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“Apparently simple, straightforward story, utterly without imagination, hanging together from start to finish with absolute compactness and coherency, vivid in detail, and sodden with criminality.”
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* Hough, Emerson. Young Alaskan. †$1.25. Harper.
The narrative of exciting adventure which fell to the lot of three Alaskan boys who are castaways in the wild Kaludiak country. Their stout hearts, insuperable energy and quick wit prove invincible against hardship and danger.
N. Y. Times. 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
Houmas, Mount. Strange record. $1.50. Neale.
8–18002.
A wealthy young girl whose thoroly sensible ideas about life are at variance with her stepmother’s superficial ones leaves her Brooklyn home, studies medicine and chooses the south for the field of her career. Sentiment against the woman doctor brings her to the point of masquerading as a man, of going to the West Indies, where her professional success is as complete as the masculine mask which she assumes.
N. Y. Times. 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 700w.
178Housden, C. E. Practical earthwork tables. *90c. Longmans.
Tables that have been “prepared for the purpose of facilitating the computation of the cross-sectional areas of embankments and excavations, by reducing the work involved in preparing special sections and in making the necessary calculations from longitudinal and cross-sections of ground over or through which the proposed cut has to be made.” (Engin. D.)
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“His book is inferior in design and application to most of the dozen or more earthwork tables now in print.”
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Housden, C. E. Practical hydraulic (water supply and drainage) tables and diagrams. *$1.25. Longmans.
W7–233.
“These tables and diagrams, originally prepared for the personal use of the author, have proved of such use and convenience in ascertaining the sizes of pipes for water supply systems, surface drains and sewers, that they have been published in the present form.” (Engin. D.) “The tables are based upon the formulas of Messrs. Ganguillet and Kutter for the calculation of the flow in pipes and channels.” (Engin. N.)
Engin. D. 3: 652. Je. ’08. 140w.
“It may be a very useful work for some people, but not for those familiar with any of the American books of hydraulic tables.” G. S. Williams.
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Housman, Laurence. Stories from the Arabian nights; retold by Laurence Housman. *$5. Scribner.
8–13714.
“Laurence Housman has taken a half-dozen of the best tales, and from the various authoritative translations has made a version in which the repetitions and indecencies are suppressed and the points of the narrative thrown into relief. He has, in a word, tried to get a result similar to that attained by Galland, in the old French translation, which so long stood as the basis of our English ‘Arabian nights,’ until displaced by an irruption of pedantic Orientalists.” (Nation.)
“A new version of some of the stories, written by Mr. Housman in prose as graceful as his verse, will be very welcome.”
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“As to the retelling, Mr. Housman takes all sorts of liberties, and we do not blame him. The text is only a peg whereon to hang the pictures, and these are most delightfully whimsical.”
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Nation. 85: 564. D. 19, ’07. 200w.
“For real charm—a charm quite comparable to Scheherezade’s own—this volume depends upon the indescribably quaint and bewitching illustrations provided by Edmund Dulac.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 848. D. 21, ’07. 400w.
“Mr. Dulac has given them an eastern look with quite uncommon success.”
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Spec. 99: 936. D. 7, ’07. 160w.
Houston, Edwin James. Five months on a derelict. (Pacific ser., v. 1.) †$1.25. Am. Bapt.
8–20577.
The experiences of a ship’s crew and some lively boys who escaped to a derelict brig and tossed about on the Pacific for five months. Boys will find exciting adventure wholesomely interspersed with geography, natural history, astronomy and mythology. One of the best sailors in the group is Rompey the collie.
“A book that is obviously intended to be instructive as well as entertaining.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 439. Ag. 8, ’08. 230w.
* Houston, Edwin James. Wrecked on a coral island. †$1.25. Am. Bapt.
A continuation of the experiences of the group of boys who figured in “Five months on a derelict.” Aside from the strong story interest, information is furnished concerning the formation of a coral island, and concerning the plant and animal life of the southern Pacific.
“A good story and an instructive one.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
Hovey, Richard. Holy graal, and other fragments by Richard Hovey; being the uncompleted parts of the Arthurian dramas; ed. with introd. and notes by Mrs. Richard Hovey, and a preface by Bliss Carman. $1.25. Duffield.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“More effectually perhaps than any other book of the year this volume of fragmentary literary remains reawakens us to a sense of the reality, the permanence and power of the poetic spirit.” Ferris Greenslet.
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Atlan. 100: 850. D. ’07. 580w.
“[Has] a poetry of thought and an intimate skill in form full of larger promise.” Brian Hooker.
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Forum. 39: 526. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“It is impossible to study the conception of the work as a whole without grave misgivings. If nothing else, it is altogether too complicated. Whether for this reason or not, the dramatic interest even of the completed plays is not very great.”
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Ind. 64: 753. Ap. 2, ’08. 300w.
“Much as his untimely death is to be lamented by every lover of verse, it is impossible to consider what remains of his cycle as a great or very significant poem or to believe that even if it were finished, it would be other than a work ‘manqué’ as a whole, a thing of brilliant passages and of splendid promise for the time when the author should have found himself in his own best vein.”
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Nation. 86: 63. Ja. 16, ’08. 650w.
Hovey Richard. To the end of the trail; ed. with notes by Mrs. Richard Hovey. **$1.25. Duffield.
8–12814.
Collected and published as a tribute to the memory of a man who was cut off before the fulfilment of extraordinary promise in his verse. Aside from his lyrics are translations from Maeterlinck, Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine.
“Completes the collected edition of the works of one of our most interesting poets, a man of vivid imagination, of deep, if not broad, sympathies, endowed with insight, sensibility, and the gift of melodious expression.” E: A. Dithmar.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 287. My. 23, ’08. 900w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
Howard, George Bronson. Scars on the southern seas. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
7–40047.
Among a Pacific mail steamship’s passengers are four people, one of them a young woman, whose thrilling adventures begin with a midocean swim violently terminated by a typhoon that cuts them loose from the liner. Scrambling into the ship’s boat that had been lowered with them they drift to an island where they discover a plot to wrest the Philippines from the United States. Among them is a hero of the Jack London type, who holds at bay a band of Japanese and Chinese mercenaries while the remainder steal a ship and go to Manila for help. Romance mingles with adventure in the usual proportion.
N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
179Howard, Oliver Otis. Autobiography. 2v. **$5. Baker.
7–35640.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“The portion dealing with reconstruction has a special value as General Howard was at that time in charge of the Freedman’s bureau.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 43. F. ’08.
“The work is rather a rambling narrative of reminiscences. These pages reveal little historical ability or literary skill, they are yet exceptionally valuable in revealing the character of a high-minded gentleman and patriot.”
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Ind. 64: 469. F. 27, ’08. 600w.
“This is a book to dip into as we dip into Pepys or Evelyn. Even the great length of the autobiography is precluded from tediousness by the multitude of good things with which it abounds.”
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Lit. D. 36: 236. F. 15, ’08. 250w.
“General Howard has made numerous changes, additions, and corrections, giving new value to a record which, in the first edition, was well received everywhere.”
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Lit. D. 37: 852. D. 5, ’08. 60w.
