Volume 2 — Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December, 1906 magazines (continued 11)
Reading edition
Harvey, James Clarence. In Bohemia. $1.25. Caldwell.
A medley of verse and prose sketches in which “the author tells the uninitiated how to go to Bohemia and what they may reasonably expect to find there, making a special point of the distinction between the false and the true Bohemianism, whether it is to be found in New York or Damascus.” (Dial.)
“Some of the verse in dialect is very clever.”
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Dial. 39: 446. D. 16, ’05. 80w.
R. of Rs. 32: 511. O. ’05. 40w.
Harwood, Edith. Notable pictures in Florence. *$1.50. Dutton.
“Is a cheap and useful book for laymen visiting the churches and picture galleries of Florence.”
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Acad. 70: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 160w.
Harwood, W. S. New creations in plant life: an authoritative account of the life and work of Luther Burbank. **$1.75. Macmillan.
“The book is far too popular in style and indefinite to be of real value to those seriously interested in plant-breeding, and it contains very little information meet to be absolutely accredited by the impartial observer.”
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Acad. 70: 379. Ap. 21, ’06. 770w.
“Had it contained more documentary evidence set forth with scientific method, it would have commended itself to naturalists in a higher degree than it is likely to do at present.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 395. Mr. 31. 820w.
“Mr. Harwood is anything but scientific but his picture of the achievements of Mr. Luther Burbank impresses the reader, as no scientific treatise could, with the astonishing command over their material now possessed by the breeders of animals and plants.” E. T. Brewster.
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Atlan. 98: 424. S. ’06. 160w.
“It is sufficiently full, tolerably well written, authentic, and prepared under the direction of the gardener himself.” Thomas H. MacBride.
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Dial. 40: 47. Ja. 16, ’06. 730w.
“The author shows no desire or ability to make a critical examination of his achievements and to arrive at a just estimate of their practical and scientific value.”
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Ind. 60: 803. Ap. 5, ’06. 320w.
“If he will give us his own experiences in his own words, rather than in those of some too partial biographer, the whole world will be the gainer, and the value of Mr. Burbank’s work more accurately gauged than it can be from the perusal of the present volume.”
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Nature. 73: 242. Ja. 11, ’06. 800w.
“Mr. Harwood with a certain dash and journalistic swing has brought an important topic from where it might have long remained ambushed by scientific languages, and presented it to the people at large in such a way that it at once becomes a reality.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 64. F. 3, ’06. 260w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
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North American. 183: 122. Jl. ’06. 270w.
“Aside from being an account of what is probably the most scientific work done in our 146country of late, Mr. Harwood’s book is interesting reading.”
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Pub. Opin. 39: 757. D. 9, ’05. 560w.
Harwood, W. S. New earth: a recital of the triumphs of modern agriculture in America. **$1.75. Macmillan.
The new earth of Mr. Harwood’s work is the cultivated earth, broad acres, well kept and stocked, that has risen out of the old—“a fine sane resurrection.” It is with the details of this progress as well as with the underlying principles that have governed it that this fully illustrated volume deals.
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Critic. 49: 288. S. ’06. 110w.
“Mr. Harwood’s knowledge appears to be in general derived at second hand, and he consequently not infrequently falls into error.”
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Dial. 41: 39. Jl. 16, ’06. 530w.
“The book should be at once put into all the country libraries, especially in the traveling libraries.”
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Ind. 60: 1435. Je. 14, ’06. 290w.
“The volume has a certain scrappiness here and there, as if the chapters had first been used in magazines, but on the whole, it is consistent and compact.”
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Nation. 83: 65. Jl. 19, ’06. 980w.
“Though his methods still border a trifle too much towards the journalistic for serious book work, he has produced a vivid picture of the present-day husbandry.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 448. Jl. 14, ’06. 490w.
“The book may be warmly commended to the general reader, and it seems to us almost indispensable to the farmer who would make intelligent use of the forces now at his disposal.”
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Outlook. 83: 530. Je. 30, ’06. 280w.
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R. of Rs. 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 100w.
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Spec. 97: 207. Ag. 11, ’06. 240w.
Hasluck, Paul Nooncree. Book of photography; practical, theoretical, and applied. $3. Cassell.
Photography in all its professional and amateur aspects is dealt with in nearly eight hundred pages, encyclopaedic in scope and profusely illustrated.
“It will prove a veritable boon to amateur and professional photographers alike.”
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Dial. 40: 98. F. 1, ’06. 50w.
“Mr. Hasluck’s book seems to us to contain everything about photography that any one should need know.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 55. Ja. 27, ’06. 570w.
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R. of Rs. 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 80w.
Hatch, Ernest Frederick George. Far Eastern impressions. *$1.40. McClurg.
“A bright and brisk book.” W. E. Griffis.
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Critic. 48: 372. Ap. ’06. 260w.
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R. of Rs. 33: 254. F. ’06. 70w.
Hatch, F. H., and Corstorphine, George Steuart. Geology of South Africa. *$7. Macmillan.
“Gives an excellent account of the ancient rocks of the interior highland.”
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Nation. 82: 261. Mr. 29, ’06. 150w.
Hatch, Marion P. Little Miss Sunshine and other stories in verse for children. $1. Goff co., Buffalo, N. Y.
A little group of child verse based upon the thought of God’s goodness, omnipotence, omnipresence which teaches a child to trust and not to fear.
Hatzfeldt, Paul. Hatzfeldt letters: letters of Count Paul Hatzfeldt to his wife; written from the headquarters of the King of Prussia, 1870–71; tr. from the French by J. L. Bashford. *$4. Dutton.
“Careful foot-notes give all the necessary information concerning the persons mentioned in the letters, and there is an inadequate index.”
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Nation. 82: 325. Ap. 19, ’06. 340w.
Havell, Ernest Binfield. Benares the sacred city. $3.50. Blackie & son, London.
These sketches of Hindu life and religion “are not offered as a contribution to oriental scholarship, or to religious controversy, but as an attempt, to give an intelligible outline of Hindu ideas and religious practices, and especially as a presentation of the imaginative and artistic side of Indian religions, which can be observed at few places so well as in the sacred city and its neighborhood—the birthplace of Buddhism and one of the principal sects of Hinduism.”
“Mr. Havell’s account of Benares is worth more than a passing glance, for he is not to be confounded with the crowd of superficial observers who every winter visit India and find their way to the sacred city.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 575. N. 10. 2070w.
Bookm. 23: 571. Jl. ’06. 110w.
“Altogether this scholarly and attractive volume is equally admirable in text, illustrations, and topography.”
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Critic. 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 240w.
“One appreciates a calm, dispassionate, well-ordered, and studious unravelling of the labyrinth of Hindu life and religion. Principal E. B. Havell ... has done this in a masterly manner.” H. E. Coblentz.
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Dial. 40: 361. Je. 1, ’06. 440w.
“A volume of considerable importance.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 307. My. 12, ’06. 340w.
“Well-written and sympathetic book.”
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Outlook. 83: 139. My. 19, ’06. 340w.
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Spec. 96: sup. 1015. Je. 30, ’06. 270w.
Havell, H. A. Tales from Herodotus. 60c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Children’s favorite classics.” Herodotus’ gift for weaving heroic wars and great personal deeds of the Greeks into “tales full of romance and charm” has delighted all ages. Here the tales are adapted for children.
“The historian’s tales in this book deal very largely with the Greek struggle for liberty, and they will prove as helpful and stimulating as they will fascinating to the children fortunate enough to enjoy their reading.”
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Arena. 36: 572. N. ’06. 90w.
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Ath. 1906, 2: 69. Jl. 21. 30w.
“A particularly desirable sort of preparation for children’s nourishment.”
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Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 90w.
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Spec. 95: sup. 905. D. 2, ’05. 110w.
Haverstick, Alexander C. Sunday school kindergarten: a practical method of teaching in the infant room. *50c. Young ch.
A book that discusses the order of work for little people in Sunday school, the methods, the management and incentives.
Haw, George. Christianity and the working classes. $1.50. Macmillan.
“Eleven papers, dealing with the extent and intensity of the present religious defection, its causes and the means that are available for counteracting it.” (Cath. World.) Representative Englishmen including clergymen, members 147of parliament and labor leaders are among the contributors.
“The present volume is well worth serious study.”
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Cath. World. 83: 691. Ag. ’06. 1720w.
“Though written for Englishmen amid English conditions, these papers give timely and helpful suggestions to those who are studying how to cope with similar conditions here.”
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Outlook. 82: 856. Ap. 14, ’06. 190w.
Hawkes, Clarence. Shaggycoat; the biography of a beaver; il. by Charles Copeland. **$1.25. Jacobs.
Shaggycoat easily wins and holds every nature student’s attention. He is a member of a fast vanishing animal family, but sturdily upholds the traditions of his four-footed antecedents. The book reveals the habits, haunts and occupations of the beaver, shows how his nomadic habit leads him close to his enemies at times, and gives now and then a bit of primitive superstition which even greedy trappers heed.
“Mr. Hawkes gives this important animal biography in a simple, straightforward way, and earns our gratitude by leaving it with a happy ending in spite of the fact that the beaver tribe is being ruthlessly wiped out.” May Estelle Cook.
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Dial. 41: 389. D. 1, ’06. 110w.
Hawkins, Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope, pseud.). Servant of the public. †$1.50. Stokes.
“A very discreet book, yet losing nothing by perfect decorum.” Mary Moss.
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Atlan. 97: 58. Ja. ’06. 340w.
“His version of the woman of whims happens to be the most piquant and interesting one in the season’s books.” Edward Clark Marsh.
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Bookm. 22: 516. Ja. ’06. 1060w.
