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Haaren, John Henry, and Poland, Addison B.[5] Famous men of modern times. *50c. Am. bk.
9–9441.
The last of the “Famous men” series written to create a deeper interest among the young in the study of history. In brief chapters twenty-three men are presented from the point of view of their greatest service to the world. Among them are discoverers, warriors, statesmen, scientists and rulers.
Habberton, John. Budge and Toddie; or, Helen’s babies at play: being an account of the further doings of these marvelously precocious children. $1. Grosset.
8–33785.
To an aunt and uncle falls temporarily the care of Budge and Toddie. Their methodical life is woefully outraged by the lively escapades of the two youngsters who in very truth act out a sequel to “Helen’s babies.”
“Their proclivity to mischief is undiminished but their ‘doings’ are less interesting than in the earlier book.”
+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 91. Mr. ’09.
185“While it is still too verbose and indulges in too much skippable conversation between the grown-ups, the two dreadful infants are still just as adorably and ingenuously naughty as they were in their first annals.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 52. Ja. 23, ’09. 150w.
Hackett, Frank Warren.[10] Deck and field: addresses before the United States Naval war college and on commemorative occasions. *$1.25. Lowdermilk.
9–15219.
Twelve addresses on commemorative occasions. “They are quite free from the oratorical bombast and ‘we love our country’ sentimentality that creep in and pollute the speeches of some of the greatest men. They are truly patriotic.” (N. Y. Times.)
Ind. 67: 372. Ag. 12, ’09. 130w.
“He is rather slow generally in getting under way, and he labors too often under the disadvantage of a trite subject. On the other hand, when he deals with things outside the ordinary course, he is very interesting.”
+ − Nation. 89: 309. S. 30, ’09. 220w.
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 453. Jl. 24, ’09. 120w.
Hackwood, Frederick W.[11] Inns, ales, and drinking customs of old England. *10s. 6d. Unwin, T. Fisher, London.
9–29527.
Traces briefly the story of the British public-house thru the phases of the Roman-British posting-house, the Saxon ale-house, the mediaeval inn, the wine tavern, the coaching-house to the rise of the modern hotel, with mention of the inn-yard, of inn signs and of tavern tokens; it deals with inn-keeping and inn-keepers; with brewers and vintners, and the introduction of spirits; it treats of the ale-drinking habit, of the influence of the church on the national habit; of trade customs, licensing, and restrictive measures; and of drinking customs, mugs, and mysteries.
“All who hanker after the old tavern life will find much of interest in Mr. Hackwood’s book.”
+ Sat. R. 108: sup. 3. S. 25, ’09. 1550w.
“There is much entertaining reading to be found in this volume.”
+ Spec. 103: 561. O. 9, ’09. 500w.
Hadley, Edward S.[10] Railway working and appliances; to which are added a chapter and diagram on railway sketching. *50c. Longmans.
W9–187.
Lectures given in an employees’ course on rules, methods and appliances in use in the safe operation of railways. “About 70 pages are devoted to signaling, interlocking and the block system, and 20 pages to the Westinghouse and vacuum brakes. A short chapter deals with accidents and wrecking, and another describes how freight traffic is handled. One chapter briefly describes a system of ‘slip coupling,’ by which a conductor in a rear car of a fast train detaches his car so that it will stop at an intermediate station.... An interesting little chapter discusses railway sketching, or the making of explanatory sketch plans to accompany reports as to proposed alterations, etc.” (Engin. N.)
A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 75. N. ’09.
“It forms a handy primer and contains much valuable information, but is entirely adapted for British railways, and while the general subject is of interest to railway men everywhere, the special applications as treated in this book are of little practical value to American railway men.”
+ − Engin. D. 6: 248. S. ’09. 120w.
+ Engin. N. 61: sup. 78. Je. 17, ’09. 180w.
Haggard Andrew Charles Parker.[11] Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. 2v. *$6. Appleton.
“The often told tale of Marie Antoinette and the sixteenth Louis is retold in two large volumes with infinite detail.... The history is a simple narration of events; the writer has no conception of the philosophic or evolutionary value of the revolution. He tells us what happened, nor does he hesitate to paint many an atrocity in sufficiently vivid terms, though, as he says, he refrains from transcribing some passages ‘which even the French authors prefer to print in the Latin tongue.’”—N. Y. Times.
“The author is a trifle dry, but he gives us a clear notion of the early, gay years and the following long tragedy, and, too, of the culminating horror.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 634. O. 23, ’09. 360w.
“Colonel Haggard’s style of writing cannot be called literary; it is both confused and spasmodic. But these faults, [are] probably owing to the want of careful arrangement of an enormous mass of material, and of critical study and re-reading before publication.”
+ − Spec. 103: 242. Ag. 14, ’09. 1050w.
Haggard, Henry Rider.[7] Lady of the heavens. $1.50. Lovell, F. F.
8–17553.
“Mr. Haggard’s new story is woven around the personality of a white girl, the daughter of an English missionary in Zululand. Her parents having been murdered by a native chief, this girl went mad and cursed the tribe. She was then sold to a dwarf people in the interior. Her adventures make up the substance of this weird tale.” (R. of Rs.) “Of such—they tell us—are the dreams born of the opium pipe. Certain wizards, like Mr. Haggard, have the power, working directly upon the imagination with words, to conjure up the dreams and spare you the necessity of resorting to the drug. The effect—in a milder form, of course—is much the same.” (N. Y. Times.)
“An exciting narrative.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 348. My. 29, ’09. 580w.
R. of Rs. 40: 124. Jl. ’09. 120w.
Haines, Alice Calhoun.[12] Cock-a-doodle Hill. †$1.50. Holt.
9–28116.
A sequel to “The luck of the Dudley Grahams” which is really the story of Ernie’s chicken farm. It pictures country scenes, country adventures and country happiness found in a rambling, open-windowed old white house “set among flowery meadows, pine woods, and river land.”
Haines, Charles Grove.[12] Conflict over judicial powers in the United States to 1870. (Studies in history, economics and public law, ed. by the Faculty of political science of Columbia univ., v. 35, no. 1.) *$1.50. Longmans.
9–18185.
“Deals respectively with the judicial powers before the adoption of the federal constitution; the early conflicts over judicial nullification by federal courts; the extension of federal judicial authority; the conflicts over the extension of judicial authority; the principles of the Jacksonian democracy, and judicial powers from 1856–1870.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“To the student who desires a general knowledge of the subject and familiarity with the arguments advanced by the strongest advocates, pro and con, this little book will prove of value. The author has been happy in his selection of material and is unusually clear and concise in statement.”
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 604. N. ’09. 240w.
“For the historian Dr. Haines’s volume will have much value.”
+ Spec. 103: 353. S. 4, ’09. 90w.
Haldeman, Isaac Massey. Christian science in the light of Holy Scripture. **$1.50. Revell.
9–6857.
An attack upon Christian science which is conducted judicially and which aims to show that its teachings are wholly outside the Bible and have no right to the name “Christian.” The 186author’s method is that of juxtapositional treatment of the fundamental propositions of Christian science and the testimony of the Holy Scriptures.
“The author’s point of view is that of the average, traditional interpreter. His refutation of Christian science, however, can scarcely be termed scientific.”
+ − Bib. World. 33: 359. My. ’09. 90w.
Outlook. 93: 645. N. 20, ’09. 30w.
Hale, Louise Closser. The actress. †$1.50. Harper.
9–5702.
A simple story with little plot told by the actress herself, which runs intimately near to the real happenings in the every-day life of the stage. It concerns the love of a New York broker for a hard working young actress who crosses the ocean and pursues her work in London only that Aaron Adams may forget her. A devoted lover’s strategy reveals to the girl her own heart, and a happy ending ensues.
“A readable, sentimental story, showing the lighter side of stage life.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 113. Ap. ’09. ✠
“A perfectly healthy, thoroughly humorous story of an ordinary love-affair of ordinary people, told with a more than ordinary degree of literary capacity.”
+ Ath. 1909, 2: 92. Jl. 24. 170w.
“The graphic, realistic, intimate chronicle of life behind the footlights ... is the part of the book that one cares about, and certainly it is extremely well done.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − Bookm. 29: 191. Ap. ’09. 230w.
Ind. 66: 1297. Je. 10, ’09. 150w.
“The book abounds in clever character-drawing, the descriptions of English society being particularly well done.”
+ Nation. 88: 467. My. 6, ’09. 250w.
“Slight as it is for a novel, a mere love story of the most ordinary kind, with everyday folks for its hero and heroine, with no remarkable ingenuity of plot, involving no modern ‘social problem,’ ‘The actress’ is a noteworthy book. We have found her book informing and delightfully inspiriting.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 111. F. 27, ’09. 1400w.
“Delightful and enthralling story.”
+ No. Am. 189: 782. My. ’09. 280w.
“It is fairly bright and interestingly told, but for a young lady who prides herself on being amusing, and who despises the British sense of humour, the heroine is decidedly disappointing as a specimen of American brightness.”
+ − Sat. R. 108: 264. Ag. 28, ’09. 120w.
“Brightly told.”
+ Spec. 103: 65. Jl. 10, ’09. 40w.
Hall, Alfred Daniel.[12] Fertilizers and manures. **$1.50. Dutton.
A sequel to the author’s volume, “Soil.” “In the history and evolution of the practice of keeping up the crop-producing power of the soil Mr. Hall examines critically the various theories of manuring adduced from time to time, and the experiences upon which they are based, and the study of merely this part of the work will be of supreme importance to the practical man and to the student in showing how experiments may be misconstrued and conclusions of the most erroneous description drawn. The recommendations as to the manuring of farm crops are tempered with sound advice, and the impossibility of prescribing more than a generally suitable method of manuring without a careful study of soil and climatic conditions extending over some years is well demonstrated.” (Nature.)
“This is a sound and scientific book which should be in the hands of every practical agriculturist as well as in those of the student, the teacher, and the manufacturer.” M. J. R. D.
+ Nature. 81: 483. O. 21, ’09. 650w.
“The work before us is valuable because an authoritative and painstaking account of the origin, character, and particular uses of all the manures and fertilisers now in the service of the agriculturist.”
+ Spec. 103: sup. 492. O. 2, ’09. 310w.
Hall, Alfred Daniel. Soil: an introduction to the scientific study of the growth of crops. 2d ed., rev. and enl. *$1.50. Dutton.
Agr9–663.
An edition revised to include results of the latest experiment for determining the functions of bacteria and fungi in the soil. “Mr. Hall’s book is not only for the scientific student of soil problems, who can, by the use of the bibliography in the appendix, become familiar with the most important research on the subject, but the practical man will find a very considerable portion of the book of interest and value to him, and the carefully reasoned conclusions will assure him of the reliability of the recommendations.” (Nature.)