“The student of military science will find other records more illuminating; for vivid pictures we must search elsewhere. Nevertheless, there are fine qualities, truthfulness, candor, the spirit of humanity.”
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Nation. 86: 175. F. 20, ’08. 1000w.
“These well-printed, clearly written volumes exhibit the career of a trained warrior.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 253. F. ’08. 90w.
Howard, Oliver Otis. Famous Indian chiefs I have known. †$1.50. Century.
8–24869.
A Major-general of the civil war tells of his experiences and adventures with Indian leaders, both friendly and hostile. One of the most interesting chapters tells of the long Nez Percé war which was fought with Chief Joseph, whom General Howard followed over fourteen hundred miles before the warrior surrendered. More than twenty chiefs figure in the narrative.
Nation. 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.
“He has put [into it] the cream of his knowledge of Indian character and of his experience with Indians.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 513. S. 19, ’08. 230w.
“The unique character of these reminiscences make them interesting to readers of all ages.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 510. O. ’08. 90w.
Howard, Oliver Otis. My life and experiences among our hostile Indians. $2.75. Worthington.
7–38634.
“Records the author’s observations, adventures, and campaigns among the Indians of the great west. He gives details of their life, habits, religion, ceremonies, dress, savage instincts, and customs in peace and war.” (Lit. D.) The book is fully illustrated.
“The romance of realism has never been more stirringly demonstrated than in these pages. The tone in which the book is written is elevated.”
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Lit. D. 37: 257. Ag. 22, ’08. 230w.
“Animated narrative ... which may be commended not only as thoroughly readable but as sympathetic with the effort to raise the American Indian from a condition of ignorant savagery to that of industrious citizenship. The story is full of incidents and anecdotes, and is entertaining as well as instructive.”
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Outlook. 89: 127. My. 16, ’08. 250w.
Howden, J. R. Boys’ book of steamships. †$2. McClure.
W8–151.
An informing book covering the entire ground of achievement represented by the steamship: its history, principles of design, machinery, development of type, work of the ship, river and lake boats, ocean steamships and their routes in various quarters of the globe.
“For the boy with a mechanical turn of mind this book is especially profitable, and any boy intending to travel will find it beneficial.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 764. D. ’08. 50w.
“Mr. Howden prefaces this interesting account of steamships with a really valuable and most lucid historical sketch of ancient and medieval shipping. We have no hesitation in describing it as one of the best introductions to the study of sailing-ships we have met with. If some of the same ground has been traversed before, much is comparatively unbroken, and has new sidelights thrown on it. Altogether the book is an acquisition for the ‘steamboat’ boy.”
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Spec. 101: sup. 707. N. 7, ’08. 420w.
Howe, Edward Watson. Daily notes of a trip around the world. 2v. *$2. Crane & co.
The record of a trip around the world, including Hawaii, Japan, China, the Philippines, Ceylon, India, Egypt, Palestine and Europe. Every day he wrote a few paragraphs for a newspaper, which, collected, make a continuous history of his journey.
“The most entertaining record of travel we have read in many a year. The book is a Kansas classic.”
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Ind. 64: 320. F. 6, ’08. 550w.
“They have distinct vitality, unusual humor, and are always interesting, not alone for the information conveyed, but as an expression of an interesting personality.”
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Lit. D. 36: 418. Mr. 21, ’08. 70w.
Howe, Mark Anthony De Wolfe. Life and letters of George Bancroft. 2v. **$4. Scribner.
8–12121.
Letters strung together on a slight thread of narrative and comment tell a story of Bancroft’s life at once authentic and complete. It is especially informing as it relates Bancroft’s political and scholarly activity to his contemporaries and his times.
“Mr. Howe has done his work judiciously and the picture of the great historian which he presents is at least clear in outline and interesting in detail.” W: MacDonald.
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Am. Hist. R. 14: 150. O. ’08. 900w.
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 188. Je. 08.
“Though this book should command a wide public on both sides of the Atlantic, its English readers may not unfairly complain that American politics are presented in a manner so allusive as to be almost unintelligible.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 430. O. 10. 1300w.
“This magisterial and critical life of a great historian is very welcome.” W: M. Sloane.
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Atlan. 102: 275. Ag. ’08. 4100w.
“The tone throughout is serious and dignified. The interest, and often the style, of Mr. Howe’s volumes suffers from unevenness; certain portions have a power of absorbing the reader, while other pages seem colorless.” A. R. Marble.
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Dial. 44: 267. My. 1, ’08. 2600w.
“Mr. Howe’s work is a clean and admirable addition to American biography.”
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Lit. D. 37: 26. Jl. 4, ’08. 1500w.
“Mr. Howe has performed creditably a work of peculiar difficulty. He had to dispose of a large mass of material; but he has confined the narrative within proper limits.... He writes as if devoid of affection for his subject. It is this circumstance which makes the reader finish the book with the feeling that while he has profited somewhat, he has nevertheless missed that keen enjoyment which a good biography should furnish.”
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Nation. 86: 446. My. 14, ’08. 1100w.
180“Mr. Howe is far from dull. He has taken a good deal of time in the preparation of these volumes, and his care regarding them has been as intelligent as it has been patient.” Edward Cary.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 270w.
“As a collection of letters this work is most valuable, and little fault is to be found with it; but as a biography it is distinctly open to improvement.” H. A. Bruce.
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Outlook. 89: 616. Jl. 18, ’08. 4800w.
“His ‘Life and letters’ give interesting revelations of all the prominent personalities with whom at one time or another he had come in contact.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 753. Je. ’08. 300w.
“The work has been accomplished in excellent taste and with no small literary skill. There are, however, some glaring mistakes in the transcription of letters. A valuable contribution to American literature.”
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Spec. 101: sup. 703. N. 7, ’08. 1900w.
* Howe, Maud. Sun and shadow in Spain. **$3. Little.
This volume written by a daughter of Julia Ward Howe tells the story of varied and fascinating experiences while wandering thru Spain. Keen observation, rich imagination, and sprightly wit are quickened into vigorous activity under the spell of the real Spain and her people. Numerous illustrations add reality to the word pictures.
“Maud Howe is appreciative and sympathetic; she is also impressionable, but the greatest gift of all is hers—she can remember and record her impressions and convey them to her readers.”
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Lit. D. 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 220w.
“Much of the information supplied by one of the party, who acts as a sort of Greek chorus, would be less wearisome if soberly stated as a matter of fact.”
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Nation. 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 300w.
“Everywhere the author’s sprightly wit lends life and color to the pictures she has painted of this fascinating country.”
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“This is a travel book for the light hearted who don’t mind slang or object to the companionship of fellow-travelers disguised under initials.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 760. D. ’08. 30w.
* Howells, William Dean. Christmas every day. †$1.75. Harper.
A charmingly told tale of a little girl who begged the Christmas fairy to have Christmas every day in the year, and the monotony of the surfeit of festivity that follows the granting of the request.
“In the telling of this story there is a certain zest that adds spirit to the little girl’s wish, and the adventures that result therefrom.”
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Nation. 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 50w.
“Such a nice story that when you commence you cannot put it down until it is finished.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 702. N. 28, ’08. 360w.
“In taste and sentiment it is doubtful if any Christmas book of the year surpasses this.”