Hawkins, Anthony Hope. (Anthony Hope, pseud.). Sophy of Kravonia. †$1.50. Harper.
Sophy, an English girl of much spirit and no money goes to Kravonia to seek her fortune and, by a strange chance, saves the life of the crown prince who falls in love with her. The revolution which follows, the struggle between the supporters of her prince and those of his half-brother, and the part which Sophy, with the red star burning on her cheek, took in it all is stirring reading. Altho, by another chance of fate, she loses all she has gained, she carries with her from Kravonia a lasting memory of some enemies and many friends, of strife and conflict, of a crown won only to be lost, and of a great undying love.
“To be quite frank and explicit, this kingdom of Kravonia is one of the dullest realms in which it has been our ill-fortune to wander.”
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Acad. 71: 365. O. 13, ’06. 1300w.
“It is better reading than some of the author’s recent excursions into latter-day social life.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 508. O. 27. 440w.
“Anthony Hope has at last turned imitator of himself. That fact is the exact measure of the distance between ‘Sophia of Kravonia’ and ‘The prisoner of Zenda’. Well if we can’t have the fine original again, let us be thankful for an imitation so nearly perfect.” Edward Clark Marsh.
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Bookm. 24: 380. D. ’06. 1100w.
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Ind. 61: 1499. D. 20, ’06. 210w.
“Wavering between a study of character and a rattling romance, Mr. Hope misses both opportunities, and his book, though pleasant to read, is disappointing.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 352. O. 19, ’06. 390w.
“The conspiracy which thickens the plot is capitally developed, and long before the matter is solved the reader has quite forgotten that at the outset there was a certain sense of oppressiveness in the very serious marshalling of documentary evidence, as if for the history of a nation or the biography of a nation’s hero.”
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Nation. 83: 352. O. 25, ’06. 260w.
“Taken all in all is not—in spite of the cleverness and entertaining qualities—quite worthy of the author’s genius. Exactly why it is so it is hard to say, for it pretends only to amuse the intelligent and it certainly serves its purpose.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 779. N. 24, ’06. 380w.
“Kravonia is much nearer reality than was Ruritania, and Mr. Hope has never done anything better in its way than the description of intrigues within the palace at Slavna while the old king lay dying and the crown prince, having met Sophy, would not set out to seek a royal bride.”
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Sat. R. 102: 585. N. 10, ’06. 220w.
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Spec. 97: 625. O. 27, ’06. 410w.
Haworth, Paul Leland. Hayes-Tilden disputed presidential election of 1876. *$1.50. Burrows.
“This is a complete record of what the writer describes as ‘the most remarkable electoral controversy in the history of popular government.’ The book is based upon the debates in Congress, the evidence gathered by various investigating committees, and the proceedings before the Electoral commission.”—R. of Rs.
“Is the first adequate history of ‘the most memorable electoral controversy in the history of popular government.’”
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Dial. 41: 245. O. 16, ’06. 830w.
“A scholarly and detailed study of a political episode.”
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Ind. 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
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Nation. 83: 371. N. 1, ’06. 100w.
“He does not as yet betray the gifts of an accomplished writer, and his style is marred here and there by unnecessary colloquialisms ... but even they reflect a mind that deals with a complex matter in a spirit of unusual simplicity and candor.” Edward Cary.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 457. Jl. 21, ’06. 1290w.
“The author, although he writes in a judicial spirit, does not indicate that he appreciates the political wrongs perpetrated in the south by so-called Reconstruction governments.”
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Outlook. 83: 1004. Ag. 25, ’06. 120w.
“His work is a convenient and valuable digest of a vast amount of material not heretofore sifted for general use.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 100w.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Our old home: a series of English sketches: with an introd. by Katharine Lee Bates. $1.50. Crowell.
A “Luxembourg” edition of Hawthorne’s twelve English sketches. The introduction gives clippings which record America’s favorable and England’s unfavorable comments upon the work when it appeared in 1863. Miss Bates also suggests that Hawthorne might have used his note-book material to better advantage, mentioning especially the unused descriptive bits on the lake country.
Ind. 61: 1401. D. 13, ’06. 60w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 889. D. 22, ’06. 310w.
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Outlook. 84: 385. O. 13, ’06. 60w.
Hawtrey, Valentina. Romance of old wars. †$1.50. Holt.
With a background of war between the French and Dutch of Von Arteveld’s time, the 148author has built up a pathetic love story. Matthieu de Châtelfors and Huette de Richecour are betrothed at birth. Huette develops into a plain, passionate, rather shrewish young woman whom Matthieu delays marrying on one pretext and another. She is too proud to insist and time drags on. With a promise to marry her on his return, he leaves for the battle-field. There follows a romantic meeting with a pretty peasant girl whose refusal of Matthieu’s love arouses his determination to wed her. The curtain rings down on the death of the one and the repulse of the other at Châtelfors.
Hay, Alfred D. Alternating currents: their theory, generation and transformation. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
A book for students and readers who are familiar with the subject both from practical and theoretical experience. “While the arrangement is logical, it is not systematic enough to make easy reading. Under the direction of a competent instructor, with proper laboratory facilities available, the book can be used as a text with excellent satisfaction.” (Engin. N.)
“It is undoubtedly one of the best books on the subject of alternating currents, and as a reference book for students, manufacturers and users of alternating current machinery it will prove exceedingly valuable.” H. H. Norris.
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Engin. N. 55: 430. Ap. 12, ’06. 830w.
“The only drawback is that he has thus crowded the space devoted directly to the theory of alternating currents. These chapters should have been expanded or omitted altogether.”
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Nation. 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 210w.
Hay, John. Addresses: a collection of the more notable addresses delivered by the late secretary of state during the last years of his life. **$2. Century.
Mr. Hay’s discussion of men and things embodies his maturest thought, and his highest ideals of statehood. Among the twenty-four addresses grouped here are estimates of Franklin in France, Sir Walter Scott, William McKinley, Edmund Clarence Stedman, President Roosevelt, and discussions of international copyright, American diplomacy, Grand army of the republic, The press and modern progress and America’s love of peace.
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Lit. D. 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 100w.
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Nation. 83: 481. D. 6, ’06. 240w.
“Rich in suggestive thought, and at once scholarly and charming in style, is a notable addition to the already large body of the literary remains of American statesmen.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 808. D. ’06. 90w.
“Contains the addresses by which we think he will be best known. It is calculated to make every American reader prouder of our great secretary of state; it will also give to every foreign student of our affairs a higher opinion of the richest American character and attainment.”
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Outlook. 84: 841. D. 1, ’06. 580w.
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Putnam’s. 1: 383. D. ’06. 310w.
Hay, Marie. German pompadour; being the true history of Wilhelmine von Gravenitz, landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg: a veracious narrative of the eighteenth century, gleaned from old documents. *$3.50. Scribner.
“Wilhelmine von Gravenitz was one of the most fascinating women of the eighteenth century. More passionate, and vastly more intelligent than La Pompadour, her French rival in intrigue and gallantry, she was a nobler type of woman, for she was really in love with Eberhard Ludwig, the reigning Duke of Wirtemburg, and though she played his dull and colorless wife many a cruel trick, and even attempted to assassinate her, our sympathies in spite of ourselves are stirred rather in the favour of the brilliant mistress than of the highly respectable but phlegmatic wife. To depict the life of a woman of this class in a lengthy narrative, without making her offensive, demands unusual insight into human nature.”—Sat. R.
“Her compromise between history and fiction is maintained throughout; she is always guiding herself by authentic facts, and her emotions are regulated by the documents at her side. And here lies the defect of the system. She cannot give her imagination free rein, and yet she may indulge it to such an extent that the reader does not know when he is reading history and when he is reading fiction. The ordinary reader will question whether the record of Wilhelmine might not give off a more pungent odour to other nostrils; and still more will he doubt whether this vagrant air is potent enough to steep three hundred and fifty odd pages with its fragrance. A magazine article or a sonnet were the proper vessel for such sweetness.”
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Acad. 71: 81. Jl. 28, ’06. 1170w.
“A notable piece of work. There is distinction in the style, and the writer shows such evident familiarity with the period and place involved, that certain objections which we feel should be made to the presentation of the narrative may with some show of reason be judged pedantic.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 96. Jl. 28. 2050w.
“The author writes with a clever woman’s knowledge of the human heart, but her style occasionally borders on the luscious. It is a book for the novel reader, not for the student.” Percy F. Bicknell.
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Dial. 41. 386. D. 1, ’06. 270w.
“The literary style is much inferior to the power of the narrative. We have unqualified gratitude to the authoress-historian for her labor of construction.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 753. N. 17, ’06. 940w.
“This remarkable first attempt at an historical novel leads one to hope that in a future venture Miss Hay will give us, not a more vivid story but a more carefully finished one.”
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Sat. R. 102: 240. Ag. 25, ’06. 730w.
Haynes, George Henry. Election of senators. **$1.50. Holt.
This volume in the “American public problems” series, aims “to make clear the considerations which led the framers of the Constitution to place the election of senators in the hands of the state legislature; the form and spirit of the elections thus made, and the causes which have led to the recent and pressing demand for popular control over the choice of senators. It attempts also to forecast in some degree the probable effectiveness of such popular control, whether exercised under a loose construction of the present law, or in accordance with a constitutional amendment making possible the election of senators by direct popular vote.” Following the eleven chapters into which this subject has been divided are the resolutions favoring popular election of senators passed by the House of representatives, Recommendations of the Pennsylvania joint committee and a bibliography.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 971. Jl. ’06. 90w.
“Of considerable popular as well as historical interest.”
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Dial. 41: 93. Ag. 16, ’06. 320w.
