chapter eight
on the advantages of co-operation, over both socialism and government regulation of great combinations, as a remedy for industrial injustice. Mr Norman Hapgood is an effective pamphleteer; but excellences in a pamphleteer are fatal defects in a historian.”
− + =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 300w
“To one reviewer at least—and one who is not insensible to the part Mr Hapgood has taken in past times in the advocacy of certain social measures—there is provocation on almost every page of this book. But in the two chapters on the Russian problem, as well as in other incidental treatment of this problem, the provocation concentrates in every line.” W. J. Ghent
− + =Review= 3:230 S 15 ’20 3350w
=R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 130w
“To see things steadily and clearly is a gift of few. Mr Hapgood possesses fewer blind spots than most, but it may be that he is mistaken in parts of his analysis. However, he stimulates the reader to formulate his own beliefs. The style is a trifle labored, but there is no mistaking the book’s earnestness.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 320w
“Special mention should be made of Mr Hapgood’s intimate study of President Wilson. It is a helpful antidote to Mr Keynes’ sketch.” L. R. Robinson
+ =Survey= 45:320 N 27 ’20 720w
=HARA, KATSURO.=[2] Introduction to the history of Japan. *$2.50 (2½c) Putnam
952
The book is the first of a projected series of publications by the Yamato society, whose aim is to make clear the meaning and extent of Japanese culture to other nations, and to introduce the best literature and art of foreign nations to Japan for a promotion of a common understanding. The present volume is intended for those Europeans and Americans who would like to know Japan “not as a land of quaint curios and picturesque paradoxes only worthy to be preserved intact for a show, but as a land inhabited by a nation striving hard to improve itself, and to take its share, however humble, in the common progress of the civilisation of the world.” (Preface) Contents: The races and climate of Japan; Japan before the introduction of Buddhism and Chinese civilisation; Growth of the imperial power; gradual centralisation; Remodeling of the state; Culmination of the new régime; stagnation; rise of the military régime; The military régime; the Taira and the Minamoto; the shogunate of Kamakura; The welding of the nation; the political disintegration of the country; End of medieval Japan; The transition from medieval to modern Japan; The Tokugawa shogunate—its political régime; culture and society (two chapters); The restoration of the Meidji; Epilogue. The objects of and the rules of the Yamato society are given in full and there is an index.
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“A carefully evolved and well written synopsis of the many centuries of Japanese national life. There is one especially creditable circumstance about the publication of this book. It is honest Japanese propaganda, and it makes no pretensions of being anything else.” S. L. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 22 ’21 420w
=HARBEN, WILLIAM NATHANIEL.= Divine event. *$1.75 (2c) Harper
20–16796
A story of psychical phenomena. Hillery Gramling, unhappy over the death of his brother, in consultation with a medium is sent to New York’s East side to live among the poor. There he comes in contact with Lucia Lingle, a beautiful young girl who seems to be under the shadow of some awful, mysterious tragedy. He falls in love with her and is anxious to help her. He is aided by Professor Trimble, psychologist, alienist, mental scientist, who becomes deeply interested in Lucia’s case. Thru the mediumship of Madame DuFresne, they discover the exact nature of her trouble, that her half-brother is trying to prove her insane that he may take over her inheritance. Together they fight the thing out, encouraged always by the supernatural aid they receive, thru Madame DuFresne, from those on the other side of death. In the end thru their combined efforts, Lucia is freed from the awful curse that has hung over her, and has the promise of happiness.
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“The plot is slight and unconvincing but is evidently meant to be taken seriously and will interest readers inclined to believe in spirit control and guardian angels.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21
=HARCOURT, ROBERT HENRY.= Elementary forge practice. 2d ed, enl il $1.50 Manual arts press 672
20–19056
A second edition of a work originally published by the author, instructor in forge practice in Leland Stanford Junior university, where it has been used as a text. It is designed for use in technical and vocational schools. Contents: Materials and equipment; Drawing-out, bending and twisting; Common welds; Special welds; Hammer work; Annealing, hardening and tempering steel; Tool forging. There are forty-four plates illustrating as many projects.
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“The volume should prove a valuable addition to any shop library as a supplementary text. For the teacher of large classes of beginners it should lift the burden of much class work and explanation if placed in the hands of the pupils as a text.”
+ =School R= 29:77 Ja ’21 210w
=HARD, WILLIAM.= Raymond Robins’ own story. il *$2 (4c) Harper 947
20–3007
Colonel Robins was the unofficial representative of the American ambassador to Russia for eighteen months and a close observer of the powers that conducted Russian affairs, and he has had a more intimate acquaintance than any other American or allied representative with the government of Lenin. He is not a socialist and not a bolshevist, but he sees that the danger from the latter, if such there be, lies not in riots and robberies, mobs and massacres, not in its disorder but in its order, in that “the Soviet system is genuinely a system on its own account.... It can be extinguished only in the free air of fair controversy and of fair, practical proof.” There is but one choice left to America, according to Colonel Robins, in dealing with Russia, and that is not intervention but intercourse. The story of the book is told by the author as it was narrated to him by Colonel Robins. The contents are: The arrival of the Soviet; Trotzky’s plans for soviet Russia; The all-Russian congress and the Brest-Litovsk peace; The personality and power of Nikolai Lenin; The bolshevik “bomb”; and many illustrations.
