The book review digest, Volume 04, 1908
volume 7. In the second place, the point of view and the allotment of
space seem excessively German. While three chapters are disappointing in that they rather fall from the lofty principles and novel features of the earlier volumes, they nevertheless deserve a place among the best scholarly one-volume accounts of the nineteenth century.” S. B. Fay.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 363. Ja. ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 8.)
“It is addressed more to scholars but is necessarily too brief to satisfy them. It is pervaded with the spirit of Lamprecht and Ratzel, but at the same time has drawn heavily from Ranke.” Sidney B. Fay.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 835. Jl. ’08. 1050w. (Review of v. 6.)
“The translator of each section seems to have been free to follow his or her will, regardless of any one else. These evils are brought out glaringly by the egregious index, whose compiler was evidently incapable of recognizing the same word under two separate spellings or the same person with two qualifications attached to him. We can only regret that the English rendering of a painstaking and useful historical work should be marred by such disgraceful slovenliness in some of its details.” A. C. Coolidge.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 97. O. ’08. 1150w. (Review of v. 5.)
“As a preliminary study for the history of Europe these volumes are in many ways excellent; one cannot however help wishing for references to authorities, for occasional notes, and for a general index.” C. A. S.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 610. Jl. ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 6 and 8.)
“The monumental work of Dr. Helmolt is original, attractive, and thoroughly readable. It places the history of the world in a new light, basing it upon a foundation of geography and ethnography, while at the same time it rests upon a solid structure of the most modern research, and does not suffer, as some other cooperative histories have done, from the collaboration of different writers. It is in every sense of the word a possession for ever.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 6. D. 16, ’07. 1540w. (Review of v. 5.)
“It would, perhaps, have been better if [v. 8] had been rewritten for English readers.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 599. My. 9, ’08. 1600w. (Review of v. 6 and 8.)
“Generally, we may say of these eight volumes that they are full of original work—originality is one of their special merits—that his work is of a very high average of value, and that it has been skilfully put together and methodised by the editor.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 502. Mr. 28, ’08. 1350w. (Review of v. 1–8.)
=Henderson, Charles Hanford.= Lighted lamp: a novel. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–27806.
A theosophical story in which a legacy and ill health combine to arouse a Boston spice clerk from the lethargy of a “drab” existence and to send him to Europe where he “suffers the sea change into something rich and strange.” Thru contact with the things of life, with women of flawless, first water type, one in particular who present or absent represents feminine force that has no beginning or ending, his spirit expands. When death cuts him off suddenly the theory is advanced that he had reached his earth limit—he had come to flower and required another incarnation for further development.
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“The reader of this book finds Baedeker daintily disguised by an embroidered cover of romance. The book will hardy prove as interesting to the traveller as to the student of the psychic.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 497. N. 19, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“In spite of its refined charm ... the book is almost immoral, for it arouses in the reader distinctly criminal sentiments. Mr. Henderson has the ability to charm, a fund of delicate humor, and a background of deep culture; what he lacks is simply the knowledge of how to ‘let himself go.’”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 672. N. 14, ’08. 400w.
=Henderson, David, Lt.-Col.= Art of reconnaissance. *$1.50. Dutton.
War 7–139.
The author “does but remind (in a rather ponderous style) those who may have to undertake reconnaissance, or require it of others, what are the principles which go to make success. This is no mere textbook, though it has rules and examples; but it may best serve as a commentary (it is carefully indexed) for officers who are inclined to study the subject psychologically as well as tactically, and to give common sense its due. They will find here the notes of a thinker rather than the notions of a theorist.”—Ath.
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“It is not unfair to say of it, as of many military works, that it needs viva-voce exposition to make it really intelligible and useful.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 223. F. 22. 600w.
“It contains many valuable hints on one of the most difficult branches of the soldier’s art, and well repays the few hours’ study it demands.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 247. Ag. 9, ’07. 400w.
“The virtue of the book is its shining good sense. Col. Henderson’s style is notably good.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 263. S. 17, ’08. 170w.
=Henderson, George Cockburn.= Sir George Grey. *$4. Dutton.
8–14844.
Scholar, soldier, explorer, governor, Sir George Grey “was the autocrat of three important colonies for long terms and through critical periods, and shaped political and ecclesiastical constitutions, conducted protracted wars, moulded and reconciled aboriginal peoples, ruled without and with responsible ministers, conceived smaller and larger federations, and wound up an historic career by returning as a private citizen to a colony he had despotically ruled, sitting in the popular branch of its legislature.” (Nation.)
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“A valuable contribution to the history of the British empire. Mr. Henderson is to be commended for what he has left out no less than for the accuracy of his general conclusions.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 2: 578. N. 9. 850w.
“The stern retrenchments and the administrative reconstructions by which Grey restored financial equilibrium to a bankrupt colony, and sent it forward on a career of stable prosperity have never before been so fully or clearly described.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 335. Ap. 9, ’08. 1350w.
“Professor Henderson has written the story of [Sir George Grey’s] interesting life with justice and with impartial judgment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 200. Ap. 11, ’08. 250w.
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 581. Jl. 11, ’08. 270w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
=Putnam’s.= 4: 493. Jl. ’08. 160w.
“The importance of this study of his achievements, his failures, and his ideals consists in its lucid suggestion of the lines along which democracy and empire may march hand in hand.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 7. O. 19, ’07. 750w.
=Henderson, Mrs. May Sturge.= George Meredith, novelist, poet and reformer. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–37625.
A volume of “detailed and minutely introspective criticism” touching each of Mr. Meredith’s great works. From her analysis of his “Essay on comedy” she proceeds to the generalization that the main theme of Meredith’s novels as well as his poetry is the purification of rebellious and intemperate youth.
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“We cannot affirm that this study of Mr. Meredith appears to us wholly good, but it is very far indeed from being bad; it is never egregious.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 286. D. 28, ’07. 1850w.
“This book offers more in the way of the philosophy and general significance of Meredith, goes deeper, views more broadly than the faithful, intelligent, informing account of the ‘Novels of George Meredith’ by E. J. Bailey.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 186. Je. ’08.
“Her book ... affects one like the reading of conscientious journalism which is no longer new. The book has a useful index, which would make it really luminous if it could; but an index cannot do everything.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 227. F. 22. 220w.
“All that Mrs. Henderson has to say [is] interesting and her quotations both beautiful and appropriate.” Eunice Follansbee.
+ =Dial.= 44: 129. Mr. 1, ’08. 550w.
“Mrs. Henderson, undertaking a comprehensive consideration of Meredith’s works in chronological order, has given us the best general survey of them that we possess.” E: C. Marsh.
+ + − =Forum.= 39: 385. Ja. ’08. 550w.
“It is thoroughly informed and cleverly executed.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 147. F. 13, ’08. 440w.
“This is one of the most serious of the many serious books which the Meredith worship of the last ten years has produced. If it errs at all, it errs in exaggerating Meredith’s own weakness of placing too much stress upon the philosophy and too little upon the humour as distinguished from the comedy of life.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 909. D. 7, ’07. 280w.
=Henry VIII., king of England.= Assertio septem sacramentorum; or, Defence of the seven sacraments; re-edited, with an introd. by Rev. Louis O’Donovan; with a preface by James Cardinal Gibbons. *$2. Benziger.
8–5572.
A reprint valuable to the Catholic church both for the orthodox exposition of the church’s crucial dogmas and for the light thrown upon a most interesting epoch of church history.
* * * * *
“The abundance of references and the full bibliography which the editor gives us indicate that the book is the fruit of intelligent and extensive study.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 258. My. ’08. 550w.
=Henry, George Garr.= How to invest money. **75c. Funk.
8–14682.
Presents the simple principles of investment and aims “to afford the reader a working knowledge of the various classes of securities which are available as investments, and their adaptability to different needs.” (Preface.) The chapter headings are as follows: General principles of investment, Railroad mortgage bonds, Railroad equipment bonds, Real estate mortgages, Industrial bonds, Public-utility bonds, Municipal bonds, Stocks, and Market movements of securities.
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=Lit. D.= 37: 163. Ag. 1, ’08. 70w.
* =Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Gentle grafter. †$1. McClure.
Fourteen stories which exploit Jeff Peters’s methods of “unillegal graft.” He is not to be dreaded by widows and orphans, he is simply a “reducer of surplusage.” He is not so cock sure in his gentle art that he is never a victim of his own methods. The last story. The ethics of pig, shows how an untrustworthy partner plays a clever counter game and wins.
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“O. Henry possesses, in fact, the genius for conveying in a few strokes, and by the aid of accessories which often seem least concerned with the thing he is achieving, the essence, the living spirit of a place or a type.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 685. N. 21, ’08. 1000w.
=Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Voice of the city: further stories of the four million. †$1. McClure.
Twenty-five “cameos” of metropolitan life make up this book, the third “Four million” book. The stories are short, clear cut, and leave distinct impressions first of individuals, second of types.
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“Some of the twenty-five short stories collected in the present volume are in his best vein.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 130w.
“Admirers may call ‘O. Henry’ the American Maupassant, but so long as he continues to hang so far over the abyss of slang they should put the accent on American.”
− =Nation.= 87: 12. Jl. 2, ’08. 470w.
“The spirit of the huge town is in each.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“The book reflects life; it is worth reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 240w.
“These are slighter and more ephemeral than ‘The four million.’”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 70w.
* =Henry= of Navarre: a romance of August, 1572. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–30614.
A dramatic story of verve and daring whose scene is laid in Paris during the memorable month of August, 1572, on the eve of the marriage of Marguerite de Valois to Henry of Navarre. The horrors of the massacre of St. Bartholomew, the venom and intrigue that lay back of the arch-plotting, and the faithfulness and love of a woman are elements in this vivid, concrete portrayal of facts out of history.
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“The story is full of exciting incident, and the action ... moves rapidly and dramatically to the climax.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 701. N. 28, ’08. 160w.
=Henshall, James A.= Favorite fish and fishing. *$1.25. Outing pub.
8–14724.
An ardent angler and nature lover treats of the gentle art of fishing in the following chapters: The black bass, the game-fish of the people; The grayling, the flower of fishes; The trout, the angler’s pride; His majesty, the silver king (tarpon); Florida fish and fishing.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4. 186. Je. ’08. ✠
“Lovers of the gentle art will find much that will interest them and little to criticise in Dr. Henshall’s readable little volume.” G: Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 608. Ag. ’08. 780w.
“The work is an authentic natural history within its limits, as well as a guide to the genuine follower of Walton.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
“In this new book Dr. Henshall has given not only information valuable to the angler, but also it is interesting reading.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1292. Je. 4, ’08. 100w.
=Nation.= 86: 582. Je. 25, ’08. 230w.
“Dr. Henshall is a learned and pleasing writer, and his book has attractions for a multitude of his kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 330. Je. 13, ’08. 400w.
=Herkomer, Sir Hubert von.= My school and my gospel. *$7.50. Doubleday.
E8–821.
A discussion that has grown out of twenty-one years’ experiment in art education at Bushey. “The story of the rise and progress of an institution from which so much that is good has come is told by Sir Hubert in this book with charming frankness and simplicity. He makes no secret of his purpose or of the methods by which he sought to realize it; and he explains fully both the creed which guided him as a teacher, and the system he used to make his creed intelligible to the student who passed through his hands.” (Int. Studio.)
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“The story is told in a clear, rapid style, enlivened by frequent touches of humor, and, with all its fine and high idealism. He has certainly proved his ability to write an autobiographic narrative not less interesting in its way than Cellini’s.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 109. S. 1, ’08. 1500w.
“It ranks really as a very important contribution to the literature available for the information of both masters and students.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 35: 166. Ag. ’08. 570w.
“It is rather discursive, and it takes careful reading to make sure just what the ‘gospel’ of Bushey was.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 243. S. 10, ’08. 1500w.
=Herrick, Robert.= Master of the inn. **50c. Scribner.
8–14332.
“The central figure of this little story is one of those teachers who appear from time to time among men, whose function is not only to open the eyes but to gladden the heart and to restore the soul. This teacher has about him a little company of men who go to him for regeneration among the mountains of northern New England. Sooner or later every man tells him his secret, and with the telling the poison goes out of his life. There comes finally an overworked surgeon of great eminence who long resists the impulse to confess, but finally opens his heart and reveals the one secret which tortures him, only to find that the wronged man is before him, and to receive not only absolution but health from his hands.”—Outlook.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 244. O. ’08. ✠
“A spirit of sweet wholesomeness pervades the little book, and many will wish to read it a second time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 286. My. 23, ’08. 120w.
“This is a beautifully conceived piece of work, wrought out with the care which Mr. Herrick never fails to give his stories.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 200w.
