The cumulative book review digest, Volume 01, 1905
volume I., is a notable addition to literary portraiture.”—Nation.
* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “Of the more specific work of the editor one may say that it is at once scholarly and literary, minute in its exegesis yet mindful always that a poet and not a ‘corpus vile’ is under discussion.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1230. N. 23, ‘05. 870w.
“The annotations are very thorough. The study of the matter and style is exhaustive.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 384. N. 9, ‘05. 1880w.
“It will ever hold its place, as one of the triumphs of American scholarship in editing English classics, alongside such works as those of Furness and Child. These latter are bigger and on bigger subjects, but they are not better done.” Cameron Mann.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 757. N. 11, ‘05. 2470w.
“Has done his work as biographer and editor con amore.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 50w.
* “Every help to the reader’s eye and mind for the appreciation of Herbert will be found in these volumes, so great is the labor of love which Professor Palmer, with his own fine intelligence and training, has wrought for the most lovable and the most human of our religious poets.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 827. D. 2, ‘05. 1480w.
* =Herford, Brooke.= Eutychus and his relations. *70c. Am. Unitar.
Under this profound title appear the witty old-time pulpit and pew papers written from a layman’s point of view, which were first published anonymously during the early years of their author’s ministry, 1860-1861. They include quaintly humorous disquisitions upon: A ‘lay’ view of sleeping in church; Some people who always come late; Praising God by proxy; Pews; A country tea party; Over-much discourse; Unsocial worship; Parsonic acid, and other kindred subjects.
=Herford, Charles Harold.= Robert Browning. **$1. Dodd.
“The biographical element is sufficient, but is subordinate to the exposition of the poet’s work in the order of its production. The true biography of Browning can be written in no other way.... A clear perception of this fact, and a definite though not a rigid application of this fact to his material, give Professor Herford’s study a true biographic as well as an interpretative quality.”—Outlook.
“Prof. Herford’s study of Browning is in many respects complementary to that of Mr. Chesterton’s published last year. The style is, for the most part sober and balanced though there are occasional flashes of rather loose rhetoric, and the author has an odd habit of falling at intervals into comments which are banal or tasteless.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 14. Jl. 1, 1580w.
“In scale it stands midway between Mr. Chesterton’s and Prof. Dowden’s; in quality it is to be compared rather with the latter.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 279. Ag. ‘05. 760w.
“There could hardly be a better brief estimate of Browning’s genius than Professor Herford has given us.” Edward Fuller.
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 247. S. ‘05. 390w.
“The commentator knows his Browning well, has availed himself of the best and latest authorities, and manifests a considerable degree of sympathetic appreciation; but he is hampered in his presentation by a clumsiness of expression. Numerous misquotations from the poems ... do not strengthen our confidence in Professor Herford or his book.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 44. Jl. 16, ‘05. 400w.
“The necessity to be poetic, to live up to his matter, has been too much for him.”
— + =Ind.= 59: 457. Ag. 24, ‘05. 220w.
“This is likely to stand as one of the best of the numerous short critical lives of its provocative poet.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 531. Je. 29, ‘05. 350w.
“His treatment of Browning the poet and man shows considerable insight and unusual sanity.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 304. My. 6, ‘05. 280w.
“His study of Browning is intelligent, sympathetic, and well balanced.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 1015. Ap. 22, ‘05. 280w.
“He has a gift of selection and juxtaposed selection which remarkably increases the pleasure of reading this sort of criticism. But the scheme of the book runs parallel with how many others.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 849. Je. 24, ‘05. 110w.
“We are not wholly in agreement with his estimate of the poet. Our chief difference is in regard to Browning’s literary form. The criticism generally, we greatly admire.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 558. Ap. 15, ‘05. 580w.
* =Herrick, Christine Terhune=, ed. Lewis Carroll birthday book. 75c. Wessels.
A little birthday book that will delight “Alice in wonderland” admirers.
* “As a birthday book, it is hardly a success, and the selections do more credit to the compiler’s familiarity with her author than to her sense of appropriateness.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 490. D. 14, ‘05. 110w.
* “Mrs. Christine Terhune Herrick has made the selections for the volume and nobody could have done it with more sympathy and understanding.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 895. D. 16, ‘05. 230w.
=Herrick, Francis Hobart.= Home life of wild birds: a new method of the study and photography of birds. **$2. Putnam.
The “new method” consists in carrying away the nest with its eggs or young birds and also its immediate surroundings and setting it up before a green tent where it may be watched and photographed at leisure. 150 photographs of thirty species of our common birds attest the value of this method. The author also gives the results of his close observation of the nests.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 396. Je. 1, ‘05. 80w.
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1152. Je. 1, ‘05. 180w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 263. S. 28, ‘05. 320w.
Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 402. Je. 17, ‘05. 530w.
“The volume is a valuable contribution to the scientific knowledge of bird habits.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 392. Je. 10, ‘05. 150w.
=Herrick, Robert.= Common lot. $1.50. Macmillan.
The story is of a young architect who has grown up in the belief that he is heir to his uncle’s millions. When the fortune is left to charity, he takes up the common lot of toil unwillingly and is weakly led away from his young ideals by the desire for money. When his personal and professional honor are compromised, he is held to his expiation by his young wife whose unflinching faith in him forces him to be the man she thinks he is. It is a vivid representation of business life in Chicago, and the philosophy of the book is summed up in the closing sentence—“Fortunately there are few things that do make any great difference to real men and women,—and one of the least is the casual judgment of their fellow-men.”
“‘The common lot’ is worthy of wide circulation. It cannot fail to do good.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 450. Ap. ‘05. 460w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 11. Ja. 7. 280w.
“An interesting and impressive story.”
+ =Engin. N.= 53: 181. F. 16, ‘05. 230w.
+ + =Reader.= 5: 258. Ja. ‘05. 570w.
“There is a good deal of character drawing in the book that is at once delicate and strong, and the story of how Francis Hart did not inherit the millions he hoped for, took up the common lot of toil, and what came of it, is among the best in recent fiction.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 118. Ja. ‘05. 110w.
=Herrick, Robert.= Memoirs of an American citizen. †$1.50. Macmillan.
A country boy, tired of his lot runs away to Chicago to make his fortune. His autobiography follows with an unusually strong personal note even for a self-told tale of the career which starts with service as a grocery wagon driver and reaches the ranks of the Chicago capitalist. The way is made by “turning Texas steers into dressed beef and Iowa hogs into leaf lard and sausage,” which would seem honorable enough did not analysis of his methods of operation reveal a dulled sense of moral obligation to people at large, the city, and any competing organization.
“No more absolute unswerving merger of the author in the character of his hero, of his self-effacement in the interest of good art, could ever be conceived of.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 132. O. ‘05. 970w.
“Professor Herrick does not appear to have a powerful imagination, and his literalness, and even his unusual power of penetration, do not in themselves suffice to carry a story otherwise deficient.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 476. N. ‘05. 170w.
“The story seems to be rooted in bitter cynicism and to embody the very philosophy of despair.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 114. S. 1, ‘05. 510w.
“Is not in so happy a vein. The author sees things too big, and he has not enough confidence in the virtue of the American people, which will outlast transient vices.”
— =Ind.= 59: 1154. N. 16, ‘05. 70w.
“This is not a book that we should care to see in the hands of youth.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 205. S. 7, ‘05. 730w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
“Mr. Herrick’s book is a book among many and it comes nearer reflecting a certain kind of recognizable, contemporaneous American spirit than anybody has yet done.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 482. Jl. 22, ‘05. 620w.
“The story is worked out with extraordinary virility, realism, and truth. Deserves reading, not only because of its subject and its moral force, but because of the thorough, faithful, and even artistic way in which the material is handled.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 935. Ag. 12, ‘05. 290w.
* “It is penetrated by genuine intensity of spirit, and shows the hand of a high-minded and accomplished workman.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 707. N. 25, ‘05. 160w.
“One of the most refreshing qualities of the story is its sanity.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 330w.
* “But one thing Prof. Herrick has achieved in spite of himself; he has somehow put,—no, hammered,—together a rough image of the American self-made man.”
— + =R. of Rs.= 32: 757. D. ‘05. 150w.
=Hess, Isabella R.= St. Cecilia of the court. †$1.25. Revell.
“In Flanery Court, where Cecilia (otherwise Angelina Sweeney) lives, poverty rules.... Miss Hess ... has told a pathetically pretty story of the life of a poor little red-haired saint—her struggles against the hardships of life, her drunken mother, her little brother Puddin’.... There is Jim Bellway, who taught the make-believe saint, quite unconsciously, how to become a real one; and there is Mr. Daniels, who Cecilia, quite unconsciously, brought back to the straight and narrow path—and so on; and though the story wades through tears, it nevertheless ends in a burst of sunshine.”—N. Y. Times.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 648. S. 30, ‘05. 200w.
“Touches portraying the generosity, loyalty, and cheerfully borne privations of the poor are the best feature of this story of New York tenement life.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 136. S. 16, ‘05. 70w.
=Hewett, Rev. G. M. A.= The rat. *$2. Macmillan.
Having arrived at the old age of three years, this hoary rat sits down to write his memoirs, recounting his many adventures in English mills and cornfields. He discourses on his wives and gives his conclusions upon boys, men, ferrets, and women. He also gives an exhaustive treatment of traps. There is much delineation of rat-character, and the experiences of a traveled friend who had lived in the sewers of London and Paris are given. The book is illustrated with colored pictures.
“A work which we commend to young and old alike.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 404. Ap. 1. 160w.
“It is a very English story of a very English rat intended primarily for English children and supposed to be told by the rat himself.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 43. Ja. 21, ‘05. 520w.
* =Hewlett, Maurice.= Works. Ed. de luxe. IIV. ea. *$3. Macmillan.
The five hundred numbered sets of this edition de luxe are sold by subscription only. The volumes are appearing one a month in the following order: The forest lovers; Richard Yea-and-Nay; Little novels of Italy; New Canterbury tales; The queen’s quair; The fool errant; The road in Tuscany in two volumes; Earthwork out of Tuscany; Pan and the young shepherd and songs and meditations in one volume; Fond adventures.
* + =Nation.= 81: 426. N. 23, ‘05. 280w. (Review of v. 1-3.)
Reviewed by Christian Gauss.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 844. D. 2, ‘05. 2450w. (Review of v. 1-3.)
