Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 20)
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Boston Transcript p7 My 12 ‘17 250w
N Y Br Lib News 4:91 Je ‘17
“The story of Charles V., ... has long been recognized as full of fascination and wonder. Christopher Hare tells it with much historic detail, yet with a keen sense of its picturesque personal qualities, its romantic appeal. ... The book is readable and valuable for the ‘general public’ and for the student.”
+ N Y Times 22:197 My 20 ‘17 1450w
“Whatever his bias, our author has succeeded in seeing his subject clearly and seeing it whole; he marshals his facts with certainty and skill, and his narrative runs smoothly from the first page to the last. In all its main features the book is a meritorious piece of work, the result of study and sane enthusiasm; there are excellent chapters on the conquest of Mexico and Peru, and the two sketch maps at the beginning and end of the volume are helpful. Indeed, our only real ground of complaint is to be found in the fact that, with all his accumulated knowledge, Mr Hare does not appreciate the value of accuracy in minor matters.”
+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p125 Mr 15 ‘17 950w
HARE, WALTER BEN.[2] White Christmas, and other merry Christmas plays. il 75c Denison 812 17-24880
“The white Christmas” is a morality play in one act. One of the other plays in the collection is a dramatization of Dickens’ “Christmas carol.” The author says, “In these little plays I have tried to bring before the public the two dominant characteristics of the ideal Christmas season, kindness, expressed by ‘good will toward men,’ and the inward joy wrought by kind acts. ... Some of the plays are filled with the spirit of fun and jollity that is always associated with Christmas merrymaking; in others I have tried to emphasize the spiritual blessings brought to the children of men on that first white Christmas night.” Both children and adults take part in the plays. They are meant to be acted and the necessary stage directions are provided.
“Mr Hare’s new volume of plays contains some amusement, but no superlative wit.”
+ — Boston Transcript p6 D 22 ‘17 270w
“They are ‘merry plays’ and the instructions for producing them are very complete.”
+ Ind 92:444 D 1 ‘17 30w
HARGRAVE, JOHN. At Suvla Bay. il *$1.50 Houghton 940.91 (Eng ed 17-1486)
“For the most part Mr Hargrave writes of the Dardanelles campaign. He enlisted as a private at the beginning of the war, going from an outdoor life spent mainly in sketching and writing, to the hardships of camp life. No one reading these notes could doubt that he has seen and experienced all of which he writes. ... The volume is liberally enlivened with the author’s delightful sketches of men and scenes.”—Boston Transcript
“Journalistic and conversational, told with a vivid sense of the picturesque, whether enjoying various types on the way or experiencing the horrors of the campaign itself.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:20 O ‘17
“Mr Hargrave is the author of ‘Lonecraft’ and is a well known scout master, and his work as a scout has made it impossible that he should come to campaigning with the lack of adaptability to conditions which hindered so many of the enlisted men. For this reason, his first chapters describing the hard conditions endured by the soldiers at the beginning of the war have unusual weight.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 6 ‘17 320w
N Y Br Lib News 4:57 Ap ‘17
Pittsburgh 22:426 My ‘17
St Louis 15:314 S ‘17
HARKER, MRS LIZZIE ALLEN. Jan and her job. il *$1.50 (3c) Scribner 17-10199
Janet Ross goes out to India at the call of her younger sister, Fay. Broken in health and deserted by a husband who has proved faithless to a trust, Fay, with two little children dependent on her, calls for Jan. Her death leaves the children in Jan’s charge. She takes them back to England and with the help of a young friend, who insists on acting as nursemaid in cap and apron, brings them up. In India Jan has met Peter Ledgard, and shortly after her departure, Peter finds that he needs a vacation and asks for six months’ leave. The captivating little nursemaid has a love affair too. The story comes to an end with August, 1914.
“Appeared in the Delineator as ‘Jan her work and love.’”
+ A L A Bkl 13:354 My ‘17
“This capital story has vivacity, freshness, and humour.”
+ Ath p204 Ap ‘17 60w
+ Ind 90:594 Je 30 ‘17 60w
“A pleasant, conventional little story, easily and simply told.”
+ N Y Times 22:131 Ap 8 ‘17 220w
+ Spec 118:464 Ap 21 ‘17 430w
“The story does not depend on its plot. Its attractiveness lies in the portrayal of people who do their best to make the world a pleasanter place to live in. As little as possible is said about the disagreeable characters; the others are saved from insipidity by their foibles.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p128 Mr 15 ‘17 420w
+ Wis Lib Bul 13:158 My ‘17 30w
HARRIS, GARRARD. Treasure of the land; how Alice won her way. il *$1.25 (1½c) Harper 17-22298
This story, by the author of “Joe, the book farmer,” tells how Alice Warren, a girl of seventeen, and her brother Henry, encouraged and helped by Miss Allen, the new district school teacher, transform the untidy farmhouse in which they live, learn to apply intelligence to the cultivation of the soil, and finally take prizes for their tomatoes and corn. Miss Allen sees that mere book study is almost valueless in such a farming community as that in which she is teaching, that the people “need first to be taught to live, to lighten the burdens upon themselves, and to give the women a chance.” She therefore interests the leading men in raising money for prizes, and gets government experts to organize the boy’s corn-club work and the tomato-club and canning work among the girls.
“An interesting, able novel, whose author shows unusual charm in telling a story and pointing an extremely delicate moral while so doing. He evidently knows life on dreary American farm lands and exactly how meagre is the outlook a girl has, who is brought up amid their desolation. Then too, Mr Harris writes excellent dialogue. It does stagger our intellect somewhat to read that the heroine has grown on one tenth of an acre, canned and sold as well, two thousand, one hundred and twenty-five tomatoes, in two pound cans, realizing eight cents per can.”
+ — Boston Transcript p7 O 10 ‘17 350w
“Conveys a lesson of encouragement to the country girl who can see no prospect before her but a lifetime of drudgery, by showing what a scientific efficiency may accomplish when backed by earnest purpose.”
+ Ind 92:110 O 13 ‘17 50w
251“Mr Harris’s practical story about what a few people were able to achieve in one small region in the Middle West ought to be a very great help to all earnest men and women and baffled young people who are trying to improve conditions in country districts.”
N Y Times 22:349 S 16 ‘17 250w
HARRIS, H. WILSON. President Wilson; his problems and his policy. il *$1.75 Stokes 18-3535
This book “has been written by [an Englishman] to interpret President Wilson and his measures to English readers. It was published in England just before our declaration of a state of war with Germany, but the recent American edition includes the author’s account of the circumstances leading to the rupture. The book is semi-biographic. The main facts of the President’s nativity and education, of his professional and literary life, are outlined by way of prelude to the larger purpose of exhibiting his acts and motives as a statesman. ... At the conclusion of his book Mr Harris reproduces the President’s address to the Senate on January 21, 1917, and his second inaugural.”—Bookm
A L A Bkl 14:24 O ‘17
“Clear and well-written.”
+ Ath p233 My ‘17 230w
+ Ath p257 My ‘17 120w
“A very compact, well-balanced book. ... The impersonal temper in which with expert brevity the author has aligned and appraised the acts and objects of the President’s domestic policy will be gratifying to his readers on this side. From his ability to look at both sides of a question with admirable disinterestedness, Mr Harris has approached a more complete standard of interpreting the President than Professor Ford [in his volume on Woodrow Wilson] has succeeded in doing.” L. E. Robinson
+ Bookm 46:201 O ‘17 2400w
“This volume is by an Englishman who says: ‘I cannot pretend to be entirely free from a certain pro-American bias, though I hope I have not allowed it to color what I have written.’ And it is true that the author is not so pro-American that he is blind to some of the blunders of his hero. American readers will find the book exceedingly interesting.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 15 ‘17 550w
“What may appeal to most Americans as a fundamental error is his assumption that Mr Wilson is primarily an initiating leader. ... To interpret the public will seems to be his chosen ideal for a leader of democracy. To write successfully the life of such a man requires an intimate knowledge of the politics and politicians of his time. This knowledge Mr Harris admittedly lacks. ... Upon international questions Mr Wilson spoke for the people, and his purposes rather than those of our people may be read in those utterances. Mr Harris’s exposition of Wilson as president of humanity—to use the phrase of a hostile critic—is therefore more accurate and illuminating than his well-intentioned but inadequate presentation of Wilson as president of the United States.” D. R. Richberg
+ — Dial 63:342 O 11 ‘17 970w
“He does understand and appreciate the importance of those parts of the country that are not on the Atlantic seaboard in the creation and molding of national life. He is one of the very few European writers upon this country who have sensed that fact. ... The book will interest Americans primarily because it gives so clear and well-defined a view, from an English standpoint, of President Wilson and of his political policies and leadership. But they may well find it worth reading also because of its unprejudiced and accurate presentation of American history for the last five years and its résumé of Mr Wilson’s life. For the author has aimed at neither eulogy nor interpretation. He has been satisfied to present his facts as they are, and to allow his readers to form their own judgment. And that is something that, perhaps, no American writer could do at this time.”
+ N Y Times 22:269 Jl 22 ‘17 1000w
Spec 118:517 My 5 ‘17 1800w
“An excellent short-order biography of Woodrow Wilson. But it is a book which any American of Mr Harris’s gifts and sympathies could have written. For the deeper illumination of ourselves, it is still necessary to go to Bryce.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p15 Ag 26 ‘17 700w
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p176 Ap 12 ‘17 780w
HARRIS, WALTER STEWART. Christian science and the ordinary man. *$1.50 Putnam 615.8 17-7038
The title-page describes this work as “a discussion of some of the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy.” In his foreword the author adds, “This book, in addition to being a discussion of Christian science, is in part an attempt to set forth the essential true elements existing in some other beliefs, to the end that a starting point may be found for greater brotherhood among all churches and beliefs, a basis in Christ for the brotherhood of man.” Contents: A few preliminary thoughts; “Is God all?” Contradictions: Does matter have reality? Does evil have reality? Christ Jesus and the meaning of life; To church members.
“A sincere attempt to view Christian science from an impartial point of view.”
