H (continued 2)

“Its chief value lies in the large amount of specific information relating to the efficiency of engines, boilers, etc., which seems to have been compiled with exceptional care.”

+ Elec. World. 54: 52. Jl. 1, ’09. 120w.

“Those having to do with the economical design of steam power plants will find the book a desirable addition to their working libraries.”

+ Engin. D. 5: 293. Mr. ’09. 380w.

“If he will examine R. H. Smith’s ‘Commercial economy in steam and other thermal powerplants,’ he will find a very much more comprehensive, but at the same time a very different, treatment of the subject. It is to be regretted that the author did not make his work more comprehensive by giving the data for determining the commercial efficiency of steam plants.” L. S. Marks.

− + Engin. N. 61: sup. 29. Mr. 18, ’09. 1350w.

199Hayden, Arthur.^[11] Chats on old earthenware. *$2. Stokes.

This volume, a companion volume to the author’s “Chats on English china,” “gives suggestions for collectors and describes various stonewares, Wedgwood products, transfer-printed ware, Staffordshire ware and luster ware. The book is illustrated with numerous productions.” (Int. Studio.)

Int. Studio. 39: sup. 25. N. ’09. 30w.

“For the large and ever-growing class which collects earthenware and stoneware because of its variety and decorative character, and because unimportant specimens can still be obtained at small cost, Mr. Hayden’s ‘Chats’ will be of considerable use.”

+ Sat. R. 108: 174. Ag. 7, ’09. 320w.

“A most serviceable volume.”

+ Spec. 103: sup. 722. N. 6, ’09. 140w.

Hayes, Charles Willard.^[12] Handbook for field geologists. 2d ed., thoroughly rev. *$1.50. Wiley.

8–17308.

“Contains much which is only applicable to members of a government survey in the United States, but is, besides, a very practical little handbook, the treatment of the problems connected with the determination of dip, thickness, and depth of beds being perhaps the least satisfactory part. These problems, if properly put, are of great simplicity; but the beginner, trusting to Dr. Hayes, might well conclude that there was some subtle difference between the dip of a fault plane and the dip of a stratum, and that problems which may be tackled in the one case are insoluble in the other.”—Nature.

“An attempt has been made to get over the difficulty of making the same work at once a beginner’s guide and an expert’s ‘vade mecum’ by dividing it into two sections, and of the two the latter seems better done.”

+ Nature. 81: 455. O. 14, ’09. 340w.

“It can be most highly recommended not merely to geologists and scientific men, but, as many of the points are applicable, to any camper-out, to any one who has to do with mining or civil engineering, and it should be brought to the attention of a wide circle.” A. C. Lane.

+ Science, n.s. 30: 371. S. 17, ’09. 430w.

Hays, Helen Ashe.^[7] Little Maryland garden. **$1.75. Putnam.

9–12050.

Miss Hays describes a garden “made by a transplanted Californian, with many backward longings for the luxuriant growth of the Far West, whereas we had been led by the title to look for an embodiment of some of the countless charms that distinguish the ripe old gardens of Maryland.” (Dial.)

“A lover of flowers will find pleasure and inspiration in it.”

+ Bot. Gaz. 48: 310. O. ’09. 150w.

“The book is cleverly written and attractively illustrated, and gives many a bit of gardenlore and many helpful words in advocacy of the culture of our native flowers.” S. A. Shafer.

+ Dial. 46: 368. Je. 1, ’09. 180w.

+ Ind. 67: 427. Ag. 19, ’09. 110w.

“Here is a garden-book above the average.”

+ Nation. 89: 40. Jl. 8, ’09. 380w.

“Delightful contribution to the general subject.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 384. Je. 12, ’09. 30w.

“It is certainly worth study.”

+ Spec. 103: sup. 492. O. 2, ’09. 160w.

Hazard, Caroline.^[11] Brief pilgrimage in the Holy Land; recounted in a series of addresses delivered in Wellesley college chapel. **$1.25. Houghton.

A series of brief Sunday evening addresses delivered by the president of Wellesley college to her students. She presents some aspects of a three-weeks’ journey in the Holy Land which formed a part of her sabbatical-year experiences. She confines her talks to Carmel by the sea, the Mount of Beatitudes, the sea of Galilee, Capernaum, the plain of Sharon, Joppa, Bethlehem, Jericho, the Jordan and the Dead sea, the wilderness, Jerusalem—the lament, and Jerusalem—the triumph.

“A series of delightful sketches of various localities. There are a score of pictures, all of them interesting and outside of the range of postcards and stock illustrations.” C: R. Gillett.

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 767. D. 4, ’09. 90w.

“Good supplementary reading to Mr. Duncan’s book.”

+ R. of Rs. 40: 759. D. ’09. 50w.

Headlam, Cecil.^[11] Inns of Court. *$2. Macmillan.

9–35793.

Describes and pictures the mediaeval and modern buildings around the courts of the Outer and Inner Temple, Lincoln’s Inn and Gray’s Inn. “The development of the Inns of Court as teaching and administering bodies is lucidly described. And then there is the great store of personal interest. Here the literary element may be said to dominate the legal. When we walk through the Temple we think of Johnson, Goldsmith, and Lamb rather than of old-time Chancellors and Chief Justices. All the Inns, present and past, have their due share in Mr. Headlam’s narrative.” (Spec.)

“Described in a manner combining a maximum of information with a minimum of dullness.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 41. O. ’09.

“Its illustrations deserve high praise. Mr. Cecil Headlam’s letterpress is not an altogether satisfactory ally to the paintings of Mr. Gordon Home.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 2: 220. Ag. 21. 370w.

Sat. R. 107: 792. Je. 19, ’09. 160w.

“We cannot help thinking that Mr. Headlam’s invective is sometimes a little too violent.”

+ − Spec. 102: 900. Je. 5, ’09. 350w.

Headlam, Cecil. Venetia and northern Italy; being the story of Venice, Lombardy and Emilia. (Old world travel ser.) *$2.50. Macmillan.

W8–178.

Deals in outline with the history, architecture and art of the towns of northern Italy which lie within the triangular plain bounded on the north by the Alps, on the west by the Apennines, and on the east by the Adriatic sea.

“Well adapted for use by clubs doing advanced work, by prospective travelers and by readers already familiar with the region.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 42. F. ’09.

“More care and research are needed to make the volume satisfactory.”

− Ath. 1909, 1: 404. Ap. 3. 600w.

“He writes delightfully, and his characterizations are so clear and beautiful that they linger in the mind.”

+ Dial. 45: 459. D. 16, ’08. 120w.

Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.

Ind. 65: 1461. D. 17, ’08. 50w.

“The general impression he makes is that of an intelligent and sympathetic companion, who never discourses long enough on any subject to weary his hearers. Quantitatively, he seems to succeed in imparting a larger number of facts than is usual in books of this kind.”

+ Nation. 87: 578. D. 10, ’08. 250w.

“In Mr. Headlam’s text we find the same attractiveness which we have found in his description of other places—Oxford, Chartres, Nuremberg.”

+ Outlook. 91: 66. Ja. 9, ’09. 120w.

R. of Rs. 38: 759. D. ’08. 40w.

“The author has considerable knowledge and has used very considerable diligence; his style flows pleasantly and rarely jars; his observation 200is keen, and his art judgments are often both penetrating and just. To tell the truth, in what should be a thrilling history there is scarce a single thrill. And throughout there is the assumption that the reader is well-informed enough to be content with generalisation and the allusive method of writing history.”

+ − Sat. R. 106: 733. D. 12, ’08. 650w.

+ Spec. 103: 689. O. 30, ’09. 40w.

Headland, Isaac Taylor.^[11] Court life in China: the capital, its officials and people. **$1.50. Revell.

9–27282.

To apply the scientific method to the study of the Chinese royal family seems like taking forbidden liberties. Yet the author has accomplished his purpose, and, shows that what he has done has been possible only within the past ten years, during which time the Empress Dowager has come out from behind the screen and the court has entered into social relations with Europeans. The author tells the story of the Empress Dowager’s life, piecing together the meager facts obtainable, and gives intimate glimpses of life at court.

“An excellent and an instructive book.”

+ Dial. 47: 455. D. 1, ’09. 250w.

+ Ind. 67: 1041. N. 4, ’09. 220w.

“The book is just to all, appreciative of the Chinese, and hopeful that increasing knowledge among us will result in greater respect for Chinese statesmanship and honesty.”

+ Outlook. 93: 560. N. 6, ’09. 140w.

“Full of interesting descriptions of court procedure and conditions in the celebrated empire such as the western world does not often have set before it.”

+ R. of Rs. 40: 758. D. ’09. 120w.

Hearne, R. P. Aerial warfare; with an introd. by Sir Hiram S. Maxim. **$2.50. Lane.

War9–11.

“Mr. Hearne’s text goes pretty fully into the various forms of air-craft—flying machines of many types, balloons pure and simple, dirigible balloons with rigid and semi-rigid envelopes—and indicates what has already been done with each type. This part of the book is provided with many useful illustrations from photographs. From what has been accomplished thus concretely, the author advances to the possibilities and probabilities of the air-ship in war, and arrives at the conclusion that it must be considered a very important factor in all future military calculations for attack or defense.”—N. Y. Times.

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 104. Ap. ’09.

“In reading some parts of this book one wonders if the author intends what he says to be taken seriously; certainly he fails to be convincing to any one with technical training and, of course, it is from the viewpoint of such a person that the book is here considered.”

− Engin. N. 61: sup. 46. Ap. 15, ’09. 500w.

N. Y. Times. 14: 129. Mr. 6, ’09. 800w.

R. of Rs. 39: 382. Mr. ’09. 80w.

“We commend this book to the attention of our readers.”

+ Spec. 102: 270. F. 13, ’09. 70w.

Hedges, Florence E. Blake-.^[6] Story of the catacombs. *$1. West. Meth. bk.

9–10945.

A treatment of the catacombs as a factor in the mighty testimony of the Christian religion’s earliest achievements. It covers the origin, construction, and extension of the catacombs; the life, worship and martyrdom of Christians in them; and the catacomb period of Christian art which had its birth in the tomb.

“The design is to inform the general reader who may be merely curious as well as to edify the Christian whose interest is special and religious.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 371. Je. 12, ’09. 160w.

Heidenreich, E. Lee. Engineers’ pocketbook of reinforced concrete. *$3. Clark, M. C.

9–71.

“The author realizes the constantly changing standards of the industry and offers his book as a snapshot, so to speak, of the present stage, to be revised with the development of the art.... The chapter headings are: Material and machines; Design and construction of buildings; Design and construction of bridges; Abutments and retaining walls; Culverts, conduits, sewers; Pipes and dams; Tanks, reservoirs, bins and grain elevators; Chimneys, miscellaneous data, cost keeping, estimating, specifications, etc.”—Engin. N.

