how much of a given statement is one of fact and how much is what a
young and optimistic teacher hopes to see realized. On the whole,
however, the author has shown up the modern, progressive side of the
mountain people in a very creditable manner.” Samuel MacClintock.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 273. S. ’07. 920w.
“The work is rather crudely arranged and written.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 637. My. ’07. 130w.
“Most interesting sketch.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 638. N. ’07. 100w.
=Hankin, St. John.= Three plays with happy endings. French, S:
The three plays are “The prodigal’s return,” “The charity that began
at home” and “The Cassilis engagement.” “They have no plots, present
no conflicts of character, and are practically destitute of dramatic
action.... Familiar as most of the personages are in the world of the
footlights—the rich and vulgar parvenu, the complacent parson, the
self-excusing wastrel, the East Indian military bore, the quack, the
music hall siren, her mother, and their rich young dupe—they are
sketched with such happy dexterity and vivacity that they assume a
certain semblance of freshness and reality.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Since realism has come to mean something violent, something even
indecent, let us call Mr. Hankin a naturalist who is doing for the
English stage what Constable did for European landscape. He contrives
beauty and interest, decoration even, by keeping the tones and values
of drama in their true relation to life. He is a fairy godmother who
has saved the rather vulgar coach from being run over by the motor-car
of realism.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 941. S. 28, ’07. 1280w.
“He has a fine, fastidious, deft talent, as any one who reads the
three plays in his present volume (and skips the preface) will agree.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 278. S. 13, ’07. 1070w.
“As a dramatist Mr. Hankin has a good deal to learn, but there ought
to be a future for a man who can see the humorous side of things so
clearly.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 288. S. 26, ’07. 400w.
=Hannis, Margaret.= Emancipation of Miss Susana. **40c. Funk.
7–24766.
The story of Susana Adams who relieves the monotony of her spinster
life by going to New York and entering upon a fictitious matrimonial
venture which finally leads to a real one.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 683. O. 26, ’07. 100w.
=Hanotaux, Gabriel.= Contemporary France; tr. by John C. Tarver. 4v. ea.
*$3.75. Putnam.
=v. 3.= France from 1874–1877 occupies this volume. It includes the
latter days of the National assembly with its work on the
constitution, the first year’s sittings of the Chamber and the Senate,
and closes with Marshal MacMahon’s opposition to Gambetta and the Left
majority, announced in his letter to M. Jules Simon of May 15th, 1877.
* * * * *
“The translation appears to be fairly executed, but we regret to find
that the serious blunders in the French original pointed out in our
review are not corrected, even in cases where they concern English
facts and names.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 758. Je. 22. 590w. (Review of v. 3.)
“M. Hanotaux’s third volume is in no way inferior in interest to the
first and second. The English translator, who has to attempt no easy
task in rendering M. Hanotaux’s picturesque periods and somewhat
violent metaphors, improves by practice. But he might do better still
if he took more pains.” P. F. Willert.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 817. O. ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 3.)
“It is indeed a historian’s history of the Third French republic.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 489. O. 5, ’07. 710w. (Review of v. 3.)
“While M. Hanotaux leaves the impress of a painstaking scholar, while
he records a statesmanlike judgment on wellnigh every page, he also
leaves a deeper impress—that of a psychologist and of a philosopher.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 355. O. 19, ’07. 450w. (Review of v. 3.)
“When he philosophises, as he does in chapter v. at length, he is far
from convincing, and the tale of later years has not unfortunately
revealed to us those qualities of ‘abnegation, conciliation, and
persevering optimism’ for which he hopes.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 276. Ag. 31, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 3.)
“It will not be surprising if the general public find the present
volume rather less readable than its forerunners.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 484. O. 5, ’07. 1700w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Hapgood, Hutchins.= Spirit of labor. **$1.50. Duffield.
7–8549.
The author of “The autobiography of a thief” offers in this volume a
first hand study of the life of a Chicago labor leader and trade
unionist. After a long search Mr. Hapgood found a German who, both as
a type and a person, combined the desired temperament, character and
experience for his impressionistic study. Born in Germany, Anton came
to America as a child, shifted much of the time for himself, lived
thru the various stages of tramp life, rural, sordid conditions,
worked off and on at odd jobs, finally married and settled down in
Chicago as a wood-worker. His quick intelligence discovered the
injustice of organised society on every hand and led him to the basic
principles of radicalism with which the book deals.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 165. O. ’07. S.
“It is extremely well done, and particularly admirable is the
adroitness with which Mr. Hapgood has extracted from the ‘inexpressive
ego’ of semi-illiterate labour such salient facts as are here
assembled. The trouble with ‘The spirit of labour’ regarded
thoughtfully is, that it has in it very little of the spirit and less
of labour.” Florence Wilkinson.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 294. My. ’07. 530w.
“A faithful and photographic picture of aspects of the urban
activity.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 42: 287. My. 1, ’07. 480w.
“Tho the book deserves the severest censure for its false coloring,
its fatuous confusion of the anomalous with the typical, and its
obliviousness of many of the distinctive characteristics of the
movement, there are other respects in which it deserves cordial
praise.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 340. Ag. 8, ’07. 600w.
“For those who would see the industrial world as the workingman sees
it, the book is invaluable.”
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 572. N. ’07. 170w.
“Throws much fresh light upon that radical political movement loosely
denominated socialism.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 330w.
“It is all extremely interesting, valuable as a human document, and
still more valuable as a contribution to the study of laboring men and
their conditions. But it will not do to call the man a type.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 173. Mr. 23, ’07. 680w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 232. N. ’07. 530w.
“A highly informative volume, containing, no doubt, large quantities
of substantial, solid truth.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 200w.
=Hapgood, Isabel Florence.= Service book of the Holy orthodox-Catholic
apostolic (Greco-Russian) church; comp., tr., and arranged from the old
church-Slavonic service books of the Russian church and collated with
the service books of the Greek church. $4. Houghton.
7–526.
“This volume contains the order of services as prescribed for vespers,
compline, matins, the communion, the great feasts, ordination,
marriage, unction, ‘the office at the parting of the soul from the
body,’ the burial of the dead, requiem offices, services for the
founding and consecration of churches, thanksgivings and various
special prayers. For the Scripture lessons, as translated into
English, the King James’s version is used, and for the ‘Psalms and
verses’ the prayer-book version of the Psalter.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Reverence can call forth such labors of devotion as this
compilation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 141. Mr. 9, ’07. 310w.
“This laudable volume should be of value, not only to American
ecclesiastics and their congregations, but also to students of
liturgies and to sojourners in the various lands where the Eastern
church exists, and to all who would become better acquainted with its
undeniable majesty, impressiveness, and exquisite symbolism of
ritual.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 524. Mr. 2, ’07. 720w.
=Harben, William Nathaniel.= Ann Boyd. †$1.50. Harper.
6–32356.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Marked by genuine power and real emotion.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 210w.
“Easily the strongest piece of work that Mr. Harben has thus far
produced.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 150w.
“For the first time the author has met the demands of literary art in
the construction of his book.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 211. Ja. 24, ’07. 590w.
=Harben, William Nathaniel.= Mam’ Linda. †$1.50. Harper.
7–29431.
A story with a Georgia setting which involves the negro question,
politics and romance. The champion of Mam’ Linda, a faithful negro
mammy, and her “no count” boy who, however, is unjustly accused of
murder, is a young southern attorney. He takes up the cudgels of
defense, and in so doing overcomes time-honored prejudice, fights
lawlessness, and outwits lynching bands. The story is permeated with
southern atmosphere.
* * * * *
“At last the South has produced an author who writes with strength and
beauty and absolute veracity about living issues. Here is Harben with
his message told with such simplicity that few will recognize its
great value.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1058. O. 31, ’07. 890w.
“Mr. Harben’s novel is the most significant book that has appeared
relating to the negro since Bishop Haygood wrote ‘Our brother in
black.’”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 80w.
“This is a simple, straightforward, and readable book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 795. N. 23, ’07. 310w.
“The hero and heroine behave themselves in the usual situations with
about as much ease as an English peasant in his Sunday clothes. But
this is insignificant beside the impression which he gives us of a
vigorous young population striking out with arms and legs, careless as
yet of the proprieties.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 301. O. 4, ’07. 520w.
“A modern story of the south with a pretty love story and a plot
involving a significant new attitude on the negro question.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“Mr. Harben, who may have sketched a Georgia cracker or two with some
faithfulness, is not on that account a novelist.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 764. N. 30, ’07. 230w.
“The romance inevitable in Southern novels is as wholesome and sweet
as possible.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 100w.
“Illustrates afresh his direct and effective style and his ability to
tell a love story full of purity and sweetness in a natural and
delightful way.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 30w.
=Harboe, Paul, pseud. (Paul Christensen).= Child’s story of Hans
Christian Andersen. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–29563.
The life of deprivation and penury which falls to the lot of the man
renowned for fairy tales was at variance with the results of his fine
imagination. The sketch follows the cobbler’s son thru the sore trials
of his early life to his day of fame, which proved a sad realization
inasmuch as it was bereft of the fulfilment of his one romance.
* * * * *
“An interesting, trustworthy account, simple and straightforward in
telling. Will, perhaps, be enjoyed best by the children of an age most
interested in the fairy tales if read aloud to them, for the style is
adapted, rather to older children.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 207. N. ’07.
“There is not much attempt at coherent construction in the little
book. Anecdotes are given sometimes without much point or much
connection. And the style reminds us frequently that the author is
writing in a language other than the one to which he was born.” Grace
Isabel Colbron.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 418. D. ’07. 570w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 130w.
“There is a touch of quaint stiffness in the style of the book that
harmonizes with the childlike temper of the Danish romancer.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 767. D. ’07. 50w.
=Harcourt, Mrs. Charles.= Good form for women: a guide to conduct and
dress on all occasions. $1. Winston.
7–12681.
Believing that all commendable conventionalities are more or less
directly traceable to some altruistic or utilitarian principle, the
author presents the fundamental features of good form by combining
ethics with etiquette. She aims particularly to help girls who have
not had the benefit of proper home training.
=Harcourt, L. W. Vernon.= His grace the steward, and the trial of peers:
a novel inquiry into a special branch of constitutional government. *$5.
Longmans.
A two part work. “The first describes the evolution of the Lord High
Steward of England up to the reign of Henry VIII., and the second
treats of the gradual working out of the principle that peers shall be
judged only by their peers. In both sections it is Mr. Harcourt’s
delight to show the fraudulent basis of what have been honored as
historic English institutions.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The interest of Mr. Vernon Harcourt’s book lies less in the main
theme than in his often original and always acute interpretations of
men and motives, and the side-lights he throws on many disputed points
of constitutional history.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 66. Jl. 20. 790w.
“We have here, in short, a notable contribution to our institutional
history not merely for the results attained, but also for its rigid
investigation, reminding us how often close inquiry may modify
accepted views. One rises however from its perusal with the feeling
that, however impartially the appendices may set the evidences before
us, the author has throughout a case to prove, is a counsel speaking
to his brief. And that case is prejudiced rather than assisted by the
use of forensic methods.” J. H. Round.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 778. O. ’07. 2420w.
“This lengthy and erudite work ... is scarcely intended for general
reading.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 332. O. 10, ’07. 680w.
“We suspect that Mr. Harcourt is not really very interested in the
stewardship; he uses it only as convenient padding to his pet theory
that procedure in the trial of peers is founded on a forged document;
and herein he has expended a great deal of useless energy.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 337. S. 14, ’07. 640w.