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+ =Booklist= 16:237 Ap ’20
“It stands out in this consecutive form as the most vigorous, the most picturesque, as well as the most truthful record in English of the birth of Bolshevism through the Soviet.” O. M. Sayler
+ =Bookm= 51:310 My ’20 950w
=Cleveland= p76 Ag ’20 60w
+ =R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 180w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 1 ’20 1000w
“Mr Hard is so carried away with dramatic fervor that he feels it necessary to interrupt himself every now and then to assure us that Mr Robins is a good anti-Bolshevist. But these interludes need not divert the reader from the important parts of the book. Mr Robins’ admirable suggestions as to future American policy toward Russia deserve to be widely read.” Reed Lewis
+ − =Survey= 44:48 Ap 3 ’20 270w
=HARDY, THOMAS.= Collected poems, lyrical, narratory and reflective. *$3.40 Macmillan 821
20–26754
“This book contains all of Thomas Hardy’s poetry except ‘The dynasts,’ including poems which have appeared in his prose works.”—Booklist
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“There have been many poets among us in the last fifty years, poets of sure talent, and it may be even of genius, but no other of them has this compulsive power of Hardy. The secret is not hard to find. Not one of them is adequate to what we know and have suffered.... Therefore we deliberately set Mr Hardy among the greatest.” J. M. M.
+ =Ath= p1147 N 7 ’19 2200w
+ =Booklist= 17:21 O ’20
“Let it be said straight out that in our opinion, whatever else Mr Hardy’s writing, susceptible to scansion, is, it is not poetry. It is not poetry, because, in the end, poetry is in a sort illusion.... He has been guilty of the last, the unforgivable sin in poetry—* *he has sinned against love, for which there is and should be no forgiveness.”
− + =Sat R= 128:459 N 15 ’19 1250w
=Spec= 122:512 O 18 ’19 20w
“Mr Hardy, once and for all, set up as poet, then, at an age when Shakespeare left our mortal stage. This book, for that reason alone, is an unprecedented achievement. Apart from that, to read steadily through it—and what severer test of lyrical poetry could be devised?—is to win to the consciousness not of any superficial consistency, but assuredly of a ‘harmony of colouring’; not, however keen the joy manifest ‘in the making,’ of an art become habitual, but of a shadowy unity and design.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p681 N 27 ’19 2450w
=HARKER, MRS LIZZIE ALLEN.= Allegra. *$1.75 (2c) Scribner
20–161
Allegra is a charming but decidedly self-centered young actress who sees every person and every incident in the light of her career. She is playing in a provincial repertory theater at the opening of the story and it is thru a chance meeting with Paul Staniland that her ambition to appear in London is gratified. Paul is delighted with Allegra and works up a part for her in the play he is dramatizing from one of Matthew Maythorne’s novels. Maythorne is one of those popular novelists whose books sell into the thousands and he fatuously accepts the success of the play as a tribute to himself, giving Paul none of the credit. Allegra’s admiration for the novelist is killed by a reading of his book and she comes to appreciate Paul, but a visit at the country home of Paul’s people, delightful tho they are, convinces her that she belongs to the theater and she returns to the stage.
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+ =Ath= p1208 N 14 ’19 70w
“The plot is not credible in parts, but this does not mar the interest of the story.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:244 Ap ’20
Reviewed by M. E. Bailey
=Bookm= 51:205 Ap ’20 260w
“If Paul seems a special creation made to fit Allegra’s need, why quarrel with him? Are we not left with the conviction that here is a really happy ending to a story?”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 260w
“A number of minor characters are very well drawn.”
+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 70w
“All the minor characters, in fact, are skillfully portrayed, with any number of quaint and understanding little touches which make ‘Allegra’ very agreeable reading—the more agreeable because the author has had the good taste and good sense to avoid the conventional ‘happy ending.’”
+ =N Y Times= 25:71 F 8 ’20 440w
+ =Sat R= 130:380 N 6 ’20 100w
“Altogether it is a slight but pleasing little story without any probing into psychology or any tremendous conflict of forces.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 160w
“Allegra, a little hard and egotistical, and passionately devoted to her art, is well studied. And the whole tale (which moves among well-bred people throughout) is on a good level, though we think a little below that attained in other books by the author.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p594 O 23 ’19 100w
=HARPER, GEORGE MCLEAN.=[2] John Morley, and other essays. *$1.60 Princeton univ. press 814
20–10290
“Professor Harper, of Princeton university, author of various books of literary criticism (including the substantial and able work on Wordsworth), here puts together eight essays—on John Morley; Victor Hugo (these from the Atlantic Monthly); Michael Angelo’s sonnets; Balzac; W. C. Brownell (an American critic); Wordsworth at Blois; Wordsworth’s love poetry; and ‘David Brainerd: a Puritan saint.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“His generalizations are just, and he is not ridden by them; he knows when to generalize and when to forget his generalizations.”
