Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 19)

+ Dial 62:142 F 22 ‘17 120w

“For sheer dramatic intensity the second act has been equalled by few plays in the past half century. ... Guimerá’s play should be accessible in the theater. It probably will not be. There is too much of the primitive and the true in it, and nothing whatever of the veiled sex appeal. ... As a reading play it is fascinating, and we fortunately have it in an admirable translation.” Frank Macdonald

+ N Y Call p14 Mr 11 ‘17 850w

Pratt p36 O ‘17 10w

+ R of Rs 55:441 Ap ‘17 160w

GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY. Dynamic of manhood. *75c (3c) Assn. press; *$1 (4c) Doran 170 17-21790

Dr Gulick says that human desires, or hungers, may be divided into two classes: (1) those that seek some benefit for one’s self; and (2) those that seek some benefit for others. The first are stomach-hungers—or Hunger; the second are heart-hungers—or Love. It is with these “heart-hungers” that his book is concerned. Contents: The two major motives; Hunger for a friend; Hunger for woman; Hunger for children; Hunger for God. The two editions are printed from the same plates, altho that issued by the Association Press is in smaller form.

+ A L A Bkl 14:149 F ‘18

“His conclusions coincide with and add weight to the best thought of the day, from the viewpoint of religion as well as from that of science.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 D 22 ‘17 100w

“The opening chapter on unsexed persons gives the book an excessively physiological keynote, and does not establish the author’s thesis. Dr Gulick has, however, an excellent chapter on the dangers of talking sexual subjects so as to arouse pruriency in children and his presentation of the ideal of romantic marriage is sincere and high-principled.”

+ — Springf’d Republican p17 N 18 ‘17 150w

GULLIVER, JULIA HENRIETTA. Studies in democracy. *$1 (6c) Putnam 321.8 17-6232

Three addresses by the president of Rockford college for women. In the first, The essence of democracy, delivered as a baccalaureate address in 1915, the author expresses the belief that “the impulse toward expansion, which underlies the present world-upheaval, is the impulse toward the democratizing of Europe.” The second, The twentieth-century search for the Holy Grail, delivered before the State federation of women’s clubs in Rockford, Ill., in 1915, is a study of the work of American women along economic, civic and legislative lines. The third, The efficiency of democracy, a baccalaureate address of 1916, is given to a comparison of the methods of a democracy and an autocracy, as represented by the United States and Germany, with suggestions as to what each can learn from the other.

“While it contains nothing that is novel or striking, the book is interesting, cogent in its expression of ideas and possesses more literary merit than most brief discussions of its kind.”

+ Am Pol Sci R 11:366 My ‘17 80w

Boston Transcript p6 My 29 ‘17 280w

N Y Br Lib News 4:43 Mr ‘17 10w

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“The fact that two of them are baccalaureate sermons may explain their limitations, for nothing seems to stultify original thought like the necessity of imparting it to June graduates.”

– + Springf’d Republican p15 Jl 29 ‘17 200w

GUTHRIE, WILLIAM DAMERON. Magna carta, and other addresses. *$1.50 (2c) Columbia univ. press 342.7 16-17474

The address on Magna carta which opens this volume was delivered before the Constitutional convention of the State of New York in 1915. The other addresses, also prepared for special occasions, are: The Mayflower compact; Constitutional morality; The eleventh amendment; Criticism of the courts; Graduated or progressive taxation; The duty of citizenship; Nominating conventions; Catholic parochial schools; The France-America committee of New York.

“Mr Guthrie’s addresses add very little to the discussion of the problems which they are concerned with, but they have their value as a statement of the conservative view by a learned and clear-thinking student and teacher of the law. The essay on ‘Magna carta’ is perhaps the least valuable of the entire collection. In this paper the author presents the older view of the content and purpose of this document, a view that has long since lost credit among English historians.”

Dial 62:112 F 8 ‘17 250w

“On every page there is to be found cogent argument, happy illustration and sound setting forth of vitally important legal and constitutional principles.”

+ Educ R 52:529 D ‘16 90w

“Mr Guthrie’s predilection for quasi-historical arguments prevents him from dealing with any issue on its merits. However, in the essay on the income tax, he shows his moral insight and social wisdom in his condemnation of a graduated income tax.” M. R. Cohen

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+ — Springf’d Republican p6 Ja 12 ‘17 450w

GWATKIN, HENRY MELVILL.^[2] Church and state in England to the death of Queen Anne; with a preface by the Rev E. W. Watson. *$5 (3c) Longmans 274.2 17-27958

Dr Gwatkin did not live to revise his manuscript, and it is offered with some imperfections which the editors deemed presumptuous to tamper with. It is not a textbook for beginners but for “informed and intelligent students” who wish a survey of England’s secular and ecclesiastical development, in due coordination and proportion. A good index is provided.

“If, in consequence of the lamented author’s death, some portions of the book are not quite abreast of the most recent knowledge there is compensation in the broadminded and comprehensive treatment of the weighty theme to which Prof. Gwatkin wholeheartedly addressed himself.”

+ Ath p590 N ‘17 190w

“As a scamper through English history this posthumous work, edited by Dr E. W. Watson, is clever. Here and there we find shrewd remarks and phrases. But, whereas the modern historian strives painfully to be coldly neutral, Gwatkin’s bias was so vehement that he seldom troubles to argue, or even to be accurate.”

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+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p507 O 18 ‘17 70w

“No references are given, but they are hardly to be expected in a compendium of facts which derives its interest from the personality of the author and the independence of his views. There is no lack of learning, and the book is wonderfully compressed. The character sketches are always interesting, and some of the generalizations on collateral subjects, like the remarks on English foreign policy on page 237, would do credit to a specialized monograph. No 238ecclesiastical historian has written with a broader outlook on the human side of English history.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p633 D 20 ‘17 1300w

GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS. Mrs Humphry Ward. (Writers of the day) *60c (3c) Holt 823 (Eng ed 18-1392)

This study of Mrs Humphry Ward is added to a series which already includes books on Anatole France, Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and others. It is Mrs Ward’s great and long continued popularity that draws critical attention to her work. As Mr Gwynne says, “Such a success as she has achieved and consolidated does not dictate to critical opinion, but it compels appraisement to be made.” Following the introduction, are chapters devoted to: “Robert Elsmere”; Novels of the general world: “Helbeck of Bannisdale” and “Eleanor”; Novels with a historical basis: “The case of Richard Meynell”; Later novels and general appreciation.

“Mr Gwynn takes the candid and reasonable view that the popularity of Mrs Humphry Ward justifies a critical attention which her books hardly deserve on mere literary grounds.”

+ Ath p594 N ‘17 130w

“While he has apparently read Mrs Ward’s novels thoroughly, he has little understanding of their purpose. A serious mistake was made by the editor of the series in inviting him to contribute the study of Mrs Humphry Ward.” E. F. E.

— Boston Transcript p8 N 10 ‘17 650w

“At times his criticism is most caustic, more than is usually found in sketches of this character.” D. F. K.

+ N Y Call p14 Ja 5 ‘18 160w

“It is with unmixed joy that we greet this critical estimate of Mrs Humphry Ward, not because it is vital to have an estimate of Mrs Ward, but because in itself this little study is of unusual value. This critique is excellent from a critical point of view, and well worth reading for its own sake.”

+ N Y Times 22:579 D 30 ‘17 440w

“It is a remarkably spirited and readable appreciation, even though one may not fully agree with the conclusions.”

+ — R of Rs 57:217 F ‘18 80w

“Mr Gwynn shows himself at once a sympathetic and a severe critic.”

+ Spec 119:529 N 10 ‘17 140w

“Mr Gwynn has not a few shrewd things to say as to Mrs Ward’s mental attitude. His opening pages seem to be imbued with the highly unintelligent view that there must be something suspicious about a large circulation. This leads him to impose upon the reader at the outset what seems to us a wholly unfair view of his subject, and one which he does not prove himself able to substantiate.”

– + The Times [London] Lit Sup p519 O 25 ‘17 470w

GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS, and TUCKWELL, GERTRUDE M. Life of the Rt Hon Sir Charles W. Dilke. 2v il *$10.50 Macmillan (Eng ed 17-29369)

“It may be expected that this ‘Life of Sir Charles Dilke’ will at once take its place among standard works of reference, for much of it records in his own words, from notes made day by day, the important events in British and European history of the second half of the nineteenth century in which he took a prominent part. ... Sir Charles Dilke’s activities were many-sided, and his biographers have tried to present a picture of the complete man. Sections are allotted to his lifelong efforts to improve the conditions of the working classes, his care for the rights of native races, and his literary work and interests; and Mr Spenser Wilkinson contributes the chapters describing the active part taken by Sir Charles Dilke in impressing upon the nation the necessity of preparations for imperial defence. In all the activities of the second half of his life Sir Charles had a devoted co-worker in Lady Dilke, and Miss Tuckwell has provided a delightful picture of happy home life.”—Ath

“The two volumes are a notable addition to the socio-political history of the last generation. For in the realm of social politics Dilke established a new tradition. In the sphere of foreign policy or imperial policy, on questions relating to the army and navy, he undoubtedly possessed an almost unrivalled knowledge; but these matters were, in a sense, the stock-in-trade of all politicians. In the field of social politics, however, he stood alone—a pioneer.”

+ Ath p504 O ‘17 1900w

“The reader feels that he is a privileged spectator in the actual making of history, and is enabled to realize the personalities of the chief characters who directed the course of events.”

+ Ath p530 O ‘17 480w

“His biographers appear to have magnified his strong and engaging qualities and minimized his failings, which is not an uncommon practice with biographers who are also loving friends. It is unfortunately to be noted that the publishers of this work found it necessary or desirable to give the book a fragile and mechanically poor binding.” H. S. K.

+ — Boston Transcript p8 O 17 ‘17 900w

“There has been no English political biography so valuable as this since Lord Morley summarized an epoch in his life of Gladstone. ... From whatever angle this life is regarded it is a valuable supplement to what we already possess.” H. J. L.

+ New Repub 13:320 Ja 12 ‘18 2450w

+ N Y Times 22:532 D 2 ‘17 600w

“It is impossible to praise too highly the industry and tact with which Miss Tuckwell has discharged her task of compiling what will certainly rank as a great political biography. ... Miss Tuckwell’s comments are sparing and relevant; and while she obviously writes as a loving disciple, there is no indiscriminate or emotional eulogy.”