“The book affords in convenient form judiciously chosen formulas, tables and collateral data.”

+ Engin. D. 5: 295. Mr. ’09. 250w.

“It is necessarily incomplete, but it has compactness, good arrangement, clearness and a fair selection, all valuable attributes of the good handbook. The chapter on bridges treats only the elastic arch, and that not at all satisfactorily, and includes some very incomplete notes on construction.”

+ − Engin. N. 61: sup. 5. Ja. 14, ’09. 240w.

“Like all others, the author has compiled freely from many sources, but his selections have been well made and his own wide experience furnished a large amount of information and many useful suggestions and schemes for executing the details of work. While the work is largely elementary in character, the tables are not always sufficiently complete to answer the requirements of an inexperienced draftsman.”

+ − Engin. Rec. 59: 111. Ja. 23, ’09. 270w.

Heil, Adolf, and Esch, W.^[11] Manufacture of rubber goods: a practical handbook. *$3.50. Lippincott.

9–35784.

“A translation of Heil and Esch’s ‘Handbuch der gummiwarenfabrikation,’ adapted to English usage in respect of the machinery generally employed in this country.” (Nature.) The handbook gives the plan and arrangement of a factory for carrying out the operations involved in manufacture of rubber goods from the raw materials. The volume is fully illustrated.

“A thorough manual.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 14. S. ’09.

“The text is generally lucid, though occasionally with a leaning to Teutonic stolidity. Except in this respect, the translator has eliminated any lingual indication of the origin of the book, which can be recommended as a very practical and useful work.” C. S.

+ Nature. 81: 391. S. 30, ’09. 720w.

Heilman, Ralph Emerson. Chicago traction: a study of the efforts of the public to secure good service. (American economic assn. quarterly, 3d ser. v. 9, no. 2) $1. Am. economic assn., Princeton.

8–25382.

“Under a somewhat misleading main title,—since the study is confined to the street railways of Chicago, and, moreover, omits any discussion of the financial operations even of these,—Mr. Heilman traces the history of the surface traction companies of the city from 1858 to a date within ninety days following the Chicago election of April 2, 1907. The historical study is followed by an analysis of the present situation and a statement of the writer’s view of the probable future.”—Econ. Bull.

“The book contains numerous typographical errors.” G: R. Wicker.

+ − Econ. Bull. 1: 346. D. ’08. 870w.

201“Within the limitations suggested the treatment is a valuable history of the franchise grants to street railways with a fairly good summary of the provisions of the latest ordinances.” Spurgeon Bell.

+ − J. Pol. Econ. 17: 41. Ja. ’09. 750w.

Helm, W. H.^[11] Jane Austen and her Country House comedy. 7s. 6d. Nash, London.

A work whose aim is to bring “new members into the large but comparatively restricted circle wherein she is regarded, not always as the first of English novelists, but at least as second to none in the quality of her work.” “It is favourite dogma nowadays with the superior person that literary criticism has nothing to do with biography, and that in estimating an author’s work no attention should be paid to the facts of his life. The method adopted by Mr. Helm is in direct opposition to this theory. In the meagre annals of Jane Austen’s career he diligently seeks for the raw material of her novels, and from the novels in turn deduces the realities of her personal experience.” (Ath.)

“He is never dull, and though much of what he says has been said before, it is always expressed in a style which redeems it from the stigma of obviousness. To add that he is never irritating is to signalize a virtue of the rarest among writers of literary criticism. His appreciation contains perhaps too much of the critical element to be wholly acceptable to the straitest sect of Jane Austen enthusiasts; but his applause is as ungrudging as it is discriminating, and has the note of personal affection.”

+ Ath. 1909, 2: 454. O. 16. 1450w.

“Mr. Helm’s admiration is sane and well balanced.”

+ Sat. R. 108: 352. S. 18, ’09. 1650w.

Henderson, Charles Richmond. Industrial insurance in the United States. *$2. Univ. of Chicago press.

9–3310.

Substantially an English version of “Die arbeiter-versicherung in den Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-America.” New material has been added to bring the text to date, and statistics have been compared in many cases with primary sources. A summary of European laws on industrial insurance prefaces the work to indicate the tendencies of thought and activity in the field. The author discusses the social policy for industrial insurance in the United States, Social relief societies, Benefit features of trade unions, Insurance of fraternal societies, Employers’ liability law, Private insurance companies, Firms and corporations, Insurance plans of railway corporations, Pension systems, and Protective legislation. The appendix contains regulations of several schemes of insurance, drawn up by actuaries, with the best legal and business advice.

“A valuable and timely presentation.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 77. Mr. ’09.

“An English book on this important subject is timely and for the present this volume supplies the deficiency.” G: B. Mangold.

+ Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 207. Jl. ’09. 250w.

“The book brings together a mass of material, properly classified, and revealing long and patient inquiry.” J: R. Commons.

+ Econ. Bull. 2: 55. Ap. ’09. 900w.

“Its usefulness has been considerably enhanced by the addition of a succinct summary of the legislation along this line of every European country of importance, thus furnishing a good background for comparison with the situation in this country.”

+ J. Pol. Econ. 17: 308. My. ’09. 90w.

N. Y. Times. 14: 83. F. 13, ’09. 300w.

Spec. 103: 243. Ag. 14, ’09. 110w.

Henderson, Charles Richmond. Social duties from the Christian point of view: a text book for the study of social problems. $1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.

9–8935.

Full of suggestions for the concrete and practical religious and moral instruction whose aim is to right and stimulate the thought that impels conduct. The author discusses social duties relating to the family, to neglected children, to workingmen, and social duties in rural communities; the public health, economic interests, educational agencies, church and municipal duties in urban life; charities and corrections; rights and responsibilities of the great corporations; and social duties relating to the business and leisure classes, to government and social duties in international relations.

“Professor Henderson has labored so fruitfully in various portions of this whole social territory that he is well qualified to give advice in a general textbook.” N: P. Gilman.

+ Am. J. Soc. 15: 119. Jl. ’09. 280w.

“Written from a broadly human viewpoint and in an admirable spirit; sane and stimulating to right thinking and living.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 138. My. ’09. ✠

+ Bib. World. 33: 359. My. ’09. 40w.

Henderson, Ernest Flagg.^[11] Lady of the old régime. *$2.50. Macmillan.

9–27596.

It is a coincidence that two biographies of the same woman, Arvède Barine’s “Madame, mother of the regent” and Mr. Henderson’s “A lady of the old régime” should appear the same month. Mr. Henderson portrays the Duchesse d’Orleans, true to her “child-of-nature” instincts, guileless in her artificial surroundings, practical and sensible in everything except her inordinate jealousy of Madame de Maintenon. His delineation of court scenes and people of Louis XIV’s court are sprightly and vivid.

Dial. 47: 458. D. 1, ’09. 220w.

“An entertaining and judicious compilation in which he has permitted the heroine of the tale, so far as possible, to speak for herself.”

+ Lit. D. 34: 684. O. 23, ’09. 650w.

“The weakness of Mr. Henderson’s work is its lack of chronological sequence; its chief interest lies in its discursive account of life in the palaces of the Grand Monarque. In one respect Mr. Henderson’s work is far more enjoyable than the English version of Arvède Barine’s: his style is good, whereas the language of the other, though correct enough, is still unmistakably a translation.”

+ − Nation. 89: 547. D. 2, ’09. 350w.

“Mr. Henderson treats the subject with perhaps less sympathy than Madame Barine.”

+ − R. of Rs. 40: 756. D. ’09. 50w.

Henderson, Percy E. (Selim, pseud.). British officer in the Balkans: the account of a journey through Dalmatia, Montenegro, Turkey in Austria, Magyarland, Bosnia and Hercegovina. *$3.50. Lippincott.

9–14694.

“An entertaining account of a journey in Montenegro, Bosnia, and their neighbourhood. The reader will not be bored with useless discussion of those insoluble problems that are raised in most writings concerned with the Balkan peninsula.”—Ath.

“Covers some of the ground that Jackson’s ‘Shores of the Adriatic’ does, but in a more popular and less exhaustive manner.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 168. Je. ’09.

“The criticism often made by us on narratives of travel, to the effect that their authors have not sufficiently wide experience to distinguish circumstances of interest from those which are well known because widespread, may be directed against Major Henderson. Far 202more than the usual writer of traveller’s gossip he is a guide worth following, and his pages are readable by all.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 1: 161. F. 6. 770w.

“Those who are more concerned with the domestic manners and the everyday life of the people in pleasure and business, will find the book replete with stories, incidents, and customs of a people who are now—unhappily—very prominent in the public eye.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ Dial. 46: 367. Je. 1, ’09. 160w.

“At any rate it is most readable, being both interesting and amusing. We feel grateful to the author for the pains he has taken in collecting information of all kinds with regard to the cities, buildings, and national types he met with.”

+ Lit. D. 38: 852. My. 15, ’09. 280w.

“It is a sort of revision of Baedeker, indispensable for any one contemplating a trip to the picturesque country.”

+ Nation. 88: 361. Ap. 8, ’09. 300w.

“The writer brings to his subject a keen vision and mature experience. Yet he is painstaking to a fault in his avoidance of discussion and partisanship.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 189. Ap. 3, ’09. 1100w.

“An interesting record.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 228. Ap. 10, ’09. 20w.

“The book has a certain archæological value in its description of the Bogumilite monuments in Bosnia.”

+ − Outlook. 92: 70. My. 8, ’09. 270w.

“If anyone wants to know what Austria has effected in thirty years in a country which when she took it over was as wild and barbarous as Macedonia, he can gather it from these extremely matter-of-fact pages. This indeed gives the book the only merit it possesses, and it carries conviction far more successfully to the mind than if it were the strongly worded work of a partisan.”

+ Sat. R. 107: sup. 6. My. 22, ’09. 200w.

“May be described as an enthusiastic guidebook. It is traveller’s narrative which looks little below the surface. It assumes no knowledge and usefully suggests routes.”

+ Spec. 102: 500. Mr. 27, ’09. 30w.

Henderson, Walter George. Norah Conough. $1.25. Outing pub.

9–15204.

Ranch life in New South Wales is depicted in this story full of atmosphere and the human element. Two brothers take up a selection (Australian for claim) and develop it. Closely related to their struggle in the bush are their respective courses of true love; in the one case moderately smooth-running, in the other, turbulent to the point of heartbreak.

“A love story that is fresh and wholesome, but lacking in subtlety and skill in character drawing. Good as a picture of social and domestic life in a crude new country.”

+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 187. Je. ’09.