+ =Ath= p838 D 17 ’20 110w
=Booklist= 17:68 N ’20
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p762 N 18 ’20 70w
=HARRIS, CORRA MAY (WHITE) (MRS LUNDY HOWARD HARRIS).= Happily married. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–3192
The scene is an exclusive southern town, the time that summer of intense war activity, 1918, and the characters several married pairs. Two of these are Mary and Pelham Madden, and two others Ellen and Barrie Skipwith. Mary is one of those calm, maternal and beautifully placid women, a perfect housekeeper and mother of four children. Ellen is a childless woman with red hair and baby blue eyes. Mary has just found a note in her husband’s pocket addressed to Dear Pep. Ellen has just turned in a Red cross subscription list with an anonymous contribution of $1000. How Mary wakes up and learns to practice the old womanly wiles is the theme of a story that is told amusingly with touches of satire.
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“Entertaining in spite of its hackneyed plot.”
+ =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20
“Mrs Harris makes no attempt to inject novelty into the situation. She relies on her knowledge of men and women and her happy faculty in phrasing her reflections thereon for the pleasure of her readers. And these easily suffice.” F. A. G.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Mr 27 ’20 500w
“The entertaining and shrewd comment upon married life, adds ginger to a somewhat conventional vamp story.”
+ − =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 100w
+ =Lit D= p99 My 1 ’20 2300w
“An immense quantity of mildly entertaining and occasionally shrewd comment strung on a very slight, very much worn thread of plot, constitutes Corra Harris’s new novel.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:4 F 29 ’20 300w
+ =Outlook= 124:562 Mr 31 ’20 30w
“Mrs Harris’s thesis does not command unfaltering acquiescence. For those, however, who collect novels as others collect butterflies, the book will have a great deal of interest.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p383 Je 17 ’20 500w
=HARRIS, CREDO FITCH.= Wings of the wind. *$1.75 (1½c) Small
20–11301
Jack Bronx, returning from the war, is packed off by his fond parents on their private yacht, with one of his army pals. On the way to Havana they pick up a stranger who turns out to be a secret envoy from the Kingdom of Azuria, in search of a lost princess. Chance favoring they trace the princess as one of the passengers on another yacht. Great is the chase, thrilling the adventures which eventually take the party to the Florida swamps into the ancient haunts of the Seminoles. The princess is rescued, Jack falls violently in love with her, and the old emissary hard put to it to save her, under the circumstances, for the throne of Azuria. Jack’s resourceful friend settles the matter by demonstrating to everybody’s satisfaction that the emissary’s orders to deliver the princess did not contain the provision that she must be single when found.
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=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 650w
“The story teems with thrilling incidents. The plot, however, is trite.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:552 Ja ’21 90w
=N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 25 ’20 530w
=HARRIS, H. WILSON.= Peace in the making. il *$2 Dutton 940.314
20–6966
“‘What I have endeavored to produce is an account, checked by such official documents as are available, which will convey to the general reader some not wholly inadequate impression both of what the conference did and how it did it.’ (Preface) The author was for three months the special correspondent of the London Daily News to the conference.”—Wis Lib Bul
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+ =Ath= p95 Ja 16 ’20 200w
+ =Booklist= 17:66 N ’20
“Mr Harris is well-informed and his pen-pictures of the personality and policy of the leading diplomats, tho less lively than those of Mr Keynes, are far closer to the facts.”
