Volume 2 — Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December, 1906 magazines (continued 10)
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Dial. 40: 119. F. 16, ’06. 1290w.
“The book as a whole is well done, the smaller details being handled with fondness for such details, and the critical notes touching all the sensitive points.”
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Ind. 60: 286. F. 1, ’06. 300w.
“A very painstaking and creditable, but uninspired, monograph.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 101. Mr. 23, ’06. 570w.
“It is hardly possible to speak too highly of Mr. Greenslet’s performance. In addition to an unusually ample literary outfit, he possesses the critic’s instinct and insight, and his almost unfailing touchstone.”
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Nation. 82: 180. Mr. 1, ’06. 2130w.
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Nation. 82: 205. Mr. 8, ’06. 2130w.
R. of Rs. 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“Mr. Greenslet’s book is an excellent performance. A better portrait of the man one could not wish to see.”
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Spec. 96: 228. F. 10, ’06. 610w.
Greenwood, James Mickleborough, ed. Successful teaching: fifteen studies by practical teachers; prize winners in the national educational contest of 1905; with an introd. by J. M. Greenwood. *$1. Funk.
Fifteen essays which “are intended to help teachers in their daily work; to give them broader views of teaching certain subjects, better methods of presentation, and deeper insight into the thoughts, feelings, emotions, desires, passions, and aspirations of a developing human soul.”
“The book will prove valuable as an additional book of reference to teachers who have available the more systematic and exhaustive treatises.”
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Bookm. 24: 296. N. ’06. 140w.
“The contributions are of varying merit, tho on the whole excellent.”
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Ind. 61: 936. O. 18, 06. 90w.
R. of Rs. 34: 384. S. ’06. 50w.
Grey, Edward C. W. St. Giles’s of the lepers. $1.50. Longmans.
This large London parish took its name from the hospital for lepers founded by the queen of Henry I. The author who labored here for thirty years sketches the history and describes the recent attempts to uplift the people who are sheltered within its limits. Among the most interesting chapters are those which tell of the author’s experiences as a Guardian of the poor, and his account of the founding of the Boys’ institute.
“Had [Mr. Grey’s] life been spared, the few errors we have come across would doubtless have been corrected, and his work, as a book of reference, rendered more valuable by the addition of an index.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 477. Ap. 21. 590w.
“His reminiscences are not so valuable as his history, but they round out a book unpretending, but very interesting.”
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N. Y. Times. 10: 893. D. 16, ’05. 620w.
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Sat. R. 101: 180. F. 10, ’06. 130w.
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Spec. 95: 872. N. 25, ’05. 330w.
Griffiths, Arthur George Frederick. Passenger from Calais. †$1.25. Page.
This story which records a series of adventures that begin in a sleeping-car between Calais and Basle, and come to an end on the north 132African shore as sprightly as one could wish. Briefly told, Lord Blackadder divorces his wife. She wishes to escape with her child whom the father also cares to possess. In order to facilitate her flight by confusing the confidential agents who might follow her, she and her twin sister gowned alike, and accompanied by maids closely resembling one another journey in different directions, the one with the child and the other with a dummy. The flight and the pursuit give rise to numerous exciting situations.
“The trouble with ‘The passenger from Calais’ ... is the lack of a certain magnetic something which in the story of mystery leads the reader onward more or less breathless, through a mass of details cunningly arranged to impede his progress and inflame his curiosity.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 81. F. 10, ’06. 280w.
Grinnell, William Morton. Social theories and social facts. **$1. Putnam.
A discussion of the subject of the economic and social conditions of to-day with the following chapter headings: Natural and artificial laws; Trusts; Competition; Socialism; Legislation; Labor; The Cost of living; Course of wages; Railway rates. “The chief value in Mr. Grinnell’s book is that it points out the difference between political and industrial socialism and in so doing emphasizes both the true function and the real value of the corporation as a contrivance for the distribution of wealth.” (Outlook.)
“Nowadays it is comparatively rare to find anyone holding so consistently a laissez faire policy as does the author in this little volume.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 419. Mr. ’06. 150w.
“It is not a closely reasoned exposition, nor one characterized by breadth of view. The facts are not critically examined to determine their real meaning, and they are not always accurate. Occasionally sweeping statements are made as if the facts were well established.”
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Critic. 48: 378. Ap. ’06. 150w.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
Dial. 40: 297. My. 1, ’06. 150w.
“It is impossible to find in the book a central idea or a consistent standpoint.”
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Ind. 60: 1286. My. 31, 06. 130w.
“It is unfortunate that the author of this book, by his assumptions, extravagances and inaccuracies, not to say errors, impairs the worth of a work which contains some very valuable suggestions.”
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Outlook. 82: 572. Mr. 10, ’06. 490w.
R. of Rs. 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 90w.
Grove, Sir George. Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians; new ed. thoroughly rev. and greatly enlarged; ed. by J. A. Fuller Maitland. 5v. ea. **$5. Macmillan.
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Acad. 70: 483. My. 19, ’06. 700w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is, of course, impossible for Mr. Maitland to verify every statement made in old articles and in those of new contributors.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 458. Ap. 14. 1000w. (Review of v. 2.)
“No exception can be taken to the scholarly character both of the revised and the new matter.”
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Dial. 40: 267. Ap. 16, ’06. 330w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Americans do not receive quite as full treatment as might have been asked for them legitimately in a book intended just as largely for the American as for the British market.”
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Ind. 61: 155. Jl. 19, ’06. 480w.
“In dealing with matters of smaller importance the level reached and sustained is a high one. The work has been conspicuously well done, as regards both editing and production ... we have been hard put to discover flaws.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 134. Ap. 12, ’06. 2620w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The shortcomings of the new ‘Grove’ are few compared with its many sterling qualities.”
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Nation. 82: 413. My. 17, ’06. 580w. (Review of v. 2.)
“There is a table of corrections of errors in the first volume at the end of this, and there will doubtless be more corrections in the third volume.” Richard Aldrich.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 253. Ap. 21, ’06. 1110w. (Review of v. 2.)
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R. of Rs. 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)
Grundy, Mabel Barnes-. Hazel of Heatherland. †$1.50. Baker.
Hazel of Heatherland is a head-strong young heroine whose refractory doings are refreshing and forgivable. Her whims form a sort of froufrou of caprice against the background of Robert Underwick’s plain, sturdy qualities. The romance of these two is aided by clever Aunt Menelophe who is not so much a match-maker as a tactful student of “fluffy bits of inanity.” So she characterizes some women, and would be of service to them.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 160. Mr. 17, ’06. 270w.
“The author evidently knows rural England as well as how to write a pleasing story.”
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Outlook. 82: 908. Ap. 21, ’06. 90w.
“Is freshly and amusingly written.”
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Sat. R. 99: 601. My. 6, ’06. 140w.
Guerber, Helene Adeline. How to prepare for Europe. **$2. Dodd.
A popular handbook “How to prepare for Europe” is a “comprehensive work written in a popular vein. There are chapters on the history of each country, its literature and art, a vocabulary in six languages, bibliographies of history, art, travel, etc., and other material for the European traveler.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The tourist should by all means secure this book as a supplement to his indispensable Baedeker.”
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Dial. 40: 394. Je. 16, ’06. 260w.
“These bibliographies would have been more useful, if price, publisher, and some indication of their relative value had been given.”
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Ind. 60: 871. Ap. 12, ’06. 70w.
“A useful little book that need not be depreciated as over-ambitious, since it is light in the hand and most compact and clearly printed.”
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Nation. 82: 365. My. 3, ’06. 420w.
“A useful handbook, covering a different field from any single volume of which we know.”
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Outlook. 82: 908. Ap. 21, ’06. 80w.
Guerville, A. B. de. New Egypt. **$5. Dutton.
“A book of description combining history, geography, and travel.... M. de Guerville has found that there really is a new Egypt, and that, moreover, it is quite willing to be studied and analyzed.” (R. of Rs.) “For the most part the illustrations in the present work are portraits of well known natives, types, and scenes, as well as pictures of English and French personages connected with Egypt’s recent history.” (N. Y. Times.)
“If scandal is more amusing to his mind than politics, we do not blame him, for the scandal adds colour and merriment to his narrative. Nor should it be forgotten that his observation is as honest as it is quick.”
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Acad. 70: 279. Mr. 24, ’06. 130w.
133“A very entertaining book, which no one who concerns himself with things Egyptian can afford to pass by.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 420. Ap. 7. 590w.
“We commend the book for its valuable information, for its pungent style, and for its sprightly gossip about things Egyptian.” H. E. Coblentz.
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Dial. 40: 235. Ap. 1, ’06. 360w.
“His account of the rapid advance of civilization into the Sudan will be as surprising as it is interesting to most readers.”
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Ind. 60: 873. Ap. 12, ’06. 150w.
“A book as readable by reason of its style as by its intrinsic merit.”
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Nation. 82: 370. My. 3, ’06. 1820w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 62. F. 3, ’06. 320w.
“On the whole, the book is one of the best on its subject yet published.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 190w.
“Despite occasional blemishes, the book is worth reading.”
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Outlook. 82: 522. Mr. 3, ’06. 350w.
“Entertainingly written.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 381. Mr. ’06. 130w.
Guinan, Rev. Joseph. Soggarth Aroon. $1.25. Benziger.
Chapters from the experiences of an Irish country curate, first appearing in the “Ave Maria” and now amended and enlarged.
Gull, Cyril Arthur Ranger (Guy Thorne, pseud.). Lost cause. †$1.50. Putnam.
Mr. Thorne’s preface states: “‘Protestantism’ within the church is a lost cause, it is dying, and for just this reason the clamor is loudest, the misrepresentation more furious and envenomed.... The author ... attacks those of the extreme ‘Protestants’ whom he believes to be insincere and who rebel against the truth for their own ends.... Finally, the noisiest ‘Protestants’ are hitting the Church as hard as they can. The author has endeavored to hit back as hard as he can.” The book treats this theme with dramatic intensity.
“Mr. Guy Thorne is not very skilful at handling even the small craft he has set sail in. His devices are of the easy and conventional order and his people lack vitality and breadth of human souls. His book is not one to be regarded except as a warning and example of the sacrifice of literature to opinion.”
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Acad. 69: 821. Ag. 12, ’05. 920w.
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Ath. 1905, 2: 171. Ag. 5. 280w.