“He is steeped in the political and personal history of his period, he
possesses a sense of humor, and that gift of imagination without which
the past is a sealed book alike to those who write and those who read.
We are paying a high, but not an excessive, compliment when we say
that no better piece of work of its class has been accomplished since
Bishop Stubbs penned the last of his prefaces in the ‘Rolls series.’”
+ + + =Spec.= 99: 198. Ag. 10, ’07. 2300w.
“If the reader grants the right of the author to choose what subject
he pleases he can feel only admiration for the manner in which the
study is executed.”
+ =Yale. R.= 16: 334. N. ’07. 100w.
=Harcourt, Leveson Francis.= Sanitary engineering with respect to water
supply and sewage disposal. *$4.50. Longmans.
7–35189.
A valuable general text-book. “In addition to a very complete
discussion of the subject of water supplies in all its aspects,
including sources, collection and storage, purification, distribution
and statistics of water consumption, and a rather brief summary of the
methods of sewage disposal, the writer takes up very fully the whole
subject of sewerage, and more briefly that of garbage disposal.”
(Technical Lit.)
* * * * *
“Important book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 97. Ap. ’07.
“We think we do the author no injustice in saying that throughout his
book he writes like a person experienced in general civil engineering
construction rather than like a sanitary engineer, at least as we in
America now understand that term. Nevertheless he has epitomized a
considerable part of water-works and sewage practice, including
purification in each field, and seems to have produced a book
remarkably free from errors and vagaries.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 551. My. 16, ’07. 670w.
“An addition of undoubted value to an engineer’s library. Its pleasing
style, moreover, makes it a very readable work, while the abundant
references to historical and current engineering work, its general
breadth of view and full citations of original sources of information,
commend it, in particular, to the student and to the engineer in
general practice or specializing in other branches. The book lacks
proper balance as a book on sanitary engineering.” Earle B. Phelps.
+ + − =Technical Literature.= 1: 176. Ap. ’07. 1870w.
=Hare, Christopher.= High and puissant Marguerite of Austria, princess
dowager of Spain, duchess dowager of Savoy, regent of the Netherlands.
*$2.50. Scribner.
7–25681.
A full biography which incidentally makes use of the interesting
events of Marguerite’s life and leadership for reflecting the royal
customs of her century.
* * * * *
“That writer has given evidence in previous works of various excellent
qualities, such as sincerity and literary charm; but she lacks grip,
and shows the defect much more in this than in her last book. Although
the author is usually accurate in her facts, a few slips will be found
in her text.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 90. Jl. 27. 940w.
“Character-study is not Mr. Hare’s strong point. He is more skilled in
the art of setting forth his story and weaving his fairly copious
material. It is a book worth reading, concerning persons not too well
known. And the story is clear and well outlined.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 132. Ap. 26, ’07. 2260w.
“Mr. Hare has written a book which at the lowest appreciation is
creditable. Our worst censure is directed against a style of
composition.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 497. N. 28, ’07. 870w.
“Mr. Hare has drawn with minute and loving detail—for his sympathy
with his subject is evident on every page—a complete picture of a very
interesting character. The reader wishes heartily for more of the
historical background.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 740w.
“The subject and the period of this book could not be more
interesting, the treatment perhaps is a little too ambitious.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 465. O. 5, ’07. 460w.
=Harnack, Adolf.= Luke the physician. (Crown theological lib., no. 21.)
*$1.50. Putnam.
“In Dr. Harnack’s view, Luke as a historian is inferior to Luke as a
stylist; he is uncritical, and blunders for want of exact information.
But the author contends that the present trend of criticism is toward
the belief that between A. D. 30 and 70 the primitive Christian
tradition as a whole took the essential form it has since
attained.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 240. S. ’07. 30w.
“The assertion that the language of both Gospel and Acts betrays the
hand of one familiar with Greek medicine is not new, but never before
has the argument received such skilful treatment.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 940. O. 17, ’07. 630w.
=Ind.= 63: 1379. D. 5, ’07. 240w.
“Whatever be one’s opinion of the proposition on which Harnack lays
chiefest stress, the value of the book as a contribution to the
history of the fixing of the evangelic tradition cannot be
questioned.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 163. Ag. 22, ’07. 340w.
=Outlook.= 86: 792. Ag. 10, ’07. 170w.
+ + =Spec.= 99: 252. Ag. 24, ’07. 1950w.
=Harnack, Adolf, and Herrmann, Wilhelm.= Essays on the social gospel;
tr. by G. M. Craik. *$1.25. Putnam.
Containing “The evangelical history of the church,” and “The moral and
social significance of modern education,” by Dr. Harnack, and “The
moral teachings of Jesus,” by Dr. Herrmann. “Dr. Harnack insists that
the chief task of the church is still the preaching of the message of
redemption and of eternal life, and insists, too, that the church has
a social mission.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The essay by Herrmann will be the most welcome part of the book.”
Gerald Birney Smith.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 708. O. ’07. 340w.
=Ath.= 1907. 1: 695. Je. 8. 470w.
“The essay is not light reading, but the reader who takes the pains to
work his way into its spirit will be rewarded.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 457. Ag. 22, ’07. 350w.
“These essays by distinguished German theologians throw instructive
side-lights upon the social problem of the modern church.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 569. Je. 13, ’07. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 50w.
=Spec.= 98: 566. Ap. 13, ’07. 1480w.
=Harris, J. Henry.= Cornish saints and sinners. †$1.50. Lane.
7–35146.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 67. Mr. ’07.
“Assuredly Mr. Harris is not witty, but his animal spirits are
inexhaustible.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ − =Atlan.= 99: 418. Mr. ’07. 500w.
=Harris, Miriam Coles.= Tents of wickedness. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–31979.
“Types of the New York smart set are vividly portrayed in this story.
The chief female figure, is a young, motherless American girl, who has
been brought up in a French convent. She is a Roman Catholic, and is
shocked at many of the things she sees, and has only one congenial
friend among her father’s many acquaintances. This friend is the hero,
from whom she is separated through misunderstandings.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The book treats in an able way a theme of the utmost practical
importance to-day, and we bespeak for it an encouraging and hearty
welcome.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 403. D. ’07. 430w.
“If this book were not marred by one or two unnecessary bits of
artificial coarseness, one would be tempted to say that after skimming
through a dozen linotype historical romances here at last is a novel
to sit down and read.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 35: 759. N. 16, ’07. 200w.
=Nation.= 85: 378. O. 24, ’07. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“This is a novel of more than ordinary length, but it is by no means
wearisome, and will better repay attention than most of the stories
offered in such profusion to a long-suffering public.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 230w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= Creed of a layman: apologia pro fide mea. **$1.75.
Macmillan.
7–16987.
The author calls his book “my simple story of conversion and
conviction,” an account of a “regular and calm development of
thought.” He expresses a hope that the story of how spiritual rest
might be achieved may “prove useful to some ‘perturbed spirit’ in our
troubled times.” The exposition of his creed includes chapters upon:
Day of all the dead, Septem contra fidem, A Socratic dialogue,
Pantheism and cosmic emotion, Aims and ideals, A positivist prayer,
The presentation of infants, Marriage, Burial, Day of humanity, and a
Valedictory, Twenty one years at Newton Hall.
* * * * *
“Mr. Harrison begins with a somewhat narrow egotism, and his first
pages are irritating, meagre, and disappointing; but the latter half
of the book becomes universal in its interest, and cogent in its
claims, so that these essays well repay the reflective reading which
they acquire.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 751. Je. 22. 1460w.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 94. Ag. 16, ’07. 370w.
“May not attract new proselytes to the gospel of humanity as expounded
by Auguste Comte; but, in spite of its rather uncompromising polemic,
it compels respect by its manifest sincerity and genuine fervour of
conviction.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 157. My. 17, ’07. 1830w.
=Nation.= 85: 124. Ag. 8, ’07. 1320w.
“A sense of humour is a sense of proportion. And if Mr. Harrison had
had a deeper sense of proportion he would not have taken himself quite
so seriously, and he would have been saved from some of the solemn
absurdities of the positivist religion.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 550. S. 14, ’07. 460w.
“We do not ... know of any book which will give to the curious and
interested reader so good an interpretation of the religion of
humanity as this volume of Mr. Frederic Harrison’s.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 523. Jl. 6, ’07. 540w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 80w.
“This indifference to facts is characteristic of the whole book; it
marks both Mr. Harrison’s criticism of Christianity and defence of his
own creed. When we turn from Mr. Harrison’s criticism to this
construction, we are still in the same abstract region. Facts are
still held of no account.”
− =Spec.= 98: 945. Je. 15, ’07. 1100w.
“It may be safely predicted that this book will take a permanent and
conspicuous place among the too few similar works of distinguished men
and women.” Arthur Ransom.
+ + =Westminster R.= 168: 49. Jl. ’07. 3440w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= Memories and thoughts: men—books—cities—art. **$2.
Macmillan.
6–35547.
“This volume is a collection of articles which appeared during the
past twenty-four years in various American and English periodicals of
the better class. By the author the book is described as ‘a chapter
from certain Memoirs that [he] intends to retain in manuscript penes
se.’ The articles are occasional in origin, and in character they are
miscellaneous, varying in topic from discussions of card-playing and
tobacco to appreciations of Tennyson and Renan on the occasion of
their deaths.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 422. Ja. ’07. 260w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 67. Mr. ’07.
“At one time Mr. Harrison goes to the bottom of his subject, at
another he merely touches its surface. Still these ‘Memories and
thoughts,’ if approached with an open mind, will be found to reflect
seriousness of purpose and insight into life. They frequently provoke
dissent, they never forfeit respect.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906. 2: 476. O. 20. 940w.
“It is the fine tone, the genial atmosphere, the rich suggestiveness,
of Mr. Harrison’s writings that attract the reader and win him over to
the cause of good literature.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 212. O. 1, ’06. 140w.
“But the papers are not all of equal value and interest. He presents
them ‘as permanent impressions left on his mind by a somewhat wide
experience.’ Some of these permanent impressions will appear to many
readers to be not much more than rather violent and persistent
prejudices.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 342. O. 12, ’06. 1080w.
“The personal note is dominant throughout Mr. Harrison’s book, which
leaves us with a sense of friendly and close acquaintance with a
writer in whom seriousness of purpose, firm convictions, broad
culture, and generous sympathies combine with the thinker’s love of
truth, the artist’s love of beauty, and a keen zest for the joys of
living.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 1076. D. 29, ’06. 930w.
“If they are not marked by the quality which we call ‘artistic’ or
‘literary’ they at least express a freshness and alertness by no means
common in men of letters who have passed their prime of years.” H. W.
Boynton.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 632. F. ’07. 780w.
“About the bulk of [these papers] the most we can say is that unless
one has an exaggerated opinion of the significance of Mr. Harrison’s
personality, their interest expired with their occasion.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 2. F. 23, ’07. 750w.
“The American paper is particularly well worth studying. So much,
doubtless, may be said of the whole of the volume, one or two minor
articles possibly excepted.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 1080. D. 29, ’06. 1710w.
* =Harrison, Frederic.= Philosophy of common sense. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–36260.
A companion to “The creed of a layman.” “It is designed to form a
summary of the philosophical grounds on which the preceding work was
based; and it carries on the autobiographical account of the stages by
which the author reached those conclusions.”
* * * * *
“He has been well advised to gather these trophies of his skill for a
newer generation, which ought to find them of interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 748. N. 23, ’07. 850w.
