The Cumulative Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of reviews appearing in January—December 1905, magazines (continued 11)

“Professor Goodnow’s book will be found eminently readable and useful as a text.” James T. Young.

+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 348. Mr. ‘05. 670w.

Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.

Atlan. 95: 554. Ap. ‘05. 420w.

R. of Rs. 31: 128. Ja. ‘05. 100w.

* Goodnow, Frank Johnson. Principles of administrative law of the United States. *$3. Putnam.

“In his ‘Comparative administrative law,’ published twelve years ago, Professor Goodnow gave an analysis of the administrative system, national and local, of the United States, England, France, and Germany. The rapid growth of the public interest in our system was thought by Professor Goodnow a sufficient justification for a new book giving a fuller account of American conditions, with special emphasis upon the legal side.”—Dial.

* “The volume is a notable contribution to the literature of public law, and will prove of great use, not only to students, but also to officials in the actual work of administration. But to the writer there appears to be a few omissions of importance, some of which would probably indicate a defect in our constitutional law.” David Y. Thomas.

+ + — Dial. 39: 304. N. 16, ‘05. 1410w.

* “By his masterly grasp of the subject and his power of lucid exposition Prof. Goodnow has rendered great service to students and administrative officers. He has also made a distinct contribution to political science.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 776. N. 18, ‘05. 330w.

Goodwin, Maud Wilder. Claims and counterclaims. †$1.50. Doubleday.

A young physician, the hero of Mrs. Goodwin’s story, has been rescued from death by a young man for whom he conceives a strong dislike. The situation becomes complicated by the fact that both men love the same girl, and Dr. Dilke is called upon by the father of the girl to endorse the character of a dishonest rival. “How to adjust the heroic savior of one’s life with the counterclaim of truth and of loyalty to a woman beloved is the problem Mrs. Goodwin’s hero has to solve.” (N. Y. Times.).

“One can hardly help feeling that in ‘Claims and counterclaims’ Mrs. Maud Wilder Goodwin has not done justice to a motif and scheme which were very good. Mrs. Goodwin botches her climaxes by improbability or cumbrous narration.”

— + Lit. D. 31: 666. N. 4, ‘05. 620w.

“Its unique plot, its life-like characters, its brilliant execution in both dialogue and movement, are all crowned by a novel’s raison d’etre—its absorbing interest.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 542. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1260w.

Gordon, Armistead C. Gift of the morning star. $1.50. Funk.

“He that overcometh ... I will give him the morning star.” The blood of a French mother flowing warm in the veins of her Dunker son sends him out in the world at the age of forty to seek his fortune, his whole being crying out against the repressed life of silent labor on the farm with which his older brother and sister are content. He wins his fortune as a boomer, 140he loses it in a single night, and in the end comes home again self conquered and content with his Dunker life and his Dunker sweetheart.

“Mr. Gordon has made his book of somewhat incongruous material.”

+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 450. Jl. 8, ‘05. 550w.

“A truly original story of Dunkard character. His pictures have all the vividness of reality.”

+ — Outlook. 80: 192. My. 20, ‘05. 100w.

“A forcible and an original tale.”

+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 150w.

Gordon, John Brown. Reminiscences of the civil war. $1.50. Scribner.

“A new and moderate-priced edition of one of the very best of Southern books of reminiscences, written by a famous Southern soldier.”—Outlook.

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 717. O. 21, ‘05. 140w.

+ Outlook. 81: 282. S. 30, ‘05. 20w.

Goss, Charles Frederick. Husband, wife and home. **$1. Vir.

A collection of forty-six sketches from life. “Such titles as True wife or married mistress, Curing your partner’s faults, Observing conventionalities, A good word for the ‘bad boy,’ Ability of parents to see a joke, Humanizing the beast, Nerve strain, indicate the extent of the field, and it is well dotted with pithy anecdotes and amusing stories. The whole is pervaded by strong and pure moral feeling.” (Pub. Opin.)

“A book of good advice to husbands and wives, easy to read, not so easy to follow, but worth reading and worthy to be followed.”

+ Bib. World. 26: 400. N. ‘05. 20w.

“Wide experience and keen observation of real life yield material which is treated with plain common sense, good wit, and no lack of humor.”

+ Outlook. 80: 790. Jl. 22, ‘05. 180w.

Gosse, Edmund William. Coventry Patmore. **$1. Scribner.

This fourth volume of the “Literary lives series,” contains a sketch of the poet’s life by one who knew him well in his later years. There is an account of his childhood, his life in London, and his later years, with a description of his personality, his work, and an estimate of his place in the world of letters.

Acad. 68: 265. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1190w.

“His volume is not without its limitations. But it is, on the whole, able, at times brilliant. Among Mr. Gosse’s faults dulness has no place. His book shows discriminating taste.”

+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 389. Ap. 1. 3560w.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.

Atlan. 96: 278. Ag. ‘05. 420w.

“Mr. Gosse’s biography is highly interesting; explaining much that is mysterious in Patmore’s poetry through the strange personality of the poet, the biographer adds something of distinct value to the critical estimate. But his conclusions are at least open to debate.”

+ + — Dial. 38: 272. Ap. 16, ‘05. 360w.

“Though he says too little about Patmore’s prose essays, which have singular merits of style, his attractive little volume, with its excellent illustrations, can be recommended to all to whom the more exhaustive Life by Mr. Champneys is not accessible.”

+ + — Nation. 80: 399. My. 18, ‘05. 2210w.

“A delightful little book.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 134. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1780w.

“A well-balanced and interesting biography. There is a careful, sympathetic, but entirely clear-sighted estimate of Patmore’s poetic gifts and of the value of his work.”

+ + Outlook. 79: 652. Mr. 11, ‘05. 220w.

“Having the helpfulness neither of hostility nor of enthusiasm, and being needlessly apologetic both for Patmore’s domesticity and his mysticism.”

— Sat. R. 99: 597. My. 6, ‘05. 1050w.

Gosse, Edmund William. French profiles. *$1.60. Dodd.

Sketches of French writers nearly all of whom are still living or only lately dead. They are given “in profile” not “from the front” or “from a direct and complete point of view,” and are chiefly “snap-shots, as it were, at authors in the course of their progress.”

“Biography and criticism are deftly blended into an intermediate something and the last thing that the reader need apprehend is to be bored.” Richard Garnett.

+ + Acad. 68: 78. Ja. 28, ‘05. 700w.

* “Mr. Gosse owed it to his readers to rewrite and revise more diligently. But his book is an agreeable and profitable one.” Edward Fuller.

+ + — Critic. 47: 568. D. ‘05. 530w.

“It is far from being an indispensable book, but it is decidedly a useful one.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 624. S. 23, ‘05. 700w.

“A successful book, very agreeable to read, and more likely than any we have lately seen on the subject to attract that difficult creature, the general reader. If not infallible the book is full of interest. Any one who cares at all for French literature, and does not mind a little intellectual irritation, will read it both with pleasure and advantage.”

+ + — Spec. 94: 676. My. 6, ‘05. 1480w.

* Gosse, Edmund William. Sir Thomas Browne. **75c. Macmillan.

This volume in the “English men of letters” series, a monograph on Sir Thomas Browne, “bears every sign of care and of minute and skillful investigation. Browne himself is set before us with fullness of detail, his work is analysed with scholarly patience.... Browne was that rare favorite of the gods, a happy man of genius. His serene and serious mind was ever preoccupied with high, impersonal, ‘un-mating things.’ His daily life was that of a fond husband and father; a perfect friend; an alert citizen; a busy and successful doctor. But ... no man of letters ever tasted more deeply the lonely and exquisite gratifications known to the vividly inquiring, experimentalizing mind.” (Lond. Times.)

* “Mr. Gosse has made a careful study of the materials at his disposal and in a comparatively short space embodies all that is known of the famous writer and physician. The faults of the book lie on the surface and may be briefly dismissed.”

+ + — Acad. 68: 1070. O. 14, ‘05. 1500w.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.

* + Atlan. 96: 842. D. ‘05. 310w.

* “To put it crudely, what we miss in Mr. Gosse’s estimate of Browne is a feeling of pleasure. This is a very skilful biography; very intelligent criticism; but it is not the fine, the suggestive, the liberal, and illuminating criticism which we expected from a writer of Mr. Edmund Gosse’s accomplishments.”

+ + — Lond. Times. 4: 333. O. 13, ‘05. 3250w.

* + — Nation. 81: 486. D. 14, ‘05. 3140w.

* + Sat. R. 100: sup. 4. N. 18, ‘05. 890w.

Gould, George Milbry. Biographic clinics. v. 3. Essays concerning the influence of visual function pathologic and physiologic upon the health of patients. *$1. Blakiston.

These essays fully cover the ground indicated by the subject, and in them numerous common ailments are unhesitatingly traced to defective eyesight, and much good advice is given for school children and men engaged in literary or clerical work, all of which is borne out by illustrations from life. The technical terms used in the table of contents need not alarm the casual reader, who will find the text clear and easily understood.

141Gower, Edward Frederick Leveson. Bygone years. *$3.50. Dutton.

Memoirs written by the Honorable F. Leveson-Gower in his 86th year. As he never kept a diary, he chats merrily from memory of well-known people and things he has met with in the course of his long life.

+ + Acad. 68: 706. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1030w.

“The author’s style is pleasant, though singularly familiar.”

+ Ath. 1905, 1: 710. Je. 10. 1110w.

Reviewed by Jeannette L. Gilder.

+ + Critic. 47: 346. O. ‘05. 1180w.

“Good humor, good sense, good birth and breeding, an entire absence of airs and pretensions, these are among the qualities that commend him to the reader.”

+ + Dial. 39: 211. O. 1, ‘05. 390w.

“The volume is worth the attention of those who delight in the pleasant gossip of a genial and generous-hearted man of vast experience and wide information.”

+ Ind. 59: 988. O. 26, ‘05. 240w.

“His book is like him, and it will therefore attract and give pleasure to a large number of readers.”

+ + Lond. Times. 4: 192. Je. 16, ‘05. 1130w.

+ Nation. 81: 220. S. 14, ‘05. 620w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 481. Jl. 22, ‘05. 660w.

“It is never dull: it is never absorbing.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 568. Ag. 26, ‘05. 470w.

“The book is characterized by good sense and wit and an agreeable conversational style.”

+ + Outlook. 81: 43. S. 2, ‘05. 260w.

+ + Spec. 95: 18. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1070w.

Grafton, Rt. Rev. Charles Chapman. Christian and Catholic. *$1.50. Longmans.

“The aim of the good bishop ... is ‘not controversial’ but to help souls who are in honest doubt to come into closer union with Christ ... The mass of Christians ... he designates as ‘the sects’ in distinction from ‘the church’ ... To secede from the Anglican church to the Roman is pronounced to be ‘the most terrible sin we believe a Christian man can commit.’”—Outlook.