“The venom of the book is, upon the whole, confined to its preface, and it portrays some exalted Christian characters, and at times a spirit truly catholic, in the accepted sense of the term.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 114. F. 24, ’06. 520w.
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Pub. Opin. 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 90w.
Gull, Cyril Arthur Ranger (Guy Thorne, pseud.). Made in His image. †$1.50. Jacobs.
How Charles Bosanquet, minister of industrial affairs, framed a measure which settled for a time the problem of the great army of the unemployable in London, and what came of it, is the burden of this story. First the starving masses are drawn, hideous, menacing, parasites upon the working poor; then comes the minister’s solution; those whom the courts deem unfit for society are to be made slaves for life. This is the beginning of that awful thing, the slave colony in the Cornish hinterland at which the Christian world stood aghast. Thru all this a love story is developed. Bosanquet and his old friend, John Hazel, now his political opponent, both love Muriel, an active worker in the anti-slavery league. And then the day comes when the slaves break loose!
“Strange though its theme and remarkable the treatment, this novel shows its greatest touch of genius in its ending.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 240w.
Gunne, Evelyn. Silver trail; poems. $1.25. Badger, R. G.
The author has followed her silver trail to learn its mystery. Her verse goes hither and yon for themes, sometimes beyond the mountain, to the sunset, more often far afield. The lines all breathe possibility, hope, buoyancy.
Gunsaulus, Frank W. Paths to power; Central church sermons. *$1.25. Revell.
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Ind. 59: 1541. D. 28, ’05. 180w.
Gwatkin, Henry Melville. Eye for spiritual things: and other sermons. *$1.50. Scribner.
“Some twenty-eight sermons.... English sermons of the best type.... The ... volume ranges over a wide class of subjects, though no theme is handled which is not of importance in the religious life. The point of view is indicated in the following sentence: ‘The knowledge of God is not to be learned by sacrificing reason to feeling, or feeling to reason, by ascetic observance or by orthodox belief; it is given freely to all that purify themselves with all the force of heart and soul and mind.’”—Nation.
“Strong and thoughtful sermons.”
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Bib. World. 28: 160. Ag. ’06. 10w.
“They are chaste and dignified, orderly and quiet, without screaming for oratorical effect, conveying a happy sensation of established faith and power held in reserve.”
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Nation. 83: 36. Jl. 12, ’06. 210w.
“They have real originality and independence of thought, a fine power of description, and an eloquence which is free from mere rhetoric; on the other hand he drags in controversy sometimes when it is not necessary, and it is just when he denounces dogma and tradition and the Roman Church that he deteriorates and tends to become commonplace.”
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Sat. R. 101: 699. Je. 2, ’06. 190w.
Gwatkin, Henry Melville. Knowledge of God. 2v. *$3.75. Scribner.
“These volumes present in rearranged form the Gifford lectures at Edinburgh in 1904 and 1905 by the Professor of Ecclesiastical history in Cambridge, England. What man has discovered concerning God through God’s revelation of himself to man is the theme given by the title. The first series discusses the reality and character of such a revelation and discovery of God in the universe and in man. The second series is devoted to a historico-critical survey of its development from the stage of primitive religion to the present.”—Outlook.
“The book is studded with memorable phrases and incisive comments, and rises at times to serene and lofty eloquence. The value of the book is that it is a sort of philosophy of history by a man intimately acquainted with every detail of the subject, and entirely free from the bias of the ecclesiastic. We cannot help thinking that Prof. Gwatkin would have strengthened his book by a more sympathetic attitude. For all that it is stimulating, and by its very decision, useful, and above all things, interesting and brilliant.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 265. S. 8. 1450w.
Lond. Times. 5: 274. Ag. 10, ’06. 1540w.
“With the work as a whole one must confess to disappointment. Dr. Gwatkin would appear to be most broad and tolerant in many respects, but his manner toward Roman Catholics is sometimes offensive.”
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Nation. 83: 310. O. 11, ’06. 540w.
“Whatever defects may be attributed to his work, its philosophic thought and warmth of feeling make it a worthy continuation of the work of his predecessors in the Gifford lectureship.”
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Outlook. 83: 711. Ag. 18, ’06. 520w.
“It is a pity that the value of these lectures is seriously compromised by a singular 134inability to do justice to any form of Christian thought except the Evangelical.”
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Sat. R. 102: 489. O. 20, ’06. 1820w.
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Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August. Last words on evolution: a popular retrospect and summary; tr. from 2nd ed. by Joseph McCabe. *$1. Eckler.
Three lectures which reiterate Professor Haeckel’s views of human life and destiny as affected by the doctrine of evolution. They are as follows: The controversy about creation, The struggle over our genealogical tree and The controversy over the soul.
Dial. 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
Ind. 61: 1291. N. 29, ’06. 480w.
Nature. 74: 27. My. 10, ’06. 330w.
Spec. 97: sup. 467. O. 6, ’06. 300w.
Hagar, Frank Nichols. American family: a sociological problem. $1.50 Univ. pub. soc.
“The author brings to his task the special training of a lawyer and considerable reading in the history of institutions. He discusses sex, theories of primitive and historical forms of domestic life, the decadence of the Yankees, occupations of women, matrimonial law, divorce, free love, education, industrial influences, democracy.... The volume illustrates the fact that men with legal training can render a valuable service to sociology by calling attention to the obstacles which the law itself presents when it is no longer fitted to contemporary conditions.”—Am. J. Soc.
“It is a serious work with a conservative purpose. Perhaps the most useful and instructive parts are the discussions of the decadence in the Yankee stock, the danger of foreign inundation, and the law of property affecting husband and wife.” C. R. Henderson.
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Am. J. Soc. 11: 703. Mr. ’06. 300w.
“Dispatching many of the grave questions connected with the family in sweeping generalizations, the author is too generally loose, vague, and incoherent. His wide discursiveness has resulted in a work lacking in due proportion and unity.”
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Cath. World. 82: 415. D. ’05. 770w.
“It is a decidedly interesting and by no means contemptible argument.”
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N. Y. Times. 10: 527. Ag. 12, ’05. 580w.
Haggard, (Henry) Rider. Ayesha: the return of “She.” †$1.50. Doubleday.
Dial. 40: 20. Ja. 1, ’06. 150w.
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Ind. 59: 1537. D. 28, ’05. 250w.
Haggard, (Henry) Rider. Poor and the land; being a report of the Salvation army colonies in the United States and at Hadleigh, England; with a scheme of national land settlement, and an introduction by H. Rider Haggard. 75c. Longmans.
“The report deserves a wide reading here, and careful consideration.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 236. Ja. ’06. 160w.
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Ath. 1905, 2: 333. S. 9. 840w.
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
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Atlan. 97: 843. Je. ’06. 390w.
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Ind. 59: 1538. D. 28, ’06. 320w.
Quarterly R. 204: 243. Ja. ’06. 1600w.
Haggard, Henry Rider. Spirit of Bambatse; a romance. †$1.50. Longmans.
The ingredients out of which H. Rider Haggard’s story is compounded are “Zulu warriors, buried treasure, underground passages, a standard villain, an English maiden of surpassing beauty and bravery, much hypnotism on the part of the villain, and considerable sonorous prophecy on the part of an ancient native priest.” (Ath.)
“Here is the old touch, the old fascination; and the tale—a constant stream of excitement—ends as such tales should end, happily.”
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Acad. 71: 266. S. 15, ’06. 160w.
“A story bristling with adventure and thoroly readable. It reminds us of ‘King Solomon’s mines’ and certain other of Mr. Haggard’s stories but that may be its best passport to popularity.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 330. S. 22. 120w.
Lond. Times. 5: 329. S. 28, ’06. 330w.
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Nation. 83: 287. O. 4, ’06. 190w.
“The man who likes his interest kept at white heat and who doesn’t mind having his feelings harrowed a bit, will find in this book plenty of the diversion and entertainment he seeks.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 594. S. 29, ’06. 410w.
“Mr. Rider Haggard is treading an old road with wonderful buoyancy.”
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Sat. R. 102: 433. O. 6, ’06. 230w.
Haile, Martin. Mary of Modena, her life and letters. *$4. Dutton.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 465. Ja. ’06. 30w.
“Mr. Haile has told the story fully, and with a judicious use of documents.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 661. Je. 2. 760w.
“The author of this biography has made good use of the wealth of materials which in recent years have become available for his purpose.”
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Cath. World. 83: 397. Je. ’06. 330w.
“While clearly in sympathy with his subject, Mr. Haile writes in a calm, temperate manner, and has produced a readable biography.”
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Dial. 40: 332. My. 16, ’06. 310w.
“Is a distinct addition to the historical literature of the close of the Stuart era.”
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Ind. 60: 1285. My. 31, ’06. 290w.
“Mr. Haile has done as well as he could do on behalf of his heroine, and several of the documents he includes are well worth exhuming.”
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Nation. 81: 530. D. 28, ’05. 540w.
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Spec. 96: sup. 1007. Je. 30, ’06. 2370w.
Haines, Henry Stevens. Restrictive railway legislation. **$1.25. Macmillan.
Reviewed by H. Parker Willis.
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Dial. 40: 83. F. 1, ’06. 680w.
“On the whole it is an exceedingly lucid and fair-minded review of the railway situation in its present-day aspects.”
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Ind. 60: 281. F. 1, ’06. 150w.
“The breadth of view manifested in his analysis of problems is not always found in men who are doing things.”
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J. Pol. Econ. 14: 122. F. ’06. 390w.
“Where he speaks as a technical expert, he is surest of his ground. Where he essays a theory of reasonable rates, he is weakest. Where, finally, he attempts a philosophic resume of the underlying forces which have been operative in our railroad history, he attains a very high degree of success.”
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Nation. 82: 204. Mr. 8, ’06. 970w.
Reviewed by Frank Haigh Dixon.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 150. Mr. ’06. 760w.
“Mr. Haines has written one of the best treatises on this bothersome and much-discussed problem which we have seen in recent years. His book is to be recommended to all who desire an unprejudiced view.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 218. F. 17, ’06. 320w.
Hains, Thornton Jenkins. Voyage of the Arrow to the China seas: its adventures and perils, including its capture by sea vultures from the Countess of Warwick as set down by William Gore, chief mate. $1.50. Page.