+ =Ind= 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 50w
“His plan is less ambitious than that of Dr Dillon, for he leaves out most of the historical summaries which are a valuable feature of Dr Dillon’s volume, and also tells fewer incidents. His account of the Prinkipo episode, and of the apparently deliberate intermeddling of France to insure that the proposed conference should come to naught, should be read by anyone who still cherishes confidence in the good faith of the Paris negotiators.” W: MacDonald
+ =Nation= 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 150w
=N Y Times= p15 S 19 ’20 50w
“Those readers who are interested in finding an account of the peace conference to supplement the somewhat opinionated statements of Keynes and Dillon would do well to provide themselves with a copy of ‘The peace in the making.’ The book as a whole, while not itself history in the fullest sense, may well be regarded as a contribution to history.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 140w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 220w
“His summary of the deliberations of the conference is just a little too summary, and the chapter on Lenin and Bela Kun is vague and unsatisfactory. On the other hand, Mr Harris’s judgments of the personalities of the conference are generally temperate and just.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p23 Ja 8 ’20 220w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:119 Je ’20 60w
=HARRIS, JAMES RENDEL.= Last of the Mayflower. (Manchester univ. publications) *$2 (*5s) Longmans 974.4
20–14551
“In this publication of the John Rylands library Dr Rendel Harris tries to find an answer to the question, ‘What became of the “Mayflower“?’ The name was a common one for ships in late Tudor and early Stuart times; hence the tracing of the authentic ‘Mayflower’ has entailed much research. Some ten years after the landing of the Pilgrims (1620), she was employed on a similar service, that of transporting the remainder of the Leyden colony to New Plymouth. Then she is traced in the whale-fishery, and to her last owner and master, Mr Thomas Webber of Boston. Not long after 1654, the author says, ‘one is tempted to conjecture that she died (in a nautical sense). Most likely she was broken up in Boston, or perhaps in the Thames on her last voyage to London.’ ”—Ath
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=Ath= p591 Ap 30 ’20 140w
Reviewed by W. A. Dyer
=Bookm= 52:125 O ’20 40w
=HARRISON, AUSTIN.= Before and now. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane 304
20–6972
This collection of papers, reprinted in a revised form from the English Review, are critical and partly satirical and humorous impressions of conditions in England previous to and during the war. They were “journalism then, today they are prophetic,” says the author. It is the disintegration of old conceptions and the birth-pangs of new that form the subject-matter of the papers, which are: Jingoism; The coming of Smith; “Surrey in danger”; Peace, perfect peace; St George’s stirrup; The duke’s buffalo; A “Christian” Europe and afterwards; Our gentlemen’s schools; Authority and privilege; The new “Sesame and lilies”; The Christian drum; What is ours is not ours; The country of the blind; “Leave them ‘orses alone!”; Foreign politics; “Minny”; The awakening; Musings at Fort Vaux; Foundations of reconstruction.
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“Some of these reprinted articles from the English Review are worth reading again, as the contemporary views of a very independent critic.”
+ − =Ath= p1136 O 31 ’19 120w
“Although the intimate knowledge of men and events which the author demands of his readers will be a drawback to many, the interest of his criticisms will hold the attention of the more thoughtful and well informed.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:305 Je ’20
“The papers are stimulating and thoughtful.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 14 ’20 480w
“Mr Austin Harrison is unfortunate enough to live in a between-age. Actually he belongs to the Victorian era, but his generation and his intelligence will not leave him at peace, and push him into a rather uncomfortable ultra-modern attitude. Of all his essays the musings at Fort Vaux are the most illuminating, because they are at once the most sincere, the least preconceived.”
+ − =Nation= 111:224 Ag 21 ’20 220w
=N Y Times= p17 S 12 ’20 50w
“What he has given us is very suggestive, and one is grateful to any man who can stir up general interest in our social problems by the use of such a facile pen. He has the same sort of literary gift as Mr H. G. Wells, though in a slighter degree. But he has not so far shown anything like the rich literary nutritiousness that belongs to the work of his distinguished father [Frederick Harrison].” H. L. Stewart
+ − =Review= 2:600 Je 5 ’20 1000w
“Mr Harrison has a vigorous and effective pen, which often runs away with him and never quite knows when to stop; but his chief fault, as this book reveals it, is a love for exaggeration which detracts considerably from the value of his words.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p609 O 30 ’19 1150w
=HARRISON, MARY ST LEGER (KINGSLEY) (MRS WILLIAM HARRISON) (LUCAS MALET, pseud.).= Tall villa. *$1.75 (4c) Doran
20–3
The outstanding characteristic of this novel is that it is a ghost story. After her husband’s financial failure, Frances Copley betakes herself away from Grosvenor square and London high society and buries herself in Tall villa, a maternal inheritance and a preposterous piece of architecture, while her husband goes to seek a new fortune in South America. There the ghost of an ancient relative, a suicide from disappointed love, makes itself known to her and moved by pity she resolves to consecrate her life to his redemption. They hold daily concourse and by the time his earth-bound spirit has been released through her martyrdom, the latter for her had turned into rapture. Her spirit too, now longs for release and when the ghost makes its final appearance it is to free her too from earthly thralldom.
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=Ath= p767 Je 11 ’20 460w
“The story is kept sane by means of the other people, the Bulparcs, Lady Lucia and her baby, and Charlie Montagu. Therefore it is cleverly done. But no one who has not been drawn by a spirit lover to the fairer clime can tell if the rest of it is really correct. To review the volume rightly one needs a ouija board.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 14 ’20 520w
“The story, a modern fairy tale, is handled with much restraint and artistry.”
+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 50w
=Dial= 68:665 My ’20 50w
“Those who are desirous of finding something to laugh at and to ridicule in any tale of the supernatural will readily discover all that they desire in ‘The Tall villa’; even those who are ready and willing to take the novel with the same high and intense seriousness with which it is written will find it difficult to refrain from smiling over some of the high-flown speeches addressed by Frances Copley to the ghost of Alexis Lord Oxley. Yet there is much of charm in the book.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:2 F 22 ’20 900w
“The character of Frances Copley is exquisitely etched. The rare distinction of Mrs Harrison’s carven style is at its best in this unusual and dexterously handled romance, which is finely free from the over-frank emphasis of the senses found in ‘Sir Richard Calmady.’” Katharine Perry
+ =Pub W= 97:601 F 21 ’20 400w
“The book will rank with the best of the author’s.”