+ Cleveland p53 Ap ‘17 13w
St Louis 15:107 Ap ‘17
“The writer is a Presbyterian and has never been a member of any Christian science organization, but he finds that much of what he has written is so far in agreement with the views of Mrs Eddy that he would fail in his obligation of acknowledgment were he to speak of the views he expresses as his own. This accounts for the title of the book, which presents a modification of Christian science set out with an earnestness which does not destroy the author’s sense of humour.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p432 S 6 ‘17 80w
HART, EVANSTON IVES. Virgil C. Hart: missionary statesman. il *$1.50 (2c) Doran 17-13400
The subject of this biography was founder of the American and Canadian missions in central and west China. The foreword says, “Two great missions in China, of which Dr V. C. Hart was the founder, testify to the comprehensive insight he had of China’s needs, his recognition of her potential powers, and his appreciation of the forces which would free her from her age-long stagnation and lift her into new life and influence.” This story of his life is written by his son.
“This career was not only rich in achievement, but highly picturesque. The biographer, his son, has been able to portray it vividly.”
+ Bib World 50:375 D ‘17 90w
“A straightforward narrative of an unusually picturesque career.”
+ R of Rs 55:667 Je ‘17 30w
HARTMAN, LOUIS O. Popular aspects of oriental religions. il *$1.35 Abingdon press 290 17-13234
“[This book] combines brief surveys of eastern faiths with brief descriptions of the countries where they have their strongholds. ... Mr Hartman makes no pretense at thoroughness, but he supplies a lively and informing account of the principal features of oriental religions and describes the scenes with which they are connected, including some of their sacred spots. He gives the results of his own observation and his reading in authoritative treatises. ... Mr Hartman has words of cordial admiration for the great world-religion of Buddha, and he also does full justice to the aggressive character of Mohammedanism.”—Springf’d Republican
“Remembering the method and purpose, it should be said that the book is written in an attractive literary style and is splendidly illustrated. 252It should inspire the beginner to delve deeper into the lore of the history of religions.” A. S. W.
+ Am J Theol 22:158 Ja ‘18 160w
“One of the very best chapters in the book is that on Zoroastrianism. ... The author is sympathetic but critical, nowhere condemning any of these religions in toto, but finding them inadequate in a progressive civilization. It is an excellent book for the busy person who wishes to know the teachings of these religions, and how these teachings work in practice.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 My 23 ‘17 550w
“Numerous well chosen illustrations add to the interest of the narrative.”
+ Ind 90:439 Je 2 ‘17 50w
“An admirable, brief, popular statement of oriental religions. ... The author writes from the Christian point of view, but his spirit is not that of a partisan but of a lover of truth wherever it exists. It will be found especially valuable for those endeavoring to promote in our churches an intelligent interest in foreign missions.”
+ Outlook 116:232 Je 6 ‘17 80w
“Mr Hartman conducts his inquiry in the proper spirit of appreciation of the notable ethical and spiritual characteristics of eastern religions, but with an eye also to their defects. He takes a common-sense view of the problems of missionaries.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Ap 13 ‘17 470w
HARVEY, ALEXANDER. William Dean Howells; a study of the achievement of a literary artist. *$1.50 (3½c) Huebsch 17-26889
Mr Harvey, who has held editorial positions on the New York Herald, the Literary Digest, and other papers, has been associate editor of Current Literature since 1905, and is the author of several other books, tells us in this volume some of his thoughts on Mr Howells and a great many of his thoughts on other subjects. This is not a life of Howells, whom Mr Harvey calls “the greatest living artist in the field of fiction who uses the English language,” but a “study of his achievements.” The author believes that the lack of appreciation of Howells in this country is due to the fact that American literary judgments are made in England, and that England has always underestimated Howells. Altho Mr Harvey ranks Howells so high, he tells us that “Howells is at the head of the sissy school of American literature” which is responsible for the “renascence of insipidity in Anglo-Saxon literature,” that his influence upon the short story has been “especially mischievous,” that he is “inadequate to the male factor in human experience,” and that were it not for his “intimacy with the soul and the circumstance of woman he could not have written his masterpieces.” To Howells’ women, therefore, a good deal of space is given. The chapter on “The Howells masterpiece” deals with “The rise of Silas Lapham.” The type of the page headlines in the book is pronouncedly unusual.
A L A Bkl 14:86 D ‘17
“Nothing could be more preposterous than the attitude of Alexander Harvey towards literature in this volume. Nothing pleases him. He attacks everything. He begins with a hatred of the English, and this hatred is reiterated almost to his very last page. Although his theme is ostensibly Howells, he tells us very little about that writer. ... Another of Mr Harvey’s absurd objects of attack is the American book review. He declares that ‘a book review in an American newspaper is either a display of impertinence to an author or of ill-breeding to the public.’” E. F. E.
– — Boston Transcript p7 S 5 ‘17 860w
“An entertaining and keen, if rather pert study. The index is an alphabetical epitome of the author’s own philosophy rather than a key to the book.”
+ — Cleveland p120 N ‘17 90w
“The author’s text is not so much a book as a tirade, not so much a tirade as a miscellany, and not so much a miscellany as the preface to an index. ... Mr Harvey diverts even while he irritates; and often he is unsurpassably acute. We ask for bread and are given—by no means a stone, but, let us say, a cocktail.” H. T. Follett
— — + Dial 63:331 O 11 ‘17 1350w
+ — Ind 92:58 O 6 ‘17 70w
“Mr Harvey selects important aspects of Mr Howells’s work for lively and assertive advocacy, but it is abundantly clear from the start that Mr Howells is his point of departure rather than his goal. ... An arduous task confronted Mr Harvey. ... It must be said that in being loosely oracular and discursive, instead of attentive, he has missed his hour.” Francis Hackett
— — + New Repub 10:sup3 Ap 21 ‘17 2500w
“Such sheer insanity of prejudice is rarely expressed more bluntly. ... To deny the eminence of British achievements is the giddiest height of fatuity. ... There is a unique critical index at the end of the book which exhausts the reader and presumably the subject.” Max Lustig
— N Y Call p15 S 23 ‘17 1000w
“Occasionally you meet with an experience or a thing for which some particular word is the one fit and perfect definition. So with this book. For it the word egregious seems to have been exquisitely invented.”
— N Y Times 22:561 D 16 ‘17 880w
“People who admire Mr Howells’s art and intelligence will have little patience with this farrago of impertinences and irrelevancies.”
— Springf’d Republican p6 S 10 ‘17 420w
HASLETT, HARRIET HOLMES. Dolores of the Sierra, and other one act plays. *$1.25 Elder 812 17-20676
A half dozen one-act plays, “bits of drama,” the author calls them, “fragments of the human life about you.” Some of them, “A modern menage” and “When love is blind” commend themselves for acting in the little-theater. The plays are: Dolores of the Sierra; The scoop; Undercurrents; A modern menage; The inventor; When love is blind.
“The promise in the plays of Harriet Holmes Haslett is not so clearly spoken. Her people are types rather than individuals; her plots are more commonplace; her action is too often switched by mere chance; her thought is less mature. She has, however, dexterity in dialogue and has learned to manipulate stage business.” Williams Haynes
– + Dial 63:587 D 6 ‘17 220w
HASTINGS, FRANK SEYMOUR.[2] Navigation. *75c Appleton 527 17-25796
The purpose of this book is to provide a short course explaining the principal problems met with in ordinary, everyday work at sea. The author is instructor in navigation on the U.S.S. “Granite State.” Contents: Chart sailing; Mean and apparent time; Compass error; Dead reckoning; Soundings; Corrected altitude; Latitude; Latitude by sun on meridian short rule; Longitude; Latitude by sun, ex-meridian; Chronometer reading; Stars and planets; General remarks.
R of Rs 57:102 Ja ‘18 60w
HASTINGS, JAMES, and others, eds.[2] Encyclopædia of religion and ethics. v 9 Mundas-Phrygians. *$7 Scribner 203 (8-35833)
For descriptive note see Annual for 1909; for reviews of v 8 see Annual for 1916.
+ Ath p519 O ‘17 70w
“The work holds its place as one of the greatest and most useful reference works ever published. It has no competitor, as it has made a field for itself which is unique; and it is indispensable to the student of the mental and social sciences, as well as to him who is interested in philosophy and theology.” F. W. C.
+ Boston Transcript p7 Ja 2 ‘18 1100w
+ Lit D 56:39 Ja 12 ‘18 360w
+ Outlook 118:67 Ja 9 ‘18 80w
253“This new volume maintains the standard of its predecessors.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p383 Ag 9 ‘17 230w
“Specially attractive contributions are grouped under the titles of ‘Ordeal’ and ‘Nature,’ while the less important subjects, whose number shows the wide field covered by the work, have been entrusted to experts, who inspire the confidence which is half the charm which the ordinary reader feels as he consults a work of this character.”
+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p554 N 15 ‘17 1150w
HAUSER, HENRI. Germany’s commercial grip on the world; her business methods explained; tr. by Manfred Emanuel. *$1.65 Scribner 382 17-14560
“The aim of this work is essentially practical. It is an objective study of facts, not a scientific discussion of economic principles; and its purpose is to promote the future prosperity of France in two ways, a negative and a positive. The first is to avoid the German grip, and the second to apply the lessons to be learnt from German success. ... The most important lesson of all is that German success has in the main been earned by solid work. ... As for those who urge ‘war on Germany’s trade’ with the weapons of passion and force, they are merely talking nonsense. Professor Hauser brings out this lesson better than most writers on the same subject.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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Ath p96 P ‘17 60w
“Of interest to thoughtful business men, legislators and students of economic and current history.”
+ Cleveland p92 Jl ‘17 60w
+ N Y Times 22:262 Jl 15 ‘17 950w
St Louis 15:320 S ‘17
“Professor Hauser’s book was written for Frenchmen, but it well deserves translation and the widest circulation. It is a penetrating and comprehensive analysis of the economic development of Germany, full of detailed information, acute deductions, and sound conclusions. ... Professor Hauser’s treatment is much more thorough than any hitherto attempted in English, and his conclusions are better informed and better balanced than the hasty and somewhat excited counsels pressed upon us here from various quarters.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p3 Ja 4 ‘17 900w
HAWKES, CLARENCE. Wood and water friends. il *$1.25 (1½c) Crowell 590 18-2698
A selection from the author’s nature writings. Some of them are sketches from a childhood spent in a happy out-of-door environment, where the foundations were laid for the studies that have been continued even after the loss of eye-sight. The pictures are by Charles Copeland. The selections are arranged miscellaneously without table of contents or index.