A tale of thrilling sea-adventure thru which runs the romance of the Arrow’s first mate and the captain’s niece. The reader is subjectively a part of the boat’s company, breathes the salt 135air, enjoys the rough, out-spoken ways of the captain, delights in the Irish grit of Larry O’Toole and enters into the thick of the fight with the convict pirates. There is swift action in the narrative, and many a strong dramatic climax.
“It is written with feeling and conviction, without gross negligence of truth, and with a swing and zest which should commend it particularly to young people.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 363. S. 29. 150w.
“That the author of this tale knows the ocean and the men who sail upon it is undeniable, and he writes with a zest reminding one of Mr Clark Russell, though he has not that novelist’s literary skill.”
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Critic. 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 110w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 376. Je. 9, ’06. 230w.
Haldane, Elizabeth S. Descartes: his life and times. $4.50. Dutton.
“Miss Haldane has hit upon a fortunate analysis of the life of Descartes, and its distribution under three general heads: His education, from 1596 to 1612; his ‘Wanderjahre,’ from 1612 to 1628, spent in seeing the world, in travel and warfare, and, finally, what may be called his constructive period, ‘after his warfare was over, and this dates from 1628 to 1650.’... In tracing his experience in each of the periods Miss Haldane gives much and very intelligent attention to the environment, historical and personal, in which it was passed; and this has the merit not only of bringing out more distinctly the true picture of Descartes, but of rendering the general reader, for whom obviously the work is done, more at home with the man, since he is realized in his surroundings.”—N. Y. Times.
“If Miss Haldane’s ‘Life of Descartes’ smacks rather of a description of genius in a dressing gown, what it lacks in breadth of outlook it certainly gains in possessing the personal note, no small merit when we consider how comparatively uneventful was the philosopher’s history.”
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Acad. 71: 82. Jl. 28, ’06. 660w.
“Miss Haldane has given us the standard life of Descartes. Its interest is not merely biographical, for it throws light on many points of difficulty in Descartes’s philosophy, and on his relations to the philosophers and scientists of his time.” R. Latta.
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Hibbert J. 5: 205. O. ’06. 1580w.
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Ind. 59: 1538. D. 28, ’05. 320w.
“Is by far the fullest and most interesting account of Descartes’s life and times in English.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 35. F. 2, ’06. 1640w.
“The nature and character of the man are insufficiently considered. The style of the book is easy and unperiodical; a little too much so, perhaps.”
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Nation. 82: 242. Mr. 22, ’06. 1870w.
“It is Descartes the man that appeals to her, and she traces the course of his experience and development patiently, minutely, with sympathy, and with simplicity that verges on the naïve. The style is unaffected, direct, almost colloquial.” Edward Cary.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 77. F. 10, ’06. 1380w.
“Has finely told the story of the honest, constructive skeptic.”
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Outlook. 82: 568. Mr. 10, ’06. 150w.
“Miss Haldane’s interesting biography of Descartes will be welcomed by the student of philosophy as well as by the general reader.”
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Spec. 97: 402. S. 22, ’06. 1630w.
Haldane, Joseph. Old Cronnak. $1.50. Decker pub.
Here the muck-raker is at work and brings to view the evil side of life as it defies the code of the moral law. Incontinence is bared for the negative lesson’s sake, and characters are set forth which do not easily find their way into books. Yet in the midst of all this shines the strong, pure love of Joseph Haldane and Alice Carter, which forms the main thread of the story.
Hale, Edward Everett. Man without a country. $1. Century.
Uniform with the “Thumb-nail series” this volume contains an introduction and the author’s preface to the edition of 1897.
Hale, Edward Everett. Man without a country. **50c. Crowell.
A holiday edition of Mr. Hale’s great lesson in patriotism.
Hale, Edward Everett. Tarry at home travels; il. **$2.50. Macmillan.
Dr. Hale’s description serves as a field glass to the ordinary observer. These travels are concerned with New England mainly, with an exception made of the state of New York and of the city of Washington. “It is a talkative sort of book, with bits of description and bits of history and bits of geology and bits of agricultural and horticultural information and bits of biography all run in together and fused into a coherent whole by Mr. Hale’s long knowledge of men and events and his active participation in the life of his time.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It contains much that is old—old enough, for the most part, to have become new again to Dr. Hale’s readers; and it is laden with reminiscences from a day more remote in feeling than in time.” Wallace Rice.
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Dial. 41: 390. D. 1, ’06. 250w.
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Nation. 83: 398. N. 8, ’06. 330w.
“Rapid as has been his survey, he has said more things and opened more avenues of interest and stimulated the reader’s thought more than do most books of travel either at home or abroad.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 843. D. 1, ’06. 340w.
Hale, Louise Closser. Motor car divorce. †$1.50. Dodd.
Peggy Ward fostering notions from her club that preaches “liberty of thought,” “wider horizon,” and “freedom after ten years from the tyrant man,” has a whim for divorce and is humored in it by her husband. “Hence ‘A motor car divorce.’ It was in this clever way the author found a peg on which to hang the description of a tour in Europe.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Lacks coherence as a piece of fiction.”
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Critic. 48: 572. Je. ’06. 60w.
“The chief ingredients thereof are modern slang, trivial humor, frothy sentiment, and pickings of a guide-book information.” Wm. M. Payne.
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“Her work is filled with a kind of wit that is delightful because it is real humor, and more because it is really womanly.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
“A gay and rather foolish tale.”
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Sat. R. 102: 53. Jl. 14, ’06. 120w.
Hall, Charles Cuthbert. Christian belief interpreted by Christian experience. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
“Even as a study in homiletics no minister should lose sight of this volume.” W. Douglas Mackenzie.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 376. Ap. ’06. 830w.
R. of Rs. 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 30w.
Hall, Charles Cuthbert. Universal elements of the Christian religion: an attempt to interpret contemporary religious conditions. **$1.25. Revell.
Six lectures delivered before Vanderbilt University, dealing with religious conditions as distinguished from theological systems. “In these lectures Dr. Hall has tried to discover the deeper tendency of the religious thinking of the present time, in which the critical movement, the modern view of the Bible, the declining interest in sectarianism, the increased cosmopolitanism, 136and the large reconception of world Christianization are powerful elements. He speaks from the point of view of one holding the Pauline and Johannine view of the Person and work of our blessed Lord.” (N. Y. Times.)
Reviewed by Clarence Augustine Beckwith.
Am. J. Theol. 10: 373. Ap. ’06. 1460w.
“They contain an arraignment of sectarianism as earnest as it is gracious, and a plea for church unity full of noble and convincing eloquence.”
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Ind. 61: 1498. D. 20, ’06. 270w.
“Dr. Hall’s lectures are not only pervaded by this spirit of open-mindedness ... but no less by that spirit of devotion which is so distinctly characteristic of oriental thinking, and so often, unhappily, lacking in our occidental thinking.”
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Outlook. 82: 39. Ja. 6, ’06. 1510w.
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Hall, Clare H. Chemistry of paints and paint vehicles. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
“The general scheme which the author has attempted to follow is to take up in Chapter 1 the elementary constituents of paints with the quantitative methods for their determination; in Chapter 2 the dry materials entering into the manufacture of paints with a short description of their physical properties and the separation of their elementary constituents by methods given in Chapter 1; in Chapter 3 the analysis of samples consisting of a mixture of two or more of the raw materials described in Chapter 2; in Chapter 4 an interpretation of results previously obtained where it is desired to duplicate the sample analyzed; and finally in Chapter 5, descriptions and methods for determining the purity of paint vehicles.”
“The scope of the volume is indeed extremely limited, since it deals with the examination of only a few common pigments, and by no means exhaustively even with these; about some vehicles and diluents the information to be found in these pages is less meagre. This little book, with all its imperfections and its immaturity, is not destitute of merit.”
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Nature. 75: 4. N. 1, ’06. 640w.
Hall, Florence Howe. Social usages at Washington. **$1. Harper.
The social usages of Washington, the seat of federal government and the home of a large official world, differ in many important respects from those of the rest of the country and these differences are made clear in this little volume which “covers not only the fixed etiquette of official circles but also the new social issues that have come up under the Roosevelt administration.” It will prove of value to all visitors at the national capital who wish to enjoy its public functions and meet its public people without being entangled in the intricacies of its etiquette.
Hall, H. Fielding. People at school. $3. Macmillan.
Mr. Hall says: “Some years ago I wrote ‘The soul of a people.’ It was an attempt to understand the Burmese, to see them as they do themselves, to describe their religion and its effect on them. This book is also concerned with the Burmese.... This is of the outer life, of success and failure, of progress and retrogression judged as nations judge each other.”
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Acad. 70: 450. My. 12, ’06. 630w.
“‘A people at school’ will never, we think, attain the popularity of ‘The soul of a people:’ the tonic is never sought like the sweet. But it deserves to be read in conjunction with the other book, and no one can read it without learning much about some ten millions of our fellow-subjects.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 322. Mr. 17. 1340w.
“The work has little literary charm, but it is sane, lucid and instructive.”
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Lit. D. 32: 770. My. 10, ’06. 130w.
“Interesting if not very exhaustive, nor always entirely convincing.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 162. My. 4, ’06. 880w.
“Despite ... errors of fact and judgment and the decline in style as compared with the previous volume, there is an honesty in Mr. Hall which makes his studies attractive, and it is always refreshing to get a first-hand impression.”
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Nation. 82: 372. My. 3, ’06. 680w.
“That this book is rather suggestive than conclusive is one of its charms, and no one who cares for the mysterious and vanishing East should fail to read this study of a people at school.” Archibald R. Colquhoun.
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Nature. 74: sup. 7. My. 3, ’06. 930w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 156. Mr. 10, ’06. 240w.
“If there be any to whom the secret of England’s genius of empire is still hidden—in spite of all that Mr. Kipling has done to reveal it—the unenlightened one has only to read understandingly H. Fielding Hall’s ‘A people at school.’”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 288. My. 5, ’06. 1460w.
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Sat. R. 101: 760. Je. 16, ’06. 820w.
Hall, Henry Foljambe, ed. Napoleon’s notes on English history made on the eve of the French revolution; illustrated from contemporary historians and refreshed from the findings of later research. **$3. Dutton.
