Irishmen, and with laudable results.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:261 N ’20 370w
+ =Dial= 68:669 My ’20 110w
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
=Nation= 110:768 Je 5 ’20 500w
“Mr Birmingham’s book covers a very broad field, and does it with an
ease, a lack of hurry and an ever-present sense of humor, which, when
the highly controversial nature of the subjects is considered, render
it a most unusual volume.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:117 Mr 14 ’20 900w
+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 60w
“We can cordially commend Canon Hannay’s book to all who want to know
what sort of men inhabit Ireland, what they think about, and in what
way they will bear themselves in the hour of trial; we commend it to
all who think some working compromise can be devised to inveigle
Ulster under a Dublin parliament, and who imagine that because a
policy is useful and desirable it must therefore also be practicable.”
+ =Spec= 124:146 Ja 31 ’20 700w
“This book will be much more helpful than ‘Irish impressions.’ Mr
Chesterton found in Ireland the stronghold of the religion of which he
is such an able propagandist. George Birmingham, although adherent to
the church of Ireland, deals more even justice and displays in his
treatment of the religious question that Irish fairness which is as
real as Irish bigotry, though far less generally recognized.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p661 N 20 ’19 360w
=HANNAY, JAMES OWEN (GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM, pseud.).= Up, the rebels!
*$1.75 (2½c) Doran
19–15676
Sir Ulick Conolly was a high government official in Ireland whose
phlegmatic temperament and easy-going worldly wisdom refused to take
the unrest of the Irish Nationals seriously. His policy was not to
suppress the rebels but to avert an explosion by letting them blow off
steam freely. He did not even suppress his daughter Mona, one of the
rebels, who talked in Gaelic and dressed like a Celtic queen; who
engaged in conspiracies and led uprisings. But he managed to send her
off into the country to her aunt’s, for safe keeping, as he thought.
There she organizes the natives and proclaims the Irish republic in
the village of Dunally. Her father’s timely interference saves the
situation from becoming serious for the rebels and turns the fracas
into something of a farce. In the end the girl is put to bed for
recuperation under the watchful eye of her aunt.
* * * * *
“The humorous possibilities of the situation are used with delicacy
and ingenuity. George A. Birmingham is at his best in this book.”
+ =Ath= p930 S 19 ’19 120w
+ =Booklist= 16:243 Ap ’20
“Never was irony so playful, so kindly an instrument as in
Birmingham’s ‘Up, the rebels.’” M. E. Bailey
+ =Bookm= 51:207 Ap ’20 900w
“To read ‘Up, the rebels!’ is to see new light upon the Irish
question. Both as a story and as a study of political and social
conditions it is a tribute to the knowledge and skill of a leader
among present-day clerical humorists.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ja 31 ’20 1200w
“Of course it is possible that some persons will not find this tale
amusing; there are people who do not find the Gilbert and Sullivan
operas amusing. But those who can enjoy wit and a shrewd, ironic
treatment of certain human vanities and foibles will undoubtedly
chuckle long and deeply over Mr G. A. Birmingham’s new tale.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:53 F 1 ’20 1150w
“A thoroughly delightful story of Ireland, over which the reader
chuckles long if not loud, appreciating and enjoying the whimsical wit
and good-natured satire he has some time ago learned to expect from
this most entertaining of writers.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 60w
“Canon Hannay has never written a more satisfying story.”
+ =Outlook= 124:249 F 11 ’20 100w
“Another of those disconcerting criticisms of Irish life and English
government which illuminate the difficulties of affairs in the
distressful country. The fact that the book is as amusing as any of
its predecessors, even ‘Spanish gold’ or ‘The search party,’ seems
merely incidental, but it must be mentioned.”
+ =Sat R= 129:70 Ja 17 ’20 120w
“We have already had several serious novels inspired by the events of
Easter, 1916, but George Birmingham is the only writer who has turned
the sequel to humorous purpose, and he is probably the only writer
living who could be trusted to do so without offence. The worst that
can be said of the book is that, as in ‘The seething pot,’ his first
novel, the author sees no way out.”
+ =Spec= 123:510 O 18 ’19 900w
“The relation between his amusing chronicles and actual life may be
remote: no matter, for they were always considered to be descriptive
of the kind of events that might occur if people and Ireland had
happened to be like the people and the Ireland of George Birmingham’s
books.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p514 S 25 ’19 450w
=HANSHEW, MARY E., and HANSHEW, THOMAS W. (CHARLOTTE MAY KINGSLEY,
pseud.).= Riddle of the frozen flame. il *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday
20–9476
“Mr Maverick Narkom, superintendent of Scotland Yard, sat before the
litter of papers upon his desk.... ‘Dash it, Cleek!’ he said for the
thirty-third time, ‘I don’t know what to make of it, I don’t,
indeed!’” So opens the new Cleek story. The mystery referred to is a
series of daring bank robberies. But more unusual matters are to
follow, involving the riddle of the frozen flames. Sir Nigel Merriton
sees them on the first night spent in Merriton Towers and his impulse
is to go out onto the fens to investigate, but his horrified servants
restrain him with tales of those who have dared this never to return.
Sir Nigel, who is very much in love and has just become engaged, has
no wish to risk his life and his interest in the supposed supernatural
phenomenon lapses. It is only when Dacre Wynne, his unsuccessful
rival, disappears, that he is moved to action and carries the strange
tale to Scotland Yard, arousing the interest of Cleek, who pursues the
mystery to its solution.
* * * * *
“The dénouement is obvious from the first, while the love interest is
of the usual stereotyped kind. Even so, ‘The riddle of the frozen
flame’ is an infinitely better mystery tale than many others appearing
this season.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ’20 220w
“‘The riddle of the frozen flame’ is a cleverly conceived tale that
will idle away an hour most pleasantly.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:302 Je 6 ’20 400w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 200w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 80w
=HANSON, DANIEL LOUIS.= Business philosophy of Moses Irons. il *$2.50
(1c) Shaw, A. W. 658
20–19862
A series of chapters, in fiction form, on the methods of conducting a
big business today. Moses Irons is the typical self-made business man,
shrewd, kindly, humorous and masterful. His ideals, his methods, his
relations with his subordinates are set forth in the book, some of the
chapters of which are: A romance of business; Live wires and dead
ones; Getting a job with Moses Irons; The ironmaster talks
advertising; Business diplomacy and trade anarchists; Wives and
sweethearts; The ironmaster gets pointers on handling salesmen; The
ironmaster invests in junk.
=HANSON, OLE.= Americanism versus bolshevism. il *$1.75 (2½c) Doubleday
331.87
20–2669
The author speaks of bolshevism and everything he conceives of as
coming under the head—communism, syndicalism, I. W. W.’ism—in no
uncertain terms. They all, he says, thrive on “murder, rape, pillage,
arson, free love, poverty, want, starvation, filth, slavery,
autocracy, suppression, sorrow and hell on earth.” (Preface) After
giving the above ‘isms more than their due he also mentions the red
employers as likewise culpable, but “we should be thankful that every
day they become less and soon will be an inconsequential minority in
the land.” Among the contents are: The labour situation in Seattle;
Something of the rise, trial and failure of bolshevism in Europe; Some
of history’s verdicts on reformers, utopias, trade unions, and
bolshevism; The causes of Bolshevism in Russia; The origin and
development of bolshevism in the United States; Bolshevism in America:
its causes and some remedies; Bolshevism contrasted with Americanism.
* * * * *
“The book contains pages of shallow generalizations.”
− =Booklist= 16:223 Ap ’20
“The value of this book, and the interest of it, is the clearness with
which it points out the menace.” I. W. L.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 950w
=Ind= 103:320 S 11 ’20 70w
“The best part of the book is that in which Mr Hanson tells the story
of his own fight. The reader is forced to decide whether or not Mr
Hanson has attempted too much. For one thing he has endeavored to
generalize from his own experiences. His arguments are weak when he
delves into the past. Ole Hanson on the subject of remedies is worth
reading.”
+ − =Lit D= p90 My 1 ’20 1050w
=R of Rs= 61:560 My ’20 60w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 15 ’20 400w
=HANUS, PAUL HENRY.= School administration and school reports. *$1.75
Houghton 379.15
20–13792
The object of the book is to help principals and teachers as well as
superintendents and boards of education to acquire a clearly defined
educational and administrative policy and to formulate and justify
their opinions and procedure. Contents: The meaning of education; Some
principles of school administration; Town and city school reports,
more particularly superintendents’ reports; Testing the efficiency of
public schools; Courtis arithmetic tests applied to employees in
business houses; Measuring progress in learning Latin; How far shall
the state go? The German example; German schools and American
education; Germany’s kultur; The Harvard graduate school of education.
* * * * *
“One might raise a question as to why such an excellent monograph as
the first three chapters would make should be made to carry an equal
amount of loosely associated material. The last eight chapters are
interesting and have individual value, but are not more closely
related to the theme of the book than many other articles which might
have been included. The busy school administrator would doubtless
appreciate the book more if there were fewer ‘riders’ attached.”
+ − =El School J= 21:73 S ’20 880w
“The clear-cut statement of principles of school administration and of
the bases of determining the efficiency of the administration of a
system of schools, and the analysis of typical school reports and the
suggestions for their improvement contained in the first four of the
essays have in themselves much more than enough of value to justify
the volume.”
+ =School R= 28:710 N ’20 190w
=HAPGOOD, NORMAN.= Advancing hour. *$2 Boni & Liveright 940.5
20–12808
Mr Hapgood accepts the fact that we are now in the midst of
revolution, and accepting that fact, he says “the only question is in
what manner it will be conducted, and by whom.” He states his own
position, and defines his liberalism: “If a radical is one who by
nature prefers sudden change and violent remedies then I am not a
radical.... A liberal differs from a radical in humility. He
concentrates on certain changes, good in themselves and also carrying
the seeds of further change, but he leaves later steps to later times.
His faith is that if the next step taken by us is important and of
right direction we shall have done all that belongs to our moment.”
Contents: In time of revolution; The storm cellar; The blockade of
thought; What the issues are; Without a party; Facing bolshevism: our
follies in Russia; Facing bolshevism: the future in Russia; Is
socialism needed? The answer of cooperation; The answer of liberalism;
From Wilsonism to the future; What is our faith?
* * * * *
“A hopeful book which does not attempt to solve all problems at a
stroke.”
+ =Booklist= 17:13 O ’20
“Mr Hapgood always writes interestingly even though his words may not
be based upon the soundest philosophy.”
+ =Cath World= 112:403 D ’20 330w
“Outside of an excellent chapter on the cooperative movement, the
volume is chiefly pious platitude, amiable advice to business men not
to make fools of themselves in a time of rapid social change like the
present.” Harold Stearns
− + =Freeman= 2:92 O 6 ’20 960w
Reviewed by W: MacDonald
=Nation= 111:sup427 O 13 ’20 750w
“It is a book worth everyone’s reading, for its notable contribution
of facts and ideas, and more especially for its candor of spirit, rare
indeed in a day when a great part of our political writers are still
more or less disabled morally by their late services to national
morale in disseminating lies and misrepresentations for the glory of
God and the cause of right.” A. J.
