The book review digest, Volume 03, 1907
Part 1 of this group of essays treats of love as a cosmic principle,
the mother principle, the social principle, and deific principle and as the healing grace. Part 2 embraces some thirty and more essays on “Contemplations of life’s ideals.” “The human being is as comprehensive as humanity, potent as Deity, vast as the infinite, in prophecy and promise” is the note sounded thruout.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.
=Frank, Ulrich, pseud. (Frau Ulla [Hirschfeld] Wolff).= Simon Eickelkatz: The patriarch; two stories of Jewish life; tr. from the German. $1.50. Jewish pub.
7–12639.
The first of these stories is a pathetic tale of an aged Jew who had spent his life with a wife who despised him, and had seen his only son forsake his faith. The fact that this son had become a great philosopher and teacher did not dull his disappointment and he tells the story of his life as he has seen it sadly from time to time to the doctor who attends him during his last days and who gains much from him both in thought and inspiration. The second story. The patriarch, is a Jewish romance but it is also a picture of Jewish family life with its strong religious feeling and prejudices.
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“The tales are well translated into clear, idiomatic English. Although lacking in incident, being rather chronicles of thought than stories of action, they will repay in more ways than one a careful reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 432. Jl. 6, ’07. 210w.
=Franklin, Benjamin.= Writings of Benjamin Franklin; collected and ed., with a life and introd. by Albert H: Smyth, 10v. ea. **$3. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is the leading contribution of the year to American biography. Mr. Smyth’s work as editor was dignified and suitable, while the new papers which he unearthed were of considerable number and importance.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1233. N. 21, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 1–10)
=Lit. D.= 34: 594. Ap. 13, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 10.)
“The editing is exact and the text is clearly an improvement on previous editions, though the novelties are few in number.”
+ + + =Nation.= 83: 555. D. 27, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 8.)
“Mr. Smyth has given only the outlines of a biography, making his chapters convenient pegs on which to hang material discovered since his earlier volumes were published. Some of this material is very interesting.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 309. Ap. 4, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 10.)
=Franklin, Benjamin.= Franklin year book; maxims and morals from the great philosopher; comp, by Wallace Rice. **$1. McClurg.
7–33926.
A bit of Franklin wisdom for every day in the year.
=Franklin, Frank George.= Legislative history of naturalization in the United States from the Revolutionary war to 1861. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–20847.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We regret that it does not cover completely a subject which it covers so well partially. There is no other book, however, which covers the subject at all.” Gaillard Hunt.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 402. Ja. ’07. 720w.
“Altogether the book is a very unsatisfactory treatment of the subject.” David Y. Thomas.
− =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 556. Ja. ’07. 790w.
“The book has been written especially for the jurist and the legislator, but its clear style will also make it of interest to the ‘general’ reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 331. My. 19, ’06. 70w.
=Fraprie, Frank Roy.= Among Bavarian inns. $2. Page.
6–41527.
An account of little journeys to Bavarian highlands and to various quaint inns and hostelries in and out of the ancient towns, together with reminiscences of student and artist life in Munich. The volume is illustrated by a series of photographs of much merit well produced.
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“The descriptive and historical matter will interest both past and prospective travellers.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 453. D. 16, ’06. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 784. N. 24, ’06. 190w.
=Fraser, Edward.= Enemy at Trafalgar. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–28489.
“In the ‘Enemy at Trafalgar’, Edward Fraser has collected picturesque details of the great battle obtained from French and Spanish sources. The treatment is anecdotic, and is reinforced by a number of illustrations and portraits. One or two of the plans reproduced are of some interest for the controversy as to Nelson’s tactics, though the question is not dealt with in the text.”—Nation.
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“An important contribution to the literature of the Trafalgar campaign.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 196. O. ’06. 40w.
“The translations are for the most part satisfactory. We should without reserve thank Mr. Fraser for his interesting and important contribution to Trafalgar literature, were it not that he and his publishers are guilty of the sin of issuing this book—full as it is of matter bearing on recent controversy and living problems—with a most insufficient index, one scarcely deserving the name.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 121. Ag. 4. 2480w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1314. N. 28, ’07. 280w.
“An excellent study of the battle and its circumstances from the point of view of Nelson’s gallant adversaries. It is written throughout with all the vigour of the author of ‘Famous fighters of the fleet.’”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 234. Je. 29, ’06. 630w.
=Nation.= 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 60w.
“A book which no student of the naval history of Great Britain can afford to ignore. The portraits are not creditable, the sacrifice to economy having been too great. There is an adequate index.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 150. Mr. 9, ’07. 660w.
“A novel idea, and its manner of execution throws light on the last great naval combat between France and England.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 237. Ja. 26, ’07. 90w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 80w.
“Mr. Fraser’s account of the battle compiled from French and Spanish records will be very useful to check the numerous versions, good, bad, and indifferent, now in existence which have had to rely more or less on British sources for their information. The plates add considerably to the attraction of this fascinating and useful book.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 176. Ag. 11, ’06. 1060w.
=Fraser, John Foster.= Red Russia. **$1.75. Lane.
7–29041.
Mr. Fraser has given an impressionistic picture of various phases of modern Russia. “It is the terrible story of the revolutionary terror from below in its struggle with the reactionary terror from above. There are some very striking illustrations.” (R. of Rs.)
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“A convincing, vigorous description of Russia as it is today.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 164. O. ’07. S.
“May be commended despite a slight tendency towards sensationalism.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 539. My. 4. 200w.
“It is a journalistic piece of work, and that not of the highest kind.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 332. O. 10, ’07. 130w.
“The scene is incontrovertibly, convincingly described in these hurried, disorderly memoranda. Mr. Fraser has ... travelled all over the country, and he tells what he saw, without much evident feeling, without much sympathy with anybody, but with great vigor of narration. The value of the book is not in its conclusions. Its value is in the self-certified accuracy of its picture of life and conditions in the Czar’s realm to-day.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 401. Je. 22, ’07. 2110w.
Reviewed by G: Louis Beer.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 743. S. ’07. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 40w.
“Is more than a mere chronicle of bloodshed, and chapters like that descriptive of the great fair at Nijni-Novgorod are as valuable an aid to a clear understanding of the complexities of the Russian problem as those which deal with riot and massacre.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 203. Ag. 10, ’07. 280w.
=Fraser, Mary (Crawford) (Mrs. Hugh Fraser).= In the shadow of the Lord: a romance of the Washingtons. †$1.50. Holt.
6–32360.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 16. Ja. ’07.
“Mrs. Fraser has not succeeded so well with her novel of the life and times of Mary Washington as she did with her Japanese stories.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 674. Mr. 21, ’07. 50w.
“Is told with spirit and vivacity by a woman who has something to communicate and knows how.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 119. Ja. ’07. 290w.
=Fraser, Robert.= Three men and a maid. $1.50. Clode, E. J.
7–16753.
“A country squire and his most villainous cousin, a vicar and his nephew, an innkeeper’s two handsome daughters, a scoundrelly lawyer or two, and a most excellently drawn detective furnish the personnel of the narrative, the special recommendation of which is that it is not put in the first person, and has not a visible trace of the tiresomely wise deductions and logical puzzle-reading that are the ordinary accompaniments of the detective story.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Another of those ‘first books’ that turn up at pleasant intervals on the reviewer’s table and fairly amaze him with their all-around excellence of plot construction, and style, and their utter lack of any sign that would indicate a novice as their author.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 250. Ap. 20, ’07. 680w.
“An ingenious and absorbing and tantalizing mystery story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.
=Fraser, William Alexander.= Lone furrow. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–6653.
The thread of gold running through Mr. Fraser’s self-styled “homespun web” is a broken-hearted wife whose husband, a young Scotch clergyman, deserted her. “With its leisureliness, its element of mystery (in the vulgar sense), and its prevailing atmosphere of religious inquiry, it recalls some of the later stories of George Macdonald.” (Nation.)
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“To put it kindly, not one of his happy efforts.” Frederick Taber Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 25: 89. Mr. ’07. 420w.
“It is hardly more than a vigorous statement of an interesting situation followed by a prolonged and rambling commentary upon that situation.”
− =Nation.= 84: 157. F. 14, ’07. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 92. F. 16, ’07. 210w.
=Putnam’s.= 2: 620. Ag. ’07. 90w.
=Frazar, M. D.= Practical European guide: preparation, costs, routes and sightseeing. **$1. Turner, H. B.
7–16759.
Mr. Frazar has brought eighteen years of experience to his task of offering condensed information to the European traveler. He offers enlightenment on the following points; How to travel, Steamship lines and the voyage, The arrival in Europe, Some attractive routes, European railway fares, What to see, Guidebooks, Hotel-rates, Final suggestions.
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+ =Dial.= 42: 381. Je. 16, ’07. 50w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1359. Je. 6, ’07. 60w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’07. 50w.
=Frazer, James George.= Adonis, Attis, Osiris: studies in the history of Oriental religion. *$3.25. Macmillan.
7–15462.
“Mr. Frazer’s thesis is that the oriental religions here studied are based upon harvest rites which were intended to insure the fertility of the soil by methods of imitative magic.... Such a book as this ought to be of very great value to the student of the history of philosophy, for it was the blending of these eastern faiths with neo-platonism which formed the soil out of which Christianity arose.”—J. Philos.
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“Dr. Frazer is read no less for his learning than for his style, and his latest book will not be found wanting in any of the qualities which lent charm to his former work.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 569. D. 8, ’06. 1280w.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 446. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“These fascinating studies ... require ... no further recommendation from the reviewer. But there are also perpetual phases like ‘may probably be,’ ‘seem to indicate’; etc., which produce in the reader a feeling of vagueness and uncertainty.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 540. N. 3. 1500w.
“The exposition displays the erudition, both literary and archaeological, that we are familiar with in Dr. Frazer’s writings; also, in spite of certain irrelevant chapters a more orderly method and relevance than he usually observes. His exposition of the great religious idea of the death and resurrection of the God is clear and sound and rests on solid evidence. Of much less value are the sociological hypotheses that he associates with the religious facts. Here the weakness of his work and method is most manifest. In spite of certain defects and hasty assumptions this book well deserves success and a grateful recognition.” Lewis R. Farnell.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 5: 687. Ap. ’07. 1590w.
“As compared with the first series of studies destined to be incorporated in the new edition of the ‘Golden bough,’ the ‘Lectures on the early history of the kingship,’ published last winter, the argument in the present volume is conducted with more reserve, and the conclusions are advanced with more caution. Mr. Frazer writes with rare literary skill.” Wendell T. Bush.
+ =J. Philos.= 4: 21. Ja. 3, ’07. 1150w.
“We would suggest that, when the matter of this book comes to be incorporated in ‘The golden bough’, Dr. Frazer should make somewhat clearer what he conceives to be the relations of ‘the god of Ibreez’, Sandan, and the Baal of Tarsus respectively.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 342. O. 12, ’07. 1200w.
“Whether we agree with his conclusions or not, the work is an important contribution to the study of ancient oriental religions and will have to be reckoned with in all future researches into the subject. The French lucidity of treatment, the full and excellent index, and the attractive style, make it singularly easy to read and understand. And the mass of material collected and co-ordinated in it will be a mine for other investigators to quarry. In some passages, more especially in the descriptions of scenery, the language rises to an oratorical height rarely met with in scientific books.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 53. Jl. 13, ’07. 1900w.
=Free, Richard.= On the wall. †$1.50. Lane.
Stories of London’s East End told by a young vicar. “The reader who makes acquaintance with the life-tragedy of Granley, artisan, atheist, poet, bravely enduring domestic martyrdom and saving his wife’s good name, will not go away disappointed.” (Sat. R.) “Occasional hits at superficial and arm’s-length charity will be appreciated by people who have been annoyed by such efforts.” (Outlook.)
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“Americans will find ‘On the wall’ most amusing. The stories offer entertainment of a very whole-hearted admirable sort.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“There is no affectation about these short stories, and there is much strength and also insight into the humanity common to us all.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 100w.
“These sketches ... are oddly unequal.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 242. Ag. 24, ’07. 120w.
=Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins.= By the light of the soul. †$1.50. Harper.
7–5069.
In some strange byways of life is the fragile heroine of Mrs. Freeman’s story led. Motherless at an early age, she is soon to become a temperamental prey to a cold, dispassionate self-loving step-mother. A most illogical occurrence in the form of an untimely marriage upsets whatever of repose her young years were fostering. The only leavening influences in her bare life are the pathetic devotion of a loyal, tho weak, father and the child love of the little half-sister, Evelyn.
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“A study in self-sacrifice, containing unusually strong and delicate delineation of New England character, and next-to-impossible situations.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 51. F. ’07.
“Viewed from an artistic as well as human point of view, Maria’s story is sadder than it should be, and leaves the reader with a sense of dissatisfaction which detracts not a little from his pleasure.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 160. F. 9. 360w.
“It seems to me to exemplify all that the temperamental novel should not be.” Harry James Smith.
− =Atlan.= 100: 132. Jl. ’07. 280w.
“In some years of novel-reading I cannot recall a more complete disappointment than this book has given me.” Edward Clark Marsh.
− =Bookm.= 25: 81. Mr. ’07. 1110w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 460. Ap. ’07. 990w.
“The story has no real ending. As to the people involved in this drama, it is plain that Mrs. Freeman herself has not reached a clear conception of either their personal appearance or their character. The representation of Maria’s character is of a piece with the other vaguenesses and self-contradictions.” Herbert W. Horwill.
− + =Forum.= 38: 538. Ap. ’07. 1410w.
“The theme required a bigger philosophy of life than Mrs. Freeman could bring to bear upon the subject, and the end is lamentably unconvincing and unsatisfactory.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 443. F. 21, ’07. 260w.
“She has perhaps sounded deeper levels of the human heart than hitherto.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 250w.
“We recommend the novel very cordially as a piece of delicate and understanding work and also as an interesting story; but the reader must expect a monochrome and rather a hard one.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 30. Ja. 25, ’07. 300w.
“If the present work lacks the unity and beauty of a ‘New England nun,’ at least in it she is seeking an enlarged horizon and rather receiving fresh impressions than remaining satisfied to repeat those already used.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 110. Ja. 31, ’07. 530w.
“The story is told with its author’s accustomed skill. Mrs. Freeman brings some of her characters vividly before the reader with the skill in detail for which she is noted.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 300w.
“There is an effect of carefully wrought, delicate embroidery about the new novel.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 200w.
“The amount of spirituality under which the characters in English novels will fairly reel is borne lightheartedly by Mrs. Freeman’s latest heroine.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 186. My. ’07. 310w.
=Freeman, Mrs. Mary Eleanor (Wilkins) (Mrs. Charles M. Freeman).= Doc Gordon. 50c. Authors and newspapers assn.
6–25689.
“The interest ... lies in the fresh illustration of the old question, should a moral and spiritual monster, abnormal in subtlety and wickedness be allowed to exist to the menace of the common good? Again, is it a crime, or at least justifiable to cut short the intolerable agony of a dying human creature, if the conscience upholds the deed? These problems play an important part in the story of Dr. Gordon, a man naturally charitable and broadminded, but warped by an evil influence out of his original happy attitude towards life.”—Acad.
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“Although she has the magic touch that adorns every subject she writes about, it must be admitted she has no peculiar gift for melodramatic fiction. ‘Doctor Gordon’ is a capital story, with scenes and characters out of the common run.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 296. Mr. 23, ’07. 310w.
“A stocking is not a stocking when it has been raveled, but merely a skein of crumpled thread; just so, this book holds attention while one reads it, but having finished, it seems a rather poor affair as compared with some of Mrs. Freeman’s other stories.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 158. Ja. 17, ’07. 500w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 120w.
=Lond. Times.= 6: 119. Ap. 12, ’07. 320w.
“Miss Wilkins’ delicate talent is incongruous with the wildness of her plot. Altogether, we look back regretfully to the middle-aged lovers and the engaging pet cats of the author’s earlier stories.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 498. Ap. 20, ’07. 130w.
=Freeman, Mrs. Mary Eleanor.= Fair Lavinia and others. †$1.25. Harper.
7–34778.
Under the titles: The fair Lavinia, Amarina’s roses, Eglantina, The pink shawls, The willow ware, The secret, The gold, and The underling, Mrs. Freeman presents the village life she knows so well how to picture and shows us the very hearts of the village folks who take part in those homely little comedies and tragedies.
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“Delicate and amusing sketches of village life with charm of sentiment and grace of narrative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 450w.
“The stories are like old-fashioned shell cameos; the flush of life and beauty shows through the carefully fashioned faces.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 120w.
=French, Allen.= Book of vegetables and garden herbs: a practical handbook and planting table for the vegetable gardener. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–16935.
A book intended for seedsmen and their customers, that both may get full benefit from the seeds, the latter in good crops, the former in continued custom. Mr. French gives a summary of the uses, culture and virtues of each plant included; sowing-directions regarding distance of rows from each other, of seeds in the row, depth of planting, etc.; thinning, fertilizing, transplanting and picking.
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“Does not replace Bailey’s ‘Principles of vegetable growing’ but is an excellent companion to it, and more attractive in form.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 164. O. ’07.
+ =Nation.= 84: 18. Jl. 4, ’07. 500w.
“The directions are simple, with no chance to go wrong.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 140w.
“An excellent guide.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 208. Je 1, ’07. 80w.
“A new garden handbook of great value to the amateur.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 80w.
=French, Allen.= Pelham and his friend Tim. †$1.50. Little.
6–32675.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 80. Mr. ’07.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 30w.
=French, Anne Warner.= Seeing France with Uncle John. †$1.50. Century.
6–34808.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 108. Ap. ’07.
“It can confidently be recommended to admirers of Mr. Jerome K. Jerome.”
+ =Ath.= 1906. 2: 830. D. 29. 60w.
− =R. of Rs.= 35: 127. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=French, Anne Warner.= Susan Clegg and a man in the house, il. †$1.50. Little.
7–31418.
Susan Clegg tries her hand at boarding an editor. Of him she says: “Seems Elijah is so smart that he’ll be offered a place on one of the biggest city papers in a little while, but in the mean time he’s just lost the place that he did have on one of the smallest ones.” As ever, Susan in no weak fashion expresses her opinions to Mrs. Lathrop. She gives her impressions of the young editor, his flute playing, of the women who ran the club women’s biennial and of the democratic and republican parties.
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“In the present volume Susan Clegg is undeniably tiresome. She talks so unremittingly, and always in the same strain.”
− =Lit. D.= 35: 796. N. 23, ’07. 190w.
“To be recommended heartily to people who may have found refreshment in ‘Three men in a boat,’ ‘Chimmie Fadden,’ or the sea worthies of W. W. Jacobs.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“It is a rare pleasure to find a book so wholesome, so amusingly philosophical and so full of the real quality of things that last.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 690. O. 26, ’07. 140w.
* =French, Arthur Willard, and Ives, Howard Chapin.= Stereotomy. 2d ed. $2.50. Wiley.
A second edition, with few changes, of a work appearing in 1903.
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“The book remains a well-written compilation of method and example in stone-cutting and is serviceable alike for self-study and for use in the class-room. The work of revision in preparing this edition has not been very extensive. Some minor lapses were overlooked.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 420. O. 17, ’07. 200w.
“The subject-matter covers a wide range and includes everything that the student is likely to have need for in his future work.”
+ =Technical Literature.= 2: 460. N. ’07. 490w.
=French, Lester G.= Steam turbines, practice and theory. $3. Technical press, Brattleboro, Vt.
7–9802.
“A book for the student and practicing engineer which contains a discussion of steam turbines and principles, and early steam turbine patents. “A number of chapters give detailed descriptions of all the important turbines now in use in this country and in Europe.” Then follow chapters upon Steam and its properties, Notes on efficiency and design. The commercial aspect of the turbine, Care and management, Condensing apparatus for high vacuum.... The last chapter of the book treats of the Marine turbine.” (Engin. N.)
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“There is nothing very original in it; but quite a little useful information ... has been given place in the book. The weakest part of the book is ... the theoretical part. The book is, on the whole, a very satisfactory one.” Storm Bull.
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 442. Ap. 18, ’07. 500w.
“This is an unusually satisfactory book in which theory and well-chosen practice are judiciously balanced, and unnecessary amplification avoided.”
+ + =Technical Literature.= 2: 457. N. ’07. 300w.
=Frenssen, Gustav.= Holy land; exclusive authorized tr. of “Hilligenlei;” tr. from the German by Mary Agnes Hamilton. †$1.50. Estes.
6–32857.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book will never be popular in America, it is safe to say, for several reasons. It is, like a German sentence, long-winded, involved, and cumbrous. ‘Holyland’ contains several passages which make it unfit for the youthful, and even many older readers will find them offensive. And because we are in a very different stage of theological thought from Germany, the religious purpose of the novel will fail to arouse either the enthusiasm or the antagonism that it has in Germany.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 154. Ja. 17, ’07. 740w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 70w.
=Frenssen, Gustav.= Three comrades; tr. from the German by L. Winstanley. †$1.50. Estes.
7–20513.
“An every-day sort of story of ordinary life in Germany. At the opening of the book the three comrades are three 10–year-old boys in the days of the Franco-German war. Later they are carried on into manhood, they separate, and each goes his own way. After a time each is so hampered by his faults of character that he is on the brink of failure. Then, at the crisis of their misfortune, they are reunited and together they are able to avert the threatened disaster.” (N. Y. Times.) “Its value consists in the beauty of one or two of its episodes, in some admirable pictures of land and sea by the Holstein coast, and perhaps above all in the personality of the author.” (Ath.)
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“As a story it is confused and incoherent, and its presentation of character though wonderfully vivid at times, can never be called a complete success. With all its shortcomings, it was worthy of being presented to an English public, and we must add a word of cordial praise concerning the manner in which this has been done. The anonymous translation is of unusual excellence.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 170w.
“The story is powerful and sympathetic, and its characters interesting and human.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 160w.
“There is much charm in the simplicity of the story, both in plot and style and the vividness with which the author portrays scenes and characters makes it very life-like.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 180w.
* =Friedrichs, Hulda.= Romance of the Salvation army; with introd. by General Booth. il. *$1.25. Cassell.
“These sketches exhibit the Army at work in Great Britain, and ‘on the march’ through the world. Its rescue work, training of officers, ‘self-denial week’, and farm colony are described with affecting illustrative experiences. The future of the Army seems secure, though its great General must pass away. Religious enthusiasm for a divine end, coupled with a sagacious, practical use of means, is the lesson of its career to the churches.”—Outlook.
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+ =Outlook.= 87: 580. N. 16, ’07. 160w.
“Miss Friedrichs writes well and with restraint, and illustrates her narrative, as the history of the Salvation army is best illustrated, by anecdotes of its individual triumphs. In short, it is a history that almost any reader may peruse with pleasure, for the human interest of the movement, to say nothing of that attaching to so many of its workers, is undeniable.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 639. N. 2, ’07. 250w.
=Friedman, Isaac Kahn.= The radical. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–30992.
“The ‘radical’ is a Chicagoan who, beginning life as a butcher’s driver, later becomes a political leader and tries to reform the senate.” (N. Y. Times.) “He is a man of the people, homely, a dreamer, yet powerful, in some of his traits seems to be modeled upon Lincoln. His aim is democratic, and so far as this book goes he seems to fail of attaining it.” (Outlook.)
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“He is well-equipped with the facts of political life, and with the social sympathies needed for their effective interpretation. The present book, in the detail of its workmanship, is not as finished a production as the author’s previous writings would lead us to expect.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 318. N. 16, ’07. 260w.
“Were it not that an unmistakable earnestness of conviction pervades this novel, one’s inclination would be to let it pass unmentioned, for a more ineffective attempt at bending language to the uses of art rarely falls under the reviewer’s eye.”
− =Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The subject is intricate and may account for the somewhat over-involved style of writing, which leaves anything but a clear impression in the reader’s mind.”
− =Outlook.= 87: 496. N. 2, ’07. 100w.
=Fry, Henry Davidson.= Maternity. $1.50. Neale.
7–34609.
A book for the lay reader, the medical student and the trained nurse which attacks ignorance and superstition and leaves healthful enlightenment in their place.
=Fuller, Caroline M.= Brunhilde’s paying guest. †$1.50. Century.
7–26461.
The modern Brunhilde of the story is the daughter and only surviving member of an impoverished southern household. Two charming cousins share her duties of hostess when she admits a few “paying guests” to her home. Among them is a young northerner who wars with the spirited valkyr, falls in love with her, and continues to quarrel. It is a pathetic picture of southern aristocracy doing battle with poverty, it is a romance of young strength, of maids and their lovers, set in a delightful southern garden.
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“While her conversations are occasionally ‘bright,’ they invariably sound rather like the badinage overheard in trolley cars.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 260. S. 19, ’07. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“A bright, entertaining story for an idle hour, and one that leaves no unpleasant impression.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 90w.
=Fuller, Hubert Bruce.= Purchase of Florida; its history and diplomacy. *$2.50. Burrows.
6–32122.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Fuller has failed to give us a clear account of the unusually intricate transactions with which his book must deal, and this failure is chiefly owing to his sins of omission.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 404. Ja. ’07. 1240w.
“The chief defect of the book lies in its paucity of references. The author has brought out a good deal of new and interesting matter for which he has given no authority whatever.”
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 19. Ja. 1, ’07. 320w.
“In his earnest desire to deal fairly with all, he occasionally falls into the opposite error of doing something less than justice to his own country.” H. Addington Bruce.
+ − =No. Am.= 183: 920. N. 2, ’06. 1230w.
“The book shows evidence of pretty thorough research; but it ought not to be necessary at this late day, to remind the investigator that the historian—and this volume will appeal to the historian rather than to the general reader—demands foot-note references to sources and authorities. Such references are too sparingly given. In some cases they are lacking where they are particularly desirable.” David Y. Thomas.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 140. Mr. ’07. 470w.
=Fullerton, George Stuart.= An introduction to philosophy. *$1.60. Macmillan.
6–37866.
The following embodies the purpose of the book: “To point out what the world philosophy is made to cover in the higher branches of learning; to explain the nature of reflective or philosophical thinking and to show how it differs from common thought and from science; to give a general view of the main problems with which philosophers have dealt; to give an account of some of the more important types of philosophical doctrine which have arisen out of the consideration of such problems; to indicate the relation of philosophy to ‘science and to the other sciences;’ and to show that the study of philosophy, is of value to us all, and to give some practical admonitions on spirit and method.”
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“Mr. Fullerton has an expository style which is admirably simple and clear, and his preliminary definition of philosophy is as free as possible from the objection that he has assumed a controversial philosophical standpoint.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 1: 407. Ap. 6. 230w.
“We know of no other book in English that can compare with this one as a manual to help the beginner over the difficulties which beset him in his first adventure into the unfamiliar world of metaphysical abstractions.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 827. Mr. ’07. 670w.
“The book might be called ‘a condensed encyclopedia of the moral and mental sciences.’”
+ =Ind.= 62: 857. Ap. 11, ’07. 140w.
“Like his larger ‘System’ it is likely not only to inform, instruct and practice the student in philosophical reflection, but also to interest and entertain him. Moreover, it contains many practical suggestions to both the teacher and the student well calculated to clear the ground and the air, giving to the undertaking of the young philosopher a wide sweep of open territory and a wholesome atmosphere.” G. A. Tawney.
+ =J. Philos.= 4: 356. Je. 20, ’07. 1400w.
“It has many of the defects which were noticeable in the larger treatise. The logical divisions are imperfect, and the several parts of the work are not well articulated. Professor Fullerton writes, however, very intelligibly, and uses few technical terms. The volume would be more useful, if there were fuller references in it to the philosophical theories of the later French and German authors.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 109. Ja. 31. ’07. 350w.
“The first half of the book is the best prolegomena to metaphysics that we know for students who come entirely fresh to the subject.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 463. O. 5, ’07. 370w.
=Funk, Rev. Isaac Kaufman.= Psychic riddle. **$1. Funk.
7–8500.
“A remarkably clear and conservative study of the subject of psychic phenomena, with citations of a number of noteworthy experiences.”—R. of Rs.
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“Dr. Funk lightens the book by many jokes and by some humor which is of Scotch character. For one thing, his sincerity shines out, and he refuses to allow an apology by a zealous defender which would compromise his intellectual honesty.” George W. Gilmore.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 555. Jl. ’07. 280w.
“The general reader will find the entire volume as fascinating and compelling as romance, and to any person interested in psychical research it will be far more interesting than a well written novel.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 668. Je. ’07. 1330w.
“Anybody familiar with the volumes of Myers, or even with the little book of Lapponi, will find that Dr. Funk has paid little attention to systematic arrangement of his data and analysis of the various factors of the problems with which he deals.”
− =Cath. World.= 86: 253. N. ’07. 340w.
“His purpose has been well executed.”
+ =Dial.= 35: 131. Jl. 27, ’07. 290w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 112. F. 23, ’07. 280w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 180w.
=Futrelle, Jacques.= Thinking machine. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–9843.
A book of reprinted stories whose theme in each instance is a marvelous exploit of Prof. Van Dusen. “You may now read—or re-read—how Prof. Van Dusen accomplished an experimental jail delivery for himself under circumstances the most ingeniously prearranged for that purpose ... how Prof. Van Dusen ascertained the identity of a man who had mislaid all consciousness of his personality, name, and nativity; how he solved the riddle of a bank burglary, and by sniffing the perfume on a handkerchief traced the crime to a particularly pretty and attractive young woman.” (Ind.)
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“They are quite ingenious in their way, and those who like this sort of thing will find them fair examples of their kind. They are not altogether devoid of literary merit.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 147. N. 16, ’07. 80w.
“If, after the reading is over, one still ranks them below the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, it is because the latter have greater realism and accord more closely with the conditions of actual life.” Rafford Pyke.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 433. Je. ’07. 500w.
+ − =Nation.= 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 280w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
“The author’s ingenuity is great, but the element of probability is not always maintained.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 30w.
=Fyfe, W. T.= Edinburgh under Sir Walter Scott; with an introd. by R. S. Rait. *$3. Dutton.
7–19482.
The well known incidents of Scott’s life here afford “some guiding lines for grouping of varied details.” These details relate much that is entertaining concerning “the simple, happy social life of Edinburgh’s best society, with its curious mixture of formal manners and informal customs.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The personal element is made much of, and many pleasing character sketches, with some good anecdotes, are given. Of all books, this one should have had an index.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 170w.
“We find nothing, or nothing of interest in Mr. Fyfe’s book, with which we have not always been familiar. Mr. Fyfe has not written the history of Scott nor has he contributed original matter from documents to his superfluous restatement of Lockhart’s biography of Sir Walter.”
− − =Lond. Times.= 6: 6. Ja. 4, ’07. 1000w.
“A useful supplement to Lockhart and the ‘Letters’ and ‘Journals’.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 141. Ag. 15, ’07. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 36. Ja. 19, ’07. 340w.
“Mr. Fyfe has a gift of presenting vividly what he writes by virtue of being simple and direct. To read his book is like going back a hundred years and spending a day in old-time Edinburgh.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 480w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 130w.
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 57. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.
“No fuller or better picture of that brilliant half-century of life in Edinburgh which approximately lasted from the death of Samuel Johnson in 1784 to that of Walter Scott in 1832 has ever been given to the public than that presented in this volume. Singularly, if not even paradoxically too, the value of the picture is due quite as much to the faults as to the excellences of the artist.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 483. O. 5, ’07. 1550w.
=Fynn, Arthur John.= American Indian as a product of environment; with special reference to the Pueblos. **$1.50. Little.
7–34805.
A volume for the general reader rather than for the student of anthropology, in which no attempt at “profundity of exhaustiveness” has been made. It is a first-hand study and contains chapters on: Plants, animals and man; Concerning the aborigines of the western continent in general; Pueblo lands and homes; Food and clothing; Government and social life; Education; Industries, arts and sciences; Religion; Games and festivals.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 671. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Fyvie, John.= Comedy queens of the Georgian era. *$4. Dutton.
7–18122.
“A light, gossipy account of some of the leading actresses of the eighteenth and the early years of the nineteenth centuries. It is well illustrated by photogravure process. Among Mr. Fyvie’s queens are Lavinia Fenton and Elizabeth Farren. That the habit of peers marrying actresses is not modern is shown by these lively chapters.”—Sat. R.
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“Mr. Fyvie is a little too reticent to be a good scandalmonger, and a little too technical to be a good historian of the stage; and his sketches, though written from an independent point of view and clearly the result of much original study of his subjects, offer little that is new on the details of their private lives, and nothing on the subject of their professional careers.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 8. Ja. 5, ’07. 1460w.
“There is wit, and genial humor and philosophy, with occasional cynicism, in these jottings.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 188. Mr. 16, ’07. 270w.
“It is disappointing to read through this volume and to feel that the only result has been to learn a deal of scandal.”
− =Ind.= 63: 947. O. 17, ’07. 220w.
“It is only fair to say that his book, as a rule, shows a praiseworthy desire for accuracy, a careful sifting of a great mass of contemporary evidence, and a quick eye for significant facts. Of course, he has nothing, or very little, that is new to tell, but he creates a certain impression of freshness by drawing liberally from sources of information not in common use.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 112. Ja. 31, ’07. 900w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 19. Ja. 12, ’07. 280w.
“It is readable, but Mr. Fyvie is not to be commended for bringing to light in the twentieth century the old scandalous theatrical chronicles of the eighteenth.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 57. F. 2, ’07. 250w.
“We might perhaps have been spared a little of the scandal, and one would prefer as a matter of proportion and taste, that there should have been less about these actresses’ private lives and more about their public careers and their manner of acting. The book will not rank with the recent memoirs of David Garrick by Mrs. Parsons.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 237. Ja. 26, ’07. 130w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
=Putnam’s.= 2: 476. Jl. ’07. 210w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 60w.