=Harrison, Mary S. K. (Lucas Malet, pseud.).= Far horizon. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–983.
“Mrs. Harrison’s first work in five years. It deals with the acts and
opinions of a foreign-born man, who, after many years of hard work,
becomes suddenly possessed of a moderate fortune and leisure. The time
covered is from 1899 to 1901. Matters of modern finance, manners, and
morals, theatrical and religious, are touched upon.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 78. Mr. ’07.
“The merits of the book are more obvious than its defects.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 729. D. 8. 690w.
“There is little humour in the book, no lovemaking, and the hero is a
man of between fifty and sixty, and yet from what might be called
unpromising material the author has given us a story of never-flagging
interest, rich in thought and feeling.” Mary K. Ford.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 595. F. ’07. 1560w.
“The book is a vivid, masterful, human document, fulfilling the
strictest demands of great art. We need but add that any one who does
not read it, and read it thoughtfully, will suffer a distinct loss.
‘The far horizon’ is worthy to take its place among the great English
novels.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 538. Jl. ’07. 1770w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 343. Mr. ’07. 1360w.
“May be reckoned among the more considerable fictional productions of
the season.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 225. Ap. 1, ’07. 420w.
“A story so well told; so finely finished, with such real people of
the British middle-class sort moving thru its pages, that the critical
faculty is disarmed from the first, and one yields to the charm of
unique art.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 739. Mr. 28, ’07. 420w.
“Of Charles Kingsley’s purely literary talents and graces of style his
daughter, the author, evinces hardly a trace.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 200w.
“A clever and an interesting book. But it would be more than that if
the main story were only as good as its setting.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 394. N. 23, ’06. 500w.
“It does not strike one as a book which had to be written, or will
have to be read. But it possesses the treasure of a really original
and affecting central motive.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 39. Ja. 10, ’07. 460w.
“It is readable in no ordinary way. One does not hurry through its
pages intent only on the story, but it both invites and repays
leisurely attention. One reads, also, with no very distinct sense of
the author’s style, which is unobtrusive and free from vagaries.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 18. Ja. 12, ’07. 750w.
“‘The far horizon’—with its very obvious faults—has one great virtue:
creative spontaneity; and that is so precious, in the mass of
perfunctory work, that criticism must be delicate.” M. B. M.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 77. F. 9, ’07. 1110w.
“A certain subjectiveness of style distinguishes it, a sort of
reminiscent touch, which by some conjuror’s trick becomes the most
objective thing in the world, and as a result the characters actually
live and move and have a very real existence.” Madison Cawein.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 1440w.
“It is more than a little puzzling that a writer of Lucas Malet’s
experience and skill should have produced a novel bearing so many
dreary resemblances to a ‘first book.’” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
− =No. Am.= 184: 645. Mr. 15, ’07. 1380w.
“One notes first that it has the negative merit of being entirely
devoid of any passages of questionable taste. Affirmatively speaking,
its highest merit is in the distinction and quiet nobility of its
chief figure, Dominic Iglesias.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 310w.
“It seems incongruous, almost unseemly, as coming from the pen of one
born a Kingsley.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.
− + =Putnam’s.= 2: 183. My. ’07. 740w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 760. Je. ’07. 450w.
“Is the dreariest and dismallest novel we have ever read. Its tragedy
does not make us weep; its comedy does not make us laugh: it bores us
acutely.”
− =Sat. R.= 102: 744. D. 15, ’06. 630w.
“‘The far horizon,’ while fully as clever as ‘Sir Richard Calmady,’ is
free from the ugly blemishes which disfigured that brilliant but
conspicuously uncomfortable novel. The theme and its treatment are
higher and finer, there is less reliance on violence or
sensationalism, and the narrative has ‘shining moments’ which
transcend the capacities of ordinary talent. On the other hand it
cannot honestly be contended that this is a pleasing or a satisfying
book.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 937. D. 8, ’06. 1020w.
=Harrison, Newton.= Practical alternating currents and power
transmission. $2.50. Hedenberg.
6–39743.
“Of the fifteen chapters comprising the volume, the first two are
devoted to conditions governing the different forms of electric
lighting, the third and fourth to the factors entering into the
various methods of alternating-current distribution; fifth, sixth, and
seventh, to the principles and performance of transformers; the eighth
to thirteenth inclusive, to alternators and a practical consideration
of the current generated; the fourteenth to transformer testing and
operation, and the fifteenth to definitions and formulas associated
with alternating-current practice.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“One of the few successful attempts thus far made to discuss
alternating currents without the use of mathematics. In clearness and
originality of expression, neat press work, and general appearance,
the book is a credit to both the author and publisher.”
+ =Engin. N.= 56: 527. N. 15, ’06. 250w.
=Harrison, Peleg D.= Stars and stripes and other American flags. il.
**$3. Little.
6–42447.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 719. Ap. ’07. 50w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 43. F. ’07.
“Something of this inclusiveness might profitably have been sacrificed
for a more methodical arrangement and a more critical spirit of
inquiry.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1095. My. 9, ’07. 340w.
“Mr. Harrison has interwoven many interesting incidents of history
with his history of the national flag.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 177. F. 2, ’07. 230w.
=Hart, Albert Bushnell=, ed. American nation: a history from original
sources by associated scholars. 28v. per v. *$2. Harper.
=v. 20. Hosmer, James Kendall.= Appeal to arms.
7–4798.
A work with which its successor, “Outcome of the civil war,” is
intended to afford a brief, compact and impartial view of the military
and civil side of the civil war. Not so much a study of contestants’
motives as their behavior on the field. Dr. Hosmer says “I have tried
to criticize men in the light of their opportunities at the time.”
=v. 21. Hosmer, James Kendall.= Outcome of the civil war.
7–7446.
Although independent in field and in arrangement, this volume is a
continuation of Dr. Hosmer’s “Appeal to arms,” the foregoing volume of
this series. It takes up the story from midsummer, 1863 and carries it
forward to the surrender of Lee, the collapse of the confederacy and
the assassination of Lincoln.
=v. 22. Dunning, William Archibald.= Reconstruction, political and
economic.
This volume is the first in the last group of the series devoted to
“National expansion.” The purpose of the study is “to show that
reconstruction, with all its hardships and inequities, was not
deliberately planned as punishment and humiliation for those formerly
in rebellion.” It deals with “the stormy administration of Johnson,
the year of trouble and unrest in the south, the gradual recovery from
the strain of war, the great industrial developments, and railroad
building to the Pacific, the stormy Hayes-Tilden contest.”
=v. 23. Sparks, Edwin Erie.= National development (1877–1885).
7–33222.
Professor Sparks’ volume begins with the year 1877 that marks the
break between old issues and the intermediate, vital question of the
adaptation of American government to the industrial and social needs
of the country. The first five chapters are devoted to a summary of
the social and economic conditions of the time; six to eight, to the
party struggles due to President Hayes’ withdrawal of the federal
troops from the south; nine to twelve discuss silver coinage and the
national civil service; thirteen and fourteen discuss the Isthmian
canal and the exclusion of the Chinese; fifteen and sixteen follow the
effect on the nation of the rapid settling up of the west; seventeen
to nineteen deal with conditions which Cleveland found in 1884.
=v. 24. Dewey, Davis R.= National problems.
7–33614.
Beginning with the new economic conditions that the Cleveland
administration of 1884 found, Professor Dewey traces the course of the
national problems to 1897. He deals with organized labor, civil
service, the tariff, silver, railroads, foreign relations, the
reorganization of the Republican party, foreign policy, commercial
organization, currency, and the free coinage campaign of 1896.
* * * * *
“The merit of this volume is the thoughtful and judicial treatment of
a period of complicated political conditions and of problems new to
the national life. If any fault is to be found with the book, it is in
its lack of proportion. This, however, appears to be due rather to the
plan of the work than to the author’s execution of it.” Jesse S.
Reeves.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 673. Ap. ’07. 980w. (Review of v. 17.)
“Our author is eminently fair in his treatment of the South, though
the parts of the book dealing with that section exhibit less complete
information than do other portions.”
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 675. Ap. ’07. 790w. (Review of v. 18.)
“The military and naval situation is presented with unusual clearness,
and this whole portion of the book has the ring of a definitive
account. Errors are few.” Carl Russell Fish.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 677. Ap. ’07. (Review of v. 19.)
“Aside from a sometimes too literal following of authorities where
opinion rather than fact is stated, Professor Hart has given us the
best general description and study of the social and moral aspects of
the American slavery controversy that has yet appeared.” J. C.
Ballagh.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 902. Jl. ’07. 1230w. (Review of v. 16.)
“The work under examination, therefore, while an excellent record as
far as it goes and on the whole the best civil war history yet
written, is too little objective to serve as the final history of that
war.” E. Benj. Andrews.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 907. Jl. ’07. 1270w. (Review of v. 20 and
21.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 39. F. ’07. (Review of v. 19.)
“The best survey of its field.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 42. F. ’07. S. (Review of v. 17.)
“Best brief survey of the subject.”
+ + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 74. Mr. ’07. S. (Review of v. 18.)
“Perhaps the best general account of the size, and for the price.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 97. Ap. ’07. (Review of v. 20 and 21.)
“It is the most readable account of the period with which the reviewer
is acquainted; there is no better treatment of that tangled business
of Buchanan, Seward and Lincoln from November, 1860 to April, 1861.”
Walter L. Fleming.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 174. Jl. ’07. 560w. (Review of v. 19.)
“Some points deserve slight criticism. The author does not seem to
have a clear understanding of internal conditions in the south. Some
objection might reasonably be made to the comparison between Stonewall
Jackson and John Brown, and the ‘craziness’ of Jackson is entirely too
much insisted upon.” W. L. Fleming.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 182. Jl. ’07. 650w. (Review of v. 20.)
“This undertone of scholarly geniality makes the book not merely easy
reading, but gives to it an interest for every intelligent American.”
Harry Thurston Peck.
+ + − =Bookm.= 26: 166. O. ’07. 1090w. (Review of v. 22.)
“It is indeed questionable whether the series as a whole is not too
large for the general reader, to whose interests it is professedly
devoted.” St. George L. Sioussat.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 15. Jl. 1, ’07. 4100w. (Review of v. 14–21.)
“It is a matter of gratification that all [these books] are good and
that there are no very horrible examples.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1411. Je. 13, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 16–21.)
“He has brought to his task that somewhat rare quality, historic
imagination.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 34: 433. Mr. 16, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 20.)
“A thoughtful and scholarly study of a period which has long needed
impartial examination.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 84. Ja. 24, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 17.)
“The readableness of Professor Smith’s pages merits particular
commendation.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 156. F. 14, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 18.)
“The most distinctive contribution of Admiral Chadwick’s book,
however, is its thorough-going examination of the military and naval
situation on the eve of hostilities.”
+ + + =Nation.= 84: 202. F. 28, ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 19.)
“Outside of military affairs, in short, Mr. Hosmer’s narrative is, as
a whole, conventional.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 502. My. 30, ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 20 and 21.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 24. Ja. 12, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 19.)
“Mr. Hosmer succeeds in making [military matters] not only
intelligible but interesting to the layman.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 133. Mr. 2, ’07. 850w. (Review of v. 20.)
“He has prepared a splendid bibliography in the final chapter on the
authorities, the best in his period which exists.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 21.)
