Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 21)
Reading edition
“This book with Slingerland’s ‘Manual of fruit insects’ (Booklist 11:205 Ja ‘15) forms a very practical guide for the doctoring of fruit trees.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:434 Jl ‘17
“Discusses the subject from an essentially New England viewpoint, omitting from all consideration fruits and diseases that are of major interest in many states and nearly all that are of interest in our tropical possessions. The discussion of such diseases as are treated is in many instances from a local viewpoint rather than of a general nature. This is especially obvious in the treatment of such diseases as apple rust and pear blight. The illustrations are poor. ... Assuming a central New York viewpoint and interest, the book may be said to give a very complete presentation of what is known of fruit diseases, with valuable lists of references to original sources of information. It is, as the authors announce, the first American text to deal wholly with diseases of fruits, and here for the first time are brought together with comprehensive discussion many obscure and little-known diseases. The facts presented are well selected, and the book constitutes a valuable addition to the literature of plant diseases.” F. L. Stevens
+ — Bot Gaz 64:254 S ‘17 240w
Cleveland p95 Jl ‘17 30w
+ Ind 91:297 Ag 25 ‘17 50w
St Louis 15:174 Je ‘17
HEUSSER, ALBERT HENRY. Land of the prophets. il *$2.50 (3½c) Crowell 915.69 16-23378
The author’s advice to those who wish to visit Palestine is to “see Egypt first.” Our own home land, he says, is so attractive that Palestine suffers by comparison, but “after the burning yellow sands of the Sudan, Syria and Judea will seem to you, as to the Israelites of old, a ‘goodly land, beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth.’” The author is a lecturer for the Department of education of New York city, and his chapters have much of the informality of the spoken lecture. Contents: Port Said to Beyrout; Damascus; Galilee; Nazareth and Samaria; Ancient Jerusalem; Round about Jerusalem; Jericho and Petra; Bethlehem and Jaffa. There are many illustrations from photographs and a map.
HEWES, AMY. Women as munition makers, and Munition workers in England and France, by Henriette R. Walter. *75c Russell Sage foundation 331.4 17-28208
The first ninety-two pages of this book are given to a study, by Amy Hewes, professor of economics in Mt. Holyoke college and former secretary of the Massachusetts minimum wage commission, of conditions under which women were making munitions, in 1916, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. “Two articles giving the main results of the inquiry have already been published in advance of this report. ... The second of these articles, that dealing with the munition industry, was submitted in manuscript, in advance of publication, to officials of the Remington arms-union metallic cartridge company for their criticism. This procedure, customary in industrial investigations made by the Russell Sage foundation, was the more necessary in this case, because of the previous refusal of the company to give the Foundation the desired information. In the conferences which followed the reading of the manuscript, some statements were challenged, others verified, and additional material was obtained, especially regarding changes made after the field work of the investigation was completed. In response to the suggestion of the company that no study could be accurate which was not based on data obtained in the plant itself, the Foundation offered to make such a supplementary inquiry before publishing the report. This offer was refused.” (Introd.) The second section of the book (sixty-three pages) is by Henriette R. Walter, investigator for the Division of industrial studies of the Russell Sage foundation, who, under the caption “Munition workers in France and England,” summarizes reports issued by the British ministry of munitions. There is a bibliography of three pages.
Reviewed by Edith Abbott
Am J Soc 23:531 Ja ‘18 370w
A L A Bkl 14:76 D ‘17
“Although Miss Hewes’s study is confined to the subject of women as munition-makers, its social and economic findings apply generally.” H. M. Kallen
* Dial 63:336 O 11 ‘17 1400w
Ind 92:193 O 27 ‘17 80w
HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY. Thorgils. *$1.35 (3½c) Dodd 17-5127
Like “A lover’s tale” and “Frey and his wife” this is a Norse romance. It is the story of Thorgils of Iceland who sailed with Eric the Red and voyaged to Greenland, where he endured unnumbered hardships. Thorgils lacks the dash of some of Mr Hewlett’s other Norse heroes, notably that Gunnar who married the wife of Frey, but he is a man of might who wields great power by the force of his character.
A L A Bkl 13:354 My ‘17
“Mr Hewlett seems to tell his tale without effort or self-consciousness, with a bare vigour which fits his theme; with hardly a trace of verbal archaism.” H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 45:209 Ap ‘17 430w
+ Boston Transcript p8 F 14 ‘17 1350w
“An effect of virility and massive simplicity is produced with the art that is his own; yet the result is not all that we could ask from an author so gifted. It is at once too detached, and too harmonious with the stormy note of today. We feel we have almost a right to demand from Mr Hewlett that he either beguile our troubled eyes with a lovelier vision, or give us substance of hope and inspiration for the present.”
+ — Cath World 105:403 Je ‘17 220w
“There are no descriptions, or conversations, or character studies. That is certainly a very different sort of writing from ‘Richard Yea and Nay,’ or ‘The queen’s quair,’ and people nowadays will not like it so well. Yet, like it or not, the result is much the same; out of the book there emerges a pretty definite figure.” E: E. Hale
+ Dial 62:189 Mr 8 ‘17 650w
“We seem to visualize the Norse people, their customs and picturesque life.”
+ Lit D 54:1087 Ap 14 ‘17 180w
+ Nation 104:368 Mr 29 ‘17 380w
264“A little saga of the northland, very perfect in its reticence and simplicity and human appeal.” H. W. Boynton
+ Nation 104:404 Ap 5 ‘17 110w
“Those who like stories of adventure that deal with simple, hardy, brave men and women will find ‘Thorgils’ an entertaining tale.”
+ N Y Times 22:51 F 11 ‘17 350w
+ R of Rs 55:664 Je ‘17 50w
“With its lovemaking and fighting, its ship-building and sea sailing, the story makes a capital book for boys, who, unconscious of being instructed, might well be prepared by reading it for the reading of the saga stories.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p212 My 3 ‘17 370w
HICHENS, ROBERT SMYTHE. In the wilderness. il *$1.50 (1½c) Stokes 17-5984
Dion and Rosamund Leith spend the first months of their married life in Greece and when they return to England they bring with them something of the Greek spirit. In Rosamund, however, there is a touch of the ascetic. She had once contemplated a religious life, and after the birth of her son she bestows on him all the fervor and devotion of her nature. The tragedy of their life together comes after the death of this child. She holds the father responsible and turns from him. Another woman who has always loved Dion steps in at this crisis, but the danger of losing her husband awakens Rosamund. The later scenes of the story are laid in Constantinople.
+ Ath p102 F ‘17 50w
“It runs to nearly six hundred black pages, perhaps four hundred of them frankly through the mire. Mr Hichens is a master of the portentous style. All of his virtuous parts are done in it and are, to tell the truth, pretty dull going: the first book of the present story, before we get comfortably into the mud, is deadly.” H. W. Boynton
— Bookm 45:205 Ap ‘17 470w
“If ‘In the wilderness,’ were shorter, it would unquestionably be more forcible. Its nearly six hundred closely printed pages have a lifelike story to tell and an important problem to solve, but their sum and substance could easily be compressed within a third of that space with no loss to either the story or the problem.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p8 F 28 ‘17 1400w
“Now and again one has a sense of surfeit. The relentless analysis confuses and fatigues. ... Such, however, is the artfulness of Mr Hichens that one reads his book to the end and lays it down satisfied to have witnessed an achievement fine of its kind.” Alice Bishop
+ — Dial 62:313 Ap 5 ‘17 670w
“It is a pitiful hero who is so absolutely at the mercy of any woman, bad or good. The novel, however, is worth reading for its marvelous descriptions of Athens, Olympia, Constantinople and a little cathedral town in England.”
+ Ind 90:254 My 5 ‘17 200w
“It exerts a definite and compelling fascination. The hours pass along as one reads, and time seems not to be. ... It is three years since Mr Hichens last gave a novel to the reading public; the present work has no note of hurry in it; it is ripe work, carefully finished and thoroughly felt.”
+ N Y Times 22:53 F 18 ‘17 1500w
+ Outlook 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 50w
“The most satisfying love story Robert Hichens has written.”
+ R of Rs 55:555 My ‘17 80w
“Written with all Mr Hichens’s usual subtlety and dexterity.”
Spec 118:568 My 19 ‘17 90w
“The story commands the reader’s closest attention. Except for the ‘scarlet’ nature of Mrs Clarke, it is largely free from those hectic qualities which have marked several of Mr Hichens’s recent novels.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 Mr 18 ‘17 380w
“The theme that Mr Robert Hichens has chosen is the egoism of the religious mystic, and he has developed it in a way to bring out his own talent for describing the East and for suggesting the occult.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p68 F 8 ‘17 850w
HIGGINS, SYDNEY HERBERT. Dyeing in Germany and America; with notes on colour production. 2d ed *$1.75 Longmans 667.2 Agr17-505
“About thirty pages larger than the first edition which appeared in 1907 as ‘a report to the electors of the Gartside scholarship of the University of Manchester on the results of a tour in the United States of America and Germany in 1905-1906.’ Intended to give a general survey of dyeing and its allied industries in the two countries. The text has been changed slightly and three chapters have been added, German and English flannelettes, Instruction in dyeing, and a continuation of the chapter on Colour production.”—A L A Bkl
A L A Bkl 13:459 Jl ‘17
“The author has been for nine years demonstrator in the dyehouse of the Manchester school of technology and in addition works as chemist and manager.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 25 ‘17 130w
“The author has gained much practical experience in dye and bleach works, the results of which are embodied in the new volume. This has added considerably to its value, particularly in the sections dealing with mercerisation and bleaching. ... The new edition of the book has been largely rewritten throughout, with great advantage. The concluding section deals with the future prospects of the dye-manufacturing industries in Britain, France, and the United States.” W. M. G.
+ Nature 99:303 Je 14 ‘17 530w
HIGGINSON, MRS ELLA (RHOADS). Alaska, the great country. new ed il *$2.50 Macmillan 917.98 17-12395
“Mrs Higginson’s notable book on ‘Alaska,’ first published nine years ago, has been revised, new material has been added, and the story of ‘the great country’ has been brought down to date. The body of the book, which deals with the scenic beauties, early history, native customs, resources, and the charm of the country, the author has not changed. But in a supplementary chapter she tells what has happened during the past ten years, and what is the present condition in railroad development, in commerce, mining, in the fishing and agricultural industries. ... The work has a map and half a hundred illustrations from photographs.”—N Y Times
“Anyone who has visited Alaska will appreciate the enthusiasm which colors every page of this delightful volume.”
