The Cumulative Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of reviews appearing in January—December 1905, magazines (continued 12)
Reading edition
“It has many of the characteristic defects of the author, but it has also, in a very marked degree, his particular merits; it is vigorous, original, full of life, and, above all, draws its material straight from the original sources.”
+ + — Lond. Times. 4: 298. S. 22, ‘05. 1330w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Much of this is now ‘common form,’ after the researches of Schürer, not to speak of the now antiquated work of Dollinger, but Harnack puts his points with less pedantry than the former, and with better equipped scholarship than the latter. Yet much will be new even to the expert student.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 580w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The subject of course is interesting; the treatment is not, except to those who dig deeply into theology.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 676. O. 14, ‘05. 220w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + Outlook. 81: 333. O. 7, ‘05. 370w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + Spec. 95: 656. O. 28, ‘05. 1590w.
Harold, Childe, pseud. See Field, Edward Salisbury.
Harper, Vincent. Mortgage on the brain. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“The strange woman who is the central personage of this queer story has three distinct personalities.... [She] is Lady Torbeth, the cultivated, self-centered, high-minded wife of a British peer.... She is also a Miss Errington, neurotic and erotic, and a Miss Leighton, sentimental and innocent.... The problem is to expel the two superfluous personalities from the brain of Lady Torbeth. This is accomplished by ... the employment of radio-activity, electricity, hypnotism, and mumbo-jumbo jargon.”—N. Y. Times.
“The story is almost plausible. It is deeply interesting, even thrilling.” Albert Warren Ferris.
+ Bookm. 22: 67. S. ‘05. 1200w.
— Critic. 47: 285. S. ‘05. 80w.
+ Ind. 59: 576. S. 7, ‘05. 200w.
“As a story Mr. Harper’s novel is ill-constructed and unsatisfactory.”
— N. Y. Times. 10: 248. Ap. 15, ‘05. 600w.
+ Outlook. 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 60w.
“Mr. Harper weaves a strange and fascinating web of incidents, somewhat bewildering in its shifting, glimmering improbability, but none the less suggestive and taking.”
+ R. of Rs. 31: 763. Je. ‘05. 80w.
Harper, William Rainey. Critical and exegetical commentary on Amos and Hosea. **$3. Scribner.
“Dr. Harper is in thorough sympathy with the modern analytical method of the study of the Bible. He correctly says that the reconstruction of the text is the first duty of a commentator in the study of such writers as Amos and Hosea.... He also recognizes the profound moral and spiritual significance of the Old Testament history.”—Outlook.
“It is painstaking, accurate and thorough in scholarship, fair and sound in judgment, full and impartial in the statement of contrary opinion, and mindful of its text. In general, President Harper represents the view of the modern critical scholarship. His views on many particular passages will be questioned.”
+ + — Ind. 58: 1131. My. 18, ‘05. 580w.
* “President Harper’s ‘Amos and Hosea’ fully sustains the reputation of American Old Testament scholarship, and are the best and fullest exposition of those most important prophets.”
+ + Ind. 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“But taken as a whole his book combines thorough technical scholarship with large measure of ethical and spiritual insight, and we think his ‘Commentary on Amos and Hosea’ will take its place among the best in this very excellent series.”
+ + Outlook. 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 340w.
* “Professor W. R. Harper’s commentary on these two prophets is the fullest that has appeared in English. Our chief complaint is that it is too full; the original scripture lies almost buried under the mass of authorities and opinions.”
+ + — Sat. R. 100: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 1300w.
Harper, William Rainey. Priestly element in the Old Testament: an aid to historical study for use in advanced Bible classes. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
A revised and enlarged edition of Dr. Harper’s work in which there are new chapters upon the Literature of worship, legal, historical, hymnal, and on the Permanent value of the priestly element.
“It is a valuable aid to the historical study of the worship, ritual and laws of the Old Testament and is especially full in its references to authorities.”
+ + Ind. 58: 1131. My. 18, ‘05. 50w.
“As a standard type of excellence among manuals for Biblical study this volume, available for various methods of teaching, is unsurpassed.”
+ + + Outlook. 79: 900. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w.
154Harper, William Rainey. Prophetic element in the Old Testament, $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
These studies are intended primarily for students in colleges or theological seminaries, but the author has endeavored to make them suitable also for advanced classes in Sunday schools. Part 1, covers The general scope of the prophetic element in the Old Testament; Part 2, The history of prophecy through Hosea. The studies are concise and scientific in treatment. Appendices include A table of important dates, A chronological table of the religious life of Israel, The prophetic vocabulary, and An analysis of the Hexateuch.
“It is a complete guide to this period of prophetic work. Its method is inductive and constructive.”
+ + Bib. World. 26: 398. N. ‘05. 70w.
“This is the needed complement to Dr. Harper’s work on ‘The priestly element.’”
+ + Outlook. 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 140w.
Harper, William Rainey. Religion and the higher life: talks to students. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
Religion as presented by President Harper in these talks to students is an attractive but very serious thing, to be gotten and kept only by the bravest struggle. He summons his hearers to meet the peculiar and tremendous responsibilities which rest upon them as college men, and tells them with an almost fatherly sympathy and undertone of pleading how religion will help them in a most practical way to meet the sufferings and temptations which await them. Noteworthy are the chapter on Our intellectual difficulties, in which he shows that doubts are not inconsistent with the Christian life, but are in fact inevitable, and the chapter entitled Bible study and religious life, in which he argues that the supreme spiritual value of the Bible is independent of the literary and historical criticism to which it is properly subjected.
“The sympathy with young life is unmistakable. The altruistic spirit breathes through every address. The treatment of religious difficulties is robust and sensible.”
+ + Am. J. of Theol. 9: 603. Jl. ‘05. 440w.
Atlan. 95: 706. My. ‘05. 200w.
“His moral counsels, admonitions, and warnings are simple and straightforward, his tone is natural, his language without pretence.”
+ + — Cath. World. 81: 125. Ap. ‘05. 350w.
R. of Rs. 31: 253. F. ‘05. 100w. (States doctrine of essays.)
Harper, William Rainey. Trend in higher education. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
Dr. Harper presents a series of observations which have been made along the way towards the yet unreached goal of a formulated philosophy of the trend in higher education. He shows that the conspicuous elements which characterize the movement—among them college self-government, freedom from ecclesiastical control, and right of free utterance—all point towards the “growing democratization of higher educational work.” Some of the chapters are, “The university and democracy,” “Some present tendencies of popular education,” “The university and religious education,” “Waste in higher education,” “Dependence of the West upon the East,” “The business side of the university,” “Are school teachers underpaid?” “Why are there fewer students for the ministry?” “University training for a business career,” “Coeducation,” etc.
“The articles, with the exception of some brief occasional addresses, are vital and frank almost to the point of bluntness. The treatment is fair, and no attempt is made to criticize a particular institution by insinuation. Dr. Harper takes a vigorous and business-like attitude, modern but not radical.” Henry Davidson Sheldon.
+ + Dial. 38: 271. Ap. 16, ‘05. 2210w.
+ + Ind. 59: 273. Ag. 3, ‘05. 60w.
“He makes no attempt to deal with the subject in a systematic way; the papers are somewhat desultory and disconnected.”
+ + — Lond. Times. 4: 259. Ag. 11, ‘05. 880w.
“On the whole the book is that of a man of learning of no very pronounced views, who may be called an educational opportunist.”
+ Nation. 81: 259. S. 28, ‘05. 360w.
“The value of the book and the chief interest of it consists in the total effect of the assembled material.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 164. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1130w.
“What gives most vital value to the volume is its discussion of what the university and the church have to do with the problems of democracy and religion, as well as with those of education. Such criticisms from such a source cannot be waived aside; they may be thought too sweeping; exceptions exist; but Dr. Harper’s ‘record of observations here and there’ is a needed reveille.”
+ + Outlook. 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 220w.
Harriman, Karl Edwin. Girl and the deal. †$1.25. Jacobs.
On his journey across the continent from Boston to San Francisco, a young Harvard man wins the girl he loves and learns thru her to understand the spirit of the West. With the girl he wins her “Uncle Jack” the capitalist whose support for one of his father’s business ventures he has come so far to seek. There is a detailed account of the trip over the Santa Fé and a description of the Grand canyon.
“The note of personality in the author’s pictures of things Western is the best feature of the story, which for the rest, lacks something of high-bred delicacy in its portrayal of young love and is of the slightest texture.”
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 478. Jl. 22, ‘05. 190w.
Harris, Charles. Pro fide: a defence of natural and revealed religion. *$3. Dutton.
“The author, an accomplished theologian of the Anglican church, has written for intelligent laymen, as well as for the clergy and students preparing for the ministry. He is well versed in the literature of his subject, whether hostile or friendly to his purpose of vindicating the rationality of Christian theology. His standpoint is indicated by his belief that the sayings of Jesus to his disciples ‘undoubtedly confer a supernatural authority of some kind’ upon the Church.”—Outlook.
“While his work in a number of points fails of meeting the full demand of a strictly scientific apologetic, its spirit is admirable. Its full repertory of the evidences and arguments advanced by parties in the great debate presents materials for independent judgment as well as for views for which he contends.”
+ — Outlook. 80: 694. Jl. 15, ‘05. 220w.
“Mr. Harris’ text-book on Christian apologetics like Mr. Pullan’s on early Church history, will be extremely useful to those who are already on his side and are in need of a short, clear, able statement of their case; but we doubt whether it would convince an opponent.”
+ — Sat R. 100: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 240w.
Harris, J. Henry. Fishers. $1.50. Lane.
A poor fishing-village in Cornwall forms the setting of this novel, and the narrow views of the simple, superstitious fisher-folk are strongly contrasted with the broad-minded outlook of Uncle Zack, who is a progressive power, and a wholly charming character. The romance of the story is furnished by Robert Pendean the son of a successful Wall street speculator. Robert, while at Harvard develops a taste for Utopian social ideals and his father gives him five million dollars and sends him to Europe in the hope that he will acquire a taste for “high finance.” He drifts into Cornwall, falls in love 155with Mary Vaughan, and these two, to the joy of Uncle Zack, develop a co-operative enterprise among the fishermen and build a model fishing village near the dilapidated old town.
“A thoughtful and well-written novel, a romance in which the common life of a poor fishing village is invested with rare charm, while with a few exceptions the ethical ideals evinced are wholesome. It is to us a matter of much surprise to find a writer who while not evincing the bravery of thought or grasp of fundamental principles that mark the writings of advanced economists and practical idealists among modern social philosophers, is nevertheless far in advance of many conventional religious, ethical and social teachers, striving to justify the gaining of wealth through speculation in Wall street.”