“A careful revision of one of the most authoritative works in print.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 194. Je. ’09.
“Will be of interest and value to all those who have occasion to go into those subjects for engineering or other reasons. From the agricultural viewpoint, the book seems to be comprehensive and thorough.”
+ Engin. N. 61: sup. 53. Ap. 15, ’09. 130w.
“This edition has evidently been most carefully revised in the light of modern investigation, and is an accurate record of existing knowledge on the soil considered from its mechanical, chemical, and biological aspects.” M. J. R. D.
+ Nature. 79: 127. D. 3, ’08. 550w.
“A helpful bibliography of works on the soil and its organisms is appended, and the absence of a too severe technical style should render Mr. Hall’s treatise on the soil of genuine instructive interest to all who are seeking practical scientific aids in improved methods of agriculture.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 42. Ja. 23, ’09. 900w.
R. of Rs. 39: 127. Ja. ’09. 60w.
“It is at once authoritative and wide in scope, and it gives the reader an impression of the difficulties of the subject which is not conveyed by some writing on soil problems.”
+ Spec. 102: sup. 158. Ja. 30, ’09. 140w.
Hall, Bolton.[7] Garden yard: a handbook of intensive farming; introd. by N. O. Nelson. $1. McKay.
9–14704.
Not a scientific book on agriculture but a book that shows how the plain man or woman who has a back yard or back lot can make a living. He has combined his own experience and that of friends with information contained in bulletins, books and catalogs and tells “how to lay out the land, how to prepare and plant the harvest, and how to make life joyous.” Intelligence and care exercised as the author outlines will insure a bare living the first year, a good living the second, and the beginning of a bank account the third.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 13. S. ’09. ✠
“While planned along similar lines, the book falls distinctly below the standard set by such books as Bailey’s ‘Principles of vegetable gardening.’”
+ − Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 605. N. ’09. 140w.
“In spite of being a book of decided value, has an amateur flavor. However, take this book thru and thru, and you will be surprised to find how little there is to criticise, especially when you consider what an infinite number of topics are discussed.”
+ − Ind. 67: 600. S. 9, ’09. 600w.
187“For its size the book is very comprehensive, and its treatment of the subject is simple and practical.”
+ Nation. 89: 147. Ag. 12, ’09. 120w.
+ R. of Rs. 40: 384. S. ’09. 70w.
Hall, Charles Cuthbert.[5] Christ and the eastern soul: the witness of the oriental consciousness to Jesus Christ. (Barrows lectures, 1906–1907.) *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–10502.
“To thoughtful Indians of all faiths these lectures are dedicated respectfully by a citizen of the west who believes in the unity of the human race and who looks with reverence on the India of the past, with affection on the India of the present and with ardent expectation on the India of the future.” The lectures delivered in many Indian cities aim to put the sacred lore of the east into normal relation to the Truth as revealed in Jesus Christ.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 167. Je. ’09.
“Missionaries, missionary boards, and all concerned with the propagation of Christianity among the oriental peoples may learn much from these lectures.”
+ Bib. World. 33: 432. Je. ’09. 90w.
Ind. 66: 1346. Je. 17, ’09. 240w.
“With rare tactfulness and grace Dr. Hall undertook to discover ‘elements of sublimity in the Oriental consciousness.’”
+ Nation. 88: 486. My. 13, ’09. 140w.
Hall, Rev. Charles Cuthbert.[7] Silver cup: simple messages to children from one who loved them. **$1.25. Houghton.
9–8405.
A posthumous volume of sermons preached during special afternoon services for children while Dr. Hall was pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Brooklyn.
“They would be helpful for parents, Sunday-school teachers and ministers.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 190. Je. ’09.
+ Ind. 66: 1348. Je. 17, ’09. 80w.
+ Nation. 88: 486. My. 13, ’09. 80w.
Hall, Henry Fielding. One immortality. †$1.50. Macmillan.
9–4484.
“True marriage, founded upon love and nurtured by romance, is one immortality. Three loves dominate the world, each justified in its own immortality—the love of man and woman, the love that draws families into nations, the love that holds the world to God. With this thesis, the author depicts the experiences of a group of travelers whose goal is India. Two Englishmen are attracted by a girl in the care of a Mr. and Mrs. Holman, who furnish the happy, hopeful, sensible element in the party. Two other youths flutter for a time about a young woman of India returning after some years in Germany to her home. An ill-matched couple, a German scientist, and a group of nuns make up the ship’s company.”—Outlook.
“The reader will find no plot, and no action in the story. Mr. Fielding Hall is a poet in feeling, and if on this occasion he is disappointing as an exponent of the East to the West, there is beauty both in his ideas and his expression of them.”
− + Ath. 1909, 1: 220. F. 20. 160w.
“The best definition of its subject, form and style would be to call it a prose poem of love. It is eminently a wholesome book, full of an unquenchable faith in the happiness and the sanctity of love and marriage.” F: T. Cooper.
+ Bookm. 29: 76. Mr. ’09. 300w.
“The people have a phonographic effect, as tho they were reeling out the record of the author’s voice, a little thin and strange, and saying undisputed things in a metallic way.”
− + Ind. 66: 1141. My. 27, ’09. 300w.
“Sententious is the word for this book. The author, with little distinctly in mind to say, invents a few named figures and a situation as excuse for the multitudinous and, alas! often platitudinous apothegms which for some hundreds of pages flow from his pen.”
− Nation. 88: 364. Ap. 8, ’09. 250w.
“For the most part the book is a pack of irrelevant commonplace and sentimental nonsense. The gleams which have already been noted are well enough, but they might all be concentrated into a magazine article of, say, two pages.”
− + N. Y. Times. 14: 76. F. 6, ’09. 370w.
“There is some good talk, but more that is ineffective. Underneath all, however, is a wholesome, practical faith in the power of love and in its inevitableness. The story is too slight to command real interest, and the philosophy lacks substance. In point of style, ‘One immortality’ does not equal in beauty ‘The inward light.’”
− + Outlook. 91: 533. Mr. 6, ’09. 210w.
“Mr. Hall shadows forth a mystical theory of love with much of that quiet charm which we are accustomed to look for in his books. The story—what there is of it—has been naïvely constructed to afford a peg for the mysticism. Even the most exact scientist may admire the deft word-pictures of sea and sky and shore, done quite simply.”
+ − Sat. R. 107: 278. F. 27, ’09. 300w.
“The characterization throughout is too misty to be effective. The real charm of the book resides in the author’s digressions.”
+ − Spec. 102: 230. F. 6, ’09. 950w.
Hall, Hubert, ed. Formula book of English official historical documents. *$2. Putnam.
9–4070.
“A handbook of two hundred and twenty-five classified specimens of English official documents, ranging in date from the eighth to the nineteenth centuries.... Besides the examples of individual types, the editor has at certain points brought together a series of writs or letters which show a connected sequence of transactions, as in the grant of letters patent to Connecticut in 1661–1662.”—Am. Hist. R.
“A collection at once more convenient and more scientific than the ‘Formulare’ of Madox with which the student has hitherto been obliged to content himself. The method of printing the documents will not command universal assent.” C: H. Haskins.
+ − Am. Hist. R. 14: 558. Ap. ’09. 250w.
“To criticize his work is easy; but to produce a better one is hardly likely to be the good fortune of any scholar of the present generation.”
+ − Ath. 1908, 2: 600. N. 14. 320w.
“The work is admirably done and its usefulness is beyond dispute.”
+ Nation. 88: 463. My. 6, ’09. 240w.
Spec. 102: sup. 645. Ap. 24, ’09. 100w.
Hall, Hubert. Studies in English official historical documents. *$3.75. Putnam.
9–4071.
“The first systematic attempt in modern times to deal with the diplomatic of our official records as a consecutive whole.” (Ath.) “Mr. Hall divides his work into three parts: the first relating to the history, classification, and analysis of the archives; the second, to the diplomatic study of official documents; and the third to palaeography, its requirements and uses. Each part is accompanied by a series of appendices, containing tables, lists, outlines, and classifications too elaborate for insertion in the text.” (Nation.)
“As is inevitable in so vast and so little cultivated a field, the book disclaims anything like completeness or finality but it covers a wide range of topics compactly and from the 188sources, and is everywhere suggestive and full of meat. Some topics are dismissed too briefly and some not touched.” C: H. Haskins.
+ − Am. Hist. R. 14: 558. Ap. ’09. 1000w.
“For the future Mr. Hall’s books will be the inseparable companions of all engaged in original investigation of the English middle ages. It must be recognized that, with all Mr. Hall’s learning and devotion, his style and method sometimes lack that incisive clearness which guides the student straight to the point of which he is in quest, and never overwhelms him in a sea of semi-relevant detail. Sometimes we are rather at a loss to discover what Mr. Hall is driving at; and occasionally he indulges in generalizations that do not seem to us specially helpful towards his immediate ends.”
+ − Ath. 1908, 2: 600. N. 14. 1000w.
“No other work, British or Continental, combines in such an admirable manner the learning of the archivist, the grasp of the historian, and the suggestiveness of the teacher.”
+ + Nation. 87: 657. D. 31, ’08. 640w.
Halsey, Forrest. Fate and the butterfly. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
9–9466.
A cross-section of contemporary American society. Against a background shifting from New York, Egypt, Italy, back to New York, is enacted a drama of ill-assorted loves. A young society woman tricked into marriage with a morphine-drugged man of millions leaves him for the man of her early dreams only to find the prince charming unworthy, and is finally reclaimed by a rising politician to save whose career she makes the supreme sacrifice.
“A remarkably clever first story. The determination to have a pleasant ending—or perhaps it was only the necessity—or it may have been an overendowment of youthful sentiment—has proved too much for the author’s sense of the grim logic of life.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 279. My. 1, ’09. 240w.
Hamilton, Angus.[8] Problems of the middle East. *12s. 6d. Nash, London.
9–18475.
“In this volume the author writes concerning the Young Turks, the Baghdad railway, our interests in the Persian Gulf, the Turkish railway through Arabia, and Japanese actions in Korea. The most valuable part of the book is that upon the Baghdad railway, and we commend the careful survey of Mr. Angus Hamilton upon a subject which he has considered with less partiality than most British writers.”—Ath.
“The non-strategic portion of Mr. Angus Hamilton’s volume may be commended, especially that dealing with the Baghdad railway in its commercial and narrowly political aspects.”
+ Ath. 1909, 1: 527. My. 1, 300w.
“It is a pity that this book, to which we have not the space to do full justice, suffers from the weakness of advocating constitutional government for countries unsuited to it.”
+ − Sat. R. 107: 726. Je. 5, 09. 650w.