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 56. Ja. 12, ’07. 140w.
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=G., A. E.= Whistler: notes and footnotes and other memoranda. $2.50. Collector and art critic.
“In the Whistler part of the book the author discusses the painter as a man of letters, as a realist, as a master of the lithograph, as a draughtsman, and the Whistler memorial exhibition held in Boston in 1904.... Following the Whistler Notes and footnotes’ come discussions of grotesques by Leonardo, Puvis de Chavannes as a caricaturist, Arthur Symons on Aubrey Beardsley, a bookplate by Otho Cushing, the colored etchings of Bernard Boutet de Monvel, the art of Everett Shinn, the English caricaturists, a ‘note’ on Childe Hassam, and some notable criticism.” (N. Y. Times.) Nine tinted plates share the honors with the text.
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“Mr. Gallatin’s notes are thoughtful and suggestive, and have the merit of brevity.”
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 177. Mr. 23, ’07. 340w.
Reviewed by Christian Brinton.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 126. Ap. ’07. 60w.
=Gainsborough, Thomas.= Drawings. *$2.50. Scribner.
Uniform with the other volumes of the “Drawings of the great masters” series, this volume contains 44 drawings by Gainsborough printed in various tints, with a number mounted on dark colored backgrounds. These are prefaced with a brief introduction by Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower.
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+ =Dial.= 42: 231. Ap. 1, ’07. 40w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 53. D. ’06. 130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 837. D. 1, ’06. 240w.
=Outlook.= 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 70w.
=Gairns, J. F.= Locomotive compounding and superheating: a practical text-book for the use of railway and locomotive engineers, students and draughtsmen. *$3. Lippincott.
7–32868.
A help to the understanding of both compounding and superheating, and an aid in preparing the way to a choice or design of those types of locomotives best suited for the region and traffic to be handled.
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“It is to be regretted that the author seems not to have fully appreciated the rapidly-growing economic and operating importance of superheating for locomotives, and hence did not go thoroughly into the theory and practice on the subject. Mr. Gairns gives us probably the best book on compound locomotives which has appeared since Barnes-Woods in 1892. As a whole, the book is worthy of a place upon the railway engineer’s and locomotive designer’s shelves.” H. Wade Hibbard.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 291. S. 12, ’07. 2400w.
=Gale, Zona.= Loves of Pelleas and Etarre. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–30832.
Every year of Pelleas and Etarre’s fifty together has heaped new graces upon them thru the ministry of love. They are two who never have known that youth had gone because love staid. They are never happier than when making the conditions of young love-making brighter. For, hand in hand they wander in fancy thru lanes and gardens of long ago of which the lanes and gardens of to-day are but a continuation. A most delightful story which attributes to love the alchemy power of effacing time and change.
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“The story is told with quaint humor and much delicacy.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 201. N. ’07.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“She sees the little things in life that make what is called atmosphere, and she is able to paint her mind’s pictures clearly for the restricted vision of the rest of us.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 570w.
“To all who know the hidden sources of human joy and have neither grown old in cynicism nor gray in utilitarianism. Miss Gale’s charming love stories, full of fresh feeling and grace of style, will be a draught from the fountain of youth.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 150w.
=Gallon, Tom.= Cruise of the make-believes. †$1.50. Little.
7–32034.
A romantic idyl of a modern prince and a beggar maid. The girl drudges in a poor quarter of London to support a shiftless father and brother, but she dreams and keeps her soul alive by a make-believe Eden. A young millionaire becomes interested in her and in trying to help her tangles things sadly. The father and brother drain him financially, the girl he would help is made unhappy; but in the end he is fortunate enough to lose his money and in love and poverty he and Bessie find a real land of make-believe.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
=Gallon, Tom.= Tinman. †$1.50. Small.
A young artist deliberately murders the slanderer of Barbara Patton, the woman he loves, gives himself up, covers the real motive of his crime and is imprisoned for life. After twenty years he is freed only to be drawn into a reenactment of the crime for the sake of Barbara’s daughter. Thruout the entire dramatic course of the tale the love motif is strongest, it sounds out above the grim note of crime, suffering and domineering will.
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“The first portion of the book, though somewhat lurid in method, would have made a strong and unusual short story; but the further development of events ... conveys an unmistakable flavour of nothing higher or nobler than the typical dime novel.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 26: 165. O. ’07. 220w.
“Notwithstanding an important manner, ‘Tinman’ has only been strung out to store size by the ingenious device of repeating the heroine’s adventures in the person of her daughter, merely giving a happier outcome to the fortunes of Barbara number two.”
− =Nation.= 85: 143. Ag. 15, ’07. 310w.
“Is about as dolefully sensational as anything that has hitherto come from his feverish pen.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 481. Je. 15, ’07. 210w.
“The plot of the story is complicated and well managed, and notwithstanding the dark and lurid coloring, the tale holds the reader’s interest from the start.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 190w.
“A gleam or two of brightness would have vastly improved the story. But that the reader is held by the situations and that those situations are ingeniously thought out cannot be denied.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 60w.
=Galloway, Thomas Walton.= First course in zoology: a text-book for secondary schools, normal schools and colleges. *$2.50. Blakiston.
6–35707.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In point of careful balance and commonsense use of questions, few recent text-books bear comparison with this volume.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 389. Ap. 25, ’07. 210w.
“For the average school course the book includes too much, and too difficult work; while for the college course it seems to fall as far short. For the normal school, and this is probably the grade of work more directly aimed at by the author, the book would seem to be well suited. Of actual errors in statement of facts or principles there seem to be relatively few.” C. W. H.
+ − =Science=, n. s. 24: 719. D. 7, ’06. 1120w.
“It is evident that a good deal of thought and effort have gone into its making, and it has consequently a degree of character and individuality which is rare among the members of its genus.” S. J. H.
+ + =Science=, n. s. 26: 715. N. 22, ’07. 600w.
=Galsworthy, John.= Country house. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–15919.
“Two graphic pictures of the racecourse are all that [the author] gives of definite action; the remainder of the book is concerned with the entry into the self-deluding community of Worsted Skeynes of a natural, lawless passion which, attacking one of its members, exercises a paralyzing effect upon the whole.... The portraiture in the author’s gallery will reward the attention of all who love the mirror of truth.”—Ath.
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“His work has many qualities of greatness: but it is not yet great. A slight tendency to bitterness and to sentimentality is the one blemish in an extraordinarily well-written, well-observed piece of work.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 251. Mr. 9, ’07. 560w.
“Occasionally, in an effort to extract the last drain of satire from a situation, Mr. Galsworthy is biting and mordant to an almost painful degree. His insight is keen, and he seems to enjoy the irony underlying the affairs of men.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 1: 348. Mr. 23. 340w.
“It is a wonderful, vivid and detailed picture of stolid and complacent British conservatism, a consistent worship of the God of things as they are.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 497. Jl. ’07. 760w.
“Mr. Galsworthy’s forte lies in depicting traditional prejudices, and the types which represent them, rather than in the creation of individual characters.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 680. Ag. ’07. 270w.
“Few novelists are as successful as Mr. Galsworthy in adapting their means to their purposes, with the result, as in the present instance, of giving vivid reality to a group of commonplace people and of reproducing the very atmosphere of the scenes in which they move.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 62. Ag. 1, ’07. 230w.
“The pervading tone of indulgent irony justifies the classification of this volume with the fiction which in a true sense is a criticism of life.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Forum.= 39: 114. Jl. ’07. 740w.
“Is a better novel, better constructed and better written, than either ‘The island Pharisees’ or ‘The man of property,’ its plot especially, while still apparently slight, being in reality of much firmer and closer texture.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 96. Jl. 11, ’07. 460w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Galsworthy has not produced a real hero. He has given us his Troilus. Let us hope that in his next novel he will give us his Hamlet.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 77. Mr. 8, ’07. 1150w.
“The development of the story is workmanlike and plausible, and the whole is unfolded in a brisk, competent narrative, with savor and discretion, through the medium of a perfectly satisfactory style.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 414. My. 2, ’07. 390w.
Reviewed by Lewis Melville.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 394. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“The faults of this unusual and interesting novel lie upon its surface. For the sake of Mr. Pendyce alone ‘The country house’ is well worth more than one reading.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 430w.
“When his characters come to develop some consciousness, one of another, when they come to be more closely and significantly linked together, this brilliant portrayer of manners may easily come to produce something of permanent value.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ =No. Am.= 185: 777. Ag. 2, ’07. 1430w.
“Clever beyond anything we have seen lately is this most artistic story. We could wish it were happier.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 180w.
“He is far from being detached and indifferent toward human nature in its finer manifestations, even if he does choose to make us feel its beauty chiefly by delineating the sordid, pathetic opposite.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 186. My. ’07. 110w.
“Here is not a mere slice of life, a personal affair, a particular instance; it is a slice from a nation, a base of interests, an enduring condition. It is, of course, the central problem in a book of the kind to prevent undue domination either of the situation or of the story, and the author, conscious perhaps that in a previous work he permitted the situation to dictate terms to him, has in this been too much inclined to restrict its scope.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 433. Ap. 6, ’07. 500w.
“He has devoted a great deal of skill and energy to the presentation of three or four characters who are especially designed to win, not only the sympathy, but even the affection of the reader. It is true that perhaps the most admirable and delightful of all is a spaniel.... John, an adorable personage; indeed, many readers would rather share a dog-biscuit with him than eat six courses in the company of the squire’s guests.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 503. Mr. 30, ’07. 800w.
=Galsworthy, John.= Man of property. †$1.50. Putnam.
6–42370.
“A rather unusually thoughtful novel of English social life, which deals in a large, intelligent way with the development of character, the sordidness of wealth without graciousness, and the narrowness of upper middle class London society a generation or so ago.”—Outlook.
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“The book is remarkable: it has strength without the least taint of sensation; and is written with a finish that is both rare and delightful. Two points only are there to which we take exception: that Mr. Galsworthy at times lingers unnecessarily over the Forsytes; and that he has, in one passage at least, mistaken brutality for strength.”
+ + − =Acad.= 70: 309. Mr. 31, ’06. 440w.
“There is a story of a kind, connecting the long series of carefully finished pictures. But the pictures, the characterization, are the main thing. They are minute, vivid, and steadily interesting. The whole is a sound and equable piece of work, deserving high praise.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 446. Ap. 14. 340w.
“A novel of this character is new; it shows thought and determination and an unflagging alertness with its companion, ease, that make Mr. Galsworthy’s career a matter of some importance to English fiction.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 116. Mr. 30, ’06. 430w.
“His style is admirable, his humor incisive, and his description of the less pleasant characters in his books splendid; but he lacks tenderness. He sees all weeds in the garden, and in his vision the rose is scarcely visible for the thorns.” Lewis Melville.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 394. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“Altogether a novel well worth the reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 100w.
“Mr. Galsworthy’s grip on the point of view of Forsyte and his way of action, is something quite terrible. To read a chapter about Soames Forsyte, the typical ‘man of property,’ is to feel oneself literally gasping for oxygen at the end of it. It is not an especially pleasant experience, but it occasions a profound respect for the writer who brings it about.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 185. My. ’07. 520w.
“A novel at once so able that it cannot be overlooked, and so ugly in places that it cannot be recommended without a serious caution.”
+ − =Spec.= 96: 587. Ap. 14, ’06. 1270w.
=Galton, Arthur.= Church and state in France, 1300–1907. *$3.50. Longmans.
W 7–107.
“Mr. Galton ... begins his exposition with the struggle between Philip the Fair and Boniface VIII., where he finds the seeds of Gallicanism. He traces their development through the sixteenth century, till the growth reached its full expansion in the eighteenth. When he enters on the revolutionary period he devotes a great deal of attention to the Constitution Civile, ... He treats, with amplitude, the genesis, character, and scope of the Concordat, and, very properly, with more brevity, the course of events through the restoration, the second republic and the second empire. The last chapter, about eight-five pages, relates the campaign during the third republic down to the law of separation.”—Cath. World.
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“It is a lack of the historic sense which is the fault of the Rev. Mr. Galton’s work on the relations between church and state in France. He has written an elaborate pamphlet rather than an historical study.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 337. Ap. 6, ’07. 1780w.
“The book is one which on literary grounds we cannot commend.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 472. Ap. 20. 840w.
“Mr. Galton’s book is of considerable value, as far as it is an exposition of historic fact. Nor is it valueless, as far as it is an interpretation of these facts, for it provides a good subject for any one who would study the influence of prejudice in the writing of history.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 85: 396. Je. ’07. 1350w.
“The subject is treated of with splendid knowledge, with a fine sense of coherence and proportion, and with a style that is altogether captivating.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 317. My. 18, ’07. 740w.
“He has an exceptional amount of historical learning ... as well as a pithy and lucid style. His toleration is noticeable.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 716. My. 4, ’07. 1650w.
=Gambier, J. W.= Links in my life on land and sea. **$3.50. Dutton.
A career which began its adventures in the Baltic fleet during the Crimean war, subsequently continued in Norfolk Island, Rio de Janeiro, Egypt, Cyprus, New Zealand, the Andaman Islands, New Caledonia, China and Japan. After his retirement Captain Gambier acted as correspondent for the London “Times” during the Russo-Turkish war.
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“To read his book is to imagine oneself in the privacy of Captain Gambier’s smokingroom, listening to very pleasant after-dinner gossip.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 634. D. 22, ’06. 560w.
“A lively volume written in a sprightly style.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 404. O. 6. 320w.
“Commander J. W. Gambier is an unconventional writer; and the rules of grammar are included among the conventions which he overrides. That matters little, however, for he is a breezy writer, with plenty of stories to tell. The book is one to be read by all who enjoy rollicking relations of adventure.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 322. S. 21, ’06. 470w.
“He writes in a free off-hand manner, and is frequently unrefined, even to coarseness. If the book has literary merit, we have failed to discover it; or any mark of distinction. The author’s comments are, as a rule, commonplace.”
− =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 360w.
=Gamble, William.= Straight talks on business. **$1. Jacobs.
7–27365.
Talks for the young man contemplating a business career, for one who is unafraid to think, to work, to sacrifice, who looks upon business not as a pastime, nor as an unpleasant necessity, but as a human duty. The advice has grown out of the experiences of a man who has followed a strenuous business life. He claims no new business philosophy, but puts principles which time has tested into new form better suited to present day needs.
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“Though unquestionably ‘straight,’ the advice is rather platitudinous than subtle, and is too informal and discursive to have any considerable technological value.”
− + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 501. O. ’07. 80w.
Games book for boys and girls; a volume of old and new pastimes. $2.50. Dutton.
7–35045.
A volume “full of directions for playing scores of indoor games and pastimes for the playground. There are also directions for the collection and preservation of plants, ferns, and seaside objects, for the care of home pets, for indoor gardening, for the making of toys, the tying of knots of many sorts, and for the doing of many other interesting things.”—N. Y. Times.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 21. Ja. ’07.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 80w.
=Gant, L. W.= Elements of electric traction for motormen and others. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
A practical handbook intended to serve as an introduction to the more advanced works on electric traction and to supplement various existing handbooks for motormen and others.
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“The style is readable and as clear as could be expected in view of the limited space, the large range of topics, and the presumably meager preparation of the reader. The book lacks attractive illustrations.” Henry H. Norris.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 422. O. 17, ’07. 460w.
=Gardiner, John Hays.= Bible as English literature. **$1.50. Scribner.
6–33638.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Perhaps the most interesting and theologically suggestive section of Professor Gardiner’s work is that devoted to the wisdom literature of the New Testament epistles.” Kemper Fullerton.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 667. O. ’07. 590w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 96. Ap. ’07.
“An admirable manual for the use of students.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 159. F. ’07. 80w.
“Professor Gardiner brings to his task an acquaintance with the accepted results of historical criticism and instead of rhapsodizing upon a few selected passages of rhythmical scripture, he investigates the complex sources of that literary charm which it is easier to praise than understand.” John R. Slater.
+ + − =Bib. World.= 30: 234. S. ’07. 650w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 81. Ja. ’07. 1760w.
“From the beginning to the end of the author’s discussion of his great subject, the treatment of it is not only intelligent and reverent; it is singularly vital and inspiring.” M. H. Turk.
+ + =Educ. R.= 33: 316. Mr. ’07. 810w.
“Prof. Gardiner is occasionally led to press his conclusions further than his facts will warrant.” William T. Brewster.
+ + − =Forum.= 38: 386. Ja. ’07. 1480w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 789. Ap. 6, ’07. 1390w.
=Gardner, Edmund G.= King of court poets; a study of the work, life and times of Lodovico Ariosto. *$4. Dutton.
7–6794.
In which Mr. Gardner has combined a sequel to his “Dukes and poets in Ferrara” with a somewhat full study of the life and works of Lodovico Ariosto.
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+ + =Acad.= 71: 569. D. 8, ’06. 1030w.
“Mr. Gardner takes a good deal of pains with his authorities, and puts his information together as well as can be expected of any one except a highly trained historian in dealing with that complicated time. The main fault of the book is a certain tendency to verbosity.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 69. Ja. 19. 1510w.
“The chapters dealing with the poetry of Ariosto are pleasing, but on the whole rather inconclusive. The style of the book is without distinction, and it occasionally lapses into elegance.”
− + =Dial.= 42: 84. F. 1, ’07. 150w.
“The work of Mr. Gardner is not only a biography of Ariosto, and the finest biography of the author of the ‘Orlando furioso’ that has yet appeared in English, but it contains a complete and luminous picture of the political and literary condition of Ferrara from 1500 to 1530.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 803. Ap. 4, ’07. 430w.
“The work is admirably done, most useful for reference; but it is laboured, and there are barren spaces in which the dry bones of history do not live.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 350. O. 19, ’06. 2270w.
“Different portions of the book, as they deal with political or literary history, read as if they belonged to different studies, and were bound together by mistake.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 593. Je. 27. ’07. 1010w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 701. O. 27. ’06. 1830w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.)
“Is a book in which the scholar may find more to his purpose than the reader who, without any very keen appetite for detailed history and unimportant biographical detail, reads for pleasure and for general information.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 1078. D. 29, ’06. 420w.
“It is with a very sure hand, with all the sobriety of a scholar, albeit not untinged with the agreeable glow of an admirer, that Mr. Gardner writes of Alfonso I. ... and Ludovico Ariosto.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 679. D. 1, ’06. 880w.
=Gardner, Percy.= Growth of Christianity. $1.75. Macmillan.
“The theme of the present volume, which is in the form of ten popular lectures, is the relations of Christianity with the various forms of culture and thought with which it has come into contact. The germ of Christianity is found in the Lord’s prayer, and specifically in the petition, ‘Thy will be done,’ and its essential spirit is defined accordingly as a passionate devotion to the will of God as operative in the world.”—Nation.
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“No one can read Professor Gardner’s book without respect. It is earnest and lucid, and bears witness of the profound scholarship of its author.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 31. O. 19, ’07. 780w.
“His new book is an able and striking interpretation of the history of the church, from a somewhat unusual point of view.”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 80. Jl. ’07. 60w.
“The scope and purpose of the book, cast originally for popular lectures, do not allow space for anything more than drawing the broad obvious outlines. When, however, this is done by anyone as deep-versed in antiquity as Dr. Gardner, there is something in the summary presentation by which even professed students may have their vision cleared.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 250. Ag. 16, ’07. 800w.
“Dr. Gardner has surveyed the growth and progress of the Christian faith from a very interesting point of view.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 331. O. 10, ’07. 700w.
“The reader will see therefore, that the author’s view of Christian doctrine is not quite that of the ordinary orthodox Churchman. The strongest part of the book is ... where he is displaying his splendid knowledge of Greek and Roman antiquities and their bearing on church life and belief.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. S. 28, ’07. 380w.
=Garland, Hamlin.= Long trail. †$1.25. Harper.
7–15590.
A narrative of the hardships of Jack Henderson, a Minnesota boy, in company with two master-trailers, who together brave the dangers of the old Telegraph trail to the Yukon gold fields. “Cold and heat, hunger and thirst, the love of gold, and the rivalry of fierce men go to make up the vivid and varied life.”
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“Interesting to men and boys especially.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 201. N. ’07.
“This is an excellent book for a boy’s holiday reading, thoroughly wholesome and stimulating, and in no part dull.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 634. My. 25. 100w.
“Has the healthful, breezy traits that mark Mr. Garland’s other western tales.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 961. Je. 15, ’07. 160w.
“It is perfectly safe, however, to say that if ‘The long trail’ does prove to contain the quality which tickles youthful palates, it may be given to the young without a shade of misgiving as to their finding it entirely wholesome provender.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 435. My. 9, ’07. 160w.
“The striking quality of this new book ... is the startling and realistic effect of its utter simplicity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 321. My. 18, ’07. 350w.
=Garland, Hamlin.= Money magic: a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
7–32322.
By the magic of money, Bertha, a true type of the girl of the new West, is lifted from the hot office of her mother’s wayside hotel to the giddy heights of mistress of a millionaire’s establishment. This change of fortune however, brings with it a helpless old cripple of a husband, an ex-gambler whom she had pluckily married out of loyalty when she thought him dying. Her story is one of development and character expansion under these strange conditions until she is at last free to call her own that happiness which she has so long and nobly denied herself.
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“By some the story may be thought a trifle too long; but it is good stirring narrative thruout, and the development of character through incident and emotional crises is highly interesting.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 546. N. 2. 200w.
“Is far and away the best and most significant novel that Mr. Garland has written in many years. It has perspective, it is firm of plot, rich in colour, full of movement, unflaggingly interesting, its characters are deftly and understandingly individualised—it has the semblance of life.” A. Schade van Westrum.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 417. D. ’07. 690w.
“There is a certain amount of truth in this narrative, and fairly effective characterizations, although the latter must be described as crude rather than subtle. Mr. Garland, has done much better work than this, and will, we trust, do it again.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 318. N. 16, ’07. 240w.
“His people, however, will disappoint the expectations raised in their favor, and will, somehow, show coarse streaks in their composition of which the author is hopelessly unconscious.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1177. N. 14, ’07. 350w.
=Nation.= 85: 446. N. 14, ’07. 230w.
“An interesting study of the mixed life in a western city.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 160w.
=Garland, James Smith.= New England town law: a digest of statutes and decisions concerning towns and town officers. *$6.50. Boston bk.
6–31416.
“This valuable volume consists of two very distinct parts. The first eighty-three pages are taken up with in an interesting review of the origin, development and present status of the New England town. The second part of the book presents the first systematic compilation of the laws of the New England states in relation to towns and town government.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“Intended mainly to serve a practical purpose.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 723. Ap. ’07. 40w.
“The volume is an excellent beginning in a sort of work in which as yet but little has been accomplished in the United States.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 213. Ja. ’07. 380w.
“The introduction ... is of interest to many persons other than the officers and lawyers who will use the body of the work.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 509. D. 13, ’06. 140w.
“A complete, although succinctly written and compactly arranged, compendium of the law of the different states of New England relating to towns and town government.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 384. O. 13, ’06. 90w.
=Garratt, Herbert A.= Principles of mechanism: being a short treatise on the kinematics and dynamics of machines. $1.10. Longmans.
“A book for students who are under the guidance of an instructor, rather than a complete treatise for general use. It is divided into two general parts, Kinematics of machines and Dynamics of machines. In the former the principles of the forms of mechanisms are considered, no attention being given to the efficiencies of such mechanisms, to the masses moved or to the forces exerted. In the latter part, the dynamics of certain simple mechanical motions are considered.”—Engin. N.
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“For the class-room work, as a text to be supplemented by extensive lectures, the book has a use, but it is not complete enough for the general student. Too much has been left out for the purpose of affording ‘a clear perception of the anatomy of the skeleton.’” Amasa Trowbridge.
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’07. 260w.
=Garrick, David.= Some unpublished correspondence of David Garrick; ed. by G: Pierce Baker. *$7.50. Houghton.
7–26122.
Some forty letters and manuscripts are included with an interesting reproduction of portions of the marriage agreement between Garrick and Mlle. Violette. “If of somewhat less moment than the author deems it as a contribution to Garrick lore, it will nevertheless be sought eagerly by theatrical connoisseurs for the excellence of its typography and the beauty of its illustrations, which show the great actor at different periods of his life and in various characters, and afford material for an interesting study in physiognomy. Several of the portraits will be new to most readers.” (Nation.)
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“In lack of an index, page-headings to show who is being addressed by the writer would have been very welcome; sometimes it is impossible to determine this without some search, or to ascertain at once the probable date of a letter.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 201. O. 1, ’07. 1610w.
“With Mr. Baker the work of editing evidently has been a labor of love, as is proved by his ample explanatory notes, but it is unlikely that the ordinary reader will find in the letters the significance which the editor seems to attach to them.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 380. O. 24, ’07. 540w.
“This volume of hitherto unpublished letters contains a sufficiently interesting collection to make it worth owning, although not a few of the epistles, as one invariably finds in the books of ‘correspondence,’ suggest no particular reason for publication beyond their signature and quaint style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 611. O. 12, ’07. 790w.
=Garrod, H. W.= Religion of all good men, and other studies in Christian ethics. **$1.20. McClure.
6–42406.
In the main a paradoxical contention that Jesus never claimed to be the Messiah.
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− =Ath.= 1906, 1: 697. Je. 9. 820w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 208. F. ’07. 1930w.
“I think that the worth of the book very far outweighs such faults as it may possess—these latter being, indeed, such necessary accompaniments of perfect straightforwardness that we could not wish them absent. It will do any man good to read such virile words,—and if they harm him, he is not worthy to withstand the gods.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 79. F. 1, ’07. 1280w.
Reviewed by St. George Stock.
− =Hibbert J.= 4: 945. Jl. ’06. 1300w.
“The spectacle of a sincere man disavowing Christianity because it is not good enough is sufficiently novel to pique one’s interest, and whoso is drawn by curiosity to Mr. Garrod’s pages will find his attention kept alert.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 221. Jl. 25, ’07. 340w.
“The title of the book is distinctly attractive, and the book itself is decidedly interesting. There is learning in it, and undoubted ability behind it. Written from a frankly naturalistic standpoint, it is singularly free from bitterness and narrowness.” James Lindsay.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 108. O. ’07. 1770w.
“This thesis Mrs. Garrod defends with much skill and it can scarcely be denied that important truth at least lies close beside his propositions.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 270. Mr. 21, ’07. 380w.
“These ‘studies in Christian ethics’ one chapter of which gives this volume its attractive but quickly disappointing title, are not such as to call for serious consideration.”
− =Outlook.= 84: 942. D. 15, ’06. 140w.
“A volume of five attractively written essays on religious subjects.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 50w.
“He has written a smart book, in which the flippant theology is not meant perhaps to be taken very seriously. But was it worth while printing these essays merely to make elderly dons’ flesh creep? What he takes for audacity and courage may be regarded by his readers as only impudence.”
− + =Sat. R.= 101: 759. Je. 16, ’06. 950w.
=Garst, Rev. Henry.= Otterbein university. *75c. Un. breth.
The story of the founding of a Christian college, the evolution of the thoughts, opinions, convictions that are back of its material growth and progress.
=Garvie, Alfred Ernest.= Guide to preachers. *$1.50. Armstrong.
“Laymen who would qualify themselves to preach acceptably and effectively—and there is need of many such—will find this an eminently helpful book. It covers the whole subject—the Biblical, doctrinal, homiletical, rhetorical conditions of preaching and reasoning suitable to the needs of the modern world. Such subsidiary matters as language, literary style, elocution, and delivery receive proportionate treatment.”—Outlook.
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“Its counsels are in harmony with sound scholarship and conform to good taste.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 100w.
“There is no other book that so well meets the present want.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 44. Ja. 5, ’07. 120w.
=Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson).= Works of Mrs. Gaskell. 8v. ea. $1.50. Putnam.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ + =Acad.= 71: 519. N. 24, ’06. 1500w. (Review of v. 1–8.)
“The edition, with its informing introductions, will take its place in all well-constituted libraries.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 801. D. 22. 110w. (Review of v. 7 and 8.)
+ + =Nation.= 84: 221. Mr. 7. 130w. (Review of v. 4–8.)
“Excellent new dress.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 331. Ap. 11. ’07. 3370w. (Review of v. 1–8.)
“Dr. Ward ... has performed his task with exquisite taste, grace, and zeal.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 878. D. 15, ’06. 450w. (Review of v. 1–8.)
=Gates, Eleanor.= Good-night; il. by Arthur Rackham. †50c. Crowell.
7–20865.
The quaint story of a very human parrot that scattered the padre’s fuchsias but fought desperately with the cat to save a little canary’s life.
=Gates, Eleanor.= Plow-woman. †$1.50. McClure.
6–34690.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This is decidedly a book to read.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 317. Mr. 16. 210w.
“Is a capital story, in spite of an indulgence in contrast amounting almost to an abuse.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 24: 490. Ja. ’07. 360w.
“There is distinction, refreshment and reality about her descriptions of the Dakota prairie, an original charm also about Dallas, the plow-woman, so long as she follows the lean mule in the brown furrow, but that is the best that can be said.”
+ − =Ind.= 61: 1570. D. 27, ’06. 300w.
=Gates, Herbert Wright.= Life of Jesus: a manual for teachers. 75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–36267.
A manual designed to accompany the outline course on the life of Jesus which has been prepared for intermediate grades of the Bible school.
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“The ‘Manual’ and ‘Note book’ taken together promise to be a valuable aid in teaching the life of Christ to children.”
+ =Bib. World.= 28: 352. N. ’07. 110w.
“Deserves commendation.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 516. D. 5, ’07. 130w.
=Gayley, Charles Mills.= Plays of our forefathers. **$3.50. Duffield.
7–30422.
An account of the origin and development of the early miracle and morality plays of which “Everyman” has become so famous an example, illustrated with reproductions of old wood-cuts. The author’s scholarship is everywhere in evidence as well as his keen delight in histrionism, for, he says, “to laugh and weep, to worship and to revel for a season, in the manner and spirit of our ancestors, were infinitely more pleasing than the pride of controversy or the pursuit of scientific ends.”
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“His book is not only one to be commended to the scholar but to be enjoyed by the general reader.” Lewis A. Rhoades.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 282. N. 1, ’07. 970w.
“As a reference work, it is hard to exceed this for completeness, but its interest is for the specialist alone.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1311. N. 28, ’07. 710w.
“A charming book, which may be recommended to the general reader as the best introduction to the subject at the same time that it possesses a value for the specialist.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 523. D. 5, ’07. 800w.
“He has made a good book which every one interested in the theatre will be glad to own, and the borrowing fiend loathe to return.” Anna Marble.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 616. O. 12, ’07. 220w.
=Genung, John Franklin.= Hebrew literature of wisdom in the light of to-day: a synthesis. **$2. Houghton.
6–39461.
An interpretation of the inner and spiritual menacing of Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes which can be applied to the life of to-day.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 42. F. ’07.
“The style sometimes offends a severe taste, and we had rather not believe that monstrosities like ‘factual’ belong to the literary idiom of to-day—or to-morrow.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 589. Je. 27, ’07. 190w.
“Presented in a thoroughly readable and interesting form.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 298. Je. 8, ’07. 330w.
=Genung, John Franklin.= The idylls and the ages. **75c. Crowell.
7–26418.
A companion study to “Stevenson’s attitude to life.” It is an inquiry into the permanent value of Tennyson’s epic “The idylls of the king.” The primary aim of this volume “is neither eulogy nor criticism, but what Walter Pater has taught us to call appreciation.”
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“Our quarrel with it is chiefly for its literary cant and esoteric eloquence, its lack of the prose point of view.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 498. N. 28, ’07. 180w.
=George, 2d duke of Cambridge.= George duke of Cambridge: a memoir of his private life based on the journals and correspondence of His Royal Highness, ed. by Edgar Sheppard. 2v. *$7. Longmans.
7–28494.
“Born a few years after Waterloo, in 1819, the Duke of Cambridge lived in four reigns, and was actually present at two coronations. At the time of his birth he was the first direct descendant of George III., and but for the birth of the Princess Victoria, a few months later than his own he might have reigned as George V., and there is good reason to suppose that he would have proved an excellent sovereign. This memoir not only tells the story of a long life of usefulness and honor, but it also reveals with much clearness an interesting and lovable personality, and gives us, incidentally, many suggestive portraits of military and political leaders.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Dr. Edgar Sheppard might have done well to condense the ‘memoirs of his private life’ into one volume instead of filling two.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 591. D. 1, ’06. 1840w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 400. N. 30, ’06. 1610w.
“The editor has done his work with taste and discretion. The portraits are interesting, and there is a satisfactory index.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 40. Ja. 19, ’07. 1100w.
“The book has some interest and even value, but these scarcely correspond to its size and what we may even describe as its pretensions.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 58. Ja. 12, ’07. 530w.
=George, Henry, jr.= Romance of John Bainbridge. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–37965.
Part of the incidents in Mr. George’s story are taken from the life of his late father. “Being the son of his father and also himself, it was doubtless inevitable that Mr. George should attempt to make out of his novel a lesson in economics. His theme is the iniquity of giving public service franchises to private individuals or corporations, and the resultant political corruption.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Dealing as this novel does with the questions which are pressing for immediate solution, makes it one of the really important romances for all reformers and patriots to read.”
+ + =Arena.= 37: 100. Ja. ’07. 3990w.
“This is a wholesome novel of the life of to-day. It is we believe, the author’s first long work of fiction, altho there is nothing in the style to indicate this fact.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 170w.
=Nation.= 83: 391. D. 8, ’06. 40w.
“He might have cut and slashed and blue penciled a fourth of his copy with advantage to the rest. Wrapped up in the plot of Mr. George’s novel there is a good story, an exceedingly good story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 903. D. 29, ’06. 380w.