Of Napoleon as a student of eighteenth century history, the compiler says: “Napoleon’s almost invariably right judgment seems marvelous, and his verdicts, generally the very opposite of those of his author, who kept to the orthodox ruts of eighteenth century opinion, are those of a hundred years later.” Further Mr. Hall discusses the “note books,” and furnishes notes on Napoleon’s probable authorities—Barron, Rapin, and Carte.
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Acad. 70: 203. Mr. 3, ’06. 550w.
“Mr. Foljambe Hall appended very complete notes to this volume, respecting the manner in which Bonaparte used his authorities; and it is here, of course, that the chief value of the book lies. On certain topics, perhaps, the notes are needlessly full, and we have noticed occasional slips.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 684. N. 18. 710w.
“Nowhere are they illuminated by any of that prodigious precocity which hero-worshippers like to find. There are, however, some entertaining passages.”
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Ind. 61: 43. Jl. 5, ’06. 360w.
“The value of the book is not in the editor’s work, but entirely in the translation.”
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Nation. 82: 62. Ja. 18, ’06. 490w.
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N. Y. Times. 10: 876. D. 9, ’05. 820w.
“Mr. Hall’s own observations are original and instructive, albeit not always as critical as could be desired.”
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Outlook. 81: 1085. D. 30, ’05. 120w.
“Napoleon’s notes are worth reading for their own sake; as given in this volume, with abundant—if not superabundant—and minute explanations, they constitute a most valuable survey of a most important portion of British history.”
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Spec. 96: sup. 646. Ap. 28, ’06. 530w.
Hall, Prescott F. Immigration and its effects upon the United States. *$1.50. Holt.
Volume one of the “American public problems” series, edited by Ralph Curtis Ringwalt, is a handbook upon immigration intended for the American people at large. Part 1, Immigration and emigration, presents the history, causes and conditions of immigration; Part 2, discusses 137The effects of immigration, Part 3, Immigration legislation, gives the history of past immigration and describes various proposed remedies for existing evils; Part 4 deals with Chinese immigration. Appendices contain copies of the federal immigration acts now in force.
“Notwithstanding blemishes ... the book seems to me a valuable summary of the recent history and the present aspects of a great national problem; and with the exception of Mayo-Smith’s book the best general discussion of immigration into the United States.” W. F. Willcox.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 921. Jl. ’06. 810w.
“The volume under review is the most comprehensive book on the subject of the last decade. It discusses practically all of the questions which have arisen and of the suggestions made for avoiding the dangers. It deserves careful attention in spite of its very serious defects.” Carl Kelsey.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 346. S. ’06. 650w.
Reviewed by Robert C. Brooks.
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Reviewed by Cyrus L. Sulzberger.
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Charities. 115: 924. Mr. 31, ’06. 5830w.
“The book reads well, and one is struck by the author’s skill in condensation where the temptation to more or less diffuse writing must have been very great.” Frederick Austin Ogg.
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Dial. 40: 258. Ap. 16, ’06. 440w.
Ind. 60: 983. Ap. 26, ’06. 710w.
“The book would make an even more favorable impression if the footnotes did not sometimes indicate a lack of discrimination in the use of materials. It may be accepted, however, as a trustworthy general guide; and to college debating societies ... it should prove a godsend.”
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Nation. 82: 280. Ap. 5, ’06. 190w.
“Mr. Hall writes with conviction, but not with prejudice or passion. He holds a brief, but his argument is sober and reasonable. Perhaps nowhere else can be found equally full and conveniently arranged statistics, and as good an epitome of legislation.” Edward A. Bradford.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 141. Mr. 10, ’06. 1200w.
“He gives, with evident intention of fairness, both sides of the various questions he raises; but he reaches certain definite conclusions which he urges upon his readers. In some respects we think he argues upon false premises.”
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R. of Rs. 30: 509. Ap. ’06. 80w.
“Taken as a whole, the book is a well-balanced treatment of the subject, and does not deserve the violent criticism which it has received in some quarters.” William B. Bailey.
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Yale R. 15: 332. N. ’06. 310w.
Halpin, Rev. P. A. Apologetica: elementary apologetics for pulpit and pew. *85c. Wagner, J. F.
“This volume, whose author has frequently given proof that he reads the signs of the times, is a step in the right direction. It presents the fundamental facts of Christianity in the light of reason, with the least possible appeal to revelation.... Every one of his fifty-two sketches deals with an objection that is in the atmosphere which Catholics breathe to-day, and against which they require the strengthening tonic of sound instruction, as frequently as it can be administered.”—Cath. World.
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Cath. World. 83: 268. My. ’06. 120w.
Hamilton, Angus. Afghanistan. *$5. Scribner.
To material gathered from various books and official papers the author has added his own first hand information producing more of a gazetteer than a volume of travel in the ordinary sense. “He gives trade statistics for every town, elaborate measurements of all railway lines and distances, and he endeavours to set out the kind of detail as to the various defences which might be expected in a confidential report to some Army intelligence department.” (Spec.)
“If the author has erred at all, he has erred in not restricting himself to his subject.”
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Acad. 71: 58. Jl. 21, ’06. 800w.
“The book is not to be commended on literary grounds. It contains a great deal of repetition. The map is far from good.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 11. Jl. 7. 1490w.
“Is heavy, but it is substantial and instructive reading.” H. E. Coblentz.
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Dial. 41: 239. O. 16, ’06. 1090w.
“To those who know something of Afghanistan, to soldiers and statesmen, the work of Mr. Angus Hamilton will be welcome; but to the general reader the painstaking and admirably minute descriptions of the divisions and routes of Afghanistan will be difficult and perhaps tedious.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 246. Jl. 13, ’06. 1410w.
“The book is heavy reading, for Mr. Hamilton is not concerned with the usual traveller’s picturesque account of the strange manners and customs of a strange country. He gives us statistics ... such data as appeal to the man who wants a thorough working knowledge of Central Asian affairs.”
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Nation. 83: 309. O. 11, ’06. 900w.
“To the serious traveller, the politician, the trader, and the soldier Mr. Hamilton’s work has great value. It is a compendium of all that is known about one of our most permanent frontier questions, and though the author prefers facts to generalizations, there is ample guidance in his book as to the greater questions of policy.”
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Spec. 97: 232. Ag. 18, ’06. 1460w.
Hamilton, Sir Ian Standish Monteith. Staff officer’s scrapbook during the Russo-Japanese war. *$4.50. Longmans.
“Facts as they appeared to the First Japanese army while the wounded still lay bleeding upon the stricken field.” From the standpoint of the soldier of insight there are impressions of the Japanese army, its leaders, some acquaintances, the march from Tokio to the Yalu, the battle of the Yalu, an account of the visit from the Chinese General, entertainments for the attachés, and “snap shots” and impressions and opinions of other battles in which the First army engaged and which Hamilton witnessed.
“Although in many respects a disappointing production ... is a very welcome addition to the extensive but unsatisfying literature that has been the outcrop of the campaign. In certain instances Sir Ian Hamilton succeeded where others failed in piercing the veil of secrecy at least partially.”
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Acad. 69: 1224. N. 25, ’05. 1840w.
“Sir Ian Hamilton’s book is of great interest, though the volume forms but a fragment and breaks off suddenly.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 755. D. 2. 1690w.
“Under the above modest title Sir Ian Hamilton has produced by far the most interesting book on the Russo-Japanese war that has yet appeared from the pen of an eye-witness.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 414. D. 1, ’05. 1020w.
“Attractive for its personal or literary quality. Sir Ian evidently became highly popular at the Japanese headquarters, and obtained much technical information not generally accessible. His ‘Scrapbook’ is not only valuable for this reason, but delightful for the personality of the writer.”
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Nation. 82: 79. Ja. 25, ’06. 330w.
“The author gives almost no dates. His is a good book by a good observer. Even if one is tired of war, he can read this with interest.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 87. F. 10, ’06. 1100w.
“Sir Ian will often amuse his readers, he will certainly startle them, and he will occasionally instruct them. So we welcome a very 138readable volume. There is in fact a fatal want of ballast about the book.”
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Sat. R. 100: 752. D. 9, ’05. 1320w.
“We might indeed search the whole army through without finding such a combination of qualities as this distinguished General brings to the making of his book. Not only is he a soldier revelling, as some old pagan hero would revel, in the grand game of war, but he is poet, humorist, sentimentalist, and descriptive writer as well. The result is that his scrapbook, most fitly so called, is a delightful medley of grave and of gay, of pleasing sentiment and excellent good sense.”
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Hammond, Harold. Further fortunes of Pinkey Perkins. †$1.50. Century.
Recollections of a real live healthy boyhood in a country town must lie behind these stories of boy fun and boy ingenuity; for Pinkey Perkins is as full of wholesome mischief in this story as he was in the earlier volume which bears his name and his experiences as his own Santa Claus, as a philanthropist, a visitor at the County fair, or midnight adventurer, will not hurt the boy of to-day and will bring a reminiscent chuckle to the boy of yesterday.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 80w.
R. of Rs. 34: 767. D. ’06. 30w.
Hammond, Mrs. L. H. Master-word. †$1.50 Macmillan.
“Taken in its place, it is full of significance, and should be neglected by no one who wishes to follow contemporary conditions.” Mary Moss.
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Atlan. 97: 50. Ja. ’06. 70w.
Hamp, Sidford Frederick. Dale and Fraser, sheepmen: a story of Colorado sheep raising; il. †$1.50. Wilde.
The wool-grower’s west is pictured from real happenings. There are descriptions of the wolf hunt, the great sheep drive, the prairie fire which threatened the ranch and the western blizzard.
Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
Hancock, Harrie Irving. Physical culture life: a guide for all who seek the simple laws of abounding health. **$1.25. Putnam.
“It is certain that were much of the advice in this book generally followed, a lot of doctors’ shingles would very speedily come down.”
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Reader. 7: 562. Ap. ’06. 230w.
Handel, Georg Friedrich. Songs and airs; ed. by Ebenezer Prout. pa. $1.50; cl. $2.50. Ditson.
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Dial. 40: 133. F. 16, ’06. 120w.
Ind. 60: 226. Ja. 25, ’06. 50w.
“Ebenezer Prout ... displays, both in the introduction and in the editing of the songs, the scholarship which is expected of him.”
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Outlook. 82: 477. F. 24, ’06. 130w.
“Dr. Prout has made his selections with great discrimination.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 255. F. ’06. 90w.
Hanks, Charles Stedman (Niblick, pseud.). Camp kits and camp life. **$1.50. Scribner.