“This volume presents a timely and interesting account of the arguments for and against the present system of the election of senators.”
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Lit. D. 33: 397. S. 22, ’06. 320w.
“The book is so complete and so fair that, but for one circumstance, we should not feel called upon to do more than to refer the reader to it as a lucid and exhaustive compendium. 149The argument assumes, of course, that the Senate, as it exists, is in need of improvement, This part of the book is more labored than is necessary.”
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Nation. 83: 247. S. 20, ’06. 1280w.
R. of Rs. 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 180w.
Hazelton, John Hampton. Declaration of independence: its history. **$4.50. Dodd.
“The book begins with 1774, following with the first steps taken by the colonies. Jefferson’s share in the drafting of the Declaration, the help of John Adams, the position of Hancock, and an account of how, when, and where each member signed the document. There is also a description of the effect of the Declaration on this country and England. In another chapter the author writes about the present resting place of the original document. The limited edition of the work will be in two volumes: the regular, in one.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Hazelton has performed creditably a hard task, for which all students of the period will be grateful.” George Elliott Howard.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 913. Jl. ’06. 530w.
“This is not a mere historical canvas filled with stiff figures, but rather a series of character studies of live men,—a set of ‘journals intimes’, which, to employ the language of John Adams, enables one ‘to penetrate the intricate, internal foldings of their souls.’” J. Woodbridge Riley.
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Bookm. 23: 289. My. ’06. 1400w.
“Mr. Hazelton has preferred to send out his material in bullion rather than to coin it into currency. As a narrative it suffers in consequence, but it has the greater value for the student.” Edwin E. Sparks.
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Dial. 41: 202. O. 1, ’06. 850w.
“An elaborate work for reference rather than for reading. Unfortunately, his methods have serious defects. Notwithstanding the author’s care, misprints may be found, and curiously careless references to printed books. Yet, in spite of its drawbacks, the volume cannot but be highly useful to the student of sources.”
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Nation. 82: 409. My. 17, ’06. 600w.
“Mr. Hazelton’s work is the result of patient and laborious investigation, set forth without any effort to attain literary attractiveness. It is valuable for a correct understanding of one important phase of the Revolution.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 236. Ap. 7, ’06. 530w.
Headley, John William. Confederate operations in Canada and New York. $2. Neale.
One with the incendiaries who tried to burn New York City Nov. 25, 1864, and who escaped amidst the panic to Canada “gives a detailed account of the several mad undertakings, each of which proved a dismal failure but undoubtedly caused much concern and embarrassment to the federal and State authorities. Captain Headley enlisted in the Confederate army early in the war, and prior to his Canadian mission saw much active service in Kentucky and Tennessee. Of this he also writes, his narrative affording fresh glimpses of the campaigns of Bragg, Forrest, and Morgan. His book is one of adventurous interest.” (Outlook.)
“His book is a useful addition to the literature on the war.”
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Lit. D. 33: 123. Jl. 28, ’06. 570w.
“Mr. Headley’s book is mostly an inaccurate rehash of the facts of the civil war; but a few chapters contain an account of the New York affair that might, if better presented, have been interesting. As it is, the style is graceless as the narrative is shameless.”
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Nation. 83: 152. Ag. 16, ’06. 360w.
“Although devoid of literary merit and characterized by a pronounced sectional tone, deserves a place on the shelf allotted to literature on the Civil war.”
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Outlook. 83: 334. Je. 9, ’06. 220w.
Healy, Most Rev. John. Life and writings of St. Patrick. *$4.50. Benziger.
“Dr. Healy gives us, from an inside standpoint, a copious and exhaustive history of Ireland’s Apostle. The present work, containing over seven hundred and fifty good-sized pages, embodies everything of value that is known, or probably ever will be known, on the subject. Its chief excellence is the wealth of topographical lore which the learned author has brought to his task.... The narrative of St. Patrick’s journeyings is greatly enlivened by the Archbishop’s identification of the various places and landmarks in the modern nomenclature.”—Cath. World.
“There is no reason to expect that any subsequent work will supplant this ‘Life’ with those who will wish to learn all about the Apostle of Ireland, not in the interests of dry scholarship, but from love of faith and country.”
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Cath. World. 83: 102. Ap. ’06. 870w.
Reviewed by T. W. Rolleston.
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Hibbert J. 4: 447. Ja. ’06. 1310w.
“For any subsequent writer to ignore the close train of reasoning by which Professor Bury reaches his conclusions is simply to put himself out of the court as a critical authority.”
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Sat. R. 101: 793. Je. 23, ’06. 860w.
Healy, Patrick Joseph. Valerian persecution: a study of the relations between church and state in the third century, A.D. **$1.50. Houghton.
“The book as a whole is interesting and valuable.” John Winthrop Platner.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 356. Ja. ’06. 740w.
“The tone of the work throughout is candid and temperate, the style is clear and engaging, and the conclusions reached are, with minor exceptions justified by the evidence.” Eri B. Hulbert.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 345. Ap. ’06. 350w.
“We have praised the author’s impartiality: but we may detect a certain prepossession in his account of the fate of Emperor Valerian.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 759. Je. 23. 980w.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
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Atlan. 97: 415. Mr. ’06. 200w.
“Both in acuteness and erudition this book is a leader.”
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Critic. 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 210w.
“This work is evidently based on a careful study of all the sources, ancient and recent, whence our information on the persecution under Valerian is derived.” Alice Gardner.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 552. Jl. ’06. 760w.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Romance of the Milky Way, and other studies and stories. **$1.25. Houghton.
“This posthumous book is full of prettinesses, much of the character and value of those admirably set forth in English in the author’s former works.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 388. Mr. 31. 870w.
Reviewed by W. E. Griffis.
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Critic. 48: 222. Mr. ’06. 630w.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Some Chinese ghosts. **$1.50. Little.
Mr. Hearn sought especially for “weird beauty” in preparing the legends grouped here. The six tales possess the charm of a poet’s touch and are as follows: The soul of the great bell, The story of Ming-Y, The legend of Tchi-Niu, The return of Yen-Tchin-Kny, The tradition of the tea-plant and The tale of the porcelain god.
150“New and most attractive edition of a delightful book.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 230w.
Outlook. 84: 503. N. 9, ’06. 40w.
Heigh, John. House of cards. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
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Atlan. 97: 44. Ja. ’06. 200w.
“The book is of almost painful interest, but is no mere political pamphlet.”
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Sat. R. 100: 219. Ag. 12, ’05. 220w.
Heilprin, Angelo. Tower of Pelee. **$3. Lippincott.
“It will be difficult, even for those geologists who hesitate to accept all of Lacroix’s brilliant reasoning and explanation in regard to the physical manifestations of Pelée’s eruptions, to agree with Professor Heilprin’s views, largely because the manner in which they are presented must in many cases fail to convince the reader.” Ernest Howe.
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Heilprin, Angelo, and Heilprin, Louis, eds. Lippincott’s new gazetteer. *$10. Lippincott.
The best of all the editions of fifty years has been retained, the unnecessary amplification cut out, and the latter-day material which the march of improvement orders has been added to this semi-centennial volume of Lippincott’s gazetteer. It is complete, condensed and monumental.
“Is a work of great value and contains an up-to-date, reliable and well-selected summary of the most important geographical information.” Emory R. Johnson.
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“All the modern advances of geography are capably exhibited, as might have been expected from the editors.”
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“The latest changes in geographical conditions are to be found in this new edition.”
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“This work of Messrs. Heilprin cannot be too highly praised—the devotion to detail has not only been conscientious to a degree, but they have also shown an intelligent discrimination which is a large portion of the value of the book.”
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Heisch, C. E. Art and craft of the author; practical hints upon literary work. *$1.20. Grafton press.
Miss Heisch’s book is full of practical hints upon literary work. “Her advice may be boiled down into the old golden precepts; Be honest; be patient; be industrious.” (Acad.) Yet there are specific suggestions for a writer along the line of principles which should guide him, objects he should keep in view and the methods of carrying them out.
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Heller, Otto. Studies in modern German literature. *$1.50; school ed. *$1.25. Ginn.
Three essays devoted respectively to Sudermann, Hauptmann and women writers of the nineteenth century.
“Herr Heller is not a very great or original critic, but he is genuinely interested in his subject, and that goes for much; he has read and assimilated a great deal of the best German criticism bearing on the matter, and his outlook is generally sensible.”
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“Suggestive and interesting work.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 317. S. 29, ’05. 660w.
“Very able treatise on modern German literature.”
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Helm, W. H. Aspects of Balzac. **$1. Pott.
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Henderson, Charles Hanford. Children of good fortune: an essay in morals. **$1.30. Houghton.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
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“One feels disposed to say that Dr. Henderson has written a most immoral book about morality.” Edward Fuller.
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Henderson, Ernest Flagg. Short history of Germany; new ed. [2v. in 1.] *$2.50. Macmillan.
The two volumes of Mr. Henderson’s history which appeared four years ago have been combined in one volume for the present edition. “The author assumes, as his starting-point, the preëminence of Germany as the guiding thread to lead the student through the intricacies of general European history. All the great international struggles, he points out, have been fought out on German soil, from the Thirty years’ war to the great struggle against Napoleon. The two great ever-present factors of 151the entire medieval period—the Papacy and the Empire—fought out their differences on German soil and through German personages.... This volume, which is excellently printed and provided with indexes and notes, is also supplied with several maps and bibliographical lists.” (R. of Rs.)
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“Those who are really interested in German history, however, will not be satisfied with such a condensation, admirably as it has been done.”
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“Not the least valuable part of the book is a careful bibliography introducing each chapter and covering the subject matter of the chapter.”