“While there are parts of the story that too thinly for artistic effect disguise the especial message that Mr. George feels himself commissioned to utter, the tale is well told and worth telling.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 46. Ja. 5, ’07. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 30w.
=Geronimo (Apache chief).= Geronimo’s story of his life; taken down and edited by S. M. Barrett. **$1.50. Duffield.
6–35725.
Descriptive note in Annual. 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 67. Mr. ’07. S.
=Gibbs, Josiah W.= Scientific papers of J. Willard Gibbs. 2v. v. 1. *$5; v. 2. *$4. Longmans.
Agr 7–1540.
Professor Gibbs’s scattered papers on scientific subjects have been collected and published in two imposing volumes. The first includes his papers on the equilibrium of heterogeneous substances and on thermodynamics; the second contains twenty-one papers, chief among which are those occupied with the author’s calculus called “vector analysis.”
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“For profound thought and power of generalization and abstract formulation no American scientist has equaled Willard Gibbs.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1238. N. 21, ’07. 50w.
“The work of Gibbs may be said to round off the constructive stage of one of the most far-reaching scientific advances of the nineteenth century—the unravelling of the formal scheme of relations which guides the transformation of dead matter, as it is now set forth in the doctrine of thermodynamics.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 90. Mr. 22, ’07. 1960w.
“In every way (except by an index) recommends itself to the liking of friends of American science.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 92. Ja. 24, ’07. 710w.
“The papers have been edited with great care by Henry Andrews Bumstead and Ralph Gibbs van Name, and the former, in the biographical notice prefixed, discusses with knowledge the scientific work done by Willard Gibbs and gives a clear-cut picture of the man himself.” C. G. K.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 361. F. 14, ’07. 1340w.
=Gibbs, Philip.= Men and women of the French revolution. *$7. Lippincott.
7–8230.
Not a history but a psychological study of some of the actors in the great drama, so arranged that the thread of the narrative is not confused or lost.
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“A readable, but rather sketchy account of a number of the leading personages of that period.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 513. O. 27. 330w.
“In thus deviating from the beaten path of history and giving rather free play to his own fancy in this ‘psychological study,’ the author has produced a work more attractive in some respects than the formal chronicles of the period.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 41: 385. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“Mr. Gibbs has succeeded in producing a book that is more readable (especially to those who dote on adjectives) than our old friend Dryasdust’s, but there is a certain persistent striving for dramatic effect and high phrases that gives the narrative a false note very often.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 971. Ap. 25, ’07. 540w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
“Although the value of Mr. Gibbs’s work is seriously impaired by an extremely florid and somewhat popular style, it is to some extent redeemed by his dramatic power, while in spite of some inaccuracies it is manifestly clear that he has obtained his information from no second hand sources.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 38. F. 1, ’07. 780w.
“The book, though somewhat grandiose in style, is just the sort to spur on an indolent reader to make the acquaintance of other, and possibly more accurate, works on the French revolution. But the inaccuracies are manifold and distressing, and not the less so that, in some cases, they seem to be the result of pure carelessness.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 135. F. 7, ’07. 870w.
“Its style is popular, vivid and realistic. Mr. Gibbs has a command of strong epithets, and knows how to describe what his imagination presents to him.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 766. N. 17, ’06. 180w.
* =Gibson, Charles R.= Romance of modern photography. **$1.50. Lippincott.
No attempt is made in this volume “to offer suggestions to the picture-taker, but again step by step the growth of the art is discussed through the changes, from daguerrotypes to the latest improved methods; and from the toy known as the zoetrope—with which children used to amuse themselves—to the latest moving picture.” (Nation.)
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=Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 70w.
“We have found some of the most interesting pages in Mr. Gibson’s book to be those describing the processes of reproduction for illustrations. A great deal of space and pains have been devoted to colour-photography and its difficulties, and some of this description has not attracted us much. Once or twice, in the earlier pages, Mr. Gibson might have been a little clearer if he had been a little more categorical.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 639. N. 2, ’07. 750w.
=Gibson, Thomas.= Pitfalls of speculation. *$1. Moody pub.
6–33639.
“The author of this little treatise undertakes to demonstrate that business methods are applicable to speculation, and that, when so applied, speculation itself becomes a ‘safe business.’... Chapters are devoted to Ignorance and over-speculation, Manipulation, Accidents, Business methods in speculation, Market technicalities, Tips, Mechanical speculation, Short selling, What 500 speculative accounts showed, Grain speculation, and Suggestions as to intelligent methods. The book treats mainly of speculative deals on margins, which are regarded as entirely legitimate forms of speculative trading.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 59. Ja. ’07. 100w.
“Mr. Gibson’s reasons against speculating are unanswerable, but we part company with him in the idea that he can teach successful speculation to any considerable number of scholars.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 754. N. 17, ’06. 1640w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 80w.
* =Gibson, W. R. Boyce.= Rudolph Eucken’s philosophy of life. 2d ed. *$1.40. Macmillan.
This second edition includes an appendix dealing with Professor Eucken’s doctrine of “activism” whose difference from pragmatism is explained in the following: “The pragmatism which has lately made so much headway, especially among English-speaking peoples, is more inclined to shape the world and life in accordance with human conditions and human needs, than to invest spiritual activity with an independence in relation to these, and apply its standards to the testing and sifting of the whole content of our human life.”
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“In point of form the book suffers manifestly from the circumstances of its origin. In spirit and tone, however, it is attractive, and the reader can hardly fail to be favourably impressed by the competence of the author for his task, both in the matter of zeal and of knowledge.” Alexander Mair.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 124. O. ’07. 790w. (Review of 1st ed.)
“An excellent statement of Eucken’s practical philosophy.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 326. O. 10, ’07. 200w. (Review of 2d ed.)
“But whether or not we assent to the author’s conclusions concerning the future influence of Eucken’s philosophy, this statement of it should find many readers, as a very compact and useful résumé of the interesting and stimulating point of view.” Edmund H. Hollands.
+ − =Philos. R.= 16: 548. S. ’07. 950w. (Review of 1st ed.)
=Giddings, Franklin Henry=, ed. Readings in descriptive and historical sociology. *$1.60. Macmillan.
6–39002.
“Mainly illustrative of sociological theory as given in his preceding works, and also in part an expansion of that theory. Its framework is an elaborate outline of theory given in definitions and propositions. Its filling is composed of select readings illustrative of this, gathered from all times and from peoples in every stage of social development, as found in literature and laws, official records, legends, and newspapers.”—Outlook.
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“The reviewer wishes to add that while these remarks are mainly critical in character, they express rather the deep interest which he has in the fundamental issues which Professor Giddings’ book raises than any desire to ignore the many positive merits which the book has, and which will certainly secure it a wide reading among those who are interested in the sources of sociological theory and in the author’s own theory of their value and interpretation for a science of society.” H. Heath Bawden.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 845. My. ’07. 3900w.
“It is much more than its title indicates, for it contains, besides a careful selection of readings, an outline of sociological theory which, in many particulars, is new and interesting.” Charles A. Ellwood.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 232. Ja. ’07. 630w.
Reviewed by R. C. Chapin.
+ =Charities.= 17: 472. D. 15, ’06. 430w.
“The selections cover a wide field and show extensive and patient research. The greater part of these would probably be unavailable for the general student were he obliged to go to the sources himself.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 250w.
“The puzzle seems to be: Fit these extracts, if you can, into the author’s general scheme of sociological classification and terminology. The value of it all we shall leave to those who have the courage to try it.”
− =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 450w.
=Outlook.= 84: 894. D. 8, ’06. 260w.
“The book will be of great value to the isolated student and teacher.”
+ + =Yale R.= 15: 467. F. ’07. 220w.
=Gilbert, Charles Benajah.= School and its life. $1.25. Silver.
6–21911.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The fact that the book lacks continuity diminishes its value, but the treatment of some subjects ... shows a grasp of the real situation and a breadth of vision born only of real contact with a great system of schools. The benefits of co-operation applied to parent, teacher, and pupil are clearly shown.” J. Stanley Brown.
+ − =El. School T.= 7: 368. F. ’07. 220w.
“This book, it seems to me, is one of the significant educational contributions of the year. What makes it significant is in large part the rare combination of philosophic insight with a wealth of practical experience.” Irving E. Miller.
+ + =School R.= 15: 228. Mr. ’07. 780w.
=Gilbert, George Holley.= Short history of Christianity in the apostolic age. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–41055.
“This is a proper sequel to ‘Constructive studies on the life of Christ’ by Professors Burton and Mathews.... That work was based on the gospels; this is concerned with the remainder of the New Testament. Its successive portions first narrate events and comment upon them, then propose questions and suggestions for study, with supplementary topics and references to literature.... The volume is finely illustrated.”—Outlook.
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“The material is conveniently divided, and interestingly and ably treated.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 28: 432. D. ’06. 40w.
=Ind.= 61: 1572. D. 27, ’06. 50w.
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 141. Ja. 19, ’07. 180w.
=Gilbert, Nelson Rust.= Affair at Pine Court: a tale of the Adirondacks. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–30455.
A fashionable house party at a New Yorker’s country home in the Adirondacks is made the scene of this tale of love, mystery and adventure. A Pomeranian count arouses the greed of the humble natives by exhibiting the wonderful “Lens of the Grau” in the presence of his host’s butler. These envious enemies of the rich pleasure seekers at the court put the house in a state of siege during which each guest displays his or her real character and all ends in safety and happiness.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Gilchrist, Alexander.= Life of William Blake; ed. with introd. by W. Graham Robertson, il. *$3.50. Lane.
W 6–375.
A reprint of a standard source for facts and personal interpretation of Blake’s life. To the illustrations appearing in the original edition, Mr. Robertson has added a number of colour prints, drawings, etc. from his own notable Blake collection, thus emphasizing particularly the fame of Blake the painter.
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Reviewed by A. Clutton-Brock.
+ + =Acad.= 71: 524. N. 24, ’06. 900w.
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 828. D. 29. 240w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 169. F. ’07. 1100w.
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 282. Ja. ’07. 690w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 84. Jl. ’07. 210w.
=Lond. Times.= 6: 12. Ja. 11, ’07. 1370w.
“This reprint is admirable from the point of view of the general reader, and, by reason of its illustrations, necessary also to the special student.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 160w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 708. D. 8, ’06. 340w.
+ + =Spec.= 97: 826. N. 24, ’06. 230w.
=Gilchrist, Edward.= Tiles from a porcelain tower. *$1.25. Riverside press, Cambridge, Mass.
6–45067.
A volume of verse chief among whose poems are “those more expressly from the Porcelain tower, ‘the pride and symbol of Cathay,’ wherein the decaying splendors of the East are expressed with both imagination and humor.” (Nation.) There are also included some translations from the Greek, Danish, Russian and the Chinese.
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“The lyrics of a reflective mind, but their flow is far from musical—a defect due in part to the frequent collocation of ill-matched vocables, and in part to the fact that the movement is too much clogged with ideas.” Wm. M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 43: 93. Ag. 16, ’07. 210w.
“Mr. Gilchrist has plainly done a good deal of rather virile thinking, and as he has made his ingeniously plotted verse the vehicle rather for his notion than for his moods, his work has much of the peculiar pithiness that marked the work of the concettists in their less fantastic vein.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 200. F. 28, ’07. 340w.
* =Gilder, Richard Watson.= Fire divine. **$1. Century.
7–32109.
This volume adds sixty new pieces to the poetry of the author, including memorial verses on Carl Schurz, George Macdonald, Josephine Shaw Lowell, Emma Lazarus, and Thomas Bailey Aldrich; poems to music and musicians; and a requiem for Augustus Saint-Gaudens, entitled “Under the stars.”
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
=Gillespie, G. Curtis.= Rumford fireplaces, and how they are made. $2. Comstock, W: T.
7–11989.
“A reprint of Count Rumford’s essay on Fireplaces is here accompanied by a discussion of the same subject by Mr. Gillespie. In the course of his discussion ... Mr. Gillespie introduced a number or drawings and sketches of his own, illustrating fireplaces designed by him, of the so-called Rumford type ... also mantels of his own design, and reproductions of views of a large number of fireplaces, andirons, and the like, both mediaeval and modern.”—Engin. N.
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=Engin. N.= 57: 436. Ap. 18, ’07. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 154. Mr. 16, ’07. 110w.
=Technical Literature.= 1: 224. My. ’07. 60w.
=Gilman, Bradley.= Open secret of Nazareth. **$1. Crowell.
6–26086.
“Ten letters written by Bartimaeus, whose eyes were opened, to Thomas, a seeker after truth.” A traveler in the Holy Land writes his impressions and conviction to a friend at home. “‘The open secret’ which Jesus strove to impart—the truth which, however evident, eludes so many—is that of the Consecrated will—the active endeavor on all the small or serious occasions presenting themselves at the cross-roads of daily life to identify one’s self with the divine will of pure goodness to all our fellows.”—Outlook.
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“It is suffused with devotional feeling and animated with poetic imagination, but clear in moral insight.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 180w.
=Gilman, Lawrence.= Music of to-morrow, and other studies. *$1.25. Lane.
7–10576.
Mr. Gilman “attempts to prophesy what will be the general character of the music of the next half-century. He admits the temerity of the attempt, but argues boldly and convincingly. His broad general dictum is that the permanent elements of the music of the future will have to do with ‘that region of experience which lies over the borderland of our spiritual consciousness.’ It will forsake the ‘incessant exploitation of the dynamic element in life’ and urge us to listen for ‘the vibrations of the spirit beneath.’”—R. of Rs.
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“The general impression left by this book is that on the whole the title has been well chosen. Mr. Lawrence Gilman gives expression to some interesting ideas about music held by himself in common with enthusiastic modern thinkers.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 126. F. 2, ’07. 440w.
“The best written and conceived essay in Mr. Gilman’s interesting little volume is that devoted to Claude Debussy, the poet and dreamer. I do not care much for his Liszt essay. It does not dig enough into the subject. Mr. Gilman’s book is interesting, at times gracefully written, and strives to understand the music of to-day. This latter quality is in itself a critical feat, for in critic-land we usually face the setting sun.” James Huneker.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 32. Mr. ’07. 1120w.
Reviewed by Josiah Renick Smith.
+ =Dial.= 42: 224. Ap. 1, ’07. 180w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 518. D. 13, ’06. 340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 869. D. 15, ’06. 490w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 100w.
=Spec.= 98: 139. Ja. 26, ’07. 930w.
=Gilman, Lawrence.= Strauss’ “Salome;” a guide to the opera; with musical il. *$1. Lane.
7–18584.
A guide containing a description of the drama, a full analysis of Strauss’s score, also musical illustration and examples.
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=Current Literature.= 42: 294. Mr. ’07. 2410w.
=Dial.= 42: 118. F. 16, ’07. 40w.
“It will be a useful guide for those who desire to reach below the surface of Strauss’s remarkable book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 31. Ja. 19, ’07. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 50w.
* =Giry, Arthur, and Reville, Andre.= Emancipation of the mediaeval towns; tr. and ed. by Frank Greene Bates and Paul Emerson Titsworth. (Historical miscellany.) pa. 50c. Holt.
7–20319.
A translation of chapter 8 of the second volume of Lavisse and Rambaud’s ‘Histoire générale.’ It covers in four chapters the rise of towns in France: The origins, The communal revolution, The communes and Towns of burgessy and new towns.
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“In this terse, closely compact monograph no space has been devoted to fine writing. We have here a concise and clearly intelligible account of those communities in the middle ages which were the precursors of our modern commonwealths.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 626. O. 19, ’07. 230w.
“In its field it is unsurpassed; and the general student will learn more by studying the vivid picture which it presents than he could hope to learn by attacking at the start the whole question of municipal organization, in all its uncertainties and complexities. The translators have done their work well; especially do they deserve commendation for accepting frankly the terms for which there is really no English equivalent.”
+ + =Yale R.= 16: 334. N. ’07. 140w.
=Given, John La Porte.= Making a newspaper. **$1.50. Holt.
7–16382.
“A detailed account of the business, editorial, reportorial, and manufacturing organization of the daily newspaper in a large city.” The author’s deductions are made from his own large newspaper experience. He shows how editors gain their information and how all classes of civilization contribute consciously or unconsciously, to the daily record of happenings. In addition to chapters covering the general workings of the newspaper, he discusses such subjects as preparing for journalism, getting a situation, prizes in journalism, with the printers, and the money-making department.
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“Interesting, apparently trustworthy, journalistic in style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 165. O. ’07. S.
“Clearly and forcibly written for the most part, but somewhat painfully devoid of idealism.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 261. S. 7. 1880w.
“Interesting and seemingly trustworthy account of all branches of his profession.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 18. Jl. 1. ’07. 310w.
“The book will occupy a place on the literary journalist’s shelf beside Mr. E. L. Shuman’s ‘Practical journalism,’ and, while it will not wholly supersede the Chicagoan’s brisk lively compendium, it possesses the peculiar merit of giving the most comprehensive and thorogoing account of New York newspaper making that has so far found its way into print.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 399. Ag. 15. ’07. 380w.
“Within its lines it is excellent.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 97. Jl. 20, ’07. 70w.
“Mr. Given’s style is clear and trenchant, his phrases well chosen, and the entire book is good reading for any one.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 190. Ag. 29, ’07. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 139. Mr. 9, ’07. 180w.
“He understands his subject, or as much of it as he has cared to write about, as well as any one man could be expected to understand it, and his writing is lucid.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 287. My. 4, ’07. 200w.
=Glazier, Richard.= Manual of historic ornament. *$2. Scribner.
A second edition revised and enlarged. It is surprising how many examples of the ornament of past ages in many countries “have been collected together in this book, with its clear pen drawings. These include not only architecture, but glass, silver, ivory, carpets, furniture, china, and sculpture. There is a running commentary which clearly indicates the main outlines of the subject.” (Spec.)
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“Useful handbook.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 58. D. ’06. 250w.
“For a book devoted avowedly to ‘ornament’ there is an unexpected amount of care and thoughtful analysis given to architecture in the larger sense of construction, disposition, and ordonnance. There is no index of consequence. On this account one doubts the practical utility of the book. The general tendency of the book is to be praised.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 345. Ap. 11, ’07. 390w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 542. Ap. 6, ’07. 80w.
=Gloag, M. R.= Book of English gardens; il. by Katharine Montagu Wyatt. $2. Macmillan.
7–2583.
An introductory sketch of gardening “from Eden onwards” precedes a description of thirteen famous English “out-of-door drawingrooms.” Among them are Abbotsbury, Beckett, Sutton Place, Brownsea Island and Wrest Park. “The author has interwoven with her various descriptions and appreciations historical and genealogical facts agreeable to a gossiping palate.” (Ath.)
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“The writing is easy and unpretentious; and the illustrations are effective.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 621. N. 17. 210w.
“The book is full of laboriously collected information connected with the family history of the owners of the famous houses and gardens in England. They are the homes and gardens of the titled rich. The book has the interest of an old curio.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 501. F. 28, ’07. 210w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 277. Ja. ’07. 250w.
“It is more than possible that the text of this attractive volume was written to fit the pictures, and hence it is not surprising that there is a misfit here and there. But despite the imperfect coördination, the treatment is admirable in its way.”
+ − =Nation.= 84:208. F. 28, ’07. 300w.
“Such a volume needs no recommendation.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 407. S. 22, ’06. 100w.
=Glyn, Elinor.= Three weeks. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–21536.
A brief story which is an exaltation of sensuous fascination into an affair of the soul and which casts the moral law to the four winds of heaven. A titled young Englishman is sent away from home to be cured of his love for a rural English girl with red hands. In Paris he meets and falls in love with the queen of a Russian dependency, “infinitely sinuous and attractive” who is residing at his hotel incognito. They yield entirely to the sway of their love which the author’s art aims to transform into the poetry of sentiment. They suffer the agony of it in separation followed by tragedy.
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“She is too desperately anxious to shock her middle-class readers and impress them with upholstery of her high-born heroine. The result is that you laugh a little and yawn a little and are not shocked at all, but only rather bored by a vulgar and extremely silly story.”
− =Acad.= 72: 635. Je. 29, ’07. 320w.
“It is not in the least amusing, and the sentiments it evokes in others are both cynical and disagreeable.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 755. Je. 22. 200w.
“‘Misrepresentation and misunderstanding’ are bound to be her portion, because she has slapped down a host of immaturities on the most perilous of subjects, making the venture bravely with a limited capital of expression and insight.”
− =Lit. D.= 35: 613. O. 26, ’07. 310w.
“The whole leaves a bewildering doubt—has Elinor Glyn become perfectly indifferent to her reputation or, by any mischance, is she beginning to take herself seriously?”
− =Nation.= 85: 328. O. 10, ’07. 170w.
“Ethics may require that a tale be lewd; but it’s a crime for it to be stupid.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 580. S. 28, ’07. 640w.
“She sets out to write a story of mere animal passion, but she succumbed to the atmosphere of the moral idea, which is still characteristic of literature in these islands, and she ended in a melodrama.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 754. Je. 15, ’07. 570w.
=Godkin, Edwin Lawrence.= Life and letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin; ed. by Rollo Ogden. 2v. **$4. Macmillan.
7–12877.
An interesting biography written by one who knew Mr. Godkin personally and who writes appreciatively of the many phases of the man who left Ireland in his youth, was for 35 years a conspicuous figure in New York journalism, and exercised a great influence in American political and social life. The story of his life naturally throws many side lights upon the men and politics of his day.
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“It is unfortunate that the arrangement of the display is so defective. There is no table of contents and no outline of topics. The division into chapters might as well have been omitted, or else made to mean something. The index seems imperfect, and worst of all, the chronology of the story is ofttimes in a hopeless jumble.” Charles H. Levermore.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 168. O. ’07. 950w.
“It has rarely been our pleasure to read a work at once so interesting and valuable as this.” Charles Lee Raper.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 612. N. ’07. 1080w.
“The reader is now and then admitted with fair discretion into the privacies of Godkin’s life. But the book hardly, perhaps, does justice to its subject, and a slipshod index in no way atones for the absence of a table of the contents of its ill-arranged chapters.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 752. Je. 22. 1750w.
Reviewed by M. A. de Wolfe Howe.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 421. S. ’07. 2160w.
“It is marvellously clever editing, but it lacks something which enters into really great biographies. We miss that full and intimate characterisation which Mr. Ogden is so admirably qualified to give. His method suggests either indolence or a wrong perception of what a book should be. Here we have pearls, not strung, perhaps, at random, but still suggestive of a too great self-suppression on the part of him who strung them. The book is immensely interesting.” Richard W. Kemp.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 184. Ap. ’07. 2700w.
“The work of Mr. Ogden on these volumes has been admirably done. With an editorial self-suppression which finds its best parallel in the work of Professor Norton, he has given us Mr. Godkin’s story from Mr. Godkin’s own pen, supplying only the connecting links without which that story could not be fully understood.” W. H. Johnson.
+ =Dial.= 42: 216. Ap. 1, ’07. 2120w.
“Mr. Godkin knew every one who was worth knowing both in public and private life, and his comments are singularly keen, even when they are hasty and unfair. Moreover, these memoranda cover a long and interesting period of history.” Harry Thurston Peck.
+ =Forum.= 39: 100. Jl. ’07. 1270w.
“Taken collectively the correspondence forms an unusually instructive study of a man whose being was almost exclusively political.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 568. S. 5, ’07. 1000w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 140w.
“[The volumes] have distinct value and interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 720w.
“There is far too much padding in his two volumes, consisting of copious extracts from Godkin’s early journalistic correspondence.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 180. Je. 7, ’07. 1300w.
“Both in the selection and in the arrangement of all this material, Mr. Ogden has performed his task with admirable taste and skill.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 360. Ap. 18, ’07. 2440w.
“Mr. Ogden has done the work of editing with great modesty and with good judgment.” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 252. Ap. 20, ’07. 2000w.
“Nothing within our knowledge compares with them in the vivid portrayal of current affairs during the last half of the last century. They will be for a long time to come a repertory from which the historian and the essayist will draw their facts.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 294. Je. 8, ’07. 1900w.
“This book of Mr. Odgen’s is less the biography of an individual than it is the revelation of just how the silent but irresistible forces of political and social change are fostered and directed until they have done their perfect work.” Harry Thurston Peck.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 520. S. ’07. 670w.
“Is a biography of the best, containing in its two plump volumes a minimum of excellent commentary, and a maximum of invaluable documentary material.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 110. O. ’07. 390w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 635. My. ’07. 240w.
“We earnestly recommend every thinking man, who values the principles of honesty, decency and rationality in the public life of his country, to read every word of these two volumes, and ponder well upon their significance.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 82. Jl. 20, ’07. 1670w.
“As a biography, indeed, it is open to some criticism. It does not follow the rules on which most memoirs are composed.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 797. My. 18, ’07. 1430w.
=Goe, David E.=, ed. Transaction of business, by Sir Arthur Helps [with], How to win a fortune, by Andrew Carnegie; [and other essays]. $1. Forbes.
These practical papers on business are offered to the merchant and manufacturers who will relish their wit, wisdom, and advice. Such subjects as; Choice and management of agents, Interviews, Secrecy, Our judgment of other men, Analyzing of a business proposition, Delays, and expense, are discussed by men who have succeeded.
=Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.= Goethe’s Faust, erster teil; ed. with introd. and commentary by Julius Goebel. *$1.12. Holt.
7–11976.
The text of this edition of the first part of Faust is that of Erich Schmidt, in the Jubiläumsausgabe of Goethe’s works, to which the editor has added an illuminating introduction and excellent notes.
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“Altogether, this edition of Faust is a credit to American scholarship and an important step in the development of sound methods in the academic study of German literature.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 344. Ap. 11, ’07. 330w.
“He has been able to vitalize rather than stifle the imagination in reading the poet’s pages, and to enrich the reader philosophically rather than tantalize him with evasive verbiage of metaphysical dissertation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 295. My. 4, ’07. 250w.
=Gomperz, Theodor.= Greek thinkers: a history of ancient philosophy, v. 3. *$4. Scribner.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In less than one hundred pages, and in a style eminently luminous and readable, the author has condensed a wealth of interpretation and criticism which can only be described as masterly.” Lewis Campbell.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 5: 439. Ja. ’07. 5320w. (Review of v. 3, pt. 1.)
=Gonner, E. C. K.= Interest and saving. *$1.25. Macmillan.
The two essays of which this volume is composed “attempt an analysis of the connection which exists between interest and the process of saving whereby wealth is accumulated and capital supplied.”
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“The book offers, besides its theoretic interest, many common-sense remarks as to the standard of living and the natural objection felt to a drop in that standard.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 184. Ag. 18. 840w.
“Despite the scholarship of the author and the acuteness of some minor arguments, the book contains little new and that fallacious.” Frank A. Fetter.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 160. Mr. ’07. 690w.
“We confess that the issues involved seem often to be too much overshadowed by the number and magnitude of the hypotheses under which each case is considered. It is, for the student, an admirable exercise in dialectics.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 306. S. 1, 06. 180w.
=Goodchild, G. F., and Tweney, C. F.=, eds. Technological and scientific dictionary. *$6. Lippincott.
GS 7–673.
“The various arts and sciences ... are treated in this dictionary. Much space is devoted to chemistry, a fair amount to mechanical and electrical engineering, and relatively little to civil engineering. Music and heraldry are among the main topics.... Among the other leading subjects included are architecture, assaying, astronomy, economic botany and zoology, building trades, geology, glass and leather manufacture, hygiene, metallurgy, mineralogy, motor cars, oil and paint manufacture, photography, textiles and watch making”—Engin. N.
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“A thoroughly British point of view. The physical make-up of the book is generally satisfactory, its poorest feature being a portion of the illustrations, some of the line diagrams and woodcuts being badly blurred.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 638. D. 13, ’06. 220w.
=Goodell, Charles L.= Old Darnman; il. by Charles Grunwald. (Hour-glass ser.) **40c. Funk.
6–46349.
The “Darnman” is a pathetic figure whose mental disorder resulted from the death of his affianced bride upon their wedding day. Clad in his wedding garments, for two generations he went the rounds of the farmers’ homes, accepted one-meal hospitality, and invariably asked for needle and yarn to mend his threadbare clothes. This little story has grown out of the traditional bits gathered from different sources.
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“A charming but very sad little story, which is of value, however, as recording in permanent form the history of one who was a familiar figure to many New Englanders of an earlier generation.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 37: 332. Mr. ’07. 270w.
“The story is told with pathos and delicacy.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 170w.
“It is one of those little stories which, for the few minutes necessary to read it, take one out of the humdrum of everyday existence, and so is worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 77. F. 9, ’07. 80w.
=Goodell, Charles Lee.= Pastoral and personal evangelism. **$1. Revell.
7–25069.
Really a dissertation upon the sort of evangelism that in two years raised the membership of the Calvary Methodist church in New York from fourteen hundred to twenty-four hundred, “a record of fact and conviction wrought out in the thick of the fight.” Dr. Goodell says that “evangelism is the aggressive propaganda of the Christian life.”
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 663. O. 19, ’07. 80w.
“Inspirational, practical, methodical, this is a helpful book for the development of latent Christian power.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 133. S. 21, ’07. 150w.
=Goodrich, Arthur Frederick.= Balance of power. $1.50. Outing pub.
6–31388.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 25. Ja. ’07.
“The banality of the closing chapter is an unfortunate sequel to an otherwise excellent love story.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 601. My. 18. 110w.
“All that was required to make it a strong story, instead of a story of a strong man, was the service of an editor capable of eliminating superfluous verbiage, dovetailing incidents and interlacing the threads in such a manner that the narrative might have run along, if not altogether smoothly, at least without a surfeit of interruption.” George Harvey.
− + =No. Am.= 184: 188. Ja. 18, ’07. 1100w.
=Gordon, Armistead C.= Ivory gate. $1.25. Neale.
7–31168.
Twenty-five slender poems written long ago and still singing sweetly of love as a young man dreams of it, but to several is added a final verse dispelling the illusion by the light of an old bachelor’s experience.
=Gordon, Mrs. Elizabeth Oke.= Saint George, champion of Christendom and patron saint of England. *$5. Dutton.
7–29061.
The book consists of four parts. Besides a biographical sketch of the martyr, there are chapters on the Commemoration of St. George in church liturgies and national institutions, on Celebrated knights of St. George, and on St. George in art.
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“As a whole the book has little historical worth. The author does not appear to discriminate in the least between legend, poetry, chronicle, and sealed documents for their value as sources. This quality or indifference to modern historical criticism seems to us a far more serious fault in the book than the occasional actual misstatements of the author.” D. S. Muzzey.
− − + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 173. O. ’07 450w.
“Her book, on the whole, is a disappointment, owing to its omissions and its general lack of thoroughness.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 178. Ag. 17. 1860w.
“Those who wish to read a sober and discreet attempt to unravel the actual history of the three heroes that bore the name of George—the Arian archbishop, the tribune, and the martyr—will prefer to consult Miss F. Arnold-Forster’s ‘Studies in church dedications;’ or, ‘England’s patron saints,’ ii. 464–74.” G.
− =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 824. O. ’07. 590w.
“When one considers how much good literature can be bought nowadays for five dollars it would be impossible to praise this book with any heartiness even if it reached a higher level of style and scholarship than it does.”
− =Nation.= 85: 348. O. 17, ’07. 350w.
=Gordon, George Angier.= Through man to God. **$1.50. Houghton.
6–35977.
Dr. Gordon’s doctrine preached in these sermons is that the heart and soul of Christianity should be interpreted, not thru nature, but thru nature’s highest concept, man, to the Creator of man.
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“One of the discourses ‘Belief and fear,’ though true and strong in its main thought, is greatly marred by an extraordinary misuse of the text, ‘The devils also believe and tremble.’” Theodore G. Soares.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 712. O. ’07. 230w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 238. D. ’06.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
=Atlan.= 99: 563. Ap. ’07. 290w.
=Ind.= 62: 97. Ja. 10, ’07. 150w.
“In seriousness of purpose, in professional self-respect, in dignity of undertaking, Dr. Gordon has not violated the canons of the worthy order to which he belongs.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 227. Mr. 7, ’07. 790w.
“For all these reasons—for their philosophic grasp, their modern view, their poetic vision, their vigorous faith, and their sane and tender feeling—we commend this volume of sermons both to the thoughtful reader and to the homiletical student.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 141. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Gordon, Samuel.= Ferry of fate: a tale of Russian Jewry. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–12695.
Two young Jews, after struggling for two years against poverty and opposition in the Odessa University, come under the ban of expulsion. One is reinstated because he finds favor with the prefect, who lures him into an assistant secretaryship, demanding that origin and religion be forgotten. The other goes back to his little town and with his people takes up the cudgel against the government. The story follows the mental agony of the traitor Jew and the retribution which human justice fixes for his portion.
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“If there is a failure in the book, it is in the portrait of Nyman the ferryman, who alone among Mr. Gordon’s personages suggests the melodramatic Russian Nihilist of the detective novel. ‘The ferry of fate’ deserves to be read carefully. The author has aimed high, and most of his readers will agree that he has hit the mark.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 661. Je. 2. 180w.
“Shows the hand of the promising apprentice.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 219. Jl. 25, ’07. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 499. Ag. 17, ’07. 60w.
=Spec.= 97: 63. Jl. 14, ’06. 110w.
=Gordon, William Clark.= Social ideals of Alfred Tennyson as related to his time. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–25171.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“To a refined appreciation of beautiful literature the author unites considerable knowledge of modern sociology.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 715. O. ’07. 150w.
“The book, which we would gladly examine in more detail, is well worth study. One criticism we must make. Why does Mr. Gordon put the ‘Wesleyan revival’ as one of the five causes which wrought a great social change in Tennyson’s time?”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 686. N. 3, ’06. 170w.