+ — Arena. 33: 108. Ja. ‘05. 920w. (Story of plot.)
Harris, Joel Chandler (Uncle Remus, pseud.). Told by Uncle Remus, †$2. McClure.
The inimitable Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox are just as entertaining as ever in this new series of escapades in spite of the fact that Uncle Remus says “I done got so ol’ dat my min’ flutters like a bird in de bush.” The book is characteristically illustrated by A. B. Frost, Frank Verbeck and J. M. Condé.
* Critic. 47: 576. D. ‘05. 25w.
* “Permeated by the same sly humor that has given Uncle Remus his unique position among lovers of good stories.”
+ + Dial. 39: 444. D. 16, ‘05. 190w.
* + Ind. 59: 1385. D. 14, ‘05. 70w.
* “Shows the familiar vein unexhausted.”
+ Nation. 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 130w.
* “Joel Chandler Harris’s new Remus stories are as full of the humor and charm of negro lore as ever.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 864. D. 2, ‘05. 610w.
* “It is the same old Uncle Remus, and the same old marvelous tales of animal lore, full of gentle humor and kindly negro wisdom.”
+ R. of Rs. 32: 753. D. ‘05. 60w.
Harrison, Edith Ogden (Mrs. Carter Henry). Moon princess. **$1.25. McClurg.
The youngest and most beautiful of the princesses of the moon asks as a boon of her moon-queen mother that she and her brother, the sun prince Dorian, may spend their honeymoon upon the earth. They and their retinue pass down a silver ladder made for them by the moon sprites, and visit all parts of the earth and the caves of the ocean. They are told about the little dwellers of the marsh, and the rainbow sisters, and hear stories of the jewelled beach, the lost ocean, the princess Sunset and many others. The book is full of fanciful conceits and is charmingly illustrated in color by Lucy Fitch Perkins.
* “A nice new fairy story.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 190w.
* “A simply told and prettily fanciful tale.”
+ Outlook. 81: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 20w.
Harrison, Frederic. Chatham, **$1.25. Macmillan.
“Fundamentally out of sympathy with the work which is Chatham’s chief glory—the creation of the British empire” (Spec.), Mr. Harrison follows Pitt’s career “through the long years in opposition, through the days of savage attacks upon Walpole, upon ‘the brilliant Carteret, the vacillating Pulteney, the tricky Newcastle,’ the king’s ‘Hanoverian policy,’ the rivalries in the Commons with Henry Fox and Murray, who was later Lord Mansfield; the tenure of the Pay office and the marvel of Pitt’s perfect honesty, the support of the Pelham ministry (and certain inconsistencies thereto appertaining), till at last, in 1756, ‘the terrible cornet of horse,’ the bugbear of governments, became ‘First minister,’ though under the nominal leadership of the Duke of Devonshire.” (N. Y. Times.)
“A life of William Pitt, the elder, without sympathy and without conviction.”
— — Acad. 68: 267. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1830w.
“Mr. Harrison brings much freshness of treatment to bear upon Chatham’s career, particularly during its earlier periods. A singularly dignified portrait of a figure of lonely majesty.”
+ + + Ath. 1905, 1: 394. Ap. 1. 1480w.
“With all its brevity, Mr. Harrison’s study of the elder Pitt is as would be expected, of the most finished character.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + Atlan. 96: 277. Ag. ‘05. 310w.
“Mr. Harrison is no indiscriminate eulogist.”
+ Bookm. 21: 527. Jl. ‘05. 200w.
“A compact but comprehensive biography of the great statesman.”
+ + + Critic. 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 80w.
“Mr. Frederic Harrison’s monograph, however, is for the present the best study there is of Chatham.”
+ + + Ind. 59: 96. Jl. 13, ‘05. 600w.
“No one who has dealt of late with the career of the Great Commoner has shown a deeper admiration of his nobler and more positive qualities.”
+ + Nation. 81: 266. S. 28, ‘05. 1400w.
“Mr. Harrison begins dryly enough, but in the end he has managed to convey to his reader something—a vital something—of his own feeling for the bigness, the nobility, the splendor of the man and his ideas.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 196. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1420w.
“Mr. Harrison has painted Pitt in language which, without bringing the great commoner from the pedestal whereon posterity has placed him, enables us to measure him in due proportion both as man and as statesman.” H. Addington Bruce.
+ + + Outlook. 80: 384. Je 10, ‘05. 2620w.
“Mr. Harrison has pierced the veil of mystery that shrouded the great Chatham and shown him as he must have been.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“Mr. Harrison had a magnificent opportunity, but English readers when they wish a short satisfactory account of Chatham in their own tongue must still rely on Macaulay’s two superb essays supplemented by Mr. Walford Green’s recent admirable and sober biography.”
+ — Sat. R. 99: 632. My. 13, ‘05. 810w.
“Mr. Harrison has produced an interesting and spirited book, but it is disfigured by this fatal lack of sympathy and in consequence by a tone of petty and irrelevant criticism.”
+ — Spec. 94: 512. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1330w.
Hart, Albert Bushnell, ed. American nation: a history from original sources by associated scholars. v. 1-5. *$9; v. 6-10. *$9. Harper.
This series, of which the present volumes form the first section, is to contain twenty-six volumes with one volume of index and one of maps. Section one is in five volumes. Vol. I., The European background of American history, by E. P. Cheney: vol. II., Basis of American history, by Livingston Farrand; vol. III., Spain in America, by E. G. Bourne; vol. IV., England in America, by Lyon G. Tyler; vol. V., Colonial self-government, by Charles M. Andrews; vol. VI., Provincial America, by Evarts B. Green: vol. VII., France in America, by Reuben G. Thwaites. With frontispieces and maps.
“Not without shortcomings ... (the faults of omission), this work is charmingly simple, direct, and comprehensive. The work must therefore prove a boon to schools and to the general public, which have too long been at the mercy of the hobby-rider and the sensation-monger. It is conservative and refreshingly healthy in tone throughout.” W. H. Holmes.
+ + + Am. Hist. R. 10: 638. Ap. ‘05. 1060w. (Review of vol. II.)
“In many respects no better introduction to American history could be desired. It seems, 156moreover accurate in a degree very unusual in general statements covering so wide a field. It is on the side of omissions that the book can be most seriously criticized.” Victor Coffin.
+ + — Am. Hist. R. 10: 858. Jl. ‘05. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Tyler is particularly happy in tracing beginnings. The great fault of the book is Dr. Tyler’s bias against the Puritan and for the cavalier. On the whole Dr. Tyler’s treatment leaves an impression of slightness. Dr. Andrews keeps to the historical point of view ... and his vision is sane and comprehensive. Dr. Andrews has accomplished a great task worthily. It means something not merely to scholarship but even to the comity of nations that at last we have a popular history of our colonial era, untainted by provincialism. Dr. Andrews is always clear and most always forceful; but I venture to call attention to a few errors and weaknesses.” Willis Mason West.
+ + — Am. Hist. R. 10: 869. Jl. ‘05. 3440w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
* “Judging by the first series, the history will be, when complete, a monumental work fitted to stand comparison with similar productions of the English and German students.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + + Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 753. N. ‘05. 600w. (Review of v. 1-5.)
“A series of well-written monographs of undoubted value. Professor Cheney [in vol I] presents such a basis for the study of beginnings of American history that the general reader is under large debt for the information thus put in readable and compact form. Within the scope of his treatment [vol II], however, he has given us a satisfactory piece of work. [Vol. III.] Like the rest of the works, rather written down to what the author considers the standard of public intelligence. Nevertheless it views its subject with a breadth and force that make the treatment commendable. [Vol. V.] Accurate and interesting. The style of the monographs is in general rather dry, and yet it is readable and interesting to those who use the volumes for study.”
+ + + Baltimore Sun. :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 1120w.
“The author of this volume [vol. I] has had a difficult task, and has done it admirably. The story is told delightfully and with care; but the necessity for compression causes occasionally a lack of clearness. The author [of vol. II] himself informs us that his task has been one of condensation, and the results are especially evident in the first third of the volume, which is somewhat below the general average of interest. The chief service of this portion of the book will be its suggestiveness and the references in Professor Farrand’s excellent bibliography. The many striking summaries of events and characterizations of individuals which one finds throughout the book [in vol III]. [In vol. IV] President Tyler has given us a scrupulously fair and a very interesting work. The author gives us no detailed study of institutional growth, but a general narrative. Here one inevitably compares President Tyler’s work with that of the late Mr. Fiske, with results not at all to the disadvantage of President Tyler. [Vol. V]. This is very certainly the best general account of this period that has yet appeared. One feels that the author not only has intimate acquaintance with the old sources, but also has been fortunate enough to reach considerable new material. Professor Andrews is especially to be congratulated upon the catholic view of colonial history that he presents to us. As successful as his descriptions of institutions is the author’s delineation of personality. We must not omit commendation of the bibliographical matter appended to each volume. Volumes like that of Professor Bourne will take their place as standard works. For the general reader, ... the work will prove a mine of information interestingly told, well arranged, and attractively published.” St. George L. Sioussat.
+ + — Dial. 38: 190. Mr. 16, ‘05. 3050w.
* “The editor of the coöperative history of which these volumes form a part deserves congratulation upon the success with which the process of ‘linking,’ which here is so very necessary, has been carried out.” St. George Sioussat.
+ + — Dial. 39: 236. O. 16, ‘05. 2100w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
* “However, from the standpoint of critical scholarship, the authors leave American history very much as they found it. The cooperative plan has precluded a consistent and systematic treatment of the development of British colonial policy and American commercial interests, and the economic analysis is not keen or original.”
+ + — Ind. 59: 872. O. 12, ‘05. 770w. (Review of v. 6-10.)
* “Tho the series cannot escape some of the limitations of the monographic method, yet it has already taken the place which it will hold for many years of the most important reference history of our country.”
+ + — Ind. 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 150w. (Review of v. 1-10.)
“Never fail to be direct and lucid. The value of the series as a whole can hardly be overestimated.”
+ + + Lond. Times. 4: 304. S. 22, ‘05. 3340w. (Review of v. 1-5.)
“Taking the five volumes as a whole, the general verdict must be one of cordial approval. All the writers have succeeded in attaining brevity and compactness without falling into an elementary style, while the volumes of Professor Bourne and Professor Andrews must be given high rank as substantive contributions in their respective fields. The literary form, though in no case striking, is meritorious and of fairly even quality.”