+ + Ind. 59: 330. Ag. 10, ‘05. 70w.

Outlook. 79: 855. Ap. 1, ‘05. 150w.

Grant, Mrs. Colquhoun. Mother of czars. *$3.50. (*12s.) Dutton.

“This ‘Mother of czars’ was the princess Dorothea of Würtemberg who married the Czarevitch Paul, son of Catherine II.... The czar’s two sons were Alexander I. and Nicholas I.... Mrs. Grant’s book consists largely of details of a tour made by the Grand Duke Paul and his wife during the years 1780-81. The most enjoyable time was spent in France.”—Spec.

“A very innocuous sketch of the wife of Paul I. of Russia.”

+ Critic. 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 70w.

“Neither as a study of personality nor as an historical monograph can this volume be praised with much heartiness.”

+ Nation. 81: 166. Ag. 24, ‘05. 480w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 329. My. 20, ‘05. 270w.

“Here related in an agreeable, sympathetic, unpretentious way.”

+ Outlook. 80: 393. Je. 10, ‘05. 110w.

“With merits as an entertainment this book is marred as an authoritative portrayal of local colour by certain inaccuracies.”

+ — Sat. R. 100: 309. S. 2, ‘05. 1130w.

+ Spec. 94: 719. My. 13. ‘05. 250w.

Grant, Robert. Orchid. †$1.25. Scribner.

The orchid is a society belle in a set where money counts for everything. She marries a wealthy man whom she does not love, then comes to care for a poor man, secures a divorce and the custody of her child, which she later relinquishes to the father in return for two million dollars, and is thereby established once more upon a secure social foundation.

“Clever as it is in its scenes, its dialogues, its enjoyable diversity of types, the real merit of the little volume lies not so much in what it actually gives as in what it suggests. ‘The orchid’ is an interesting example of a psychological problem, worked out along lines almost purely realistic.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + — Bookm. 21: 365. Je. ‘05. 480w.

“The novel is as empty of psychological content as a headline. In this novel his style seems to be even more hard and colorless than formerly, his phrasing even more stereotyped and inaccurate.” O. H. D.

— — Critic. 47: 90. Jl. ‘05. 750w.

“Judge Grant’s characters are like chessmen: they are well defined and they move in a straightforward and logical manner. This simile does not imply that his characters are wooden, or that the situation lacks complexity.”

+ Ind. 58: 1008. My. 4, ‘05. 220w.

“Told ... in this accomplished writer’s crispest and most interesting style.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 356. Je. 3, ‘05. 800w.

“It is a story which not only makes one think, but holds the interest as well.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.

“A more thoroughgoing study of feminine selfishness and lawlessness is not to be found in American fiction.”

+ + Outlook. 79: 772. Ap. 1, ‘05. 90w.

+ — Pub. Opin. 38: 796. My. 20, ‘05. 170w.

“Judge Grant’s sure touch and craftmanship are here, but ‘The orchid’ is hardly a worthy successor to ‘The undercurrent.’”

+ — R. of Rs. 31: 758. Je. ‘05. 120w.

Grant, Robert. Undercurrent. $1.50. Scribner.

“His theme is the very modern problem of the divorce evil, and he shows us how the undercurrent of emotion eventually triumphs over reason, and sweeps away the intellectual objections which stand in the path of a woman’s happiness. The situation is subtly handled, and one of the oldest of stories thereby acquires new distinction. It is the familiar story of marriage without much thought, the husband’s rapid development into a vulgar brute, and his final desertion of wife and children. Then the right man appears upon the scene, and the deserted wife is torn by the conflict between desire and duty. The plea of duty is voiced by the representatives of church and society, and their argument convinces her intellect, yet it takes only a slight mishap to the man whom she loves to bring about her surrender.”—Dial.

Reviewed by W. M. Payne.

+ + Dial. 38: 15. Ja. 1, ‘05. 440w. (Statement of theme.)

“The opposing claims of church and state to the regulation of marriage have never been more interestingly presented than in the debate between the rector and the lawyer in this book.”

+ Ind. 58: 1008. My. 4, ‘05. 190w.

“As a carefully considered, well-rounded, unimpassioned treatment, this book deserves attentive reading and deep pondering. The legal clearness with which Judge Grant has analyzed the question, and the thoroughness and skill with which he has embodied all its aspects in the individual characters and the action of the story, make ‘The undercurrent’ a constructive master-piece. Its interest is timely, therefore, rather than literary, and its value practical and ethical, not artistic. Neither of these facts, nevertheless, derogates from its literary importance. A notable literary expression of conviction among the books of its day.”

+ + Reader. 5: 254. Ja. ‘05. 550w.

“Deals with two insistent problems of American society—the problem of enormous wealth and the problem of divorce. Judge Grant treats both with calmness and sanity. The characters and the story by means of which Judge Grant illustrates his views are thoroughly attractive 142from the point of view of literature. ‘The undercurrent’ is first of all a novel, and an excellent one, and only secondarily a book of purpose.”

+ + + R. of Rs. 31: 118. Ja. ‘05. 210w.

“A sane and two-sided view of this problem. The author is master of many of the secret traits of woman’s nature, he rises with dramatic force to a crisis, and his method is always wholesome. But one must regret his excessive use of monologue, as though he could not let his characters interpret themselves.” J. R. Ormond.

+ + — South Atlantic Quarterly. 4: 96. Ja. ‘05. 140w.

Granville, W. A. Elements of differential and integral calculus. $2.50. Ginn.

To meet the need of a modern text-book on calculus which is at once rigorous and elementary, is the rather difficult task of the author. “On the one hand it is necessary to avoid the worthless and even vicious forms of reasoning which mar so many elementary treatises and which are simply intolerable to one educated according to modern standards of rigor. On the other hand, the author must not introduce subtleties of reasoning and logical refinements beyond the needs and comprehension of those who are to use the book. The volume under review is an attempt to solve this problem.” (Science).

“Its first quality is clearness; its second, judicious accentuation. The ground notions are admirably handled, and throughout, the nature and limitations of important theorems are conscientiously indicated.” C. J. Keyser.

+ + + Educ. R. 29: 208. F. ‘05. 250w.

“This is a book the main object of which seems to be to enable the student to acquire a knowledge of the subject with little or no assistance from a teacher; and, after a very careful study of it, we are enabled to say that the work is admirably constructed for the purpose.” George M. Minchin.

+ + — Nature. 72: 26. My. 11, ‘05. 670w.

“In perusing Dr. Granville’s book one feels throughout that the author has in mind the requirements of modern rigor. We believe the present volume is eminently a safe book to put in the hands of the beginner. He will get no false notions which afterwards will have to be eradicated, with much difficulty; he will, on the other hand, acquire a considerable acquaintance with the principles of the calculus and a good working knowledge of its methods. The relatively few blemishes in this work, the reviewer is glad to state, will be removed in the next edition.” James Pierpont.

+ + — Science, n.s. 21: 64. Ja. 13, ‘05. 1180w.

“As well in its scope as in its spirit, the work is distinctly more than its author modestly styles it ‘essentially a drill book.’” Cassius J. Keyser.

+ + + Science, n.s. 22: 115. Jl. 28, ‘05. 150w.

Gratacap, Lewis Pope. World as intention: a contribution to teleology, *$1.25. Eaton.

“Under this title the author exhibits the movement which the world shows towards a purposed end. His aim is to help perplexed thinkers out of a state of mind which can neither get on without religion, nor get on with much that is claimed in the name of religion.”—Outlook.

N. Y. Times. 10: 336. My. 20, ‘05. 360w.

“Mr. Gratacap is certainly an independent and vigorous thinker; though his reading has evidently been more thorough in scientific lines than in philosophical. For lack of proportionate equipment in the latter his contribution to the problems of modern thought is hardly equal to the need.”

+ — Outlook. 79: 762. Mr. 25, ‘05. 400w.

Graves, Algernon, comp. Royal academy of arts. v. I. *$11. Macmillan.

This “complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904,” is compiled with the sanction of the president and council of the Royal academy. The artists’ names are arranged alphabetically and their works are listed under their names. Volume I. now issued, covers Abbayne to Carrington.

Acad. 68: 623. Je. 10, ‘05. 110w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + + Ath. 1905, 2: 87. Jl. 15. 2560w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + + Nation. 81: 38. Jl. 13, ‘05. 770w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + + Sat. R. 99: 671. My. 20, ‘05. 470w. (Review of v. 1.)

Gray, Charles H. Lodowick Carliell. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

Lodowick Carliell was a courtier dramatist of the reigns of Charles I and II. The name of Carliell is a conspicuous one in English literature, having as a later representative Thomas Carlyle. The present work includes a sketch of Carliell’s life, a discussion of his plays, and “The deserving favorite.”

“He has shown a German thoroughness of work.”

+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 574. S. 2, ‘05. 540w.

“This is an interesting contribution to the history of the English drama.”

+ + Outlook. 80: 983. Ag. 19, ‘05. 90w.

Green, Anna Katharine. Amethyst box. †75c. Bobbs.

The spiriting away of an amethyst box in which was hidden a tiny vial containing a drop of deadly poison is followed by a sudden death. This furnishes the plot for one of Mrs. Green’s characteristic mystery stories into which is woven a double romance. The volume is uniform with the “Pocket book” series.

* “This American writer ... builds better puzzles and controls her surprises more skilfully than any living sensation writer we can call to mind.”

+ + Acad. 68: 1155. N. 4, ‘05. 350w.

“It is an absorbing story.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 324. My. 20, ‘05. 220w.

* “They are utterly improbable, and full of extravagances and absurdities.”

— Sat. R. 100: 600. N. 4, ‘05. 70w.

Green, Anna Katharine. House in the mist. †75c. Bobbs.

The first of these stories, “The house in the mist,” is the tale of vengeance which a wealthy testator wreaks upon his debauched heirs. According to the will they assemble, are apportioned their shares, and then trapped to their death. The harrowing succession of events is relieved only by the escape of the one worthy heir. The other story, “The ruby and the caldron,” shows the steps taken along the wrong scent in recovering a lost ruby.

N. Y. Times. 10: 386. Je. 17, ‘05. 210w.

+ — Outlook. 80: 140. My. 13, ‘05. 70w.

Pub. Opin. 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 30w.

Green, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs). Millionaire baby. $1.50. Bobbs.

The spiriting away of a baby, the heiress to three fortunes, furnishes a plot for a unique detective story. The detective himself, in the race with others for the fifty thousand dollar reward, narrates the steps that lead up to the mystery-solving stroke,—this latter involving a surprise even for the wily disciple of Sherlock Holmes. The book is illustrated by Arthur I. Keller.

