the famous public-school tradition. It wishes to betray too little
rather than too much feeling. Its manner is tense with sympathy, but
its matter approaches dryness.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 2:257 Mr 13 ’20 350w
=Spec= 122:800 Je 21 ’19 100w
“The indictment against the verdict is stated quietly and without
passion. The issue it raises is of interest to all ex-service men; how
far must the army treat men as things, how far can and should it treat
them as persons?”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 5 ’20 320w
“Needless to say, it is a painful book. Comfortable people who do not
like their feelings harrowed will no more find it to their taste than
they found ‘Justice’ or ‘Jude the obscure’, to their taste. To the
former, indeed, the last part of ‘The secret battle’ offers a striking
parallel. Not in detail, for it is pitched in a quieter key, and its
author expressly states that he is not attempting to indict a system.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p356 Jl 3 ’19 500w
=HERGESHEIMER, JOSEPH.= San Cristóbal de la Habana. *$3 (4c) Knopf
917.29
20–21412
In a passively receptive mood the author went to Havana and drifted
thru his days taking in impressions of the city, of the people, of the
social atmosphere, of its all-pervading romance. “There was never a
more complex spirit than Havana’s, no stranger mingling of chance and
climate and race had ever occurred; but, remarkably, a unity of effect
had been the result, such a singleness as that possessed by an
opera.... It was its special charm to be charged with sensations
rather than facts; a place where facts ... could be safely ignored.”
* * * * *
“Mr Hergesheimer, translating the spell of Havana into words of great
imagery and color, has visualized its wonderful charm.”
+ =Bookm= 52:367 Ja ’21 70w
“Half the time we see the city through his meticulously observant
eyes, and the other half he plays Boswell to his own personality and
ideas. The result is an engaging series of vignettes, a most
understanding interpretation, and a remarkably honest human document.”
J. S. N.
+ =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 230w
“A production at once original and excellent. Mr Hergesheimer
possesses to an extraordinary degree the power of subjectifying the
objective, which is another way of saying that he can make external
realities his very own. In consequence of this happy ability his book
is about one-tenth Havana and nine-tenths Hergesheimer.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 D 12 ’20 2000w
“Not the least interesting of Mr Hergesheimer’s remarks refer to the
creation of literature, his own and others.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 7 ’20 350w
=HERRICK, CHEESMAN ABIAH.= Outstanding days. *$1.25 Am. S. S. union 394
20–4985
A book of selections for readings and recitations for day school and
Sunday school. Each section is prefaced by a discussion of the origin
and meaning of the special day under consideration. “A collection of
nearly a hundred literary selections is presented in connection with
the several studies. Some of these are old favorites which can never
be out of date. Others are relatively recent, furnishing an expression
of the thought and feeling of the present on the subjects discussed.”
Contents: Place of special days; New Year’s day; Lincoln’s birthday;
Washington’s birthday; Good Friday; Easter Sunday; Mother’s day;
Memorial day; Children’s day; Flag day; Commencement day; Independence
day; Labor day; Beginning school; Thanksgiving day; Christmas day.
* * * * *
+ =El School J= 20:795 Je ’20 100w
=HERRICK, GLENN WASHINGTON.= Insects of economic importance. *$2
Macmillan 632.7
20–12386
These “outlines of lectures in economic entomology” are a revised
edition of a previous volume. Space considerations prevent the
inclusion of all insects of economic importance. “However, the
principal pests of our important fruits, vegetables, cereals, farm
animals, shade trees, and of the household are discussed. A brief
summary of the life habits of each, so far as they are known, is made,
and the latest methods of control are outlined. In addition, a concise
discussion of insecticides is given together with formulæ and
directions for making and applying them.” (Preface) The first twelve
chapters are: Losses caused by insects; Useful insects; Entomological
literature; Natural methods of insect control; Artificial methods of
insect control; Poison insecticides; Poison baits; Contact
insecticides; Fumigating substances; Miscellaneous means of insect
control; Dusting; Quarantine and insecticide laws. The remainder of
the book is devoted to the special insect pests and their victims and
an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:165 Ja ’21
=R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 40w
=HERRINGHAM, SIR WILMOT PARKER.= Physician in France. (Liverpool
diocesan board of divinity publications) *$5 (*15s) Longmans 940.475
(Eng ed 19–19873)
“Preliminary to this narrative the author discusses the surprise of
the English at the sudden outbreak of the war. After this preliminary
discussion he, in his fifth chapter, begins his personal narrative and
relates the early operations of the medical corps in England at the
beginning of the war, showing us how the thing was done and the
sanitary precautions that were made against sickness among the forces.
Continuing, he tells of the organization and work of the Field
ambulance corps; of the clearing stations; of the work of transporting
the wounded and of the base hospitals and nurses. He then discusses
some phases of medical work, especially the management of cases of
enteric and other fevers, and of shell shock. He talks of the advance
of medicine in the war, of the operations on the plains of Flanders:
of the medical headquarters at Hesdin. Diverging, the author, drawing
from his experiences abroad, tells of education and the religious
question in France and of some interesting contrasts between French
and English people, in domestic manners and management and in human
characteristics.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The reasons for his popularity will be apparent to anyone who reads
his book, for it exhibits in an attractive form the qualities of his
mind and general outlook.”
+ =Ath= p1401 D 26 ’19 520w
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 F 21 ’20 480w
“It is written in ordinary, straightforward language, free from those
amateur attempts at the literary manner which make most books written
by doctors so tedious. Much of the book is political, and this, except
as throwing light on the character of the author, is the least
important part. The most entertaining part of the book consists in the
record of the author’s observations of French life and its contrasts
with our own.” H. R.
+ =Nation [London]= 26:360 D 6 ’19 1350w
“Entertaining and instructive. The purely medical chapters of the book
have their value as a lucid exposition calculated to enlighten the
layman and to enlist his sympathy.”
+ =Sat R= 129:37 Ja 10 ’20 1350w
“In the opening chapters, devoted to a consideration of the causes
which led up to the outbreak of the great war, the author exhibits a
fine patriotism tempered by broad-mindedness. The book will enhance
the author’s reputation, and prove most welcome reading after the
publication of so many self-centred memoirs.”
+ =Spec= 124:245 F 21 ’20 1050w
“Unfortunately, the opening chapters are platitudinous and have
nothing to do with the author’s real theme; but the book improves as
he gets into his stride, and is best of all in the later chapters,
devoted to the differences between the customs and viewpoints of the
French and ourselves, which are handled at once frankly and with
comprehension and discretion.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p643 N 13 ’19 1250w
=HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY.= Light heart. *$2 (5c) Holt
20–8858
This tale is a story of men’s friendships. Thormod, of the light
heart, is a poet who easily wins the love of women, but his real
devotion is given to men, first to his friend Thorgar, whose death he
avenges, then to King Olaf. In his preface the author says, “Of this
heroic, naked story, three fragments survive in ‘Origines Islandicæ,’
that learned repository; but to compound one plain tale of them it has
been necessary to go for the catastrophe to the Saga of King Olaf. As
a result of my hunting and piecing I am able to give an orderly
account of the life of a young man which, I think, justifies the title
I have given it.”
* * * * *
=Ath= p559 Ap 23 ’20 40w
+ − =Booklist= 17:33 O ’20
“While ‘The light heart’ is far less interesting and far less stirring
than either ‘Gudrid the fair’ or ‘The outlaw,’ it has one truly
splendid moment—that in which Thormod swears his allegiance for life
and death to King Olaf.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:291 Je 6 ’20 900w
“I confess that for me the starkness, the frugality, the astringency
of this tale render it a tougher morsel than some of the Norse fables
Mr Hewlett has previously wrought from similar materials. For his
sources he shows a reverence almost excessive.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:110 Ag 4 ’20 340w
“The story is good and unusual. But above all we would commend Mr
Hewlett’s short introduction on the nature of the Sagas.”
+ =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 100w
“The story has retained the legendary atmosphere of the twelfth
century Iceland and Norway. The book is written with Hewlett’s usual
romantic touch. It is interesting mainly on account of the unusual
setting and the strangeness of the characters treated. The author
sacrifices plot to faithfulness to his sources.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 480w
“Colloquial and prosaic though the telling is—prosaic even in
describing dreams and visions—there shines through it a spirit which
is high and beautiful.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p255 Ap 22 ’20 1000w
=HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY.= Mainwaring. *$2 (4c) Dodd
20–19506
The story portrays two extremely opposed types, a man and a woman.
Mainwaring is a genius of a sort, grasping everything to himself,
ambitious, a demagogue, reckless and unmoral. From obscurity he rises
to political power and is only stayed from achieving the highest rung
by disease and death. He burns himself out prematurely. While still
quite young and out of his mastering passion of grasping everything he
wants, he forces a beautiful young working girl to marry him. Lizzy in
her selflessness, her poise and sincerity, her obedience to duty, is
his opposite. She endures starvation with him but when he asks her to
follow him into high life she refuses. She has seen through it at a
glance and hates it, and prefers the duties of a housemaid to those of
hostess at his banquets. He subjects her to every indignity but
willingly accepts her services as a nurse during his last days.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:116 D ’20
“Mainwaring stands before a dull gray background, which is rather bad
for the story, but serves the purpose of the novelist in making
Mainwaring a crimson figure against this same gray. As usual, Mr
Hewlett is fascinatingly facile with his pen, but this same smooth
style cannot wholly atone for a very flimsy plot and a succession of
avowed characters that are of no more use than a Greek chorus.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ’20 390w
“Lizzy is a human being, strongly conventional in her sense of duty,
yet as freshly natural in emotional values as Eve strayed from the
garden. On the whole, however, ‘Mainwaring’ is a disappointment as a
novel. The author too apparently is doing over again with unconvincing
dexterity things once well accomplished in ‘Rest Harrow’.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 300w
“The sharp contrasts between these well-drawn figures, whose souls are
silhouetted by the tragic circumstances in which the author places
them, afforded Mr Hewlett equal opportunity to display his powers of
creating and analyzing character. The artistry and dignity of the
story he has written around them make ‘Mainwaring’ a worthy addition
to the novels bearing his name.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 S 26 ’20 560w
“The political part of the story is not excessively interesting,
although it has capital pen sketches of Disraeli and Gladstone under
slight disguises. Like all Mr Hewlett’s writing, the literary
execution of the book is admirable in its finish and quiet
effectiveness.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 170w
“A brilliant study in its kind; but some of us will feel as we have
often felt with Mr Hewlett, that the childlike creature woman rather
than the childish creature man gives the story its charm. Mainwaring’s
Lizzy is a girl to be remembered.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:382 O 27 ’20 340w
“The two characters are analyzed in vigorous fashion and will stand as
examples of Mr Hewlett’s most finished work.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 450w
=HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY.= Outlaw. *$1.75 (3½c) Dodd
20–4
This is the fifth of Maurice Hewlett’s saga tales retold. It is the
story of Gisli and of Grayflanks, the sword on which a curse was laid
when it was turned against its owner. Young Gisli is a craftsman and
man of peace, who nevertheless is fated to be the slayer of men, to
flee from Norway to Iceland, to become an outlaw, and to die fighting
with his back against the wall, his wife, Aud, beside him.
* * * * *
“We cannot help wishing that he had been a great deal more lenient
with himself. For the tale, as it stands, is so exceedingly plain, and
the fights, murders, escapes and pursuits described upon so even a
breath, that it is hard to believe the great, more than life-size
dolls minded whether they were hit over the head or not. There is no
doubt that the very large number of words of one syllable help to keep
the tone low. They have a curious effect upon the reader. He finds
himself, as it were, reading aloud, spelling out the tale.” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p15 Ja 2 ’20 600w
=Booklist= 16:244 Ap ’20
“None of his stories out of the Icelandic sagas is as spirited as ‘The
outlaw.’ The vein of romance discovered in them by Mr Hewlett seems to
be inexhaustible.” E. F. E
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 1150w
“‘The outlaw’ is a noble tale fully and in the main nobly told.”
Ludwig Lewisohn
+ =Nation= 111:191 Ag 14 ’20 500w
“A grim tale, full of strong passions and desperate fighting, is this
of ‘The outlaw.’”
+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 1000w
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 70w
“Needless to say, it is masterly in its art and vividness; yet many of
the author’s admirers would welcome his return to that type of writing
that gave us ‘Half-way house’ and ‘Richard yea-and-nay.’”