+ =New Repub= 23:339 Ag 18 ’20 2050w
“Mr Hapgood shows the defects of his good qualities and one of these
is at present a lack of knowledge in what these good qualities
consist. The volume is stimulating, patriotic without being
nationalistic, unselfish and idealistic; but it shows some of the
defects of an education which seems to have been entirely American.”
M. F. Egan
+ − =N Y Times= p8 Ag 29 ’20 3550w
“The best chapter in the book is chapter eight on the advantages of
co-operation, over both socialism and government regulation of great
combinations, as a remedy for industrial injustice. Mr Norman Hapgood
is an effective pamphleteer; but excellences in a pamphleteer are
fatal defects in a historian.”
− + =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 300w
“To one reviewer at least—and one who is not insensible to the part Mr
Hapgood has taken in past times in the advocacy of certain social
measures—there is provocation on almost every page of this book. But
in the two chapters on the Russian problem, as well as in other
incidental treatment of this problem, the provocation concentrates in
every line.” W. J. Ghent
− + =Review= 3:230 S 15 ’20 3350w
=R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 130w
“To see things steadily and clearly is a gift of few. Mr Hapgood
possesses fewer blind spots than most, but it may be that he is
mistaken in parts of his analysis. However, he stimulates the reader
to formulate his own beliefs. The style is a trifle labored, but there
is no mistaking the book’s earnestness.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 320w
“Special mention should be made of Mr Hapgood’s intimate study of
President Wilson. It is a helpful antidote to Mr Keynes’ sketch.” L.
R. Robinson
+ =Survey= 45:320 N 27 ’20 720w
=HARA, KATSURO.=[2] Introduction to the history of Japan. *$2.50 (2½c)
Putnam
952
The book is the first of a projected series of publications by the
Yamato society, whose aim is to make clear the meaning and extent of
Japanese culture to other nations, and to introduce the best
literature and art of foreign nations to Japan for a promotion of a
common understanding. The present volume is intended for those
Europeans and Americans who would like to know Japan “not as a land of
quaint curios and picturesque paradoxes only worthy to be preserved
intact for a show, but as a land inhabited by a nation striving hard
to improve itself, and to take its share, however humble, in the
common progress of the civilisation of the world.” (Preface) Contents:
The races and climate of Japan; Japan before the introduction of
Buddhism and Chinese civilisation; Growth of the imperial power;
gradual centralisation; Remodeling of the state; Culmination of the
new régime; stagnation; rise of the military régime; The military
régime; the Taira and the Minamoto; the shogunate of Kamakura; The
welding of the nation; the political disintegration of the country;
End of medieval Japan; The transition from medieval to modern Japan;
The Tokugawa shogunate—its political régime; culture and society (two
chapters); The restoration of the Meidji; Epilogue. The objects of and
the rules of the Yamato society are given in full and there is an
index.
* * * * *
“A carefully evolved and well written synopsis of the many centuries
of Japanese national life. There is one especially creditable
circumstance about the publication of this book. It is honest Japanese
propaganda, and it makes no pretensions of being anything else.” S. L.
C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 22 ’21 420w
=HARBEN, WILLIAM NATHANIEL.= Divine event. *$1.75 (2c) Harper
20–16796
A story of psychical phenomena. Hillery Gramling, unhappy over the
death of his brother, in consultation with a medium is sent to New
York’s East side to live among the poor. There he comes in contact
with Lucia Lingle, a beautiful young girl who seems to be under the
shadow of some awful, mysterious tragedy. He falls in love with her
and is anxious to help her. He is aided by Professor Trimble,
psychologist, alienist, mental scientist, who becomes deeply
interested in Lucia’s case. Thru the mediumship of Madame DuFresne,
they discover the exact nature of her trouble, that her half-brother
is trying to prove her insane that he may take over her inheritance.
Together they fight the thing out, encouraged always by the
supernatural aid they receive, thru Madame DuFresne, from those on the
other side of death. In the end thru their combined efforts, Lucia is
freed from the awful curse that has hung over her, and has the promise
of happiness.
* * * * *
“The plot is slight and unconvincing but is evidently meant to be
taken seriously and will interest readers inclined to believe in
spirit control and guardian angels.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21
=HARCOURT, ROBERT HENRY.= Elementary forge practice. 2d ed, enl il $1.50
Manual arts press 672
20–19056
A second edition of a work originally published by the author,
instructor in forge practice in Leland Stanford Junior university,
where it has been used as a text. It is designed for use in technical
and vocational schools. Contents: Materials and equipment;
Drawing-out, bending and twisting; Common welds; Special welds; Hammer
work; Annealing, hardening and tempering steel; Tool forging. There
are forty-four plates illustrating as many projects.
* * * * *
“The volume should prove a valuable addition to any shop library as a
supplementary text. For the teacher of large classes of beginners it
should lift the burden of much class work and explanation if placed in
the hands of the pupils as a text.”
+ =School R= 29:77 Ja ’21 210w
=HARD, WILLIAM.= Raymond Robins’ own story. il *$2 (4c) Harper 947
20–3007
Colonel Robins was the unofficial representative of the American
ambassador to Russia for eighteen months and a close observer of the
powers that conducted Russian affairs, and he has had a more intimate
acquaintance than any other American or allied representative with the
government of Lenin. He is not a socialist and not a bolshevist, but
he sees that the danger from the latter, if such there be, lies not in
riots and robberies, mobs and massacres, not in its disorder but in
its order, in that “the Soviet system is genuinely a system on its own
account.... It can be extinguished only in the free air of fair
controversy and of fair, practical proof.” There is but one choice
left to America, according to Colonel Robins, in dealing with Russia,
and that is not intervention but intercourse. The story of the book is
told by the author as it was narrated to him by Colonel Robins. The
contents are: The arrival of the Soviet; Trotzky’s plans for soviet
Russia; The all-Russian congress and the Brest-Litovsk peace; The
personality and power of Nikolai Lenin; The bolshevik “bomb”; and many
illustrations.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:237 Ap ’20
“It stands out in this consecutive form as the most vigorous, the most
picturesque, as well as the most truthful record in English of the
birth of Bolshevism through the Soviet.” O. M. Sayler
+ =Bookm= 51:310 My ’20 950w
=Cleveland= p76 Ag ’20 60w
+ =R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 180w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 1 ’20 1000w
“Mr Hard is so carried away with dramatic fervor that he feels it
necessary to interrupt himself every now and then to assure us that Mr
Robins is a good anti-Bolshevist. But these interludes need not divert
the reader from the important parts of the book. Mr Robins’ admirable
suggestions as to future American policy toward Russia deserve to be
widely read.” Reed Lewis
+ − =Survey= 44:48 Ap 3 ’20 270w
=HARDY, THOMAS.= Collected poems, lyrical, narratory and reflective.
*$3.40 Macmillan 821
20–26754
“This book contains all of Thomas Hardy’s poetry except ‘The dynasts,’
including poems which have appeared in his prose works.”—Booklist
* * * * *
“There have been many poets among us in the last fifty years, poets of
sure talent, and it may be even of genius, but no other of them has
this compulsive power of Hardy. The secret is not hard to find. Not
one of them is adequate to what we know and have suffered....
Therefore we deliberately set Mr Hardy among the greatest.” J. M. M.
+ =Ath= p1147 N 7 ’19 2200w
+ =Booklist= 17:21 O ’20
“Let it be said straight out that in our opinion, whatever else Mr
Hardy’s writing, susceptible to scansion, is, it is not poetry. It is
not poetry, because, in the end, poetry is in a sort illusion.... He
has been guilty of the last, the unforgivable sin in poetry—* *he has
sinned against love, for which there is and should be no forgiveness.”
− + =Sat R= 128:459 N 15 ’19 1250w
=Spec= 122:512 O 18 ’19 20w
“Mr Hardy, once and for all, set up as poet, then, at an age when
Shakespeare left our mortal stage. This book, for that reason alone,
is an unprecedented achievement. Apart from that, to read steadily
through it—and what severer test of lyrical poetry could be
devised?—is to win to the consciousness not of any superficial
consistency, but assuredly of a ‘harmony of colouring’; not, however
keen the joy manifest ‘in the making,’ of an art become habitual, but
of a shadowy unity and design.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p681 N 27 ’19 2450w
=HARKER, MRS LIZZIE ALLEN.= Allegra. *$1.75 (2c) Scribner
20–161
Allegra is a charming but decidedly self-centered young actress who
sees every person and every incident in the light of her career. She
is playing in a provincial repertory theater at the opening of the
story and it is thru a chance meeting with Paul Staniland that her
ambition to appear in London is gratified. Paul is delighted with
Allegra and works up a part for her in the play he is dramatizing from
one of Matthew Maythorne’s novels. Maythorne is one of those popular
novelists whose books sell into the thousands and he fatuously accepts
the success of the play as a tribute to himself, giving Paul none of
the credit. Allegra’s admiration for the novelist is killed by a
reading of his book and she comes to appreciate Paul, but a visit at
the country home of Paul’s people, delightful tho they are, convinces
her that she belongs to the theater and she returns to the stage.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p1208 N 14 ’19 70w
“The plot is not credible in parts, but this does not mar the interest
of the story.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:244 Ap ’20
Reviewed by M. E. Bailey
=Bookm= 51:205 Ap ’20 260w
“If Paul seems a special creation made to fit Allegra’s need, why
quarrel with him? Are we not left with the conviction that here is a
really happy ending to a story?”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 260w
“A number of minor characters are very well drawn.”
+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 70w
“All the minor characters, in fact, are skillfully portrayed, with any
number of quaint and understanding little touches which make ‘Allegra’
very agreeable reading—the more agreeable because the author has had
the good taste and good sense to avoid the conventional ‘happy
ending.’”
+ =N Y Times= 25:71 F 8 ’20 440w
+ =Sat R= 130:380 N 6 ’20 100w
“Altogether it is a slight but pleasing little story without any
probing into psychology or any tremendous conflict of forces.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 160w
“Allegra, a little hard and egotistical, and passionately devoted to
her art, is well studied. And the whole tale (which moves among
well-bred people throughout) is on a good level, though we think a
little below that attained in other books by the author.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p594 O 23 ’19 100w
=HARPER, GEORGE MCLEAN.=[2] John Morley, and other essays. *$1.60
Princeton univ. press 814
20–10290
“Professor Harper, of Princeton university, author of various books of
literary criticism (including the substantial and able work on
Wordsworth), here puts together eight essays—on John Morley; Victor
Hugo (these from the Atlantic Monthly); Michael Angelo’s sonnets;
Balzac; W. C. Brownell (an American critic); Wordsworth at Blois;
Wordsworth’s love poetry; and ‘David Brainerd: a Puritan saint.’”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
“His generalizations are just, and he is not ridden by them; he knows
when to generalize and when to forget his generalizations.”
+ =Ath= p838 D 17 ’20 110w
=Booklist= 17:68 N ’20
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p762 N 18 ’20 70w
=HARRIS, CORRA MAY (WHITE) (MRS LUNDY HOWARD HARRIS).= Happily married.
*$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–3192
The scene is an exclusive southern town, the time that summer of
intense war activity, 1918, and the characters several married pairs.