+ Sat R 124:sup3 S 29 ‘17 1200w

“We cannot think of Sir Charles Dilke as a possible prime minister. ... Miss Tuckwell, however, has unquestionably shown that Sir Charles Dilke was a greater force in Liberal politics before 1885 than many people supposed.”

+ — Spec 119:327 S 29 ‘17 2050w

“It is for their spiritual quite as much as for their historical value that these volumes will take their place in English literature. ... We find, with some disappointment, in the passages dealing with labour questions a lack of that intimacy, that private estimation of personalities and tendencies, which is so fascinating in other chapters of the book.”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p451 S 20 ‘17 1950w

GWYNNE, WALKER.^[2] Primitive worship and prayer book; rationale, history, and doctrine of the English, Irish, Scottish, and American books. *$2.50 Longmans 264 17-15175

A study made timely by the work of revision of the prayer book in England, the United States and Canada. The writer traces the origin and development of Christian worship to the present form for English-speaking people. The second part of his work is devoted to a clear explanation of what the church teaches by means of the prayer book—by means of the formularies, traditional customs and interpretative scripture embodied in the prayer book. The book seeks an audience among students, general readers, teachers and candidates for Holy orders.

Pittsburgh 22:698 O ‘17

“The chapters contain the result of considerable reading in the modern literature on the subject, and show that the writer has the gift of interesting exposition.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p519 O 25 ‘17 210w

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HAGEDORN, HERMANN. You are the hope of the world! *50c (5½c) Macmillan 172 17-23664

Mr Hagedorn appeals to the boys and girls of America, especially to those between the ages of ten and seventeen, to realize the responsibility laid upon their shoulders by the great war. He asks them to think squarely about their country, to realize that “democracy isn’t a success—yet,” that we are wasteful, materialistic, improvident and indifferent, and then to “create a tradition of alert citizenship, a tradition of public service.” “Your elder brothers will have to fight with guns. ... To you is given a work every bit as grand as dying for your country; and that is, living for the highest interests of your country! Those interests are the interests of democracy. If, therefore, you live for the highest interests of America, you live at the same time for the highest interests of the world. You are the hope of the world!”

A L A Bkl 14:136 Ja ‘18

“Such a book as this cannot be reviewed. It must be read if its mission is to be understood. And all should read it, all Americans who know, who fear to know, or who are anxious to know what America stands for in this war.” E. F. E.

+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 27 ‘17 270w

+ Cleveland p119 N ‘17 50w

“Mr Hagedorn has compiled all the patriotic persuasion that he can cram into 100 pages or so, and from a literary point of view, his appeal is well worth reading. It is curious to note how he traverses what ‘teacher’ told the boys and girls in school about the faultless democracy of Uncle Sam ... and how we have always been morally, ethically and spiritually right, and those who opposed us wrong.” J. W.

N Y Call p15 Ag 5 ‘17 400w

“This appeal to patriotism is praiseworthy in Its musical simplicity of style, and the wholesome tenor of his arguments. ... If Mr Hagedorn can make this war teach the lesson of obligation and responsibility to our over-fed and under-worked youth, that will be one consolation left us.”

+ Springf’d Republican p15 S 16 ‘17 320w

HAGGARD, SIR HENRY RIDER. Finished. il *$1.40 Longmans 17-24205

“That mighty African hunter and adventurer, Allan Quatermain, who has so often filled the roles of hero and narrator of H. Rider Haggard’s romances, is once more pressed into service in ‘Finished.’ ... While this story is complete in itself, it forms the concluding unit of a trilogy, of which ‘Marie’ and ‘Child of storm’ are the preceding numbers ... The story embodies the last episode in the wizard Zikali’s mysterious career; but to give it a proper setting, Mr Haggard recounts the events preceding the Zulu-British war of 1879, together with events in the early stages of the strife. Historical facts are, of course, suitably cloaked in romance, and arranged to the needs of the plot.”—Springf’d Republican

A L A Bkl 14:96 D ‘17

“Our old friend, Allan Quatermain tells this story. And he tells it well, even if some of the old glamour seems to be missing.”

+ — Ath p527 O ‘17 60w

“Thirty years have passed since we first heard of Allan Quatermain and he is as much alive today as ever. ... He is and will remain one of the dominant characters of English romantic fiction.” E. F. E.

+ Boston Transcript p6 S 15 ‘17 1150w

“The council at the ‘Valley of bones’ is the most thrilling and picturesque part of a lively, exciting and readable narrative.”

+ Lit D 55:42 O 27 ‘17 200w

+ Nation 105:694 D 20 ‘17 150w

“A fascinating mixture of fact and fiction.”

+ N Y Times 22:353 S 23 ‘17 880w

“This latest volume, with its ominous title, ‘Finished,’ shows us two things clearly: One is that this particular type of romance of adventure, ... with its long-winded periods and utter lack of characterization in dialog needed a rich imagination that provided thrills in plenty and all the action required to sweep the reader along in a fascination that forgot the cumbersome writing; and the second thing is that Rider Haggard’s once so enviably rich and fertile imagination is, if not exactly finished, at least slowing down to an extent that necessitates a change of style to make his books acceptable.” G. I. Colbron

+ — Pub W 92:804 S 15 ‘17 570w

R of Rs 56:557 N ‘17 100w

“The author re-creates, as no other novelist can, the mysterious, legendary Africa of exploration days, and his stories, which are the outgrowth of a personal knowledge of African pioneering, convey a thrill and interest shared by few adventure tales of the present.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 O 7 ‘17 320w

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p428 S 6 ‘17 570w

HALASI, ÖDÖN. Belgium under the German heel. *$1.50 Funk 940.91 17-21999

“M. Halasi, a well-known Hungarian writer, ‘succeeded in gaining the confidence of the German authorities and was allowed in 1916 to spend a few months in Belgium, being given unusual facilities for travelling and seeing everything within the occupied territory.’ The record of his experiences has been given to the anonymous translator, who has supplemented it by information conveyed by another Magyar, M. Ernö Lovass, who spent eighteen months in Belgium during the war.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“It is evident that Mr Halasi’s sympathies are with the Belgium people. ... He sketches the present condition of Antwerp, Louvain, Namur, Dinant, Liège, and Malines, in the order named, and tells to what extent they have suffered or escaped the horrors of war. He closes his book with a picture of Cardinal Mercier and his efforts on behalf of his fellow-countrymen.”

+ Ath p368 Jl ‘17 350w

Lit D 55:43 D 8 ‘17 160w

“The description offers nothing sensational. The author apparently left Belgium before the time of the deportations; we have here nothing of the nature of the harrowing scenes described in M. Passelecq’s book.”

The Times [London] Lit Sup p279 Je 14 ‘17 400w

HALDANE, JOHN SCOTT. Organism and environment as illustrated by the physiology of breathing. (Mrs Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures) *$1.25 Yale univ. press 612 17-9380

“Four lectures dealing respectively with the regulation of breathing; the readjustment of regulation in acclimatization and disease; the regulation of the environment, internal and external; organic regulation as the essence of life—inadequacy of mechanistic and vitalistic conceptions.”—Cleveland

“Of interest to biologists, physiologists, philosophers, and physicians.”

+ Cleveland p94 Jl ‘17 50w

“Four addresses of dynamic interest, but from two very distinct points of view. The first three are predominantly physiological and technical rather than popular. ... The fourth lecture is of superlative interest, and is a masterly application of the facts of physiology to the modern theories of life.”

+ Nation 104:764 Je 28 ‘17 600w

“The special value of the book to students lies in the fact that the function of respiration is treated simply as one aspect of the activities of the organism as a whole, as a chapter in the unending series of adaptations, internal and external, which make up the life of an individual.” F. H. S.

+ Nature 100:241 N 29 ‘17 1050w

Pratt p20 O ‘17 50w

240“From its detailed study of the processes connected with breathing under so many diverse conditions, the book will be of interest to physicians and physiologists. From its consideration of the conflicting theories of life from the standpoint primarily of breathing, it deserves a place on the shelf of the biologist and natural philosopher.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 O 29 ‘17 700w

“Dr Haldane was invited by Yale university to give the Silliman lectures in 1915. At that time there were expectations about the duration of the war which made it natural that postponement of one year should be asked and granted. In 1916 it was determined to wait no longer, and the events of 1917 have fully justified the judgment. The lectures (on the ‘Physiology of breathing’) were delivered and are to appear in book form before long. But since they contained much that is technical, Dr Haldane gave also four public lectures on ‘points of more general interest,’ which are printed in the present volume. There is still enough of technicality left to make it hardish reading for the layman in places, but the reading is well worth while.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p364 Ag 2 ‘17 1750w

HALE, EDWARD EVERETT, jr.^[2] Life and letters of Edward Everett Hale. 2v il ea *$5 (2c) Little 17-31921

Not a criticism, neither an estimate of the life of Edward Everett Hale, but a portrayal of his personal character and achievements. Making use of a vast amount of material including letters, diaries, day books, sermons, lectures and various contributions to literature the son of Dr Hale has followed the progress of his father’s career thru its nearly ninety years. After graduation from Harvard he spent a few years making up his mind what he would do; then turned to the ministry. Middle age found him a leading clergyman; a leader and organizer in and out of his especial denomination, full of ideas for public service; a man of letters who had ahead of him long, useful years before the American public. The spirit of the great American has been immortalized in the story that won him continuous fame, “A man without a country.”

“Books of this kind are as rare and as universal in their interest as the characters with which they deal.”

+ Lit D 55:44 D 8 ‘17 140w

“A word of praise should go to Mr Hale not only for the painstaking care, fine discrimination and judicial mind with which he has done this work, but also for the excellent spirit of literary craftsmanship in which the whole work has been conceived and carried out. For it is what one might call, for lack of a better term, creative biography. He has used his materials as a sculptor would use clay, and out of them has made a clear and luminous figure which stands out from the pages, a real and authentic portrait of the man as he was. He has not even allowed his filial love to obscure or to gild or to make deceptively roseate what he felt to be the true lineaments of his subject or the true estimate of his character, his work, and his influence.”