+ − =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w
“Mr Hewlett tells a tense dramatic story, reveals studious research of
ancient lore and a singular gift for vitalizing the remote scenes of a
vanished civilization. This is no mere approximation of what the
Vikings were and what they did. It is a lifelike recreation.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 550w
“In reproducing the old story Mr Hewlett mediates with his usual skill
between the Scylla of excessive modernity and the Charybdis of an
obsolete idiom. It is, however, questionable whether he might not
without harm have ventured even closer to Scylla.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p649 N 13 ’19 600w
=HEYDRICK, BENJAMIN ALEXANDER=, ed. Americans all; stories of American
life of today. *$1.50 (1½c) Harcourt
20–14759
The editor of this volume of short stories states in his preface that
he believes that the short story is the form which can best stand as
the adequate expression in fiction of American life. He says “If it
were possible to bring together in a single volume a group of these,
each one reflecting faithfully one facet of our many-sided life, would
not such a book be a truer picture of America than any single novel
could present? The present volume is an attempt to do this.” Contents:
The right Promethean fire, by George Madden Martin; The land of
heart’s desire, by Myra Kelly; The tenor, by H. C. Bunner; The passing
of Priscilla Winthrop, by William Allen White; The gift of the Magi,
by O. Henry; The gold brick, by Brand Whitlock; His mother’s son, by
Edna Ferber; Bitter-sweet, by Fannie Hurst; The riverman, by Stewart
Edward White; Flint and fire, by Dorothy Canfield; The ordeal at Mt
Hope, by Paul Laurence Dunbar; Israel Drake, by Katherine Mayo; The
struggles and triumph of Isidro de los Maestros, by James M. Hopper;
The citizen, by James F. Dwyer. There is a sketch of the author
following each story, and at the end a List of American short stories
classified by locality, and Notes and questions for study.
* * * * *
“An interesting group of stories.”
+ =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21
=Boston Transcript= p4 O 9 ’20 280w
“Only two stories in the volume, Myra Kelly’s ‘Just kids’ and William
Allen White’s ‘Society in our town,’ have grown instead of being made
after a model.”
− + =Nation= 111:692 D 15 ’20 420w
“Literary merit aside, however, the authors all have a place in a book
which seeks not to present the best short stories but rather different
phases of American life. ‘American life of today,’ however, is a
misnomer. In their steadfast sometimes sentimental idealism, in their
passionate belief in democracy, the stories are obviously and
pathetically stories of life before the war.” Marian O’Connor
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p9 N 13 ’20 850w
“An unusually excellent anthology of American short tales.”
+ =Outlook= 126:201 S 29 ’20 120w
“Considered merely as a vehicle of recreational reading ‘Americans
all’ answers its purpose well; for the one who desires to combine
recreation with study of the successful short story the text is well
selected.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 270w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 190w
=HIBBEN, PAXTON.= Constantine I and the Greek people. il *$3.50 (3½c)
Century 949.5
20–10649
The book was written in the spring of 1917 after the author had been
in Greece, Macedonia and Serbia and constitutes another postwar
revelation. It is stated that “during the war and after our entry into
it as an ally of France and Great Britain, without our knowledge and
consent the constitution of a little, but a brave and fine people was
nullified by the joint action of two of our allies: the neutrality of
a small country was violated, the will of its people set at naught,
its laws broken, its citizens persecuted, its press muzzled. By force
a government was imposed on this free people, and by force that
government has been and is today maintained in absolute power.”
(Foreword) The contents is in three parts: Intrigue; Coercion;
Starvation; and there are an epilogue and appendices.
* * * * *
“Interesting to read as a sequel to Mrs Brown’s ‘In the heart of
German intrigue.’”
+ =Booklist= 17:25 O ’20
“This fascinating story of political and military intrigue makes poor
reading for those who blindly felt the Allies did no wrong. It
constitutes a bitter arraignment of Venizelos.”
+ =Cath World= 112:691 F ’21 480w
=Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 140w
“The book, as a whole, is well done. It is written in a clear,
readable style, is carefully documented, and is unusually free from
errors. Particularly good are the analysis of diplomatic situations,
the different attitudes of parties and foreign powers being
excellently portrayed. The book’s only noticeable defects arise from
the reflexes of the author’s own temperament. Obviously a man of
strong feelings, Mr Hibben seems occasionally to be slightly carried
away by them.” Lothrop Stoddard
+ − =New Repub= 24:48 S 8 ’20 1600w
“Mr Hibben’s book has the defect, on the surface, of being too much of
an apologia.... Mr Hibben has given us one of the torches; it does not
always burn clearly; he waves it in the air too violently at times:
but it is a torch, and its light may help to show how little we
understand the temperament and the good qualities of the Grecian
people.” M. F. Egan
+ − =N Y Times= p4 Ag 1 ’20 2850w
“The writer of this book had a full opportunity to study the Balkan
situation and above all the Greek question. Unfortunately, all this
unusual opportunity has been wasted on a book so full of inaccuracies
that it is difficult to determine whether it is the mere result of
journalistic carelessness or a calculated attempt to palliate truth.”
A. E. Phoutrides
− =Review= 3:170 Ag 25 ’20 900w
“The story is told with great skill and lucidity, and the volume is
one of the most readable that has come out of any of the so-called
side-shows of the war.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:220 Ag ’20 350w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 5 ’20 110w
=HICHENS, ROBERT SMYTHE.= Snake-bite, and other stories. *$1.90 (2c)
Doran
19–11943
“‘Snake-bite’ is a collection of six stories, three in the approved
Robert Hichens style, one an excellent little mystery, one a story of
a faith healer, and one a dainty little war-time sketch. You have your
choice of the familiar East or the unfamiliar West, with or without a
touch of colour.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The titles are:
Snake-bite; The lost faith; The Hindu; The lighted candles; The nomad;
The two fears.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20
“As a teller of short stories, Mr Hichens reveals in this collection
another phase of his skill. In each he shows his mastery of place and
people, and his command of the illusory effects of atmosphere.” E. F.
E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 1450w
“In the matter of atmosphere and sustained mood, comparable with his
best work.”
+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 30w
“Of the six short stories two are dominated by the desert, while one
might almost be called a plain ghost story, and these three are so
markedly superior to the others that they are quite in a different
class.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:2 F 22 ’20 900w
+ =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 50w
“We doubt if Mr Hichens has ever done better work than in ‘The snake
bite’; the African color and atmosphere are admirably rendered.”
+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 70w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 480w
“These stories are well told, with a brisk, practised pen. The
dialogue is interesting, and the touches of light and shade well
done.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p311 Je 5 ’19 400w
=HICKS BEACH, SUSAN EMILY (CHRISTIAN) (MRS WILLIAM FREDERICK HICKS
BEACH).= Shuttered doors. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane
20–7653
A story that covers several generations in the life of an English
family. The figure of outstanding interest is Aletta Hulse, who is
strongly influenced by association in childhood with her aunt, Ann
Duller of Duller Place. Aletta inherits a fortune from an old Boer
uncle, marries and brings up a family of three children, who in their
turn marry. Interest in the latter part of the story centers in
Andrew, one of the grandsons, to whom his grandmother bequeaths Duller
Place. Andrew is killed in the war leaving an infant daughter to carry
on the family tradition.
* * * * *
=Ath= p194 F 6 ’20 80w
“‘Shuttered doors’ presents one of those pictures of English life
before which Americans can only stand and wonder. Perfection of detail
in living has not yet been attained by us to such a degree that an
entire novel can be built about it with little attention paid to plot,
and not even much to characterization.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 20 ’20 260w
“This long, slow story of ‘upper middle-class’ life in England never
rises above the deadly commonplace. Andy Duller is the most human
character in the novel.”
− + =N Y Times= p23 Ag 8 ’20 330w
+ =Sat R= 129:478 My 22 ’20 90w
“Most people will not have very much sympathy with Aletta Hulse, later
Aletta Picard, but at any rate her character is consistent to the
smallest detail, and the author succeeds in creating a living figure.”
+ − =Spec= 124:314 Mr 6 ’20 80w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 300w
=HICKS, FREDERICK CHARLES.= New world order. *$3 Doubleday 341
20–14528
The book is the outcome of a course of lectures on International
organization and cooperation, delivered at the summer session of 1919,
in the department of public law, Columbia university. “The general
purpose was to examine the League covenant analytically in its
relation to (1) international organization, (2) international law, and
(3) international cooperation, using the comparative method whenever
precedents could be found.” (Preface) The author’s personal conviction
is “that the League of nations should be supported not merely because
it provides means for putting war a few steps farther in the
background, but because it emphasizes the necessity for cooperation
between sovereign states.” (Preface) In strict accordance with the
general purpose the contents are in three parts and the appendices
contain, besides a complete draft of the treaty of peace with Germany:
The Triple alliance; Russo-French alliance; The Holy alliance act;
Central American treaties, December 20, 1907; Hague conventions and
drafts, 1907; Treaty for the advancement of peace between the United
States of America and Guatemala, September 20, 1913; Bibliography and
index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:52 N ’20
“A useful reference manual.”
+ =Ind= 163:442 D 25 ’20 70w
“For college classes studying the legal aspects of international
organization Mr Hicks’s book will doubtless be very useful. The
pedagogical apparatus and Mr Hick’s treatment of the problems he
discusses are unexceptionable. ‘The new world order’ is an excessively
pretentious title for a volume dealing with the League of nations.
Such a utopian nomenclature would have prejudiced the case for
international organization even if idealism has been triumphant; under
existing circumstances it is little short of absurd.” Lindsay Rogers
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 23 ’20 1000w
“From the legal and historical points of view, an important exposition
of the Versailles treaty has been gathered, coordinated, and written
by Columbia’s law librarian.” Walter Littlefield
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 31 ’20 1600w
“The scope of Mr Hicks’s plan is so impressive and his workmanship is
so excellent that it is greatly to be hoped that his volume will not
be allowed to fall into oblivion, whatever the outcome of the struggle
over the League in this country.” E: S. Corwin
+ =Review= 3:382 O 27 ’20 800w
+ =R of Rs= 62:668 D ’20 180w
+ =Survey= 45:221 N 27 ’20 120w
=HILL, CONSTANCE.= Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings. il *$6
(*21s) (7c) Lane
20–12406
“The name of Mary Russell Mitford—the author of ‘Our village’—is dear
to thousands of readers, both English and American, for she has
enabled them to see nature with her eyes and to enter into the very
spirit of rural life.” (Chapter 1) She was born December 16, 1787, and
was a versatile writer not only of stories, but of poems and
successful dramas, performed in London with John Kemble and Macready
in the leading parts. Many quotations and extracts from her writings
acquaint the reader with her style. The book is illustrated with
drawings by Ellen G. Hill and has an index.
* * * * *
“Speaking truthfully, ‘Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings’ is
not a good book. It neither enlarges the mind nor purifies the heart.
There is nothing in it about prime ministers and not very much about
Miss Mitford. Yet, as one is setting out to speak the truth, one must
own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind
and without the heart, but still with considerable enjoyment. To come
to the point, the great merit of these scrapbooks, for they can
scarcely be called biographies, is that they license mendacity.” V. W.
− + =Ath= p695 My 28 ’20 2400w
+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20
“Miss Hill has compiled an entertaining volume of literary personalia,
and its attractiveness is increased by numerous drawings from her
sister’s pencil.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 10 ’20 1300w
“As an introduction to Miss Mitford’s work and personality Miss Hill’s
book is an admirable achievement. It presents the women perfectly and
brings before the reader again the age wherein she lived.” H. S.
Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p2 Ag 29 ’20 1500w
+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 50w
“Our feeling on laying it down is that we had better have spent our
time in reading Miss Mitford’s own account of herself in
‘Recollections of a literary life.’ Nevertheless, the book is a nice
book, a very nice book (if it is largely paste and scissors).”
+ − =Sat R= 129:454 My 15 ’20 650w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 19 ’20 450w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p283 My 6 ’20)
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p283 My 6 ’20 1150w
=HILL, DAVID JAYNE.= American world policies. *3.50 (7c) Doran 341.1
20–11020
As the author points out in his preface, the idea of a league of
nations is so generally acceptable that many persons overlook the fact
that the covenant prepared at Paris is not a “general association of
nations,” but rather “a limited defensive alliance for the protection
of existing possessions, regardless of the manner in which they were
acquired.” The purpose of this book is to show that the proposed
league “not only repudiates the ideas underlying our traditional
foreign policy as a nation but presents a contradiction of the
fundamental principles upon which our government is based.” The book
is composed of eight chapters and as many documents. The chapters,
which are reprinted from the North American Review are:
Disillusionment regarding the League; The un-American character of the
League; The president’s hostility to the Senate; The struggle of the
Senate for its prerogatives; The eclipse of peace through the League;
The covenant or the constitution? The nations and the law; The solemn
referendum; and Epilogue. Among the documents are President Wilson’s
“points”; The covenant of the League of nations; The Senate’s
reservations of November 19, 1919, and of March 19, 1920. The book is
indexed.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:53 N ’20
“Dr Hill’s argument is presented with all the skill of an experienced
political writer but the impression is conveyed that he is putting a
microscope upon the covenant of the League and is looking for trouble
in every line, without offering anything more constructive than the
old order in return.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:399 D ’20 550w
=Freeman= 2:93 O 6 ’20 210w
“His negative part is well done and thoroughly worth consideration.
His discussion, while at times heated and failing in logic, is
thoughtful and provokes thought.” C. R. Fish
+ − =Nation= 111:sup426 O 13 ’20 600w
“It is the familiar Republican argument, but it is stated with a
force, clearness, and plausibility which do not always characterize
that argument. In short, if Senator Lodge could talk as clearly and
convincingly as Dr Hill writes, this would make an ideal speech by
him.”
− =N Y Times= p5 S 5 ’20 2450w
“To say that the book is clarifying, enlightening, high-minded, and
therefore of a value far transcending that of most political
discussions, is only to make a legitimate critical pronouncement.”