“This is a compilation of explicit and prac- shooting, fishing, or merely rusticating. There are excellent chapters on camps and campfires, camp cooking, what to do when lost in the woods, some remedies for sickness or accidents in camp, and other topics of suggestive interest to intending campers.”—R. of Rs.
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Nation. 82: 449. My. 31, ’06. 290w.
R. of Rs. 33: 764. Je. ’06. 80w.
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World To-Day. 11: 763. Jl. ’06. 110w.
Hannah, Rev. Henry King, comp. Bible for the sick. **$1. Whittaker.
Selections have been made from the Old and New Testament alike which are intended for the sick to read themselves.
Hanotaux, Gabriel. Contemporary France, tr. from the French. 4v. ea. *$3.75. Putnam.
“The book is more than a history, it is the reflection of attitudes of mind of a contemporary Frenchman of fine type. This enhances the value of the book which aims to interpret for us contemporary France.” Henry E. Bourne.
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Dial. 40: 295. My. 1, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The translator ... has performed his task far better than in the previous volume, and it must be allowed that the pregnant and spasmodically emphatic style of M. Hanotaux is one very difficult to translate into clear and idiomatic English.” P. F. Willert.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 400. Ap. ’06. 500w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Compared with Justin McCarthy’s popular ‘History of our own times,’ this volume by Hanotaux ... is less picturesque, less witty, more solid, more detailed and more given to philosophising.”
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Ind. 61: 694. S. 20, ’06. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)
“M. Hanotaux, shines more by his pen than by his philosophy. We do not feel that he has got to the bottom of the question he discusses. Nevertheless the book is most interesting—as interesting a piece of contemporary history as has appeared for many a year.”
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Nation. 82: 533. Je. 28, ’06. 1630w. (Review of v. 2.)
“M. Hanotaux shows here to more advantage than in his first volume. On the whole the translation is satisfactory. M. Hanotaux must study compression.”
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Sat. R. 101: 206. F. 17, ’06. 1690w. (Review of v. 2.)
Harben, William Nathaniel (Will N., pseud.). Ann Boyd. $1.50. Harper.
Ann Boyd had been unfairly dealt with by her fellow-villagers, her reputation sullied, her finer sensibilities crushed. Yet, single-handed she ran her farm, made money, invested it and became the envy of all her maligners. The two forces fighting for mastery in Ann are hatred born of resentment and the power of love which is awakened thru the one soul which she considers white—that of her protégé, Luke King. The love interest centers about Luke and the daughter of Ann’s bitter enemy. The tangle finally straightens and Ann forgives and is at peace with the world.
“In some portions of the book the writer has succeeded in imparting a suggestion of the rude pathos and unaffected sentiment that we associate with the peasant pictures of Millet.”
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Lit. D. 33: 513. O. 13, ’06. 200w.
“There is difficulty in reaching the old enthusiasm over ‘Ann Boyd.’”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 669. O. 13, ’06. 740w.
“The story is injured by the tendency of the characters to excessive monologue.”
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Outlook. 84: 335. O. 6, ’06. 240w.
“The story has a certain elemental vigor which is characteristic of all Mr. Harben’s work.”
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Outlook. 84: 712. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
Harben, William Nathaniel. Pole Baker; a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
“In the shuttling of these well-proven motifs 139of the book, Mr. Harben shows himself a practiced and skillful craftsman, keeping his threads caught up and unbroken, and working out a clear, bright design. The result is a texture not especially dainty or beautiful, but a homespun stuff of fast color and good wear.”
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Lit. D. 32: 216. F. 10, ’06. 620w.
Hardie, Martin. English coloured books. $6.75. Putnam.
A recent addition to the “Connoisseur’s library” which enlightens the reader on the various processes employed in the production of colored illustrations. “Premising that, like Gaul of old, the subject is divisible into three parts, the author gives an account first of coloured illustrations printed from wood blocks, secondly of those printed from metal plates, and thirdly of those printed from stone, devoting special chapters to men who have played a leading role in evolution of colour printing in this country.” (Int. Studio.)
“A manual for the use of collector’s and students is urgently required, and it could not come from a better source than from a librarian in the Art library at South Kensington, nor appear under better auspices than those of Mr. Cyril Davenport.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 555. N. 3. 1430w.
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Ind. 61: 1403. D. 13, ’06. 270w.
“Mr. Hardie’s exposition throughout is clear and concise, and he writes with the authority of one whose knowledge of the subject is probably unequalled.”
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Int. Studio. 30: 90. N. ’06. 480w.
“There can be nothing but praise for Mr. Hardie’s thorough treatment and pleasant style.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 266. Jl. 27, ’06. 760w.
“Appendixes valuable to book and print collectors, an index, and many color prints beautifully reproduced make this volume a necessary book for certain libraries. Along with the text that keeps the reader’s interest there is a mass of information which gives the advantage of a book of reference.” C. de Kay.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 885. D. 22, ’06. 380w.
“From the point of view of the bibliographer and the printer the volume could hardly be improved.”
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Outlook. 84: 336. O. 6, ’06. 210w.
Hardy, Rev. Edward John. John Chinaman at home. **$2.50. Scribner.
“Writes in a very bright and breezy way of his observations in China. The account is rambling, jumping from city to city with no special attempt at system.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 236. Ja. ’06. 130w.
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Ath. 1905, 2: 834. D. 16. 820w.
“He furnishes a readable book, without notable characteristics.” John W. Foster.
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Atlan. 97: 544. Ap. ’06. 90w.
“This is one of the most readable books about the country whose population and peculiarities are permanently exaggerated in most of our text-books.” W. E. Griffis.
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Critic. 48: 372. Ap. ’06. 200w.
“Not at all distinguished, not always in the best of taste, but readable throughout, and well adapted to the needs of the middle-class book-buyer.”
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Spec. 97: 270. Ag. 25, ’06. 250w.
Hardy, Edward John. What men like in women. **$1. Dillingham.
From invincible youth to graceful age, the author sketches the likable characteristics and qualities of women. In every chapter he sounds the depths of the permanent and trustworthy elements that make for life happiness.
“Out of the serious often cometh forth humor. The wheat is in about the same proportion to the chaff as history is to fiction in an historical novel.”
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Critic. 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 150w.
Hardy, Ernest George. Studies in Roman history. *$1.60. Macmillan.
“A new edition of the author’s well-known work on ‘Christianity and the Roman government,’ supplemented by half a dozen other essays, two of which originally appeared in the English historical review, three in the Journal of philology, and one as part of an introduction to an edition of Plutarch’s ‘Lives of Galba and Otha.’”—Nation.
“At its first appearance Hardy’s work was not marked by much originality, and hence it is questionable whether any justification can be found for a second edition in which no account has been taken of recent developments. Some of the special studies ... which form the concluding portions of the book are decided contributions to the literature of Roman administration.” Patrick J. Healy.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 931. Jl. ’06. 410w.
“Present volume is indispensable to all serious students of the Roman empire.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 576. My. 11. 990w.
“All are of a most scholarly, some even of an extremely technical character; and hence all are deserving of the careful attention of the special student.”
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Bookm. 23: 455. Je. ’06. 130w.
“Dr. Hardy presents his case with utmost candour of mind and cleanness of language, and there is no point of importance on which the present writer is unable to accept his conclusions. Altogether the book is one which will certainly be read with interest and deserves to be studied with respect.” W. A. G.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 610. Jl. ’06. 450w.
“They show what instructive results a patient reading of inscriptions may yield to any one with sufficient knowledge to find and hold the clue.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 386. N. 16, ’06. 700w.
Nation. 82: 222. Mr. 15, ’06. 190w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 377. Je. 9, ’06. 670w.
“Eminently sane and judicious. The work is always accurate and reliable. Their tone is admirable, and the writer does his best to set out the particulars fairly and fully. The author writes with less obvious prepossessions than almost all who have attempted to deal with the matter.”
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Sat. R. 102: 271. S. 1, ’06. 630w.
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Spec. 97: 301. S. 1, ’06. 710w.
Hardy, Thomas. Dynasts: a drama of the Napoleonic wars. In three parts. Part 2. *$1.50. Macmillan.
The first part of this work of nineteen acts and one hundred and thirty scenes appeared about two years ago. With the completion of this second part “There is a disposition ... to look into the matter more closely and more reverently. As its huge proportions are slowly developed, this drama of the making of history takes on grandeur in the reviewer’s eyes. They are no longer troubled to identify, reasonably, the Spirits sinister, the Chorus of the pities, the ancient spirit of the years, the Recording angels These are but personifications of human and normal influences after all.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The great drama of ‘The dynasts’ ... proves him not merely a great novelist but an essayist, a poet and a dramatist and, I might add, an acute historical critic.” Robert Ross.
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Acad. 70: 206. Mr. 3, ’06. 1080w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“The poetry of the piece is not so much in the brickish verse as in some of the stage directions in prose.” Ferris Greenslet.
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Atlan. 96: 422. S. ’05. 220w. (Review of pt. 1.)
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne,
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Dial. 40: 325 My. 16, ’06. 1090w. (Review of pt. 2.)
140“There is probably little, if any, great dramatic poetry throughout the multitude of scenes; but there is some good, and a great deal of passable verse; there is some excellent prose; and there is a continuous manifestation of imagination and intelligence for which I am glad to acknowledge myself deeply grateful.” W. P. Trent.
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Forum. 38: 86. Jl. ’06. 4150w.
“‘The dynasts’ is a gloomy and powerful epic, but it is not a drama.”
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Ind. 60: 807. Ap. 5, ’06. 320w. (Review of pt. 2.)
Lit. D. 32: 609. Ap. 21, ’06. 1580w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“There can be no possible question of the importance and high literary excellence of his latest book. ‘The dynasts’ is a work of exceptional power. It is a thing compact with imagination.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 49. F. 16, ’06. 2120w. (Review of pt. 2.)
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Nation. 82: 325. Ap. 19, ’06. 530w. (Review of pt. 2.)
N. Y. Times. 11: 132. Mr. 3, ’06. 270w. (Editorial on pt. 2.)
“This work has in it the substance, in short, of a true prose masterpiece. Mr. Hardy has nothing of the poet in him.” H. W. Boynton.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 160. Mr. 17, ’06. 1910w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“It is absolutely hopeless as a poem.”