“It is a chapter in American idealism, and it is also an admirable example of the best contemporary American writing.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 324. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.
=Herrick, Robert.= Together. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–20019.
A strong story “of married lives as lived in America.” Here the veil is withdrawn which usually conceals the struggles of man and wife from the moment they leave the altar. Here are the Lanes, the Falkners, the Johnstons, the Woodyards, and other wedded people working out the problems common to married life. What marriage means to the husband and what his nature demands from his wife: what it means to the wife with her ambition to keep her individuality, to wield social power, to court favor; with her disposition to spend a little more than the five, ten, or twenty thousand dollar income; with her yearning for sentiment, supplied, perchance, by one who has no right to bestow it—these are the themes of Mr. Herricks’ story with its note of partnership triumphant.
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“A realistic, problem novel, forcibly told, and of literary merit. It should be considered only for the library which has a restricted shelf.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 245. O. ’08.
“It is a powerful and compelling novel of real life, and at the same time it is one of the most masterful studies of the marriage relation as it obtains in the society of the new-rich in America that has appeared in fiction.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 40: 376. O. ’08. 2900w.
“The threads binding these numerous interests are altogether insufficient, and the crowding of the canvas is wearying as well as inartistic. A few really dramatic scenes tend to relieve the tedium of a story in which every supernumerary has to have its say.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 469. O. 17. 150w.
“The peculiar conditions of American married life, are treated with something of the frankness, the breadth, the sweeping generality of Tolstoi’s ‘Krutzer sonata’ and Zola’s ‘Fécondite.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 580. Ag. ’08. 200w.
“It lacks the virtue of reticence where that virtue is most needed.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 213. O. 1, ’08. 1000w.
“A book of first magnitude, that handles a momentous theme boldly, wisely, sympathetically, and with an insight into racial traits that makes it in the best sense a representative American novel.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Forum.= 40: 134. Ag. ’08. 1950w.
“Robert Herricks’ novel, large in its intention and painstaking in its working out as it is, fails in reality, in humor, in wisdom.”
− =Ind.= 65: 263. Je. 30, ’08. 430w.
“The novelist has apparently overlooked the fact that in America are still to be found numberless men and women old-fashioned enough to believe in married happiness and helpfulness.”
− =Lit. D.= 37: 852. D. 5, ’08. 300w.
“Professor Herrick has done nothing so good as this, nothing so full of energy and truth.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 96. Jl. 30, ’08. 340w.
“A story that is unraveled with rare cleverness and that holds the reader’s attention, in spite of its intricacies and the too transparently ethical intention of the author.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 397. Jl. 18, ’08. 1250w.
“With all its defects, however, the novel is serious, earnest, and thoughtful.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 956. Ag. 22, ’08. 320w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 508. O. ’08. 250w.
=Hewitt, Mrs. Emma Churchman.= How to train children. **50c. Jacobs.
8–21931.
A condensed account of actual experiences of actual mothers. Suggestions and advice are offered under such headings as Nursery days, Physical and moral defects, Punishment, Preventive measures, General deportment, Pride of possession, Work and play, As to schools, Our future mothers and fathers and The adolescent.
=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.= Halfway house. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–19024.
“A story of the present day—and Meredithian to the core.... A girl, married to a gentleman twice her age, finds her nascent love stifled by his egoistic condescension. He is of a great and old family; she, a child of the ‘lower classes,’ a nursery governess when he meets her, has had her girl’s affairs of love or what has passed for it. Believing her an innocent fool, he learns his mistake before the marriage, but goes on stoically, keeping his secret.”—Bookm.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 245. O. ’08.
“With all its brilliant intellectual cleverness, this book does not show the writer at his best.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 536. O. 31. 250w.
“I think John Germain is, all in all, the most finely delineated of Mr. Hewlett’s male characters; and he just misses taking the leading place in this story from its heroine. It is the girl’s character that gives the book its originality.” E: C. Marsh.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 602. Ag. ’08. 860w.
“It has all the seeming simplicity of the finest literary art, but its wit, its grace, and its subtle sentiment are qualities that make of it a far more serious book than it pretends to be.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 215. O. 1, ’08. 600w.
“That Mary seems so real a girl and causes us to speculate on her motives, or nature rather, for she scarcely has motives, only sentimental impulses, is a triumph for Mr. Hewlett’s heroine.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 555. S. 3, ’08. 200w.
“No doubt, there is comedy somewhere at the core of it. But it is, after all, the inadvertent comedy of circumstance and accident, as things fall out, ludicrous enough, but without any very intelligible motive.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 212. S. 3, ’08. 500w.
“Such value, as the story possesses comes rather more from the manner in which it is told than from the story itself.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 365. Je. 27, ’08. 1600w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“The art of the book is fine and delicate, but it is also simple and true; and the spirit is that of pure romance applied to the conditions of modern English life.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 956. Ag. 22, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Hewlett’s own careful and distinctive style makes the story his despite the unfamiliar milieu.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 508. O. ’08. 120w.
“One hopes that ‘Halfway house’ will have many readers, as much out of regard for them as for Mr. Hewlett, but one hopes that they will not be numerous enough to confirm him in a method more conspicuous in this last book of his than even in ‘The stooping lady.’”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 487. O. 17, ’08. 720w.
=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.= Spanish jade. il. **90c. Doubleday.
8–15299.
Manuela, the “Spanish jade,” “who has escaped from the brutality of her lover, is rescued from the grosser brutality of a rustic mob by the Englishman errant. The lover pursues, and is killed by the jade lest he kill the Briton. The casual pair are linked romantically by the incident, and meet thereafter under the shadow of a Spanish vengeance which is eventually stayed, not by the magnanimity of the Englishman, but by the chivalry of a humble Spanish follower of his.”—Nation.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 221. Je. ’08. ✠
“Brilliant study.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 633. My. 23. 250w.
“The ‘Spanish jade’ may not represent Mr. Hewlett at his best as a story teller, but as proving him a master of technique it is of extreme interest.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 500. Jl. ’08. 530w.
=Ind.= 65: 555. S. 3, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Hewlett’s mannerism is less insistent here than in most of his fiction, perhaps because the substance of the work is less pretentious.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 468. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
“It is a gallant, romantic story, well worth the telling in any form. But it is precisely the sort of story that Hewlett tells the best. Mr. Hewlett’s style is still a little perverse, and a little deliberate in its perversity. To some extent he is the victim of his own rhetorical agility.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 285. My. 23, ’08. 1100w.
“The book is remarkable for its imaginative power and the sheer beauty of its narrative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
=Outlook.= 89: 325. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
“Those who want the real thing in romantic fiction will find it in the ‘Spanish jade.’” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 621. Ag. ’08. 150w.
“The book is a slight romantic sketch, but eminently good of its kind.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 64. Jl. 11, ’08. 100w.
=Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Egypt and its monuments. **$6. Century.
8–30606.
The Nile journey is here described by Robert Hichens and pictured in reproduced wash drawings and photographs by Jules Guérin. Mr. Hichens makes poetry out of the wonders of the valley, arouses the “yearning hunger of the heart and the imagination,” recalls the shifting spells cast by sepulchre, temple and mosque; and lends to the narrative the atmosphere of the “mystery of gold, of the mystery of heat and the mystery of silence that seems softly showered out of the sun.”
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“It is the fascination of the country, and not its hotels and routes of travel, that the author has dwelt upon, and not a few of the thousands who now every year visit Egypt, will find pleasure and stimulus in his pages.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 409. D. 1, ’08. 250w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 80w.
“Aside from its rare literary and artistic value the book will prove to be an excellent help to the antiquarian or the traveler in Egypt.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 190w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
“A model of literary charm and artistic excellence that places this volume in the front rank of the season’s notable publications.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 50w.
“We do not recall any American book that equals it in the good taste and sumptuousness of its appearance and the beauty and delicacy of its color printing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 773. D. 12, ’08. 600w.
“It would perhaps be impossible to find two other persons as competent to prepare a fascinating, artistic study of Egypt which should be at the same time a literary tribute and guidebook of the highest order as Robert Hichens and Jules Guérin.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 757. D. ’08. 140w.
“As vivid a picturing of ‘Egypt and its monuments’ as we remember to have seen.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 813. N. 21, ’08. 140w.
=Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Spirit in prison. †$1.75. Harper.
8–25367.
A small island in the Bay of Naples is the scene of this story, the counterpart of whose emotional lights and shadows is found in the sunset, the moonlight, the blue waters, the glimmering lights and the sounds of melody which invariably create atmosphere for Mr. Hichens’ stories. Maurice Delarey betrays his wife for a young peasant girl and dies leaving his wife in ignorance of his sin. The serious business of the story turns on the withholding of the secret from the wife for sixteen years; while a continuation of the mystery touches the lives of Vere, the daughter, and Ruffino, the unrevealed brother, who are drawn to one another without ever knowing the secret of the boy’s birth.
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“There is a very pretty play of varied emotions, together with limitless hints of ‘fine shades and nice feelings,’ while the abounding descriptive passages are often of a rare beauty.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 160w.
“Deserves to be proclaimed as that rare achievement, a sequel that surpasses its antecedent in merit and in interest.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 262. N. ’08. 620w.
“He has written one of the most sensuously suggestive novels of the season.”
− =Ind.= 65: 947. O. 22, ’08. 730w.
“Admirers of Mr. Hichens’s ‘The call of the blood’ will find a satisfactory sequel in the present story. If the former tale was found too harrowing, this will afford a compensatory thrill. That habit of portentous moralizing over the moods of insignificant egoism which we have noted as characteristic of Mr. Hichens in the past is still his darling vice.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 340. O. 8, ’08. 300w.
“Told in an ordinary way, ‘A spirit in prison’ would seem utterly common-place. The mere materials are conventional. But the opulence of color, the mastery of words are indisputable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 1100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“Would probably be extremely difficult and puzzling reading to any one who did not remember the earlier book.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 636. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
* =Higgins, Aileen Cleveland.= Dream blocks. $1.50. Duffield.
8–30917.
A book of child verse with fifteen charming full-page illustrations by Jessie Wilcox Smith.
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“The spirit of this little book is better than the execution of its verse.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.
“The fourteen pictures are of a high artistic merit. The infantile pathos and humor, the prophetic element in form and feature of the figures, will cause adults to ponder over the philosophy of child play.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
* =Higginson, Ella.= Alaska: the great country. **$2.25. Macmillan.
8–33137.
Not so much a guide-book or a history as an unconventional and picturesque description of the towns, people, resources, scenery and commercial possibilities of a country of “real splendor, marvellous beauty and poetic and haunting charm.” A book for every Alaskan tourist to read from cover to cover.
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“A picturesque and unconventional description of the country and the life of its people, neither a guide book nor a history, and yet suitable for the traveler to read and carry with him on his trip.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 623. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“A sober, carefully prepared work. A plea for the attractions of the land of gold and snow as a place of residence was hardly to be expected from a woman, but in this instance the territory has been fortunate in its advocate.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
=Higinbotham, John U.= Three weeks in Holland and Belgium. $1.50. Reilly & B.
8–11792.
Mr. Higinbotham’s swift panorama of Holland and Belgium sights might become a blur to the leisurely tourist who finds it necessary to adjust his mental lens to every fresh view and impression. But to the reader who likes motion and who can “keep up” the author’s impressionism and confidence are not wearing. In description, historical allusion, comment on art, and theological opinions, the author’s mental alertness is commensurate with his tireless activity.
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“Mr. Higinbotham’s observations are so acute and well-balanced that we should like to have fuller records of his journeys.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 348. Je. 1, ’08. 280w.
“This little holiday book should not be taken too seriously, and while Baedeker gives all and more of the necessary information than this summer tourist of three weeks, he does not impart the childlike freshness of discovery that finds joy in observing the Hollander’s unfailing courtesy, and that elegance of service can be obtained for grotesquely moderate tips.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 500w.
“A farrago of disjointed bits of guide book and pointless jests.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
− =Putnam’s.= 4: 748. S. ’08. 340w.
=Hildebrandt, Alfred.= Airships past and present; together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon; tr. by W. H. Story. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.
8–13633.
A sketch of the past and present state of the art of ballooning and its application to scientific ends including the first trustworthy information to be disseminated on the subjects of balloon photography and the use of the carrier pigeon. The book is fully illustrated.
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“The avoidance of technical discussions makes the book easy and pleasant reading for anyone who is interested in the subject.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 653. Je. ’08. 150w.
“In an interesting and instructive volume of considerable size, the author has fully discussed nearly all subjects, at all closely related to aeronautics, so far as they have been susceptible to popular treatment. To the translator belongs no little credit for the smoothness of the English diction.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 545. My. 14, ’08. 1000w.