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Henderson, Henry F. Religious controversies of Scotland. *$1.75. imp. Scribner.
Reviewed by Eri B. Hulbert.
Am. J. Theol. 10: 354. Ap. ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Henderson’s book is not exhaustive. Full information on the religious controversies of Scotland will have to be sought elsewhere. The book was manifestly intended to be a popular account of its subject, rather than a professional and scientific one.” T. Johnstone Irving.
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Henderson, John. West Indies; painted by A. L. Forrest; described by John Henderson.
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Henderson, M. Sturge. Constable. *$2. Scribner.
A late addition to the “Library of art.” The volume furnishes a short, condensed life of the English landscape painter, “who, by virtue of a naturalism that was unique in two respects—his ‘fearless adoption of “unpicturesque” localities as subjects for his pictures, and his practice of using fresh, bright color’—pointed out to his successors ‘the way to a new kingdom.’” (Ind.) Much of the material has been drawn from C. R. Leslie’s “Life.” There are 38 half-tone reproductions from the artist’s paintings, sketches and studies.
“The author not only indulges in restrained criticism, but presents the actions and interests of the artist in a vivid and chronological manner.”
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“The beautiful simplicity of Constable’s life and art are admirably expressed in this book, and those who read it carefully will learn much more than they have known before about the simple and homely but great English master.” Walter Cranston Larned.
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“His critical comment, besides being sound, has the further merit of clear and concise expression.”
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“It is well enough done, but there was no great necessity of doing it at all, and there is nothing in it that is not readily enough to be found elsewhere.”
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Nature. 81: 509. D. 21, ’05. 100w.
“The present volume challenges comparison with Mr. Holmes’s excellent biography published four years ago. Both biographers are notable for clearness, vigor, and discrimination.”
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Henderson, Mary Foote. Aristocracy of health. $1.50. Harper.
The author outlines the path royal for the would-be health aristocrat,—the being who achieves strength, self-reliance, success, influence long life, and happiness. The way lies close to physical culture, abstinence from poisons, and dietetic care. The author views the subject of human degeneracy from the standpoint of different countries, and so leads up to her suggestion that a national and international league be formed for the advancement of physical culture.
“Laborious and enthusiastic volume.”
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“The material is thrown into popular form and although it could easily be reduced in bulk, the book is readable. As an argument against the use of stimulants, it carries weight; as a general philosophy of living it has its limitations.”
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Henderson, T. F. Mary, Queen of Scots: her environment and tragedy. *$6 Scribner.
A biography satisfactory for students because of its wealth of footnotes and references. “To sum up, the presentation of Queen Mary ... is good and true to nature for the period in which she can be observed in freedom, while she displayed to the world her great and royal heart, facing her enemies in the field of battle, meeting diplomatists in the council chamber, and discharging with grace and gaiety the duties of hostess, or the functions of a queen, and Mr. Henderson can make allowances for the strong temptations which led to her fall. But in her long and cruel confinement he loses touch with her. Without adequate conception of her rights, or of the part which as a queen and a Catholic she should have played, he considers her now as an actress, a devote, a mischief-maker. But her conduct at her trial and execution again appeals to him and he concludes with a fitting testimony to her great qualities.” (Acad.)
“Mr. Henderson’s volume is at least the fourth separate biography of her which has appeared during this year alone. Of all these lives Mr. Henderson’s is without doubt the best and most thorough. His advantages over his rivals are many.” J. H. Pollen.
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Acad. 69: 1351. D. 30, ’05. 1530w.
“His book is both a narrative biography and a critical study. The value of the book lies chiefly in its clear presentation of general conditions underlying the crises of Mary’s career and particularly of the influence of foreign affairs upon their shaping and development.” O. H. Richardson.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 890. Jl. ’06. 860w.
“Some readers will be inclined to question not only the soundness of many of Mr. Henderson’s criticisms, but also his presentation of some of the facts. The book is vigorously written and displays much critical acumen; but some of the phrases are rather inelegant, and one or two savor of slang.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 319. Mr. 17. 2030w.
“It is a pity that several mistakes have been allowed to creep into the text, and that, in giving the date of the month, in nearly every instance that date of the year has been omitted; also that the author has permitted himself the use of so many unusual words.”
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Critic. 48: 472. My. ’06. 400w.
“He has brought together for the first time many facts that were formerly to be sought only in scattered and more or less inaccessible books or magazine articles, and he has added not a little entirely new matter, important to a proper understanding of the life of Mary Stuart and of those around her.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
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Dial. 41: 63. Ag. 1, ’06. 390w.
“His survey is thorough, extensive and precise, missing scarcely a detail of the stormy and adventurous career.”
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Lit. D. 32: 917. Je. 16, ’06. 960w.
152“Though we differ widely from Mr. Henderson on many points, his book is a valuable contribution to the controversy, and it will be indispensable to the student. The general reader will find it fresh and clear and well-informed. We feel bound to add that it is to a considerable extent spoiled by Mr. Henderson’s irritating habit of correcting his predecessors on points of detail. Sometimes he is right, but more often it seems to us, there is as much evidence for their view as for his.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 449. D. 15, ’05. 830w.
“His book not only claims to be free from prepossessions, but succeeds much better than most works on Mary Stuart in preserving the mood of objectivity.”
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Nation. 82: 409. My. 17, ’06. 580w.
“Mr. Henderson may have Mary’s history at his fingers’ ends ... but he has not succeeded in telling what he knows convincingly, or with clearness or fullness. Mrs. MacCunn’s biography is not only far more interesting, but it is fuller.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 159. Mr. 17, ’06. 430w.
“His is a book for advanced students, and these will find it richly informative.” H. Addington Bruce.
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Outlook. 84: 279. S. 29, ’06. 2920w.
“We have mentioned points susceptible of improvement in the book, but it will be very welcome to the relatively large public which studies the history of the unhappy queen.”
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Henderson, William James. Art of the singer; practical hints about vocal technics and style. **$1.25. Scribner.
The results of twenty-five years of study are summed up for the teacher, the student and the lover of singing. “Probably the best thing in Mr. Henderson’s book, the ‘Art of the singer,’ is his defence of that art. In reply to the declaration of an acquaintance that singing is an artificial achievement, he says: ‘The truth is that while speaking is nature, singing is nothing more than nature under high cultivation.’” (Nation.)
“A real acquisition to the library.”
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“While the book is to some extent technical, it is written in a clear, comprehensive style and can be enjoyed by the mere lover of singing.”
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Nation. 83: 291. O. 4, ’06. 630w.
“Mr. Henderson’s book is a most valuable and useful one. It makes for the preservation and integrity of something that cannot possibly be spared in the musical world.” Richard Aldrich.
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Henry, Arthur. Lodgings in town. †$1.50. Barnes.
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“The intimate, straightforward and lively style in which Mr. Henry writes, and his large and convincing optimism, make a strong appeal to the reader’s sympathy.”
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Henry, Arthur. Unwritten law. †$1.50. Barnes.
“It is a truer reproduction of contemporaneous cosmopolitan existence than are most historical essays that claim to represent things as they are, and being instinct with the higher realism ... the work holds the interest of the reader from cover to cover.”
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Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter). Four million. †$1. McClure.
“In the four million people of New York city their daily living and working and playing, Mr. Henry has found the material for comedy, and tragedy, for laughter and tears. With a few deft touches he weaves the fabric of romance in East side tenements, Wall street brokers’ offices or along Fifth avenue. His sketches—they are hardly stories—are remarkable for their terseness, sympathy and humor, and for their deep insight into the inner life of the great city.”—Pub. Opin.
“These sketches of New York life are among the best things of the kind put forth in many a day.”
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“The work is not even, of course, and some of it is not up to the mark—but on the whole it expresses the spirit of New York wonderfully. And it is clever and entertaining always.”
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“Little stories, each with its individual point, and all pervaded with genuine fun and here and there a touch of sentiment or pathos.”
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“His work is a living proof of the oft-repeated statement that literature depends for its value not on the quality of the material but on the eye of the beholder.”
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Henshaw, Julia W. Mountain wild flowers of America: a simple and popular guide to the names and descriptions of the flowers that bloom above the clouds. *$2. Ginn.
Three hundred plants which the wanderer in mountain regions may meet with at any turning are introduced to the reader of this volume by both their popular and scientific names, while one hundred of them are further identified by means of full-page pictures reproduced from photographs taken by the author. The flowers are classified according to color, an explanation of all botanical terms used is given, and there is one index to the scientific names and another to the English.
“Among the best of the numerous popular works on nature issued during recent years.”
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“Even one ignorant of botany will be able to make use of the book.”
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“Is certain to stimulate as well as delight all tourists to the wonderland of our great common Northwest.”
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Nation. 83: 108. Ag. 2, ’06. 540w.
“An interesting and practical volume to the unenlightened.” Helen R. Albee.
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Herbert, George. English works, newly arranged and annotated and considered in relation to his life, by G. Herbert Palmer. 3v. *$6. Houghton.
“The edition is an elaborate and worthy monument to the gravely sweet and original genius.”
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“He has done a work never attempted before, and it is so final in its results that henceforth every student of Herbert must reckon with it.” A. V. G. Allen.
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“Wide and intimate scholarship and a rare insight born of a lifetime of close fellowship are met together in this work.” Frances Duncan.
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Critic. 49: 183. Ag. ’06. 1640w.
“Professor Palmer’s essays are terse, direct, and pithy, felicitous in their combination of 153tireless scholarly research and infectious enthusiasm.”
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Dial. 40: 129. F. 16, ’06. 410w.
“He has run the risk of misleading the general reader by imposing upon the arrangement an interpretation of the poet’s character which is peculiarly his own, and unsustained by internal or external evidence.”