* + =Outlook.= 81: 525. O. 28, ‘05. 80w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.= Fond adventures: tales of the youth of the world. †$1.50. Harper.
Four short stories of mediaeval romance, The heart’s key, Brazenhead the Great, Buondelmonte’s saga, and The love chase.
“Knowing well the possibilities of Mr. Hewlett’s fine ability, we lay down this latest volume with great disappointment.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 419. Ap. 15, ‘05. 520w.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 716. Je. 10. 220w.
“One feels that in these few crowded, tumultuous pages there is more of the real essence of Florentine life than in the whole length and breadth of George Eliot’s ‘Romola.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 515. Jl. ‘05. 600w.
“Mr. Hewlett is at his best in these short stories.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“Taken as a whole, the impression remains that the book is made up of work done early in Mr. Hewlett’s literary career, and denied publication until now.”
— =Dial.= 38: 393. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“Not one of these stories is lacking in intrinsic interest, yet one’s dominant impression in closing the book is not of any of the characters or events, but of the cleverness of Mr. Hewlett.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + — =Forum.= 37: 111. Jl. ‘05. 230w.
“But it is ‘The love chase,’ the last story of the series, in which Mr. Hewlett probably surpasses anything he has ever written.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1309. Je. 8, ‘05. 820w.
“A volume of stories, splendid stories, full of action and passion, with an undercurrent of laughter, all carried off with great spirit and style. They are told in wonderful words, so apt and abundant.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 440. Je. 1, ‘05. 1130w.
“These four stories of Mr. Hewlett’s are as rich in imagery and as glowing in color as any that he has ever written.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 810w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“These stories are remarkable rather for atmospheric quality than for construction or force of characterization.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 200w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 871. Je. 3, ‘05. 190w.
“The tales are medieval; rich in quality, decorative in effect and fascinating always.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 92. Je. ‘05. 180w.
“The quaint and pleasing title of Mr. Hewlett’s new book serves as a preface for tales more deserving of the first adjective than the last, except in so far as artistic work is, in a sense, always deserving of the term ‘pleasing.’”
+ — =Reader.= 6: 360. Ag. ‘05. 340w.
“His style, his vision, his passion—these are always there.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 756. Je. ‘05. 250w.
+ =Spec.= 94: 680. My. 6, ‘05. 830w.
=Hewlett, Maurice.= Fool errant. †$1.50. Macmillan.
The “fool” of Mr. Hewlett’s new story is an English youth with a very ardent temperament who goes abroad to complete his studies. He is guilty of many hot-headed indiscretions, chief among which is his boyish passion for the wife of his stern tutor. A pilgrimage of expiation follows his declaration of love for her. Much of the interest of the tale centers in the phases of Italian life of high and low degree which he encounters. “He has in his journeyings a quick-witted companion, who rescues him alike from rash promptings of his ‘daemon’ and from foes from without.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Maurice Hewlett, it may be said at once, has achieved a notable success in the latest of his books.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 750. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1440w.
“‘The fool errant’ will not make so wide an appeal to the general public as several earlier volumes of Mr. Hewlett’s. It lacks the tumultuous passion of ‘Richard yea-and-nay’, the epic bigness of the ‘Queen’s quair.’”
+ =Bookm.= 22: 36. S. ‘05. 800w.
“The novel shows, on the whole, an advance over its predecessors. Has proved, by the charm and animation of his tale, that imagination and a sense of style need not, under favourable circumstances, seriously interfere with the writing of a good novel.” Edith Wharton.
+ + — =Bookm.= 22: 64. S. ‘05. 1660w.
“It is possible, though the statement is not to be made dogmatically, that Mr. Maurice Hewlett, in all his succession of legitimately showy triumphs, has done nothing better than this history of a ‘fool.’” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 451. N. ‘05. 370w.
“We feel that he is simply saturated with the life of the time and the color of the environment and that he has reproduced these things with marvelous fidelity. This is the chief title of the book to praise, and a high title it is.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 113. S. 1, ‘05. 510w.
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“Told with sureness of touch and undeniable brilliance.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 225. Jl. 14, ‘05. 430w.
“A story of intense interest and a literary achievement of a very high order.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 511. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1180w.
“As a faithfully wrought and vigorous piece of fiction-writing the book is unusual.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 883. Ag. 5, ‘05. 240w.
* “May be counted among the notable books of the second half of the year.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 708. N. 25, ‘05. 190w.
“Mr. Hewlett draws a brilliant picture of a decadent period.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 260w.
“A book very subtly conceived and very admirably written.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 218. Ag. 12, ‘05. 580w.
“This brilliant study in the picaresque seems to us one of the most successful of Mr. Hewlett’s works.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 359. S. 9, ‘05. 310w.
=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.= Road in Tuscany. **$6. Macmillan.
Mr. Hewlett’s own words are perhaps best descriptive of the freshness of his view of life and art in Tuscany. He calls it “a companion of travel and leisurely, sententious commentary of the country,” and he strikes its key-note in his opening remarks. “His plan for the book has the freshness which marks its rendering of details. ‘Let the history, fine arts, monuments and institutions of a country be as fine as you please, its best product will always be the people of it, who themselves produced those other pleasant spectacles. I have always preferred a road to a church, always a man to a masterpiece, a singer to his song; and I have never opened a book when I could read what I wanted on the hillside or by the river bank.’” (Reader). He consistently subordinates art galleries to peasants, but gives legends, history, and piquant references to the art and literature of the country, with a lavish hand.
“Is one of those rare books having charm, and one which gives no less insight into Mr. Hewlett than into the hearts of all the dead and living Tuscans of whom he writes. Mr. Hewlett’s one fault, regarded as a cicerone, is that he gives us life in superabundance; he gives it to us often at the cost of other things which we are loth to sacrifice. Now guidebooks the very best of them, while they make excellent servants, are bad masters, Mr. Hewlett’s not excepted. Flippant he is, at times, perverse, even arrogant: but he understands the Tuscans, and he loves them. Whoever goes to Florence without ‘The road in Tuscany’ goes but half equipped.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + — =Bookm.= 20: 557. F. ‘05. 1860w.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 479. My. ‘05. 150w.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 179. Mr. 2, ‘05. 920w.
+ + =Reader.= 5: 500. Mr. ‘05. 830w.
“One of those genial, leisurely, charming books, with a touch of infinite knowledge, that we find in the combination of the artist and traveler. It reveals the real Italy, with its color and fragrance, which is known only to those who get away from the towns and cities. Typographically, the work is elegant, and the pictures really illustrate.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 123. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
“His artistic suggestiveness never fails; his ideas and conclusions especially with regard to such unfamiliar places as Volterra, Cortona, Arezzo, and many more, seem almost invariably right.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 88. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1870w.
=Heywood, William.= Palio and Ponte. Methuen, London.
This “account of the sports of central Italy from the age of Dante to the XXth century” dwells upon a phase of Italian history almost unknown to literature. The Italian idea of sports was closely allied to the Greek idea of games, and they often grew out of rivalry in neighboring communities or celebrated some historic or civic event. Mr. Heywood shows their importance in the life of the mediæval Italian city, and pictures Lorenzo de’Medici, Sodoma, the painter, and Caesar Borgia racing their horses at Sienese pali.
“The style throughout is clear and simple,—in general not of marked quality, but occasionally showing such vigor and even beauty that one is tempted to wish for more such pages even at the sacrifice of some of the by-paths of erudition.” Ellen Giles.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 107. S. 1, ‘05. 1490w.
“Mr. Heywood has undertaken his study of these sports in the spirit of a true historian, and his researches have revealed a new side of Italy to English readers. But our author is more than a student of archives. He has bursts of eloquence in his style. He has interwoven a vast amount of local history, especially Sienese, since no Anglican, save perhaps Mr. Langton Douglas, knows his Siena better. Mr. Heywood tastes what he describes. He has gone to sources not merely in his facts, but in his inspiration. He has not compiled a book, but has written one for which all lovers of Italy can only be grateful.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 119. F. 9, ‘05. 940w.
“Without a real love of Italy, and an unusually deep understanding of Italian character, this book could not have been written.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 19. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1970w.
=Hibben, John Grier.= Logic, deductive and inductive. $1.40. Scribner.
“Logic, so far as merely formal, is proverbially dry. In its application to living interests it becomes a succulent source of intellectual pleasure. Professor Hibben has aimed to invest it with this attractiveness, especially in his illustrations of inductive knowledge.”—Outlook.
“These are not only modern, but fresh in a degree as welcome to the student as it is unusual, and they are drawn from a wide range of science.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 605. Mr. 4, ‘05. 100w.
“It is comprehensive and accurate in statement, systematic and free from trifling and irrelevant subtleties. On the other hand, the discussions of the early chapters seem to me somewhat too difficult and technical to afford the beginner the guidance he needs.” J. E. C.
+ + — =Philos.= R. 16: 725. N. ‘05. 1120w.
=Hibbert, Walter.= Life and energy; an attempt at a new definition of life; with applications to morals and religion. $1. Longmans.
“The thesis of these four addresses—originally delivered at the Polytechnic institute, London—is that life is not matter, is not energy, but an unceasing nonfactorial directive control of energy and its transformations.”—Nature.
“Mr. Hibbert puts most of his points clearly, and much of what he says has considerable force. But it is doubtful if the range of ideas within which the book moves is adequate to the problem. The main position is not unassailable, and the deductions from it in regard to morals and religion are occasionally fanciful.”
+ — =Nature.= 71: 271. Ja. 19, ‘05. 340w.
“Neither the method of treatment nor the style of the book seems to us particularly happy.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 400. F. 11, ‘05. 170w.
* =Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Black spaniel and other stories. (†)$1.50. Stokes.
The story of the black spaniel is an uncanny tale of a man who lost a dog-friend at the hands of a vivisectionist, of a doctor who met his death thru the bite of another spaniel on which he was cruelly experimenting, and of the awful revenge which the dog lover took upon this dead doctor reincarnated in a third black spaniel. The creepy atmosphere is well sustained thruout. The volume also contains eleven shorter stories, most of which have the Arabian desert for a background, and all of which are most original in theme.
* “Mr. Hichens, thorough decadent as he is, can make his decadence big; and it is wrong of him to make it as petty as this.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1079. O. 14, ‘05. 640w.