“The inn-keeper’s daughter, and her rough champion are the figures which give the pleasant story such distinctiveness as it can lay claim to.”

+ − Nation. 89: 163. Ag. 19, ’09. 230w.

“There are some strong emotional situations in the story and much account, made quite skillfully a vital part of the story, of out-of-doors life in that quarter of the world.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 241. Ap. 17, ’09. 160w.

“For readers upon the other side of the world the book has the charm of the unaccustomed.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 375. Je. 12, ’09. 250w.

Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).^[12] Options. †$1.50. Harper.

9–27747.

Sixteen O. Henry stories, true to life, clever and full of rare entertainment. In fact, this collection is called an “edition de luxe” of O. Henry. It contains the best stories he has written in the past two years. Besides two prize stories, “Thimble, thimble,” and “Supply and demand,” there is at least one other that ought to have had a prize. It is “The third ingredient.” To say that the third ingredient is an onion, and that about that onion, the necessity for it and the daring it took to secure it for a certain shop-girl’s stew, centers the story with its neat plot, clever characterization and swift action, seems to be admitting great possibilities for small things.

+ − Nation. 89: 540. D. 2, ’09. 380w.

“Contains very few examples of O. Henry’s best. Full of good stories—wonderfully good stories of men and women—most of them still rather young—stories that flash upon you things which your stupidity or inattention has missed when you have looked with your own uncoached eyes upon the identical common life they are concerned to picture.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 728. N. 20, ’09. 400w.

Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).^[8] Roads of destiny. †$1.50. Doubleday.

9–11539.

A volume of stories many of which deal “with the picturesque riff-raff floating through the South and West—Mississippi, Texas, Mexico and South America.” (Nation.) They are: Roads of destiny; The guardian of the accolade; The discounters of money; The enchanted profile; “Next to reading matter”; Art and the bronco; Phoebe; A double-dyed deceiver; The passing of Black Eagle; A retrieved reformation; Cherchez la femme; Friends in San Rosario; The fourth in Salvador; The emancipation at Charleroi; On behalf of the management; Whistling Dick’s Christmas stocking; The halberdier of the little Rheinschloss; Two renegades; The lonesome road.

“Readable though perhaps inferior to his earlier volumes.”

+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 28. S. ’09.

“Of the particular type of short story which he produces, O. Henry is a perfectly assured master.”

+ Nation. 89: 56. Jl. 15, ’09. 380w.

“The stories are marked by that humor and keen characterization which we have come to expect from this industrious writer. Though not, on the whole, quite so worthy of serious praise as the former collections of Mr. Porter’s work.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 319. My. 22, ’09. 180w.

Henshaw, Nevil Gratiot. Aline of the Grand woods: a story of Louisiana. $1.50. Outing pub.

9–3875.

A story set in the Louisiana woods among the Cajuns. It deals with the development of an orphan child after the death of her father who had been disinherited on account of his marrying contrary to paternal wishes. Aline is brought up almost within the shadow of the ancestral Hall, but her portion is air, sunshine, the breath of flowers and of the woods. Doubts, longings, misunderstandings and suffering, accentuated by a troublesome Cajun lover, give way in good season to a generous measure of happiness.

“The slight plot is rather crudely developed and there is a lack of reality about the many characters and incidents that detract from the interest.”

+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 91. Mr. ’09.

“It is a good, downright story in the old-fashioned style, moving along the paths of real life, which it softens and colors with a tinge of romance.”

+ Cath. World. 89: 257. My. ’09. 260w.

“One is indeed left wondering why one should waste spring days on pages like these when the literature of the running brooks is to be obtained so easily.”

− Nation. 88: 337. Ap. 1, ’09. 180w.

203“The author shows much dramatic strength in his style, and in his use of incidents, and much unusual skill in his ability to make the reader feel the personality of his widely varying characters.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 136. Mr. 6, ’09. 180w.

“The story is dramatic, and many of its scenes are tense with strong feeling.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 375. Je. 12, ’09. 330w.

“There can be no question of the truth of the picture, though its composition at times seems somewhat ill-proportioned.”

+ − Outlook. 91: 815. Ap. 10, ’09. 120w.

Hepburn, Alonzo Barton. Artificial waterways and commercial development, (with a history of the Erie canal). *$1. Macmillan.

9–3307.

“A résumé of the relation to commerce of the world’s artificial waterways.... The book opens with an historical sketch of the world’s canals, followed by a more detailed history of the Erie canal.... Then follow a few facts relating to the present conditions of the Panama canal and a discussion of the waterways question and conservation of our resources. In an appendix is given a series of tables (1) Relating to New York canals; (2) Relating to commerce of New York City; (3) Miscellaneous.”—Engin. D.

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 104. Ap. ’09. ✠

“In discussing the Erie canal, however, much interesting historical data is presented in a readable form.”

+ Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 182. Jl. ’09. 140w.

“The historical portion is interesting and the appended statistical tables helpful, but the arguments for modernization do not seem to follow as logically from the historical recital as the author would assume. Two weaknesses which never fail to appear in the arguments of waterway enthusiasts, must be noted. The one sets forth figures showing the cheapness of transportation with a modernized canal and fails to take into account the burden of construction and maintenance charges thrown upon the people as a whole. The other fails to differentiate the comparatively short ship-canal connecting great bodies of water from the long shallow ditch which can only be utilized by craft built especially for the purpose.” F. H. Dixon.

− + Econ. Bull. 2: 38. Ap. ’09. 420w.

“The book is both interesting and instructive.”

+ Engin. D. 5: 295. Mr. ’09. 300w.

“There is no need of a really first rate book in the field which this one pretends to cover, but it should be written by someone with a broader viewpoint and greater technical knowledge than the author of this work.”

− Engin. N. 61: sup. 30. Mr. 18, ’09. 220w.

“A short but forceful little book.” E. L. Bogart.

+ Forum. 42: 92. Jl. ’09. 300w.

+ Ind. 66: 1142. My. 27, ’09. 120w.

“It adds nothing to our previous stock of information upon the subject and contributes about as much to the solution of the much-vexed waterways question.”

− J. Pol. Econ. 17: 384. Je. ’09. 150w.

“A timely contribution to the evidence on the subject.”

+ Nature. 80: 307. My. 13, ’09. 250w.

“Though inadequate in the treatment of the subjects with which it deals, ... the book is certainly of interest as a primer. It presents an excellent synopsis of the more important incidents in the history of the Erie canal.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 134. Mr. 6, ’09. 330w.

Herbert, Agnes.^[8] Isle of man *$3.50. Lane.

Deals with the native and the tripper, with the history, archaeology, customs and scenery of Manxland. “She is here on her own ground, and her style is not less racy ... when she was engaged in explaining how she shot lions in Africa or bears in America, and incidentally turned the mere male person into her willing servitor.” (Sat. R.)

“But, for all its shortcomings, the book is readable, and all the pictures excellent.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 591. O. 9, ’09. 720w.

“A book which is really admirable. Mona’s Isle is never likely to find a more vivacious chronicler.”

+ Sat. R. 108: sup. 5. Jl. 17, ’09. 220w.

“We cannot say that we like [Mr. Maxwell’s drawings] all equally well.”

+ − Spec. 103: 138. Jl. 24, ’09. 180w.

Herbert, Alice.^[9] Measure of our youth. †$1.50. Lane.

A story of psychological purport dealing with the sex theme. “England is the setting for all that transpires after the explanatory chapter, in which there is a short history of the liaison that was responsible for the introduction of East Indian blood into the Bewley family. Francis and Adela Bewley, brother and sister, are the principal characters, but from their babyhood to marriage, which is approximately the time covered by the story, they are accompanied by a host of people just as clearly delineated.” (N. Y. Times.)

“A too colorful story, replete with ‘near’ climaxes, and peopled with familiarly bizarre characters.”

− N. Y. Times. 14: 353. Je. 5, ’09. 210w.

“The story is a thoughtful piece of work, sometimes a little naïvely ignorant and crude in its philosophy of life, but written with sincerity and earnestness.”

+ − Sat. R. 108: 174. Ag. 7, ’09. 150w.

Herbert, George. Priest to the temple; or, The country parson, his character and rule of holy life; with an introd. and brief notes by the bishop of North Carolina. *75c. Whittaker.

8–28972.

A reprint of Herbert’s observations on the duties of a pastor. “Judicious and helpful suggestions abound as to preaching, catechizing, visiting, and other points of pastoral duty, when applied with discrimination, remembering that the letter killeth, and that it is the spirit that giveth life.”

Nation. 87: 579. D. 10, ’08. 90w.

Hereford, William Richard.^[12] The demagog. †$1.50. Holt.

9–28115.

The demagog of Mr. Hereford’s stirring political novel is the owner of a chain of newspapers who for years had been lying low and scheming persistently for ultimate political power. This story is concerned with his open campaign for the presidency. On the one side are portrayed his schemes for winning the office thru his favorite means—force and stratagem; on the other is the weaving of the net by his opponent from the threads of his past traitorous dealings with fellow men, of unfaithfulness to women and general corruptness, which finally enmeshes him and renders him alike harmless and ignominious.

Hewitt, Emma Churchman.^[7] How to live on a small income. 50c. Jacobs.

9–18582.

A little volume inscribed to young housekeepers. It aims to open up a train of ideas that will lead the young housekeeper to think for herself and to adjust herself to her environment. The advice rests upon the requirement that a housekeeper shall learn the difference between the words “cheap” and “inexpensive.” Some of the chapters are: Selecting a home; Health problems and sanitation; Floors and their treatment; Furnishings and their care; 204The finance problem; False economy which is waste; Economy of work; Dress and shopping; Clothes for the little ones; Entertaining; With the home chef.

Hewlett, Maurice Henry.^[6] Artemision: idylls and songs. **$1. Scribner.

W9–160.

“Three long poems of irregular form, followed by a group of sonnets and these by the lyrics, while the author betrays the same knowledge of early Grecian myth revealed in Mrs. Wharton’s verse [Artemis to Actæon].”—N. Y. Times.

A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 15. S. ’09.

“Mr. Hewlett’s verse is the verse of the scholar and the man of letters: its sweetness is reminiscent, its ruggedness carefully devised, and its similitudes neither striking nor yet commonplace.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 1; 670. Je. 5. 280w.

“One would expect in any writing of his a keen and delicate sense of words, an ear sensitive to the melody of language and a sharp sincerity of emotion. And these expectations are well satisfied in his new volume of verse.” Brian Hooker.

+ Bookm. 29: 366. Je. ’09. 400w.

“As a writer of verse he rather emphasizes the Meredithian vice of obscurity than the penetrating Meredithian vision.” W: M. Payne.

− Dial. 47: 98. Ag. 16, ’09. 400w.