“Though physically blind, Mr Hawkes has a wonderful way of making others see. The world is far richer for his book.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 5 ‘18 140w
“The stories are varied and will interest children and young people of different ages—some of them speak especially to younger folk, while others have a wider field of interest. There is much to commend in the book as an introduction to nature lore.”
+ N Y Times 22:501 N 25 ‘17 300w
“He has developed the happy faculty of telling nature stories that are sometimes true and always interesting. Even the fiction is based on truth.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 D 8 ‘17 150w
HAWORTH, PAUL LELAND. On the headwaters of Peace river. il *$4 Scribner 917.11 17-28894
“The journey which Paul Leland Haworth took ‘On the headwaters of Peace river,’ a thousand-mile canoe trip in the northern wilderness of the Canadian Rockies, is not one that would be practicable for the ordinary traveler. ... Outfitting at Edmonton, and making his start, with one man, from Hansard, on the Fraser river, he followed the Crooked and the Parsnip rivers to the junction of the latter with the Finlay to make the mighty Peace river, and then went on up the Finlay and well into the country of the Quadicha river, where the author thinks they were the first white men to penetrate. The many beautiful and interesting pictures are from photographs taken by the author.”—N Y Times
+ A L A Bkl 14:92 D ‘17
“Mr Haworth’s story of his trip is peculiarly delightful because of his own zest in every experience and in every inspiring sight of mountain, glacier, forest, or noble river, and because of his faculty for having interesting experiences and meeting people who had had strange and varied contacts with life and nature and were willing to talk about them.”
+ N Y Times 22:482 N 18 ‘17 200w
“Will appeal to men who love rifle and canoe.”
+ Outlook 117:387 N 7 ‘17 40w
HAWTHORNE, HILDEGARDE. Rambles in old college towns. il *$2.50 (3c) Dodd 378 17-29340
Graduates of the following colleges will take keen pleasure in a ramble with Miss Hawthorne to the brightest spot of bygone days: Jefferson’s college, William and Mary, Annapolis, Princeton, Yale, Brown university, Harvard, Wellesley, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Amherst, Smith, Williams, Vassar, West Point and Cornell. It is of the buildings, the campus, the spirit and traditions of these time honored old places of learning that she writes. Of Cornell she quotes: “I don’t see but that, by and large, Cornell doesn’t pretty well express the whole of this country of ours, male and female, rich and poor, in most of its countless activities and interests. A great democratic university, wonderfully beautiful, magnificently situated, thoroughly alive. It’s tremendous!”
A L A Bkl 14:76 D ‘17
“Life past and present, scenes as they strike the eye and as they bring memories of bygone days, both of the colleges themselves and of their historic surroundings, appeal directly to Miss Hawthorne, and are made memorable to the reader. ... Miss Hawthorne’s description of Harvard is much too casual and perfunctory.” E. F. E.
+ — Boston Transcript p9 O 31 ‘17 650w
“The descriptions of buildings and of elms grow a trifle monotonous, if one reads the book in course, and will doubtless be the most enjoyable to the students and alumni of the institutions portrayed. There is more variety in the historical anecdotes.”
+ — Dial 63:534 N 22 ‘17 250w
+ Lit D 55:44 D 8 ‘17 110w
“It is the sort of thing for which Miss Hawthorne has a particularly happy faculty. Her mood responds sensitively to every appeal of landscape, tradition, human sentiment, the ever-lasting joyousness of youth, beauty of building or of setting. Her sense of humor is always keen and its expression genial and sunny.”
+ N Y Times 22:482 N 18 ‘17 350w
HAY, JOHN. Complete poetical works. il *$1.50 Houghton 811
The poems are grouped under the headings: The Pike county ballads; Wanderlieder; New and old; Translations; Uncollected pieces. There is an index of titles and one of first lines. The introduction is by the author’s son, Clarence Leonard Hay. The frontispiece is a portrait of the author.
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+ Boston Transcript p8 N 7 ‘17 320w
“John Hay cannot be ranked among the greatest poets. ... But there have been few poets whose work maintained a more consistent average of excellence. He was always the competent master of his craft, alike in the delightful ‘Pike county ballads’ and in historical verse of classic dignity.”
+ Ind 92:63 O 6 ‘17 120w
“Judged by exacting standards, Mr Hay’s poems are in the main more notable for rich thought and balanced human feeling than for the lyrical quality which creates the emotion of beauty. But their place in American letters is secure. Their importance, too, in American life is established because they reveal the true character of one who in the eyes of men was chiefly the statesman and diplomat.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 O 18 ‘17 290w
HAY, MARLEY FOTHERINGHAM. Secrets of the submarine. il *$1.25 (3c) Dodd 623.8 17-24865
Mr Hay has for seventeen years devoted his time exclusively to the design and construction of submarines. “Touching but lightly on historical development or the technique of hull and engine design (subjects already treated by Burgoyne, Stirling, Hoar, and others), he discusses in clear and simple language the armament of the submarine and the functions of its various mechanisms. ... He describes the way in which these craft are maintained, operated, and fought; the special dangers to which they and their crews are exposed, and the devices by which it is sought to counteract those dangers. He indicates many of the problems connected with them which remain to be solved and he analyzes Germany’s building facilities.” (Nation)
+ A L A Bkl 14:80 D ‘17
“Just the book for the man who is looking for a vade mecum on the subject. It answers practically every possible question.”
+ Boston Transcript p7 D 26 ‘17 300w
+ Cleveland p131 D ‘17 30w
“Besides giving America credit for the original invention by Holland, the author might also have mentioned Sperry’s gyroscopic compass, without which submarines could not navigate under water; Admiral Howell’s first employment of the gyroscope to make the torpedo run straight; and the heating of the air in the Whitehead torpedo to gain speed and distance, due to the late Walter N. Hill. The chapter on Submarine antidotes is not encouraging; that on the Sphere of the submarine is conservative, valuable, thoughtful.”
+ + — Nation 105:407 O 11 ‘17 300w
N Y Times 22:551 D 9 ‘17 70w
“Authentic, up-to-date information.”
+ Quar List New Tech Bks O ‘17 50w
HAYES, CARLTON (JOSEPH HUNTLEY). Political and social history of modern Europe. 2v v 1 *$2; v 2 $2.25 Macmillan 940.5 16-16141
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“In the second volume interest centres in chapters 21-25, which set forth the ‘Social factors in recent European history, 1871-1914,’ and explain the special form these factors took in England, France, Germany, Russia, and the minor states during that time. ... In the sections on France in the eighteenth century, especially during the revolution, are statements which need revision.” H. E. Bourne
+ Am Hist R 22:638 Ap ‘17 920w
+ A L A Bkl 13:346 My ‘17
“The first volume offers an excellent summary of three centuries (1500-1815) in a volume of 597 pages; while the entire second volume of 767 pages is devoted to the period since 1815. The theory of the economic interpretation of history is, of course, accepted, but it is used with moderation. ... Interesting features are the very full discussion of the eastern question and the expansion of Europe into Asia, Africa, and America. ... Each volume has its own index and may be used separately.” W. R. Smith
+ Am Pol Sci R 11:355 My ‘17 270w
+ Ath p52 Ja ‘17 120w
“It is obvious that much which seems almost sacrosanct to the historical specialist must be omitted, but Mr Hayes has been singularly successful in providing a comprehensive, clear, and well-balanced sketch of the development of European politics and society during the last four centuries. There are of course slips, particularly in the sphere of domestic history. Mr Hayes’s maps are distinctly good, except that the map of the religious divisions of Europe in 1600 anticipates the plantation of Ulster and gives an Anglican hue to the lands of Tyrone and Tyrconnell. His genealogical and other tables are elaborate and careful, and his bibliographies almost too detailed; but he gives the impression, not too common, of having really read the books he recommends.” A. F. P.
+ — Eng Hist R 32:620 O ‘17 420w
+ Ind 89:270 F 12 ‘17 250w
“The bibliographies are excellent, so that the student has at once a manual and a guide to fuller reading.” J. W. T.
+ J Pol Econ 25:520 My ‘17 330w
“The central theme is the rise and evolution of the powerful middle class in society—the bourgeoisie—which has done more than all the other social classes put together to create the life and thought of the modern world. There are accordingly such excellent chapters as those on the Commercial revolution of the sixteenth century, Society in the eighteenth century, The industrial revolution, and Social factors, 1870-1914. ... It is an admirable book to ‘grind’ for knowledge.”
+ Nation 104:554 My 3 ‘17 300w
Pittsburgh 22:425 My ‘17 50w
“Makes an excellent preparation for a study Of the causes and origin of the war.”
+ Pratt p41 Ap ‘17 20w
“Particular efforts are made to explain the various economic systems with respect to their merits and defects. Thus we have a description of humanism in the 16th century, the influence of socialism in the 20th; the colonization of the 17th century, contrasted with the partitions of Africa and the expansion in the Far East of more recent times.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Mr 9 ‘17 450w
HAYES, DOREMUS ALMY. John and his writings. (Biblical introduction ser.) *$1.75 Meth. bk. 226 17-6228
“An interpretation of the gospel, the letters, and the apocalypse of John the ‘beloved disciple,’ founded on the assumption that the John who wrote the five Johannine books was the Apostle John. Over against the tremendous logical structure of the Pauline gospel, Dr Hayes places the gospel according to John, as the doctrine of the church of the future, since it is founded and consummated in love. He regards the first epistle of John as better than any of the epistles of Paul. ‘John was a prophet; Paul an advocate. ... Paul’s epistles are treatises. ... John makes confident assertion of the truth,’”—R of Rs
“His style is clear and full of human touches that are fascinating in their suggestiveness. ... The discussion of the authorship of the fourth gospel is fair; the various views and their advocates are well and honorably represented. ... The bibliography is excellent, not being overloaded with technical works in foreign languages.”