“The chapter on the present and the late Amirs of Afghanistan is a careful piece of history, much of which is very little known. Mr. Hamilton is one of the few journalists who can write of Afghanistan from first-hand knowledge. But the chief importance of Mr. Hamilton’s book lies in the political chapters, where he offers advice on the foreign policy of Britain.”
+ Spec. 103: 166. Jl. 31, ’09. 900w.
Hamilton, Cecily Mary.[11] Marriage as a trade. **$1.25. Moffatt. 9–23010
Miss Hamilton advocates woman’s economic independence, and, all sentiment of marriage aside, constructs a theory of marriage which would make it a real partnership, “not merely a partnership in social and parental affairs.” No longer will she serve man for her mere food and shelter, but she will be able to demand premium wages.
“Marked prejudices and cynicism weaken the effect of the work, which is not without value.”
+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 75. N. ’09.
Reviewed by Leonard Curtis.
+ − Bookm. 30: 265. N. ’09. 660w.
“An instructive and somewhat startling volume. Even a mere man ... may see that there is much truth in what she says. But he may also suspect, with all polite deference and proper diffidence, that there is much wrong also.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 578. O. 2, ’09. 1150w.
Hamilton, James Shelley.[11] New sophomore. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–26954.
A continuation of college life at Tresham in which the old hero, Butt Chanler, reappears but permits one Ridgeway Bill to play the role of hero. His right to the title is demonstrated thru some clever detective work in restoring to the institution a lost statue of Sabrina.
Hamilton, W. Wistar. Sane evangelism. **75c. Am. Bapt.
9–3366.
Addresses contributed by eight divines in which are revealed the present-day possibilities of sane evangelism. The volume deprecates vast movements away from the church, and advocates well-planned, well-organized efforts in the church.
Hammerton, J. A.[8] George Meredith in anecdote and criticism. *$4. Kennerley.
A generous volume whose chief concern is criticism but which also gives in “orderly narrative some slight account of Meredith’s life and friendships.” The chapter headings are suggestive of the scope of the work: Outline of life and work; The eighteenth birthday; Personal characteristics; Friendships and home life; Some early appreciations; Literary characteristics; In parody and caricature; The novels in contemporary criticism; His heroines and women-folk; His poetry; The comic spirit; His philosophy of life; Judged by his fellow-novelists; His place in literature; The continental view of Meredith; Illustrators of the poems and novels; Index.
“Altogether, the book in the hands of a judicious reader will be of considerable service until the biography by Mr. Edward Clodd or another is given to the world.”
+ Ath. 1909, 2: 94. Jl. 24. 300w.
“Mr. Hammerton’s book is a sort of ‘Literary guide to Meredith’—the ‘filler’ for a good Meredith smoke.” Archibald Henderson.
+ Forum. 42: 387. O. ’09. 1350w.
“Yet withal we regard the book as distinctly valuable and even to a certain degree, despite the necessary repetition of ideas, interesting.”
+ − Nation. 89: 281. S. 23, ’09. 770w.
“Mr. Hammerton’s work is rather a reference book than a biography for general reading. The immense amount of research and study makes it an invaluable contribution to Meredithiana, and the illustrations, many of them reproductions from the original editions of the novels and poems, lend it an exceptional interest.” Anne Peacock.
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 461. Jl. 31, 09. 1900w.
“It is the invasion of cheap journalism into the preserves of literature. All unity of impression is broken by balancing contradictory estimates, and the point of view is shifted often enough to keep the reader dizzy.”
− + No. Am. 190: 559. O. ’09. 420w.
“This is exactly the sort of book for readers who could not read Meredith to save their lives, but have found out from the newspapers that he was a great man they ought to be able to talk about.”
+ Sat. R. 107: 822. Je. 26, ’09. 370w.
189“Mr. Hammerton’s book is so good and so useful for students of Meredith that it is to be hoped that he will publish a second edition correcting a few errors and supplementing a few deficiences. Among the errors we have noticed a very incomplete index.”
+ − Spec. 103: 98. Jl. 17, ’09. 1500w.
Hancock, Albert Elmer.[11] Bronson of the rabble: a novel. †$1.50. Lippincott.
9–25822.
Philadelphia in 1812 and the years following forms the setting for this story of the blacksmith’s son who is a true American and by his own effort wins his countrymen’s esteem as soldier and politician until he penetrates into the hearts and homes of the Federalist aristocrats of lace and knee-buckles. His love story follows his fortunes and he rises above a plebian attachment, which ends in disaster, to win the Judge’s niece, the girl who has been brought up to look down upon him and has learned to look up to him.
Hancock, Albert Elmer. John Keats: a literary biography. **$2. Houghton.
8–28422.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
“Supplements Sidney Colvin’s ‘Keats’ and duplicates it comparatively little.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 12. Ja. ’09.
“Unless it be a dash or two of gossip, he has added little to Mr. Colvin’s delicate sketch. This is a book neither for students of Keats nor for the fastidious in literature.”
− Ath. 1909, 1: 8. Ja. 2. 950w.
“Somewhat too smart in style, with a frequent straining for effect. Yet it is an admirable book, accurate and well-founded in its learning, and judicial in its verdicts.”
+ − Ind. 65: 1617. D. 31, ’08. 750w.
“The style is of that spasmodic sort which allows the reader no rest, and the critical tone is of the ultra-romantic.”
− Nation. 87: 386. O. 22, ’08. 180w.
“This is quite as much a book of criticism as of biography, and it is criticism of unusual quality.” H. W. Boynton.
+ Putnam’s. 5: 488. Ja. ’09. 1000w.
“An eminently successful biography.”
+ R. of Rs. 40: 125. Jl. ’09. 100w.
Hancock, Edward Lee. Applied mechanics for engineers. *$2. Macmillan.
9–1597.
“Prepared for the instruction of engineering students of the Junior year, and while little new in the way of principles is presented, yet many novel applications of these principles are introduced.” (Engin. D.) “It is characterized by more attention to problems relating to moment of inertia, center of gravity, work and energy, friction and impact than most elementary text-books, by the use of vectors in the treatment of couples, and by an excellent collection of problems.” (Engin. Rec.)
“Is more mathematical than Perry’s ‘Applied mechanics’ and disregards graphical methods, which receive brief attention in Perry. Not a work for engineers.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 117. D. ’09.
“No textbook dealing with the subject that has reached us is better or simpler.”
+ Educ. R. 38: 99. Je. ’09. 50w.
“Will be found decidedly helpful to engineers as well as to students.”
+ Engin. D. 5: 296. Mr. ’09. 180w.
“There are also a number of minor errors both in the text and in the figures.” A. H. Knight.
+ − Engin. N. 61: sup. 33. Mr. 18, ’09. 670w.
“There is an unsatisfactory looseness of statement in some places. The book is such a thorough one in some branches that it may prove useful in a good many schools.”
+ − Engin. Rec. 59: 251. F. 27, ’09. 210w.
+ Ind. 67: 307. Ag. 5, ’09. 70w.
“A modest but sound work.”
+ Nation. 88: 416. Ap. 22, ’09. 10w.
“The book is certain to prove a useful one to all those who are engaged in teaching the subject of mechanics to engineering students, and the number of well-selected examples makes it a particularly satisfactory book for the student himself.”
+ Nature. 81: 332. S. 16, ’09. 450w.
Haney, Lewis Henry.[6] Congressional history of railways in the United States to 1850. v. 1. (Reprinted from v. 3. of the Bulletin of the Univ. of Wisconsin, economics and political science ser.) 50c. Univ. of Wis.
8–24289.
v. 1. The first instalment of a three volume work. “The present volume is divided into three ‘books,’ which deal respectively with the Rise of the railway question, Aid to railways, and Railways to the Pacific, in so far as these questions came before Congress. As is indicated in the title, the work is a study of Congress and the railway, and to a lesser degree a history of the railway as illustrated by congressional debates and legislation.” (Econ. Bull.)
“The criticism most likely to be passed upon the volume is that it shows too evidently its earlier form of a monograph. Evidences of a prentice hand are not infrequent. This volume in connection with those to appear later will form a distinct contribution to economic history.”
+ − Am. Hist. R. 15: 164. O. ’09. 670w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The volume as a whole indicates a large amount of systematic work, and though its scope is chiefly limited to congressional activity, it is a valuable contribution to the early periods of railway history.” G: G. Huebner.
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 33: 732. My. ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The errors into which the author has fallen are those of lack of discrimination rather than of misstatement of fact.” E. L. Bogart.
+ − Econ. Bull. 2: 30. Ap. ’09. 850w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Haney’s monograph is a well-written and thorough piece of investigation. The author has relied mainly upon congressional documents for his material and few measures or proposals seem to have escaped his notice.” W. B. Hammond.
+ J. Pol. Econ. 17: 233. Ap. ’09. 1200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“He takes up in an interesting way the rise and development of the railways, and especially the subject of land grants, which is treated more fully than in any previous work.”
+ Pol. Sci. Q. 24: 191. Mr. ’09. 110w. (Review of v. 1.)
Hanks, Charles Stedman.[9] Our Plymouth forefathers. **$1.50. Estes.
9–9526.
“Beginning with a chapter on ‘The English separatists.’ which gives the commonly accepted account of King Henry VIII’s rupture with Rome, the author traces the course of the Pilgrims from Scrooby to Holland and America, the greater part of the book being naturally devoted to the vicissitudes of the colony at Plymouth. Due honor is paid to Provincetown, as the place of our forefathers’ first landing; and some account is also given of the Buzzard’s Bay, Connecticut River, and Penobscott River trading posts, with one chapter on ‘The Puritan settlement at Boston.’” (Dial.)
“Suited to the needs and tastes of young students of American history and good reading for their elders.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 75. N. ’09 ✠
“The book is well suited to the needs and tastes of young students of American history, and is good reading for older persons also.”
+ Dial. 47: 104. Ag. 16, ’09. 200w.
190“The attention which Mr. Hanks devotes to the business side of the enterprise and the shrewd common sense which the colonists displayed in developing and making the most of their resources gives to the book a special interest.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 318. My. 22, ’09. 250w.
Hanotaux, Gabriel-Albert-Auguste.[9] Contemporary France; tr. from the French by E. Sparvel-Bayly. v. 4. *$3.75. Putnam.
v. 4. 1877–1882. Covers the political records of France from 1877 until 1882 on thru seven ministries, from that of the Duc de Broglie to that of Duclerc.
“Indispensable to large libraries.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 14. S. ’09. (Review of v. 4.)
“Errors, which are the joint production of the author, the translator, and the index-maker, are most serious, and are numerous beyond our experience. In many cases the result will be to deceive the very elect. We cannot explain the extraordinary difference between the concluding pages of the French and the English versions.”