* “To our thinking, ‘Mr. Greyne’ is the pick of the book.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 608. N. 4. 220w.
* “‘The black spaniel’ occupies only the first third of the book, but nothing that follows has the least power to blur the effect of the spaniel’s whine. The following eight stories ... are slight things, episodes rather artfully and artistically told. They will be read with pleasure and forgotten without difficulty, while ‘The black spaniel’ will be read with terror and forgotten never!”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 340. O. 13, ‘05. 550w.
* “Not worthy of the genius of the author of ‘The garden of Allah.’”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 90w.
* “The title-story is of the gruesome kind most tediously spun out, the second ‘The mission of Mr. Eustace Greyne’ is funny and satirical and the best in the book.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 600. N. 4, ‘05. 130w.
* “Few modern story tellers are more expert in their art, and this book would be well worth reading for the workmanship alone, had it not also something of the charm of unfamiliar and unhackneyed material.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 658. O. 28. ‘05. 270w.
=Hichens, Robert.= Garden of Allah. $1.50. Stokes.
A woman, longing for peace, and a renegade monk seeking refuge from himself and filled with remorse at his desertion of his high calling, meet and seek rest and happiness in the “Garden of Allah,” the African desert. The story is one of passion, struggle, and renunciation, the woman finally leading the monk, who has become her husband, back to his monastery.
“In brilliancy falls short of ‘The woman with the fan,’ on the other hand, the intensity with which he reproduces an atmosphere of beauty creates an almost physical sense of well-being. In addition to a very genuine gift of imagination, he has learned how to tell his story.”
— + =Atlan.= 95: 697. My. ‘05. 190w.
“The book, from the point of view of writing, is decidedly heavy. The immorality of the book is, to our minds ... gross. Is not a worthy nor an artistic creation; it is a reeking monstrosity.”
— — — =Cath. World.= 81: 545. Jl. ‘05. 830w.
“In this striking novel Mr. Hickens immeasurably surpasses all his previous work.... Is a wonderfully handled tragedy, advancing with masterly logic from premise to conclusion.... Very rarely in an English book is there to be found such an exhibition of descriptive skill.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 474. My. ‘05. 400w.
“In all the three essentials of invention, style and thought, this performance is highly commendable, and entitles Mr. Hichens to more serious consideration than ever before.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 388. Je. 1, ‘05. 420w.
“Mr. Hichens has written his masterpiece.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 787. Ap. 6, ‘05. 230w.
* =Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“The critics have seemed to agree that in this novel Mr. Robert Hichens has done something big, strong and lasting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“A singular but powerful story, in many respects the best work of this author. An absence of the morbidity that is too common with him. There are, however, a plain speaking ... that sometimes, it will seem to many readers, overstep the limits of taste. In manner the romance is in an intense style, sometimes a little exalté, but never, or rarely, falling into mere high-flown ‘fine writing,’ although single passages, taken out of their connection might give that impression. Brilliant with color and bathed in African atmosphere.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 502. F. 25, ‘05. 130w.
“Mr. Hichens has taken a great stride forward in this unusual story.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 772. Ap. 1, ‘05. 170w.
“It is useless to attempt to describe Mr. Hichens’s word-pictures of the beauties of the deserts and the emotional paroxysms of Domini and Boris. They must be read to be appreciated.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 214. F. 11, ‘05. 430w. (Outlines plot.)
* “Beauty and power,—these are nobly conspicuous in Mr. Hichens’ tale, so loftily free from the small or paltry, so fervently reciting a grievous fault, a great love, a grand renunciation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 80w.
=Higginson, Thomas Wentworth=, ed. Hawthorne centenary celebration at the Wayside, Concord, Massachusetts, July 4-7, 1904. **$1.25. Houghton.
The addresses and letters delivered and read at the centenary celebration, including a speech by Charles T. Copeland. Papers by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Charles Francis Adams, Mrs. Maud Howe Elliot, Julian Hawthorne, and Moncure D. Conway, and contributions from John S. Keyes, Frank Preston Stearns, F. B. Sanborn, Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lothrop, Dr. Richard Garnett, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Miss Beatrix Hawthorne, John D. Long, Henry Cabot Lodge, Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford, Robert S. Rantoul, Judge Robert Grant, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Dr. Edward Everett Hale, John Hay, and Mrs. James T. Fields.
+ =Critic.= 47: 96. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“The book is a worthy memorial of an important event in our literary annals.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 240. Ap. 1, ‘05. 290w.
=N. Y. Times= 10: 105. F. 18, ‘05. 370w. (Outline of contents).
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 207. Ap. 1, ‘05. 520w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 520. Ap. 8, ‘05. 210w.
* =Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.= Part of a man’s life. **$2.50. Houghton.
“Very enjoyable chapters of reminiscence, observation and reflection, that have of late been enlivening the pages of the ‘Atlantic.’ Two chapters have been added ... as also many portraits and facsimile copies of letters.” (Dial.) The volume contains: The sunny side of the transcendental period; The child and his dreams; English and American cousins; American audiences; The aristocracy of the dollar; “Intensely human”; Letters of mark; Books unread; Butterflies in poetry; Wordsworthshire; The close of the Victorian epoch; Una Hawthorne; History in easy lessons; The cowardice of culture.
* “These ripe and scholarly chapters—ripe with the varied experience of eighty years and more, and scholarly with the scholarship of a lover not only of books, but of men—have an interest and value far exceeding anything that another pen might contrive to say about them.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 266. N. 1, ‘05. 2160w.
* “We congratulate the author on carrying to his eighty-second year an intellect the eye of which is not dimmed, nor its natural vigor abated.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 428. N. 23, ‘05. 1260w.
* “He has seen much and thought much and done much, and he has the way of making all that he writes seem interesting. Yet it must be confessed that a good deal of his reminiscence and anecdote is here spread out pretty thin.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 783. N. 18, ‘05. 700w.
* “A very interesting if somewhat random collection of experiences, recollections, and opinions of Col. Higginson.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* “It should not be inferred, however, that the work is obviously didactic, for the very contrary is the case, so pleasantly have the lessons read been interwoven with anecdote and reminiscence. And from the autobiographical standpoint, or rather from the standpoint of unconscious autobiography, its value is high.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 713. N. 25, ‘05. 390w.
* “There is great scope to a work which stretches all the way from child-dreaming to problems of philosophy and higher mathematics.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 665. N. 18, ‘05. 200w.
* “Col. Higginson has written several volumes of reminiscences and autobiography, none of which is more entertaining than his last book.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 755. D. ‘05. 140w.
=Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, and MacDonald, William.= History of the United States from 986 to 1905. $2. Harper.
This “turns out to be Colonel Higginson’s ‘History of the United States of America,’ with some revisions of the original text, and continued from Jackson’s administration down to the present date. It has a new set of illustrations and maps.”—Dial.
“The whole constitutes a readable and attractive one-volume history, which ought to supply the demand—if there be one—for a short and comprehensive narrative.”
+ + =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 946. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
“Is one of the most readable histories of this country ever written.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 360. My. 16, ‘05. 70w.
“On the whole the work is one of the most valuable single volumes covering the entire period of American history that we have.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 394. Ag. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“Six new chapters have been added, bringing the story down to the present. Externally these chapters conform to the earlier ones, but the treatment is less partial and they reflect present scholarship much better.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 373. My. 11, ‘05. 110w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 180w.
=Hill, David Jayne.= History of diplomacy in the international development of Europe, v. I. **$5. Longmans.
An exhaustive study of the history of diplomacy complete in six volumes. Volume I is entitled The struggle for universal empire, and the following volumes include The establishment of territorial sovereignty, The diplomacy of the age of absolutism, The revolutionary era, The constitutional movement, and Commercial imperialism.
“It is refreshing to find one of our public men willing to devote his energies to scholarly occupations, and able to produce a work of such high excellence as, judging from the first installment, Mr. Hill’s ‘History of European diplomacy’ promises to be.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 263. N. ‘05. 1150w. (Review of v. 1.)
“What Mr. Hill has written is accurate and readable enough for the most part, but it will not compare with the books by Bryce and Fisher, to say nothing of the erudite works of French and German scholars.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 817. O. 5, ‘05. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
* “A carefully written summary of European international history.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 15w.
“In his first volume, coming down to the year 1250, he merely restates, and not with the hand of a practised mediaevalist, a great deal that was in no need of such a repetition.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 280. O. 5, ‘05. 300w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It was carefully thought out in the first instance, and then executed in the most satisfactory manner.” William E. Dodd.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 553. Ag. 26, ‘05. 2800w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The results of investigation are handled with a narrative skill that invests the driest facts with the interest of freshness; the tone throughout is scrupulously impartial, and the requirements of perspective are unfailingly observed.”
+ + + =Outlook= 81: 329. O. 7, ‘05. 1530w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Hill, Frederick Trevor.= Accomplice. †$1.50. Harper.
“A murder mystery treated from a new angle—that occupied by the foreman of the jury. After this foreman (a scholarly, retiring man) has been sworn in, he comes into possession of special knowledge of the case, tries to resign, but is forced to continue, and plays a far more important part in the drama than might be expected.”—Outlook.
“Sensational the book certainly is; yet there is undeniably some good realism in it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 518. Jl. ‘05. 180w.
“This book is above the average of its class, and will provide an hour of entertainment for the most jaded of readers.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 114. S. 1, ‘05. 90w.
“Is worth mentioning because of the unusual way the mystery is unraveled.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 640. S. 14, ‘05, 60w.
“There is a marked absence of the gruesome in this cheerful little novel of murder and courtship. Furthermore, the solution of the mystery is not without originality.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 122. Ag. 10, ‘05. 240w.
“The chief faults of the book are matters of artistic finish.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 338. My. 27, ‘05. 210w.
“In plot and management the story is quite unusual and really exciting. The love story is by no means so good.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 100w.
“Little more than a fairly good amateur detective story with a dash of sentiment.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 869. Je. 3, ‘05. 210w.
* =Hill, George Francis.= Pisanello. *$2. Scribner.
A book which offers for the first time to the English reader information about Pisanello heretofore acquired only from the Italian, French or German. The sketch of this “greatest of medallists and one of the most fascinating of Italian artists ... gives us, what we really want, the fullest and clearest account of Pisanello’s career that is available from the extant material, and a detailed characterization of his works.” (Lond. Times.)