=Gorky, Maxim.= Mother; il. by Sigmund de Ivanowski. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–16750.
After the death of a brutal husband a mother turns to her son and in winning him back to virtue frees herself from the “dazed, cowed” state into which she had been beaten. “Led into dangerous, forbidden ways, coming into a knowledge of the risks they run who think for themselves in Russia, she goes on with a courage and love absolutely sublime.” (Outlook.)
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“Depicts present-day life in Russia without exaggeration or morbidness.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 179. O. ’07.
“As a document, it will have value for all students of socialism.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 667. Ag. ’07. 280w.
“Like all Gorky’s work it is sternly realistic, free from the tricks of the romanticists, without elaborated plot, just a piece of the web of life, as plain and patternless as when it left the loom of the fates.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 159. Jl. 18, ’07. 340w.
“His book is a sort of rude epic of Russian poverty and oppression, from which nothing is omitted.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 961. Je. 15, ’07. 430w.
“Hardly elsewhere has socialism spoken with a voice at once so deep and so gentle.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 560w.
“A powerful story, which may be too sentimental and overwrought, but deserves serious attention.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 272. Ap. 27, ’07. 60w.
“This book peculiarly merits its sacred title.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 333. My. 25, ’07. 840w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“This is a great and serious book; it has exquisite description and idealization of nature, and yet it has the flaw which Maxim Gorki has himself pointed out in all his works; it does not give us joy.” Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + − =No. Am.= 85: 661. Jl. 19, ’07. 1300w.
“Gorky has lost none of his grim power.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 160w.
“The book is not pleasant reading but it is as much better than his previous work as growth is better than decay.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 111. O. ’07. 180w.
“Since, however, Russia, and, for that matter, Slav letters generally, are so little known,—even if frequently talked about,—in the United States, we would particularly commend this excellent translation of Gorky’s latest book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 763. Je. ’07. 360w.
=Goron, Marie Francois.= Truth about the case: the experiences of M. F. Goron, ex-chief of the Paris detective police; ed. by Albert Keyzer; il. by A. G. Dove. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–17362.
Thirteen detective stories based upon the personal experiences of the ex-chief of the Paris detective police. Among them are stories of crimes of murder, of blackmail, and robbery. Many interesting characters ranging from the indiscreet society woman to the habitual criminal are introduced as in tale after tale, mystifying and complicated plots are untangled by the master mind of the old detective.
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=Acad.= 72: 126. F. 2, ’07. 640w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 335. My. 25, ’07. 260w.
“If in these stories the clue is not so obscure nor the crime so intricate as in the best detective romances, there is mystery enough to make the account of its solution thoroughly entertaining, and what they may lose in melodramatic excitement they gain in apparent reality.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 160w.
=Gorst, Sir John E.= Children of the nation. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–25650.
A book whose object is to bring home to the people of Great Britain a sense of the danger of neglecting the physical condition of the nation’s children. Some of the chapters deal with infant mortality, children under school age, underfed children, overworked children, children’s ailments, physical training, hereditary disease, and the home.
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“The book under review is serviceable because of its analysis of the conditions involved in child health rather than for the remedies proposed for physical defects.” W: H. Allen.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 609. N. ’07. 460w.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 39. Ja. 12. 1640w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 858. Ap. 11, ’07. 290w.
“The book is written with a glow of enthusiasm and conviction which makes it very delightful reading and even those who would not agree with many of his conclusions and recommendations, could hardly fail to peruse it with interest and appreciation.” Millicent Mackenzie.
+ + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 128. O. ’07. 670w.
“Sir John Gorst’s book is a great deal better than most of its class. It is less sentimental and is written with some restraint, though with point and vigour, and it lays out the subject in a fairly comprehensive and orderly way; but it belongs to the class and exhibits, in some degree, the usual defects. Nothing is adequately discussed; the facts given are scrappy, selected, and not always accurate; over-statement is common; too much weight is attached to mere opinions; some important questions are omitted, and in regard to others the writer’s knowledge is seriously defective.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 12: 58. F. 22, ’07. 1230w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 317. Ap. 4, ’07. 770w.
“A wholesome common sense characterizes the author’s counsels and suggestions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 300w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 743. D. 15, ’06. 1620w.
=Spec.= 97: 987. D. 15, ’06. 520w.
* =Gorst, Nina Kennedy.= Light. $1.50. Dodge. B. W.
Misery and temptation are depicted in this story, the central figure of which is a servant girl who has a child out of wedlock. She is buffeted about from place to place in the underworld, and, finally, after repeated struggle, the light comes thru the lispings of her child.
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“Mrs. Gorst is not successful in her treatment of such menfolk as appear in her pages, but her landladies, laundry-girls, and cottagers deserve praise as individual and truly excellent portraits.”
+ − =Acad.= 70: 430. My. 5, ’06. 490w.
“Mrs. Gorst’s new story is not an advance on ‘This our sister!’ The sense of form and proportion is even less conspicuous, and a certain crude and rather brutal outlook, suggestive of force, is absent. Instead we find more diffuseness, and a fainter show of purpose and individual vision.”
− =Ath.= 1906. 1: 542. My. 5. 190w.
“We could have well spared some incidents; and the most sordid, which is also the most superfluous, is nearest to melodrama of the lower order.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 5: 142. Ap. 20, ’06. 520w.
=Spec.= 96: 758. My. 12, ’06. 150w.
=Goss, William F. M.= locomotive performance. $5. Wiley.
6–46367.
“This valuable work by Dr. Goss covers the very important field of locomotive steam engineering from a standpoint that prior to the development of the engineering laboratory at Purdue university was never possible. Dr. Goss has combined in this volume the most important results obtained from the Purdue tests, records of which have from time to time been separately published, together with other material never before published, thereby making a ‘permanent and accessible record of the work of the laboratory.’”—Engin. N.
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“This work of Dr. Goss will rank at the head of the scientific and technical standards of reference in locomotive engineering. It presents information on important points obtained with great care and accuracy and under conditions never before made possible until the establishing of the Purdue testing plant and engineering laboratories.” Arthur M. Waitt.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 57: 192. F. 14, ’07. 2050w.
* =Gosse, Edmund William.= Father and son: biographical recollections. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–36407.
The “struggle between two temperaments” forms the subject-matter of this volume relating to Edmund Gosse and his father. The offspring of parents married late in life, the boy grows up in an atmosphere heavily charged with extreme English Puritanism. “When the child’s ‘temperament’ began to develop, it displayed itself as a passionate attachment to the romantic in art and poetry; and there were infinite possibilities of discord between a father who, though he enjoyed declaiming the sonorous lines of Virgil and Milton, prided himself on never having read a page of Shakespeare, and a son who saved up his pocket money to buy the poems of Coleridge and Keats, and, on one occasion, Christopher Marlowe.” (Lond. Times.)
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“Beyond doubt, the charm of the book lies in the opening chapters, which describe the child’s sombre life in London, without playmates or companions, the sights he saw through the window; and the experiments he conducted alike in true religion and in idolatry, not, perhaps, much unlike those of other children, but told with all the skill of an accomplished man of letters.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 347. N. 15, ’07. 1060w.
“The whole book is as human in spirit as it is scientific in method.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 759. N. 30, ’07. 1640w.
“Offers to the curious an absorbing study of temperament.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 746. N. 30, ’07. 520w.
=Gosse, Edmund William.= Modern English literature: a short history. **$2.50. Stokes.
W 6–144.
In revising and enlarging this volume for the fifth edition, eight photogravures and sixty-four half tone portraits have been included. “Goethe said ... that the portrait of a man of letters was his best monument. If that be true, or even partly true, we cannot but hope that this illustrated edition ... may be found to possess some of the qualities of a literary Valhalla.” (Author in preface.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 84. Mr. ’07.
=Dial.= 41: 463. D. 16, ’06. 50w.
=Ind.= 61: 1061. N. 1, ’06. 40w.
“Has real value both for the student and general reader. The literary style, criticism, and method of treatment are satisfying.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 83: 813. D. 1, ’06. 270w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 94. Ja. 12, ’07. 90w.
=Gould, Francis Carruthers.= Political caricatures. $2. Longmans.
A fourth annual collection of the political caricatures of Sir Francis Gould “which are fully up to the former series of F. C. G.”
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“He has a knack of doing disagreeable things, when he thinks fit to do them, in a manner which excludes resentment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 800. D. 22. 280w.
“We may not catch all the fun of Gould’s pictures on this side of the Atlantic, but they would certainly serve admirably as an introduction to the study of contemporary British politics.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 48. Ja. 26, ’07. 310w.
“Keen, vigorous, good-humored, with the rarest possible exceptions, he is all that a political caricaturist should be.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 1051. D. 22, ’06. 90w.
=Gould, George Milbry.= Biographic clinics: essays concerning the influence of visual function, pathologic and physiologic upon the health of patients. 4v. ea. *$1. Blakiston.
=v. 1.= The origin of the ill-health of De Quincey, Carlyle, Darwin, Huxley and Browning.
=v. 2.= The origin of the ill-health of Wagner, Parkman, Mrs. Carlyle, Spencer, Whittier, Ossoli, Nietzsche and George Eliot.
=v. 3.= Essays concerning the influence of visual function, pathologic and physiologic, upon the health of patients.
=v. 4.= Morbid symptoms due to eye strain as illustrated by Balzac, Tchaikovsky, Flaubert, Lafcadio Hearn and Berlioz.
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“The temper of the man commends itself.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 258. Ap. 16, ’07. 300w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“The author’s attitude toward his critics, his resentment of the very general doubt of the conclusions of his earlier volumes on these subjects, and a certain harshness in presenting his material will much delay the conversion of those professional brethren, and there are very many of them, who find his theories rather too finely drawn to be acceptable.”
− =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 3.)
“It would do much to gain acceptance for the general doctrine of the writer were it but presented with more discretion and less acrimoniousness, and, we may add, much more briefly.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 295. Mr. 28, ’07. 160w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“Dr. Gould is a good writer, a man of large learning, and his sincerity is not to be questioned.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 124. Jl. ’07. 170w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
=Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-.= Book of the Pyrenees. **$1.50. Dutton.
7–35350.
A timely book in which Mr. Gould not only reviews the history of the past but with “personal knowledge takes us through ports and cirques to the bare plateaus, the broken forest land and the Alpine pastures, patrolled by the shepherds with their powerful dogs, the haunts of the bear, the wolf and the izard.” (Sat. R.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 165. O. ’07. S.
“Like its predecessors, the new work contains a great deal of information, and is easily—almost too easily—written.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 788. Je. 29. 400w.
“Essentially a guide-book, but one that is readable as well as practically helpful.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 40w.
“The illustrations, all in black and white, are very numerous, and are noteworthy for the softness and mellowness of the tones.”
− =Ind.= 62: 1357. Je. 6. ’07. 140w.
“If one must find a fault at all hazards, it will certainly be with the map, which is a mere sketch, noting not the tenth of the places touched upon, and therefore wholly inadequate for reference.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 236. S. 12, ’07. 440w.
“It will not be Mr. Baring-Gould’s fault if an exquisite mountain region is not better known and appreciated.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 525. Jl. 6, ’07. 70w.
=Sat. R.= 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 220w.
=Gouley, John W. S.= Dining and its amenities, by a lover of good cheer. *$2.50. Rebman co.
7–10595.
“Here are tales of how men have eaten in all ages. The savages reveling in long pig, Lucullus and his Roman friends dallying over nightingales’ tongues. Here are the moving histories of the beginnings and glorious consummations of the wines and liquors which to-day make glad our hearts and light our steps. Here are anecdotes, here are the maxims of that prince of the table, Brillat-Savarin, in their original French, with the translations appended. We are given the evolution of the table utensils as well as the food because of which they exist, and the glass and porcelain come in for a share of encomiums as well as the soup or the entrée.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Can therefore scarcely fail of attracting us to open its covers, and once open we find a lot to keep us turning the pages. The book is somewhat overloaded with words of Latin derivation.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 265. Ap. 27, ’07. 800w.
=Graham, Harry.= Familiar faces. il. $1. Duffield.
7–25157.
Some of the familiar faces which Captain Graham describes in rime are those of the baritone, the dentist, the man who knows, the waiter, the policeman, the music hall comedian, the faddist, and the gilded youth. Mr. Hall has assisted in the impressionism by introducing a series of very suggestive pen and ink sketches.
=Graham, Henry Grey.= Social life of Scotland in the eighteenth century. $2.50. Macmillan.
A new edition, which gives in a cheaper and more compact form than ever before, Mr. Graham’s exhaustive treatise upon the evolution which took place in the religion, education, agriculture, science, and art of eighteenth century Scotland.
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“Mr. Graham knows the minutiae of Scottish social life, and with anecdotes full of the peculiar national humor and notes that should not be skipped, shows us the people of thrift, faith, struggle and romance more fully than we have ever yet seen them.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1211. My. 23, ’07. 330w.
“One of the historical books for which there is a steady demand.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 437. N. 22, ’06. 330w.
“Always Mr. Graham is informing and always he is entertaining, his pages being lightened with a wealth of gossipy but illuminating allusion and anecdote, and his style faithfully mirroring the changing aspects of his theme.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 681. N. 17, ’06. 340w.
=Grant, Mrs. Colquhoun.= Queen and cardinal: a memoir of Anne of Austria, and of her relation with Cardinal Mazarin. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–25499.
“This is the story of the life of Anne of Austria, chiefly dealing with the events of that life during the period when she was Queen Regent. Naturally, it is largely concerned with the relations between the Queen Mother and Cardinal Mazarin. The question as to whether a private ceremony of marriage ever took place has never been authoritatively settled, although the opinion of most students of that period is that there actually was such a marriage. No real light is thrown on the question by this book, which is in its nature rather a popular narrative than a historical search into new material.”—Outlook.
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“Mrs. Colquhoun Grant should have revised her writing more carefully, as well as her history. Miss Pardoe and Miss Freer did not claim to be historians, but they wrote so well in the vein Mrs. Grant has chosen that they fairly occupy the field.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 381. Mr. 20. 840w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 341. Ag. 8, ’07. 310w.
“We do not feel that the book grows out of her knowledge, but rather that her knowledge has grown out of the book, and we turn for reality to the pages of her chief authority, Ann of Austria’s friend, Mme. de Motteville.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 53. F. 15, ’07. 1210w.
“Her volume should be attractive to those who, while interested in the bypaths of history, wish their study made easy.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 100. Ag. 1, ’07. 200w.
“Is not unworthy of the attention of those readers who lack knowledge or inclination to consult the French originals. It may be commended also to the persons who object to the freedom of those originals, for Mrs. Grant’s narrative avoids the more spicy and scandalous details in so far as the theme she treats permits such avoidance.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 95. F. 16, ’07. 1110w.
“Altogether, the book is readable, although it is not important, and might well have been published in less pretentious guise.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 482. F. 23, ’07. 200w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
=Putnam’s.= 2: 472. Jl. ’07. 380w.
“This volume is not without merit, and Mrs. Colquhoun Grant knows a good deal about her subject and tells her story in a not unpleasing style.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 178. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w.
+ − =Spec.= 99: 235. Ag. 17, ’07. 360w.
=Grant, Robert F. S., tr.= Before Port Arthur in a destroyer: the personal diary of a Japanese officer; tr. from the Spanish ed. *$3. Dutton.
A version made from a Spanish translation of a Japanese original. “The narrative takes in a period of something less than a year: January 26th, 1904–January 4th, 1905. The most animated part of it is the story of the boarding of a Russian ship early in March.” (Spec.)
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“The book does not read like a naval officer’s diary of operations in which he took the part described, so that we cannot extend to naval students our recommendation of the value, readable as is the spirited narrative of war.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 99. Ja. 26. 140w.
=Nation.= 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 170w.
=Spec.= 99: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 220w.
=Graves, Algernon=, comp. Royal academy of arts, per v. *$11. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 808. D. 22. 1570w. (Review of v. 7.)
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 611. My. 18. 1900w. (Review of v. 8.)
“A serious demerit is that Mr. Graves makes no distinction between pictures and drawings.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 86. Mr. 15, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 5–8.)
Gray mist, a novel; by the author of “The martyrdom of an empress.” **$1.50. Harper.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A tragic story with a wealth of poetic and picturesque vision.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 443. F. 21, ’07. 110w.
“A remarkable feature of this weird and powerful story, which, unlike most of the novels of the present day, leaves an indelible impression upon the mind, is a degree of restraint, rare in a woman, observed by the author.” Ex-Attache.
+ =No. Am.= 184: 413. F. 15, ’07. 1750w.
“The anonymous author’s ideas of Breton, or any life, entirely preclude meritorious novelistic composition.”
− =R. of Rs.= 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Greely, Adolphus Washington.= Handbook of Polar discoveries. 3d ed. $1.50. Little.
6–37224.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 54. F. ’07. ✠
“It is strictly a ‘handbook,’ a somewhat encyclopedic account based upon original sources, not meant for continuous reading. It is, nevertheless, a fascinating narrative.” E. T. Brewster.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 261. Ag. ’07. 130w.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 83. F. 1, ’07. 210w.
=Green, Alice Sophia Amelia (Stopford) (Mrs. John Richard Green).= Town life in the fifteenth century. 2v. in 1. **$4. Macmillan.
A reissue which merely brings the two volumes together under one cover. “The republication in a single volume will draw attention anew to this very interesting study of English borough life in a century which the author thinks to be, in many ways, ‘extraordinarily like our own.’” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Mrs. Green is certainly to be congratulated on the new edition in its present compact and convenient form.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 945. O. 17, ’07. 250w.
“A thorough study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 180w.
=Green, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs).= Mayor’s wife. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–17385.
A mystery lies back of the very strange behavior of a public man’s wife. In it are involved a young secretary, two witch-like old women, who constantly peer into the operations of the mayor’s household from the vantage point of their near-by window, and a loyal servant. The author weaves a ghost spell over the tale, in which former marriages, theft, and other villainy make hearts miserable.
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“It is a mystery story of more than ordinary ingenuity in its inventive resources. It lacks in human interest. There is none of the compelling imaginative genius displayed that makes the characters of a romance appeal to the reader as real flesh and blood men and women.”
+ − =Arena.= 38: 216. Ag. ’07. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“It has a great deal more plot than most books by its author, and possesses some psychological interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 70w.
=Green, Helen.= At the actors’ boarding house, and other stories. pa. 50c. Helen Green, 826 8th Av., N. Y.
6–45045.
“The book takes its name from a boarding house kept by one Maggie de Shine, a professional herself in her younger days, and patronized by such ‘top-liners’ of vaudeville as the Property Man, the Buck Dancer, the Ingenue, the Three Mangles, Bertine Feathers and her six Pantella Girls, the Texarkana Comedy Four, Mildred Molar, the Queen of Burlesque, and a score of others whose dinner-table talks, punctuated by an occasional ‘scrap,’ are described in speech racy enough to make George Ade’s slang conventional English in comparison.”—Bookm.
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“Mrs. Green has not yet completely mastered the art of story telling. It is as a writer of newspaper sketches that she excells ... real pictures of real life, written from the inside, and although often running cheek by jowl with crime and vice, never repulsive.” James L. Ford.
− + =Bookm.= 25: 431. Je. ’07. 1220w.
=Greenstone, Julius H.= Messiah idea in Jewish history. $1.25. Jewish pub.
7–4165.
A refutation of the assertion that Judaism has no dogmas. From the stories of Jewish lore, the author proves “that dogma played as important a part in the development of Jewish institutions as did the law, that Judaism ‘regulates not only our actions but also our thoughts.’”
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=Nation.= 84: 289. Mr. 28, ’07. 70w.
“For Christian as well as Jewish readers this is an instructive book.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 622. Mr. 16, ’07. 150w.
=Gribble, Francis Henry.= Madame de Staël and her lovers. *$3.50. Pott.
The marriage which was a “mere bargain, and ensuing liaisons numerous and frank” occupy the writer who essays to portray this strong personality “brought up in the salons of the eighteenth century, in the midst of all that was most brilliant in the Paris of that day, and carried on a wave of European fame through the revolution, the empire, and the restoration.” (Spec.)
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“The worst things about Mr. Gribble’s book are the title and the preface. A clear and vivacious piece of biography which excels in interest many recent novels.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 376. Mr. 30. 1260w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 237. N. ’07. 420w.
“This is a very interesting and, indeed, a brilliant book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 4. My. 4, ’07. 870w.
“Mr. Gribble’s study of Benjamin Constant is curious, and a good deal of it will be new to English readers.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 94. Jl. 20, ’07. 1620w.
=Grierson, Elizabeth W.= Children’s book of Edinburgh; il. by Allan Stewart. *$2. Macmillan.
7–35148.
Following an introduction the author treats entertainingly Modern interests of Edinburgh, The sights of Edinburgh, Tales of long ago, and Mary, queen of Scots.
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“Contains too much detailed information regarding the institutions of the city, and not enough about customs, to interest American children, but the history and legend in it will be useful to librarians and teachers.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 81. Mr. ’07.
“Is in parts entertaining and picturesque, but the general effect is rather scrappy, and some portions are dull.”
− + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 30w.
“Apart from this question of probability, there is too much savagery in some of these ballads to make them suitable material.”
− + =Spec.= 97: sup. 658. N. 3, ’06. 270w.
=Griffis, William Elliot.= Japanese nation in evolution: steps in the progress of a great people. **$1.25. Crowell.
7–29750.
“It is the young Japanese nation tingling with righteous latter-day enthusiasm of which this book treats, and all “figureheads and impersonalities” are entirely eliminated. The rise of the Japanese is traced from prehistoric times, with special emphasis laid upon the author’s notion that the original stock of this people is Aryan, or Ainu, and not Mongolian. To this latter fact he attributes the secret of the nation’s superiority.”
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“A distinct contribution to the literature on Japan.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 194. N. ’07. S.
“The author is conceded to be the best informed American on the subject concerning which he writes.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 321. N. 16, ’07. 330w.
“It is a scholarly book, presenting a thorough discussion of Japanese ethnology,—not, however, in a technical manner.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 638. N. ’07. 80w.
=Griffiths, Arthur.= Rome express. $1.25. Page.
7–9550.
A sleeping-car tragedy occurring between Laroche and Paris furnishes the mystery which is unravelled in the course of this story. The French detective service is out in full force, and frequently goes off on the wrong trail. Among the implicated are an Italian countess, her maid and an Italian banker, the latter of whom is proven guilty and barely escapes the guillotine.
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“This is an excellent detective story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 183. Mr. 23, ’07. 220w.
* =Griggs, Edward Howard.= Use of the margin. (Art of life series.) *50c. Huebsch.
The aim of this series of books is “to illuminate the never-to-be-finished art of living,” with no attempt at solving the problems or giving dogmatic theories of conduct. The present monograph shows what possibilities for development there are in the margin—the time falling to the lot of each individual to spend as he may please—and points out ways of using it to increase the capital, the character, intelligence and appreciation of one’s life.
=Griswold, Stephen M.= Sixty years with Plymouth church. **$1. Revell.
7–21719.
“The author’s connection with Plymouth church began four years after Mr. Beecher came as its first pastor. The present volume is not a history of the church, such as was lately published of the Broadway tabernacle in New York, but is rather a series of notes and impressions attached to a thread of facts. Naturally to the author the great predominating figure is the first pastor, altho full credit and honor are given to the two very able men who succeeded him, Dr. Abbott and Dr. Hillis. A fair account is given of the origin of the church, and, naturally, a very slight account of the trial of Mr. Beecher, with a view of involving the name of no one.”—Ind.
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“The book has an excellent spirit, and gives a correct impression of the immense influence the church had in favor of freedom all over the country.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 100. Jl. 11, ’07. 170w.
=Outlook.= 86: 525. Jl. 4, ’07. 100w.
=Groben, countess Gunther.= Ralph Heathcote: letters of a young diplomatist and soldier during the time of Napoleon; giving an account of the dispute between the Emperor and the Elector of Hesse. *$5. Lane.
“These letters are of exceptional interest. They are intimate letters written by an only son to his mother at the time when Napoleon was putting Europe in confusion. Ralph Heathcote was a young man of intelligence, and owing to the fact that he was an Englishman who had been born and bred in Germany, his point of view is fresh and enlightening.”—Acad.
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“His letters written during the strenuous time of his life must interest all who care in any way for that most enthralling of subjects—the conduct of life.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 671. Jl. 13, ’07. 1090w.
“The chief, indeed the only, value of these letters is the insight they give into the society, in Cassel, and incidentally, in London, Edinburgh, and Lisbon.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 334. S. 21. 620w.
“As a testimonial of filial affection, and as a record of the every-day life of a somewhat gifted young man in several lands and in various capacities, one hundred years ago, the correspondence has interest; but its literary value is as slight as its historical importance.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 169. S. 16, ’07. 300w.
“A reader of the volume should find himself drawn on almost irresistibly until he completes it. It is an interesting and instructive addition to the year’s literature.” George R. Bishop.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 685. O. 26, ’07. 1760w.
“Heathcote’s letters describing his services in the Peninsula are readable though of no particular value to the student of military history.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 150. Ag. 3, ’07. 150w.
=Grose, Howard Benjamin.= Incoming millions. *50c. Revell.
6–38888.
This new volume dealing with the immigrant population “is one of the home study mission course, and is dedicated to ‘the Christian women of America, whose mission it is to help save our country by evangelizing the alien women and teaching them the ideals of the American home.’ It contains valuable information culled from various sources, intending to shew the intent of the immigration to America.” (Ind.)
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“Plenty of good information about the immigrant in this volume.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 212. Ja. 24, ’07. 140w.
“The tone of the volume is moderate and reasonable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 912. D. 29, ’06. 140w.
=Grove, Sir George=, ed. Dictionary of music and musicians; new and thoroughly rev. ed.; ed. by J. A. Fuller Maitland. **$5. Macmillan.
=v. 3.= “The new volume 3, which begins with Maas and ends with Pyne, includes for the first time, the names of MacDowell, Mahler, Mancinelli, Mascagni, Milloeker, Napravnik, Paderewski, Paine, Parker, Pierne, and Puccini among the composers; while to the list of singers and conductors have been added the names of Mallinger, Malten, Maurel, Mottl, Nevada, Nikisch, Nordica.”—Nation.
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+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 419. Ap. 6. 1290w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Fully sustains the reputation of its two predecessors for accuracy of historical statement, comprehensiveness of scope, and conservatism of criticism.”
+ + + =Dial.= 42: 256. Ap. 17, ’07. 600w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + =Ind.= 63: 342. Ag. 8, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 3.)
“It proves, like the previous two volumes, that the revision is an earnest one, seeking out the omissions and deficiencies of the original, and placing the new tasks in hands almost always the most capable to be found.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 133. Ap. 26, ’07. 2550w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Altogether, the space has been expanded by over one-fifth, and the editor and his associates have almost invariably done their work well, thus making ‘Grove,’ more than ever, a necessity to every amateur and student.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 345. Ap. 11, ’07. 770w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The revision has been thorough, perhaps not all points so thorough as might have been wished; but it has ... completeness in covering the vast field of musical history and literature, fullness of information, and interest of presentation.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 239. Ap. 13, ’07. 790w. (Review of v. 3.)
“A most excellent standard and really unique work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 638. My. ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 760. My. 11, ’07. 1120w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Grundy, Mrs. Mabel Sarah Barnes.= Dimbie and I—and Amelia. †$1.50. Baker.
7–9552.
Dimbie, the devoted and manly young husband, I, his wife, the chronicler of this one year of married life, Amelia the racy maid of all work, and other delightful characters are revealed in the course of this tender little story with its pathetic undercurrent of brave cheeriness and undying affection.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07. ✠
“A brave, bright story is ‘Dimbie and I,’ and one that is well worth the reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 181. Mr. 23, ’07. 470w.
=Gruyer, Paul.= Napoleon, king of Elba; tr. from the French. *$3.50. Lippincott.
7–19481.
“In the present work the search-light of history is turned full upon the little island and its great occupant. The smallest details of the Emperor’s life in his little kingdom are narrated and much new light is thrown upon his character. Interesting portraits are also given of the sharers of his exile: Madame Mère, Pauline his sister, the devoted Bertrand, Drouot and the old watch-dog Cambronne.”—Lit. D.
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“A pleasing volume, which will introduce British readers to an island with which few persons are acquainted, and to one of the less known episodes of the Emperor’s career. The rendering is at times faulty.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 616. N. 17. 160w.
“Paul Gruyer is not the only writer who has chosen this theme. But nowhere before the appearance of the book under review had a complete picture of the surroundings and the central figure been presented with the necessary completeness. Now nothing remains to be known. As to the translator’s task, it has been fairly done, as far as turning the French into readable English. But in other respects the performance is one of which it is impossible to write with too great severity. The translator is totally ignorant of everything French, except to a certain extent the French language, and of the history of the period.” Adolphe Cohn.
+ + − =Bookm.= 24: 592. F. ’07. 1210w.
“There is nothing maudlin about the volume (its author surely was among the millions who recently voted Pasteur the greatest Frenchman) and it deserves to be bought and read by every Napoleonic student.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 972. Ap. 25, ’07. 150w.
“The narrative is of a vivid and striking character.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 105. Ja. 19, ’07. 150w.
“The author sets out a good part, though not by any means all, that is shown in adequate fashion.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 534. D. 20, ’06. 90w.
“Brings together the wealth of information contained in scattered and forgotten sources, and presents it in an eminently readable form.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 95. Ja. 12, ’07. 300w.
“Presents a comparatively unknown chapter of Napoleonic epic, and throws some important light on the character and ability of the most colossal individual of modern history.” George Louis Beer.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 759. Mr. ’07. 710w.
“The work of Paul Gruyer will live when the ‘Last voyages’ is forgotten.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 84. Ja. 19, ’07. 950w.
=Guenther, Conrad.= Darwinism and the problems of life: a study of familiar animal life. *$3.50. Dutton.
6–17681.
“A study of the theory of evolution, defending the doctrine of ‘natural selection,’ to the exclusion of all other explanations of individual and collective development in men and animals.... The bulk of the book treats in detail of the manner of development of the many species of living creatures, from the original protoplasm or unicellular being to the complex and mysterious physiology of man.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Taken as a whole, that portion of Dr. Guenther’s book which deals strictly with biology can best be characterized as sadly behind the times.” Raymond Pearl.
− =Dial.= 43: 208. O. 1, ’07. 850w.
“Not only in the lucidity of its presentation and discussion, but in its arrangement of the materials also, it is adapted above all others as a book that may be taken up by those who possess very little idea of science, and whose ignorance leads them to hold very erroneous ideas of the present state and value of evolutionary doctrine. The point that merits much criticism, in the opinion of the reviewer, is the author’s attitude toward the work of De Vries and others, on mutation or saltation as the method of evolution.” Henry Edward Crampton.
+ − =J. Philos.= 4: 297. My. 23, ’07. 2260w.
“It is in making a fetich of natural selection, and by its action alone explaining the whole problem of evolution, that the volume falls far short of being a well-balanced thesis.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 549. Je. 13, ’07. 450w.
“This is a disappointing book. Many of the author’s conclusions on the main subject are sound enough. It is more to be regretted that his statements of fact are so often open to adverse criticism, and that he has been, on the whole, so badly served by his translator.” F. A. D.
− + =Nature.= 74: 268. Jl. 19, ’06. 590w.
“It is not written in too technical a manner. The presentation of the ideas is simple.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 269. Ap. 27, ’07. 850w.
=Gulick, Luther Halsey.= Efficient life. **$1.20. Doubleday.
7–11182.
The avowed object of this little volume is to offer suggestions of a hygienic nature which will enable the reader to perform more efficiently the duties of life. It discusses among other things: States of mind and states of body, Exercise, Food, Waste, Fatigue, Sleep, The bath—for body and soul, Pain—the danger signal, and Growth in rest.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 122. My. ’07. S.
“The experience of a practical man of affairs as well as physician recorded in the ‘Efficient life’ recommends the book to business men and women as a health hand-book which will relieve rather than add burdens to the pressure of life and which will make efficiency in work easier and work itself more efficient.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 158. Jl. ’07. 250w.
“It is a notably sensible, frankly practical, and popularly attractive statement of some well-established principles of healthy mindedness.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 258. Ap. 16, ’07. 320w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 260w.
“Dr. Gulick has no hobbies and sees clearly that the things to be commended are those which the hearer may reasonably be expected to do and not over-refinements of bodily care and personal conduct impossible of general attainment.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 416. My. 2, ’07. 330w.
“Dr. Gulick applies himself to telling us how to counteract the deteriorating effects of (town) life, and he has executed his task well.”
+ =Nature.= 76: 315. Ag. 1, ’07. 310w.
“Reading and following Dr. Gulick’s suggestions in this book ought to help many people to raise the standard of their individual efficiency, for the advice given concerning the conduct and regulation of life is both sound and essential.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 125. Jl. ’07. 260w.
=Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger (Guy Thorne, pseud.).= The serf. *$1. Fenno.
The author has chosen the rough and wicked England of the twelfth century as the setting for his story of Hyla, the serf, whom he has made typical of serfdom, and within whose misshapen body burned the first spark of freedom which was to enkindle the world. The coarse times are well depicted from the lewd life of the barons in their castles to the hopeless routine of the serfs in their shacks. The personality of Hyla who rises from the herd about him and becomes a man and a murderer to avenge his daughters and his wrongs, is strongly brought out and the reader follows breathless until he has paid the awful price exacted from such as he.
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“If the reader can bear the smell of the sewerage of the twelfth century, and the feel of the big eels slipping thru his toes as he reads, he will find in this book the most gorgeous descriptions of water scenes that have appeared in years. The whole meaning of the marches and fens of the twelfth century, their menace and their beauty, as distinct from the civilized waterways of modern times in England is well portrayed.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 453. Ag. 22, ’07. 730w.