+ Bib World 50:49 Jl ‘17 320w
“As an introduction to the Apostle John and his writings this volume is not only the latest, but the best with which we are acquainted. The bold and broad scholarship of the author is reënforced by a keen insight into human nature. ... Seldom can it be said of a work of introduction to a book of the Bible that it has not a dry or dull page in it; but just that can be said of this work.” F. W. C.
+ Boston Transcript p8 Mr 24 ‘17 750w
255“The book moves with persuasive eloquence and ample historical perspective and will prove a great satisfaction to Bible students if one excepts the chapters on the Apocalypse. Dr Hayes admits this book to be the most baffling in the Bible and contents himself with presenting a mass of learned opinion on the subject, clinging to certain literalisms that can be easily explained.”
+ R of Rs 55:553 My ‘17 180w
HAYNES, WILLIAMS, and HARRISON, JOSEPH LEROY, comps. Camp-fire verse. *$1.25 Duffield 811.08 17-25233
In his introduction to this anthology Stewart Edward White points out the change that came over out-door poetry in the period following the nineties, reflecting a change in our attitude to out-door life. In that early verse, he says, “you are apt to have been wearing ‘Lincoln green’ and a feather in your cap at that. But with Kipling’s ‘Feet of the young men’ as a sort of dividing line, later verse takes an entirely new attitude and you don your khaki.” In selecting poems for the volume the compilers have applied a double test: “We have tried to exclude all poems not conceived in the true spirit of the sportsman and to include no poems devoid of literary merit.” (Preface)
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“This collection is unique and interesting, and is one which any lover of camp life may be glad to have on his shelves. Most of the pieces are by authors who are, to the present reviewer at least, unknown, and many of them are of the undistinguished sort that serve as space-fillers in the better sporting magazines.”
+ — Dial 63:529 N 22 ‘17 280w
“An amazingly good collection. An excellent index, both of first lines and of titles, with a table of contents listed according to the authors, makes any of the verses easy to find.”
+ N Y Times 23:33 Ja 27 ‘18 390w
+ Springf’d Republican p13 Ja 20 ‘18 260w
HAYWARD, FRANK HERBERT. Professionalism and originality; with an appendix of suggestions bearing on professional, administrative, and educational topics. *$1.75 (3½c) Open ct. 174 17-17528
Dr Hayward is a school inspector. “His book is a polemic against professionalism. The first part is a catalogue of the vices to which the professional spirit is heir; the second—in intention a study of the characteristics of the living man, i.e., of the original mind—is mainly concerned with the reception which such a mind finds in the world of professionals.” (Int J Ethics)
“There are many shrewd and thoughtful comments upon the existing order of things.”
+ Ath p245 My ‘17 70w
“Dr Hayward handles all professions with a fine impartiality. ... The book is important for its trenchant discussion of many questions which are sadly in need of airing.” H. J. W. H.
+ + — Int J Ethics 27:541 Jl ‘17 260w
“Dr Hayward obviously knows nothing at first hand of the legal profession, nor, we should suppose, of the clerical and medical professions. He takes all his accusations of the legal profession from a book ‘The lawyer: our old man of the sea,’ by Mr Durran.”
— Sat R 123:580 Je 23 ‘17 870w
“A high-strung and loosely co-ordinated attack on all kinds of what we in America call ‘stand-pattism.’ ... He undertakes no philosophical discussion of that law of life which demands of men that they continually make the effort to strike a balance between the old and the new.”
— Springf’d Republican p15 Ag 12 ‘17 1450w
HAYWARD, WILLIAM RICHART. Money: what it is and how to use it. *80c (3c) Houghton 332 17-11581
The author is principal of the Curtis evening high school in New York city, and this work is a result of both teaching and business experience. Contents: What money is; Barter and primitive money; Development and use of metal money; The relation of money to progress; How money grows; How money is obtained; Keeping account of money; Substitutes for money; Banking; Stocks and bonds; Speculation; Exchange; Money for women; Travel; Buying; Receiving; Paying; Selling; Delivering; Collecting.
“It would make a most desirable textbook for junior high-school commercial courses. The author has been head of the commercial department of a large city high school, has had business experience of several years, has conducted a private business school, and has been editor of the Efficiency Society Journal. He has written into this book the practical outcome of his experience in contact with these different kinds of groups.”
+ El School J 17:691 My ‘17 350w
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+ N Y Times 22:242 Je 24 ‘17 270w
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+ Pratt p12 O ‘17 20w
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“Matters connected with the use and handling of money that the average person would need to know are briefly, simply and very clearly told.”
+ Springf’d Republican p19 Je 10 ‘17 130w
HAZARD, CAROLINE. Yosemite, and other verse. *$1.25 Houghton 811 17-11824
This book of poems by the ex-president of Wellesley college is made up of three parts. Part 1, California verse, contains the title piece and other poems of the far West, among them a sonnet sequence, “The Court of the ages,” written in San Francisco in 1915. The second part consists of miscellaneous poems, including a group of Hymns and anthems sung at Wellesley college. Part 3 is made up of five Studies in blank verse.
+ A L A Bkl 13:439 Jl ‘17
“The religious note, the deep undertone of faith which makes explainable all the sadder, darker sides of life, is always present. It is, we think, more characteristic than any other one element of the spiritual aspects of Miss Hazard’s achievement.” D. L. M.
+ Boston Transcript p6 My 16 ‘17 1050w
HAZELTINE, ALICE ISABEL, ed. Library work with children. *$1.50 (1½c) Wilson, H. W. 028.5 17-26973
Miss Hazeltine, compiler of this second volume in the series of “Classics of American librarianship,” is supervisor of children’s work in the St Louis public library. “The volume is an attempt to bring together in accessible form papers representing the growth and tendencies of forty years of library work with children. ... The papers chosen are primarily of historic rather than of present-day value, although many of them embody principles which govern the practice of today. ... Several different phases of children’s work are represented, although no attempt has been made to make the collection comprehensive. ... Book-selection for children has not been included except incidentally, since it is expected that this subject will be treated in another volume as part of the general subject of book-selection. In the same way, material on training for library work with children has been reserved for a volume on library training.” (Preface)
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“Parents who wish to know what the public service is doing for the good of every child will find this book inspiring. And librarians will find much useful matter in the suggestions.”
+ Lit D 55:52 D 8 ‘17 130w
HAZEN, CHARLES DOWNER. Alsace-Lorraine under German rule. *$1.25 (2½c) Holt 943.44 17-30886
A brief, dependable account of the fate of Alsace-Lorraine since its annexation by the Germans at the end of the Franco-Prussian 256war. A preliminary chapter traces the history of mediaeval Alsace and Lorraine, thru later acquisition by France, the character of French rule for over two hundred years and the part the provinces took in the French revolution, the Napoleonic wars and the war which wrenched them from France. In the main body of the book are treated the German agitation for the conquest of Alsace-Lorraine, arguments for annexation in 1871, the remonstrance of the two provinces against it, the spirit and methods of German rule since annexation, and the resistance to the persistent attempts at Germanization. The writer is professor of history in Columbia university.
“An authoritative and readable study.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:123 Ja ‘18
“By far the best short, yet actually sufficient, presentment of a question that is at the very heart of the present struggle for liberty. In it is to be found an unanswerable brief for France and a stern indictment of Berlin; for Berlin is now Germany.” S. A.
+ Boston Transcript p10 D 5 ‘17 470w
“This book can be depended upon as a complete popular discussion of one of the most important problems of the war.”
+ Lit D 55:44 D 8 ‘17 140w
+ Lit D 55:46 D 29 ‘17 280w
“Professor Hazen’s new book offers the most complete and, basically, the most trustworthy treatment of the theme that has yet appeared in English. It is, however, not difficult to find many flaws in the new book. Historical, in the highest sense, the book is not, as it shows little of the fine balance and breadth of view which the reader expects from the author of ‘Europe since 1815.’ Rather does it bear frequent evidence of the heat which forged it, of haste, and even of confusion.”
+ – — Nation 106:19 Ja 3 ‘18 450w
“The volume has been written with the intention of encouraging Americans and others to continue the strife until the liberation of Alsace-Lorraine is achieved, though, naturally, the author simply assumes that result as a certainty. But while this part is doubtful, the historical portion of the volume has a definite value.” Joshua Wanhope
– + N Y Call p15 N 18 ‘17 780w
“An excellent example of point of view and purpose in the presentation of historical facts. The book is not, properly speaking, a history; it is a footnote to history and a plea for the vindication of a principle. ... Professor Hazen writes simply and vigorously. He has not the timidity that seeks refuge in qualification and academic jargon. ... The book is inspiriting and informing, and leaves the reader with a forcible impression of the finality of the issue.”
+ N Y Times 22:558 D 16 ‘17 550w
HAZEN, CHARLES DOWNER. French revolution and Napoleon, maps *$2.50 (3½c) Holt 944.04 17-8744
The author has brought together in this volume the chapters from his “Modern European history” that deal with the French revolution and Napoleon. He has done this for the convenience of those who wish to review that period of history, as a means to a better understanding of our present crisis. The author says, “Between that period and our own not only are there points of interesting and suggestive comparison but there is also a distinct line of causation connecting the two.”
“A book outwardly attractive and charmingly written; it will probably be a popular text-book and, compared with other volumes of the same size, it will deserve to be popular. Tested by the ideal standard of what such a volume might be, it is more open to criticism. As to the incorrect statements of facts, while there are fewer than in the majority of school-texts dealing with this same period, there are still more than necessary, more than should be allowed to stand in a revised edition of the work. The connection between these periods and the present war is not made especially clear; it is treated very incidentally. Perhaps it could not be made clear in a work that ends with the Congress of Vienna; it might have been shown in two chapters on the great world development that has led to a world war.” F. M. Fling
+ — Am Hist R 23:149 O ‘17 750w
Boston Transcript p6 Ap 11 ‘17 250w
+ Dial 63:30 Je 28 ‘17 570w
+ Educ R 54:96 Je ‘17 40w
“His ‘French revolution’ should really be read in conjunction with Carlyle’s. It is exactly the sort of clear, logical, accurate, historical background which these brilliant, literary pictures demand.”