Two of these are Mary and Pelham Madden, and two others Ellen and
Barrie Skipwith. Mary is one of those calm, maternal and beautifully
placid women, a perfect housekeeper and mother of four children. Ellen
is a childless woman with red hair and baby blue eyes. Mary has just
found a note in her husband’s pocket addressed to Dear Pep. Ellen has
just turned in a Red cross subscription list with an anonymous
contribution of $1000. How Mary wakes up and learns to practice the
old womanly wiles is the theme of a story that is told amusingly with
touches of satire.
* * * * *
“Entertaining in spite of its hackneyed plot.”
+ =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20
“Mrs Harris makes no attempt to inject novelty into the situation. She
relies on her knowledge of men and women and her happy faculty in
phrasing her reflections thereon for the pleasure of her readers. And
these easily suffice.” F. A. G.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Mr 27 ’20 500w
“The entertaining and shrewd comment upon married life, adds ginger to
a somewhat conventional vamp story.”
+ − =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 100w
+ =Lit D= p99 My 1 ’20 2300w
“An immense quantity of mildly entertaining and occasionally shrewd
comment strung on a very slight, very much worn thread of plot,
constitutes Corra Harris’s new novel.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:4 F 29 ’20 300w
+ =Outlook= 124:562 Mr 31 ’20 30w
“Mrs Harris’s thesis does not command unfaltering acquiescence. For
those, however, who collect novels as others collect butterflies, the
book will have a great deal of interest.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p383 Je 17 ’20 500w
=HARRIS, CREDO FITCH.= Wings of the wind. *$1.75 (1½c) Small
20–11301
Jack Bronx, returning from the war, is packed off by his fond parents
on their private yacht, with one of his army pals. On the way to
Havana they pick up a stranger who turns out to be a secret envoy from
the Kingdom of Azuria, in search of a lost princess. Chance favoring
they trace the princess as one of the passengers on another yacht.
Great is the chase, thrilling the adventures which eventually take the
party to the Florida swamps into the ancient haunts of the Seminoles.
The princess is rescued, Jack falls violently in love with her, and
the old emissary hard put to it to save her, under the circumstances,
for the throne of Azuria. Jack’s resourceful friend settles the matter
by demonstrating to everybody’s satisfaction that the emissary’s
orders to deliver the princess did not contain the provision that she
must be single when found.
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 650w
“The story teems with thrilling incidents. The plot, however, is
trite.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:552 Ja ’21 90w
=N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 25 ’20 530w
=HARRIS, H. WILSON.= Peace in the making. il *$2 Dutton 940.314
20–6966
“‘What I have endeavored to produce is an account, checked by such
official documents as are available, which will convey to the general
reader some not wholly inadequate impression both of what the
conference did and how it did it.’ (Preface) The author was for three
months the special correspondent of the London Daily News to the
conference.”—Wis Lib Bul
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p95 Ja 16 ’20 200w
+ =Booklist= 17:66 N ’20
“Mr Harris is well-informed and his pen-pictures of the personality
and policy of the leading diplomats, tho less lively than those of Mr
Keynes, are far closer to the facts.”
+ =Ind= 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 50w
“His plan is less ambitious than that of Dr Dillon, for he leaves out
most of the historical summaries which are a valuable feature of Dr
Dillon’s volume, and also tells fewer incidents. His account of the
Prinkipo episode, and of the apparently deliberate intermeddling of
France to insure that the proposed conference should come to naught,
should be read by anyone who still cherishes confidence in the good
faith of the Paris negotiators.” W: MacDonald
+ =Nation= 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 150w
=N Y Times= p15 S 19 ’20 50w
“Those readers who are interested in finding an account of the peace
conference to supplement the somewhat opinionated statements of Keynes
and Dillon would do well to provide themselves with a copy of ‘The
peace in the making.’ The book as a whole, while not itself history in
the fullest sense, may well be regarded as a contribution to history.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 140w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 220w
“His summary of the deliberations of the conference is just a little
too summary, and the chapter on Lenin and Bela Kun is vague and
unsatisfactory. On the other hand, Mr Harris’s judgments of the
personalities of the conference are generally temperate and just.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p23 Ja 8 ’20 220w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:119 Je ’20 60w
=HARRIS, JAMES RENDEL.= Last of the Mayflower. (Manchester univ.
publications) *$2 (*5s) Longmans 974.4
20–14551
“In this publication of the John Rylands library Dr Rendel Harris
tries to find an answer to the question, ‘What became of the
“Mayflower“?’ The name was a common one for ships in late Tudor and
early Stuart times; hence the tracing of the authentic ‘Mayflower’ has
entailed much research. Some ten years after the landing of the
Pilgrims (1620), she was employed on a similar service, that of
transporting the remainder of the Leyden colony to New Plymouth. Then
she is traced in the whale-fishery, and to her last owner and master,
Mr Thomas Webber of Boston. Not long after 1654, the author says, ‘one
is tempted to conjecture that she died (in a nautical sense). Most
likely she was broken up in Boston, or perhaps in the Thames on her
last voyage to London.’ ”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p591 Ap 30 ’20 140w
Reviewed by W. A. Dyer
=Bookm= 52:125 O ’20 40w
=HARRISON, AUSTIN.= Before and now. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane 304
20–6972
This collection of papers, reprinted in a revised form from the
English Review, are critical and partly satirical and humorous
impressions of conditions in England previous to and during the war.
They were “journalism then, today they are prophetic,” says the
author. It is the disintegration of old conceptions and the
birth-pangs of new that form the subject-matter of the papers, which
are: Jingoism; The coming of Smith; “Surrey in danger”; Peace, perfect
peace; St George’s stirrup; The duke’s buffalo; A “Christian” Europe
and afterwards; Our gentlemen’s schools; Authority and privilege; The
new “Sesame and lilies”; The Christian drum; What is ours is not ours;
The country of the blind; “Leave them ‘orses alone!”; Foreign
politics; “Minny”; The awakening; Musings at Fort Vaux; Foundations of
reconstruction.
* * * * *
“Some of these reprinted articles from the English Review are worth
reading again, as the contemporary views of a very independent
critic.”
+ − =Ath= p1136 O 31 ’19 120w
“Although the intimate knowledge of men and events which the author
demands of his readers will be a drawback to many, the interest of his
criticisms will hold the attention of the more thoughtful and well
informed.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:305 Je ’20
“The papers are stimulating and thoughtful.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 14 ’20 480w
“Mr Austin Harrison is unfortunate enough to live in a between-age.
Actually he belongs to the Victorian era, but his generation and his
intelligence will not leave him at peace, and push him into a rather
uncomfortable ultra-modern attitude. Of all his essays the musings at
Fort Vaux are the most illuminating, because they are at once the most
sincere, the least preconceived.”
+ − =Nation= 111:224 Ag 21 ’20 220w
=N Y Times= p17 S 12 ’20 50w
“What he has given us is very suggestive, and one is grateful to any
man who can stir up general interest in our social problems by the use
of such a facile pen. He has the same sort of literary gift as Mr H.
G. Wells, though in a slighter degree. But he has not so far shown
anything like the rich literary nutritiousness that belongs to the
work of his distinguished father [Frederick Harrison].” H. L. Stewart
+ − =Review= 2:600 Je 5 ’20 1000w
“Mr Harrison has a vigorous and effective pen, which often runs away
with him and never quite knows when to stop; but his chief fault, as
this book reveals it, is a love for exaggeration which detracts
considerably from the value of his words.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p609 O 30 ’19 1150w
=HARRISON, MARY ST LEGER (KINGSLEY) (MRS WILLIAM HARRISON) (LUCAS MALET,
pseud.).= Tall villa. *$1.75 (4c) Doran
20–3
The outstanding characteristic of this novel is that it is a ghost
story. After her husband’s financial failure, Frances Copley betakes
herself away from Grosvenor square and London high society and buries
herself in Tall villa, a maternal inheritance and a preposterous piece
of architecture, while her husband goes to seek a new fortune in South
America. There the ghost of an ancient relative, a suicide from
disappointed love, makes itself known to her and moved by pity she
resolves to consecrate her life to his redemption. They hold daily
concourse and by the time his earth-bound spirit has been released
through her martyrdom, the latter for her had turned into rapture. Her
spirit too, now longs for release and when the ghost makes its final
appearance it is to free her too from earthly thralldom.
* * * * *
=Ath= p767 Je 11 ’20 460w
“The story is kept sane by means of the other people, the Bulparcs,
Lady Lucia and her baby, and Charlie Montagu. Therefore it is cleverly
done. But no one who has not been drawn by a spirit lover to the
fairer clime can tell if the rest of it is really correct. To review
the volume rightly one needs a ouija board.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 14 ’20 520w
“The story, a modern fairy tale, is handled with much restraint and
artistry.”
+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 50w
=Dial= 68:665 My ’20 50w
“Those who are desirous of finding something to laugh at and to
ridicule in any tale of the supernatural will readily discover all
that they desire in ‘The Tall villa’; even those who are ready and
willing to take the novel with the same high and intense seriousness
with which it is written will find it difficult to refrain from
smiling over some of the high-flown speeches addressed by Frances
Copley to the ghost of Alexis Lord Oxley. Yet there is much of charm
in the book.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:2 F 22 ’20 900w
“The character of Frances Copley is exquisitely etched. The rare
distinction of Mrs Harrison’s carven style is at its best in this
unusual and dexterously handled romance, which is finely free from the
over-frank emphasis of the senses found in ‘Sir Richard Calmady.’”
Katharine Perry
+ =Pub W= 97:601 F 21 ’20 400w
“The book will rank with the best of the author’s.”
+ =Sat R= 130:300 O 9 ’20 110w
“It is a sad confession to make, but we are Philistine enough to
prefer those portions of the story in which normal events and
personages predominate.”
+ − =Spec= 124:728 My 29 ’20 450w
“The dialog is invariably stilted, and the generally formal tone robs
the situation of reality and those startling qualities inherent in it.
The heroine herself is delicately portrayed. The story is not long and
stirs only a mild interest.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 9 ’20 560w
“This novel is excellently written; but a ghost story should make the
flesh creep, and that is the one function which, in spite of its
excellences, it certainly does not perform.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p284 My 6 ’20 460w
=HARROW, BENJAMIN.=[2] Eminent chemists of our time. il *$2.50 Van
Nostrand 540.9
The author has chosen eleven scientists “whose work is indissolubly
bound up with the progress of chemistry during the last generation or
so.” His aim has been “to write a history of chemistry of our times by
centering it around some of its leading figures.” Contents:
Introduction; Perkin and coal-tar dyes; Mendeléeff and the periodic
law; Ramsay and the gases of the atmosphere; Richards and atomic
weights; Van’t Hoff and physical chemistry; Arrhenius and the theory
of electrolytic dissociation; Moissan and the electric furnace; Madame
Curie and radium; Victor Meyer and the rise of organic chemistry;
Remsen and the rise of chemistry in America; Fischer and the chemistry
of foods. Reading references follow the chapters and there is an
index.
=HARROW, BENJAMIN.= From Newton to Einstein; changing conceptions of the
universe. il *$1 (6½c) Van Nostrand 530
20–7594
The booklet gives in simple popular language an outline of Newton’s
great discovery and of the various steps in scientific achievements
which led up to Einstein’s conception of the universe and theory of
relativity. It shows how Einstein’s conception of time and space led
to a new view of gravitation and explains some facts which Newton’s
law was incapable of explaining. The three essays of the book are:
Newton; The ether and its consequences; Einstein.