“This work is both timely and authoritative.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 871. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.
“While the author disclaims all intention of writing a technical text, we feel that the reader may find instruction as well as amusement in these pages.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 655. My. 2, ’08. 200w.
“We note a few errors.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 539. Je. 11, ’08. 300w.
“Some portions of the work are scarcely satisfactory, even from the popular standpoint, the chapter devoted to flying machines, for example, being a collection of scraps of information strung together without any definite scheme.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 562. Ap. 16, ’08. 1000w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 758. Je. ’08. 80w.
“A clear and readable account.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 211. F. 15, ’08. 120w.
“There have been hitherto few satisfactory books in English upon aerial navigation. We now have, however, a book by a thorough expert.” O. Chanute.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 20. Jl. 3, ’08. 660w.
=Spec.= 100: 384. Mr. 7, ’08. 270w.
=Hill, Frederick Trevor.= Decisive battles of the law. **$2.25. Harper.
7–33964.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 695. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“This is an interesting book which does not justify its title.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 625. N. ’08. 40w.
“It is possible to read his book with the comfortable feeling that one is in safe hands, and that the spirited accounts here given of these vexed questions may be enjoyed without fear of being led into false historical paths.” Ward Clark.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 519. Ja. ’08. 1200w.
“The author writes with acute legal knowledge and abundant information derived from painstaking research: and to these he adds a gift for pictorial narrative which suggests a first-rate reporter present at the events he describes.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 19. Ja. 1, ’08. 320w.
“It is this romantic quality that Mr. Hill has seized, and he tells the stories vigorously.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 102. Jl. 9, ’08. 200w.
“It cannot be said that Mr. Hill has always shown judicial impartiality, but what partisan bias has crept in may be attributed to the fact that he is more of an advocate than an historian.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 103. Ja. 30, ’08. 320w.
* =Hill, Frederick Trevor.= Story of a street. **$1.60. Harper.
The story of Wall street from March, 1644, when Governor William Kieft marked its direction by means of a clumsy cattle-guard of felled brushwood, to its present-day development as a “canon of exchange.” Wall street of Stuyvesant’s time, of revolutionary days; Wall street “the haunt of fashion, the heart of business, the school of statesmen, the firing-line of commerce, the battle ground of politics and of money—the scene of financial masterstrokes and speculative orgies ... the law of the money-spiders ... is no mere street or thoroughfare.”
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“Mr. Hill has performed a real service with his book. It is in some respects a sort of liberal education.” I: F. Marcosson.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 359. D. ’08. 1500w.
“Altogether it is a fascinating tale, cleverly told.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 761. D. ’08. 80w.
=Hill, George Chatterton-.= Heredity and selection in sociology. *$4.50. Macmillan.
7–42082.
“Chatterton-Hill’s book consists of three parts. Part 1 is an intelligent summary of the biological doctrine of heredity and germinal selection from the point of view of Weismann.... Part 2 is devoted to social pathology. Suicide, insanity, and syphilis are each in turn discussed as social factors.... Part 3 is devoted to the actual conditions of social selection.”—Nation.
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“Having no first-hand information, the author could justify himself in the publication of such a work only by logical and constructive manipulation of his materials, and he has not done this.” W: I. Thomas.
− + =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 413. N. ’08. 180w.
“For the general idea of the author there is much to be said. His present exposition is not satisfactory and should not be final.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 269. Ja. ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Chatterton-Hill’s science, good so far as it goes, belongs to the last decade of the nineteenth century rather than to the first decade of this.” E. T. Brewster.
− + =Atlan.= 102: 122. Jl. ’08. 750w.
“The general verdict on the volume must be adverse. Under competent tutelage, he has given a good résumé of the dominant biological theory of heredity. Left to himself, he has devised an inconclusive and inadequate analysis of social pathology, and has supplemented it with a rambling, unoriginal, and often self-contradictory disquisition on social programmes and social needs.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 176. F. 20, ’08. 680w.
“From beginning to end this is a very interesting book. It is the result of much thought on great subjects, and it is written in clear and forcible style. However much we may disagree with some of Mr. Chatterton-Hill’s conclusions the book is a book to be read.” F. W. H.
+ + − =Nature.= 76: 586. O. 10, ’07. 600w.
“We find ourselves in direct issue with Mr. Chatterton-Hill with respect to many of the results deduced by him from the facts of current social life.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 580. Ap. 11, ’08. 550w.
=Hilprecht, Hermann Vollrat.= So-called Peters-Hilprecht controversy. *75c. Holman.
A full statement of the Hilprecht case. The first part gives the proceedings of the committee appointed by the board of trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to act as a court of inquiry: the second furnishes supplemental documents, evidence, and statements.
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=Nation.= 86: 425. My. 7, ’08. 1650w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 128. Jl. ’08. 80w.
=Hinchman, Walter Swain, and Gummere, Francis Barton.= Lives of great English writers from Chaucer to Browning. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–11791.
“The book, which is well-indexed and provided with a select bibliography, consists of thirty-four biographical essays on representative writers from Chaucer to Browning. The various periods of literary history are connected by short links suggesting the character of the transitions.” (Nation.) “Pupils in secondary schools, as well as their elders, will find the book agreeable reading and useful for reference.” (Educ. R.)
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“This work is recommended because of its usefulness in small libraries, supplementing the brief biographical dictionary and cyclopedia articles. The material presented is not only well chosen, authoritative and adequate, but interestingly written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 260. N. ’08. ✠
“It is difficult to account for some of the omissions, but the work as we have it is well done.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 121. S. 1, ’08. 80w.
“The treatment is judicious and satisfactory.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 316. O. ’08. 70w.
“Ten biographies ... are not uninteresting in themselves and are well adapted to the kind of readers for whom they are intended. The final chronology and bibliography too are useful in their way. But it is doubtful, after all, whether such a book is likely to supply the literary stimulus which its authors expect from it.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 310. Ag. 6, ’08. 230w.
“In general, the criticism is sound, conservative, and illuminating, and the book should do good service.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 210. S. 3, ’08. 350w.
=Hinckley, Henry Barrett.= Notes on Chaucer: a commentary on the Prolog and six Canterbury tales. $3. Nonotuck press, Northampton, Mass.
8–6086.
“Consists of a commentary on the Prologue to the “Canterbury tales,” and six of the tales, viz.; the knight’s, the nun’s priest’s, the pardoner’s, the clerk’s, the squire’s, and the franklin’s. In fullness and learning the only previous Chaucer commentary comparable with it is that which accompanies Prof. W. W. Skeat’s standard edition of the poet’s work.”—Nation.
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“All that is of value in the book could have been condensed into a short paper for the Modern language association.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 239. Ag. 29. 260w.
“The author often annotates passages which Skeat has passed by, and so his work, apart from its own merits, supplements that of his predecessor.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 533. Je. 11, ’08. 280w.
=Hind, A. M.= Short history of engraving and etching, for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers. **$5. Houghton.
A descriptive survey of the history of engraving on metal thruout the various centuries and schools, with a generous account of the work of important engravers, and only enough mention of names of lesser note to keep straight the threads of development and to insure a well-balanced estimate of artistic values. The work closes with a chapter on modern etchers and engravers of different countries. The full appendices give a classified list of engravers, 47 p.; a general bibliography, 20 p.; and an index of engravers and individual bibliography, 60 p.
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“Accurate scholarship and painstaking workmanship are manifest throughout.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 408. D. 1, ’08. 300w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1186. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
“It necessarily devotes most of its attention to European practitioners of the art of engraving, with the exception, of course, of etching. Yet a work designed to circulate in this country and furnish information to English readers ought to keep its perspectives right.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 37: 811. N. 28, ’08. 450w.
“The book certainly shows admirable condensation.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 797. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 640. N. ’08. 70w.
=Hind, Charles Lewis.= Diary of a looker-on. **$2. Lane.
8–30031.
“Impressions of the hour utilized as occasions arise in the columns of journals and periodicals. This is the author’s description of these little essays of criticism of paintings and books, sojournings in continental cities and places, or in English country places or London.” (Sat. R.) “The author explains that ... these contributions [made to various journals] were papers transferred from his diaries, and that the collections appear here divided into months, according to the dates of the original writing.” (Spec.)
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“It is a gentleman-like and desirable form of professional activity, but as devoid of ‘personality’ as any other kind of journalism—for example, the market quotations.” F. M. Colby.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 567. Ag. ’08. 340w.
Reviewed by P. F. Bicknell.
=Dial.= 44: 338. Je. 1, ’08. 380w.
“These papers contain something of the intimacy and grace which characterize Stevenson’s essays. The book has a distinct literary flavor, and to read it is as good as a vacation. It is to be hoped that in succeeding editions the numerous typographical errors which mar the present issue will be corrected.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 415. Jl. 25, ’08. 320w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 732. Je. 6, ’08. 220w.
+ − =Spec.= 100: 1009. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
=Hinds, William Alfred.= American communities and co-operative colonies. 2d revision. $1.50. Kerr.
8–3496.
Thoroly revised and brought down to 1907. “It includes all the well-known experiments, such as the Shaker colonies, Owen’s communities, Brook farm, and the various Fourieristic phalanxes, Cabet’s Icaria and the Oneida community, in addition to a multitude of less known settlements, to say nothing of such contemporary organizations as the Theosophist colony at Point Loma, the Single tax society at Fairhope, Alabama, the Ruskin commonwealth, Upton Sinclair’s Helicon home colony and the Straight Edge.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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“He has succeeded in giving us a valuable book of reference abounding in facts but very popular in character.” H. P. J. Selinger.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 126. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“Not the least valuable feature of Mr. Hinds’ book is the bibliography at the end of each chapter.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 445. S. ’08. 340w.
=Hird, Frank.= Victoria, the woman. **$2.50. Appleton.
8–12577.
The author says that his purpose has been to place before readers in America some impressions of the influences that affected her early environment, some suggestions of the circumstances that affected her later years. He portrays the Queen as a daughter, a wife, a woman, a mother, a friend and a sovereign, using the Queen’s own words as recorded in letters and diaries. He lends to the whole a background of current history and politics.
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“Readable, interesting, more available for popular use than the ‘Letters.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 237. O. ’08.
“A serviceable and readable book has been produced, and for those who do not and cannot own the voluminous and expensive ‘Letters’ this volume, with its copious extracts from those letters and from the diaries, should serve as a welcome substitute.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 315. My. 16, ’08. 300w.
“There is a distinct place for Mr. Hird’s little book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 44. Jl. 2, ’08. 260w.
“His work is surprisingly judicial in its tone.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 247. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
“One of the most interesting things in Mr. Hird’s book is to be found in the notices, always judiciously expressed, of the part which the Queen took in politics, foreign and domestic.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 412. S. 19, ’08. 420w.
=Hirth, Friedrich.= Ancient history of China to the end of the Chóu dynasty. *$2.50. Macmillan.
8–3434.
A work which provides a text for students and a book of reference for general readers. It begins with a chapter on the mythological and legendary period and comes down to the third century B. C. While not a purely philological work it follows the linguistic and cultural development of the Chinese people. An appendix of chronological tables gives the dates of the princes of the various states.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 675. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“A much needed work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 187. Je. ’08. ✠
“Owing probably to limitations of space Dr. Hirth has failed to indicate fully the factors which were potent in the earlier development of the Chinese empire, but he has furnished a scholarly and convenient handbook for this period of the history, in more detail than can elsewhere be had in English in an ordered form.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1450. Je. 25, ’08. 120w.
“It does not add largely to our information, but it is a convenient manual for those who desire to gain a knowledge of the uneventful story of China’s existence as a nation.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 138. Ag. 13, ’08. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 130. Mr. 7, ’08. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 884. Ap. 18, ’08. 150w.
“A very scholarly study.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 70w.
=Hobart, Henry Metcalf, and Ellis, Alexander George.= High speed dynamo electric machinery. *$6. Wiley.
8–20034.
Deals with the description of designs and construction which comprise “not only the standard methods by which the special conditions imposed by high speed are being met, but also various recent propositions which have not yet withstood the test of time.” “The authors have arranged their material in two main divisions, dealing with the two distinct types of turbo-generator.” (Engin. N.)
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“The work is a high-class treatise and one that should be in the hands of every designer and engineering instructor.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 304. S. ’08. 430w.
“The book will appeal chiefly to those interested, directly or indirectly, in the design of electric generators.” H: H. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 318. S. 17, ’08. 1100w.
=Hobbs, William Herbert.= Earthquakes; an introduction to seismic geology. **$2. Appleton.
7–39003.