+ + N Y Times 22:553 D 16 ‘17 1600w

“We have had to wait eight years for this story of his life. It was worth waiting for. His son has written, or rather we should say edited, this life with reverencing candor—a combination rare in biographers.” Lyman Abbott

+ Outlook 118:146 Ja 23 ‘18 2800w

“It is good to have this biography of vivid and vivifying life. It will bring closer to the man thousands of readers who have known his books and who may well wish to come, thru this biography, into more direct touch with his personality. The illustrations help toward this end.” R. R. Bowker

+ Pub W 93:216 Ja 19 ‘18 850w

+ R of Rs 57:99 Ja ‘18 210w

HALL, BOLTON. Thrift. *$1 (1½c) Huebsch 304 17-2049

Education, the cooperative movement, intensive cultivation of the land and natural taxation are some of the subjects discussed in this book. The author does not write of thrift in the vein of Samuel Smiles. It is not a system of saving pennies that he advocates, but rather an organization of all one’s resources to the end that life may be enriched. He advocates efficiency, too, but it is not the machine-made efficiency of the experts.

A L A Bkl 13:330 My ‘17 (Reprinted from Survey)

“Evidence of the up-to-date business promoter sticks out on almost every page. His is the clever, incisive, staccato style.” H. S. K.

Boston Transcript p8 F 21 ‘17 330w

Cleveland p38 Mr ‘17 150w

“It would not be just to imply that there aren’t some good things in this book. These good things might have been condensed into a pamphlet. There is chapter 13, for example, on ‘Institutional garden thrift.’ There is an interesting discussion of coöperatives; and another of taxation of land values. Mr Hall’s dissertation on prohibition appears to the reviewer to be partially misleading. Loose thinking characterizes it.” D: Rosenstein

– + N Y Call p15 Je 10 ‘17 770w

Pittsburgh 22:325 Ap ‘17 20w

“The best chapter preaches ‘thrift in happiness,’ and points the way to love without possession and to joy that is not dependent upon material success.”

R of Rs 55:444 Ap ‘17 110w

“Addressed to wage earners. A sensible discussion of personal efficiency, waste and extravagance, investments and practical success.” P. B.

+ St Louis 15:107 Ap ‘17 20w

“It is full of bright turns, but it is more than bright,—it is sensible and practical. ... The argument [about temperance], as far as it goes, is sound, but it doesn’t get far into the merits of the question. It is the shallowest part of the book.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 Mr 9 ‘17 330w

“How to become prosperous without petrifying in the process really is Mr Hall’s theme; and, though we may not agree with him in every detail of his plan, no one can read this little book without getting benefit from his warm human counsel.” B. L.

+ Survey 37:585 F 17 ‘17 180w

HALL, GERTRUDE. Aurora the magnificent. il *$1.40 (1c) Century 17-10200

Mrs Aurora Hawthorne and her friend Miss Estelle Madison drop on the little Anglo-American colony in Florence, determined to see and to spend and to enjoy. They, in particular Aurora, possess all the failings of the “typical” American abroad, but the Anglo-American colony, led by the American consul and his family, accept Aurora and Estelle without question. The reader can do no less, for there is something about them, particularly Aurora, that is compelling. The Fosses, the American consul’s family, are delightful, and worthy of a book all of themselves, but this story as it develops becomes more and more the story of Aurora and Gerald Fane, poor, over-wrought, artistic Gerald alternately moved by a desire to shake Aurora and an impulse to rest his tired head on her generous shoulder.

“Published in the Century.”

+ A L A Bkl 13:353 My ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ Bookm 45:413 Je ‘17 550w

“The story is simple and comprehensible, the mystery untangling itself bit by bit, as mysteries really do. It is natural and not melodramatic; amusing and thoroughly readable.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 11 ‘17 330w

+ Cath World 105:555 Jl ‘17 80w

241“People who frankly enjoy love-mazes will like this story; it is written with grace and simplicity, and an honest insight into the thoughts and experiences with which most folk most of the time are engrossed. Those who yearn for light on the vaster perplexities of the human struggle en masse, might as well pass it by.”

Dial 62:401 My 3 ‘17 230w

“Aurora is that rare thing in popular fiction, an individual, a new personality.”

+ Ind 90:471 Je 9 ‘17 130w

“The main thing, and the overwhelming thing, is our faith in Aurora’s greatness as a woman, in her adequacy for life, upon whatever terms it may challenge her. ... Our Aurora’s triumph over us and her Gerald is that we exult in her as she is.”

+ Nation 104:581 My 10 ‘17 470w

“The story is a very fine and generous comedy of Americanism abroad. There is no denying Aurora, or the wholesome elemental womanhood, the ripeness of character, that underlies her outrageous bloom.” H. W. Boynton

+ Nation 105:601 N 29 ‘17 90w

“The novel is clever and written with a good deal of charm, but the author has spread her slight plot over far too many pages.”

+ — N Y Times 22:114 Ap 1 ‘17 330w

“Reading ‘Aurora the magnificent’ is like taking a railway journey thru pleasant enough but rather uneventful country and all at once getting somewhere.” Doris Webb

+ Pub W 91:973 Mr 17 ‘17 550w

+ Wis Lib Bul 13:158 My ‘17 60w

HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY. Jesus, the Christ, in the light of psychology. 2v *$7.50 (2c) Doubleday 232 17-8497

A psychological study of Jesus is regarded by the author as the logical next step following the historical and critical research of recent years. The introduction says, “It is this step that the author attempts to take in this volume. ... He regards himself as a pioneer in a new domain in which he is certain to be followed by many others, and is convinced that the psychological Jesus Christ is the true and living Christ of the present and of the future. He is the spiritual Christ of the resurrection whom alone Paul knew and proclaimed, although he is here described in modern terms, and it is this that now chiefly matters rather than what an historical person was or did in Palestine, two thousand years ago.” It is Dr Hall’s hope that such a study may go far toward the reinterpretation of Christianity which is necessary if it is to remain a vital religion for the modern world. Volume 1 consists of chapters on: Jesus’ physical personality; Jesus in literature; Jesus’ character, negative views; The nativity; Beginnings of the supreme pedagogy. Volume 2 has chapters on: Messianity, sonship, and the kingdom; Jesus’ eschatology, his inner character, purpose, and work; Jesus’ ethics and prayer; The parables of Jesus; The miracles; Death and resurrection of Jesus.

“The title is likely to mislead the general reader; the work is not a contribution to the study of Jesus, but to the study of genetic psychology. Librarians need to note this in cataloguing it. The student who wishes to know what Jesus said and did, or to understand the gospels, will find only incidental benefit here; it is not the psychology of Jesus which is treated, but the psychology of those who have reflected on Jesus. How the human mind has reacted upon this name; above all, how a modern encyclopedic mind, superlatively trained in psychological analysis, reacts upon it, is exhaustively and illuminatingly presented.” C. R. Bowen

* + – Am J Theol 21:612 O ‘17 3200w

“A book for scholars and serious students.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:39 N ‘17

“That the work will prove valuable will hardly be questioned. ... Dr Hall will not expect all to agree with his conclusions. We think very few will. But hardly any will fail to appreciate the fine spirit of the author; the great mass of material, gathered by the toil of many years; and his introducing them to a method which is sure to throw much light upon him whom the author calls ‘the best of all beings.’” F. W. C.

+ — Boston Transcript p7 My 19 ‘17 1700w

— Cath World 105:245 My ‘17 1400w

+ Cleveland p91 Jl ‘17 60w

Dial 63:70 Jl 19 ‘17 530w

“A notable contribution to the understanding of Jesus. Probably no other man possesses either the equipment or the sympathy necessary to write this book.”

+ Educ R 56:173 F ‘18 60w

“In his first chapters Dr Hall treats with notable comprehensiveness the conceptions of Christ’s physical appearance and character that have been set forth in art and literature from earliest times down to the immediate present, discussing and weighing each with care and thoroughness and judicial temper. Among the very recent books thus considered in which Christ or Christian teachings are the theme are, to mention only a very few of the large and diverse list, Kennedy’s ‘The servant in the house,’ Jerome’s ‘Passing of the third floor back,’ Maxwell’s ‘The ragged messenger,’ Moore’s ‘The Brook Kerith,’ Selma Lagerlöf’s ‘Miracles of Anti-Christ,’ Zangwill’s ‘The next religion,’ while discussion at some length is given to the cult of the superman, which Dr Hall calls ‘The chief and most extraordinary literary phenomenon of our time.’”

+ N Y Times 22:246 Jl 1 ‘17 800w

“Whether God, Jesus Christ, and Christianity are anything more than psychic phenomena according to Dr Hall’s philosophy he does not make clear; but he makes it quite clear that he thinks this a question not important to answer.”

– + Outlook 117:65 S 12 ‘17 330w

Pittsburgh 22:437 My ‘17 40w

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“It is unfortunate that a work containing so much learning and so authentic vision should be expressed in such heavy and difficult English. The style often obscures the ideas it seeks to express. Otherwise, the book is a valuable contribution from one of America’s leading psychologists to the pressing religious problems of the time.”

+ — Springf’d Republican p6 My 22 ‘17 600w

“The mind of President Hall is singularly unfit for his undertaking. He not only is destitute of historical judgment; he does not even realize that his task requires it.” B. W. Bacon

— Yale R n s 7:211 O ‘17 1850w

HALL, JENNIE. Our ancestors in Europe; ed. by J: Montgomery Gambrill and Lida Lee Tall. il *76c Silver 940 16-14054

“Jennie Hall’s book is made up of three main parts, viz.: The ancient world. The newer nations, and Beginnings of our own times. The titles of these parts suggest their contents. One hundred and forty pages are devoted to part 1, one hundred and four to part 2, and eighty-two to part 3. The list of illustrations is a very long one. There is also a considerable number of maps and plans scattered throughout the book. At the end of each chapter one finds a long list of questions. Following the last chapter is a list of important dates.” (School R) “The book is designed to furnish pupils in the sixth grade with a background for their imminent study of American history.” (Nation)

“The author, Miss Jennie Hall, of the Parker school of Chicago, has shown considerable skill both in selecting the incidents and figures on which to dwell and in making the narrative simple without making it dull or childish.”

+ Nation 105:268 S 6 ‘17 90w

“Generally speaking the make-up of the text is attractive, and the contents deal with concrete material well in the range of the understanding of the pupils for whom the book was written.” R M Tryon

+ — School R 25:684 N ‘17 180w

242HALL, JOHN LESSLIE. English usage; studies in the history and uses of English words and phrases. *$1.50 Scott 420.4 17-14826

“A reference book for high school pupils or for teachers. Unlike similar books, it aims to give authorities on both sides, leaving the choice to the reader. It is a protest against the rigid rules of the purists in grammatical form.”—Ind

Ind 91:234 Ag 11 ‘17 80w

“As a history of opinion on the chief disputed points of usage the book is valuable. Its value would have been increased if instead of statistical lists we had more often before us the passages in their context.”