+ Ind 90:516 Je 16 ‘17 240w
Lit D 54:1266 Ap 28 ‘17 680w
“The work of Professor Hazen is admirably done. He has a rare talent for the clear and compact statement of complex facts. His sense of historic perspective is just and his power of connected narrative is highly developed. His style is animated, simple and happily colored. His volume is generously illustrated with maps, mostly in color.”
+ N Y Times 22:127 Ap 8 ‘17 450w
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Pratt p43 O ‘17 10w
+ R of Rs 56:215 Ag ‘17 100w
“The author is professor of European history in Columbia university.”
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“Fundamentally a text-book. ... Prof Hazen leaves nothing to your background of information. ... But the book is splendidly and readably, one might almost say, ingratiatingly, thorough. ... On almost every one of its 350-odd pages Prof Hazen has displayed his truly remarkable gift for packing an immense amount of information—even dry information sometimes—into charming and spirited paragraphs.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 6 ‘17 800w
HAZEN, CHARLES DOWNER. Modern European history. (American historical ser.) il $1.75 (lc) Holt 940.9 17-6333
A history of Europe from the French revolution to the European war. The central theme of the book is the struggle for liberty. Two chapters on The old régime in Europe and The old régime in France furnish a background for the story that follows. The one chapter at the end devoted to the European war deals only with causes and the course of events up to the actual outbreak of the conflict. The author is professor of history in Columbia university and author of “Europe since 1815,” published in 1910. This work has been drawn on in writing the present book.
“Essentially a textbook, exceptionally well written, authoritative, and superior to others of its class.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:395 Je ‘17
“The book is invaluable to one who would follow the important events now occurring in Europe, in the light of the story of the past.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Mr 17 ‘17 460w
“As a textbook it will probably find its place in good high schools and in freshman courses in college rather than with more mature college classes. The first two hundred and fifty pages have been published separately in a library edition, without the illustrations, under the title, ‘French revolution and Napoleon.’”
+ Nation 104:554 My 3 ‘17 300w
Pittsburgh 22:678 O ‘17 100w
“Clear maps set into the chapters which they represent. Profusely illustrated.”
+ School R 25:302 Ap ‘17 20w
“For a course in European history since the French revolution there is probably no better text than Hazen’s ‘Modern European history.’” R. N. Tryon
+ School R 25:686 N ‘17 170w
257HAZEN, CHARLES DOWNER, and others. Three peace congresses of the nineteenth century. *75c (4c) Harvard univ. press 341.1 17-13066
The papers on the Peace congresses of Vienna, Paris, and Berlin contained in this volume were written for the meeting of the American historical association held in Cincinnati in 1916. The congress of Vienna is treated by Charles Downer Hazen; The congress of Paris, by William Roscoe Thayer; The congress of Berlin, by Robert Howard Lord. In addition there is a paper on Claimants to Constantinople, by Archibald Cary Coolidge. The problem of Constantinople is pronounced by Henry Eldridge Bourne in his introduction “the most important single question to which the war must furnish an answer.”
“All the papers are interesting and suggestive. Mr Thayer’s alone is rather shabbily dressed so far as literary form is concerned and not exactly punctilious in its impartiality. Mr Coolidge’s article on ‘Claimants to Constantinople’ is a clear, well-balanced, and fair-minded, though appropriately brief, account of the most difficult question in the international relations of modern times. It deals mainly with the political aspects of the problem, and only incidentally with the economic.” C. J. H. Hayes
+ — Am Hist R 23:155 O ‘17 1150w
“Deals rather with the social side than with the political results of the negotiations, the personality of the plenipotentiaries than with their achievements. For those who wish to study the history of the questions involved in them, a useful bibliography is provided.” E.
+ Eng Hist R 32:626 O ‘17 90w
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Pratt p13 O ‘17
“The basis of Russia’s claims apropos of current discussion about the fate of Constantinople is clearly stated.”
+ R of Rs 56:108 Jl ‘17 30w
HEADLAM, JAMES WYCLIFFE. German chancellor and the outbreak of war. *3s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London 940.91
“This is, in effect, a supplement to the valuable analysis of the diplomatic negotiations immediately preceding the entry of Great Britain into the war which Mr Headlam issued in 1915 under the title ‘The history of twelve days.’ It includes additional evidence—from Germany—which has since become available, and is concerned mainly with events which intervened between the afternoon of Wednesday, July 29, and midnight on July 30. It challenges the view elaborated for the German public by the Chancellor that the act which made war inevitable was the Russian mobilization, and that for this mobilization Great Britain was really responsible. The five chapters are reprinted (with alterations and additions) from the Westminster Gazette.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
Ath p316 Je ‘17 170w
“In 1915 Mr Headlam completed his book, ‘The history of twelve days,’ which is still the best thing about the immediate causes of the war. Now, in this brief, clearly written volume, he has contributed one of the best supplementary things relating to the subject. It is marred in some places by small errors or too positive statement of that which should be conjecture, but in no essential part is the reasoning thereby affected.”
+ Nation 105:369 O 4 ‘17 1250w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p191 Ap 19 ‘17 110w
HEADLAM, JAMES WYCLIFFE. The Issue. *$1 (3c) Houghton 940.91 17-4974
Four of the papers in this volume are reprinted from the Nineteenth Century and After and one from the Westminster Gazette. They are discussions of the various suggestions for peace that have come from Germany. The author says there are three issues involved in this war, the Atlantic, the Eastern, and the European. It is with the third, the predominance of Germany in Europe, that he is concerned. This is the great issue with which the war began and with which it will close. Contents: Two manifestoes: The party leaders; The German chancellor and peace; Prince Bülow on peace; Central Europe. Mr Headlam is author of a life of Bismarck.
“The appendixes contain translations of the manifestoes of the six industrial associations and of the German professors to the chancellor.”
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+ Am Pol Sci R 11:362 My ‘17 90w
“The evidence of German policy adduced would perhaps have had even more weight with some if it had been allowed to speak for itself than accompanied as it is by the expression of Mr Headlam’s strong feeling.”
Ath p96 F ‘17 50w
Cleveland p83 Je ‘17 50w
“Certainly he is thoroughly sane.”
+ Dial 62:529 Je 14 ‘17 400w
“Of special value to American readers because it states clearly and concisely precisely what the aims of the Allies are in the great war.”
+ Ind 90:380 My 26 ‘17 200w
J Pol Econ 25:1059 D ‘17 280w
Reviewed by Alvin Johnson
+ New Repub 10:301 Ap 7 ‘17 1250w
N Y Br Lib News 4:57 Ap ‘17 20w
Pittsburgh 22:528 Je ‘17 80w
“Mr J. W. Headlam is one of the sanest and best-informed of our critics of German policy.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p619 D 21 ‘16 750w
HEALY, WILLIAM. Mental conflicts and misconduct. *$2.50 (3c) Little 136.7 17-9835
Mr Healy is director of the Psychopathic institute, in connection with the Juvenile court of Chicago, and author of “The individual delinquent.” This work on the part mental conflict plays in delinquency is an outgrowth of his experience. In general the conclusions arrived at conform to those of Freud, but the author is not a Freudian disciple. Acknowledgment is made to the psycho-analytic school for enlightenment, but the author’s studies have been followed independently, with no intention of proving any particular theory. The first four chapters are of a general nature, discussing principles, methods, etc. The main body of the book is given up to description and analysis of cases, arranged under such headings as: Conflicts accompanied by obsessive imagery; Conflicts causing impelling ideas; Criminal careers developed from conflicts; Conflict arising from sex experiences; Conflicts arising from secret sex knowledge; Conflicts concerning parentage, etc.
“His exposition of the methods of getting at the mental conflicts, as well as the method itself, is so simple that it obviates much of the occultism of some psycho-analysts. His reliance primarily upon the presentation of the facts of the clinic and the procedure therein makes it a work which must be made a starting-point by any future worker in the same field. It would seem that the cases could have been more carefully classified and presented more systematically. ... The genius of the author as shown in the application of this method of treatment to a class of juvenile offenders cannot be too highly commended.” T: H. Haines, M.D.
+ Am J Soc 23:259 S ‘17 560w
“Valuable to the eugenist, intelligent parent, teacher or physician. Too pathological for the general reader.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:39 N ‘17
“No writer in the field of criminological literature has done so much as has the author of this volume to analyze the causation underlying criminality. He has established psychological research as one of the most valuable approaches to the real understanding of the problem. This is the first rational explanation of that class of cases where the criminal confesses to impulses which he cannot explain. 258Dr Healy establishes the value of psycho-analysis as a genuine scientific procedure. The work is thoroughly scientific and of absorbing interest to all who are handling misconduct problems, especially those of adolescent children.” J. P. L.
+ Ann Am Acad 73:245 S ‘17 200w
“Forms a notable contribution to the group of writings, mostly of American origin, distinctive of the applied psychology of crime.”
+ Dial 63:219 S 13 ‘17 270w
“To one outside the Freudian fold this theory is unconvincing. The idea of mental conflict is ill-defined, and in the use made of the notion of repression lurk many doubtful assumptions. The sound suggestions given by the author for the treatment of these cases are in no way bound up with the theory of the mental mechanisms with which he connects them.”
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“Psychologically, the author’s case-material is of great interest, and the interpretation given, in terms of mental conflict, is likewise of considerable interest, though it does not appear to fit all the cases equally well.” R. S. Woodworth
+ — Science n s 46:461 N 9 ‘17 740w
“A work that must prove of absorbing interest to professional people, pastors, judges, court and institution officers, as well as parents and guardians of children. Dr Healy’s findings interpret much that has been hitherto misunderstood by those engaged in close study of delinquency.”