+ Cath World 106:545 Ja ‘18 130w
“Mrs Higginson’s descriptions and her photographs of fir-tipped points, of swirling rapids, Eskimos in their parkas, and dog teams harnessed for their run across the frozen spaces, all make one long poignantly for bracing northern air and life among hardy, simple people.”
+ Dial 63:350 O 11 ‘17 260w
+ N Y Times 22:229 Je 17 ‘17 180w
“Although the material presented is rather unsystematically put together and the style of presentation rather disjointed and unliterary, the book contains such a vast amount of information that it has met with considerable favor, necessitating a number of reprintings. Unfortunately this ‘new edition with new matter’ is produced in the easier and less expensive way of reprinting from the old plates the body of the book and adding a chapter at the end. In this latter is thrown together in an even more formless manner than is employed in the body of the book and, in a way of presentation that is, from the literary point of 265view, decidedly crude, the necessary information about the development of the last ten years. The original index is reprinted, and thus the new material is not indexed.”
– + Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 29 ‘17 250w
HILL, DAVID JAYNE. Rebuilding of Europe. *$1.50 (3c) Century 327.4 17-28774
Dr Hill, former university professor, has been minister to Switzerland and to the Netherlands, and ambassador to the German empire. In this book, based on lectures delivered at Johns Hopkins university, he argues that “the great war is a revolution against the alleged rights of arbitrary force, rendered necessary by the failure to reach the goal of a secure international organization by an evolutionary process”; that the war was caused by “economic imperialism”; that its main issue is “the right of people to dispose of themselves,” that no permanent peace can coexist with the old European idea of state sovereignty. Dr Hill tries to show that the real enemy to be destroyed is not “any particular form of mere state organization,” but this “dogma that the state is a licensed brigand.” Various forms of international organization are discussed, and the author concludes that while “a general international government” is neither possible nor desirable, we may reasonably expect the formation of “a strong, but limited, group of powers, each willing to sacrifice something of its own sovereignty for the purpose of insuring peace and equity.” The last chapter deals with “America’s interest in the new Europe.” Five chapters were in part printed in the Century Magazine for 1917.
Bookm 46:286 N ‘17 50w
“An illuminating and forceful presentation of the war, regarded as a revolution against economic imperialism.”
+ Cleveland p2 Ja ‘18 50w
“A very helpful exposition of the forces and conditions that have been prevailing in Europe and which must be taken into account when a definite plan for the reconstruction of civilization is undertaken after the war. The story is simple and direct, and the presentation is that of the trained scholar and publicist. The book deserves wide reading.”
+ Educ R 54:531 D ‘17 90w
“No man in America was probably better equipped than Dr Hill to treat the momentous topic discussed in this volume. ... He understood the German people and the German mind. He could analyze feelings and facts with rare intelligence and sure skill. He speaks, therefore, as one having authority.”
+ Lit D 55:42 D 1 ‘17 600w
“To the socialist reader the treatment of the subject will necessarily appear vague.” Joshua Wanhope
— N Y Call p19 D 15 ‘17 900w.
HILL, JANET (MCKENZIE) (MRS BENJAMIN M. HILL). Cakes, pastry and dessert dishes. il *$1.50 Little 641.5 17-24721
The editor of the Boston Cooking School Magazine has added another to her already substantial list of cook-books. The publishers have given large, clear type and over sixty enticing illustrations reproduced from photographs. The index carries over 500 entries which include the old favorite cakes and desserts as well as many less-known ones.
“A tantalizing collection of recipes to be published in war times. However, it contains bran cookies as well as a twelve-egg torte. There are brief general directions at the head of each chapter which are useful and the recipes are easy to follow.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:80 D ‘17
“A boon indeed to young and old planners of meals. Carefully indexed, attractively illustrated and admirably printed and bound, a most satisfactory production in every particular.”
+ Boston Transcript p9 O 13 ‘17 110w
R of Rs 56:554 N ‘17 50w
“Since desserts are now reckoned among the luxuries of life in many households, the possessor of this book will be obliged to wait some time perhaps before she will feel that all the recipes may be added to her list of available favorites. This does not mean that all the recipes are unduly extravagant, for there are many of moderate cost.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 O 28 ‘17 170w
HILL, JOHN ARTHUR. Psychical investigations; some personally-observed proofs of survival. *$2 (2½c) Doran 134 17-13827
Mr Hill has written other books on psychical research. He tells us: “at the beginning of my investigations, my prejudices and wishes were opposed to the conclusions which the facts gradually forced upon me. If I am now biased in favour of the belief in personal life after death, it is objective fact, not subjective preference, that has brought it about. And my judgments have not been hasty. I have worked at the subject for over eleven years.” (Preface) About one-half of the book is given up to verbatim reports of sittings with three different mediums, A. Wilkinson, Tom Tyrrell, and A. V. Peters. At one of the meetings with Mr Peters, occurred some of the incidents related by Sir Oliver Lodge in “Raymond.” Several chapters deal with the methods employed in psychical research. Other chapters deal with: Immortality; Home mediumship; Telepathy and survival; Psychical phenomena in earlier times; Pre-existence and the nature of the after-life; Psychical research and religion.
N Y Times 22:281 Jl 29 ‘17 580w
“The special interest of this volume is to be found in the fact that it deals, not with alleged messages from important or well-known people, but with communications, or what profess to be communications, from very ordinary and very often rather dull types of deceased humanity. It is not a book from which any spicy or sensational quotations are to be drawn. Nevertheless, open-minded investigators will find it worth perusal.”
+ Spec 118:613 Je 2 ‘17 350w
“An investigator as careful and open-minded as Mr Hill is entitled to the opinion based upon his experience, and is justified in his endeavour to show that the conclusion to which his experience leads him, a decision in favour of the reality of spirit communications, is not incompatible with philosophy or religion.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p150 Mr 29 ‘17 1000w
HILL, MARION (HILL) (MRS CHARLES R. HILL). McAllister’s grove. il *$1.40 Appleton 17-13950
“This new novel is a delightfully written little story of a girl, a man, and an orange grove. Laurie McAllister—full name, Annie Laurie—had saved a little bit of money; her aristocratic old grandfather and only living relative suffered greatly from the cold of New York winters, and the advertisements about Florida were most alluring. ... To Florida they went, she and her grandfather, who in Scotland was ‘The McAllister,’ and there she discovered that the grove was in an utterly forlorn and neglected condition, the trees having been starved for years. ... Though she soon learned that the number of ills to which flesh is heir are as nothing compared with those which are the natural inheritance of an orange grove, she struggled along, and while she would certainly have been beaten had it not been for Charles Roycroft and his chivalrous sacrifice, she won out at the end.”—N Y Times
A L A Bkl 13:450 Jl ‘17
“A story both cleverly conceived and cleverly told, with a refreshing spontaneity and sincerity.”
+ Boston Transcript p9 Jl 14 ‘17 420w
Cleveland p103 S ‘17 60w
“An unusually well-written story which does not put too heavy a strain upon the reader’s credulity and which has a vivid charm by way of local color and much genuine humor.”
+ Dial 63:74 Jl 19 ‘17 120w
266“The book contains an interesting account of the growing and packing of oranges.”
+ N Y Times 22:211 My 27 ‘17 400w
HILL, WILLIAM ELY. Among us mortals; pictures and legends by W: E. Hill; text by Franklin P. Adams. *$1 Houghton 817 17-30263
Mr Hill’s profession, so Franklin P. Adams says, is helping make the world safe from hypocrisy. The collection of drawings offered in this volume shows some of his best efforts in that direction. Mr Adams says in his “Preface to a preface,” “Hill is popular, by which I mean universal, because you think his pictures look like somebody you know, like Eddie, or Marjorie, or Aunt Em. But they don’t; they look like you. Or, if you prefer, like me.” When the reader finds himself, somewhere in the group, surely the great disillusioning comes. Perhaps one may be the lady laughing at a Ford joke, or one of the two faculty wives having the time of their lives pulling Mrs Prexy to pieces; or perhaps one may be the young man who makes an unfortunate break, or the artist who discovers that the only one of his pictures sold has been hung upside down. It is the sort of glass Cassius would be to Brutus—one that “reveals that of yourself which you yet know not of.”
“Unmistakably American.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:157 F ‘18
“These drawings have attracted much attention in the New York Tribune, striking a new and very penetrating note in American caricature.”
+ Dial 64:36 Ja 3 ‘18 60w
“Solving the problem of Yuletide—what to give for Christmas—is a difficult matter. ... ‘Among us mortals’ is the kind of book which can be sent to anybody with perfect safety. The wisest will laugh at Hill’s pictures and F. P. A.’s nonsense, and the foolish will take it seriously.” L. G.
+ N Y Call p14 Ja 5 ‘18 230w
HILLS, RALPH WINCHESTER. Machine drawing. (Industrial education ser.) il *$1 McGraw 744 17-19718
“‘Machine drawing’ is the title of a new book on this subject prepared in the extension division of the University of Wisconsin, by Ralph W. Hills, instructor in mechanical drawing. ‘The material in this volume is the first half of the instruction papers as developed and used by the extension division. ... The second volume will be devoted to the more specialized lines of work.’ The author avoids needless technicalities and begins at once with ‘real drawings.’”—School Arts Magazine
N Y P L New Tech Bks p12 Jl ‘17 50w
Pittsburgh 22:651 O ‘17
“He pays no attention to perspective effects when sketching freehand, and but little to pleasing arrangement of sheet. It is a reliable guide to mechanical drawing.”
+ — School Arts Magazine 17:94 O ‘17 160w
“‘The text and problems have been carefully prepared and arranged so as to develop speed, accuracy, neatness, and a knowledge of the best drafting room practices.’ The above quotation from the preface is thoroughly justified. Supplementing the chapters on principles and those on detail and assembly drawing there is one on Technical sketching that should prove valuable.”