+ + — Nation. 80: 96. F. 2, ‘05. 2440w. (Review of v. 1-5.)
* “As a condensed account of a peculiarly difficult period, written in the light of modern historical scholarship, the volume is a commendable piece of work, and a worthy addition to the series in which it appears.”
+ + + Nation. 81: 306. O. 12, ‘05. 1200w. (Review of v. 6.)
“He has made a careful and discriminating use of his material, and apart from a useful text has given us a valuable critical essay on the authorities.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 480. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1110w. (Review of v. 6.)
“Prof. Thwaites, while hardly possessed of a fascinating style, is always readable. His work is brief, clear, and always to the point.” R. L. S.
+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 573. S. 2, ‘05. 860w. (Review of v. 7.)
“Prof. Howard’s work compares favorably with the best volumes of the ‘American nation’ series that have yet appeared.” R. L. S.
+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 621. S. 23, ‘05. 980w. (Review of v. 8.)
* “Prof. Van Tyne has succeeded in turning out a fresh, original, and, considering the limitations of space imposed, an adequate history of the Revolution.” R. L. S.
+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 680. O. 14, ‘05. 760w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
+ + + Outlook. 80: 837. Jl. 29, ‘05. 230w. (Review of v. 7.)
“A survey at once broad and specific, and of high value to the student desirous of obtaining the latest word of modern research. It is as a helpful work of reference rather than as a ‘popular’ history, in the usual acceptation of the term, ... it will deservedly win a place on the library shelves.”
+ + + Outlook. 81: 38. S. 2, ‘05. 1790w. (Review of v. 1-6).
“Like Professor Van Tyne—and, for that matter, like almost all the writers who have as yet contributed to the series—[Mr. McLaughlin] shows a firm grasp of detail and perspective, and his exposition is such as to leave all that is salient impressed on the scholar’s mind.”
+ + + Outlook. 81: 331. O. 7, ‘05. 400w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.
+ + — Reader. 6: 588. O. ‘05. 560w. (Review of v. 1-5.)
157* “The scheme of the history is on the whole good, though we are bound to say that some of the writing is uninspired, and not in the same rank of literary production as much of the work by American writers in the volume of the ‘Cambridge modern history’ dealing with the United States.”
+ + — Spec. 95: 694. N. 4, ‘05. 700w. (Review of v. 1-5.)
Hart, Albert Bushnell. Essentials in American history (from the discovery to the present day). *$1.50. Am. bk.
This is one of a series of text books which includes a volume each on ancient, medieval, modern, and English history. “The volumes are intended for use in secondary schools, and contain lists of references and topical questions, but apart from this pedagogic machinery they have little in common with the ordinary schoolbook. The authors have addressed themselves avowedly only to those things which have been vital and significant to the development of the civilizations treated respectively in the several works.” (Outlook.)
“The somewhat original grouping of topics in the Colonial period is the book’s most distinguishing feature. Upon the whole this work of Professor Hart deserves commendation and should meet with a cordial welcome among a wide circle of teachers.” Frank Greene Bates.
+ + — Am. Hist. R. 11: 166. O. ‘05. 1240w.
“While the historic narrative is necessarily compact and free from all attempts at rhetorical writing or dramatic presentation, the books are essentially selective in that they purposely omit confusing details.”
+ + — Outlook. 80: 442. Je. 17. ‘05. 70w.
* Hart, Jerome. Levantine log book. **$2. Longmans.
All the reverence with which one likes to approach the Holy Land is shattered by the genially sarcastic observations which the author makes upon all his observant eyes saw in the Levant. His Levant includes Stamboul, Smyrna, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Cairo, Luxor, Thebes, Alexandria and other places naturally included in this itinerary, and his log book is a record of cheerful disillusionment, but the pictures he draws are amusing enough to compensate for the shock his revelations bring. The volume is illustrated with photographs, many of which were taken by the author.
* N. Y. Times. 10: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* “A gossipy, vivacious account of travel.”
+ Outlook. 81: 941. D. 16, ‘05. 30w.
* Harte, Francis Bret. Her letter, His answer, and Her last letter. $2. Houghton.
“For the present reprint, these old favorites have been literally, as the title-page has it, ‘pictured’ by Mr. Arthur I. Keller.... The illustrations, a few more in number than the stanzas, are in color or in tint, some from wash-drawings and others from pen-and-ink sketches. They catch both the humor and the sentiment of the verses, and the artist has not forgotten that the life of Poverty Flat is now a full generation behind us.”—Dial.
* + Critic. 47: 583. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “‘Her letter’ is certainly one of the artistic triumphs of the season’s output.”
+ + Dial. 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 190w.
* + Ind. 59: 1379. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
* + Nation. 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 90w.
* + + N. Y. Times. 10: 712. O. 21, ‘05. 220w.
* + + N. Y. Times. 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 90w.
Hartley, Charles Gasquoine. Pictures in the Tate gallery. *$3.50. Dutton.
A study, with twenty reproductions, of the famous gallery presented to the British nation by Sir Henry Tate. There is a general summary of modern English art; the treatment is by epochs represented in the gallery.
“The brief essays ... are well written and instructive ... and the illustrations are thoroughly representative.”
+ Int. Studio. 25: 273. My. ‘05. 160w.
R. of Rs. 31: 252. F. ‘05. 90w.
“A general summary of modern English art written in a popular manner, and as such may prove a useful book, for there is discrimination in the criticism.”
+ Spec. 94: 115. Ja. 28, ‘05. 40w.
* Harwood, Edith. Notable pictures in Florence. *$1.50. Dutton.
The author “aims to help the uninitiated in art matters.... Miss Harwood arranges her artists alphabetically, giving us some account of their lives and their most important works, and telling where these are to be found, with small illustrations, good only for assistance in remembering the compositions. She includes the principal artists represented in the Belle Arti, the Uffizi, and the Pitti, along with frescoes in the churches.”—Nation.
* “The book is good to read, full of interesting historical detail, and ample in quotations from writers ancient and modern in prose and verse.”
+ Nation. 81: 402. N. 16, ‘05. 270w.
* “The pleasure it has given the writer to set down her impressions may do something toward removing the suggestion that the book lacks a good reason for existence.” Chas. de Kay.
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 741. N. 4, ‘05. 220w.
* “A book distinctly better than the customary ‘center-table’ variety, the text is better than the pictures, but that is not saying that the text is either original or adequate enough.”
+ — Outlook. 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 50w.
Harwood, W. S. New creations in plant life: an authoritative account of the life and work of Luther Burbank. **$1.75. Macmillan.
“Following the brief account of Mr. Burbank’s career down to the present time. Mr. Harwood has a chapter on his methods of work in general. He then passes on to a discussion of the individual creations of the breeder, describing the trees created by him, the amaryllis and the poppy, the potato and pomato, lilies, plums, and prunes, the ‘Shasta’ daisy, cacti, breeding plants for perfumes, etc. There are also chapters on breeding and grafting and the commercial aspect of the work; a description of a day with Mr. Burbank, and his personality. The volume is profusely illustrated from photographs.”—N. Y. Times.
* “Given reasonably clear English and logical presentation, the actual information in this book could be condensed into a magazine article.” C. R. B.
+ — Bot. G. 40: 459. D. ‘05. 600w.
* + Critic. 47: 581. D. ‘05. 80w.
“Here and there the style is a little difficult to follow. We can recommend this volume as a readable and truthful description of a remarkable career.”
+ + — Nation. 81: 388. N. 9, ‘05. 510w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 709. O. 21, ‘05. 290w.
* “Contains the most complete and comprehensive account of Mr. Burbank’s great achievements, his methods of work, and his personality. His book is eminently readable.”
+ + Outlook. 81: 1039. D. 23, ‘05. 250w.
* + R. of Rs. 32: 754. D. ‘05. 130w.
Hatch, Ernest Frederick George. Far Eastern impressions. *$1.40. McClurg.
Impressions of Japan, Korea and China, being the author’s recollections of a tour of those countries made some three years ago. His memory is fortified by facts and opinions collected at the time in his note books and the whole is cast in narrative form. While the industrial and political aspects receive first attention, 158the historical and social phases are fully and fairly presented and the book will undoubtedly fulfill its object of further stimulating public interest in the great Far Eastern problem. There are three maps and eighty-eight illustrations from photographs.
* “Mr. Hatch’s impressions are not mere chance gatherings and ill-digested glimpses; they are acute and weighty observations upon the things that appeal to a business man interested in politics. The volume is well indexed, well illustrated, and written in a clear and forcible style.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + Dial. 39: 378. D. 1, ‘05. 390w.
* “A capital book for the investor and fortune seeker.”
+ Ind. 59: 1479. D. 21, ‘05. 90w.
* “The illustrations seem about as valuable as the text, for little of purely original matter of any great importance enters into the book, which is rather too rich in quotations.”
+ — Nation. 81: 445. N. 30, ‘05. 290w.
* “The book is an interesting one to read in connection with Lord Curzon’s and Mr. Norman’s much larger and exhaustive volumes on the same subjects.”
+ Outlook. 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 80w.
Hatch, F. H., and Corstorphine, George Stewart. Geology of South Africa. *$7. Macmillan.
“The book is divided into five parts. Part I deals with the pre-Karroo rocks.... The Karroo rocks are adequately dealt with in part II.... The coastal system, including the Uitenhage and Umtavuna Cretaceous rocks, profusely illustrated with typical fossils, occupies part III.... Part IV briefly discusses the igneous rocks of doubtful position.... Part V discusses the correlation of the South African strata.”—Nature.
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 278. Ag. 26. 1460w.
“The volume might be more truthfully entitled ‘A geognostic account of British South Africa.’ Thus regarded the work is good and should prove of much practical value.”
+ + Lond. Times. 4: 266. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1510w.
“The authors have certainly succeeded in their self-imposed task ‘to correlate and systematise the valuable results of both official and private work.’” W. G.
+ + Nature. 72: 346. Ag. 10, ‘05. 980w.
“Admirable summary provided by these two most competent geologists.”
+ + Sat. R. 100: 374. S. 16, ‘05. 1620w.
Spec. 95: 198. Ag. 5, ‘05. 180w.
Hatch, Louis Clinton. Administration of the American revolutionary army. **$1.50. Longmans.
A monograph, “Harvard historical series X,” which first treats of the evolution of the Continental army and discusses the relation between Congress and the commander-in-chief. There are also chapters on “Appointment and promotion” of officers, setting forth the states’ jealousies; “Foreign officers;” “Pay and half-pay,” the real contrasted with the apparent pay of the soldiers; “Supplying the army,” its mismanagement and the suffering at Valley Forge; “Newburg addresses;” and “Mutiny of 1786, and disbandment of the army.”