143

+ — Acad. 68: 568. My. 27, ‘05. 340w.

“She is, we think, the best American author of detective tales of the present, and in ‘The millionaire baby’ we have one of her very best books. It is clever in conception and treatment, it holds the interest.”

+ + Arena. 33: 340. Mr. ‘05. 260w.

“Granted its fundamental improbability, the plot is skilfully constructed, and the interest of the story is successfully maintained.”

+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 714. Je. 10. 150w.

“As a detective story, ‘The millionaire baby,’ is as clever as anything Anna Katharine Green has written. You will not lay it aside until you know the whole story.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 40. Ja. 21, ‘05. 550w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.

“As a detective story it is ingenious; as fiction in any other sense it is worthless.”

+ Outlook. 79: 246. Ja. 28, ‘05. 40w.

“A good story of compelling and sustained interest. Is quite the equal of any of the long line of stories which she has created.”

+ + — Pub. Opin. 38: 95. Ja. 15, ‘05. 450w.

+ — R. of Rs. 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 60w.

Green, Evelyn Everett-. Secret of Wold Hall. †$1. McClurg.

The marriage between Marcus Drummond and Lady Marcia Defresne was for the one the fulfillment of a ten-years’ dream—dating back to a moment when a bronzed traveler boy of sixteen rescued a child from her fall over a precipice—for the other, a release for herself and family from pecuniary predicaments. The man loves his wife, and the course of events which awakens her love for him is strongly associated with a mystery. The story has a strong dramatic interest.

Greene, Frances N., and Kirk, Dolly Williams. With spurs of gold. †$1.50. Little.

The boy and girl whose galaxy of heroes for special worship includes many knights of chivalry will find some absorbing details given here. The work is authentic, based on histories, chronicles and legends, and sets forth such characters as Roland and Oliver, Richard Coeur-de-Lion, the Chevalier Bayard, and Sir Philip Sidney.

“A number of famous poems accompany the excellent prose in which these tales are set.”

+ Outlook. 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.

Greenidge, Abel Henry Jones. History of Rome during the later republic and early principate. 6 vols. v. I, *$3.50. Dutton.

“The first volume of the six volumes in which Dr. Greenidge plans to compress his history covers some twenty-nine years, from the time of Tiberius Gracchus to the consulship of Marius, B. C. 133 to 104.... In that short period occurred the two agrarian movements, led by Tiberius Gracchus, and, ten years later, by Caius Gracchus, and the Jugurthine war.”—N. Y. Times.

“It will appeal strongly to the general reader ... but it is addressed also to the scholar, as based on the original sources and presenting the results in accordance with the most advanced ideals of history writing.” Joseph H. Drake.

+ + + Am. Hist. R. 10: 849. Jl. ‘05. 1310w.

“Both the specialist, who looks for laborious research and painstaking erudition, and the ordinary reader, who sets the main value on perspicuity and brilliancy of narrative, will alike be gratified.” W. A. Goligher.

+ + + Eng. Hist. R. 20: 545. Jl. ‘05. 860w.

“The present volume sustains his reputation for accuracy and penetration, while proving him to possess gifts of a different order. It discloses a large grasp of facts and a weighty style.”

+ + + Nation. 81: 14. Jl. 6, ‘05. 3200w.

“It may be said at once that Dr. Greenidge revivifies Rome, which had been reduced to the deadness of classicality. He creates the Eternal city in the sixth century of its existence, and with exactness and grace shows us its life, its politics, the causes of its troubles, how it met them, and what the final issue was.”

+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 319. My. 13, ‘05. 1330w.

* Greenslet, Ferris. James Russell Lowell, his life and work. **$1.50. Houghton.

“A concise view of the life of Lowell, which the author frankly admits to be mainly based on printed sources, chief among which has naturally been the collection of his letters edited by Charles Eliot Norton; but the work was nevertheless worth doing and is very well done.... The book is illustrated with portraits, local views, etc.”—Critic.

* “The author has made judicious use of his abundant and rich material, his personal additions to which have been considerable and valuable.”

+ + Critic. 47: 573. D. ‘05. 80w.

* “A little difference of emphasis here and there may suggest itself as possible; but in substance the narrative is exactly what it should be. He writes from a firm critical theory, and knows how to back his own opinions. Yet his speech lacks something of firmness and consistency.” H. W. Boynton.

+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 773. N. 18, ‘05. 1670w.

* “Conspicuously free from provincialism of standards and of feeling, conspicuously competent, dispassionate, and, therefore, authoritative.” Hamilton W. Mabie.

+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 827. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.

* “Beyond any other biography recently written among us, this book gives, by its execution, the impression of a distinct addition to the literary resources of our younger authors.” Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

+ + — Outlook. 81: 625. N. 11, ‘05. 1520w.

Gregg, David; Goodrich, William W., and Carney, Sidney Howard, jr. Makers of the American republic: a series of patriotic lectures. $2. Treat.

Sixteen historical lectures on the early colonists; The Virginians, Pilgrims, Puritans, Hollanders, Scotch, Huguenots, Quakers, and the old-time doctors, lawyers, and ministers. Columbus, Washington, our patriotic dead, and the black forefathers are also treated.

“Characterized for the most part by a degree of intellectual hospitality and breadth of thought rarely found in similar discussions by trinitarian clergymen.”

+ + + Arena. 34: 220. Ag. ‘05. 370w.

+ + Critic. 47: 190. Jl. ‘05. 30w.

Gregory, J. C. Short introduction to the theory of electrolytic dissociation, *50c. Longmans.

“This is a useful little book for those students who, after taking a course of systematic chemistry, wish to know something of the behaviour of electrolytic solutions.” (Nature.) Its four chapters are entitled The condition of dissolved substances; Ions and precipitation; Hydrogen and hydroxyl ions; Electrolytic and general considerations.

“The language and mode of presentation are simple, and although one might take exception to many points of detail, the book, on the whole, should prove a trustworthy guide.”

+ + Nature. 71: 606. Ap. 27, ‘05. 100w.

Grenfell, Bernard Pyne; Drexel, Lucy Wharton; and Hunt, Arthur Surridge, eds. New sayings of Jesus, and fragments of a lost gospel, from Oxyrhynchus, Part IV. *40c. Oxford.

“The present volume contains for the most part papyri found in the second excavations at 144Oxyrhynchus in 1903. It will not be as amusing to the general reader as certain of the previous volumes, since it includes but few of the non-legal and non-literary, but excessively human, documents that gave in them such a sparkle of life to the pages of a very dead subject.... The volume contains a goodly number of interesting legal documents, which increase our knowledge of details of Egyptian administration and Graeco-Egyptian law. The number of personal letters is, as we have indicated, very few.”—Nation.

Nation. 80: 139. F. 16, ‘05. 990w.

Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason. Harvest of the sea: a tale of both sides of the Atlantic. **$1. Revell.

Dr. Grenfell, who for twenty years has worked among the deep sea fishermen on both sides of the Atlantic, gives a picture of these men, their lives, and the revolution, social and religious, wrought by the coming of the mission ship among the fishing fleets.

+ Bookm. 21: 651. Ag. ‘05, 210w.

+ Critic. 46: 471. My. ‘05. 350w.

“Dr. Grenfell’s narrative of the North Sea fishers especially—considered quite without reference to its value as a record of evangelization—is stirring, full of the life and tragedy of the sea. The account of the Labrador men is briefer and less picturesque.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 243. Ap. 15, ‘05. 320w.

+ — Outlook. 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 170w.

+ Pub. Opin. 38: 508. Ap. 1, ‘05. 360w.

+ + Reader. 6: 473. S. ‘05. 300w.

R. of Rs. 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 70w.

Griffith, J. Quintin. Helps and hints in nursing. *$1.50. Winston.

A text-book for nurses, and a guide for the family which gives the ordinary details of nursing which the doctor wishes carried out in everyday maladies, tells what to do in cases of emergency, gives directions for caring for infants and children, and for preserving the health.

“A practical and sensible book which may be commended to use in families and by all who have to do with illness.”

+ + Outlook. 81: 334. Ag. 7, ‘05. 20w.

Griffiths, Arthur George Frederick. Fifty years of public service. *$5. Cassell.

Born in India and entering the English army at the time of the Crimean war, as a mere youth, the author saw military service in Crimea, Nova Scotia, Montreal, Gibraltar, and Abyssinia, and civil service in charge of prisons at Gibraltar, Chatham, and Milbank. This account of his career suggests that the material for his novels and detective stories was taken from life.

Critic. 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 120w.

“The author’s style has the unstudied fluency of one who is used to writing with the din of the printing-press in his ears and the boy at his side waiting for copy. The book is a worthy addition to the major’s long list of works, grave and gay.”

+ Dial. 38: 325. My. 1, ‘05. 330w.

“You would say Major Griffiths had enjoyed his ‘Fifty years of service’ in the living at least as much as you enjoy it in reading.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 333. My. 20, ‘05. 1410w.

Griggs, Edward Howard. Moral education. *$2. Huebsch.

Professor Griggs points out the aim and scope of his work in the following: “a study, as exhaustive as I could make it, of the whole problem of moral culture: its purpose in relation to our society, and all the means through which that purpose can be attained. My aim has been sanity and not novelty, ... to see ‘steadily and whole’ both human life and the process of moral culture that leads to it and make possible the happiest and most helpful living.”

“This volume should be carefully read by every parent and teacher in the land. It is a work at once eminently practical and yet nobly idealistic. He has considered his subject deeply and treats it as only a man of rare insight, a true philosopher and a practical teacher could present a theme.”

+ + + Arena. 34: 330. S. ‘05. 290w.

“He writes with beauty and almost invariably with marked clearness; he develops very instructively and applies to the work of ethical formation the leading results of modern educational investigation.”

+ + — Cath. World. 81: 126. Ap. ‘05. 580w.

“This book by Mr. Griggs is one of the significant indications of the trend of education in the present time, while in itself it is a decided contribution to the philosophy and method of education. Unlike much of current educational discussion, the parent is not here made subservient to the teacher or entirely ignored.” Leslie Willis Sprague.

+ + Int. J. Ethics. 15: 379. Ap. ‘05. 940w.

“The present volume seems to have reached the root of the difficulty which confronts modern educators, for it points out wherein they err by casting aside the old systems and giving entire precedent to new and untried methods. The book is written in a masterly style.”

+ + Reader. 5: 499. Mr. ‘05. 400w.

“The book addresses itself especially to the teacher, but will be found interesting and helpful to all who are concerned in any way with the rearing of children.”

+ R. of Rs. 31: 254. F. ‘05. 120w.

Gronau, Georg. Titian. $2. Scribner.