– + Nation 105:261 S 6 ‘17 330w

“In reading the book, one feels less confident than before as to what ‘good usage’ really is, and also recognizes the danger of concluding that a wrong use of words by a good author makes good usage.”

+ Outlook 116:593 Ag 15 ‘17 120w

Reviewed by E. F. Geyer and R. L. Lyman

+ School R 25:607 O ‘17 120w

HALL, MAY EMERY. Roger Williams. il *$1.25 (3c) Pilgrim press 17-24423

The story of Roger Williams forms a chapter in the history of the struggle for personal liberty in America, and the author has told it in a popular style that will be attractive to young people. She has based her account on recognized sources. There are several illustrations to add interest to the book.

+ A L A Bkl 14:173 F ‘18

“Very brightly is the story written, delightfully fascinating and especially attractive in the naïve manner in which she rushes into the forum as a special pleader in behalf of her client. For Mrs Hall is confessedly an ardent and enthusiastic admirer of the character of Williams, so ardent and so enthusiastic that she fails to discern his undoubted failings.” E. J. C.

+ — Boston Transcript p9 O 20 ‘17 850w

“His story is always worth retelling, and Mrs Hall’s volume is, in its way, a public educator. Issued at smaller cost, as one believes it might be, it would be an excellent work for reading in the schools.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 N 4 ‘17 400w

HALLER, WILLIAM.^[2] Early life of Robert Southey, 1774-1803. (Columbia univ. studies in English and comparative literature) *$1.50 (1½c) Columbia univ. press 17-25840

The first portion of the life of a poet who has no adequate detailed biography. It covers the first twenty-nine years of Southey’s life: his boyhood at school and university; his reactions to literary and political movements in his youth; his early associations with Coleridge, Lamb, Wordsworth, and others; his share in attempting to establish a communistic society in America; his characteristics as a young man, poet, and man of letters; his connection with the “lake school” of poetry; and his settling down in what became his permanent home in Keswick.

Boston Transcript p6 N 17 ‘17 1000w

“Southey played so prominent a part in the intellectual and literary generation that sprang from the French revolution that a competent study of him has long been needed. That need is now being supplied. The mere bulk of his writings has frightened scholars. Yet the story of this man is not only worth the telling; it is rich in interest besides.”

+ Dial 64:73 Ja 17 ‘18 470w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p638 D 20 ‘17 130w

HALSEY, FRANCIS WHITING, ed. Balfour, Viviani and Joffre; their speeches and other public utterances in America. *$1.50 (1½c) Funk 940.91 17-24227

Mr Halsey has collected and arranged, with descriptive matter, as compiled from contemporary accounts, the speeches and other public utterances in America of Mr Balfour, M. Viviani and Marshal Joffre, together with those of Italian, Belgian and Russian commissioners during the great war. To these he has added an account of the arrival of the United States warships and soldiers in England and France under Admiral Sims and General Pershing. The period covered is April 21 to July 4, 1917. The material used was first published in the Congressional Record and Canadian parliamentary reports, the great American and Canadian dailies, the London Times and Morning Post, the Paris Temps and La Victoire, the Literary Digest, etc. The book has no index.

“Newspaper ‘clippings,’ it would seem, should hardly be given unedited to posterity. They could not include, in this case, much that was of importance concerning these visits; hence the record is neither complete nor accurate.” A. I. A.

– — Am Hist R 23:433 Ja ‘18 350w

A L A Bkl 14:53 N ‘17

“Mr Halsey’s collection of the speeches of the commissioners is a useful work of reference rather than a readable book, for one must grant that the average of eloquence, despite the frequent ‘lift’ in M. Viviani’s addresses, is low, while the passages that are insignificant and that duplicate one another are very numerous indeed.”

+ — Dial 63:594 D 6 ‘17 200w

+ Ind 91:512 S 29 ‘17 100w

“Even a hasty reading of the book, however, creates two impressions which one ventures to believe will not later be unjustified by the results of complete investigation. The first is that Mr Balfour is a master of the shrewd, weighed phrase, a genius at resolving dangerous difficulties and at allaying any nascent suspicions. M. Viviani, on the other hand, is easily the most eloquent orator that we have heard in America for a generation.”

+ New Repub 13:355 Ja 19 ‘18 200w

R of Rs 57:214 F ‘18 40w

+ Spec 119:sup474 N 3 ‘17 130w

HAMILTON, CLAYTON MEEKER. Problems of the playwright. *$1.60 (2c) Holt 792 17-29336

A companion volume to “The theory of the theatre and studies in stage-craft” which the writer calls “a sort of suffix” to the earlier work. “In this book, the kaleidoscopic field of the contemporary drama is considered from various points of view,—that of the critic, the dramatist, the stage-director, the scenic artist, the manager, and the theatre-going public.” Among the chapters, a good many of which have had magazine publication, are: Contrast in the drama; Surprise in the drama; The troublesome last act; Strategy and tactics; Harmony in presentation; High comedy in America; The George M. Cohan school of playwrights; Yvette Guilbert; The magic of Mr Chesterton; Criticism and creation in the drama; A kiss for Cinderella; Dramatic talent and theatrical talent; Stevenson on the stage; The plays of Lord Dunsany; The mood of Maeterlinck; Euripides in New York; Romance and realism in the drama; The new stagecraft; The non-commercial drama; A democratic insurrection in the theatre; What is wrong with the American drama?

A L A Bkl 14:84 D ‘17

“Mr Hamilton’s dominant characteristic as a dramatic critic is his desire always to go behind the specific example, often possessing only a fleeting interest, to the law which controlled it. ... His enthusiasm is cautiously controlled; and it is set free only when his head is convinced and his heart is touched. He does not allow his judgment to be unduly influenced by the vagaries of public opinion; and the ardent admirers of Mr Galsworthy’s plays and the uncritical worshippers at the shrine of Mr Shaw will probably be rudely shocked by the chilly analysis of the merits and demerits of these two favourites of the moment. ... Mr 243Hamilton’s criticism is consistently interesting because it has the support of knowledge and the savour of individuality.” Brander Matthews

+ Bookm 46:355 N ‘17 1300w

+ Cleveland p135 D ‘17 20w

“He isn’t a radical in matters dramatic, and he isn’t a reactionary. He doesn’t champion the newer movements, nor does he evade condemning the older schools. The indecision is largely due to Mr Hamilton’s indefinite opinions, and also to his apparent refusal to trace a theme to his logical end. It is a good book with which to interest those who are not interested at all, but it will not appeal to students who have made some progress.” L: Gardy

– + N Y Call p16 Ja 19 ‘18 340w

“The title of Clayton Hamilton’s ‘Problems of the playwright’ is as unfortunate as it is alliterative, for the idea it suggests of the technical side of writing plays is much too narrow to cover the many and varied and suggestive discussions of the contemporary drama.”

+ N Y Times 22:578 D 30 ‘17 220w

“For sheer power to entertain no other writer on stagecraft excels Clayton Hamilton.”

+ R of Rs 57:108 Ja ‘18 110w

“The book deals in general observations, but they are observations that are pertinent because they are fortified by knowledge, earnestness and critical sense. They are not, however, co-ordinated into a study. Mr Hamilton’s book has little unity of purpose, though a unity of spirit does pervade it.”

+ — Springf’d Republican p17 N 11 ‘17 1100w

“Of interest to satisfy the reader’s curiosity as to the author’s opinion of certain plays or playwrights, rather than of value as dramatic criticism.”

+ — Wis Lib Bul 14:30 Ja ‘18 50w

HAMILTON, COSMO. Joan and the babies and I; being certain chapters from the autobiography of John Mainwaring, the novelist. il *$1 (6c) Little (Eng ed 16-15133)

A story which can be summed up in a few words. An Englishman, suffering from nerves and over-indulgence in self analysis, spends a summer on the Massachusetts coast. He makes friends on the beach with two small children, meets their mother, falls in love with her and marries her. It may be that the reason for existence of the book is explained in this sentence, “Being male I intended to follow the law of nature and be the dominating factor—a law which if adopted by American husbands would save many thoughtless women, over-burdened with freedom, from making epic fools of themselves.”

“There is a certain sentimental intimacy that some authors affect in relation to their characters that is more repulsive than the most outspoken language of your Fieldings or your Smolletts. ... Condemned by his own confession, he stands as an exemplar of that lack of reticence—or lack of frankness, it is hard to say which—that is the besetting sin of American literature.”

— Dial 62:403 My 3 ‘17 170w

“In spite of the domestic title of Mr Hamilton’s story, and the two delightfully natural children who usher in the first chapter, the little book is decidedly upsetting to a normally constituted mind. ... It contains some true sentiment and wise conclusions, but, great as are the faults of the present social system, it is more coherent, and certainly, less offensive to good taste than would be a society made up of Johns and Joans.”

– + N Y Times 22:155 Ap 15 ‘17 270w

HAMILTON, COSMO. Scandal. il *$1.50 (1½c) Little 17-23982

“Beatrix Vanderdyke was extraordinary rich, extraordinarily beautiful, extraordinarily charming, and extraordinarily foolish. ... Her habit of making night time visits to the studio of a rather vulgar portrait painter ... resulted in scandal. Beatrix’s family threatened her with banishment to a cottage in Maine, and to save herself from losing a New York season she declared that she had been secretly married to one of her acquaintances. This gentleman, being a good sport, accepted the challenge and determined to tame the willful Beatrix for the good of her soul. Follows the course of events to be expected in a novel beginning with this kind of a situation, including the usual bedroom scene and ending with the happy conclusion which the reader has long known was sure to come. In the meanwhile there is plenty of sparring between the hero and the more or less unclad heroine, a lady of doubtful antecedents endeavors to intervene, and an obliging fog undertakes the rôle of deus ex machina.”—N Y Times

“There is none of the preaching here which was to be found in ‘The blindness of virtue’ and which the title suggests we may be going to find. It is wholly an entertaining story with those touches of the unconventional with which Mr Hamilton knows so well how to deal.” D. L. M.