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Ind. 61: 1164. N. 15, ’06. 100w.
Lit. D. 32: 209. F. 10, ’06. 780w.
“Excellent as an annotator, the present editor does not appear to us so happy as a biographer.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 456. D. 22, ’05. 2050w.
“It is probably the most complete, and critically speaking, the final edition of the English poet’s works.”
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Herrick, Albert Bledsoe. Practical electric railway hand-book. 2nd ed. rev. & corrected. *$3. McGraw pub.
The results of practical experiences along the lines of improvement in the operation of electric railways have been arranged here in convenient form for reference. “The material is logically arranged in the following nine sections: General tables, testing, track, power station, line car house, repair shop, equipment and operation.”
“The second edition of this handbook ... is greatly improved in many ways.” Henry H. Norris.
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Herrick, Christine Terhune, ed. Lewis Carroll birthday book. 75c. Wessels.
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Herrick, Robert. Memoirs of an American citizen. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The story is told in a clear, personal narrative which never strays into a false key.” Mary Moss.
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Atlan. 97: 43. Ja. ’06. 130w.
“It is in the life-like portraits of Carmichael and other business men that he excels, and in the description of the purely business side of life.”
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Herrmann, Wilhelm. Communion of the Christian with God. Authorized tr.; new cheaper ed. **$1.50. Putnam.
A translation of the last German edition issued in a more convenient form than the first American issue and at a popular price.
“It is assuredly one of the important doctrinal treatises of a generation, and it is well that it is rendered into English from the text which is likely to be the author’s final revision.”
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Ind. 61: 880. O. 11, ’06. 1050w.
“It is a book which has entered into the life of our time, and its work has been in behalf of sincere piety and true devotion.”
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Nation. 83: 168. Ag. 23, ’06. 590w.
“We are glad to see so rational and so devout a book published in a form which brings it within the reach of others than professional students. For it is more than a book of theology; it is an exposition and interpretation of religious experience.”
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Herzfeld, Elsa G. Family monographs: the history of twenty-four families living in the middle of the west side of New York city. For sale by Brentano’s and Charity organization soc., N. Y.
Miss Herzfeld says, “The object of these studies is to throw light on the family of the New York tenement-house dweller. The majority of the families studied are fairly typical of the German and Irish, foreign and native born, tenement-house population of New York.” While not the most thriftless type they live from hand to mouth. The work is based on wide sociological observation.
“Fragmentary as the study is, it is an authentic document by a shrewd observer and interpreter of social motives.” C. R. H.
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“The monograph is valuable and will be very serviceable to students of city life.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 236. Ja. ’06. 90w.
“The book is one that the general reader will enjoy; for interest has not been sacrificed to scientific colorness, and humor and pathos are alike to be found here.” E. A.
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“It is not, in fact, a literary work in any sense, or a ‘book’ in any but the most restricted sense. It is a tract.”
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N. Y. Times. 10: 712. O. 21, ’05. 210w.
Hewitt, Randall H. Across the plains and over the divide: a mule train journey from East to West in 1862, and incidents connected therewith. $1.50. Broadway pub.
The untamed West of the Civil war days, with its primitive grandeur and unrestraint is reproduced in these pages for the benefit of the younger generation. The journey covers a zigzag course from Illinois to Washington, over wild country, with no end of perilous encounters.
Hewlett, Maurice. Works. Ed. de luxe. 11v. ea. *$3. Macmillan.
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Hewlett, Maurice Henry. Fond adventures: tales of the youth of the world. †$1.50. Harper.
“Here again he shows his virtuosity in creating a magic haze, beyond which his mediaeval figures move upon their fate.” Mary Moss.
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Atlan. 97: 53. Ja. ’06. 340w.
Hewlett, Maurice. Fool errant. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“Can it be that Mr. Hewlett after all grows genial?” Mary Moss.
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Atlan. 97: 54. Ja. ’06. 30w.
Heyward, Janie Screven. Wild roses. $1.25. Neale.
Some thirty verses, simple to a fault, upon homey subjects—with a touch here and there of strong Southern feeling. The volume opens with a poem on Confederate reunion 1899, and closes with The Confederate private.
Heywood, William. Palio and Ponte. Methuen, London.
“For the present volume all those who love the history of sport or of Italy will be grateful. It is as light as it is learned, while the excellent illustrations and pleasant type and form give it an added charm.” E. Armstrong.
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Hichens, Robert Smythe. Black spaniel and other stories. †$1.50. Stokes.
“They have not the epigrammatic flash of his earlier books nor the substantial impressiveness of his latest.”
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Hichens, Robert Smythe. Call of the blood; il. by Orson Lowell. †$1.50. Harper.
An Englishman ten years younger than his “ugly though brilliantly clever and intellectual” bride finds, under the sunny skies of Sicily 154whence they go for their honeymoon, that he cannot resist the cry of youth and beauty. The strain of Sicilian blood in his veins is responsible for his aptitude in dancing the tarantella and for his yielding to the quick call of love—dishonourable tho it be, and tragic tho it prove.
“It is a full-blooded stirring story—a work which, if Mr. Hichens had not written ‘The garden of Allah,’ we might hail as the greatest novel of passion in the century.”
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Acad. 71: 266. S. 15, ’06. 150w.
“Mr. Hichens at any rate is open to the accusation of taking a long time to tell a simple story.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 362. S. 29, 370w.
“Mr. Hichens envelops himself in rather artificial motives and seems quite oblivious of the influences that must really move his characters to act with consummate naturalness to an inevitable end.” Duffield Osborne
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Bookm. 24: 377. D. ’06. 780w.
“So far as the matter of scene painting goes, ‘The call of the blood’ recalls the splendid richness of colour in ‘The garden of Allah’ while in all other respects it serves only to emphasize the marked superiority of the earlier volume.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 24: 386. D. ’06. 330w.
“Mr. Hichens, it seems, has committed the strategic crime of not making his new novel even better than its predecessor. Yet ‘The call of the blood’ is a good book, perhaps even a great book.”
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Current Literature. 41: 699. D. ’06. 820w.
“There is not enough power in this story and too much decadent fineness.”
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Ind. 61: 1229. N. 22, ’06. 710w.
“The book is entertaining and well worth reading.”
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Lit. D. 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 210w.
“Some of the Sicilian descriptions are quite as remarkable as anything Mr. Hichens has done.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 305. S. 7, ’06. 510w.
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Nation. 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 450w.
“The story is written with much dramatic power and with fine restraint as well. The chief fault of the novel, is that at times, notably in the last hundred pages, the action drags.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“The latter part of the story is tragic and moves with some vigor—but too late!”
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Outlook. 84: 581. N. 3, ’06. 140w.
“The author’s style has an even carefulness. It has no compelling illumination, no gift for happy phrase, and is never impregnated with the sense of character; but it lends itself to the landscape passages of which he is fond, and retains throughout a literary finish.”
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Sat. R. 102: 401. S. 29, ’06. 730w.
“Mr. Hichens’s style harmonises excellently with his subject. Its colour is at times rather hectic, but in the main it seems to heighten the effect of a remarkably interesting and dramatic study of the survival of pagan and primitive instincts.”
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Spec. 97: 404. S. 22, ’06. 810w.
Hichens, Robert. Garden of Allah. $1.50. Stokes.
“From the standpoint of the author, in so far as he has vouchsafed to disclose it, the ending of the story is forced and inartistic.” Duffield Osborne.
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Edinburgh R. 203: 79. Ja. ’06. 2260w.
Living Age. 248: 736. Mr. 24, ’06. 2260w. (Reprinted from Edinburgh R.)
Higgins, Hubert. Humaniculture. **$1.20. Stokes.
“A phrase of the author’s states the subject matter of this book: ‘The problem has now shifted its ground from how to cure a man ... in a hospital to the cure of a man in a sanitarium. The real problem still remains; how to prevent a man in a home from acquiring disease.’... It is now known that only through the exercise of the faculty of mastication and insalivation can the stomach and intestines perform their functions in a non-poison-producing way.... The real significance of this act has only recently been demonstrated, and by an American, Mr. Horace Fletcher. The first half of Dr. Higgins’s book is devoted to analysis and eulogy of Mr. Fletcher’s theories.”—Outlook.
“To do him justice there is more truth in his theories than in some others with which a long-suffering public has been afflicted.”
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Critic. 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 60w.
“Dr. Higgins is neither a ‘crank’ nor a faddist. While his book is, unfortunately, diffuse in style and not clear in construction, it is worth reading.”
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Outlook. 83: 579. Jl. 7, ’06. 410w.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Part of a man’s life. **$2.50. Houghton.
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Ath. 1906, 1: 134. F. 3. 300w.
Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
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Atlan. 97: 115. Ja. ’06. 860w.
“It is pleasant to see, in regard to this intensely human part of a man’s life, that he can still point a pen not greatly corroded by the rust of days.”
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Ind. 59: 1341. D. 7, ’05. 670w.
“Has seldom written to better purpose than in this semi-biographical volume of reminiscences and impressions.”
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Lit. D. 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 490w.
“This volume with its rich fund of story and observation, garmented in graciousness and adorned with many interesting portraits and autograph facsimiles, will win for its author an increasing measure of esteem and affection.”
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Reader. 7: 338. F. ’06. 570w.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, and MacDonald, William. History of the United States from 986 to 1905. $2. Harper.
“The revision and enlargement will tend to prolong its space of public favor for another score of years.”
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Reader. 6: 724. N. ’05. 290w.
Hight, George Ainslie. Unity of will: studies of an irrationalist. **$3. Dutton.