+ Social Service Review 5:25 Ap ‘17 100w
“The forty cases are very simply and attractively described and give a picture of an almost uniform pattern bringing home the havoc played in the child’s mind by the lottery of naïveté and partial information on sex topics to which the child is exposed. In contrast to the very direct and perhaps over-simple account of records, the general discussion goes at length into a fairly orthodox though somewhat simplified rendering of the Freudian system of interpretations, general principles, applications and methods, with many interesting and helpful discussions, with much evidence of sound experience.” Adolph Meyer
+ — Survey 38:421 Ag 11 ‘17 1700w
HEARN, LAFCADIO. Life and literature. *$3.50 Dodd 804 17-31448
Professor John Erskine of Columbia university, editor of Hearn’s “Interpretations of literature” and “Appreciations of poetry,” is editor also of this third volume. The material which has been secured thru Hearn’s Japanese students is in substance the lectures delivered at the University of Tokyo between 1896 and 1902. The volume contains critical comment which confirms Hearn lovers in their impression of his “noble and continuous discrimination, a sustained sympathy, day after day, year after year, towards good books of all sorts, whether contemporary or long published.” Some of the chapters are: On reading in relation to literature; On the relation of life and character to literature; On composition; Literary genius (a fragment); On modern English criticism, and the contemporary relations of English to French literature; The poetry of George Meredith; Note upon Rossetti’s prose; Note on some French romantics; Note upon an ugly subject; Tolstoi’s theory of art; Note upon Tolstoi’s “Resurrection”; Some fairy literature; The most beautiful romance of the middle ages.
“Hearn has rendered a service alike to the West by his interpretations of the Japanese mind and to the East by his suggestive study of western literature, and he is certain that by their extraordinary quality they add something of great value to the body of English literary criticism, and that they stand among the best examples of this form of writing. Their remarkable feature is that they appeal to and contain much of value not merely to beginners in the study of English literature, but also to those who are anxious to amplify their knowledge of it.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p8 D 1 ‘17 1200w
“But it all serves admirably for the high-school or university student in our own country, as well as for the older reader who enjoys being freshened up by a series of capable résumés. For matured Anglo-Saxons the most interesting of Hearn’s chapters are the first three, which deal with general opinions and which state his views on the reading and writing of literature—particularly the one in which he gives his ideas of composition.” H: B. Fuller
+ Dial 64:68 Ja 17 ‘18 900w
“This third volume is a bit more personal than its predecessors, personal in the sense of bespeaking more clearly the adventure of the critic’s taste. And it is of the utmost significance in the extraordinary quality of its interpretation, its literary criticism, not after the manner of the academic or journalistic schools of judgment, but from the point of view of the creative artist.”
+ N Y Times 22:531 D 2 ‘17 900w
HEATH, ARTHUR GEORGE. Letters. *$1.25 Longmans 940.91 17-29759
“Arthur George Heath, fellow of New college, Oxford, and lieutenant in the Royal West Kent regiment, fell on the eighth of October, 1915, his twenty-eighth birthday. ... He applied for a commission a few days after the declaration of war, and threw himself whole-heartedly into the necessarily abhorrent task, to carry it through or to die at his post. Gentleness and humor, forgetfulness of self and thoughtfulness for those at home, with a scholar’s studiousness and earnestness, mark these letters from the field, mostly to the writer’s mother, now collected and prefaced with a warmly appreciative memoir by Professor Gilbert Murray, fellow Oxonian and fellow collegian of Heath’s.”—Dial
“The book takes its place beside similar memorials of Dixon Scott and Rupert Brooke and scores of others, as a sad reminder of high possibilities of achievement sacrificed without a murmur, and also of high actualities of achievement in a great cause.”
+ Dial 63:218 S 13 ‘17 220w
“There is something in the young Oxford don’s way of facing the facts of his life honestly, with no illusion of the imagination, yet with a steady and at times humorous desire to make the best of them, something in his sense of routine obligation, in the very absence of a transforming imagination, which makes one feel as if standing on the bedrock of truth.”
+ Nation 105:153 Ag 9 ‘17 230w
HEATH, CARL. Pacific settlement of international disputes. pa *1s Headley bros., London 341 (Eng ed 17-10174)
“This little book by a leading pacifist of advanced views is not a general dissertation but a collection of material; first giving in a concise form for reference the facts as to what has been done in the past by The Hague conventions, the Pacific convention, and International peace commissions; and then considering in order the new propositions for the prevention of war. The recommendations are on international lines. ... At the end of each chapter are references to a few modern books in which its subject is dealt with at greater length.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
Ath p96 F ‘17 80w
Int J Ethics 27:539 Jl ‘17 70w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p71 F 8 ‘17 150w
HEINE, HEINRICH. Poems. il *$2 Holt 831 17-10874
Louis Untermeyer has selected and translated three hundred and twenty-five of the poems of Heinrich Heine. These include not only the well-known “lieder,” but selections from “Die Nord see” and some of the poems from “Die Harz reise” series as well. The translator 259says, “I have endeavored, by the selections chosen, to show Heine’s lyrical power not only at its best but at its most characteristic. For this reason I have included many poems usually glossed over by his translators; poems that are trivial enough in themselves, but necessary to the series that contains them, and necessary also to a complete appreciation of Heine’s development.” The introduction is important as a piece of criticism, and in his translations Mr Untermeyer has endeavored to retain a quality too often lost in the English versions, the bitter flavor that is so characteristically Heine.
“The poems are translated into vivid English verse.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:50 N ‘17
“Mr Untermeyer approaches Heine from three standpoints—that of the man, of the poet and of the paradox. He clears away at the very beginning much of the rubbish which has collected about the Heine tradition. His translation as a whole is not only satisfactory but deserves the highest praise for its faithfulness to both spirit and text and for the keenness with which he has made more clear the complex genius of Heine.” D. L. M.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 1 ‘17 1050w
“Heine’s simplicity is a trap for the unwary. That simplicity is the art that conceals art and can be reproduced only by one who is a poet in his own right, responsive to the same medium and claiming the same racial background. It took a Jewish poet to translate the Jewish poet. ... Comment on the volume would be inadequate without reference to Mr Untermeyer’s scholarly (not academic) preface which, except for its failure to praise the translator, constitutes the best possible review of the work.” B: W. Huebsch
+ Dial 62:399 My 3 ‘17 930w
“The book will give to those who do not read German a real knowledge of a great poet; it will please those who do read German because it is a true and faithful rendering; and it will take its place as something more than a translation, because, thanks to the introduction and the choice and arrangement of the poems it is an interpretative and critical essay.”
+ Ind 90:554 Je 23 ‘17 270w
“The result of Mr Untermeyer’s labor is not merely passing good, it is surpassingly excellent. His knowledge of German—as is evident from the beginning and becomes more so as one studies his translations—is intimate and fundamentally sound. His greatest attainment is that he has caught the spirit of Heine.”
+ Lit D 55:36 S 22 ‘17 550w
“Mr Untermeyer has unquestionably brought the reader who has no German closer to the source. If he has not quite succeeded in translating Heine the poet, he has succeeded very often in translating Heine the wit. ... Nevertheless, Mr Untermeyer’s volume is a little of a disappointment. One expected something more than a ‘libretto’ from a poet who takes his calling so seriously. It was really Heine the artist that we wanted.” Paul Rosenfeld
+ — New Repub 11:225 Je 23 ‘17 1000w
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Reviewed by Clement Wood
+ N Y Call p12 Ap 22 ‘17 230w
“His preface is especially illuminating. ... The defects of the book are small indeed, compared with its qualities. For the first time the English reader is furnished with a genuinely representative selection from Heine’s poems, so translated as to give not the apparent or superficial meaning, but their real significance.”
+ N Y Times 22:223 Je 10 ‘17 680w
“It is too much to say that these translations keep Heine’s music. They do, however, fairly—at times brilliantly—present his poetic work and are a valuable addition to any library. The preface is unusually good, well worth publishing alone as a critical and interpretative essay on the great German Jew, whose words are immortal.”
+ R of Rs 55:660 Je ‘17 80w
St Louis 15:183 Je ‘17
“Except for its irony, it gives but little hope for any great revival of interest in Heine’s poetry. Heine was above all things musical, but this translation, while ingenious and true to the meaning of the original, does not make him remarkably sweet to the ear or appealing to one’s sense of rhythm in words.”
– + Springf’d Republican p17 My 6 ‘17 950w
Helen of Four Gates. *$1.50 (2c) Dutton 17-16318
An anonymous story of the north country moors, by an Englishwoman said to have worked in a cotton mill for nearly the whole of the twenty years since she was eleven. Her grip upon the elemental in men and women, her uncanny imagination, her power of picturing cruelty and horror, and love unashamed, remind the reader of Eden Phillpotts, of Emily Brontë and of Edgar Allan Poe. An old and well-to-do farmer, Abel Mason, has never forgiven the sweetheart of his youth for casting him aside because of insanity in his family. After she and her husband have died, Abel adopts their daughter, Helen, whom he passes off as his own child in order to sate his longing for revenge upon her. When Helen falls in love with Martin, a lad working on the farm, Abel tells him that Helen carries the taint of insanity in her blood. Martin refuses either to marry Helen or to leave her, and for years the old man watches their sufferings with delight and invents new tortures until, by cunning schemes, he drives Martin from the farm and forces Helen into marriage with a tramp. The happy ending, though unexpected, is convincing, and does not leave the reader with a sense of anti-climax.
– + Ath p362 Jl ‘17 110w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
Bookm 46:94 S ‘17 450w
“‘Helen of Four Gates’ is an unusual novel. Its atmosphere is dark and morbid and its characters are nearly all abnormal. Nevertheless, the author has created in it a very real atmosphere of terror, and to some extent also of pity. The best work of the novelist is done in the creation of this terrifying monster, [Abel Mason]. For sheer stark horror his character finds few equals in recent fiction.”
+ Boston Transcript p10 N 24 ‘17 490w
“It is plain that in theme and treatment she has been, probably unconsciously, influenced by the writings of Mr Thomas Hardy and Mr Phillpotts: thus the very considerable powers of expression with which she pictures the rich loveliness of an English countryside in springtime throw into ironical and shocking relief the sins and miseries of the human element. The author has somewhat overshot the mark. The material seems at times to get out of hand, the characters are not always intelligible, and there are unnecessary uglinesses.”
– + Cath World 105:837 S ‘17 220w
“It is something more than a merely human struggle that the author has represented, consciously or not. It is the eternal struggle of all elemental, living things to maintain their birthright to freedom of expression in living terms. This is the truth that the ‘ex-mill-girl’ makes you feel. The dénouement is distinctly disappointing, below the level of the rest.” Ruth McIntire
+ — Dial 63:211 S 13 ‘17 900w
Reviewed by Clement Wood
– + N Y Call p14 Ag 26 ‘17 480w
“It is all written with an imagination that shrinks from no horror, but is always able with sombre power to depict whatever height or depth of passion or suffering the characters rise or sink to. ... One closes the book with the conviction that ‘An ex-mill girl’ has brought a new note to current English fiction, a note that excels in sheer emotional power, in beauty of tone, in imagination, any voice that is now telling stories to the English-speaking peoples.”