“He frequently leaves the straight path of this narrative in order to preach a modern doctrine of brotherhood. Apart from its didactic quality the story has a good deal of force; Hyla the serf and his fortunes are worth following for their own sake.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 235. S. 12, ’07. 380w.
“It is an exciting and interesting tale and it presents a fairly truthful picture of English life in the early middle ages.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.
=Gummere, Francis B.= Popular ballad. (Types of English literature ser., v. 1.) **$1.50. Houghton.
7–18086.
“Prof. Gummere starts out with a severely critical consideration of just what must be meant by ‘popular’ as applied to ballads and rules out all but about 300 specimens of the genre. While he treats the ballad as a closed account, an outcome of conditions which no longer exist, he admits that there is nothing to prevent the daily production of ballads which in time may become as popular as any in this collection. But he restricts the present study to these remnants of oral tradition, divides them into half a dozen classes, studies their sources, and gives a critical estimate of their worth.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The last chapter on the worth of the ballad as poetry, is written ‘con amore,’ but with all that admirable scholarly restraint that marks all of Professor Gummere’s work.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 170. S. 16, ’07. 320w.
“Notwithstanding the differences of opinion which we entertain regarding these matters of controversy, we gladly acknowledge the interest of Prof. Gummere’s work, and believe that it will be accepted as beginning auspiciously a series which promises great usefulness.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 122. Ag. 8. ’07. 1350w.
“Prof. Gummere writes in an interesting style. He has a cleverness of statement and an ability to use aptly and vividly a very great fund of erudition that will make his book entertaining as well as instructive for the general reader, while the special student will find it a mine of information.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 433. Jl. 6, ’07. 280w.
=Gunsaulus, Frank W.= Higher ministries of recent English poetry. **$1.25. Revell.
7–23730.
“The four lectures deal with the distinctively Christian element in the writings of Arnold, Tennyson and Browning, the introductory essay treating of the preparatory influence of Shelley, Wordsworth and Coleridge.” (Ind.) Gunsaulus emphasizes the classical stoicism of Matthew Arnold, Tennyson’s portrayal of conscience and the inevitable results of sin, and the religious element in Browning.
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“Dr. Gunsaulus’s essays are scholarly and seriously suggestive, and give a broad view of the thought and of the influence of these three masters of the last century.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1002. O. 24, ’07. 330w.
“Yet while there is an appreciation of the genius of the poets about whom the author writes, there is also in every lecture a certain amount of bathos and sloppy extravagance.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 421. N. 7, ’07. 210w.
“Dr. Gunsaulus does not add anything very new to a well-worn subject. And his own view of poetry seems a somewhat prosaic one.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 663. O. 19, ’07. 120w.
“Perhaps the best specimen of Dr. Gunsaulus’s work is his analysis of Tennyson’s greatest poem. ‘The idylls of the king.’”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 133. S. 21, ’07. 260w.
=Gunsaulus, Frank Wakeley.= Paths to power; Central church sermons. *$1.25. Revell.
5–33035.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The strength of the book is its weakness. It is too wordy, imaginative, and passionate. Thought is not sufficiently clear and comprehensive to serve as a basis for enduring emotional power. The book is inspirational rather than informing, and its power might have been vastly increased by gripping the intellect more vigorously even at some sacrifice of rhetoric.” E. A. Hamley.
+ − =Bib. World.= 29: 471. Je. ’07. 190w.
“In the present volume the Chicago pastor impresses one with a sense of asymmetry. He seems to give disproportionate attention to the ‘fall’ of Adam with its alleged consequences, and the fall of Chicago, with its palpable consequences, from the moral ideals of all good citizens.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 46. Ja. 5, ’07. 190w.
=Gunter, Archibald.= Mr. Barnes, American: a sequel to Mr. Barnes of New York. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–9841.
“Highly dramatic scenes and characters are provided in this volume.... The very ample _dramatis personae_ include Corsican bandits, supra-beautiful maidens, members of the aristocracy, ill-favored ruffians both imported and domestic, and ghosts. Very exciting events transpire and ... slaughter is plethoric.”—Lit. D.
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=Lit. D.= 34: 723. My. 4, 07. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 243. Ap. 13, ’07. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 220w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 767. Je. ’07. 160w.
* =Gunter, Archibald C.= Prince Karl. †$1.25. ’07. Dillingham.
7–33913.
An unsatisfactory novelization of a satisfactory play whose principal characters are “a despotic mother-in-law, an Anglomaniac dude, and a Bostonian girl fresh from Vassar. The hero, Prince Karl, is a sort of Jekyll and Hyde character, only in the novelization the character is accompanied by considerable buffoonery.” (Outlook.)
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“The plot is commonplace, and the dialogue has little wit. An unusual but characterless feature is the use of the historical present in the telling of the story.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 90w.
“The novelization of the play ‘Prince Karl’ is distinctly unsatisfactory; it is crude, sketchy, and unreal; the faults that effective stage setting and clever acting would render oblivious in an acted drama become very salient in a narrative read in cold blood. There is no originality in either the plot or character portrayal.”
− =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 110w.
=Guthrie, William B.= Socialism before the French revolution; a history. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–22934.
The first comprehensive attempt to meet the need of a record of the history of social reform from the time of More to the French revolution. The author emphasizes especially the fact that social theory is the outgrowth of social conditions and that social strivings and social ideals are by no means confined to the nineteenth or twentieth centuries. His captions are as follows: The beginning of social unrest of England, The social theories of Sir Thomas More, Life and times of Campanella, The socialism of Campanella, Eighteenth century radicalism in France; The social teachings of Morelly, and revolutionary radicals.
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“His references to modern socialism are not always happy. There are frequent statements that need the saving grace of qualification; while the tone of some of them is jaunty rather than judicial.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1004. O. 24, ’07. 320w.
“If Dr. Guthrie’s work is open to severe criticism it is perhaps because of its conception of the nature of socialism and his assumption that the utopias of the period under discussion are to be taken as socialism.” R. F. Hoxie.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 497. O. ’07. 540w.
“He makes no effort to write an exhaustive history of early socialism, and the title of his book is therefore not accurately descriptive of its contents. All that he attempts to do, and we are grateful to him for doing this, is to recall to our minds those writings of the past which best illustrate the evolution of socialistic thinking.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 441. Jl. 13, ’07. 340w.
“There are here no hasty generalizations, unwarranted inferences, and strainings of interpretation.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 539. N. 9, ’07. 290w.
+ =Spec.= 99: 369. S. 14, ’07. 390w.
=Guyer, Michael Frederic.= Animal micrology; practical exercises in microscopical methods. *$1.75. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–4839.
“The topics discussed in this book are as follows: necessary apparatus; preparation of reagents; general statement of methods; killing, fixing, imbedding, sectioning, staining, and mounting; minute dissections; tooth, bone, and other hard objects; injection of blood and lymph vessels; in toto preparations; blood; bacteria; embryological methods with chick, etc.; and reconstruction from sections.”—School R.
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=Dial.= 42: 48. Ja. 16, ’07. 30w.
“The crucial test of the value of the work must necessarily consist in the actual experiment of using it in class. We venture to think, however, that the volume will react to this test in a most successful manner.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 582. Ap. 18, ’07. 440w.
“As a textbook it could hardly be improved. The advanced student cannot help but wish that it might have been available when he began his work.”
+ =School R.= 15: 306. Ap. ’07. 420w.
“Concise, eminently practical and well classified treatment. It will be found useful to a larger number of people than any other book of its kind at present in existence in English.” Irving Hardesty.
+ =Science=, n.s. 25: 339. Mr. 1, ’07. 1450w.
=Gwatkin, Henry Melville.= Knowledge of God and its historical development. 2v. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–2069.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
− =Acad.= 72: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 180w.
“In both its apologetic and its historical task this work is conservative and follows in the beaten paths of the traditional methods. On the historical side Professor Gwatkin is more at home, though one cannot escape here the feeling of special pleading which does injustice to many facts and persons of history. Looseness of expression and of thought characterizes his apologetic work.” W. C. Keirstead.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 546. Jl. ’07. 1150w.
“Is uncommonly readable and convincing, not only by reason of its abundant learning but by reason of its unfailing fairness and its habitual restraint. The argument is never overstated, and the difficulties are never undervalued.” George Hodges.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 565. Ap. ’07. 60w.
“The ordinary reader will often be somewhat bewildered by the mass of historical material brought into brief compass. Moreover, throughout the work, the author stops to answer so fully the supposed objections of those who differ from him that one is frequently more impressed by the wealth of possible opinion than by the author’s own position. His work will be full of suggestion to historical students; but because of its objective point of view, it is primarily a book of description, rather than one of interpretation.” Gerald Birney Smith.
+ − =Bib. World.= 30: 381. N. ’07. 510w.
“The freshness and charm with which the lecturer has dealt with his subject should procure for them an abundant welcome in a much wider circle. Perhaps the most attractive feature of the book is the earnest and sustained effort which Professor Gwatkin makes to combine the best modern thought upon religion and the philosophy of religion with the substance of the old historical faith.” Robert A. Duff.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 5: 675. Ap. ’07. 2670w.
=Gwynn, Stephen Lucius.= Fair hills of Ireland; il. by Hugh Thomson. $2. Macmillan.
7–35041.
Mr. Gwynn states that his book is written in praise of Ireland. And it is such praise as one can give who has a full understanding of “its soil and its people, its mountains and plains, seas and rivers, cities and solitudes, its ways of life and thought, its history and its aspirations, its failures and possibilities, its joy and grief.” Of these he writes: “It is, in fact, obviously intended to play a part in promoting the ‘Irish revival.’” (Outlook.)
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“He sings his song of love and war so charmingly, and with such sympathy and intuitive understanding, that it seems ungenerous to complain that his book is not what its title implies. Let us confess that we speedily forgot our sense of disappointment in the glamour of his pages.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 630. D. 22, ’06. 850w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 9. Ja. ’07. S.
“Is intended to be suggestive and picturesque, and succeeds thoroughly in this aim. We commend it strongly to those who visit Ireland with leisure and in earnest, and are not satisfied with following beaten tracks and hearing stale jokes.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 685. D. 1. 1110w.
“It is a book that will appeal to Irishmen in particular and to travellers and lovers of antiquity in general.”
+ =Canadian M.= 28: 399. F. ’07. 260w.
=Dial.= 43: 20. Jl. 1, ’07. 310w.
“How he has managed to pack, in a volume of a little over 400 pages, so many delightfully told legends and historic incidents, which give to every landscape a sort of moral personality, is Mr. Gwynn’s secret.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1355. Je. 6, ’07. 320w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 105. Ja. 19, ’07. 230w.
“There is, however, one drawback to the legends told by Mr. Gwynn. The orthography of the names of the heroes, and even of the heroines, is repulsive, and will always be an obstacle to the wide, acceptance of these historical, semi-historical, and mythical romances.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 159. F. 14, ’07. 570w.
“The method of presentation is logical and interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 72. F. 2, ’07. 630w.
“Its author wanders too rapidly and disconnectedly from theme to theme, indulges overfreely in allusion, and demands too great a previous knowledge of Irish history, legendary as well as authentic. Nevertheless, the book will be found well worth the pains necessary to read it, and should meet an especial welcome from prospective travelers in Ireland.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 43. Ja. 5, ’07. 250w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 112. Ja. ’07. 60w.
“We do not always accept Mr. Gwynn’s opinions, and we sometimes find ourselves wondering why he has said this or seems not to know that.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 583. N. 10, ’06. 1240w.
“We can imagine no more instructive and attractive guide to the holy places of Irish history. His style, while singularly free from mannerisms, is always full of light and colour and vivacity. He has humour too, and a high sense of dramatic contrast.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 1410w.
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=Hadley, Arthur Twining.= Baccalaureate addresses and other talks on kindred themes. **$1. Scribner.
7–11555.
Sixteen brief addresses in which President Hadley of Yale dwells “on the grand fundamentals of character and citizenship, of individual and social virtue, and, in the large wholesome sense, of piety and religion.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The simple, straightforward style of these addresses is engaging.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 290. My. 1, ’07. 330w.
“The tone of the book is wholesome and optimistic, but one must confess that it deals largely in platitudes.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 410. My. 2, ’07. 70w.
“They disclose in a manner at once incidental and intimate, the spirit in which Dr. Hadley meets thousands of young men. It is because of their disclosure of this spirit and because of the extreme elevation and devotion of the spirit disclosed that the volume will receive a considerable and a cordial welcome.” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 216. Ap. 6. ’07. 1280w.
“Simplicity of style, singleness of aim, earnestness of purpose, an entire absence not only of cant but of professionalism in all its forms, but above all a certain virility of spirit, characterize these addresses.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 77. My. 11, ’07. 270w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 228. N. ’07. 470w.
+ =Yale R.= 16: 108. My. ’07. 140w.
=Hadley, Arthur Twining.= Standards of public morality; the Kennedy lectures for 1906, in the school of philanthropy conducted by the Charity organization society of the City of New York. **$1. Macmillan.
7–21398.
Five essays entitled, The formation of public opinion, The ethics of trade, The methods of corporate management, The workings of our political machinery, The political duties of a citizen. In these chapters the author discusses present evils from the standpoint of the historian, the economist and the good citizen.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 165. O. ’07. S.
“Excellent though the book is, a little more of the ‘scorn of scorn,’ the ‘hate of hate,’ the love of all ideals of even impossible perfection, might have been expected—and twenty years ago would have been expected—in a New England college president’s treatment of the subjects discussed.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 123. S. 1, ’07. 320w.
“The book will bear reading and rereading both by officers and by private citizens.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 210. S. ’07. 60w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1309. N. 28, ’07. 570w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 569. N. ’07. 100w.
“The book is worth reading not once, but twice. This is a rich bill of fare spread exactly in the ripeness of appetite for the meal. May good digestion wait on appetite, and the community will be the better for it.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 417. Je. 29, ’07. 1460w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 227. N. ’07. 270w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 384. S. ’07. 100w.
=Yale R.= 16: 225. Ag. ’07. 160w.
=Hadow, Gerald Elliot, and Hadow, William Henry.= Oxford treasury of English literature. 3v. ea. *90c. Oxford.
7–6793.
=v. 1.= Old English to Jacobean. This volume indicates the chief landmarks in prose and poetry (not dramatic) from Beowulf to the writers of the Jacobean age, with good introductions.
=v. 2.= Growth of the drama. Under Tragedy, Comedy, and History, are given selections which range from the miracle plays to Ford’s Perkin Warbeck. General introductions and brief bibliographies are provided.
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“The introductions, despite the care and knowledge with which they are written, are inevitably insufficient and a little dictatorial: the selections, though chosen with fine judgment, are brief and not wholly representative.”
− =Acad.= 71: 174. Ag. 25, ’06. 2040w. (Reviews of v. 1.)
“The introductions to the various parts of the book are most valuable and scholarly, and contain a really noble and stimulating appreciation of Marlowe and of Webster.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 339. Ap. 6, ’07. 490w. (Review of v. 2.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 97. Ap. ’07. S. (Review of v. 1.)
“Perhaps this section of drama was a difficult one to fill; but we the more regret the arrangement which made it necessary for the editors to fill it. Yet such criticisms do not prevent this being a good and, on the whole, representative manual.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 35. Jl. 13. 1410w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The work is admirably done, and wholly worthy of the distinction of its Oxford imprint.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The book is characterized by the nicest scholarship.”
+ =Educ. R.= 33: 535. My. ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The dominant feeling with which one puts down this book is one of pleasure and gratitude. There is everything to learn in it and everything to enjoy, and all the learning is only another kind of enjoying. Nothing could be better than the editorial introductions to the different sections. They are models of what such things should be; as true as if they were written by dulness itself; as striking as if they were made up of wilfulness.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 301. S. 7, ’06. 5330w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The introduction to each extract gives just the information that will be needed by the ordinary reader, and the general introduction errs, if at all, only in its brevity.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 339. N. 8, ’07. 1370w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 433. Jl. 6, ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich Philipp August.= Last words on evolution: tr. from 2d ed. by Joseph McCabe. *$1. Eckler.
6–14562.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 214. Ja. ’07. 270w.
“The presentation of the subject is marred by a controversial treatment of the work of Wasmann and by an unnecessarily harsh arraignment of Virchow on account his attitude toward evolutionary questions.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 228. Mr. 7, ’07. 150w.
“That part of his work which deals with science shows him an investigator who will stand with the foremost of his century. He has the rare distinction of having contributed materially to the sum of human knowledge. But all his science has here become only the stair to his philosopher’s tower of ivory. To us this tower is a mere castle in Spain, and the last words on evolution are still unuttered.” Christian Gauss.
+ − =No. Am.= 186: 130. S. ’07. 1890w.
* =Haeselbarth, Adam C.= Patty of the palms: a story of Porto Rico. $1.25. Kenny pub.
A romance thru which are portrayed some of the conditions in Porto Rico since American occupation showing what degree of success has resulted from attempts at “benevolent assimilation.”
=Haggard, Andrew C. P.= Real Louis the fifteenth; with 34 full-page portraits, including 2 photogravure plates. 2v. *$5. Appleton.
7–18151.
“Colonel Haggard tells at considerable length the whole story of the reign.... He gives the whole history of the Seven years’ war, the life and adventures of Frederick the Great and of Prince Charles Edward, the history of Stanislas of Poland and of his court at Lunéville, with many other personal narratives not always quite correct in detail.... He attempts to describe all the varying opinions, all the crimes of the Jesuits, the vagaries of the philosophers, the intrigues of unprincipled politicians, and to make us intimately familiar with Fleury, Choiseul, Voltaire, and the Encyclopedists, as well as with the succession of women who influenced ‘this hoggish king’ and through him, to a certain extent, ruled France and poisoned the air of Europe.”—Spec.
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“Will hardly rank as a serious contribution to the history of the eighteenth century in France.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 301. S. 15. 260w.
“If the present volumes on the life of Louis XV. wore what one might call good gossip—‘good’ in the artistic sense, lively, pointed, significant, they would be thoroughly acceptable in spite of their slight historic value. Frankly they are little more than a dictionary of scandal, an encyclopedia of eighteenth century depravity, the results of a research offensive in its thoroughness.” M. B. M.
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 109. F. 23. ’07. 1500w.
“The author has probably told his kind of story fairly well.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 70w.
“With all its faults in art and more serious faults in taste, the book makes a sufficiently striking impression.”
− + =Spec.= 97: sup. 758. N. 17, ’06. 1290w.
* =Haggard, Henry Rider.= Margaret: a novel of the England of Henry VII. †$1.50. Longmans.
7–32845.
Set in the times of the Tudors, this tale is one of daring adventure by land and sea. “It involves the slaughter of a retainer of the Spanish ambassador in the opening scene, and the escape of an Anglo-Jewish merchant from the Spanish inquisition in the last. The fortunes of the Jew’s daughter—who has been abducted, by a nobleman in the train of De Ayala, the ambassador, and is pursued across the sea by her lover, brave Peter Brome, and his comrades—form the main thread of the story. Incidentally we meet with many well-fancied types of militant and ecclesiastical humanity, with effective portraits of monarchs and great men.” (Ath.)
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“There is a reminiscence of Kingsley in much of the story, but Mr. Haggard has no master in this brightly conceived and deftly executed drama of action.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 362. S. 28. 170w.
“In incompetent hands, a plot for a dime novel and nothing more; but Mr. Haggard has the craft of a born stage manager ... and sends us away with the feeling that we have witnessed a big, spectacular show that was eminently worth while.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 408. D. ’07. 360w.
“It is all as vigorous, circumstantial, and imaginative as Mr. Haggard can make it; but the effect is often marred by the effort to combine simplicity of diction with a flavour of Tudor English.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 301. O. 4, ’07. 450w.
“But notwithstanding all its many excellencies, Mr. Haggard’s work does not belong on the high levels of fictional art. There is none of that rich and satisfying quality which invests the pages of novelists who deal with the inner forces of character and temperament.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 743. N. 23, ’07. 1140w.
“The merchant who is the principal figure in his drama does not convince us. When we come to the story itself all is excellent.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 534. O. 12, ’07. 110w.
=Haggard, (Henry) Rider.= Spirit of Bambatse; a romance. †$1.50. Longmans.
6–27709.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We feel that Mr. Haggard’s formula is less satisfying than formerly, and yet a cool analysis tells us that this story has as many good points as the others.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 504. Mr. 30, ’07. 260w.
=Haines, Alice Calhoun.= Luck of the Dudley Grahams: as related in extracts from Elizabeth Graham’s diary. †$1.50. Holt.
7–32036.
The story of a family of boys and girls who tried to share their mother’s burdens. On the day of selling a dump-cart patent the father had died suddenly without revealing the hiding place of the contract. The family struggles continue until one day the contract is found and the Graham luck turns.
=Haines, Henry Stevens.= Railway corporations as public servants. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–30619.
A work which to some extent is supplementary to the author’s previous discussion of “Restrictive railway legislation.” “The treatment of the subject is, however, more particularly directed to an amelioration of the existing relations between railway corporations and the public whom they serve.”
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“Some of the statements in the book are more striking than true. This volume deals with a large number of topics in connection with railway management and the facilities afforded. While these are not handled in detail, they are presented in an attractive way that ought to stimulate the interest of the general reading public in the question of the efficiency of the American railway service under its present organization.” Ernest R. Dewsnup.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 555. N. ’07. 1470w.
“One of the most timely of the fall books.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 640. N. ’07. 110w.
=Haines, Jennie Day=, comp. Christmasse tyde. **$2. Elder.
A collection of seasonable quotations beautifully set to the best things in book accompaniment.
=Haines, Jennie Day=, comp. Ye gardeyne boke. **$3. Elder.
6–43790.
“The text has been gathered and arranged ... from hundreds of sources, poetical and prosaic.... The various quotations are arranged under about forty heads, and Cardinal Newman offers the first answer to the question, ‘What is a garden?’... Then come such topics as ‘Mediaeval gardens,’ ‘Monastic gardens,’ ‘Old-fashioned gardens,’ and gardens identified with various nationalities—Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish—and so on, and even ‘The poet’s garden,’ and ‘Gardens of the sea’ are not neglected.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Garden-lovers need look no further for an appropriate gift.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 455. D. 16, ’06. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 190w.
“Tastefully decorated and beautifully printed.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 48. Ja. 5, ’07. 70w.
=Haldane, Elizabeth S.= Descartes: his life and times. *$4.50. Dutton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Miss Haldane’s book seems to me well-proportioned and well-written. The most recent sources of information have been utilized, and the material arranged in clear and orderly fashion. The accounts of the philosophical standpoint and contents of the important works are clear, coherent, and well-suited to the general plan and purpose of the volume, which is intended quite as much for the general reader as for the special student of philosophy. The book is to be welcomed as a real and valuable addition to the literature of philosophy.” J. E. C.
+ + + =Philos. R.= 16: 94. Ja. ’07. 220w.
* =Hale, Albert Barlow.= South Americans. **$2.50. Bobbs.
7–36231.
An illustrated story of the South American republics, their characteristics, progress and tendencies; with special reference to their commercial relations with the United States. Special attention has been given to the East Andean republics because within their boundaries must take place the great industrial advances of the century.
=Hale, Edward Everett.= Tarry at home travels. il. **$2.50. Macmillan.
6–35582.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. Hale is rather too fond of applying the epithet ‘dear’ to every person of whom he speaks. We wish also that he had not adopted the slang term ‘Dago’ when speaking of an Italian.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 194. F. 16. 230w.
“His reminiscences are poured out of a full heart, freely, familiarly, picturesquely.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 417. Mr. ’07. 860w.
“Half mischievous, half militant, he goes wherever his mood takes him, finding only what is good in men, and gently prodding this good to make it better.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 159. Jl. 18, ’07. 520w.
“The purpose and execution of the work are infused throughout with high ideals and generous patriotism.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 534. O. 27, ’06. 110w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 108. Ja. ’07. 70w.
=Hale, Will T.= True stories of Jamestown and its environs. $1. Pub. house M. E. ch., So.
7–19587.
“A little volume whose spirit perpetuates the “human” interest in the past life of this deserted village.”
=Hall, Bolton.= Three acres and liberty; assisted by Robert F. Powell; with an introd. by George T. Powell. $1.75. Macmillan.
7–10568.
A handbook of tested theory regarding land and its possibilities. And Mr. Hall is not satisfied with the mediocre results of a three-acre plot but shows what can be accomplished at the high tide of productive capacity. He shows where the right three-acres may be found, what kind of land must be had, what it will cost, and what must be done with it. The author “has not attempted so much to deal with the technique of agriculture or to give instruction in its requirements, as to awaken active and earnest thought upon the social betterment of our rapidly increasing population.”
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“This is, we think, one of the most important volumes of the year.”
+ + =Arena.= 38: 211. Ag. ’07. 1260w.
“The author is not always sufficiently specific in regard to regions adapted to special products, probably assuming that those who are interested in the subject will investigate further.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 67. Ag. 1, ’07. 430w.
“The book should be highly interesting to amateur farmers and to social workers.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 360w.
=Outlook.= 85: 904. Ap. 20, ’07. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 639. Mr. ’07. 140w.
=Hall, Rev. Charles Cuthbert.= Christ and the human race; or, The attitude of Jesus Christ toward foreign races and religions; being the William Belden Noble lectures for 1906. **$1.25. Houghton.
6–42357.
“In these lectures ... Dr. Hall ... is concerned with the proper attitude of a Christian man toward the non-Christian religions.... To-day, he affirms, ‘the East denounces Western Christendom, yet in spirit approaches nearer and nearer to the worship of Christ.’ ... In conclusion, Dr. Hall gives the standpoints now to be taken by the Christian educator, physician, and minister in the East.”—Outlook.
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Reviewed by A. K. Parker.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 363. Ap. ’07. 810w.
“He approaches the East with a courtesy equal to that for which the East is eminent. He is a student as well as a teacher, and expects to receive as well as give.” George Hodges.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 562. Ap. ’07. 380w.
=Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 40w.
=Nation.= 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 70w.
=Outlook.= 85: 237. Ja. 26, ’07. 370w.
=Hall, Charles Cuthbert.= Christian belief interpreted by Christian experience. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
5–25392.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“His irenic tone, and tactful, almost adroit, presentation of the points of difference between Christianity and Hinduism, are certainly admirable.” Andrew C. Zenos.
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 397. My. ’07. 790w.
=Hall, Edward Henry.= Paul, the apostle, as viewed by a layman. **$1.50. Little.
6–19782.
A sympathetic estimate done in the historical spirit of “a great, though very human actor in an important crisis in the world’s spiritual life. Critical scholarship since Baur has been laid under tribute, and me opinions of such students as Pfleiderer, Hausrath, Wernle, and Weizsacher have been diligently compared and carefully estimated.” (Nation.)
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“Gives his view of the apostle’s religious character and theological doctrines, in an interesting and instructive way.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 530. Jl. ’07. 170w.
“A rapid and suggestive survey.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 79. Ja. ’07. 20w.
“A just and sympathetic appreciation. The author’s limitation would appear to be lack of grasp of the importance of the service which Paul rendered to early Christianity.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 250w.
=Hall, Eliza Calvert.= Aunt Jane of Kentucky; il. by Beulah Strong. †$1.50. Little.
7–12978.
As Aunt Jane cuts squares for patchwork out of “caliker that won’t fade in the first washin’ and wear out in the second,” and fashions them into her wild-goose pattern quilt she grows reminiscent and with pristine verve and histrionism recounts delicious tales of long ago: how Sally Ann delivered her message of denunciation to the men of Goshen church for demanding that their wives be the submittin’ kind, and how the women of the Mite society bought a new organ for the church in spite of the husbands who thought it a frivolous proceeding. Unruly human nature, bits of scandal and gossip are all softened by time, and as Aunt Jane recalls them she touches them up with her quaint philosophy and delightful sentiment.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 177. O. ’07. ✠
“The musings of Aunt Jane’s anonymous listener are somewhat startlingly in contrast to the prevailing rusticity and simplicity of the anecdotes. Even a note of great beauty may produce discord; and discord, as the portrayers of New England life have so well realized, is even less desirable than monotony. With this possible exception, the book is one of the most creditable of its kind, and Aunt Jane’s sympathetic optimism should win her many friends.”
+ + − =Cath. World.= 85: 688. Ag. ’07. 290w.
“The author who listens to Aunt Jane, and who records the stories, has added much to their beauty by her sympathy of expression.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1212. My. 23, ’07. 180w.
“The flavor of the book lies in the point of view of the old woman, in the wise things she says, and the homely way she says them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 188. Mr. 30, ’07. 860w.
“In this little volume Eliza Calvert Hall has achieved the unusual—except in the matter of the title.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 250w.
“Her stories of Aunt Jane’s experiences are full of real human feeling, and awaken thoroughly wholesome emotion.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 150w.
“A little more humour as pungent and appealing as that in the opening sketch, ‘Sally Ann’s experiences,’ and ‘Mrs. Wiggs,’ would have had a rustic rival.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 749. S. ’07. 110w.
=Hall, Florence Howe.= Social usages at Washington. **$1. Harper.
6–41786.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 42. F. ’07.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 866. D. 15, ’06. 310w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 144. Ja. 19, ’07. 60w.
=Hall, Gertrude.= Wagnerian romances. **$1.50. Lane.
A volume of essays in which the author takes the poems too often submerged in the Wagner music and reveals the intrinsic value of the myth, poetry and romance in them. Beginning with “Parsifal” and ending with “The flying Dutchman,” she includes ten of the Wagnerian romances.
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“There can be no doubt that her conscientious transcript will be welcomed by many opera-goers.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 404. O. 31, ’07. 240w.
“While the author’s method in this book is excellent, and she is able to preserve the intense spirit and mystic atmosphere of the great romances, her English occasionally suffers from too literal a rendering of the German. With that unimportant reservation, one can thoroughly enjoy her conscientious and sympathetic work.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 499. N. 2, ’07. 190w.
=Hall, Granville Stanley.= Youth: its education, regimen and hygiene. **$1.50. Appleton.
7–30473.
An abridgment of “Adolescence” which offers in briefer form and at less cost the far-reaching pedagogical principles and conclusions of the original volume. There have been added a chapter on moral and religious training and a glossary of seven pages, the latter being useful as well to the larger work.
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“The book has been more carefully proofed and the bibliographic references made more complete than in ‘Adolescence.’ Good judgment has characterized the selection and condensation, and normal schools and teacher’s classes, outside of the preferred geographic zone, are certain to find it a useful book, if they can get hold of it.” Will S. Monroe.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 218. Ap. 11. ’07. 130w.
“There will be great advantage in the existence of this handbook to ‘Adolescence,’ tho it might be regretted that the terminology and philosophical allusions have not been adapted to the understanding of the layman.”
+ + − =Lit. D.= 35: 695. N. 9, ’07. 120w.
“The anxious parent or teacher, seeking for the light upon his problems of how best to deal with either child or youth, no matter what his troubles are, will be able to find help of some sort in these pages, crammed full as they are, with the wisdom of the scientist, the observer, the lover of his kind.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 581. S. 28, ’07. 960w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Hall, H. R.= Days before history. 50c. Crowell.
7–21361.
A book for children which in story form tells of uncouth men who lived in caves and on floating islands in the days before history.
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=Ath.= 1906, 2: 732. D. 8. 100w.
“We congratulate the author on a singularly attractive little book, the very thing for imaginative boys.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 537. My. 4. 60w.
“The writer has a good subject, although his handling of it is not of the best.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 90w.
=Hall, Prescott F.= Immigration and its effects upon the United States. **$1.50. Holt.
6–6769.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“I cannot find that Mr. Hall has inaccurately or carelessly stated or omitted any of the essential facts, though he has not failed to indicate the conclusions he draws from them. Only a few minor errors can be noted, and they proceed from the mistakes of others upon nonessential points, or from the imperfections of government statistics, whose weaknesses Mr. Hall points out. Altogether the book stands out as the most important contribution that has been made to the study of this most important American problem.” John R. Commons.
+ + − =Charities.= 17: 504. D. 15, ’08. 400w.
“The treatise is detailed and exhaustive in summing up the experience of the United States in solving its hydra-headed immigration problem.”
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 125. F. ’07. 130w.
“A book quite indispensable to serious students of the problem of immigration.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 231. N. ’07. 400w.
+ − =Spec.= 97: 540. O. 13, ’06. 250w.
=Hallock, William, and Wade, Herbert T.= Outlines of the evolution of weights and measures, and the metric system. *$2.25. Macmillan.
6–36443.
“The book contains a clear and well-written account (largely taken from M. Bigourdan’s ‘Le système metrique’) of the foundations of the metric system by the French, who were its real inventors, and of its gradual spread since 1872 over nearly the whole of Europe and America with the single exception of these islands.”—Ath.
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“The archaeological part, touching, among other things, on the Babylonian cubit and the Egyptian measures, we cannot commend, for there is no evidence that the authors have any first hand knowledge of the subject, and neither Professor Hommel nor the Rev. W. Shaw-Caldecott, whom they quote, is so great an authority upon it as the authors evidently imagine.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 775. D. 15. 210w.
“The work is an argument for the metric system, but it is not partisan. It is excellently handled and should have general attention; it should certainly be read by every senator and representative at Washington.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 504. F. 28, ’07. 360w.
“This is an admirable piece of work, in which the result of much tedious research is presented in a bright and lucid narrative.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 290. Ja. 24, ’07. 1740w.
“A noteworthy piece of special pleading.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 83: 768. Jl. 28, ’06. 190w.
“A complete and exhaustive discussion—for the general reader, at least—of the whole subject.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 100w.