− Ath. 1909, 2: 94. Jl. 24. 630w. (Review of v. 4.)
“This volume, like its predecessors, shows qualities of style which remind the reader that the author is a member of the Academy, but occasionally the habit of epigrammatic expression merges in a fondness for obscure Delphic utterances.”
+ − Dial. 47: 185. S. 16, ’09. 550w. (Review of v. 4.)
“M. Hanotaux maintains the high level of the earlier parts; but the period treated (1877–1882), being less dramatic than the years preceding, its story is perforce less thrilling.”
+ Ind. 67: 1209. N. 25, ’09. 320w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The author of this work has kept up the interest of the reader from the beginning to the close of his narrative.”
+ Lit. D. 39: 538. O. 2, ’09. 360w. (Review of v. 4.)
“In this last volume M. Hanotaux’s style retains all its vivacity and its finish. It is with regret that we part from this animated narrative of events fateful for France and for Europe, which so intelligent and well-informed an observer has given us.”
+ + − Nation. 89: 253. S. 16, ’09. 2850w. (Review of v. 4.)
“We do not deny that M. Hanotaux’s volume, principally on account of its personal and intimate atmosphere, makes entertaining reading. M. Hanotaux has no perspective and offers no hypotheses, while his narrative is burdened with opinions, judgments and even impressions, which the future is as likely as not to prove wrong.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 499. Ag. 21, ’09. 1250w. (Review of v. 4.)
“This fourth volume is much the best of the work, and is more worthy of the author’s reputation than those which preceded it.”
+ Sat. R. 108: 292. S. 4, ’09. 1550w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The book is alive with personal and general interest, and no intelligent person is likely to lay it down unfinished.”
+ Spec. 103: sup. 918. D. 4, ’09. 450w. (Review of v. 4.)
Hanscom, Elizabeth Deering, comp. Friendly craft. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–33897.
An anthology of letters which have been gathered together under such heads as The news from home, Little men and little women, Students’ tales, Lovers and friends, Genial gossip, Makers of history, Quips and cranks, and The fine art of living.
“A more interesting collection to the American reader than Lucas’ ‘The gentlest art.’”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 41. F. ’09.
“Everyone who owns ‘The gentlest art,’ will want ‘The friendly craft’ to place beside it on his shelves.”
+ Dial. 45: 464. D. 16, ’08. 140w.
“The editor of the collection has an unerring taste for literary quality, and a sense of humor which shows itself in prankish headlines.”
+ Ind. 66: 638. Mr. 25, ’09. 160w.
“The volume is, in our opinion quite as entertaining as Mr. Lucas’s, and that is saying a great deal. The pages contain abundant humor, with now and then a touch of pathos.”
+ Nation. 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
“There should be a copy of this delightful book in the collection of every lover of that which is choice in literature.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 116. F. 27, ’09. 560w.
+ Outlook. 91: 151. Ja. 23, ’09. 130w.
“A quite admirable book.”
+ Spec. 102: 464. Mr. 20, ’09. 840w.
Hanus, Paul Henry. Beginnings in industrial education; and other educational discussions. *$1. Houghton.
8–21612.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
“Able, practical papers.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 289. D. ’08.
“The most valuable contribution is made by the chapter on ‘The industrial continuation schools of Munich.’”
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 33: 195. Ja. ’09. 60w.
“The busy man will find the meat of these essays in the first one, which gives title to the volume.”
+ Engin. N. 61: sup. 22. F. 18, ’09. 300w.
“Professor Hanus puts the case clearly and convincingly.” L.
+ J. Pol. Econ. 17: 383. Je. ’09. 180w.
“Each of the eight brief essays makes the reader sigh for more of the same kind.”
+ Nation. 88: 412. Ap. 22, ’09. 160w.
“It is a help to have these miscellaneous presentations brought together at the time when the first excitement of the revival is over and men realize the necessity of taking their bearings before going farther.” F. A. Manny.
+ School R. 17: 203. Mr. ’09. 470w.
Hapgood, Hutchins.[8] Anarchist woman. **$1.25. Duffield.
“A book belonging to the same general order as Mr. Hapgood’s ‘Autobiography of a thief’ and ‘The spirit of labor.’ It is a report of ‘low’ life tinged with almost morbid sympathy.” (Nation.) It portrays the mental life of a woman who possessed the “temperament of revolt.” The man to whom she abandoned herself is little else than a drunkard in whom the author finds “a perfect type of the idealist.” Thru these two rebellious slum folk Mr. Hapgood shows under what conditions, in connection with what personal qualities, the anarchistic habit of mind arises.
“If you agree with Mr. William Winter’s criticism of Ibsen or approve the policy of Anthony Comstock toward Bernard Shaw, this is no fit book for you to read.” F. M. Colby.
− Bookm. 29: 637. Ag. ’09. 3200w.
“Mr. Hapgood’s chief fault is lack of humor, and the effect of it in this instance is rather appalling. Mr. Hapgood’s story is largely made up of letters. They are extremely frank letters, but they have little beside frankness to recommend them.”
− Nation. 88: 608. Je. 17, ’09. 600w.
191Harben, William Nathaniel (Will N., pseud.).[10] Redemption of Kenneth Galt. †$1.50. Harper.
9–25184.
Once more Mr. Harben introduces his readers to his favorite Georgian setting. The story follows the awakening and regeneration of Kenneth Galt, brilliant and well-born, who, when success is within his very reach, betrays a young girl, and leaves her to bear her burden of village ostracism while he goes out into the world to win power and fame. Six years later he returns and thru the influence of his own child has the courage to atone for his cowardly action and face a situation which during all these years had been allowed to implicate an innocent man.
“The book has astonishingly little excuse for being, even in this age of incontinent pens. The plot and characters are as hackneyed as the title, and the quality of the English, which is richly journalese, differs sadly from that of mercy.”
− Nation. 89: 407. O. 28, ’09. 250w.
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 591. O. 9, ’09. 230w.
R. of Rs. 40: 636. N. ’09. 30w.
Hard, Miron Elisha.[6] Mushroom, edible and otherwise; its habitat and its time of growth. $4.75. Mushroom pub. co., 210 Schultz bldg., Columbus, O.
8–24898.
A guide to the study of mushrooms, with special reference to the edible and poisonous varieties, with a view of opening up to the student of nature a wide field of interesting and useful knowledge. “This volume chiefly on account of its excellent half-tone illustrations, which include almost all of the common species, will be of good service to those who wish a book less expensive and voluminous than McIlvaine’s, and at the same time comprehensive enough to enable them to identify the plants they pick up in fields and woods.” (Bot. Gaz.)
“Will be useful for reference in large libraries but for identification purposes is not so good as Atkinson’s ‘Studies of American fungi’ or Marshall’s ‘Mushroom book.’”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 167. Je. ’09.
“It is evident that the author has no adequate technical training in taxonomy or morphology; and in presenting such matters, neither his keen powers of observation nor his enthusiasm could prevent him from falling into errors both of form and fact. It will indeed be a welcome addition to public, school, and college libraries, where there is always a demand for well-illustrated books of this kind, and it will probably do good service in awakening an interest in mushrooms. It certainly treats wisely the matter of testing the edibility of mushrooms and no one who follows Mr. Hard’s advice will come to harm. Thus it has a real field of usefulness. But it is not for the mycologist.” C. R. B.
+ − Bot. Gaz. 47: 414. My. ’09. 450w.
“An exceedingly interesting and valuable book upon a subject, in which every one is interested, whether he is a botanist or not. Without doubt this is the finest and most carefully arranged set of half-tone figures of American agarics to be found in a single book.” R. J. Pool.
+ Science, n.s. 29: 263. F. 12, ’09. 340w.
Hardie, J. Keir.[9] India, impressions and suggestions. $1. Huebsch.
Conclusions and the reasons for forming them which were reached by the author during two months spent in traveling in India and in interviewing officials or representative men of all stations in life and of all creeds, castes and classes.
“One can but feel, in reading these interesting sketches, that the author went to India to criticise, yet there is so much current official praise of the English administration of India that we welcome any discussion from the other side.”
+ − Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 605. N. ’09. 200w.
“Mr. Hardie has not, we may say, assimilated all his information gathered in his two months’ stay in India, but he has written a book that will interest and instruct everyone who is interested in Great Britain’s major problem.”
+ − Dial. 47: 240. O. 1, ’09. 270w.
“The greatest lack of this book is that it is practically silent concerning those features of the India of to-day which, in the last analysis, mean infinitely more to Hindustan than do verbal and picric acid bombs.”
− Nation. 89: 411. O. 28, ’09. 520w.
“It does not follow necessarily that Mr. Hardie is unjust in his views concerning the British administration in India, but it is of course material to know that he did not go East with an open mind, and that what he has written is not the outcome of prolonged, painstaking, and unbiased effort to know the truth.”
− N. Y. Times. 14: 664. O. 23, ’09. 680w.
R. of Rs. 40: 512. O. ’09. 60w.
“His arguments are recklessly and wilfully perverse. We are astonished that he should have taken so little trouble to make some of them even superficially plausible. As a narrative the work is very poor, the descriptions leaving little impression upon the mind, and making one reflect on the immense superiority of such work as that of Mr. Sidney Low.”
− Spec. 102: 937. Je. 12, ’09. 2100w.
Hardie, Martin.[6] John Pettie. *$6. Macmillan.
A monograph which furnishes “a delightful picture of the kindly, generous, tremendously forceful Scotch artist, and makes up for meagreness of biographical incident by fulness of descriptive matter about Pettie’s paintings. Diligent search through the artist’s note-books and in exhibition and sale catalogues, as well as in correspondence of interviews with private owners of his work, has resulted in a practically complete catalogue, chronologically arranged.”—Dial.
“Both as an individual study and as a contribution to the history of Scotch art in the last century, Mr. Hardie’s biography is well worth while.”
+ Dial. 46: 267. Ap. 16, ’09. 210w.
“When the author writes of his uncle’s works as an artist, he does so with a commendable personal detachment. The book is profusely illustrated by reproductions in colour of almost all of Pettie’s principal pictures, and the catalogue of his works is not the least valuable portion of the volume.”
+ Int. Studio. 37: 253. My. ’09. 320w.
+ Int. Studio. 39: sup. 24. N. ’09. 70w.
+ Nation. 88: 205. F. 25, ’09. 60w.
Harding, John William. City of splendid night. †$1.50. Dillingham.
9–4958.
Reveals the heart of a man and of a woman, who after fifteen years of separation, divorce, remarriage for the husband, and death of the second wife, are brought to a reconciliation.