* “In treating of his work in painting Mr. Hill’s scholarly monograph shows an admirable admixture of enthusiasm and restraint. Of his work as medalist ... Mr. Hill’s erudition almost forbids discussion.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 729. N. 25. 1490w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1483. D. 21, ‘05. 320w.
* + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 32. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “Is written with competence and understanding.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 305. S. 22, ‘05. 750w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 509. D. 21, ‘05. 240w.
* “Mr. Hill has written a scholarly essay, which, on the whole, reveals very thorough research along what is almost a bypath of art.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 769. N. 25, ‘05. 290w.
* “The volume is one of the most interesting of an interesting series.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 630. N. 11, ‘05. 190w.
* =Hills, Lucius Perry.= Memory of song. $1. Franklin ptg.
In 1894, when Patti sang at Atlanta, Georgia, the author, inspired by her voice, wrote a few verses on the back of his program, telling how—
“All the while sweet harmonies crept down into my heart, And nestled in a home from which they never can depart.”
They were afterward published in a souvenir booklet. This volume contains these verses, revised, and illustrated from photographs and paintings from life by V. A. Richardson.
=Hinkson, Katharine Tynan (Mrs. H. A.).= Daughter of kings. $1.25. Benziger.
A proud Irish girl who traces her family back to Adam, comes, at the suggestion of her friend, the duchess, who knows of her poverty, to take charge of the household of John Corbett, a wealthy English widower who has made his money in trade, and here she learns that there are gentlemen who are not gently born. There are many love stories involved and there is a touch of socialism and a description of Irish peasantry and an epidemic of fever among them.
“The Irish portions of the book especially abound in traits of shrewd observation and humour which show how different a picture the author, if only she chose, might have given us.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 587. My. 13, ‘05. 140w.
=Hinkson, Mrs. Katharine Tynan (Mrs. H. A.).= Julia. $1.50. McClurg.
An Irish story, with the simple modern setting of a country estate, but which has the old-time theme of the fairy tale; for the young lord sees and loves Julia, the ugly duckling of the family of one of his tenants, and makes her Lady O’Kavanagh. The crude selfishness of Julia’s sisters is contrasted with the selfishness found in finer clay among the gentry, and there are some great characters whose loving service is in stronger contrast still.
“Under the cunning hand of Mrs. Hinkson the story develops so easily and plausibly that these seeming improbabilities never tax the credulity of the reader. All the characters, too, are drawn with strong individuality.”
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 122. O. ‘05. 260w.
“The book has its charm.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1072. My. 11, ‘05. 140w.
“A pleasant story of Irish country life, charmingly told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 375. Je. 10. ‘05. 450w.
“Her story is a pretty little romance, the charming Irish flavor of which is more than a matter of nomenclature and appropriate description.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 90w.
“This is a most delightful little story. The love-story is prettily given, but the real charm of the book lies in its portraiture and its Irish atmosphere.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 372. Mr. 11, ‘05. 90w.
=Hiroi, Isami.= Statically-indeterminate stresses in frames commonly used for bridges. **$2. Van Nostrand.
This work is the outgrowth of a series of lectures given by the author to his students in Civil Engineering in the Tokyo Imperial university. It aims to save time and labor by furnishing solutions of those problems most commonly met with in the practice of a bridge engineer, and contains chapters upon: Trussed beams; Viaduct bents; Continuous girders; Arches with two hinges; Arches without hinges; Suspension bridges; and, Secondary stresses due to rigidity of joints.
* “This book forms an important contribution to the literature of bridge engineering. It is the first attempt to present in the English language in a single volume the principal cases of statically indeterminate stresses occurring in the practice of the bridge engineer, the solution of which is based exclusively on the method of least work. The book deserves a place in the library of every bridge engineer.” Henry S. Jacobi.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 54: 530. N. 16, ‘05. 1730w.
=Hirst, Francis Wrigley.= Adam Smith, **75c. Macmillan.
Mr. Hirst first treats of Adam Smith, the man, the absent-minded, but keenly observant, Scotchman, and then takes up Adam Smith, the philosopher, and examines his lectures, his “Theory of moral sentiments,” and his “Wealth of nations.”
“Indeed it is a distinct service of this little book, which will doubtless be more generally read than any other life of Smith, that no reader can leave it with the false impression of Smith as a closet philosopher interested only in questions of ethical or economic theory.”
+ + =Am. Hist.= R. 11: 195. O. ‘05. 320w.
“Excellent monograph. A lucid and attractively-written exposition of Smith’s economic theories.”
+ + =Contemporary R.= 87: 303. F. ‘05. 380w.
“More complete and satisfactory than Roe’s exhaustive ‘Life,’ on account of new and important material discovered more recently.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 30w.
“The task the author set for himself he has accomplished with thoroughness and even with interest: for there is about this biography no suggestion of dullness.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 170. S. 16, ‘05. 300w.
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1128 My. 18, ‘05. 550w.
“He adds little that is new either of information or criticism. Still the volume should find a welcome. It is well written, graceful and entertaining, and with an intelligent appreciation of Adam Smith’s traits of character as well as of the traits of style, method, scope and insight that have made the ‘Wealth of Nations’ a masterpiece of the science and of English literature. The most attractive portions of the book are those that turn about Adam Smith’s intimate life and his contact with men and affairs.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 136. D. ‘04. 110w.
“Mr. Hirst’s monograph, although not deficient in originality, is necessarily largely a digest of these the best of its predecessors. Patient culling of fugitive sources of information is also apparent, however, and as a conscientious and luminous account of the famous Scotchman it should be welcomed by all desirous of obtaining an intelligent idea of the factors shaping his view of life and the world.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 187. Ja. 21, ‘05. 2250w.
Historians’ history of the world; ed by H: Smith Williams. $72. Outlook.
“A comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages.” These twenty-five volumes are composed of long and short extracts taken from the most eminent authors and most authentic sources for each country and period. They form not only a world history but also an anthology of historians.
“In general it seems to me that the series appears at its best in the volumes on the ancient Orient, Greece, the Roman empire, and perhaps Russia. Taken all in all, the series has the unevenness of quality of every historical library.” Edward G. Bourne.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 610. Ap. ‘05. 990w.
“By a curious fatality the portions of an historian’s work upon which he was least fitted to write are chosen as bits of mosaic suited for those particular parts of the history. One part of the work of the editor he has done with remarkable skill and that is the fitting of the parts so closely and skilfully that the reader rarely feels that there is any break. Also he has very fairly judged the amount of space properly assigned to each country and age. Taken as a whole, it is a magnificent undertaking and serves a great and useful purpose.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 555. Mr. 9, ‘05. 810w.
* “Tho the choice of materials shows a greater sense for literary than historical merit, yet, for popular use, that is more essential.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 100. P. 18. ‘05. 880w. (Survey of contents of vols. XIX-XXIII.)
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 750. Mr. 25, ‘05. 2980w.
=Hobart, George Vere.= Silly cyclopedia; containing copious etymological derivations and other useless things, by Noah Lott (an ex-relative of Noah Webster); embellished with numerous and distracting cuts and diagrams by L: F. Grants. 75c. Dillingham.
This little volume declares itself to be “a terrible thing in the form of a literary torpedo which is launched for hilarious purposes only” and is “inaccurate in every particular.” It is a collection of jocose epigrams cast in dictionary form, and if taken in small doses may prove amusing.
“It is full of the sort of stuff indolent, good-humored folks like to retail on the piazzas of country hotels. It is all harmless.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 462. Jl. 15, ‘05. 530w.
=Hobart, George Vere (Hugh McHugh; Dinkelspiel, pseuds.).= You can search me. †75c. Dillingham.
John Henry here figures thru a series of theatrical ventures in company with his side partner, Bunch Jefferson. “One Signor Petrikinski, prestidigitator, is the star of the venture, and his clever handling of not only John Henry and Bunch, but of Uncle Peter Grant and Mr. William Grey, is amazing reading.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Written in the picturesque and highly descriptive style of the rest of this series.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 213. Ap. 9, ‘05. 120w.
“Slangy, rather vulgar, funny for those who like the cheaply comic.”
— + =Outlook.= 79: 655. Mr. 11, ‘05. 10w.
=Hobhouse, L. T.= Democracy and reaction. $1.50. Putnam.
“A pessimistic view of modern English society by a ‘Little Englander,’ a disciple of Cobden, a strenuous believer in Jeremy Bentham and in the Manchester school, who regards all departure from individualism, whether in industry or politics, as a reaction towards despotism, and who yet draws back from the conclusions toward which his own reasoning leads him, and endeavors skilfully, but in our judgment not successfully, to reconcile the individualistic theories of our own time.”—Outlook.
“While well written, the book is full of expressions, which lead one to believe it the work of a disappointed politician, rather than that of a fair critic.” Ward W. Pierson.
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 603. My. ‘05. 400w.
* “No summary, however, can do justice to the wealth of thought that this little book contains, to the freshness and power with which familiar themes are handled, and to the width of outlook which every page reveals.” G. P. Gooch.
+ + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 499. Jl. ‘05. 1890w.
“All the first part of the book, giving an account of the Reaction and its causes, is excellent. We do not remember to have seen anywhere, in so small a compass, a better analysis of the extraordinary changes in sentiment and opinion produced in the last thirty years. As to the great body of Liberal doctrine, the author is on firm ground.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 254. Mr. 30, ‘05. 1070w.
“To one who believes, as we do, that the present conditions in England and America, both industrial and political, are those of a higher stage of intellectual and moral progress than those of the first half of the nineteenth century, the volume is chiefly valuable as an exposition of perils which attend this progress, and of which society needs to be warned, and against which it needs to guard itself.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 502. F. 25, ‘05. 160w.
“He writes moderately, and does not mar his argument by any of those personalities which are too freely indulged in by writers of his way of thinking. His book is, indeed, in its way, scientific.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 119. Ja. 28, ‘05. 340w.
“This is a book which furnishes abundant material both for the active politician and the student.”
+ + =The Westminster Review.= 163: 106. Ja.
=Hocking, Joseph.= Coming of the king. †$1.50. Little.
The search for a black box in which lay a marriage contract between Charles Stuart and a Welsh girl, Lucy Walters, whose son, if the contract were found, would be heir to the English throne, provides the series of adventures which make up this story. The time is that of the restoration, the scenes are of court and country. The dashing young hero fails to find the paper, but finds instead beautiful Constance Leslie with a price upon her head and marries her.