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Outlook. 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 80w.
“It is written with grace, lightness of touch, brilliancy, and literary charm.”
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Howells, William Dean. Fennel and rue. †$1.50. Harper.
8–9174.
A study of a young author and his treatment of a woman who tries to trick him into revealing to her the conclusion of his story, publishing serially, on the ground of her approaching death. Discovering the trick, the author writes to his unknown correspondent a stern and indignant letter. These young people afterward meet at a house-party, the author as a guest, the girl as a professional entertainer. The differing social altitudes of the two and their past experiences of each other give a dramatic interest to every chance encounter and present a problem which is solved, or unsolved, with a satirical but delicate touch.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 156. My. ’08.
“Mr. Howells’s wit and sense of character nowadays seem attenuated, and as lovers of his work in other days, we regret to find the persons of his small drama bloodless creatures, splitting ethical hairs.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 537. My. 2, 200w.
“A chip from Mr. Howells’s literary workshop, delicately carved and polished, yet highly finished though it be, a by-product none the less.” A. S. van Westrum.
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Bookm. 27: 281. My. ’08. 750w.
“It is all very charming and slyly humorous in the working out, but cannot be said to engage any serious interest.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 44: 350. Je. 1, ’08. 180w.
“Mr. Howells has not forgotten how to invent a situation, half-psychical, half sentimental. The old skill is not lacking.”
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Ind. 64: 925. Ap. 23, ’08. 150w.
“Mr. Howells has succeeded admirably in depicting the excesses to which continual brooding over a trifle may lead those who have no sense of humor. The slender plot is well developed, though it is embedded in a good many pages of banal, but exceedingly life-like conversation, uttered by desperately uninteresting and real people.”
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Nation. 86: 309. Ap. 2, ’08. 300w.
“It is short; the characters are few; the narrative is swift and easy. The dramatic sense of the writer is as fresh as ever and the interest never flags. There is delicate observation in plenty, and there are passages of exquisite description of scenes in which one can imagine the writer himself delightfully absorbed.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 151. Mr. 21, ’08. 800w.
“Another slight story, so far as length goes, but one delicately wrought and with great literary skill.”
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Outlook. 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 120w.
“Not by any means a masterpiece and in no way to be compared with the author’s richer product.” E. L. Cary.
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Putnam’s. 4: 618. Ag. ’08. 120w.
“Some of Mr. Howells’ readers may wish that he had let his imagination react more decidedly upon his material.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 760. Je. ’08. 330w.
“It is no small proof of Mr. Howells’s delicate and distinguished talent that he should have kept a story which trembles on the verge of morbidity pure and sweet throughout.”
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Spec. 100: 710. My. 2, ’08. 900w.
Howells, William Dean. Roman holidays and others. **$3. Harper.
8–30605.
Quiet, capacious observation, poetic vision, and ripe reflection characterize these impressions which are made to contrast interestingly with impressions of the same scenes forty years ago. Howells journeys about leisurely, comments upon old landmarks, modern innovations, street scenes, popular customs, manners, the municipal situation, and the Papal church.
“With that genially serious attention to minute details, that humorous circumstantiality in treating the commonplace, which we have all come to know so well and to like (or dislike) so heartily in Mr. Howells, he has filled a substantial volume with his easy-flowing narrative of a Mediterranean vacation journey.”
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181“One of the charms of the volume springs from the change in the impressions that Italy made upon him after the lapse of more than a full generation since his first visit.”
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Lit. D. 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 100w.
“In this new book of Rome and Italy there is a joy and a mellow philosophy that are typical of the author.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 623. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“There is no sadness, in these pages, nothing but a joy and a mellow philosophy that are both typical of the author and of holidays in general.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“The habit Mr. W. D. Howells formed many years ago of writing charmingly about his holiday doings still clings to him, and manifests itself strikingly in his latest book.”
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Howells, William Dean and others. Whole family: a novel by twelve authors. †$1.50. Harper.
Twelve authors have coöperated in producing this character-sketch novel. A chapter is devoted to each member of the family as follows: The father, by William Dean Howells; The old-maid aunt, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; The grandmother, by Mary Heaton Vorse; The daughter-in-law, by Mary Stewart Cutting; The school-girl, by Elizabeth Jordan; The son-in-law, by John Kendrick Bangs; The married son, by Henry James; The married daughter, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; The mother, by Edith Wyatt; The school-boy, by Mary R. S. Andrews; Peggy, by Alice Brown; and The friend of the family, by Henry Van Dyke.
“It is pure vaudeville, but many of the ‘turns’ are characteristic and amusing.”
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Nation. 87: 552. D. 3, ’08. 620w.
“Mr. James and Mr. Howells are, of course, the star performers in this company of twelve, and the rest have all attempted, with more or less success, to play up to them and to carry on a harmonious method of treatment.” F. F. Kelly.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
“The book will be keenly enjoyed by all readers of to-day, and the future critic who writes the literary history of this period will not be likely to pass it over in silence.” C. H. Gaines.
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Hoyt, John Clayton, and Grover, Nathan Clifford. River discharge; prepared for the use of engineers and students. $2. Wiley.
7–28189.
“The book is divided into six chapters, dealing respectively with rainfall and evaporation; instruments used for obtaining velocities and depths; cable-station equipments; wading stations; theory and practices of measuring discharges; weirs and weir formulas; discussion and use of data; together with seventeen tables for facilitating the computations in various hydraulic problems.”—Nature.
“The volume is certain to meet the needs of engineers, students and capitalists, to whom for the first time much data from government reports is here made readily accessible.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 713. My. ’08. 150w.
“Being practically the only work available dealing with the subject this volume will find a ready reception, and when future editions enable the authors to fill in the omissions and strengthen the weak spots, it should be one of the most valuable works on practical hydraulics printed in the English language.” G. S. Williams.
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Engin. N. 58: 650. D. 12, ’07. 710w.
“The authors of the book ... give in a thoroughly practical and useful way the result of their experience, and of the methods adopted in carrying out the work.”
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Nature. 77: 148. D. 19, ’07. 200w.
Technical Literature. 2: 582. D. ’07. 150w.
Hubbard, Mina Benson. Woman’s way through unknown Labrador: an account of the exploration of the Nascaupee and George rivers. **$1.50. McClure.
8–35700.
To correct misleading accounts of Mr. Hubbard’s ill-fated expedition organized for the purpose of exploring the Northwest river draining Lake Michikamau, and the George river draining the northern slope of the plateau to Ungava bay, his wife went over the same ground in a more favorable season. This is a record of her journey, to which she adds her husband’s latter-day diary and a narrative by one of his party, George Elson.
Ath. 1908, 1: 758. Je. 20. 720w.
“Her book should command a wide circle of interested readers. It is to be regretted, however, that her account lacks both definiteness and good form in its presentation; there are hopeless and involved anti-climaxes when striking situations afforded opportunities for quite the opposite effects. One reader, at least, has been pained by the evident depreciation, throughout her book, of Wallace’s services to her husband and loyalty to his memory, as evidenced in the earlier books and by Hubbard’s own diary.” M. A. Havens.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 140w.