“A valuable chapter on the subject of the ‘Appointment and promotion’ of officers, showing the jealousy of the members of Congress for the rights of their states. The chapter on ‘Foreign officers’ is the least valuable in the volume, adding little to the account in Tower’s ‘Lafayette’ and that in Wharton’s ‘Diplomatic correspondence.’ The following chapter, on ‘Pay and half-pay,’ is, on the other hand, a real contribution. ‘Supplying the army,’ the mismanagement in the feeding and clothing of the army, and the consequent suffering at Valley Forge is, on the whole, the most accurate account we have, and is stated with moderation and without sentimentality. The ‘Newburg addresses’ in the following chapter are, however, treated in a fuller and more conclusive manner. The book is well organized and well written. It is a source study of high merit. There is a valuable bibliography and a good index.” C. H. Van Tyne.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 10: 401. Ja. ‘05. 730w.
* Hatzfeldt, Paul. Hatzfeldt letters: letters of Count Paul Hatzfeldt to his wife; written from the headquarters of the King of Prussia, 1870-71; tr. from the French by J. L. Bashford. *$4. Dutton.
“The Countess ... says in her introduction that the letters ‘throw so much light on the great events of 1870-1’ as well as on the character of the writer, that she thinks they will be ‘interesting to many people who only know hitherto of Count Hatzfeldt’s public services.’ ... Candor, however, compels one to deny the accuracy of the first statement.... Count Paul was not behind the scenes in those great events ... his letters ... were merely family letters.... As to throwing light on the diplomat’s character, they may do that; but merely that he loved his family, wanted to be with them.... The letters were written almost daily—sometimes more than one a day—from Aug. 2, 1870, to March 6, 1871, those from and after Oct. 7, being dated from Versailles.”—N. Y. Times.
* “While, however, a little more care in editing might have avoided some blemishes, we welcome the volume as throwing light on many historical characters and events. The index is unfortunately poor, though fairly accurate as far as it goes. There are a few errors in the text.”
+ + — Ath. 1905, 2: 499. O. 14. 1490w.
* “In fact, so far as the public is concerned, the translation is far better than the letters themselves.”
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 764. N. 11, ‘05. 660w.
* + Sat. R. 100: 754. D. 9, ‘05. 1090w.
Havell, E. B. Handbook to Agra and the Taj, Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri, and the neighborhood. *$1.50. Longmans.
The object of this volume is “to assist those who visit, or have visited, Agra to an intelligent understanding of one of the greatest epochs of Indian art.” The author, who is the principal of the government school of art at Calcutta, gives a brief historical introduction followed by a detailed treatment of the buildings and tombs at and about Agra. There are 14 illustrations in half-tone from photographs, four plans, an index and footnotes.
+ + — Nation. 80: 269. Ap. 6. ‘05. 110w.
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 479. Jl. 22, ‘05. 320w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 9. Ja. 7, ‘05. 240w.
“The book appears to be at least as good as most books of its kind and better than many.”
Hawkins, Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope, pseud.). Servant of the public. †$1.50. Stokes.
A story not of the stage, but of an actress: a character study of Ora Pinsent, a creature of whim and folly, and ever behind the failure she makes of living and the cloud her attractive, clinging, and uncertain personality casts over those who cross her path, is the glory of her triumph behind the footlights. There is slight reference to her public career, but its success seems measured by the detailed failure of her private life.
“We cannot regard ‘A servant of the public’ as other than a failure. It is sufficiently interesting to wile away an hour or two, but not so interesting as to fulfil the promise to which the early career of its author gave rise.”
— + Acad. 68: 1025. O. 7, ‘05. 820w.
“Marks an improvement in some ways on ‘Double harness.’ The canvas is less crowded, and the attempt to unravel cross-purposes 159and conflicting motives is less strenuous yet more successful.”
+ Ath. 1905, 2: 396. S. 23. 590w.
“One of the few heroines of this season’s fiction that will not easily be forgotten.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + + Bookm. 22: 234. N. ‘05. 350w.
* “The ostensibly piquant history of Miss Ora Pinsent is, after all, dull reading.”
+ — Critic. 47: 578. D. ‘05. 140w.
* “The story is written in a vein of grave comedy, pleasing but not stirring in effect. Its half-dozen chief characters are delicately defined, while its diction is an acceptable compound of natural dialogue, engaging description, and agreeable social philosophy.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 39: 310. N. 16, ‘05. 220w.
* + Ind. 59: 1151. N. 16, ‘05. 180w.
* “Altho the plot is a little tenuous, yet Mr. Hope treats it with much solidity.”
+ — Lit. D. 31: 886. D. 9, ‘05. 570w.
+ + Lond. Times. 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 910w.
“There is a sound as well as subtle philosophy to be read between the lines of this unusual book.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 602. S. 16, ‘05. 880w.
“As a clever study of a character often met with in real life, but not so often attempted in fiction, this story offers unusual attractions.”
+ + Outlook. 81: 430. O. 21, ‘05. 220w.
* “As an analysis of a temperament and an artistic presentment of individual problems the novel is wrought out with skill and ability.”
+ Outlook. 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 140w.
“Mr. Hope’s fine comedy manner has no better example than ‘A servant of the public.’ Lacking the dramatic vitality of ‘Double harness,’ this story is almost as interesting, for it deals, keenly, good-humoredly, with that fascinating subject, the dramatic instincts of a woman.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 320w.
* R. of Rs. 32: 759. D. ‘05. 50w.
“The finish of the story illustrated an art of which Anthony Hope is attaining real control. He gives by a very delicate succession of blunting touches, an admirable imitation of the dulling effect of time.”
+ + Sat. R. 100: 376. S. 16, ‘05. 630w.
“Subject to the limitations of his theme, in the choice of which we are ready to admit that opportunity as well as temperament may have been a governing factor, we have little but praise for the skill, the tact, and the subtlety with which Mr. Anthony Hope has handled it.”
+ + Spec. 95: 395. S. 16, ‘05. 1160w.
Hawks, Wells. Red wagon stories; or, Tales told under the tent. 50c; pa. 25c. Ottenheimer.
In “these realistic sketches, reminiscent of traveling circus days, ... the men who make the great show go, the bill poster, the press agent, the boss canvasman, the bandmaster, and the ticket seller, give us, in their rough and ready manner, a cheery view of their good-humored personalities in the breezy stories they relate when seated around the ring bark between performances.... In all there are eleven stories.”—N. Y. Times.
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 277. Ap. 29, ‘05. 140w.
Hawthorne, Hildegarde. Poems. $1. Badger, R. G.
A little volume of delicate poems by the granddaughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
+ + Critic. 46: 566. Je. ‘05. 160w.
Reviewed by William Morton Payne.
+ Dial. 38: 201. Mr. 16, ‘05. 140w.
“A graceful lyric gift, a vein of pretty fancy, and a habitual mood of ideality are very little inconvenienced by disturbing mental processes.”
+ — Nation. 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 150w.
“In Miss Hawthorne’s work a certain respect for the purity of the poetic impulse is invariably felt. She neither trifles nor bungles with her art, but approaches it sincerely and with intelligence. Her verse, therefore, even when it is of the slightest, has a delicate, veracious property that charms.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 133. Mr. 4, ‘05. 250w.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Marble faun. $1.25. Crowell.
A volume of the “Thin paper classics,” with an introduction by Katharine Lee Bates, and a frontispiece showing the Grand Salon, in the Capitoline Museum.
Hay, Helen. See Whitney, Mrs. Helen Hay.
Hayden, Arthur. Chats on old furniture: a practical guide for collectors. **$2. Stokes.
The author “begins with a bibliography, and follows this with a glossary.... He then proceeds to deal separately with various periods of style. The first chapter is given to the French renaissance, the second to the English, the Jacobean and Queen Anne styles, and the styles of the successive Louises, with that of the empire. Finally we have an account of the famous English makers. Each chapter has an appendix of recent sale-prices.”—Spec.
“Is an admirable compendium of all that has been written on the subject.”
+ + Acad. 68: 272. Mr. 18, ‘05. 900w.
Ath. 1905, 1: 377. Mr. 25. 490w.
+ + — Sat. R. 99: 846. Je. 24, ‘05. 200w.
“A useful and instructive volume.”
+ + Spec. 94: 333. Mr. 4, ‘05. 110w.
Hayes, Helen. Her memory book. $2. Harper.
An elaborately decorated volume of blank pages in which a young girl may keep a record of her social life, her “coming-out” party, dinners, teas, balls, card parties, and out of door sports, there is even space for samples of her favorite gowns and newspaper notices; the final page is headed by a wee winged figure with veil, and orange wreath.
+ + Dial. 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 180w.
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 701. O. 14, ‘05. 280w.
+ + Outlook. 81: 279. S. 30, ‘05. 30w.
Hazlitt, William Carew, ed. Faiths and folklore. *$6. Scribner.
“This is really a new edition of Brand and Ellis’s ‘Popular antiquities of Great Britain,’ but it is now for the first time alphabetically arranged—an immense improvement—and has also been enlarged and improved. The title, as given above, sufficiently indicates the classes of topics treated.”—Outlook.
“The author has collected a good deal of folklore, which it is useful to possess in alphabetical order, but many of the entries would have been improved by revision.”
+ + — Ath. 1905, 2: 39. Jl. 8. 1710w.
“Mr. Hazlitt has added some material to the old book, but neither in quantity nor in quality is it worth while. Most of it is newspaper clippings culled at random, and both in arrangement and in subject shows no sense of proportion or definite plan.”
— Dial. 39: 119. S. 1, ‘05. 320w.
“The work is a rarely quaint storehouse of legend, allusion, antiquarian information, and bygone usages.”
+ Outlook. 79: 95. Ja. 7. ‘05. 60w.
+ + Spec. 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 420w.
160Healy, Patrick Joseph. Valerian persecution: a study of the relations between church and state in the third century, A. D. **$1.50. Houghton.
An historical monograph, which is not a sectarian work, but which sets forth in the light of recent investigation, the true history of this period in which the early Christians suffered much at the hands of the Roman state.
* “The character of Dr. Healy’s work may be briefly indicated by saying that, while it satisfies the exacting standards to which the modern writer of history must conform, it will not fail to fascinate the intelligent reader who takes up a book of history, not for severe study, but partly for instruction, partly for entertainment. Clear alike by its methodic arrangement and its simple style, lively and vivid without falling into the rhetorical, the narrative flows smoothly on, and, though abounding in detail, never becomes tedious or monotonous.”