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Outlook. 82: 808. Ap. 7, ’06. 260w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“However it all may strike the historian’s mind as a spectacle of predigested history, to the lay mind Mr. Hardy has made a wonderful gift. He has invented a new sensation.”
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Putnam’s. 1: 254. N. ’06. 570w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“The diction is strained, and when metaphysics begin we flounder among quasi-technical platitudes. But in spite of a hundred faults, there is a curious sublimity about the very immensity of the scheme.”
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Spec. 96: 645. Ap. 7, ’06. 300w. (Review of pt. 2.)
Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert, and Baddeley (Welbore) St. Clair. Sicily. **$1. Dutton.
The guide-book prepared by the late Augustus C. Hare is now published in a new edition revised and brought admirably down to date by St. Clair Baddeley. The volume is pocket size and contains maps and photographs.
“In general the practical information which it contains has been brought up to date. The historical sketch with which the volume opens is clearly written, and will be helpful to the traveler who has not read Freeman; but it is defective in one or two points.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 13. Ja. 6. 500w.
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Ind. 60: 871. Ap. 12, ’06. 80w.
“The author’s great fund of information is presented in compact style. The style might have been made somewhat clearer, however—especially with regard to ambiguity in the use of relative pronouns—without any necessity of increasing the text.”
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Outlook. 82: 571. Mr. 10, ’06. 110w.
Hare, Christopher. Dante the wayfarer. *$2.50. Scribner.
“Mr. Hare’s fine compilation is fitted to be of such incalculable use to the earnest student of Dante that it seems needful, if a little ungracious, to point out the fact that the text of the present edition teems with minute typographical errors.”
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Atlan. 97: 558. Ap. ’06. 780w.
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Ind. 60: 399. F. 15, ’06. 650w.
Hare, Christopher. Queen of queens, and the making of Spain. **$2.50. Scribner.
“There are few more striking figures in European history than Isabel, the Catholic, Queen of Spain.... The subject of the book is wide. It is by no means a study of the Queen’s life alone, but a good swift, picturesque sketch of the history of Spain, beginning with the conquest of the Moors in A. D. 711, and going on to the gradual recovery of power and territory by the Christian Goths who fled before them to the mountains of Asturias. Then comes the rise of the Christian kingdoms ... then the fusion of these, after much fighting and confusion and many romantic episodes, including the immortal story of the Cid, into the two kingdoms of Castile and Leon and Aragon and Catalonia.”—Spec.
“The book adds little to our knowledge; at its best, it summarizes the chapters in some unrevised edition of Prescott’s work, and it is disfigured by interpolated errors which could never have been made by any one acquainted with Spanish. Decidedly this is a book not to be trusted.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 12. Jl. 7. 470w.
“He quotes too much from others to produce a vivid effect, and most of the lines in his portrait are those common to the great ladies who lived at the same time as Isabella.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 218. Je. 15, ’06. 980w.
“The historian would be scientific, in sad truth, whom Isabella the Catholic would not carry off his feet. That he seems hardly to have read his proof-sheets is another matter; to be balanced perhaps by the excellent illustrations.”
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Nation. 83: 419. N. 15, ’06. 780w.
“Mr. Hare is not himself an eloquent writer, and the most of his purple patches, especially those dealing with the Moorish wars and the story of the Queen’s dealings with Columbus, are taken verbatim from Irving.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 515. Ag. 18, ’06. 570w.
“Mr. Hare always writes with evidence of so much research, and with such a real enthusiasm for his subject, that we cannot help regretting some literary lapses in his style. This book, for instance, would have been greatly improved in value and dignity if he had read through his proofs more severely, cut out various ornamental passages, and tightened up certain slovenly sentences. As we have already said, the book is agreeable and picturesque, and we have read it with interest and enjoyment.”
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Spec. 96: 987. Je. 23, ’06. 1400w.
Harker, Mrs. Lizzie Allen. Concerning Paul and Fiammetta; with an introd. by Kate Douglas Wiggin. †$1.25. Scribner.
While in England a year ago, Kate Douglas Wiggin discovered in the children of Mrs. Harker’s “A romance of the nursery” such delightful little people that she asked for the privilege of introducing to her own American readers Mrs. Harker’s next story. And so Paul and Fiammetta have come to take their place beside Rebecca, Timothy and Polly Oliver. “‘Fee’ is a travelled, hotel-bred child, who had learned experience without losing her good manners.” (Lond. Times.) Paul has a mania for reading, and is devoted to dogs no less than to his friend Tonks.
“The story has many appealing qualities,—its gayety, sympathy, humour, and lifelikeness; and perhaps to American readers one of its chiefest charms will be that it is so thoroughly English,—as English as a hedge-rose or a bit of pink hawthorne,—yet, with all its local colour, sounding the human and universal note.” Kate Douglas Wiggin.
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“It is easy to imagine many parties both in the school room and downstairs where these 141sketches will be read aloud and approved enthusiastically.”
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Critic. 48: 572. Je. ’06. 60w.
“In the main, the book is rather about children than for them. Children ... would never notice the delicacy, the strength, and the sympathy with which Mrs. Harker has worked.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 104. Mr. 23, ’06. 450w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 193. Mr. 31, ’06. 420w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
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Outlook. 82: 810. Ap. 7, ’06. 80w.
“The way in which the four children are differentiated and each endowed with a well-marked individuality is extremely clever. In a book which strikes so true a note all through the critic may be forgiven for wishing that the simplicity of the original keynote has been preserved to the concluding sentence.”
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Spec. 96: 623. Ap. 21, ’06. 700w.
Harnack, (Carl Gustav) Adolf. Expansion of Christianity in the first three centuries; tr. and ed. by James Moffatt. 2v. *$3. Putnam.
“There are certain dangers into which the modern aggressive historian is apt to fall, and does fall if Harnack and Knopf are to be taken as fair representatives of the class. If he has successfully found his way out of the swamp of sectarian prejudice on the one hand, he seems likely to wander, on the other, into the dense forest of conjecture, wherein he will see all sorts of fantastic forms in the dim light.” Andrew C. Zenos.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 334. Ap. ’06. 1420w.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
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Atlan. 97: 413. Mr. ’06. 460w.
“Dr. Harnack, in fine, has produced what is as yet the most satisfactory, if not the most striking and original, of the noble series of works in which he is casting new light upon Christian history. We wish that we could say that a worthy translator had been found for him.”
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Sat. R. 101: 19. Ja. 6, ’06. 740w.
Harper, William Rainey. Critical and exegetical commentary on Amos and Hosea. **$3. Scribner.
“Students of the Old Testament have now, for the first time in many years, an adequate commentary on Amos and Hosea. The treatment of the text is on the whole conservative, the emendations adopted being generally those which the soberest scholarship of the present day would approve.” Charles Torrey.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 309. Ap. ’06. 1840w.
“Judging from his own point of view Dr. Harper has succeeded fairly well. He has not the initiative of Marti, but when he selects from the emendations of others, he may count on the approval of most liberal-conservative scholars.” T. K. Cheyne.
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Hibbert J. 3: 824. Jl. ’05. 4710w.
Harper, William Rainey. Priestly element in the Old Testament: an aid to historical study for use in advanced Bible classes. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
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Bibliotheca Sacra. 63: 375. Ap. ’06. 340w.
Harper, William Rainey. Prophetic element in the Old Testament. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
“For the student who is willing to do his own thinking, and to reach his own conclusions, there will be found in this volume stimulus, suggestion, and guidance, such as will be found, in this particular form, nowhere else.” John E. McFadyen.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 317. Ap. ’06. 440w.
“A careful study of this work would lead to a highly specialized knowledge of the subject. This suggests the only criticism that might be ventured on the book. Is it not too taxing upon the average student, except when used by such a pedagogical genius as Dr. Harper himself?” Kemper Fullerton.
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Bib. World. 28: 154. Ag. ’06. 320w.
“For one interested in the analysis of modern biblical criticism, this manual will be in a high degree valuable; and if one is in an early stage of scriptural study, it will be almost indispensable.”
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Cath. World. 82: 703. F. ’06. 330w.
Harraden, Beatrice. Scholar’s daughter. $1.50. Dodd.
“Geraldine Grant is the daughter of an austere and self-centred scholar who lives a life of seclusion in a lonely country house, engaged in the compilation of a colossal dictionary. Soured by the unfaithfulness of his wife, shortly after his daughter’s birth, no woman is admitted to his house.... Heredity it is to be supposed will out and Geraldine practices her powers of fascination on the three middle-aged men secretaries who assist her father.... A lightning love-tale and the very obvious identification as his wife of a famous actress, Miss Charlotta Selbourne, on her casual appearance at the professor’s house make up this slender story.”—Sat. R.
“We venture to think that this story would do better as a light play than as a novel.”
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Acad. 70: 182. F. 24, ’06. 200w.
“Compared with ‘Ships that pass in the night’ and even with one or two of the succeeding novels, this story is a grievous disappointment.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 259. Mr. 3. 150w.
“It all savours pleasantly of comic opera, with soothing little melodies running through it; and undeniably leaves a pleasant, if transitory, taste behind it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 23: 416. Je. ’06. 330w.
“The book is amusing reading for an idle hour.”
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Critic. 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 40w.
“If we consider the book as a serious novel, its superficiality irritates us, or if we take it as a short story we are wearied by the protracted explanations.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 52. F. 16, ’06. 260w.
“There is a freshness and strength in the pen-painting of people who inhabit this new novel.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 306. My. 12, ’06. 370w.
“Is a triumph of ‘manner.’”
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Sat. R. 101: 401. Mr. 31, ’06. 280w.
“A highly agreeable romance, suffused with graceful sentiment and containing a half-a-dozen pleasant portraits.”
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Spec. 96: 263. F. 17, ’06. 740w.
Harriman, Karl Edwin. Girl and the deal. †$1.25. Jacobs.
“The very kind of a tale to rest an overtired brain or to relieve the tedium of a long journey.”
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Arena. 35: 223. F. ’06. 200w.
Harriman, Karl Edwin. Girl out there; il. by A. Russell. †$1.25. Jacobs.
Mr. Harriman finds his heroine of the title in a little rural town whither a young journalist goes to recuperate after a run of fever. The simple folk of the village from Alec Truesdale, the close-fisted man who nibbles crackers by the hour in the little weather-grayed grocery, much to the discomfiture of the owner, to Herb Jenkins, stout of heart and generous of purpose, are cleverly sketched. The new comer wins the heart of the girl that Herb Jenkins loves, and how Herb crushes his own hope 142and gains for the two the blessing of an obdurate father is an example of fine unselfishness.