+ =Sat R= 130:300 O 9 ’20 110w
“It is a sad confession to make, but we are Philistine enough to prefer those portions of the story in which normal events and personages predominate.”
+ − =Spec= 124:728 My 29 ’20 450w
“The dialog is invariably stilted, and the generally formal tone robs the situation of reality and those startling qualities inherent in it. The heroine herself is delicately portrayed. The story is not long and stirs only a mild interest.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 9 ’20 560w
“This novel is excellently written; but a ghost story should make the flesh creep, and that is the one function which, in spite of its excellences, it certainly does not perform.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p284 My 6 ’20 460w
=HARROW, BENJAMIN.=[2] Eminent chemists of our time. il *$2.50 Van Nostrand 540.9
The author has chosen eleven scientists “whose work is indissolubly bound up with the progress of chemistry during the last generation or so.” His aim has been “to write a history of chemistry of our times by centering it around some of its leading figures.” Contents: Introduction; Perkin and coal-tar dyes; Mendeléeff and the periodic law; Ramsay and the gases of the atmosphere; Richards and atomic weights; Van’t Hoff and physical chemistry; Arrhenius and the theory of electrolytic dissociation; Moissan and the electric furnace; Madame Curie and radium; Victor Meyer and the rise of organic chemistry; Remsen and the rise of chemistry in America; Fischer and the chemistry of foods. Reading references follow the chapters and there is an index.
=HARROW, BENJAMIN.= From Newton to Einstein; changing conceptions of the universe. il *$1 (6½c) Van Nostrand 530
20–7594
The booklet gives in simple popular language an outline of Newton’s great discovery and of the various steps in scientific achievements which led up to Einstein’s conception of the universe and theory of relativity. It shows how Einstein’s conception of time and space led to a new view of gravitation and explains some facts which Newton’s law was incapable of explaining. The three essays of the book are: Newton; The ether and its consequences; Einstein.
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“Dr Harrow’s account is altogether too inadequate. The chapter on ‘Einstein’ utterly fails to bring out the central conceptions of the ‘Relativity theory’; it is not that the treatment is obscure; it is that very important points are slurred over, misstated, or ignored.”
− =Ath= p377 S 17 ’20 240w
+ =Booklist= 17:57 N ’20
“It contains egregious mistakes, minor errors, misplaced emphasis, wrong interpretation, and a modicum of information.” R: F. Deimel
− =Freeman= 1:423 Jl 14 ’20 60w
+ =Nature= 106:466 D 9 ’20 40w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p36 Ap ’20 70w
“A lucid little book.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p603 S 16 ’20 20w
=HARTLEY, OLGA.= Anne. *$1.90 (2c) Lippincott
Anne is an orphan and still a child at seventeen when young Gilbert Trevor, one of her self-appointed guardians, falls in love with and marries her, while her other self-appointed guardian, John Halliday, continues to hover over her with a more selfless devotion. Anne never grows up but remains an ardent, wilful, fascinating child with a child’s sincerity and purity of heart. It leads her into dangerous situations and causes complications during which, at a crucial moment, Gilbert fails her. She forces the estrangement and after some mad escapades follows the dying John to Scotland, resolved to give him all the love that he deserved and of which Gilbert has proved himself unworthy. But the latter’s love and manhood stand the final test and his protecting arms once more hold Anne safe.
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“Anne’s future sister-in-law, Francesca, is a likeable character; but the heroine herself is difficult to understand, almost to the end of the book.”
+ − =Ath= p783 Je 11 ’20 100w
“The author’s handling of the heights and depths of the story towards its climax deserves high praise for restraint, for absence of sensationalism while it yet holds and thrills.”
+ =Cath World= 112:407 D ’20 260w
“Whether one has patience with the violent-tempered, erratic heroine or not, it cannot be denied that here is a soundly-constructed, well-written novel.”
+ − =N Y Times= p26 D 19 ’20 260w
Reviewed by Caroline Singer
=Pub W= 98:658 S 18 ’20 300w
“The development and gradual ripening of the heroine’s character (she needed it) are very well done, and we commend the book to our readers.”
+ =Sat R= 130:379 N 6 ’20 80w
=HARTMAN, HARLEIGH HOLROYD.= Fair value. *$2.50 Houghton 338
20–6119
The book is one of the series of Hart, Schaffner, and Marx prize essays in economics and the thesis is concerned with the meaning and application of the term “Fair valuation” as used by utility commissions. The usage of the term is a loose one and open to much confusion on the part of the public as well as of the courts. The author’s inquiry rests on the points: “that the public utility is essentially different from other industry; that private property devoted to the public use is not the same as other private property, and does not enjoy the same legal protection; that the service rendered is governmental in its nature, and; that the purpose of regulation is curtailment of ‘private rights’ and the encumbrance of ‘private property.’” The book falls into two parts: 1, The meaning of the term “fair value” contains: The basis of regulation; The purpose of regulation; Valuation and regulation; The theory of valuation; Valuation methods. 2, The application of the theory of fair value, contains: The valuation of tangible property; Valuation of intangible property; Depreciation; The return on the investment; Conclusion. There is also a selected bibliography, a table of cases, and an index.