“The work is marked throughout by scholarship, sound judgment, and
critical insight, and is the best short history of the subject with
which we are acquainted.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 549. S. 14, ’07. 770w. (Review of v. 22.)
+ + + =Outlook.= 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 18.)
“As a narrative it is easy, compact, and lucid. The Admiral, it seems
to us, is inclined to take an over-roseate view of Southern slavery,
and a rather narrow one of the motives and conduct of those who lent
comfort and aid to John Brown.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 332. F. 9, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 19.)
+ + + =Outlook.= 85: 764. Mr. 30, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 20.)
“His treatment of the assassination of Lincoln is distinctly
inadequate.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 302. Je. 8, ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 21.)
“Possibly he over-emphasizes the accentuation of the speculative
instinct as one of the results of the war, but there can be but little
disposition to question the accuracy and essential fairness of the
pictures he draws of the conditions which prevailed, north and south,
from the assassination of Lincoln to the election of Hayes.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 312. O. 12, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 22.)
“As to quality the general average is good, and some of the volumes,
marked by more originality than could be expected in others, contain
distinct contributions to historical knowledge. Out of this comes,
however, a certain unevenness of treatment ... and the inequality
which comes from having succeeding volumes from men who have different
points of view.” John Spencer Bassett.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 253. My. ’07. 1090w. (Review of v. 16–21.)
=Harting, James Edmund.= Recreations of a naturalist. $4.50. Wessels.
“The writer of the ‘Recreations’ gets much that is stimulating to
himself and to his readers out of a marsh walk in May. With notebook
in hand he sees and records things that might otherwise easily be
overlooked or forgotten. When the enthusiast thus writes down the
things that appeal to him because he writes under the spell of
enthusiasm he makes the story read with all the greater zest.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Mr. Harting’s flowing and easy style renders these chapters very
agreeable reading, and a considerable amount of information is therein
afforded on sport and natural history, often in association with
antiquarian research.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 106. Jl. 28. 1290w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1405. D. 22, ’06. 90w.
“These ‘Recreations’ may be cordially recommended to the lover of
nature as a companion on his summer holidays.” F.
+ =Nature.= 74: 82. My. 24, ’06. 610w.
“There is a certain dryness about Mr. Harting’s style of writing, and
for this reason he is at his best when he has learning to impart.”
+ − =Spec.= 96: 583. Ap. 14, ’06. 920w.
Harvard studies in classical philology; ed. by a committee of the
instructors in classics. Harvard univ., Cambridge, Mass.
Among these informing studies are the following: An unrecognized actor
in Greek comedy, The battle of Salamis, The origin of Plato’s cave,
Notes on Vitruvius, The dramatic art of Aeschylus, The use of the
high-soled shoe or buskin, and Five new manuscripts of Donatus on
Terence.
* * * * *
“A good specimen of the general character of those preceding it,
perhaps more than usually interesting, because it deals more with
questions of history and literature, and less with speculations.” R.
Y. Tyrrell.
+ + =Acad.= 72: 432. My. 4, ’07. 1440w.
“An especially interesting series of papers in literature as well as
in technical scholarship.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 63. Ja. 17, ’07. 840w.
* =Harvey society, New York.= Harvey lectures delivered under the
auspices of the Harvey society of New York. *$2. Lippincott.
7–2726.
Thirteen lectures given before the Harvey society, an association of
physicians organized for the purpose of making the work of
investigation better known to the practitioner. “The range of subjects
is wide, from the implantation of the ovum to old age.... Even the
general reader, not altogether unversed in science, will find it worth
while to examine the lectures on trypanosomes, fatigue, tuberculosis,
the cause of the heart-beat, and possibly one or two more.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 84: 250. Mr. 14, ’07. 120w.
“The volume constitutes a most valuable collection of first-hand
information given by some of the most prominent investigators in this
country and Europe.” Victor C. Vaughan.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 26: 630. N. 8, ’07. 3860w.
* =Harwood, Edith.= Notable pictures in Rome. *$1.50. Dutton.
W 7–135.
Numerous illustrations and an alphabetical list of artists represented
in Rome increase the reference value of the book. It “aims to furnish
the visitor to that city with a guide by which he can find, and which
will help him to understand and appreciate, the important pictures in
the galleries, churches, and palaces. The author’s method is to
indicate the causes which led to the production of the painting and to
tell something of the personality of the artist. Then she describes
the work itself and its meaning, with occasional extracts from famous
critics.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 194. N. ’07. S.
=Ind.= 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 528. Ag. 31, ’07. 120w.
“As a guide this book might be of great use in Rome. But the unwary
must be warned against some of the writer’s fanciful ideas.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 70w.
* =Harwood, William Sumner.= New creations in plant life: an
authoritative account of the life and work of Luther Burbank. 2d ed.
**$1.75. Macmillan.
7–33936.
An intimate account of the life, scientific achievements and methods
of the foremost plant-breeder in the world. The appearance of this
second edition is justified by the facts that Mr. Burbank vouches for
the statements both scientific and practical made in the volume, that
the interest in the man and his work has steadily increased since the
first edition appeared, and that a “closer study of the work during
the period since the book was first issued demonstrates that this is
one of the greatest constructive enterprises ever established among
men.”
=Haskell, Helen Eggleston.= Billy’s princess. $1.25. Page.
7–29688.
Billy was a boy of ten who ran away from the boarding house after his
mother had been carried off to the sanitarium, and his princess was
the little French girl whom he found on the streets and befriended to
the extent of buying her new clothes with his savings and entertaining
her lavishly in his drygoods box home. Then after he had prospered at
his trade of news boy he found kind aunts who took him to England to
be educated, and who promised the princess that they would some day
bring him back to her.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 100w.
=Hasluck, Paul Nooncree=, ed. Cassell’s carpentry and joinery:
comprising notes on materials, processes, principles, and practice,
including about 1800 engravings and 12 plates. $3. McKay.
A practical, exhaustive treatment of the subject with full description
of tools and processes commonly found in daily use in the workshop.
=Hasluck, Paul Nooncree=, ed. Metal working: a book of tools, materials,
and processes for the handyman; 2206 il. and working drawings. $2.50.
McKay.
Very nearly eight hundred pages are devoted to the practical phases of
metal-working, the theory being discussed only where it is an
essential preliminary to principle underlying a method, a process or
the action of a tool. The scope of the book embraces the whole art of
working metals with hand tools and with such simple machine tools as
the small engineering shop usually contains.
=Hasluck, Paul Nooncree=, ed. Woodworking: a book of tools, materials,
and processes for the handyman; with 2545 il. and working drawings.
$2.50. McKay.
An exhaustive presentation of woodworking. “The book is intended for
all those who would handle tools and who, by the use of them, wish to
furnish the home and to profit their pockets. The treatment adopted
throughout is simple and practical, and there has been a consistent
endeavor to combine accurate information, with clear and definite
instruction.”
=Hastings, James=, ed. Dictionary of Christ and the gospels. $6.
Scribner.
6–44352.
=v. 1.= “This volume extends from ‘Aaron’ to ‘Knowledge,’ and the work
when completed will ‘include everything that the gospels contain,
whether directly related to Christ or not.’”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Apart from varieties of opinion, which are inevitable where many
contributors are concerned, the dictionary is a scholarly work, which
ought to foster learning among the preachers for whom it is written.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 131. F. 2. 370w.
“To sum up our judgment on this work, we would say that, from the
standpoint of a rather strict conservative scholarship, it is a highly
creditable accomplishment; and that it will be of great service to
students and preachers whose opinions are free from a tendency to
radicalism.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 85: 117. Ap. ’07. 1080w.
“Is learned and decidedly conservative, and is adapted for both the
exegetic and homiletic use of the preacher.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 566. Mr. 7, ’07. 340w.
“It will, no doubt, be objected against the ‘Dictionary of Christ and
the gospels’ that it contains some otiose matter, such as the somewhat
inferior discussion of ‘Art,’ which takes us little if at all further
than Westcott’s familiar essay. But equally it will be admitted that
the preacher’s purpose is better served than it has ever been before.
The articles have a tendency to make him think, and, in so far, they
earn the gratitude of his congregation.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 107. Ap. 5, ’07. 1290w.
“The work contains, in the first place, an intolerable amount of
extraneous and irrelevant matter. A far more serious defect is the
choice of writers of a decidedly reactionary point of view for
articles on important subjects.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 315. Ap. 4, ’07. 780w.
“Undoubtedly the work contains a great deal that is of value. But it
is not to be compared in value with the ‘Dictionary of the Bible.’ And
the minister who already possesses that dictionary, and who has not
very much money to spend on books, will not find this later work
indispensable.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 597. O. 5, ’07. 1180w.
“The principal criticism indeed that we have to make on this volume is
that both editor and contributors have tried too much to be complete;
there are too many articles and they are too long.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 498. Ap. 20, ’07. 1050w.
“Criticism, history, geography, and other matters have not been
neglected, but as a whole the book is of a distinctly practical
character.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1005. Je. 29, ’07. 220w.
=Hatch, F. H., and Corstorphine, George Steuart.= Geology of South
Africa. *$7. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The book contains some details that were hardly intended for the
student so far away as America, and on the other hand, many general
points of vital interest are passed over all too briefly. This is
especially true of the physical history and dynamical problems of the
region. Nevertheless, the volume is a valuable and welcome summary of
the geology of this distant land.” J. E. C.
+ + − =J. Geol.= 15: 81. Ja. ’07. 800w.
Reviewed by W. M. D.
+ =Science=, n.s. 24: 684. N. 30, ’06. 600w.
=Hattersley, C. W.= Uganda by pen and camera; with preface by T. F.
Victor Buxton. $1. Union press.
In which is reflected the progress made by this African province
during the years since Stanley’s visit. The author shows how the
journey is made from London, describes the natives, their government,
religion, schools, the work of missionaries and the results of
Christianity.
=Haultmont, Marie.= By the royal road. *$1.60. Herder.
“The church of Rome is here presented as ‘the living church.’ ... The
heroine is a high church member of the English establishment by
education, but passes through scepticism to the Catholic fold, while
two or three of the most attractive characters remain Protestants. The
lively narrative is mainly concerned with provincial society and
family life as affected by mixed attachments and marriages between
French and English Catholics and Protestants.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Considerable taste and skill are displayed in structure and
characterization and the style occasionally recalls Charlotte Yonge’s
work.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 10. Ja. 5. 150w.
“A good English novel of the old Miss Austen family sitting-room type,
written by a woman who understands women, and does not strive to carry
her analysis of the masculine soul much below the surface.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 839. Mr. ’07. 250w.
=Havell, Herbert Lorde.= Tales from Herodotus. 60c. Crowell.
6–33586.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 111. Ap. ’07.
=Haw, George=, ed. Christianity and the working classes. $1.50.
Macmillan.
6–33643.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 578. N. ’06. 370w.
=Hawk, Philip B.= Practical physiological chemistry. il. *$4. Blakiston.
“Written for students of medicine and general science, who have
already secured a good groundwork in the more fundamental branches of
chemistry, and presents a very good outline of those facts of
physiological chemistry which may be clearly demonstrated in a
laboratory course. While the title might be taken to indicate that the
work is a laboratory manual only, this is by no means the case, as
many of the discussions are full enough to constitute a general
treatise on the subject.”—Science.
* * * * *
“Although there is nothing strikingly original in his presentation of
the subject, the book he has produced is free from error, is clearly
written, is practical, and sufficiently full for most purposes.” W. D.
H.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 268. Jl. 18, ’07. 100w.