“Mr. Hight’s treatise is quite in line with the present trend of philosophy. This, reversing the long-prevalent and still popular conception of will as the instrument of reason, recognizes will as the master and intellect as its servant, both in the individual and in the universe.... By will is broadly meant the self-active principle manifested in all loving, hating, seeking, shunning, striving.”—Outlook.
Ath. 1906, 1: 731. Je. 16. 230w.
“The book was written throughout in an attractive and readable style; to this is added the merit of brevity, unusual in philosophic works of this sort. At the end a series of ‘First principles’ sums up in concise form the main views of the author, which, although, as has been pointed out, they do not always fit in with those of one more used to a psychological and epistemological method of approach, still are calculated to present to all much food for profound and beneficial reflection.” Robert Morris Ogden.
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J. Philos. 3: 715. D. 20, ’06. 1340w.
“His argument is carried forward with a directness, a logic, a careful avoidance of unnecessary technicalities that are admirable.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 499. Ag. 11, ’06. 1760w.
155“Whatever be its defects, Mr. Hight’s line of thought is soundly practical, and its effect is tonic and uplifting.”
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Outlook. 83: 580. Jl. 7, ’06. 420w.
Higginbotham, Harlow Niles. Making of a merchant. $1.50. Forbes.
A thoroly practical handling of a subject most vital to young men entering upon a business career. Mr. Higinbotham writes from experience and discusses the foundation, advancement, qualities that make a merchant, details that spell success, buying merchandise, treatment of employers, the department store and its management, and the extension of credit in its various phases.
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Lit. D. 33: 768. N. 24, ’06. 200w.
Hildreth, Richard. Japan as it was and is: a handbook of old Japan: a reprint, ed. and rev., with notes and additions by Ernest W. Clement; introd. by William Elliot Griffis. *$3. McClurg.
The material of the 1861 edition of Hildreth’s “Japan” has been revised and reprinted with copious illustrations and adequate editorial matter. The work is no less important now than when it first appeared in 1855, for the fact that it is a compilation from all the important European writings on Old Japan establishes its permanent value. In the revision, the author has harmonized the spelling of Japanese words with the modern system of Romanization, and has added such other notes and explanations as might be necessary.
Dial. 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
Hildt, John C. Early diplomatic negotiations of the United States with Russia. Johns Hopkins press.
This volume of the “Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and political science” forms an introductory study of the relations of the United States with Russia, and narrates “the history of the rise and progress of the early diplomatic relations of the American government to that country and the steps by which the negotiations were carried forward.” The missions of Dana, Adams, and Pinckney, the question of consular immunity, Spanish-American affairs, and the treaty of 1824 all receive careful consideration.
“He gives a careful and clear, but pedestrian account, based on the printed American materials and, after 1816, on an extensive use of the manuscript materials in the archives of the Department of state.”
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Am. Hist. R. 12: 177. O. ’06. 190w.
Hill, David Jayne. History of diplomacy in the international development of Europe, v. 1. **$5. Longmans.
“But what is much more striking is the industry, the insight, and the thoroughness with which, on the whole, even in its vast introductory field, he has acquainted himself, as to all points cardinal to his theme, with the best and the latest of the teeming literature of his subject. As for petty slips ... they are exceptionally few.” George L. Burr.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 358. Ja. ’06. 1150w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The misfortune of the volume is, in short, that it lacks a true perspective. If, however, the work be considered as merely a new general history, on the international side, it has many excellent features, being very well written, clear, accurate and even entertaining, while the source references at the end of each chapter, the lists of treaties, the maps, and a comprehensive index render it a valuable reference work.” E. D. Adams.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 248. Ja. ’06. 570w. (Review of v. 1.)
“On the whole the book has the qualities of a competent American work, being well written, but a little dull, very dependent on European scholarship, and lacking in freshness.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 334. S. 9. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is valuable, however, for bringing into one view the larger facts of the period treated, and emphasizing their influence upon the growth of national states.” David Y. Thomas.
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Dial. 40: 9. Ja. 1, ’06. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A word of praise is due to the bibliographies which are appended to each chapter, and to the regnal tables, maps, and index.” H. W. C. Davis.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 344. Ap. ’06. 920w. (Review of v. 1.)
Hill, Frederick Trevor. Lincoln the lawyer. **$2. Century.
The author believes that in the vast amount of material on the life of Abraham Lincoln too little can be found which sums up the great President’s legal career. So this sketch starts with Lincoln’s mythical birthright to the law, locates the real source of his professional aspirations, follows him through his workshop apprenticeship to his admission to the bar, and on, step by step, to the presidency. The whole discussion particularizes the stages of legal growth that is usually assumed in the presentation of Lincoln the statesman.
“Is, on the whole, something of a contribution to the Lincolniana already so vast.”
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Ind. 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
“Mr. Hill has made a distinct contribution to Lincoln biography. By this we mean a contribution of original material, not a new interpretation, or new presentation, of material already in existence.”
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Lit. D. 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 70w.
Lit. D. 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
“No layman—not to mention the lawyer—can fail to be interested by evidence so carefully sifted and a story so well told. Indeed, many parts of the book have almost the value of original documents.”
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Nation. 83: 459. N. 29, ’06. 260w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 841. D. 1, ’06. 520w.
“Mr. Hill writes for laymen, in a clear, simple, and non-professional style, and has made an interesting as well as valuable volume. He has done his work so well that we regret that he has not done it better.”
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Outlook. 84: 628. N. 10, ’06. 480w.
“A real contribution to history. Mr. Hill’s researches have brought to light a vast amount of interesting data concerning the bench and bar of Illinois in Lincoln’s time.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 639. N. ’06. 180w.
Hill, G. Francis. Historical Greek coins. **$2.50. Macmillan.
A sidelight on Greek history. It is “not a popular work in the broad sense of the term. It is rather a handbook to the most interesting items in the British museum.... The material in the introduction is naturally encyclopedic.... It presupposes a general knowledge of numismatics on the part of the reader, which is only to be gathered from the present volume by careful perusal. The coins are taken up one by one—in many cases most excellently reproduced in half-tone—and studied from the point of view of their material, pictures, and inscriptions, their historical period being described in such a way as to bring its customs and manners vividly before the reader.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The selection of documents can be criticised, of course, both for its inclusions and its omissions. But it is quite sufficiently representative to serve as an introduction to the use of numismatic evidence in historical study, which we 156take to be the main object of the book.” D. G. Hogarth.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 547. Jl. ’06. 700w.
“The author is the most competent that could be found in this country. If we think that, written on a somewhat different plan, it might have been more valuable, we hasten to admit that its actual value is very great. It will widen the outlook of every historical student who consults it.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 250. Jl. 13, ’06. 880w.
“Here and there in the volume we find passages containing information which long ago should have been employed as footnotes to history.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 606. S. 29, ’06. 520w.
“The reader will find most of the great problems of Greek numismatics adequately discussed, with a laudable terseness and much sound judgment.”
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Sat. R. 102: 400. S. 29. ’06. 810w.
“Mr. Hill has a way of making his learning attractive.”
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Spec. 96: 1044. Je. 30, ’06. 280w.
Hill, George Francis. Pisanello. *$2. Scribner.
“Mr. Hill paints his portrait and interprets his art with a skill worthy of the theme.” Royal Cortissoz.
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Atlan. 97: 281. F. ’06. 190w.
“Pisanello, the painter and the medalist, together with his brother workers upon the little reliefs, have been comprehended here in a distinct and lucid manner.”
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Critic. 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 50w.
Hill, Headon, pseud. (Francis Edward Grainger.) One who saw. $1.50. Victoria press (Stitt pub. co.).
There is a mystery in this story which “hovers around a haunted tower. The deus ex machina is a small boy with a cockney accent, a bona fide burglar (with a jimmy that he calls a James,) for a father, and a remarkable facility for climbing up precipices and other apparently impossible places, a facility, by the bye, which stands everybody in the book in good stead before the end is reached. Of course, the hero does nothing but pose and bluster. Of course, the heroine looks beautiful and suffers patiently, like the ‘hangel’ that she is to the small Tommy. And, of course, the small Tommy in question is, as anyone with half an imagination could guess, ‘The one who saw.’” (N. Y. Times.)
Ath. 1905, 1: 395. Ap. 1. 300w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 107. F. 17, ’06. 230w.
Hill, Janet McKenzie (Mrs. Benjamin M. Hill). Up-to-date waitress. **$1.50. Little.
Mrs. Hill, editor of the Boston cooking-school magazine, says “This book is intended as a guide to what may be called good, perhaps ideal, service for waitresses under all circumstances, and not as a set of hard and fast rules from which there is no appeal.” It gives complete information on the care of the dining room, the arrangement of the table, the serving of food, and the preparing of certain dishes.
“It should be in every household.”
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Ind. 61: 155. Jl. 19, ’06. 60w.
“It is a most useful and interesting volume. The mistress of the house cannot afford to be without it.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 318. My. 19. ’06. 220w.
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Outlook. 83: 531. Je. 30, ’06. 140w.
Hill, Mabel. Lessons for junior citizens. 50c. Ginn.
A little text-book in civics which aims to arouse children to take an intelligent interest in the activities of their local government. Each chapter contains a short story concerning some municipal or political function, such as, the police department, board of health, fire department, school system, park commission, immigration, and naturalization, etc. Each chapter is followed by a series of questions which fit the book for school use.
Hill, Sarah C. Cook book for nurses. *75c. Whitcomb & B.
A collection of recipes in a condensed form which will prove valuable to nurses and all those who wish to prepare proper food for the sick. Various rules for fluid diet, soft or convalescent diet, special diets and formulae for infant feeding are given while blank leaves are left for additional recipes.