+ + Cath. World. 82: 403. D. ‘05. 1070w.
* “Painstaking as he has been in piecing together his material, he does not always seem to have understood the sphere to which the statements he copied down applied. This will not prevent his book’s being useful to a large circle of readers to whom the sources from which he draws are not accessible.”
+ + — Lond. Times. 4: 374. N. 3, ‘05. 540w.
“Dr. Healy’s work is not everywhere selfconsistent.”
+ — Nation. 81: 346. O. 26, ‘05. 1100w.
“A carefully written monograph.”
+ Outlook. 81: 385. O. 14, ‘05. 140w.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Exotics and retrospectives. Shadowings. A. Japanese miscellany. In ghostly Japan, ea. $1.25. Little.
The general title, “Stories and sketches of Japan,” includes in popular form four volumes of the short papers written during the last few years of the author’s life. The volume entitled “A Japanese miscellany,” “would have fitted,” says the N. Y. Times, “the whole series excellently well for it is altogether Japanese.... Bits of antiquarian and ethnological investigation; little papers of research in all kinds of interesting matters relating to the people whom the author loved so well; Japanese stories retold from curious old Japanese books, with Mr. Hearn’s own version of traits and occurrences that have come under his observation; a few of the exquisitely artistic and suggestive tales, impressions, descriptions, which no one but a Hearn could write—these fill the four volumes with such a wealth of entertaining as well as valuable material that, in reading them, one constantly marvels how any one man found time or patience to gather and assimilate it all into one such orderly shape.”
“He does not so much attempt to define, as to convey by means of his charmingly expressed and equally charmingly conceived ideas, some notion of the other half of the world, and the ideals as well as the daily life of the East.”
+ + Int. Studio. 25: sup. 40. Ap. ‘05. 230w.
“Together they offer an extraordinary variety of apercus of Japanese character and customs and beliefs, subtly apprehended, and expressed in a style infused with sympathy, phantasy, and color.”
+ + Nation. 80: 68. Ja. 26, ‘05. 330w.
“It is here that we gain some idea of the painstaking study, for infinite capacity for details, the special sympathy and appreciation that formed the solid basis of that wonderful power of vivid portrayal and poetic fancy that have made all of Mr. Hearn’s work unique and delightful. Certainly no one can afford to miss the insight into the very spirit of Japan, which is to be gained from these books. He, more than any other English writer, was fitted to be their prophet, and he nobly began his task, even if he did not have opportunity to complete it.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 68. F. 4, ‘05. 1010w.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Japan. **$2. Macmillan.
The author, an American journalist, son of a Greek mother and an Irish father, took a Japanese name and a Japanese wife and lived the life of a native teacher, in order to interpret sympathetically the Japanese mind and its products to the Western world. Altho frankly devoted to the country, he surpasses her enemies in admiringly laying bare the realities. “One cannot quote, one must read this work. It shows the Japanese under his armor, modern science. The Japanese, outwardly, are ruled by treaties, diplomacy, governments, codes, imperial diet, armies, and battleships—all modern and external. Inwardly they—that is, forty-nine millions of them—are governed by ghosts. The graveyard is the true dictator. It is ever their ‘illustrious ancestors’ who achieve victories.” (Critic).
“Probably three greater errors were never compressed into a single sentence than this from p. 27: ‘The real religion of Japan, the religion still professed in one form or another by the entire nation, is that cult which has been the foundation of all civilized religion and of all civilized society—ancestor-worship.’ The close and frequent points of influence which religion exercised upon politics and morality in Japan can nowhere else be so well studied as here.” E. Buckley.
+ + — Am. J. Soc. 10: 545. Ja. ‘05. 2460w.
“Is a classic in science, a wonder of interpretation. It is the product of long years of thought, of keenest perception, of marvellous comprehension. Hearn outdoes the missionaries in dogmatism, exceeds even the hostile propagandist in telling the naked truth. His book is a re-reading of all Japanese history, a sociological appraisement of the value of Japanese civilization, and a warning against intolerant propaganda of any sort whatever.” W. E. Griffis.
+ + + Critic. 46: 185. F. ‘05. 710w.
“Both the prose and the poetry of Japanese life are infused into Mr. Hearn’s charming pages. Nobody, so far as we know, has given a better description of the fascination which Japanese life has at first for such as enter into its true spirit, and of its gradual disappearance. The swan-song of a very striking writer.”
+ + Spec. 94: 54. Ja. 14, ‘05. 530w.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Letters from the raven. *$5. Mintie press.
In this volume of letters and poems, Hearn tells of his life in the South, gives his views on the negro question, and his impressions of Memphis, New Orleans, and New York. The verses are both light and serious, and there are translations from negro and Creole love songs.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Romance of the Milky Way, and other studies and stories. **$1.25. Houghton.
“This small posthumous volume ... presents half a dozen ... graceful trifles, all but two Japanese in theme, preceded by a short biographical and appreciative notice ... by Mr. Ferris Greenslet. ‘With the exception of a body of familiar letters now in process of collection,’ says this editor, ‘the present volume contains all of Hearn’s writing that he left uncollected in the magazines or in manuscripts of a sufficient ripeness for publication.’”—Dial.
* “The last work of Lafcadio Hearn lacks nothing of that delicacy of expression, of that beauty and depth of thought which caused his earlier books to be sought after and cherished by the ‘many who are yet the few.’”
+ Acad. 68: 1257. D. 2, ‘05. 850w.
“The exquisite art of Hearn’s pen stamps the little book as a notable one.”
+ Dial. 39: 276. N. 1, ‘05. 580w.
* + Ind. 59: 1478. D. 21, ‘05. 160w.
* + Nation. 81: 510. D. 21, ‘05. 400w.
161Heath, Dudley. Miniatures. *$6.75 Putnam.
“The chief object of the book is to present a historical account of the art which shall be suggestive and stimulating to further study and appreciation rather than to attempt an exhaustive catalog or an authoritative guide for the specialist.”—Ind.
“Mr. Heath has done his work with exceptional thoroughness and skill. The closing pages are given up to ‘Foreign portrait miniaturists’ and we read of Italy, Germany, and France, but not a word of America or the United States.” Charles Henry Hart.
+ + — Dial. 39: 202. O. 1, ‘05. 1960w.
“Mr. Heath has taken up the consideration of his subject with enthusiastic zeal as well as with discrimination.”
+ + Ind. 59: 394. Ag. 17, ‘05. 200w.
“The present volume has been designed on too ambitious a pattern.”
+ — Lond. Times. 4: 276. S. 1, ‘05. 940w.
Heath, William. Heath’s memoirs of the American war: ed. by Rufus Rockwell Wilson, **$2.50. Wessels.
“This is the third and decidedly the most important of the ‘Source books of American history’ thus far issued under the direction of Rufus Rockwell Wilson. General Heath’s memoirs, which were originally published in 1798, and, so far as we are aware, have hitherto been reprinted only in a limited edition, are of direct value to the student of the war of the Revolution, constituting a first-hand account of many of the operations connected therewith, and assisting to an appreciation of the men and conditions of the period. The author served as a major-general in the American army throughout the long conflict, his military activity dating from the battle of Concord, where he took part in the harrying of the retreating British.”—Outlook.
“The editor’s introduction, notes, and appendixes are excellent in their way.”
+ + Critic. 46: 285. Mr. ‘05. 80w.
“The book is of value also for its accounts of the disposition of Burgoyne after his surrender, of Arnold’s treason, and of the surrender of Cornwallis.”
+ Dial. 38: 204. Mr. 16, ‘05. 170w.
“His diary is, as stated, gossipy, redolent of army life and its trifling incidents. Well worth rescuing from the dusty obscurity of library shelves.”
+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 220. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1740w.
“In its present form it should command a wide audience, its value to the modern student being increased by the intelligent annotations of its present editor.”
+ + Outlook. 79: 95. Ja. 7, ‘05. 340w.
“In this new dress ... these memoirs form a valuable addition to our source books of American history.”
+ + + Reader. 5: 626. Ap. ‘05. 330w.
Heigh, John. House of cards. †$150. Macmillan.
The pen-name John Heigh has aroused genuine curiosity among the lovers of a “morsel of mystery.” “The corrupt league between business and politics is the leading note, but the strength and grace of the story lie in the narrative of the life and portrayal of the character of Kriemhild West, of the friendship of Eliot and Cards, of the bluff, hearty and honest personality of John Heigh.” (Ind.)
“The style is epigrammatic without being laboured, the dramatic situations are handled with artistic restraint, and a vein of quiet humor runs all through the book.”
+ + — Ath. 1905, 2: 236. Ag. 19. 220w.
“Written in an exasperating style. There is very little story about the book but instead a great deal of shrewd comment and incisive characterization.” Wm. M. Payne.
— + Dial. 39: 209. O. 1, ‘05. 400w.
“An exceptionally bright and striking story. He has the art of telling a story, of putting each incident, rightly proportioned, in its proper place, of making his characters speak for themselves and justify their existence.”
+ + Ind. 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 150w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“It is not often that a lesson of serious import is conveyed in fiction with such delicacy of style, charm of humour, and literary effectiveness as here.”
+ + Outlook. 80: 692. Jl. 15, ‘05. 140w.
“Bricks of humor, satire, pathos, a couple of tragedy keystones, and all these joined with the mortar of realism into a magnificent edifice, built upon the rocks of cleverness.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 140w.
Heilprin, Angelo. Tower of Pelee. **$3. Lippincott.
Professor Heilprin, of the Yale scientific school, and author of “Mont Pelée and the tragedy of Martinique,” was in Martinique at the time of the great eruption in the summer of 1902 and has visited the islands twice since that time, ascending Pelee many times. This volume is an illustrated study of the great West Indian volcano, and the strange tower of lava which rose so mysteriously from the crater’s mouth, and crumbled away in constantly falling fragments. He also gives the after-history of the tower and explanations of the phenomena.
“An important contribution to our knowledge of the ways of volcanoes. The book is written with more care than preceding volumes from the same hand.”
+ + Dial. 38: 203. Mr. 16, ‘05. 240w.
“It is in the wide and sympathetic interest stirred by the tragic fate of St. Pierre that Professor Heilprin’s volume finds its justification. Author is a man of versatile scientific attainment, a general naturalist and geographer rather than a geologist or volcanologist, and with the journalist’s eye for the effective (albeit not always essential or accurate) details. A tendency to introduce irrelevant matter. In giving the results of Prof. Moissan’s analysis of fumerole gases from St. Pierre, the author curiously omits nitrogen which formed 55 per cent of the whole.”