“Most of [the tests] are clearly described, and are full enough for
working conditions, but in a few cases the value to the student would
be greatly increased by the addition of fuller explanations.” J. H.
Long.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 26: 588. N. 1, ’07. 300w.
=Hawker, Mary Elizabeth (Lanoe Falconer, pseud.).= Old Hampshire
vignettes. $1. Macmillan.
“Twenty-three very short chapters present ‘The valley’ and a score or
more of its odd and interesting inhabitants. These portraits are the
slightest of thumb-nail sketches.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“She has wit and insight and that quality gratefully and instantly
recognized, yet difficult to label, the quality of saying just the
thing that should be said in just the words that should express it.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 296. Mr. 23, ’07. 220w.
“They are newspaper articles of a superior sort, and very pleasantly
written, and full of the pathos and humours of the village.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 410. Ap. 6. 60w.
“Daintily executed, and touched with life and reality.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 259. Ap. 16, ’07. 230w.
“The writer has attempted, for the most part, to catch her pose or
quality on the wing as it were; and it says much for her skill that
she has almost always succeeded. If she fails it is because her sketch
is sometimes so slight as to be almost evanescent; but in most cases
she has swiftly touched off the humour or the oddity and bathed the
people meanwhile in an atmosphere of tenderest banter.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 94. Mr. 22, ’07. 700w.
“Miss Hawker has taste, feeling, exquisite nicety. Beyond all doubt
she writes of village character better than anyone has written since
George Eliot. No one comes near her in her combination of crystal
clearness, fine point, discrimination and simplicity. Where she is
wanting, of course, is in dramatic power.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 103: 401. Mr. 30, ’07. 420w.
=Hawkes, Clarence.= Little water-folks: stories of lake and river. †75c.
Crowell.
7–24035.
Dedicated to the boy who sees, these stories sketch intimately the
habits of water-dwellers, among them muskrats, otters, frogs,
water-weasels, and turtles.
* * * * *
“It is like living in the open to read the stories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 50w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 768. D. ’07. 50w.
=Hawkes, Clarence.= Shaggycoat; the biography of a beaver. $1.25.
Jacobs.
6–36434.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 21. Ja. ’07.
=Hawkes, Clarence.= Tenants of the trees. il. $1.50. Page.
7–20722.
How the author cultivated his acquaintance with his friends of fur and
feather makes a most instructive and entertaining chronicle for the
youthful lover of tree-folks.
* * * * *
“The coloured illustrations ... are mainly pretty bad. The text, too,
contains some curious blunders.” George Gladden.
− =Bookm.= 25: 622. Ag. ’07. 380w.
=Hawkesworth, John.= Graphical handbook for reinforced concrete design.
*$2.50. Van Nostrand.
7–469.
“This book contains 15 plates of diagrams for use in determining the
size and the amount of reinforcement for floors, beards and columns of
reinforced concrete construction.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Graphical representations have advantages over tabular statements,
and these diagrams are to be commended for their simplicity, clearness
and convenient form. Such criticisms as are given here show a limit to
their usefulness, but it must be remembered that these limitations are
partly inherent in the building regulations followed.” Arthur N.
Talbot.
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 550. My. 16, ’07. 1200w.
=Hawkins, Anthony Hope.= Helena’s path. †$1.25. McClure.
7–29569.
An entertaining little comedy over a right of way which involves the
dignified but firm refusal of a young woman land holder to allow a
young nobleman to continue to pursue his way, adopted by generations
before him, across her recently acquired estate to a strip of beach,
lying beyond, for his daily swim. The quarrel leads straight to a
romance.
* * * * *
“It is several years since Mr. Hope has produced anything so
thoroughly artistic.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 269. N. ’07. 410w.
“The first chapter of this story is so good that the reader is almost
outraged at the inane character of the rest of it.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 1378. D. 5, ’07. 480w.
“Neither the characters nor their actions are of this earth, earthy;
but the tale is not on that account the less vivacious and amusing.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 306. O. 3, ’07. 200w.
“There is much comedy in this little story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“The trouble is that Mr. Hope’s extraordinary versatility has made him
in the past nearly all things to all men, and ‘Helena’s path’ comes
dangerously near being nothing to anybody.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 678. O. 26, ’07. 350w.
“Is light-hearted farce, unexpected in incident, witty in dialogue,
and wholly entertaining, except the extracts from the hero’s diary,
which may be skipped to advantage.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 30w.
=Hawkins, Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope, pseud.).= Sophy of Kravonia.
†$1.50. Harper.
6–36178.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Current Literature.= 42: 230. F. ’07. 1140w.
“Mr. Hope’s hand has lost little of its cunning since the days when he
invented Zenda, and his ‘Sophy of Kravonia’ is a capital story, albeit
the type is now somewhat worn.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 142. Mr. 1, ’07. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 30w.
=Hawkins, Anthony Hope.= Sport royal. †$1.50. Harper.
7–34772.
These chapters record the adventures of an Englishman who, while
idling at Heidelberg, becomes unexpectedly drawn into a court quarrel
issuing from domestic misunderstandings. He is champion-in-general and
possesses the quiet wit and unfailing courage of all of Anthony Hope’s
heroes.
* * * * *
“Is a very light and airy trifle, hardly important enough to deserve
the special honor of decoration and ornamental binding here given to
it. It has, in a minor way, some of the dash of ‘The prisoner of
Zenda.’”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 40w.
=Haworth, Paul Leland.= Hayes-Tilden disputed presidential election of
1876. *$1.50. Burrows.
6–22324.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The monograph is thoroughly scientific in method and sound in its
criticism of fact, but is equally unscientific in spirit and temper.
The style occasionally descends perilously near flippancy and
vulgarity at the expense of southern democrats.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 410. Ja. ’07. 950w.
“Worthy of notice, although not of first-rate pretensions.” John
Spencer Bassett.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 255. My. ’07. 160w.
=Hawthorne, Nathaniel.= In colonial days. $2.50. Page.
6–29091.
“Four of Hawthorne’s delightful stories of the Old Province house in
Boston have been grouped under the general title ‘In colonial days,’
copiously illustrated by Mr. Frank C. Merrill.... Anybody would enjoy
the tales in their new setting, which ought, however to prove
particularly acceptable to younger readers.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Mr. Merrill’s pictures, redolent of old times and customs, and yet
full of life and spirit, are evidently the fruits of congenial and
sympathetic effort.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 461. D. 16, ’06. 100w.
“In costumes and other appurtenances he is historically correct, while
his figures are animated and lifelike.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 879. D. 15, ’06. 170w.
=Hawtrey, Valentina.= Romance of old wars. †$1.50. Holt.
7–8220.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“To those who have admired the author’s previous work it is sufficient
to say that [‘Romance of old wars’] reaches her usual high standard in
interest and execution.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 16. Jl. 7, ’06. 320w.
“Miss Hawtrey has a real gift for instilling an atmosphere of
freshness and vitality into the historical background of her stories.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 182. Ag. 18. 280w.
“In spite of the sorrows and poverty and the pathetic ending, the
author has caught that glamour which is the sunset radiance of the
past ever shining behind us.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 673. Mr. 21, ’07. 40w.
“The vividness with which it makes alive and thrilling the life of
noble and peasant five centuries and more ago is the book’s special
claim to consideration.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 101. F. 16, ’07. 260w.
“The writer ... sees the past pictorially, romantically, showing the
superficial pageant and leaving unexpressed that absolute humanity
which makes it as real and living as the present.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 100w.
=Hay, John.= Addresses. **$2. Century.
6–30898.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“What he said is valuable first of all because of the content, but it
is equally interesting and instructive to one who is in search of
standards of graceful English.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 214. Ja. ’07. 200w.
“Few are the books that possess the charm, apart from their contents,
of the recently published ‘Addresses of John Hay.’”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 189. Mr. 16, ’07. 160w.
=Hayden, Arthur.= Chats on old prints. *$2. Stokes.
7–6391.
“This book is meant for novices and collectors of moderate
ambition.... The ‘chats’ give good advice to those who have pounds as
well as shillings to lavish on their hobby.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Written for English readers but interesting and will excite
enthusiasm for the subject. Profusely illustrated with half-tones,
good as to subject but poor as to execution.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 43. F. ’07.
“As regards quality, indeed, Mr. Hayden sets the standard all too low.
The information given concerning them [early German or Italian
masters] is the least satisfactory part of the book. The bibliography
and glossary of technical terms are generally good.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 742. D. 8. 440w.
“An admirable book, full of information, sound advice and pleasant
reading. The sentiment of the sincere collector pervades the volume
and the gold value is not, as is usual in collectors’ guide, made the
first and last point of consideration.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 150. F. 2, ’07. 100w.
=Haydon, A. L.=, comp. Book of the V. C.: a record of the deeds of
heroism for which the Victoria cross has been bestowed, from its
institution in 1857 to the present time. $1.50. Dutton.
7–20536.
“Certainly a good idea for a boy’s book is this narrating the stories
of exploits by which the Victoria cross has been won by soldier
heroes. Some thirty of these narratives are included in this
volume.... Altogether 522 men have been decorated by this cross, and
some two hundred of these are alive at the present time.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 42: 118. F. 16, ’07. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 90w.
“Mr. Haydon relates the stories of the many deeds of heroism with
spirit and in a way to interest all boy readers.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 40w.
=Haynes, George Henry.= Election of senators. **$1.50. Holt.
6–18603.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This work may be recommended as a scholarly, impartial, and rational
discussion of a great national problem.” Herman V. Ames.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 400. Ja. ’07. 910w.
“Arguments for and against popular election of senators ... are fairly
and clearly stated, though the author does not hesitate to reveal his
sympathies for the affirmative. For his work in bringing before the
public the results thus far accomplished Dr. Haynes is deserving of
hearty thanks.” David Y. Thomas.
+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 553. Ja. ’07. 1380w.
“On the whole. Professor Haynes’ work deserves a hearty welcome, for
he has succeeded in the difficult task of writing a book which the
layman can understand and which is at the same time worthy the
attention of the specialist.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 638. My. ’07. 360w.
“Timely, thorough and invaluable as a reference work. Those who wish
to prepare themselves to fight the battles of democracy with
intelligence should possess this book.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ + =Arena.= 37: 216. F. ’07. 500w.
“Professor Haynes has ... very thoroly presented the whole matter from
the historical standpoint.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 972. Ap. 25, ’07. 210w.
“A full and fair discussion of an important question.” James Breck
Perkins.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 151. Mr. ’07. 920w.
=Hays, Joseph Weller.= Combustion and smokeless furnaces. *$1.50. Hill
pub. co.
6–45712.
The matter contained in this volume may not be new to the engineer.
“But it may be of service to the layman, and, especially, to members
of city councils and others who are wrestling with the smoke
problem.... The theoretical part of the book, treating of the
chemistry of combustion, contains practically the same matter as is
found in other treatises on the subject.... The latter half of the
book is devoted to the discussion of smokeless furnaces.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“A concise and clearly written treatise.” Wm. Kent.
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 303. Mr. 14, ’07. 1920w.
=Hazen, Allen.= Clean water and how to get it. $1.50. Wiley.
7–30139.
A book primarily for mayors and aldermen, and of interest to
water-works superintendents and members of water-boards into which the
author has put “some of the principles—common sense, technical and
financial—to be followed in obtaining and paying for a plentiful
supply of clear water.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The book abounds with facts and suggestions that will be new and
valuable to even the veterans of the water-works fraternity.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 427. O. 17, ’07. 660w.