+ =No Am= 212:424 S ’20 1150w
“We do not know of any book so valuable as this for the information of
editors, legislators, or other students of the league problem who wish
to get in clear and authoritative form the objections to the Wilson or
Paris league.”
+ =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 160w
“The termination of the campaign against the League of nations as
proposed will take from Dr Hill’s book much of its current value; yet
when the history of the struggle over the Wilson league comes to be
written, the discerning historian will accord to Dr Hill’s labors an
important place among the efforts of those who fought to assert the
belief that American independence and true internationalism are not
incompatible things.” E: S. Corwin
+ =Review= 3:381 O 27 ’20 1400w
=R of Rs= 62:221 Ag ’20 140w
=HILL, FREDERICK TREVOR.= High school farces. *$1 Stokes 812
20–19677
A foreword says: “The scarcity of short farces, suitable for junior
amateurs seems to justify the publication of this little volume....
The three simple little farces included herein were written for a
boys’ club and a boy scout troop.... As they require very little study
and a minimum of ‘properties and effects,’ it is thought they may
prove useful to those in search of such material.” The first play,
“Dinner’s served,” represents a southern scene near a camp during the
Spanish American war and introduces two negro characters. The second,
“A heathen Chinee,” is set in California, with cowboys, miners and a
Chinese cook among the characters. The third, “A knotty problem,” is a
boy scout play.
* * * * *
“It is with deep regret that one lays down this book from the pen of
the gifted writer of those fine stories, ‘On the trail of Washington’
and ‘On the trail of Grant and Lee,’ for something better had been
anticipated.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p15 N 13 ’20 130w
=HILL, FREDERICK TREVOR.= Tales out of court. *$1.60 (3c) Stokes
20–18659
The book is a collection of lawyers’ stories of legal cases and
court-room scenes and of unusual incidents and characters. The stories
are: Exhibit No. 2; The shield of privilege; The woman in the case;
Two fishers of men; The unearned increment; The judgment of his peers;
Of disposing memory; Submitted on the facts; The personal equation; In
the presence of the enemy; A debt of honor; The weapons of a
gentleman; Pewee—gladiator; Peregrine Pickle; Charity suffereth long;
War.
* * * * *
“His touch is sure, his pen facile, his plots unusual and
fascinating.”
+ =N Y Times= p19 N 28 ’20 230w
=Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 30w
“The plots are so cleverly manipulated that the reader is sure to get
a number of surprises, about at the denouement of each story.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 4 ’21 190w
=HILL, HIBBERT WINSLOW.=[2] Sanitation for public health nurses. *$1.35
Macmillan 614
19–19494
“The development of public health nursing in the United States has
naturally created a demand for books on the subject. The book written
by Dr Hill endeavors to give in a brief and concise manner the
elements of sanitation and public health, with which a nurse must be
acquainted in her work.” (Survey F 14 ’20) “It is devoted chiefly to
the problems of isolation and immunology and touches but lightly upon
such great modern movements as the infant welfare campaign and the
campaign for better nutrition among school children.” (Survey S 15
’20)
* * * * *
“A survey of hygiene and immediately related medical procedures which
can be heartily recommended.”
+ =Review= 3:112 Ag 4 ’20 80w
“Too much space seems to be given to infectious diseases of which the
nurse must necessarily learn from a study of other sources, while too
little space is devoted to the important questions of food, water,
milk, etc., and no space at all to dietetics.” G: M. Price
+ − =Survey= 43:592 F 14 ’20 170w
“His chapters on the general course of an infectious disease, on the
diagnosis and etiology of the commoner specific communicable diseases,
on immunity and on epidemiology are sound in substance and brilliant
in form.” C. E. A. Winslow
+ − =Survey= 44:732 S 15 ’20 330w
=HILL, JAMES LANGDON.= Worst boys in town, and other addresses to young
men and women, boys and girls. $2.50 (2½c) Stratford co. 252
20–3809
A collection of addresses, given in all parts of the United States, on
righteous moral living for young people, each address based on an
appropriate scriptural text. Partial list of contents: The clean
sporting spirit; The morals of money; The stick girls of Venice; The
sound and robust have no monopoly; Becoming a lady; A difference in
cradles; Doing the handsome thing; Modern methods of Christian
nurture. Dr Hill is author also of “Favorites of history”; “Memory
comforting sorrow”; “The scholar’s larger life,” etc.
* * * * *
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 6 ’20 470w
=HILL, JOHN ARTHUR.= Psychical miscellanea. *$1.35 (3c) Harcourt 130
20–26542
“Being papers on psychical research, telepathy, hypnotism, Christian
science, etc.” (Subtitle) They are a collection of articles, each
dealing with some aspect of psychical research, which have appeared in
various periodicals. As a psychical investigator his treatment of
every subject is sympathetic even where he suspends judgment. This is
the case in his attitude towards Christian science to which he is not
an adherent, but towards which he keeps “an open mind” for, he says,
“I do believe that the power of the mind over the body is so great
that almost anything is possible; and I think that the medical advance
of the next half-century will be chiefly in this hitherto neglected
direction.” Contents: Death; If a man die, shall he live again?
Psychical research—its method, evidence, and tendency; The evolution
of a psychical researcher; Do miracles happen? The truth about
telepathy; The truth about hypnotism; Christian Science; Joan of Arc;
Is the earth alive? Religious belief after the war.
* * * * *
“Interesting, but not a representative work to be required by most
small or medium sized libraries, although coming from an authoritative
source.”
+ =Booklist= 16:297 Je ’20
“Mr Hill knows the temper of science and presents a brief which the
advocate of the opposite view can respect, while he is convinced that
it is penetrated with fallacy and shot through and through with an
unwarranted personalism.” Joseph Jastrow
+ − =Dial= 69:206 Ag ’20 400w
− =Nation= 111:49 Jl 10 ’20 290w
“The papers are all of a popular quality, skimming lightly and
gracefully over the surface of their subjects and carrying what
frequently passes as a literary atmosphere derived from numerous
quotations of both prose and verse.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 170w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 N 6 ’20 50w
=HILL, JOHN WESLEY.= Abraham Lincoln, man of God. *$3.50 Putnam
20–21413
The object of the book is not to be a biography of Lincoln, but to
reveal his deeply religious soul. “A candid examination of the
evidence will show that the religious element in Lincoln’s life was
its dominant factor; that his character as a politician and as a
statesman was determined by his character as a Christian; and that he
drew from the story of the ‘Man of sorrows’ the conclusion that God
rules the world in a personal way.” (Preface) The book contains a
tribute by Lloyd George, a foreword by Leonard Wood and an
introduction by Warren G. Harding. There are appendices, a
bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
“If the book had been written solely to prove that Lincoln was an
orthodox Christian it would not have been worth the writing or the
reading, and the few chapters that Dr Hill devotes to that
unprofitable subject are the least worthwhile in the whole work. But
the bulk of Dr Hill’s book is of much value.”
+ − =NY Times= p1 D 5 ’20 800w
=R of Rs= 53:222 F ’21 190w
“Abraham Lincoln has been written about in so many books that the
average American would know Lincoln if he met him on the street. Dr
Hill in this book has gone a step further and has given an insight
into his real character which is worth while. The chapter on ‘The
education of a president’ is of especial interest to Americans today.
‘A Christian view of labor’ also is timely.” J: E: Oster
+ =Survey= 45:579 Ja 15 ’21 180w
=HILL, OWEN ALOYSIUS.=[2] Ethics, general and special. *$3.50 Macmillan
170
20–15460
“From the point of view of Catholic doctrine the author of this work
discusses what’s wrong with man and the world as they are determined
by modern philosophy and ethics. ‘The whole trouble with modern
philosophy,’ he says, ‘is rank subjectivism, and subjectivism is,
perhaps, most destructive in the domain of ethics.’” The first half of
the work dealing with ‘General ethics,’ discusses the general nature
of humanity in its attitude towards morality and in relation to final
destiny; the second half discusses ‘Special ethics’ as applied to
individual responsibility consequent upon his belief in an acceptance
of religious duties.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Boston Transcript= p3 D 4 ’20 270w
“The question of Woman suffrage might have been treated more
sympathetically and Dr Bouquillon’s treatise on the school question
discussed more fairly.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:690 F ’21 100w
“The style is bright and easy and the English is clear and vigorous.
The spirit of Catholicity of course, pervades the whole book. It is
the teaching of such men as St Augustine, Bonaventure, Aquinas, and
Liguori crystallized in twentieth century English.” C: A. Dougherty
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 Ja 8 ’21 610w
“The whole book is well written, fresh and lucid, and in its way
thoroughly scholarly, but its main appeal must be to Catholics.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 240w
“The book affords interesting light on the workings of a trained,
devout mind. There are Roman Catholic writers on social problems whose
views offer in the main much more salutary guidance than Father
Hill’s.” H: Neumann
+ − =Survey= 45:332 N 27 ’20 180w
=HILLIS, NEWELL DWIGHT.= Rebuilding Europe in the face of world-wide
bolshevism. *$1.50 (3c) Revell 940.314
20–2359
The author calls his book “a study of repopulation.” His motives are
hatred for Germany and fear of bolshevism. Contents: Germany: her
human losses and the reflex influence of the war upon her people;
France: the rebuilding of her people; Great Britain: her losses upon
land and sea, and her new position among the nations of the earth;
Russia, and the fruits of bolshevism; Rebuilding the little nations of
the East; The crime of Bolshevists in alienating Americans from
America; The United States; and reasons why our citizens should love
their country; Notes, and references to authorities.
* * * * *
=R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 40w
“Making all allowance for rhetorical effect, and discounting errors
due to haste and careless work, the fact remains that America needs
several persons of this type to serve as prophets of the greatness of
this country and the sanity and sanctity of its fundamental
principles.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 23 ’20 520w
=HILLYER, ROBERT SILLIMAN.= Five books of youth. *$1.50 Brentano’s 811
20–7792
“Mr Hillyer’s five books are headed, A miscellany, Days and seasons,
Eros, The garden of Epicurus, and Sonnets. The range is remarkable,
from the brilliant alliterative imagery of Esther dancing and the
glowing medieval quaintness of Hunters to crisp snatches of epigram
and passionate love sonnets. Some of the best work is descriptive of
French scenes.”—Springf’d Republican
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20
“His imagination is foot-feathered, and lifts his utterances, perhaps
with more dignity than swiftness, on oracular journeys. It is an
imagination that is singularly passionate about the business of
beauty; a messenger that carries on an intercourse between the earth
of man’s experience and the gods of his dreams.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Je 5 ’20 1300w
“Mr Hillyer has written a beautiful poem that is streaked with a
golden message. Upon it is the dewy freshness of youth’s passion for
the ideal, sparkling with the fire and energy of an inspired
visionary.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ’20 1050w
“In this, his second book, there is fine performance and no little
promise of greater things. He stands, as craftsman, upon the ancient
ways, and reminds one at times of the cool lucidity of Matthew Arnold
(and, at times, of the jeweled intensity of Rossetti). He is
especially successful in the sonnet.”
+ =Cath World= 112:118 O ’20 90w
“‘The five books of youth’ is marked by a beauty of phraseology and an
authentic valuing of poetic qualities that give it a distinct place
among the books of the season.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 230w
“Mr Hillyer has skill and conscience, is metrist, artist,
atmospherist, and the thoughtful, or at least pensive, melancholy of
his lyrics rises on occasion to undoubted charm.” O. W. Firkins
+ =Review= 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 120w
“There is poetry of great promise as well as actual achievement in
‘The five books of youth.’ Mr Hillyer writes with fluency of phrase
and cadence and with dignity; he has technical mastery of verse forms
and an adequate vocabulary to express his rich sensuous perception.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 24 ’20 150w
=HINDUS, MAURICE GERSCHON.= Russian peasant and the revolution. *$2 (2c)
Holt 914.7
20–14675
In order fully to understand the Russian revolution and its ultimate
destiny, says the author, we must understand the Russian peasant who
constitutes by far the most important element, and the mightiest force
in Russian life. He maintains that the current opinions of him are
utterly and thoroughly false. Although ignorant and oppressed by
centuries of despotism, he is highly intelligent and has a will and a
goal of his own, which has played a part in the revolutionary movement
and is destined to play a part in the future of Russia. Contents: The
peasant at home; Under serfdom; Education in the Russian village; The
legal and social position of the peasant; The peasant as a farmer;
Taxation; Home-industries and wage-labor; The other alternatives; The
ideology of the peasant (1) political, (2) social; Battling for land;
The cadets and the peasants; The social-revolutionaries and the
peasant; The bolsheviki and the peasant; The gist of the peasant
problem; The co-operative movement and the peasant; Bolshevism, the
American democracy and the peasant; Bibliography.
* * * * *
“The best chapters are the first eight, which depict the economic and
the social life of the peasants.” M. Rostovtsev
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:364 Ja ’21 490w
“Considering the general demand for information, it must be said that,
excellently and sympathetically written as it is, Mr Hindus’s book,
‘The Russian peasant and the revolution,’ is a failure. It is a
failure because it contains hardly a word that helps us to understand
what is now going on in Russia.” M. L. L.