“This book can well be declared the most complete and most authentic work extant on this important subject.” J. H. Gore.
+ + + =Science=, n.s. 24: 652. N. 23, ’06. 390w.
=Halsham, John.= Lonewood Corner: a countryman’s horizon. *$1.50. Dutton.
Leisure, an unknown luxury to commercial America, fills this volume. “The author has ample time in which to read Theocritus—not in translation—in the beech tree shade on summer mornings, to sit on a log for long June afternoons and look at the landscape ... to perch on the meadow gate by the hour and watch the mowers and the mowing machine ... to wander far and aimlessly across fields and through woods—and afterward to write exquisite water-colors in words describing all he has seen and thought and felt, and delicate little bas-reliefs of the people with whom he has met and talked.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“We heartily commend it to all lovers of the contemplative life. The style is admirable—rich without being ornate.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 784. Je. 29. 970w.
“There is much good browsing in the unpretentious pages of this modestly learned and pleasantly chatty writer.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 170. S. 16, ’07. 370w.
“It is on the whole better reading than ‘Idlehurst,’ written with more gusto and less pedantry. His pessimism does not dismay us, but rather amuses us as a mood which we like to share in holiday hours.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 180. Je. 7, ’07. 1460w.
“Arrives at a certain charm from its impregnation with the quality—so grateful to some palates—of being unutterably, deeply English.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 211. S. 5, ’07. 420w.
“It is the sort of book that demands of the reader a sympathetic mental temperament and given that, the sort of book in which such a reader can find a companion and intimate and an unfailing source of pleasure and content. But to those who have not that temperament its pages will be even as the Greek sentence which forms its motto.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 534. S. 7, ’07. 410w.
“We have read his book twice from end to end and we do not feel we have wasted time. Could critic say more?”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 515. O. 26, ’07. 1500w.
“‘Idlehurst’ quickly became a classic; ‘Lonewood Corner,’ its sequel, or second volume, will stand beside it, we fancy, on most shelves where the earlier book has established its footing. If not on all, it is because of a slight suggestion of what is not exactly bitterness, but is rather like it—an added hint of aloofness—that may not be agreeable to the palate of all.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 164. Ag. 3, ’07. 1890w.
=Hamilton, Angus.= Afghanistan. *$5. Scribner.
6–41815.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 43. F. ’07.
“The work required two years to be spent in its preparation and the result is most satisfactory, as the book contains much information under historical, geographical, ethnographical, commercial and political groupings.” Laura Bell.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 610. N. ’07. 220w.
“It should take a high place as a book of reference. It should be prized not only as that, but for its clear presentation of an inadequately understood subject.” George R. Bishop.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 108. F. 23, ’07. 3590w.
=Hamilton, Anthony Count.= Memoirs of Count de Gramont; ed. by Allan Fea. *$5. Scribner.
A handsomely illustrated edition of the memoirs of Count de Gramont, “a soldier of fortune, and a boldly unscrupulous gamester and wit in the reign of Louis XIII, and Louis XIV.”
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“Mr. Fea also supplies copious footnotes—almost too copious. The half-tones are not always distinct, partly because many of the originals are dimmed with age.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 32. Ja. 10, ’07. 330w.
“The volume would be desirable if only for the sake of these illustrations, but these represent only a small part of the editor’s work.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 58. F. 2, ’07. 750w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 90w.
* =Hamilton, Cosmo.= Adam’s clay. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
A diatribe against the thoughtless, heartless, irreverent “woman of the world.”
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“In spite of clever delineation of character, plenty of humour, and considerable skill in skating over thin ice, we cannot say that this novel has left a pleasant impression on us.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 193. F. 16. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
=Hamilton, Sir Ian Standish Monteith.= Staff officer’s scrapbook during the Russo-Japanese war. 2v. ea. *$4.50. Longmans.
6–1100.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Powers of Keen observation and the facile pen of a cultured citizen of the world are noticeable on every page, and perhaps the greatest charm of the writer lies in the fact that, while the professional reader cannot fail to profit by his expert criticisms, the layman finds himself led on from episode to episode with ever-increasing interest, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that, full though it be of brilliant and expert professional knowledge and criticism, no work of more enthralling interest could well be placed before a reader.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 212. Mr. 2, 07. 1240w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is even better than its forerunner.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 530w. (Review of v. 2.)
“A vivid and trustworthy account. General Hamilton’s pictures of the atrocious sides of war are among the most striking features of his admirable book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 723. My. 4, ’07. 490w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The peculiar charm of this second instalment ... lies in the extreme humility and taking simplicity of language in which he narrates the stirring scenes of which he was a witness. Most fascinating military work.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 60. F. 22, ’07. 1110w. (Review of v. 2.)
“This really brilliant book deserves a wide public.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 290. Ap. 25, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 2.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 124. Mr. 2, ’07. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Gen. Hamilton has a style that draws the reader irresistibly along with him. His comments from the standpoint of a highly competent military authority, greatly enhance the value of his volumes.” George R. Bishop.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 1120w.
“This volume is more reticent, is fuller of really useful information, and is altogether more valuable.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 271. Mr. 2, ’07. 1220w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Undoubtedly a work of first-rate importance.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 499. Mr. 30, ’07. 2180w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Hamilton, Joseph.= Spirit world. **$1.50. Revell.
6–36932.
The author “thinks that we have not only proof of the existence of a supernatural world, but also knowledge of its inhabitants and governing laws. He bases his views almost entirely upon the accounts given in the Bible of angelic visitations, miraculous events, etc. It is astonishing what an elaborate structure he rears on their foundations. The supernatural world he conceives on the analogy of the natural.... The angelic beings ... have bodies like the human, only more ethereal; senses like the human, only more refined; and are nourished, not by food taken in the mouth, but by elements absorbed from the atmosphere. Fancies like these are multiplied, and curious speculations abound.”—Am. J. Theol.
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“One is bound to respect the reverence with which he approaches his subject, and the frank and earnest manner in which he avows his beliefs.” Henry W. Wright.
− + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 361. Ap. ’07. 340w.
“Only the need of protesting against it entitles such books to serious notice.”
− =Outlook.= 84: 633. N. 10, ’06. 160w.
=Hamilton, M.= First claim. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–5067.
“This is the story of a woman who, having made in extreme youth an uncongenial marriage, is tempted beyond withstanding to skip blithely away with a young subaltern, Charley Osborne, less from love of him than from aversion to her husband.” (Nation.) “It may be a very just punishment for a woman who elopes with another man, leaving a little child behind her, to find that this child is treated with a strictness amounting to cruelty by the woman whom her husband marries after the inevitable divorce. There is, however, no reason why the innocent reader’s feelings should be wrung by such a recital.” (Spec.)
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“It is not great creative work, but it is remarkably good of its kind; it is the work of a novelist with an eye for character, a spontaneous sense of humour, and a standard of truth to which every line of the story is adjusted.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 360. O. 26, ’06. 450w.
“The ending in a ghastly triumph of falsehood makes an unsatisfying conclusion to a story of struggle not without genuine power.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 230w.
“There is no denying that ‘The first claim’ is interesting; but it is an unpleasant tale.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 242. Ap. 13, ’07. 190w.
“The plot which Miss Hamilton has chosen for her book is carried out with great cleverness and detail; but we feel bound to say that the story is one which very few people will be able to take any pleasure in reading.”
− + =Spec.= 97: 990. D. 15, ’06. 140w.
=Hamilton, Samuel.= Recitation. **$1.25. Lippincott.
6–15713.
“The first part of the book treats of the purpose and essentials of the recitation and the art of study; the second part, of the five formal steps of general method; and the third and last part, of the more specific problems of individual method, the use of text-books, oral and written work, English, etc., in the recitation.”—J. Philos.
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“A sensible and practical book.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 262. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.
“Made accessible by marginal topics and synoptical summaries and outlines.” W. F. Dearborn.
+ =J. Philos.= 4: 217. Ap. 11, ’07. 420w.
“The presentation is clear and orderly; the subdivision of topics is minute.” J. H. T.
+ =School R.= 15: 239. Mr. ’07. 200w.
=Hammond, Harold.= Further fortunes of Pinkey Perkins. †$1.50. Century.
6–30932.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Boy readers can scarcely help being absorbed in his doings.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 529. Ja. ’07. 60w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 40w.
=Hamp, Sidford F.= Boys of Crawford’s Basin: the story of a mountain ranch in the early days of Colorado. †$1.50. Wilde.
7–26966.
Experiences in ranching, prospecting, and working as a miner in the early seventies has afforded the author a first-hand intimacy with facts and scenes which he records here. He shows how two sturdy young men, prone to honesty and not afraid to work, do their share in advancing the prosperity of the state in its infancy.
=Hamp, Sidford Frederick.= Dale and Fraser, sheepmen. †$1.50. Wilde.
6–30460.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 82. Mr. ’07.
=Hampson, W.= Paradoxes of nature and science. $1.50. Dutton.
W 7–163.
“In this, which may be perhaps regarded as the true type of ‘popular’ science book, Mr. Hampson explains, in language clear to the ordinary man the principle of the boomerang, of the gyroscope, of bird flight, of double vision, and of much else.... ‘Curiosities of freezing and melting,’ and his discourse on ‘Liquid air,’ on which, as a subject he has made his own, he is particularly lucid and informing.”—Ath.
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“On one page we find him laying down that electricity is ‘a form of energy.’ This idea, which was popular in the seventies, may be said to have received its quietus at the hands of Prof. Silvanus Thompson. Except for this we have nothing but praise for Mr. Hampson’s book, which is excellent reading, and written with a sense of humour as unexpected as it is pleasant.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 776. D. 15. 320w.
“His explanations are appeals to prejudices as unscientific as those which gave rise to the appearance of the paradox. Even when his arguments are sound they must convey to a reader a wholly untrue idea of scientific method. But they are not always sound.”
− =Nature.= 75: 341. F. 7, ’07. 160w.
“His book is an extremely readable one, and in the article on the navigation of the air it supplies many useful and timely hints.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 462. Jl. 27, ’07. 1040w.
Handasyde. For the week-end. †$1.50. Lane.
“The week-end here is the country house gathering of an exalted social circle, animated, it would appear, by the purpose of philandering with each other’s wives and husbands, while prudently keeping on the safe side of the divorce court—a half-hearted method of procedure which has perhaps suggested the author’s curious pseudonym.”—Ath.
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“This book is slight, but what there is of it is true, direct, and simple.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 539. Je. 1, ’07. 290w.
“The style, though marred by grammatical lapses, shows considerable facility both in dialogue and description.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 660. Je. 1. 110w.
“The character drawing is excellent, the atmosphere is well preserved, and the details in excellent taste.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“The writer seems to be a rather inefficient disciple of Mr. E. F. Benson.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 787. Je. 22, ’07. 110w.
=Haney, William H.= Mountain people of Kentucky. $1.50. W: H: Haney, P. O. box 431, Lexington, Ky.
6–26563.
A book whose purpose is to show the existing conditions in the mountains of Kentucky and the attitude of the people of this region toward the improvement of the conditions affecting life and character.
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“The style is not always clear and one at times is not quite sure just 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.)
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“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.
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=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.
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“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.
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=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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.)
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“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.)
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“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.
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“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.
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+ =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.)
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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=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.”
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“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.
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+ − =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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.)
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+ =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.)
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=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.
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=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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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+ =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.
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“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.)
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.)
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“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.
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=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.
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“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.)
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.”
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=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.)
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.)
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.)
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.)
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“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.
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“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.
“The subject of Miss Hill’s book is the Burney family in the last of their London homes; that is, from the autumn of 1774 to the spring of 1783. The author has been fortunate enough to obtain new material in the shape of unpublished letters from the Burney Mss.; and she has also had the use of a copy of Madame D’Arblay’s ‘Diary and letters’ annotated by a granddaughter of its first editor. By interweaving with the new matter passages from the ‘Early diary,’ the ‘Memoirs of Dr. Burney’ and other printed sources dealing with the Burney and Thrale circle, she has produced a most agreeable volume of handsome appearance.”—Ath.
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+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 647. N. 24. 1760w.
“If its pages sometimes repeat what should be a familiar tale, they also illustrate and supplement it.” S. M. Francis.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 489. O. ’07. 480w.
“Granted the limitations of her method and of her present opportunity, she deserves nothing but praise for her conscientious and capable investigation of the resources at her command and for her judicious selection and arrangement of her well-chosen material.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
+ =Dial.= 42: 177. Mr. 16, ’07. 1480w.
“Miss Constance Hill writes of the happy little household with all her wonted grace, and the book abounds in quotations from diaries and other documents, hitherto unpublished, and is further enriched with charming illustrations.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 376. N. 9, ’06. 770w.
“Of the tribe of gentlewomen who are exploiting the eighteenth century at their ease, Miss Hill is the least amateurish and most entertaining.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 486. D. 6, ’06. 980w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 72. F. 2, ’07. 560w.
“Miss Constance Hill has made the happy discovery of a new lode in the Burney mine.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 742. D. 15, ’06. 960w.
“She has little to tell us that we do not already know. Her stories have been told a hundred times.”
− =Spec.= 97: 828. N. 24, ’06. 1270w.
=Hill, David Jayne.= History of diplomacy in the international development of Europe. 6v. ea. **$5. Longmans.
=v. 2.= The establishment of the territorial sovereignty.
“Having shown how the struggle between the Empire and the Papacy gave room and occasion for the rise of national monarchies, Dr. Hill now proceeds to trace the evolution of the modern state through the warring efforts of these monarchies to attain, if not supremacy as conceived in the earlier ideal of universal dominion, at least primacy; and their subsequent adjustment to a system of balanced and co-ordinate power based upon the principle of territorial sovereignty.”—Outlook.
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“Should take rank among the best of our books of reference.” George L. Burr.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 617. Ap. ’07. 1130w. (Review of v. 2.)
“In effect, then, Mr. Hill seems to the reviewer to have just arrived at the true beginning of his task—to have expanded in one volume, and in all but one chapter of the second, matter that might have been described and analysed in an introduction of reasonable length.” E. D. Adams.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 426. Mr. ’07. 1200w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The book is little more than a résumé of general history from a particular standpoint. We do not say that the thing was not worth doing, for the book is both readable and accurate, and the author keeps fairly close to international interests.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 13. Jl. 6. 380w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is perhaps, the most meritorious characteristic of Mr. Hill’s work that he shows a good sense of proportion.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 258. My. ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 2.)
“As a history of Europe mainly from the point of view of international relations, Mr. Hill’s work possesses conspicuous merits; but it has only a very limited value for the student of diplomacy.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 189. Mr. 16, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is ... a history of diplomacy without the dry and technical features that usually characterize works indicated by this title.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 178. F. 2, ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 2.)
“By any other name than diplomacy, it would have smelled as much of the lamp.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 520. Je. 6, ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The book covers an interesting period of the world’s history; it is an honest, able, and well-told story.” Wm. E. Dodd.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 73. F. 9, ’07. 2100w. (Review of v. 2.)
“As before, Dr. Hill’s tone is admirably impartial and his treatment scholarly. But the promise of that volume is hardly so well fulfilled in the matter of narrative, which is somewhat lacking in the ease and freshness exhibited in the account of the crude diplomacy of the earlier centuries, and is, it seems to us, overburdened with detail.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 331. F. 9, ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Misstatements of detail here and there, bear witness of shortcoming. It represents extraordinarily wide reading in both primary and derived sources; its matter is set forth always conscientiously and often effectively. It may be read with profit.” Earle W. Dow.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 711. D. ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The second volume maintains the high scholarly standard set by the first.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The reader receives the impression that Dr. Hill selected his subject, set himself to work up the necessary background of history, and found this so novel and engrossing that he felt it must be presented, and as a result, lost sight of his central theme.” Guy Stanton Ford.
− =Yale R.= 16: 105. My. ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Hill, Frederick Trevor.= Decisive battles of the law. **$2.25. Harper.
7–33964.
In this volume are described the great legal contests which have proven to be of the deepest significance in the history of our country. That the full historic value may be appreciated the scene is vitalized and peopled with the human beings who dominated it—the judges, the jury, the witnesses, the lawyers and the laymen. Among the eight “decisive battles” thus presented are the following: the United States vs. Callender: a fight for the freedom of the press; The commonwealth vs. Brown: the prelude to the civil war; and The impeachment of Andrew Johnson: a historic moot case.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 727. N. 16, ’07. 150w.
“Mr. Hill is not only a well-read lawyer, but also a writer who knows how to make his narrative clear, direct, and often in a high degree dramatic.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 589. N. 16, ’07. 220w.
“So well does he succeed in humanizing dry records of legal procedure that the readers become, as it were, listening spectators. Few writers upon legal topics have acquired so masterly a skill in narration.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 120w.
=Hill, Frederick Trevor.= Lincoln the lawyer. **$2. Century.
6–34845.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Hill has undoubtedly rendered a conspicuous and important service.” Floyd R. Mechem.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 12: 673. Ap. ’07. 560w.
“This is an extremely interesting and well-written work, a contribution of real value to the already voluminous literature dealing with the life of the great Emancipator. There is one criticism that we think can be justly made. The author lays far too much stress and importance, in our judgment, on Lincoln’s legal training, and attributes a value to it out of all proportion to the proper relation it bears to the action of the great and single-hearted statesman.”
+ − =Arena.= 37: 215. F. ’07. 330w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 20. Ja. 1, ’07. 300w.
“Mr. Hill has done the public and the profession a favor in showing how it came about that Mr. Lincoln was one of the great lawyers of this country.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 275. Ja. 31, ’07. 440w.
“No one familiar with the qualities which the legal profession demands and generates in its best representatives needs to be told how much of Lincoln’s strength in the presidency resulted from that daily exercise which the practice of law had provided. It is the special virtue of Mr. Hill’s book that it will bring home to many readers this important fact, and will help them to realize what a great man and a great profession may owe to each other.” M. A. DeWolfe Howe.
+ =No. Am.= 183: 1303. D. 21, ’06. 1440w.
=Hill, George Birkbeck.= Letters of George Birkbeck Hill, arranged by his daughter, Lucy Crump. *$3.50. Longmans.
7–29013.
A subjective view is afforded in these letters of a man whose chief literary service was rendered thru his edition of Boswell’s Johnson. Unassuming candor and sincerity create an atmosphere in which can be made a sympathetic study of the leader and scholar.
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Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 78. F. 1, ’07. 1560w.
“His letters, here collected by his daughter, will interest all readers who care to know something of the man, his life, and his work from day to day.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.
=Lond. Times.= 5: 375. N. 9, ’06. 860w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 250w.
“This is one of the best examples that have been given to the public of that now popular form of biography which allows its subject to speak for himself by means of letters.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 265. Ag. 24, ’07. 2150w.
=Hill, George Francis.= Historical Greek coins. *$2.50. Macmillan.
6–45173.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We can speak with great satisfaction of the interest of the book, which is written with caution and sanity.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 173. F. 9. 320w.
=Ind.= 62: 503. F. 28, ’07. 320w.
“As an elementary treatise it presents the subject in a clear, straightforward style, unhampered by details, yet with some attention to the historical problems involved. In some cases the reader may be unwilling to accept the author’s view.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 58. Ja. 17, ’07. 460w.
=Hill, George W.= Collected mathematical works. (Carnegie inst. of Washington publications.) 4v. ea. $2.50. Carnegie inst.
Dr. Hill’s valuable contributions to practical astronomy are collected here, covering seventeen hundred pages. Among his best known papers are those which set forth his theory of the moon’s motion and the theory of Jupiter and Saturn.
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+ =Nation.= 85: 355. O. 17, ’07. 1010w. (Review of v. 4.)
Reviewed by R. A. S.
+ + =Nature.= 73: 409. Mr. 1, ’06. 990w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Nature.= 75: 123. D. 6, ’06. 600w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“It is, indeed, difficult to overstate the interest of the whole volume—at least, to those occupied in the subjects treated of.” R. A. S.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 635. O. 24, ’07. 550w. (Review of v. 4.)
Reviewed by E. W. B.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 25: 933. Je. 14, ’07. 1840w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
=Hill, Headon, pseud. (Francis Edward Grainger).= The avengers. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
To free her lover from an insane asylum, a young heiress searches out his double, offers him ample remuneration to assume insanity, become an inmate of the asylum, exchange places with the lover and help the latter to escape. The one feigning insanity finds the other too hopelessly mad to execute the commission; so after a few weeks goes forth himself, weds the girl, who supposes him to be her rescued lover, and then the complications begin which involve a vendetta meant for the man shut away in the “refractory cell” but which in reality menaces the life and happiness of the innocent double. The tangle is straightened by the death of the real maniac.
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“Immaturity marks the treatment of an idea which promises well.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 695. Je. 1. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 280w.
=Hill, Marion.= Pettison twins. †$1.50. McClure.
6–35942.
A mother, who with the best of intentions strives to bring up her children according to the rigid ideas put forth in child-study books, meets with unexpected set backs due to the vigorous personalities of Rex and Regina, confronting her with problems not dealt by the editor. A series of amusing stories full of gentle sarcasm is the result.
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+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 51. F. ’07.
“We defy any one whose sense of humor is not submerged to resist a laugh at Marion Hills fun over the Pettison twins and Fanny Y. Cory’s pictures of them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 790. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
=Hilliers, Ashton.= Fanshawe of the Fifth; being memoirs of a person of quality. †$1.50. McClure.
7–4159.
“Those who relish Besant’s novels, with their quiet movement, gentle sentiment, and abundance of detail, will be apt to like ‘Fanshawe of the fifth.’ The hero, who tells the story of his own life, is the younger son of a noble family. Not succeeding in the army, for which he was intended, he works his way to success through many hardships and perils. There is plenty of adventure.”—N. Y. Times.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 177. O. ’07.
“The episodes Mr. Hilliers handles with great skill, but he is somewhat at fault in the process of co-ordination. The author’s study of the period must have been profound, and he has absorbed the spirit of the times with remarkable ability. His narrative is thus convincing, except in the London part, which reads almost like a piece of Dickensian caricature.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 161. F. 9. 210w.
“A book to be cordially commended to the consideration of the discriminating few.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 498. Jl. ’07. 560w.
“It offers us the real thing, as distinguished from the artificial fabrication of the novelist who ‘gets up’ his subject.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 61. Ag. 1, ’07. 260w.
“But to be enjoyed, it is a book that must be read at leisure, and when you are in a congenial mood.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Forum.= 39: 119. Jl. ’07. 390w.
“Without affectation, it has a pleasant flavour of sedate Georgian prose, and its polish and lucidity reflect the best qualities of that period.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 45. F. 8, ’07. 450w.
“The plot is interesting and well sustained, and there are several characters drawn with dramatic insight. It has much quiet charm and is written in a style of marked distinction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 235. Ap. 13, ’07. 180w.
“The eighteenth-century manner is well sustained without affectation or strained elegance, the style being indeed throughout of conspicuous and consistent treatment. The series of adventures and experiences ... are admirably conceived and described and the characters, if not brilliant pieces of portraiture, are effective and real.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 244. F. 23, ’07. 130w.
“The long scenario of Mr. Hilliers’ romance given on his title-page prepares the reader for something unconventional and unusual, and these expectations are richly fulfilled in the contents of this admirably written and engrossing romance.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 335. Mr. 2, ’07. 700w.
=Hillis, Newell Dwight.= Fortune of the republic. **$1.20. Revell.
6–41943.
Sturdy optimism is shown thruout these essays and addresses. In the course of his travels thru every state and territory of the Union, Dr. Hillis has found that “‘any darkness there is on the horizon is morning twilight and not evening twilight.’ This evidence is summed up in the growth of the religious spirit, the increasing popularization of education and culture, and the passing of sectionalism. Dr. Hillis believes that everything points to a still greater America.” (Outlook.)
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“Such thinking and such writing furnish the soil that will forever produce corruption in business and in politics. Fortunately, it may be said that the optimism, which the author says has been forced upon him by much travel and by the pressure of events, is not the kind that the leading pulpiteers of the country are meeting in their travels and are being forced by the pressure of events to preach to their congregations.” William H. Allen.
− − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 428. Mr. ’07. 600w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1092. My. 9, ’07. 180w.
“In a word, his book makes for religious and intellectual betterment and for a whole-hearted, robust patriotism that must be up and doing.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 44. Ja. 5, ’07. 290w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Hilprecht, Hermann Vollrat=, ed. Babylonian expedition of the University of Pennsylvania. Series A. Cuneiform texts. $6. Dept. of Archaeology of Univ. of Pennsylvania, Phil.
=v. 6. pt. 1.= Legal and business documents from the time of the first dynasty of Babylon, chiefly from Shippar; by Hermann Ranke. An interesting collection of tablets preceded by a scholarly introduction.
=v. 20. pt. 1.= Mathematical, metrological, and chronological tablets from the temple library of Nippur. This volume contains “an unusually large number of tablets which may be called the school exercises of a temple school.... There are over thirty including multiplication tables, division tables and square roots.... The metrological texts ... have value. More important is a single tablet containing a dynastic list of some of the kings of Ur and Isin.”—(Ind.)
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+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 330. S. 21. 820w. (Review of v. 20, pt. 1.)
“[The] work has been done in an exceptionally satisfactory manner.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 44. Ja. 3, ’07. 1540w. (Review of v. 6, pt. 1.)
“The work is done in a thoro and scholarly way with abundant credit to other scholars as shown by the multitude of citations.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 444. F. 21, ’07. 820w. (Review of v. 20, pt. 1.)
“The value of the entire material is impaired because of the lack of frank and honest statements with regard to the place of discovery and the environments of that material. So far as the actual publication of texts is concerned, Professor Hilprecht’s work seems to be admirably done.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 413. My. 2, ’07. 2600w. (Review of v. 20, pt. 1.)
=Hilty, Carl.= Steps of life, further essays on happiness; tr. by Melvin Brandow. *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–6159.
Eight helpful essays which “lead toward the things that are unseen and eternal.” They are entitled, Sin and sorrow, Comfort ye my people, On the knowledge of men, What is culture? Noble souls, Transcendental hope, The prolegomena of Christianity, The steps of life.
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“In chapters on the knowledge of men, there is a fund of practical psychology and shrewd observation of a Baconian Quality, but animated with a tenderness and glow of human sympathy to which Bacon was a stranger.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 549. Jl. ’07. 560w.
“Many striking passages in his book evoke cordial assent, and some, equally striking, call forth the opposite. The translation is smooth, but has a few unidiomatic or awkward expressions, and at least one slip in grammar.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 188. Mr. 16, ’07. 300w.
=Nation.= 84: 176. F. 21, ’07. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 159. Mr. 16. ’07. 250w.
“The essay upon Transcendental hope is lofty and most stimulating, reflecting the noblest sentiments, and interpreting life here and hereafter from the disciplined standpoint of a man acquainted with sorrow, sin, and victory.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 78. My. 11, ’07. 260w.
=Hinckley, Frank Erastus.= American consular jurisdiction in the Orient. *$3.50. Lowdermilk.
6–29752.
“An exposition of the system of consular extra-territorial jurisdiction under which Americans have been permitted to reside and trade in Oriental countries. In seven chapters—‘Historic forms of extra-territoriality;’ ‘The United States Oriental treaties;’ ‘Acts of Congress establishing the system of consular courts;’ ‘Legal rights under the jurisdiction;’ ‘International tribunals of Egypt;’ ‘The foreign municipality of Shanghai’, and ‘Grounds for relinquishing jurisdiction.’”—N. Y. Times.
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“The style in which the book is written is clear, the statement exact. The exhaustive footnotes place the source material easily at the service of one who wishes to consult the original authorities.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 160. Jl. ’07. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 59. F. 2, ’07. 60w.
=Outlook.= 85: 857. Ap. 13, ’07. 370w.
=Hind, Charles Lewis.= Education of an artist. $2.50. Macmillan.
7–19742.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 145. F. 2, ’07. 650w.
=Hinkson, Henry A.= Golden morn. $1.50. Cassell.
The story of a young man fighting ill-health quite as much that a hated uncle may not inherit his property as for the love of life.
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“The story is brightly told and full of incident.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 263. S. 7. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Hinkson, Katharine Tynan.= For Maisie. †$1.25. McClurg.
The title sounds the keynote of this story in which an uncouth foster father turns all of his courage and indomitable will to the task of amassing wealth for Maisie. While under his determined hand ruthless industry obliterates the landmarks that tradition and sentiment hold dear, yet right is right and integrity rules him. Maisie, obedient, ambitious, proud-spirited, learns in time that she is kin to the lords and ladies of the adjoining estates.
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“Not one solitary event bears the faintest likeness to anything in real life. As a mere narrator, however, she is smooth, practised, and totally unobjectionable.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 400. O. 31, ’07. 230w.
“There is enough action to keep up the reader’s interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 732. N. 16, ’07. 120w.
=Hinkson, Katharine Tynan.= Story of Bawn. †$1.25. McClurg.
7–35216.
Bawn is a young Irish girl whose love affairs form the sum total of her life affairs. For a time it looks as tho she might be forced into an undesirable marriage to keep the family skeleton well closeted, but the sacrifice is not exacted. A trusty red setter and faithful Irish servants deserve some share of credit in bringing the tale to a happy close.
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=Acad.= 71: 374. O. 13, ’06. 150w.
“Not remarkable in any way, but diverting.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07. ✠
“Is in Mrs. Hinkson’s familiar Irish vein, pleasant, easy, flowing over the surface of life. We notice that the use of ‘shall’ and ‘will’ is still a difficulty, if not with the author, at least with her characters.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 578. N. 10. 160w.
“A good book for those readers who like their novels to be chronicles of the heart rather than of soul problems, finance, machinery, or economics.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 342. Ap. 11, ’07. 100w.
“It is told with taste and with some skill in the handling of incident and with much evident affection for the quiet life, the beautiful fields, and the contented people of secluded corners of Ireland.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 243. Ap. 13, ’07. 230w.
“Miss Tynan will not increase her reputation by this book.”
− =Spec.= 97: 790. N. 17, ’06. 120w.
=Hirst, Francis Wrigley.= Monopolies, trusts and kartells. *$1. Dutton.
6–14026.
Mr. Hirst contends that competition is still the life of trade and that the greater trusts restrict output and increase price. As to the origin of the trust “Mr. Hirst seems to think that in England it is the child of English law, and that in America it is the child of our ultra tariff. While the German kartell may have this double parentage.” (Outlook.)
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=Nation.= 82: 37. Ja. 11, ’06. 300w.
“Persons who believe that the ‘trust movement’ flourishes in a free-trade country like England will learn much to their advantage by perusing the volume in either its English or its American dress.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 70w.
“While in the general discussion of the trust problem Mr. Hirst’s book will be a helpful factor, it would have been still more helpful had it included some later information, especially concerning the results of governmental investigation of monopolies in this country.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 767. Mr. 30, ’07. 550w.
=Hiscox, Gardner Dexter=, ed. Henley’s twentieth century book of recipes, formulas and processes, containing nearly ten thousand selected scientific, chemical, technical and household recipes, formulas and processes for use in the laboratory, the office, the workshop and in the home. $3 Henley.
7–8246.
A handbook for various processes and recipes needed by every one. “Such information, for instance, as the formula for photographic developer, the composition of the various paint-pigments, the manufacture of glue or of solder, or the thousand and one detailed bits of information which come up, as the title reads ‘in the laboratory, the office, the workshop and in the home’—such a book as this is very useful.” (Engin. N.)
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“It seems rather out of its province to endeavor to give in so short a space as can be allowed to any one article any account of the larger materials of engineering.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’07. 190w.
=Hiscox, Gardner Dexter.= Modern steam engineering, in theory and practice. $3. Henley.
6–43049.
A complete and practical work for steam-users, electricians, firemen, and engineers.
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“Useful information is contained in this volume, but this information is accompanied by so many inaccurate statements that the book becomes of doubtful value.” Storm Bull.
− + =Engin. N.= 57: 665. Je. 13, ’07. 300w.
=Hishida, Seiji G.= International position of Japan as a great power. *$2.50. Macmillan.
6–23069.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“His book, which is based on wide study, is a most useful guide to British and American readers through a region still imperfectly explored, and its value is enhanced by his dispassionate treatment of controversial questions.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 18. Ja. 18, ’07. 1080w.
=Hitchcock, Frederick H.=, ed. Building of a book: a series of practical articles by experts in the various departments of book making and distributing with an introd. by Theodore L. De Vinne. **$2. Grafton press.
6–46354.
Each of the thirty seven chapters constituting this volume is contributed by a person of authority. The articles together furnish all the steps thru which books must pass in their making and distribution.
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+ =Ind.= 60: 744. Mr. 24, ’06. 70w.
“A very handy book to have on the open shelves in the public library.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 218. Ja. 24, ’07. 120w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 110w.
“The book may satisfy the curiosity of a good many and prove directly useful to a few.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 70w.
“For the layman with a natural curiosity as to methods of handling manuscript and making books this volume should be fascinating in its very concise and incisive statements.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 8. Ja. 5, ’07. 290w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 200w.
=Spec.= 99: 828. N. 23, ’07. 290w.
=Hoare, J. Douglas.= Arctic exploration. *$3. Dutton.
7–35190.
Thirty-three brief but interesting chapters which tell of the sufferings and achievements of those heroic men who braved the dangers of the far North. The work of Hudson, Phipps and Nelson is given, the successive expeditions of Sir John Franklin and of the searching parties, the voyages of Hall, Nares, Greeley, Nordenskiold, De Long, Nansen, Peary, Andree, Wellman, and all the others are described with well chosen detail. The book is illustrated with some 20 full page plates.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 95. Ap. ’07.
“This work is not in any sense complete, nor is it based upon a scientific study of the constantly increasing collection of Arctic literature.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 579. N. 10. 400w.