“In a new edition, which is sure to be called for soon, the path to
the solid knowledge the book contains might be made easier by a more
logical arrangement of its contents and by the addition of two
elementary chapters, one outlining, at the beginning of the book, the
general characteristics of a good water supply and one, in the middle
of the book, on the general plan and principles of water filtration.”
C.-E. A. Winslow.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 662. N. 15, ’07. 1100w.
=Headley, Frederick Webb.= Life and evolution. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–34602.
“A series of ‘the fairy-tales of science,’ in which we are shown the
slow steps by which life crept into higher forms from moneron to man,
the text being largely supplemented by excellent illustrations from
drawings and photographs. The value of the book lies in the strong
impulse it is sure to raise in many readers to verify the statements
for themselves, and thereby enlarge the circle of students of
science.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The author has ranged his facts admirably and the book, being written
in very simple and almost non-scientific language, should be very
widely read.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 150. F. 9, ’07. 220w.
“It may be said at once that Mr. Headley has done very well indeed
what he set out to do in this book. In the reviewer’s opinion, there
exists no other book which in the field covered can compare in general
excellence with this.” Raymond Pearl.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 209. O. 1, ’07. 550w.
“It is a book for browsing in and should interest scientific students
as well as lay readers.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 511. Ag. 29, ’07. 40w.
“Although the author has written carefully, and has made but few slips
of statement, this volume is, in a number of ways, unsatisfactory, and
not least so in regard to the mechanical make-up.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 459. My. 16, ’07. 360w.
“The author has succeeded in producing a very readable and thoughtful
book, which deserves a large clientele of readers.” R. L.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 434. Mr. 7, ’07. 1140w.
“While a serious and erudite discussion of many points of a difficult
philosophy, is well calculated to be a wonder book for the information
and delight of a novice in natural history, or even of a child.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 140w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 909. Je. 8, ’07. 140w.
=Headley, John William.= Confederate operations in Canada and New York.
$2. Neale.
6–16287.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 211. O. ’06. 60w.
=Ind.= 62: 1267. My. 30, ’07. 160w.
=Heilprin, Angelo, and Heilprin, Louis=, eds. Lippincott’s new
gazetteer. *$10. Lippincott.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Harriet Waters Preston.
+ + + =Atlan.= 99: 426. Mr. ’07. 650w.
=Heine, Heinrich.= Works. 12v. $25. Dutton.
The first eight volumes of this edition give Heine’s prose writings
translated by Charles G. Leland. After Leland’s death the work was
completed by Thomas Brooksbank who translated the ninth volume, “The
book of songs” and Margaret Armour who translated the last three
volumes of poetry.
* * * * *
“We have noted a number of passages in which the German seems to have
been misapprehended, and many others in which it has not been rendered
with sufficient fidelity; but otherwise the translation is for the
most part distinctly meritorious, for Miss Armour is a skilful and
fluent versifier, and often catches the spirit of her author very
successfully. Some slips in classical matters ought to have been
avoided.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 197. F. 17. 280w. (Review of v. 12.)
“The best of Heine evaporates in translation, no doubt, but readers
who possess no German may be congratulated upon having offered to them
so close an approach to the original as is found in the present
version.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 48. Ja. 16, ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 1–12.)
=Ind.= 62: 102. Ja. 10, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 1–12.)
“Yet granting all defects, this edition stands as the best
presentation in English of the bulk of Heine’s writings.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 1–12.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 760w. (Review of v. 1–12.)
“With the prose the translators of the present edition have succeeded
fairly well. With the lyric poems they have failed, but have come
perhaps as near to succeeding as has ever been done.”
+ + − =R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1–12.)
=Heller, Albert Henry.= Stresses in structures and the accompanying
deformations. 2d ed. *$4. A. G. Geren, 1602 N. High st., Columbus, O.
7–15561.
Only a portion of Professor Heller’s contemplated treatise was
completed before his death. This part includes probably half of what
the work was to comprise. “It covers the principles of statical
analysis, stresses in beams and in columns, and stresses in simple
trusses.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The work is extremely well done. Simplification and conciseness are
secured by the most desirable method. A good knowledge of his subject
and a sound view of the underlying facts and conditions are exhibited
generally in the work. A full statement of how the phenomena of
flexure vary from those expressed in the commonly-used formulas, and
remarks on fatigue action and on the elastic properties of iron and
steel merit special commendation.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 669. Je. 13, ’07. 370w.
=Heming, Arthur.= Spirit Lake. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–21229.
In this novel the white man plays but a small part. It is a story of
the Indian of to-day, of the hunters of the Hudson bay country, and it
tells of their life, their adventures, their superstitions, and their
customs; closing like the conventional romance with the marriage of a
young brave and an Indian maiden according to the rites of their
tribe.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 177. O. ’07.
“The author would seem to have made instruction his aim rather than
artistic excellence.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 210. Ag. 24. 180w.
“The book is not properly a novel, but it has an abundance of dramatic
force and there is a simple directness in its style that makes you
feel that you are getting pretty close to the truth about the red man
of the Canadian fur-lands.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 602. Ag. ’07. 160w.
“This is an excellent book for boys just emerging from the stage where
they ‘play Indian’ and not yet old enough to relish their Parkman.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 58. Jl. 18, ’07. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07, 110w.
“The book is readable in parts, as it would appear, because those
parts really are drawn from the personal observation of the author.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 170w.
“The book is a pleasant change after the usual run of common novels,
and its readers will enjoy the glimpses which it affords of a romantic
and still primitive world.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 202. Ag. 10, ’07. 300w.
=Henderson, George R.= Cost of locomotive operation. $2.50. Railway
gazette.
6–34658.
“In discussing this subject the various expenses are classified under
three general headings—Supplies, Maintenance and Service—and each
heading is subdivided into its elementary items, each of which is
examined in regard to all phases of quality and quantity which affect
the cost of operation, and also as affected by grade, speed, curves,
loading, weather, etc.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Valuable contribution to railway technical literature. A book that
should be in the hands of every railroad officer who has in any way to
do with the supervision or criticism of locomotive operation and its
cost.” Arthur M. Waitt.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 84. Ja. 17, ’07. 1570w.
=Henderson, John.= Jamaica; painted by A. S. Forrest; with 24 full-page
il. in col. *$2. Macmillan.
7–20521.
Rather a traveler’s impressions of the country and its people than a
“profound or long continued” study. “The author brings out vividly the
character and human side of the natives, the commercial needs and
difficulties of the Jamaican situation, and makes for the reader
scores of little pen-pictures of queer and out-of-the-way features of
the life in the island.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Told in a satisfactory style. Many of the illustrations are very
good, but some are reproduced in too crude colors even for tropical
scenes.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 214. Ta. 24, ’07. 200w.
“The book, and especially the bright colored pictures, will satisfy
the average reader’s wish for a popular account of life as it was
lived in the community now suffering under such a calamity.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 88. Ja. 24, ’07. 350w.
“It is written in a notably sprightly style of description and is very
far removed either from dull historical writing or from guide-book
minuteness.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 331. F. 9, ’07. 180w.
=Henderson, Reuben Stewart.= Railroad curve tables. *$1. Eng. news.
6–41298.
A volume which contains a comprehensive table of functions on a
one-degree curve, with correction quantities giving exact values for
any degree of curve, together with various other tables and formulas,
including radii, natural sines, cosines, tangents, cotangents, etc. To
which is added a method of finding any function of a curve of any
degree or radius without a field book.
* * * * *
“It will find a place with the railroad engineer on account of the
excellent table of functions for a one-degree curve.” Charles L.
Crandall.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 89. Ja. 17, ’07. 450w.
=Henderson, Thomas F., and Watt, Francis.= Scotland of to-day. il. **$2.
Pott.
“The authors take up the religion, the art, the literature, the games,
the institutions, the food and drink, the education, the wit and
humor, of the Scotland of to-day, and treat them all briefly but
entertainingly. There is description also of towns and scenery, but
preference is constantly given to the human element. But modern
Scotland is shown against the background of its history and its
achievements of former ages.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Small things these, perhaps, to comment upon, but an irritating air
of superiority in the writers which is forever cropping up suggests
retort.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 920. S. 21, ’07. 760w.
“There are many indications in this work both of craftsmanship and
thought; but bad punctuation and spoiling in many instances mar the
enjoyment of the reader.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 325. S. 21. 1590w.
“Whoever wishes to enjoy a picture of the Scotland of to-day, somewhat
sketchy in effect, but still strong and interesting in its outlines,
will find it in ‘Scotland of to-day.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 563. S. 21, ’07. 170w.
=Henderson, William James.= Art of the singer. **$1.25. Scribner.
6–33621.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is eminently practical; and with a minimum of technical
phraseology it explains to the student the principal physiological
problems in voice training and the best methods of solving them.”
Josiah Renick Smith.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 11. Ja. 1, ’07. 430w.
“There are few singers in the world who could not profit at some point
from a careful study of Mr. Henderson’s recent book.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 310w.
“This material is well arranged, and Mr. Henderson’s own views are
clearly expressed.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 22. Ja. 18, ’07. 310w.
=Henderson, William James.= Sea yarns for boys, spun by an old Salt.
†60c. Harper.
The old sailor who sat at the end of the pier and looked out over the
waves, amused himself and two small sea-eager boys by a series of most
remarkable tales. They are all of the couldn’t-possibly-have-happened
kind, about a shark that towed a blockade runner, a monkey that was
captain of a ship, a merman who dined with the old salt upon a coral
reef, a whale, a cannibal king and other strange and equally
entrancing things.
* * * * *
“The tales are genuine flights of an imagination that stops at
nothing. Moreover, they are adorned with many bits of laughable
reflection and wiseacre philosophy of the weatherbeaten brand.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 500w.
=Hendrick, Burton Jesse.= Story of life insurance. **$1.20. McClure.
7–17891.
“Mr. Hendrick begins with the scandals growing out of the ‘surplus,’
traces the notorious career of Henry B. Hyde and the others who
contributed to the demoralization of American life insurance, gives a
sympathetic account of the reforms secured through the good offices of
Elizur Wright, presents a concise history of the ‘tontine,’ and
describes the race for business, the speculative management, and the
actual corruption disclosed a couple of years ago.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“A clean concise, accurate history of life insurance.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 166. O. ’07. S.
“Such a work ought to perform a useful service in helping to thwart
future schemes for evil on the part of unprincipled insurance
managers.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 80w.
“In writing a trustworthy popular account of the evils that have
attended the insurance business Mr. Hendrick has performed a distinct
public service; his volume should reach a wide circle of readers.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 486. My. 23, ’07. 230w.
“These articles not only give a good exposition of the somewhat
intricate subject of modern life insurance, but contain much
historical material not otherwise accessible.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 758. Je. ’07. 130w.
=Spec.= 98: 986. Je. 22, ’07. 390w.
=Hendrick, Frank.= Power to regulate corporations and commerce. **$4.
Putnam.
6–38328.
The following paragraph from Mr. Hendrick’s preface states the scope
of the volume: “This book is an attempt to define the limits within
which the governments of the several States and of the United States
may secure freedom of trade by control of the persons and things
engaged therein, and to indicate the respective powers of the three
departments of the Government in the exercise of such control. The
relation of the three departments of the Government of the United
States to one another and to those of the State governments in the
control of inter-State commerce and of corporations is set forth with
references to over two thousand cases involving questions of
constitutional law.”