+ N Y Times 22:265 Jl 15 ‘17 870w
“It is crude, but it has a certain power and vigour which make it worth reading.”
– + Spec 119:192 Ag 25 ‘17 30w
260“In places the story is well nigh revolting, but in its dramatic tensity and insight into primitive human passions it attains a high degree of power.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p15 Ag 26 ‘17 430w
“There is an intensity of emotion in ‘Helen of Four Gates’ a wild, desperate passion that excites while it oppresses the reader. You experience the same kind of sensation—though in a much stronger degree—that you have when you hold a wild bird in your hand.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p262 My 31 ‘17 530w
HEMENWAY, HETTY. Four days; the story of a war marriage. il *50c (4½c) Little 17-24973
This is a simply told story of a war marriage—the oft-enacted tale of the young Englishman who comes back from the horrors of the front to his quietly appointed English home with its circle of adoring relatives and his waiting girl bride. It is English in its quiet courage, pathetic in its telling of the stepping aside of the parents that those two might be all in all to each other during the short four days’ leave. It is real in its recording of the simple details and the last goodbye at the station where the two smiled back into each other’s eyes while a voice sounded behind them: “The average life of an officer in the Dardanelles is eleven days,” and above the singing of “Rule Britannia” shrilled the voice of a hunchback “I came that they might have Life.”
“Beautifully told, it holds in its small compass the essence of the tragedy of the war for all young lovers.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:96 D ‘17
“A moving and unusually well written short story.”
+ Cleveland p128 N ‘17 40w
“The author is a young Boston woman, a protégée of Mrs Deland. It is a profoundly moving little story, told with an appreciation of the virtue of restraint that is noteworthy in a first book.”
+ N Y Times 22:343 S 16 ‘17 250w
“One of the best bits of work that we have had in this country since the war started.” E. P. Wyckoff
+ Pub W 92:808 S 15 ‘17 250w
HENDERSON, LAWRENCE JOSEPH. Order of nature; an essay. *$1.50 Harvard univ. press 575 17-3165
“Evolution is studied from a new standpoint in ‘The order of nature.’ ... The author almost commits himself to the opinion that life is a necessary consequence of the earth’s physical and chemical constitution, an opinion which points to a hitherto unrecognized order existing among the properties of matter. As a setting for the problem the teleological principles of Aristotle and of the philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are sketched, and then the biological and evolutionary doctrines are briefly reviewed. ... The last chapters are given to a discussion of the unique properties of the three elements, hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen. And it is on the examination of the properties and activities of these elements that the author hopes to show the teleological order of the universe. A proof is not pretended.”—Nation
“Valuable and stimulating to readers with a knowledge of chemistry, physics, mathematics, and the researches of J. Willard Gibbs. For the large reference library.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:39 N ‘17
Ath p250 My ‘17 90w
Dial 63:528 N 22 ‘17 480w
“The adaptation of organic life to its environment has been a favorite theme. As a rule, the physical and chemical aspects of the problem have been neglected, and Professor Henderson, by calling attention to them, has started an investigation which will certainly be continued.”
+ Nation 104:739 Je 21 ‘17 250w
“It has come to be assumed that the reason why the physical and chemical environment appears to be specially fitted for life is simply that life has, by natural selection, been so moulded as to fit its environment. Against this conclusion the main chapters of the book are directed; and the argument is the more remarkable and original since the author accepts without question the theory of natural selection. His discussion of Spencer’s conception of evolution is perhaps specially luminous.” J. S. H.
+ Nature 100:262 D 6 ‘17 1000w
+ N Y Times 22:143 Ap 15 ‘17 60w
St Louis 15:327 S ‘17 10w
HENDERSON, W. E. B. Behind the thicket. *$1.50 Dutton
“This is a novel with a somewhat unusual theme, placed in a setting which is not unusual at all. The little English village of Wokeborough, near London, is not in the least unlike any number of small English towns. ... Michael is the leading character, a boy of six when the story begins, a young man when it closes. And it is the strange influence upon him of the woods which is the dominant theme of the novel, an influence which shows itself during his childhood and becomes stronger and stronger as the story progresses, ending at last in nymph-love and a tragedy understood only by the old Greek scholar who had been so fond of him always. ... Side by side with it, however, runs an interesting, realistic account of the relations of a mother and daughter, the conflict of two generations which failed to understand each other.”—N Y Times
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
Bookm 46:206 O ‘17 330w
“Less delicately it treads the ground which Mr Forrest Reid touched recently in ‘The spring song.’”
+ — Nation 105:247 S 6 ‘17 270w
“The book is very well written, despite its author’s too great fondness for quotations, and some of the descriptions have in them more than a touch of poetry. If the difficulties inherent in the blending of the mystic, nature-worship theme with that of everyday life are not always entirely surmounted, the attempt is nevertheless a very interesting one.”
+ N Y Times 22:250 Jl 1 ‘17 500w
HENDRYX, JAMES B. Gun-brand. il *$1.50 (2c) Putnam 17-13183
Perhaps it was a little inconsistent that a girl who “felt the irresistible call of the raw,” who languished in a civilized atmosphere should be obsessed with the idea of carrying the blessings of civilization to the Indian. Nevertheless the school that she is to establish gives the needed pretext for getting Chloe Elliston into the north, and that is all that matters. Once there her interest is divided between two men. Pierre Lapierre and Bob, called Brute, MacNair. Both are free traders and there is rivalry to the death between them. One is a dastard and knave, one an honest man, and, under his crude exterior, a gentleman. But Chloe makes the mistake of misjudging each and confusing the characters of the two. Blood flows freely before the tale is ended and the “raw” for which Chloe had yearned is hers in good measure.
A L A Bkl 13:449 Jl ‘17
“Mr Hendryx is a past master in the art of serving up fiction à la northwest. The subtler seasoning of plausibility and characterization are lacking in his handiwork, but the lover of such fiction will find it sufficiently wholesome and stimulating to be worth a hasty reading.”
+ — Boston Transcript p6 Ag 1 ‘17 200w
“The plot, which of course is the important matter in a book of this type, is sufficiently ingenious. ... Occasionally the author forgets to be grandiloquent, which is fortunate for the book. The story moves swiftly, and will probably please the kind of reader for whom it is written.”
N Y Times 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 260w
261Reviewed by Joseph Mosher
+ — Pub W 91:1317 Ap 21 ‘17 300w
“The reader’s pleasure in ‘The gun brand’ will be in ratio to his credulity. The story is characteristic, but less spontaneous than Mr Hendryx’s earlier tales.”
+ — Springf’d Republican p15 S 2 ‘17 320w
HENNEBOIS, CHARLES.[2] In German hands: the diary of a severely wounded prisoner; with a preface by Ernest Daudet. (Soldiers’ tales of the great war) *$1.50 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed 16-24983)
“Charles Hennebois was a volunteer in the French army, a poet-acquaintance of Daudet, and fell severely wounded on October 12, 1914, before Saint Michiel after only a few weeks of service. He was left lying uncared for between the lines until the 16th, when the Germans gathered him up, sent him to Metz, and amputated his leg—an operation which another German surgeon later told him was unnecessary. Moved from Metz to Montigny and later to Offenburg in Baden, M. Hennebois was the victim and witness of many German brutalities, and the book is practically the diary he kept during those months. ... Incapacitated for further service, this Frenchman was fortunate enough to be exchanged, and in July, 1915, he was once more back in his home in Toulouse.”—Springf’d Republican
A L A Bkl 14:123 Ja ‘18
“A striking exposition of German cruelty and oppression.”
+ Sat R 122:420 O 28 ‘16 210w
“Something different from the usual ‘war book.’”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 D 28 ‘17 370w
“He is a man of letters by profession, not a writer for this occasion only, and knows how to tell his story instead of merely blurting it out. His tone is scrupulously fair.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p518 N 2 ‘16 530w
HENRY, FRANCIS AUGUSTUS. Jesus and the Christian religion. *$3 (2c) Putnam 230 16-22324
In this day of religious questioning, thinks the author, “we cannot do better than to turn from disputation and go back to the fountain-head of Christianity, the life and teaching of Him we call our Lord and Master; to try to enter into His mind and gain an insight of the religion He believed in and lived by. The following pages are an attempt to bring before the reader some of the leading principles of that religion with the purpose and the hope of inducing him to make a thorough study of a subject until recently too much neglected—‘the truth as it is in Jesus,’ and not as it is in the churches or in the Letter-writers of the New Testament.” The trend of the author’s discussion all goes to show that the history of the Christian church has been one of deviation from the teachings of its founder. In this he finds the explanation of the weakness of the church in modern life. He quotes Lessing’s words, “After eighteen centuries of Christianity it is high time to go back to Christ.”
N Y Br Lib News 3:188 D ‘16
“The argument is conducted on an extensive scale and with ability.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p131 Mr 15 ‘17 180w
HERFORD, OLIVER (PETER SIMPLE, pseud.). Confessions of a caricaturist. il *$1 Scribner 817 17-24407
This little volume consists of thirty-two caricatures, accompanied by Mr Herford’s verses, of Napoleon, Roosevelt, Pierpont Morgan, Arnold Bennett, Peter Dunne, St Paul, John D. Rockefeller, “F. W. Hohenzollern,” and others.
“Clever caricatures of famous men with an equally clever short rhyme for each picture.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:50 N ‘17
“Here is an American humorist who can write and draw out of an abounding sense of fun, whose brain is fertile in conceits, and who is never insipid when his object is merely to provoke a smile. Best of all, when his purpose is satiric, his genial mood does not depart from him.”