R. of Rs. 38: 638. N. ’08. 80w.
“This volume contains the diary notes kept by her husband of his own attempt, but its chief interest is in the fascinating story which she has to tell of her own triumph. This book is one of great interest, not only for its own story, but also for the fact that its authoress succeeded where her husband failed.”
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Spec. 101: sup. 472. O. 3, ’08. 1150w.
Huey, Edmund Burke. Psychology and pedagogy of reading; with a review of the history of reading and writing, and of methods, texts, and hygiene in reading. *$1.40. Macmillan.
8–4327.
A work for advanced students of this phase of education and psychology, as well as for elementary school teachers. It sets forth the machinery of the subconscious process which one undergoes in transferring the printed page to one’s consciousness. “The material used is the whole body of reference from the experiments of all the psychologists who have occupied themselves in this curious study, supplemented by the writer’s own observations.” (N. Y. Times.)
“For psychologists, teachers of more than average training and understanding, advanced students, and exceptionally intelligent parents.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 188. Je. ’08.
“He comes mighty near achieving the direct and simple conversational style for which he pleads. This book undoubtedly sets the high-water mark for books on special method.” W: C. Ruediger.
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Educ. R. 36: 203. S. ’08. 770w.
“The author has done for reading what ought to be done for every branch of study.”
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Ind. 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The book treats the subject more extensively and in a more thorough-going way than has been done heretofore. The experimental work is presented in an unusually interesting manner; and so, indeed, is the entire material. The author thinks it would be best to have children learn to read late, and at home, which they could easily do if left largely to themselves. 182The present writer thinks Professor Huey is not consistent in the attitude he takes upon this problem.” M. V. O’Shea.
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J. Philos. 5: 500. Ag. 27, ’08. 1300w.
“An attractive study, which is likely to arouse a broader interest in the questions at issue.”
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Nation. 86: 495. My. 28, ’08. 400w.
“A modestly laborious volume.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 137. Mr. 14, ’08. 1750w.
“The best book on this radically important subject that we have met with.”
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Outlook. 88: 655. Mr. 21, ’08. 350w.
“Professor Huey’s book is interesting, well written, and useful.” M. F. Washburn.
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Philos. R. 17: 668. N. ’08. 300w.
“The book brings together an immense amount of material in unusually readable form. It seems destined to arouse interest and stimulate investigation in an important field.” Raymond Dodge.
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Science, n.s. 28: 178. Ag. 7, ’08. 800w.
Hughes, Charles Evans. Addresses and papers of Charles Evans Hughes, governor of New York, 1906–1908; with an introd. by Jacob Gould Schurman. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–14814.
President Schurman has contributed to this volume an introduction which is both a biographical sketch and an estimate of Governor Hughes’s career as a public man. The body of the book contains selected speeches reflecting Mr. Hughes’s political views, classified under the following heads: Public office and party principles; Regulation of public-service corporations; and Occasional addresses.
“These speeches reveal the man. They should be widely read and studied. They will be an uplift to our young men in this time of graft and self-seeking. In Governor Hughes this ideal of the days of the early republic lives again.” S. L. Woodford.
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Ind. 64: 1024. My. 7, ’08. 500w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 286. My. 23, ’08. 100w.
“His utterances, written and spoken, are notably clear, compact, and forceful in expression, and equally sincere and frank in spirit.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 756. Je. ’08. 100w.
Hughes, Thomas Aloysius. History of the Society of Jesus in North America, colonial and federal. *$4.50. Burrows.
7–25073.
v. 1. From the first colonization till 1645.
The first volume in a “comprehensive historical series, comprising in different languages an authentic account of the society over the world.” The first part of the work “deals entirely with the first few years of the history of the province of Maryland and is provided with remarkably complete critical apparatus.” (Am. Hist. R.) The second part, known v. 1, pt. 1, includes documents from 1605 to 1838 “applying to the early history of the missions to the Jesuit property and its uses in the Maryland and Pennsylvania missions.” (Nation.)
v. 2. Contains the text based upon the documentary evidence which comprised the first volume. “As in all other ecclesiastical history, so here we have much that is sordid—disputes about property, quarrels between secular priests and religious and much else of similar character—but on the whole it is a story of sincere devotion and true Christian heroism.” (Ind.)
“The author is without question a most learned man and a most careful student. His introduction on the sources, archives and literature of his subject is exceedingly valuable, not only to students of American history, but also to those interested in the Jesuits in any land. His bibliography is extensive and shows that he has investigated most of the authorities and that he appreciates the importance of writing history from the sources.” B. C. Steiner.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 597. Ap. ’08. 2600w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This work supplies food for the serious student, rather than easy entertaining reading for leisure hours. It will prove an invaluable mine for future historians.”
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Cath. World. 86: 816. Mr. ’08. 650w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Even more eloquently than the first volume of the text, testifies to the laborious, painstaking industry which Father Hughes has devoted to his great task. American Catholics will require Father Hughes’ data to be thoroughly and impartially scrutinized before they will be ready to acquiesce in the conclusions which he draws.”
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Cath. World. 87: 255. My. ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1, pt. 1.)
“In spite of crudity of style, errors of judgment, and an absolute inability to comprehend the point of view of an opponent, Father Hughes has produced an extremely valuable book. It is not too much to say that, after all allowances are made, he has completely changed our ideas of the part played by the Jesuits in the Maryland episode.” W. L. Grant.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 579. Jl. ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A source-book of high value for the ecclesiastical history of the American colonies.”
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Ind. 65: 788. O. 1, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“This work is in the highest sense a work of learning, and while it must reach the shelves of every public library and every college collection, it will also take an honored place in the many private studies where scholarship, conscientious impartiality, and masterly style are valued.”
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Lit. D. 36: 491. Ap. 4, ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The author has added comparatively little to what was already known of the first years of Maryland’s settlement; and the many controversies involved in the purpose and methods of that venture have frequently led him off the main track.”
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Nation. 86: 148. F. 13, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The work is done with the thoroughness with which Jesuit scholarship is associated, and if the standpoint taken is rigidly that of the society, that is, indeed, only what might have been expected, and constitutes to a large extent the value of this contribution to local Maryland history.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is to be hoped that in the volumes to follow he will adopt a less censorious and disputatious tone, and also succeed in drawing his narrative somewhat more closely together than is the case here. Its readability will then be greatly increased without any impairment of its intrinsic worth.”
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Outlook. 89: 269. My. 30, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 1.)
Hulbert, Archer Butler. Niagara river. **$3.50. Putnam.
8–29355.
“Mr. Hulbert’s book is illustrated with some seventy delightful views. The great commercial importance of Niagara falls, and still greater developments promised in the near future, have led this author to deal first with the river as we find it at present, beautiful and sublime as a feature of natural scenery, but most practically valuable as a mighty power yoked to the wheels of human machinery and turned into an industrial instrument.”—Lit. D.
“In mechanical execution, as well as in literary style, the volume has decided merits.”
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Dial. 45: 411. D. 1, ’08. 160w.
“It is in every respect an entertaining as 183well as an informing work, at once popular and scientific.”
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Lit. D. 37: 673. N. 7, ’08. 350w.
“The book is something more than a work written to order.”
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Lit. D. 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 120w.