+ School Arts Magazine 17:228 Ja ‘18 130w
Hindu mind training; by an Anglo-Saxon mother; with an introd. by S. M. Mitra. *$3.50 Longmans 371.4 E17-302
“The author, dissatisfied with various western systems of mind training ... turned her attention to the ancient Hindu system of mind training, into which she was initiated by the writer of the introduction to her book. The system largely depends upon unconscious or preconscious cerebration. ... By a series of psychological questions and answers on subjectmatter previously narrated, the pupil’s mind is prepared, the author states, to receive facts, to interpret them correctly, to distinguish facts from opinions, to reason accurately, to differentiate between the logic of words and the logic of facts, and to make practical use of the information so gained. Character is in this way developed. The book contains many examples of this method of training receptive minds.” (Ath) “Mr Mitra is an Indian writer and teacher of much ability, whose works are well known to those who study Indian thought and politics. ... In an introduction he explains the advantage of the procedure, and also devotes some pages to a comparison between Hindu and Western philosophic thought while he appends, at the close of the book, an essay instituting a comparison between the analytic psychology in ancient Sanskrit literature with that to be found in La Rochefoucauld, under the title ‘Franco-Hindu psychological affinity.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
Ath p96 F ‘17 150w
N Y Br Lib News 4:103 Jl ‘17
Pittsburgh 22:692 O ‘17 40w
“A careful perusal of the Hindu stories impressed upon the young in the course of an Anglo-Saxon Mother’s many trials will produce in most minds trained in philosophic thought a profound conviction that neither Hindu philosophy nor Hindu morality is suitable for inculcation in this country. The logical deductions are too divergent from our whole social and moral system. ... This book, if it cannot be regarded as an educational gospel, will do something to provoke interest in Indian moralities.”
Sat R 123:sup6 My 19 ‘17 420w
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p58 F 1 ‘17 220w
HINES, JOHN CHESTERFIELD (JACK HINES). Blue streak. il *$1.35 (3c) Doran 17-25860
Ten stories for young and old of ice bound Alaskan trails whose central figures are fearless, heroic, obedient wolf dogs. These malamutes have a sympathetic champion in the writer who tells of the kind of dog devotion that can lavish the love of a life time upon a supreme effort to save a master; or that can starve and die if need be, in the traces of duty. It is this sort of creature that hears his master exclaim, “What dog words are there that I can bark or howl long enough to proclaim what you are!” The half wild, half domesticated friend and servant of the lonely trapper and miner is well-nigh immortalized in these chapters that proclaim the blue streak in dog nature.
“All of them are vigorous human tales of the Yukon, and they are written obviously by a genuine lover of dogs. Boys will enjoy the adventurous aspect of these stories; and yet the best one of them all does not deal with adventures, but with a trial.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 2 ‘18 230w
“The stories are convincingly written because they are not well written. If done in a facile style they would probably be accepted as merely entertaining. But the very faults of redundancy and sentimentalism and occasional failure of action are faults natural to a story-teller who is engaged rather in showing the bravery, beauty, and cleverness of his beloved thoroughbreds than in producing a finished tale.”
+ — N Y Times 22:414 O 21 ‘17 180w
“Mr Hines reveals himself a delightful story-teller. He does not waste words, but drives straight at the point he intends to illustrate.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 N 4 ‘17 230w
HINKSON, KATHARINE (TYNAN) (MRS HENRY ALBERT HINKSON). Middle years. *$3.50 Houghton (*10s 6d Constable & co., London) (Eng ed 17-11336)
“‘Katharine Tynan’s’ earlier volume of reminiscences agreeably whetted the appetite of her readers for further memories, and this record of what she calls ‘the middle years’ eclipses its 267predecessor in the interest and variety of its contents. In it she describes the close of her girlhood in Dublin and some twenty years of married life spent in England before her return to Ireland shortly before the war. In a sense it is the story of an exile from Erin, because she was never Anglicized, Ireland remained the true home of her heart, and her most intimate friends were Irish or people with Irish affiliations. But though Irish to the core, a devout Roman Catholic, and an intense admirer of Parnell, she does not harbour any anti-English animosity.”—Spec
+ A L A Bkl 13:399 Je ‘17
+ Boston Transcript p7 Ap 4 ‘17 670w
“The real centres of interest are about the Meynells, Francis Thompson, and Lionel Johnson. ... And those to whom these names already mean much as the names of leaders in modern letters, will find that their affection deepens in proportion to their more intimate, familiar acquaintance with the objects of that affection.”
+ Cath World 105:535 Jl ‘17 600w
“Her record conveys the impression that she has been delightfully busy, tirelessly interested, and exuberantly happy. Her prime gifts, which richly flavor the volume, are her Celtic blood, her quick warm sympathies, her affection for almost all kinds of men and women and all kinds of flowers and pets.”
+ Nation 105:459 O 25 ‘17 680w
“Those who read ‘Twenty-five years: reminiscences’ were persuaded that Miss Tynan lives a most enviable life; those who read ‘The middle years’ will be convinced of it. It is a charmingly intimate talk with the author about all her friends, and unconsciously she conveys to us a very lovable portrait of her own cheery self.”
+ N Y Times 22:139 Ap 15 ‘17 1400w
“It is really as a novel, veraciously and graciously picturing life, that one reads ‘The middle years.’ The story is a true one, of course, but its spirit is more important than its facts. Even in the fuller portraits, what one thinks of is friendship and character, rather than the details of the picture.”
+ No Am 206:131 Jl ‘17 830w
R of Rs 55:667 Je ‘17 70w
“These chapters abound in generous and affectionate tributes to those who were near and dear to her, who shared her ideals, encouraged her in her work, and applauded her successes. Her early days in London brought her in contact with many remarkable people in the literary world, and the letters from Mr W. B. Yeats, from ‘Æ’ (Mr George Russell), from Francis Thompson, and from Mr George Wyndham would alone make the book cheap at double the price.”
+ Spec 118:272 Mr 3 ‘17 1900w
“Against Katharine Tynan herself the accusation of having substituted literature for life cannot be brought. One learns enough of the woman and the mother to see that her life has been full and very human. There is a mellowness about the last chapters that leaves one warmed.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p579 D 7 ‘16 1100w
HIRSCH, MRS CHARLOTTE (TELLER). Diary of an expectant mother. il $1.25 (2½c) McClurg 618.2 17-12627
This is the story of a woman who wanted children but feared the months of waiting before the birth of her first child, and who did not know how to live hygienically under such conditions. In addition to much advice as to her personal life, the nursery, the baby’s outfit, etc., are considered. The book is exceedingly popular in style.
“As a volume for the perusal of other expectant mothers we can heartily recommend this work. It is not loaded with technicalities, and is in no sense a treatise on obstetrics and maternity generally, but rather a sane and excellent preventive against needless worry, while at the same time emphasizing the natural character of the episode of motherhood and recommending the simple, sensible course that should be pursued during the period.” J. W.
+ N Y Call p14 S 9 ‘17 370w
HITCHCOCK, ALFRED MARSHALL.[2] Over Japan way. il *$2 (3c) Holt 915.2 17-31433
An informing, entertaining book about Japan, handsomely illustrated, which is made up of the impressions of an American tourist with eyes wide open. After six days of “monotonous blue” he lands and claims the reader for companion while he runs the gamut of first sensations, which he remarks, “are cause for grayer hair about the temples.” The rikisha, the tram, the bewildering sights thru “wide streets, narrow streets, narrower street, alleys barely wide enough for a wheelbarrow, dark places and still darker suggest treachery, ambush.” He tells about the inns and hotels, he visits schools from the kindergarten to the university, goes shopping, attends a play, beards a volcano, visits shrines and sacred places and touches the high spots of Japanese scenery. He records lightly his experiences and their play upon his emotions.
“The author writes in an intimate, conversational style. Everything is given with a running fire of humorous side remarks that entertain as well as instruct.”
+ Lit D 56:40 Ja 12 ‘18 160w
“The quaint, genial, shrewdly humorous observations of Mr Hitchcock serve to make this an unusual book of travel. No attempt is made to pass over the submerged side of life as seen in the segregated parts of the large cities and in the daily grind of industry.”
+ N Y Call p14 Ja 26 ‘18 450w
“Despite obvious drawbacks, the author conveys a distinct and convincing impression of the Japanese scene. He is frankly an outsider and gives his views with some humor, appreciating that his sincerity is not to be confounded with the profundity of the research student.”
+ N Y Times 23:10 Ja 13 ‘18 200w
“In text and illustration this latest book on Japan seems in some respects the best of the short accounts.”
+ Outlook 117:654 D 19 ‘17 30w
“Entertaining travel sketches embellished by a series of beautifully reproduced photographs.”
+ R of Rs 57:219 F ‘18 20w
“He has not added much to the substance of our knowledge about Japan, but he has written a book of travel sketches, in which impressions are expressed gracefully and ingratiatingly. There is a graphic touch in his words, and the reader is able to share the images and ideas in the author’s mind.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13 F 3 ‘18 370w
HITSCHMANN, EDUARD. Freud’s theories of the neuroses; auth. tr. by Dr C: R. Payne, with an introd. by Ernest Jones. *$2 Moffat 130 17-4719
“What may be called the orthodox or strict Freudian conception of neurotic conditions, briefly set forth by Hitschmann, holds that the neuroses originate in the sex life of the individual, the form of the nervous disturbance differing in accordance with the strain that the sex life has undergone. There are ‘true neurasthenia’ types resulting [from four causes]. ... Freud’s ‘psychoanalytic’ method of treating these conditions is explained and a chapter is devoted to his views regarding prophylaxis.” (Survey) “At the end of the book there is a useful chronological review of Freud’s works from 1893 to 1910, as well as a catalogue of Freudian literature in English.” (N Y Times)
“Hitschmann’s book is aimed primarily at physicians, although it is by far the most readable, and most clearly expressed of the three. [The other two referred to are Adler’s ‘Neurotic constitution,’ and Pfister’s ‘Psychoanalytic method’].” Wilfrid Lay
+ Bookm 45:199 Ap ‘17 50w
“The translation, like all of Dr Payne’s translations, is accurate, lucid, and in excellent style.”
+ N Y Times 22:331 S 9 ‘17 320w
268“An interpretation of Freud which adds little, either in reasoning or examples, to Freud’s own statement of his theories.”
Springf’d Republican p6 F 20 ‘17 150w
Reviewed by R. S. Woodworth
Survey 38:361 Jl 21 ‘17 200w
HOAR, ROGER SHERMAN. Constitutional conventions. *$2 Little 342.7 17-16733
A collection of all of the available law and precedent relating to the nature, powers and limitations of constitutional conventions. The book has been prepared by a former state senator of Massachusetts who was a member of the commission to compile information and data for the use of the Massachusetts convention now in session. With authority and thoroughness the writer answers questions of this character: What gives validity to this method, so frequently used to amend our state constitutions? Is the convention, once launched, subject to either legislative, executive, judicial or even popular control? Is the convention bound by law, or even by the constitution? Can it control the other branches of the government? Can it create a new constitution, without submitting it to the people for ratification? All of these questions, and many more like them, are answered in this book, the only modern and up-to-date text-book on the subject.