“A tedious novel of the swashbuckling type.”
— — =Outlook.= 80: 642. Jl. 8, ‘05. 70w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 120w.
=Hodgson, John Evan, and Eaton, Frederick A.= Royal academy and its members, 1768-1830. *$5. Scribner.
A somewhat pompous history of the Royal academy from the time of its founding by King George III. in 1768. Its growth, management and prestige are given and the volume is fully illustrated.
“It is not a glorious record, this of Messrs. Hodgson and Eaton, but as though to atone for its meagre episodes it is composed in a proud and vaunting style.”
— + =Acad.= 68: 511. My. 13, ‘05. 1120w.
“Of the work as a whole it may be said that it has a full measure of that serenity in face of criticism which is eminently characteristic of official histories.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 696. Je. 3. 2840w.
* =Critic.= 47: 474. N. ‘05. 250w.
“Although rich in historical material, illustrations, and appendices, and containing valuable biographical sketches, fails to give that view of art development which the reader would naturally be led to expect.”
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 68. Ag. 1, ‘05. 550w.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 503. Je. 22, ‘05. 350w.
“This record has much that is valuable and interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 355. Je. 3, ‘05. 1170w.
“A comprehensive and interestingly written history.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 394. Je. 10. ‘05. 60w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 110w.
“It tells us very little that is not to be found elsewhere, arranges it badly, and carries the story no further than 1830.”
— =Sat. R.= 99: 671. My. 20, ‘05. 700w.
=Hoffmann, Franz.= Little dauphin; tr. from the German by George P. Upton, *60c. McClurg.
The pathetic figure of Louis Charles, second son of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, figures thruout this story according to the ordinarily accepted theory that he was confined in the Temple and after the execution of the King and Queen was at the mercy of the cruel keeper. The volume belongs to “Life stories for young people.”
=Hoffmann, Julius.= Amateur gardener’s rose book, tr. from the German by John Weathers, *$2.50. Longmans.
The book is written not so much for professional gardeners and nurserymen, as for garden lovers who devote special attention to the cultivation of the rose; the object being to enlarge their knowledge on the subject, and to reproduce a book that will serve as a practical and concise adviser.
“The point that makes this volume a necessity to the amateur beginning his collection of roses is the twenty beautifully colored plates.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 538. Ag. 19, ‘05. 340w.
“Does not approach in usefulness Mr. Foster-Melliar’s ‘Book of the rose,’ and far less in delightful reading Dean Hole’s ‘Book about roses.’ However, the book is probably worth adding to a rosarian’s shelf.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 314. S. 2, ‘05. 1440w.
* + + =Spec.= 95: 472. S. 30, ‘05. 60w.
=Hogg, Ethel.= Quintin Hogg. $3. Dutton.
In this biography of her father, the author gives a complete and intimate account of his life and work in the London slums. A famous Eton foot-ball player, he often made his influence felt by sheer physical force, and this was perhaps the secret of his remarkable success. He founded the Ragged school, and the famous Polytechnic, and his life is a story of the most practical kind of philanthropic work. There is an introduction by the Duke of Argyll.
“The book is needlessly long, and is disfigured by numerous exclamation points.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 93. F. 2, ‘05. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 53. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1350w. (Condensed biography.)
+ =Outlook.= 79: 247. Ja. 28, ‘05. 180w. (Survey of Hogg’s life.)
=Holdich, Thomas Hungerford.= India. $2.50. Appleton.
The author’s knowledge of the geographical conditions of India is reliable as he was at one time superintendent of the survey of India. After giving an historical sketch of the country, “he proceeds to a study of the geography of the frontiers bordering Baluchistan and Afghanistan; he describes Kashmir, the Himalayas, and the Peninsula, then Assam, Burma, and Ceylon. He tells us about the people, the political geography, the agriculture, revenues, railways, minerals, and climate and he puts India before us as we will not find it elsewhere. The work is amply indexed, and is provided with a wealth of maps and diagrams.” (Outlook).
“The book and its maps are creditable to all concerned, and will unquestionably prove of great value to seekers for information about the region of British India and its dependencies.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 402. Ap. 1. 2080w.
“The results of all former investigations are well digested and epitomized.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 381. Ap. ‘05. 100w.
“With few exceptions his work will rank high with the other volumes of the series.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 201. Mr. 16, ‘05. 440w.
“Altogether, as a representative volume on India for the library, this book is about the best to be had.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 97. Jl. 13, ‘05. 780w.
“This excellent and useful book supplies a real want, and gives to the reader a broad geographical description of the real continent of India.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 160. My. 19, ‘05. 1060w.
“Avoiding ‘statistics and details,’ the author has here compressed into one volume an immense amount of geographical and ethnological information regarding the peninsula itself and the frontier, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Assam, and Burma. The most valuable part of ‘India’ is, of course, the geographical description, where the author is on his own ground. The literary-historical side is mortar to the bricks of the altar.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 117. F. 9, ‘05. 230w.
“He has produced a topographical description of the Indian empire which, in spite of minor errors.... is not only interesting to read, but accurate and well proportioned on the whole.”
+ + — =Nature.= 71: 268. Ja. 19, ‘05. 1210w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 2. Ja. 7, ‘05. 570w. (Summary of facts in book.)
“His volume has the ring of authority on every page. It is equally valuable for steady reading or as a work of reference.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 95. Ja. 7, ‘05. 150w.
“The product of years of study in the country of which he writes.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 251. F. ‘05. 200w.
=Holdsworth, Annie E. (Mrs. Eugene J. Lee-Hamilton).= New Paolo and Francesca. †$1.50. Lane.
A modern variation of the old story. The heroine has promised her dying father that she will wed the elder of her twin cousins, who will inherit her father’s title and estates. She fulfils her pledge in spite of the fact that she loves the younger brother, and the result is tragedy. The story is further complicated by the discovery that her lover is the true heir, and her husband in reality is the younger brother, the two having been changed in infancy.
+ — =Acad.= 68: 150. F. 18, ‘05. 460w.
“Nothing but praise, however, is to be said for the art of the author. In description, in delineation of character and in that subtle and compelling power by which the imagination of the reader is held enthralled, the work is noteworthy. It is to be regretted that a story so charming in its style, so fascinating in its atmosphere and so powerful in the handling of the theme should be so depressing in its influence on the mind.” A. C. Rich.
+ — =Arena.= 33: 453. Ap. ‘05. 250w.
“It is well told, and the author has enough coloring matter in her vocabulary to paint the national history of a whole continent.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 218. Jl. 27, ‘05. 110w.
— + =Sat. R.= 99: 779. Je. 10, ‘05. 170w.
=Holland, Clive.= Japanese romance. $1.50. Stokes.
A young English artist sailing eastward to paint the wonders of Japan, meets a beautiful English girl on the steamer and admires her apparently merely in an artistic way. Arriving at Nagasaki he falls in with two former fellow-students at Paris, one a Japanese, the other a Scot who has taken a Japanese wife. Thru these he becomes involved in many social complications and finally marries Mio-Lan, a lovely Japanese maid. Later he begins to long for the English girl he had met on the steamer and the story becomes a tragedy for Mio-Lan.
“The merit of the story lies not in the sentiment and flower women, but in the characters of the modern Japanese, Mr. Yumoto, and the Scottish expatriate.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 54. Ja. 28, ‘05. 370w. (Outlines plot.)
=Holland, Robert Afton.= Commonwealth of man. **$1.25. Putnam.
“The Slocum lectures of 1904, delivered at the University of Michigan ... revised by the author in the light of the discussion that followed the publication of Mr. Edwin Markham’s poem, ‘The man with the hoe,’ which, in the opinion of Mr. Holland, consisted chiefly of a series of socialistic fallacies set to stormful music.’”—R. of Rs.
“There are eleven lectures, all pretty vigorous writing and not bad reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05. 420w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 795. My. 20, ‘05. 310w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
=Holley, Marietta (Josiah Allen’s wife, pseud.).= Around the world with Josiah Allen’s wife. †$150. Dillingham.
The inveterate traveller, Samantha, accompanied by Josiah Allen and a sick grandson, for whose health the trip is undertaken, starts on a journey around the world with a party which includes a Dorothy, who enlivens the trip by marrying in spite of her chaperone. Samantha’s characteristic descriptions and comments include much of interest on Hawaii, the Philippines, India, Egypt, the Holy Land, and many European states, while she frequently attempts to set right whatever she thinks may be wrong, even instructing the Empress Si Ann on her duty.
* + =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 60w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 774. N. 18, ‘05. 200w.
=Holley, Marietta (Josiah Allen’s wife, pseud.).= Samantha at the St. Louis exposition. $1.50. Dillingham.
Samantha, as unique and widely known as any book character ever created, is at her best in these “episodin’” bits of wit, pathos, and clear visioned common sense. In the story, Josiah Allen discovers that his farm had come into the possession of the Allen family the year of the Louisiana purchase, that his ancestors had paid fifteen dollars for it, the same sum, he said, “with the orts left off,” that was given for Louisiana. The Allens celebrate this discovery by taking a trip to the Exposition. A group of interesting companions serve only to enhance the characteristic observations of Samantha, which are better than ever.
“Feminine frailty and masculine arrogance and the sexual inequalities of social customs and the laws continue to furnish material for her satire and weakly witty garrulity.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 212. Ja. 26, ‘05. 110w.
=Hollis, A. C.= Masai, their language and folk-lore. *$4.75. Oxford.
A study of the language, myths, traditions, enigmas, proverbs, and customs of this fast vanishing East African race by the chief secretary of the East African Protectorate, assisted by native authorities.
“Mr. Hollis’s is the fullest study yet made. It is impossible to do justice in the course of an ordinary notice to this exceedingly interesting book, which is, moreover, absolutely free from padding of the ordinary kind.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 742. Je. 17. 2420w.
“In describing the mythology, folklore, and customs of the Masai he has hit upon a method as scientific as it is original.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 143. My. 5, ‘05. 460w.
“For the first time the civilized world has been presented with an authoritative work on the Masai language, customs, and folklore, by Mr. A. C. Hollis. It is the authoritative study of the Masai people; and it is satisfactory to record that the author confines himself mainly to facts and not to theories.” H. H. Johnston.