“After the title the best things in it are the many pages of description of the varied aspects of New York city by night and by day, under various conditions of weather. These show sensibility to beauty and good descriptive power. Not one of the characters shows any sign that the author knows anything about men and women except what he has learned from other novels.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 147. Mr. 13, ’09. 130w.
192Harding, Samuel Bannister, comp. and ed.[11] Select orations; with an introduction on oratorical style and structure, and notes by J: Mantel Clapp. *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–26305.
A book for schools, clubs and teachers’ institutes. The purpose, primarily, historical, has been that of bringing together selections that illustrate the political history and development of the United States; while oratorical excellence has also been considered. The orations are grouped under the following heads: The revolution; The constitution adopted; National government established; The conquest on slavery; Civil war and reconstruction.
Educ. R. 38: 426. N. ’09. 50w.
Hardy, Blanche Christabel.[7] Princesse de Lamballe. *$3.50. Appleton.
9–18960.
“This is a sympathetic study of a supremely touching figure in French history, a martyr to loyalty and friendship in whose innocent life nothing had ever happened to merit one of the most frightful deaths—perhaps the most frightful of all—in the annals of the revolution.” (Spec.) “The Princess de Lamballe had been superintendent of the household of Marie Antoinette, and we have here, among other things, a remarkably telling picture of how a queen lived in the days before the revolution.” (N. Y. Times.) The author draws clear portraits of “the sad Queen Maria Leczinska ... the once reckless and pleasure-loving Marie Antoinette ... the stolid, lumbering, pathetic Louis XVI, the faithless Duc d’Orléans ... and the Princesse herself.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The author is as a rule laudably guarded in her judgments concerning conjecture and evidence. We have but slight reservations to make as to style and accuracy.”
+ − Ath. 1908, 2: 811. D. 26. 1500w.
“She gives us a distinctly lifelike picture of the woman in her life of every day, treating her with all becoming reverence, omitting nothing in this record of her heroism and devotion, setting down naught in malice, and yet letting us see through to the little failings that make her woman. She gains in being thus humanized, and the author has given us a work that is at once interesting and authentic.” Christian Gauss.
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 385. Je. 19, ’09. 1100w.
“Little exception can be taken to the history of this volume.”
+ − Sat. R. 106: 486. O. 17, ’08. 780w.
“This was not an easy book to write. The author has overcome that difficulty very well, and has kept the later story of his heroine clear against the background of confusion and storm.”
+ Spec. 101: 886. N. 28, ’08. 550w.
Hardy, E. G.[9] Studies in Roman history, 6s. Sonnenschein, London.
“The title of this important but unpretentious little volume would fitly have been ‘Studies in Roman military history,’ for it specially deals with that branch of historical research, and will be particularly valuable to those interested in it.” (Sat. R.) “Largely an historical commentary on Tacitus. In the first section Dr. Hardy discusses the German frontier, a subject which appears again and again in the period (14–70 A. D.) covered by the ‘Annals and histories.’... The second section is given to the subject which occupies nearly all that survives of the ‘Histories.’... Finally, he gives us an illuminating account of the struggle between Pompey and Caesar, which ended at Philippi.” (Spec.)
“When one considers the circumstances in which research is alone possible to the author, the errors are trifling, nor do they matter much to the few who will verify them; but it is a pity that Dr. Hardy did not get a pupil to spend a few hours in checking the citations. The printing is not at all good. This is a pity, as the volume is indispensable to students of Roman military history.”
+ − Ath. 1909, 2: 297. S. 11. 330w.
“These essays would be infinitely more instructive and interesting had maps been supplied in adequate number, and we trust that in any subsequent edition of this book almost the only flaw we have discovered in it may be removed.”
+ − Sat. R. 108: 138. Jl. 31, ’09. 1000w.
Spec. 103: sup. 1008. Je. 26, ’09. 150w.
Hardy, Rev. Edward John.[12] How to be happy though civil. **$1. Scribner.
“Not a book of etiquet, of social forms, perfect familiarity with which, and scrupulous observation of which, may be, and often are, accompanied by boorishness, but a treatise on the root of true courtesy, which is breeding, delicacy of perception, or, as the author himself prefers to call it, ‘bushido.’ He points his moral and adorns it with many anecdotes.”—Ind.
“A book that should do some good in a generation where it is, oh, so badly needed.”
+ Ind. 67: 1210. N. 25, ’09. 120w.
+ Lit. D. 39: 960. N. 27, ’09. 180w.
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 766. D. 4, ’09. 170w.
+ Outlook. 93: 515. O. 30, ’09. 170w.
Spec. 103: 937. D. 4, ’09. 1350w.
Häring, Theodor von.[11] Ethics of the Christian life; tr. from the 2d German ed. by James S. Hill; with an introd. by Rev. W. D. Morrison. (Theological translation lib., v. 25.) *$3. Putnam.
9–7568.
A work that regards modern ethics as “essentially psychological, and of the world,” instead of belonging “to the realm of the infinite.” “Specially valuable portions of the volume are those which contrast Roman Catholic with Protestant ethical teachings, and discuss at length various questions of social ethics. But it is indefensible to set Christian ethics in an unreal opposition to normative ethics. ‘I regard “Christian,”’ said Edward Caird, ‘as the permanent adjective by which we must define the growing ideal of humanity.’” (Outlook.)
“The book labors under the disadvantage which is almost inevitable in a translation from the German, in that it employs a style and a vocabulary somewhat unfamiliar to English readers. Thus while the volume is full of wholesome suggestions on various ethical problems, and while it may be used with advantage and profit by those whose thinking is still dominated by the deductive method, it will seem to the student of empirical social ethics to-day like a survival of an outgrown method in the history of ethical science.” G. B. Smith.
+ − Am. J. Theol. 13: 472. Jl. ’09. 430w.
Outlook. 93: 227. O. 2, ’09. 160w.
Harker, Alfred.[9] Natural history of igneous rocks. *$3. Macmillan. GS9–256.
“The scope of Harker’s work may be indicated by the titles of the chapters which are as follows: (1) Igneous action in relation to geology; (2) Vulcanicity; (3) Igneous intrusion; (4) Petrographical provinces; (5) Mutual relations of associated igneous rocks; (6) Igneous rocks and their constituents; (7) Rock-magmas; (8) Crystallization of rock-magmas; (9) Supersaturation and deferred crystallization; (10) Isomorphism and mixed crystals; (11) Structures of igneous rock; (12) Mineralisers and pneumatolysis: (13) Magmatic differentiation; (14) Hybridism in igneous rocks; (15) Classification of igneous rocks.”—J. Geol.
“Mr. Harker’s new work stands, in many respects, alone, and is sure of a welcome. A book which could be written now only by one who 193is at the same time a geologist and a physicist, acquainted with the latest development of both sciences.”
+ Ath. 1909, 2: 157. Ag. 7. 1300w.
“It appears that the book is an excellent summary of our present knowledge, and well suited for use with advanced students of petrology.” A. N. W.
+ J. Geol. 17: 488. Jl. ’09. 700w.
“This is a book for the trained specialist, but it has a message for the layman. With unexcelled completeness and force, Mr. Harker has presented the latest ideas as to the nature and activities of the fluid material emanating from the earth’s interior.”
+ Nation. 89: 578. D. 9, ’09. 1050w.
“Mr. Harker has covered so wide a range and compressed so much information into this brief space that he has achieved a very large measure of success.” J. S. F.
+ Nature. 81: 331. S. 16, ’09. 1100w.
“Mr. Harker’s treatise is for the scholar, and almost for the specialist. It may not appeal even to all who regard themselves as trained geologists; but, on the other hand, there is much in it that will attract both the chemist and the physicist.”
+ Sat. R. 108: 446. O. 9, ’09. 1100w.
Harland, Henry (Sydney Luska, pseud.). Royal end: a romance. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–5217.
A posthumous novel completed by the author’s wife. “The book is offered to us as the last the author wrote, and it was evidently composed during his years of ill-health. But for all that it is characteristic of him, gay, irresponsible, volatile, witty, and audacious.... There are a prince, an Englishman of good lineage, a beautiful American heiress, and a useful ‘property’ dog, besides other auxiliaries.” (Ath.)
“There is little plot, the charm of the story lying in the clever conversation. Suffers by comparison with ‘The cardinal’s snuff box’ and ‘The lady paramount.’”
+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 148. My. ’09.
“If the fairy tale lacks at times the spontaneity of its predecessors, and is a little less bright and less neat of wit, that is attributable doubtless to the conditions under which it was written. Nevertheless it is an agreeable and entertaining romance, the slightness of which will not concern the admirers of the author’s work.”
+ − Ath. 1909, 1: 312. Mr. 13. 240w.
“One never used to care whether anything was doing or not, and the earlier books could have been quite as shapeless as this (though they never were) and we would have snapped our fingers. It is the mannerisms without the manner, the abandonment without the abandon.” Algernon Tassin.
− + Bookm. 29: 409. Je. ’09. 1350w.
“The taste of the novel reader has changed since the ‘Cardinal’s snuff box’ was published, and for this reason ‘The royal end’ is not likely to be so popular.”
+ − Ind. 66: 1083. My. 20, ’09. 200w.
+ Nation. 88: 539. My. 27, ’09. 280w.
“Mrs. Harland has done her work faithfully, and it may seem ungracious to emphasize her failure to capture fully the charm of her husband’s style. None the less the story is a delightful one, and the royal end is quite as satisfying as it is unexpected.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 192. Ap. 3, ’09. 500w.
“It is a pleasant tale, not altogether probable in every part, not at all well planned as to construction, and saved only from mediocrity in that its conversation is often delicately humorous.”
+ − Outlook. 91: 814. Ap. 10, ’09. 60w.
“The last three of the seven parts are inferior.” H. W. Boynton.
+ − Putnam’s. 6: 493. Jl. ’09. 270w.
“The end of the book in America is not so well done.”
+ − Spec. 102: 672. Ap. 24, ’09. 130w.
Harnack, Adolf.[6] Acts of the apostles; tr. by J. R. Wilkinson. (Crown theological lib. no. 27.) *$1.75. Putnam.
9–3372.
The third volume in Dr. Harnack’s studies on the Synoptic gospels and the Acts of the apostles. “In ‘Luke the physician’ he presented with convincing power the evidence on behalf of the Lukan authorship of the Acts; in the present volume he carries his investigations further and examines with characteristic thoroughness the internal evidence of the book as to date, sources, and historical value.” (Sat. R.) “He seeks a ‘more assured judgment’ as to the degree in which Acts is homogeneous, inquires into the sources and their trustworthiness, and seeks further proof of the identity of the writer of the we-sections with the author of the whole.” (Bib. World.)
“The whole is wrought out with Harnack’s characteristic minuteness of research and illuminating historical imagination.”