“Thoroughly good reading.” E. T. Brewster.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 261. Ag. ’07. 20w.
“On the whole the author has given a very satisfactory bird’s-eye view of his subject.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 231. Ap. 1, ’07. 280w.
“The accounts of the expeditions, however, are given in somewhat more detail than those in Greely’s book, and the work certainly has a place among those readers who have not the original narratives at hand.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1149. My. 16, ’07. 160w.
“Neither in its estimate of researches nor in the analyses of the different journeys do the pages betray special fitness on the part of the author. Indeed, a casual glance at the concluding chapters reveals a carelessness which detracts from the usefulness of the book.”
− =Nation.= 84: 318. Ap. 4, ’07. 280w.
“The book is well adapted either for entertainment or for edification, as far as it goes.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 298. My. 11, ’07. 210w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 40w.
“The story of all this adventurous travel, with its attendant hardships and gallantry, is admirably narrated by Mr. Hoare, who condenses into a single volume the essence of a whole library of polar literature.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 117. Ja. 26, ’07. 480w.
=Hobart, George Vere.= Cinders (diary of a drummer); by Wright Bauer. *75c. Dillingham.
7–9507.
To win a bet a drummer records in diary form all the stories of a printable kind which he hears in the course of one trip, and they are exactly what might be expected.
=Hobart, Henry Metcalfe.= Elementary principles of continuous-current dynamo design. $3. Macmillan.
7–2318.
“The book consists of a series of statements explaining the way in which a dynamo should be considered as a successful machine or the reverse, and of a short account of several methods whereby the designer may himself estimate the first cost. After preliminary chapters on what may be called the practical theory of the continuous current dynamo, Mr. Hobart deals at length with those considerations which form the limits in the design, namely, heating, sparking, and efficiency.... The book contains a large number of tables in which the various calculations are set out.”—Nature.
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“The present book is a model of its class and it is especially adapted to the use of students or others who desire a working knowledge of design practice. The mechanical features of the book are excellent.” Henry H. Norris.
+ + =Engin. N.= 56: 523. N. 15, ’06. 640w.
“The value of the book lies in the essential soundness of this framework, more particularly of the fundamental ideas on which it is itself based than on the framework itself.”
+ =Nature.= 75: 221. Ja. 3, ’07. 610w.
=Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawney.= Morals in evolution: a study in comparative ethics. 2v. *$5. Holt.
7–11047.
“An encyclopaedic work which is “the outcome of a hundred specialisms.” The first volume deals with the standard of morality and the second with its basis. This means that in the first volume the author considers the lines of conduct that have been approved at different times among different peoples; in the second, the reasons that have been, or may be, assigned for this approval. In accordance with the evolution hypothesis, no line is drawn between human and animal, or even vegetable intelligence.” (Sat. R.)
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“He has gone over an immense literature; his quotations are apt and accurate; his interpretations in the main sound. Careless statements are not common. Naturally some slips are inevitable.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 180. Jl. ’07. 710w.
“He has dealt with the different phases and stages of human conduct in a manner that never fails to be lucid and careful; and although he has occasionally allowed his own particular prejudices to be in evidence, he has not only described the different moral forces of which he writes with vigour and learning, but has also criticised them, in the light of their past and future, in a scientific spirit.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 784. Je. 29. 650w.
“I do not think it is any particular novelty of opinion that constitutes the importance of this book, but the strength of conviction, the absolute frankness and directness, the fervour and power of popular exposition which have brought liberal theology down from the schools into the market-place.” H. Rashdall.
+ + − =Hibbert J.= 5: 921. Jl. ’07. 4140w.
“Every page of Mr. Hobhouse’s book furnishes food for reflection. It is brimful of facts from beginning to end; but his facts are not the ‘disjecta membra’ of a mutilated corpse, but the coherent parts of a living organism.” G. E. Underhill.
+ + − =Hibbert J.= 5: 928. Jl. ’07. 2410w.
“Measuring the work by its own standard, which is not that of originality of theory, one must ascribe to it a unique value as a collection of the facts upon which any interpretation of morality must be based. But there is the interpretation and it does rest upon the facts, and in this consists the essential value of the work.” Norman Wilde.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 183. Mr. 28, ’07. 1930w.
“Mr. Hobhouse spends no time in tilting against what is commonly known as ‘metaphysics;’ he has culture enough to know that history and philosophy are not exclusive but complementary, and moreover, that in the reading of history it is impossible to exclude the philosophical ideas of the inquirer. In the historical survey Mr. Hobhouse is lucid and judicious, without any distinctly novel suggestions or original points of view.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 414. D. 14, ’06. 1750w.
“The criticism of customs and of systems of religion and of ethics is generally sound; the part played by the higher religions in supporting moral rules is recognized. The whole discussion is marked by good sense and the careful collection of data will be very useful to the student of ethics.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 568. Je. 20, ’07. 940w.
“The wonder of these immense volumes to the lay reader who opens the covers with trepidation is that they should be so intensely readable. One cannot but enjoy the curious side lights thrown on our own beliefs and superstitions. The various references to ghosts for example, would, if collected, be in themselves most entertaining.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 93. F. 16, ’07. 1590w.
=Outlook.= 85: 523. Mr. 2, ’07. 330w.
“Mr. Hobhouse has produced a very able work, one of the best of its kind that has appeared in many years. It is a careful, interesting, and instructive presentation of the subject, giving evidence of wide reading and characterized by intelligent judgment. It not only gives us facts, but attempts to see a meaning in them; it not only theorizes about the course of ethical progress but bases its conclusions upon human experiences. To be sure, in a discussion covering so broad and rich a field, there will be many points here and there to which the student may take exception.” Frank Thilly.
+ + − =Philos. R.= 16: 527. S. ’07. 6000w.
“It would be applying a false measure to estimate [these volumes] by the amount of information they contain. There is something better than that, a philosophic grasp of principles. We feel that we are in the hands of a genuine thinker, whose conclusions we may accept or reject, but may not neglect.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 400. Mr. 30, ’07. 1150w.
=Hobson, H. Overton.= Helouan; an Egyptian health resort and how to reach it. $1. Longmans.
A well illustrated guide book to one of the most prominent health resorts in Egypt. Information about routes, climate, baths, charges, the golf-links, and other amusements, as well as the many places of interest is alluringly given.
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“It belongs to the class of books that are not books, so we need only say that it contains all the information which the intending visitor should require.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 805. D. 22. 230w.
“The information given is extremely practical and reliable, the author having spent six winters at Helouan.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 21. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.
* =Hobson, John Atkinson.= Canada to-day. *$1. Wessels.
7–32187.
Mr. Hobson “handles such questions as the so-called Americanization of Canada, British Columbian problems, the immigration policy of the country, the French in Canada, the colonial preference, etc., with fairness and more than a measure of intelligence. A large portion of the book is devoted to a discussion of Canada’s fiscal policy, past, present, and prospective.”—Dial.
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“An excellent book.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 476. O. 20. 260w.
“His analysis of the Canadian tariffs and their influence upon the growth of Canada’s trade with Great Britain and the United States, respectively, is a valuable addition to the literature of the subject.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 256. O. 16, ’07. 320w.
* =Hobson, Richmond Pearson.= Buck Jones at Annapolis. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–29590.
Captain Hobson’s own experiences during the days spent at the naval academy at Annapolis furnish material for a story of “solid adventure.”
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=Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“It certainly carries a serious impression of absolute truth, which occasionally deadens into commonplace reality. Yet it is an attractive story of life at the naval school, and abounds in thrilling events happening to the hero, a really fine fellow, after he entered the service.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 311. O. 12, ’07. 90w.
=Hocker, Gustav.= Joseph Haydn; a study of his life and time for youth; tr. from the German, by George P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.
7–30875.
A sketch which reveals all the lovable qualities of a good man and the scholarly attributes of the master. Haydn’s personality is full of charm and furnishes an atmosphere which in itself is an invitation to study the career of the man who created the artistic patterns of the sonata, the quartette, and the symphony, who also enlarged the scope of the orchestra and who became the father of instrumental music.
=Hodge, Frederick Webb=, ed. Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico. 2 pts. pt. 1. $1.25. Supt. of doc.
7–35198.
Treats of all the tribes north of Mexico, including the Eskimo, and those tribes south of the boundary more or less affiliated with those in the United States. It has been the aim to give a brief description of every linguistic stock, confederacy, tribe, subtribe or tribal division, and settlement known to history or even to tradition, as well as the origin and derivation of every name treated, whenever such is known, and to record under each every form of the name, and every other appellation that could be learned.
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“Though confessedly incomplete, the handbook represents a vast amount of research by an army of observers, and students of ethnography will look forward to the publication of the second part with keen anticipation.”
+ − =Nature.= 76: 149. Je. 13, ’07. 160w.
“It is fair to say that in the future, students of the American Indian must have this manual always at hand. The Bureau and the editor are to be congratulated upon this publication which is, in a certain sense, among many contributions to scholarship, the greatest which the Bureau has yet made.”
+ =Yale R.= 16: 108. My. ’07. 230w.
=Hodges, Rev. George.= Holderness: an account of the beginnings of a New Hampshire town. *$1.25. Houghton.
7–19786.
A little hundred-page volume in which Dr. Hodges tells the story of “a typical little New England hill town, named from the Yorkshire Holderness, and pleasantly situated on Squam lake, not far from Plymouth, in Grafton county.” He makes interesting personalities of the men who built up the town. “There is some modern matter relating to walks and drives and mountain tops, but the main value of the book is historic, and it is a worthy pendant for Mr. Sanborn’s ‘New Hampshire.’” (N. Y. Times.)
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+ =Dial.= 43: 43. Jl. 16, ’07. 280w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 60w.
=Hodges, Rev. George.= Year of grace. **$1. Whittaker.
6–46334.
A book of sermons whose burden is liberty, enfranchisement of religious scholarship, the end of fear and the beginning of faith.
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“The author has a sense for what is vital in piety, shows himself a keen observer of the tendencies of modern life, exhibits tact in the encouragement of spiritual living, and plies the lash on current foibles pleasantly, wisely and to good effect.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 499. My. 30, ’07. 120w.
“Their clearness and freshness of presentation, and closeness to the needs of modern thought and life, are such as belong to the best type of university sermons.”
+ =Outlook.= 6: 480. Je. 29, ’07. 50w.
=Hodges, Rev. George, and Reichert, John.= Administration of an institutional church: a detailed account of the operation of St. George’s parish, in the city of New York. **$3. Harper.
6–42355.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 43. F. ’07.
=Ind.= 61: 1572. D. 27, ’06. 70w.
“Everything connected with the work of the church ... is carefully described and well illustrated.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 176. F. 21, ’07. 90w.
=Outlook.= 84: 940. D. 15, ’06. 150w.
=Hodgson, Geraldine.= Primitive Christian education. *$1.50. Scribner.
6–41016.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A series of useful essays.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 448. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“The interest and value of this educational work of the primitive Christians is brought vividly before us; but while admitting its value, we are inclined to differ from Miss Hodgson as to its efficacy.” Millicent Mackenzie.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 259. Ja. ’07. 460w.
“The materials which the author’s diligence has accumulated are, in themselves, interesting, but scrappy and ill-digested. Everywhere the absence of the large furniture of knowledge, which an investigation of such a subject demands, makes itself felt.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 64. Ja. 17, ’07. 450w.
=Hodgson, Mrs. Willoughby.= How to identify old Chinese porcelain; with 40 il. 2d ed. *$2. McClurg.
7–2048.
A book for the amateur. It aims “to assist the tyro or the ordinary collector who may be the fortunate possessor of some fine work upon Chinese porcelain.” It discusses the glazes and enamels, figures and symbols, periods and date-marks.
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“A careful study of her brief and accurately worded chapters should enable the beginner to view collections, classify his own specimens, and buy others, with a fair amount of intelligence; and this is more than he could do after perusing many more ambitious but less systematic treatises.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 290. N. 1, ’07. 210w.
=Hoffding, Harald.= Philosophy of religion. *$3. Macmillan.
6–18580.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Apart from the main argument of the book there are many criticisms and suggestions of real insight and power.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 564. Mr. 7, ’07. 430w.
“And no one who is aware of the perplexities of the religious mood can read his sympathetic interpretation of its meaning without being grateful for this balanced and well-ordered statement of his conclusions.” J. B. Baillie.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 371. Ap. ’07. 3870w.
“A work of rare philosophical perspicacity and broad religious sympathy.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 909. Ap. 21, ’06. 540w.
“We do not think that Professor Hoffding possesses the necessary qualifications to write a philosophy of religion. He is a psychologist. He is distinguished in philosophy. But it needs more than this and other gifts than this to write on Christianity. And neither the sympathy nor the theological learning requisite is found in Dr. Hoffding’s book.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 687. Je. 1, ’07. 1890w.
=Hofmann, Ottokar.= Hydrometallurgy of silver, with special reference to chloridizing roasting of silver ores and the extraction of silver by hyposulphite and cyanide solutions. $4. Hill pub. co.
7–15483.
“The book is divided into two parts, of which the first deals with chloridizing roasting of silver ores (154 pages), the second with the extraction of the silver (174 pages). The author points out in the preface that in the hydrometallurgical process for the extraction of silver from complex sulphide ores, the final result depends entirely on the quality of the roasting.”—Engin. N.
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“On the whole, the book is well written, in an easy and interesting style, and even if the hypo-sulphite method has seen its day, this volume will be read with interest.” Bradley Stoughton.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 554. My. 16, ’07. 400w.
=Hogg, Ethel M.= Quintin Hogg: a biography; with a preface by the Duke of Argyll. *$1.50. Dutton.
A popular edition of the biography of Quintin Hogg which sketches his life and work in the London slums. See volume one of the BOOK REVIEW DIGEST.
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“The book is too long and contains much that is trivial and unworthy of publication, but as a whole it is a stimulating account of a noble, self-sacrificing life.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 360w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 156. Mr. 16, ’07. 250w.
=Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chlodwig Karl Victor, prince von.= Memoirs of Prince Chlodwig of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst; tr. by G: W. Chrystal. **$6. Macmillan.
6–44316.
On the stage which is created by these memoirs, Prince Bismarck is well to the fore. “Prince Hohenlohe says very characteristically that while Bismarck was in power he dominated all, but after his retirement other and smaller personalities swelled like sponges. The light shed on the negotiations preceding the Franco-Prussian war are of historical value. The account of the plenipotentiaries who met to discuss what afterward became the Treaty of Berlin is described with acuteness of vision, and there are many other portions of the book that cannot fail to command attention.” (Acad.)
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“Students of politics will no doubt toil conscientiously through the nine hundred odd pages, but we question whether any one will make this exploration for pleasure.”
+ + − =Acad.= 71: 604. D. 15, ’06. 390w.
“The index is as imperfect as is unfortunately usual, but in several cases shows that slips in the text are not to be attributed to the translator—except, indeed, that proofs should have been more carefully corrected.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 734. D. 8. 9970w.
“If the Hohenlohe memoirs do nothing more than arouse men in power to the sacredness of their trust, they will serve an excellent purpose.”
+ + =Canadian M.= 28: 398. F. ’07. 380w.
“The chief source of regret is that Prince von Hohenlohe did not live to supervise the preparation of the work; in that case those elements that have provoked censure would doubtless have been omitted, and the whole work rounded out into a biography in the ordinary sense of the term.” Lewis A. Rhoades.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 71. F. 1, ’07. 2400w.
“The experienced old diplomat would unquestionably have excised many an indiscretion which the editor has allowed to remain—not diplomatic indiscretions, be it understood, but amusing personalities.”
+ + − =Ind.= 61: 1492. D. 20, ’06. 630w.
“Written in a crisp, epigrammatical style, they present some interesting flash-lights on the history of Europe during the most important part of the nineteenth century. There is lack of continuity in the book, however.”
+ + − =Lit. D.= 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 200w.
“The instant success of scandal which these memoirs attained has resulted in obscuring even their true personal interest. The English translation, so far as we have been able to test it, appears to be fairly satisfactory. It betrays signs of haste, and the printing, especially of French is carelessly done.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 511. D. 13, ’06. 1470w.
“Though in the main hard to read, they repay the trouble. It cannot be honestly said that Chlodwig Prince Hohenlohe shines in its pages either as man or politician.” Wolf von Schierbrand.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 60. F. 2, ’07. 3500w.
“It shares the faults of the German edition—long-windedness and futile digression—and has a full sufficiency of faults of its own, particularly in the spelling of German words.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
− =No. Am.= 184: 866. Ap. 19. ’07. 1990w.
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 616. Mr. 16, ’07. 4130w.
“The greater bulk is of interest only to the special student.” George Louis Beer.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 764. Mr. ’07. 1440w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 120w.
“Is to be recommended without reserve to all students of European history not by reason of any startling revelations it contains, for it contains none, but because it throws much light on a complicated and important series of events and is the record of an upright, courageous and far-seeing statesman.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 709. D. 8, ’06. 2590w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 1049. D. 22, ’06. 550w.
* =Hohler, Venetia. (Mrs. Edwin Hohler).= Peter: a Christmas story. †$1.25. Dutton.
7–31482.
“Little Sir Peter Moberley is as charming as little Lord Fauntleroy, and Bill, his ugly pet, the huge and gentle bulldog, is one of the most fascinating of dream-hounds.”—Ath.
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“The child-lover will delight in ‘Peter;’ we do not feel sure that the child himself will be greatly attracted.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 732. D. 8. 60w.
“Is worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 100w.
* =Holbach, Maude M.= Dalmatia: the land where the East meets the West. *$1.50. Lane.
A first-hand series of sketches, descriptive and historical of the principal places along the Dalmatian coast. “The architectural glutton has an almost unending feast prepared for him.... The same may be said of all the Mediterranean littoral; but the unique position of this rich coast peopled by a brave race and the home of successive civilisations but little changed by modern conquests must of necessity spell the survival of much that is picturesque and local to the artist.” (Spec.)
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“It is so easy to be accurate, careful—and tedious. Mrs. Holbach is certainly the two former, and narrowly escapes being the last.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 163. N. 23, ’07. 240w.
“One can hardly glance over these fifty or more plates without at once being seized with a wild desire to start upon an Adriatic trip.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 80w.
“In one or two respects it offers hostages to criticism; the style is a little unskilful ... the scholarship is sometimes imperfect. But apart from these blemishes, which can be easily removed, the volume is attractive and entertaining.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 326. O. 25, ’07. 300w.
“Mrs. Holbach’s account of ‘the land where East meets West’ is picturesque, her description of its people and places of interest being admirably supplemented by the numerous illustrations.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 486. O. 19, ’07. 220w.
=Spec.= 99: 673. N. 2, ’07. 210w.
=Holdich, Sir Thomas Hungerford.= Tibet, the mysterious. **$3. Stokes.
6–40557.
“The immediate interest in the Tibetan situation is sufficiently acute to demand a handbook which will serve both as an introduction to and a summary of the various expeditions and travels, and of the geographical and political features of that well-nigh impregnable land. Such a book is ‘Tibet the mysterious.’ Colonel Holdich, although not an explorer or traveller in Tibet, has made an exhaustive investigation of all the literature relating to that country, and has summarized his studies in an accurate and systematic manner. For those who wish to plunge ‘in medias res’ concerning Tibet, his book will be most acceptable.”—Dial.
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“A volume in every way worthy of the series.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 14. Ja. 5, ’07. 130w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 68. Mr. ’07.
“While the casual reader may wish that the names of the places were less difficult and the different routes less confusing, yet after the first few chapters the book holds the interest.” Lurena Wilson Tower.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 657. My. ’07. 670w.
“We fear that in the preparation of this volume he did not sufficiently realize that his acquaintance with the details had become a little rusty. We mention these circumstances as the only explanation we can think of for so experienced a geographer lapsing into inaccuracies.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 50. Ja. 12. 970w.
“These minor errors, however, detract but little from the otherwise scholarly work of the author, which will be held in high esteem as a general reference-book for the history of exploration and travel in Tibet.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 44. Ja. 16, ’07. 440w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 105. Ja. 19, ’07. 190w.
“The book is marred by repetitions, and in a second edition the author should avoid as poison the iteration, if not the subjects, of tea, dogs, and ants.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 15. Jl. 4, 07. 610w.
“The present account is disappointing in that its information is neither very trustworthy nor up-to-date. It would be pleasant to be able to congratulate the author on the illustrations, but nearly all of these we have seen elsewhere before. They are not very closely connected with the letterpress nor are the landscapes very characteristic whilst some of them are not what they profess to be.” L. A. W.
− + =Nature.= 76: 346. Ag. 8, ’07. 880w.
“It is a serious, well-written treatise, worked out from the point of view of the scientist who would contribute something of practical and general value and interest. As a reference book of all expeditions into the ‘forbidden land’ it will be found most comprehensive and convenient.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 250w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 110w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 50w.
* =Holland, Clive.= Old and new Japan; 50 col. pictures by Montagu Smith. **$5 Dutton.
“The text leads open the way for some specially good illustration; for Mr. Holland has much to say about the superstitions, legends, and stories of Japan concerning the national spirit of Japan and her legendary genesis, concerning Japan’s religions, her Buddhist and Shinto temples and ancient shrines, concerning the quaint, pathetic, and beautiful Japanese festivals, concerning Japanese gardens, old and new, and the life of the country folk.”—Outlook.
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“An authoritative book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
“This is just the book and these just the illustrations to make one who has not seen Japan long to see it, and to make the one who has sojourned in Japan long to return.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’97. 130w.
* =Holland, Clive.= Things seen in Egypt. *75c. Dutton.
W 7–184.
An “expanded Baedeker” containing interesting chapters on Egyptian life, monuments and scenery.
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“A little more study on certain points would have improved the treatment and given it a greater value.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 470. N. 21, ’07. 410w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 80w.
“Contains much of general interest, and is well written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 80w.
“It is a handy, convenient size, a small quarto, and altogether a most attractive little book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 719. N. 9, ’07. 40w.
=Holland, Clive.= Things seen in Japan. *75c. Dutton.
7–29128.
“A little book about as big as a man’s hand, richly illustrated with Underwood’s photographs, which is full of chat about things and folk seen in Dai Nippon.”—Ind.
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“A pleasant hour may be spent with this author, who touches only the surface of things, but that very pleasantly.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 329. F. 7, ’07. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 888. D. 22, ’06. 210w.
“This is a small volume, but it contains admirably arranged and well-written accounts of much that is essential and characteristic.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
=Holland, Clive.= Wessex; painted by Walter Tyndale; described by Clive Holland. *$6. Macmillan.
6–24919.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“For a guide-book it is too heavy in bulk and too full of irrelevant matter; for a serious history it is too ill-arranged and indefinite.”
− =Nation.= 83: 224. S. 13, ’06. 300w.
=Spec.= 96: sup. 1011. Je. 30, ’06. 50w.
=Holliday, Carl.= History of southern literature. $2.50. Neale.
6–41030.
The purpose of Mr. Holliday’s volume is “to make a study of the various literary movements and their results, and to show that the writings of this section are not merely disconnected efforts of isolated thinkers, but, rather, the natural, logical, and continuous productions of a people differing so materially in views and sentiments from their neighbors on the north that even civil war was necessary to prevent their becoming separate nations.” The subject is treated under the following headings: The beginnings, The period of national consciousness, The revolutionary period, The period of expansion, The civil war period, and The new South.
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“Not to mince words, it contains 400 pages of elegantly printed platitudes, and little else except an occasional quotation. Apparently, however, the author has been industrious in the collection and careful in the verification of his data, and his work, with its good index and bibliography, should make an excellent reference book for mere facts.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 275. Ja. 31, ’07. 170w.
“As a critic he is quite without authority and almost equally lacking in insight. He makes some astonishing misstatements.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 2. Ja. 5, ’07. 750w.
“Seems to be a carefully prepared work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 256. F. ’07. 30w.
* =Holman, Frederick Van Voorhies.= Dr. John McLoughlin: the father of Oregon. *$2.50. Clark, A. H.
7–31427.
A great deal of Oregon’s pioneer history is included in this sketch. After the coalition of the Northwest company, which McLoughlin had joined, and the Hudson bay company, he was engaged to manage the company’s interests in Oregon. His work which finally led up to American occupation makes an interesting personal account as well as an informing historical document.
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=Lit. D.= 35: 759. N. 16, ’07. 390w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 635. N. ’07. 150w.
=Holme, Charles=, ed. Old English country cottages. *$2.50. Lane.
6–45169.
“An attempt to preserve some record of these antique buildings that form one of the chief charms of rural England. They are dealt with in the text by counties.... Some 135 pen-and-ink drawings by Mr. Sidney R. Jones, depicting general views and architectural detail with charm and marked artistic skill, are scattered through the text; and in addition there are fifteen beautiful full-page plates in color, after paintings by Mrs. Allingham and others.”—Dial.
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“While no attempt has been made to cover the subject thoroughly, a most interesting general outline has been achieved.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 396. D. 1, ’06. 250w.
“The two hundred drawings of old English cottages form a record at once useful and interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 119. Ja. 26, ’07. 440w.
=Holmes, Daniel Henry.= Pedlar’s pack. $5. E. D. North, 4 E. 39th st., N. Y.
6–26458.
Ninety clever short poems which the author declares are intended to help a “tired man to kill a Sunday,” but they are really better than their mission implies.
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=Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 40w.
“It is, indeed, the temperament of the painter blessed with humor, the temperament of the ‘limb of the spectrum,’ that gives effectiveness to Mr. Holmes’s work.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 22, ’06. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 20w.
=Holmes, Gordon.= Late tenant. $1.50. Clode, E. J.
6–34806.
“A bronze young man who has spent his youth on a Wyoming ranch and has gone to London to grow rich and famous ‘in the city,’ rents a furnished apartment in Eddystone Mansions, and there you are. You smell violets, you hear the swish of trailing garments, you get tangled up in the most extraordinary ‘affair.’... There are missing papers to be plotted for, there are serving women to be bribed, there are mad drives in hansom cabs, with the hero on the driver’s perch and the speed regulations of the greatest city in the world set at naught. There are love scenes, hand-to-hand struggles in the dark, dramatic tableau of marriage settlements interrupted, and a dropping of the curtain on the tragic finish of a misguided life.”—N. Y. Times.
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“It is a story in the ‘genre’ which Miss Brandon popularized and which, whatever may be said by the realists, has never entirely lost favor.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 220w.
“It is, in short, too much like the ordinary mystery story by, say, Fergus Hume. Yet if you open the book you will read it through unless something or somebody very important interrupts.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 635. O. 6, ’06. 420w.
“In the present tale he has grown less clever than he was in ‘The Arncliffe puzzle,’ but he has not ceased to be clever.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
=Holt, Byron W.=, comp. Gold supply and prosperity. *$1. Moody corporation.
7–26334.
“An able introduction and conclusion by the author, with a symposium of twenty-two papers by leading authorities on various phases of the gold supply question, make up an interesting and attractive book. In summing up the statements in the various papers of this symposium the following points are brought out: First, that for many years the output of gold will increase rapidly; second, that, therefore, a depreciation in the value of gold will inevitably result.... Like several books, which have appeared during the past few years, the author takes one item, in this case the gold supply, and attempts to show that ‘all the ills that flesh is heir to’ arise from this one cause.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“It is not the part of wisdom to state that all of our problems can be traced to such an artificial thing as the gold supply. On the whole, however, the book is well written, and represents a valuable compilation of knowledge in this field.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 160. Jl. ’07. 290w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 560. S. ’07. 240w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 638. My. ’07. 80w.
=Holt, Henry.= On the civic relations. *$1.75. Houghton.
7–18299.
Mr. Holt’s “Talks on civics” has been “much amplified, modernized and actualized” (Putnam’s) to produce the present revised edition. The book has been written in the hope of “doing a little something to develop in young people a character of mind which is proof against political quackery—especially the quackery which proposes immediate cures by legislation for the abiding ills resulting from human weakness and ignorance.”
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“Those who do not ‘desire to be deceived’ will find much ‘dry light’ in Mr. Holt’s pages on current and burning questions, concerning which there is much more of heat than of light in most current discussion.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam.= 3: 231. N. ’67. 330w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 511. O. ’07. 110w.
“The author takes no pains to conceal his real opinion of the abilities of a very large part of ‘so-called civilized’ mankind, especially that part that labors with its hands for a living. This contempt steams up from every page until it nearly suffocates the appetite of the expectant reader. Yet there is an abundance of food in Mr. Holt’s book for readers with a suitable digestion.” Edward E. Hill.
− + =School. R.= 15: 695. N. ’07. 1440w.
=Homans, James Edward.= Self-propelled vehicles: a practical treatise on the theory, construction, operation, care and management of all forms of automobiles; with upwards of 500 il. and diagrams. 5th ed., rev. and enl. $2. Audel.
6–35990.
“The book is thoroughly revised and brought up to date, describing the latest innovations of the present day practice, while all obsolete material has been discarded.”—Engin. N.
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“The volume is a useful handbook for the owner of an automobile, and it is also calculated for use as a manual for class instruction.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 161. Jl. ’07. 100w.
“It is a very satisfactory production for the man who wants to know the ‘why and wherefore’ of the automobile, as designed to-day, and its proper care and manipulation.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 198. F. 14, ’07. 120w.
Homer. Iliad for boys and girls told from Homer in simple language, by Rev. Alfred J. Church. *$1.50. Macmillan.
7–30639.
To reset classical literature in the language of the child has become a worthy task of the present day. This juvenile renders the thrilling incidents of the Trojan war life-like and true to the Iliad’s text. The illustrations in color are suggestively good.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 208. N. ’07. ✠
“Shows that he understands how to rehearse the classics for childish minds.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 30w.
“The narrative is suited in every possible way to a child’s understanding; it is childlike without a trace of childishness; and it is a rare pleasure for old readers of Professor Church to see that his zest is as keen as ever, his fact as unfailing, and his instinct for seizing essentials as swift and true.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 712. N. 9, ’07. 290w.
Homer. Odyssey for boys and girls, told from Homer by the Rev. Alfred J. Church. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–34824.
A simplified version of the Odyssey, attractive in its illustrations, which is intended for young readers.
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“The style is much more attractive than that of the author’s ‘Story of the Odyssey.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 21. Ja. ’07. ✠
“Is a model of what such adaptations should be.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 653. N. 24. 90w.
“The story is intact, and the characters are there, but there is not much of that bigness for which Homer was noted.”
+ − =Ind.= 61: 1409. D. 22, ’06. 130w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 70w.
“Mr. Church has no superior in the art of retelling classical stories so as to interest girls and boys.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 632. N. 10, ’06. 70w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 764. D. ’06. 50w.
“We have taken the precaution of having the book submitted to the true arbiter of this form of literature,—a boy under five. He has listened to it with breathless attention and sparkling eyes.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 580. O. 20, ’06. 730w.
=Hone, Nathaniel J.= Manor and manorial records. *$3. Dutton.
6–10492.
“Half Mr. Hone’s book is devoted to a reasonably short account of the history of the manor, no undue space being given to the dispute concerning its evolution. With this we have the story of the lord and his tenants and officers and of their daily life and work as a community, the illustrations being for the most part already familiar.... The second half of the book shortly explains the procedure of the manorial courts, and then gives a very well chosen series of examples of court rolls, accounts and extents.”—Acad.
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“Mr. Hone’s treatise on the manor offers itself rather as a popular introduction to its history and customs than as an original study of a subject on which much good ink has been spent. The result is a book which may be commended especially to those who are entering upon the study of English topography.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 226. Mr. 10, ’06. 1750w.
“Forms a very suitable introduction for the beginner in the study of manorial court rolls, of which many are in private hands. The translations are not in all respects accurate.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 761. Je. 23. 500w.
“Is more general and popular than Dr. Davenport’s volume. The first half of Mr. Hone’s work is but slight, and seems scarcely worthy of the large amount of research which he appears to have undertaken.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 693. S. 19, ’07. 410w.
“We can think of no book which presents in a lucid manner a picture of the mode in which, or the extent to which, our fathers living remote from London were governed; none at all events which gives abundance of extracts from original records.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 243. Jl. 6, ’06. 480w.
“The uninitiated reader, should be grateful to Mr. Hone for giving him an opportunity to obtain a good general idea of old country life without too severe a mental effort.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 497. Ap. 21, ’06. 860w.
=Hood, Thomas.= Poetical works, ed. by Walter Jerrold. *$1.10 Oxford.
“‘The complete poetical works of Thomas Hood’ ... is added to the excellent Oxford edition of the poets.... Mr. Jerrold has provided a more comprehensive edition of Hood than has hitherto been available, searching out from the magazines whatever could be certainly attributed to him, and adding half a dozen new poems from manuscript.”—Nation.
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“We confess ourselves in general hostile to this mania for making up insignificant matter and adding to it the works of writers who already suffer from the preservation of too much that is mediocre. The notes are capital, and the make-up of the volume attractive.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 81. Ja. 24, ’07. 220w.
− =Spec.= 98: 90. Ja. 19, ’07. 1790w.
=Hornaday, William Temple.= Camp fires in the Canadian Rockies. **$3. Scribner.
6–35980.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Perhaps the chief charm of the book is that he manages so faithfully to convey a sense of the recrudescence of boyish energy and spirits in staid middle-life, aroused under the stimulus of unusual and invigorating surroundings.” G. W. L.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 410. Mr. 14, ’07. 1190w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 110w.
“It is the best of advocates for true sport and game preservation.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 60. Ja. 12, ’07. 310w.
=Hornblow, Arthur.= End of the game; il. by A. E. Jameson. †$1.50. Dillingham.
7–14587.