+ Boston Transcript p6 S 26 ‘17 550w

“Need be taken no more seriously than the fashion-plates in a popular magazine. ... Those having a taste for the sort of stories usually told over the cigars, after the women have left the room, will enjoy this bit of journalese.”

– — Dial 63:354 O 11 ‘17 140w

“The novel has one character, Beatrix’s English companion, who is really quite like a human being.”

– — N Y Times 22:349 S 16 ‘17 270w

“Mr Hamilton fails to make his American characters convincing, but in the case of his heroine’s English duenna from Clapham he is more successful.”

– + Springf’d Republican p15 D 23 ‘17 270w

HAMILTON, LORD ERNEST WILLIAM. Soul of Ulster. *$1.25 Dutton 941.5 17-14524

“This volume by the author of ‘The first seven divisions’ is a concise history of Ulster as it affects the Irish question. Lord Ernest Hamilton shows what, in his opinion, is at the back of the demand for Home rule, and what would happen if it were granted.” (Ath) “The book falls into three parts—an historical retrospect, a survey of the situation at the present day, and a forecast of the future possibilities inherent in the Sinn Fein movement. The Ulster question treated historically is, in his view, bound up with the general ethics of colonization. ... Lord Ernest Hamilton writes as the advocate and champion of the Ulster Protestant colonist and the British garrison, and one may search his pages in vain for any indication of the emergence of the type of Young Ulsterman sketched in Mr St John Ervine’s book.” (Spec)

A L A Bkl 14:53 N ‘17

Ath p257 My ‘17 50w

“Lord Ernest possesses the pen of a ready writer, and is able to retain the reader’s interest from cover to cover. ... He writes from the point of view of the Ulster Unionist, and of his sincerity there can be no doubt. But his judgment and better feelings appear to have been warped by fear, so much so that his conception of Irish character is too black to be credited. ... ‘The soul of Ulster’ deserves to be read as a strong presentation of the Unionist case. Before difficulties can be overcome, they must be clearly seen. Lord Ernest Hamilton’s book skilfully indicates the difficulties of the Ulster problem.”

+ — Ath p344 Jl ‘17 750w

“Of that Irish and Catholic half of Ulster, Mr Hamilton knows nothing—or at best, only the worst! Prejudice and bigotry speak from his every page.”

– — Cath World 105:826 S ‘17 600w

“Of course ‘The Soul of Ulster’ is no more dispassionate than any Sinn Feiner argument. But it is well for us interested onlookers to see the other side of the perennial Irish question.”

+ Ind 92:260 N 3 ‘17 60w

244“They do give to the reader who has time to go through them vivid understanding of the difficulties to be encountered by those who would settle Irish affairs. ... It may be also that perusal of such books will do further good in this country. ... It has been to small purpose that some informed neither by Tories abroad nor from newspapers of immigrants in New York have pointed out that England has changed, that whatever the sins of the past she is anxious now to do honorable justice, that of late she has made much amends, and is prevented from settling the whole question partly because of circumstances pertaining to Irishmen and beyond her control. The slight and transient and narrow writings which are appearing more frequently as two Irish parties set forth their cause will make it, no doubt, much easier for people to comprehend what these difficulties are.”

* Nation 105:149 Ag 9 ‘17 750w

“It is quite likely that a good many people who do not know nearly as much about Ulster as Lord Ernest Hamilton evidently does will suspect him of prejudice. At any rate, his convictions are very definite and downright and they are expressed with simplicity and force.”

N Y Times 22:246 Jl 1 ‘17 650w

“The great surprise of the book is the anticipation that the development of Sinn Feinism, of the origin and organization of which Lord Ernest Hamilton gives a very inadequate and perfunctory account, may provide a solution of the Irish question by its refusal to recognize a standardized religion, and by the consequent fusion of the races by intermarriage. ... His curious book is not conceived or executed in a judicial spirit, though it contains many wholesome truths and much sane criticism.”

Spec 118:541 My 12 ‘17 1450w

“Ordinarily we in the United States hear only one side of the Irish question. The other side of the picture is vividly, yet fairly, presented by Ernest W. Hamilton.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 30 ‘17 350w

“Considering the vastness of the literature on Ireland, there is a remarkable dearth of books interpreting the viewpoint of Ulster. Captain Hamilton though he does not perform this service in any scientific spirit and does not assume a judicial attitude which could not be genuine, yet gives us valuable insight into the philosophy of his former constituents by rewriting Irish history as they see it.” Bruno Lasker

+ — Survey 38:548 S 22 ‘17 500w

“His book should be read by those who wish to get at a true comprehension of the uncompromising Ulsterman. Lord Ernest Hamilton, who was for some years M. P. for North Tyrone, is also the author of ‘The first seven divisions,’ and he writes lucidly and forcibly.”

The Times [London] Lit Sup p167 Ap 5 ‘17 420w

HAMILTON, LORD GEORGE FRANCIS. Parliamentary reminiscences and reflections, 1868 to 1885. *$4 Dutton (Eng ed 17-12869)

“Lord George Hamilton was of the House of commons from 1868 to 1906. As son of the Duke of Abercorn, at one time lord-lieutenant of Ireland, he was of the governing class, a fact which accounts for the early age at which a place was found for him in the Disraeli administration of 1874-1880. He was then appointed under-secretary for India, with Salisbury as his chief. In 1878-1880 he was vice-president of the committee of council, practically minister for education. In the short-lived Conservative administration of 1885-1886 he was first lord of the admiralty. He resumed this office when the Unionist administration was formed in 1886, and held it until the Liberals came into power in 1892. From 1895 to 1903, when he retired from the cabinet, he was secretary for India. Only the years from 1868 to 1885 are covered by these reminiscences.”—Am Hist R

“For half a dozen reasons they are likely to be of service to students of British politics of the two decades that preceded the realignment of parties after 1886, when Gladstone had committed the Liberal party to Home rule for Ireland. ... Hamilton went to the India office in 1874, and in detailing his work there as under-secretary, he has written one of the best descriptions of the work of the office, and of its organization, that has ever been embodied in English political memoirs. One other value in these reminiscences has yet to be mentioned. There is more than once in these pages the most sweeping and strongly-worded indictment that has been written or uttered of the Manchester school of politics by any man in the front rank of English political life.” E: Porritt

+ Am Hist R 22:855 Jl ‘17 800w

“The author’s attitude is in strong opposition, to the ‘pacificist or Manchester school of politicians’; and conscientious objectors to military service receive small mercy at Lord George Hamilton’s hands. Indeed, there is a good deal of hard hitting in the book.”

Ath p50 Ja ‘17 130w

“Lord George is of the type of English public men who are dogged hard workers, and, no doubt, useful servants of the state, but who are little gifted with the pen, which they hold in a heavy hand. And these notes of events during twenty years of parliamentary experience contain little that is novel or exhilarating. ... Many personal characterizations occur in his pages, but few of them are penetrating or enlivening.”

— Nation 105:44 Jl 12 ‘17 370w

“One feature of these pages that calls for comment is that Disraeli appears throughout in a softened and unusually advantageous light, an accessible and kindly figure.”

+ N Y Times 22:368 S 30 ‘17 600w

R of Rs 56:328 S ‘17 50w

“This book is disappointing. ... The historical chapters are a languid rechauffé of events which are, perhaps, too near for historical treatment, but which need not be (as they are) dull. ... Of personal anecdotes or intimate descriptions of Lord George Hamilton’s colleagues—Disraeli, Northcote, Hardy, Beach, Salisbury, Churchill—there are none. ... The really valuable chapter in the book is the last but one, in which Lord George Hamilton tells us of his doings at the Admiralty as first lord.”

– + Sat R 122:601 D 23 ‘16 850w

“The book is just what such a book should be; it is full of a simple and mellow wisdom; there is not an idea in it that is not practical and rational; and the political ideas are reinforced or illustrated by a flow of anecdotes which are in themselves a delightful entertainment.”

+ Spec 118:136 F 3 ‘17 1950w

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p597 D 14 ‘16 2000w

HAMILTON, JOSEPH GRÉGOIRE DE ROULHAC, and HAMILTON, MARY THOMPSON (MRS J. G. DE R. HAMILTON). Life of Robert E. Lee; for boys and girls. il *$1.25 (2½c) Houghton 17-28464

“This book is written with the hope that through it the life and character of Lee may become more real to the generation of young Americans growing up.” (Preface) The authors express the further hope that the book may, by making clearer the purity of motive of Lee and those he represented, hasten the day when all sectional bitterness shall have disappeared. Among the books on which the authors have drawn as sources are: Jones’s “Life and letters of General Robert E. Lee”; “Recollections and letters of General Lee,” by R. E. Lee, jr.; and Bradford’s “Lee, the American.” There are four illustrations and an index.

“A wholesome book for reading by northern children.” J: Walcott

+ Bookm 46:496 D ‘17 50w

+ Cath World 106:694 F ‘18 150w

“Full of Civil war incidents told from an unbiased standpoint. The character and outlook of the Confederate leader as presented here will appeal to young people.”

+ Ind 92:448 D 1 ‘17 40w

“Gen. Lee now belongs to the nation at large, not simply to the South, and the authors have written an enthusiastic as well as historically 245sound life of their hero. The book should be welcomed by young people all over the country, but it will be quite as interesting to many ‘grown-ups’ as well.”

+ Springf’d Republican p15 D 1 ‘17 150w

HAMILTON, ROBERT W. Belinda of the Red cross. il *$1.25 (2c) Sully & Kleinteich 17-24969

“The heroine, born in America, is the granddaughter on one side of French and on the other of German ancestors. ... At the beginning of the story she is taking a nurse’s training in a big New York hospital in which one of the surgeons is a famous German, resident for ten years in this country. As she nears the end of her course of training a young aviator who has had a fall and smashed one shoulder is brought in. ... He is Belinda’s last patient, and they find each other mutually interesting. After graduation she decides to join the Red cross service in France, and the young aviator, although neither knows the other’s purpose, goes over to offer his services to the French army. ... Belinda works in the field hospitals and the aviator crosses the battle lines and finally they are both caught by the enemy. ... The two German cousins of Belinda play an important part in the action.”—N Y Times

“A thrilling war story.”

+ N Y Times 22:372 S 30 ‘17 280w

“The incidents are highly improbable. The narrative may be found entertaining if the reader is not in a critical mood.”