The monograph of the great painter not only tells a graphic story of the artist’s life, but describes the picturesque conditions under which he worked, the emperors, dukes and bishops who gave him commissions, forming a romantic background. The book gives the results of the most recent investigations of the authorship of disputed masterpieces, is copiously illustrated with fifty odd half-tones, has a fine bibliography, and a complete index.

“Is not so specialized a piece of work as is the standard biography by Crowe and Cavalcaselle. It is tersely and vividly written, precisely the book for the general reader.” Royal Cortissoz.

+ + Atlan. 95: 276. F. ‘05. 320w.

“It is quite up-to-date in its attributions. The side on which their usefulness does not seem to increase or greatly enlighten is that of a new word concerning the technical performances of great colourists, draughtsmen and virile painters. But this lapse Gronau has in common with others who write of artists and their work. Such books as these become, in a sense, a kind of superior guidebook to galleries, palaces and churches, but they are not quite what a student or a connoisseur would desire when wishing to be enlightened on the methods, ways, and practices of a master painter. Present book is excellent of its kind.” Frank Fowler.

+ Bookm. 20: 556. F. ‘05. 870w.

“Dr. Gronau’s volume, marked by cautious accuracy and disinterested love of truth, is a model for works of its class. It is a thing of high art in itself, and is certainly the best life of Titian that has appeared.” George Breed Zug.

+ + + Dial. 38: 320. My. 1, ‘05. 1000w.

Grout, Abel Joel. Mosses with hand-lens and microscope. 26. ed. $1.75 A. J. Grout, 306 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, N. Y.

This second edition “which follows the same general plan as the first edition, is expanded to include 169 of the ‘more common and more easily recognized mosses of the northeastern United States,’ as well as fifty-four of the hepaticæ of the same region.... The text contains 145something like 118 figures and 39 full-page plates.”—Science.

“In the matter of typography and illustrations, the work is so much of an improvement over its predecessor that it deserves special commendation.”

+ + Science, n.s. 21: 816. My. 26, ‘05. 230w.

Grove, Sir George, ed. Dictionary of music and musicians; new and thoroughly rev. ed.; ed. by J. A. Fuller Maitland. **$5. Macmillan.

In undertaking the revision of Sir George Grove’s dictionary which appeared twenty-five years ago, the editor aims mainly to bring the work down to date. Mr. Maitland, “a man of erudition, good taste and sound judgment, has critical acumen, and while he is inclined to a thoroughly safe conservatism, such critical remarks as have been admitted are for the most part such as are likely to give the reader a general idea of the special characteristics of the musicians dealt with.” (Ind.)

* “If the succeeding volumes contain as many valuable additions and amplifications as the first, the work will suffice for many years to come, and will remain for all time a monument to the learning, patience, and judgment of the editor.” W. J. Henderson.

+ + Atlan. 96: 851. D. ‘05. 1100w. (Review of v. 1.)

“At last we have an English musical dictionary not only worthy to be compared with the French and German dictionaries, but surpassing them all in the lateness of its information and in its comprehensive scope. Some of the portraits are unworthy of the general high standard.” George P. Upton.

+ + — Dial. 38: 310. My. 1, ‘05. 2770w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + — Ind. 58: 671. Mr. 23, ‘05. 600w. (Review of vol. I.)

* “Ably and judiciously edited, and it promises to be an indispensable compendium for those who are genuinely interested in music or in music-makers.”

+ + + Ind. 59: 1161. N. 16, ‘05. 70w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The editing has on the whole been admirably done, and ... Mr. Fuller Maitland has amply proved, not only his great ability in dealing with a difficult task, but the foresight of those responsible for his selections.”

+ + — Lond. Times. 4: 226. Jl. 14, ‘05. 2020w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Unquestionably the most valuable work of the kind in English, and at present superior to any other in any language, considering its encyclopaedic character and the substantial quality of its most important articles.”

+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 296. My. 6, ‘05. 1710w. (Review of v. 1.)

Guiney, Louise Imogen. Hurrell Froude: memoranda and comments. *$3. Dutton.

This volume is in two parts, the first, a sketch of Hurrell Froude and his life, consisting mainly of letters and journals, the second, a collection of comments upon him and his connection with the Oxford movement. Outside of those interested in English religious movements, Hurrell Froude, brother of the historian, and John Henry Newman’s most intimate friend, is perhaps little known, and this book gives in detail the man’s influence upon his associates and the religious movements of his time, as well as his personality and character.

“The author’s style is not always unintelligible and precious, and by dint of a great deal of quotation we are brought fairly near to that strange inspirer of Newman.”

+ + — Ath. 1905, 1: 656. My. 27. 230w.

“It is a work of unusually distinguished merit. In the first place, Miss Guiney allows Hurrell Froude to tell his own story. And a second feature of this book which calls for praise is that in the pages which the biographer has written herself, the style is splendid.”

+ + + Cath World. 80: 826. Mr. ‘05. 580w.

“As a whole the book lacks literary unity, but it is initiative and gives an intimate glimpse into a circle of singularly real and fervent men. Valuable it is as being illustrative of a phase of the nineteenth century.”

+ + — Critic. 47: 381. O. ‘05. 380w.

“She has brought to her task abundant sympathy and much careful preparation. If her judgment is at fault, she has furnished us the means of correcting it in no halting fashion. Her collection of comments is no mere device for confirming her own views.”

+ + — Nation. 80: 214. Mr. 16, ‘05. 2090w.

“Miss Guiney’s book, which she does not call a biography, though in effect it is one, is a sympathetic account of his life, his character, and his work.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 602. S. 16, ‘05. 380w.

“The editing has been done sympathetically, and, in spite of the opportunity offered for the exercise of a rich and rather over-refined literary style, with restraint.”

+ Outlook. 79: 400. F. 11, ‘05. 390w.

Spec. 94: 180. F. 4, ‘05. 320w.

Gulick, Sidney Lewis. Evolution of the Japanese. **$2. Revell.

A fourth edition, revised and enlarged. “It contains a new preface and numerous changes in the text, which have been turned into notes and placed at the end of the chapters to which they belong.” (N. Y. Times.)

N. Y. Times. 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 370w.

Gulick, Sidney Lewis. White peril in the Far East. **$1. Revell.

The author, an American missionary who has lived long in Eastern Asia, discusses the significance of the Russo-Japanese war, which he considers a turning point in the world’s history. He holds that there is no cause to fear the yellow peril, that Japan is western in spirit and civilization, but that the white peril menaces the Orient to-day.

+ — Ath. 1905, 1: 559. My. 6. 260w.

“While in no way profound, it is rich in novel and suggestive points of view. It contains one of the best statements of the real causes of the war with Russia yet published, and gives an interpretation of the Japanese attitude toward the conflict that is agreeably clear, concise, and illuminating.”

+ + Dial. 38: 356. My. 16, ‘05. 580w.

“A concise, clear and comprehensive presentation of the national and international interests involved in present movements and tendencies, viewed as growing from the past.”

+ + Outlook. 79: 910. Ap. 8, ‘05. 120w.

Pub. Opin. 38: 755. My. 13, ‘05. 280w.

“Is a model of compactness and illumination.”

+ + + Reader. 6: 591. O. ‘05. 280w.

Gunsaulus, Frank W. Paths to power; Central church sermons. *$1.25. Revell.

The first group of Dr. Gunsaulus’ sermons to be published. They emphasize his right to be classed with such men as Beecher, Brooks and Spurgeon. “But to feel their power one must surrender for the time to the speaker’s wand and not dissolve the spell by a critical mood.” (Outlook.)

+ + Outlook. 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 150w.

Gwynn, Stephen. Thomas Moore. **75c. Macmillan.

The author, who is already known as a novelist and a critic of English-Irish literature, is also an Irishman and consequently found an unusually happy subject in Thomas Moore. The romantic rise of Moore from the Dublin grocery store to London’s rank and fashion is detailed. 146The critical estimate of his work is fully given, and his part in the last century’s remarkable advance in poetical technique is enlarged upon.

“His life is excellently set forth in this volume, the author having evidently put before him as the object of his task the painting of a faithful portrait. Mr. Gwynn has added considerably to his already very considerable repute by this capital little book, in which he does justice to his subject and to himself.” W. Teignmouth Shore.

+ + Acad. 68: 79. Ja. 28, ‘05. 710w.

“Mr. Gwynn had accomplished no easy task with tact and literary skill, if not with accuracy.”

+ + — Ath. 1905, 1: 327. Mr. 18. 2340w.

“A sympathetic treatment of the man and his works.”

+ + Critic. 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 20w.

“Mr. Gwynn’s book is compact with information and well-balanced criticism.”

+ + + Dial. 39: 70. Ag. 1, ‘05. 450w.

“Delightful little volume.”

+ Ind. 58: 1128. My. 18, ‘05. 330w.

+ Nation. 80: 253. Mr. 30, ‘05. 610w.

“Considered as a portrayal of Moore’s character, this book of Mr. Gwynn’s is adequate and satisfactory. It is not, however, eminently successful in evoking for the imagination the world in which the poet lived. As a literary estimate, while it neither observes its subject from a new angle, nor throws new light upon it, it is upon the whole a thoroughly competent and workmanlike performance—an orderly, trustworthy, and comprehensive statement of the established critical opinions regarding Moore’s poetry and prose. Mr. Gwynn has shown himself a safe, if neither a brilliant nor remarkably painstaking critic.” Horatio S. Krans.

+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 97. F. 18. ‘05. 2580w.

“Mr. Gwynn has given us an eminently readable book.”

+ Outlook. 79: 251. F. 1, ‘05. 290w.

“Mr. Gwynn’s estimate of Moore is the most noteworthy thing in the volume.”

+ Pub. Opin. 38: 214. F. 11, ‘05. 370w.

R. of Rs. 31: 381. Mr. ‘05. 70w.

“We feel that Mr. Gwynn is making quite a nice and workmanlike book to fill a supposed cap in a respectable series; we admire his visible yet sober efforts to impart a tinge of enthusiasm.”

+ Sat. R. 99: 740. Je. 3, ‘05. 2180w.

“Mr. Gwynne, who has done his work with much skill and sympathy, has never allowed his judgment to be influenced.”

+ + Spec. 94: 555. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1890w.

Gwynne, Paul. Bandolero, †$1.50. Dodd.

A book which gives a vivid picture of Spanish peasant life. The story concerns the only son of the Marquis de Bazan who is kidnapped by his father’s enemy, a “bandolero,” and brought up on an Andalusian farm. The boy falls in love with his playmate, the bandit’s daughter, and altho her father violently opposes their marriage, he at last not only gives his consent but sacrifices his life for the son of his enemy. Altho the plot is melodramatic, the scenes of country life are homely and humorous.