* * * * *
“Dr Harrow’s account is altogether too inadequate. The chapter on
‘Einstein’ utterly fails to bring out the central conceptions of the
‘Relativity theory’; it is not that the treatment is obscure; it is
that very important points are slurred over, misstated, or ignored.”
− =Ath= p377 S 17 ’20 240w
+ =Booklist= 17:57 N ’20
“It contains egregious mistakes, minor errors, misplaced emphasis,
wrong interpretation, and a modicum of information.” R: F. Deimel
− =Freeman= 1:423 Jl 14 ’20 60w
+ =Nature= 106:466 D 9 ’20 40w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p36 Ap ’20 70w
“A lucid little book.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p603 S 16 ’20 20w
=HARTLEY, OLGA.= Anne. *$1.90 (2c) Lippincott
Anne is an orphan and still a child at seventeen when young Gilbert
Trevor, one of her self-appointed guardians, falls in love with and
marries her, while her other self-appointed guardian, John Halliday,
continues to hover over her with a more selfless devotion. Anne never
grows up but remains an ardent, wilful, fascinating child with a
child’s sincerity and purity of heart. It leads her into dangerous
situations and causes complications during which, at a crucial moment,
Gilbert fails her. She forces the estrangement and after some mad
escapades follows the dying John to Scotland, resolved to give him all
the love that he deserved and of which Gilbert has proved himself
unworthy. But the latter’s love and manhood stand the final test and
his protecting arms once more hold Anne safe.
* * * * *
“Anne’s future sister-in-law, Francesca, is a likeable character; but
the heroine herself is difficult to understand, almost to the end of
the book.”
+ − =Ath= p783 Je 11 ’20 100w
“The author’s handling of the heights and depths of the story towards
its climax deserves high praise for restraint, for absence of
sensationalism while it yet holds and thrills.”
+ =Cath World= 112:407 D ’20 260w
“Whether one has patience with the violent-tempered, erratic heroine
or not, it cannot be denied that here is a soundly-constructed,
well-written novel.”
+ − =N Y Times= p26 D 19 ’20 260w
Reviewed by Caroline Singer
=Pub W= 98:658 S 18 ’20 300w
“The development and gradual ripening of the heroine’s character (she
needed it) are very well done, and we commend the book to our
readers.”
+ =Sat R= 130:379 N 6 ’20 80w
=HARTMAN, HARLEIGH HOLROYD.= Fair value. *$2.50 Houghton 338
20–6119
The book is one of the series of Hart, Schaffner, and Marx prize
essays in economics and the thesis is concerned with the meaning and
application of the term “Fair valuation” as used by utility
commissions. The usage of the term is a loose one and open to much
confusion on the part of the public as well as of the courts. The
author’s inquiry rests on the points: “that the public utility is
essentially different from other industry; that private property
devoted to the public use is not the same as other private property,
and does not enjoy the same legal protection; that the service
rendered is governmental in its nature, and; that the purpose of
regulation is curtailment of ‘private rights’ and the encumbrance of
‘private property.’” The book falls into two parts: 1, The meaning of
the term “fair value” contains: The basis of regulation; The purpose
of regulation; Valuation and regulation; The theory of valuation;
Valuation methods. 2, The application of the theory of fair value,
contains: The valuation of tangible property; Valuation of intangible
property; Depreciation; The return on the investment; Conclusion.
There is also a selected bibliography, a table of cases, and an index.
* * * * *
“The first is far the more significant part. A valid criticism of the
book is that it overstrains legal definitions and logical legal
relationships.” J: Bauer
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:822 D ’20 880w
“A useful and opportune classifying of a large mass of scattered
material.”
+ =Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20
“‘Fair value’ is, withal, a most exhaustive and illuminative work on
current economics, with principles, laws, court decisions and
commission opinions all set forth in such a fashion that even the
uninitiate in such matters are able to grasp Mr Hartman’s theories of
valuation.” G. M. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 22 ’20 550w
=Review= 3:448 N 10 ’20 1100w
=R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 120w
Reviewed by E. R. Burton
+ =Survey= 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 340w
=HARVARD UNIVERSITY. DRAMATIC CLUB.= Plays of the Harvard dramatic club.
*$1.25 Brentano’s 812.08
“The little volume of one-act plays, edited by Professor George Pierce
Baker, contains only four pieces, all of them dealing with American
themes and all of them the result of their several authors’ studies in
the dramaturgic laboratory which the editor has successfully conducted
at Harvard. In his brief prefatory note he explains the activities of
the Harvard dramatic club and tells us that the four plays he has
chosen for inclusion have been selected ‘as a group which perhaps
gives the volume best variety and balance.’” (N Y Times) The titles
are “The harbor of lost ships, by Louise Whitefield Bray; Garafelia’s
husband, by Esther Willard Bates; The scales and the sword, by Farnham
Bishop; and The four-flushers, by Cleves Kinkead.” (Brooklyn)
* * * * *
=Brooklyn= 12:66 Ja ’20 30w
“Professor Baker has worked earnestly, unostentatiously, and with only
one failing, a somewhat lively fear of being academic.” K. M.
+ − =Freeman= 2:310 D 8 ’20 190w
Reviewed by Brander Matthews
=N Y Times= p10 Ag 8 ’20 150w
=HARVEY, LUCILE STIMSON.= Food facts for the home-maker. il *$2.50
Houghton 613.2
20–6498
The book is intended to help the young housekeeper without either
knowledge of science or technical skill, and to give the experienced
cook a scientific foundation, but primarily to show mothers how to
feed their children. “Few women realize the great importance of the
proper feeding of the family. Undernourishment among our children in
the United States is far more prevalent than is generally supposed,
and is found quite as often in the homes of the well-to-do as in those
of the poor.” (Preface) Although the book contains recipes it is not
intended to compete with cook-books, but rather to supplement them.
Among the contents are: The importance of food; The composition of
foods; Milk and eggs; Meat; Cheese and legumes; Cereals; Fruits and
vegetables; Fats; Sugar; The use of food in the body; The measurement
of food values; Food for infants and young children; Food for
school-children; Food for invalids. There is a bibliography and an
index.
=Booklist= 16:334 Jl ’20
“A highly important and serviceable book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 230w
“Throughout the volume is an excellent manual that is well arranged,
written in an informal and untechnical vein and well fitted to meet
the demands of the ordinary household.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 140w
Reviewed by E. A. Winslow
+ =Survey= 44:592 Ag 2 ’20 110w
=HASBROUCK, LOUISE SEYMOUR.= Hall with doors. il *$1.75 (4c) Womans
press
20–8235
A story for girls with a vocation moral. In their junior year in high
school a group of friends form the V. V. club (the initials standing
for vacation-vocation), and in the chapters of the book their various
experiences in the world of work are followed. After college one group
goes to New York to attack business, advertising, interior decorating
and tearoom management. One girl stays at home and finds her vocation
in a recreation center. One country girl leaves the farm to go to
college and then comes back to teach a country school and make over a
rural community. One girl, who is a misfit in business, succeeds as
athletic director and organizer of a summer camp. The girls are bright
and natural, the stories are interestingly told and the romance that
has a part in all real-life stories is not omitted.
=HASKINS, CHARLES HOMER, and LORD, ROBERT HOWARD.= Some problems of the
Peace conference. *$3 Harvard univ. press 914.314
20–12208
“It will be remembered that Professor Haskins and Professor Lord were
two of the experts who accompanied President Wilson to the peace
conference. Prof. Haskins served as chief of the division of western
Europe and he was American member of the special committee of three
which drafted the treaty clauses on Alsace-Lorraine and the Sarre
valley. Professor Lord served as American adviser on Poland and
related problems, both at Paris and in Poland itself. The lectures
published in this volume were delivered last winter at the Lowell
institute and are now given with only incidental changes. The effort
of the two men has been to present each of these problems in its
historical setting, revealing at the same time, the reason of its
importance to the conference.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“In respect both to extent and to content, the book leaves much to be
contributed to the subject in the future, by the present authors or by
other scholars. It does provide what is most needed at this time, a
well-informed and fairminded sketch of the background and of the
probable issue of the territorial settlement. One noteworthy
contribution of the book is the first chapter on Task and methods of
the conference.” Clive Day
+ =Am Hist R= 26:334 Ja ’21 1400w
“May be regarded, without question, as the most important work on the
conference that has yet appeared. It should do much to counteract the
overdrawn and splenetic sketches of Keynes, Dillon, or Creel.” C:
Seymour
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:734 N ’20 420w
“It is improbable that this particular book, with the accurate
knowledge it displays and the authoritative position which its authors
held in the actual negotiations, will ever be replaced as an
historical record.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 14 ’20 280w
“By far the best account of the Paris conference which has yet
appeared.”
+ =Ind= 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 130w
Reviewed by W: MacDonald
=Nation= 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 500w
“Their book will meet the needs of the many now looking for just such
a graphic account of the methods of the peace conference in dealing
with important questions.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 30 ’20 180w
“The book is to be welcomed warmly just because the Peace conference
did not accomplish (whether it could have done so we need not here
discuss) the enormous task it set itself, and Americans will be forced
again and again to take a stand on new disputes arising from the
settlements made.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 45:104 O 16 ’20 260w
“Within its limits the book, which is admirably written, is of great
value. It contains a scholarly, open-minded, impartial account of such
matters as the problem of Slesvig, and the questions concerning the
status, and territorial extension of Belgium. It will do much good,
for it serves as a useful antidote to the criticisms, often so
ignorant and so partisan, of the territorial settlement.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p526 Ag 19 ’20 950w
=HASLETT, ELMER.= Luck on the wing; thirteen stories of a sky spy. il
*$3 Dutton 940.44
20–8364
The personal narrative of a young American aviator in France. “The
author records at the very outset how he preferred the clean air to
the rat-haunted trenches, and it was that human desire to escape from
the muddy, disagreeable ground that made him become a flying man. The
book reads more like a novel than the record of a warrior.” (Bookm)
* * * * *
“Hardships and adventures are told with a youthful verve, without
overstraining and with an ever ready appreciation when the joke is on
himself.”
+ =Booklist= 17:66 N ’20
“Major Elmer Haslett has written, in ‘Luck on the wing,’ just the kind
of book we need, now that we all have some perspective—though little,
I admit—on the war. It is full of the fire and fervor of youth,
good-natured, natural—a splendid picture of the fighting airman.” C:
H. Towne
+ =Bookm= 52:77 S ’20 430w
“For those who have shared our ignorance of the aerial observer, this
book should be of value.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 S 26 ’20 500w
=HASLUCK, EUGENE LEWIS.=[2] Teaching of history. (Cambridge handbooks
for teachers) *$3.20 Macmillan 907
“After defining certain legitimate reasons for teaching history in
schools, and distinguishing these from ‘false and shallow
justification,’ a statement is presented of the basis of selection of
materials for pupils of different age groups and a detailed plan is
outlined for organizing courses in English history for upper-grade
pupils in either a one, two, three, or four years’ sequence. Further
discussion concerns the nature and use of the history textbook and the
effective use of supplementary historical and literary source
material, with specific reference to a number of especially valuable
ones; types of historical exercises which may be employed as aids to
the stimulation of interest and the retention of historical facts; and
different ways of utilizing general, local, and recent history. Three
specimen lesson-units are given in outline form—one illustrating a
unit of pure narrative, one which describes a particular social
situation, and one which centers about a national character. A final
chapter points out some of the most common pitfalls which beset the
teacher of history, and suggests means of avoiding them.”—School R
* * * * *
“This slender volume is of interest to American teachers for two
reasons: first, for the information it gives directly or by
implication upon the state of history-teaching in England, and,
secondly, for the practical quality of its criticisms and suggestions,
so wholly unaffected by the airs and attitudes of the professional
pedagogue.” H. E. B.