− + =Freeman= 2:334 D 15 ’20 360w
“We need this book to get the full significance of the numerous and
contradictory reports about Russia that are published in our daily
press. For only when we know what the status of the Russian people was
before the war can we judge whether conditions in Russia are improved
or made worse by the Soviet government. Another signal service that Mr
Hindus has performed is the dissipation of the illusions about the
soul or the character of the Russian peasant.” J. J. S.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:307 D ’20 560w
“Such bias as he has is valuable, being the result of his own peasant
origin and early associations. There are lucid and concrete chapters,
without sentimentality, as remote as possible from the moonshine with
which Stephen Graham for some years saturated English readers.” Jacob
Zeitlin
+ =Nation= 112:19 Ja 5 ’21 340w
“The reviewer has not been able to detect a trace of propaganda in it,
and can find nobody but the observer and historian. Not that Mr Hindus
is colorless. Without becoming a mere annalist, it is hard to see how
a writer could be fairer or more impartial.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 Ag 22 ’20 3050w
=HINE, REGINALD L.=[2] Cream of curiosity: being an account of certain
historical and literary manuscripts of the XVIIth, XVIIIth and XIXth
centuries. il *$6 Dutton 040
20–18243
“‘The cream of curiosity,’ by Reginald L. Hine is an account by the
author of several manuscript collections in his possession. The most
interesting of them appears to be the Heath papers, extracts from
which throw a true ‘Sidelight on the Civil war.’ The extracts from
Harpsfield’s life of Sir Thomas More are familiar. Two of these papers
have already appeared in Blackwood; those dealing with Monmouth and
Sir Justinian Pagitt. A collection of epitaphs is exceptionally
good.”—Sat R
* * * * *
“For the most part the manuscripts which he prints are heavy work. Nor
is he always over-happy in the presentation of his documents: the
humour drags. Yet he deserves well of readers in general: he sets a
liberal example for other owners of mss.; and his book is in its
externals one of the best for many months.”
− + =Ath= p170 Ag 6 ’20 570w
“Possessing a sense of humor, an ability to appraise human nature, and
a profound respect for truth, he has given enough of these old
manuscripts to reproduce for us a picture of the times in which their
writers lived. These papers are not without value to the historian.”
G. H. S.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 22 ’21 560w
+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:622 O ’20 400w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:619 D 22 ’20 180w
“The book is very well illustrated and printed and will be found an
excellent thing to dip into and dally with in the spirit in which it
was written. It is a book for the country house table.”
+ =Sat R= 130:463 D 4 ’20 100w
“His book demands not so much to be read from cover to cover as to be
kept within easy reach of one’s most comfortable chair, to be opened
at random, and browsed upon in the leisurely, epicurean way in which
we can picture the author himself perusing his manuscripts. Nor are
they altogether without their value for the historian.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p393 Je 24 ’20 1350w
=HINKSON, KATHARINE (TYNAN) (MRS HENRY ALBERT HINKSON).= Love of
brothers. *$1.75 (2c) Benziger
20–3710
Sir Shawn O’Gara had upbraided his dearest friend, his brother in
affection, for having ruined—as he thought—a young girl of the people;
and enraged beyond control at Terence Comerford’s careless laugh had
lashed the spirited horse, Spitfire, Terence was riding, thus sending
him to his death. The shadow of his remorse haunted Sir Shawn
throughout his subsequent, unusually blest married life. Retribution
overtook him when his own son fell in love with Terence Comerford’s
supposedly illegitimate daughter, Stella, and when his horse Mustapha,
grandson of Spitfire and as spirited as his ancestor threw and
apparently killed him. But he lived and Stella was proven legitimate
and of exceedingly fine metal for standing up for and openly loving
her mother while still in disgrace.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:33 O ’20
“Her mastery of her material is complete; she shapes it into fresh
form, leaving no suggestion of the hackneyed or the improbable.”
+ =Cath World= 111:542 Jl ’20 160w
“After the production of some sixty-four novels, it is something yet
to be able to achieve a story which shows no signs of a worn-out
imagination, but a decided quickening of spirit. Katharine Tynan tells
her tale simply and with economy of words; yet there is real
originality of plot and individuality of outlook, the whole showing a
definite form, finely moulded.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p518 S 25 ’19 220w
=HISTORY= of the American field service in France; Friends of France,
1914–1917; told by its members. 3v il *$12.50 Houghton 940.373
20–15471
“Four years ago, while yet our armies were in the field, was published
a volume entitled ‘Friends of France,’ which contained numerous
accounts of the work done by American soldiers in France who wore the
blue of the poilu. The war was still in progress and some of our
regiments were still on the way overseas in danger of submarines and
anticipating the serious work which was to follow. The volume,
‘Friends of France,’ was therefore more or less provisional and
incomplete. This publication then is designed to supersede the former
work; its aim, as expressed by the publishers, is to fill in the gaps
and finish the story, to give the final record of all the sections,
new as well as old, and of the work of the many hundreds of younger
volunteers as well as of the pioneers of 1915 and 1916.”—Boston
Transcript
* * * * *
“Very carefully have the selections been made and they are edited with
rare skill and discrimination.” E. T. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 700w
=R of Rs= 62:445 O ’20 130w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p654 O 7 ’20 70w
=HOBBS, WILLIAM HERBERT.= Leonard Wood, administrator, soldier, and
citizen. il *$2 (4½c) Putnam
20–6726
The emphasis of this account of General Wood’s career is put on his
advocacy of military preparedness. The author of the book sees as much
danger in pacifism and internationalism as opposed to national
preparedness, now as before and during the war. Henry A. Wise Wood
writes a foreword to the book in the same spirit. The contents under
the two divisions of: The soldier and administrator; and Prophet and
organizer of preparedness, are: An American soldier; The builder of
republics; Roosevelt’s estimate of Wood; Organizing the American army
for defence; The fight against pacifism; The darkening of counsel;
“Broomstick preparedness”; At war; A soldier’s reward; Addendum;
Partial list of writings of General Leonard Wood; Books and articles
concerning General Leonard Wood.
* * * * *
“The book is obviously a campaign document and not a very good one. It
is so fulsome in its eulogy of its hero and so bitter in its
denunciation of all who disagree with him, but above all of President
Wilson, that it overshoots its mark in both directions.” L. B. Evans
− =Am Pol Sci R= 14:719 N ’20 310w
=Freeman= 1:71 Mr 31 ’20 160w
“Serviceable and readable volume.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 70w
=HOBHOUSE, STEPHEN.= Joseph Sturge. *1.50 Dutton
“A short biography (198 pages) of this earnest-minded Quaker, social
reformer, and Chartist, who died in 1859, a year after he had been
appointed President of the Peace society (British).” (Brooklyn) “Among
the big things which he looked after were temperance, anti-slavery,
Chartism and reform, free trade, education, international arbitration
and peace.” (Ath)
* * * * *
“Mr Hobhouse has performed his task adequately, with a conscientious
enthusiasm for his subject. But it must be confessed that his book is
a little heavy, a little leaden.” L. W.
+ − =Ath= p207 Ap 18 ’19 1050w
=Brooklyn= 12:68 Ja ’20 30w
=Review= 3:95 Jl 28 ’20 90w
=Spec= 122:433 Ap 5 ’19 300w
=HOBSON, JOHN ATKINSON.= Morals of economic internationalism. (Barbara
Weinstock lectures on the morals of trade) *$1 (2½c) Houghton 172.4
20–21968
“It ought not to be the case that there is one standard of morality
for individuals in their relations with one another, a different and a
slighter standard for corporations, and a third and still slighter
standard for nations.” That this, however, actually is the case is the
book’s contention. The author makes a plea for an emergency commerce
and finance agreement between nations by way of preventing economic
ruin and starvation in the war-stricken countries of Europe. “For
morality among nations, as among individuals, implies faith and
risk-taking.”
* * * * *
=Nation= 112:sup245 F 9 ’21 370w
=Survey= 45:468 D 26 ’20 230w
=HOBSON, JOHN ATKINSON.= Taxation in the new state. *$1.75 (3c) Harcourt
336.42
(Eng ed 20–114)
The author holds that the war’s legacies of indebtedness and its large
sudden demands of state expenditure for reconstruction, calling for an
enormous increase in tax-income, necessitates a re-examination of the
principles of tax policy. “Recognizing that the normal annual
tax-income can only be derived from the incomes of the several members
of the nation ... we are confronted first with the necessity of
distinguishing the portions of personal incomes that have ability to
bear taxation from those that have not such ability.” (Preface) The
object of the book then is to arrive at a clear definition of ‘ability
to bear’ and to ascertain the reforms needed to conform the demands of
taxation to this principle. The book falls into two parts. Part 1:
Principles of tax reform, contains: Ability to pay; The taxable
surplus; The shifting of taxes; The taxation of income; Reforms of
income-tax: Death duties; Supplementary taxes; Tariffs for revenue.
Contents of part 2, Emergency finance, are: Our financial emergency; A
levy on war-made wealth; A general levy upon capital; Relations of
imperial to local taxation; Index.
* * * * *
“We no doubt adopt philosophies to justify what we want to do or have
decided to do, not as a means of ascertaining what we ought to do. By
working out the philosophy to justify the tax system which England is
apparently heading toward, this book by Professor Hobson will be of
outstanding influence.” C. L. King
+ =Ann Am Acad= 90:172 Jl ’20 700w
=Ath= p570 Jl 4 ’19 40w
=Booklist= 16:330 Jl ’20
“Worth the attention of all students of economics, legislators and
taxpayers in the United States as well as in Great Britain.”
+ =Ind= 104:248 N 19 ’20 70w
“Of the ways and means of ascertaining the taxable capital and of
collecting the levy, Mr Hobson does not say as much as one would like.
But he is dealing primarily with principle rather than with practice.”
R. R.
+ − =Nation= 110:431 Ap 3 ’20 1000w
“That Hobson has few illusions regarding the nature of the present
regime, is clearly evident in the second, more interesting half of
this volume.” L: Jacobs
+ − =N Y Call= p10 Jl 4 ’20 1300w
Reviewed by H. P. Fairchild
+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 Ap 24 ’20 100w
“That his discussion slips into a discussion of British taxes in
particular lessens the value of his conclusions little, if any, so
nearly alike is the condition of nations in general as a result of war
burdens.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 15 ’20 1450w
Reviewed by Lawson Purdy
* + =Survey= 44:287 My 22 ’20 2800w
“The book is full of assumptions that propositions have been proved
when they have only been asserted, and of insinuations regarding facts
and inferences from them which it is impossible to make good. The case
is, indeed, put before us with an ingenuity which might almost be
called Jesuitical, if Mr Hobson were not so audaciously open, and even
truculent, in his demand for the increase of the ‘public’ income at
the expense of the ‘private surplus,’ in order to supply the assumed
‘needs’ of the state.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p395 Jl 24 ’19 1850w
=HOBSON, S. G.= National guilds and the state. *$4 (*12s 6d) Macmillan
338.6
(Eng ed 20–16216)
“The first part of this book is devoted to a theoretical discussion of
the relations between producer and consumer, and their joint relations
with the state. It is presupposed that readers are acquainted with the
principles and purposes of the national guild movement. The argument
is largely the outcome of controversy between the author and Mr G. D.
H. Cole, in which different stresses were laid upon the status of the
consumer, ‘and, in consequence, upon the structure of the state.’ At
the end of the second part, which deals with ‘transition,’ Mr Hobson
avers his belief that national guilds are inevitable. ‘There is no
student of industry,’ he declares, ‘who ... would deny the possibility
of a revolution’; and the author expresses his belief that
wage-abolition, with its logical sequel of an infinitely more humane
structure of society, will mark a great epoch in the history of
western civilization.”—Ath
* * * * *
“This study marks a distinct advance in our knowledge of guild
proposals.” J: G. Brooks
+ =Am Econ R= 10:858 D ’20 750w
=Ath= p383 Mr 19 ’20 150w
+ =Booklist= 17:94 D ’20
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
=Dial= 69:412 O ’20 640w
“Mr Hobson in the first chapter of this book is guilty of substituting
dialectic for honest examination. Few better analyses of the
shop-steward movement and the tendencies of the unions have been
written. They are full of rich thinking and are highly suggestive.” G:
Soule
+ − =Nation= 111:73 Jl 17 ’20 800w
“Continentals and Americans born west of New England will hardly be
able to grasp Mr Hobson’s analysis. The present reviewer, not being a
theologian, confesses hopelessness in the presence of it. The trouble
with Mr Hobson and his brethren is that they are looking for exactness
where none can exist, for the separation of that which never can be
separated. They are modern utopians. They seek finality.” C: A. Beard
− + =New Republic= 25:50 D 8 ’20 1900w
“The idea of receiving wages for work done seems to give him positive
pain, but his attempt to formulate a practical alternative is a sad
failure, though it is veiled in obscure terms.”