“The romance is thoroughly interesting, and has a considerable degree of literary charm.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ Dial. 39: 208. O. 1, ‘05. 290w.

“A good melodramatic novel. The author must know his Spain far better than most men.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 191. Mr. 25. ‘05. 300w.

“As has been said by some one, Mr. Gwynne knows the Spanish peasant as well as Miss Wilkins knows the New England farmer. It is this part of this book, as it was with his former story, which attracts us in Mr. Gwynne’s work. The plot of the story ... seems to us on the melodramatic order and less worthy of praise.”

+ — Outlook. 79: 704. Mr. 18, ‘05. 180w.

“A logical, well-atmosphered story whose interest is steadily sustained and whose denouement is satisfactory.”

+ Reader. 6: 473. S. ‘05. 180w.

“Mr. Gwynne has painted for us the large sun-lit landscape of the Andalusian plains and the slow comedy of village life with a certainty of touch and a depth of colour which are entirely admirable. But apart from merits of atmosphere and scenery, he has a very stirring story to tell and much excellent character-drawing. Mr. Gwynne, though he deals with the favourite constituents of melodrama, is always a serious novelist, and his characters are as carefully studied as his plot. Mr. Gwynne has found a field in which he need fear no rival, and we welcome a book so full of freshness and vitality.”

+ + + Spec. 94: 90. Ja. 21, ‘05. 400w.

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Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich Philipp August. Evolution of man: a popular scientific study; tr. by Joseph McCabe. *$10. Putnam.

The present translation has been made from “the fifth (enlarged) edition of the German work. The abstruse and puzzling phenomena of embryology occupy the whole first volume.... The second volume is devoted to the vexed problem of our ancestry—beginning with the lowest forms of life and working upwards thru ‘Our worm-like ancestors,’ ‘Our fish-like ancestors,’ ‘Our five-toed ancestors,’ and ‘Our ape-like ancestors.’ But besides these we have some luminous chapters on the evolution of the nervous system, sense organs, vascular system, and so on. A summary on the ‘results of anthropogeny’ closes the book.” (Acad.)

Reviewed by W. P. Pycraft.

+ + — Acad. 68: 489. My. 6, ‘05. 1680w.

* “As always, he is prodigious of learning, fertile alike in illuminating suggestion and extraordinary new words; and as always, totally at sea as to what may reasonably be said in a popular book.” E. T. Brewster.

+ + — Atlan. 96: 682. N. ‘05. 410w.

* “A translation which is, on the whole, excellent.”

+ + — Nation. 81: 512. D. 21, ‘05. 360w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 224. Ap. 8, ‘05. 330w.

“The broad fact of development and the main details of the process are undeniably given by Prof. Haeckel with a wealth of illustration and a positiveness of statement which aids both understanding and memory, even if it somewhat obscures the complexity of the problem and the insecurity of the conclusions to which one is lead.” Joseph Jacobs.

+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 569. S. 2, ‘05. 1660w.

“It is unfortunate that more care has not been taken with the translation and proof-reading, in the latter especially with regard to proper names. On the whole, however, the translation is readable and set forth in idiomatic English.” J. P. McM.

+ + — Science, n.s. 22: 137. Ag. 4, ‘05. 1550w.

Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich. Wonders of life. *$2. Harper.

This volume is supplementary to the author’s “Riddle of the universe,” and is an answer to the thousands of letters and the many published attacks the first work called forth. It contains a quantity of biological information and is probably too technical to be popular. “His whole method of argument is based on the continuity of life, the unity of nature, and his metaphysics grows out of his biology. The book is divided into four parts, in which he treats respectively of the knowledge, the nature, the functions and the history of life. Altho he is now in his seventy-second year he has not lost the skill in classification and terminology which has given him his special reputation, and 147he uses effectively the tabular form and parallel columns to elucidate his theories and to contrast them with those of his opponents.” (Ind.)

“The chapters on ‘Forms of life,’ ‘Monera,’ and ‘Nutrition’ are written by a master in these fields and tend to compensate for the enormous mass of paralogisms and unproved assertions that constitute perhaps the greater part of the remaining chapters.” C. W. Saleeby.

+ — Acad. 68: 82. Ja. 28, ‘05. 700w.

“Yet the book must be respected for its learning, and is absorbing even when not convincing.”

+ + — Critic. 46: 383. Ap. ‘05. 130w.

“The book is translated into good English, but there are various slips or misprints in names and technical terms.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

+ + — Dial. 38: 232. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1000w.

Ind. 58: 206. Ja. 26, ‘05. 1130w.

“It [the translation] is on the whole clear and vigorous, but it betrays inexpertness. The translator has not the vaguest idea of what he is translating. Defective proofreading.... This book expresses the sincere convictions of a veteran who has done much for biology.”

+ — Nature. 71: 313. F. 2, ‘05. 1550w.

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w.

“Notwithstanding this obscurity in parts, the whole book is fairly clear as to its tendency.” Joseph Jacobs.

+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 570. S. 2, ‘05. 1210w.

Outlook. 79: 505. F. 25, ‘05. 390w.

“After one wades through this terrible terminology of the scientific philosopher he is gratified, however, to find that he has been led always to a clear conclusion. Such is the nature of the question that much depends on the original bias of the reader.”

+ — Pub. Opin. 38: 214. F. 11, ‘05. 860w.

R. of Rs. 31: 383. Mr. ‘05. 100w.

“Has been well translated by Mr. Joseph McCabe.”

+ + — Spec. 94: 788. My. 27, ‘05. 200w.

“On the whole we find it disappointing. In the present book we got a mass of biological information, often of the most obscure kind, set forth with all the ability of an acknowledged master in this branch of science: but in conjunction with this we get a considerable quantity of loose thinking of a kind which passes for philosophical often presented in a very superficial manner.”

+ — The Westminster R. 163: 103. Ja. ‘05 530w.

Haenssgen, Oswald H. Suction gas. $1. Gas engine pub.

“Written, according to the author, to supply the lack, in this country, of information on the subject of suction gas producers, and more briefly of their first cost, cost of running and possible utility and development.”—Engin. N.

Reviewed by Alfred B. Forstall.

+ + Engin. N. 53: 184. F. 16, ‘05. 220w.

Hafiz, Mohammed Shems-ed-Din. Odes from the Divan of. Freely rendered from literal translations by Richard Le Gallienne. *$1.50. Page.

“Hafiz has the epicureanism of Omar Khayyam without his philosophy. He sings of nothing but wine and love.... Mr. Le Gallienne has not merely translated, he has transmuted the odes into true English poetry, and any one but an antiquarian will prefer to read them in this form rather than in the literal versions.”—Ind.

“In short, while Mr. Le Gallienne has not found much more to tell us in this than in his last Persian study, he has not shown any greater poetical merit; but, on the contrary, by his more ambitious metrical scheme and greater dependence upon himself, he has been led into worse technical blunders.”

— Acad. 68: 1123. O. 28, ‘05. 980w.

“The only fault we have to find with Mr. Le Gallienne is that he is inclined to make his task easy by diluting his poetry until it flows freely. With more pains he might have kept more of the terseness and spirit of the original.”

+ + — Ind. 59: 687. S. 14, ‘05. 540w.

“His work is frankly not a translation by a scholar, but a poet’s version of another poet. Jarring notes like these are the more discordant when one thinks of the beauty of so much of his version, and remembers the undoubted ability of Mr. Le Gallienne.”

+ — Lit. D. 31: 665. N. 4, ‘05. 710w.

* + N. Y. Times. 10: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 330w.

“Many of these odes have the lyrical quality, and that while they may not be in all points acceptable to Oriental scholars, they give to the reader sufficiently well the effect of Persian imagery and the essence of the poet’s feeling.”

+ Outlook. 81: 44. S. 2, ‘05. 220w.

+ R. of Rs. 32: 511. O. ‘05. 120w.

Haggard, Andrew Charles Parker. Silver Bells, †$1.50. Page.

Stories of hunting and fishing abound in this tale of a man who leaves home and friends for the care free life of the Canadian Indians. Silver Bells, an Indian girl, is the heroine.

“Col. Haggard has gone back to Fenimore Cooper for his model in this story. The story may amuse boys, perhaps.”

— N. Y. Times. 10: 347. My. 27, ‘05. 370w.

Haggard, (Henry) Rider. Ayesha: the return of “She.” †$1.50. Doubleday.

In this sequel to “She.” the book which thrilled and fascinated twenty years ago, “Holly and Leo search full sixteen years for Ayesha and find her at last, the priestess of a strange religion, half Isis-worship, half fire-worship, on a lonely mountain in no man’s land at the back of beyond, there are hair-breadth escapes from avalanches and from mad Khans who hunt people to death with bloodhounds, mysterious doings in great temples and on the roof of the world, fierce battles, in which nature fights for Ayesha against her old foe Amenartas.... And Leo Vincey having won, after many an ordeal, his bride, dies on the eve of bliss and Ayesha herself, now half goddess, half weak and wilful woman, passes away from the earth forever.” (Lond. Times.)

“Not all the wishes that we could form of submitting our imagination to that of the author result in a moment of illusion.”

+ — Acad. 68: 1026. O. 7, ‘05. 260w.

“‘Ayesha’ fails to exercise the fascination of ‘She’; and the reason must, perhaps, be sought, not in Mr. Haggard, but in ourselves. ‘Ayesha’ deserves indeed a vogue only second to that of her previous incarnation.”

+ + Ath. 1905. 2: 538. O. 21. 230w.

“Has our taste changed and our discrimination grown keener through the intervening years, or has the pen of Mr. Haggard lost its magic?” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ — Bookm. 22:236. N. ‘05. 510w.

“If the reader will lay aside doubt and scepticism for the old ready belief, he cannot fail to feel again the old pleasure, the old interests, and the old thrills.”

+ Critic. 47: 477. N. ‘05. 140w.

“‘Ayesha’ is not ‘She,’ and the lovers of ‘She’ are a little stiffer in the mental joints.”

+ — Lond. Times. 4: 329. O. 6, ‘05. 460w.

“No doubt, allowing for the disillusionment of years, this sequel is as well-wrought as its original. Probably it is even superior geographically, ethnologically, theologically, and pyro-technically.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 649. O. 7, ‘05. 310w.

Pub. Opin. 39:572. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.

* “‘Ayesha,’ continuing ‘She,’ betokens no weariness and no decay.”

+ R. of Rs. 32: 762. D. ‘05. 70w.

148“The novel shows fine imagination, but it is surely an artistic mistake to throw doubt on the reincarnation story which readers of ‘She’ were bound to accept.”

+ — Sat. R. 100: 595. N. 4, ‘05. 880w.