“A reliable textbook on a subject which has seldom been treated at any length.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:113 Ja ‘18
Reviewed by J. Q. Dealey
+ Am Pol Sci R 12:143 F ‘18 440w
Ind 92:487 D 8 ‘17 30w
“For the statesman, the lawyer, and the student of public affairs, even for the courts, indeed, there is a wealth of useful information within the covers of this book. He has not been altogether successful in keeping to the rôle of non-partisan. Between the lines it is easy to detect, in many instances, Mr Hoar’s own political leanings. His progressivism refuses to stay in the background. Yet this is, after all, a small blemish.”
+ — Nation 106:117 Ja 31 ‘18 400w
“Mr Hoar’s careful analysis of the various problems arising whenever a revision of a state’s fundamental law is undertaken, is applicable in every state, and will, no doubt, be the standard treatise for many years to come.”
+ R of Rs 56:326 S ‘17 220w
“The index is of special value. The author’s opportunity to produce such a work reliably has been a public advantage.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 N 4 ‘17 330w
HOBHOUSE, LEONARD TRELAWNY. Questions of war and peace. *3s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London 940.91 (Eng ed 16-16727)
“There is, as might be expected from a thinker so able as Dr Hobhouse, much that is suggestive in these three papers, two of which—‘The soul of civilization’ (reprinted from the Contemporary Review) and ‘The hope of the world’—are in the form of dialogues. In the first the writer shows how he has come to regard the war as an inevitable clash between two separate civilizations, with two religions, and expresses his belief that there will result from it a more genuine feeling both about nationality and about public right. The second covers much ground—views of the war and its problems, of the conflict between freedom and state control, &c. ... The third paper gives the substance of an address at the National liberal club on January 18 [1916], of which the chief feature is the author’s plea that the existing alliance may form the basis of a much wider one, may point to ‘the ultimate ideal of internationalism at two or three removes.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“‘The hope of the world’ is especially interesting. ... One will go far to find a better brief of discussion of the militarist state, the prospects of democracy, the ‘laws’ of human society, and, in general, the ‘hope of the world,’”
+ Nation 104:48 Ja 11 ‘17 300w
Nation 105:297 S 13 ‘17 450w
N Y Br Lib News 3:187 D ‘16
“In these brilliant Platonic dialogues on current questions Professor L. T. Hobhouse, the Martin-White professor of sociology in the University of London, has provided us with a delightful entertainment. This can be safely said without committing ourselves to Mr Hobhouse’s conclusions. He handsomely admits that he was wrong in the past about Germany and that he misjudged Lord Grey of Fallodon’s policy.”
+ Spec 118:17 Ja 6 ‘17 1350w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p311 Je 29 ‘16 190w
HOBSON, JOHN ATKINSON. Evolution of modern capitalism. il *$1.75 Scribner 331 17-13332
“In this revised edition of his well-known work the author has included a long supplementary chapter, the first part of which deals with industrial and commercial movements during the decade preceding the war. Some of the new economic facts and forces revealed by the experiences of the war, the problems they contain, and the tendencies they exhibit are then set forth, as a contribution towards a speculative forecast of capitalism in the early future.”—Ath
Ath p96 F ‘17 70w
Dial 63:457 N 8 ‘17 330w
+ N Y Times 23:3 Ja 6 ‘18 930w
HODGE, HAROLD. In the wake of the war, parliament or imperial government? *$1.50 Lane 328 17-21846
“The late editor of the Saturday Review makes the same allegations about the impotence of the House of commons, the nullity of the rank and file of M.P.’s, etc., as raised such a storm of contradiction when they were made by Messrs Belloc and Chesterton in ‘The party system’ and ‘The servile state.’ He is concerned, however, less with the affairs of the United Kingdom than with the future of the empire; and he proposes to take imperial matters out of the hands of what is mistakenly called the Imperial Parliament, and put them under a separate and independent body. After considering various plans he concludes that, party government being a failure, the best solution would be for the crown ... to appoint a council of ten, five citizens of the Dominions, and five citizens of the United Kingdom. ... In order that it should reflect the will of the citizens of the empire, it should consult them by means of referenda.”—Ath
Ath p408 Ag ‘17 270w
Boston Transcript p9 D 8 ‘17 580w
“‘In the wake of the war,’ is well written in point of style. ... Mr Hodge is sick of parties and believes they have had their day. ... We go gaily along the path of criticism with Mr Hodge. It is when he arrives at the unmapped region of reconstruction that we reluctantly part company. He proposes to strip Parliament of the powers and duties which make it interesting and respectable and to hand these over to an Imperial council of ten, nominated by the king, and armed with the referendum. To this scheme we object: (1) That Parliament will not allow itself to be stripped. (2) That the king cannot appoint anybody of his own motion. (3) That the referendum in Australia and in the United States (v. the Oregonian constitution) has been a failure. ... We think our author is mistaken in supposing that the Colonies would agree to the common management of imperial affairs.”
+ — Sat R 124:29 Jl 14 ‘17 950w
“Whatever scheme may be adopted for imperial government, it will certainly not be Mr Hodge’s.”
— Spec 119:121 Ag 4 ‘17 170w
269HODGES, GEORGE. Religion in a world at war. *$1 (5½c) Macmillan 252 17-14691
Eight short sermons or essays on the relation of Christianity to war, and, more especially, to the present war, by the dean of the Episcopal theological school at Cambridge, Mass.
A L A Bkl 14:74 D ‘17
+ Bib World 50:375 D ‘17 80w
Cleveland p102 S ‘17 40w
“From the standpoint of practical homiletics, as a source of comfort or encouragement, or as a stimulus to action, Dean Hodge’s sermons on the war are rather unimpressive. As the reflection of a point of view they are significant. ... It is evident that Dean Hodges finds the whole subject of the war embarrassing and difficult. The effect of facing his difficulties frankly is, however, to give us a sane and courageous expression of what, it seems, must needs be the attitude of a Christian minister towards the war.”
+ — Nation 105:431 O 18 ‘17 550w
“The book really demands no review—it is little more than a collection of drab and conventional biblical paraphrases justifying America’s participation in the war.” Bertram Benedict
— N Y Call p14 Ag 19 ‘17 1350w
“This is a book for the nation. It clarifies and confirms our national confession, ‘In God we trust.’”
+ Outlook 116:412 Jl 11 ‘17 60w
“A most stimulating book that can be read to mental, moral, and spiritual profit.”
+ R of Rs 56:329 S ‘17 150w
HODGSON, RALPH. Poems. *75c Macmillan 821 17-14542
This collection of twenty-five poems is a reprint of the verses which, before the war, used to appear at intervals in England in tiny booklets with mustard-colored paper covers and decorations, plain or colored, by Mr Lovat Fraser. The writer was recently awarded the Edward de Polignac prize.
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“There is in his verse a vein of blunt and unsophisticated enthusiasm for ideals.”
+ Ath p401 Ag ‘17 1100w
“Mr Hodgson has a place of his own among the minor poets of to-day. None writes more naturally; none has such an objective, simple, and direct style, or aims less at mere literary effects. His is the poetry, not of ideas, but of sights, sensations, raptures. In forms that appear artless because they are such excellent art, it is the spontaneous expression of the lyric ecstasy of life and action, and of the natural faith of one who joys in his being as a particle in a glorious universe, untroubled by the mystery of existence.”
+ Ath p413 Ag ‘17 200w
“What gives Mr Hodgson his distinction is his subtle fancy which may be seen at the finest in ‘The song of honor,’ ‘The bull’ (which is a rather wonderful piece of realism) and ‘Babylon,’ as well as in some of the brief lyric catches where a single idea is caught like a bee in a flower. In the whole volume there are only twenty-five titles and in spite of the above-mentioned faults they will be prized by all lovers of poetry.”
+ — Boston Transcript p7 Jl 11 ‘17 350w
+ Cleveland p121 N ‘17 170w
“Mr Hodgson is that rarity in these times, a poet of very small production, and of production on a uniformly high level. ... His chief value lies in what he has to say. There are two arts in poetry: the art of precisely saying what one has in mind; and, even more important (though less regarded), the art of excluding from one’s conception all that is not of pure value. It is particularly in this latter respect that Mr Hodgson excels. The most arresting feature of his work, however, is the fact that though he is essentially a lyric poet he is none the less essentially objective,—never, or seldom, speaking in his own voice, or developing, psychologically, any personal or dramatic viewpoint.” Conrad Aiken
+ + — Dial 63:150 Ag 30 ‘17 1700w
“There is not a page in this book that is not beautiful; to come upon a volume of this sort is a real pleasure to the critic wearied with much technically excellent, but commonplace perfunctory, verse. ... Most readers will agree with the London Nation in calling ‘Eve’ ‘the most fascinating poem of our time.’”
+ Lit D 55:32 Ag 11 ‘17 1400w
“Mr Hodgson is something of a blend of Davies’ naïveté and de la Mare’s melodic magic; he is less distinctive than either. ‘Eve’ has some undoubted elements of greatness; ‘The bull,’ the short ‘The mystery,’ ‘After,’ and other poems possess great beauty or some striking quality.” Clement Wood
+ N Y Call p15 Jl 22 ‘17 200w
+ R of Rs 56:217 Ag ‘17 170w
“That the original queer and charming booklets—original in every sense of the word—will always be treasured and preferred by those who possess them we take to be certain. But in the new volume the poems stand the test of collective and separate presentment well, and promise, it seems to us, to endure as long as anything of our time whether as a rounded achievement on a small scale or as earnest of larger things to come. ... It is the unfailing suggestion of vastness and the beyond, coupled with the insistently vivid realization of the present and the immediate, which gives Mr Hodgson’s work perhaps its most characteristic distinction.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p283 Je 14 ‘17 1450w
Hohenzollerns through German eyes. 1s Hutchinson, London 741
“The book consists of a series of cartoons, all dealing with the Kaiser and the Prussian royal family, selected from the well-known Munich comic paper Simplicissimus, from November, 1903 [March, 1906?] to May, 1914. The paper made it its main business to attack the imperial government, German militarist ideals, and clerical sycophancy.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“To readers unfamiliar with the latitude in respect to criticism of the German emperor and his family permitted, at all events prior to the war, in some of the German satirical journals, this collection of cartoons will be a revelation.”