* * * * *
=Ind.= 61: 1569. D. 27, ’06. 710w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 60. Ja. ’07. 230w.
“The author’s discussions are, it must be said, not always
intelligible.”
− + =Nation.= 83: 534. D. 20, ’06. 200w.
“More will be heard of Mr. Hendrick’s proposal of law, for such it
must be called rather than an exposition of existing law, despite the
trend of recent rulings.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 896. D. 22, ’06. 1900w.
“The book will be of value to the lawyer engaged in railway or other
forms of corporate law; to the legislator who is asked to deal with
this general subject; to the journalist who is called upon to instruct
his readers respecting pending legislation; and to officials of great
corporations whose sins against the law are sometimes sins of
ignorance not of willfulness. But the lay reader will find it not only
heavy but intricate reading, and will legitimately desire some one to
interpret it to him.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 84: 894. D. 8, ’06. 370w.
=Henry VIII., King of England.= Love letters of Henry VIII. to Anne
Boleyn. lea. $1.50. Luce, J: W.
7–430.
“Each letter is dated as exactly as the evidence warrants, and there
are a few textual notes. A perusal of the letters shows Henry in the
character of a fairly ardent though not passionate lover, with a
strong tendency to moralize and to lay emphasis upon the practical
rather than the sentimental aspects of his affection.” (Dial.) “The
format of the book expresses the period in a most satisfactory way,
with its woodcut headbands and initials, and titles and running head
in Old-English black letter, and folios in black lettered numerals at
the foot of each page.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“A very satisfactory trade edition.”
+ =Bookm.= 26: 103. S. ’07. 110w.
“A curious little book, fraught with interest both as a historical
study and a human document.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 81. F. 1, ’07. 350w.
=Henry, Alfred Judson.= Climatology of the United States. $10. Chief of
the weather bureau, Washington, D. C.
“After an interesting review of climatic records for the United
States, 85 pages are devoted to a general discussion of climatology,
taking up temperature, precipitation, sunshine, winds and seasonal
variations.... Numerous maps and charts are employed by way of
illustration.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Contains a vast amount of compact, well-arranged information needed
almost daily by engineers, so much, in fact, as to make certain
omissions very noticeable and regrettable.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 90. Ja. 17, ’07. 510w.
=Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Four million. †$1. McClure.
6–12856.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In a general way the stories suggest the thumbnail studies of Frapié,
Provins, and the other flashlight Frenchmen, but without their
pessimism and despair.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 126. Ja. ’07. 510w.
* =Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Heart of the West. †$1.50.
McClure.
7–33208.
A group of humorous stories of frontier life.
* * * * *
“The whole collection might be taken as an example of how conventional
and tiresome the raciest slang may grow, when used in excess, as a
means of enlivening flimsy and carelessly conceived commonplaces.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 350w.
“The funniest stories by this well-known writer have been collected in
the volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“If he has a fault it is that he sets forth too opulent a spread; like
a rich parvenu’s banquet.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 747. N. 23, ’07. 430w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 70w.
=Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Trimmed lamp, and other stories of
the four million. †$1. McClure.
7–16486.
“Free from the too common trick of embellishing actuality with
traditional cant, this author wins the intelligent reader through a
sympathetic cynicism denoting experience and honesty, the whole
expressing itself in most humorous form. Shopgirls and bartenders and
pseudo-Bohemians and ‘that sad company of mariners known as Jersey
commuters’—such types are hit off with immense cleverness.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“There is something irresistible about the stories, with all their
crimes upon them; they are so buoyant and careless, so genial in their
commentary, and so pleasantly colored by a sentiment which, if as
sophisticated as Broadway itself, is still perfectly spontaneous and
sincere.” Harry James Smith.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 134. Jl. ’07. 290w.
“The reader who skips a single story in the collection runs the risk
of losing something that he would have liked quite as well as those he
read, if not rather better.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 79. S. ’07. 530w.
“It is with the same humor that he still graces his stories; but there
has crept into his work some other qualities which give it a worth and
charm that it did not have before.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 880. O. 10, ’07. 370w.
“For stories of their kind, are fine.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 80w.
“‘O. Henry’ is actually that rare bird, of which we so often hear
false reports—a born story-teller.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 300w.
“It is not to much to say that O. Henry achieves the Carlylian miracle
of taking the roofs off—lifting the lid—and shows what lies beneath.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 430. Jl. 6, ’07. 839w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 220w.
“‘The trimmed lamp’ must appeal to all discriminating devotees of
local character study, and each one of them will wish to stay
acquainted with ‘O. Henry.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 766. Je. ’07. 130w.
=Henschel, George.= Personal recollections of Johannes Brahms: some of
his letters to and pages from a journal kept by George Henschel. $1.50.
Badger, R. G.
7–10574.
Excerpts from a journal kept while traveling with Brahms in the
seventies form the nucleus of Mr. Henschel’s reminiscent study, to
which have been added some recollections and letters. Several
reproduced photographs of the great composer are included.
* * * * *
“It is an interesting contribution to the sidelights that have been
thrown upon the personality of the great master by a number of his
friends and contemporaries since his death.” Richard Aldrich.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 430w.
=Henshaw, Julia W.= Mountain wild flowers of America. *$2. Ginn.
6–25647.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The incompleteness of the book, however inevitable, is a more serious
drawback than its unscientific plan, and a drawback that must affect
all kinds of readers. However, she has, on the whole, made a good
selection, and her descriptions are as clear as they can be without
the use of botanical terms.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 53. F. 15, ’07. 560w.
=Hensley, Mrs. Sophie M.= Heart of a woman. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–3092.
“A book of verses of unobtrusive quality written by Mrs. Hensley, who
adds to her poetic gifts the largeheartedness of a woman interested in
philanthropic reforms.... The verses are carefully grouped under the
different heads, Love lyrics, A woman’s love-letters, Nature poems,
Narrative poems, Child poems and songs, Sonnets, and Rondeaus.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“Though the verses are not tinged with any oppressive ethos, we feel
throughout a grace and simplicity of goodness. The meter and rhythm
are smooth, the meaning is not too deep-hidden, and the moods vary
from grave to gay.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 170w.
“While there is nothing in the least objectionable in the Heart
disclosing itself in these verses, there is also nothing of special
value. The lines are of easy, rippling quality, and the sentiment is
perhaps as perfectly exemplified in the poem called Prayer as in any
of the collection. Real passion never babbles.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 526. Mr. 2, ’07. 90w.
* =Herbert, Agnes.= Two Dianas in Somaliland: the record of a shooting
trip. il. $4. Lane.
Two young huntresses face lions and leopards in the African wilds as
unflinchingly as any toughened game-bagger of the sterner sex. They go
for game and adventure, and find it. Their caravan consisted of
forty-nine camels, seven horses, about a half hundred camel drivers,
men of all work and guides. There is a thrill on almost every page to
keep the adventure-lover’s blood tingling.
* * * * *
“The book is exceptionally interesting and well turned out.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 476. O. 19. 870w.
“This record of adventures and achievements, although realistic and at
times heartless, is nevertheless a fascinating one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 720. N. 9, ’07. 310w.
“Miss Herbert, judging by her trophies, is readier with the gun than
the pen.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 582. N. 9, ’07. 250w.
“The tone of bravado and devil-may-careness is irksome at first, when
it is only a few simple conventions which the Dianas are defying. When
it comes to be lions and rhinos and every known discomfort, we are
captivated in spite of ourselves.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 749. N. 16, ’07. 630w.
=Herford, Oliver.= Little book of bores. **$1. Scribner.
6–36032.
“Mr. Herford has discovered twenty-four species of Bores, one for each
letter of the alphabet.... One may be assured of finding all his
enemies and most of his friends among the bores—and possibly he may
discover himself there.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“His rhymes and pictures ... are inimitable.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 398. D. 1. ’06. 90w.
=Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 50w.
=Herrick, Albert Bledsoe, and Boynton, Edward Carlisle.= American
electric railway practice. *$3. McGraw pub.
7–17388.
The first two chapters of the work “cover the general engineering
preliminaries, such as estimates and field engineering. Location and
construction of track, power stations and overhead circuits are next
described and illustrated from the best current practice. The
remainder of the volume deals with the many details of operation
beginning with the essential features of time-tables, schedules,
dispatching and signals.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“As a whole, the book is well printed, bound and indexed.... It will
be convenient for reference, especially to those engineers who are not
regular readers of the electric railway periodicals and to those who
do not have access to the bound volumes of the Street railway
journal.” Henry H. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 663. Je. 13, ’07. 610w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 97. Ag. ’07. 270w.
=Herrick, Rufus Frost.= Denatured or industrial alcohol. *$4. Wiley.
7–19427.
A treatise on the history, manufacture, composition, uses, and
possibilities of industrial alcohol in the various countries
permitting its use, and the laws and regulations governing the same,
including the United States. It appeals to the chemical manufacturer
on the one hand, and the engineer who would use it as fuel on the
other.
* * * * *
“Probably the best treatise available in English.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 166. O. ’07.
“A careful reading of the book by any one even partly well informed on
the subject matter must lead to the conclusion that the author was
very unfamiliar with his subject: that he depended almost entirely on
other than first hand information: that he was unable or unwilling to
criticise this information when obtained.” Charles Edward Lucke.
− − =Engin. N.= 58: 76. Jl. 18, ’07. 1790w.
“A needed and timely book.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 287. S. 26, ’07. 380w.
=Herridge, William Thomas.= Orbit of life; studies in human experience.
**$1. Revell.
6–33546.
A volume of religious and social essays in which Dr. Herridge “sees
life whole, both in extent and content, and aims both to show it as he
sees it, and to redeem it from monotony and triviality by putting its
emphasis in the right place.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Herridge has something to say that is worth hearing both for the
matter and the manner of it.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 893. D. 8, ’06. 200w.
“The book abounds in common-sense, and is full at the same time of
religious and ethical suggestion. Dr. Herridge speaks profoundly, and
cannot but set his readers thinking.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 204. F. 9, ’07. 1360w.
=Hershey, Amos Shartle.= International law and diplomacy of the
Russo-Japanese war. **$3. Macmillan.
7–3157.
“A fairly complete history, from the viewpoint of international law
and diplomacy, of the war between Japan and Russia. The material is
cast in a general narrative form, although each chapter is more or
less complete by itself. The rights and duties of belligerents and
neutrals are, of course, the main theme, although the questions of war
correspondents, wireless telegraphy, and submarine mines come in for
treatment. Copious notes and explanatory references, and last but not
least, an excellent index, make the contents of the volume very
accessible.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“He is judicial, he is temperate, he is sound, he is wonderfully fair
and liberal in his citations of authorities. In minor matters here and
there one might take issue, but on the other hand there is original
well-digested comment on almost every page upon a variety of hotly
disputed questions, which will make the book of permanent value.”
Theodore S. Woolsey.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 652. Ap. ’07. 1130w.
“Professor Hershey writes in an easy style and the subject is treated
in a way that attracts not only the student of international law but
also the general reader. The manner of presentation is semi-historical
giving the reader thus a view of the progress of the conflict as well
as the diplomatic incidents, and legal questions that arose during its
course.” Chester Lloyd Jones.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 656. My. ’07. 750w.
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 195. F. 16. 2070w.
“The most scholarly, exhaustive, and illuminating study of the
Russo-Japanese conflict from the standpoint of international law and
diplomacy.” J. W. Garner.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 285. My. 1, ’07. 1350w.