+ =Am Hist R= 26:353 Ja ’21 390w
=Ath= p140 Jl 30 ’19 940w
“On the study of history, and the study of teaching as applied
thereto, Mr Hasluck writes as an expert. Where there is life, there is
hope. And even the formal categories of this handbook bear witness to
a vitality, widespread and abounding in promise.”
+ =Sat R= 130:120 Ag 7 ’20 750w
+ =School R= 28:793 D ’20 320w
“Suggestive and helpful.”
+ =Spec= 125:281 Ag 28 ’20 190w
=HASTINGS, MILO MILTON.= City of endless night. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–15704
Great changes had taken place on the earth’s surface in 2150. The
German empire had been wiped out and all that was left of it was the
roof of Berlin looming up to the height of three hundred metres out of
a bomb-torn desert that had once been Germany. The German people
themselves now lived underground, three hundred million of them. It
was an American chemical engineer who, during one of his experiments,
was by accident exploded into their domain and by a cunning strategy
managed to live and work among them; to escape by submarine and by
means of his knowledge to be instrumental in the overthrow of that
stronghold and in the liberation of those millions. All the qualities
that the Germans have been credited with before, during and since the
war, are utilized in the story with satiric exaggeration.
* * * * *
“Mr Hastings has succeeded in interweaving into this book a love story
that always escapes being bizarre, no mean accomplishment in a tale
depicting a society ‘that never was on land or sea’ outside of an
author’s imagination.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 420w
=HAWES, CHARLES BOARDMAN.= Mutineers. il $2 (2c) Atlantic monthly press
20–26982
“A tale of old days at sea and of adventures in the Far East as
Benjamin Lathrop set it down some sixty years ago.” (Sub-title) It was
young Ben’s first voyage and although only a ship’s boy he was in the
midst of all the adventures that happened. He was the first to detect
treason aboard, to suspect that it was not the pirates they
encountered who killed the captain and first mate, and to join the
mutineers against the crafty usurpers of power. He was set adrift with
the mutineers in a boat, had an exciting encounter with Malay savages
who helped them regain control of the ship and, after more thrilling
experiences, in the course of which the culprits met their doom, the
ship and its precious cargo was saved, and when the “Island Princess”
returned to its home port there was indeed a story to tell.
* * * * *
“Told with skill and an evident knowledge of the sea and seamen. Older
boys will find it absorbing. Good make-up.”
+ =Booklist= 17:163 Ja ’21
“This is a story that has the sort of appeal carried by ‘Treasure
island.’ It is a book written with swing and go, windy of the high
seas, full of the wild doings of those early days.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 80w
“There’s not one element of the ideal sea story lacking.” L. H. Seaman
+ =Pub W= 98:1200 O 16 ’20 320w
“It is a tale with the true flavor of the time it professes to
portray, and will have the genuine attraction for boys of all ages
that similar stories by Stevenson and other lovers of the South sea
and its shores possess.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 140w
=HAWKES, CLARENCE.= Master Frisky. new ed il *$1.50 (6c) Crowell
The author is a well-known naturalist, author of “Wood and water
friends,” and other books. Master Frisky is a collie puppy and in
telling his story many other animal friends of barnyard and field are
introduced. There are interesting chapters on the training of dogs, on
dog signs and language and dog friendships.
* * * * *
“A worthy addition to our delightful literature of dogdom.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ’20 140w
=HAWKES, CLARENCE.= Trails to woods and waters; foreword by W: T.
Hornaday. il *$1.60 (3c) Jacobs 590.4
20–6752
In driving the cows to and from pasture as a barefoot boy, the author
tells us, he learned to love nature, he learned to “see” things, he
learned to endow the growing, running, flying things in the woods with
personality. He makes his young readers feel that they are coming in
touch with sentient things, with personalities, when they read about
the trees, brooks and animals of the stories. Contents: The trail to
woods and waters; A tale from the skidway; The story of willow brook;
A little dapple fool; The family of Bob-White; The busy bee;
Downstream in a canoe; Jacking and moose-calling; In Beaver-land;
One’s own back door-yard; A wary mother; A lively bee hunt; The
speckled heifer’s calf; Camping with old Ben; Forest footfalls; In the
hunter’s moon; A winter walk; Camp fire legends of the wood folks.
Some of the material of the book has appeared in two earlier works now
out of print.
* * * * *
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 29 ’20 200w
=HAWKINS, SIR ANTHONY HOPE (ANTHONY HOPE, pseud.).= Lucinda. *$2 (2c)
Appleton
20–18612
The scene is all set for a fashionable London wedding, but at the last
moment something goes wrong. The wedding is “unavoidably postponed.”
As a matter of fact the bride has disappeared. Waldo Rillington, the
bridegroom, is about to start in pursuit of the pair, for he rightly
assumes that she has gone with Arsenio Valdez, but the war intervenes
and for years Lucinda is lost to her English friends. Julius
Rillington, Waldo’s cousin, meets her once in the interval, comes upon
her unexpectedly in the year 1916 in a town in southern France. She
tells him her story but he refrains from telling it to the others and
keeps the meeting secret. Julius is thereafter much involved in
Lucinda’s affairs, and when she is set free, he marries her. Lucinda
is a heroine who serenely refuses to be downed by fortune. She takes
good or ill with the same imperturbability and so always has the
better of her rival, Nina, later Lady Dundrannan.
* * * * *
“The canvas is small and the theme has no great originality, but it is
treated with the delicately humorous grace which has always
distinguished this author.”
+ =Ath= p763 D 3 ’20 130w
“There is some very clever characterization of the group of people
involved in the delinquency.” S. M. R.
+ =Bookm= 52:371 D ’20 100w
“Light, whimsical, ironic, sophisticated, the history of ‘Lucinda’ is
pleasantly diverting.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 D 19 ’20 600w
“One feels that Mr Hope is now writing to please his own ideals of the
art of fiction rather than to amuse the crowd. The novel is on
original lines and has underlying humor.”
+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 110w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p777 N 25 ’20 560w
=HAWORTH, PAUL LELAND.= United States in our own times, 1865–1920.
*$2.25 Scribner 973.8
20–14454
“This book is designed to meet the needs of students who desire to
know our country in our own times. In it I have devoted a large share
of space to social and industrial questions, but I have been on my
guard against swinging too far in this direction. After all, the
business of government is still of prime importance to the welfare of
the nation, and it is essential that our citizens should understand
our past political history.” (Preface) The contents are in part: The
aftermath of war; President Johnson’s plan of reconstruction; Mexico,
Alaska, and the election of 1868; The fruits of reconstruction;
Foreign relations and the liberal Republican movement; The passing of
the “Wild West”; Hard times and free silver; The war with Spain;
“Imperialism”; “Big business” and the Panama canal; The Progressive
revolt; America enters the great war; The peace conference. The book
contains eight maps, some suggestions for further reading and an
index.
* * * * *
“Not only has the author failed to show the interaction between the
social and industrial problems of the country and the evolution of our
law, but also he has failed to indicate the relation of these problems
to our political life. Two attributes, however, of this work stand out
so strikingly as to make its reading well worth the while of the
student of recent American history. In the first place the
‘Suggestions for further readings,’ giving as they do page references
to selected portions of various works, are excellent; secondly, and
more important, Mr Haworth has produced a work which is so readable as
to justify the claim of the publishers that it is as ‘fascinating as a
story.’” B. B. Kendrick
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:349 Ja ’21 520w
=Booklist= 17:108 D ’20
“The author uses no little self-restraint in his endeavor to be
impartial. The style is attractive, and the author has hit upon a
happy medium between a mere outline and excessive details. This work
is the best of its kind that has been published.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 580w
“His book deserves no serious consideration, save in so far as it may
be used to befuddle the minds of our children.” Harold Kellock
− =Freeman= 2:93 O 6 ’20 650w
Reviewed by C: A. Beard
=Nation= 111:sup417 O 13 ’20 460w
“It is possible to detect errors, for, though Dr Haworth’s method has
apparently been to study thoroughly each standard authority on each
particular phase of his subject, standard authorities on very recent
events sometimes need a good deal of overhauling.... When it comes to
the war itself, Dr Haworth gives about as lucid and understandable an
account of it as we have met with anywhere. In his treatment of the
social question no extremist on either side will find much comfort,
but it will be applauded by all who want a sane and intelligent
account.”
+ − =N Y Times= p22 S 5 ’20 3000w
+ =R of Rs= 62:445 O ’20 150w
“The text is notably readable with a delightfully simple style. The
judgments passed on the actors in the difficult times of
reconstruction and on such characters as Arthur, McKinley and Taft
follow closely the estimates by Rhodes and the authors in the American
nation series, which is to say they are eminently fair. The last
chapters, dealing with the war and the peace conference, do not
represent such mature or impartial judgments.” R. D. Leigh
+ − =Survey= 45:579 Ja 15 ’21 440w
=HAWTREY, R. G.=[2] Currency and credit. *$5 (*15s) Longmans 332
19–19368
“Mr R. G. Hawtrey’s ‘Currency and credit’ is a series of essays on
subjects connected with money, which the writer has put together with
the intention of presenting ‘a systematic analysis of currency and
credit movements.’ His ‘analysis’ takes the form of a description of
the mechanism of exchange and of the way it works in practice, in the
course of which he supplies an exposition of the nature of financial
crises. Two chapters are devoted to the discussion of the financial
problems which have to be faced in time of war, and two more to ‘The
assignats’ and ‘The bank restriction, 1797.’”—The Times [London] Lit
Sup
* * * * *
=Am Pol Sci R= 14:362 My ’20 80w
“The book as a whole is in danger of falling between two stools: it is
not easy or simple enough for beginners, and it does not take enough
for granted to appeal to those who are already familiar with the
theory of money. It could have been improved a good deal by
rearrangement and a redistribution of emphasis. It is, however, the
product of an acute intellect which reasons closely and threads its
way through what are sometimes rather tortuous paths of abstraction.”
G. S.
+ − =Ath= p1120 O 31 ’19 460w
“The last two sections of the book are, on the whole, the best
portions of it. Mr Hawtrey’s history of the assignats is so well done
that it could hardly be improved upon; it is clear, concise, and
covers all the points which require bringing out. In selecting these
few chapters for special praise we do not deny merit to the rest of
the book.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p568 O 16 ’19 720w
=HAY, JAMES.= Melwood mystery. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–4958
Washington is the scene of this mystery story. Zimony Newman,
suspected of being a German spy, is murdered in her apartment in the
Melwood. Suspicion rests chiefly upon John Thayer, a young senator,
and Knowles, an inventor who had once employed Miss Newman as his
secretary. Other characters are Felix Conrad, a retired
German-American manufacturer, and his secretary, David Gower, and
Rosalie, Conrad’s daughter, who is engaged to John. Two detectives are
occupied with the case, one the typical secret service man, working
with conventional methods, the other Hastings, who whittles away with
his jack knife and thinks.