A volume devoted to what field geologists have accomplished by making use of the record of the motion of the earth’s disturbances acquired thru perfected seismological experiments. “What has been learned by both of these classes of students, and what are the best supported theories, are made plain in this volume with abundant illustration through diagram and photograph, and with admirable system and arrangement of material.” (Outlook.)
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+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 42. F. ’08.
“Of special value at the present time, not only to students, but also to the general reader who wishes to keep informed in regard to recent scientific advance.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 39: 731. Je. ’08. 280w.
“No intelligent layman can look at this book without being interested, or can read it without substantial gain in knowledge.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 110. F. 16, ’08. 250w.
“It takes rank with the best of the general books on seismology.” R. S. Tarr.
+ =J. Geol.= 16: 477. Jl. ’08. 1550w.
“On the whole the book is a modern and readable presentation of a theme possessing more than ordinary interest.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 494. My. 28, ’08. 400w.
“As an introduction to seismology, or even to seismic geology, it is the most misleading that we know, but for the reader who comes to it with sufficient previous knowledge it contains suggestive passages, and as we perused the book we were haunted by the consciousness that its author was capable of better work; we searched for the word which would describe its character until a marginal heading, in block type, supplied the want in ‘crudeness.’”
− + =Nature.= 77: 481. Mr. 26, ’08. 700w.
“The reader may have full confidence that he is in possession of seismology up to date.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 74. F. 8, ’08. 360w.
“Gives us in his new volume what we believe to be by far the most thorough study of the subject, which is couched in fairly untechnical language, and may be read with a clear understanding by any thoughtful layman.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 41. Ja. 4, ’08. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 119. Ja. ’08. 130w.
=Spec.= 101: 200. Ag. 8, ’08. 60w.
=Höcker, Gustav.= Arnold of Winkelried: the hero of Sempach; tr. from the German of Gustav Höcker. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.
8–23292.
A story of the famous Swiss hero which tells us about Knight Schrutan and the Pilatus, the battle of Morgarten, the mystery play at Engelberg, the black death, the robber knights, the tournament at Little Basle, the storming of a Lithuanian castle, and Winkelried’s heroic death.
=Hodges, Rev. George.= When the King came: stories from the four gospels. *$1.25. Houghton.
Stories founded upon the record of the life of Jesus as presented in the gospels. The well-known Bible facts are embellished with numberless details of setting, back of which lies the author’s careful study of the times and their customs.
=Hodgetts, Edward A. B.= Court of Russia in the 19th century. 2v. *$6. Scribner.
8–20526.
A popular rather than a scholarly account of the Russian emperors and court of the last century. The history begins with Alexander I, and concludes with a sketch of Nicholas II and a summary of political conditions in Russia, in which “he acquiesces in the arguments of those who oppose the abolishment of bureaucracy on the ground that the population of the country is too sparse and the rural classes too backward to make a system of local government and elected officials practicable.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Almost every anecdote and every judgment is to be found elsewhere, but the compilation is excellent, and the book one that may be warmly recommended to the general reader. There are a good many small slips, hardly worth mention.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 668. My. 30. 900w.
“The disadvantage chiefly to be noted in the lack of precision characterizing the author’s method is a tendency to repetition. The diffuse and incidental style of the writing and the extraordinary lapses in English in Mr. Hodgetts’s book conceal genuine virtues.” E. L. Cary.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 379. Jl. 4, ’08. 2000w.
“While containing a good deal of sound and interesting information, it loses much of its value by an exuberance of trifles and an awkward arrangement.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 236. Ag. 15, ’08. 670w.
=Hoernle, Augustus Rudolf F.= Studies in the medicine of ancient India. *$2.60. Oxford.
Written for the purpose of supplying to students of medicine a knowledge of how the subject was taught and practised in ancient India. “Prof. Hoernle begins in the present volume with osteology, or bones of the human body as they were known to the Indians in the sixth century before Christ.” (Ath.)
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“Professor Hoernle has executed his task with the utmost fidelity.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 772. D. 14. 550w.
“As part of a general history of the subject this book is of prime importance.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 103. Ja. 30, ’08. 100w.
“Altogether Dr. Hoernle, although not a medical man himself, has laid medical men under a deep obligation to him by rendering so easily accessible the knowledge and practice of physicians who tended the sick in northern India some centuries before Christ was born.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 533. Ap. 9, ’08. 450w.
=Hoffman, Frank Sargent.= Sphere of religion: a consideration of its nature and of its influence upon the progress of civilization. **$1.75. Putnam.
8–5160.
A book written for the purpose of interesting young men and women, especially in our colleges, in the study of religion. The author sketches the development of religion from the forms existing among savages to the high spiritual conceptions of to-day. He discusses the various books of religion from the sacred tablets of the Babylonians to Madam Blavatsky’s “Isis unveiled.” Following this are chapters on the relation of the fine arts to religion, religion the key to history, its relations to education, the church and the right of property, the church and the modern state, the scientific method in theology, human immortality and religion, and the present-day conception of God.
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“Its merit lies in its attempt to give an inclusive, bird’s-eye view of a large field. It has the defects of its qualities,—and also some others, the most unfortunate of which is a careless and inexact use of the word ‘religion.’”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 679. O. ’08. 200w.
“It is an exceedingly well written book, which should be in the hands of every thoughtful young man and woman.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 187. Je. ’08.
“Crystal clear is the whole of this eminently sane and practical discussion. Even ‘the man in the street’ will want to finish the book. A landmark in the history of religious thought.” W: E. Griffis.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 377. Je. 16, ’08. 700w.
“Professor Hoffman is an able student and a clear writer, of open mind and fearless pen, but the question may be raised whether it is quite fair to intending purchasers and to libraries to give to such a miscellaneous collection of essays a title which implies a thorogoing and scientific examination of the problems of the philosophy of religion.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 212. Jl. 23, ’08. 170w.
“Professor Hoffman’s spirit is tolerant and progressive, but he covers such a variety of topics and so broad a field that issue may frequently be taken with him, in point both of fact and of opinion.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 445. My. 14, ’08. 170w.
“Prof. Hoffman gives the impression of having tried to cover too broad a field, and the consequence is that his treatment is not thorough.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 736. D. 5, ’08. 250w.
“A well-wrought and desirable addition to the copious modern literature upon its subject. It is wide in its range, imbued with the modern spirit, and insistent on the old and tested truths.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 564. Mr. 7, ’08. 350w.
=Hofmann, Josef.= Piano playing: a little book of simple suggestions. **75c. McClure.
Aims to present a general view of artistic piano-playing and to offer to young students the results of the author’s observations made during his years of study and public activity. The chapters are the following: The piano and its player; General rules; Correct touch and technic; The use of the pedal; Playing “in style”; How Rubenstein taught me to play.
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“His book contains many hints that throw light on the psychic, imaginative side of playing.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 531. N. 26, ’08. 480w.
“This book is both stimulating and suggestive. It is, indeed, the utterance of a great artist who looks upon his art with the broadest view, and there are few who will not gain profit and some new idea from reading it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 687. N. 21, ’08. 530w.
=Holder, Charles Frederick.= Big game at sea. il. *$2. Outing.
8–9755.
A fascinating, informing book by a sea sportsman who, while following the legitimate lines of deep-sea fishing, now and then is rewarded by a phenomenal haul. He discusses the game monsters of the deep, the equipment necessary for catching them, the qualifications required of the fisher sportsman, and lends to the whole the vigor of the sea and the ecstacy of success.
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“Fascinating stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 238. O. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 124. Ag. 1. 270w.
“Not one of the chapters lacks its own peculiar interest.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 44: 342. Je. 1, ’08. 400w.
“The book will appeal to any one who has a spark of physical enthusiasm.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1298. Je. 4, ’08. 200w.
“This work is as interesting as the great romance of Victor Hugo’s ‘Travailleurs de la mer,’ and much more realistic.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 766. My. 23, ’08. 250w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 581. Je. 25, ’08. 840w.
“A remarkable book, and should take a high place among the literature of this and kindred subjects.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 277. My. 16, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
“Nothing has appeared containing such detailed, vivid, and lengthy descriptions of the sport now to be enjoyed as this latest work of Mr. Holder. Like many books which are composed of collected magazine articles, the volume contains much repetition, and suffers from want of arrangement. There is, indeed, no index at all, and no order to be discovered.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 333. S. 5, ’08. 630w.
=Hole, Samuel Reynolds.= Letters of Samuel Reynolds Hole, dean of Rochester; ed. with a memoir, by G: A. B. Dewar. *$3. Macmillan.
8–256.
“The collection embraces about two hundred letters, covering nearly the whole period of the Dean’s busy life. They are addressed to all sorts and conditions of men from Archbishop Benson to the Dean’s life-long friend, Joe Birley, who used to be the shepherd’s lad during the ‘old Squire’s’ day at Hole’s ancestral home of Caunton manor, and they give the reader some dim idea of the catholicity of the Dean’s tastes and the width of his influence.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Admirers of the late Dean of Rochester can hardly resist some slight feeling of disappointment at his volume. Mr. Dewar’s introductory chapter is, in many respects, excellent. But it is in no sense of the word a ‘memoir’ and the reader anxious for biographical details is referred to an unilluminating chronological list. Of the letters themselves it is, happily, possible to speak with less reserve.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 273. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
“Mr. Dewar has shown both skill and discernment in his brief sketch of Dean Hole. It conveys a good idea of a personality which was singularly attractive.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 472. O. 19. 1750w.
“In choosing the letters for publication, the editor has shown wisdom in picking with a sparing hand and also in not including letters merely because they were written to persons of distinction.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 11. Ja. 1, ’08. 1750w.
“So lacking any thread to knit it together, and so largely made up of scraps—that any sustained interest in it is almost impossible.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 437. Ag. 20, ’08. 100w.
“Partly through the fault of the editor, partly through the scantiness of his material, this book seems likely to cause more disappointment than satisfaction.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 307. O. 11, ’07. 780w.
“Taken separately, they are delightful letters, written in the Dean’s characteristic style and breezy manner. But in these busy times few people are willing to sit down and read 250 pages of notes written, in no matter how pleasant a style, to familiar (and often obscure) friends on ordinary topics of no special interest to outsiders.” J. G. Whiteley.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 3. Ja. 4, ’08. 1100w.
“Witty Dean Hole as he was in life is again witty Dean Hole in the collection of letters.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 875. D. 21, ’07. 290w.
“Mr. Dewar does the subject of his ‘memoir’ full justice. It is the testimony of the one who, besides being a personal friend, is evidently well qualified to take, not a partial and onesided view of the subject of the memoir, but such a view as is comprehensive of the whole man.” Francis Pigou.
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 631. N. 23, ’07. 2100w.
“This book is, we must own, something of a disappointment. We see, indeed, Dean Hole, as we expected to see him, one of the gayest and kindliest of men; but the letters, while they give ample proof of these characteristics, of which no proof was wanted, show little literary quality.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 906. D. 7, ’07. 490w.
=Holland, Clive.= From the foreland to Penzance: the ports and harbors of the south coast. *$3.50. Duffield.
Giving little of guide-book information the author devotes himself to the picturesque side of the harbors and sea ports of the south coast from the north foreland to Penzance. History, romance, and stories of piracy make up the letter-press; while thirty colored illustrations do artistic justice to the harbors along the course.
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“Mr. Randall’s brush is not nearly so effective with water as with land-locked harbours such as those of Poole, Looe, or Fowey. It is not possible to say very much in praise of Mr. Holland’s letter-press.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 340. S. 19. 600w.
“He has exhibited not only a fine instinct for scenery, wide literary and historical learning, but a profound sympathy with amphibious life of the harbor, the fishing-village, and even the smuggler’s cave.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 672. N. 7, ’08. 480w.
“Mr. Holland says his work is not a guide book, but it certainly contains all the information about the country it covers that the ordinary man requires.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 240w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 338. S. 5, ’08. 270w.
=Holland, Clive.= Old and new Japan; 50 col. pictures by Montagu Smith. *$5. Dutton.
8–9079.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 187. Je. ’08.
“From every point of view—literary, scientific and artistic—the work reaches an exceptionally high standard of excellence.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 713. My. ’08. 170w.
“The three chapters of this book which have a real value are those dealing with the festivals still more or less observed by the common folk of Japan, the greetings and language of the country, and the tendencies and future of the Japanese people.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 635. My. 23. 980w.
“A fascinating subject, a writer who knows how to make the most of it, and an illustrator whose work must surprise even the most blasé critic into reluctant admiration,—these are the elements that contribute to the charm.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 190w.
“Montague Smith’s exquisite colors and truthful representations in tint and drawing of Japanese life are far above the quality of the text by Clive Holland, who lives on the surface of the Nipponese scene.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 43. Ja. 2, ’08. 270w.