Ath p360 Jl ‘17 80w
“The paper [is] universally known for the excellence of its draughtsmen, amongst whom O. Gulbransson is perhaps the cleverest of all. ... It is rather surprising that material which gives such striking corroboration from the German side to much in our representation of the Kaiser and his entourage, should not have been brought before the British public till now. From the outbreak of the war Simplicissimus has been as strongly nationalist as before it was rebellious.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p269 Je 7 ‘17 500w
HOLCOMBE, ARTHUR NORMAN. State government in the United States. *$2.25 (1c) Macmillan 353.9 17-51
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“This will be useful as a reference work or text for advanced students.”
+ A L A Bkl 13:428 Jl ‘17
“The work shows a careful study of the great mass of material and a systematic organization of the data, forming the most important single contribution thus far made to the whole subject.” J: A. Fairlie
+ — Am Pol Sci R 11:344 My ‘17 650w
“An excellent survey of the whole field of state government, its history, tendencies and needs. There is less detail on the administrative side than in Mathews’ ‘Principles of American state administration,’ but the discussion of political reforms is much fuller.”
+ Cleveland p68 My ‘17 50w
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+ Engin News-Rec 78:151 Ap 19 ‘17 180w
+ Ind 90:252 My 5 ‘17 130w
“The tendency of modern reformers is to concentrate attention upon a single measure and to ignore its effect upon the general system of which it forms a part. Works such as this serve, with those who will attend to them, to check this tendency, and therein lies their special merit.”
+ N Y Times 22:127 Ap 8 ‘17 120w
+ R of Rs 55:444 Ap ‘17 50w
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ja 14 ‘18 850w
“Very interesting, and by no means without instruction for ourselves, is Mr Holcombe’s account of the working of the party system and of the efforts made by the sovereign people to escape from the tyranny of the ‘machine.’ Of special value is the light which Mr Holcombe throws on the working of the most recent experiments in the initiative, referendum, and recall. The book is not light reading, though of absorbing interest.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p158 Ap 5 ‘17 1800w
HOLDICH, SIR THOMAS HUNGERFORD. Political frontiers and boundary making. *$3.25 Macmillan 320.1 16-23414
“It has been the lot of Sir Thomas Holdich to give practical consideration in many parts of the world to problems of boundary settlement. ... His present aim is governed by the fact that among the few writers who treat of this important subject he can find no authoritative opinion based on practical experience, no elementary work in which the stern needs of political discretion are shown to be at variance with the sentiments cherished by idealists. ... The sovereign purpose of a national frontier is to promote friendly relations between neighbour states by putting a definite edge to the territorial and political horizon of both; then trespass cannot be easy in a time of excitement, and secret planned aggression has natural difficulties to overcome before it can do harm to a peaceable country. Sir Thomas Holdich considers these conditions in boundary-making, and shows how they may be made real—or as real as human nature will permit them to be—in a statesmanly choice of a frontier.”—Sat R
“It is with the major premise that most readers of the volume will be tempted to quarrel. ... Apart from the particular theory upon which the volume rests there is much that is of value in the author’s description of the geographic features of boundary lines, and the chapters upon the delimitation of frontiers in Asia, Africa and South America will be read with particular interest.” C. G. Fenwick
+ — Am Pol Sci R 11:354 My ‘17 450w
Reviewed by C. L. Jones
+ Ann Am Acad 71:237 My ‘17 320w
“Sir Thomas Holdich has known these frontiers from their first formation in the seventies of last century, and is probably better qualified to write of them than any other man alive. The descriptions in his book will be of permanent importance, but the book ranges far from the Pamirs and Andes over broad fields of political theory and the European war, and here it will not go unchallenged.”
+ Ath p23 Ja ‘17 1600w
“The author, who served on the Afghan, Asmar, and Argentine-Chile Boundary commissions and was superintendent of frontier surveys of India, here speaks with authority on a theme of timely interest.”
+ Cleveland p147 D ‘16 30w
“His book is easily the best discussion of its subject that exists in the English language. I can only hope that in a second edition it will be given the illustrative maps it so badly needs.” H. J. Laski
+ Dial 62:96 F 8 ‘17 70w
“The great blemish in his book is the conspicuous absence of index and maps.”
+ — Nation 104:405 Ap 5 ‘17 1400w
N Y Br Lib News 3:187 D ‘16 40w
St Louis 15:8 Ja ‘17
+ Sat R 122:350 O 7 ‘16 1300w
“A brave, a breezy, a timely, and a suitably optimistic book. ... His conclusions are extremely interesting, they are expressed in admirably clear and striking phrases, they are enlivened by vivid and captivating pictures of the wild hill tracts.”
+ Spec 117:sup529 N 4 ‘16 1000w
“He invariably approaches the subject of which he is a master without any marked political prepossessions. Sir Thomas Holdich is a geographer, and not a politician. Yet no frontier-maker can be indifferent to political considerations; and so he tells us that in dealing with problems of boundary settlement his object has been ‘to ensure peace and good will between contiguous peoples by putting a definite edge to the national political horizon, so as to limit unauthorized expansion and trespass.’”
The Times [London] Lit Sup p483 O 12 ‘16 1500w
HOLDSWORTH, JOHN THOM.[2] Money and banking. *$2.25 (1½c) Appleton 332 17-24253
The first edition of this work was published in 1914. Of the changes in the new edition, the author says, “the most significant, perhaps, are those involving clearings and collections, Federal reserve currency and foreign finance. ... The discussion of these changes and developments has been introduced with the least possible disturbance to the textual arrangement, but on nearly every page some revisions have been made; many sections have been rewritten, entire new sections have been added; and the last chapter, on the Federal reserve system, has been rewritten in the light of its development to date.” (Preface)
“The revision is well designed to render the book even more acceptable as a text than was the first edition three years ago.” C. A. P.
+ Am Econ R 7:882 D ‘17 170w
R of Rs 57:220 F ‘18 50w
HOLLAND, RUPERT SARGENT. Blue heron’s feather. il *$1.25 (1½c) Lippincott 17-28759
A story of old New Netherland. Nicholas Tappan, silk merchant of Amsterdam, decides to send his son Peter to the new world in company with Derek Keeft, who is to act as superintendent of the vast estate recently acquired along the Hudson. Peter looks forward to new adventures and is not disappointed, for very shortly after his arrival, he is taken captive by Indians. Fortunately he had earlier won the friendship of Manawok, a young brave, who now intercedes for him. Peter learns Indian ways, and after his return to his own people takes a stand for justice and friendly relations toward the red men which results in an unbroken peace between the Dutch and the Mohawks.
Reviewed by J: Walcott
+ Bookm 46:496 D ‘17 70w
“One of the most excellent stories of Indian days in the Colonies is that of ‘The blue heron’s feather.’”
+ N Y Times 22:466 N 11 ‘17 100w
HOLLEY, HORACE. Divinations and Creation. *$1.25 Kennerley 811 17-9237
Mr Holley’s small volume of post-impressionist poems called “Creation” was published in 1915. This group of poems is included as part 2 of this new book. Part 1 consists of an entirely new group, altho some of its individual poems have appeared in Poetry, the Smart Set, the Forum, the Masses and other magazines.
“Between vain sublimities Mr Horace Holley now and then achieves a quiet success. ‘The orchard’ is a specimen.” O. W. Firkins
– + Nation 105:245 S 6 ‘17 100w
“His first little book was passionately arresting. And now we find the same extraordinary individuality revealing itself in ‘Divinations,’ 271which, though it may lack much of the author’s earlier impassioned beauty shows a more constrained power and flexibility.”
+ N Y Times 22:201 My 20 ‘17 450w
“Miss Harriet Monroe has selected three of these poems for her anthology of ‘new poetry,’ and W. S. Braithwaite has included ‘Cross patch’ and a sonnet, ‘The orchard,’ in his anthology for 1916.”
+ R of Rs 55:439 Ap ‘17 180w
HOLLINGWORTH, HARRY LEVI, and POFFENBERGER, ALBERT THEODOR. Applied psychology. *$2.25 (3½c) Appleton 150 17-28082
Untechnical in treatment this volume, by two Columbia university men, offers to men and women of every walk of life assistance towards a dignified and prosperous existence. It is an efficient instrument in producing success in life. The discussions all aiming to assist in systematizing a field hitherto vague and unorganized, include the following chapters: Efficiency and applied psychology; Influence of heredity upon achievement; Family inheritance; Efficiency and learning; Influence of sex and age on efficiency; Environmental conditions [two chapters]; Work, rest, fatigue and sleep; Drugs and stimulants; Methods of applying psychology in special fields; Psychology and the executive; Psychology in the workshop; Psychology and the market; Psychology and the law; Psychology for the social worker; Psychology and medicine; Psychology and education; The future of applied psychology.
Cleveland p7 Ja ‘18 20w
“There is little evidence that Messrs Hollingworth and Poffenberger value highly any other kind than business success. We are rarely offered a more naïve revelation of psychological science serving as the handmaid of commercial exploitation.”
— New Repub 13:323 Ja 12 ‘18 620w
“For the social worker, teacher or parent the book should be valuable in presenting the latest scientific word on many modern problems. It is written very simply and is free from many technical terms.”
+ Springf’d Republican p17 N 25 ‘17 160w
“This new book is the best that has yet appeared in bringing the results of many experiments and excursions in this field within two covers.” F. A. Manny
+ Survey 39:267 D 1 ‘17 310w
HOLLINGWORTH, HARRY LEVI, and POFFENBERGER, ALBERT THEODOR. Sense of taste. il *$1.25 Moffat 152 17-14044
“‘The sense of taste’ is a book of two hundred pages by two members of the faculty of Columbia university. It is one of a series in preparation by Moffat, Yard & Co., with the title ‘Our senses and what they mean to us.’ It is edited by G. Van N. Dearborn, who contributes an introduction to this volume, which is, as he truly says, ‘at once interesting and scientific up to the hour.’”—Nation
+ Dial 63:409 O 25 ‘17 200w
“While it does not purport to solve any of the riddles still presented by this sense, it gives an excellent summary of present knowledge, the writers who have done most to elucidate the subject being, with one exception, duly cited. The authors are more careful than their predecessors in not claiming for the sense of taste what belongs to the allied sense of smell.”