+ Springf’d Republican p19 O 14 ‘17 750w
HERGESHEIMER, JOSEPH. Three black Pennys. *$1.50 Knopf 17-25287
“The story depicts characteristics in the Penny family. The first is the survival of a strain, appearing in widely separated generations, which had given the possessor the distinguishing title of ‘Black’ Penny; and the second—also an attribute of the strain—a black, scornful mood, an impatience at restraint and an egoistic, antisocial attitude toward life. The story is divided into three distinct parts, in each of which a ‘Black’ Penny moves upon the stage and contributes his share to the drama begun centuries earlier by the first embodiment of the foreign strain.”—Springf’d Republican
“Uncommon as this book [’Secret bread,’ by F. T. Jesse] is in mood and quality, as well as in fitness of style, we have two American novels of the season that may fairly be matched with it. One is Ernest Poole’s ‘His family,’ on which I have already said my enthusiastic say. The second is ‘The three black Pennys.’” H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 46:487 D ‘17 900w
“Mr Hergesheimer is a master in his portrayal of the mind of man and the blind, not-understood, forces which urge him to what he does.” D. L. M.
+ Boston Transcript p10 D 12 ‘17 1650w
“Contributing also to the ultimate failure of the work as a novel is a smaller flaw. The characters move in the setting as though it were a mere stage back-drop. The moods, the thoughts, the spirits of the various characters are in no way changed by those minute influences which make up so large a part of the mosaic of life. Memories of the exquisite blending of man and nature by such men as Meredith, Maupassant, and Flaubert flood into the reviewer’s mind. The virtue of the book is its psychology.” B. I. Kinne
+ – — Dial 63:643 D 20 ‘17 1250w
“We do not suggest the quality of the tale; how, in the artist’s hands, this material, which in outline will seem merely clever or sensational, assumes dignity and a kind of beauty such as, if we were to search for an analogue, might lead us to Hawthorne rather than elsewhere.”
+ Nation 105:432 O 18 ‘17 400w
“In spite of the sting of its fine artistry, its adroit blend of high literary models, only fitfully and uncertainly does it touch creative height.” H. S.
+ — New Repub 12:334 O 20 ‘17 1050w
“Joseph Hergesheimer in this book has shown an exquisite mastery of prose form. The description of the modern iron furnace, for instance, is one of the finest word-paintings in recent fiction.” Clement Wood
+ N Y Call p18 D 15 ‘17 640w
“He has here fashioned a novel out of distinctively American life on an original pattern, caught the very air and flavor of three widely separated epochs of our history.”
+ N Y Times 22:342 S 16 ‘17 1200w
“The chief weakness of the present volume is that while the connection between the several parts is plausible, you feel that there is no inexorable connection between cause and effect. In fact, his work would have lost nothing essential if he had given it to us in the form of three unrelated short stories.” Grant Hosmer
+ — Pub W 92:1378 O 20 ‘17 1000w
“He adopts an ambitious plan for a writer who has been before the reading public for so short a time, but he develops his theme with skill and notable success.”
+ Springf’d Republican p19 O 14 ‘17 480w
262HERING, CARL, and GETMAN, FREDERICK HUTTON. Standard table of electrochemical equivalents and their derivatives. il *$2 (7c) Van Nostrand 541.37 17-20864
“The chief purpose of this publication is to serve as a reference book on account of the tables and other data given in it, and not as a treatise on electrochemistry in general; sufficient explanatory text has however been added to enable the data to be used for most purposes without the need of a further treatise on the subject.” (Preface) The table of electrochemical equivalents is based on one worked out by Mr Hering in 1903, but it has been entirely recalculated from the latest and best internationally adopted values, including the atomic weights for 1917. Glossary and index are provided at the end.
HERRICK, FRANCIS HOBART. Audubon, the naturalist; a history of his life and time. 2v il *$7.50 (3½c) Appleton 17-29872
The discovery in France of a collection of fresh material bearing on Audubon’s ancestry and early life has enabled the author to write what may be called the first complete biography of the naturalist. Heretofore all that has been written on Audubon’s life has been based almost wholly on a brief sketch which he himself put together hastily in 1835, characterizing it as “a very imperfect account of my early life.” The new material supplements this fragmentary sketch and corrects it in many of its statements of fact. The two volume work, which is very fully illustrated, follows Audubon’s adventurous career in detail. The appendixes contain valuable matter, including the complete text of the French documents, some in the original, others in translation, and a bibliography, containing a fully annotated list of Audubon’s writings, biographies, criticism, and Auduboniana. Volume 2 contains the index for the complete work.
A L A Bkl 14:127 Ja ‘18
“One closes Mr Herrick’s notable book with a feeling of keen satisfaction over the pleasure it has afforded and of gratitude to the author for having written it. ... The scores of beautiful and most interesting illustrations also deserve mention.” F. F. Kelly
+ Bookm 46:329 N ‘17 250w
“Combines scholarliness with a popular style and is enhanced by many fine illustrations.”
+ Cleveland p12 Ja ‘18 70w
“This work by the professor of biology in Western Reserve university, himself a well-known ornithologist, is the first thorough and authoritative biography of the great naturalist whose life was one of the most romantic in American history.”
+ Lit D 55:44 D 8 ‘17 140w
“The volumes are beautifully printed and magnificently illustrated, many of the plates being reproductions in color of Audubon’s drawings. For the reader whose interest in Audubon is scientific the book is invaluable; the more general reader will find it a fascinating story of tremendous struggle and great achievement.”
+ N Y Times 22:478 N 18 ‘17 1400w
+ Outlook 118:31 Ja 2 ‘18 80w
“The present work gives from start to finish a sustained impression of a pioneer work. Even in the chapters that are necessarily based upon old, well-worked material, there is absolute freshness of treatment and point of view. ... As a crowning merit the work is equipped with an admirable bibliography.” Calvin Winter
+ Pub W 92:1388 O 20 ‘17 670w
+ R of Rs 57:99 Ja ‘18 130w
HERRON, GEORGE DAVIS. Menace of peace. *$1 (6c) Kennerley 940.91 (Eng ed 17-13835)
This little book is directed against the “clamour for a peace that shall leave the causes of the war unknown, the embattled questions unanswered,” and argues that “a peace based upon a drawn battle between the Germanic powers and the Allies is nothing else than the capitulation of the world to Prussian might and mastery,” whereas the victory of the Allies “will lead to the banishment of war from our planet.” Mr Herron believes that peace without victory would be to the interest of the munition-makers, because Europe would then continue to arm for war, and to the interest of the Vatican because, if autocracy should perish in Germany, it would perish elsewhere, and “the Catholic power depends upon the subjection of the peoples.”
Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston
— Bookm 46:289 N ‘17 10w
“An eloquent appeal to the Allies to endure to the end and win a complete victory for the sake of the spiritual values of humanity.”
+ Ind 92:60 O 6 ‘17 30w
“The burden of Dr Herron’s adjuration is ‘Germania est delenda!’ He doesn’t put it in exactly these terms; calls it necessary chastisement, justice and things of that kind. ... It is written with all the powerful and graceful diction of which Dr Herron is an undoubted master. But we cannot in common honesty say that we are greatly impressed with it.” J. W.
+ – — N Y Call p14 Jl 8 ‘17 700w
“Few writers upon the subject have stated the case with such comprehensive understanding of its factors, implications, and possible consequences, such compactness of presentation, such sturdy basing of argument upon the democracy that is at stake and such noble utterance.”
+ N Y Times 22:344 S 16 ‘17 450w
“Written in the fiery eloquence of style and elegance of diction which have always characterized Dr Herron’s polemic writings. It has incidental interest as another vigorous expression of a well-known American socialist in direct opposition to the Socialist party’s policy of pacifism.”
+ Springf’d Republican p15 Jl 15 ‘17 270w
HERRON, GEORGE DAVIS. Woodrow Wilson and the world’s peace. il *$1.25 (5c) Kennerley 940.91 17-25519
The author of “The menace of peace,” a Socialist, has collected in this volume six papers in defense of President Wilson’s policy and against a premature peace. All except the first, which was originally printed in the New Age of London, and afterwards in Die Freie Zeitung of Bern, were written for continental European readers, and published from Dec. 31, 1916, to July 1, 1917. The papers have been “somewhat developed,” but stand substantially as written. “Each paper has had two or more translations into other languages, other countries, than that in which it was originally published.” (Explanations and dedication) The frontispiece pictures the bust of President Wilson modeled in 1916 by Jo Davidson. Contents: Woodrow Wilson and the world’s peace; The man and the president; His initial effort; The pro-German morality of the pacifist; Pro-America; Appendix: an apologia.
A L A Bkl 14:89 D ‘17
— Nation 106:96 Ja 24 ‘18 300w
“It is exceedingly difficult to adequately review a work of this kind, when one has not the viewpoint of the author, and especially when that viewpoint shifts.” J. W.
— N Y Call p14 O 21 ‘17 590w
“Americans ought to be thankful that so sturdy and understanding a fellow-countryman as Mr Herron lives in Europe and endeavors to interpret the mind of America to Europeans. Indeed, a good many Americans who have never been out of their own country will do well to read Mr Herron’s book and gain thereby a less superficial understanding of the policy of this government toward the world war during its first two years and upon other matters.”
+ N Y Times 22:359 S 23 ‘17 900w
263HERSEY, HAROLD. Do’s and dont’s in the army for officers and privates; an introd. to military science. *50c (2½c) Britton pub. 355 17-24260
This small book, made to fit the pocket, has chapters on: The duties and deportment of officers; The duties and deportment of enlisted men; The officer’s equipment; An enlisted man’s equipment; Hygiene; Miscellaneous information; Discipline and morale. The author says that he has “merely endeavored to help the beginner find his way through the tortuous mass of detailed knowledge he must acquire—as well as furnish ready reference for the more experienced.”
HESLER, LEXEMUEL RAY, and WHETZEL, HERBERT HICE. Manual of fruit diseases. (Rural manuals) il *$2 Macmillan 632 17-9694
“Fruits are arranged alphabetically from apple to strawberry and under each the known diseases are grouped in order of importance. Symptoms of each disease are given, the cause described, and the best remedy suggested. Descriptions are popular; technical terms are all explained in a glossary. The final chapter is devoted to the preparation and application of fungicides. Short bibliographies given after each disease.” (A L A Bkl) The authors of this manual are the professor and the assistant professor of plant pathology in the New York State college of agriculture, Cornell university.