“The effect of these classic topics as treated in Mr. Hewlett’s peculiar romantic and neorenaissance vein, with a good deal of rhythmical ‘insouciance,’ genuine or affected, is distinctly curious. It is like looking at a clear landscape thru colored glasses—a brilliant and prismatic spectacle, no doubt, but one singularly anomalous and out of character.”

− + Ind. 67: 658. S. 16, ’09. 100w.

“Mr. Hewlett’s treatment of classic themes has suffered to some extent from the poet’s temperament.”

+ − Nation. 89: 55. Jl. 15, ’09. 300w.

“There is a rare quality to this book of Hewlett’s, something it is not easy to define, but which is felt.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 300. My. 8, ’09. 470w.

“The book is one students and lovers of poetry dare not miss.”

+ No. Am. 190: 704. N. ’09. 330w.

“Much of the sureness of touch and philosophic insight which makes Maurice Hewlett the lineal successor of Meredith appears in the little volume.”

+ R. of Rs. 40: 123. Jl. ’09. 40w.

“Is, in the fullest sense of the word, a distinguished book.”

+ Spec. 103: 19. Jl. 3, ’09. 430w.

Hewlett, Maurice Henry.^[10] Open country. †$1.50. Scribner.

9–35789.

“Those readers who are familiar with Mr. Senhouse in the author’s “Halfway house” will be glad to find him here, four years earlier, rejoicing in the open country as his heritage. He gives us much of the simple philosophy which made him one with nature in his letters to the girl whom he loves. He met her in the open and he loved her well, too well to enslave her by matrimony, but well enough, when the time came, not to count the cost in helping her give herself to the man who had won her heart, a man whom he knew to be less worthy of her than he, he who had inspired her to be the noble woman he thought her. But Senhouse in his own great purity knew her pure and felt that her love justified all things though, because of it, her whole world closed its doors against her.”

“Will appeal only to cultured readers.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 55. O. ’09.

“This story is extremely clever, but it is no more. To tell the truth about Mr. Senhouse, he is wholly unconvincing, and rather a bore.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 2: 325. S. 18. 350w.

“On the whole, the book is a disappointment to those who, admiring Mr. Hewlett’s unquestionable cleverness, have looked for the great comedy which he has sometimes seemed capable of writing.” E: C. Marsh.

+ − Bookm. 30: 263. N. ’09. 1000w.

“The readers of Mr. Maurice Hewlett’s ‘Halfway house,’ who made the acquaintance of John Senhouse in that charming book, will be glad to have further intercourse with him in the pages of ‘Open country.’” W: M. Payne.

+ Dial. 47: 237. O. 1, ’09. 630w.

“The performance as a whole hardly shows Mr. Hewlett at his best. Here more clearly than ever his ingenuousness is seen to be ingenuity.”

+ − Nation. 89: 305. S. 30, ’09. 570w.

“It is as if Mr. Hewlett, perceiving that the world knew little of that actual personal story of Stevenson’s life, proceeded to build it in around Senhouse, making Senhouse act and talk as Stevenson probably did.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 565. S. 25, ’09. 900w.

“We do not read Mr. Hewlett for the story, but for the beauty, and this is in the book in generous measure.”

+ No. Am. 190: 838. D. ’09. 210w.

“As a story the book is a little less attractive than its predecessor, but Mr. Hewlett’s grace and charming writing have not lost their quality, although they have in some ways changed their form.”

+ Outlook. 93: 276. O. 2, ’09. 210w.

“We lay down the book rather glad to be done with it. The unceasing click of the epigrams, sham or real: the continual search after fine allusions, the strain to be if not original at any rate unusual, the lack of human, overbrimming humour and the pervading acid tone—all these help to damp our spirits. Still the novel is clever; and, as a great many folk admire cleverness above all things, we presume that Mr. Hewlett has his great admirers.”

− + Sat. R. 108: 320. S. 11, ’09. 1500w.

Hewlett, Maurice Henry.^[11] Ruinous face. †$1. Harper.

9–27262.

Helen of Troy is shown to us as a woman with a soul and a longing to be truly loved as her husband’s companion; but her ruinous beauty dooms her to be merely the object of physical desire. Her hope for a higher affection leads her to betray Paris, to murder Menelaus, and finally to hang herself with her girdle when she reads siren passion in the eyes of each man who loves her. The volume has marginal drawings and a gift-book make-up.

“Mr. Hewlett brings to this short story all the subtlety, suggestiveness, and finish that make his novels notable.”

+ Dial. 47: 464. D. 1, ’09. 70w.

Outlook. 93: 559. N. 6, ’09. 350w.

Hichens, Robert Smythe.^[11] Bella Donna. †$1.50. Lippincott.

9–28245.

A humanitarian and great believer in the good that is in mankind marries a notorious ostracized London woman, reputed equally for her beauty and her infamy. He transplants his Bella Donna to Egyptian soil where she finds new health and almost a feeling of youth, and where she comes under the spell of an Alexandrian man of affairs—a man of sinuous cunning. His oriental subtlety finds quick response in her nature, under the sway of which she plans to poison her husband by degrees, but is foiled by a master physician-detective whose friendship for the husband furnishes the fine elements of the story.

“His story, in spite of its brilliant qualities, is one of the most distasteful we have ever encountered.”

− − + Ath. 1909, 2: 522. O. 30. 170w.

205“Of all the current studies of feminine unrest, the most strikingly individual and the one hardest to escape from is ‘Bella Donna.’ One feels throughout a taint of the neurotic and the pathological.” F: T. Cooper.

+ − Bookm. 30: 387. D. ’09. 650w.

“Is more direct and forcible than the usual plot of Mr. Hichens. Its treatment, moreover, seems to depend less obviously upon an artificial high flavor. As for the persons, they are more nearly ‘convincing’ than any of Mr. Hichens’s previous creations.”

+ Nation. 89: 541. D. 2, ’09. 500w.

“A few carelessly constructed sentences mar the usually clear-cut English of the book, and several typographical errors, notably in the French expressions, have escaped the proofreader. The public has seldom the opportunity to show its appreciation of a novel of such originality, charm, and power. Nor can its tremendous message be ignored, the message inevitable from the fact that materialism is pressed home to its logical conclusion.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 670. O. 30, ’09. 700w.

“Mr. Robert Hichens has never put more careful literary art-work into any of his novels than one finds in ‘Bella Donna.’”

+ Outlook. 93: 643. N. 20, ’09. 130w.

“This is one of the best novels we have ever read, and quite the best that Mr. Robert Hichens has written.”

+ + Sat. R. 108: 636. N. 20, ’09. 240w.

“The book as a whole is a clever piece of work.”

+ Spec. 103: 795. N. 13, ’09. 220w.

Higginson, Ella. Alaska: the great country. **$2.25. Macmillan

8–33137.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

“It will be useful for reference and would serve the traveler’s needs admirably.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 13. Ja. ’09.

“It has no table of contents and the chapters have no individual headings. The ordinary reader is so much accustomed to having definite topics put before him that the absence of these creates a feeling of hopeless bewilderment.”

+ − Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 182. Jl. ’09. 110w.

“Written in a mood of exalted appreciation.”

− Ind. 66: 702. Ap. 1, ’09. 430w.

“The most complete as well as the most attractive work on the subject.”

+ Lit. D. 37: 984. D. 26, ’08. 130w.

“It is thoroughly a woman’s book, emotional, pleasant-tempered, picturesque, and (shall we say it?) in cool accuracy not quite careful, and in discrimination, not quite keen.”

+ − Nation. 88: 229. Mr. 4, ’09. 360w

“While Alaskan economic resources are described with great fullness, the most salient quality of Mrs. Higginson’s book lies in its description of scenery.”

+ Outlook. 91: 384. F. 20, ’09. 330w.

“Mrs. Higginson has put into this volume much more than a mere series of fleeting impressions.”

+ R. of Rs. 39: 252. F. ’09. 50w.

“Up to the moment when the vessel which proudly conveys Mrs. Higginson sets her prow westward from Sitka, this book has scarcely anything to recommend it, except its pictures. It is marked alternately by a naïve lack and excess of information which merely moves us to smile. But as soon as she gets west of Sitka her book becomes meritorious.”

− + Sat. R. 108: 84. Jl. 17, ’09. 850w.

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.^[12] Carlyle’s laugh and other surprises. **$2. Houghton.

9–28426.

The title essay “Carlyle’s laugh” occupies only ten pages of this volume while the “other surprises” bring it very nearly to the four-hundred page mark. Of the laugh the author says: “After the most vehement tirade, Carlyle would suddenly pause, throw his head back, and give as genuine and kindly a laugh as I ever heard from a human being. It was not the bitter laugh of the cynic, nor yet the big-bodied laugh of the burly joker; least of all was it the thin and rasping cackle of the dyspeptic satirist. It was a broad, honest, human laugh.” There are twenty-four papers in all in this volume many of which are reprinted from magazines.

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 117. D. ’09.

+ Outlook. 93: 650. N. 27, ’09. 160w.

Hildebrande, Adolph. Problem of form in painting and sculpture; tr. and rev. with the author’s co-operation by Max Meyer and Robert Morris Ogden. *90c. Stechert.

8–1129.

A translation from the fourth German edition with the preface to the third edition. “Hildebrand discusses the problem of Form, chiefly from the sculptor’s point of view and with reference to the sculptor’s materials. The topics treated are: vision and movement, form and appearance, the idea of space and its visual expression, ideas of planes and depth, the conception of relief, form as an interpretation of life, and sculpture in stone. These topics are handled partly from the technical point of view of the artist and partly from the point of view of psychology.” (Philos. R.)

“There is a serious typographical error on page 61 which makes some seven or eight lines quite unintelligible. It is an interesting addition to the psychology of imagination.” Kate Gordon.

+ − J. Philos. 6: 136. Mr. 4, ’09. 340w.

“No intelligent sculptor, or for that matter no painter who cares for the noble and monumental in art, can read this little treatise without some stimulation of his faculties and clarification of his ideas.”

+ Nation. 87: 612. D. 17, ’08. 340w.

“The book is translated into clear English and is a valuable addition to our literature on the psychology of art.” W. A. Hammond.

+ Philos. R. 18: 91. Ja. ’09. 860w.

Hill, Alexander.^[6] Body at work: a treatise on the principles of physiology. *$4.50. Longmans.

9–35903.

“Presents the subject of physiology in such a manner as to be intelligible to those who have acquired no previous knowledge of chemistry, physics, or anatomy.”—Spec.

“A thorough, well written work, for the educated reader.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 117. D. ’09.

“It deals with the subject thoroughly in the light of the most recent investigations, and any one who reads carefully through it will have acquired a clear and accurate picture of the present state of a science which grows and changes daily.”