+ Nation 105:347 S 27 ‘17 400w
“This first volume in the new series presages an interesting and well-coordinated attempt to synthetize an exposition of the sensory apparatus and its psychologic reflexes.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 S 5 ‘17 300w
HOLME, CHARLES, ed. Art of the British empire overseas. (International studio. Special winter no., 1916-17) il *$3; pa *$2.50 Lane 759 17-15451
“Mr Holme has gathered reproductions of twenty-three pictures by eighteen Canadian artists (one being in color), forty by twenty Australian artists (three in color), twenty-nine by New Zealand painters (five in color), and twenty-three by South African painters. Each section has a brief account of the development of the artistic expression in these four quarters of the world and the outlook for the future. Mr Eric Brown, director of the National gallery of Canada; Mr James Ashton, a prominent painter of Australia; Mr E. A. S. Killick, secretary of the New Zealand academy of fine arts, and Mr Edward Roworth of Cape Town, speak with authority of their respective countries and give many interesting biographical details of the artists represented, besides pointing out the difficulties under which they labor.”—Boston Transcript
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 9 ‘17 410w
Cleveland p113 S ‘17 20w
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Pittsburgh 22:651 O ‘17 20w
Pratt p29 O ‘17 30w
+ Springf’d Republican p15 Jl 22 ‘17 750w
HOLME, CHARLES, ed. Arts and crafts. (International Studio, Special number) il *$3; pa *$2.50 (6½c) Lane 740 17-6662
A review of the work executed by students in the leading art schools of Great Britain and Ireland. The London and the provincial schools of art are treated separately, the first by W. T. Whitley, the second by the head master or some other person connected with each school. The illustrations have been chosen to show many lines of work.
A L A Bkl 13:300 Ap ‘17
+ Boston Transcript p8 My 19 ‘17 260w
“Especially useful to American supervisors and teachers. The pictures, to be sure, of work done by the students demonstrate no marked superiority over the output of American schools of similar scope; they show, indeed, a few things which a rigorous censor might have left out.”
+ — Nation 105:608 N 29 ‘17 140w
“The text is highly illuminating, enabling the reader to gain a clear idea of the activities of the schools and also the underlying intention governing these activities which is to develop home talent to a degree that will make unnecessary foreign importations of design. The chapters on the provincial schools are even more interesting than those given to the schools of London.”
+ N Y Times 22:85 Mr 11 ‘17 350w
“Of intense interest both to students and teachers in this country for purposes of comparison and the stimulation of effort.”
+ R of Rs 55:557 My ‘17 110w
+ Springf’d Republican p15 F 4 ‘17 420w
“There is any amount of talent evident in the works illustrated in this book and a good deal of skill: but both seem aimless. The objects are produced rather for competitions between students than for human beings to use. They do not express the real tastes, the real values, of anyone in particular. Therefore, they are likely to fail economically no less than artistically.”
The Times [London] Lit Sup p635 D 28 ‘16 650w
HOLMES, JOHN HAYNES.[2] Life and letters of Robert Collyer, 1823-1912. 2v il *$5 Dodd 17-30357
A full and well-rounded story so told that the great Unitarian divine “speaks for himself and thus reveals the fibre of his soul.” Rev. John Haynes Holmes, one of the foremost leaders of liberal thought of today, has found his task a thoroughly congenial one. Associated in the ministry with Dr Collyer, Mr Holmes says, “He was my colleague, my friend, my brother, my father in the spirit.” The materials used in the preparation of the biography include Dr Collyer’s autobiography; his own writings; autobiographical lectures; his letters; three scrap-books of newspaper and magazine clippings; pamphlets, programs, leaflets and newspapers and magazines covering 272periods of Dr Collyer’s career. The man whom Mr Holmes holds up to view is Robert Collyer “the blacksmith, preacher, lecturer, author, public leader, but always radiant of spirit, full of grace and truth, touched with the potency of love.”
“Dr Holmes, whose pages, although written in a more sentimental manner, also make, as do Mr Hale’s, a graphic portrayal of his subject and cause the very man himself to stand forth a vital, radiant being, discusses very interestingly Dr Collyer’s relation to his time and the reasons for his wide and potent influence.”
+ N Y Times 22:553 D 16 ‘17 500w
“It is hardly to be wondered at if the biographer, in the lawful enthusiasm of his task, may sometimes seem open to the charge of hero worship. At the same time one discovers, briefly, in the summary, that this idol had toes, if not feet of clay, which were usually well shod and covered from general gaze.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 D 31 ‘17 650w
HOLMES, JOHN HAYNES. Religion for to-day; various interpretations of the thought and practise of the new religion of our time. *$1.50 (1c) Dodd 252 17-5458
Thirteen addresses, delivered first as sermons in the Church of the Messiah, New York city, and elsewhere, make up this volume. Each has been selected, the author says, “because of its own especial character as a representative expression of radical thought on religious questions of the day.” In the first essay the essential characteristics of the religion of the future are summed up: it will be a scientific religion, doing away with the old antagonism between science and religion; it will be based on ethical values rather than on theological beliefs; it will stress social rather than individual morality. The last three sermons were preached shortly after the outbreak of the war and reflect the author’s uncompromising attitude on the subject of force.
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Boston Transcript p8 F 28 ‘17 480w
Cleveland p67 My ‘17 40w
“Every reader who is possessed of the social passion and who has seen the social vision will sit up at night to read this book and will go around lending it to his acquaintances. It is the real thing.” L: A. Walker
+ N Y Call p14 Ap 15 ‘17 480w
“Trenchantly, yet constructively critical in his attitude throughout, Dr Holmes strives to give enough of the other side which he criticizes to present it fairly if not fully. Especially incisive and conclusive are his social applications of religion to the conditions of life and labor which demand both its destructive and reconstructive power. Dr Holmes is an absolutist in his uncompromising stand for the ultimate ideal of peace as applicable to a world at war, but he fails to show how it could have been, or could be, applied by the peoples facing a war-rampant nation on a rapid march for world conquest.” G. T.
+ — Survey 39:264 D 1 ‘17 470w
HOLT, ANDREW HALL. Manual of field astronomy. il *$1.25 Wiley 522 17-866
“This textbook for use in civil engineering courses bases it principal claim upon conciseness, and yet completeness, in its treatment of fundamentals. On the whole, the object of the author has been obtained, and practising engineers who only occasionally have to make astronomical observations will find it especially helpful. The treatment of the ofttimes confusing conceptions of the measurement of time is given particular attention, with many illustrative problems solved in excellent form. ... The main text occupies about 76 pages, the appendices on spherical trigonometry and solar attachments for transits about 14 pages, tables about 12 pages, and the sample field notes 20 pages.” (Engin Rec) The author is instructor in civil engineering in the University of Iowa.
“Clearly and concisely written and much more complete than the usual college-student manual.”
+ Engin N 77:436 Mr 15 ‘17 90w
“The illustrations and diagrams are clear and well-conceived, the method of presenting the successive operations is logical and the sample field notes show just how best to avoid confusion and error in the important matter of records.”
+ Engin Rec 75:276 F 17 ‘17 220w
N Y Br Lib News 4:27 F ‘17
N Y P L New Tech Bks p8 Ja ‘17 60w
Pittsburgh 22:656 O ‘17 20w
St Louis 15:141 My ‘17
HOLT, LUCIUS HUDSON, and CHILTON, ALEXANDER WHEELER.[2] History of Europe, from 1862 to 1914. *$2.60 (1½c) Macmillan 940.9 17-31435
A narrative of the chief events of European history from the beginning of Bismarck’s chancellorship to the outbreak of the great war in 1914. Thruout the narrative “emphasis has been laid upon those events which have affected international relations. The narrative of the domestic politics of the separate states has been curtailed, except where such politics had a distinct bearing upon the part which a state played in international affairs. The alliances and the conflict of interests which have brought about the present great war have been discussed in detail. The characters and methods of those statesmen who have had the greatest influence in international issues have been developed at length. It has been our plan thus to give the reader a conception of a true history of Europe rather than to present an aggregation of histories of the separate European states.” (Preface)
HOLTZ, MATHILDE EDITH, and BEMIS, KATHARINE ISABEL. Glacier national park; its trails and treasures. il *$2 (4c) Doran 978.6 17-14959
One may travel thru Glacier park on foot, on horseback, by automobile, or, to some extent, by motor boat. The authors of this guide chose the horseback way, but there is plenty of information in their book for those who prefer one of the other means of travel. The chapters are: Nature’s great play-ground; Hotels and chalets; On the Mount Henry trail; Trails and roads; The old Travois trail; Piegan pass—the flower pass; The flower fields of Glacier national park; Some mountain lakes; On glaciers; Types of tourists; A day with the Blackfeet; Some Blackfeet legends and Indian names; Blackfeet historical pictographs. The photographic illustrations are exceptionally good. There are end maps and an index.
“Personal, readable descriptions. Well illustrated and has a United States geological survey map.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:56 N ‘17
+ Cleveland p113 S ‘17 30w
+ Cleveland p138 D ‘17 30w
+ N Y Times 22:229 Je 17 ‘17 230w
“Taken all in all, the book and the park are bound to add to the emphasis of the slogan, so timely just now, ‘See America first.’”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 Ag 28 ‘17 350w
HOPKINS, TIGHE. Romance of escapes; studies of some historic flights, with a personal commentary. il *$3 (3c) Houghton 940 (Eng ed 17-12964)
In an introductory chapter (Part 1), “On the art and mystery of escape,” the author reviews briefly many notable escapes. In Part 2, he selects some noteworthy escapes for description in detail, namely: the escapes of Casanova from the Inquisition; the Polish exile Pietrowski’s journey out of Siberia; the Irish midshipman O’Brien’s three exciting efforts to get out of a French prison in the days of Napoleon; the 273escape of Morgan of the Rough-riders in the Civil war; Haldane’s flight from Pretoria in the Boer war; Louis Napoleon’s flight from the fortress of Ham; the adventures of James Choyce “prisoner of war in two worlds”; Louvet’s 165 days run for life from the vengeance of Robespierre; the escape of the Empress Eugénie from Paris; the hazards of John Mitchell, Irish ‘forty-eighter, between Tasmania and San Francisco; and the adventures of De Buquoit, who claimed to be “the first man who broke the Bastille in 1709.”
“In Casanova’s and Buquoit’s accounts of their exploits the author considers that much may be regarded as apocryphal. The want of an index is a serious defect in a book of this kind.”
Ath p485 O ‘16 180w
“Mr Hopkins’s retelling of some famous episodes will interest young readers and old alike.”
Spec 117:sup685 D 2 ‘16 150w
HOPKINS, WILLIAM JOHN.[2] Clammer and the submarine. *$1.25 (2½c) Houghton 17-25435
Adam and Eve, the clammers, are already well known to readers of the author’s other leisurely stories of the Massachusetts coast. They appear again in this story, which is complicated somewhat by the love affairs of their friends and by the approach of war. In the end Adam enlists in the navy.