“As a study of the ways and manners of the inhabitants of a small New England village the book is not without merit, but it lacks both plot and incident.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 153. Ag. 11. 110w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 435. Jl. 7, ’06. 220w.
Harris, J. Henry. Cornish saints and sinners. †$1.50. Lane.
“The fabled land of Lyonesse is supposed to lie under the sea off the coast of Cornwall, and the country abounds in legends of saints, giants and fairies to say nothing of numerous tales in which his Satanic majesty figures more or less prominently. Many of these old folklore stories are retold by Mr. Harris as he heard them from the natives, but with an added touch of humor all his own.”—Arena.
“We find Mr. Harris feebly and coarsely imitating Mark Twain at his very worst, with the result that the feelings of any person of taste must be shocked.”
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Acad. 70: 557. Je. 9, ’06. 160w.
“Delightfully humorous account of the travels of three friends.” Amy C. Rich.
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Arena. 36: 211. Ag. ’06. 160w.
“Many more pretentious chronicles of travel have been less entertaining.”
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Critic. 49: 283. S. ’06. 170w.
“In spite of these mistaken efforts, most of the book is agreeable reading, and Mr. Harris shows real interest in Cornwall, and sympathy, mixed with a certain condescension, for the people he describes.”
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Nation. 83: 230. S. 13, ’06. 420w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 439. Jl. 7, ’06. 130w.
Harris, William Charles, and Bean, Tarleton Hoffman. Basses, fresh-water and marine. **$3.50. Stokes.
“The brook brings you into pleasant contact with nature, even if the trout refuse to rise, and if one possesses a fairly active imagination the book may do the same, even if it fails to satisfy all applicable objective tests of good literature. It is chiefly from this point of view that we must commend the sumptuous volume which Mr. Rhead has devoted to the basses.” (Nation.)
“If any important facts about the bass have been overlooked it would be difficult to specify what they are.”
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Critic. 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 70w.
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Ind. 60: 1371. Je. 7, ’06. 140w.
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Lit. D. 32: 984. Je. 30, ’06. 120w.
“One does not really find any striking positive merits to distinguish it from other literature available on the same subject.”
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Nation. 82: 268. Mr. 29, ’06. 530w.
“While the volume is mainly intended for the fisherman, the natural history side has not been forgotten.”
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Outlook. 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’06. 110w.
“It is a carefully planned survey of the entire field. The joys and trials of the fisherman’s life are so charmingly described that the book is an exceptional companion for the shore or library.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 543. Ap. 28, ’06. 80w.
Harrison, Constance Cary (Mrs. Burton Harrison). Carlyles, The: a story of the fall of the confederacy. †$1.50. Appleton.
A Civil war story whose opening chapters give a detailed account of the evacuation of Richmond. When the city is set on fire, the home of Monimia Carlyle is protected by a Union officer who supplants in the young maiden’s affection the place of her accepted Confederate cousin. Molly Ball, a Confederate spy “of that never extinct Amazon brood that springs from sleep at the trumpet’s call” (Nation) calls the cousin off from his initial love pursuits and rather monopolizes the remainder of the story.
“There is no doubt as to the charm of the book and the accuracy of the picture it presents of certain aspects of post-bellum life in Dixie.”
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Critic. 48: 190. F. ’06. 180w.
“The several parts, though not unrelated, are not smoothly connected, and, in the later chapters, the charming heroine is seriously neglected for metal less attractive.”
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Nation. 81: 510. D. 21, ’05. 360w.
Outlook. 81: 680. N. 18, ’05. 60w.
Harrison, Edith Ogden (Mrs. Carter Henry). Moon princess. **$1.25. McClurg.
“With a simple, unaffected style, the writer has narrated a child’s story of lively interest.”
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Critic. 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 30w.
“Is full of delicate shades.”
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Ind. 59: 1386. D. 14, ’05. 50w.
Harrison, Frederic. Chatham. **$1.25. Macmillan.
“Care coupled with his style has given us a monograph on Chatham of abiding value.” Edward Porritt.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 710. Ap. ’06. 230w.
Harrison, James Albert. George Washington: patriot, soldier, statesman, first president of the United States. **$1.35. Putnam.
In Professor Harrison’s life Washington’s heart and head unite in admirable mastery over problems of humanity, war and state. The sketch gives an intimate view of Washington from boyhood up, showing how well America’s hero developed his birthright powers to meet the demands of leadership. Martha Washington is portrayed as “an ideal of the gentler motherhood that preceded the era of the Amazon, and consecrated itself altogether to the sacred office of friendship.”
“Rhetorical descriptions abound, and there are digressions not a few; but the portrait presented in the work is hazy and inadequate in all that relates to Washington’s public life.”
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Dial. 41: 212. O. 1, ’06. 160w.
“Its style—inflated, involved, obscure, often ungrammatical—furnishes a fairly accurate model of all that an historical writer’s work should not be.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 374. N. 9, ’06. 90w.
“The Washington depicted in this volume is the familiar heroic and half-deified figure of the older panegyrists. As a whole the style is that of the romanticist, embellished with imagery and superlatives. It is not too much to say that the quotations are the best part of this work.”
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Nation. 83: 286. O. 4, ’06. 490w.
“We know of no other life of Washington within moderate compass which presents so clear a picture of the man and maintains so well throughout a pleasing narrative style.”
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Outlook. 83: 1005. Ag. 25, ’06. 130w.
“Has done full justice to his attractive subject, treating it with thorough scholarship, patriotic sympathy, and felicity of style.”
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Putnam’s. 1: 253. N. ’06. 130w.
“Professor Harrison has succeeded remarkably well in presenting an eminently readable biography.”
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Sat. R. 102: 370. S. 22, ’06. 50w.
“The historian has his duty of self-effacement as well as the biographer. The biographer 143must not intrude his own personality; the historian must not intrude his style. This is what Professor Harrison is perpetually doing.”
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Harrison, Jane Ellen. Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides. *$1.75. Macmillan.
Dr. Harrison sets forth a new view of the character and limits of ancient Athens, based on the evidence of Thucydides and the recent excavations of Dörpfeld.
“She illustrates her book with good plans and photographs, but apart from these it is hard to see what useful purpose it can serve.”
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Acad. 70: 526. Je. 2, ’06. 1020w.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 729. Ap. ’06. 60w.
“Even those who are not prepared to accept the author’s theories will welcome the presentation, in so convenient a form, of the recent researches both of other archaeologists and of the author herself.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 521. O. 27. 660w.
“In her mythological excursions, Miss Harrison is less likely to secure the ready reference of her reader.”
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Nation. 82: 511. Je. 21, ’06. 590w.
“In one curious detail in an otherwise convincing argument, Miss Harrison has unsuspectingly followed her leader into a gaping trap.”
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Sat. R. 102: 367. S. 22, ’06. 1180w.
“Learned volume.”
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Spec. 96: 1045. Je. 30, ’06. 150w.
Harrison, Newton. Electric wiring, diagrams and switch boards. 15th ed. rev. and enl. *$1.50. Henley.
“Mr. Harrison’s work is intended to help practical wiremen to do a better grade of work by informing them of the reasons for what they do.... The author ... devotes his attention to statements of the practical matters connected with the installation of electric machines, including the necessary switchboards and the wiring connecting these with the supply circuits.”—Engin. N.
“In the opinion of the reviewer, the book would be better without the last two chapters. It should be useful not only to artisans, but also to architects, builders and others who are responsible for the proper installation of electric circuits.” Henry H. Norris.
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Engin. N. 55: 310. Mr. 15, ’06. 780w.
Harrison, Peleg D. Stars and stripes and other American flags; il. **$3. Little.
Their origin and history, army and navy regulations concerning the national standard and ensign, flag making, salutes, improvised, unique, and commercial flags, flag legislation, and many associations of American flags, including the origin of “Old Glory,” with songs and their stories.
“The material is largely undigested but the industry of the author in collecting miscellaneous facts and fables pertaining to his subject has been immense, and his enthusiasm is contagious.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 826. D. 1, ’06. 1410w.
Harry, Myriam. Conquest of Jerusalem. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.
“This story of modern Jerusalem is really a study of what is known as the ‘artistic’ temperament worked out in a morbid fashion. Hélie’s apostasy from the Roman Catholic religion upon his marriage with a deaconess of a protestant church destroys eventually the religious instinct in his nature. Many of the details of the novel are revolting.”—Critic.
“It is unwholesome and unpleasant.”
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Critic. 48: 572. Je. ’06. 60w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 297. My. 5, ’06. 190w.
“An excellent translation.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 572. My. 5, ’06. 810w.
Hart, Albert Bushnell, ed. American nation: a history from original sources by associated scholars. 28v. per. v. *$2. Harper.
Group II of this series of histories, volumes 6–10, is devoted to the “Transformation into a nation,” including Provincial America, by Evarts Boutell Greene; France in America, by Reuben Gold Thwaites; Preliminaries of the Revolution, by George Elliott Howard; The American Revolution, by Claude Halstead Van Tyne; and The confederation and the constitution, by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin. The first volume of Group III, which division includes volumes 11–15 and treats the “Development of the nation,” is a discussion of The federalist system, by John Spencer Bassett. The author says, “On its political side this volume treats of three principal facts; the successful establishment of the government under the constitution, the organization of the Republican party on the basis of popular government, and the steady adherence of the government to a policy of neutrality at a time when we were threatened with serious foreign complications.” The author follows the program of establishing an effective government while the nation faced a new constitution and trying international situations.
Number twelve in this “American nation” series is a discussion of “The Jeffersonian system” by Edward Channing. It “emphasizes the innate tendency to expansion of territory, of which Louisiana, West Florida, and Oregon were all examples. The special and successful purpose of the author is to make clear how it was possible for the nation to expand in territory and in spirit, and for the federal government to gain consequence and authority, while at the same time the government was growing more democratic: it is a study in imperial democracy.”