Springf’d Republican p17 O 7 ‘17 180w

HAMMER, SIMON CHRISTIAN. William the Second. *$1.50 Houghton 17-26781

“The present volume is an English attempt at a calm, clear-cut analysis of the imperial psychology as disclosed by numerous speeches and contemporary German writings.”—R of Rs

“Author is an Englishman and his remarks are tinged with prejudice.”

+ — A L A Bkl 14:53 N ‘17

“Mr Hammer’s picture of the Kaiser will never win him a German decoration, but it bears more of the earmarks of truth than those we are accustomed to.” C. H. P. Thurston

+ Bookm 46:290 N ‘17 40w

+ Boston Transcript p9 N 24 ‘17 280w

Outlook 117:142 S 26 ‘17 90w

Pittsburgh 22:745 N ‘17 70w

R of Rs 56:439 O ‘17 100w

HAMMOND, JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON, and HAMMOND, BARBARA (BRADBY) (MRS JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON HAMMOND). Town labourer, 1760-1832; the new civilisation. *$3.50 (3c) Longmans 330.9 17-22687

This volume is the first part of a study of the industrial revolution. It attempts to describe the general features of the new civilization, to picture the effect of the great social change which took place between 1780 and 1832 on the lives of the English working-class, and which turned them, according to the authors, into the “cannon-fodder of industry.” About half of the chapters deal with the material surroundings of “the new civilisation”—the “new town,” the conditions in mill, mine, and workshop, the administration of justice, the war on trade unions, the employment of children, etc., and the remainder “with the psychological conditions that resulted from them.” A table of dates and a list of chief authorities are appended. A second volume is to follow which “will give in detail the history of the work-people in various industries, with a full account of the disturbances known as the Luddite rising, and of those connected with the adventures of Oliver, the famous ‘agent provocateur.’” (Preface)

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“An arresting and appalling picture.”

+ Ath p407 Ag ‘17 520w

“In their feeling for class attitudes, for the rationalizations that accompany the economic war, for the sinister manipulation of government by capital, the Hammonds have an intellectual tool which should be in the hands of every one who tries to write of this modern industrial era.” Randolph Bourne

+ Dial 63:642 D 20 ‘17 630w

“It is a book to be read by all who are concerned with present labour problems, and conditions of industrial life; for a full understanding of the purgatorial experiences of the working class in the critical years of this great social change is a key to its attitude to-day. The working class, like an oppressed nationality, has its memories.” M. J.

+ Int J Ethics 28:281 Ja ‘18 550w

“This book is valuable as an indisputable record of facts, unpleasant enough to our national self-satisfaction—our besetting sin, as Matthew Arnold declared. It would have been more valuable but for the obvious political bias of its authors, who skilfully heap the blame on the back of the Tory party. In truth, the aristocratic Whigs and the Nonconformist manufacturers and tradesmen were just as much to blame as the Tory government for the state of labour in the pre-reform era. ... This is not a mere squalid story of slum misery: it is not a sensational ‘film,’ striking the eyes and ‘gingering’ the emotion, but leaving the intellect unstirred. This tale of trouble sets one on inquiries innumerable, psychological, spiritual, moral, economic, political.”

* + + Sat R 124:169 S 1 ‘17 2250w

“The book is pleasant to read because of its literary art and mastery; the subject-matter is extremely gloomy. The misery admits of no denial, but we are not persuaded that Mr and Mrs Hammond have given the right values to the various causes when they enter upon explanations. There is something in the temper in which they write which strikes us as mistaken. ... But we must not express our partial agreement with their spirit at the expense of saying too little about the admirable skill and clearness with which they have presented their facts. They have written the best description of the conditions of the time that we have ever read.”

+ — Spec 119:60 Jl 21 ‘17 1550w

“Though the writing of social and industrial history in England has in recent years been carried to a very high point of literary accomplishment combined with careful use of original sources and sound interpretation by such writers as Gilbert Slater, the Webbs, and others, there has been no similar publication so vividly describing this vital period of change. ... In almost every chapter of Mr and Mrs Hammond’s work are lessons of our time. The attitude towards ‘the poor,’ for instance, was in many respects similar to that yet taken in this country towards the negro. The procedure in the case of strikes often seems to have resembled that now frequently in vogue to meet the real or imagined danger of the I. W. W.” Bruno Lasker

+ Survey 39:200 N 24 ‘17 1250w

“A companion volume to the important work which the authors published in 1911 on the ‘Village labourer’ during the same period.”

The Times [London] Lit Sup p324 Jl 5 ‘17 50w

“A book that should be read by all who are concerned, however indirectly, with what is called ‘the labour problem.’ The story of the Industrial revolution has been told before, but the story of the Social revolution which accompanied it, has never yet received adequate treatment. ... The authors have helped towards a better understanding not only of the early nineteenth century but of some of the most obstinate problems of today.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p339 Jl 19 ‘17 1900w

HAMMOND, MELVIN ORMOND. Canadian confederation and its leaders. il *$2.50 (3½c) Doran 971 18-2512

Canadian confederation was perfected in 1867 and has now known a half century of history. It has seemed a fitting time therefore “to examine 246the part played by the leaders of that great day in the various provinces in bringing about the union.” This has been the object of the author, who has brought together studies of seventeen men, among them Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Oliver Mowat, William McDougall, Sir Alexander T. Galt, Sir George E. Cartier, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Sir Charles Tupper, and others. The choice has been not wholly limited to those who worked for federation. Leaders of the opposition have been included. The book has an introductory chapter, Before confederation, and a closing chapter, Rounding out confederation, and ends with bibliography and index.

“Our author gives a close and searching analysis of the character and personality of each of his subjects.” H. S. K.

+ Boston Transcript p9 N 3 ‘17 750w

Ind 92:256 N 3 ‘17 40w

+ R of Rs 57:104 Ja ‘18 60w

HANCOCK, HARRIE IRVING. Physical training for business men; basic rules and simple exercises for gaining assured control of the physical self. il *$1.75 (5½c) Putnam 613.7 17-25762

The man who sits at his desk all day and feels stale at night will find in these pages concise instructions for livening up. The exercises outlined are an antidote for physical slovenliness and mental dulness. They are simple leg, arm, trunk and head movements designed to produce in a short space of time poise, alertness, power. Illustrations of the model performances are from photographs which represent the nearest approach possible to a moving picture on a single plate and are, in consequence, easily followed.

“The plain, common-sense general advice and comment is of great value to any man or woman, and would add to efficiency.”

+ Dial 63:466 N 8 ‘17 100w

“Books on physical training are either manuals which most people will open only on doctor’s orders, or they are made more readable with the help of a good deal of matter not strictly relevant. The present volume is of the latter variety; it may be added that its ‘padding’ is interesting and contains many shrewd observations. A. B. Phelan’s synthetic photographs may be clever, but on the whole the diagrammatic illustrations of the old handbooks were easier to understand.” B. L.

+ — Survey 39:447 Ja 19 ‘18 330w

HANDY, AMY LITTLEFIELD. War food. il *75c (14c) Houghton 664 17-21110

Miss Handy describes practical and economical methods of keeping vegetables, fruits and meats, and urges the importance of preserving and storing perishable food. There is a chapter on “Canning without sugar.” The author hopes that the recipes will prove helpful to those who are trying to carry out Mr Hoover’s instructions.

“Miss Handy is explicit in her directions, which cover, we believe, a very wide field of possibilities in canning.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 29 ‘17 110w

“A good little book to own.”

+ Cleveland p131 D ‘17 30w

N Y P L New Tech Bks p8 Jl ‘17 20w

“And it is a most valuable book. In the tersest and most practical fashion it sets forth the methods of drying, evaporating, canning, salting, and picking various articles, with special directions for each. And these methods are inexpensive.”

+ N Y Times 22:395 O 14 ‘17 480w

Pittsburgh 22:668 O ‘17

Pratt p26 O ‘17 10w

Springf’d Republican p17 O 28 ‘17 90w

+ R of Rs 56:325 S ‘17 60w

HANKEY, DONALD WILLIAM ALERS (STUDENT IN ARMS, pseud.). Student in arms. *$1.50 (4c) Dutton 940.91 E17-249

A series of articles written at the front and first printed in the Spectator and the Westminster Gazette. They differ from many other accounts written on the firing line in that they are thoughtful and speculative rather than anecdotal and descriptive. The author writes of: “Kitchener’s army”; An experiment in democracy; Discipline and leadership; The religion of the inarticulate; The army and the universities: a study of educational values, etc. There is an introduction by J. St. Loe Strachey, editor of the Spectator.

“The author was killed in action in October, 1916.”

+ A L A Bkl 13:345 My ‘17

+ Boston Transcript p6 Mr 3 ‘17 750w

“His interpretation limited to some slight degree by its immaturity, is so sweet with the highest spiritual idealism that the reader pauses and marvels.”

+ Cath World 105:544 Jl ‘17 220w

“The author treats the subject in a matter-of-fact way, which, by its very rarity, becomes effective.”

+ Dial 62:532 Je 14 ‘17 130w

+ Ind 90:381 My 26 ‘17 40w

“Desperately sincere, openly the product of brave and unsophisticated youth. It is with a sort of reverence that one finishes a book so thoroughly imbued with the most promising of human tendencies, the wish to be justified on a constructive instead of on a destructive basis.” S. K. Toksvig

New Repub 10:sup18 Ap 21 ‘17 850w

N Y Br Lib News 3:155 O ‘16

+ N Y Times 22:78 Mr 4 ‘17 350w

“Where his book is novel is in its sincere and always thoughtful exposition of the philosophy and religion of the trenches, and the changes needed for effective Christianity at home.”

+ Sat R 121:sup2 Je 24 ‘16 300w

+ Spec 116:722 Je 10 ‘16 1200w

“A book of high spiritual idealism as well as a vivid picture of life in the trenches of Flanders.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ap 16 ‘17 200w

“The war has given us no other book like this. It is worthy to stand beside Rupert Brooke’s sonnets as an expression of the spiritual attitude of England’s educated and gifted young men.”