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 83. My. 25, ‘05. 1200w.
“Mr. Hollis’ grammatical treatise is a study in itself. The book is worthy of the greatest attention.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 309. S. 2, ‘05. 1330w.
=Holmes, Gordon.= Mysterious disappearance. $1.50. Clode.
The usual crime, shrouded in the usual mystery, the rapid succession of events, the story action that palls not for a moment are all here. But the book surpasses others of its kind in the clever comparison of two distinctive types of detectives. There is Claude Bruce, barrister, “subtle, analytic, introspective,” and there is his foil, the Scotland yard inspector, a part of the machine, “direct, pertinacious, self-confident ... a slave to system,” one whose method, as the barrister comments, “works admirably for the detection of common place crimes, but as soon as the region of higher romance is entered, it is as much out of place as a steam roller in a lady’s boudoir.”
=Holmes, Mary Jane Hawes.= Abandoned farm. †$1. Dillingham.
The romance of a young girl who becomes a waitress at a summer house party on an estate once owned by her grandfather. She is known as waitress no. 1, and her ladylike mien, even in white cap and apron, charms the rich young master of the house who loves her even before he discovers that the estate is really hers. The volume also contains a story called Connie’s secret, which hinges upon a sham marriage by which the girl believes herself to be legally bound to the man who has deserted her.
* =Holmes, Oliver Wendell.= One-hoss shay, with its companion poems. $1.50. Houghton.
A delightful Christmas edition of Holmes’ humorous poems, “The one-hoss shay,” “How the old horse won the bet,” and “The broomstick train,” illustrated by Mr. Howard Pyle in colors and black and white.
* + + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 40w.
* + + =Dial.= 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 170w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 424. N. 23, ‘05. 70w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 120w.
=Holt, Martin.= Out of bondage. $1.25. Benziger.
Renie, a pretty Catholic girl, kept in the country with no knowledge of life or of her own parentage, serves the cruel Mrs. Sherwood well until her death and then flies forth into the world to enjoy her freedom. She encounters many tragic things, but her courage enables her to straighten out a serious tangle and save the man she loves from a murderer’s death.
=Holyoake, George Jacob.= Bygones worth remembering. 2 vols. *$5. Dutton.
The author, who has for many years taken an active part in all movements toward the bettering of the conditions of the working classes gives interesting details concerning the progress of the English nation during the last few decades and reminiscences of Harriet Martineau, Mazzini, Kossuth, John Stuart Mill, Lord Shaftesbury, Garibaldi, and Gladstone. There are many illustrations.
“In this later book the gold is beaten rather thin; and, in fact, the reminiscences—which are none of them to be described as wildly exciting—are eked out with extracts from newspapers.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 145. F. 18, ‘05. 1230w.
“As a contribution to the history of the political and social progress of the nation these ‘Bygones’ are of great value.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 232. F. 25, 1490w.
Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 605. Ag. ‘05. 1780w.
Reviewed by Jeanette L. Gilder.
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 156. Ag. ‘05. 1430w.
“Frank egotism is evidenced on every page. Mr. Holyoake has a strong sense of humor, but his manner of writing is such that it is not always easy to discover when he is jesting and when he is in earnest.” Edith J. R. Isaacs.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 106. S. 1, ‘05. 1180w.
* =Ind.= 59: 988. O. 26, ‘05. 230w.
“He states many facts, he corrects many fallacies, that should claim the consideration of historians of British politics during the nineteenth century. Seldom have we read a book breathing a more tender, tolerant, and judicial spirit.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 127. Ag. 10, ‘05. 1380w.
“These pages and people are all interesting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 372. Je. 10, ‘05. 1590w.
“A further characteristic of the author’s opinions and reminiscences is a whole-souled optimism which, pervading his book, manifests itself perhaps most impressively in the final chapter.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 85. S. 9, ‘05. 2280w.
“We are not sure that all the ‘Bygones’ which Mr. Holyoake recalls are ‘worth remembering.’”
— =Spec.= 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 340w.
* =Home, Andrew.= Boys of Badminster. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A tale of English schoolboy adventure whose hero is Jack Coverdale, broad shouldered enough to bear the burden of his own scrapes and those of less honorable companions. “There is an attempt at kidnapping, with exciting cricket games and boys’ pranks, all of which must be read to be appreciated. There is another good story, ‘A row in the sixth,’ at the end of the book, which is a big one.” (N. Y. Times.)
* “Good characterization and plenty of humor should make this a success.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 30w.
* + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 761. N. 11, ‘05. 320w.
* “Mr. Home has the happy knack of rousing an expectancy which he never disappoints.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 7. D. 9, ‘05. 100w.
* “Mr. Home does his best, not wholly without success, to make it seem possible, and constructs a good story out of it, as school stories go.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 693. N. 4, ‘05. 100w.
=Home, Gordon Cochrane.= Evolution of an English town. *$3.50. Dutton.
The old town and castle of Pickering in Yorkshire, and the country of Pickering vale are dealt with here from pre-glacial times down to the beginnings of 1905. “It is really surprising to find how much may be learned relating to ethnology, archæology, and ancient customs from this curious piece of local antiquarian study.” (Outlook.)
* “The quality and number of the illustrations greatly enhance the value of the book. We have only noticed one misprint.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 922. S. 9, ‘05. 750w.
“The book furnishes a pleasing type of local history to which other essays in that field will do well to conform.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 211. O. 1, ‘05. 330w.
“The book commends itself to special readers more than to the general traveler.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1111. N. 9, ‘05. 110w.
“Makes altogether a charming book for lovers of things old, picturesque and curious.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 497. Jl. 29, ‘05. 810w.
=Outlook.= 80: 691. Jl. 15, ‘05. 110w.
* =Home, Gordon.= Normandy: The scenery and romance of its ancient towns. *$3.50. Dutton.
The author has profusely illustrated this volume with colored plates and pen-and-ink sketches. “Mr. Home says his book is not a guide, but simply ‘an attempt to convey by pictures and description a clear impression of the Normandy which awaits the visitor.’ But it will serve as a guide if need be, for the author, with that curious naiveté of the Englishman, names inns and hotels without fear of being accused of advertising; and as he says, ‘any one using the book as a guide would find in his path some of the richest architecture and scenery that the province possesses.’” (N. Y. Times.)
* “Is chiefly of interest for its beautiful colored plates, which give clearer impressions of Normandy’s varied and wonderful scenery ... than any words, however perfectly chosen, could hope to do. Mr. Home is sufficiently an artist to write, as well as paint, like one. He wins the reader’s approbation by his first sentence.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 170w.
* “A very successful attempt has been made to convey, by means of pictures and description, a clear impression of the Normandy which awaits the visitor.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 110w.
* “The book will certainly give us a better notion of Normandy than Mr. Menpes’s much more multitudinous blots can convey to us of Brittany or any other place.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21, ‘05. 180w.
* “A charming book on Normandy. The book is one to read and keep, and to take with one on his trip to the old duchy it describes.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 851. D. 2, ‘05. 510w.
* “Its text is illuminative, graphic, and sympathetic. Mr. Home has produced a work on Normandy to appeal to every one who has ever visited that interesting region.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 9, ‘05. 40w.
* “Mr. Home knows something of architecture and describes with feeling and taste.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 14, D. 2, ‘05. 240w.
=Hooker, Katharine.= Wayfarers in Italy. **$2. Scribner.
A fourth edition of a book about the out-of-the-way places of Italy, by one who has left the beaten and over-described paths to hunt for old books and lost Madonnas, and study the life, habits, and temperament of the village and country folk.
“Is well deserving of the many editions it has passed through.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 172. Mr. 18, ‘05. 410w.
“A fresh, informing, and thoroughly charming book in one of the oldest fields in the world.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 140w.
=Hope, Anthony=, pseud. See =Hawkins, Anthony Hope.=
=Hopekirk, Helen=, ed. Seventy Scottish songs. $2.50. Ditson.
These seventy songs include the folk-music student’s favorites. They have been gathered from the Lowlands and the Highlands, from the remote mountainous regions and from the western isles. The volume is uniform with the “Musicians library.”
* “A very interesting and valuable work.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 70w.
* “Those who care only for popular tunes with any serviceable accompaniment will find this selection acceptable; whereas the epicure who likes his folk-music pure and unadulterated will be likely to object to many passages in which the arranger has exercised her faculty of harmonizing with too little regard for the racial essence of the tunes.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 110w.
=Hoppenstedt, J.= Problems in manoeuvre tactics; with solutions for officers of all arms, tr. by J. H. V. Crowe, *$1.60. Macmillan.
In this volume the original German organizations have been adapted to those of the British army in order to assist its officers in studying for examinations, and furthering their knowledge of the art of war. Four maps have been provided.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 492. Jl. 22, ‘05. 70w.
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 671. My. 20, ‘05. 920w.
=Hornaday, William Temple.= American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. **$3.50. Scribner.
“The author has had many years’ experience as a field naturalist in America and the far East, and as director of the New York zoölogical park, gives much information in an interesting style, illustrating his text with maps, charts, and drawings. “The object of this book is to make nature available to laymen; it is also particularly addressed to teachers and parents.” It is intended to be plain, practical and direct, as well as systematic and scientific.... The field covered includes all the principal types of vertebrates found in North America.” (Science.)
“We find here much practical and economic zoölogy, invaluable matter on the extinction of American species, and the setting right of many ancient and silly myths. Clear exposition is exhibited in many sections of the book. The drawings, while of uneven merit, are full of life and action and have good teaching value. The author aims to amuse as well as to instruct.” W. K. Gregory.
+ + — =Science=, n. s. 21: 346. Mr. 3, ‘05. 1510w.
* =Home, C. Silvester.= Common sense Christianity. *35c. Meth. bk.
“This book aims at being a popular contribution to the art of Christian defence.” The author believes that a policy of vigorous attack is necessary to oppose the work of many who maintain that for the twentieth century a new religion is needed.
=Horner, Joseph.= Engineers’ turning. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.
A well-illustrated text which considers the principles and practice in the different branches of turning. A feature of the book is the important section devoted to modern turret practice; boring is another subject treated fully; a chapter on tool holders illustrates a large number of representative types; screw-cutting is treated at length; and the last chapter contains a good deal of information relating to the high-speed steels and their work.