+ + — Nation. 80: 137. F. 16, ‘05. 1730w. (Abstract of contents.)
Reviewed by J. S. F.
+ Nature. 72: 101. Je. 1, ‘05. 170w.
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 531. Ag. 12, ‘05. 490w.
Outlook. 79: 145. Ja. 14, ‘05. 100w.
“His study is both scientific and popular.”
+ R. of Rs. 31: 251. F. ‘05. 100w.
“The illustrations, indeed, can hardly be matched, so effective is their representation of the volcanic phenomena.”
+ + Spec. 94: 223. F. 11, ‘05. 170w.
* Helm, W. H. Aspects of Balzac. **$1. Pott.
“The greater part of the book is reprinted from the ‘Empire review.’ ... Two articles run through the women and men of Balzac, and another deals with Balzac’s idea of the English and his admiration for various English authors. In ‘Balzac and Dickens’ essential differences between the French realist and the ‘respectable English author’ are well indicated.... In ‘Literary references in Balzac’ ... the influence of Sterne and Richardson is rightly pointed out.”—Ath.
* “He gossips freely and with abundance of humour (which seems occasionally introduced for the purpose of mollifying the general reader) concerning the characters in Balzac’s immense world, and sets down the main conclusions about the novelist which most expert readers have reached.”
+ Ath. 1905, 1: 493. Ap. 15. 260w.
* “It contains entertaining information about the novelist and his novels, presented in a clear, 162direct, offhand manner, which agreeably does not exact too much patience from the reader.”
+ Lit. D. 31: 838. D. 2. ‘05. 530w.
Henderson, Charles Hanford. Children of good fortune: an essay in morals. **$1.30. Houghton.
The philosophy that preaches salvation thru good fortune is set forth under the headings: The problem; Human conduct; Right and wrong; Efficiency; Worth; The moral person; Individual morality; The cardinal virtues; The doctrine of automatic goodness; Social welfare; The morality of the four institutions; Occupations; Immediacy; The moral outlook.
* “The work is written in a charming style, and possesses keen penetration and moral insight.” W. C. Keirstead.
+ + Am. J. Theol. 9: 781. O. ‘05. 880w.
* + Ath. 1905, 2: 798. D. 9. 390w.
“Mr. Henderson’s books, moreover, are not written from strange heights which none but the moral philosopher can scale. They are clear and simple, showing a rare firsthand knowledge of the larger life. They combine to an unusual extent the attitudes of the observer and the experimentalist; they are at once dispassionate and enthusiastic.” Edith J. R. Isaacs.
+ + + Dial. 38: 354. My. 16, 05. 1840w.
“At all events the book is good reading, fit to stimulate thought and apt even to produce effects upon conduct itself.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 460. Jl. 8, ‘05. 640w.
“Such a book is a moral tonic.”
+ + — Outlook. 80: 343. Je. 3, ‘05. 450w.
“Dr. Henderson’s book is stimulating, and represents an interesting attempt to provide a working basis for moral conduct.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 100w.
Henderson, Charles Richmond, and others. Modern methods of charity. **$3.50. Macmillan.
An account of the public and private systems of relief in the principal countries of Europe, the British empire, and the United States; also a special treatment of Jewish charities. It is a book for active workers in any field of philanthropy, as well as for students.
Acad. 68: 151. F. 18, ‘05. 350w.
* “It is not philosophy, it is not theory; but it is a foundation upon which theory and philosophy may be erected. It is the product of the hardest and most tedious delving, searching, translating, comparing and verifying.” Ernest P. Bicknell.
+ + — Am. J. Soc. 11: 426. N. ‘05. 790w.
“Encyclopaedic compend.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ + Atlan. 95: 556. Ap. ‘05. 710w.
“The book is almost encyclopaedic in character, and hence more likely to be referred to on special topics than to be read through as a treatise. The volume has too many details which are not digested and which are not of valuable significance, and altogether too many statements which do not convey clear and helpful ideas; while some information that should be found in it is unhappily lacking.... The misleading generalizations which the editor has allowed to appear at frequent intervals throughout the volume.” B.
+ — Charities. 14: 639. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1870w.
Reviewed by Max West.
+ + — Dial. 38: 269. Ap. 16, ‘05. 560w.
“We regret to say, the editor seems to have a very inadequate conception of the comparative method of study and of scientific methods in general.”
— — Nation. 80: 422. My. 25, ‘05. 960w.
“It is a scientific study in what we may call the methodology of public relief for public poverty.”
+ + Outlook. 79: 902. Ap. 8, ‘05. 340w.
“A useful compendium.”
+ + R. of Rs. 31: 127. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
Henderson, George Francis Robert. Science of war; ed. by Neil Malcolm. *$4. Longmans.
The author of “Stonewall Jackson” called the Herbert Spencer of military tactics was a master of the theory and practice of the art of war. This collection of essays and lectures which separately have been regarded as authoritative along their respective lines of thought, treat such subjects as “War,” “Strategy,” “The tactical employment of cavalry,” “Tactics of the three arms combined,” “Training of the infantry for the attack,” “Military criticism and modern tactics,” etc. The fourteen essays are preceded by a memoir by Col. Henderson’s staunch admirer and patron, Lord Roberts.
“Henderson is at his best in driving home with quiet persistence, and with the help of countless apt examples, the lessons of pure military warfare.”
+ + + Acad. 68: 728. Jl. 15, ‘05. 810w.
“In the present volume there are many contradictions. So, too as regards style itself.”
+ — Ath. 1905, 1: 687. Je. 3, 670w.
“Reading them we get the real measure of the man; we realize the extraordinary compass of his knowledge, the wise way in which he looked on professional things, his power to put before his hearers or his readers matter for deep thought, and repaying any amount of thought bestowed on them.”
+ + + Lond. Times. 4: 200. Je. 23, ‘05. 2270w.
“It is rare for the reviewer to open the pages of a book in which there is so little to criticise, so much to admire.”
+ + + Nation. 81: 346. O. 26, 05. 730w.
“Those in the volume before us are minor only in the matter of quantity, not at all in that of quality.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 660. O. 7, ‘05. 1020w.
“An admirable contribution to the serious study of the art of war.”
+ + + Sat. R. 100: 153. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1580w.
Henderson, Henry F. Religious controversies of Scotland. *$1.75. imp. Scribner.
“The story of the dozen storms that differences of opinion have generated in the Scottish church during the last two centuries.... Some of the chapters in this volume relate to recent contentions about the higher criticism; others to conflicts equally serious in their time, but now forgotten.”—Outlook.
+ + Outlook. 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 120w.
“Generally. Mr. Henderson has treated a very difficult subject in a satisfactory way.”
+ Spec. 94: 755. My. 20, ‘05. 300w.
Henderson, Howard. Ethics and etiquette of the pulpit, pew, parish, press and platform. $1. H. A. Schroetter, Covington, Ky.
A second revised edition of this manual of manners for ministers and members, which may prove helpful to those who have had no home training and who know nothing of common social usages.
Henderson, John. West Indies; painted by A. L. Forrest; described by John Henderson. *$6. Macmillan.
The text deals almost wholly with Jamaica and its people, chiefly its negroes. Much information upon the flora, the commerce, and various matters of interest to the tourist are given. The illustrations are done in color.
“Mr. Forrest has done better in this volume than he did in its predecessor, ‘Morocco.’ Mr. Henderson’s text falls considerably short of the artistic level of its illustrations.”
+ + — Ath. 1905, 2: 217. Ag. 12. 260w.
“Their joint work is a very attractive book. Its illustrations are charming. Mr. Henderson’s descriptive chapters are not to be taken too 163seriously; they are light, bright, and rapid, not to say slap-dash here and there, and they display, as is only to be expected, not a few of the defects of those attractive qualities.”
+ — Lond. Times. 4: 199. Je. 23, ‘05. 580w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 361. Je. 3, ‘05. 200w.
“The book is very interesting, and within the limits which we think we have found, is valuable as a study of some of the phases of subtropical America.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 451. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1410w.
“The pictures of negro types are full of character and individuality. The reproductions are unusually good. The text of the book consists of the observations of a traveler, chatty and genial, but not penetrating to any great depth.”
+ Outlook. 80: 696. Jl. 15, ‘05. 60w.
* Henderson, R. S. Earthwork tables. 2 pts. $1.50. Eng. news.
This useful book of tables is divided into two parts: Part I. Preliminary earthwork tables, giving cubic yards per 100 feet for level sections, to which is added a graphical method of estimating quantities from a profile. Part II. Earthwork tables, giving the volume in cubic yards of prismoids 100 feet long by the average end area method.
* “The reviewer knows of no other similar table that equals it for range.” Halbert P. Gillette.
+ + + Engin. N. 54: 650. D. 14, ‘05. 640w.
Henderson, William James. Pipes and timbrels. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
“A new volume of poems.... Pictures, music, dreams, and reminiscences of the classic world are the flowers that grow in Mr. Henderson’s garden, and from these he makes a most acceptable bouquet of the pretty old-time ‘mixed’ variety.”—N. Y. Times.
“There are poems in blank verse, sonnets, songs, and in all the meter is good, in some excellent. There is thought in all the poems, and it is poetic thought.” Eltweed Pomeroy.
+ + + Arena. 34: 219. Ag. ‘05. 280w.
“A certain compliance with the rules of prosody, a flavor of the sentiment of poetry, an inspiration toward the best, characterize these verses.”
+ Critic. 46: 566. Je. ‘05. 60w.
Review by W: M. Payne.
+ + Dial. 39: 67. Ag. ‘05. 240w.
“Contains many lovely lines and a few successful technical experiments.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 265. Ap. 22, ‘05. 300w.
* Henry, Arthur. Lodgings in town. †$1.50. Barnes.
“To interest yourself in others, to go with the tide of the great city and observe closely every possible condition, is Mr. Henry’s recipe for happiness. Add to this an especial care for one person in particular—like Nancy—and the picture is complete. The faith that kept firm hold of the youth who began his New York life possessed of one clean collar and a poem must be the kind that moves mountains. Particularly good are the descriptions of the office where Nancy worked and the Baxter street lodgings where she and her poet lived.”—Outlook.
* + Outlook. 81: 527. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.
* + Pub. Opin. 39: 663. N. 18, ‘05. 350w.
Henry, Arthur. Unwritten law. †$1.50. Barnes.