+ Wis Lib Bul 13:123 Ap ‘17 60w

HANKEY, DONALD WILLIAM ALERS (STUDENT IN ARMS, pseud.). Student in arms: second series; with an introd. by J. St Loe Strachey. il *$1.50 (5½c) Dutton 17-17623

This collection of sketches, conversations and essays suggested by the war, written, with three exceptions, in France in 1916, were for the most part first printed in the Spectator. “The potentate,” written for the original volume of “A student in arms,” but not published on account of its likeness in subject to Barrie’s “Der tag,” is included here, as is also the essay entitled “Don’t worry.” In addition to these, the new volume contains a good deal of biographical matter: a sketch by Miss Hankey, the author’s sister, entitled “Something about ‘A student in arms’”; a fragment of autobiography entitled “My home and school,” and some notes on the autobiography.

A L A Bkl 14:20 O ‘17

“Like the first series, these sketches are the expression of a forthright idealism and give a version of the hopes, fears and beliefs of the men in the trenches, evidently not heightened for literary or humorous effect.”

+ Cleveland p101 S ‘17 80w

+ Dial 63:213 S 13 ‘17 270w

“The various papers, are not, it must be confessed, of permanent value as literature, but the total impression of this output by a young 247man of thirty-two, who died leading a charge which gained a few yards of trenches, is of the immense and irretrievable waste of war.”

+ — Nation 105:375 O 4 ‘17 260w

“We can’t measure, even approximately, how much ‘good’ these works will do, but we unhesitatingly affirm that they are exceedingly well worth reading.” J. W.

+ N Y Call p14 Ag 19 ‘17 650w

“The general level of the book is not so high as was that of the first, but, nevertheless, it contains some very good things that are well worth reading. Moreover, in the first volume and also in this Donald Hankey revealed himself a personality so interesting and so lovable that the opportunity this ‘Second series’ gives to make acquaintance with the man behind the book will be welcomed.”

+ N Y Times 22:295 Ag 12 ‘17 450w

Pittsburgh 22:762 N ‘17 50w

“Here we shall prefer to dwell upon the fragments of biography and autobiography. The first thing we have to say is that, though they are so slight, they paint the true ‘Student in arms,’ and show how his life enforced the lessons of his writing. ... No one was ever less of a prig.”

+ Spec 118:589 My 26 ‘17 1750w

+ Springf’d Republican p8 S 20 ‘17 200w

“From Rugby he went to Woolwich; spent six years in the artillery; and retired with a view to entering the church after passing through Oxford. He never actually took orders, but shared the lives of the poor by making his home in Bermondsey, travelling steerage, and enlisting as a private when the war broke out. Thus he came to know the men in the ranks from within, without being so closely identified with them as not to recognize their idiosyncrasies as such. This may be one reason why his weary ‘Tommies’ are not in the least like the epigrammatic comedians of the picturesque writers.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p236 My 17 ‘17 880w

HANNAY, DAVID. Diaz. il *$2 (2c) Holt (Eng ed 17-26317)

Two opinions exist regarding Porfirio Diaz: He was a great man and a beneficent ruler; he was an unmitigated tyrant and a curse to the country he ruled. The fact that he is included among the “Makers of the nineteenth century” indicates the attitude taken toward him in this book. The general editor, Basil Williams, says in his preface: “He is worthy of note by the student of the nineteenth century, since he brought his country to a more respectable prominence and to greater prosperity than it had enjoyed since its original conquest by the Spaniards.” The author says in conclusion: “He showed the world what was the utmost that his country was capable of doing in order to qualify itself to take its place among civilised and progressive states.” Mr Hannay is an English journalist and author of “The navy and sea-power.”

“Mr Hannay appears to be a man of talents, candor, and good sense, and his book, in addition to being readable, is worth reading; but it can hardly be described as well-proportioned, scholarly, or sound. ... As might be inferred, the author’s ‘bibliography’ is meagre and his index inadequate.” J. H. Smith

– + Am Hist R 22:890 Jl ‘17 670w

“An authoritative, popular account.”

+ A L A Bkl 13:352 My ‘17

“Mr Hannay’s narrative is animated, and well worth reading.”

+ Ath p418 Ag ‘17 130w

Boston Transcript p8 F 14 ‘17 700w

“It is somewhat tedious and involved; the subject with its fascinating material, could have been made more interesting reading by one whose writing had more of the true charm of a real biographer.”

+ — Cath World 105:265 My ‘17 450w

+ Dial 63:279 S 27 ‘17 400w

“No dry and superficial statement of facts, but a most readable and enlightening story of Mexico and its people from 1854.”

+ Ind 90:257 My 5 ‘17 30w

Lit D 54:1080 Ap 14 ‘17 400w

“Mr Hannay has treated his interesting hero with a suitably light touch. He neither eulogizes nor condemns him. He presents facts of population and political development with the insight and sympathy of one who is thoroughly familiar with the winning as well as the repellent side of Spanish-America. Thus he frames Diaz in a Mexican frame, and not, as too many authors are inclined to do, in an American or European frame.”

+ Nation 105:461 O 25 ‘17 780w

“Commendable book which might be called ‘A political history of Mexico in the time of Diaz.’”

+ Outlook 115:711 Ap 18 ‘17 100w

+ R of Rs 55:442 Ap ‘17 90w

St Louis 15:153 My ‘17

“How was it that Diaz, alone of all Mexican presidents, contrived to retain power for so long? This is the most interesting question raised by his career, and Mr Hannay answers it somewhat fully.”

+ Spec 119:190 Ag 25 ‘17 1600w

“A most scholarly and interesting book.”

+ Springf’d Republican p15 Mr 4 ‘17 600w

“But the interest of this volume at the present time is by no means confined to the light it throws on Mexican conditions from the narrow point of view of anxious investors. This brings us to the main lesson of the history of Mexico and of the career of Diaz for the present generation. It should prove a wholesome corrective to those who believe that the world-war is going to be followed by the millennium and that in that blessed word democracy there has been discovered a universal formula for the perfecting of the world’s order.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p327 Jl 12 ‘17 1900w

HANSCOM, ELIZABETH DEERING, ed. Heart of the Puritan. il *$1.50 (2½c) Macmillan 974 17-29768

The writer takes exception with Mr George Edward Woodberry who has written “The heart of the Puritan is a closed book.” Miss Hanscom, professor of English at Smith college, has delved into many dusty tomes for material that refutes Mr Woodberry’s contention. She has brought together here excerpts from the letters and journals of Puritans and grouped them under the headings; Of the coming of godly men to these parts; Of Boston; Of affairs domestic and personal; Of matrimony; Of education; Of Indians; Of trade; Of travel; Of holidays; Of episcopacy; Of churches; Of prophecies and warnings; Of witchcraft, and Cor cordium. A valuable aid to the study of history and literature as well as to a study of religious temper in colonial times.

A L A Bkl 14:121 Ja ‘18

“Miss Hanscom herself is something of a wit, as is shown by her ‘Praefatio’ and headings; we wish she had been pedant enough to have given the exact provenance of all her extracts. Such an appendix would not have marred her book, but would have added to its interest. Apart from that blemish, the book is excellent. It would be well if some of our smart youths who speak so patronizingly of the Puritans would read this volume of letters, and mark and inwardly digest.”

+ — Nation 105:697 D 20 ‘17 160w

“With loving care and a scholar’s sense of accuracy and fitness, Miss Hanscom has preserved the spellings of an age that scorned the arts of spelling, and the abbreviations with which that age larded its written discourse. She has supplied chapter and page headings that pique the reader’s curiosity. Her preface is delightfully self-effacing and appreciative; in fact, the editor’s touch throughout the volume is gracious and good-humoredly keen. The book is meant for reading (in spite of the difficult spellings) and very good reading it makes. Much of Miss Hanscom’s book is in light vein, 248but it all tends to inculcate that tolerant and respectful view of our New England past of which we are much in need.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 N 19 ‘17 990w

HANSHEW, THOMAS W. (CHARLOTTE MAY KINGSLEY, pseud.). Cleek’s government cases. il *$1.35 (1½c) Doubleday 17-5982

“Cleek of Scotland Yard,” “The riddle of the night,” and “Cleek, the man of the forty faces” are stories that have preceded this. Like the others, this one is made up of distinct episodes in which Cleek, the one time crook, now a detective, displays his skill, but there is a thread of narrative binding the whole together. In the first chapter Cleek finds that his old enemies, the Apaches, are still on his track. He is kidnapped, and after his rescue by his friend, Narkom of Scotland Yard, says, “This is but the first throw of the dice, old friend. ... This is but the beginning; the end, who shall say?”

“Mr Hanshew never lets the plot grow stale, and he does not leave his readers for even a few moments without excitement.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 28 ‘17 150w

“Lovers of detective stories will find a good deal of entertainment in this new volume which tells of ‘Cleek’s government cases.’”

+ N Y Times 22:115 Ap 1 ‘17 330w

“The book compares unfavorably with the Cleek stories published heretofore.”

— Springf’d Republican p19 Mr 25 ‘17 130w

HARBEN, WILLIAM NATHANIEL (WILL N., pseud.). Triumph. il *$1.40 (1c) Harper 17-22297

“Two brothers form the central pivot of ‘The triumph,’ and one of them has made himself despised by his neighbors because he does not hold the conventional southern view of slavery. Andrew Merlin lives in the little town of Delbridge; his brother Thomas has a plantation some ten miles away and owns many slaves. Because of their opposing opinions, the brothers drift apart, and into Andrew’s immediate family trouble comes, for his wife and son feel keenly the ostracism to which they are subjected, while his daughter Anne is wholly on her father’s side. The war comes, Georgia is up in arms, Thomas Merlin enlists and becomes a Confederate brigadier general, but Andrew, because of his Union sympathies, and especially because he dares to free a slave who has been forced into his hand to pay a debt, is beset on all sides. He is forced to flee for his life, is overtaken by a band of Confederate bushwhackers, and succeeds in saving his life by a ruse. Enlisting in the Union army, he returns home before the end of the war, and by his injudicious behavior only succeeds in making himself more despised than ever.”—Boston Transcript

“It cannot be said that Mr Harben’s aristocrats are as ‘convincing’ as his commonalty; Anne Merlin and Arthur Preston are a singularly wooden pair of leading juveniles.” H. W. Boynton

+ — Bookm 46:207 O ‘17 420w

“Mr Harben’s pages contain more accurate knowledge of Georgia men and women, of the Georgia ways of living, of the Georgia passions, than could be revealed in a thousand formal historical narratives. ... In ‘The triumph’ Mr Harben goes back to the Civil war period. Many novels have been written about that era, but few of them have the strong equipoise that dominates its plot and its characters. It is a plea for neither side, it contains nothing of the polemic, it merely seeks to present life as Mr Harben found it in his native state during some five years of the strongest social, moral and political upheaval that could overwhelm a stricken people. ... Something of these Georgians is wholly of Georgia, but something is purely American, and something in them is akin to the peasant character of any country. They are spiritually of the same stuff as the denizens of Hardy’s Wessex, of Phillpotts’ Dartmoor or of Miss Jewett’s New England.” E. F. E.