Instead of marrying a shallow-minded girl with a two-hundred-thousand dollar dowery, Roy Marshall chooses to wed his sister’s governess, a girl whose literary career had been checked by her father’s loss of money and subsequent death. From an unsuccessful beginning in life on a New York paper his course is turned into the channel of Pittsburg steel interests and he rises to a multi-millionaire’s position of prominence and power. The loose morals that result in his abandoning and divorcing his wife are astonishingly at variance with his early integrity; he pays a heavy penalty, and the book has a moral.
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“The characters, if somewhat tamely drawn, are good human creatures and not the flat paper dolls found in the pages of so much current fiction. It is a thoroughly wholesome story, better for general purposes perhaps than many novels better written.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 885. Je. 1, ’07. 190w.
“The work is creditable—somewhat ‘slow’ and unformed in many of the earlier portions, but gaining constantly in assurance as it progresses.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 316. My. 18, ’07. 690w.
=Horne, Herman Harrell.= Psychological principles of education. *$1.75. Macmillan.
6–26518.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The real strength of Dr. Horne’s book is found in its treatment of emotional, moral, and religious education; these vital subjects are handled with breadth, warmth, and frankness, and with an unusually full comprehension of their supreme importance.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 45. Ja. 16, ’07. 630w.
“Horne’s theoretical assumptions, both in this discussion and thruout the book seem to me to show evidence of a certain confusion of thought of so fundamental a nature as to justify notice here. The author has given to teachers many suggestions of practical value and very likely an inspiration toward better teaching, but he has not based these suggestions upon a consistent and accurate system, of psychology.” Guy Montrose Whipple.
− + =Educ. R.= 34: 317. O. ’07. 1950w.
Reviewed by Charles Hughes Johnston.
+ + =Educ. R.= 34: 478. D. ’07. 5000w.
“One can but regret casting a disparaging word at so admirably written a book as Horne’s ‘Psychological principles of education;’ but, in spite of its containing much excellent material and many good suggestions for practical teaching, it does not present any particularly original point of view, nor does it mark any advance in the general field of education psychology.” Irving King.
+ − =School R.= 15: 227. Mr. ’07. 790w.
=Horner, Joseph G.= Modern milling machines: their design, construction and operation: a handbook for practical men and engineering students. $4. Henley.
“The author has endeavored to treat the subject, both in the text and by the illustrations, in such a manner, as will make clear the essentials of the art, and to provide a book which will be useful to both the designer and the operator.” (Engin. N.) He “describes very fully many different types of machines, and probably one of the best chapters is that dealing with the design and manufacture of cutters.”—Nature.
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“The skilled workman as well as the amateur will find much that is valuable and worth while and little of the usual padding. Any one collecting a library of shop books should include this volume.” Wm. W. Bird.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 194. F. 14, ’07. 160w.
“Chapter 11 is too short, though very interesting; it deals with the subject of feeds and speeds. We can recommend this volume to all interested in machine-shop practice. The machines dealt with are of the latest type, and much useful information will be found scattered through its pages.” N. J. L.
+ + − =Nature.= 74: 149. Je. 14, ’06. 460w.
=Horner, Joseph G.= Practical metal turning: a handbook for engineers, technical students and amateurs. il. $3.50. Henley.
7–19433.
“The work in all its varied forms is discussed, its many tools and appliances are shown and described and the question of speeds and feeds for various tools and metals is well treated. A good deal of valuable information is given regarding the use of high-speed steel for lathe work.”—Engin. N.
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“While nothing new or especially novel is found, the book as a whole is well arranged, the illustrations are good, and a copy is worth owning for those interested in this line of work.” Wm. W. Bird.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 194. F. 14, ’07. 100w.
=Horniman, Roy.= Lord Cammarleigh’s secret; a fairy story of to-day. †$1.50. Little.
7–34173.
Anthony Brooke, unwilling to battle for bread, hits upon a bold plan. During his aimless wandering through Grosvenor square he espies Lord Cammarleigh, whom he knows by reputation, in conversation with a woman. Brooke observes the restlessness of his eyes and concludes that he is a man who has a secret, one who is afraid. With none of the malice of blackmail but spurred on by a fortune-hunter’s necessity of the things of life, Brooke looked the peer squarely in the eye and said, “I know your secret.” A private secretaryship, the management of the household affairs and, in truth of the obdurate Cammarleigh himself follow for the imposter in a most surprising manner.
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“The book abounds with unfeeling fun, culminating in a rhetorical flourish of impudence. Fortunately for the nerves of the ordinary reader, the victim of blackmail is a puppet; but the other important characters are vigorously drawn.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 546. N. 2. 150w.
“Granted, however, a single initial impossibility, the story goes on smoothly and naturally enough; and this, we take it, represents a more artistic method of dealing with the impossible than that which demands our acceptance of new miracles in every chapter.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 319. N. 16, ’07. 230w.
=Nation.= 85: 417. N. 28, ’07. 210w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Mr. Horniman is to be congratulated on a capital idea fully but not tediously exploited.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 519. O. 26, ’07. 180w.
* =Horsley, Sir Victor A. H., and Sturge, Mary M.= Alcohol and the human body: an introduction to the study of the subject; with a chapter by Arthur Newsholme. *$1.50. Macmillan.
An indictment against the use of alcohol in which “its ill effects on body and mind, on health and strength, on moral action and intellectual activity, are set forth by argument, by facts, by figures, by representations, gruesome in outline and hue, of the morbid conditions which it induces in the chief organs of the human frame.” (Spec.)
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“This book is sound literary performance and an earnest tract for the times but we do not see that it can achieve much.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 600. Je. 22, ’07. 1080w.
=Ind.= 63: 1119. N. 7, ’07. 320w.
“Though on the main issue we do not feel competent to give judgment—the conflict of evidence is too great—we are bound to record the opinion that a book like that under notice is sure to do a great deal of good, and can hardly do any harm even if it is mistaken in fact.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 946. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.
=Horstmann, Henry Charles, and Tousley, Victor Hugo.= Electrical wiring and construction tables. *$1.50. Drake, F: J.
7–472.
A pocket hand-book for the wire man, contractor, engineer and architect. “The book contains tables for direct-current calculations, for alternating-current calculations, for the smallest size of wire permissible, and for the most economical loss in different installations. Tables and diagrams are given showing the proper size of conduits to accommodate different combinations or numbers of wires; also tables and data for estimating the quantity of material required for different lines of work.” (Engin. N.)
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“Contains much useful information.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 89. Ja. 17, ’07. 120w.
=Hoskins, Leander Miller.= Text-book on hydraulics, including an outline of the theory of turbines. *$2.50. Holt.
6–38547.
A text for the use of instructors of experience and thorough training in the subject, a work giving the fundamental principles in a clear and concise form without elaboration.
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“As a whole it may be said that the book presents the laws and theories of hydraulics as they were recognized 20 to 25 years ago. There is authority for most of its statements in the treatises of that time, but it can hardly be said to cover the field as we regard it today.” Gardner S. Williams.
− =Engin. N.= 57: 304. Mr. 14, ’07. 940w.
“The book is distinctly elementary, and as such is well written and supplied with good examples.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 388. Ap. 25, ’07. 210w.
“This book will be valuable in training engineering students possessing a fair knowledge of mathematics to solve any problems in hydraulics they are likely to meet with in practice, and it will also furnish them with an insight into the principles on which the working and efficiency of turbines are based.”
+ =Nature.= 76: 542. S. 26, ’07. 510w.
+ =Technical Literature.= 1: 177. Ap. ’07. 320w.
=Hough, Emerson.= Story of the outlaw: a study of the western desperado. il. *$1.50. Outing.
7–5705.
Historical narratives of famous outlaws, the stories of noted border wars, vigilant movements and armed conflicts on the frontier. It is a contemplative study of the American desperado as he is, and in spite of the author’s intention to do away as far as possible with melodramatic thrills, the character of the subject precludes their complete elimination.
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“Not particularly interesting, but contains material not easily available elsewhere.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 122. My. ’07.
“It is a concise, clearly-reasoned, well-balanced and admirably written piece of work—a real contribution to our economic literature, and interesting to the average reader.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 638. My. ’07. 420w.
“The pages exhale the smell of blood and hemp. The realism is almost too raw for literature.”
− + =Lit. D.= 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 280w.
“His book certainly shows no trace of a tendency to exaggeration, but on the contrary is distinguished by a scrupulously careful moderation of statement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 210w.
“It is all interesting and suggestive, as material lifted bodily from life always is, but a little of it goes a long way.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 748. S. ’07. 270w.
“Mr. Hough’s philosophising is the weak part of his book.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 761. My. 11, ’07. 1950w.
=Hough, Emerson.= Way of a man. $1.50. Outing pub.
7–27615.
The scene of Mr. Hough’s story is once again laid in the west, chiefly during the time of the westward movement previous to the civil war. It concerns a young Virginian who, tho bound to an eastern girl, finds that he loves his companion of many adventures on the great plains. Their love-making, interrupted for a time by a villainous emissary from the cotton interests in England, and by the war itself, finally terminates happily. It has been the wish of the author to show the effect of a broad strong environment on human beings.
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“The style of the hero’s narrative in the opening pages, is too archaic for the period treated, but becomes more appropriate as the story goes forward.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 35: 695. N. 9, ’07. 340w.
“Is chiefly of interest in the illustration it affords of several tendencies in contemporary fiction, as deplorable as they are conspicuous: the glorification of the violent, the primitive, and the crude; a sophomorical searching after effects of style; and a habit of cheap philosophizing.”
− =Nation.= 85: 377. O. 24, ’07. 610w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Hough writes a dignified and forthright sort of tale, which, although it has a good plot and plenty of incident, yet moves along quietly and without the clatter-and-bang effect which characterizes so many novels of action. But this mood seems all the time a little overstrained, as if he wrote at high pitch and found it rather painful.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 769. N. 30, ’07. 590w.
“There is plenty of thrill and suspense—possibly a trifle too much.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 100w.
=Hough, Romeyn Beck.= Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada, east of the Rocky mountains; photo-descriptive, buck. $8. Hough.
7–31197.
“A new guide-book to the trees of the northern states and Canada devotes two pages to each species. One page bears a photographic reproduction showing a group of leaves (both sides) and fruit. The other page has a photograph of the trunk of the tree, showing the distinguishing peculiarities of the bark, a small map showing by shading the range of the tree’s growth, and a short, clear description of its characteristics.”—Outlook.
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“We cannot think of an item which would contribute to greater completeness. Everything that has been attempted seems to have been well planned and well executed. The book may be commended as indispensable for public and school libraries, for all students of trees, and botanical laboratories.” C. R. B.
+ + + =Bot. Gaz.= 44: 384. N. ’07. 460w.
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 535. D. ’07. 30w.
“There is nothing but praise for the work as a whole. This handbook should be widely useful in nature libraries, schools and colleges.”
+ + + =Nation.= 85: 355. O. 17, ’07. 460w.
“The book is admirably adapted for the average person who wants to be able to tell the trees apart with the least possible study.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 100w.
“These photographs are of unusual excellence and give to this handbook its distinctive value as a work of reference.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 640. N. ’07. 140w.
=Hough, Theodore, and Sedgwick, William Thompson.= Human mechanism; its physiology, and hygiene, and the sanitation of its surroundings. *$2. Ginn.
6–37595.
“This is a textbook of hygiene on new lines. Anatomy, both gross and microscopic, is reduced to the lowest terms, and the emphasis of the book, as stated in the preface, is placed on physiology, hygiene, and sanitation—on function and conduct.”—School R.
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“First half of the book ... avoids unnecessary details, but omits nothing essential. It is so lucidly written that the wayfaring man will have to be a terrible fool if he does not understand it. We can award to [the second] part no higher praise than to say that it is as excellent as the preliminary physiological portion. It teems with sound practical common-sense; it points out convincingly, avoiding too great technicality, the scientific reason for their [the authors’] faith.”
+ =Nature.= 75: 318. Ja. 31, ’07. 320w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 256. F. ’07. 50w.
“It seems to be altogether the best work upon the subject for use either as a textbook or for private reading.” Joseph E. Raycroft.
+ + =School R.= 15: 308. Ap. ’07. 310w.
=Houghton, Louise (Seymour).= Hebrew life and thought; being interpretative studies in the literature of Israel. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–22298.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“One is disappointed that he finds no attempt at the unity of purpose, except to entertain the reader, indicated in the title of the book. We are glad to find that each lecture has a definite purpose, and some of them are admirably treated.” Ira M. Price and John M. P. Smith.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 150. Ja. ’07. 260w.
“The aim of the book is good. It breathes a profound faith. Its author loves the Bible all the more because it is not only a book of religious instruction, but appeals to her as literature in the way the ‘Iliad’ or ‘Odyssey’ does. The defects of the book are occasional extravagances of statement, too great an effort to make out biblical laws and family life superior to anything else in antiquity, and an artificial interpretation of such books as Canticles and Ruth.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 29: 72. Ja. ’07. 720w.
“Mrs. Houghton writes with enthusiasm and _con amore_, and if we were able to name a defect it would be a certain light passing over the limitations and defects of Old Testament morals and belief.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 803. Ap. 4, ’07. 160w.
=Houghton, Louise (Seymour).= Russian grandmother’s wonder tales. †$1.50. Scribner.
6–32363.
“Louise Seymour Houghton openly confesses to having been prompted by ‘Uncle Remus’ in her mode of treating ‘The Russian grandmother’s wonder tales,’ a collection revealing the simple life of the Slavonians; at the same time in a short preface the author indicates analogies which reveal how close in contact legends of different lands often are. The book is excellently printed and effectively illustrated by W. T. Benda.”—Ind.
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“An excellent collection from authentic sources.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 219. N. ’06.
“Since Slavonic-tales do not seem yet to be ‘vieux jeu,’ we recommend this charming little work as a gift-book.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 14. Ja. 5. 210w.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 528. Ja. ’07. 40w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 70w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
“The tales are exceedingly well written.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 100w.
“A fascinating little volume.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 30w.
* =Houston, Edwin James.= Discovery of the North Pole. [*]$1. Winston.
7–23532.
The second of three volumes in the “North Pole series.” Andree and Eric, two American boys, are the heroes who pass thru thrilling adventures and exciting situations while they are learning many facts of modern scientific discoveries.
* =Hovey, Richard.= Holy graal, and other fragments by Richard Hovey; being the uncompleted parts of the Arthurian dramas; ed. with introd. and notes by Mrs. Richard Hovey, and a preface by Bliss Carman. $1.25. Duffield.
Fragments of the Arthurian legends which are presented for the sake of the psychological problem involved rather than for their historic and picturesque value as poetic material or for the sake of their glamour and romance. From notes, jottings, and outlines set down in note books or upon scraps of paper, Mrs. Hovey has completed the work of her husband who left it unfinished.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’67. 30w.
“An inestimable service has been rendered to the memory of Richard Hovey by the publication of ‘The holy graal and other fragments’ of the uncompleted Arthurian dramas; not so much by virtue of the new material which they contain for this is slight, as for the illumination thrown upon the whole scheme of the projected cycle by the introduction and notes of Mrs. Hovey.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 365. D. ’07. 430w.
=Howard, Burt Estes.= German empire. **$2. Macmillan.
6–34863.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 68. Mr. ’07.
“The work makes up in solidity for whatever it lacks in interest. As a whole the book is a serious and concise summary of value in itself and a basis for wider study.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 216. Ja. ’07. 380w.
“We have examined no better book for the American student of German institutions.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ + =Arena.= 37: 216. F. ’07. 150w.
“Will probably rank among the standard briefer treatises of the Germans. The only criticism worth mentioning relates to the title of this book, which is misleading, since the work relates almost entirely to a single aspect of the German Empire, its constitution.” J. W. Garner.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 105. F. 16, ’07. 1290w.
“It is, indeed, a defect of the book that it does not present us with a living picture of how the various organs of the constitution perform their functions. Dr. Howard has obviously based his book upon extensive research, and possesses the great merit of writing clearly on legal subjects.” W. M.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 412. Ap. ’07. 360w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 37. Ja. 19, ’07. 310w.
“The text, though specifically juristical, and not, except in place, historical, never falls under the influence of Dr. Dryasdust; it is laboriously accurate, and supported by excellent explanatory notes, which our daily lecturers on foreign affairs should study.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 141. Ja. 26, ’07. 2430w.
=Howard, Earl Dean.= Cause and extent of the recent industrial progress of Germany. (Hart, Schaffner and Marx prize essays in economics.) **$1. Houghton.
7–13001.
The book “is divided into two parts, the first of which treats of the extent of Germany’s recent industrial progress; and the second, the causes. Industrial progress in general is defined in an introductory chapter, as the ‘increase in the amount of goods produced and transported, and the improvement of methods by which this increased production is accomplished.’ The course of this development since the industrial revolution is briefly reviewed.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 166. O. ’07. S.
“It is a concise, clearly reasoned, well balanced and admirably written piece of work—a real contribution to our economic literature, and interesting to the average reader.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 638. My. ’07. 420w.
=Dial.= 43: 69. Ag. 1, ’07. 150w.
“It is a careful and discriminating study, and undoubtedly offers the best concise discussion of its subject that has yet appeared.” O. D. Skelton.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 562. N. ’07. 300w.
“It cannot be said that Mr. Howard has made any substantial contribution to our knowledge of the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 163. Ag. 22, ’07. 270w.
“There is no questioning the intrinsic value of his work, which assuredly makes for a clearer understanding of modern Germany and her people.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 438. Je. 22, ’07. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 759. Je. ’07. 50w.
“The book is well worth perusal, and it does not detract from its value if we add that it is for the most part, and properly so, a careful and moderate exposition of the obvious.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 643. N. 2, ’07. 540w.
=Howard, George Bronson.= Norroy, diplomatic agent; il. by Gordon Ross. $1.50. Saalfield.
7–5683.
Seven diplomatic detective adventures in which Yorke Norroy figures as secret agent of the United States. He always has in his possession the means to foil his opponent in the big international games being played, and the analysis of his method of securing the trump card reveals shrewd practical imagination at work and the adroit handling of resulting situations.
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“The seven stories are good reading at any time, and particularly when the mind longs for diversion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 181. Mr. 23, ’07. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 200w.
=Howard, John Raymond=, ed. Prose you ought to know. **$1.50. Revell.
The editor’s “aim in the present volume is to gather, from a wide range of authorship and subject-matter, a series of brief excerpts, each of which shall be typical of its author’s best style, and, besides exciting a momentary interest, shall ‘at least hint at the richness of an essay, a tale, a history, an oration.’”—Dial.
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“Has been edited ... with an intelligence and originality that will make it acceptable even to the avowed enemy of the ordinary book of extracts.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 460. D: 16, ’06. 220w.
“The selections he makes are brief and numerous rather than few and choice.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 31. Ja. 19, ’07. 280w.
=Howard, Newman.= Christian trilogy. 3v. ea. *$1.25. Dutton.
“Religions may come and go; the forms of morality may change, and what is right in one age and clime be wrong in another; but the essential virtue remains the same—nothing else than faithfulness to what a man holds to be right. That is the idea running through the three plays which Mr. Newman Howard calls his ‘Christian trilogy.’... Kiartan was, externally, true to his false friend; Savonarola to his false city; Minervina and Crispus, Constantine’s discarded wife and son, to their false husband, wife, and emperor. In each case there lies behind the occasion, the sense of honor, the conviction of the necessity for truth to an ideal of right.”—Lond. Times.
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“Mr. Newman Howard’s ‘Christian trilogy’ is real poetry and it is real drama. Mr. Howard’s work is so fine that it seems captious to point out what we feel to be a defect in it. Though in each of his dramas, tragedy is implied in the character of the chief personage, too much of the action is controlled by the persistent malignity of another individual. Free from most of the tricks of the playwright, Mr. Howard still relies too much on his villain.”
+ + − =Acad.= 71: 469. N. 10, ’06. 1560w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“Starting with the essential idea, he develops it broadly, simply, even severely, preserving always the distinction between what is theatrical and what is dramatic.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 345. O. 12, ’06. 1580w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“The work of Newman Howard which has but lately made its way to us, though published first some years ago in England, evinces a dramatic talent of a high order, but a talent not yet wholly disciplined.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 350. Je. ’07. 360w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
=v. 1.= Kiartan the Icelander: a tragedy.
The motif of the first part of the trilogy is the introduction of Christianity into Iceland.
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“In ‘Kiartan the Icelander’ his very care for local colour and characteristic expression makes his meaning sometimes not easy to follow. Possibly in the theatre this difficulty would disappear, though we cannot help feeling that he has been so intent on making his people tenth century Icelanders that they lose something of their probability as men and women.”
+ + − =Acad.= 71: 469. N. 10, ’06. 390w.
=v. 2.= Savonarola: a city’s tragedy.
A drama filled with the “forlorn anti-pagan hope of Savonarola.” Its interest is centered in “the public career of the Frate, the dramatic incident of the Trial by fire and the tragic spectacle of the Execution.”
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“Without any sacrifice of dramatic propriety he has so arranged that you see not only people but their surroundings. As a result, the play is full of the stir and colour of mediaeval Italy. Indeed, though he has handled the central theme in a masterly manner, what will delight most readers is the extraordinary sense of atmosphere created by the minor characters.”
+ + − =Acad.= 71: 469. N. 10, ’06. 390w.
“In ‘Savonarola,’ Mr. Howard’s more recent drama, the lack of sharp definition in the plot and dialogue is much more apparent than in ‘Kiartan,’ since all the rival factions and orders, civil and religious, of that turbulent period are represented in the play and by their machinations so involve the plot that it is difficult to keep the various characters and their allegiance distinct.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 350. Je. ’07. 360w.
=v. 3.= Constantine the great: a tragedy.
7–18134.
The establishment of Christianity as the state religion of the Roman empire furnishes the key-note of the third part of the trilogy. “In this play Mr. Howard gets his background, his atmosphere, mainly by a single figure; that of the little degenerate Fabius. By an almost savage piece of irony, Fabius is made the victim of the plot to murder Constantine. The state of paganism at the period of the play is admirably indicated by the priests of Demeter with their pitiful machinery for working an apparition of the goddess Proserpine. Bombo is one of the best clowns out of Shakespeare.” (Acad.)
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“Mr. Howard reaches his highest level of workmanship in ‘Constantine the great.’ The chief characters stand out with something of the objective reality of sculpture but with all the life and movement of human beings. The dialog is reduced to its bare essentials, and because no word is allowed for its own sake, every word is not only significant but decorative, so that the texture of the verse is as if woven of some precious metal.”
+ + − =Acad.= 71: 469. N. 10, ’06. 390w.
“When we have put together all the poetical achievements of this tragedy, when we have set them beside its mastery of dramatic speech and structure and when we have dispassionately weighed against these excellencies its defects, we cannot hesitate to place it among all but the highest English dramatic poetry.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 398. O. 6. 2160w.
“The conception—a rare failing—is superior to the art or technique.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 207. F. 16, ’07. 280w.
“We cannot praise Mr. Howard more highly than by saying that he is one of the very few living poets who stand in the great tradition. It is a book which every lover of good poetry must read and cherish.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 930. D. 8, ’06. 230w.
* =Howard, Oliver Otis.= Autobiography. 2v. **$5. Baker.
7–35640.
The volume “takes us once more to the familiar battlefields, shows how campaigns were fought and won and lost, and describes in detail the efforts of the government, after peace had been restored, to relieve the emancipated but helpless slaves whom the war had set at liberty.”—Outlook.
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“He takes the reader delightfully into his confidence, and writes with an astonishing recollection of detail. An autobiography at once so full of incident and so free from matters of small importance has rarely been produced.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 244. O. 16, ’07. 1800w.
“Bulks large on the shelf, but so interesting that the reader will not regret the magnitude.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 609. N. 23, ’07. 410w.
* =Howden, J. R.= Boys’ book of locomotives. $2. McClure.
An informing book for young readers which traces with many accompanying illustrations the evolution of the steam engine from its beginning to its replacement by the electric locomotive.
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“The book will tempt old as well as young.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 50w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 767. D. ’07. 90w.
=Howe, Frederic Clemson.= British city: the beginnings of democracy. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–21305.
A companion to Mr. Howe’s study of the American city. It is not only an exposition full of historical and statistical detail but is a critical discussion of the workings of the British city and of the lessons contained “for the solution of parallel, but by no means identical, American problems.” The author’s strictly economic point of view accounts for all the motives of a commonwealth’s interests, he has become “convinced that it is the economic environment that creates and controls man’s activities as well as his attitude of mind.”
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 166. O. ’07.
“No social reformer can afford to be without this volume.” B. O. Flower.
+ + + =Arena.= 38: 200. Ag. ’07. 3260w.
“The book contains a good deal of information, not all of it full or pertinent, but it is not presented with especial attractiveness or force.”
− + =Educ. R.= 34: 430. N. ’07. 70w.
“In spite of these numerous mistakes and misconceptions, Mr. Howe has formed some very sound and well-grounded opinions as to the working of British institutions.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 880. O. 10, ’07. 420w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 441. Jl. ’07. 210w.
“Mr. Howe never lets himself forget that he is writing for American readers and the contrast which he draws between municipal conditions in the two countries is really the book’s most valuable and illuminating feature.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 81. Jl. 25, ’07. 1220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 376. Je. 8, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 547. S. 14, ’07. 530w.
=Howe, Frederic Clemson.= City: the hope of democracy. **$1.50. Scribner.
5–33225.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by Lewis E. Palmer.
=Charities.= 17: 511. D. 15, ’06. 630w.
“For our part, we believe that in his main principles the author is right, as also in many of his applications of those principles to judge the success or failure of the British city. We also believe that he carries some of his theories too far.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 533. N. 14, ’07. 1240w.
“Writes as a propagandist rather than as a student. The work is interesting in style, stimulating in thought and treatment, hopeful in tone, and is well worth a careful reading by the student of municipal affairs.” Clinton Rogers Woodruff.
+ − =Yale R.= 15: 463. F. ’07. 710w.
=Howe, Frederic Clemson.= Confessions of a monopolist. *$1. Public pub.
6–32427.
An autobiography “showing how easily a man of medium capacity and no scruples can accumulate a fortune by exploiting public franchises and ‘playing Wall street.’” (N. Y. Times.) “Never before has a work appeared in which the methods of the high financiers and political bosses have been more clearly exposed. Here the reader is made to see how certain feats that appear from before the footlights as little short of miraculous are performed. Here he sees how by learning the rules of the game a modern high financier is able to divert the wealth of thousands into the till of the crafty monopolists; how, in short, the thousands are made to labor for the few just as actually as in the days of the feudal lords the serfs slaved for the barons. And here he sees how politics are made the handmaid of the modern plutocracy in its attempt to enslave labor while destroying the soul of democracy.” (Arena.)
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“It is far and away the finest political satire on present-day American politics,—a book that every thinking patriotic citizen should read.”
+ + =Arena.= 36: 680. D. ’06. 950w.
“It is not pleasant reading—it is too true to life, though possibly somewhat exaggerated or unnaturally concentrated either for artistic effect or for the sake of argument.” Max West.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 121. S. 1, ’07. 310w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 125. F. ’07. 120w.
“The little volume is both interesting and instructive, whether regarded as a vade mecum for those desirous of practising the new high finance, or as an addition to the horrors which our professional purifiers have revealed in order to reform them.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 595. S. 29, ’06. 240w.
=Howe, Malverd Abijah.= Symmetrical masonry arches, including natural stone, plain concrete and reinforced concrete arches; for the use of technical schools, engineers and computers in designing arches according to the elastic theory. $2.50. Wiley.
6–33609.
“In the first chapter, fundamental formulas for the elastic arch are derived; in the second chapter, symmetrical arches without hinges and of constant or variable section, are considered.... In chapter 3 the author applies the theory in detail to a segmental circular arch of constant section and also to a reinforced-concrete arch.... The last chapter of the book is devoted to drawings of typical arches. An appendix is given on the physical properties of stone and concrete and data for about five hundred masonry arch bridges.”—Engin. N.
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“The book is a strong, sound handling of a difficult subject. The one criticism that can be made of the theory developments in the book is that they are a little too condensed.” Wm. Cain.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 56: 522. N. 15, ’06. 980w.
=Howe, Samuel Gridley.= Letters and journals of Samuel Gridley Howe; ed. by his daughter, Laura E. Richards; with notes and a preface by F. B. Sanborn. 3v. ea. **$3. Estes.
6–38340.
=v. 1.= Following a brief story of his early years, Mrs. Richards has sketched her father’s life from his letters and journals written in Greece during his espousal of that country’s fight for independence. “The book gives a convincing picture of the conditions of Greece at the time of the war of independence, and introduces us to an American working among these conditions who was a credit to his country for firmness of character, coolness of judgment, disinterestedness, and humanity.” (Nation.)
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“Full of facts and judgments of high historical value. There was hardly a keener eye on Greek affairs than Howe’s; hardly a man of any age who saw so much and interpreted it so well. His incisive judgments of men have, in the main, stood the test of time. Apart from the historical value of this volume, it takes rank with the very best Greek travels of that day.” J. Irving Manatt.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 640. Ap. ’07. 1040w. (Review of v. 1.)
“If they are to be regarded as historical materials, they require much more annotation to make them generally comprehensible. Their omissions are too serious to give them much weight as a contemporary record of events.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 189. F. 16. 2090w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Mrs. Richards’s prefatory and interspersed notes add no little to the value and completeness of the book as a detailed account of her father’s eventful young manhood.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 187. Mr. 16, ’07. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The letters and journals are written in a spirited fashion, but are lacking in notable incident, and deal with few personalities who are of interest to any except special students of this period of European history.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The book is readable throughout.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 51. F. 15, ’07. 550w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Mrs. Richards would probably be well advised were she to use the pruning knife more freely in succeeding volumes. There is no index, and the printing and production of the book leave much to be desired.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 248. Mr. 14, ’07. 680w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 276. Mr. 2, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This is an interesting volume, but the reader need not consider himself bound to go thru it from cover to cover.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 652. Ap. 27, ’07. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Howell, George.= Labour legislation, labour movements, and labour leaders. 2d ed. 2v. *$2.50. Dutton.
A new edition of a work which serves to throw light on the nature, aims and methods of trade-unionism.
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=Ind.= 60: 1287. My. 31, ’06. 50w.
“He chronicles a great deal not to be found in other histories, and his book fills a gap for England which needs filling for ourselves.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 176. Mr. 24, ’06. 500w.
“It is marred by fragmentariness, by repetitions, and by unpolished style, but its merits are so conspicuous that it deserves the thoughtful consideration of every student of economic and social questions.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 675. N. 17, ’06. 580w.
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 181. Mr. ’07. 70w.
=Howell, James.= Familiar letters of James Howell; with an introd. by Agnes Repplier. 2v. $6; Special ltd. ed. 4v. *$15. Houghton.
7–15871.
An attractive new edition of letters which “speak for themselves, and surely no reader will pine for erudite guidance through the maze of curious anecdote, lively narrative, and characteristically intimate comment and reflection which Howell has constructed, writing always crisply and lucidly, in accordance with his belief that a letter should be ‘short-coated and closely couch’d’ and should ‘not preach but epistolize.’” (Dial.)
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“The letters themselves ... possess all the charm and gossipy interest of their time that the letters of Horace Walpole contained a century later.” Laurence Burnham.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 101. S. ’07. 360w. (Review of 4 v. ed.)
+ + =Dial.= 43: 214. O. 1, ’07. 430w. (Review of 2 v. ed.)
“In her pleasant way Miss Repplier brings out, by incident and characterization, the qualities which have made his letters the constant reading of lovers of literature since they first appeared.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 357. O. 19, ’07. 280w. (Review of 2 v. ed.)
“It is a book that seems as fresh to-day as when it was written nearly three centuries ago, and, though it may never be popular, it will always be valued by the discriminating few.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 446. Jl. ’07. 700w. (Review of 4 v. ed.)
“The wide careless world will pay little attention to these volumes, but they will have their own sure welcome.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 233. N. ’97. 830w. (Review of 2 v. ed.)
=Howells, William Dean.= Between the dark and the daylight. †$1.50. Harper.
7–34775.
Of the seven tales told by old friends at the club four are psychological romances, stories of that mental borderland suggested by the book’s title. “A sleep and a forgetting” tells of a strange lapse of memory in a young girl; “The eidolons of Brooks Alford” concerns the visions of a broken down professor and the pretty widow who disperses them; “A memory that worked over time” is a confusion of memory and imagination; and “A case of metaphantasmia” enters into the question of dream-transference. The three stories which conclude the book, “Editha,” “Braybridge’s offer,” and “The chick of the Easter egg” are plain day-light stories, a protest against war, a speculation as to the average proposal, and an amusing Easter comedy.
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Reviewed by A. Schade van Westrum.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 275. N. ’07. 1000w.
“They are queer and creepy without being exactly supernatural.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1377. D. 5, ’07. 150w.
“The stories are graceful social pictures written with charm and humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“We can only congratulate ourselves that he does not sit before his fire enjoying it all to himself, as he might be tempted to do.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 624. N. 23, ’07. 190w.
“All the stories are full of delightful reading. They would not be Mr. Howells’s if they were not.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 717. N. 9, ’07. 210w.
=Howells, William Dean.= Certain delightful English towns, with glimpses of the pleasant country between. **$3. Harper.
6–38895.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is only a Stevenson or a Howells who could achieve fascination for [this task]. But Mr. Howells is triumphantly successful. The American humor, which has always been attuned, in Mr. Howells, to a delicate strain, becomes tender whimsicality. We know no one who writes more beautifully in modern English.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907. 1: 435. Ap. 13. 1040w.
“How dare we use anything so rough and rude as the downright word praise of anything so delicate?”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 100. Mr. 29, ’07. 1590w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 450. Mr. 23, ’07. 1560w.
=Howells, William Dean.= Through the eye of the needle. †$1.50. Harper.
7–15545.