+ Ath. 1909, 1: 169. F. 6. 550w.

“Dr. Hill has given us a book at once instructive and attractive.”

+ Nature. 80: 366. My. 27, ’09. 420w.

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 276. My. 1, ’09. 210w.

“We have some doubt as to whether his object has been attained. At the same time, the reader who has the courage to take up this volume will gain a very sound general knowledge of the principles of physiology.”

+ − Spec. 102: sup. 645. Ap. 24, ’09. 130w.

Hill, Constance.^[12] Maria Edgeworth and her circle in the days of Bonaparte and Bourbon. **$6. Lane.

“The title [of Miss Hill’s book] is taken from the chapters which tell of Miss Edgeworth’s visits to Paris in the shifting days of empire and monarchy, but the story is by no means confined to France. London also comes into view, with glimpses of Mrs. Barbauld, Joanna 206Baillie, the Miss Berrys, and other twinkling lights, chiefly feminine. Miss Hill draws on letters preserved by the Edgeworth family and hitherto unpublished.”—Nation.

“The interest of her work is due to her sprightliness more than to any novelty of material. The book is scarcely as entertaining as her ‘Juniper hall’ and ‘House in St. Martin’s street,’ owing to the fact that the unity of place in those earlier volumes kept her from that scattering of effects which is always the temptation of the anecdotal writer.”

+ − Nation. 89: 490. N. 18, ’09. 200w.

N. Y. Times. 14: 700. N. 6, ’09. 90w.

“Full praise is due to Miss Hill for the thoroughness with which she has chronicled the travels, the gaieties in high places, the acquaintance, the risks of a visit to Paris and a timely flight home, which have such a curious bearing—or want of bearing—on Miss Edgeworth’s books. This is so capably done, and offers so many clues of reference which are consequent, if at times rather fine-spun, that the reader will probably regret the inclusion of several chapters whose connexion with the subject is thin to the point of invisibility.”

+ − Sat. R. 108: 571. N. 6, ’09. 860w.

Hill, Frederick Trevor. Story of a street. **$1.60. Harper.

8–31816.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

“The book bears evidence of careful study beneath its regrettably journalistic style, and contributes some fresh material.”

+ − Nation. 88: 146. F. 11, ’09. 470w.

“That the facts could be handled in a more entertaining way than they are in Mr. Hill’s book is doubtful.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 134. Mr. 6, ’09. 410w.

“Altogether the book will be a valuable addition to the history of New York, and will be read by many descendants of those whose names appear in its pages.”

+ Outlook. 91: 20. Ja. 2, ’09. 230w.

Hill, Henry Wayland.^[7] Historical review of waterways and canal construction in New York state. (Publications, v. 12.) $4. Buffalo hist. soc., Buffalo, N. Y.

9–13607.

Thirteen years’ training in the New York state legislature naturally lead the author to consider the development of the canal legislation with its accompanying financial and commercial aspects. “Of the 27 chapters of the book, the first five are devoted to a history of the waterways of the state and of the very earliest canals; the next seven chapters discuss the Erie canal from the dreams of the 18th century colonist to the opening in 1825 of De Witt Clinton’s ‘Grand’ canal; the next five chapters treat of the rapid growth of lateral canals in the ensuing 30 years and of the gradual decline in canal traffic due to the inroads of the railway; the final ten chapters are on the movement which culminated in the Barge canal legislation and popular endorsement of 1903.” (Engin. N.)

“A large part ... deals with the legislative history of the barge canal and the progress of the new canal policy. This part constitutes a valuable contribution by one speaking from the inside. It is singularly fair and free from personal animosities for a work of the kind. However, the spirit of the advocate permeates the whole.” E. J. B.

+ − Am. Hist. R. 15: 190. O. ’09. 350w.

“In his earlier chapters, then, Senator Hill is most happy, because he is there discussing historical facts which no one can deny. But once his history gets to that time when the railway influence on the canal is felt, his enthusiastic partisanship overcomes his historical disinterest. With Mr. Whitford’s book for the engineering history and Senator Hill’s for the legal and economic, a reader should gain a most concise knowledge of the internal waterways of the great state of New York.”

+ − Engin. N. 61: sup. 82. Je. 17, ’09. 1100w.

“An important contribution to the literature of the subject. As a historical review, which is its chief purpose, Senator Hill’s book is thorough and peculiarly valuable because it covers ground that has hitherto been neglected.” Forbes Lindsay.

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 415. Jl. 3, ’09. 700w.

Hilliers, Ashton.^[10] As it happened. **$1.35. Putnam.

W9–261.

“This work has the circumstantiality of the eighteenth-century masters. Tom Furley, the gunner turned Quaker, is an historical character. Like most of the other figures, he revolves round that of the orphan heroine, a fine conception. Two old scholars; a good and modest soldier who is a kind of more martial Dobbin; an immodest Irish major who is the villain of the piece; and a strange secretary, the Anointer, make up the cast. Historically the story begins with the mutiny at Madras, and ends with the defence of Gibraltar by Eliott, of whom we see a good deal, with glimpses of Secretary Jenkinson and ‘old Q.’”—Ath.

“The type used is so small as to seriously interfere with the enjoyment of the story.”

+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 90. N. ’09.

“It combines wealth of incident, variety and originality of character, fine descriptions, and battle-pieces by sea and land. We are not confident in our author as an Indian historian; he follows Wilks and Mill too much; but he is always interesting.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 1: 697. Je. 12. 150w.

“It is loosely knit, rambling, starting apparently from nowhere, and eventually arriving at the same spot.” F: T. Cooper.

− Bookm. 30: 189. O. ’09. 330w.

“The range of information is extraordinary; the fitting of walk and conversation to each character most apt; the humor rich.”

+ Nation. 89: 329. O. 7, ’09. 330w.

“Exciting novel.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 652. O. 23, ’09. 20w.

“An essay in fiction much better than most in a literary way at the same time that it is interesting enough—merely as a tale—to keep a reasonably alert reader awake during the greater part of a day’s railway journey. That should be a fairly good rough test.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 729. N. 20, ’09. 480w.

“It demands careful reading, but no intelligent reader will want to skip a single page of a chronicle so rich in incident and humanity, and set forth in a style so engagingly compounded of scholarship and vivacity.”

+ Spec. 102: 864. My. 29, ’09. 770w.

Hillquit, Morris. Socialism in theory and practice. *$1.50. Macmillan.

9–5098.

Mr. Hillquit says: “Socialism is a criticism of modern social conditions, a theory of social progress, an ideal of social organization, and a practical movement of the masses. To be fully understood it must be studied in all of these phases.” He embodies his conception of the movement in a two part discussion; “the first, the socialistic philosophy and movement, undertakes to state the theory on which socialism is based. The second, socialism and reform, discusses those particular measures of reform which socialists regard as temporary measures, but which they think will alleviate conditions during the transition from the present social order to the one they predict.” (Outlook.)

“The book would have been of more homogeneous value had the author omitted much elementary and fragmentary treatment of the history of ethics and law, had he bravely eliminated the numerous rhetorical passages into which his sympathies lead him, and had he been more liberal in stating the sources of his 207statistics. On the whole however he has contributed worthily to the literature of socialism.” A. B. Wolfe.

+ − Am. J. Soc. 15: 264. S. ’09. 750w.

“The best treatment written on the subjects presented by one of the men best qualified to represent the socialist party.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 138. My. ’09.

“The book is a good one, and shows clearly both the strength and the weakness of American socialism.”

+ Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 183. Jl. ’09. 240w.

“This book marks a great advance over the author’s earlier ‘History of socialism in the United States,’ as it does indeed over most of the earlier literature on the subject of socialism.” E. L. Bogart.

+ Forum. 42: 91. Jl. ’09. 450w.

“No one who wishes to know the philosophy, the aims and the achievements of the socialist movement, stated by a man who is a prominent figure, in that movement, can well afford to miss this excellent book.”

+ Ind. 66: 1398. Je. 24, ’09. 700w.

“This book adds little that is new to socialist literature. Nevertheless it is a valuable work.”

+ J. Pol. Econ. 17: 482. Jl. ’09. 80w.

Nation. 88: 278. Mr. 18, ’09. 320w.

“He has written well.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 144. Mr. 13, ’09. 900w.

“It is on at least two vital points that ‘The Outlook’ takes issue with socialism as Mr. Hillquit presents it.”

− Outlook. 91: 765. Ap. 3, ’09. 1050w.

+ R. of Rs. 40: 128. Jl. ’09. 100w.

Spec. 103: sup. 715. N. 6, ’09. 70w.

“Of course the reader feels some distrust of a writer who speaks dogmatically upon subjects of such wide range and difficulty. The ideas are, however, refreshing and stimulating and the book will unquestionably find many interested readers.” W. B. Guthrie.

+ − Survey. 22: 406. Je. 12, ’09. 400w.

Hind, A. M. Short history of engraving and etching, for the use of collectors, and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers. **$5. Houghton.

9–3076.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

“A valuable book for the student and collector, and for art and reference libraries.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 42. F. ’09.

“Although Mr. Hind’s book is in no sense an official publication, it possesses the admirable qualities which we are now accustomed to associate with Mr. Sidney Colvin and his assistants—thoroughness, accuracy, sobriety, and absence of flowery language.”

+ Ath. 1909, 1: 623. My. 22. 1250w.

“A really important contribution, and will take its place among the best of the present-day authorities on the subject. Nor does it seem that any of the modern etchers or engravers are adequately considered.” Laurence Burnham.

+ − Bookm. 28: 481. Ja. ’09. 1050w.

“That the author has expended a prodigious amount of trouble and care in the writing of this short history is evident and the extensive knowledge he has brought to bear on the subject, coupled with the judicious way in which he has dealt with the work of individual artists, especially those now living, should ensure for the work a leading place in the literature of this branch of art.”

+ Int. Studio. 36: 164. D. ’08. 350w.

“Here and there a critical reader will differ from Mr. Hind’s rapidly sketched positions. We have seen nothing quite so useful for the average person who is concerned with prints.”

+ − Nation. 88: 342. Ap. 1, ’09. 630w.

“No better guide to prints in general can be imagined.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 13: 803. D. 26, ’08. 350w.

“To the exact perceptions and trained sympathies of the true lover of line Mr. Hind has added, in the preparation of his volume, the minute and precious learning of the specialist.” Christian Brinton.

+ Putnam’s. 5: 620. F. ’09. 210w.

Hingston, William E.^[7] Forgeries and false entries. $1. Roxburgh pub. co.

9–18389.

A work by an expert examiner of disputed writing, documents, false entries, questioned book accounts, etc., which is based upon the author’s own experience with a strange assortment of crooks. The tricks of the forger and defaulter are uncovered, and safeguards against them are suggested. The book furnishes enlightenment of profit to all business men.