“As in all Mr. Haggard’s stories, there are some admirable adventures, and the tale is told with much skill.”

+ — Spec. 95: 657. O. 28, ‘05. 370w.

Haggard, (Henry) Rider. Gardener’s year. *$4. Longmans.

There are two gardens described in this book, one on the eastern shore of Suffolk, where the author, by planting a certain beach-grass, has successfully checked the inroads of the sea, and the other at Ditchingham, where he has three acres under cultivation. He has six glass houses and two ponds in which he grows aquatic plants. With the assistance of two gardeners he raises fruit, vegetables and flowers, making a specialty of orchids. There are 25 illustrations from photographs.

“In the volume under notice he details his joys and sorrows as a gardener in a manner which is well nigh certain to prove very acceptable to the vast army of garden lovers.”

+ + Acad. 68: 60. Ja. 21, ‘05. 630w.

+ + — Ath. 1905, 1: 503. Ap. 15. 350w.

+ + Nation. 80: 296. Ap. 13, ‘05. 920w.

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.

+ + Spec. 94: 553. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1840w.

Haggard, (Henry) Rider. Poor and the land; being a report of the Salvation army colonies in the United States and at Hadleigh, England; with a scheme of national land settlement, and an introduction by H. Rider Haggard. 75c. Longmans.

By permission of the British government, Mr. Haggard’s report to parliament of the results of his investigation of the Salvation army colonies is re-printed in book form. It contains full descriptions of these colonies with reports of conversations with the colonists, letters, etc., and is illustrated from photographs.

+ + Outlook. 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 440w.

“Any one who believes in state-aided emigration as a cure for some of our graver social evils will be grateful to Mr. Haggard for his thorough investigation of the question and his thoughtful proposals towards a solution.”

+ + Spec. 95: 354. S. 9, ‘05. 1580w.

Haile, Martin. Mary of Modena, her life and letters. *$4. Dutton.

“The biography of the ‘fascinating’ princess—the only Italian queen who ever shared the English throne—as it appears in her own letters and the dispatches and letters of her contemporaries.... The volume is illustrated with photogravures.”—N. Y. Times.

* “A valuable addition to the history of her time.”

+ Acad. 68: 1197. N. 18, ‘05. 130w.

“But it is heaped together rather than written, and the author has no gift of historical portraiture. Here and there interesting facts emerge; there is, alas, no life in the whole.”

— + Lond. Times. 4: 361. O. 27, ‘05. 720w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 361. Je. 3, ‘05. 340w.

“An interesting book on the life of a young woman of little importance.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 840w.

* “Is a sympathetic survey of Mary’s life. The interest is both historic and sentimental.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.

“The one source of regret is that Mr. Haile, manifestly tireless in research and an adept in converting the results of research into narrative has not preserved a judicial attitude.”

+ — Outlook. 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 250w.

Haines, Alice Calhoun. See Knipe, Emilie Benson.

Haines, Alice Calhoun. See Mar, Alice.

* Haines, Henry Stevens. Restrictive railway legislation. **$1.25. Macmillan.

This volume is made up of twelve lectures given by the author in April and May, 1905, at the Boston university school of law, “the purpose being to present the manner in which legislation and judicial decisions have affected the operations of railway corporations in their relations to the public.”

* “Perhaps the most interesting portion of Col. Haines’s book, and a unique and valuable record to the student, is the historical matter which it contains.”

+ + Engin. N. 54: 533. N. 16, ‘05. 930w.

* + Ind. 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.

* “The author discusses in an academic spirit, and without heat, questions which are the subject of very heated discussion by the press and by public men. The volume will be valuable to all students of this subject whether they deal with it from the point of view of the publicist or of the railroad manager.”

+ + Outlook. 81: 430. O. 21, ‘05. 190w.

* “Conservative discussions of the whole question, conducted in a judicial temper.”

+ + Outlook. 81: 938. D. 16, ‘05. 120w.

* + R. of Rs. 32: 637. N. ‘05. 80w.

Haines, Jennie Day, comp. Sovereign woman versus mere man: a medley of quotation. **$1. Elder.

In these well chosen quotations from writers of both sexes and many ages the compiler has compared and contrasted man and woman in various phases and stages of their being. The left hand page applies to sovereign woman, the one facing it to mere man, and they are presented as heroines and heroes, spinsters and bachelors, wives and husbands, and as related to love, matrimony, fads, fame, ways, work, religion and many other things. The marginal decorations and general get up make the volume an attractive gift-book.

* “The quotations, which are of very miscellaneous authorship, possess more than a superficial aptness, and there is a refreshing absence of that attempt at epigrammatic smartness which spoils most books of this type.”

+ Dial. 39: 384. D. 1, ‘05. 80w.

* + Ind. 59: 1384. D. 14, ‘05. 120w.

Hains, Thornton Jenkins. Black barque. †$1.50. Page.

The adventures of a sailor aboard the slave-ship, Gentle Hand, on her last cruise in the year 1815, form the subject of this new romance of the sea.

Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ — Bookm. 21: 519. Jl. ‘05. 130w.

“In spite of its exaggerations, it is probable that one does not get from this story a very erroneous idea of slave ships, as they were in 1815.”

+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 315. My. 13, ‘05. 610w.

“Language somewhat surprising for the rough character he makes himself out to be.”

+ Outlook. 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 60w.

“Mr. Hains’s story—one of pure adventure—is vivid and exciting.”

+ Reader. 6: 473. S. ‘05. 90w.

* + Sat. R. 100: 600. N. 4, ‘05. 180w.

Haldane, J. W. C. Life as an engineer; its lights, shades and prospects. *$2. Spon.

“This volume would make an excellent present for a lad with a taste for mechanics, or for a young man thinking of an engineer’s occupation.... The reader learns something not only of the marvels of machinery ... but 149of the likelihood of earning a living in this particular line.... The author has given an autobiographical form to his book, relating his experiences at various great centres of industry, as at Glasgow and at Birkenhead.”—Spec.

Spec. 94: 147. Ja. 28, ‘05. 300w.

Hale, Edward Everett. Man without a country. *25c. Little.

A new edition of a story “written in the darkest period of the Civil war to show what love of country is.” A young army officer, court-martialed for treason charges, curses the United States and wishes that he may never hear its name again. As punishment his wish is granted, and for fifty years he is “a man without a country.” He is carried on one long cruise after another by government vessels and barred from hearing or seeing a word from home.

Hale, Edward Everett, jr. Dramatists of to-day. *$1.50. Holt.

Rostand, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Pinero, Shaw, Phillips, Maeterlinck: being an informal discussion of their significant work. This book is exactly what it declares itself to be in the fore-going sub-title, but in its informal discussion is matter of much interest, for the dramatists and their dramas are discussed from the viewpoint of both literature and the stage. They and their works are chatted about and compared in a fireside fashion that makes the reader feel as tho he had entertained a pleasing and instructive guest, one who can vividly revive memories of “Cyrano de Bergerac,” “L’Aiglon,” “Die versunkene glocke,” “Magda,” “Sweet lavender,” “The second Mrs. Tanqueray,” “Candida,” “Paolo and Francesca,” and “Ulysses.”

“These papers are what is called readable: chatty, urbane, a little ostentatiously inconsequent, perhaps, and familiar not always in the best sense.” H. W. Boynton.

+ Atlan. 95: 842. Je. ‘05. 580w.

“Strangely immature judgments and ... oddly egotistic digressions from which the author forgets to return. He has an amazing capacity for misunderstanding the things he writes about.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

— — Critic. 47: 90. Jl. ‘05. 160w.

+ + Dial. 38: 357. My. 16, ‘05. 240w.

“An amiable and quite unacademic vagueness is ... the chief characteristic. His English style leaves much to be improved.”

— Nation. 81: 14. Jl. 6, ‘05. 420w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 249. Ap. 15, ‘05. 290w.

“His little book, modest in style and also in spirit, is a fresh and entertaining piece of writing.”

+ + Outlook. 80: 138. My. 13, ‘05. 240w.

R. of Rs. 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 50w.

Hale, Harris Grafton. Who then is this? a study of the personality of Jesus. *$1.25. Pilgrim press.

“The personality of Jesus is exhibited as in a normally human development, attaining thru communion with God a transcendence beyond all measure of comparison. The work avoids technical theology, but its Christological view is clearly of the Ritschlian type. Mr. Hale is a Congregational minister.”—Outlook.

“Not without attractiveness from a literary point of view.”

+ Ind. 59: 151. Jl. 20, ‘05. 160w.

“This is, on the whole, a strong book. The method of the work is inductive, and its style is clear and vigorous.”

+ Outlook. 80: 196. My. 20, ‘05. 140w.

Hale, William. Dauntless viking. $1.50. Badger.

The foreword states that “this story of the Gloucester fisheries is a conscientious study of the local life and color as it actually exists.” It follows the fortunes of a young viking who comes to America and casts his lot among the fishermen of Cape Ann, and is told in the broken English of the sons of Norway. It describes a hard life and does not close upon a happy ending, but lets the hero win success and happiness, and then ends grimly.

Hall, Charles Cuthbert. Christian belief interpreted by Christian experience. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

These lectures were delivered in India, Ceylon and Japan on the Barrows foundation, 1902-1903, and are now submitted to Western readers in book form that they may see “the manner and style of the work done in India for Indians.” Written in that spirit of broad sympathy which is essential if the Christian would successfully approach the non-Christian mind, they appeal to all creeds, to all ages, to all seekers after God.

“The foremost merit of President Hall’s ‘Barrows lectures’ is their supreme tact, their gracious Christian courtesy.”

+ + Ind. 59: 752. S. 28, ‘05. 490w.

* N. Y. Times. 10: 558. Ag. 26, ‘05. 140w.

“The tone of the book is ironic and characterized by the true Christian spirit of a broad catholicity.”

+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 413. S. 23, ‘05. 530w.

Hall, Edward. Henry VIII.; with an introd. by C: Whibley. 2v. *$12. Grafton press.

This text is reprinted from the folio edition of 1550. In its quaint English it gives an account of the social rather than the political phases of the reign of the “high and prudent prince, King Henry the Eighth, the indubitate flower, and very heire” of Lancaster and York. It gives a brilliant and interesting picture of the early 16th century, it narrates faithfully, but lets many great heads go to the block without comment. It was safer so in those times.

“Admirable alike in print, paper, format, style, and introduction.”

+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 9. Ja. 7, 1030w.

“This present book disarms critics, so far as concerns Hall’s gift of seeing things, and of using a dignified old English which now and then ... rises to something like splendour.”

+ + Spec. 94: 291. F. 25, ‘05. 1620w.

* Hall, Jennie. Men of old Greece. †$1.50. Little.