The purpose of this book is to show how, in our modern social system, ignorance of the laws themselves and of the crime done in breaking them often leads to tragedy. A German engraver, who loses his savings thru the speculations of his banker, sets innocently to work to support his family by engraving bank notes for himself, the result is Sing Sing. One daughter, simple and unlearned, comes to grief, while her sophisticated and selfish sister marries well. The book treats of both the upper and the lower classes, and of the many problems of modern life. The setting is New York.
“Handful of tragedies in the guise of a novel.”
— Acad. 68: 759. Jl. 22, ‘05. 420w.
“The book is animated by a fine seriousness, a single-minded sincerity, which pertain to the best and highest in American art and thought. It exhibits a certain crudeness, a certain toughness of fiber, which may militate against its right appreciation by the fastidious.”
+ — Ath. 1905, 1: 778. Je. 24. 750w.
* “Is an encouraging example of that best sort of realism. The style is simple, at times almost to the point of baldness. It will inevitably provoke discussion; it will arouse some antagonism; but it cannot fail to make people think.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + Bookm. 21: 267. My. ‘05. 980w.
“There is no kind of excuse for the excessively plain speaking in which this book indulges. It impresses one as the work of a reporter rather than that of a constructive novelist.” Wm. M. Payne.
— — Dial. 39: 115. S. 1, ‘05. 200w.
“The book has, perhaps, no merely literary merit, it is crude in plot and exhibits much bad taste in incident, but it has a certain sincerity in strength, and a vividness, too, in places.”
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 220. Ap. 8, ‘05. 710w.
Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter). Cabbages and kings. $1.50. McClure.
The author, who has lived many years among the people of the South American republics, draws upon his fund of experience in this breezy story which recounts the adventures of an energetic American in the land of popular revolutions. “The characters range from the native brown-skinned maiden to the daughter of an American banker, and from a peon to an absconding president. The game proceeds much like a rattling good comic opera—and the characters have many opportunities to spin yarns of the kind that have already made famous the name of ‘O. Henry.’” (Pub. note.).
“A book of very unusual interest and cleverness. The general popularity will necessarily be limited by the fact that it is essentially a man’s book. A number of the chapters might be taken bodily from the book and held up as admirable examples of short-story telling.” Stanhope Searles.
+ Bookm. 20: 561. F. ‘05. 530w.
+ Critic. 46: 189. F. ‘05. 90w.
“The inimitably breezy style of story telling is retained in the main episodes. Has weakened the structure of the whole. The characters, so delightful in the original stories become less real, less convincing on their new stage.”
— + Ind. 58: 328. F. 9, ‘05. 210w.
“Pure burlesque, but lively, ingenious, and slangily humorous, South American intrigue, Yankee resource, the colossal impudence of the American fakir, and the romance of unusual love complications, are all worked together into a semi-connected story, parts of which have been already used as magazine tales.”
+ Outlook. 79: 94. Ja. 7, ‘05. 50w.
Herbert, George. English works, newly arranged and annotated and considered in relation to his life, by G. Herbert Palmer. 3v. *$6. Houghton.
“Herbert, though a minor poet, is established in English literature as are few minor poets of the seventeenth century. His poems have been constantly reprinted for general readers.... The form of this edition is altogether admirable. The print is clear and restful to the eye, the margins are wide ... and the volumes comfortable to hold. The notes to the poems are printed opposite to the poems, so that one has the poem on the right-hand page, the corresponding notes on the left-hand. The illustrations are interesting and apt. The portrait of Herbert published here, for the first 164time as the frontispiece to volume I., is a notable addition to literary portraiture.”—Nation.
* + Critic. 47: 574. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “Of the more specific work of the editor one may say that it is at once scholarly and literary, minute in its exegesis yet mindful always that a poet and not a ‘corpus vile’ is under discussion.”
+ + Ind. 59: 1230. N. 23, ‘05. 870w.
“The annotations are very thorough. The study of the matter and style is exhaustive.”
+ + + Nation. 81: 384. N. 9, ‘05. 1880w.
“It will ever hold its place, as one of the triumphs of American scholarship in editing English classics, alongside such works as those of Furness and Child. These latter are bigger and on bigger subjects, but they are not better done.” Cameron Mann.
+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 757. N. 11, ‘05. 2470w.
“Has done his work as biographer and editor con amore.”
+ + Outlook. 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 50w.
* “Every help to the reader’s eye and mind for the appreciation of Herbert will be found in these volumes, so great is the labor of love which Professor Palmer, with his own fine intelligence and training, has wrought for the most lovable and the most human of our religious poets.”
+ + Outlook. 81: 827. D. 2, ‘05. 1480w.
* Herford, Brooke. Eutychus and his relations. *70c. Am. Unitar.
Under this profound title appear the witty old-time pulpit and pew papers written from a layman’s point of view, which were first published anonymously during the early years of their author’s ministry, 1860-1861. They include quaintly humorous disquisitions upon: A ‘lay’ view of sleeping in church; Some people who always come late; Praising God by proxy; Pews; A country tea party; Over-much discourse; Unsocial worship; Parsonic acid, and other kindred subjects.
Herford, Charles Harold. Robert Browning. **$1. Dodd.
“The biographical element is sufficient, but is subordinate to the exposition of the poet’s work in the order of its production. The true biography of Browning can be written in no other way.... A clear perception of this fact, and a definite though not a rigid application of this fact to his material, give Professor Herford’s study a true biographic as well as an interpretative quality.”—Outlook.
“Prof. Herford’s study of Browning is in many respects complementary to that of Mr. Chesterton’s published last year. The style is, for the most part sober and balanced though there are occasional flashes of rather loose rhetoric, and the author has an odd habit of falling at intervals into comments which are banal or tasteless.”
+ + — Ath. 1905, 2: 14. Jl. 1, 1580w.
“In scale it stands midway between Mr. Chesterton’s and Prof. Dowden’s; in quality it is to be compared rather with the latter.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + Atlan. 96: 279. Ag. ‘05. 760w.
“There could hardly be a better brief estimate of Browning’s genius than Professor Herford has given us.” Edward Fuller.
+ + + Critic. 47: 247. S. ‘05. 390w.
“The commentator knows his Browning well, has availed himself of the best and latest authorities, and manifests a considerable degree of sympathetic appreciation; but he is hampered in his presentation by a clumsiness of expression. Numerous misquotations from the poems ... do not strengthen our confidence in Professor Herford or his book.”
+ — Dial. 39: 44. Jl. 16, ‘05. 400w.
“The necessity to be poetic, to live up to his matter, has been too much for him.”
— + Ind. 59: 457. Ag. 24, ‘05. 220w.
“This is likely to stand as one of the best of the numerous short critical lives of its provocative poet.”
+ + — Nation. 80: 531. Je. 29, ‘05. 350w.
“His treatment of Browning the poet and man shows considerable insight and unusual sanity.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 304. My. 6, ‘05. 280w.
“His study of Browning is intelligent, sympathetic, and well balanced.”
+ + + Outlook. 79: 1015. Ap. 22, ‘05. 280w.
“He has a gift of selection and juxtaposed selection which remarkably increases the pleasure of reading this sort of criticism. But the scheme of the book runs parallel with how many others.”
+ Sat. R. 99: 849. Je. 24, ‘05. 110w.
“We are not wholly in agreement with his estimate of the poet. Our chief difference is in regard to Browning’s literary form. The criticism generally, we greatly admire.”
+ + — Spec. 94: 558. Ap. 15, ‘05. 580w.
* Herrick, Christine Terhune, ed. Lewis Carroll birthday book. 75c. Wessels.
A little birthday book that will delight “Alice in wonderland” admirers.
* “As a birthday book, it is hardly a success, and the selections do more credit to the compiler’s familiarity with her author than to her sense of appropriateness.”
+ — Nation. 81: 490. D. 14, ‘05. 110w.
* “Mrs. Christine Terhune Herrick has made the selections for the volume and nobody could have done it with more sympathy and understanding.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 895. D. 16, ‘05. 230w.
Herrick, Francis Hobart. Home life of wild birds: a new method of the study and photography of birds. **$2. Putnam.
The “new method” consists in carrying away the nest with its eggs or young birds and also its immediate surroundings and setting it up before a green tent where it may be watched and photographed at leisure. 150 photographs of thirty species of our common birds attest the value of this method. The author also gives the results of his close observation of the nests.
+ + Dial. 38: 396. Je. 1, ‘05. 80w.
+ + Ind. 58: 1152. Je. 1, ‘05. 180w.
+ + Nation. 81: 263. S. 28, ‘05. 320w.
Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 402. Je. 17, ‘05. 530w.
“The volume is a valuable contribution to the scientific knowledge of bird habits.”
+ + + Outlook. 80: 392. Je. 10, ‘05. 150w.
Herrick, Robert. Common lot. $1.50. Macmillan.
The story is of a young architect who has grown up in the belief that he is heir to his uncle’s millions. When the fortune is left to charity, he takes up the common lot of toil unwillingly and is weakly led away from his young ideals by the desire for money. When his personal and professional honor are compromised, he is held to his expiation by his young wife whose unflinching faith in him forces him to be the man she thinks he is. It is a vivid representation of business life in Chicago, and the philosophy of the book is summed up in the closing sentence—“Fortunately there are few things that do make any great difference to real men and women,—and one of the least is the casual judgment of their fellow-men.”
“‘The common lot’ is worthy of wide circulation. It cannot fail to do good.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + Arena. 33: 450. Ap. ‘05. 460w.
+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 11. Ja. 7. 280w.
“An interesting and impressive story.”
+ Engin. N. 53: 181. F. 16, ‘05. 230w.
+ + Reader. 5: 258. Ja. ‘05. 570w.
165“There is a good deal of character drawing in the book that is at once delicate and strong, and the story of how Francis Hart did not inherit the millions he hoped for, took up the common lot of toil, and what came of it, is among the best in recent fiction.”
+ + R. of Rs. 31: 118. Ja. ‘05. 110w.
Herrick, Robert. Memoirs of an American citizen. †$1.50. Macmillan.
A country boy, tired of his lot runs away to Chicago to make his fortune. His autobiography follows with an unusually strong personal note even for a self-told tale of the career which starts with service as a grocery wagon driver and reaches the ranks of the Chicago capitalist. The way is made by “turning Texas steers into dressed beef and Iowa hogs into leaf lard and sausage,” which would seem honorable enough did not analysis of his methods of operation reveal a dulled sense of moral obligation to people at large, the city, and any competing organization.
“No more absolute unswerving merger of the author in the character of his hero, of his self-effacement in the interest of good art, could ever be conceived of.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + + Bookm. 22: 132. O. ‘05. 970w.