+ Am. J. Theol. 13: 647. O. ’09. 80w.
“The chapter which deals with the sources and their value will appeal to many readers as the most suggestive.”
+ Ath. 1909, 2: 294. S. 11. 700w.
“It presents a wealth of material relating to Acts, and interestingly exhibits Harnack’s notable method of inquiry. The translator’s failure to supply an index is deplorable.”
+ − Bib. World. 33: 216. Mr. ’09. 100w.
Reviewed by E. S. Drown.
N. Y. Times. 14: 258. Ap. 24, ’09. 400w.
“Whether we agree with him or not, we cannot but admire the clearness and breadth of view with which he treats the puzzling phenomena of the earlier chapters.”
+ Sat. R. 107: 664. My. 22, ’09. 250w.
“The thirty pages of introduction with which it opens are written with all his force and charm, but as a whole the book is technical, and will appeal chiefly to scholars.”
+ − Spec. 102: sup. 1008. Je. 26, ’09. 120w.
Harnack, Adolf.[6] Mission and expansion of Christianity in the first three centuries; tr. and ed. by James Moffatt. 2d ed. enl. and rev. (Theological translation lib.) 2v. *$7. Putnam.
9–8426.
A translation of the second German edition. The two volumes “contain what is practically a history of the Church’s expansion during the first three centuries as it is viewed by a critic who rejects every detail and all data which can not be certified by the tests of modern criticism.” (Lit. D.) “For the ordinary reader the first volume is by far the more interesting. Its chapters are substantially monographs, dealing with characteristics of early Christianity and with the reasons of its success—reasons at once concerned with its own inward nature, with its organization, and with its relations both to Judaism and to the Roman world.” (N. Y. Times.)
“More than ever in this enlarged form, and with these helpful maps, it will be indispensable for the interpretation of early Christian literature and still more of early Christian life, in the stirring and mysterious centuries before Eusebius and Constantine. We notice a few misprints.”
+ − Am. J. Theol. 13: 495. Jl. ’09. 180w.
“As a critical, comprehensive survey of the extension of Christianity before Constantine this work is invaluable.”
+ Bib. World. 33: 357. My. ’09. 70w.
“This fresh and accurate work will hereafter be an indispensible manual in teaching or studying church history with critical thoroughness.”
+ Lit. D. 38: 901. My. 22, ’09. 400w.
194“It has taken its place as one of Harnack’s most important contributions to the early history of Christianity. A word of praise should be said for the admirable translation of Dr. Moffatt.” E. S. Drown.
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 258. Ap. 24, ’09. 400w.
Harper, Charles George.[10] Tower of London: fortress, palace and prison. **$2.50. Jacobs.
9–27770.
“An introduction, giving a brief history of the building as a whole, is followed by chapters that present in detail a full account and description of its several parts, with abundant reference to noted prisoners once lodged within its walls, and to the famous crimes and conspiracies and rebellions that furnished occupants for its cells and dungeons. Some of the horrors of old-time torture and execution are also revealed, while two chapters reproduce many elaborate stone-carvings to show how the weary captives sometimes beguiled the long hours by perpetuating their tragic memory or the memory of those dear to them.”—Dial.
“Recent removal of certain restrictions has opened the Tower more extensively and freely to visitors than ever before, and this latest guide-book to its many points of historic interest is timely and valuable. The evident care and study that have gone to its making place it on a high level among books of its class.”
+ Dial. 47: 187. S. 16, ’09. 220w.
+ Spec. 102: 785. My. 15, ’09. 180w.
Harper, George McLean. Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve. (French men of letters.) **$1.50. Lippincott.
9–9445.
A biography which gathers the conditioning elements of this noted French critic’s life, and presents them topically and chronologically. The author gives him a place with Taine and Renan in the intellectual triumverate of modern France, acknowledging him to be one of the world’s greatest critics in the broad sense—“a man who has thrown the light of reason upon all great questions of psychology, morality, religion, politics and art.”
“A scholarly study, showing extensive research and familiarity with the period.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 168. Je. ’09.
“It has the distinction of being the first book written in English on the life and work of the most eminent French literary critic, and the merit of being an unusually careful and scholarly bit of work.”
+ Dial. 47: 50. Jl. 16, ’09. 320w.
“When all this has been said, it must still be acknowledged that Professor Harper has written an intelligible and interesting account of the great critic.”
+ − Ind. 67: 478. Ag. 26, ’09. 420w.
“The present work keeps up the high standard of the preceding volumes in this series.”
+ Lit. D. 38: 1072. Je. 19, ’09. 400w.
“Professor Harper has the distinction of writing the first book on Sainte-Beuve in English. He gives evidence of long and careful study of Sainte-Beuve himself, and of most that has been written about him, but should have reserved space for a more systematic discussion of Sainte-Beuve’s ideas and his place in criticism. As it is, his work strikes one as a rather loosely written biography, mainly devoted to Sainte-Beuve’s youth, or at least to the period before 1848.” Irving Babbitt.
+ − Nation. 88: 622. Je. 24, ’09. 3400w.
“Prof. Harper has done extremely well a work of much difficulty and real importance.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 309. My. 15, ’09. 1600w.
“It was not easy to draw Sainte-Beuve’s portrait: nor was it easy to analyze this special quality and to bring into clear light his method. All these three things Professor Harper has done with patience, sagacity, and scrupulous integrity of attitude. His book is a real contribution to the subject, as it is a credit to American literary scholarship.”
+ Outlook. 92: 422. Je. 19, ’09. 300w.
“A compact and coherent analysis.”
+ R. of Rs. 39: 764. Je. ’09. 120w.
“His book is a sympathetic and just endeavour to get at the real Sainte-Beuve. Concerning the style of the book it is only necessary to hint that American readers will perhaps enjoy it more than English.”
+ − Sat. R. 108: 18. Jl. 3, ’09. 900w.
+ Spec. 103: 172. Jl. 31, ’09. 130w.
Harris, Frank. The bomb. $1.50. Kennerley.
9–4963.
The story, a history in the most important particulars, of Rudolph Schnaubelt who “threw the bomb that killed eight policemen and wounded sixty in Chicago in 1886.” He is a young German of fair education, who leaves Munich for New York, experiences a round of embittering hardships, drifts to Chicago, and comes under the influence of Lingg the Anarchist. The story moves on to a dramatic close in the anarchist plot, the escape of the bomb thrower, and the trial and execution of Lingg and his accomplices.
“We find in ‘The bomb’ a love-story, to us unpleasant, and not redeemed by its truth to life—given the simplicity of the hero. The woman does not convince us, and the old maxim still holds good: ‘Tout ce qui est vrai n’est pas bon à dire.’”
− Ath. 1908, 2: 641. N. 21. 450w.
“The theme is plausible, but in its fictional expression it breaks down in some places and moves clumsily in others, apparently because Mr. Harris has not the story-telling gift in the first place, and, in the second, writes fiction with a prentice hand.”
− N. Y. Times. 14: 118. F. 27, ’09. 500w.
“Altogether, the book is a thoroughly fine piece of work, worthy of the creator of Conklin.”
+ Sat. R. 106: 674. N. 28, ’08. 770w.
Harris, Frank.[12] Man Shakespeare and his tragic life-story. *$2.50. Kennerley.
9–28298.
An analytic study of Shakespeare, the man, in which the author finds the full length portrait of the great dramatist in each of twenty dramas. Aside from building up the essential outlines of Shakespeare’s character there is also shown “Shakespeare as he was with his imperial intellect and small snobberies, his great vices and paltry self-deceptions, his sweet gentleness and long martyrdom.... Thanks to this book, we now know Shakespeare in his habit as he lived; we know him in his love and jealousy and despair; and we are fain to admit with Mr. Harris that Shakespeare’s suffering and wreck are symbolical of the fate of genius everywhere and at all times. His life story is therefore of enduring interest: in its own way a world-tragedy.”
“A remarkable book, ingeniously conceived, and based on a comprehensive knowledge of the bard’s works. It will interest lovers and students of Shakespeare, and prove of benefit to them, whatever the conclusion to which it may lead them.”
+ Ind. 67: 1137. N. 18, ’09. 300w.
“This is the book for which we have waited a lifetime. We know this now that it is come: and we mark the day of its publication as a red-letter day in the history of literature. We have had Shakespeare the dramatist. Our libraries are filled with his bloodless monuments. Now we want Shakespeare the poet, Shakespeare the lover, Shakespeare the sweet-hearted singer, as he lived and suffered and enjoyed. And this is what Mr. Frank Harris gives us in his book.” Temple Scott.
+ + N. Y. Times. 14: 685. N. 6, ’09. 3800w.
195“Nobody who cares for fine literature, however indifferent he may be to Mr. Harris’ main thesis, should pass the book by. As a thesis, we call it a brilliant and fascinating tour de force. As a book concerned with the greatest poetry, we assign to it critical merit of the first order. In both aspects we predict for it a permanent importance.”
+ − Sat. R. 108: 633. N. 20, ’09. 2250w.
Harris, Joel Chandler. Bishop and the boogerman; being the story of a little truly-girl, who grew up; her mysterious companion; her crabbed old uncle; the whish-whish woods; a very civil engineer, and Mr. Billy Sanders, the sage of Shady Dale. **$1. Doubleday.
9–3878.
A charming story of little Adelaide, suddenly orphaned, who with her imaginary playmate Cally-Lou goes to live in a crabbed uncle’s home. There is a “Silas Marner” touch to the tale with its softening little-child influence.
“Slight, uneventful and disconnected, but full of the author’s characteristic charm and humor.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 113. Ap. ’09. ✠
“The atmosphere of the story is delightful, while the characterization and the illustrations are adequate.”
+ Ath. 1909, 1: 403. Ap. 3. 180w.
“This story is effective because it revives in the reader the innocent emotions of childhood from which it springs.”
+ Nation. 88: 171. F. 18, ’09. 300w.
“It is very charming, with its unexpected turns of thought and quaint forms of expression, its understanding of the child heart and the workings of the child brain, its kindliness, and its sweet, bubbling humor.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 103. F. 20, ’09. 420w.
Sat. R. 107: 502. Ap. 17, ’09. 90w.
Harrison, Alfred H.[6] In search of a polar continent, 1905–1907. *$3.50. Longmans.
9–8804.
There is “carefully set forth, with the accompaniment of many excellent half-tone photographs an account of the writer’s exploration of the northern section of Alaska and the neighboring islands of the Arctic Ocean in the period from July, 1905, to September, [1907].... It is the story of a practical man, full of detailed and painstaking observation, and it is gratifying to read with respect to his polar aspirations that the author now believes the great project of arctic travelers to be wholly feasible.”—N. Y. Times.