“This is a scholarly and authoritative volume, altogether unlike the
popular books on this over-written war.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1473. Je. 20, ’07. 370w.
“An interesting and suggestive volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 860. Ap. 13, ’07. 290w.
“A valuable book.” G: Louis Beer.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 745. S. ’07. 140w.
“A particularly useful volume.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 381. Mr. ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Hershey’s work is a success. He has labored hard to ascertain
facts, the existence of which are of great concern to civilization.
His judgment thereon has been that of one possessing both a close
knowledge of international law and an instinctive sense of justice.”
Charles Cheney Hyde.
+ + =Yale R.= 16: 98. My. ’07. 1150w.
=Herter, Christian Archibald.= Common bacterial infections of the
digestive tract and the intoxications arising from them. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
A medical work on typhoid fever written essentially for physicians but
which, however, contains much that will interest the sanitarian.
* * * * *
“Dr. Herter’s book is bound to have the effect of broadening our
conception of the subject of infectious diseases of the digestive
tract, and deserves a wide reading.” George C. Whipple.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 661. Je. 13, ’07. 730w.
“Those to whom the terminology of the bacteriologist is not unfamiliar
will find here not only a well written but also an interesting and
suggestive study of a rich fauna and a discussion of questions of much
import, for they are fundamental in relation to a great human woe,
indigestion.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 522. D. 5, ’07. 140w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 465. Jl. 27, ’07. 140w.
=Hervey, Arthur.= Alfred Bruneau. (Living masters of music ser.) *$1.
Lane.
7–29175.
An impartial study of the artist and his work which includes his
conservatory days, his work for the musical drama, and his relations
with Zola who was a faithful companion and whose stout ally Bruneau
became during the Zola trial.
* * * * *
“Those who are interested in French musical developments will be glad
to have it.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 357. O. 17, ’07. 1840w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 360w.
=Herzfeld, Elsa Goldina.= Family monographs. For sale by Brentano’s and
Charity organization soc., N. Y.
6–1551.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The generalizations in the first fifty pages are, to the extent that
they are generalizations, open to criticism. But taken as an
assemblage of related incidents, instead of statements of general
truths, they are interesting and valuable. Apparently no effort was
made to discriminate between characteristics and beliefs peculiar to
tenement-house families and those that are to be found in all economic
grades, between conditions which merely impress an observer
unaccustomed to life among the poor as exceptional to the neighborhood
and those which really are exceptional.”
+ − =Charities.= 17: 501. D. 15, ’06. 670w.
=Hewitt, Emma Churchman.= Ease in conversation; or, Hints to the
ungrammatical. 5th ed. 50c. Jacobs.
7–29161.
A practical little volume for the ungrammatical and for the timid
talker devoted to a study of the correct forms of English used in
conversation. The errors are of the “genteel” rather than the “vulgar”
sort and are discussed in a series of letters written to a group of
girls bent upon improving their conversation.
=Hewlett, Maurice H.= Stooping lady; front. by Harrison Fisher. †$1.50.
Dodd.
7–30839.
“‘The stooping lady’ carries us back something less than a hundred
years, to the days just preceding the regency in England.... Here the
historical background is largely a matter of externals of dress and
manner; the spirit is modern enough to require no great backward leap
of the imagination.” (Forum.) The story has a London setting and deals
with a proud Irish girl who “stoops” to one beneath her in station,
but to one whose, “clean fine manhood has taught her to respect and
honor him.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“We know of no book of Mr. Hewlett’s that is more vivid, more graphic
or more engrossing. We delight in his style, his similes, his
brilliant flashes of humour, and occasionally in the glimpse we have
of the Satyric horns, with which we have become so intimate in, say,
‘The forest lovers,’ or ‘Pan and the young shepherd.’”
+ =Acad.= 73: sup. 115. N. 9, ’07. 800w.
“Carries you swiftly along with an absorbing love story, and charms
you with the exceeding grace and skill of its telling.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 201. N. ’07. ✠
“This tale is characteristic of his genius. Judged as a mere novel of
politics the book is brilliant, outshining the attractive but thin
work of Disraeli, and much truer to human nature and history.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 475. O. 19. 310w.
“Yet, fine as the story is in conception and in workmanship, it
somehow lacks the bigness, the finality, the enduring interest of ‘The
queen’s quair’ or ‘The fool errant.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + − =Bookm.= 26: 160. O. ’07. 1100w.
“If ‘The stooping lady’ be not positively a great book, it at least
has great qualities. Leaving aside a few careless moments, its style
is such as cannot be surpassed, if indeed it can be matched, by more
than one or two men of our day. It paints the manner of a period with
altogether unusual truth and delicacy. Greatest virtue of all, it
gives us knowledge of great men and women, displaying them under the
stress of emotions that raise them out of the common and make them
typical of humanity.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ + − =Forum.= 39: 266. O. ’07. 2040w.
“All told, it is an admirable story, but as unfaithful in spirit to
the times it is supposed to portray as it is loyal to that of the
present.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1173. N. 14, ’07. 740w.
“Altogether Mr. Hewlett, we are inclined to think, has somewhat lost
his way in writing his latest book, though it must not be supposed
that it is not readable, and at times even charming.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 309. O. 11, ’07. 670w.
“The whole book might be taken as conclusive illustration of the
disputed truth that a high degree of skill need in no way hamper an
author’s individuality or warmth of expression, that a classic
restraint of manner by no means reduces the emotional quality to the
academic level of an eighteenth century essayist.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 377. O. 24, ’07. 560w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“We have Mr. Hewlett writing sheer Meredith, naked and unashamed—one
might almost say rewriting ‘Diana of the Crossways.’ And yet the book
is his own, one of the most brilliant pieces of work done in our time,
with a heroine I, personally, would not exchange for Diana.” Richard
De Gallienne.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 709. N. 9, ’07. 1470w.
“A story which belongs at the head of the autumnal list, but does not
quite reach the solid ground on which ‘Little novels of Italy’ rest.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 621. N. 23, ’07. 270w.
“It is because he has given so much that one’s disappointment, when he
falls beneath his promise, must plead his very generosity to excuse
its air of ingratitude in declining to be content with even the
dexterous accomplishment of ‘The stooping lady.’”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 454. O. 12, ’07. 1440w.
“One obvious criticism may be made in conclusion,—that the author has
fallen deeply beneath the sway of Meredithian formula, without,
however, lapsing into the obscurity of his great exemplar.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 574. O. 19, ’07. 690w.
=Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Barbary sheep: a novel. †$1.25. Harper.
7–24588.
A slight story steeped in the atmosphere, the mystery, the fascination
of the Algerian desert. An English nobleman falls in with the whims of
his wife who must be amused and takes her to the edge of the Algerian
desert. While he hunts Barbary sheep, she succumbs to the wiles of an
Arab army officer who practices his hypnotic arts upon her. It is a
daring bit of romantic color that Mr. Hichens flings upon his canvas.
* * * * *
“It is merely a small thing supremely well done.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 167. O. ’07. 1240w.
=Ind.= 63: 939. O. 17, ’07. 500w.
“As for the style and proportions of the narrative. they suggest ... a
distinct advance in the art of the novelist. The purple passages of
description are few and not over-long; and there is a general
abstention from ‘piling on the agony.’”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 211. S. 5, ’07. 300w.
“Hardly reaches the dignity of a novel either in length or substance.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 535. S. 7, ’07. 510w.
“On the whole, not a pleasant tale.”
− =Outlook.= 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 80w.
=Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Call of the blood. †$1.50. Harper.
6–34641.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“When the emotional impulse is lacking, his ideas become singularly
dull and his manner quite without distinction. But at the first sting
of sensation, the style leaps into vitality; and if always deficient
in a certain finality of touch, it continually delights with its
resiliency and exuberance.” Harry James Smith.
+ − =Atlan.= 100: 129. Jl. ’07. 800w.
“In respect of scene-painting, dramatic construction, and emotional
force alike, the book deserves unusual praise.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 143. Mr. 1. ’07. 230w.
“On the whole we think that in ‘The call of the blood’ Mr. Hichens’s
aim as a romancer and his aim as a novelist were at odds.” Edith Baker
Brown.
+ − =No. Am.= 183: 923. N. 2, ’06. 1630w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 220w.
* =Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.= Life and times of Stephen Higginson.
**$2. Houghton.
7–30144.
Here is offered a clear insight into the character of Stephen
Higginson and also into post-revolutionary times at Boston. His
prominence in New England councils both before and after the
revolution, the importance of the “Laco” letters, his career as
shipmaster, merchant, patriot and politician are all emphasized in the
sketch.
* * * * *
“The attractive touch of the amateur, so noticeable in all of Colonel
Higginson’s writings, is peculiarly well adapted to these memorials of
his Federalist grandfather.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 613. O. 26, ’07. 540w.
“A book which though largely a compilation from correspondence and
official records, is alive with human interest from the first to the
last of its gracefully written pages.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 613. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
“There is much material in the letters published in this volume which
has an important bearing on the manners and politics of that day.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 140w.
=Higinbotham, Harlow Niles.= Making of a merchant. $1.50. Forbes.
6–37948.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book before us is unlikely to prove of the slightest value to
anybody.”
− =Acad.= 72: 339. Ap. 6, ’07. 220w.
“The book is full of good business advice, and is especially to be
recommended to young business men.” George M. Fisk.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 645. D. ’06. 190w.
=Spec.= 98: 764. My. 11, ’07. 280w.
=Hildreth, Richard.= Japan as it was and is. 2v. *$3. McClurg.
6–40974.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 84. Mr. ’07.
“To this day Richard Hildreth’s book (published in 1855) gives the
best pictures of Japan as seen by the various early travelers.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 329. F. 7, ’07. 100w.
“Had our diplomatists and merchants and missionaries studied Hildreth
many costly errors would have been avoided.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 50w.
=Hildrup, Jessie S.= Missions of California and the old Southwest; with
35 il. from photographs. **$1. McClurg.
7–13929.
An interesting account of the old missions and settlements of the days
of Spanish rule. “This is the sort of a book that one loves to pick up
and linger over. The profuse and well-executed illustrations catch the
eye, the narrative is full of interest, and the historical chapters
are brief and accurate, and evidence considerable study.” (Cath.
World.)
* * * * *
“It is a bright, popular treatment of the theme, very thoroughly and
sympathetically done.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 684. Ag. ’07. 410w.
=Dial.= 42: 232. Ap. 1, ’07. 40w.
=Hilgard, Eugene Woldemar.= Soils, their formation, properties,
composition and relations to climate and plant growth in the humid, and
arid regions. *$4. Macmillan.
6–26528.
“Professor Hilgard’s book, in broad outline, deals with the origin and
formation, the physics and the chemistry, of soils, and with native
vegetation as an aid to the study of the agricultural value of
soils.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The section of the most value to engineers as a class is the one on
the ‘Physics of soils.’”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 309. Mr. 14, ’07. 300w.
“The book is a little heavy for classroom use. It contains a larger
number of printers’ errors than ought to exist. Yet, when all is said,
there is so much valuable matter packed into its six hundred pages ...
that it remains indispensable.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 19. Jl. 4, ’07. 140w.
“This volume should be introduced to a much wider circle of students
than those of the agricultural colleges generally. It will be found
well suited to serve as the foundation of important seminars in
chemistry, in geology and especially in plant physiology and ecology.”
F. H. King.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 24: 681. N. 30, ’06. 1620w.
=Hill, Constance.= House in St. Martin’s street. **$7. Lane.