Four chapters graphically sketching history and biography are “Leonidas,” “Themistocles,” in which this hero is set in the midst of the events that led up to the victories of Marathon and Salamis, “Phidias and the Parthenon,” and “Socrates.” The illustrations include eight full-page plates and a number of drawings suggestive of types, customs and dress.

* “Makes good reading for the boys of to-day.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 220w.

Hall, R. N., and Neal, W. G. Great Zimbabwe, Mashonaland, Rhodesia. *$6. Dutton.

“This is a detailed account of two years’ (1902-1904) examination work on behalf of the government of Rhodesia.... Mr. Hall writes briefly on the area of the ruins, burial places of the old colonists, absence of inscriptions, two periods of gold manufacture, the Elliptical temple, the Acropolis ruins.... Chapters are given to the Acropolis, the people, their customs, manners, religions and habits, the ruins, ancient architecture, relics and finds, the Elliptical temple, etc.... The volume is profusely illustrated from drawings and photographs.”—N. Y. Times.

“However fascinating these researches into hoary antiquity may be, the great value of Mr. Hall’s work consists in its ample and careful description of the ruins as they are, and in 150the plans and photographs which illustrate it.”

+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 501. Ap. 15. 1250w.

+ Nation. 80: 507. Je. 22, ‘05. 610w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 185. Mr. 25, ‘05. 390w.

“In the main his account is intended for the archæologist rather than for the general reader.”

+ Outlook. 80:139. My. 13, ‘05. 330w.

Halsey, R. T. H. Boston port bill as pictured by a contemporary London cartoonist. Grolier club.

“Through the associations of the remarkable series of cartoons described and beautifully reproduced the author is led to tell directly or incidentally almost everything that is known about the Port bill ... [He] traces, through little-known letters, newspaper accounts, and pamphlets, public and private opinion about the Port bill both in England and America.... Five of the mezzotint cartoons ... were the work of one man, Philip Dawe, a pupil of Hogarth.... Other humorous mezzotints ... were put forth by anonymous cartoonists, and the subject is further fitly illustrated by portraits from contemporary prints and pictures of statues and famous historical buildings.”—Outlook.

+ + Outlook. 79:907. Ap. 8, ‘05. 580w.

Halstead, George Bruce. Rational geometry. $1.75. Wiley.

Altho Euclid still holds its place as the one authoritative text book on geometry, modern criticism tends to make pure reason the only court of appeal, and doubts the reliability of the intuition of our senses. This “Rational geometry” upholds this view, using points, lines and planes as the names of things, the physical conception of which is not necessary. “The object is to deduce the conclusions which follow from certain assumed relations between these things, so that if the relations hold, the conclusions follow, whatever these things may be. Space is the totality of these things; its properties are solely logical, and varied in character according to the assumed fundamental relations. These assumed relations which develop space concepts that are apparently in accord with vision constitute the modern foundations of Euclidean space.” (Science). At a hasty glance the book does not appear to differ from ordinary text-books, diagrams are given, but not as essential to the argument. Altho the method of development is new, all the school propositions of both plane and solid geometry are eventually developed.

* Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.

Atlan. 96: 682. N. ‘05. 180w.

“The aim of modern rational geometry is to pass from premise to conclusion solely by the force of reason. Mr. Halstead is the first to write an elementary text-book, which adopts a modern view, and in this respect his ‘Rational geometry’ is epoch-making. It seems as if the present text-book ought not to be above the heads of the average elementary students, and that it should serve to develop logical power as well as practical geometrical ideas.” Arthur S. Hathaway.

+ + Science, n. s. 21: 183. F. 3, ‘05. 1090w.

Hamilton, Sylla W. Forsaking all others: a story of Sherman’s march through Georgia. $1.50. Neale.

A Union soldier, by persistent kindness to a fiery daughter of the South wins her, and makes her see that though her home lies devastated in the wake of Sherman’s army, and her childhood’s lover lies dead upon the battle field, a great right has grown out of these many wrongs. The book gives a vivid picture of Georgia’s sufferings during the war, and of the brutality of Sherman’s men.

Hammond, Captain Harold. Pinkey Perkins: just a boy. †$1.50. Century.

Wholesome fun pervades this story of Pinkey, the boy, his pranks, his love affairs, and his troubles. The reader’s sympathy is wholly with him in his contests with an over-zealous teacher, in his celebration of April fool’s day, and July fourth, and in his encounters with old Hostetters, for Pinkey is always quick-witted, and never malicious.

“Is a little different from most boys’ books. He is never monotonous, however.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 722. O. 28, ‘05. 150w.

+ Outlook. 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 80w.

Hammond, Mrs. L. H. Master-word, †$1.50 Macmillan.

A story of Tennessee, which treats of the race question. Viry, whose mother is three parts white and whose father is a Southern gentleman, feels the call of the white race but is doomed to be relegated to the black. Loathing any affiliation with them, she is one of them, and the slight arguments used by her dead father’s wife, who forgives her husband and nobly tries to do her duty by his alien child, neither help her nor solve the problem. There are other characters and an account of the development of the phosphate region.

“It is the first compassionate, intelligent interpretation ever written by any white person, North or South, of that pathetic class of men and women who suffer the loneliness and humiliation of a peculiar condition. The sympathetic attitude of the book merits all praise, and it is a story full of incident and interest.”

+ Ind. 58: 902. Ap. 20, ‘05. 470w.

“The author has written with sincerity and with a high purpose; and, although there are things regrettable in her book, and she has fallen short of her aim, she has done some admirable work, and has achieved a striking story, quite out of the ordinary.”

+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 130. Mr. 4, ‘05. 790w.

“The story is unusual in its nobility of spirit and its sanity.”

+ Outlook. 79: 773. Ap. 1, ‘05. 150w.

“It is admirably constructed and well carried out save for a somewhat forced and over-pathetic conclusion.”

+ + — Pub. Opin. 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 100w.

“‘The master-word’ is a book that stands far above the average of contemporary fiction.”

+ + R. of Rs. 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 245w.

Hampson, W. J. Radium explained. **50c. Dodd.

“This little book ... will ... serve a useful purpose in giving an elementary acquaintance with the subject of radio-activity, so far as that is accessible to those with little scientific knowledge.... Probably one of the most valuable chapters in the book is that on the medical aspects of radium.”—Nature.

“The language is simple and clear and should be comprehensible to any one with the ordinary knowledge of chemistry and physics.”

+ + Ind. 58: 1366. Je. 15, ‘05. 140w.

— — Nation. 81: 33. Jl. 13, ‘05. 160w.

“The explanations given of the experimental properties of radium are, so far as we have observed, clear and accurate.” R. J. S.

+ + — Nature. 71: 530. Ap. 6, ‘05. 610w.

“As a preparation for the further study of the new element, or for those who wish merely to keep well abreast of the world to-day, his little volume has an important place.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 442. Jl. 1, ‘05. 310w.

Outlook. 80: 447. Je. 17, ‘05. 30w.

“Dr. Hampson has a fine sense of value and proportion, both in subject matter and style.”

+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 470w.

+ + Spec. 94: 294. F. 25, ‘05. 180w.

151Hanauer, J. E. Tales told in Palestine; ed. by H. G. Mitchell, *$1.25. Jennings.

A collection of folk-lore stories of ancient and modern Palestine, gathered by a long-time resident of that land, and a contributor to the publication of the Palestine exploration fund. The folk-tales fall into five groups: “Anecdotes more or less historical,” “Legends of saints and heroes,” “Stories of modern miracles,” “Tales embodying popular superstitions,” and “Specimens of oriental wit and wisdom.” There are a few helpful notes and numerous illustrations.

“As entertaining as any book of travel could be. Its combinations of shrewdness and superstition, naiveté and astuteness, its worldly wit and wisdom so other-worldly than our own, furnish an agreeable and wholesome mental recreation for a leisure hour.”

+ + Outlook. 79: 145. Ja. 14, ‘05. 80w.

“Charming weird folk-lore tales.”

+ R. of Rs. 31: 250. F. ‘05. 60w.

Hanchett, Henry Granger. Art of the musician: a guide to the intelligent appreciation of music, **$1.50 Macmillan.

The purpose of this book is “to supply the demand of those mature lovers of music who wish to understand the aims and purposes of a composer, some of the methods of his work, and to get some ground for fairly judging his attainments and results. It aims to supply such information as should make concert-going more satisfactory, listening to music more intelligent, and that may assist in elevating the standards of church, theatrical and popular music.”

“Undoubtedly there is need of books of this kind, but it is to be feared that this one will not accomplish its excellent object, because of the author’s diffuseness and lack of lucidity.”

— Critic. 46: 480. My. ‘05. 90w.

“A unique and useful book, and one which goes far to demonstrate his theory that music can be thoroughly and usefully taught without teaching the art of performance.”

+ + Dial. 38: 419. Je. 16, ‘05. 420w.

“In short, it is a treatise on how to listen to music that he gives us, and it is a very good one.”

+ + Ind. 59: 693. S. 21, ‘05. 640w.

+ + Nation. 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 410w.

“And while Mr. Hanchett may not have got to the bottom of all that he discusses, much of what he says is useful and much will be illuminating to the intelligent student who follows him through his discourse and scrutinizes the examples he gives.” Richard Aldrich.

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 410w.

“Useful, however, as this book is sure to be, it is not free from certain evident defects.”

+ + — Outlook. 80: 343. Je. 3, ‘05. 400w.

+ + Pub. Opin. 38: 835. My. 27, ‘05. 250w.

+ R. of Rs. 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 70w.

Hancock, Harrie Irving, and Higashi, Katsukuma. Complete Kano jiu-jitsu, *$4.50. Putnam.

The Kano system of jiu-jitsu, the official jiu-jitsu of the Japanese government is dealt with in this volume. It also contains chapters on the serious and fatal blows and on kuatsu, the Japanese science of the restoration of life.

+ + Critic. 47: 383. O. ‘05. 100w.

“Beyond doubt, it is the most comprehensive work on the subject in England.” Adachi Kinnosuké.

+ + + Ind. 59: 389. Ag. 17, ‘05. 140w.

+ + Nation. 81: 118. Ag. 10, ‘05. 230w.

“The volume is the most helpful and comprehensive treatise on jiu-jitsu that has yet been published.”

+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 571. S. 2, ‘05. 1130w.

“A manual of the most approved form of the Japanese art of combat.”

+ + Outlook. 80: 836. Jl. 29, ‘05. 60w.

“So far as we have examined, every trick is sufficiently pictured and explained.”

+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 415. S. 23, ‘05. 550w.

Spec. 95: 263. Ag. 19, ‘05. 30w.

Hancock, Harrie Irving. Physical culture life: a guide for all who seek the simple laws of abounding health, **$1.25. Putnam.