=Horner, Joseph.= Tools for engineers and woodworkers. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.
A comprehensive work whose object is “to give an account of such tools as are commonly used by engineers and woodworkers, written chiefly from the standpoint of the men who have used them, and who desire to understand the principles which underlie the forms in which those tools are found. Practical instruction for their employment, as suggested by the writer’s own experience, have been added.”
“Although there is necessarily a good deal of the descriptive catalogue in a work of this kind, yet this one is so well put together, its brief descriptions are so clear, and above all the endless varieties of tools enumerated are brought to one’s notice in so logical an order, their classification is so essentially scientific, that it may be regarded as in a sense a finished monograph of one phase of evolution.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 280. Ag. 26. 420w.
* “The author has written a clear and comprehensive description of various groups of tools.”
+ =Engin. N.= 54:529. N. 16, ‘05. 120w.
=Hornung, Ernest William.= Stingaree. †$1.50. Scribner.
Stingaree, a one-time London clubman, now a robber in Australia, “sticks up” (Australian for hold up) mail coaches and banks in a manner both theatrical and gentlemanly. On one occasion he operates among a company of amateurs, forcing them to give a concert, and makes use of the occasion to introduce a girl with a beautiful voice to a prominent composer. He is afterward released from jail just in time to don evening clothes and hear this girl as a prima donna.
“Of no importance from the literary standpoint, the present volume yet contains ten very readable and ingeniously worked out stories.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 716. Je. 10, 180w.
“The stories are all fluent, ingenious, and diverting, and will be found readable enough.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 90w.
“Series of ingenious tales.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 292. My. 6, ‘05. 250w.
“On the whole, his adventures being as hazardous and exciting as those of his predecessor he should be equally well beloved.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“The tales ... are dashing, daring, entertaining, and show considerable inventiveness without disclosing any special literary power.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 160w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 869. Je. 3, ‘05. 210w.
“He is a real creation.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 593. O. 05. 220w.
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 90w.
“Mr. Hornung who has much aptitude for sensational fiction has exhibited little ingenuity or originality in these tales.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 140w.
* =Hornung, Ernest William.= Thief in the night: further adventures of A. J. Raffles, cricketer and cracksman. †$1.50. Scribner.
The third series of the adventures of Raffles goes back to the earliest days of the cracksman and Bunny, his foil. One of the nine tales portrays the disloyalty of the thief in losing for Bunny his sweetheart, another, and quite the most ingenious of the group, is that of a little “job” at Lord Thornaby’s town house where Raffles diverted from himself the suspicions of the “Criminologists’ club.” All thru Raffles is still the same terrible expert burglar.
* + =Acad.= 68: 1177. N. 11, ‘05. 310w.
* “Unfortunately the reader’s taste has been whetted for better things, and he looks in vain for the quick turns and the conquering of difficult situations of the earlier yarns.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “The newer stories, while they seem somehow to lack the snap and go of the earlier ones, are nevertheless not very different in quality, and if you are not tired of the old Raffles they may be trusted to furnish entertainment for an idle hour.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 727. O. 28, ‘05. 160w.
* “Those unacquainted with the cracksman will find admirably written stories retailing the exploits of a gentleman burglar of the most marvelous skill and finesse, and an unusually winning personality.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 530. O. 28, ‘05. 70w.
* “His mind works with all its old rapidity and originality, but he is less convincing and beguiling.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.
* “It is not so mischievous as its predecessors, because it is not nearly so well done.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 871. N. 25, ‘05. 90w.
=Horsley, Walter C.=, tr. =See La Colonie, Jean Martin de.=
=Hort, Fenton John Anthony.= Village sermons. * $1.75. Macmillan.
Dr. Hort, a noted scholar and Christian gentleman, writes with simplicity for the country folk with whom he had to deal as the parson of a Hertfordshire village. The sermons “are generally founded on some incident of the day’s service, some sentences in a psalm, or more often some petition in a collect.” (Lond. Times.)
* + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 470w.
* + — =Outlook.= 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 70w.
* “We must confess that the sermons strike us as being highly conscientious but a trifle dull. Yet here and there, genius shows itself in the easy power of expressing a great deal in a few words.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 190. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w.
=Horton, George.= Monk’s treasure. $1.50. Bobbs.
Ta Castra, an island of the Cyclades, in the Ægean sea, is the scene of a series of adventures in which a young American, buying up Greek argols for his uncle’s firm, and his interpreter, a sturdy Scotchman, figure conspicuously. The American straightway becomes involved in breaking up an alliance between a beautiful Greek bond-girl and her belligerent betrothed, Spiro. Thru treasure, hidden in a monastery, he proves the girl to be a duchess, and outwitting the monks and Spiro alike, escapes with Polyxene and her bags of gold.
“Those who love a story for the story’s sake will be sure to enjoy Mr. Horton’s latest romance.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 565. My. ‘05. 120w.
“The recovery of the wealth against the cunning machinations of the monks supplies a number of exciting and tragic events to sustain interest in a story which otherwise is rather lightly worked out.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 293. My. 6, ‘05. 280w.
“Crude romance.”
— =Outlook.= 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 80w.
“A good story.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 70w.
=Hosking, Arthur Nicholas=, comp. and ed. Artist’s year book. $3. Art league pub. assn., Chicago.
A handy reference book wherein may be found interesting data pertaining to artists, and their studio, home and summer addresses for 1905-1906. Recognized merit has been made the standard of selection for this list.
* =Hough, Emerson.= Heart’s Desire. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Heart’s Desire is a little settlement hidden away in a corner of the West “where men have gone to live at peace—without law and without women.” “The inhabitants dozed in the sunshine, smoked, drank, gambled a little, toiled fitfully, fought occasionally, and dreamed a good deal. Then the railroad came and the dreams were gone. Along with the railroad came Constance and the old vexations that troubled Eden and have troubled every assemblage of men ever since.” (Pub. Opin.) It is a picture of rough Western life with clever character delineation.
* “A singularly pleasing story of the west o’ dreams.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
* “A more vivacious tale of far western life one does not often get.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 576. N. 4, ‘05. 100w.
* “In vigor and spontaneousness it seems to us Mr. Hough’s best work in fiction.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
* “It is idyllic, impossible, and extremely entertaining.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 220w.
=Houston, Edwin James.= Electricity in every-day life. 3v. $4.50. Collier.
“These volumes aim to give to the general reader a comprehensive knowledge of the history of electricity, the principles and laws that govern its action, and its practical applications in every-day life.” (Outlook.) There are eight hundred illustrations which present electricity as applied to modern industry and as used in laboratories, and in the home.
“Without trace of romance and yet in an eminently attractive style, the author has made comparatively clear the vagaries of electricity.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
“The style is clear and pleasant. Abstruse technicalities are carefully avoided, and no part of the book will be difficult of comprehension for the average well-informed man who has made no specialty of electrical subjects.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 330w.
=Outlook.= 79: 502. F. 25, ‘05. 30w.
“He succeeds well in popularizing technical subjects. The present work is voluminous, but never wearisome.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 251. F. ‘05. 90w.
=Howard, George Elliott.= History of matrimonial institutions chiefly in England and the United States. *$10. Univ. of Chicago press.
“In the three volume work ... Prof. George E. Howard deals chiefly with the matrimonial institutions of the English race, prefacing his treatment of the subject with an analysis of the literature and the theories of primitive matrimonial institutions. Professor Howard’s treatise covers practically every phase of the subject that calls for treatment, and gives elaborate biographical data relating, not only to the institution of marriage itself, but to almost every conceivable phase of the sex problem that has been treated in our literature.”—R. of Rs.
“To students of sociology this work is one of importance.” Simeon E. Baldwin.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 607. Ap. ‘05. 1070w. (Abstract of book).
Reviewed by E. T. B.
=Atlan.= 95: 137. Ja. ‘05. 650w.
“Professor Howard’s volumes are admirable studies and a much needed supplement to the famous works of Starcke and Westermarck.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 784. Ap. 6, ‘05. 720w.
* “A scholarly and profound inquiry.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
“For even the general public Professor Howard’s volumes cannot fail to be both interesting and instructive, for they deal attractively with the most human of all institutions, and contain a mass of facts nowhere else obtainable.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 55. Ja. 19, ‘05. 2270w.
=R. of Rs.= 30: 756. D. ‘05. 120w.
“An immense bibliographical index at the end of the third volume completes the usefulness of the work as a book of reference, and it is as a book of reference that it will be chiefly used and valued.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 617. Ap. 29, ‘05. 830w.
=Howard, John R.=, comp. See =One= hundred best American poems.
=Howe, Frederick Clemson.= City: the hope * of democracy. **$1.50. Scribner.
“A novel interpretation of municipal affairs.... Mr. Howe ascribes most of the ills to which the American city is heir to economic and industrial, rather than to political or ethical causes.... Mr. Howe’s remedy for the present evil conditions consists in offering opportunity to labor, in taxing monopoly, and in the abolition of privilege.”—R. of Rs.
* “Mr. Howe’s main arguments in favor of municipal ownership are strong, and much of his abstract reasoning in favor of the single tax is well put, although less convincing to most people; but the author is too sweeping in his advocacy of the adoption of these measures and in his claims for resulting benefits.”
+ — =Engin. N.= 54: 648. D. 14, ‘05. 610w.
* “Dr. Howe, in a spirited and striking description of the American city, interprets its myriad phases from the economic standpoint.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
* “Is a good deal of a theorist, but, happily also, he is very much of a student. Mr. Howe’s book, we fear, will not advance that result as much as it might have done had it been more soberly written.” E. C.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 773. N. 18, ‘05. 970w.
* “His book is a frank discussion of municipal problems as they are actually encountered in the more typical of our American cities. The prevailing note is one of optimism.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 637. N. ‘05. 230w.
=Howe, Maude.= See =Elliott, Mrs. Maude Howe.=
=Howells, William Dean.= London films. * **$2.25. Harper.
The volume is made up of Mr. Howells’ characteristic talks about London weather, London streets, London noises, churches, parks, buses, slums, children, and bobbies—often with humorous comparison with the corresponding phenomena in New York. He tells, too, about society out of doors in Rotten Row and Piccadilly. Some of the matter has already appeared in some of the magazines. The book is provided with sixteen full-page illustrations and is bound to match the author’s “Literary friends and acquaintances.”