Number fourteen in this series is the “Rise of the new West” by Frederick Jackson Turner of the University of Wisconsin. “Professor Turner takes up the west as an integral part of the Union, with a self-consciousness as lively as that of the east or south, with its own aims and prejudices, but as a partner in the councils and the benefits of the national government which, as a whole, it is the aim at this volume to describe.” The period covered is that from 1815 to 1830. The panic of 1819, the Missouri compromise, The Monroe doctrine in particular and the tariff disputes, internal improvements and foreign trade relations in general are fully treated.
The fifteenth volume of “The American nation” series is Dr. William McDonald’s discussion of “Jacksonian democracy.” The aggressive personality of Andrew Jackson is made to dominate the solution of the great questions of national policy paramount during the years 1829–37. The study reveals the president and man, and shows the evolution of the political principles upon which a new democratic party was founded.
In volume seventeen the expansion movement which extended the boundaries of the United States from the western edge of the Louisiana purchase to the Pacific ocean, is described “in such a way as to indicate the real forces which gave it impulse, and how they actually worked, and especially to show how it was affected by, and how it reacted upon, the contemporaneous sectionalizing movement which finally ended in civil war.”
In volume 18 of “The American nation” Dr. Smith has covered the subject of “Parties and slavery from 1850 to 1859,” that transition period, which saw old party organization dissolve and new ones crystalize. The aim of the volume is “to bring out the contrast between the old parties and their aims and the new and imperious issues.” The efforts to prevent the crisis which resulted in the Civil war, and the rival habits of thought which made it inevitable 144are clearly shown, the effects of the struggle upon parties, legislation and the courts as well as the social and economic changes brought about by railroad development and the growth of cotton are carefully detailed.
“The first part of volume nineteen in the “American nation” series discusses political divergences in the light of sectional rivalry and mutual dislike revealed by the election of Lincoln to the presidency. The author presents the full significance of the John Brown raid, pictures the attitude of Buchanan and his unsuccessful attempts at compromise. discusses the status of the federal forts, pays tribute to the high minded attitude of Lincoln and closes with the fall of Sumter.”
“In scholarship and construction he has produced the best synopsis of the subject existing within the limits of a single volume, and ... his careful references and a valuable bibliography enhance the utility of the book to the student who desires to inquire for himself.” M. Oppenheim.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 394 Ja. ’06. 2180w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Mr. Greene has handled his problem with the grasp of a true historical artisan, and his book is a definite contribution to American history.” Carl Russell Fish.
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“In regard to style it must be pronounced very defective. Summing up one is obliged to say that, while the book shows industry and knowledge, its faults in regard both to style and to accuracy are so numerous as to make it hardly worthy of the high reputation of its author.” George M. Wrong.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 413. Ja. ’06. 1580w. (Review of v. 7.)
“It may be doubted whether either volume adds much to the thoroughly exploited facts in its respective field.” H. A. C.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 907. Jl. ’06. 1270w. (Review of v. 8 and 9.)
“More exact dates would be in some of the chapters desirable. The volume is quite worthy of recognition as a model history of the time.” Austin Scott.
+ + –|Am. Hist. R. 11: 916. Jl. ’06. 1910w. (Review of v. 10.)
“The book itself is so sanely written that it seems ungrateful to call attention to what are very small defects.” Worthington Chauncey Ford.
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Am. Hist. R. 12: 155. O. ’06. 1300w. (Review of v. 11.)
“Considering the limitations imposed by the nature of the task assigned to them, the credit of fully maintaining the high standard set in the preceding volumes of the ‘American nation’ series and of closely approximating the ideal standard for works of this class must be accorded both to Professor Channing and to President Babcock.” Marshall Brown.
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Am. Hist. R. 12: 158. O. ’06. 2600w. (Review of v. 12 and 13.)
“The book is written in an attractive style in which few errors of literary taste occur and is pleasing in appearance. The text seems free from mistakes: but the foot-notes contain some that are troublesome.” Frederick W. Moore.
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Am. Hist. R. 12: 162. O. ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 14.)
“Professor MacDonald’s contribution is, thus far, the best concise and brief essay upon Jackson’s two administrations. For a lucid and temperate statement of all but one of the dominant questions during Jackson’s presidency. Professor MacDonald’s volume is adequate.” Charles H. Levermore.
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Am. Hist. R. 12: 164. O. ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 15.)
“One feels, indeed, in this volume as well as in others of the series, the inadequacy of treatment of these deeper undercurrents of economic and social change, not only as concerns the assignment of space, but in the lack of a fresh individual investigation. There is not the intimate knowledge of the field evidenced in the chapter on political history.” Albert Cook Myers.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 245. Ja. ’06. 720w. (Review of v. 6.)
Reviewed by David Y. Thomas.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 251. Ja. ’06. 760w. (Review of v. 10.)
Reviewed by St. George L. Sioussat.
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Dial. 41: 159. S. 16, ’06. 4150w. (Review of v. 8–13.)
“No better introduction to a detailed study of American history could be desired than these excellent volumes.” H. E. E.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 621. Jl. ’06. 450w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
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Ind. 60: 1543. Je. 28, ’06. 1680w. (Review of v. 11–15.)
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Ind. 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 200w. (Review of v. 11–15.)
“No volume in the series to which it belongs has quite the same charm of freshness or fills quite the same ‘long-felt want.’”
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Lit. D. 33: 358. S. 15, ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 14.)
“In purely literary interest, and in the sure feeling for what is effective or dramatic in historical events, Fiske’s superiority is unquestionable: but in just balance and proportion, in thoroughness of research, and in all-round attention to the various aspects of the subject ... [v. 9 and 10] are far better, not only than Fiske’s work, but also than any other account of the American revolution of equal compass. Professor McLaughlin’s presentation of the political history of the Confederation is, as a whole, of such merit that we can but regret that he has not ploughed more deeply in the economic field.”
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Nation. 82: 161. F. 22, ’06. 2620w. (Review of v. 8–10.)
“If any criticism is to be passed on the author’s treatment of Western history, it is that strictly political matters are presented in scanty detail.”
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Nation. 82: 517. Je. 21, ’06. 690w. (Review of v. 14.)
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Nation. 83: 18. Jl. 5, ’06. 950w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
“No volume of this series thus far exhibits more commendable literary qualities.”
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Nation. 83: 40. Jl. 12, ’06. 620w. (Review of v. 13.)
“Careful investigation, sane conclusions, clear and orderly presentation, are thus the very solid merits of Professor MacDonald’s work.”
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Nation. 83: 81. Jl. 26, ’06. 1620w. (Review of v. 15.)
“The text shows an unexpected number of typographical errors.”
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Nation. 83: 230. S. 13, ’06. 480w. (Review of v. 16.)
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N. Y. Times. 11: 62. F. 3, ’06. 780w. (Review of v. 11.)
N. Y. Times. 11: 248. Ap. 14, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 14.)
Reviewed by R. L. S.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 261. Ap. 21, ’06. 990w. (Review of v. 12 and 13.)
“A scholarly and sympathetic history of the rise of the West.” R. L. S.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 319. My. 19, ’06. 810w. (Review of v. 14.)
“The present is one of the most valuable of the volumes in ‘The American nation’ series.” R. L. S.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 341. My. 26, ’06. 850w. (Review of v. 15.)
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N. Y. Times. 11: 491. Ag. 4, ’06. 600w. (Review of v. 16.)
“Each of these volumes, while giving evidence of thorough research and acquaintance with the subject, is devoid of noticeable features.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 894. D. 22, ’06. 690w. (Review of v. 17 and 18.)
“Though ... the presentation is not always as ample as might be desired, his book should be cordially welcomed by students of Revolutionary history.”
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Outlook. 81: 281. S. 30, ’05. 260w. (Review of v. 8.)
“From the literary standpoint his work does not reach any high level. On the score of accuracy, lucidity, impartiality, perspective, and perception of cause and effect, little fault is to be found.”
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Outlook. 82: 374. F. 17, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 11.)
“He has, generally speaking, succeeded in investing the well-known facts with a fresh interest. His pages are rich in acute analysis, suggestive comment, and clear-cut portraiture; his style is lucid, direct, and dignified, his tone judicial.”
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Outlook. 82: 570. Mr. 10, ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 12.)
“Accuracy and impartiality are also distinctive characteristics, but from the standpoint of proportion there is no room for improvement. Altogether, his is a most creditable addition to this standard work.”
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Outlook. 82: 1006. Ap. 28, ’06. 340w. (Review of v. 13.)
“In some respects Professor Turner’s book differs strikingly from most of its predecessors in the series. Most significant, perhaps, is the emphasis laid upon the necessity of regarding the development of the United States as the outcome of economic and social as well as political forces.”
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Outlook. 83: 333. Je. 9, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 14.)
“Much as we must lament the absence of that appeal to the imagination which the historian should make, the merits of the treatise are such that it may be safely commended.”
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Outlook. 83: 766. Jl. 28, ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 15.)
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Outlook. 83: 1004. Ag. 25, ’06. 350w. (Review of v. 16.)
“Is marked by daring and originality and, it is pleasant to be able to add, by scholarship. It is not, however, cast in the most attractive form, being monographic rather than unitary in treatment, and being of the scientific rather than the artistic school of historical writing.”
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Outlook. 84: 938. D. 15, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 17.)
Review by W. Roy Smith.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 121. Mr. ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 7.)
Reviewed by W. Roy Smith.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 122. Mr. ’06. 830w. (Review of v. 9.)
Reviewed by W. Roy Smith.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 124. Mr. ’06. 530w. (Review of v. 10.)
Reviewed by George Louis Beer.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 126. Mr. ’06. 940w. (Review of v. 6.)
Reviewed by George Louis Beer.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 129. Mr. ’06. 2950w. (Review of v. 8.)
Hart, Jerome. Levantine log book. **$2. Longmans.
“There is also a deal of useful information for the tourist.”
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“In form and illustration the book is as pleasing to the eye as the text is to the mind.” H. E. Coblentz.
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Dial. 40: 234. Ap. 1, ’06. 400w.
“Has all the ease, breeziness, and entertaining information that won such popularity for its author’s earlier travel sketches.”
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Hartley, C. Gasquoine, pseud. (Mrs. Walter M. Gallichan). Moorish cities in Spain. *$1. Scribner.
Mrs. Gallichan “describes in welcome and never wearisome detail Cordova, Toledo, Seville, and Granada, and they that dwell therein. We have no guidebook detail, however. The reader is supposed to have Baedeker or Murray at his elbow. But we do find hints not contained in any guide-book.” (Outlook.)
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