“One notes inaccuracies even in the few and superficial criticisms of the Japanese.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 404. Ap. 30, ’08. 470w.
“This is a delightful book, and in saying this we have practically indicated its character. The most informing, and on the whole most useful, chapters are those which deal with the domestic and civic life of Japan both in city and country.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 125. Ja. 25, ’08. 260w.
=* Holland, Elizabeth.= Journal; ed. by the Earl of Ilchester. 2v. *$6. Longmans.
“Readers of memoirs dealing with the last years of the Georgian period are familiar with this dominating figure of the Whig salons, who relegated to herself the office of social and political arbiter, and who not only gave orders to such men as Macaulay and Sydney Smith, but exacted their most implicit obedience. Little, however, has been written of Lady Holland’s earlier years, and it is to fill this gap in her career that the present journal is published. Naturally, these earlier years were identified with Holland house quite as much as were the later ones.”—N. Y. Times.
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“These volumes abound in interest, whether they are considered as contributions to social and literary history or as revelations of character. The latter feature, on the whole, predominates. If space permitted, we could give many illustrations of Lady Holland’s admirable strokes at character. The index is disappointingly meagre.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 599. N. 14. 1500w.
=Nation.= 87: 385. O. 22, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“Lord Ilchester has the industry and the impartiality necessary to make a great historian, but he must really be more careful about his composition. The footnotes are rather too numerous and detailed.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 579. N. 7, ’08. 1200w.
“Lord Ilchester has annotated these volumes with remarkable care. Scarcely an allusion but is deftly tracked, and he has provided a wealth of family history to elucidate the entries. The second volume is less interesting than the first, for it is full of backstairs political gossip which has by this time lost its point.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 737. N. 7, ’08. 1700w.
=Holland, Rupert Sargent.= Builders of united Italy, 1808–1898. **$2. Holt.
8–24568.
Men who represent the forces that have fused in Italy’s progress towards a united nation furnish subjects for these eight sketches. They are as follows: Alfieri, the poet; Manzoni, the man of letters; Gioberti, the philosopher; Manin, the Father of Venice; Mazzini, the prophet; Cavour, the statesman; Garibaldi, the crusader; and Victor Emmanuel, the king.
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“It is well worth reading by all who admire brave deeds and heroic self-sacrifice. Young people especially should read the book.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 348. N. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Holland has caught the enthusiasm without which no historian can either sympathize with or describe the spirit that upheld the Italians in their struggles for freedom and independence.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 508. S. 19, ’08. 100w.
“Excellent little volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 100w.
=Holley, Clifford Dyer, and Ladd, Edwin Fremont.= Analysis of mixed paints, color pigments, and varnishes. $2.50. Wiley.
8–4594.
Brings to date the information both on the analysis of pigments and vehicles, and on the practical testing of their properties, as well as shows the demands made of this department of applied chemistry. It is of value “to the paint student and analyst, while also, owing to the authors’ connection with North Dakota paint legislation, additional interest will be felt in the general discussion of the problem of securing efficient paint.”
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“Will have a wide use, both because of its detailed information regarding the composition of the pigments now in general use, and also because of the directions for the analysis of the paints.” Robert Job.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 435. Ap. 16, ’08. 530w.
“The methods for the analysis of oils seem to be somewhat incomplete, but on the whole the work is a valuable contribution to the literature of the subject.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 363. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
“Should prove of considerable practical value, especially in America, and should be of assistance to analysts who have work of this kind to do, as it brings together much information which is otherwise scattered, and contains a good deal which is not to be found in the well-known manual by the late Mr. Hurst.” A. P. Laurie.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 125. Je. 11, ’08. 560w.
“The work is one of the best contributions to the literature of these subjects that have appeared. Should be in the library of every one having to do with the subjects treated.” A. H. Gill.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 28: 277. Ag. 28, ’08. 270w.
=Holman, Frederick Van Voorhies.= Dr. John McLoughlin; the father of Oregon. *$2.50. Clark, A. H.
7–31427.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“It is only in the fact that the author did not examine the problem involved in the virtual martyrdom of Dr. McLoughlin from the broadly historical point of view that any exception can be taken to this admirable book.” F. G. Young.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 620. Ap. ’08. 850w.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 275. Ja. ’08. 180w.
“This biography is not, perhaps, a fine specimen of smooth or systematic narration; and it makes no pretention to literary finish. But it possesses the first quality of a biography—it places the living man before us, just as he must have appeared to those who knew him.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 88: 102. O. ’08. 1350w.
+ =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 200w.
“This book is authoritative, based upon abundant documents, many printed in a full appendix; and although sometimes a bit too effusive, it is, on the whole, a fit presentment of a figure which should not be forgotten.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 305. Ap. 2, ’08. 400w.
=Holmes, Mrs. Bettie F.= Log of the “Laura” in polar seas: a hunting cruise from Tromsö, Norway to Spitsbergen, the polar ice off east Greenland and the island of Jan Mayen in the summer of 1906. Mrs. Bettie F. Holmes, 3598 Washington av., Cincinnati, O.
8–4600.
“A rather elaborate diary of a hunting cruise in the summer of 1906, to Spitzbergen, East Greenland, and the island of Jan Mayen.” (Nation.) “The paper is handmade from an Italian mill; the type is the excellent ‘Bodoni’ face, designed and used exclusively by the University press; and the illustrations—photogravure prints from untouched negatives—are all of superlative merit.” (Dial.)
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“By far the most entertaining part of the book deals with the hunts for the great polar bears. The author fails in breathing a distinct personality into her account—a failure, no doubt, which may be a virtue in a log-book.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 345. Je. 1, ’08. 430w.
“The style is pleasing and unaffected. The scientific value of the cruise was small. It is as an example of fine book-making that the volume is chiefly noteworthy. Unfortunately the book is without an index and is provided with an inadequate map.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 200w.
=Holmes, Sir Richard Rivington.= Windsor; painted by G: M. Henton. (Color books.) *$2.50. Macmillan.
8–16928.
The history of Windsor and its famous castle is reviewed here by the keeper of the King’s library at Windsor castle. Its towers, its chapel, its park and the borough itself are described and painted in the spirit of reverence and appreciation due this “heirloom of the ages.” It is doubly important, in that the history of Windsor is a kind of epitome of English history since the time of the Norman conquest.
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“It is not a deep book ... but all that is said is trustworthy.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 423. Ap. 4. 320w.
“The modest subordinate text is quite what it ought to be for elucidation, historical, architectural and social.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1150. My. 21, ’08. 140w.
“The illustrations ... impart a distinct charm to a book which should be deservedly popular.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 343. Je. ’08. 250w.
“It is a book that will allure the artistic traveller.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl. 23, ’08. 180w.
“This is a good specimen of Messrs. Black’s ‘Beautiful books.’ The subject is a great one, and it has been worthily treated.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 345. F. 29, ’08. 270w.
=Holmes, Richard Sill.= Maid of honor. †$1.50. Revell.
7–38899.
The story of the training of a shrewish young miss whose rude manners arise from her determination not to marry the man she loves because he is a minister. The author writes “of theological problems, making an original old Scotchman chief speaker, and his hero, a young minister, chief actor.” (Outlook.)
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“The love story is negligible, but the sketch of the Presbyterian elder ... bears internal evidence of having been drawn from life.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 755. Ap. 2, ’08. 100w.
“The book is neither a religious nor a problem novel, although its hero is a minister, but is full of sallies of a kindly sort that makes it most entertaining reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 60w.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 62. F. 1, ’08. 170w.
− =Outlook.= 88: 40. Ja. 4, ’08. 160w.
* =Holmes, Richard Sill.= Victor: a novel. †$1.50. Revell.
8–30535.
A dramatic story of the Pennsylvania mountains at the time of the discovery of oil. It concerns a man wronged in love, his rival, and the manner in which they settle their quarrel; it portrays the effect of sudden wealth upon the mountain folk; and it abounds in plots, good description and pleasing humor.
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“A very ordinary tale of love, murder, and expiation.”
− =Ind.= 65: 1311. D. 3, ’08. 200w.
“It is excellent in construction, save for a too frequently bringing together of widely sundered lives, which gives an effect of artificiality. There is good and humorous portrayal of several backwoods characters.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 230w.
=Holmes, Thomas R. E.= Ancient Britain and the invasions of Julius Caesar. *$6.75. Oxford.
8–8462.
A natural sequel to the author’s “Caesar’s conquest of Gaul.” The work “which began as a study of Caesar’s invasions, has expanded in the author’s hands until it has become the whole history or pre-history of Britain down to the arrival of the Romans, and only the closing chapters of the completed book—about one-sixth of the body of the narrative—deal with the campaigns of Caesar.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“For the most part Mr. Holmes’s presentation of the subject is clear, vigorous and extremely readable.” F. N. Robinson.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 833. Jl. ’08. 950w.
“The volume is very readable, yet done in a scholarly fashion.” Carl Kelsey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 633. N. ’08. 120w.
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 818. D. 28. 1350w.
=Class. J.= 3: 208. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Holmes has now filled the gap thus left in his former work, by giving us a companion volume, worthy in every respect of its predecessor.” Arthur T. Walker.
+ =Class. J.= 3: 243. Ap. ’08. 900w.
“Is characterized by thoroughness of detail and a clear presentation and careful weighing of facts; it is moreover, written in a most attractive and entertaining style.” Walter Dennison.
+ + =Class. Philol.= 3: 456. O. ’08. 950w.
“His conclusions, though sometimes announced with too great positiveness and finality, generally carry weight.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 411. O. 29, ’08. 300w.
“In spite of certain grave defects and a uniform lack of originality, it is a great monument to the author’s industry.”
− + =Nature.= 77: 601. Ap. 30, ’08. 2550w.
“Painstaking and ... exhaustive research.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 764. D. 21, ’07. 2350w.
“We must indicate one or two weak points in the premises of such very confident conclusions.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 1096. D. 28, ’07. 1750w.
=Holt, Rosa Belle.= Rugs; oriental and occidental, antique and modern; new and enl. ed. *$5. McClurg.
8–29873.
A new and enlarged edition which benefits by the most recent information obtained by investigation thruout the United States, by recent study in the centers of Europe and by personal observation in the Orient. The aim of the book is to present in a concise form certain facts that enable a novice to appreciate the beauty and interest attaching to rugs, and to assist a prospective purchaser in judging of the merits of any particular rug he may desire to own.
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“Now assumes the proportions of an authoritative work. To the care taken to print only what is verifiable, the new edition owes much of its value.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 299. N. 1, ’08. 330w.
=Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 100w.
“We must pronounce this work not only useful and beautiful, but also learned.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 130w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 421. O. 29, ’08. 220w.
“The compact form, the beautiful illustrations, and the careful text of the present work insure its continued popularity as a work of reference.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 584. O. 17, ’08. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 843. D. 12, ’08. 100w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 763. D. ’08. 70w.
=Holtz, Frederick Leopold.= Nature-study: a manual for teachers and students. *$1.50. Scribner.
8–13354.
“A manual for teachers and for students in training schools. Part 1 discusses principles and methods. Part 2 is devoted to subject matter of a biological nature, placing emphasis on life histories and habits and relations to environment and practical bearing on human life. Part 3 outlines a good course for eight grades.”—Ind.
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“It supplements but does not supersede Hodge’s ‘Nature study and life.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 260. N. ’08.
“The book is a valuable contribution to the nature study movement, and deserves to be read by every teacher interested in such work.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 316. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The book is agreeably written, with nothing superfluous included.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 449. Ag. 16, ’08. 340w.
=Home, Gordon Cochrane.= Along the Rivieras of France and Italy. (Old world travel ser.) *$2.50. Macmillan.
The initial volume in a new series whose aim is to do for countries and districts what the “Mediaeval town series” has done for cities. Here are described points along the coast from Marseilles to Pisa, omitting a few towns close to Genoa which have suffered thru manufacturing interests. Twenty-five illustrations in color, as many in black and white, a bibliography, map and index make the volume complete for the tourist.
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“Altogether we congratulate the author-artist and the publishers upon a delightful book.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 538. O. 31. 730w.
“This volume will be an indispensable necessity to all who visit the Riviera, and probably those who have already visited it will find that Mr. Home reveals a world of new interest and beauty of which they will make themselves sharers on their return to the Mediterranean.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 811. N. 28, ’08. 500w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 120w.
“Mr. Home treats his towns and cities both historically and descriptively, and in both respects acquits himself in a very pleasing fashion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 200w.
=Hooker, William Brian.= Right man. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–29648.