“He presents matter of importance in an extremely readable form.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
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Hulbert, Eri Baker. English reformation and Puritanism, with other lectures and addresses: a memorial; ed. by A. R. E. Wyant. *$2.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–1485.
Part one of this volume contains a number of addresses, testimonials, and other tributes, to Dr. Hulbert. The second part consists of a dozen lectures on the English reformation and Puritanism, with seven occasional addresses.
“The author has shown good judgment in his selection of phases of the movements treated for special emphasis. His style is vigorous, pungent, and many passages when delivered must have been truly eloquent. The book should find many readers among intelligent laymen as well as among students and ministers.” A. H: Newman.
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Am. J. Theol. 12: 317. Ap. ’08. 800w.
“Had Dean Hulbert lived ... it is probable that he would have given these lectures a somewhat more scholarly form and that he would have purged them of some of the errors and imperfections that now detract from their value, especially as regards the more recent history of nonconformity and education in England.”
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“In general we may say that Dr. Hulbert’s point of view is elevated, his horizon broad, and his purpose sincere. His lectures are therefore good history and not cramped by the immediate purpose for which they were prepared.”
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Univ. Rec. 12: 119. Ja. ’08. 400w.
* Hull, William Isaac. Two Hague conferences. *$1.50. Ginn.
8–28855.
“Professor Hull’s volume is a detailed account of the history and results of each conference. All the topics discussed and all the acts passed are grouped together, the author showing first what was done in 1899 and then in 1907.” (Ind.) “He has analyzed and compared the work of the two conferences by topics and sub-topics, so that we are enabled at a glance to see what advance on any special point—disarmament, arbitration, naval warfare, land warfare, etc.—the conference of 1907 marked over its predecessor.” (Nation.)
“No one has as yet so completely and adequately covered the second conference, and the volume is therefore the most complete account of the two peace congresses up to date. The volume will become a standard work and will prove especially valuable to editors, librarians and students. We notice only a trifling error or two.”
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Ind. 65: 1304. D. 3, ’08. 370w.
“The arrangement of Professor Hull’s book renders it particularly convenient for ready reference.”
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Nation. 87: 386. O. 22, ’08. 440w.
Hume, Fergus W. Green mummy. †$1.25. Dillingham.
8–20710.
The green mummy held in its hands some precious emeralds. Therefore a certain antiquarian eagerly desires it and therefore the mummy case is delivered to him, containing the dead body of the man who had been sent to procure the treasure. The story unravels the mystery of the murder.
“It will puzzle and surprise you as thoroughly as anything else he has published.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 500. S. 12, ’08. 100w.
Hume, Martin. Court of Philip IV.: Spain in decadence. *$4. Putnam.
8–3611.
“A worthy sociological study frankly recognizing the intimate relation that court life bears to national life.” (Ind.) “Major Hume’s method is to present a series of pictures, chronologically arranged, of Philip’s life and surroundings, portraying as minutely as need be the other prominent personages of the era, and the social life.” (N. Y. Times.) “Having by birth and upbringing a foot in either camp, he has in most of his other works maintained a critical though friendly attitude towards Spain. In this he writes exactly as a Spaniard might have written on the same theme. In fact, his work is really a Spanish history, written in the English tongue.” (Sat. R.)
“Major Hume lends a personal interest to his descriptions of the principal personages in the historical drama, and his rapid outline of the political situation is vigorous and effective in its brevity.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 821. D. 28. 1350w.
“Mr. Hume’s claim to have described an important period directly from the sources in a distinctly human and interesting way is well sustained.”
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Ind. 64: 690. Mr. 26, ’08. 600w.
“A formal and judicial history would have been more valuable than these kaleidoscopic views of court life. Still the work is skilfully done, and the presentation of Philip’s incurable frivolity is complete and convincing.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 337. N. 8, ’07. 2000w.
“Errors and inaccuracies ... are by no means absent. A more serious fault of the book is its redundancy.”
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Nation. 87: 16. Jl. 2, ’08. 800w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 400w.
“The author’s art has been, through all the maze of detail, and the wealth of documentary evidence, to keep the image of the unlucky king clear and distinct and to enlist our sympathy.” R. B. C. Graham.
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Sat. R. 104: 571. N. 9, ’07. 1800w.
“He has compiled a picturesque and superficial book of the court, full of gossip and glittering pageants, but containing little of importance that is new. It cannot be accepted as a wholly trustworthy or scholarly account of his reign.”
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Hume, Martin. Two English queens and Philip. **$4.50. Putnam.
“This present volume contains a most clear and reliable narrative of that period in English history when the struggle between the Reformed faith and Catholicism was complicated by political intrigues and schemes which ended in Spain’s standing up as the actual antagonist of England in arms as well as in theological controversy, Mr. Hume tells of Mary Stuart’s marriage with Philip and of the incidents which led to that marriage; the events that followed Mary’s death, including Elizabeth’s refusal of Philip and the advance of the Invincible Armada, with whose defeat this volume ends.”—Lit. D.
“The particular attraction of Mr. Martin Hume’s historical work lies in his dramatic power, his skill in weaving a succinct, vivid, and rapid narrative. He is picturesque without running to exaggeration, and his familiarity with the records, relics, and monuments of the sixteenth century in Western Europe is complete and under perfect control.”
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Lit. D. 37: 673. N. 7, ’08. 600w.
“A book like this cannot be measured by the same canons as a serious historical work; it is frankly written to please a large public, and not for the instruction of specialists. We venture to think that in works like this he has found his real vocation, and, provided his readers 184are adequately warned not to accept all his statements unreservedly, we trust he may continue to live to produce a great many more.”
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Nation. 87: 581. D. 10, ’08. 550w.
“Mr. Hume’s story ... is one of great interest—picturesque, dramatic, and vital.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 654. N. 7, ’08. 680w.
Humphrey, Lucy Henderson, comp. Poetic old-world: a little book for tourists. *$1.50. Holt.
8–21527.
A volume similar in plan to that of Miss Du Bois, and easily a companion to it. The ground covered is different and there are only fifty poems which both compilers have used in common. Here are poems relating to the voyage, Ireland, England, Scotland, Holland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, Spain, Greece and to the return.
“Useful in libraries not having Longfellow’s ‘Poems of places.’”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 260. N. ’08.
“This is a delightful book.”
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Dial. 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 60w.
Ind. 65: 383. Ag. 13, ’08. 40w.
“The selections, on the whole, are good, most of them familiar enough, but none the worse for that. And the editor has been wise, we think, in looking for pieces that convey some sentiment, personal or historical, connected with a place, rather than for mere descriptions.”
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Nation. 87: 232. S. 10, ’08. 100w.
Humphrey, Zephine. Over against Green Peak. **$1.25. Holt.
8–12764.
“Aunt Susan, Jane, and I” make a real living personality of an old white house beside the road in the heart of a Vermont valley. The chapters of this book are of the nature of reveries, with the library, the garden, and the orchard for themes. Here one finds simple-life charm, the love of nature, and the joy of claiming the whole year for a comrade.
“It is characterized by gentle humor, grace, and refinement.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 221. Je. ’08.
“It must not be supposed that the book as a whole is not as fresh and exhilarating, to nature-lovers, as the mountain air and mountain scenery that have largely inspired it.” P. F. Bicknell.