* * * * *
“A well worked out detective story. Although conventional, the
characters are interesting and the climax unexpected.”
+ =Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20
“The author’s style, simple, terse and gripping makes it easy to
follow the dramatic happenings that finally lead to the dénouement.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:165 Ap 11 ’20 650w
=Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 140w
=HAY, JAMES.= “No clue!” *$1.75 (2½c) Dodd
20–15703
Like most mystery stories, this one begins with a murder. The victim
is a young girl, Mildred Brace, the scene the lawn in front of
“Sloanehurst,” the time, around midnight on a rainy night in summer.
With so much known, it is left to Jefferson Hastings, an elderly
detective who happened to be staying at Sloanehurst at the time, to
discover the murderer and the motive. Also at Sloanehurst as week-end
guests were Berne Webster, Lucille Sloane’s fiancé, and Judge Wilton,
Mr Sloane’s close friend. From circumstantial evidence, Webster seemed
guilty, as he had recently discharged Mildred from his office and she
had since annoyed him with threats of a breach of promise suit. But
Hastings mulled over the case and was not satisfied with
circumstantial evidence. He got in touch with Mrs Brace, the girl’s
mother, and upon discovering what manner of woman she was, became
convinced that she held the key to the mystery in her hands. He played
on her weakness, love of money, and eventually brought to light the
facts that he had been sure existed—which completely cleared Webster
and brought the criminal to justice.
* * * * *
“The story holds interest throughout, though it is of rather
commonplace people, and devoid of dramatic circumstances, until the
moment of fastening the guilt on the unexpected person.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p12 D 8 ’20 420w
“It is no better and no worse than the general run of detective
stories that will stand beside it on the booksellers’ shelves. Its
author’s faults are typical of contemporary detective fiction. Of
these faults, the most glaring is Mr Hay’s failure to arouse interest
in his automaton-like characters.”
+ − =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 300w
“A cleverly constructed detective story, but one with very little
genuine human interest.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 40w
=HAYDEN, ARTHUR.= Bye-paths in curio collecting. il *$6.50 Stokes 749
20–15722
“This is another of Mr Hayden’s useful books. He classifies a
heterogeneous collection of objects in a practical, if slightly
unscientific way under such headings as ‘Boxes,’ ‘Man and fire,’ ‘The
land,’ ‘The boudoir,’ etc.” (Ath) “Among the less usual antiquities to
be collected, which Mr Hayden describes, are tobacco-stoppers, early
examples of which embody portraits of King Charles I.; keys, many of
them beautifully decorated, playing-cards, children’s toys, and
tea-table accessories.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
* * * * *
“There is a fairly good index. Mr Hayden’s advice is sound, and his
insistence that the function of the curio collector is to rescue works
of art is welcome in these days of indiscriminate high prices. The
half-tone illustrations are clear.”
+ =Ath= p193 F 6 ’20 90w
“Always delightful is Mr Hayden, and in this latest book of his, he is
just as charming and even more discursive. Like most English writers,
too, he has the advantage of a very firm historical basis.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 2 ’20 400w
Reviewed by B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 O 23 ’20 400w
“An introductory note to the book, written with the grace and charm of
a delightful essay, is full of lively comments on collecting in
general. Fascinating information on a wide miscellany of subjects
peeps at us from every paragraph of ‘Bye-paths in curio collecting.’”
+ =N Y Times= p10 S 12 ’20 2250w
“Mr Hayden belongs, quite frankly, to the sentimental school, finding,
if not beauty, at least a genuine charm in the chattels of our
forefathers; and his book, without being exactly ‘popular,’ is of
human rather than technical interest.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p757 D 18 ’19 3050w
=HAYES, CARLETON JOSEPH HUNTLEY.= Brief history of the great war. *$3.50
Macmillan 940.3
20–8603
The author states that he has essayed to sketch tentatively what seem
to him to be the broad outlines of the war, the “domestic politics of
the several belligerents no less than army campaigns and naval
battles,—and in presenting his synthesis to be guided so far as in him
lay by an honest desire to put heat and passion aside and to write
candidly and objectively for the instruction of the succeeding
generation.” (Preface) After giving in due order the various events
and phases of the war the last chapter—A new era begins—is devoted to
the settlement, the losses and the landmarks of the new era. The three
appendices contain: The covenant of the league of nations; American
reservations to the treaty of Versailles; and Proposed agreement
between the United States and France. The book contains a select
bibliography, an index, ten maps in color and numerous sketch maps.
* * * * *
“This is the best single-volume history of the great war which has so
far appeared, and it is one of the very few which deserve serious
consideration by professional students of history. It is written with
a high degree of scientific responsibility, and not for mere purposes
of journalism or propaganda. At present it holds practically a unique
place for fullness of information, fairness, balance, and accuracy.”
W: S. Davis
+ =Am Hist R= 26:91 O ’20 1250w
“Useful as a school text or reference.”
+ =Booklist= 17:24 O ’20
“In mastery of detail, in perspective, in proportion, in perspicuity,
in philosophic grasp of his subject as a whole, he outclasses all
rivals, whether they have written in English, in French, or in German.
Even his faults, such little ones as may be picked out here and there,
are but the excesses of his virtues. Thus, in his desire to make
everything perfectly clear, he verges on the pedagogical. Certainly,
by his lucidity and his impartiality he has attained a result
unsurpassed by the poets and thinkers who have written on the war, by
Sassoon or Barbusse, by Keynes or Bertrand Russell.” Preserved Smith
+ − =Nation= 111:46 Jl 10 ’20 850w
Reviewed by C: A. Beard
=New Repub= 25:114 D 22 ’20 880w
“Considering the time and the circumstances under which it was
composed, Professor Hayes has written a good brief history of the
war.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p12 O 23 ’20 850w
“As a book of reference it will be highly useful, for it has an
admirable index, abundance of maps and sketches, a good bibliography,
and its table of contents, with the titles of chapters and
sub-chapters at once suggests the true proportion of the different
events of the war. But the breath of life is lacking which would
convert these cold recitals into a vivid picture of the war as a
whole.” F. V. Greene
+ − =N Y Times= 25:8 Jl 11 ’20 1900w
“The author’s acquaintance with European politics enabled him to
supply the appropriate background for his pictures.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 100w
“Well adapted for use in the schools. While it does not attain at all
times to scientific objectivity of view, it shows a broad and judicial
comprehension of events, and is as strong on the military side as the
political. The bibliography is very faulty.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 280w
“It is written with a commendable absence of subjective theory or
tendency and will be of value as a textbook when, owing to changes in
popular sentiment, other war ‘histories’ written so soon after the
events will have proved little more than political treatises. In
short, a book worthy of a permanent place in any library.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:501 Jl 3 ’20 120w
“Will be found useful for general readers and students.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 90w
=HAYES, ELLEN.= Wild turkeys and tallow candles. *$2.50 Four seas co.
977.1
20–19252
A book in which the author, formerly professor of astronomy in
Wellesley college, recreates something of the atmosphere of pioneer
days in Ohio, drawing on printed records and her own memories. In
explanation of her title she says, “The turkey and the candle serve
fairly well to indicate the early and the late colonial times. With
the passing of the candle and the coming of the kerosene lamp modern
life was fairly introduced. As my own memory runs back to a
prekerosene time I am able to describe at first hand some phases of
Granville township life that were essentially pioneer.” Part 1, Wild
turkey period, has chapters on Early Ohio; The pioneer journey; The
wilderness home, etc., and among the chapters of Part 2, Tallow candle
period, are An octagon of education; The Wolcott homestead; The year
around; The county fair; A child of the Ohio eighteen-fifties.
* * * * *
“The effect achieved is a brilliant painting of sturdy scenes that
linger in the imagination after the book is laid down.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 O 30 ’20 200w
+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 50w
“This book should have three classes of readers, those who are
interested in the early settlement of Ohio, those who like small
history personally written, and those who are quite justifiedly
interested in the early life and background of Ellen Hayes.” M. C. C.
+ =Survey= 45:329 N 27 ’20 300w
=HAYNES, EDMOND SIDNEY POLLOCK.= Case for liberty. *$2.50 Dutton 323.4
(Eng ed 19–19932)
“Mr Haynes here develops the argument which he outlined three years
ago in ‘The decline of liberty in England.’ He associates himself,
subject to some reservations, with Mr Belloc in restating the case for
personal liberty in the old radical sense. ‘The vitally important
aspect of liberty today,’ he says, ‘is its function in combating the
sort of anarchy which threatens civilization all over the world; for
this anarchy is the inevitable result of war lords and their imitators
despising the normal aspirations of the individual human being to a
brief period of normal happiness.’ The book is in the main a review of
the more recent tendencies of politics in England with the object of
showing that the individual human being is marked for destruction as
such by the plutocrat on one side and the collectivist on the other.
The political remedies he proposes are the referendum and the revival
of the process of impeachment.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
=Nation= 112:90 Ja 19 ’21 410w
“His little book is replete with rare and robust commonsense; his
reasoning is consequent; and his illustrations are occasionally
witty.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:201 Ag 30 ’19 1300w
+ − =Spec= 122:220 Ag 16 ’19 180w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 13 ’19 290w (Reprinted from the
Times [London] Lit Sup p415 Jl 31 ’19)
=Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 470w
“Mr Haynes’s book will not command universal agreement, but it is a
real contribution to current political discussion.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p415 Jl 31 ’19 280w
=HEAD, JOSEPH.= Everyday mouth hygiene. il *$1 Saunders 613.4
20–1616
The author, dentist to the Jefferson hospital, Philadelphia, sounds a
serious note of warning against imperfectly cleaned teeth, which,
through infection, cause “directly or indirectly one-half of the fatal
diseases.” Rheumatism, heart disease, ulcer of the stomach and many
other fatal diseases can be reduced fifty per cent if decay of the
teeth and gum infection are stayed. How this can be done the book
tells minutely in word and picture. It contains besides some closing
remarks on the irregularity of children’s teeth and has an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:227 Ap ’20
“Considering the appalling prevalence of digestive and nerve diseases
due to bad teeth, the detailed instruction here given for tooth
preservation deserves wide circulation.”
+ =Survey= 43:592 F 14 ’20 80w
=HEADLAM, ARTHUR CAYLEY.= Doctrine of the church and Christian reunion;
being the Bampton lectures for the year 1920. *$4 Longmans 280
20–18237
“Dr Headlam is Regius professor of divinity in the University of
Oxford. He traces the doctrine of the church from the four gospels
down to the Lambeth conference. He says that Christ ‘created the
church as a visible society. He instituted ministry and sacraments. He
gave authority for legislation and discipline.’ ‘But he gave no
directions as to the form or organization of the new community, and
the actual organization which was ultimately developed was different
from anything which he personally established.’ Episcopacy ‘was the
creation of the church.... It had its origin in the apostolic church;
it represents a continuous development from apostolic times; but we
cannot claim that it has apostolic authority.’ Dr Headlam defends the
historic episcopacy and the Nicene creed as a basis for organic church
union, not on the ground that they have the direct authority of Jesus
Christ, but because their value has been recognized by an overwhelming
majority in the Christian church from a very early age.”—Outlook
* * * * *
“The writer, condemning himself, well says; ‘Only too often the
professed adoption of the historical method appears to be but a device
for concealing one’s bias’; for on page after page he misrepresents
and misinterprets the evidence that lies plainly before him.”