* “These films do not amount to so comprehensive or extensive a survey as Emerson achieved. But they are very fascinating, and are written with the clarity and richness of style which constitute Mr. Howells one of our foremost writers of English to-day.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 717. N. 25. 1740w.
* “Its ‘films’ are far more interesting and significant than some that Mr. Howells has shown; they are indeed in his happiest analytic vein.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 381. D. 1, ‘05. 270w.
* “The book is in no whit inferior to those masterly studies in Italian life.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1227. N. 23, ‘05. 880w.
* “A series of delicate and charming impressions of London in many of its aspects, social, civic, and meteorological.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 490. D. 14, ‘05. 820w.
* “Easily takes its place among the few most noteworthy books of the season.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 712. O. 21, ‘05. 130w.
* “He is still master of the gentle irony, the subtle, mischievous suggestion, the humorous backward glance, that have fascinated his readers for years.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 682. N. 18, ‘05. 270w.
=Howells, William Dean.= Miss Bellard’s inspiration. †$1.50. Harper.
“It was nothing short of inspiration which made Miss Lillias Bellard decide to visit her aunt and uncle, the Crombies, in order to consider quietly the question of marrying a certain eager young Englishman. Mr. and Mrs. Crombie had ... taken a cottage in the New Hampshire hills. Miss Bellard’s intention was to watch the domestic conditions of the Crombie household before rushing recklessly into matrimony. But coincident with her visit came that of the Mevisons, a couple trembling upon the verge of separation. Thus Miss Bellard was treated to a variety of domestic relations which produced varying effects upon her.”—N. Y. Times.
“Charming and idyllic comedy which at once tickles and instructs. Mr. Howells has written no more delightful story for years.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 41. Jl. 8, 310w.
* “The book is undeniably a delicate and diverting piece of satire and full of those illuminating sidelights upon human foibles and frailties that make Mr. Howells inimitable.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 610. Ag. ‘05. 1500w.
* “The charm of Mr. Howells’s style is the only inducement offered the ‘gentle reader’ in this book.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 452. N. ‘05. 240w.
“Has a charm altogether out of proportion to its pretensions.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 115. S. 1, ‘05. 280w.
* =Ind.= 59: 1152. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“The whole thing is dainty and amusing, and the irony so suavely expended that some readers may fail to detect it, and hence be a little puzzled as to the degree of the author’s facetiousness.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 187. Ag. 5, ‘05. 790w.
“It is as if Mr. Howells’s vision were being contracted instead of enlarged as the years go on. He stops short now at the surface; and delicately and gracefully as he plays about on it, we regret his arrested development.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 209. Je. 30, ‘05. 520w.
“Is a light comedy with enough social satire to remind us that Mr. Howells is not just fooling for our summer holiday.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 101. Ag. 3, ‘05. 320w.
“Mr. Howells has not lost any of his cunning in portraying the delightfully illogical phases of the feminine mental processes. Altogether it is a decidedly entertaining book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“Has all the lightness, the charming comedy touch, of his earlier work, and yet is not lacking in serious purpose. The studies of temperament are both skillful and convincing. It is quite certain that Mr. Howells has written nothing in a happier style; the vein of humor which runs through the book is as fresh as in his earlier work, and parallel with it runs a vein of quiet, kindly irony equally effective.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 643. Jl. 8, ‘05. 190w.
“Beyond a doubt the story is amusing, but to Mr. Howells’ real devotees it must be rather hard sledding.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 650w.
* “Though but a slight love tale, embodies a maturity of conception, a surety of view, a subtle phraseology, an exquisite use of irony, and, withal, a sedate, appeasing dignity.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 757. D. ‘05. 70w.
“The book is mainly a study—and a very clever and shrewd study—of one type of American girl. But all the subordinate characters are carefully drawn.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 124. Jl. 22, ‘05. 830w.
=Howells, William Dean.= Son of Royal Langbrith. $2. Harper.
The story is the tragic one of the weakness of a good mother who lacks the courage to tell her son of the iniquities of his dead father. He grows up in the belief that his father is a noble and heroic character, and when the truth is revealed to him, through the courtship of his mother by the country doctor, he suffers greatly in the loss of his ideal. An opium eater and his loyal daughter enter into the story. The setting is a small New England manufacturing town.
“Is in many respects the best bit of work Mr. Howells has done of late years. One is inclined to read it slowly, lingering in enjoyment of the charming style, and appreciating to the full the perfect picture of New England life in the minute details that Mr. Howells so loves to dwell on. It is a pity, however, that in his love of realistic detail, Mr. Howells should be led into writing passages which, to say the least, mar the artistic effect of his work. He has set such a dainty dish before us that we cannot bear even one drop of grease to spoil the taste.” C. Harwood.
+ + — =Critic.= 46: 184. F. ‘05. 560w.
“The one objection which the average reader has been known to make against the work of Mr. William Dean Howells,—namely, that that distinguished novelist is too fond of the insignificant,—cannot be brought against ‘The son of Royal Langbrith.’ That the working out of this theme is masterly it is superfluous to add.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 116. Ja. ‘05. 80w.
“What lends peculiar charm to Mr. Howells’s best work is the fact that it could only have been written by an American. It is in the delicacy and tact with which it is hand sovereign merit of the story resides.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 22. Ja. 7, ‘05. 960w.
=Hubbard, Arthur John, and Hubbard, George.= Neolithic dew-ponds and cattle-ways. *$1.25. Longmans.
“The author endeavors to solve the question of the water-supply of the Neolithic dwellers in hill-encampments on the downs in the south of England. There were apparently no wells, and they had to depend on the ‘unfed’ artificial dew-pond.... Closely connected with the dew-ponds are the cattle-ways down which primitive man drove his herds from the entrenched settlement to water.... There are numerous and very clear photographs.”—Nation.
“Altogether the book is one to be read with interest and profit by everyone at all interested in the evidences relating to our ancestors of the stone age.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 589. My. ‘05. 220w.
“Contains much suggestive and interesting matter, and is very good reading, but not wholly convincing.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 151. Jl. 29, 1080w.
“The whole study is well worth reading even by those who have no immediate interest in antiquarian topography.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 360. My. 4, ‘05. 830w.
“The construction of dew-ponds by the early inhabitants of Britain has often been glibly asserted, but few, if any, have furnished such clear and circumstantial evidence as the authors of this short treatise.”
+ + + =Nature.= 71: 611 Ap. 27, ‘05. 610w.
=Hubbard, Gardiner Greene.= Collection of engravings. See =United States=, Library of Congress.
=Hubbard, Sarah A.=, comp. See =Catch= words of cheer.
=Huckel, Oliver.=, tr. Lohengrin, **75c. Crowell.
A companion volume to Mr. Huckel’s “Parsifal” which appeared in similar form two years ago. “It is a version for the general reader. It is not a libretto for the music. It gives a cumulative impression, the composite effect of words, scenery, action, and it is hoped, the spirit of the musical interpretation ... the spirit of the original text in a free version rather than in a strictly literal one.”
* “The poem is preceded by an admirable introductory chapter relating to the work, the whole forming a little volume which will be highly prized by lovers of this noble music-drama.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 557. N. ‘05. 140w.
“It gives the reader a much better impression of the drama than the ordinary literally translated libretto can furnish.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 40w.
* “The verse is smooth and dignified.”
+ =R of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 30w.
=Huckel, Oliver.= Melody of God’s love; a new unfolding of the twenty-third psalm, *75c. Crowell.
An interpretation of the twenty-third psalm which divides it into three melodies: In green pastures, a song of the sweet and pleasant experiences of life; Through the valley of the shadow, a song of the harder and deeper and more sorrowful experiences of life; and, In the house of the Lord forever, a song of the exultant and triumphant and heavenly experiences of life here and hereafter.
“A series of meditative essays in poetic vein, but without great distinction of style.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 20w.
=Huffcut, Ernest Wilson.= Elements of business law; with illustrative examples and problems. *$1. Ginn.
This volume is intended as a text-book for students in commercial courses in high schools and colleges and it sets forth the fundamental principles of business law, giving simple concrete examples which show them in their actual application to business transactions. Problems taken from decided cases are given at the end of each chapter. The book is based upon the common law and a glossary of legal terms is provided.
=Hughes, Hugh Price.= Life of Hugh Price Hughes, by his daughter. 3d ed. *$3. Armstrong.
“Mr. Price Hughes broke in early life with the traditional conservatism of the Methodist body, and allied himself with the Liberation society.... The greater part of the volume is taken up with the spiritual activities with which” he “occupied his strenuous life. These were very various in kind. Not the least interesting among them is the part which he took in the reunion conferences at Grindelwald.”—Spec.
“She tries to set down all her father ever did or said, with little order of time and not too much of logic; yet large abstractions obscure practical details.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 354. My. 4, ‘05. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 196. Ap. 1, ‘05. 480w.
“This story of his life will be read in all branches of the Church. It deserves to be. It needs to be.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 143. Ja. 14, ‘05. 270w.
“We must frankly say that there is a certain magniloquence of diction and general exuberance about Miss Hughes’s description of her father’s life and work which we could wish away; but these do not hinder us from recognizing a really striking personality. There are, indeed, more serious faults in Miss Hughes’s book than those of diction and manner. It would not have cost much trouble to ascertain the facts.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 181. F. 4, ‘05. 520w.
* =Hughes, Rupert.= Zal: an international romance. †$1.50. Century.
The tale of a young Polish pianist’s battle for recognition in New York. There is the artist and dreamer’s “deathless enthusiasm” which dominates Ladislav Moniusko and Rose Hargrave, a wealthy New York girl, whose father had set her apart for an English duke.
* “The book is of value, not only because of its musical quality, but because it enlarges information and intensifies sympathy for what may truly be called the land of genius.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 856. D. 2, ‘05. 630w.
* “The contrast between the Polish and American natures is excellently indicated.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
=Hugo, Victor.= Notre Dame de Paris. $1.25. Crowell.
A volume in the “Thin paper classics” series, translated from the French by Isabel F. Hapgood.
=Hugo, Victor.= Toilers of the sea. $1.25. Crowell.
A translation from the French by Isabel F. Hapgood, uniform with the other attractive volumes of the “Thin paper classics” series.
=Hulbert, Archer Butler, and others.= Future of road making in America. (Historic highways in America.) *$2.50. Clark, A. H.