“Professor Herrick does not appear to have a powerful imagination, and his literalness, and even his unusual power of penetration, do not in themselves suffice to carry a story otherwise deficient.”
+ — Critic. 47: 476. N. ‘05. 170w.
“The story seems to be rooted in bitter cynicism and to embody the very philosophy of despair.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + — Dial. 39: 114. S. 1, ‘05. 510w.
“Is not in so happy a vein. The author sees things too big, and he has not enough confidence in the virtue of the American people, which will outlast transient vices.”
— Ind. 59: 1154. N. 16, ‘05. 70w.
“This is not a book that we should care to see in the hands of youth.”
+ — Nation. 81: 205. S. 7, ‘05. 730w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
“Mr. Herrick’s book is a book among many and it comes nearer reflecting a certain kind of recognizable, contemporaneous American spirit than anybody has yet done.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 482. Jl. 22, ‘05. 620w.
“The story is worked out with extraordinary virility, realism, and truth. Deserves reading, not only because of its subject and its moral force, but because of the thorough, faithful, and even artistic way in which the material is handled.”
+ + Outlook. 80: 935. Ag. 12, ‘05. 290w.
* “It is penetrated by genuine intensity of spirit, and shows the hand of a high-minded and accomplished workman.”
+ Outlook. 81: 707. N. 25, ‘05. 160w.
“One of the most refreshing qualities of the story is its sanity.”
+ + + Pub. Opin. 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 330w.
* “But one thing Prof. Herrick has achieved in spite of himself; he has somehow put,—no, hammered,—together a rough image of the American self-made man.”
— + R. of Rs. 32: 757. D. ‘05. 150w.
Hess, Isabella R. St. Cecilia of the court. †$1.25. Revell.
“In Flanery Court, where Cecilia (otherwise Angelina Sweeney) lives, poverty rules.... Miss Hess ... has told a pathetically pretty story of the life of a poor little red-haired saint—her struggles against the hardships of life, her drunken mother, her little brother Puddin’.... There is Jim Bellway, who taught the make-believe saint, quite unconsciously, how to become a real one; and there is Mr. Daniels, who Cecilia, quite unconsciously, brought back to the straight and narrow path—and so on; and though the story wades through tears, it nevertheless ends in a burst of sunshine.”—N. Y. Times.
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 648. S. 30, ‘05. 200w.
“Touches portraying the generosity, loyalty, and cheerfully borne privations of the poor are the best feature of this story of New York tenement life.”
+ Outlook. 81: 136. S. 16, ‘05. 70w.
Hewett, Rev. G. M. A. The rat. *$2. Macmillan.
Having arrived at the old age of three years, this hoary rat sits down to write his memoirs, recounting his many adventures in English mills and cornfields. He discourses on his wives and gives his conclusions upon boys, men, ferrets, and women. He also gives an exhaustive treatment of traps. There is much delineation of rat-character, and the experiences of a traveled friend who had lived in the sewers of London and Paris are given. The book is illustrated with colored pictures.
“A work which we commend to young and old alike.”
+ Ath. 1905, 1: 404. Ap. 1. 160w.
“It is a very English story of a very English rat intended primarily for English children and supposed to be told by the rat himself.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 43. Ja. 21, ‘05. 520w.
* Hewlett, Maurice. Works. Ed. de luxe. IIV. ea. *$3. Macmillan.
The five hundred numbered sets of this edition de luxe are sold by subscription only. The volumes are appearing one a month in the following order: The forest lovers; Richard Yea-and-Nay; Little novels of Italy; New Canterbury tales; The queen’s quair; The fool errant; The road in Tuscany in two volumes; Earthwork out of Tuscany; Pan and the young shepherd and songs and meditations in one volume; Fond adventures.
* + Nation. 81: 426. N. 23, ‘05. 280w. (Review of v. 1-3.)
Reviewed by Christian Gauss.
* + N. Y. Times. 10: 844. D. 2, ‘05. 2450w. (Review of v. 1-3.)
* + Outlook. 81: 525. O. 28, ‘05. 80w. (Review of v. 1.)
Hewlett, Maurice Henry. Fond adventures: tales of the youth of the world. †$1.50. Harper.
Four short stories of mediaeval romance, The heart’s key, Brazenhead the Great, Buondelmonte’s saga, and The love chase.
“Knowing well the possibilities of Mr. Hewlett’s fine ability, we lay down this latest volume with great disappointment.”
+ — Acad. 68: 419. Ap. 15, ‘05. 520w.
+ + — Ath. 1905, 1: 716. Je. 10. 220w.
“One feels that in these few crowded, tumultuous pages there is more of the real essence of Florentine life than in the whole length and breadth of George Eliot’s ‘Romola.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + Bookm. 21: 515. Jl. ‘05. 600w.
“Mr. Hewlett is at his best in these short stories.”
+ + Critic. 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“Taken as a whole, the impression remains that the book is made up of work done early in Mr. Hewlett’s literary career, and denied publication until now.”
— Dial. 38: 393. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“Not one of these stories is lacking in intrinsic interest, yet one’s dominant impression in closing the book is not of any of the characters or events, but of the cleverness of Mr. Hewlett.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + — Forum. 37: 111. Jl. ‘05. 230w.
“But it is ‘The love chase,’ the last story of the series, in which Mr. Hewlett probably surpasses anything he has ever written.”
+ + Ind. 58: 1309. Je. 8, ‘05. 820w.
“A volume of stories, splendid stories, full of action and passion, with an undercurrent of 166laughter, all carried off with great spirit and style. They are told in wonderful words, so apt and abundant.”
+ + Nation. 80: 440. Je. 1, ‘05. 1130w.
“These four stories of Mr. Hewlett’s are as rich in imagery and as glowing in color as any that he has ever written.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 810w.
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“These stories are remarkable rather for atmospheric quality than for construction or force of characterization.”
+ Outlook. 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 200w.
Pub. Opin. 38: 871. Je. 3, ‘05. 190w.
“The tales are medieval; rich in quality, decorative in effect and fascinating always.”
+ + Reader. 6: 92. Je. ‘05. 180w.
“The quaint and pleasing title of Mr. Hewlett’s new book serves as a preface for tales more deserving of the first adjective than the last, except in so far as artistic work is, in a sense, always deserving of the term ‘pleasing.’”
+ — Reader. 6: 360. Ag. ‘05. 340w.
“His style, his vision, his passion—these are always there.”
+ + R. of Rs. 31: 756. Je. ‘05. 250w.
+ Spec. 94: 680. My. 6, ‘05. 830w.
Hewlett, Maurice. Fool errant. †$1.50. Macmillan.
The “fool” of Mr. Hewlett’s new story is an English youth with a very ardent temperament who goes abroad to complete his studies. He is guilty of many hot-headed indiscretions, chief among which is his boyish passion for the wife of his stern tutor. A pilgrimage of expiation follows his declaration of love for her. Much of the interest of the tale centers in the phases of Italian life of high and low degree which he encounters. “He has in his journeyings a quick-witted companion, who rescues him alike from rash promptings of his ‘daemon’ and from foes from without.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Maurice Hewlett, it may be said at once, has achieved a notable success in the latest of his books.”
+ + — Acad. 68: 750. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1440w.
“‘The fool errant’ will not make so wide an appeal to the general public as several earlier volumes of Mr. Hewlett’s. It lacks the tumultuous passion of ‘Richard yea-and-nay’, the epic bigness of the ‘Queen’s quair.’”
+ Bookm. 22: 36. S. ‘05. 800w.
“The novel shows, on the whole, an advance over its predecessors. Has proved, by the charm and animation of his tale, that imagination and a sense of style need not, under favourable circumstances, seriously interfere with the writing of a good novel.” Edith Wharton.
+ + — Bookm. 22: 64. S. ‘05. 1660w.
“It is possible, though the statement is not to be made dogmatically, that Mr. Maurice Hewlett, in all his succession of legitimately showy triumphs, has done nothing better than this history of a ‘fool.’” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ + + Critic. 47: 451. N. ‘05. 370w.
“We feel that he is simply saturated with the life of the time and the color of the environment and that he has reproduced these things with marvelous fidelity. This is the chief title of the book to praise, and a high title it is.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + Dial. 39: 113. S. 1, ‘05. 510w.
+ — Ind. 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“Told with sureness of touch and undeniable brilliance.”
+ + Lond. Times. 4: 225. Jl. 14, ‘05. 430w.
“A story of intense interest and a literary achievement of a very high order.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 511. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1180w.
“As a faithfully wrought and vigorous piece of fiction-writing the book is unusual.”
+ + — Outlook. 80: 883. Ag. 5, ‘05. 240w.
* “May be counted among the notable books of the second half of the year.”
+ + — Outlook. 81: 708. N. 25, ‘05. 190w.
“Mr. Hewlett draws a brilliant picture of a decadent period.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 260w.
“A book very subtly conceived and very admirably written.”
+ + Sat. R. 100: 218. Ag. 12, ‘05. 580w.
“This brilliant study in the picaresque seems to us one of the most successful of Mr. Hewlett’s works.”
+ + + Spec. 95: 359. S. 9, ‘05. 310w.
Hewlett, Maurice Henry. Road in Tuscany. **$6. Macmillan.
Mr. Hewlett’s own words are perhaps best descriptive of the freshness of his view of life and art in Tuscany. He calls it “a companion of travel and leisurely, sententious commentary of the country,” and he strikes its key-note in his opening remarks. “His plan for the book has the freshness which marks its rendering of details. ‘Let the history, fine arts, monuments and institutions of a country be as fine as you please, its best product will always be the people of it, who themselves produced those other pleasant spectacles. I have always preferred a road to a church, always a man to a masterpiece, a singer to his song; and I have never opened a book when I could read what I wanted on the hillside or by the river bank.’” (Reader). He consistently subordinates art galleries to peasants, but gives legends, history, and piquant references to the art and literature of the country, with a lavish hand.
“Is one of those rare books having charm, and one which gives no less insight into Mr. Hewlett than into the hearts of all the dead and living Tuscans of whom he writes. Mr. Hewlett’s one fault, regarded as a cicerone, is that he gives us life in superabundance; he gives it to us often at the cost of other things which we are loth to sacrifice. Now guidebooks the very best of them, while they make excellent servants, are bad masters, Mr. Hewlett’s not excepted. Flippant he is, at times, perverse, even arrogant: but he understands the Tuscans, and he loves them. Whoever goes to Florence without ‘The road in Tuscany’ goes but half equipped.” Frederic Taber Cooper.