The purpose of this book is “to represent in a clear and succinct way, the real aims and methods of the physical culture movement that is marching onward in England and the United States.” The reader is urged to follow “the plain and easily learned laws of physical culture.” and is told how to exercise the individual muscles of his body, and how much depends upon water and fresh air. The volume is well illustrated.

Reviewed by Eustace Miles.

— + Acad. 68: 491. My. 6, ‘05. 760w.

+ Dial. 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 80w.

+ Ind. 59: 271. Ag. 3, ‘05. 40w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 89. F. 11, ‘05. 340w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 215. Ap. 8, ‘05. 260w.

Pub. Opin. 38: 634. Ap. 22, ‘05. 140w.

Hand, James Edward, ed. Ideals of science and faith: essays by various authors. **$1.60. Longmans.

A series of ten essays, each from a different hand, and divided into two groups. The first six are included under the general title, “Approaches through science and education,” and deal “with the possible contemporary relations between science and religion (relations of an ironical nature) from the standpoint of the lay expert.” (Science). They are as follows: Physics, Sir O. Lodge; Biology, J. A. Thompson; Psychology, J. H. Muirhead; Sociology, V. V. Branford; Ethics, B. Russell; General and technical education, P. Geddes. The second group, entitled “Approaches through faith,” presents the clerical standpoint in its various phases as follows: The Presbyterian approach, J. Kelman; A Church of England approach, R. Payne; The church as seen from the outside, P. N. Waggett; The Church of Rome, W. Ward.

Atlan. 95: 702, My. ‘05. 640w.

“Is conceived after an admirable plan. The minority of essays, which are good, are so thoroughly good, that they lift the work up to a high rank as a sadly-needed eirenicon.”

+ + — Cath. World. 80: 675. F. ‘05. 1150w.

“A rather prosy introduction. The essays are of various degrees of merit.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

+ — Dial. 38: 87. F. 1, ‘05. 640w.

“It deserves to be commended. A very remarkable series.”

+ + Ind. 58: 41. Ja. 5, ‘05. 970w. (Summary of book.)

Reviewed by Charles M. Bakewell.

* + Int. J. Ethics. 16: 105. O. ‘05. 3530w.

“The plan of the work is novel, even daring, and conjures up piquant expectancy. No doubt the work is tentative, not conclusive. The collection remains notable and has everything to recommend it to reflective men, no matter on which side of the fence their main pre-suppositions happen to lie.” R. M. Wenley.

+ + — Science, n.s. 21: 26. Ja. 26, ‘05. 760w.

* Handel, George Frederick. Songs and airs; ed. by Ebenezer Prout. pa. $1.50; cl. $2.50. Ditson.

The two volumes of Handel’s songs, one for high voice, the other for low, are recent additions to “The musicians library.” The songs in each are prefaced by a sketch of Handel’s life and a brief note on his different compositions.

152* Hanotaux, Gabriel. Contemporary France, tr. from the French. 4v. ea. *$3.75. Putnam.

This “record of the inner diplomacy of the great powers of Europe during the last thirty years” is issued in four volumes, each complete in itself. The political figures of each period are brilliantly described. Volume I. France in 1870-1873, treats of the Franco-Prussian war and the close of the second empire; Volume II., France in 1874-1878, gives the history of the Broglie cabinets together with the attempt to restore the monarchy. Volume III., covers 1879-1889 and Volume IV., 1890-Dec. 31, 1900.

* “The part of the volume which deals with art and letters strikes us as poor.”

+ — Ath. 1905, 2: 541. O. 21. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)

* “The most interesting chapters are perhaps those which attempt to survey the soul of France, as it expressed itself in literature and the arts in the years succeeding the war.”

+ — Lond. Times. 4: 385. N. 10, ‘05. 630w. (Review v. 2.)

* “The second volume of M. Hanotaux’s monumental work emphasizes the good qualities of its predecessor. First of all, the narration bears the marks of intimate experience. The volume is thus a distinct and notable contribution to history.”

+ + Outlook. 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 240w. (Review v. 2.)

* Harben, William Nathaniel. Pole Baker; a novel. †$1.50. Harper.

Another story of northern Georgia of which Pole Baker, who has already appeared as a humorous character in “Abner Daniel,” is the central figure. He is here made not only humorous but forceful and even dramatic and he tells many good yarns and plays an important part in the love affair of an unsteady young merchant and a girl named Cynthia.

* “A somewhat crude if spirited story. There is no part of the narrative that impresses one either with its reality or its charm. As a novel, it cannot be considered a success.”

— Critic. 47: 578. D. ‘05. 30w.

* “The translations given of the sadness and splendor of married love, the whimsical veracity of the whole conception, shows this to be the author’s best work in fiction so far.”

+ + Ind. 59: 1228. N. 23, ‘05. 210w.

* “If they are occasionally innocently coarse they are yet very truly and forcibly moral in intention.”

+ — Outlook. 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 100w.

Harbottle, Thomas Benfield. Dictionary of battles from the earliest date to the present time. *$2. Dutton.

This book is a companion volume to “Dictionary of historical allusions.” The author, who has compiled several excellent dictionaries of quotations, died while this work was going to press, so the proof-reading and indexing was done by Colonel P. H. Dalbiac, who had collaborated with him in earlier works. The book is brought close to date—there are five entries under the heading Russo-Japanese war.

“The more modern battles are more efficiently dealt with than the ancient, and we look in vain for any mention of the wars of the ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, and Israelites. With this exception the book is adequate.”

+ + Acad. 68: 35. Ja. 14, ‘05. 140w.

“It is a handy compendium, but must be used with caution. Too many details are given to insure freedom from error.”

+ + — Nation. 80: 481. Je. 15, ‘05. 140w.

“A little more pains on his part, however, would have improved his book exceedingly. The location of the various battlefields is invariably omitted.”

+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 322. My. 20, ‘05. 310w.

“Such a book has an evident if rather limited scope of usefulness.”

+ + Outlook. 80: 391. Je. 10, ‘05. 90w.

“We have fairly tested the Dictionary of battles and have not found it wanting.”

+ + The Westminister Review. 163: 233. F. ‘05. 160w.

* Hardy, Rev. Edward John. John Chinaman at home, **$2.50. Scribner.

The author “for over three years was chaplain to His Majesty’s forces at Hong Kong.... His volume is a very medley of things Chinese,—Chinese cities with their local peculiarities; Chinese food, medicine, clothes, houses and gardens, servants and laborers; customs of marriage, burial, and mourning; Chinese boys, women, and girls, their manners, education, punishments; religions, superstitions, spirits, monks and priests, foreign missionaries, New Year devotions and rites, government,—and much more.”—Dial.

* “A simple-minded, chatty and amusing work.”

+ Acad. 68: 1111. O. 21, ‘05. 120w.

* “For one who contemplates a hurried journey through the lands of the ‘Son of Heaven,’ Mr. Hardy’s book will be a most acceptable eye-opener to Chinese characteristics.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ + Dial. 39: 379. D. 1, ‘05. 320w.

* “To write so readable a book on China, in a vein both sympathetic and critical, is in itself no mean feat.”

+ + Nation. 81: 505. D. 21, ‘05. 430w.

* “The author’s style is extremely readable and vivacious. His book contains a great deal of real information.”

+ + Outlook. 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 150w.

* “If the author is not always judicial in his conclusions nor strictly accurate in his statements, he is very readable and gives a fair all-round view of the Chinaman that is slowly being transformed by the very agencies he is here shown to despise.”

+ + — Sat. R. 100: 598. N. 4, ‘05. 940w.

* Hare, Christopher. Dante the wayfarer. *$2.50. Scribner.

“As the author remarks in his preface, Dante’s great poem is ‘a marvellous record of travel,’ and the book follows his journeys from first to last, recording, as the poet does, all the varied incidents of his wayfaring, his observations of man and beast and bird, the vicissitudes of climate and weather, and whatever else, however trifling, could enter into the itinerary.”—Critic.

* “In this book ‘he’ has many times miswritten, mismetred, and misinterpreted his author. Sometimes it appears that he is merely careless or genuinely ignorant; at others that he is wilful. Indeed the inception of the book seems due to wilfulness.”

— + Acad. 68: 1075. O. 14, ‘05. 1030w.

* “How much this record must illustrate the poem one would hardly imagine before reading the book.”

+ Critic. 47: 580. D. ‘05. 70w.

* “Tourists intending to visit the places he describes cannot do better than secure his book. As an authority on Dante—that is another matter.” Walter Littlefield.

+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 848. D. 2, ‘05. 940w.

* “It has a delicate biographical flavor, is not without critical value, and may be commended alike to students of the master and to those who have yet to penetrate the depths with him, and with him ascend the heights.”

+ + — Outlook. 81: 716. N. 25, ‘05. 210w.

* “If the author’s first idea is not new, he has carried it out entirely on his own lines, and in an attractive manner.”

+ + — Spec. 95: sup. 789. N. 18, ‘05. 1410w.

153* Harland, Marion, pseud. (Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune), and Van de Water, Virginia. Everyday etiquette. **$1. Bobbs.

A practical manual of social usages which sets forth the “Gospel of Conventionality” for the especial benefit of those who thru changed fortune find themselves in a new social environment. There are chapters upon such subjects as; invitations, calls, letter-writing, weddings, the debutante, the chaperon, gifts, mourning, the table, etiquette at home and in public, the church, and mistress and maid. The book does not cover a brilliant social season, but it is a helpful volume for the home and concerns itself with daily conduct and modest entertainment.

Harnack, (Carl Gustav) Adolf. Expansion of Christianity in the first three centuries; tr. and ed. by James Moffatt. 2v. *$3. Putnam.

“Dr. Moffatt ... is a competent translator of Prof. Harnack’s notable work. Since its publication in Germany in 1902 the book has commanded attention; and as it is the first exhaustive history of the Christian mission, it is well that it should be in the hands of those English readers whose ignorance of German does not interfere with their interest in the beginnings of Christianity and the advance of the early church.... One of the most valuable parts of Prof. Harnack’s book is that which deals with the extension of Christianity down to 325 A. D.”—Ath.

* “It is the best account that we have yet had of the way in which Christianity spread over the civilized world. Where the book is disappointing is in its attempted explanation of the remarkable way in which Christianity spread, and in its inadequate treatment of external influences.”

+ + — Acad. 68: 1258. D. 2, ‘05. 670w. (Review of v. 2.)

“It hardly requires to be said of any work by Prof. Harnack that it is marked by richness of historical detail; and it may be confidently asserted that this one will maintain his high reputation as an ecclesiastical historian.”

+ + Ath. 1905. 2: 463. O. 1730w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

* “It is an indispensable work of reference as to Christian activities in that period.”

+ + Ind. 59: 1159. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.