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Dial. 44: 336. Je. 1, ’08. 400w.
“The reader at once finds that he is not dealing with a commonplace mind.”
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Nation. 86: 553. Je. 18, ’08. 170w.
“A worthy effort to express through poetry rural life in Maine.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
“The reader takes part in the simple tasks and quiet enjoyments cordially, and puts down the little book with the feeling that it has afforded entertainment and that it has about it the unmistakable air of literary grace and refinement.”
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Outlook. 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 100w.
Hunt, Gaillard. John C. Calhoun. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
8–23726.
A biography which furnishes the principal events in Calhoun’s private life and political career, and shows his identification with two opposing popular movements:—“how he helped to form a broad national sentiment, the part he played in the struggle in his state against that sentiment, and his leadership of the triumphant sectional sentiment.”
“While the work does not show the brilliancy that made Von Holst’s similar biography so notable twenty-five years ago, its fairness to all parties makes it more trustworthy.”
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Dial. 45: 257. O. 16, ’08. 170w.
“The use of more recent sources of history and researches among state papers and publications of Calhoun’s day add the sense of thoroughness and impartiality.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 674. N. 14, ’08. 600w.
“Mr. Hunt’s sketch of the life and influence of the Southern statesman is a sympathetic and useful one, and he has supplemented his text with chronological and bibliographical notes.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 633. N. ’08. 110w.
Hunt, Violet. White rose of weary leaf. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
“Best defined as a sort of modern ‘Jane Eyre’ story.... The Jane Eyre of this story is not an inexperienced young girl, but a sad, disillusioned woman, who has long looked the world in the face, and expects nothing from it but injustice. The Mr. Rochester has been married, not once, but twice.... The spectacular tragedy is not a fire, but a railroad wreck, and even here the wife, though badly hurt, insists upon recovering.... The man, however, allows the other woman to believe that the wife is dead; and from this initial wrong the story moves strongly on to a double expiation, told in a spirit of grim fatalism.”—Ind.
“The story is undoubtedly clever.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 317. Mr. 14. 300w.
“It is astonishing that a book so faulty should here and there show streaks of such undeniable merit.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 27: 579. Ag. ’08. 220w.
“A disconcerting tale, not to be commended to readers of tender sensibility.”
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Nation. 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 230w.
“The title of this cumbersome story is suggestive of its effect on the reader.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 456. Ag. 15, ’08. 170w.
“The book is clever, well written (the dialogue and one or two letters, being quite remarkable), and disagreeable.”
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Sat. R. 105: 409. Mr. 28, ’08. 340w.
“Though distinctly clever as a study of character, is squalidly dreary, and makes very depressing reading.”
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Spec. 101: 135. Jl. 25, ’08. 100w.
Hunt, Rev. William, and Poole, Reginald Lane, eds. Political history of England. 12v. ea. *$2.60. Longmans.
Descriptive note for set in Annual, 1905.
“As a colorless record of events and a clear elucidation of the history of parties and of political developments in England during the last half of the nineteenth century, the work of Messrs. Low and Sanders is completely successful, and, as a book of reference of this character, it has no rival in the field.” A. G. Porritt.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 583. Ap. ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 12.)
“Altogether it may be said that in this volume we have an adequate, impartial, and highly readable account of the period it covers. Our chief criticism of the work is rather negative than positive.” E: P. Cheyney.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 523. Mr. ’08. 800w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Hodgkin marshals the known facts with great skill, and brings out a number of valuable points more clearly than any of his predecessors. It is possible, however, that he exaggerates the influence of the Norman conquest.” E: Fuller.
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Bookm. 27: 311. My. ’08. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Within the limits he was constrained to observe, it is well-nigh a model of its kind.” E: Fuller.
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Bookm. 27: 311. My. ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Unfortunately, he chooses to devote the 185greater part of the volume to the minute narration of battles and sieges.” E: Fuller.
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Bookm. 27: 312. My. ’08. 330w. (Review of v. 3.)
Reviewed by E: Fuller.
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Bookm. 27: 313. My. ’08. 150. (Review of v. 11.)
“One of the best contributions so far to an excellent work.” E: Fuller.
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Bookm. 27: 314. My. ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 11.)
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Ind. 64: 1041. My. 7, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 7 and 12.)
“They fully maintain the reputation of the series for solidity and conservatism. As indicative of the machine-made quality which inheres in all the volumes of this series, the fact should be noted that the index [of v. 7] is defective in many particulars.”
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 173. Mr. 08. 300w. (Review of v. 5 and 7.)
“The young man in a hurry will find this volume very useful.”
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Sat. R. 104: 768. D. 21, ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 12.)
“Generally the authors show a power of seeing all around the subjects which they handle.”
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Spec. 100: 266. F. 15, ’08. 570w. (Review of v. 12.)
“A work of real value.”
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Spec. 101: 134. Jl. 25, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 7.)
Hunter, Alexander. Huntsman in the South. *$1.50. Neale.
8–4450.
How the South goes a-hunting and bags its game is told in a sprightly narrative full of the atmosphere of field and stream. Among the most interesting chapters are “A coon-hunt” and “An old Virginia fox-hunt.”
“Mr. Hunter’s ... hunting stories certainly have the virtue of a lively narrative form.” G: Gladden.
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Bookm. 27: 609. Ag. ’08. 100w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 99. F. 22, ’08. 50w.
Hunter, Robert. Socialists at work. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–11815.
The wide-spread espousal of the cause of socialism, the unquenchable fervor and invincible vitality of its adherents are the themes with which this book deals. It treats of the movement in Germany, Italy, France, Great Britain, Belgium, of the progress of socialism, socialism and social reform, socialism in parliaments, socialism in art and literature, and a supplementary chapter on the movement in other countries.
“The book is one of the best, if not the best, for reading by anyone who wishes to secure an answer to the questions, ‘Who are the socialists? What do they believe? What are they doing? How are they organized?’ and these are the important points to know about this movement.” A. M. Simons.
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Am. J. Soc. 14: 263. S. ’08. 740w.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 188. Je. ’08.
“The material would serve well for a series of popular magazine articles entitled, ‘Notes on socialism abroad and at home,’ but as a book it is hardly worthy of the perusal of a student.” Scott Nearing.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 634. N. ’08. 300w.
“Despite these defects the book has some claim to a passing interest. While outlining the social reforms now in progress in Europe, it serves also to bring the reader into intimate contact with the men of the socialistic movement.” J. A. Lapp.
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Econ. Bull. 1: 146. Je. ’08. 600w.
“He reports with enthusiasm and some exaggeration the triumphs of the European parties that bear the same label as himself.”
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Ind. 65: 664. S. 17, ’08. 400w.
Reviewed by H. A. Bruce.
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Outlook. 89: 387. Je. 20, ’08. 680w.
“Based as the book is largely upon personal observation and first-hand material, it presents many facts not elsewhere accessible; and it is admirably written. Its charm is largely due to the personal note.”
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 557. S. ’08. 340w.
“The world-sweep of the movement has never before been so clearly brought before the American reading public.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 755. Je. ’08. 130w.