Hind, Charles Lewis. Education of the artist. $2.50. Macmillan.
“How Claude Williams Shaw was educated in art is set forth in Mr. Hind’s volume. It tells how, at the age of thirty-three, certain persistent glimmerings of a suspicion that life is a larger tapestry than the pattern woven by the author of ‘Self-help’ broke into flame; how that flame was fanned by an artist who crossed his path; how casting about for a way to express his temperament, he decided upon painting; how he studied art in Cornwall and in the Paris studios; how he traveled through Italy, Austria, Germany, and Belgium, studying the pictures of the world in pursuit of his art education; and how in the end of the true awakening of his temperament began, and he discovered that his education was but beginning.”
“The public which delights in his writing will be just the public that can only pretend to admire the artists of his choice.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 372. S. 29. 1560w.
“Is the record of the impressions of an alert, sensitive, and cultivated, if rather capricious, taste. We shall find no guide-book information, nor quotations from other people; the judgments are independent and personal.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 336. S. 28, ’06. 760w.
“These make pleasant, if not especially profitable reading.”
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Nation. 83: 446. N. 22, ’06. 330w.
“The book may not interest the serious student; to the beginner it should be a kind of Bodley book in art.”
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Outlook. 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 100w.
Hinkson, Mrs. Katharine Tynan (Mrs. H. A. Hinkson). Dick Pentreath. †$1.25. McClurg.
Dick Pentreath, plain gentleman, pursues his way among the commonplaces of life buoyantly enough until on the eve of his marriage a foolish drinking bout changes the course of true love. Dorothea scorns him, and in his anger he rushes headlong into a union with an ill-bred woman who brings him shame and humiliation. Had Dick but yielded even to the instinct of his dog Sancho who estimated Susan unerringly, the mistake would have been averted. His burden is lightened now and then by the kindly encouragement of his sister confessor Lady Stella, and by the ready devotion of faithful Sancho. The journey which “bleached Dick Pentreath white” does finally end in lovers meeting.
“A story of more substance and a wider range of interest than we remember in any of this author’s previous novels, and much better written.”
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Acad. 69: 1201. N. 18, ’05. 330w.
“The author can do better than this.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 829. D. 16. 90w.
“Everything about the novel is slip-shod.”
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Critic. 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 130w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 270w.
“It is not equal in charm to many of the novels which Miss Tynan has recently given us.”
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Spec. 96: 304. F. 24, ’06. 120w.
157Hishida, Seiji G. International position of Japan as a great power. (Columbia univ. press studies in history, economics and public law. v. 24, no. 3.) *$2.50. Macmillan.
“Dr. Seiji G. Hishida carefully traces Japan’s historic policy in dealing with foreign nations. Incidentally he makes frequent reference to the diplomatic and commercial history of Europe and America, to the principles of international and other law, as well as to certain phases of economics and sociology, in order to elucidate with scientific precision the relations between the Orient and the Occident.... After relating the history of ancient and modern Japan, Dr. Hishida describes the Empire’s definite entry into the comity of nations, the Russo-Japanese rivalry in Korea, the various struggles of the great Powers in China, the Boxer rebellion, and the Russo-Japanese war. An appendix appropriately contains the text of the Russo-Japanese and Anglo-Japanese treaties.”—Outlook.
Am. Hist. R. 12: 189. O. ’06. 80w.
“Mr. Hishida’s work is a thoroughly creditable performance. Were it not for the fact that it lacks an index it would serve as a compact reference book on the international history of Japan, China and Korea.” Frederick C. Hicks.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 247. S. ’06. 1180w.
“Exhibits the most ambitious effort yet put forth by an Oriental to master the facts and philosophy of Western politics in their latest aspects. It contains a mass of general Japanese history, industriously gathered and clearly arranged, much of it not generally known, but which every American who takes an interest in our international relations should be familiar with.” George R. Bishop.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 240. Ap. 14, ’06. 2540w.
“Dr. Hishida’s volume has distinct value for students of history and politics.”
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Outlook. 82: 618. Mr. 17, ’06. 340w.
Historians’ history of the world; ed. by H: Smith Williams. $72. Outlook.
“The index ... seems to have been prepared with intelligence and care.” E. G. Bourne.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 430. Ja. ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 25.)
“The plan and execution betray the uninitiated, and notwithstanding the literary ability of the author, the book serves as a good evidence that a history of Egypt can be written only by an Egyptologist, at least at the present time. These illustrations are, perhaps, the most objectionable feature of the well-intending book.” W. Max Muller.
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Bib. World. 27: 292. Ap. ’06. 1390w. (Review of v. 1, pt. 2.)
“On the whole ... gives a fair picture of Babylonian and Assyrian life and culture. In treating of the religion of the Babylonians, the editors have overlooked the latest and best work.” George A. Barton.
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Bib. World. 27: 295. Ap. ’06. 1050w. (Review of v. 1, pt. 3.)
“The difficulties met by the editor in fitting together his various sources must have been enormous. That he has not succeeded fully in overcoming the difficulties will be clear on examination. There are too many typographical errors in the work; the references which are intended to give the reader knowledge of the sources of the work are often too indefinite.” Henry Preserved Smith.
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Bib. World. 27: 298. Ap. ’06. 1610w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 4.)
“Most of its defects are due to the attempt to make a consistent story by piecing it together from the works of authors who wrote from different standpoints and in different times or ages, some of them cautious and discriminating, others credulous and uncritical.” J. F. McCurdy.
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Bib. World. 27: 301. Ap. ’06. 610w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 5.)
“The chief fault of the general treatment is that in the nomenclature no distinction is drawn between districts or countries or races and peoples.” J. F. McCurdy.
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Bib. World. 27: 302. Ap. ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 6.)
“On the whole, however, one not a specialist would get from this work an interesting and tolerably correct picture of the history and life of these ancient lands.” George A. Barton
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Bib. World. 27: 297. Ap. ’06. 310w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 7.)
“The method of compilation employed ... is its least desirable feature. The scale of the work is in the main well proportioned. It is no exaggeration to say that these volumes devoted to England and the United States represent the scholarship of half a century ago.” Edward Fuller.
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Bookm. 23: 86. Mr. ’06. 2140w.
Hobbs, Roe Raymond. Court of Pilate, a story of Jerusalem in the days of Christ. $1.50. Fenno.
The love of Cestus, the young centurion for the beautiful Jewess, Myra, and the intrigues of the unscrupulous Paulina, who is high in favor at the court of the Roman Procurator of Jerusalem, and who is determined to win Cestus at any cost, form the main plot of this story but into it are woven accounts of the licentious life at the court of the governor, stirring scenes or the clash of Jew and Roman, engendered by a fierce race hatred that led to the crucifixion of the Messiah, and detailed pictures of barracks, prison, cottage, and market place.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 705. O. 27, ’06. 150w.
Hobbs, Roe Raymond. Gates of flame. $1.50. Neale.
An innocent man is accused and convicted of a crime thru a chain of circumstantial evidence. The problems that this sort of legal blunder gives rise to are met and handled for general enlightenment while the story interest is maintained in the prosecuting attorney’s conflict between his duties to the state and his love for the sister of the accused man.
Hobbs, Roe Raymond. Zaos: a novel. $1.50. Neale.
Reincarnation is the theme of this story. Hal Raolin, a Harvard student, recognizes himself as having lived in Egypt six thousand years ago as Phyros, commander of the king’s guards, and the lover of Zaos, “the beloved of Thebes.” In a trance state he lives over events that marked the tragic course of his life. His vision calls him to Egypt whither he goes and where strange adventures befall him.
Hobhouse, L. T. Democracy and reaction. $1.50. Putnam.
“We cannot speak too highly of this excellent piece of work. The present treatise will not suffer in comparison with the best writing done in England.” John Cummings.
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J. Pol. Econ. 14: 181. Mr. ’06. 1350w.
Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawney, and Hammond, John Lawrence Le Breton. Lord Hobhouse: a memoir. *$4. Longmans.
The biography of a conscientious public servant who “was the incarnation of the intelligent Liberalism of 1850 to 1870.” (Nation.) His official career began with his appointment as a Charity commissioner in 1866, and ended with his retirement from the Judicial committee of the Privy council in 1901. For the remainder of his life municipal affairs occupied his attention. “There is scarcely a stroke 158of humor in the book from one end to the other, and scarcely a touch of pathos.” (Spec.) “But it has value for those who care for the kind of work in which Lord Hobhouse was engaged.” (Sat. R.)
Reviewed by George M. Wrong.
Am. Hist. R. 12: 141. O. ’06. 770w.
“Compact and eloquent memoir.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 6. Ja. 5, ’06. 840w.
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Nation. 82: 327. Ap. 19, ’06. 1650w.
“It proves substantial reading of a not very exciting kind.”
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Sat. R. 101: 210. F. 17, ’06. 220w.
“We read the story of his life with respect, and even admiration, so steady and effective a worker was he, but with little sympathy or stirring of heart.”
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Spec. 96: 386. Mr. 10, ’06. 240w.
Hobson, Robert L. Porcelain, Oriental, Continental and British. **$3.50. Dutton.
A book whose object is “to give in inexpensive form all the facts a collector needs, with as many practical hints as can be compressed in a general work of portable size.” He deals with the porcelains of all countries showing that paste, glaze and decoration are surer guides in classification than the manufacturer’s mark. The work is handsomely illustrated.
“The chapters on Oriental porcelain will be of special service to the amateur, and the illustrations are to be commended, because they are chosen, not as supurb specimens, but as typical pieces.”
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Ind. 61: 520. Ag. 30, ’06. 490w.