“The book is likely to prove useful to investors and occasional speculators in the stock market, who are often led astray by an alluring prospectus.”

+ Lit. D. 39: 686. O. 23, ’09. 180w.

N. Y. Times. 14: 439. Jl. 17, ’09. 110w.

Hirst, Margaret E.^[9] Life of Friedrich List, and selections from his writings; with an introd. by F. W. Hirst. **$2. Scribner.

W9–191.

A story of the life of a man whose economic writings, chiefly his “National system of political economy,” have not been justly appreciated. This work aims to give a “sane appraisal.” “List made a deep impression upon the economic thought of his times and his writings have especial interest for Americans, for two reasons. First, he lived, studied, and wrote on this side of the ocean after having won recognition in his native land, and, secondly, on account of the working out of his theories on a parallel between Germany and the United States.” (N. Y. Times.)

“The author’s presentation is well executed. We have discovered but a single error, where 1787 is given (p. 38) for 1789, as the date of the first Tariff act.”

+ − Nation. 89: 257. S. 16, ’09. 500w.

“Miss Hirst’s unpretentious but scholarly book will be useful to all interested in these topics.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 500. Ag. 21, ’09. 700w.

“We could wish that the endowment of research always gave us a product as well justified as this very interesting study.”

+ Spec. 103: 790. N. 13, ’09. 900w.

Hiscox, Gardner Dexter.^[6] Compressed air, its production, uses, and applications. 5th ed. rev. and enl. $5. Henley.

9–1598.

A new edition in which the out-of-date material has been cut out and new material added.

“A complete, up-to-date treatise.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 120. Ap. ’09.

“The treatment of the subject is very comprehensive, and the present edition shows evidence of much revisional work.”

+ Engin. D. 5: 541. My. ’09. 220w.

Hitchcock, Ripley, ed.^[11] Decisive battles of America, by Albert Bushnell Hart, and others. $1.50. Harper.

9–28142.

A companion volume to Creasy’s “Decisive battles of the world,” whose aim is to set forth the crucial military events in our history, to trace their causes and to provide a clear narrative. It begins with the European contests affecting America and continues to the battle of Santiago, 1898.

+ Ind. 67: 1149. N. 18, ’09. 160w.

“This type of book, carefully planned, with adequate maps and full index, is one that teachers as well as the layman should welcome.”

+ Nation. 89: 539. D. 2, ’09. 70w.

208“Mr. Hitchcock’s selections seem to be well chosen, and a perusal of them will open the eyes of many as to the measurable amount of this country’s history that has been made by warfare.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 760. D. 4, ’09. 410w.

+ R. of Rs. 40: 764. D. ’09. 70w.

Hobart, Henry Metcalf.^[8] Heavy electrical engineering. *$4.50. Van Nostrand.

9–23813.

“Under the non-committal title assigned to this book the author discusses the over-all efficiency of generating stations and the relation between coal consumption and outgoing electrical energy, the steam-raising plant, piston engines and steam turbines, condensing plant, electric generating plant, the design of generating stations, high-tension transmission lines, the high-tension continuous-current series system, electric traction calculations, traction motors and the electrification of railways. Although design details are omitted the whole book is arranged for use by the designing engineer and the various statements made by the author are based on inter-related facts that are outlined.”—Elec. World.

“The treatment throughout is interesting and should prove useful to consulting and constructing electrical engineers.”

+ Elec. World. 54: 213. Jl. 22, ’09. 380w.

“The book is evidently intended, primarily, for engineers in Great Britain. This is indicated by the method of treatment and by the expression of costs in English currency. The book contains some most valuable tables, which have been carefully and laboriously worked out, and much valuable broad-gage engineering, evidently based on the author’s wide experience. The arrangement of the topics may be criticized.” H: Floy.

+ − Engin. N. 61: sup. 79. Je. 17, ’09. 730w.

“This book is original from beginning to end; moreover, it is a perfect store of useful practical data and is clearly written, so that the reader always remains in touch with the author and knows what point he wishes to make. These points are not matters of little detail, but the features in a design which really count. It is this ability of Mr. Hobart to take a broad and comprehensive view of his subject which makes this book so eminently readable.” Gisbert Kapp.

+ Nature. 80: 392. Je. 3, ’09. 1000w.

Hobart, James Francis.^[10] Millwrighting. *$3. Hill pub. co.

9–8948.

A thorogoing handbook for the millwright or mechanical engineer that gives instruction on selection of factory location, laying out buildings, laying out foundations, erection of buildings, inspection of buildings, and the installation and adjustment of machinery.

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 15. S. ’09.

“The book is written for master builders, but it will prove of equal service to any young engineer who needs to go out into factory construction from time to time. The statements of theory from a workman’s point of view should be novel and often illuminating. It will help put one in a way to see the builders’ opinions of a designer’s ideas. The pages abound in homely suggestions which, in most cases, quickly strike home to the reader.”

+ Engin. N. 61: sup. 71. Je. 17. ’09. 730w.

Hobson, John Atkinson.^[12] Industrial system: an inquiry into earned and unearned income. *$2.50. Longmans.

9–21894.

“A twofold purpose is discernible in this latest book by Mr. Hobson. The first purpose is purely scientific: ‘to construct an image of the actual, concrete system of industry’ so as to throw light upon distribution by a ‘study of the various sorts of acts of distribution.’ The second purpose, not explicitly stated, but dominating the book as a whole, is to furnish a plausible logical basis for the peculiar radical movement with which Mr. Hobson is identified. The former purpose carries Mr. Hobson through the first three chapters of the book; its definite result is the construction of a static scheme of industrial society, essentially similar to Clark’s group and sub-group system, but executed with greater elaboration. The remainder of the book subserves the propagandist purpose.”—J. Pol. Econ.

“One of the most valuable features of this work is its statement of the problem. The most disappointing thing, however, about the book is its treatment of the concept of marginal productivity, which the author thinks he is refuting.” T. N. Carver.

+ − Econ. Bull. 2: 349. D. ’09. 480w.

“One is almost forced to the conclusion that Mr. Hobson, in order to give his work an immediate practical significance, unconsciously substituted the taxation projects, now under discussion in Great Britain, for those that might logically be deduced from his theoretical treatment of income. A careful examination of Mr. Hobson’s theory will disclose, under a seeming definiteness of outline, a surprising number of hazy conceptions.” A. S. Johnson.

− J. Pol. Econ. 17: 644. N. ’09. 2800w.

“Free traders will naturally welcome the work as an achievement of value, but it is not of less interest to Tariff reformers, because it states the case against Tariff reform as well as it can possibly be stated. We do not remember having seen such an acute mind, so highly fitted for the task, in such hopeless confusion.”

− + Sat. R. 108: 137. Jl. 31, ’09. 2000w.

Hocking, Joseph.^[9] Sword of the Lord. **$1.25. Dutton.

9–10031.

“A story of Tudor England and contemporary Germany, the period of the reformation in Europe, when Luther and Erasmus were most powerful. The hero is Brian Hamilton, known far and wide as a hater of females. Henry VIII sends him to Germany to escort a lady of noble birth to England, whose presence is imperative in the latter country for political reasons.... The narrative is full of little incidents that make the period and its people seem very real. The figure of Luther is life-like and true to history and the great scenes in which he figures—the burning of the Pope’s bull and the Diet of Worms, are made vivid and interesting.”—N. Y. Times.

“The author has done his best to get the times in and has succeeded but indifferently well.”

+ − Ind. 67: 424. Ag. 19, ’09. 100w.

“A very readable romance.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 335. My. 29, ’09. 250w.

“The scenes in courts and camps are described with animation by this well-known story-teller.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 375. Je. 12, ’09. 170w.

Hodges, Rev. George.^[6] Apprenticeship of Washington, and other sketches of significant colonial personages. **$1.25. Moffat.

9–4183.

A noteworthy contribution to our historical literature which shows how Washington’s early training fitted him for later service. Contents: The apprenticeship of Washington; The hanging of Mary Dyer; The adventures of Captain Miles Standish; The education of John Harvard; The forefathers of Jamestown.

“The value of these unassuming papers lies in the new aspect they present of people and events that have been long familiar.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 105. Ap. ’09.

“Five short and readable, as well as scholarly and painstaking, chapters.”

+ Dial. 46: 268. Ap. 16, ’09. 250w.

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 130. Mr. 6, ’09. 220w.

209Hodges, Rev. George.^[10] Garden of Eden: stories from the first nine books of the Old Testament. †$1.50. Houghton.

9–27360.

Forty Bible stories for children, short, clearly told and to the point of the lesson contained in the scriptural source. They are intended to be read or told to children, and appear in attractive holiday binding.

“The unfortunate attempt has again been made to re-tell some of the grand old Bible stories in language supposed to suit young readers.”

− Dial. 47: 442. D. 1, ’09. 250w.

“Dean Hodges’ collection will prove suggestive, and, were it not for these mistaken affectations of style, would have wide reception.”

+ − Lit. D. 39: 1018. D. 4, ’09. 120w.

“We have given space to this criticism of a poor book because it is handsomely printed and illustrated, in a manner to attract unsuspecting buyers.”

− Nation. 89: 464. N. 11, ’09. 240w.

“Old Testament stories entertainingly retold for children.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 663. O. 23, ’09. 10w.

“Through the volume there runs a vein of quiet humor that emphasizes at once the human quality in which the Old Testament itself is rich, and the reverence which underlies the whole treatment.”

+ Outlook. 93: 786. D. 4, ’09. 300w.

Hodson, A. L.^[9] Letters from a settlement. $1.50. Longmans.

9–20784.

Letters describing experiences growing out of London settlement work. “The author, who is evidently an excellent settlement worker, gives some vivid pictures of the London poor; whilst not blind to their weaknesses, she does justice to their good qualities. Almost every feature of settlement work is described. The letters on boys’ clubs are especially interesting. Miss Hodson understands the London boy. The letters throw much light on the work of the charity organization society and reveal the value of that much criticized body.” (Ath.)

“A series of well-written and interesting letters. The letters were well worth publishing, and prove the great good which is accomplished by a well-organized settlement.”

+ Ath. 1909, 2: 153. Ag. 7. 180w.

“[The letters] give us a very good inner view of one of those charitable houses in the East End of London.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 444. Jl. 17, ’09. 450w.

“The letters themselves are written with some sympathy, and they are not difficult to read, but they do not go far towards helping anyone who wants to know a little more definitely what, after all, a settlement is, and who is not merely contented with hearing something of what residents of a settlement may do.” Roger Howson.

+ − Survey. 23: 140. O. 30, ’09. 1250w.