A story whose action takes place on a transatlantic liner. “Two men and a girl are the centers of a not too intricate plot, and the stage properties include a violin whose harmonies make discord among the group. A concert, a fist fight, and an engagement lend the spice of variety, and there is just enough of the lived-happy-ever-after element to relieve any anxiety as to the outcome of the adventures.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The story is fairly well written, but the glaring poster-like illustrations are execrable.”
+ − =Arena.= 40: 484. N. ’08. 200w.
“The trouble with ‘The right man’ is that, quite unintentionally, the problem is unfairly presented. The book fails in its delineation of types.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 28: 260. N. ’08. 700w.
“One may find a half-hour’s diversion in the reading of Brian Hooker’s novelette.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 635. O. 31, ’08. 130w.
=Hopkins, Herbert Muller.= Priest and pagan. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–9172.
“The priest” is a young Episcopal clergyman, half Jew, who, while rearing the walls of St. Basil’s cathedral in the Bronx loves a maiden as charming as she is willful. “The pagan” is a returned wanderer who after working his way into the good graces of the priest no less than into a corner of his bachelor quarters, steals the maiden and weds her. The dénouement is quite as incomprehensible as it is surprising.
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“As a whole, ‘Priest and pagan’ lacks cohesion, interest, almost human probability. It seems like an accretion rather than a growth, with a prescribed amount of description, conversation, incident, and classical allusion. The dialogue is heavy and sometimes in questionable taste; the characters are uninspired.” R. W. K.
− =Bookm.= 27: 280. My. ’08. 1350w.
“It is a pity that so carefully wrought a story should not prove more effective.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 45: 90. Ag. 16, ’08. 150w.
“It is refreshing to read a story where the ultra-modern, the civic, the suburb, the slum, are the themes, yet where the undignified does not enter, and where morality and even religion are in good social standing.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 354. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“A particularly amateurish piece of fiction. The trouble with the story is the fact that the author is not enough at home in the environment he has elected for his people to make the reader feel at home.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. Ap. 11, ’08. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
“The defects are defects in art and in an ideal, so that we miss both charm and stimulus.” E. L. Cary.
− =Putnam’s.= 4: 619. Ag. ’08. 100w.
=Hopkins, R. V. Nind.= Life of Alexander Severus. (Cambridge historical essays, no. 14.) *$1. Putnam.
The short comings, the earnest hard work, the “sagacity and right-mindedness” of this Roman ruler of the third century of the empire are seen in relation to the corrupt and downward tendencies of his times.
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“Contributes little to our knowledge of a period which deserves to be treated by a more competent hand.” H. S. J.
− =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 820. O. ’08. 350w.
“Scholarly and well-written.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 12. Ja. 2, ’08. 90w.
“A happy example of the good work which these foundations have for some years past been the means of calling forth.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 828. N. 23, ’07. 410w.
=Hopkins, William J.= Sandman: his ship stories. il. (Sandman ser.) $1.50. Page.
7–28963.
In which young readers may learn all about the building of a ship, its rigging, its launching, far country experiences, pirate encounters, and castaway adventures.
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“A book to give to adults to read aloud to children.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 159. My. ’08. ✠
=Hopper, James Marie, and Bechdolt, Fred R.= 9009. †$1.25. McClure.
8–27364.
Indignation over facts—facts concerning the treatment of convicts in our American prisons—has spurred the authors on to a revelation of many of the existing evils. 9009 is a convict who while intent upon “holding his copper” revolted against the Judas system of espionage, of stalking, of spying, of treachery, of betrayal with which a convict must identify himself in order to become a trusty. His tacit refusal to be dominated by the system is punished for disobedience, and he becomes the victim of a machine, a criminal who arouses pity as does Jean Valjean.
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“We do not recall any recent study in criminology that surpasses the present one in forceful vitality of narration.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 899. O. 15, ’08. 140w.
“The book is, in a sense, not to be classed either in spirit or actual achievement with the typical work of fiction. That is not to say that it is lacking in imagination, power, or the forceful delineation of character. All these qualities it has to a marked degree.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 592. O. 24, ’08. 1000w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
=Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus).= Odes and epodes of Horace; tr. into English verse corresponding with the original metres by J. Marshall. (Temple Greek and Latin classics, v. 5.) *$1. Putnam.
It has been the business of Dr. Marshall for forty years to offer this translation of the untranslatable Odes of Horace. “The book, like all the volumes of the series, gives the original and the translation on opposite pages. In this case the type is comfortably large and clear.” (Nation.)
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“The odes are priceless exotics, brilliant but scentless. Dr. Marshall’s experiment is perhaps as successful as such an experiment could be. Compared with his last predecessor, Gladstone, he has achieved a veritable triumph.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ =Acad.= 73: 239. D. 14, ’07. 1470w.
“In one thing he has been particularly fortunate—in suggesting the rhythm of the original stanzas, while using forms thoroughly English. He is, as a rule, less successful in the graver poems than in the ‘nugæ canoræ,’ but he is seldom quite flat, and his version as a whole may be heartily recommended to those who are shut out from the original.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 131. F. 6, ’08. 560w.
“The author preserves the original metre and translates line by line, but his English is therefore stilted and un-Horatian.” Christian Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 291. My. 23, ’08. 50w.
“Though not a complete anthology of Horace’s best, is thoroughly creditable to its editors, and commendable to lovers of the genial poet.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 770. Ag. 1, ’08. 250w.
=Hord, John S.= Internal taxation in the Philippines. (Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and political science, ser. 25, no. 1.) pa. 30c. Johns Hopkins.
7–19437.
“Less a careful review of the new Philippine revenue system, in both theory and practice, than it is an exposition of its content and of the reasons for its adoption with a view to arguing for the removal of tariff barriers between the United States and the Philippines.”—Ind.
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“Not the careful monograph one would expect from the auspices under which it is published and the fact that its author is collector of internal revenue in the Philippines and the chief designer of the internal revenue law of 1904.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 663. Ap. ’08. 150w.
“The introductory section, summarizing the Spanish methods of internal taxation in the Philippines, is not an accurate bit of economic history.”
− =Ind.= 64: 588. Mr. 12, ’08. 100w.
“The pamphlet sets forth very well the content of the new Philippine internal revenue law and its administration, but gives it slight consideration from the point of view of the student of taxation theories and practice.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 216. Mr. 5, ’08. 150w.
* =Hornaday, William Temple.= Camp-fires on desert and lava. **$3. Scribner.
8–30960.
The record of a journey which the author made from Tuscon to Sonoyta in company with Dr. D. T. MacDougal of the Department of botanical research of the Carnegie institute. They traversed a hitherto unknown tract surrounding Pinacate in northwestern Mexico. It is of the wonders of animal and plant life, of the experiences of camp and trail, and of adventures with big game that Mr. Hornaday writes, lending to the whole the atmosphere of mountain and desert.
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“A very cheerful and pleasant book recounting his adventures, ... recording the zoological, botanical, and geographical discoveries achieved, passing on to the kindly reader the mild jests with which the company beguiled the nights and days in the open.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 712. N. 28, ’08. 1450w.
“Mr. Hornaday is the vivacious chronicler of a very interesting journey.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 5. N. 21, ’08. 350w.
=Hornblow, Arthur.= The profligate. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–16713.
The “profligate” is the foster son of a New York merchant. He is first held responsible then finally cleared of the charge of murdering his foster father. Idler, gambler, criminal are epithets which he determines to live down when of a sudden he finds that he loves a good woman. In order to prove beyond question his innocence of the crime he resolves to find the real criminal. When the latter is traced to his hiding, he is discovered to be the profligate’s own father. Sacrifice and readjustment follow.
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“There is a certain public in America that will deal generously with Mr. Hornblow for writing this story, a public that may be defined negatively as one in which persons of refined literary taste are not included.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 327. Je. 13, ’08. 380w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
=Horne, Charles F.= Technique of the novel: the elements of the art, their evolution and present use. **$1.50. Harper.
8–15748.
An authoritative work which is fundamental in its exposition of the principles that underlie fiction writing. It is at once a history of the novel, an analysis of its forms from earliest times to the present, and a presentation of the six elements that enter into the development of the modern novel; viz., plot, motive and verisimilitude, character, emotion, background, and style.
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“The author’s theories might not be accepted by most critics and the untrained reader should not take its utterances too seriously.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 238. O. ’08.
“Professor Horne has brought together a most interesting series of discussions, and his illustrative citations and interludes are admirable.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 422. N. ’08. 50w.
“Professor Horne has devoted an immense amount of hard, conscientious work to the preparation of this book, but no inspired teacher would ever think of using it, and we tremble for the fate of the pupils who might be forced to study it under any one else.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 841. O. 8, ’08. 500w.
“And yet, as a whole, unsatisfactory as the book is, still as a piece of academic work it marks an advance upon the profitless editing and reëditing of school and college texts.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 341. O. 8, ’08. 620w.
“Mr. Horne is very thorough in his discussion of the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 306. My. 30, ’08. 450w.
“Inasmuch as the author has expended well-nigh one-third of his space upon the development of classic and mediaeval fiction, there is legitimate ground for complaining that his conclusions are at least weakened by the inconsistency and incompleteness of his use of available material.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =No. Am.= 188: 619. O. ’08. 700w.
“It is for intelligent novel readers as well as for novel writers. A wide welcome is due to this masterly work.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 769. Ag. 1, ’08. 270w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 90w.
=Horsley, Albert E. (Harry Orchard, pseud.).= Confessions and autobiography of Harry Orchard. $1. McClure.
7–41117.
“After a brief outline of his early life, the tale starts with Orchard’s marriage and his settling down into business for himself, and then follows his career with minute attention to every step down to his arrest, his life in the jail, and his confession to Detective McParland”—N. Y. Times.
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“This remarkable human document, almost stunning to the mind in its simplicity of selfrevelation, produces an overwhelming impression of essential truthfulness. As a book, the unique interest of the confession lies in the insight afforded into the psychology of the man-of-prey.” S: H. Adams.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 57. Mr. ’08. 1300w.
“Its value is seriously impaired because there is no information as to how the book was written, whether by Orchard himself or by dictation or by some one else from various conversations.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 693. Mr. 26, ’08. 270w.
=Nation.= 86: 170. F. 20, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Apparently simple, straightforward story, utterly without imagination, hanging together from start to finish with absolute compactness and coherency, vivid in detail, and sodden with criminality.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 69. F. 8, ’08. 270w.
* =Hough, Emerson.= Young Alaskan. †$1.25. Harper.
The narrative of exciting adventure which fell to the lot of three Alaskan boys who are castaways in the wild Kaludiak country. Their stout hearts, insuperable energy and quick wit prove invincible against hardship and danger.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=Houmas, Mount.= Strange record. $1.50. Neale.
8–18002.
A wealthy young girl whose thoroly sensible ideas about life are at variance with her stepmother’s superficial ones leaves her Brooklyn home, studies medicine and chooses the south for the field of her career. Sentiment against the woman doctor brings her to the point of masquerading as a man, of going to the West Indies, where her professional success is as complete as the masculine mask which she assumes.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 700w.
=Housden, C. E.= Practical earthwork tables. *90c. Longmans.
Tables that have been “prepared for the purpose of facilitating the computation of the cross-sectional areas of embankments and excavations, by reducing the work involved in preparing special sections and in making the necessary calculations from longitudinal and cross-sections of ground over or through which the proposed cut has to be made.” (Engin. D.)
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+ =Engin. D.= 3: 653. Je. ’08. 150w.
“His book is inferior in design and application to most of the dozen or more earthwork tables now in print.”
− =Engin. N.= 59: 441. Ap. 16, ’08. 320w.
=Housden, C. E.= Practical hydraulic (water supply and drainage) tables and diagrams. *$1.25. Longmans.
W7–233.
“These tables and diagrams, originally prepared for the personal use of the author, have proved of such use and convenience in ascertaining the sizes of pipes for water supply systems, surface drains and sewers, that they have been published in the present form.” (Engin. D.) “The tables are based upon the formulas of Messrs. Ganguillet and Kutter for the calculation of the flow in pipes and channels.” (Engin. N.)
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=Engin. D.= 3: 652. Je. ’08. 140w.
“It may be a very useful work for some people, but not for those familiar with any of the American books of hydraulic tables.” G. S. Williams.
− =Engin. N.= 59: 541. My. 14, ’08. 220w.
=Housman, Laurence.= Stories from the Arabian nights; retold by Laurence Housman. *$5. Scribner.
8–13714.
“Laurence Housman has taken a half-dozen of the best tales, and from the various authoritative translations has made a version in which the repetitions and indecencies are suppressed and the points of the narrative thrown into relief. He has, in a word, tried to get a result similar to that attained by Galland, in the old French translation, which so long stood as the basis of our English ‘Arabian nights,’ until displaced by an irruption of pedantic Orientalists.” (Nation.)