− =Spec= 124:281 F 28 ’20 200w
“Admirably argumentative book.” W: L. Chenery
+ =Survey= 45:288 N 20 ’20 180w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p111 F 12 ’20 40w
“It is long, controversial, ill-knit; lacking in clarity of thought
and expression, and in consecutive argument. It gives the impression
of being made up largely of fragments written at different times and
strung together, not worked out in logical sequence. The writer seems
to be striving all the time to get his own thoughts clear as he goes
along, and to find the right words for them.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p132 F 26 ’20 1050w
=HOCKING, JOSEPH.= Passion for life. il *$1.90 (1c) Revell
Francis Erskine was given a year to live by his doctor and chooses the
Cornwall coast to pass this year in quiet rural seclusion and in
finding out, if possible, if there is any hope for a life beyond. He
is an unbeliever and has no faith whatever in immortality. His
secluded hut on the cliffs turns out to be almost directly over a cave
used by the Germans for their secret operations and he soon begins to
sense the presence of German spies. He spends his time between
cultivating the village folk and clergy, in his quest for a life after
death, and in trying to discover what the Germans are doing at the
cave. To this last he consecrates himself in patriotic fervor, and
succeeds, but apparently dies in a struggle with a spy. During his
death trance he has a vision of the two worlds and becomes conscious
of the presence of God. He awakes to find that an operation has been
performed on him and that a new life and even love is waiting for him.
* * * * *
“There is material for a really worth while book in this novel of Mr
Hocking’s and the tale begins well. If the author had only been able
to restrain his fondness for sugar and sentimentality he might have
been able to maintain the whole at the level of the beginning.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:287 My 30 ’20 440w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 140w
=HODGE, ALBERT CLAIRE, and MCKINSEY, JAMES OSCAR.= Principles of
accounting. *$3 Univ. of Chicago press 657
20–17381
Three classes of students of accounting are considered in this volume:
those who aim at understanding its use as a means of social control
over business activities—consisting mostly of students of economics;
those who expect to qualify as certified public accountants; and those
who expect to become business executives of one kind or another.
Contents: The meaning and function of accounting; The relationship of
accounting to proprietorship; The balance sheet; The statement of
profit and loss; The account as a means of classifying information;
The construction and interpretation of particular accounts; The
construction and interpretation of accounts; The trial balance; The
adjusting entries; The closing entries; The source of the ledger
entries; Some special forms of the journal; The use of the general
journal; Business vouchers and forms; The accounting process; Business
practice and procedure; Books of original entry; Controlling accounts;
The construction and interpretation of accounts; Accruals and deferred
items; The adjusting and closing entries; The classification of
accounts; Financial reports; The graphical method of presenting
accounting facts; Appendix.
* * * * *
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 50w
=HODGES, FRANK.= Nationalisation of the mines; with foreword by J: R.
Clynes. (New era ser.) $1.75 Seltzer 338.2
(Eng ed 20–6078)
“Mr Hodges’s case is, briefly, that there is inevitably waste in the
production, in the consumption, and in the distribution of coal under
the present system of private ownership. He insists that the coal
industry should be regarded as a whole; that the accidental frontiers
of private ownership are not geological frontiers: that the prime
consideration of an industry developed by shareholders’ capital,
namely, that a certain monetary return should be obtained within a
certain time, is not compatible with the most efficient and scientific
development of that industry; and that different and competitive
systems of distribution involve needless expenses for superfluous
labour. His conclusions are based on figures, and the figures are
taken from government reports. His argument is, in fact, the old
argument that one great trust controlling a whole industry can work
more efficiently and economically than a number of small and
overlapping concerns. Here he develops his second argument. We have to
consider the psychology of the miners. Rightly or wrongly, they are
now reluctant to work for the purpose of creating private profit. No
system of profit-sharing will content them; they insist on the dignity
of being regarded directly as servants of the community; they have
lost all faith in the divine right of employers. That is why the
country, and not a trust, must own and develop the coal-mines.”—Ath
* * * * *
“He has arranged his matter in a logical sequence, he confines himself
to essentials, and he writes throughout with, at least, an appearance
of scientific detachment.”
+ =Ath= p369 Mr 19 ’20 670w
“The little book is worth reading if only because it shows the
extremely vague and unpractical nature of the scheme which Mr Hodges
and his colleagues propose to force upon the government and the nation
whether they like it or not.”
− =Spec= 124:355 Mr 13 ’20 240w
“Mr Hodges is studiously moderate in tone and not unmindful of the
rules of logic.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p163 Mr 11 ’20 750w
=HOERNLÉ, REINHOLD FRIEDRICH ALFRED.= Studies in contemporary
metaphysics. *$3 (3½c) Harcourt 104
20–4123
The author calls his studies “chips from a metaphysician’s workshop”
and in the opening chapter explains what this workshop implies, at the
same time justifying its existence in the midst of the vital problems
and perplexities of our age. He asserts that there are evidences in
plenty of a vigorous philosophic life; that speculative interest and
activity have been of recent years increasingly varied and
enterprising; and that there has been no lack of originality. What is
needed is to understand its spirit, which the author defines as the
spirit of wholeness, the attempt to view the universe as a whole in
the midst of shifting appearances and accumulative experiences. The
contents are: Prologue—the philosopher’s quest; The idol of scientific
method in philosophy; Philosophy of nature at the cross-roads; On
“doubting the reality of the world of sense”; “Saving the appearances”
in the physical world (note on John Locke’s distinction of primary and
secondary qualities); Mechanism and vitalism; Theories of mind; The
self in self-consciousness; Epilogue—religion and philosophy of
religion; Index.
* * * * *
“Good reading for those interested in modern thought movements.”
+ =Booklist= 16:326 Jl ’20
Reviewed by H. B. Alexander
+ =Nation= 110:sup482 Ap 10 ’20 1250w
“A book like the present one should go far to supply the real need of
a clear and convincing statement of what is admitted to be the most
difficult of all philosophical systems. Mr Hoernlé is to be
congratulated on a work of permanent value.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 9 ’20 900w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 100w
=HOFFMAN, CONRAD.= In the prison camps of Germany. il *$4 Assn. press
940.472
20–21330
Mr Hoffman, of the University of Kansas, went abroad in 1915 to do
relief work. He reached Berlin in August of that year and remained in
Germany as Secretary of the War prisoners’ aid of the Y. M. C. A.
thruout the war. He then staid on for eight months after the armistice
to continue the work in behalf of the Russian prisoners still held in
Germany. Among the chapters are: First impressions of Berlin; The
Britishers at Ruhleben; Christmas in a prison hospital; Prisoners at
work and hungry; Help in both worship and study; Working under
surveillance; The day of food substitutes; Visiting the first American
prisoners; Real Americanism in evidence; First days of the German
revolution; Russian prisoners and their guards; A concluding judgment.
In one of the appendixes Mrs Hoffman writes of the experiences of an
American woman in Berlin.
=HOFFMAN, MARIE E.= Lindy Loyd; a tale of the mountains. *$1.75 Jones,
Marshall
20–8234
“The southern mountains of the Blue ridge, presumably, where the
moonshiners find inaccessible places to hide their illicit stills from
the ever-vigilant ‘revenoors,’ are the scene of ‘Lindy Loyd.’ Against
their background with alluring descriptions of their wild scenery,
their birds and animals, the rushing of the mountain torrent, and the
tinkling of the hidden stream, Mrs Hoffman places the love story of
Lindy Loyd, the course of which, perfect in its beginning, encounters
the traditional rough places over which true love is doomed to
pass.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“The author knows well the mountains, knows, too, the mountain people,
and pictures with fidelity the characteristics, manners and customs
engendered by the ruggedness, almost inaccessibility of their
environment.” F. M. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 400w
“Less melodramatic than many of its kind and notable for its true
local color.”
+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 30w
=N Y Times= p17 Je 27 ’20 270w
=HOFMANNSTHAL, HUGO HOFMANN, edler von.= Death of Titian. (Contemporary
ser.) *75c Four seas co. 832
20–6845
This dramatic fragment, written in 1892, was translated from the
German by John Heard, Jr. The prologue was added in 1901 when it was
acted in Munich as a memorial to Arnold Böcklin. It depicts a scene on
the terrace of Titian’s villa, in 1576, at the time of Titian’s death.
* * * * *
“After all, what interest one may have in the play lies in the
excellence of the translation, for, as a play, there is no blood in
it.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 270w
“The dramatic form, unfortunately for the translator, is only
skin-deep. Essential drama, apart from its verbal expression, loses
nothing in a new language: poetry, and ‘The death of Titian’ in
particular, lose most everything.”
− =Dial= 69:322 S ’20 50w
“This group of monologues of the old master’s pupils gathered about
his death-bed possessed the ecstatic phrasing and the comparative
aimlessness of youthful genius. Over all there is a blue-bronze
atmosphere which John Heard has not completely lost in his English.”
E. E. H.
+ − =Freeman= 1:478 Jl 28 ’20 150w
“Hofmannsthal fashioned those incomparable verses (which Mr Heard has
sensitively read but quite failed to render) because the very pang of
beauty wrung them from him. No wonder that such verses are not written
today either in Vienna or elsewhere.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 110w
“The slow movement and sluggish dialog give to this little fragment a
funereal as well as a memorial aspect. There is too little of the
pageant, too much of the orator. Words cloud illusions and crowd out
the sympathetic play of the individual imagination.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 14 ’20 150w
=HOLDEN, GEORGE PARKER.= Idyl of the split bamboo. il *$3 Stewart & Kidd
799
20–21340
While the author’s previous book, “Streamcraft,” deals mainly with the
open season and actual streamside technic, this one is more a book for
winter evenings and the fireside and for the workshop. Building a
split-bamboo rod is an operation, the author avows. He describes this
operation in every detail but he prepares the reader’s mind for this
more tedious process by a long chapter on “The joys of angling.” Nine
chapters of the book are devoted to the rod-making. Edwin T. Whiffen
contributes a chapter on “Cultivating silkworm-gut at home,” and the
two remaining chapters are on Landing-nets and other equipment and The
angler’s camp. Besides many full-page illustrations there are diagrams
showing the different stages of rod building and details of camp
outfit.
* * * * *
“Both the expert and the tyro will find good fishing in these
attractive pages.”
+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 60w
=HOLDING, ELISABETH SANXAY.= Invincible Minnie. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–5229
As her central figure the author presents one type of the eternal
feminine, the ruthlessly domestic and womanly woman who takes what she
wants for herself regardless of the results to others. Minnie hasn’t
even beauty or charm, but she takes away her sister’s lover, marries
him and wrecks his life, marries a second man while the first still
lives, bears him a child and accepts his support for the child of the
first man, justifies herself when her guilt is discovered and forever
after lives on the bounty of the man she has wronged. She is an
incompetent housekeeper and a criminally bad mother but she succeeds
in creating the impression that she is the true woman, and perhaps she
is, writes the author, “perhaps those others, with hearts, with
brains, with souls, are ... only the freaks of nature.”
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20
Reviewed by R. M. Underhill
=Bookm= 51:440 Je ’20 150w
“Only a degree less arresting than her character building, however, is
the author’s method of telling the story.” C. M. Greene
+ =Bookm= 51:565 Jl ’20 550w
“Minnie is real, in life, but she has not been made real in the
American fiction of our day until Elisabeth Sanxay Holding created her
for us in these pages. Minnie Defoe takes her place as the true
American cousin, also the only American cousin, of Ann Veronica, Hilda
Lessways, Sonia O’Rane.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 1300w
“‘Invincible Minnie’ is an astounding person. It is no use to say that
she is impossible; that is one of the most terrifying things about
her, she isn’t.”
+ =Ind= 103:320 S 11 ’20 200w
“Mrs Holding writes coldly, warily, ruthlessly. She is beyond any
passionate concern in the matter. She has moments of a cosmic
tolerance for Minnie. But how Minnie must have made her suffer! It is
only when we get to the other shore of suffering that we can see with
eyes so penetrating and so passionless.”
+ =Nation= 110:730 My 29 ’20 750w
“It has various minor faults. The scourge of revision has not been
ruthlessly enough applied, and the style is marred here and there by a
loose carelessness. What makes one indifferent to these defects is the
author’s marvellous ability to record and analyze Minnie. Minnie may
not be the artistic equal of Becky Sharp, but she is far nearer our
common experience.” Signe Toksvig
+ − =New Repub= 22:357 My 12 ’20 1650w
“It is all done with an art-concealing simplicity and frankness the
study of which will repay the best of our modern English ‘realists,’
though they will find it hard to analyze and still harder to imitate.”
Oliver Herford
+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 My 1 ’20 750w
“We can recall no piece of fiction, with the exception of Sudermann’s
masterful short story, ‘The purpose,’ which portrays the unmoral woman
more unflinchingly than Elisabeth Sanxay Holding has done in her vivid
novel.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:287 My 30 ’20 600w
Reviewed by F: T. Cooper
=Pub W= 97:1290 Ap 17 ’20 350w
“A bitter book, remorselessly written, and quite against the current
stream of tolerance for all human creatures. Perhaps it is wholesome
for us to turn now and then from the genial process of admiring the
best of us in the worst of us, and to behold how a Minnie looks,
pinned fairly on the slide and set under a ruthless lens.” H. W.