Hofmann, Josef.^[12] Piano questions answered; a little book of direct answers to 250 questions asked by piano students. **75c. Doubleday.

9–27752.

Two-hundred and fifty replies to inquiries made thru the columns of the Ladies’ home journal. “The questions that are answered are arranged together under different headings, as technique, (in its many different divisions,) the instrument, the pedals, practice, marks, and nomenclature, phrasing, memorizing, playing for people, bad music, the student’s age, and so on; and there are pages devoted to Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Chopin.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Are many useful specific hints on points of technique or interpretation.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 117. D. ’09.

“Give hints and elucidate points which no text-book has space to dwell upon.”

+ Lit. D. 39: 960. N. 27, ’09. 110w.

“What Mr. Hofmann says is practical, sound, genuine; and there are very few students, or even players beyond the pupilary state, who would not find help and stimulus in it.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 744. N. 27, ’09. 400w.

Hogan, Albert Edmond.^[5] Pacific blockade. *$2. Oxford.

9–6476.

“Pacific blockade is a means of international coercion short of war which first found use in the nineteenth century. The author by this essay gives short historical sketches of the instances in which it has been used and draws conclusions as to its present status and probable future development. The discussion is based on some twenty conflicts, most of them of lesser importance, some of which lasted but a day or two and others of so transitory a nature that the facts are not definitely known. Naturally under such circumstances the discussion must be at many points vague as the author frankly admits.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

“In this book the author has discussed a minor topic of international law, fully, fairly and ably. It is the only treatise in English exclusively upon this subject. Except to a person somewhat prejudiced against the entire practice of pacific blockade, Mr. Hogan’s fairminded, moderate statement of the case for it may seem very nearly convincing. Yet there are certain objections. To allow absolutely unrestricted traffic through the lines of a pacific blockade to all ships of third states would in most cases make the blockade so ineffective as to be valueless. It is a pity that the author is not clearer, is not less inconsistent, on this point, for it is the crux of the whole matter.” T. S. Woolsey.

+ − Am. Hist. R. 14: 588. Ap. ’09. 780w.

Ann. Am. Acad. 33: 718. My. ’09. 300w.

“His historical work is exceedingly thorough and sound, and he puts most ‘pure historians’ of the period to shame by the abundant knowledge upon which he bases a trenchant vindication of the policy adopted by Palmerston in the affair of Don Pacifico.” G. B. H.

+ Eng. Hist. R. 24: 207. Ja. ’09. 120w.

Hogarth, David George.^[9] Ionia and the East: six lectures delivered before the University of London. *$1.15. Oxford.

9–23807.

“A summary of all that Mr. Hogarth and “his brother archaeologists have to tell us about the rise of that splendid civilization with which the history of the Hellenic world begins.” (Eng. Hist. R.) His main contentions are that in Ittica the population before the migration to Asia Minor was mainly Aegean mixed with a Danubian element; that the Hittite civilization strongly influenced Hellenic culture in Ionia; and that the Phoenicians played a small part in the development of Greek civilization.”

“Mr. Hogarth has done more than sift historical data from vain imaginings; he has not only collected the evidence, but has also elicited from it all that it can prove, presenting his results with a brevity, a completeness and a lucidity in startling contrast to the manner of almost every other worker in the same field. In conclusion, attention should also be called to the fact that the book is incidentally a mine of information as to recent archaeological discoveries in the East, and contains several important and interesting discussions.” W. A. Galigher.

+ Eng. Hist. R. 24: 541. Jl. ’09. 1100w.

“The one weak point in Mr. Hogarth’s admirable little book is his disregard of the evidence of physical anthropology.” J. G.

+ − Nature. 81: 94. Jl. 22, ’09. 600w.

+ Spec. 103: 386. S. 11, ’09. 120w.

210Hogle, William M.^[7] Internal combustion engines: a reference book for designers, operators, engineers and students. *$3. McGraw.

9–11276.

“The book opens with a description of the usual cycles and some practical comparisons. It then takes up practical details of operation, starting devices, carburetters and vaporizers, producers, fuels and combustion, engine compression and the indicator card. These matters are arranged rather inconsequentially and take up half of the book. The chapters on design follow, and last there are descriptions of governing devices, ignition, engine testing, report of tests and various miscellaneous tables. It is not a reference book, nor is it a book for students, as it does not take up even the elementary theory. It is rather a book for a person with practical experience and no technical training.”—Engin. N.

“The only part of his book which can in any sense be regarded as a reference book is that part relating to design. It is pretty obvious at once that the author does not know what has been published in the field of gas-engine design or else has not seen fit to take advantage of such publication. It is not without practical value; its greatest fault is in describing itself as something that it certainly is not.” L. S. Marks.

+ − Engin. N. 61: sup. 59. My. 13, ’09. 600w.

“One of the main features lacking in this book is the ‘why’ and the ‘wherefore,’ rather than the ‘how.’”

− Engin. Rec. 59: 755. Je. 12, ’09. 300w.

Holder, Charles Frederick, and Jordon, David Starr. Fish stories alleged and experienced; with a little history, natural and unnatural. **$1.75. Holt.

9–5114.

These unusual fishing exploits and capital fish stories, classic and otherwise, prepared by two prominent amateur and professional ichthyologists, are full of entertainment and interest for the angler and the naturalist. Some of the chapters are: Ancient anglers and their literature; Fish stories of the fathers; Izaak Walton; Fishes on the mountains of the sea; Fishing in the air; Boys’ fish and boys’ fishing; and Little stories of strange fishes.

“Entertaining stories.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 104. Ap. ’09. ✠

“There is in the volume so much interesting information regarding the natural history and habits of the many species of fishes which, in various parts of the world, have fallen victims to the authors’ piscatorial skill, that the book would have been better if the imaginary part had been left out.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 2: 186. Ag. 14. 700w.

“Most entertaining reading for a sportsman’s idle hours.”

+ Dial. 46: 373. Je. 1, ’09. 300w.

“It is interesting in every part, it teems with scientific fact clearly stated, and its facts and fictions do not overlap in that hazy borderland which marks the work of writers who try to elucidate nature with the equipment merely of the sensational journalist.”

+ − Nation. 88: 421. Ap. 22, ’09. 60w.

“All in all, this is a delightful book for a fisherman and for general readers who are not fishermen, but ought to be.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 163. Mr. 20, ’09. 1000w.

“The book will be pleasurable reading to not only fishermen but those who wish a little entertainment with some information added to it.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 375. Je. 12, ’09. 160w.

R. of Rs. 39: 638. My. ’09. 70w.

“There is plenty of variety and no lack of good reading in the forty unconnected chapters.”

+ Spec. 103: sup. 489. O. 2, ’09. 170w.

Holland, Clive.^[8] Tyrol and its people. **$2.50. Pott.

W9–303.

A guide book less for the wayfarer or climber than for the tourist of the beaten track. It abounds in descriptions of towns; includes history, legends, folklore, customs; and emphasizes the Roman and Italian influences on Tyrol.

“His book would be improved by a good map, and a careful index. The volume is so badly bound that the coloured plates fell out when first we turned over the pages.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 2: 10. Jl. 3. 370w.

“An exceptionally interesting historical and descriptive account of a delightful land and people.”

+ Int. Studio. 39: 83. N. ’09. 50w.

“An exhaustive account.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 722. N. 20, ’09. 180w.

“Mr. Holland’s book is as pleasant to read before or after visiting the Tyrol as it will be useful to the visitor who is fortunate enough to find himself there.”

+ Sat. R. 108: sup. 5. Jl. 17, ’09. 320w.

Holland, Cornelius Joseph.^[12] Divine story; a short life of our blessed Lord written specially for young people. *$1. Joseph M. Tally, 512 Westminster st., Providence, R. I.

9–8404.

“The life of Christ, as given by the Evangelists, is fragmentary; rehearsed once more in plain speech and with unquestioning faith, it may gather fresh impulse and call out new trust. This is the purpose and this the effect of this little book.”—Dial.

“This life of our Lord, intended for young persons, comes as near to the ideal as we can reasonably hope for. Though the book professes to be for the use of young persons, it may very well aspire to serve the laity at large.”

+ + Cath. World. 89: 835. S. ’09. 150w.

“The directness, confidence, and sincerity of the author call out kindred feelings in the reader.”

+ Dial. 47: 390. N. 16, ’09. 300w.

Holland, Rupert Sargent.^[10] Man in the tower. †$1.50. Lippincott.

9–25178.

A dramatic story based upon the legend of “the invisible prince,” John Christian XX, Prince of Athelstein, whose throne was stolen from him by the regent while he was forced into banishment. The narrative tells how the prince played a winning game in thwarting the conspirator by marrying the very princess whom the regent was depending upon for the carrying out his nefarious schemes.

“An exciting novel.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 650. O. 23, ’09. 40w.

Holland, Thomas Erskine.^[8] Laws of war on land; written and unwritten. *$1.50. Oxford.

9–3067.

“Mr. Holland in this short compilation aims to codify such usages as have by general acceptance become recognized as binding on civilized nations in time of war. Even now after the declaration of the Hague conference of 1907 it must be admitted that there are many important points upon which no declaration has as yet been made. The Hague declarations are made the groundwork about which the discussions of less generally accepted practices are grouped. There are valuable cross-references to the chief authorities. The latter half of the book contains a republication of the more important national instructions as to the laws of war on land, the text of the Hague declarations and an historical review of the chief diplomatic notes relating to the laws of war.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

+ Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 183. Jl. ’09. 140w.

211“Mr. Holland has expended much labor in the preparation of this little book, and the results are presented with the logic and precision which always characterize his work.”

+ Pol. Sci. Q. 24: 169. Mr. ’09. 320w.

Holley, Clifford Dyer.^[10] Lead and zinc pigments. *$3. Wiley.

9–22027.

Gives a full description of the manufacture and properties of the various lead and zinc pigments. It traces the history of the paint manufacture in the United States, describes the four processes by which white lead is made. “Sublimed lead (sulphate), zinc-lead and lead oxides are described; lead-poisoning is fully discussed; European practice has a chapter; white zinc and the various ways to make it, and lithopone, are given about fifty pages; and finally about eighty pages are devoted to grinding, painting tests, and physical and chemical examination of both pigments and mixed paints.... Scattered through the book everywhere are found remarks on technical and disputed points of much interest.” (Engin. N.)

“This is by far the most complete and authoritative book yet written on the subject.” A. H. Sabin.

+ Engin. N. 62: sup. 27. S. 16, ’09. 1000w.

“This work is admirably written, well arranged, and excellently gotten out, with profuse illustrations. The general criticism of it is that Dr. Holley too often gives new conclusions as if they were facts without giving the facts on which these conclusions are based.”