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“The first is far the more significant part. A valid criticism of the
## book is that it overstrains legal definitions and logical legal
relationships.” J: Bauer
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:822 D ’20 880w
“A useful and opportune classifying of a large mass of scattered material.”
+ =Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20
“‘Fair value’ is, withal, a most exhaustive and illuminative work on current economics, with principles, laws, court decisions and commission opinions all set forth in such a fashion that even the uninitiate in such matters are able to grasp Mr Hartman’s theories of valuation.” G. M. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 22 ’20 550w
=Review= 3:448 N 10 ’20 1100w
=R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 120w
Reviewed by E. R. Burton
+ =Survey= 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 340w
=HARVARD UNIVERSITY. DRAMATIC CLUB.= Plays of the Harvard dramatic club. *$1.25 Brentano’s 812.08
“The little volume of one-act plays, edited by Professor George Pierce Baker, contains only four pieces, all of them dealing with American themes and all of them the result of their several authors’ studies in the dramaturgic laboratory which the editor has successfully conducted at Harvard. In his brief prefatory note he explains the activities of the Harvard dramatic club and tells us that the four plays he has chosen for inclusion have been selected ‘as a group which perhaps gives the volume best variety and balance.’” (N Y Times) The titles are “The harbor of lost ships, by Louise Whitefield Bray; Garafelia’s husband, by Esther Willard Bates; The scales and the sword, by Farnham Bishop; and The four-flushers, by Cleves Kinkead.” (Brooklyn)
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=Brooklyn= 12:66 Ja ’20 30w
“Professor Baker has worked earnestly, unostentatiously, and with only one failing, a somewhat lively fear of being academic.” K. M.
+ − =Freeman= 2:310 D 8 ’20 190w
Reviewed by Brander Matthews
=N Y Times= p10 Ag 8 ’20 150w
=HARVEY, LUCILE STIMSON.= Food facts for the home-maker. il *$2.50 Houghton 613.2
20–6498
The book is intended to help the young housekeeper without either knowledge of science or technical skill, and to give the experienced cook a scientific foundation, but primarily to show mothers how to feed their children. “Few women realize the great importance of the proper feeding of the family. Undernourishment among our children in the United States is far more prevalent than is generally supposed, and is found quite as often in the homes of the well-to-do as in those of the poor.” (Preface) Although the book contains recipes it is not intended to compete with cook-books, but rather to supplement them. Among the contents are: The importance of food; The composition of foods; Milk and eggs; Meat; Cheese and legumes; Cereals; Fruits and vegetables; Fats; Sugar; The use of food in the body; The measurement of food values; Food for infants and young children; Food for school-children; Food for invalids. There is a bibliography and an index.
=Booklist= 16:334 Jl ’20
“A highly important and serviceable book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 230w
“Throughout the volume is an excellent manual that is well arranged, written in an informal and untechnical vein and well fitted to meet the demands of the ordinary household.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 140w
Reviewed by E. A. Winslow
+ =Survey= 44:592 Ag 2 ’20 110w
=HASBROUCK, LOUISE SEYMOUR.= Hall with doors. il *$1.75 (4c) Womans press
20–8235
A story for girls with a vocation moral. In their junior year in high school a group of friends form the V. V. club (the initials standing for vacation-vocation), and in the chapters of the book their various experiences in the world of work are followed. After college one group goes to New York to attack business, advertising, interior decorating and tearoom management. One girl stays at home and finds her vocation in a recreation center. One country girl leaves the farm to go to college and then comes back to teach a country school and make over a rural community. One girl, who is a misfit in business, succeeds as athletic director and organizer of a summer camp. The girls are bright and natural, the stories are interestingly told and the romance that has a part in all real-life stories is not omitted.
=HASKINS, CHARLES HOMER, and LORD, ROBERT HOWARD.= Some problems of the Peace conference. *$3 Harvard univ. press 914.314
20–12208
“It will be remembered that Professor Haskins and Professor Lord were two of the experts who accompanied President Wilson to the peace conference. Prof. Haskins served as chief of the division of western Europe and he was American member of the special committee of three which drafted the treaty clauses on Alsace-Lorraine and the Sarre valley. Professor Lord served as American adviser on Poland and related problems, both at Paris and in Poland itself. The lectures published in this volume were delivered last winter at the Lowell institute and are now given with only incidental changes. The effort of the two men has been to present each of these problems in its historical setting, revealing at the same time, the reason of its importance to the conference.”—Boston Transcript
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“In respect both to extent and to content, the book leaves much to be contributed to the subject in the future, by the present authors or by other scholars. It does provide what is most needed at this time, a well-informed and fairminded sketch of the background and of the probable issue of the territorial settlement. One noteworthy contribution of the book is the first chapter on Task and methods of the conference.” Clive Day
+ =Am Hist R= 26:334 Ja ’21 1400w
“May be regarded, without question, as the most important work on the conference that has yet appeared. It should do much to counteract the overdrawn and splenetic sketches of Keynes, Dillon, or Creel.” C: Seymour
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:734 N ’20 420w
“It is improbable that this particular book, with the accurate knowledge it displays and the authoritative position which its authors held in the actual negotiations, will ever be replaced as an historical record.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 14 ’20 280w
“By far the best account of the Paris conference which has yet appeared.”