Boynton
+ =Review= 2:602 Je 5 ’20 550w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 100w
=HOLDSWORTH, ETHEL.= Taming of Nan. *$1.90 (2c) Dutton
19–19359
Here’s another tale of the taming of a shrew. She is a Lancashire
working woman full of primitive savagery which she lets out in
explosions of fiery temper towards her good-natured giant of a husband
and her pretty pleasure-loving daughter. When both of the giant’s legs
have been cut off by a train, she hammers away at him still, to break
him still more, and not until he has found a new strength and a new
independence do the fates discover her vulnerable spot and begin the
breaking and taming process on her. And not until she has almost lost
her soul and her daughter does she find the only outlet for the fierce
life-force within her to be love and the ministrations of love.
* * * * *
“This is the old story of the reclaiming of a virago retold with
considerable power.”
+ =Ath= p1018 O 10 ’19 120w
“For those readers who like character studies as well as plots.”
+ =Booklist= 16:204 Mr ’20
“‘The taming of Nan’ is a very different kind of story from ‘Helen of
four gates.’ It is with less concentration but it is constructed upon
a broader basis and the whole atmosphere of it is more human, more
genial, less tense and stormy.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:43 Ja 25 ’20 750w
“While Ethel Holdsworth’s second book, ‘The taming of Nan,’ is less
striking and peculiar than her first [‘Helen of Four Gates’], it is
more genial and shows growth and a broader knowledge of life.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 30w
“It is as a study of Polly’s emergence from the blurred prettiness and
apparently unprotected amativeness of girlhood to real achievements in
character and happiness that the book may especially commend itself to
the confirmed yet still hopeful novel reader.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:208 F 28 ’20 340w
“The characterisation is admirable, if slightly idealised, and the
book is, as a whole, quite admirable.”
+ =Sat R= 130:379 N 6 ’20 90w
“The story is wanting in the continuous strength found in the
preceding novel. As usual, Mrs Holdsworth reveals keen insight into
human nature and does not shrink from picturing the truth however
brutal or sordid. But she leans less towards crude realism than
heretofore.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 28 ’20 600w
“A study of Lancashire working folk by one who evidently knows them
intimately enough to give a genuine picture of them. The whole is by
no means lengthy, but it is not less complete on that account. It is
the result not only of intimacy on the part of the writer, but of an
ordered perception which is not afraid either of cruelty or kindness,
but sees in both the movement of life.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p547 O 9 ’19 460w
=HOLLAND, FRANCIS CALDWELL.= Seneca. il *$4 (*10s) Longmans
20–12858
“Mr Holland’s biographical essay, originally designed to preface a
translation of Seneca’s letters to Lucilius, is now allowed to appear
‘on the chance that here or there some readers may be found to share
my interest in the subject.’ Into the long and interesting story of
Seneca’s literary fortunes it is no part of Mr Holland’s task to
enter. He is placing the story of his life against the background of
Julio-Claudian Rome. His tone is that of a discriminating
apologist.”—Review
* * * * *
“The historical narrative is well written. With regard to the estimate
given of Seneca’s character and the view taken of the literary and
philosophic value of his works, Mr Holland presents what will seem to
many too favourable a picture.” H. E. B.
+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:467 Jl ’20 460w
“The grave dignity of Mr Holland’s style has somehow the fine sound of
the best translations from the Latin, the spirit of his enterprise is
ripely philosophical.”
+ =Nation= 110:828 Je 19 ’20 320w
“His full and agreeably written narrative of the life of the
philosopher-statesman should win readers for Seneca.” H. M. Ayers
+ =Review= 2:521 My 15 ’20 1300w
“If we had more such books, the classics would stand on a firmer
footing of human interest, instead of appearing to exist chiefly for
the purpose of adding to the incomes of publishers, dons, and
schoolmasters.”
+ =Sat R= 129:350 Ap 10 ’20 1200w
“Mr Francis Holland retells his story in a volume of lively and
picturesque narrative. If it adds nothing to the knowledge of the
subject for the specialist student, the story is one of interest to
any man of liberal education, and a book which tells it over again so
agreeably and judiciously may be just the book which many people
want.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p345 Je 3 ’20 2350w
=HOLLAND, RUPERT SARGENT.= Refugee rock. il *$1.75 (3c) Jacobs
20–17657
Three American boys cruising along the coast of Maine land on what is
supposed to be a deserted island and find it inhabited by a charming
mannered young foreigner, his two servants and his dog. The stranger,
Pierre Romaine, is practicing fencing strokes when the boys first come
upon him and he at once arouses their curiosity and admiration. They
find that two other groups of men are interested in the island, the
first, the crew of a fishing smack, the second, a party of three
foreigners, apparently Russians. The secret of their interest is
solved, Romaine’s enemies are driven off, the treasure he is guarding
is saved, and he consents to join his new friends on their cruise.
=HOLLIDAY, CARL.= Wedding customs then and now. *75c (7c) Stratford co.
392.5
19–13678
This entertaining little volume harkens back to old customs and
usages, quoting the opinions of pessimist and optimist alike and has
nothing to do with scientific sociological research. Contents:
Marriage by force; Buying wives; Marriage taxes; Ancient ceremonies;
The wedding feast and wedding cake; Wedding presents; Wedding
festivities; Her trousseau; Gretna Green; The best time; The wedding
ring; The old shoe; Proverbs.
* * * * *
“There is little that is unfamiliar in Mr Holliday’s recital, but
there is much that is interesting in his somewhat flippant narrative.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 Mr 6 ’20 120w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 F 26 ’20 180w
=HOLLIDAY, ROBERT CORTES.= Men and books and cities. *$2.50 (5½c) Doran
917.3
20–20548
Papers that appeared in the Bookman under the pseudonym Murray Hill,
Indianapolis, St Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago, San Francisco and Los
Angeles are the cities, and among the men met on these desultory
journeyings were Booth Tarkington, Meredith Nicholson, E. V. Lucas,
William Marion Reedy and Carl Sandburg, and various literary editors
and book sellers and others.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:146 Ja ’21
“No one else has quite Mr Holliday’s faculty for his own particular
type of essay. He has captured the art of saying the forever
unexpected. He rambles as freely through his pages as one might see
him wandering about a city, with his stick upon his arm.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 11 ’20 950w
“It resembles a certain coat of many colors in its diversity of
interests, and is to be recommended to him of human interests, rather
than to the zealous seeker after exact and correlated knowledge.”
+ =Cath World= 112:692 F ’21 320w
“Seeking to be spirited, informal and impressionistic, Mr Holliday has
fallen into the error of self-consciousness. He keeps himself so
assiduously in the limelight, that one only catches such gleams of
other personalities as may filter through his bulk.” Lisle Bell
− =Freeman= 2:260 N 24 ’20 120w
“All in all, this is quite an amusing book that manages to cover a
surprisingly wide area with a limited stock of vital ideas. And that
is where Elia and Murray Hill part company.” Pierre Loving
+ − =N Y Call= p7 Ja 9 ’21 440w
“Although Mr Holliday displays a humane temper and gives some pleasure
by telling of his travels from city to city and from one barber to
another, yet his style, his imagination and his humor are hardly
sufficient to justify bringing these random pages between book
covers.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 17 ’21 210w
=HOLLINGWORTH, HARRY LEVI.= Psychology of functional neuroses. *$2
Appleton 616.8
20–17971
The book deals with those psychoneurotic manifestations that are
susceptible to the modifying influences of suggestion, motivation,
analysis and reeducation and to the numerous techniques of
psychotherapy which the study of these manifestations has developed.
As director of the psychoneurotic army hospital at Plattsburg, the
author had cognisance of 1200 cases that were examined and treated
there. Among the contents are: The mechanism of redintegration;
Redintegration in the psychoneuroses: The intelligence of
psychoneurotics; The rôle of motivation in the psychoneuroses;
Irregularity of profile (scattering) in the psychoneurotic; A
statistical study of psychoneurotic soldiers; Reliability of a group
survey in the determination of mental age; Mental measurement,
methods, and standards; Psychological service in a neuropsychiatric
hospital; Index.
=HOLME, JOHN GUNNLAUGUR.= Life of Leonard Wood. il *$1.50 Doubleday
20–5732
A biography written frankly in the interests of General Wood as a
presidential candidate. Contents: Early boyhood and school days;
Soldier and surgeon; With Cleveland and McKinley; Commander of the
Rough riders; The rescuer of Santiago; Governor and business manager
of Cuba; Pacifier of the Philippines; Chief-of-staff of the U.S. army;
The awakener of the nation; The champion of law and order. There are
four illustrations from photographs.
* * * * *
“The author is a newspaper man, well known in Washington, and he has
had access to many sources which makes his work authoritative.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 29 ’20 160w
=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 60w
=HOLMES, CHARLES JOHN.=[2] Leonardo da Vinci. (British academy. Fourth
annual lecture on a master-mind. Henriette Hertz trust) *90c Oxford
759.5
20–2853
“In this lecture, delivered on the four hundredth anniversary of
Leonardo’s death, Mr Holmes sets out to show that Vasari’s judgment of
the master—‘an artist of marvellous gifts who frittered them away on
toys and trifles’—is wrong. Today we know more of Leonardo’s mind than
did Vasari, so that we may ‘reverse the traditional formula and regard
him as a very great man of science, who made a living by his talent as
an artist and an engineer.’ Mr Holmes supports his contention by
numerous and interesting quotations from Leonardo’s note-books.”—Ath
* * * * *
=Ath= p1049 O 17 ’19 100w
=Spec= 122:584 N 1 ’19 160w
“A brilliant, though concise, study.”
+ =Nation= 110:660 My 15 ’20 460w
=HOLMES, JOHN HAYNES.= Is violence the way out of our industrial
disputes? *$1.25 (5c) Dodd 331
20–7773
Is violence the way out of our industrial disputes, which the war, far
from curing as it was hoped, has aggravated into a condition of chaos
comparable only to the military chaos that went before? In the three
addresses in the book, originally prepared for the Community church of
New York, the author outlines a doctrine of non-resistance which alone
can solve the problem satisfactorily. Between the struggle of capital
and labor there can be no compromise. Labor must win but neither can
win through violence. The presence of certain psychological elements,
not impossible of achievement, are necessary to solve the problem:
co-operative good-will on the part of labor, renunciation and
confidence on the part of capital, and on both a viewpoint of human
relationships taught by the prophet of Nazareth. Contents: The answer
for capital; The answer for labour; The better way; Conclusion.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:53 N ’20
=Freeman= 2:46 S 22 ’20 270w
=Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 30w
“Mr Holmes is nothing if not forthright. His mind works through his
topic from start to finish with a steady momentum; there is no beating
about the bush, no dallying finesse of language, no straining after
mere rhetorical or stylistic effect. Even if you are not convinced,
you instinctively recognize that you have been listening to the
passionate and able pleading of an incorruptible mind.” R. R.
+ =Nation= 111:220 Ag 21 ’20 600w
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
=New Repub= 25:210 Ja 12 ’21 50w
=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 80w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 250w
Reviewed by Alexander Fleisher
=Survey= 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 130w
=HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL.= Collected legal papers. *$4 Harcourt 340
20–22316
These papers are of general interest and consist of speeches and
articles collected from various publications between 1885 to 1918.
They are: Early English equity; The law; The profession of the law; On
receiving the degree of LL.D; The use of law schools; Agency;
Privilege, malice and intent; Learning and science; Executors; The bar
as a profession; Speech at Brown university; The path of the law;
Legal interpretation; Law in science and science in law; Speech at Bar
association dinner; Montesquieu; John Marshall; Address at
Northwestern University law school; Economic elements; Maitland;
Holdsworth’s English law; Law and the court; Introduction to
continental legal historical series; Ideals and doubts; Bracton;
Natural law.
* * * * *
“Every paper has its own virtues, but there is one which they all
share, a rare and delicate charm. These papers bring the touch of
romance to philosophy but this must not detract from our realization
that the philosophy itself is fine and deep.” S. L. Cook
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 4 ’20 1400w
Reviewed by T: R. Powell
+ =Nation= 112:237 F 9 ’21 2250w
“The forbiddingly colorless title does grave injustice to an
extraordinary book of thoroughly matured human wisdom.” M. R. Cohen
+ =New Repub= 25:294 F 2 ’21 2450w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 18 ’20 40w
=HOLT, HENRY.= Cosmic relations and immortality. 2d ed 2v *$10 Houghton
134
20–26562
“Mr Holt’s two volumes on ‘The cosmic relations and immortality’ are a
new and enlarged edition of the two-volume work he published just
before the breaking out of the war under the title ‘On the cosmic
relations.’ He has added a new preface and several new chapters and
has modified and brought to date the final summary of the subject in
his last section. In the new chapters he takes up what he considers
the three most important developments during the years since the work
first appeared, which, in his opinion, ‘have added force to the
spiritistic hypothesis.’ These are, first, the investigations and
conclusions of Dr William J. Crawford, the well-known physicist of
Queen’s university, Belfast; second, the appearance of many new
sensitives, whose manifestations differ much from one another and from
their predecessors; third, the agreement of these sensitives in
depicting virtually the same future state.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:356 Jl ’20
“He guesses frequently and variably; he admits uncertainty; he has a
vigorous prejudice against dogmatism. But this philosophy takes its
form as rigidly from these bantering guesses, as though other guesses
did not exist.... The consequences are lamentable. Standards of
credibility are abandoned; subjectivism replaces criticism; and
miracles are rampant.” Joseph Jastrow
− =Dial= 69:204 Ag ’20 820w
“The notable thing about this book, now as in the earlier edition, is
the nobility of spirit which informs it.”