Huntington, Annie Oakes. Poison ivy and swamp sumach. *75c. Annie O. Huntington, 31 Glen road, Jamaica Plain, Mass.
8–11102.
Presents “a series of photographs of poison ivy and swamp sumach which make it possible for even the casual reader to recognize leaves, flowers, fruit, and buds, and thereby to be protected against injury. A study of the accompanying text will enable the man who goes fishing early in the spring to distinguish the poisonous sumach without its leaves. There is also a chapter on the treatment of the poisonous eruption.”—R. of Rs.
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Nation. 87: 191. Ag. 27, ’08. 380w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 70w.
“Miss Huntington has performed a useful service.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 80w.
Huntington, Ellsworth. Pulse of Asia. il. **$3.50. Houghton.
7–36725.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 43. F. ’08.
“Although we are not impressed by the striking originality of Mr. Huntington’s method of treating his subject, he is a close and careful observer of what came under his notice, a skilful delineator of character, and a writer of considerable merit.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 178. Ag. 15. 1850w.
“Whatever our conclusions may be in regard to Mr. Huntington’s theories, we must allow him the credit of remarkably lucid presentation of a complex scientific question.” H. E. Coblentz.
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Dial. 44: 104. F. 16, ’08. 550w.
Lit. D. 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
“The incidents of his journey are narrated simply, and are often entertaining.”
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Nation. 86: 64. Ja. 16, ’08. 500w.
“With its simple record of perilous adventures, its excellent illustrations, and its clear devotion to science first of all, it forms a noteworthy and inspiring work of travel.” G. A. J. Cole.
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Nature. 77: 314. F. 6, ’08. 800w.
“It is a record of careful investigation, with intelligent deduction based on scientific observation, but it is likewise a graphic and charmingly written description of journeyings in unfamiliar places.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 413. Jl. 25, ’08. 100w.
“It describes Central Asia in particular. It shows the immense influence exerted by changes of climate upon the history of that region.”
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Outlook. 88: 798. Ap. 4, ’08. 250w.
R. of Rs. 37: 116. Ja. ’08. 90w.
Huntington, Helen Manchester. Sovereign good. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–28983.
An absorbing story of the love of a young dramatist for a woman of the New York smart set twelve years his senior. Her great love, her renunciation, and at last reconciliation with the thoughts of the love that passeth understanding, of essential and sovereign good, are the motifs to which all else in the story is harmonious, artistic embellishment.
186“The lightness of the book’s impact upon the reader’s mind is the more regrettable in view of the writer’s manifestly sincere effort to express the inner eventfulness of commonplace life.”
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Nation. 87: 498. N. 19, ’08. 150w.
“The author is evidently a novice in story writing, and her book is nine parts of talk to one of movement. But the many, many pages of conversation, description and analysis are written with intelligence and taste, and the character of Fidelia King, the lady who loves without response, is made lifelike and attractive.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 529. S. 26, ’08. 160w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
Hurst, Edward H. Mystery island. $1.50. Page.
7–32318.
Adventure lovers will fairly gallop thru these pages of crime and mystery. An embezzler attempting to escape the law hides on an island of the Everglades. His secret and the crime committed to cover it are discovered by the knight of the tale who, fever stricken, wanders thru the cypress swamps, happens to hit a trail, and comes upon the refugee and his unsuspecting party in camp upon the island’s oasis.
“The author falls into the ruts of conventional fiction when he gets his characters back to civilization; but the island episodes are good.”
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Sat. R. 105: 666. My. 23, ’08. 180w.
Hurt, Walter. Scarlet shadow: a story of the great Colorado conspiracy. $1.50. Appeal to reason, Girard, Kan.
7–40797.
“Treats of the war of extermination waged by the Mine owners’ association against the Western federation of miners. Mr. Hurt has given the side of the miners and has shown in an admirable manner many of the facts in the great conspiracy case. He also rightly holds up for the scorn of honorable citizens the Mine owners’ association and its ill-famed servant, Governor Peabody, and the malodorous Pinkerton thugs.”—Arena.
“This book is written in the bright, crisp style of the modern alert newspaper man. It contains many strong and some very brilliant passages. It is highly dramatic and often grimly tragic. Much of the work is a vivid historic presentation, and so effective is this portion of the book that we specially regret that the author should have mixed romance with the history. Mr. Hurt’s book will appeal to socialists.”
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Arena. 39: 252. F. ’08. 1100w.
“Any man credulous enough to believe the hundreth part of this book—could one so sublimely guileless be found—would certainly have a pleasant idea of life in the great west to-day. Wholesale murder, abduction, and torture are but incidents in this extraordinary tale. As for the journalistic life, which plays so large a part in the story, it is as saffron-tinted as one would expect from Mr. Hurt’s literary style.”
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Hussey, Eyre. That little——: a sporting novel. †$1.50. Longmans.
An irascible father drives his son away from home because the latter will neither go into the English army nor accept a position in a certain London office. Richard goes abroad to seek his fortune, leaving the girl he loves to ride her horses, drive her car and look after his wise little terrier. The country setting makes the story, for the author has the trick of taking “a village in the shires and showing how much diversion and variety, not to mention useful activities, are to be found within and without its borders.”
“The characters are as familiar as their surroundings. They have all been shown before, sometimes better, sometimes worse.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 150w.
“A genial and pleasant story.”
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Sat. R. 104: 732. D. 14, ’07. 240w.
* Hutton, Edward. Country walks about Florence. *$1.50. Scribner.
Mr. Hutton is a guide to the Florence “of old renown” and bids his reader linger in the vineyards, hear songs, see the olives silver in the wind, stoop to the flowers, make haste slowly because of the beauty of the day, and not think of hurry because of the beauty of the night.
“The Florence of Mr. Hutton’s present book is worth a fireside journey through it.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
“A useful addition to the literature of the subject.”
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Spec. 101: sup. 814. N. 21, ’08. 70w.
Hutton, Edward. Florence and the cities of northern Tuscany, with Genoa, il. *$2. Macmillan.
“Impressions, experiences, reflections.” “You feel that while each palace and church and soaring tower of Florence has its own special message for [the author] and while ‘amid the hurry and bustle of her narrow splendid ways’ he thinks only ‘of old things for a time,’ the appeal of the country life outside of Florence, with its ‘beautiful gay roads,’ its ‘numberless villas whispering with summer, laughing with flowers,’ is even stronger to him, ‘for there abide the old ways and the ancient songs, which you will not find in the city.’” (Bookm.)
“His present volume, though it contains little that is new in the way of thought or description, has a few chapters agreeable to read, and, scattered up and down pages somewhat overloaded with ornament and disfigured by repetitions, a good many passages of graceful writing.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 266. S. 5. 540w.
“Although small, compact and yet comprehensive enough to do valuable service as a supplementary guidebook among the Tuscan cities, the book is written with a sympathetic understanding, an individual touch, a genuine charm of style which make it equally adapted to the needs of those who are preparing for first impressions and of those who are seeking to revive old memories.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 26: 510. Ja. ’08. 150w.
“He has a happy quality of seizing an impression and transferring it to words, and his slight historical sketches, though necessarily incomplete, are quite adequate for the purpose he has in hand. His judgments are sometimes biased by feeling, and he does not always understand the Italian temperament.” K. H. V.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 623. Jl. ’08. 200w.