+ Boston Transcript p6 S 5 ‘17 1550w

“He really has a good point to make, and he makes it in spite of the commonplace melodrama to which his plot lends itself.”

+ — Dial 63:402 O 25 ‘17 150w

“In withdrawing to the Civil war period, Mr Harben has abandoned that main asset of his and Mr Howells’s sort of realism, the thing seen and known at first hand. In consequence, he has not worked freely or spontaneously, and his product is too plainly a made affair. ... The ‘love-interest’ is of the most perfunctory sort.”

— Nation 105:316 S 20 ‘17 460w

“Mr Harben’s new novel contains many of the elements that make for real greatness.”

+ N Y Times 22:326 S 2 ‘17 580w

HARDING, ALICE (MRS EDWARD HARDING). Book of the peony. il *$6 (18c) Lippincott 716 17-13093

This is said to be the first book published on peony culture. It is made up of chapters on: An appreciation of the peony; The mythology, ancient and modern history of the peony; Best varieties and their characteristics; Extending the period of bloom; Purchasing; Where to plant and how to prepare the soil; Planting and cultivation; Propagation; The tree peony—description and history; Tree peonies: cultivation, propagation and best varieties; Various species of the peony. A valuable feature of the book is the “main list” of 125 varieties recommended for garden culture, with supplementary lists based on color. Twenty of the illustrations are in color and there are a number of good half-tone plates in addition.

“The format of this, the first book ever devoted to peonies alone, demands appreciation. Covers and typing are distinctive. While the many illustrations in color and in black-and-white, from photographs of peonies in various noted private gardens of the United States, are of a rare beauty vision alone can adequately disclose.” F. B.

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 18 ‘17 500w

Cleveland p113 S ‘17 60w

“Although a large bibliography on the peony is given, no other volume yet published appears to be so complete as this one. ... The two chapters on tree peonies present material new to many gardeners, and Professor H. H. Whetzel’s discussion of ‘Diseases of the peony’ represents the latest research.”

+ Dial 62:486 My 31 ‘17 180w

“Should help all flower-lovers to use it for landscape as well as floral value.”

+ Lit D 55:37 S 22 ‘17 160w

+ N Y Times 22:191 My 13 ‘17 130w

+ Outlook 115:711 Ap 18 ‘17 30w

“There is much sound advice for the amateur in the chapter on Purchasing. ... All of the practical chapters of the book are valuable because drawn from the personal experience of the author. It is a beautiful book and a distinct addition to gardening literature.” M. K. Reely

+ Pub W 91:1325 Ap 21 ‘17 350w

+ R of Rs 55:664 Je ‘17 170w

Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 27 ‘17 500w

HARDING, LOUIS ALLEN, and WILLARD, ARTHUR CUTTS. Mechanical equipment of buildings; a reference book for engineers and architects. 3v v 2 il *$5 Wiley 690

v 2 Power plants and refrigeration.

“The first volume of this important series was published a few months ago and dealt with the subject of heating and ventilation. The second volume, dealing exhaustively with steam plants and ice and refrigeration machinery, contains a large amount of theoretical and commercial data and discussions of their practical applications.” (N Y P L New Tech Bks) “In order to make the volume more complete, several of the chapters appearing in volume 1 have been reprinted, including the chapters on Heat; Water, steam and air; and Fuels and combustion.” (Heating and Ventilating Magazine)

249“As a reference book and a textbook for students it should be most valuable. The free use of manufacturers’ data adds much to the usefulness of this volume. ... There are several forms of boilers largely used by heating engineers not referred to in this volume or the preceding one.” D. D. Kimball

+ — Engin News-Rec 79:130 Jl 19 ‘17 220w

“Special mention should be made of the chapter on ‘Chimneys for power boilers’ which is remarkably complete, and also the chapter on ‘Power plant piping.’”

+ Heating and Ventilating Magazine 14:51 Jl ‘17 350w

“Unusually well illustrated with line drawings and charts. Many practical problems are solved step by step.”

+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p12 Jl ‘17 70w

“The authors will probably find that in the next printing it would be well to elaborate more upon the index. The excellent character of the book warrants doing so.”

+ — Power 46:238 Ag 14 ‘17 770w

HARDING, MRS RUTH GUTHRIE. Lark went singing, and other poems; with an introd. by R: Burton. *$1 E. D. Brooks, Minneapolis, Minn. 811 16-24958

“This exquisite little volume of lyrics we owe to the gardening sympathies of Richard Burton. Anyone who noted, some years ago, the little slips of song by Ruth Guthrie Harding, rooted here and there in a magazine page, and had the power of discernment, knew they sprung from the seeds of poetry. There they might have withered and died; but this gardener came along and cultivated an indisputable gift of beauty and joy.”—Boston Transcript

“The quality is wistful, almost evanescent in the embodiment of simple moods and themes.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ Bookm 45:433 Je ‘17 210w

“Here is the whole poetic temperament in this poet, transmitting all that it touches. Every first and last dream, impression, mood, makes you aware of loveliness and nothing but loveliness. This does not mean that experience does not come into the poet’s recognition of life and reality, but coming naked she sends it forth clothed with fabrics of spiritual weaving. And this is recognized all the more deeply because of the intense lyrical note which is one of Mrs Harding’s most distinctive gifts as a poet.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 D 23 ‘16 850w

“A poet of true promise.” O. W. Firkins

+ Nation 104:523 My 3 ‘17 240w

HARDING, SIDNEY TWITCHELL.^[2] Operation and maintenance of irrigation systems. il *$2.50 McGraw 631 17-22587

“This book is a compilation of the fundamental principles and representative methods of the operation and maintenance of irrigation systems in the United States. ... In the first chapter the subject of general maintenance is treated extensively. ... In the second chapter the relative serviceability, length of life and needful precautionary measures in the maintenance of wooden, steel and concrete structures are discussed. ... The third chapter is given to the problem of organization, outlining and suggesting appropriate plans for systems of varying sizes and conditions based upon experiences so far available. The methods of delivering irrigation water are treated fully in the fourth chapter. ... The measurement of irrigation water is treated exhaustively in the fifth chapter. ... A chapter of fourteen pages is devoted to rules and regulations. ... The proper apportionment of construction and operation charges receives thorough study and analysis, and the results are summarized in a concluding article. ... The eighth chapter is devoted to a brief discussion of miscellaneous phases of irrigation operations. ... At the close a short chapter is given to the subject of accounts.”—Engin News-Rec

“This book is timely and useful. It presents in concentrated form a large range of information not elsewhere compiled and of special value to the student of irrigation engineering. It covers much of great value to the engineer or manager charged with construction, as well as operation and betterment, of irrigation works.” Andrew Weiss

+ Engin News-Rec 79:938 N 15 ‘17 780w

“Practical rather than theoretical.”

+ Pittsburgh 22:756 N ‘17 30w

HARDY, ARTHUR SHERBURNE. No. 13, rue du Bon Diable. il *$1.35 (3½c) Houghton 17-28186

Mr Hardy has written a new kind of detective story, which begins by telling us just how M. Janvier was murdered, and keeps us intensely interested in the efforts of the detectives to arrive at a solution. M. Janvier is an old bachelor, devoted to his niece Corinne, for whom he has bought a pearl necklace as a birthday present, drawing 30,000 francs from the bank to pay for it. His murderer is finally discovered by M. Joly, the detective who figured in “Diane and her friends.”

“Very well written though not as absorbing as others by this author.”

+ — A L A Bkl 14:131 Ja ‘18

“Mr Hardy’s detective story is unusual in many ways. There are actually human characters in it, and a swiftly woven texture of motives, and charming bits of color, local and otherwise. ... In the make-up of the volume there is displayed a feeling for the quality of the text that is seldom found in any but the more expensive books.”

+ Dial 63:597 D 6 ‘17 290w

“Mr Hardy’s style has the old distinction; his people are clear-cut as cameos; his psychology is never at fault.”

+ — Ind 92:385 N 24 ‘17 100w

“Mr Hardy’s new book differs from the general run of detective stories in that he makes no attempt to mystify or to mislead the reader, but takes him into his confidence at once. The idea is a good one and has some novelty, but one feels that it could have been developed more cleverly and greater ingenuity been shown in the complications.”

+ — N Y Times 22:500 N 25 ‘17 250w

+ Outlook 117:432 N 14 ‘17 20w

“The reader enjoys the skill with which the author creates the proper atmosphere for the affair and analyzes the psychology of the participants.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 N 11 ‘17 250w

HARDY, OSWALD HENRY. In Greek seas, and other poems of travel. il *$1.25 Lane 821 17-23683

Things of the spirit cannot be stifled even by the war, the author of this handful of verse asserts. The poems have been written during busy years and they have served as “a refuge from the engrossing calls of official life, and have served to keep alive memories of inspiring travel and of the earlier days when the great ages of Greece and Rome supplied a constant background of dream and happy thought.” There are two war poems in the group.

“Fluent and pleasing, several of the shorter pieces, such as ‘A mountain pansy’ and ‘The mountain pine,’ merit attention; and some of the lines in the poem which gives its title to the volume, as well as in the verses upon ‘The tomb of Columbus in Seville cathedral,’ are noteworthy and impressive.”

+ Ath p469 S ‘17 120w

“In the sense that the author who has travelled much records in verse the scenes he has visited and the impressions made upon him, the poems are inspired, but the inspiration is not transformed by an essentially poetic spirit. The results would have been much better recorded in prose, for they strike no emotional register.”

— Boston Transcript p6 O 10 ‘17 300w

250HARE, CHRISTOPHER, pseud. (MRS MARIAN ANDREWS). Great emperor: Charles V, 1519-1558. il *$3.50 Scribner 17-18588

“This latest biographer of the emperor whose abdication of the throne of Spain was forced in the middle sixteenth century has little except good to write of his subject. The devotion to pious ends and aims, the grief of his devoted family and friends, his benefactions to the church, are all set forth in admiration, while his military glories are fully recounted.”—Boston Transcript