+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 130w
=N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 370w
=HOLT, LEE.= Paris in shadow. *$2 Lane
The author’s novel “Green and gay” was published in 1918. The present
book is written in the form of a diary, but it is not possible to
determine whether it is an authentic record or a fictional device. A
“portrait of the author,” printed as a foreword, says: “In the diary
which follows he has noted down the trifling happenings of every day,
those little events which more than all show the true spirit of the
time. He writes from the standpoint of an American who has lived in
France most of his life, but still retains a deep love of his own
country. The book was not written in a spirit of criticism, merely to
describe the everyday Paris as it was in 1916–1917.”
* * * * *
“It is written with a good deal of literary charm and may fittingly be
described by that much abused expression, a ‘human document.’”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 D 4 ’20 80w
“The book is written in an agreeable style, but contains little matter
of first-rate interest.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p405 Je 24 ’20 100w
=HOLT, LUTHER EMMETT.= Care and feeding of children. *$2 (4½c) Appleton
649.1
20–7343
The preface to the tenth edition of this well-known work says, “The
constant use of the catechism as a manual for nursery maids has shown
the need of fuller treatment of several subjects than was given in the
earlier editions.... In this edition a considerable amount of new
material has been introduced relative to the growth, nutrition, diet
and supervision of older children, thus attempting to fill a need
often expressed by mothers who have relied upon the manual as a guide
for the period of infancy.”
=HOME=—then what? the mind of the doughboy, A. E. F. *$1.50 Doran
940.373
20–4692
The Comrades in service company club was started at Gievres, France by
Dr O. D. Foster. In May, 1919, a movement was started in the club by
Capt. Leon Schwartz to offer three prizes for the three best essays on
the topic “Home—then what?” The three prize essays, a number of
selected essays, and selected extracts constitute this volume. They
have been collected and arranged by James Louis Small, and John
Kendrick Bangs has written an illuminating foreword. The prize
essayists are: Marcelle H. Wallenstein; Joshua B. Lee; and George F.
Hudson.
* * * * *
=Review= 2:311 Mr 27 ’20 350w
=HOOKER, FORRESTINE COOPER.= Long dim trail. (Borzoi western stories)
*$2 (2c) Knopf
20–17651
The story is a vivid picture of the life in the Arizona cattle country
with its teeming beauty during prosperous seasons, its forlorn hope in
times of drought, and the colorful variety of its human element. There
is the sprinkling of college-bred easterners, the rough cow punchers
with the warm loyal hearts, the Mexican, the Chinaman and the
desperado. Between them all there is romance and thrilling adventure.
* * * * *
“The suggestion of artificiality is pleasingly absent in ‘The long dim
trail.’ The book’s greatest charm lies in the fact that its pictures
of life on the cattle ranges of Arizona compel the conviction that
they are as accurate as they are vivid.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 D 26 ’20 480w
“Lovers of stories of adventure, love, villainy and virile men and
true women will find the ingredients mixed here in a manner above the
average.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 120w
=HOPKINS, NEVIL MONROE.= Outlook for research and invention. il *$2 Van
Nostrand 609
19–16654
The purpose of this book is to stimulate interest “not so much perhaps
in what has been known as Yankee invention, but in the broader and
more comprehensive American research.” There are eight chapters: The
spirit of research; Men of research and their development; Some
indifference of the past; American war research; The education for
research; Some borderline limits; Research in the factory; The making
and protecting of inventions. An appendix lists problems awaiting
solution. The book is finely illustrated with a frontispiece and six
portraits.
* * * * *
“The book shows the author to be thoroughly familiar with the national
and industrial need for research, for he tells in an immensely
illuminating manner of what research accomplished during the war and
how the need for industrial research still is a pressing one. The book
is fascinatingly written and should appeal to anyone with the instinct
for solving things.”
+ =Electrical R= 76:457 Mr 13 ’20 280w
“Research workers, inventors, educators, manufacturers and certain
government officials and legislators of the higher type will find
stimulus and suggestion in this readable volume. Most of the book is
written from the viewpoint of the chemist and physicist rather than of
the engineer and nearly all the research problems listed are in the
two fields named, but the author writes with knowledge and
appreciation of engineering.”
+ =Engin News-Rec= 84:581 Mr 18 ’20 110w
“Mr Hopkins’s book will be of special interest to young men and women
who are interested in research and invention as careers, particularly
if they happen to be without the advantages of higher technical
education.” B: C. Gruenberg
+ =Nation= 111:105 Jl 24 ’20 320w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p14 Ja ’20 40w
“The volume belongs to a class of books which suffer somewhat in the
appeal that they are capable of making to the humanistically trained
intellectuals, because of a certain rawness of cultural outlook as
tested by the conventional standards of the literary and humanistic
critic. On the other hand, it is replete with indications of wide and
substantial scholarship in various scientific branches, it is composed
with a somewhat infectious enthusiasm for the beauties of science.”
+ − =Review= 2:488 My 8 ’20 750w
=HORNE, HERMAN HARRELL.= Jesus, the master teacher. *$2 Assn. press 232
20–14228
The book has to do with the pedagogy of Jesus, which, the author says,
is a discovered and staked-out but unworked mine. The aim of the book
is two-fold: “to see how Jesus taught, or is presented to us as having
taught,” and “ultimately, to influence our own methods of teaching
morals and religion,” and is primarily to be used as a guide to be
followed in study classes. A partial list of the contents is: How did
Jesus secure attention? His use of problems; His conversations; His
questions; His discourses; His parables; His use of symbols; His
imagery; Education by personal association; Did Jesus appeal to the
native reactions? His attitude toward children; His qualities as
teacher; The significance of Jesus in educational history. The
appendix consists of topics for further study, and there are
illustrations and a bibliography.
=HORTON, CHARLES MARCUS.= Opportunities in engineering. (Opportunity
books) *$1 (5c) Harper 620
20–6879
This little treatise on engineering might well be called an epic, for
it sings the praises of the engineer and his work in all its aspects.
It is a wonderful profession, perhaps “the topmost of all professions”
in its possibilities of world service, and the engineer is both a
thinker and a doer and as such has more of the world under his control
than falls to the lot of most men. Contents: Engineering and the
engineer; Engineering opportunities; The engineering type; The four
major branches; Making a choice; Qualifying for promotion; The
consulting engineer; The engineer in civic affairs; Code of ethics;
Future of the engineer; What constitutes engineering success; The
personal side.
=Booklist= 16:334 Jl ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 100w
=HOWARD, ALEXANDER L.= Manual of the timbers of the world, their
characteristics and uses. il *$9 Macmillan 691.1
“The book is intended to supplement the standard works on timber and
aims at giving an account of the important timbers either on the
market or likely to be of use to us in the future. The properties and
characters of 500 of these woods are considered and suggestions made
as to their practical utilization. Quite a large amount of information
is given on the cultural conditions necessary for many of the best
timber trees and on the possibility of growing them in this country.
This special part of the work is followed by a more general one,
dealing with the conversion and preservation of timber, specifications
and conditions of contract; then comes a very important section
dealing with the artificial seasoning of timber.”—Spec
* * * * *
“On the subject of timbers he is a fanatic. His passion leads him into
mistakes, but it leads him also into real appreciation of the beauty
of woods, and into a prose style that conveys unexpectedly through the
technicalities the charm of his subject.” Malcolm Cowley
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 27 ’20 570w
“The book is fully illustrated and well arranged; it will be of more
use than its author modestly imagines.”
+ − =Spec= 125:640 N 13 ’20 620w
=HOWE, EDGAR WATSON.= Anthology of another town. *$2 (5c) Knopf
20–20449
A series of sketches, varying in length from a paragraph to several
pages, describing characters from a middle western small town. The
title suggests “Spoon River,” but Mr Howe writes in simple, direct
prose and without irony. Many of the sketches go back to his boyhood
and his own experience as a printer’s apprentice.
* * * * *
“Consists of backyard gossip about the inhabitants of Atchison,
Kansas; as such it is unexpurgated and entirely delightful. Mr Howe is
not so cosmic as Mr Masters and he is a great deal easier to read.”
+ =Dial= 70:232 F ’21 90w
=HOWE, J. ALLEN.= Stones and quarries. (Pitman’s common commodities and
industries) il $1 Pitman 691.2
“In this small volume an attempt has been made to place before the
reader a broad general view of the stone industry, to show what part
it plays in the life of the community and to give an outline of the
methods and machinery employed in its development.” (Preface) Chapters
on The stone industry. Rocks, stones and minerals and Classification
of stones are followed by six chapters devoted to the various types of
stones and their modes of occurrence. Then come four chapters on the
employment of stone, in building and engineering, roads, etc., and two
concluding chapters on Quarrying and The preparation of stone for the
market. There is a one-page bibliography and an index.
=HOWE, MARK ANTONY DE WOLFE.= George von Lengerke Meyer; his life and
public services. il *$5 (3c) Dodd
20–726
The book is based on a large collection of papers, in manuscript and
in print, among them Mr Meyer’s diary. The contents are: Beginnings;
Affairs and politics in Boston and Massachusetts; Ambassador to Italy;
Ambassador to Russia; Postmaster general; Secretary of the navy; The
final years. Illustrations and an index.
* * * * *
“In the preparation of this work. Mr Howe has followed the golden rule
for biographers, by allowing his subject, so far as possible, to tell
his own story. Letters and diary entries constitute the record of an
interesting, useful and busy life.” G: W. Wickersham
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:345 My ’20 1650w
“The conversations with the Czar and with the Kaiser will be
especially interesting.”
+ =Booklist= 16:310 Je ’20
Reviewed by Lindsay Swift
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 F 28 ’20 1900w
=N Y Evening Post= p5 Mr 20 ’20 2000w
“The volume, while full, is not graphic, and does not reveal Mr Meyer
as a deep or vivid reader of social reactions. It is even
disappointing in the inside light it might throw on the official
‘family life’ of two presidents of the United States.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 130w
“Every chapter of this well-written biography is worth reading.”
+ =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 60w
Reviewed by E: G. Lowry
+ =Review= 2:308 Mr 27 ’20 1950w
=R of Rs= 61:444 Ap ’20 140w
“Because of its accurate and intimate picture of life behind the
scenes in the great countries of the world for a period of
approximately fifteen years, the work must certainly prove of value to
historians in search of material upon which to base comprehensive
studies of the world war.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 2050w
=HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN=, ed. Great modern American stories. *$1.75 Boni
& Liveright
20–11148
“Twenty-four short stories, ranging from Edward Everett Hale’s ‘My
double’ and Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘Circumstance’ of other days,
to George Ade’s ‘Effie Whittlesy’ and Theodore Dreiser’s ‘The lost
Phoebe’ of the present, make up the contents of an anthology of ‘The
great modern American stories.’ The selection is made by none other
than William Dean Howells, and to it he contributes an introduction
which is by no means the least interesting feature of the volume. It
is compressed within eight pages, and it forms a compact summary of
the course of American short story writing during the past
half-century and more.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
“A fascinating collection. One finds old favorites almost forgotten
such as ‘The little room,’ while the stories one looks for are here
too.”
+ =Booklist= 17:33 O ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 14 ’20 700w
“Some of the stories which are given a place cause one to wonder on
what possible basis Mr Howells made his choice. Their inclusion might
be comprehensible were it not for the brilliant tales which they
displace. Mr Howells’ omissions are indeed decidedly more striking
than his selections.”
− + =Cath World= 112:270 N ’20 240w
“A nice adjustment of personal preferences to inevitable inclusions is
here revealed.”
+ =Dial= 69:547 N ’20 50w
“Short story writers may very well take a look at this book, with its
soundly native material and integrity of approach. Only two or three
of the collection can by any stretch be called great, but they cleave
a way and accomplish a measurable result.” C. M. Rourke
+ =Freeman= 2:91 O 6 ’20 1200w
“No anthology, of course, is final: a dozen other candidates for this
volume will occur to any reader at all expert; but if editing can be
as nearly classical as writing, this collection may have to be called
a classic.”
+ =Nation= 111:251 Ag 28 ’20 350w
“The two dozen stories all repay reading and reward re-reading; but
none of them is more readable than the preface of the editor himself.”
Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= 25:179 Ap 18 ’20 2900w
“The volume is undoubtedly interesting, though the kind of interest it
begets does not leave one particularly impressed by the merits and
dignities of the short story as a kind.”
+ − =Review= 3:154 Ag 18 ’20 550w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 280w
=HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN.= Hither and thither in Germany. (Harper’s travel
companions) il *$2 (4½c) Harper 914.3
20–2699
Basil March, of silver wedding journey fame, has taken the cure at
Carlsbad, and for an after-cure he and his wife do a bit of traveling
about Germany. Their trip is described in the book, the chapters of
which have been selected from the original volume.
* * * * *
=Dial= 68:666 My ’20 1000w
“The deftest hand which ever drove an American pen has here cut away
the meandering narrative of the original and has kept the descriptive
parts. But what description this of Mr Howells’s—as easy as an eagle,
as flexible as a serpent, as natural and clear as a brook going about
its business!”