“Worth reading and deserving of shelf room beside Mr. Symons.”
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Ind. 64: 523. Mr. 5, ’08. 60w.
“Mr. Hutton indulges rather too freely in sentimentality. He seems to be an amateur in history, art, in emotion, addressing amateurs. Nevertheless, he succeeds sometimes in speaking about art and life less affectedly than we fear he will.”
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Nation. 85: 567. D. 19, ’07. 260w.
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Outlook. 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 20w.
“We are very grateful to Mr. Hutton for the sheaves of golden fact which abound in this closely packed volume. The fifty-three pages on Pisa are the best thing we know in English on the treasures of the city and the fortunes of the Republic.”
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Sat. R. 105: 237. F. 22, ’08. 650w.
187Hutton, Frederick Remsen. Gas-engine: a treatise on the internal-combustion engine using gas, gasoline, kerosene, alcohol, or other hydrocarbon as source of energy. 3d ed. $5. Wiley.
8–345.
“In the first two editions the author had prominently before his mind the idea of examining what the machine does and how this is accomplished. In this edition, on the other hand, he considers the gas-engine from the quantitative view-point more fully, that is, with the idea of examining the size it must have to do a certain amount of work in accordance with the limits set by natural laws.” (Engin. D.) “There is a more complete treatment of gaseous and liquid fuels and differs from the earlier edition in an expansion of the discussion of producers and of carbureters.” (Engin. N.)
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Engin. D. 3: 419. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“The subject matter generally is brought up to date in a satisfactory manner, with, however, some notable exceptions. It reads like the first draft of a book, written without verifying the quantities recorded, without digesting the information given, and without any attempt at accurate statement. The reviewer has gone into what may seem to be minor and trivial points, but in this particular case he feels it is necessary to call attention to these inaccuracies and carelessnesses of statement because they occur in practically every paragraph of the first half of the book. It is a pity that they have not been rectified, for the general plan of the book is good; but until they are corrected the book is too unreliable to be recommended for the use of students.” L. S. Marks.
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Engin. N. 59: 438. Ap. 16, ’08. 1100w.
* Hutton, Rev. William Holden. Age of revolution: being an outline of the history of the church from 1648 to 1815. (Church universal ser., no. 7.) *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–20491.
A sketch in which “the author restricts himself to the history of the churches which claim an episcopate transmitted continuously from the first century. He imparts to it an interest, which might have been missed in brief treatment of a long period, by giving prominence to important episodes and representative individuals—e. g., Jansenism and Port Royal, the French revolution, Bossuet and Fénelon, Wesley, Joseph II of Germany. A salient feature of this ‘age of revolution’ impresses the reader who contrasts the present servility of the clergy to the Vatican with the free spirit often manifested then.”—Outlook.
“His account of the intrigues which led to the suppression of the Jesuits is masterly, and the whole book is singularly readable. On one or two points, however, we are disposed to quarrel with him. On the whole, however, we have nothing but praise for this excellent book.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 572. N. 7. 350w.
Ind. 65: 102. Jl. 9, ’08. 60w.
“This valuable little book corrects some current impressions of the eighteenth century.”
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Outlook. 89: 581. Jl. 11, ’08. 160w.
Huxley, Thomas Henry. Aphorisms and reflections from the works of T. H. Huxley: selected by Henrietta A. Huxley. (Golden treasury ser.) $1. Macmillan.
W8–95.
A little volume of quotations from Huxley’s writings. “An elaborate index makes this little book a veritable boon to the literary worker In need of apt illustrative quotations.” (Dial.)
“Huxley was one of the meatiest of writers, and bears well this somewhat searching test of the quality of his thought.”
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Dial. 45: 46. Jl. 16, ’08. 80w.
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Nature. 77: 341. F. 13, ’08. 110w.
Hyatt, Stanley Portal. Little brown brother. †$1.50. Holt.
8–24469.
A story whose scene is laid in the Philippines after the capture of Aguinaldo. “The hero is a familiar character in fiction—a noble-minded Englishman who, as the result of scrupulous unselfishness, is under a cloud.... The action mostly concerns the attempt of an inadequate force to quell a rising of pulajanes, or murderous Christian fanatics.” (Ath.) “The heroine is a high-spirited English girl who likes men who ‘do things,’ and who shares with her father, a wealthy hemp buyer of Calbayog, a belief that it is the white man’s business to keep the little brown brother in his place with a strong hand.” (Nation.)
“A story of unusual interest.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 269. N. ’08. ✠
“The author is at his best in realizing the sympathy which draws brave men together; he touches love with nobility and restraint, but his irony is too fantastic to be convincing.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 122. Ag. 1. 130w.
“This book is much bigger and deeper than its central thread of romance.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 28: 263. N. ’08. 600w.
“For sheer graphic force and the rare ability to make one see, it has a kinship with Mr. Dawson’s ‘African nights’ entertainment,’ and with the earlier Kipling, the Kipling of ‘Plain tales’ and ‘Soldiers three.’ The great fault of the book in point of technique is the manner in which it intrudes the writer’s personal views.” Philip Tillinghast.
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Forum. 40: 409. O. ’08. 1450w.
“Considered merely as a novel, this book is of unusual interest. But the book is more than a novel; it is also a sensational political pamphlet. The interest of the narrative is overshadowed by the sweeping indictment of the American administration of the Philippines.”
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Nation. 87: 141. Ag. 13, ’08. 560w.
“The book must rely for its popularity upon its merits as literature. And they are not scanty.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 459. Ag. 22, ’08. 740w.
“The great advantage that the story has over bluebooks and reports is that it will be read,—no one who takes up Mr. Hyatt’s story will lay it down unfinished.”
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Spec. 101: 100. Jl. 18, ’08. 200w.
Hyslop, James Hervey. Psychical research and the resurrection. **$1.50. Small.
8–18413.
Contains essays relating to the subjects discussed in the author’s three previous volumes. “The present volume covers more or less of the whole field and may be regarded as a supplement to ‘Science and a future life,’ with conclusions quite the same.” A concluding chapter gives in detail the reasons for not accepting the proverbial story of the resurrection from the point of view of science, and offers the new interpretation of the facts as viewed in the light of psychic research.
Ind. 65: 489. Ag. 27, ’08. 550w.
“The reader, who in opening this book hopes to discover some positive deductions relating to the nature of a future life, will surely close it with disappointment. Nor do we find this discussion of cases in itself very satisfactory, for we are asked to trust not only the writer, but every word of every person whom he trusts.”
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Nation. 87: 77. Jl. 23, ’08. 1000w.
“It is impossible for any fair-minded person to read [this book], without admitting, however reluctantly, that he, at least, has preserved something of the scientific instinct and method in his ghost hunting, and that his work and his 188theories deserve that serious consideration the general absence of which he, now humorously, now bitterly, resents.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 363. Je. 27, ’08. 800w.
“It is a great pity that he has seen fit to burden his pages with much controversial material. Still, the book is undoubtedly useful to those who wish to keep abreast of the progress of psychical research in the United States.”
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Outlook. 89: 627. Jl. 19, ’08. 330w.