+ =Ind= 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 130w
Reviewed by W: MacDonald
=Nation= 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 500w
“Their book will meet the needs of the many now looking for just such a graphic account of the methods of the peace conference in dealing with important questions.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 30 ’20 180w
“The book is to be welcomed warmly just because the Peace conference did not accomplish (whether it could have done so we need not here discuss) the enormous task it set itself, and Americans will be forced again and again to take a stand on new disputes arising from the settlements made.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 45:104 O 16 ’20 260w
“Within its limits the book, which is admirably written, is of great value. It contains a scholarly, open-minded, impartial account of such matters as the problem of Slesvig, and the questions concerning the status, and territorial extension of Belgium. It will do much good, for it serves as a useful antidote to the criticisms, often so ignorant and so partisan, of the territorial settlement.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p526 Ag 19 ’20 950w
=HASLETT, ELMER.= Luck on the wing; thirteen stories of a sky spy. il *$3 Dutton 940.44
20–8364
The personal narrative of a young American aviator in France. “The author records at the very outset how he preferred the clean air to the rat-haunted trenches, and it was that human desire to escape from the muddy, disagreeable ground that made him become a flying man. The book reads more like a novel than the record of a warrior.” (Bookm)
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“Hardships and adventures are told with a youthful verve, without overstraining and with an ever ready appreciation when the joke is on himself.”
+ =Booklist= 17:66 N ’20
“Major Elmer Haslett has written, in ‘Luck on the wing,’ just the kind of book we need, now that we all have some perspective—though little, I admit—on the war. It is full of the fire and fervor of youth, good-natured, natural—a splendid picture of the fighting airman.” C: H. Towne
+ =Bookm= 52:77 S ’20 430w
“For those who have shared our ignorance of the aerial observer, this book should be of value.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 S 26 ’20 500w
=HASLUCK, EUGENE LEWIS.=[2] Teaching of history. (Cambridge handbooks for teachers) *$3.20 Macmillan 907
“After defining certain legitimate reasons for teaching history in schools, and distinguishing these from ‘false and shallow justification,’ a statement is presented of the basis of selection of materials for pupils of different age groups and a detailed plan is outlined for organizing courses in English history for upper-grade pupils in either a one, two, three, or four years’ sequence. Further discussion concerns the nature and use of the history textbook and the effective use of supplementary historical and literary source material, with specific reference to a number of especially valuable ones; types of historical exercises which may be employed as aids to the stimulation of interest and the retention of historical facts; and different ways of utilizing general, local, and recent history. Three specimen lesson-units are given in outline form—one illustrating a unit of pure narrative, one which describes a particular social situation, and one which centers about a national character. A final chapter points out some of the most common pitfalls which beset the teacher of history, and suggests means of avoiding them.”—School R
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“This slender volume is of interest to American teachers for two reasons: first, for the information it gives directly or by implication upon the state of history-teaching in England, and, secondly, for the practical quality of its criticisms and suggestions, so wholly unaffected by the airs and attitudes of the professional pedagogue.” H. E. B.
+ =Am Hist R= 26:353 Ja ’21 390w
=Ath= p140 Jl 30 ’19 940w
“On the study of history, and the study of teaching as applied thereto, Mr Hasluck writes as an expert. Where there is life, there is hope. And even the formal categories of this handbook bear witness to a vitality, widespread and abounding in promise.”
+ =Sat R= 130:120 Ag 7 ’20 750w
+ =School R= 28:793 D ’20 320w
“Suggestive and helpful.”
+ =Spec= 125:281 Ag 28 ’20 190w
=HASTINGS, MILO MILTON.= City of endless night. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–15704
Great changes had taken place on the earth’s surface in 2150. The German empire had been wiped out and all that was left of it was the roof of Berlin looming up to the height of three hundred metres out of a bomb-torn desert that had once been Germany. The German people themselves now lived underground, three hundred million of them. It was an American chemical engineer who, during one of his experiments, was by accident exploded into their domain and by a cunning strategy managed to live and work among them; to escape by submarine and by means of his knowledge to be instrumental in the overthrow of that stronghold and in the liberation of those millions. All the qualities that the Germans have been credited with before, during and since the war, are utilized in the story with satiric exaggeration.