“Not as spontaneous as the earlier works.”
+ — A L A Bkl 14:131 Ja ‘18
“Its author comes perilously near being a professional purveyor of sentiment. His Adam and Eve of the clam-beds become a trifle cloying. In the end Adam rouses himself from his amiable long-shore loitering and maundering, to enroll himself in the navy. But that act, also, he sentimentalizes.”
— Nation 105:540 N 15 ‘17 250w
“Mr Hopkins’s original ‘clammers,’ Adam and Eve, are always pleasant to meet, and always a sense of humor and a spirit of refinement are in his stories. Adam’s awakening to patriotism and war service is true and fine.”
+ Outlook 117:432 N 14 ‘17 30w
“Mr Hopkins deserves a high place as a sentimental writer, using that term in its best sense. The present volume worthily sustains the author’s reputation and provokes a call for more.”
+ Springf’d Republican p19 D 2 ‘17 250w
HORNBECK, STANLEY KUHL.[2] Contemporary politics in the Far East. *$3 (2½c) Appleton 950 16-18764
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“Professor Stanley K. Hornbeck has given us a really valuable study in the field of Far Eastern politics. He has rarely permitted his feelings to affect his judgment. For the period it covers, his book will win a place as a sound and useful work of reference.” P. J. Treat
* + Am Hist R 22:654 Ap ‘17 800w
+ J Pol Econ 25:958 N ‘17 600w
“He understands what so few writers on the Far East understand about Japan, that the greater half by far of her so-called aggression and imperialism is self-defence and exaggerated caution. ... Regarding China, particularly with respect to her domestic conditions, he is not so far-seeing. ... His book, in the best tradition of American liberalism, vigorous, realistic, hopeful, broadly planned, and trenchantly written, is the most serviceable contribution in recent years towards America’s proper understanding of her responsibilities in the Far East.”
+ Nation 104:681 Je 7 ‘17 650w
“There have been hundreds of books about the Far East in which a few grains of fact have been blown on hot air blasts of personal opinion. Beside them Mr Hornbeck’s wealth of information and judicial, temperate attitude make a volume for which American readers should be grateful.”
+ N Y Times 22:169 Ap 29 ‘17 760w
“Dr Hornbeck has lived long enough in China to interpret her views to the West; he has not become so immersed in the current of politics as to forget his academic training or miss the sources of this current in the past.” F. W. Williams
+ Yale R n s 6:661 Ap ‘17 870w
HORNE, HERMAN HARRELL. Teacher as artist; an essay in education as an æsthetic process. (Riverside educational monographs) *70c (7c) Houghton 371.1 17-5150
“In the following pages the first essay raises the question whether the art of teaching may in a measure become one of the fine arts, and answers in the affirmative, under certain conditions. What these conditions are the second essay attempts to set forth.” (Preface) Teaching is first tested by Professor Tufts’ definition of art: “Any activity or production involving intelligence and skill.” Next it is subjected to the test of fine art: “An activity or product of activity which has æsthetic value or (in the broadest sense of the term) is beautiful.”
A L A Bkl 14:42 N ‘17
“Two thoughtful, thought stimulating essays.”
+ El School J 17:533 Mr ‘17 20w
Ind 91:295 Ag 25 ‘17 60w
“The teacher can find in this book some fine inspiration, and the lay-reader can learn how much and how little, in his private moods, the teacher can think of himself and why.”
+ Nation 104:544 My 3 ‘17 330w
Pratt p11 ‘17 30w
“The chapter entitled ‘Shriving the inartistic teacher’ offers considerable food for thought.”
School R 25:302 Ap ‘17 12w
HORNER, WARREN MURDOCK. Training for a life insurance agent. (Lippincott’s training ser.) il *$1.25 (7c) Lippincott 368 17-13557
“This book is written, primarily, for those directly interested in the life insurance business, but in a non-technical manner so that it may be of value to laymen, especially those interested in salesmanship.” (Introd.) The book is published in a series the aim of which is to help those “who want to find themselves,” and it sets forth the necessary qualifications and training for life insurance as a business, with a special chapter on The woman in life insurance. The author is general agent for the Provident life and trust company of Philadelphia in Minnesota, Iowa and the Dakotas.
“Brief and vigorous suggestions for making a success of life insurance.”
+ A L A Bkl 14:6 O ‘17
+ Cath World 105:408 Je ‘17 100w
+ Cleveland p112 S ‘17 10w
Ind 90:352 My 19 ‘17 40w
“The training of a life insurance agent is not the principal topic of the book in spite of its title. The early chapters explain the qualifications and personal characteristics necessary to success as an agent, but the remainder discuss methods of selling insurance and agency organization.”
N Y Br Lib News 4:105 Jl ‘17 50w
HORSCH, JOHN. Menno Simons; his life, labors, and teachings. $1.25 John Horsch, Scottdale, Pa. 16-6143
A biography of Menno Simons, the 16th century religious leader from whom the Mennonite movement took its name. “That Mr Horsch had almost virgin soil to break is probably due to the fact that the material for a real biography of Menno is so slight. ... He has been compelled to devote most of his space to an account of Menno’s opinions and extracts from his writings. To this he has added refutations of many things falsely charged against Menno, most of them quite convincing; and discussions 274of the relation of Menno to other radical leaders of the time, like Melchior Hofmann and John of Leyden.”—Am Hist R
“This is a welcome addition to religious literature, since there is no other life of Menno available in any language. ... The historical value of the book is very considerable, the author’s diligence is exemplary, and a quantity of material has been brought together from various sources that has never before been printed in English. ... The author’s diligence and good sense are more in evidence than his literary skill. The book is unnecessarily jejune and dry, because of the great preponderance, in parts, of quotations from documents, the interest of which to a reader is in inverse ratio to their value to a student of history. It is to be feared that this quality will limit the numbers of readers unduly.” H: C. Vedder
+ — Am Hist R 22:699 Ap ‘17 400w
“The author is to be commended for the dispassion with which he sets forth events and issues which have been storm centers of controversy. As much may be said for the dignified manner in which he represses all hero-worship. One could wish that such a fine-spirited, well-balanced, and informing biography had found expression in style a little more polished and animated.” P. G. M.
+ — Am J Theol 22:150 Ja ‘18 460w
HOTBLACK, KATE. Chatham’s colonial policy. *$2.50 Dutton 616 17-8079
“Miss Hotblack’s thesis is a study of how Pitt attempted to make commerce flourish by war. ... The plan of the book has enabled her to give a very clear outline of Pitt’s policy. He is followed successively through the affairs of the African colonies, Canada, the West Indies, and so on, and the commercial side of his work as secretary for the Southern department is well brought out in four very interesting chapters. Similar treatment of the Northern department, over which Pitt’s control seems to have been as complete as over the Southern, and an important chapter on the Stamp act, complete a valuable piece of research. An appendix contains some hitherto unpublished letters.”—Ath
Reviewed by C. E. Fryer
Am Pol Sci R 12:133 F ‘18 400w
“Miss Hotblack has enabled the reader to form a much better judgment on the value of Pitt’s work than was possible before.”
* + – Ath p234 My ‘17 2000w
Boston Transcript p9 O 17 ‘17 600w
“Her book will be useful to all who want to know more of the motives and principles of the creator of British imperialism.”
+ Spec 118:729 Je 30 ‘17 1450w
HOUGH, EMERSON. Broken gate. il *$1.50 (2c) Appleton 17-21973
“Aurora Lane has been for twenty years the milliner and dressmaker of the village. ... Years before, unwed, she had borne a child; she had sent it away and had said that the infant had died. Pursuing her way quietly and modestly, and earning her scanty living by hard work, she had ever since lived in the village, generally ignored, but secretly respected and outwardly scorned by most of its people. But the child had not died, and when the story opens he has grown to a fine, vigorous young manhood and comes to the village to see his mother. She and her one friend, a crippled woman, have together saved and scrimped and educated the boy, while he has believed himself to be an orphan. He strikes a man on the street who insults his mother, soon after learns from her all the bitter truth, is arrested for assault, and for the next three days the town is in a ferment of excitement and unprecedented happenings. They reach their climax when a man is mysteriously killed, the boy is arrested for the murder, and a mob, seeking to lynch him, is foiled of its purpose and rushes to ravage his mother’s home.”—N Y Times
“It is modern and American enough in scene and detail, but begins with a fantastically improbable situation, and carries the reader’s credulity and sensibility from strain to strain.” H. W. Boynton
– + Bookm 46:341 N ‘17 70w
“It is a fine opportunity for pathos, and the author may be counted on to make the most of it.”
— Dial 63:647 D 20 ‘17 90w
“It is realistic, small-town melodrama, swift and sharp in its movement, but, notwithstanding its many events crowding close upon one another’s heels, its interest is chiefly emotional. ... Although there is much in the story that the author has failed to make convincing, it has qualities of invention and construction that hold the interest.”
– + N Y Times 22:302 Ag 19 ‘17 670w
“In ‘The broken gate’ Emerson Hough is no longer on the solid ground of historical fact. Consequently he flounders between melodrama and tragedy. ... The story hardly attains the standard set in Mr Hough’s preceding romances.”
— Springf’d Republican p15 S 16 ‘17 320w
HOUGH, EMERSON. Man next door. il *$1.50 Appleton 17-4711
“Pyramus and Thisbe in the terms of Chicago’s North Side and the twentieth century, with the regrettable omission of the lion, is the theme of Mr Emerson Hough’s new novel. ... Curly, the ex-foreman of the Circle Arrow ranch, tells the story of Old Man Wright’s removal to Chicago, of the breaking-in of the fair Bonnie Bell Wright to millionaire row, of the building of the wall, and of the man on the other side thereof.”—Dial
“Told in cowboy dialect.”
A L A Bkl 13:354 My ‘17
“Except for the fact that the story is told in an entertaining way, there is very little in the plot of Bonnie Bell’s attempt to make a place for herself in the best circles of Chicago which would attract the attention. ... The excitement lies really in the almost fatal attempts at diplomacy which Curly makes and the calamity which is barely averted.”
Boston Transcript p8 My 19 ‘17 400w
“Untrue, insignificant, and generally uninteresting are the terms we must reluctantly attach to Mr Hough’s latest excursion in the realms of fiction.”