“The account of his adventures makes pleasant reading. We consider Mr. Harrison’s scheme visionary.”
+ − Ath. 1909, 1: 439. Ap. 10. 900w.
“His story of his two years’ wanderings, while neither very exciting nor particularly novel, is full of interesting details of a country all but unknown.”
+ N. Y. Times. 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
“The book is not one of the most readable, perhaps because it shows no grasp of a definite problem nor any strong purpose to carry out his plan of Arctic exploration, perhaps because of the numerous Latin tags and the irritating frequency of allusions to characters in Dickens who would have been much surprised to find themselves introduced into a volume of Polar travel.”
− Sat. R. 107: 433. Ap. 3, ’09. 630w.
“His chapters on Eskimo life are a valuable contribution to our knowledge of a virile race.”
+ Spec. 102: 502. Mr. 27, ’09. 250w.
Harrison, Birge.[12] Landscape painting; with 24 reproductions of representative pictures. **$1.50. Scribner.
9–29386.
A volume in which the author gathers up twenty-one impromptu talks on landscape painting given before the Art students’ league of New York during a summer session at Woodstock, N. Y. The chapters are: Landscape art in general; Color; Vibration; Refraction; Values; Drawing; Composition; Quality; Pigments; On framing pictures; On schools; The arts and crafts; Mural painting; On vision; The importance of fearlessness in painting; The sub-conscious servant; Temperament; Character; What is a good picture? The true impressionism; The future of American art.
“These talks are practical, helpful and enthusiastic; a little positive here and there, in their expression of opinions.”
+ − Ind. 67: 1142. N. 18, ’09. 110w.
Harrison, Edith Ogden. Flaming sword, and other legends of the earth and sky. *$1.25. McClurg.
8–37065.
A group of imaginative stories based upon Bible legends.
“A little too much emphasis is placed upon the moral of each tale; otherwise Edith Ogden Harrison’s attempt to treat biblical material purely as legendary of earth and sky is by no means deprived of keen feeling.” M. J. Moses.
− + Ind. 65: 1473. D. 17, ’08. 80w.
“The moral attachment is a little too evident.”
− Nation. 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 40w.
“The stories are charmingly written and beautifully imaginative.”
+ N. Y. Times. 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 120w.
Harrison, Mrs. Mary St. Leger (Lucas Mallet, pseud.).[8] The score. †$1.50. Dutton.
9–19190.
Two stories the first of which, “Out in the open,” tells of a young member of parliament’s wooing of an actress whose refusal of him results in his taking her in his arms and nearly crushing the breath out of her; the second “Miserere nobis,” told in the form of a dying man’s confession to a priest, deals with a young Italian’s misguided vengeance for fancied wrong and the later remorse that led to taking his own life.
“The short story does not give quite sufficient scope to this author’s remarkable gifts. In both of them, however, the situations, though widely different, are as poignant as original.”
+ − Ath. 1909, 2: 206. Ag. 21. 300w.
“The unquestioned power of Lucas Malet shows itself fully only in the long and elaborate novel.”
+ − Atlan. 104: 686. N. ’09. 190w.
“The stories are to be forgotten—but not the story-teller’s charm and sparkling if self-conscious grace.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ Bookm. 30: 62. S. ’09. 1150w.
“To us it has the bigness, the thoughtfulness of the old Greek tragedy; and it excells in the very point in which the Greeks themselves excel.”
+ Cath. World. 89: 820. S. ’09. 1000w.
“Lucas Malet is a dramatist and a preacher. She is a dramatist in two senses—she has an eye for stage effects and for dramatic ‘lifts.’ But nothing would save the book from being more than a brilliant monolog if it were not for the ‘lifts.’ However, Lucas Malet is important to us now as a preacher.”
+ Ind. 67: 824. O. 7, ’09. 870w.
“One is tempted to hazard the guess that the author may have planned or begun the [second] story as a poem; in its prose form, it is, to say the truth, strained and ineffective.”
+ − Nation. 89: 141. Ag. 12, ’09. 400w.
“Mrs. Harrison always writes well and these short stories have an interest which makes one wish that they were longer.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 468. Jl. 31, ’09. 420w.
+ R. of Rs. 40: 635. N. ’09. 70w.
196“The first [story] is a brilliant piece of work, though just a little too determined to deserve that description. The second story is far less successful, is, indeed, a very ordinary piece of work.”
+ − Sat. R. 108: 230. Ag. 21, ’09. 570w.
“These pages are so well done that they have caused us to hope that ‘Lucas Malet’ will recognize soon that her native power and insight can easily dispense with those adventitious aids to make people ‘feel’ which are to us extremely unpleasant.”
+ − Spec. 103: 136. Jl. 24, ’09. 1000w.
Hartt, Rollin Lynde.[6] People at play: excursions in the humor and philosophy of popular amusements. **$1.50. Houghton.
9–15055.
A shrewd, genial, sociological study of “people at play” made by an essayist and journalist. His excursions into the realms of popular hilarity have been supplemented by extensive literature on the subject; his attitude is that of the student of comparative ethics. His observations cover the home of burlesque, the amusement park, the dime museum, melodrama, “the world in motion,” “the muses in the back street,” base ball, etc.
“The author’s thorough understanding of his subject gives the book a decided sociological value, and his humor and wholesome geniality make it good for general reading.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 168. Je. ’09.
+ Cath. World. 89: 687. Ag. ’09. 240w.
“The book might have been written effectively and at the same time with a little less of appeal to a low standard of literary taste.”
+ − Dial. 47: 23. Jl. 1, ’09. 270w.
“On the whole the book does not carry a very deep philosophical keel. Its chief value lies in its record of things which few writers have thought worthy of record.”
+ − Nation. 88: 628. Je. 24, ’09. 340w.
“The book may be heartily commended alike to the student and to the general reader as a unique and interesting contribution to the literature of sociology.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 428. Jl. 10, ’09. 800w.
+ R. of Rs. 40: 255. Ag. ’09. 80w.
“The book with its delicious satire is a permanent contribution to the literature of play.” B. L. Israels.
+ Survey. 22: 598. Jl. 31, ’09. 350w.
Hasbach, Wilhelm.[8] History of the English agricultural labourer; tr. by Ruth Kenyon. *7s. 6d. King, P. S., & son, London.
9–7840.
This translation “has given the author an opportunity to revise his volume and make some additions. New emphasis is laid on the process by which the agricultural laborer obtained his freedom, and the chapter dealing with that topic has been enlarged and rewritten in the light of the latest research. There has been added a brief chapter covering the comparatively uneventful period from 1894, when the first edition appeared, to the present time. The author’s final conclusion is that the reorganization of English agriculture should, in the main, take the form of a great multiplication of small peasant holdings.”—J. Pol. Econ.
“There are several appendices of a scientifically accurate character and, within the bounds of the general subjects mentioned above, a great body of extremely interesting and suggestive historical material.”
+ Am. Hist. R. 14: 603. Ap. ’09. 430w.
“While the agricultural laborer is the central figure in this book, the telling of the story of this one class involves the writing of the history of the growth of all three classes and their interrelations. This task has been admirably performed by the author.” H. C. Taylor.
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 436. S. ’09. 240w.
“The book is an excellent study of the condition of a large division of the laboring class of England.” J: L. Coulter.
+ Econ. Bull. 2: 126. Je. ’09. 700w.
+ J. Pol. Econ. 17: 106. F. ’09. 100w.
“We differ from the author on many points, and it is no doubt the case that he may be tripping in his history here and there, we hope that his book will be read by every country and every townsman who is desirous of obtaining a grip of some of the bottom facts of rural questions.”
+ − Spec. 102: 465. Mr. 20, ’09. 530w.
“It is by far the best book on the subject treated.”
+ Yale R. 18: 105. My. ’09. 330w.
Hassall, Arthur.[8] Viscount Castlereagh. *3s. 6d. Pitman, London.
A volume belonging to the “Makers of national history,” a series treating of “important men whose share in the making of national history seems to need a more complete record than it has received.” The book deals pro and con with Castlereagh’s fitness for his management of England’s military affairs at the most critical moment of her existence.
“If however we cannot admit that it has been left to Mr. Hassall to rehabilitate this great statesman we can welcome a clear, well-proportioned, and well-informed sketch of his career. His judgment is sound enough in the main, but he sometimes goes too far.” E. M. L.
+ − Eng. Hist. R. 24: 622. Jl. ’09. 500w.
“The book will be a useful one; no one can read it without considerably improving his acquaintance with the three decades of English history, 1793–1823.”
+ − Spec. 102: sup. 157. Ja. 30, ’09. 300w.
Hastings, G. W.[8] Vindication of Warren Hastings. *$2. Oxford.
In which the author rebuts the six charges that are the “great crimes” of Macaulay’s essay.
“The test of the use made of the documents shows in a number of quotations, inaccuracies of spelling and in some instances verbal variations. On the whole, however, the use of the documents has been legitimate.” A. L. P. Dennis.
+ − Am. Hist. R. 15: 146. O. ’09. 340w.
“On the main issues the writer does not add to the fruits of the researches already undertaken by Sir James Stephen and other vindicators of Hastings’s fame, and indeed his eulogy of ‘the greatest man of our race’ is marked rather by piety and enthusiasm than by any subtlety of thought or judgment. Nevertheless the book is handy and useful, and some of its personal information is curious and new.” G. B. H.
+ − Eng. Hist. R. 24: 621. Jl. ’09. 250w.
“Though nothing is ever likely to be written which will have a tithe of Macaulay’s audience, this ‘Vindication’ ... deserves a wide circulation as an antidote to the famous essay.”
+ Nation. 89: 187. Ag. 26, ’09. 1200w.
“He has written here with much sympathy and reverence. It is a record of Hastings’s public life in India, rather a plea for the defendant than the summing up of the evidence.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 366. Je. 12, ’09. 570w.
“We must be content with commending this ably written volume to the notice of our readers.”
+ Spec. 103: 210. Ag. 7, ’09. 120w.
197Hastings, James, ed. Dictionary of the Bible; ed. by James Hastings, with the cooperation of John A. Selbie, and with the assistance of John C. Lambert and of Shailer Mathews. **$5. Scribner.
9–3371.
“This is a notable volume and should meet a hearty welcome. It is the first and only popular Bible dictionary in which modern methods of interpretation prevail throughout. Furthermore, every article is accompanied by the name of the author. The amount of matter in the volume is astonishingly large, a fact due to economy of space and to the use of a rather small type.” (Bib. World.) “It is not a mere abstract of Dr. Hastings’s larger dictionary, but the principal topics have been committed to other writers and the latest discoveries have been embodied, but, of course, in condensed form.” (Ind.)