“Notwithstanding the great dimensions which ceramic literature has now assumed, there is, so far as we are aware, no published work which quite answers the purpose which this ‘handy book of reference for collectors’ is intended to serve.”
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Int. Studio. 29: 273. S. ’06. 180w.
“There is a loss of practical usefulness in the failure to study wares of recent design and manufacture. What is given in the book is generally admirable.”
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Nation. 83: 106. Ag. 2, ’06. 1080w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 369. Je. 2, ’06. 310w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 460. Jl. 21, ’06. 400w.
“His book accomplishes a great deal in a small space for the education of the unlearned and untutored.”
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Outlook. 83: 863. Ag. 11, ’06. 230w.
“If there are a few points open to criticism in the pages under review, notably in connexion with the early employment of bone-ash in English soft porcelain, still the ceramic collector and connoisseur who desires to possess a trustworthy guide in a single volume of moderate dimensions and price, ought to be thankful to Mr. Hobson.”
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Sat. R. 102: 519. O. 27, ’06. 1200w.
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Hodges, George. Happy family. **75c. Crowell.
The very chapter headings of Dean Hodges’ book suggest the practical manner of treatment; “The business of being a wife,” “The business of being a mother,” and “The business of being a father.” The essential qualities and characteristics to be fostered in the home are enumerated so humorously that even the reader “hard hit” will smile and resolve to reform.
Hodges, Rev. George, and Reichert, John. Administration of an institutional church: a detailed account of the operation of St. George’s parish, in the city of New York; with introds. by President Roosevelt, Bishop Potter, and Dr. Rainsford. *$3. Harper.
In outlining the management and methods of the parish of St. George’s church, the authors make record of a great sociological as well as spiritual movement. The institutional church of which Dr. Rainsford has been the chief organizer and promulgator has been brought to the busy working life of the city of New York. The organization and the elements that vitalize it stand for the best things in human progress.
Hodgson, Rev. Abraham Percival. Thoughts for the King’s children. *75c. Meth. bk.
Fifty-two short talks to children on scriptural texts. It is designed as a help to all workers among children, leaders in young people’s societies and Sabbath school teachers.
Hodgson, Geraldine. Primitive Christian education. *$1.50. Scribner.
Miss Hodgson’s “main purpose is to prove the falseness of the statement, often made in exaggerated language, that the Christian fathers were enemies of education, and to show, by illustrative extracts from the writings of representative teachers of the early church, what were really their methods and the character of their educational work. A sketch of Graeco-Roman education, as given in the schools of the Roman empire, is followed by an account of the catechetical system of the fathers. Separate chapters are devoted to St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Clement of Alexandria, and St. Jerome. The attitude of the Christian teachers to pagan learning is examined, and their methods are set forth and justified.” Lond. Times.
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Bib. World. 28: 160. Ag. ’06. 20w.
“She has searched the sources diligently, but not always used them critically, nor constructed from her mass of material a consistent and orderly edifice of fact.”
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Ind. 61: 937. O. 18, ’06. 110w.
Lit. D. 33: 549. O. 20, ’06. 310w.
“Miss Hodgson has brought together some interesting and suggestive passages, which any student of teaching would gain by reading, and she has given pleasant glimpses by the way of the human side of the early Christian society.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 126. Ap. 6, ’06. 670w.
“Miss Hodgson has shed light on a subject imperfectly known.”
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Outlook. 83: 44. My. 3, ’06. 110w.
“On account of its polemical spirit, the book is not very conclusive in its argument, and the material, of which there is an abundance, is not well organized.”
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Yale R. 15: 337. N. ’06. 130w.
Hodgson, John Evan, and Eaton, Frederick A. Royal academy and its members, 1768–1830. *$5. Scribner
Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.
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Hoffding, Harald. Philosophy of religion. *$3. Macmillan.
The main thesis of Dr. Höffding’s work is that the essence of religion consists in a belief in the “conservatism of value.” The subject is divided into three parts—epistemological, psychological, and ethical. His aim is to treat all of the essential aspects of the religious problem “not only with the intellectual interest which cannot fail to be excited by so great and comprehensive a subject-matter, but also in the frame of mind evoked by the consciousness that he has here before him a form of spiritual life in which, for 159centuries long, the human race has stored up its deepest and innermost experiences.”
“As compared with the highly concentrated ‘Problems of philosophy,’ where we never for a moment lose sight of the main issue, this book presents a tangled skein. It needs not merely a bold man, but also a wise one, to grasp as Prof. Höffding grasps, at the sense of the whole and of the parts together—to do justice as he seeks to do, and does at once to religion and to the religions.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 569. My. 11. 2140w.
“There is a personal note which lifts the book above the level of professional treatises on philosophy. He speaks as a man to men, and his book claims the respectful attention of all who are prepared to discuss seriously and without prejudice the ultimate questions of human thought.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 286. Ag. 24, ’06. 2630w.
“A comparison of the translation with a considerable portion of the German text shows the rendering to be reasonably correct. As is apt to be the case, however, the style does not escape the influence of the original. The index which the translator has supplied is a valuable addition to the book.” F. C. French.
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Philos. R. 15: 554. S. ’06. 420w.
Hoffding, Harald. Problems of philosophy; tr. by Galen M. Fisher; with preface by W. James. *$1. Macmillan.
“The work contains but four chapters, and they deal, respectively, with the problems of consciousness, knowledge, being and values—the ethical and religious problems being comprised in the latter. The author seeks to resolve these four into one, the problem of continuity, and in so doing to show their fundamental interdependence. At the same time, the various continuities are defined not as absolutes of existence, but as ideals; they are not philosophical fact, but philosophical aim.”—Bookm.
“Since it is so compact and profound, will be of more service as a résumé of philosophic theory for advanced students than as an introduction for beginners.” George B. Foster.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 370. Ap. ’06. 380w.
“‘Small and precious’ ... is the verdict which every lover of philosophy will pass on this book.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 441. Ap. 14. 2650w.
“The book is brief, clear, and concise.” H. B. Alexander.
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Bookm. 22: 526. Ja. ’06. 350w.
“An abstract discussion of abstract principles, his style carries him beyond the possibility of accompaniment by the layman.”
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Dial. 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 170w.
“The most general criticism, however ... will be that the compass of the work is so restricted. The translation ... is well done.” A. C. Armstrong.
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J. Philos. 3: 77. F. 1, ’06. 920w.
“This little book ... is strong meat for beginners, and needs the expository preface supplied by Professor James. To digest its condensed thought, conveyed in abstract and technical form, this will be serviceable as pepsin even to some who are not babes in the philosophy.”
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Outlook. 81: 891. D. 9. ’05. 180w.
“Acquaintance with the subject is necessary to appreciate its argument, which is often in technical form. The translation is apparently ‘faithful, if not elegant,’ as the preface says. An occasional roughness in its style may be pardoned for the sake of its conciseness.” Edmund H. Hollands.
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Philos. R. 15: 553. S. ’06. 830w.
R. of Rs. 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 70w.
Holbrook, Richard Thayer, tr. Farce of Master Pierre Patelin, composed by an unknown author about 1469 A. D. **$2. Houghton.
“The first English version of a curious English drama, written about 1469, and made from the editor’s manuscript copy of the only extant exemplar of the Lyons edition, printed about 1486. There is also but one copy known of an edition of about 1489, and the present version is illustrated with fac-similes of the quaint woodcuts in that edition. No earlier samples of these old farces have come down to our day. This play was wonderfully popular, and attained a fame unparallelled in the history of the early stage and seldom equalled since. All students of the drama will be interested in it.”—Critic.
“His book is a fine specimen of the scholarship of his country. The translation is, like the original, idiomatic and rollicking. Its author catches the lights and shades; he sees and renders all the humour. He is, at times, it is true a little stilted.”
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Acad. 70: 158. F. 17, ’06. 1010w.
Critic. 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 100w.
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Dial. 39: 449. D. 16, ’05. 40w.
“The translator has well accomplished a difficult task.”
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Nation. 82: 146. F. 15, ’06. 440w.
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Spec. 96: 391. Mr. 10, ’06. 250w.
Holbrooke, George O. Verses. $1. Broadway pub.
The humanitarian note is strong in these poems, which give to life at its worst hope, altho there is a touch of fatalism, and give to the reader picturesque visions of the New York poor. There are also verses which tell of a pretty deed done by Lafayette; of the dazed return of Knickerbocker to his old haunts; and there are songs of other times and other places.
Holder, Charles Frederick. Life in the open; sport with rod, gun, horse and hound in southern California. **$3.50. Putnam.
“A spirited account of the hunt for hare, wolf, lynx, and fox in the foothills of the Sierra Madre, and of the deer, bighorn, and mountain lion amid the crags and precipices of the Southern Sierras.... A number of pages are devoted to the varied sport which the angler finds with tuna, black sea-bass, and yellowtail, with deep-sea trolling and still-angling off the shores of Southern California and its adjacent islands, and with the trout of the clear mountain streams of the Coast range and of the high Sierras. The work is superbly illustrated with many reproductions from photographs of scenery, the old missions of California, and fishing scenes about Avalo and the famous Santa Catalina island.”—Dial.
“The weak points of the book, at any rate for a European reader, are that too minute topographical detail is tacked on to some of the chapters, which consequently have rather the effect of a guide book without maps; and the use of local terms which are not generally understood.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 98. Jl. 28. 590w.
“The charm of the work lies in its spirited and enthusiastic appreciation of out-of-door life, of the possibilities of the enjoyment of nature, even though one go a-hunting or a-fishing.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.
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Dial. 40: 357. Je. 1, ’06. 320w.
“Among the books of the season on open air sports, Holder’s ‘Life in the open’ is foremost on account of its typographical beauty, comprehensiveness and practicality.”