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“A new version of some of the stories, written by Mr. Housman in prose as graceful as his verse, will be very welcome.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 243. D. 14, ’07. 770w.
“As to the retelling, Mr. Housman takes all sorts of liberties, and we do not blame him. The text is only a peg whereon to hang the pictures, and these are most delightfully whimsical.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 158. F. 8. 1050w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 84. Mr. ’08. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 564. D. 19, ’07. 200w.
“For real charm—a charm quite comparable to Scheherezade’s own—this volume depends upon the indescribably quaint and bewitching illustrations provided by Edmund Dulac.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 848. D. 21, ’07. 400w.
“Mr. Dulac has given them an eastern look with quite uncommon success.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 936. D. 7, ’07. 160w.
=Houston, Edwin James.= Five months on a derelict. (Pacific ser., v. 1.) †$1.25. Am. Bapt.
8–20577.
The experiences of a ship’s crew and some lively boys who escaped to a derelict brig and tossed about on the Pacific for five months. Boys will find exciting adventure wholesomely interspersed with geography, natural history, astronomy and mythology. One of the best sailors in the group is Rompey the collie.
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“A book that is obviously intended to be instructive as well as entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 439. Ag. 8, ’08. 230w.
* =Houston, Edwin James.= Wrecked on a coral island. †$1.25. Am. Bapt.
A continuation of the experiences of the group of boys who figured in “Five months on a derelict.” Aside from the strong story interest, information is furnished concerning the formation of a coral island, and concerning the plant and animal life of the southern Pacific.
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“A good story and an instructive one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=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.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“More effectually perhaps than any other book of the year this volume of fragmentary literary remains reawakens us to a sense of the reality, the permanence and power of the poetic spirit.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 850. D. ’07. 580w.
“[Has] a poetry of thought and an intimate skill in form full of larger promise.” Brian Hooker.
+ =Forum.= 39: 526. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“It is impossible to study the conception of the work as a whole without grave misgivings. If nothing else, it is altogether too complicated. Whether for this reason or not, the dramatic interest even of the completed plays is not very great.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 753. Ap. 2, ’08. 300w.
“Much as his untimely death is to be lamented by every lover of verse, it is impossible to consider what remains of his cycle as a great or very significant poem or to believe that even if it were finished, it would be other than a work ‘manqué’ as a whole, a thing of brilliant passages and of splendid promise for the time when the author should have found himself in his own best vein.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 63. Ja. 16, ’08. 650w.
=Hovey Richard.= To the end of the trail; ed. with notes by Mrs. Richard Hovey. **$1.25. Duffield.
8–12814.
Collected and published as a tribute to the memory of a man who was cut off before the fulfilment of extraordinary promise in his verse. Aside from his lyrics are translations from Maeterlinck, Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine.
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“Completes the collected edition of the works of one of our most interesting poets, a man of vivid imagination, of deep, if not broad, sympathies, endowed with insight, sensibility, and the gift of melodious expression.” E: A. Dithmar.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 287. My. 23, ’08. 900w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
=Howard, George Bronson.= Scars on the southern seas. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
7–40047.
Among a Pacific mail steamship’s passengers are four people, one of them a young woman, whose thrilling adventures begin with a midocean swim violently terminated by a typhoon that cuts them loose from the liner. Scrambling into the ship’s boat that had been lowered with them they drift to an island where they discover a plot to wrest the Philippines from the United States. Among them is a hero of the Jack London type, who holds at bay a band of Japanese and Chinese mercenaries while the remainder steal a ship and go to Manila for help. Romance mingles with adventure in the usual proportion.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Howard, Oliver Otis.= Autobiography. 2v. **$5. Baker.
7–35640.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“The portion dealing with reconstruction has a special value as General Howard was at that time in charge of the Freedman’s bureau.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 43. F. ’08.
“The work is rather a rambling narrative of reminiscences. These pages reveal little historical ability or literary skill, they are yet exceptionally valuable in revealing the character of a high-minded gentleman and patriot.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 469. F. 27, ’08. 600w.
“This is a book to dip into as we dip into Pepys or Evelyn. Even the great length of the autobiography is precluded from tediousness by the multitude of good things with which it abounds.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 236. F. 15, ’08. 250w.
“General Howard has made numerous changes, additions, and corrections, giving new value to a record which, in the first edition, was well received everywhere.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 852. D. 5, ’08. 60w.
“The student of military science will find other records more illuminating; for vivid pictures we must search elsewhere. Nevertheless, there are fine qualities, truthfulness, candor, the spirit of humanity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 175. F. 20, ’08. 1000w.
“These well-printed, clearly written volumes exhibit the career of a trained warrior.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 516. S. 19, ’08. 1250w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 253. F. ’08. 90w.
=Howard, Oliver Otis.= Famous Indian chiefs I have known. †$1.50. Century.
8–24869.
A Major-general of the civil war tells of his experiences and adventures with Indian leaders, both friendly and hostile. One of the most interesting chapters tells of the long Nez Percé war which was fought with Chief Joseph, whom General Howard followed over fourteen hundred miles before the warrior surrendered. More than twenty chiefs figure in the narrative.
=Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.
“He has put [into it] the cream of his knowledge of Indian character and of his experience with Indians.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 513. S. 19, ’08. 230w.
“The unique character of these reminiscences make them interesting to readers of all ages.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 510. O. ’08. 90w.
=Howard, Oliver Otis.= My life and experiences among our hostile Indians. $2.75. Worthington.
7–38634.
“Records the author’s observations, adventures, and campaigns among the Indians of the great west. He gives details of their life, habits, religion, ceremonies, dress, savage instincts, and customs in peace and war.” (Lit. D.) The book is fully illustrated.
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“The romance of realism has never been more stirringly demonstrated than in these pages. The tone in which the book is written is elevated.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 257. Ag. 22, ’08. 230w.
“Animated narrative ... which may be commended not only as thoroughly readable but as sympathetic with the effort to raise the American Indian from a condition of ignorant savagery to that of industrious citizenship. The story is full of incidents and anecdotes, and is entertaining as well as instructive.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 127. My. 16, ’08. 250w.
=Howden, J. R.= Boys’ book of steamships. †$2. McClure.
W8–151.
An informing book covering the entire ground of achievement represented by the steamship: its history, principles of design, machinery, development of type, work of the ship, river and lake boats, ocean steamships and their routes in various quarters of the globe.
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“For the boy with a mechanical turn of mind this book is especially profitable, and any boy intending to travel will find it beneficial.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 764. D. ’08. 50w.
“Mr. Howden prefaces this interesting account of steamships with a really valuable and most lucid historical sketch of ancient and medieval shipping. We have no hesitation in describing it as one of the best introductions to the study of sailing-ships we have met with. If some of the same ground has been traversed before, much is comparatively unbroken, and has new sidelights thrown on it. Altogether the book is an acquisition for the ‘steamboat’ boy.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 707. N. 7, ’08. 420w.
=Howe, Edward Watson.= Daily notes of a trip around the world. 2v. *$2. Crane & co.
The record of a trip around the world, including Hawaii, Japan, China, the Philippines, Ceylon, India, Egypt, Palestine and Europe. Every day he wrote a few paragraphs for a newspaper, which, collected, make a continuous history of his journey.
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“The most entertaining record of travel we have read in many a year. The book is a Kansas classic.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 320. F. 6, ’08. 550w.
“They have distinct vitality, unusual humor, and are always interesting, not alone for the information conveyed, but as an expression of an interesting personality.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 418. Mr. 21, ’08. 70w.
=Howe, Mark Anthony De Wolfe.= Life and letters of George Bancroft. 2v. **$4. Scribner.
8–12121.
Letters strung together on a slight thread of narrative and comment tell a story of Bancroft’s life at once authentic and complete. It is especially informing as it relates Bancroft’s political and scholarly activity to his contemporaries and his times.
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“Mr. Howe has done his work judiciously and the picture of the great historian which he presents is at least clear in outline and interesting in detail.” W: MacDonald.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 150. O. ’08. 900w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 188. Je. 08.
“Though this book should command a wide public on both sides of the Atlantic, its English readers may not unfairly complain that American politics are presented in a manner so allusive as to be almost unintelligible.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 430. O. 10. 1300w.
“This magisterial and critical life of a great historian is very welcome.” W: M. Sloane.
+ + =Atlan.= 102: 275. Ag. ’08. 4100w.
“The tone throughout is serious and dignified. The interest, and often the style, of Mr. Howe’s volumes suffers from unevenness; certain portions have a power of absorbing the reader, while other pages seem colorless.” A. R. Marble.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 267. My. 1, ’08. 2600w.
“Mr. Howe’s work is a clean and admirable addition to American biography.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1093. My. 14, ’08. 1000w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 26. Jl. 4, ’08. 1500w.
“Mr. Howe has performed creditably a work of peculiar difficulty. He had to dispose of a large mass of material; but he has confined the narrative within proper limits.... He writes as if devoid of affection for his subject. It is this circumstance which makes the reader finish the book with the feeling that while he has profited somewhat, he has nevertheless missed that keen enjoyment which a good biography should furnish.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 446. My. 14, ’08. 1100w.
“Mr. Howe is far from dull. He has taken a good deal of time in the preparation of these volumes, and his care regarding them has been as intelligent as it has been patient.” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 254. My. 2, ’08. 3000w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 270w.
“As a collection of letters this work is most valuable, and little fault is to be found with it; but as a biography it is distinctly open to improvement.” H. A. Bruce.
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 616. Jl. 18, ’08. 4800w.
“His ‘Life and letters’ give interesting revelations of all the prominent personalities with whom at one time or another he had come in contact.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 753. Je. ’08. 300w.
“The work has been accomplished in excellent taste and with no small literary skill. There are, however, some glaring mistakes in the transcription of letters. A valuable contribution to American literature.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 703. N. 7, ’08. 1900w.
* =Howe, Maud.= Sun and shadow in Spain. **$3. Little.
This volume written by a daughter of Julia Ward Howe tells the story of varied and fascinating experiences while wandering thru Spain. Keen observation, rich imagination, and sprightly wit are quickened into vigorous activity under the spell of the real Spain and her people. Numerous illustrations add reality to the word pictures.
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“Maud Howe is appreciative and sympathetic; she is also impressionable, but the greatest gift of all is hers—she can remember and record her impressions and convey them to her readers.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 220w.
“Much of the information supplied by one of the party, who acts as a sort of Greek chorus, would be less wearisome if soberly stated as a matter of fact.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 300w.
“Everywhere the author’s sprightly wit lends life and color to the pictures she has painted of this fascinating country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
“This is a travel book for the light hearted who don’t mind slang or object to the companionship of fellow-travelers disguised under initials.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 90w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 760. D. ’08. 30w.
* =Howells, William Dean.= Christmas every day. †$1.75. Harper.
A charmingly told tale of a little girl who begged the Christmas fairy to have Christmas every day in the year, and the monotony of the surfeit of festivity that follows the granting of the request.
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“In the telling of this story there is a certain zest that adds spirit to the little girl’s wish, and the adventures that result therefrom.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 50w.
“Such a nice story that when you commence you cannot put it down until it is finished.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 702. N. 28, ’08. 360w.
“In taste and sentiment it is doubtful if any Christmas book of the year surpasses this.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 80w.
“It is written with grace, lightness of touch, brilliancy, and literary charm.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 764. D. ’08. 30w.
=Howells, William Dean.= Fennel and rue. †$1.50. Harper.
8–9174.
A study of a young author and his treatment of a woman who tries to trick him into revealing to her the conclusion of his story, publishing serially, on the ground of her approaching death. Discovering the trick, the author writes to his unknown correspondent a stern and indignant letter. These young people afterward meet at a house-party, the author as a guest, the girl as a professional entertainer. The differing social altitudes of the two and their past experiences of each other give a dramatic interest to every chance encounter and present a problem which is solved, or unsolved, with a satirical but delicate touch.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 156. My. ’08.
“Mr. Howells’s wit and sense of character nowadays seem attenuated, and as lovers of his work in other days, we regret to find the persons of his small drama bloodless creatures, splitting ethical hairs.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 537. My. 2, 200w.
“A chip from Mr. Howells’s literary workshop, delicately carved and polished, yet highly finished though it be, a by-product none the less.” A. S. van Westrum.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 281. My. ’08. 750w.
“It is all very charming and slyly humorous in the working out, but cannot be said to engage any serious interest.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 350. Je. 1, ’08. 180w.
“Mr. Howells has not forgotten how to invent a situation, half-psychical, half sentimental. The old skill is not lacking.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 925. Ap. 23, ’08. 150w.