− =Cath World= 112:543 Ja ’21 600w
Reviewed by Lyman Abbott
+ =Outlook= 126:689 D 15 ’20 390w
=Sat R= 130:459 D 4 ’20 1650w
“It should not only be read, but studied; and, in particular, it
should be in the hands of every member of the Lambeth conference.”
+ =Spec= 125:779 D 11 ’20 2000w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 1150w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p486 Jl 29 ’20)
“No other recent book on the church and its ministry matches this
volume in importance. It brings out the essential elements of the
problems with which it deals clearly and dispassionately. Students of
this subject will appreciate the fact that there is apparently not a
single ambiguous sentence in the book.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p486 Jl 29 ’20 2200w
=HEAGLE, DAVID.= Do the dead still live? or, The testimony of science
respecting a future life; new foundations for man’s great hope. *$1.50
Am. Bapt. 218
20–9221
The purpose of the book is to present in popular form all the
arguments in support of a belief in human immortality. The sources
drawn from are science, philosophy and religion, but the scientific
proofs are especially enlarged upon. The book has an introduction by
Bishop Samuel Fallows who calls it a whole library of condensed
information on the subject. The discussion is outlined in the first
chapter—Preliminaries. The rest of the contents are: The older
arguments, from philosophy and religion; The argument from
biology—from physics—from physiology—from psychology (normal and
abnormal)—from spiritism scientifically examined; Conclusions, and
possibilities of further discovery; Supplement—related matters and
objections, with opinions of eminent philosophers and scholars; Notes
and a bibliography.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:297 Je ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 400w
“An earnest and well-meaning intention will not atone for the lack of
critical discrimination. The book is an unfortunate example of
juggling with incommensurables.” Joseph Jastrow
− =Dial= 69:209 Ag ’20 210w
“The work is, perhaps, unique in its comprehensive and succinct survey
of the argument for personal survival after death.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 240w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
=Review= 3:41 Jl 14 ’20 80w
=HEARN, LAFCADIO.= Talks to writers. *$2 Dodd 814
20–19452
These chapters are reprinted from the author’s “Interpretations of
literature” and “Life and literature”—lectures delivered at the
University of Tokyo. Hearn writes as a craftsman and looks upon
literature as an emotional art, a moral art and one requiring
unceasing discipline. He insists on clearness of vision, on exactness
in the use of words and holds that literature must grow out of the
vernacular. He advises translating as a literary practice and
preliminary discipline. The book is edited with an introduction by
John Erskine and is indexed. Contents: On the relation of life and
character to literature; On composition; Studies of extraordinary
prose; The value of the supernatural in fiction; The question of the
highest art; Tolstoi’s theory of art; Note upon the abuse and the use
of literary societies; On reading; Literature and public opinion;
Farewell address.
* * * * *
“The content, not the style, is here of first importance; these
lectures, as they stand, not only furnish light on an interesting side
of Hearn’s personality, but represent adequately his point of view as
it had been ripened by study and thought.” F. N. A.
+ =Freeman= 2:501 F 2 ’21 360w
“Addressed to alien students, they are necessarily often elementary in
subject matter and always simple in style. Out of the latter necessity
Hearn made a virtue and achieved a naive charm, so that, as writing,
the lectures are, like everything else he wrote, beautiful.”
+ =Nation= 112:sup248 F 9 ’21 340w
“No one who is beginning to write, or who is a student of composition,
can afford to miss these lectures.” W. P. Eaton
+ =N Y Call= p10 N 21 ’20 290w
=N Y Evening Post= p8 N 6 ’20 190w
“There is real suggestiveness and stimulation in these dissertations.”
+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 70w
“The first three chapters, which deal more directly with the
workmanship of good writing and good books, contain more common sense
on the subject than all the books on ‘how to become a writer in 30
lessons’ on the market.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 11 ’21 220w
=HEATLEY, DAVID PLAYFAIR.= Diplomacy and the study of international
relations. *$3.75 Oxford 327
20–4112
“The purpose of this book, as stated by its author, is ‘to portray
diplomacy and the conduct of foreign policy from the stand-point of
history, to show how they have been analyzed and appraised by
representative writers, and to indicate sources from which the
knowledge thus acquired may be supplemented.’ The first third of the
volume consists of an essay of a general character on Diplomacy and
the conduct of foreign policy, written from a British point of view.
The remaining two-thirds of the book consist of a general discussion
of the literature of international relations.”—Am Hist R
* * * * *
“The bibliography on treaties, maps, and supplementary reading is
rather scanty. It should be added that, whatever may be the estimate
of this volume in other respects, its tone is scholarly and gives
evidence of much painstaking in its preparation.” D: J. Hill
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:698 Jl ’20 1000w
“A valuable and scholarly work.”
+ =Ath= p782 Je 11 ’20 80w
=Booklist= 17:52 N ’20
“This is a very valuable source book for students of international
law. This is a book for the student, not for the general reader—a
record of careful, conscientious scholarship, containing new material,
but somewhat dry in style.” M. R. F. G.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 700w
“The arrangement of ‘Diplomacy and the study of international
relations’ is so far from orderly that its usefulness is very much
impaired, and one has even some doubt as to what the author really
aimed at doing. Much of the matter thus put together is of great
interest, but as the book stands at present, it is rather a note-book
than a finished work.”
+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:629 O ’20 170w
“A repertory of historical information that is not easily found
elsewhere.”
+ =Spec= 124:465 Ap 3 ’20 170w
=HEATON, ELIZA OSBORN (PUTNAM) (MRS JOHN LANGDON HEATON).= By-paths in
Sicily. il *$3.50 Dutton 914.58
20–12460
“The late Mrs Heaton was a clever New York journalist who for reasons
of health had to spend seven years in Sicily. She devoted herself to
the study of the Sicilian peasantry, their customs and their dialects.
We are told that after the Messina earthquake this American lady was
called in as an interpreter between Italian officers from the North
and the peasants. Her book shows that she made many close friends
among the poor and gained an unusual knowledge of their ways. Six of
the chapters are given to descriptions of fairs and festivals.”—Spec
* * * * *
“The author was a gifted writer whose perceptions struck far below the
surface and who could see her material in historical perspective as
well as with rare human understanding.”
+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20
+ =Bookm= 52:345 D ’20 40w
+ =N Y Times= p22 D 12 ’20 280w
“A book which possesses both charm and real value. The high quality of
the vivid and sympathetic realism with which the scenes and characters
are described recalls the best regional writers of Italy.”
+ =Review= 3:390 O 27 ’20 660w
+ =Spec= 125:282 Ag 28 ’20 190w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p528 Ag 19 ’20 900w
=HEIDENSTAM, KARL GUSTAF VERNER VON.= Birth of God. *$1.25 Four seas co.
839.7
20–6852
This one act play, translated from the Swedish by Karoline M. Knudsen,
is a symbolic presentation of the human soul’s eternal search after
God. It is a moonlit scene in the street of the Sphinxes at Karnak,
where a modern and an ancient man meet on the same quest with the old
animal idols dancing about. The quest comes to an end when they both
realize that it is in their faith in the unknown God and their search
for him that they possess him and build him altars and sacrificial
fires.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:306 Je ’20
=Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 150w
“The dialogue is not ineffective and von Heidenstam punctuates it
adequately with stage effects. Yet its rather oratorical progress is
not entirely convincing.” F. E. H.
+ − =Freeman= 1:478 Jl 28 ’20 130w
Reviewed by Ludwig Lewisohn
=Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 110w
Reviewed by O. W. Firkins
=Review= 2:609 Je 5 ’20 100w
“‘The birth of God’ is possibly less direct than its predecessor, ‘The
soothsayer.’ The movement is slow. Nor is the treatment as striking in
originality.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 580w
=HEILNER, VAN CAMPEN, and STICK, FRANK.= Call of the surf. il *$3 (4½c)
Doubleday 799
20–16781
This is the first book on surf fishing and its authors are enthusiasts
for the sport. The purpose of the book is threefold: “to afford some
small entertainment to brother fishermen on those long evenings when
the north wind howls and winter’s sleet drives against the window
pane; to attract the stranger to a sport in which the authors have
found a vast measure of happiness, and to make somewhat smoother his
trail to the Big-Sea Water.” (Authors’ note) The illustrations are
from photographs and from paintings by Frank Stick. Contents: Surf
fishing; In quest of the channel bass; Gold medal fish and others;
Down Barnegat way; The tiger of the sea; With the tide runners of the
inlets; On the offshore banks; The channel bass of Gray Gull Shoals;
The smaller brethren; By western seas; Beach camping; Equipment.
* * * * *
“The delights of surf fishing are shown forth after the manner of an
accomplished essayist, in the opening chapter. Others than fishermen
will find much pleasure in reading this book.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 600w
“It is written with a threefold purpose, which it triumphantly
achieves. Both Mr Heilner and Mr Stick are surfmen whose enthusiasm
for the sport about which they write is most contagious. They won one
convert in the reviewer; he’s going a-fishing with them next spring
‘when the red gods call.’”
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 10 ’20 1050w
“With three good sports collaborating in this friendly fashion the
book ought to be pretty good—and it is.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 340w
=HENDERSON, ARCHIBALD.= Conquest of the old Southwest. il *$3 (5c)
Century 976
20–8247
It is “the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the
Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740–1790,” (Sub-title) now known
as the old Southwest, that is told in this volume. The author points
out two determinative principles in the progressive American
civilization of the eighteenth century as: the passion for the
acquisition of land; and wanderlust—the inquisitive instinct of the
hunter, the traveler, and the explorer. They gave rise to a restless
nomadic temperament which in its turn formed the sub-soil of a buoyant
national character. What it did for democracy in the second half of
the eighteenth century is the theme of the book. The contents in part
are: The migration of the peoples; The cradle of westward expansion;
The back country and the border; The Indian war; The land companies;
Daniel Boone and wilderness exploration; The regulators;
Transylvania—a wilderness commonwealth; The repulse of the red men;
The lure of Spain—the haven of statehood; List of notes,
bibliographical notes, index and illustrations.
* * * * *
“One expects from Mr Henderson a well-told story, and this volume
realizes this expectation. The narrative will interest the scientific
historian as well as the lay reader. It is evident that there are
grave limitations to Mr Henderson’s interpretation of old Southwest
history.” C. W. Alvord
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:116 O ’20 580w
“An interesting economic and social story to all who know the
Mississippi valley settlements mainly as exploits of Boone and George
Rogers Clark”
+ =Booklist= 17:25 O ’20
“This volume is a very condensed history, with a great number of
witness-references showing the care with which Mr Henderson has done
his work. He has added a valuable and convenient treatise concerning a
somewhat overlooked section to the group of histories of the states,
and to the history of the formation of the United States of America.”
J. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 650w
=Freeman= 2:69 S 29 ’20 190w
+ =N Y Times= p14 Ag 29 ’20 2550w
“All in all, this is a book to be strongly recommended.” G. I. Colbron
+ =Pub W= 97:1293 Ap 17 ’20 350w
=R of Rs= 62:335 S ’20 60w
“An important contribution to history.” C. L. Skinner
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:183 O ’20 940w
=HENDRYX, JAMES BEARDSLEY.= Gold girl. il *$1.75 (3c) Putnam
20–6633
Following her father’s death, Patty Sinclair goes West to locate his
claim. She has only his map with the directions she is too unskilled
to read to guide her, but she follows his example in playing a lone
hand and will not ask advice. She soon learns that her movements are
watched and that in her absence her cabin is being searched. Suspicion
might fall on two men and she picks the wrong one. Vil Holland knows
that she distrusts him but that makes no difference in his attitude
toward her. He knows too her opinion of the brown jug she has seen
attached to his saddle, but out of perversity he continues to carry
it. In the end the true villain is unmasked and the race for the
registry office that follows her finding of the claim has a different
meaning and a different outcome from the one she had anticipated.
* * * * *
“Bright and interesting story.”
+ =Ath= p687 My 21 ’20 70w
“The book is colorful and well written.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 11 ’20 340w
“We should like to believe that the book gives a picture of life
anywhere or at any time, but somehow the author fails to convince us.”
− =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 50w
“The plot of the story is one to intrigue the interest from the
outset.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 130w
=HENRY, AUGUSTINE.= Forests, woods and trees in relation to hygiene.
(Chadwick library) il *$7.50 (*18s) Dutton 634.9
(Eng ed Agr20–233)
“The book is an amplification of the Chadwick lectures delivered by
Prof. Henry at the Royal society of arts in 1917, and the author no
doubt looks upon it in large measure as propaganda in the cause of
tree-planting on a national scale. The first three chapters, however,
deal with matters of profound scientific importance—the influence of
forests on climate, the sanitary influence of forests, and forests as
sites for sanatoria. The greater part of the volume is devoted to a
question of national importance—the afforestation of water-catchment
areas, with particulars of the extent to which the work has already
proceeded.”—Nature
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:58 N ’20
“Prof. Henry has read up the subject widely, but the nature of his
book makes it impossible for him to focus the results sharply enough.
He does, indeed, direct the attention of his readers to many recent
investigations which it is most useful to have brought together, and
for this guidance the student who wishes to go farther should be
sincerely grateful.” H. R. Mill
+ − =Nature= 105:158 Ap 8 ’20 1250w
=HENRY, ROBERT MITCHELL.= Evolution of Sinn Fein. *$2 (3c) Huebsch 941.5
The book is a complete survey of the historical struggle of the Irish
for independence. The author asserts that at no time did the English
government aim at anything less than the complete moral, material and
political subjugation of Ireland—nor did the Irish at any time yield
in their assertion of their national independence. How this spirit of
independence finally culminated in the birth of the Sinn Fein movement
and in the course of the war developed into open rebellion is the
subject of the book. The introductory deals with Irish nationalism
before the nineteenth century and the chapters following are: Irish
nationalism in the nineteenth century; Sinn Fein; The early years of
Sinn Fein; Sinn Fein and the republicans; The volunteer movement;
Ulster and nationalist Ireland; Sinn Fein, 1914–1916; After the
rising; Conclusion.
* * * * *
“It displays generally the gift of patient research into the details
of the newest development of revolutionary Ireland, and in this
respect supplies much information from the writings and ideals of the
present leaders which must be of considerable value to future
historians. From the historic point of view the weak point is that the
case of England—politically and strategically—is hardly considered at
all.” P. B.
+ =Ath= p507 Ap 16 ’20 1850w
“As a history of the party, it makes very good reading, but
unfortunately the author is partisan, almost blindly so, and Sinn Fein
is the only matter in Ireland that he finds for praise.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p158 Mr 4 ’20 80w
=HENRY, STUART.= Villa Elsa. *$2 Dutton
20–2260
“‘Villa Elsa’ is the actual, everyday family life of the middle-class
German before the war—nothing glossed over, nothing exaggerated or
fanciful. It is Mr Henry’s personal experience expressed in the form
of a novel. The Bucher family lived in Loschwitz, a suburb of Dresden.
Herr Bucher, the father, is a stolid, unwashed, collarless, healthy
and obese German ‘Vater’; his wife, Frau Bucher, is coarse, red-faced,
heavy-handed, snarling and shouting, at the top of her lungs, her
fierce hatred of England. Elsa, the only daughter, has the usual tow
hair, is stupidly healthy, reads Heine, tries to be sentimental, but
is essentially matter of fact. Rudolph, the eldest son, is in secret a
government spy, reporting upon their visitor, Gard Kirtley, from
America. He is a spruce young engineer, militaristic, dissolute,
despising all decent women, and continually hinting of Der Tag. Ernst,
a pale boy of fifteen, studies eighteen hours out of the twenty-four,
quotes falsified history, and particularly discredits all American
institutions. Gard Kirtley believes he has fallen in love with Elsa,
but her stolid indifference and phlegmatic stupidity finally overpower
him.”—Bookm
* * * * *
“The chief merit of the book is that the reader is bound to feel its
truth. There is no attempt at fine writing or that easy familiarity
with aristocratic court life, so often affected by English novelists,
which, while it adds a gloss to the story, never wears the features of
actual experience.” J: S. Wood
+ =Bookm= 51:361 My ’20 1600w
“While the story is not uninteresting in itself, it loses both in
vividness and in artistic value by being constantly kept subservient
to the author’s determination to inform and to teach.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:164 Ap 11 ’20 1000w
=Review= 2:436 Ap 24 ’20 180w
“For English readers this book has probably come to birth too late by
some six years. His picture is unconvincing too, because it is the
outcome of a mood which, in this country at least, has exhausted
itself.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p13 Ja 6 ’21 450w
=HENSLOW, GEORGE.= Proofs of the truths of spiritualism. 2d ed, rev il
*$2.50 Dodd 134
An inquiry into, and exposition of the nature of spiritualism, with
its abundant material for evidence discussed and described in detail,
such as automatic handwriting, apports, poltergeists, levitation,
spirit lights, spirit clouds, “spirit-controlled” painting and
drawing, psychographs, etc. Some of the chapter titles are as follows:
Practical methods of substantiating the truths of spiritualism;
Testing the spirits’ sight; Babies, children and adult spirits,
reappearing as children; The gradual development of spirit
photography; Psychographs across ordinary photographs of sitters;
Materialisations. A religious atmosphere pervades the book. The text
is supplemented by fifty-one illustrations, some of them reproductions
of spirit-photographs.
* * * * *
“From a scientific point of view Professor Henslow’s book is utterly
valueless, as it is evident from the opening of his first chapter that
he himself is a spiritualist of the most pronounced type. But as an
extraordinarily definite account of experiments and results with all
the various phenomena of the reputable private seance room, the book
is as marvelous as an Arabian nights’ story and much more satisfactory
because such things actually happened.” C. H. O.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 580w
“His book, slovenly as it often is in statement, is another moment in
the accumulating mass of evidence which can not be laughed or sneered
or denounced away.”
+ − =Review= 2:337 Ap 3 ’20 250w
=HENSLOW, GEORGE.= Religion of the spirit world; written by the spirits
themselves. *$2 Dodd 134
20–15944
The book is a compilation of famous communications from the spirit
world for the purpose of proving their religious significance. The
author’s object is to show that the life beyond is but a continuation
of life on earth, that we reap what we have sown, that every character
development here on earth counts beyond and that, in a certain sense,
there is a judgment day awaiting us. The contents are in part: The
necessary pre-acquired mental conditions for securing happiness in the
next world; The laws of eternal life; The gospel of character,
preached and practised in the next life; The acquisition of the
Christ-like character and conduct is everything hereafter, and must be
striven for on earth; The true spiritual meaning of “heaven” and
“hell”; The fate of the suicide—a terrible warning; The nature of man,
here and hereafter.
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“He gives out matters of opinion constantly as matters of faith. If
such a world as the contributors to this volume depict really existed,
the fact ought to be concealed, in the interests of the preachers of
immortality.” M. F. Egan
− =N Y Times= p17 S 26 ’20 160w
=HENSON, HERBERT HENSLEY, bp. of Hereford, and others.= Church of
England; its nature and its future. *$1.75 Macmillan 283
(Eng ed 20–16630)
“Those who arranged this series of lectures took care to secure a
thoroughly representative group of English clergymen. Their live
lectures taken together set out with considerable force the views of
high, low, and broad churchmen, with two academic pronouncements from
a couple of Oxford professors. The Rev. W. R. Matthews, dean of King’s
college, London, where the lectures were delivered, in a short
preface, states that their purpose was to bring together exponents of
the different tendencies within the church and to secure from them
full and frank statements of their views on the great problem which
gives its title to the book.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
* * * * *
=Nation= 110:773 Je 5 ’20 250w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p173 Ap 3 ’19 650w
=HERBERT, ALAN PATRICK.= Bomber gipsy, and other poems. *$1.50 Knopf 821
(Eng ed 20–1081)
With a few exceptions these poems are reprinted from Punch. They are
spirited and humorous pictures of life at the front. Besides the title
poem some of the pieces are: Ballade of incipient lunacy; The
rest-rumour; At the dump; The atrocity; The ballad of Jones’s Blighty;
The trench code; The mischief-makers; The deserters; Free meals; The
cookers: a song of the transport; A song of plenty.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20
“Because he has a sense of humor, a great deal of common sense and the
good sense to make what is merely good verse and in no way pretends to
be serious poetry, Mr Herbert has given us a very likable book about
the Tommy.” Marguerite Williams
+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 22 ’20 100w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 160w
=HERBERT, ALAN PATRICK.= Secret battle. *$2 (4c) Knopf
20–628
He was a sensitive, romantic and imaginative lad, lacking confidence
in himself but pathetically eager and conscientious about doing the
right thing, not to make a mess of it, to measure up and more than
measure up to what was required of him. He always exacted a bit more
of himself than could reasonably be expected. He distinguished himself
at Gallipoli in the most trying part of the war until he was carried
down to the ship in a high fever. Later in France, his record was the
same, always doing the over and above his power of endurance that was
bound in the end to undermine his power of existence. When the strain
had become too great and petty jealousies of fellow officers and the
bullying arrogance of the commander had done their deadly work, the
fatal move was made and one of the bravest men the war knew was shot
for cowardice.
* * * * *
“Mr Herbert’s is one of the most interesting and moving English war
books.”
+ =Ath= p572 Jl 4 ’19 180w
“The story is told with a quiet restraint, with no attempt to pile up
horrors, but with a relentless insistence on the central tragedy. Very
fine work with a limited appeal.”
+ =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:78 Mr ’20 580w
“It is simply and vividly told. It reads not like fiction but like
fact, which perhaps it is.”
+ =Ind= 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 280w
“He evidently and perhaps rightly considered that to draw any ultimate
consequences from his story in the world of conduct would have
diminished its inherent force. That force is very great.”
+ =Nation= 110:115 Ja 24 ’20 500w
“Very simply, very quietly and naturally, the author builds up the
structure of events, some of them apparently trivial at the time, but
destined later to become of dreadful portent, which at the last
crushes and breaks Harry’s nerve. The logic of it all is unassailable
and perfectly convincing.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:11 Ja 11 ’20 1100w
“Vivid, convincing, written in a style at once strong and flexible and
revealing an unusual gift for character portrayal. ‘The secret battle’
is one of the few really big novels of the world war.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 200w