+ =Nation= 110:661 My 15 ’20 280w
“In true Howells’ style the narrative rambles along, sometimes with
full detail as if photographed, and again with an impressionistic
summary of a whole experience in a few words. It may be that in the
future, with the smoothing of asperities, the tide of the tourist
travel will flow to Germany again. Then if not before, this book of Mr
Howells’ should score a large popularity.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 24 ’20 340w
=HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN.= Vacation of the Kelwyns; an idyl of the middle
eighteen-seventies. *$2 (2c) Harper
20–16794
Kelwyn, post-graduate lecturer on historical sociology, was rather
theoretical than practical. Mrs Kelwyn was conventionally practical,
always eager, theoretically, to be fair and generous, but rather
fussy, withal; and both were typically New England. They rented an
abandoned farm, with one of their “family” houses, of the Shakers for
a year, had a farmer and his wife put in charge, and arranged to spend
their vacation there. The farmers were shiftless and ignorant. In
their world and the Kelwyn’s there was no common meeting ground and
the latter’s summer turned out a tragicomedy. The situation was
somewhat saved by their cousin, Parthenope Brook, and a stray teacher,
a poetic dreamer and idealist and experimenter with life. His
experiments even included the kitchen and the cooking of meals in
which Parthenope joined him with the inevitable result.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:116 D ’20
“Nowhere has Mr Howells shown more clearly his possession of the dual
powers of the observer and the chronicler. Many novelists have either
the one power or the other. Few possess them both equally, and Mr
Howells is one of the few.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 1500w
“It must be admitted that ‘The vacation of the Kelwyns’ represents Mr
Howells in his most uninteresting phase.” F. E. H.
− + =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 180w
“About this trivial theme play all the warmth and grace and gentleness
which marked the later Howells.” C. V. D.
+ =Nation= 111:510 N 3 ’20 180w
“The trouble with ‘The vacation of the Kelwyns’ is that it makes too
little out of the situation presented. The implications of the story
hang at loose ends. Worse, the movements of the characters thus
tangled in a web of intangible difficulties are not only too often
trivial in themselves but they lack the symbolical significance which
might have carried the observer into larger regions of reflection.”
Carl Van Doren
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 O 23 ’20 1900w
“‘The vacation of the Kelwyns’ is a delightful example of Mr Howell’s
method and (every creation being a form of confession) a vivid
revelation of the man himself. It takes a simple situation, simple
people; but this very simplicity makes us feel anew that the drama of
human emotions is never simple.” Alexander Black
+ =N Y Times= p1 O 3 ’20 1950w
“It is a finely wrought out presentation of American life and
character, with interesting sketches of the Shakers and of the
reaction of their tenets and practices on the minds of ordinary
Americans. It is quiet and restrained, but by no means boresome.”
+ =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 80w
“The whole affair has the effect, at least, of something altogether
casual and artless. Its range and theme are slight; but only one
person could have told it, and we who loved that demure and faultless
voice may well be grateful that fate has somehow saved one more
hearing of it for us, as a surprise.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:534 D 1 ’20 850w
“The ambling graces of the narrative are not a great matter, but it is
really interesting to see that a novelist of this true and
distinguished talent, at the end of the long span of his career, had
still the freshness and the good faith to tell a simple story with
simplicity.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p829 D 9 ’20 850w
=HOWLAND, LOUIS.= Stephen A. Douglas. (Figures from American history)
*$2 Scribner
20–7497
“A study of Douglas as a public character which is necessarily also a
picture of his times. The author stresses the fundamental patriotism
which the heated party controversies of the day often obscured.
Sources are not cited.”—Booklist
+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20
+ =N Y Times= 25:9 Jl 4 ’20 80w
“Mr Howland leaves upon his readers a clear-cut impression of
Douglas—of what he did and of what he failed to do. He knows his man
and the times in which he lived. Slips are few.” J: C. Rose
+ =Review= 3:191 S 1 ’19 1700w
=HRBKOVA, SÁRKA B.=, tr. and ed. Czechoslovak stories. (Interpreters’
ser.) *$1.90 (2c) Duffield
20–8884
The author of these translations in a long introductory essay on the
people and literature of Czechoslovakia, divides the literature into
three periods: the early, the middle and the modern—the last dating
from the close of the eighteenth century to the present day. The
writers of the stories belong to the most modern group, from 1848 to
the present day and consist of Svatopluk Cech; Jan Neruda;
Franti[)s]ek Xavier Svoboda; Joseph Svatopluk Machar; Bo[)z]ena
Víková-Kunĕtická; Bo[)z]ena Nĕmcová; Alois Jirásek; Ignát Herrman; Jan
Klecanda; Caroline Svĕtlá. A short biography of the writer precedes
each translation and there are appendices.
* * * * *
“Several in their simplicity and beauty are as fine and true as some
of Selma Lagerlöf’s best peasant tales.”
+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20
=HUBBARD, GILBERT ERNEST.=[2] Day of the crescent; glimpses of old
Turkey. il *$6 Macmillan 949.6
“In the library of the British Foreign office the author of this book
stumbled upon a collection of sixteenth and seventeenth century books
of Turkish travel, which had been bequeathed to the library by some
noble diplomat of the last century who had been attached to the
Constantinople embassy. ‘The authors were a cosmopolitan and
heterogeneous lot, including among others such diverse characters as a
Flemish diplomat, a French artist, a Polish soldier, a Venetian
dragoman, and an English man of science. Their stories of how they
travelled, painted, plotted, or fought according to their several
capacities are full of color and romance, and worthy products of the
age of adventure in which the actors lived.’ All these books pictured
the ‘golden age’ of Turkey—an age that is almost unknown to us
today—and Mr Hubbard decided that it would be a pleasant and
profitable task to arrange and compress in one volume the most
interesting portions from this collection of old narratives.”—N Y
Evening Post
* * * * *
“He has certainly made no wide search for material, nor approached his
subject in any critical way, nor attempted to give close unity to his
scheme. Under these conditions Mr Hubbard has succeeded in presenting
a vivacious, interesting, and thoroughly readable book.” A. H. Lybyer
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:129 O ’20 560w
“This is certainly the most picturesque of the scores of volumes of
which the great war and its surroundings have been the occasion.” E.
J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 900w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 180w
=Spec= 124:768 Je 5 ’20 150w
=HUDSON, HENRY, 2d., pseud.= Spendthrift town. *$2.25 (1c) Houghton
20–22444
New York city is the Spendthrift town of the title. Claire Nicholson
is the central character, a young girl brought up in a conservative
and aristocratic family who have never moved from their Ninth street
house, and whose creed is “Work hard, take care of your property,
increase it if you possibly can, and let all idealists and spouters
and impractical people alone.” At twenty a series of misfortunes come
upon the family, bringing death, dishonor and poverty into Claire’s
experience of life, and when wealthy Dudley Orville asks her to marry
him, she consents. It doesn’t take many years for her to discover that
Dudley values material things too highly and his marriage vows not at
all. But she has by now realized, too, that she loves Felix Malette, a
young Englishman whom she had previously scoffed at for regarding
material things too lightly. She realizes that she has wronged both
Dudley and herself by marrying him and they separate, but she refuses
to get a divorce as Dudley wishes. She is finally driven to doing so
to obtain the allowance that she needs, but feels herself degraded in
so doing, and feels that it would be impossible ever to make use of a
freedom secured as she had secured hers. Nevertheless the closing page
sees her sailing for Europe where Felix is.
* * * * *
“‘Spendthrift town’ is one of the finest bits of realistic American
literature which has come to my attention this year.” S. M. R.
+ =Bookm= 52:371 D ’20 130w
“The book, as a whole, has solid merit and abundant promise and should
not be overlooked by readers who care for good work of native origin.”
+ − =Nation= 111:693 D 15 ’20 380w
“The caste, the manners of these people, suggest Scott Fitzgerald’s
more earnest moments, but the story is altogether without that young
gentleman’s vigor, ardor and wit.”
− =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 120w
“The real strength of the story is in the vivid picture it presents of
certain phases of metropolitan life, which will be appreciated by New
Yorkers as well as by those who know little of the great city.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 9 ’21 320w
“In fact all of the characters in the story appear weak, selfish and
bored, and one following their apparently aimless existences has no
difficulty in falling into the last-named condition, especially as the
book is full of descriptions of a rather exhaustive nature.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 210w
=HUDSON, JAY WILLIAM.= College and new America. *$2 (5c) Appleton 378
20–12841
Social reconstruction, the author holds, requires the aid of the
colleges and looks to them for skilled intelligence of a special sort.
This requires reform and the first reform needed is that of the
college professor himself. He outlines the nature of the college
professor’s obligation to the social order, hardly recognized
heretofore but upon which lies the ultimate hope of the college. Dr
Henry Suzzallo contributes a foreword, and the contents are: The call
of the new order; The academic mind; The defense of the academic mind;
The obligation to the social order; The failure of the academic mind;
How college professors educate; America as an educational motive; The
truth worth teaching; Some next things in college education; The
meaning of America; The college and American life; The largest terms
of culture; How may these things be? Index.
* * * * *
“Although written from the professor’s point of view, all who are
interested will find profit in this clarifying consideration of aims.”
+ =Booklist= 17:94 D ’20
“We somehow feel that Dr Hudson’s ‘New America’ started about 1865,
right after the Civil war; that he draws no distinction between what
the conscious America of today is trying to be, and what it was
permitting itself to be before the late unpleasantness in Europe.
Also, though he points out with some acumen the faults of our present
system of college education, he does not convince the reader that he
has anything very substantial with which to remedy these faults.” J.
W. G.
− + =Grinnell R= 15:261 O ’20 400w
“In formulating the educational problem of the colleges, Dr Hudson has
performed a real service such as one could scarcely expect from any
one but a practical-minded philosopher, at home alike with realities
and with abstractions. Dr Hudson’s remedies are not so convincing as
his criticism.”
+ − =No Am= 212:573 O ’20 1250w
“All in all, if Prof. Hudson’s book had been written before the war it
would have come as a startling prophecy, but now it is in the position
of the oracle which tells, in faltering accents, that which has come
to pass.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 5 ’20 330w
“The book is likely to be subjected to the criticism that it does not
tell us what to do. But as a definite challenge to university and
college men who are not completely academic to undertake seriously the
task of reconstructing the aims and instruments of higher education in
America, this book must have wide and serious consideration.” J. K.
Hart
+ =Survey= 45:136 O 23 ’20 450w
=HUDSON, STEPHEN.= Richard Kurt. *$2.25 Knopf
A long novel concerned with the emotions and reactions of a young
Englishman, particularly in his relations with his father, his wife,
and a young Italian girl called Virginia. Between himself and his
father there is a long standing antagonism. His wife, Elinor, is a
woman of social aspirations with one set of values only. She is
beautiful and he still apparently loves her, altho there is little
sympathy between them. In Italy he meets Virginia, a girl of puzzling
character, who alternately intrigues and repulses him. He is ready to
leave his wife for her and cannot determine whether her pose of
reluctance is the result of genuine naïveté or of deep-seated design.
In the end repugnance overcomes him. He leaves her and accompanies his
now aged father to London. Midway in the story there is a brief
interlude of friendship with an intelligent American woman who exhorts
Richard to “be a man,” advice he seems temperamentally incapable of
following.
* * * * *
=Ath= p1153 N 7 ’19 460w
“Mr Hudson combines aloofness of attitude and a complete saturation
with his subject. Rarely has a riper first novel appeared. It is
solidly founded in its observation, built with a serene sureness of
touch, careless of vain graces, disdainful of all appeals save that of
its inner veracity.”
+ =Nation= 110:859 Je 26 ’20 320w
“The very long book is much of it well done. Many of the numerous
descriptions are good, and, in short, the author shows himself to be
possessed of talent which it seems rather a pity that he should expend
on relating the detailed history of a man who was not only a drinker
and a gambler, but a sponge, a spineless parasite and cad, too feeble
and too monotonous in character to hold the reader’s attention.”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 Ag 1 ’20 550w
“Three-quarters of the book is weak, trivial, negligible, and but for
Virginia the rest would be the same. She alone is something more than
an unpleasant hotel acquaintance. There is Virginia and one thing
more, the last meeting between Richard and his father. This also,
slight though it is, is touched with beauty.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p569 O 16 ’19 650w
=HUDSON, W. H.= Birds in town and village. il *$4 Dutton 598.2
20–2104
“Sketches of birds done with an intimate understanding of their habits
and temperaments; chatty anecdotes and quaint legends, and the
out-of-doors make this one of the author’s characteristically charming
books. The first part is a revision of his earlier work, ‘Birds in a
village,’ now out of print. Eight colored plates by E. J.
Detmold.”—Booklist
* * * * *
“Vivid and fascinating descriptions of bird life.”
+ =Ath= p1137 O 31 ’19 80w
+ =Booklist= 16:227 Ap ’20
“Mr Hudson is not an ordinary writer nor his book an ordinary book
about birds. One is at loss to decide which is the greater charm of
the books, the author’s mastery of style or his knowledge of the birds
which he describes and makes real.” J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 730w
“This book is not so whimsical as Mr Hudson’s ‘The book of a
naturalist.’ On the other hand, it is a closer and more charming study
of natural history.”