+ − Engin. Rec. 60: 390. O. 2, ’09. 550w.

Hollis, Alfred Claud.^[8] The Nandi: their language and folk-lore. *$5.25. Oxford.

9–14599.

A companion volume to the author’s work on “The Masai” in which he deals with an allied tribe. “The Nandi, for some time one of the most troublesome elements in the Uganda Protectorate, has now been taught a respect for order, and Mr. Hollis anticipates a more prosperous future for them. They seem to occupy an intellectual level which gives at least some of response to a wise and considerate treatment. Mr. Hollis’s volume contains a sketch of the history of the people and of their customs, social and religious. Then we have specimens of their folk-lore, and finally a grammar and vocabulary.” (Spec.)

“Except in Mr. Hollis’s previous work on the Masai, the student has never before, we think, been furnished with the materials for acquiring so thorough a knowledge of the language of an East African tribe.”

+ Ath. 1909, 1: 697. Je. 12. 1400w.

“A. C. Hollis, to whom we owe an excellent book on the Masai, now gives us an equally excellent study of the Nandi.”

+ Nation. 89: 35. Jl. 8, ’09. 280w.

“It will thus be seen that Mr. Hollis has made a noteworthy contribution to our knowledge of the ethnology of British East Africa.” A. C. H.

+ Nature. 80: 249. Ap. 29, ’09. 930w.

“We must be content with expressing our sense of the energy and industry with which the author has dealt with the subject.”

+ Spec. 102: sup. 644. Ap. 24, ’09. 270w.

Holman, Henry.^[6] Pestalozzi: an account of his life and work. *$1.10. Longmans.

E8–706.

A work for the general reader as well as for the student of pedagogy which summarizes the foundation principles of the great educational reformer and discusses the causes of his failure. “In Mr. Holman’s judgment Pestalozzi was ‘one of the world’s greatest benefactors,’ and yet, as one who knew him well observed, ‘in spite of his grand ideal, which comprehended the whole human race, he did not possess the ability and skill requisite for conducting the smallest village school.’” (Spec.)

“The reader is provided with the data for estimating at its real value the work of Pestalozzi and the influence he has exerted upon education during the last century.”

+ Nation. 88: 412. Ap. 22, ’09. 60w.

“The strength of the study lies in its excellent organization, its complete and sometimes fresh treatment of an oft-discussed theme, its liberal use of quotations from Pestalozzi’s less familiar writings, and its brief but suggestive criticism.” Willystine Goodsell.

+ School R. 17: 644. N. ’09. 800w.

“Very careful appreciation.”

+ Spec. 101: 270. Ag. 22, ’08. 300w.

Holmes, Charles John.^[9] Notes on the science of picture-making. *$3. Appleton.

A book for “students of art, professional workers and amateur enquirers into æsthetic questions.... The special merit of the book is that it makes no concessions to popular fallacies, but criticises impartially the art that is emptily conventional and that which aims at extravagant novelty: it wisely advocates originality and intelligent experiment as essentials for real artistic progress, but it demands that all good painting, whatever its subject or intention, should have as its foundation decorative qualities of the highest type.”—Int. Studio.

“Prof. Holmes has done a remarkable and original thing; he has applied common sense to the arts of design in an appropriate way. We may fairly add that since Reynold’s discourses the student has never had put before him such a fruitful and suggestive guide to his endeavours. Certainly no student of painting can afford to neglect the opportunity for improvement here offered.”

+ + − Ath. 1909, 1: 414. Ap. 3. 1200w.

“If the book is a little pedantic in manner, and suffers somewhat from the anxiety of the writer to explain and account for the endless varieties of artistic activity, these at any rate are only minor defects. The argument throughout is sane and temperate, inspired by sincere conviction, and presented without any of those affectations and obscurities which have been so often adopted by theorists on artistic practice.”

+ − Int. Studio. 37: 335. Je. ’09. 400w.

“It offers the fruit of full-grown personal theory and should not be neglected by any reader who keeps abreast of current philosophic art criticism.”

+ Int. Studio. 39: sup. 24. N. ’09. 240w.

Holmes, Thomas. Known to the police. **$3. Longmans.

9–9569.

First hand knowledge of London’s underworld lies back of these “shrewd, practical studies of criminal psychology, of the individual and of the class, always looking toward the end of benefiting the criminal by reforming him or protecting society by treating him with needful wisdom. Perhaps the most interesting chapter is that in which he compares present conditions among criminals and police courts with the conditions of a quarter of a century ago.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Mr. Holmes has rendered great service by the publication of his book.”

+ Ath. 1909, 1: 372. Mr. 27. 540w.

“All who are interested in the study of sociological conditions and in the attempts of modern times to bring the underworld into the light will find [this] a very meaty sort of book.”

+ N. Y. Times. 13: 766. D. 12, ’08. 420w.

“Mr. Thomas Holmes is always strong; the book abounds in bold and valuable suggestions.”

+ Sat. R. 107: 18. Ja. 2, ’09. 900w.

+ Spec. 102: sup. 1002. Je. 26, ’09. 1800w.

212Home, Gordon Cochrane. Yorkshire; painted and described by Gordon Home. *$6. Macmillan.

W9–25.

The republication in one volume of the three works entitled “Coast and moorland scenes,” “Dales and fells,” and “Vales and wolds.” “Famous houses and ruins, great churches, moorland and sea-coast, the many things that put Yorkshire so high among English shires are to be found here.” (Spec.)

“Mr. Home knows well how to give variety of interest to his pages.”

+ Dial. 45: 462. D. 16, ’08. 170w.

“Mr. Home’s text is chiefly descriptive, and suffers a little from the monotony due to such writing and from an uncertain taste when the purple patches are in order. His pictures are more to our liking.”

+ − Nation. 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 180w.

“A volume of great and varied interest.”

+ Spec. 101: 951. D. 5, ’08. 90w.

Hoover, Bessie Ray.^[9] Pa Flickinger’s folks. †$1. Harper.

9–22182.

A story of Ma and Pa Flickinger and their family, types of ordinary working people in every day life. The author convincingly portrays the fun they get out of life, the philosophical way in which they look upon all hardships when influenced by their belief that everyone is fitted for his burdens and all things come right.

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 55. O. ’09. ✠

“A friendly, optimistic realism is the great merit of a volume of sketches linked together by a slight plot and the unity of their characters. A modest, slight little book, but worth while.”

+ Ind. 67: 550. S. 2, ’09. 180w.

“The family hopes, fears, merrymakings, and misadventures brawl along in a channel of noisy humor, comic, cheerful and clean.”

+ Nation. 89: 381. O. 21, ’09. 130w.

“There isn’t any doubt that Miss Hoover writes of these people with full knowledge of the class of which they are types, nor that the book is a faithful portrayal of the life with which it is concerned.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 549. S. 18, ’09. 230w.

Hope, Laurence (Violet Nicolson) (Mrs. Malcolm Nicolson).^[7] Songs from The garden of Kama. **$3. Lane.

9–30426.

Poems steeped in Oriental atmosphere. The author “holds the gorgeous East in fee; and through her we hear our own dreams of it—of fierce joys and pains, a swarming vividness of life, a fate cruelly smiling, death-cries trodden under the feet of interminable generations and sultry fevers of desire. It is a new dream, intensely modern and a little unhealthy; but it has a tone and a colour of its own, and it will find its place in our literature and live there.” (Bookm.)

“A volume which has that character of its own that a real book ought to have. Like the poems themselves, [the photographic illustrations] make India curiously real.” Brian Hooker.

+ Bookm. 29: 371. Je. ’09. 250w.

“Love songs in the Oriental vein are a severe test for any poet. In this book they maintain a perfect level of unexciting fluency.”

− Sat. R. 107: 693. My. 29, ’09. 120w.

“A remarkable, if undisciplined, book.”

+ − Spec. 102: sup. 153. Ja. 30, ’09. 30w.

Hopkins, Alphonso Alva. Profit and loss in man. **$1.20. Funk.

8–37659.

The new gospel of patriotic, economic, and political common sense on the temperance question. It is a strong plea for prohibition.

“The author has done a good work. He has not exhausted the subject, but he has brought together in a readable and impressive way matter that temperance people are much in need of. It is very fortunate that the author can see the overthrow of the liquor traffic only through the agency of the Prohibition party.” F. W. Collier.

+ − Arena. 41: 393. Mr. ’09. 580w.

“The speaker is terribly in earnest, though never so much so that he cannot stop to introduce a jocular remark or anecdote.”

+ Cath. World. 89: 120. Ap. ’09. 70w.

“It is full of facts, statistics, anecdotes, and illustrations, and would furnish quite a treasury of material to temperance or prohibition lecturers, as well as to preachers. Yet it is extremely lively and interesting reading for the home.”

+ Lit. D. 38: 386. Mr. 6, ’09. 100w.

Hopkins, Margaret Sutton (Briscoe).^[12] Image of Eve. †$1.25. Harper.

9–28152.

A womanly matron, happily married, who was dubbed a Subrikinque—meaning “a super-qualified chaperon, warranted by birth and by education to fulfil all the plenipotentiary duties, large and small, that might properly attach to the cult”—for a long season thrusts a matchmaker’s finger into the private affairs of Peter, well devoted to both husband and wife, and is punished for it by his carrying off her own Daphne. “It was not in my mind to marry off my own little daughter at eighteen.... I will buy me a muzzle if I cannot learn to hold my foolish, matrimony-praising tongue. No, I shall never be called Subrikinque again.”

“It is a slight story, but it is cleverly told, with much insight into human nature.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 751. N. 27, ’09. 200w.

“Both grace of style and cleverness of thought may be found in the book.”

+ Outlook. 93: 876. D. 18, ’09. 170w.

Hornblow, Arthur.^[7] By right of conquest. †$1.50. Dillingham.

9–12277.

A fearless, interesting handling of a hackneyed situation. When a liner goes down during a tempest in the Indian ocean a coal stoker rescues a New York heiress. They are cast upon an uninhabited island. This peril and the succeeding struggle for daily food level the differences between them while the refining influence of the young woman holds the man close to a high sense of honor. Rescued and carried home the girl returns to her luxurious life and the man to a day laborer’s work. Then fortune takes up the game, turns her wheel, and shows the hero to be the heir to his father’s English title and estates. This turn in the tide of his affairs gives the hero courage to woo the girl, but not until he had won her does he announce his changed fortune.

“Less carefully done the story might have degenerated into the sort of tale whose chief excuse for being is its appeal to the baser side of human nature.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 375. Je. 12, ’09. 250w.

“Mr. Hornblow has not by any means been adequate to his idea. He has not even treated it bona fide. But it must be said in his favor that he has treated his rather delicate theme without offense.”