“Mr. Howells has succeeded admirably in depicting the excesses to which continual brooding over a trifle may lead those who have no sense of humor. The slender plot is well developed, though it is embedded in a good many pages of banal, but exceedingly life-like conversation, uttered by desperately uninteresting and real people.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 309. Ap. 2, ’08. 300w.
“It is short; the characters are few; the narrative is swift and easy. The dramatic sense of the writer is as fresh as ever and the interest never flags. There is delicate observation in plenty, and there are passages of exquisite description of scenes in which one can imagine the writer himself delightfully absorbed.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 151. Mr. 21, ’08. 800w.
“Another slight story, so far as length goes, but one delicately wrought and with great literary skill.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 120w.
“Not by any means a masterpiece and in no way to be compared with the author’s richer product.” E. L. Cary.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 618. Ag. ’08. 120w.
“Some of Mr. Howells’ readers may wish that he had let his imagination react more decidedly upon his material.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 760. Je. ’08. 330w.
“It is no small proof of Mr. Howells’s delicate and distinguished talent that he should have kept a story which trembles on the verge of morbidity pure and sweet throughout.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 710. My. 2, ’08. 900w.
=Howells, William Dean.= Roman holidays and others. **$3. Harper.
8–30605.
Quiet, capacious observation, poetic vision, and ripe reflection characterize these impressions which are made to contrast interestingly with impressions of the same scenes forty years ago. Howells journeys about leisurely, comments upon old landmarks, modern innovations, street scenes, popular customs, manners, the municipal situation, and the Papal church.
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“With that genially serious attention to minute details, that humorous circumstantiality in treating the commonplace, which we have all come to know so well and to like (or dislike) so heartily in Mr. Howells, he has filled a substantial volume with his easy-flowing narrative of a Mediterranean vacation journey.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 409. D. 1, ’08. 220w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19, ’08. 200w.
“One of the charms of the volume springs from the change in the impressions that Italy made upon him after the lapse of more than a full generation since his first visit.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 100w.
“In this new book of Rome and Italy there is a joy and a mellow philosophy that are typical of the author.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 623. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“There is no sadness, in these pages, nothing but a joy and a mellow philosophy that are both typical of the author and of holidays in general.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“The habit Mr. W. D. Howells formed many years ago of writing charmingly about his holiday doings still clings to him, and manifests itself strikingly in his latest book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 774. D. 12, ’08. 780w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 760. D. ’08. 100w.
=Howells, William Dean and others.= Whole family: a novel by twelve authors. †$1.50. Harper.
Twelve authors have coöperated in producing this character-sketch novel. A chapter is devoted to each member of the family as follows: The father, by William Dean Howells; The old-maid aunt, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; The grandmother, by Mary Heaton Vorse; The daughter-in-law, by Mary Stewart Cutting; The school-girl, by Elizabeth Jordan; The son-in-law, by John Kendrick Bangs; The married son, by Henry James; The married daughter, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; The mother, by Edith Wyatt; The school-boy, by Mary R. S. Andrews; Peggy, by Alice Brown; and The friend of the family, by Henry Van Dyke.
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“It is pure vaudeville, but many of the ‘turns’ are characteristic and amusing.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 552. D. 3, ’08. 620w.
“Mr. James and Mr. Howells are, of course, the star performers in this company of twelve, and the rest have all attempted, with more or less success, to play up to them and to carry on a harmonious method of treatment.” F. F. Kelly.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 590. O. 24, ’08. 600w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
“The book will be keenly enjoyed by all readers of to-day, and the future critic who writes the literary history of this period will not be likely to pass it over in silence.” C. H. Gaines.
+ =No. Am.= 188: 928. D. ’08. 1000w.
=Hoyt, John Clayton, and Grover, Nathan Clifford.= River discharge; prepared for the use of engineers and students. $2. Wiley.
7–28189.
“The book is divided into six chapters, dealing respectively with rainfall and evaporation; instruments used for obtaining velocities and depths; cable-station equipments; wading stations; theory and practices of measuring discharges; weirs and weir formulas; discussion and use of data; together with seventeen tables for facilitating the computations in various hydraulic problems.”—Nature.
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“The volume is certain to meet the needs of engineers, students and capitalists, to whom for the first time much data from government reports is here made readily accessible.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 713. My. ’08. 150w.
“Being practically the only work available dealing with the subject this volume will find a ready reception, and when future editions enable the authors to fill in the omissions and strengthen the weak spots, it should be one of the most valuable works on practical hydraulics printed in the English language.” G. S. Williams.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 650. D. 12, ’07. 710w.
“The authors of the book ... give in a thoroughly practical and useful way the result of their experience, and of the methods adopted in carrying out the work.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 148. D. 19, ’07. 200w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 582. D. ’07. 150w.
=Hubbard, Mina Benson.= Woman’s way through unknown Labrador: an account of the exploration of the Nascaupee and George rivers. **$1.50. McClure.
8–35700.
To correct misleading accounts of Mr. Hubbard’s ill-fated expedition organized for the purpose of exploring the Northwest river draining Lake Michikamau, and the George river draining the northern slope of the plateau to Ungava bay, his wife went over the same ground in a more favorable season. This is a record of her journey, to which she adds her husband’s latter-day diary and a narrative by one of his party, George Elson.
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=Ath.= 1908, 1: 758. Je. 20. 720w.
“Her book should command a wide circle of interested readers. It is to be regretted, however, that her account lacks both definiteness and good form in its presentation; there are hopeless and involved anti-climaxes when striking situations afforded opportunities for quite the opposite effects. One reader, at least, has been pained by the evident depreciation, throughout her book, of Wallace’s services to her husband and loyalty to his memory, as evidenced in the earlier books and by Hubbard’s own diary.” M. A. Havens.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 286. N. 1, ’08. 3850w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 80w.
“This volume contains the diary notes kept by her husband of his own attempt, but its chief interest is in the fascinating story which she has to tell of her own triumph. This book is one of great interest, not only for its own story, but also for the fact that its authoress succeeded where her husband failed.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 472. O. 3, ’08. 1150w.
=Huey, Edmund Burke.= Psychology and pedagogy of reading; with a review of the history of reading and writing, and of methods, texts, and hygiene in reading. *$1.40. Macmillan.
8–4327.
A work for advanced students of this phase of education and psychology, as well as for elementary school teachers. It sets forth the machinery of the subconscious process which one undergoes in transferring the printed page to one’s consciousness. “The material used is the whole body of reference from the experiments of all the psychologists who have occupied themselves in this curious study, supplemented by the writer’s own observations.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“For psychologists, teachers of more than average training and understanding, advanced students, and exceptionally intelligent parents.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 188. Je. ’08.
“He comes mighty near achieving the direct and simple conversational style for which he pleads. This book undoubtedly sets the high-water mark for books on special method.” W: C. Ruediger.
+ + − =Educ. R.= 36: 203. S. ’08. 770w.
“The author has done for reading what ought to be done for every branch of study.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The book treats the subject more extensively and in a more thorough-going way than has been done heretofore. The experimental work is presented in an unusually interesting manner; and so, indeed, is the entire material. The author thinks it would be best to have children learn to read late, and at home, which they could easily do if left largely to themselves. The present writer thinks Professor Huey is not consistent in the attitude he takes upon this problem.” M. V. O’Shea.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 500. Ag. 27, ’08. 1300w.
“An attractive study, which is likely to arouse a broader interest in the questions at issue.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 495. My. 28, ’08. 400w.
“A modestly laborious volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 137. Mr. 14, ’08. 1750w.
“The best book on this radically important subject that we have met with.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 655. Mr. 21, ’08. 350w.
“Professor Huey’s book is interesting, well written, and useful.” M. F. Washburn.
+ =Philos. R.= 17: 668. N. ’08. 300w.
“The book brings together an immense amount of material in unusually readable form. It seems destined to arouse interest and stimulate investigation in an important field.” Raymond Dodge.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 178. Ag. 7, ’08. 800w.
=Hughes, Charles Evans.= Addresses and papers of Charles Evans Hughes, governor of New York, 1906–1908; with an introd. by Jacob Gould Schurman. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–14814.
President Schurman has contributed to this volume an introduction which is both a biographical sketch and an estimate of Governor Hughes’s career as a public man. The body of the book contains selected speeches reflecting Mr. Hughes’s political views, classified under the following heads: Public office and party principles; Regulation of public-service corporations; and Occasional addresses.
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“These speeches reveal the man. They should be widely read and studied. They will be an uplift to our young men in this time of graft and self-seeking. In Governor Hughes this ideal of the days of the early republic lives again.” S. L. Woodford.
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1024. My. 7, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 286. My. 23, ’08. 100w.
“His utterances, written and spoken, are notably clear, compact, and forceful in expression, and equally sincere and frank in spirit.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 756. Je. ’08. 100w.
=Hughes, Thomas Aloysius.= History of the Society of Jesus in North America, colonial and federal. *$4.50. Burrows.
7–25073.
=v. 1.= From the first colonization till 1645.
The first volume in a “comprehensive historical series, comprising in different languages an authentic account of the society over the world.” The first part of the work “deals entirely with the first few years of the history of the province of Maryland and is provided with remarkably complete critical apparatus.” (Am. Hist. R.) The second part, known v. 1, pt. 1, includes documents from 1605 to 1838 “applying to the early history of the missions to the Jesuit property and its uses in the Maryland and Pennsylvania missions.” (Nation.)
=v. 2.= Contains the text based upon the documentary evidence which comprised the first volume. “As in all other ecclesiastical history, so here we have much that is sordid—disputes about property, quarrels between secular priests and religious and much else of similar character—but on the whole it is a story of sincere devotion and true Christian heroism.” (Ind.)
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“The author is without question a most learned man and a most careful student. His introduction on the sources, archives and literature of his subject is exceedingly valuable, not only to students of American history, but also to those interested in the Jesuits in any land. His bibliography is extensive and shows that he has investigated most of the authorities and that he appreciates the importance of writing history from the sources.” B. C. Steiner.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 597. Ap. ’08. 2600w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This work supplies food for the serious student, rather than easy entertaining reading for leisure hours. It will prove an invaluable mine for future historians.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 816. Mr. ’08. 650w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Even more eloquently than the first volume of the text, testifies to the laborious, painstaking industry which Father Hughes has devoted to his great task. American Catholics will require Father Hughes’ data to be thoroughly and impartially scrutinized before they will be ready to acquiesce in the conclusions which he draws.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 87: 255. My. ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1, pt. 1.)
“In spite of crudity of style, errors of judgment, and an absolute inability to comprehend the point of view of an opponent, Father Hughes has produced an extremely valuable book. It is not too much to say that, after all allowances are made, he has completely changed our ideas of the part played by the Jesuits in the Maryland episode.” W. L. Grant.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 579. Jl. ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A source-book of high value for the ecclesiastical history of the American colonies.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 788. O. 1, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“This work is in the highest sense a work of learning, and while it must reach the shelves of every public library and every college collection, it will also take an honored place in the many private studies where scholarship, conscientious impartiality, and masterly style are valued.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 491. Ap. 4, ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The author has added comparatively little to what was already known of the first years of Maryland’s settlement; and the many controversies involved in the purpose and methods of that venture have frequently led him off the main track.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 148. F. 13, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The work is done with the thoroughness with which Jesuit scholarship is associated, and if the standpoint taken is rigidly that of the society, that is, indeed, only what might have been expected, and constitutes to a large extent the value of this contribution to local Maryland history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is to be hoped that in the volumes to follow he will adopt a less censorious and disputatious tone, and also succeed in drawing his narrative somewhat more closely together than is the case here. Its readability will then be greatly increased without any impairment of its intrinsic worth.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 269. My. 30, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Hulbert, Archer Butler.= Niagara river. **$3.50. Putnam.
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“Mr. Hulbert’s book is illustrated with some seventy delightful views. The great commercial importance of Niagara falls, and still greater developments promised in the near future, have led this author to deal first with the river as we find it at present, beautiful and sublime as a feature of natural scenery, but most practically valuable as a mighty power yoked to the wheels of human machinery and turned into an industrial instrument.”—Lit. D.
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“In mechanical execution, as well as in literary style, the volume has decided merits.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 411. D. 1, ’08. 160w.
“It is in every respect an entertaining as well as an informing work, at once popular and scientific.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 673. N. 7, ’08. 350w.
“The book is something more than a work written to order.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 120w.
“He presents matter of importance in an extremely readable form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 140w.
=Hulbert, Eri Baker.= English reformation and Puritanism, with other lectures and addresses: a memorial; ed. by A. R. E. Wyant. *$2.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–1485.