— Dial 62:247 Mr 22 ‘17 140w
N Y Times 22:63 F 25 ‘17 430w
Reviewed by F. M. Holly
Pub W 91:206 Ja 20 ‘17 320w
HOUGHTON, BEATRICE YORK. Shelleys of Georgia. il *$1.35 (1½c) Lothrop 17-23649
“Captain Gabriel Shelley, his lovely young second wife Madge, and his beautiful daughter and only child Rose are ‘The Shelleys of Georgia’ of the title. The story is principally concerned with the love affairs of Rose, and with the innocent and successful plot by means of which she redeemed the man she had once loved, brought happiness to a much injured woman, and secured the future of a baby which but for her might have been a very unfortunate child indeed. The date of the tale is the time of the Spanish-American war.”—N Y Times
“The novel is entertaining if not very plausible, and presents a rather interesting scheme for the care of those children who for one reason or another become the especial wards of the state.”
+ — N Y Times 22:336 S 9 ‘17 220w
HOWARD, KATHARINE. Two plays, and a rhapsody. pa 60c Katharine Howard, Lee apartments, B and 9th st., San Diego, Cal. 812 17-65
The two plays are allegorical. In the first, The house of future, a series of thirteen brief scenes, the life of a woman who lives on in the lives of her children is pictured. In the 275house of life, two persons, a man and a woman, move thru the rooms of the house, tasting the experiences it offers and in the end coming out on the roof to find peace and quiet under the stars. The rhapsody describes the vision of a poet who has sought eternal youth.
“Mrs Howard’s inspirational works, ‘Eve’ and ‘The book of the serpent,’ are well known both in this country and in England, and a collection of poems of childhood, ‘The little god,’ has had generous appreciation. The two plays of her last volume in literary style are similar to her moyen-age play, ‘Candle flame.’ Over all of them there is a glamor, a rhythmic beauty peculiar to her poetic prose.”
+ R of Rs 55:441 Ap ‘17 150w
HOWARD, MARGARET WILLET. Practical cookbook. 72c (2c) Ginn 641.5 17-11592
“This book presents a rather large collection of tested and economical recipes, in such a manner as to show their relation to one another and to the whole question of balanced meals. ... The book has grown out of many years of classroom work, and the arrangement is designed, by omitting all unnecessary directions, to force the student to reason out the recipes for herself. But it is a cookbook, not a textbook, and laboratory directions and explanatory text are purposely omitted.” (Preface) The chapter headings will show the general arrangement: Water; Mineral salts; Starch; Sugar; Proteids; Fats and oils; Frozen desserts; Canning and preserving; Food for invalids; Unclassified recipes; Selection of food.
HOWARD, WILLIAM LEE. How to rest. *$1 (3c) Clode, E: J. 613.7 17-11348
This little book on “food for tired nerves and weary bodies” aims “to aid in the prevention of brain fatigue, body weariness and nervous exhaustion.” (Foreword) Dr Howard does not “deal with or refer to real diseases of the brain and nerves—organic troubles, [but tries] to point out the many little symptoms showing the necessity of brain rest and nerve nourishment.” (Foreword) There is a chapter on “How to prevent nervousness in children.”
HOWE, FREDERIC CLEMSON. High cost of living. *$1.50 Scribner 338.5 17-29210
“Early in the book, the reader is introduced to the outstanding facts bearing on the present problem—the rapid increase in the price of food, its stationary or decreasing gross production, the discouragement of farmers, the rural exodus, and the alarming relative increase in tenant-farming under conditions making for exhaustion of the soil, under-production and class division of society. ... The present emergency turns out to be no more than an accentuation under the stress of war of conditions brought about by causes which have long been operative in peace times. ... Some of Mr Howe’s recommendations are for organized collection and storage of farm produce under the control of state departments of markets and collective marketing; terminal markets owned by state or city, with adequate cold storage and refrigerator provision and public auctioneering under state control; local public abattoirs, municipalization of milk distribution or public milk-receiving stations delivering to local depots for retail sale over the counter, etc. ... All this is in addition to more fundamental changes which he advocates to free the access to land, such as land taxation, direction of immigrants, opening up of new farming areas, suppression of trading in futures and extension of rural credits.”—Survey
“Most valuable and timely work.” Archibald Henderson
* + Bookm 46:468 D ‘17 2800w
“Mr Howe has made one of the most important contributions to the subject ever offered. With his usual comprehensiveness he discusses with clearness and force every important phase of the situation.”
+ Boston Transcript p10 D 8 ‘17 210w
“The student and serious reader will find this book a mine of valuable information representing progressive legislation.”
+ Ind 92:344 N 17 ‘17 300w
+ Outlook 117:433 N 14 ‘17 50w
“Goes to the very root causes of the food crises. One does not need to be a student of economics to understand Mr Howe’s book.”
+ Pittsburgh 22:832 D ‘17 50w
+ — Survey 39:297 D 8 ‘17 580w
HOWE, LUCIEN. Universal military education and service; the Swiss system for the United States. 2d ed il *$1.25 (5c) Putnam 355.07
The first edition, issued in 1916, had chapters on: Why any preparation? What preparation is adequate? How shall we prepare? The Swiss and Australian systems; Military education already begun; Supposed disadvantages of universal military education; Advantages of universal military education to the nation; Advantages of universal military education to the individual; Military education—not training—of advantage to girls; But what if—? Conclusion. In the second edition brought out in 1917, there are no changes in the text. An appendix is added, bringing the book up to date.
A L A Bkl 13:244 Mr ‘17
“Whether one agrees with his opinions or not there is no gainsaying the fact that Mr Howe has expressed them with brevity, clearness and vigor.”
+ Am Pol Sci R 11:594 Ag ‘17 100w
Cleveland p148 D ‘16 30w
“Dr Lucien Howe has some definite notions on preparedness and expresses them with emphasis and directness.”
Educ R 52:530 D ‘16 20w
N Y Br Lib News 3:168 N ‘16
Pittsburgh 22:219 Mr ‘17 20w
St Louis 15:139 My ‘17 10w
HOWE, MRS SONIA ELIZABETH, ed. False Dmitri; a Russian romance and tragedy, described by British eyewitnesses, 1604-1612. il *$2.25 947 A17-978
“An extremely interesting collection of reprints from contemporary reports bearing on the social and political revolution which convulsed Russia from 1598 to 1613, i.e. from the extinction of the old dynasty founded by Ivan Kalitá (1328-1341) till the election of that of the Románovs. In this period Dmitri or Demetrius, who claimed to be the son of Ivan the Terrible by his fifth wife, and actually reigned as tsar from 1605 to 1606 and was a most enlightened ruler, played a principal part. The book really forms a sort of appendix to the authoress’s ‘A thousand years of Russian history.’”—Eng Hist R
“It is largely from narratives written by British residents in Moscow in the early years of the seventeenth century that her material is derived. These narratives are reproduced. While their archaic forms and methods of literary construction are somewhat taxing upon the patience of the modern reader, they do not fail to hold attention or to stir the reader’s emotions.” H. S. K.
+ Boston Transcript p9 N 18 ‘16 200w
“The collection has been ably arranged and edited, and contains some interesting contemporary portraits (incidentally, those of Boris Godunóv and Vasíli Shúiski are known to be purely fictitious) and illustrations, and forms a valuable addition to the growing number of books on Russian history.” N. F.
+ Eng Hist R 32:152 Ja ‘17 200w
N Y Br Lib News 4:15 Ja ‘17
“Absorbingly interesting, a valuable book for the student.”
+ N Y Times 22:67 F 25 ‘17 600w
Spec 117:242 Ag 26 ‘16 170w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p340 Jl 20 ‘16 1550w
276HOWE, MRS SONIA ELIZABETH. Some Russian heroes, saints and sinners; legendary and historical. il *$2.50 Lippincott 947 17-15658
“‘Some Russian heroes, saints, and sinners’ supplies an interim study between legend and history. It would find its place between Mr Wilson’s song cycles and Mrs Howe’s earlier and more prosaic volume ‘A thousand years of Russian history.’ In our own life and literature the stories of Arthur and the Graal and Lancelot and Merlin, so little known to Russian readers, are of a legendary kind similar to the stories of Ilya Muromets and Sviatogor, which we are now beginning to know. ... Thus Mrs Howe gives Dmitri Donskoi, Alexander Nevski, Oleg the Wise, and other famous Russian characters and stories.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“Bibliography (6p.).”
A L A Bkl 13:443 Jl ‘17
“The illustrations are rarely interesting. The quaint initial and tail pieces are from ancient Russian MSS. The plates are copies of famous historical paintings.”
+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 6 ‘17 300w
“Mrs Howe’s easy style makes her history eminently readable, while detracting naught from the scholarship evident in every sketch. A lover of Russia’s past, she makes no attempt to condone the evils and excesses of Russia’s sinners, nor to exaggerate the saintliness of her spiritual leaders. This balance of scholarship and restraint makes the book a genuine contribution to the growing mass of books on Russia. She is especially happy in her studies of Ivan the Terrible, the Boyaryinia Morozov and the False Dimitri.”
+ Cath World 105:834 S ‘17 460w
“She has the gift of painting her characters with vividness, almost as if she had known them face to face.”
+ Dial 62:529 Je 14 ‘17 280w
“Mrs Howe, a Russian woman married to an Englishman and resident now in England, has already given us two valuable books about her native land. ‘Some Russian heroes, saints and sinners’ is a study of permanent types in Russian character. The pictures of heroes, sinners, and saints are chronologically arranged.”
+ N Y Times 22:337 S 9 ‘17 650w
“Very readable book.”
+ Spec 118:276 Mr 3 ‘17 100w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p562 N 23 ‘16 60w
“The illustrative work being Russian is full of the Russian spirit, and helps immensely.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p607 D 14 ‘16 400w
HOXIE, ROBERT FRANKLIN. Trade unionism in the United States; with an introd. by E. H. Downey. *$2.50 (3½c) Appleton 331.87 17-29740
A book on trade unions that “fills a gap long since recognized in the treatment of labor problems. It does for America what Webb’s ‘Industrial democracy’ does for England, and more, for it excels all treatises in its masterly analysis of the psychology of wage-earners, as seen in the policies and methods of unions. Furthermore, Hoxie’s classification of unions for the first time brings out scientifically the great difference in unions, permits one to see the very complex character of the labor problems and warns against those sweeping generalizations that pretend to offer simple solutions. This leads the author to build up a truly constructive method of dealing with all labor problems according to the actual conditions.” (J: R. Commons)