“It is indeed commendable that such a work should avoid fresh adventurous views not yet digested by discussion and should give to the general student what is judged to be the established result of criticism.” F. A. Christie.
+ Am. Hist. R. 14: 843. Jl. ’09. 300w.
“The text is slightly vitiated by careless proofreading. In the balance of articles according to intrinsic worth, in fairness, thoroughness and lucidity of treatment, and, despite faults that cannot be overlooked, in general usability, this dictionary meets a genuine need of lay students and Christian workers, will be of positive use to the general pastor, and not without interest and suggestion to the biblical scholar.” R. H. Ferris.
+ − Am. J. Theol. 13: 273. Ap. ’09. 1000w.
“The work is well suited to serve the purpose for which it is intended, though it will naturally be in greater favour with those who wish to assimilate the results of modern criticism in a sufficiently full measure than with the more conservative sections of readers.”
+ Ath. 1909, 1: 341. Mr. 20. 1200w.
“It can be unreservedly commended to the educated layman and Sunday-school teacher.”
+ + Bib. World. 33: 215. Mr. ’09. 80w.
“The ‘Hastings’ volume presents a much larger amount of subject-matter than the ‘Standard Bible dictionary.’ It has a type so small as to constitute a serious objection in a popular book. For the most part contributors represent a critical and historical attitude somewhat in advance of that taken by the editors and contributors on the ‘Standard’s’ list.” J: M. P. Smith and S. J. Case.
+ − Bib. World. 33: 283. Ap. ’09. 770w.
“It deserves only praise. We commend the volume more heartily, and even to those who possess either Hastings’s or Cheyne’s larger dictionaries for this is later than either of them, and no duplication of either.”
+ + Ind. 66: 376. F. 18, ’09. 180w.
+ Nation. 89: 102. Jl. 29, ’09. 340w.
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 114. F. 27, ’09. 280w.
+ Outlook. 93: 600. N. 13, ’09. 60w.
“We get more reading for our money from Dr. Hastings’ book than from Murray’s dictionary.”
+ − Sat. R. 107: 376. Mr. 20, ’09. 600w.
Hastings, James, ed. Encyclopaedia of religion and ethics. 10v. subs. ea. *$7. Scribner.
8–35833.
A work which when completed will include about ten volumes. The aim is to give an account of religion and ethics in all ages the world over. All forms of religion will be presented, religious beliefs and practices, philosophy and allied subjects, and people and places associated with religious struggle and development. The contributors are all men of special fitness for the particular articles requested of them, and the work as a whole will furnish the equipment necessary for a study of comparative religion.
“If one were inclined to be exacting, one would find, I think, that the article on ‘Apologetics’ is not quite adequate, being a bit antiquated in form, as well as misguided in emphasis, to say nothing of its assuming so many things as proofs which themselves require to be proved. In particular, its treatment of miracle and of historical criticism is singularly unsatisfactory from the point of view of modern needs.” G: B. Foster.
+ − Am. J. Theol. 13: 269. Ap. ’09. 800w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The system of cross referencing is good, and the literature cited under each subject is adequate and well chosen.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 14. S. ’09. (Review of v. 1.)
“The general result of our examination enables us to say that the editor has risen to the height of his great undertaking. The work deserves the fullest and best encouragement which the world of readers and investigators can give it.”
+ + Ath. 1908, 2: 713. D. 5. 2000w. (Review of v. 1.)
“As is almost inevitable, the quality of the material is uneven; articles of great value are alongside of others practically worthless. But the work as a whole will constitute an invaluable thesaurus of information in the large field with which it deals.”
+ + − Bib. World. 33: 143. F. ’09. 150w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The editorial work deserves the highest praise. Disturbing errors are rare. In articles on Muhammadan subjects, the dates of the Christian era should always be given. There is no reason why the reader should be obliged to reduce dates from one era to another.” Nathaniel Schmidt.
+ − Dial. 47: 377. N. 16, ’09. 1650w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This new encyclopedia will be an essential for the library of every student of religion and ethics, and it will provide the material for much theology.”
+ + Ind. 65: 1060. N. 5, ’08. 820w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is in the matters of editing, allotment of space, and selection of writers for particular topics that room for criticism has been afforded. The reviewer can not help the conclusion that the editing is distinctly empirical, not expert.”
+ − Lit. D. 38: 385. Mr. 6, ’09. 600w. (Review of v. 1.)
“In so large a mass of material there will necessarily be points on which specialists differ, but the articles have all been carefully prepared, and in most of them the conclusions are well supported.”
+ + − Nation. 88: 173. F. 18, ’09. 630w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Nothing seems to have been overlooked in the wide field.”
+ + − Outlook. 91: 245. Ja. 30, ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The line [of inclusion] should have been drawn at the point where metaphysics verges upon theology and ethics.”
+ + − Sat. R. 107: 145. Ja. 30, ’09. 1300w. (Review of v. 1.)
Hatfield, Frank, pseud. Realm of light. $1.50. Reid pub.
8–23532.
Here are set down the experiences of some Chicago business men in the heart of Africa. They discover a mountain inhabited at its summit by a race whose giant size suggests their physical power and whose discoveries and inventions attest their intellectual development.
“This is one of the best Utopian romances of recent decades.”
+ Arena. 41: 88. Ja. ’09. 370w.
“The adventures and experiences of two Chicago business men in the heart of Africa are thrillingly set forth.”
+ Ind. 65: 1187. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
198Hatfield, Henry Rand.[7] Modern accounting: its principles and some of its problems. **$1.75. Appleton.
9–8816.
A treatise of scientific interest which goes into the unsettled problem of accounting. “The book begins with a lucid treatment in two chapters of the principles of double-entry bookkeeping. Then follows a chapter on the balance sheet, out of which grow the succeeding chapters which treat of the individual items of the balance sheet and the problems suggested by them. If any chapters were to be selected for special commendation, they would be those on depreciation, profits, and surplus and reserves.” (Nation.)
“More technical and in some features more exhaustive than Cole’s ‘Accounts’ and more valuable for accountants’ reference use.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 168. Je. ’09.
“The product is scholarly; abundant evidence being present of research in the literature of accountancy, continental, British and American. It also gives evidence of personal contact with affairs and with men who have been in positions of highest administrative responsibility.” F: A. Cleveland.
+ Econ. Bull. 2: 235. S. ’09. 780w.
“On the whole, the book is heartily to be commended for the sanity of the author’s individual judgments, for its gathering of information about the practice, or lack of uniformity in practice, of modern accounts, and for its encyclopædic character.” W: M. Cole.
+ J. Pol. Econ. 17: 647. N. ’09. 850w.
“Within the limits that he has marked out for himself, Professor Hatfield has produced the best treatise on accounting that has yet appeared in the United States, and it is difficult to find its superior in the English language.”
+ Nation. 88: 584. Je. 10, ’09. 900w.
“Students of accounting will find his work a valuable book of reference.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 289. My. 8, ’09. 200w.
Haultain, Theodore Arnold. Mystery of golf: a briefe account of games in generall, their origine, antiquitie, and rampancie, and of the game ycleped golfe in particular, its uniqueness, its curiousness, and its difficultie, its anatomical, philosophicall, and moral properties together with diverse conceipts on other matters to it appertaining. *$5. Houghton.
8–34682.
“Simply a present-day golf-enthusiast’s enamoured account of the delights of his favorite pastime.” (Dial.) “The author ambles pleasantly in discussion of the perversities of golf, its humors, its insoluble problems, its perpetual charm. He discusses the physiological, psychological and social aspects of the game.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The well-convinced and cleverly executed little treatise is amusing, especially to golfists.”
+ Dial. 45: 459. D. 16, ’08. 210w.
“This venture of Mr. Haultain’s does justify itself.”
+ Nation. 88: 167. F. 18, ’09. 150w.
“Any book lover, any collector, will prize this little book. It is a book for men of good minds; trifling learnedly with a weighty subject. It is charming reading.”
+ N. Y. Times. 13: 800. D. 26, ’08. 400w.
“Why the ludicrous, more than Spenserian, extravagance of the rubric notes?”
+ − Spec. 102: 505. Mr. 27, ’09. 200w.
Havell, Ernest Binfield.[9] Indian sculpture and painting. *$25. Scribner.
9–7586.
“This is a work of exceeding interest to students of Oriental art. The author has studied his subject closely, and writes with an intimate knowledge of the magnificent examples of glyptic art for which India is famous. His definitions of the ideals of the native sculptor are clearly presented, and help his readers to a juster appreciation of the examples which still remain more or less intact as a witness of the æsthetic culture and technical skill of the craftsman in past ages. Among the excellent photographs with which the work is illustrated is a particularly interesting series from the shrine of Bôrôbudûr.”—Int. Studio.
“A work of extraordinary value and interest.”
+ Int. Studio. 38: 245. S. ’09. 230w.
“The book is a pioneer work, and will stand as something of a landmark in the future. His overstatements considerably impair the value of the book as a contribution to knowledge.” Laurence Binyon.
+ − Sat. R. 107: 38. Ja. 9, ’09. 1700w.
“Those who would know something of the true essence of Indian art will welcome Mr. Havell’s book. Mr. Havell at once goes to the root of the matter, and not only makes us realise that Indian art is totally different in its aim from that of the West, but helps us to understand why this is so.”
+ Spec. 102: sup. 641. Ap. 24, ’09. 550w.
Hawker, George.[11] Life of George Grenfell. **$2. Revell.
9–30437.
A life of George Grenfell who spent thirty years as missionary among the Congo natives. “Mr. Hawker bases his work upon writings of Mr. Grenfell which have been gathered together since his death in July, 1906, and includes in it many direct quotations from his letters, journals, and other papers.” (N. Y. Times.)
“A new and interesting life of George Grenfell.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 555. S. 18, ’09. 350w.
Spec. 102: 863. My. 29, ’09. 450w.
Hawkes, Clarence.[10] Shovelhorns: the biography of a moose. †$1.50. Jacobs.
9–25955.
A biography that traces the struggles of the king of the wilderness as with main strength he fights his battles with other dwellers of the forest and uses his “wilderness cunning against the artifices of civilization.” Altho the treatment of the chapters is in the popular vein, moose characteristics are set down with fidelity to scientific fact.
Hawkins, George Walter. Economy factor in steam-power plants. $3. Hill pub.
9–3208.
“The only problem dealt with is the determination of the fuel consumption of a steam plant per unit of power delivered.... The plan of the book is simple. First of all, the performance of the elements of a steam plant are considered; then a number of formulas are built up for the fuel consumption under full load test conditions for steam plants of various types; and finally, factors are determined for taking into account variable load and standing losses.”—Engin. N.