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“Mr Hastings has succeeded in interweaving into this book a love story that always escapes being bizarre, no mean accomplishment in a tale depicting a society ‘that never was on land or sea’ outside of an author’s imagination.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 420w
=HAWES, CHARLES BOARDMAN.= Mutineers. il $2 (2c) Atlantic monthly press
20–26982
“A tale of old days at sea and of adventures in the Far East as Benjamin Lathrop set it down some sixty years ago.” (Sub-title) It was young Ben’s first voyage and although only a ship’s boy he was in the midst of all the adventures that happened. He was the first to detect treason aboard, to suspect that it was not the pirates they encountered who killed the captain and first mate, and to join the mutineers against the crafty usurpers of power. He was set adrift with the mutineers in a boat, had an exciting encounter with Malay savages who helped them regain control of the ship and, after more thrilling experiences, in the course of which the culprits met their doom, the ship and its precious cargo was saved, and when the “Island Princess” returned to its home port there was indeed a story to tell.
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“Told with skill and an evident knowledge of the sea and seamen. Older boys will find it absorbing. Good make-up.”
+ =Booklist= 17:163 Ja ’21
“This is a story that has the sort of appeal carried by ‘Treasure island.’ It is a book written with swing and go, windy of the high seas, full of the wild doings of those early days.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 80w
“There’s not one element of the ideal sea story lacking.” L. H. Seaman
+ =Pub W= 98:1200 O 16 ’20 320w
“It is a tale with the true flavor of the time it professes to portray, and will have the genuine attraction for boys of all ages that similar stories by Stevenson and other lovers of the South sea and its shores possess.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 140w
=HAWKES, CLARENCE.= Master Frisky. new ed il *$1.50 (6c) Crowell
The author is a well-known naturalist, author of “Wood and water friends,” and other books. Master Frisky is a collie puppy and in telling his story many other animal friends of barnyard and field are introduced. There are interesting chapters on the training of dogs, on dog signs and language and dog friendships.
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“A worthy addition to our delightful literature of dogdom.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ’20 140w
=HAWKES, CLARENCE.= Trails to woods and waters; foreword by W: T. Hornaday. il *$1.60 (3c) Jacobs 590.4
20–6752
In driving the cows to and from pasture as a barefoot boy, the author tells us, he learned to love nature, he learned to “see” things, he learned to endow the growing, running, flying things in the woods with personality. He makes his young readers feel that they are coming in touch with sentient things, with personalities, when they read about the trees, brooks and animals of the stories. Contents: The trail to woods and waters; A tale from the skidway; The story of willow brook; A little dapple fool; The family of Bob-White; The busy bee; Downstream in a canoe; Jacking and moose-calling; In Beaver-land; One’s own back door-yard; A wary mother; A lively bee hunt; The speckled heifer’s calf; Camping with old Ben; Forest footfalls; In the hunter’s moon; A winter walk; Camp fire legends of the wood folks. Some of the material of the book has appeared in two earlier works now out of print.
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+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 29 ’20 200w
=HAWKINS, SIR ANTHONY HOPE (ANTHONY HOPE, pseud.).= Lucinda. *$2 (2c) Appleton
20–18612
The scene is all set for a fashionable London wedding, but at the last moment something goes wrong. The wedding is “unavoidably postponed.” As a matter of fact the bride has disappeared. Waldo Rillington, the bridegroom, is about to start in pursuit of the pair, for he rightly assumes that she has gone with Arsenio Valdez, but the war intervenes and for years Lucinda is lost to her English friends. Julius Rillington, Waldo’s cousin, meets her once in the interval, comes upon her unexpectedly in the year 1916 in a town in southern France. She tells him her story but he refrains from telling it to the others and keeps the meeting secret. Julius is thereafter much involved in Lucinda’s affairs, and when she is set free, he marries her. Lucinda is a heroine who serenely refuses to be downed by fortune. She takes good or ill with the same imperturbability and so always has the better of her rival, Nina, later Lady Dundrannan.
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“The canvas is small and the theme has no great originality, but it is treated with the delicately humorous grace which has always distinguished this author.”
+ =Ath= p763 D 3 ’20 130w
“There is some very clever characterization of the group of people involved in the delinquency.” S. M. R.
+ =Bookm= 52:371 D ’20 100w
“Light, whimsical, ironic, sophisticated, the history of ‘Lucinda’ is pleasantly diverting.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 D 19 ’20 600w
“One feels that Mr Hope is now writing to please his own ideals of the art of fiction rather than to amuse the crowd. The novel is on original lines and has underlying humor.”
+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 110w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p777 N 25 ’20 560w
=HAWORTH, PAUL LELAND.= United States in our own times, 1865–1920. *$2.25 Scribner 973.8
20–14454
“This book is designed to meet the needs of students who desire to know our country in our own times. In it I have devoted a large share of space to social and industrial questions, but I have been on my guard against swinging too far in this direction. After all, the business of government is still of prime importance to the welfare of the nation, and it is essential that our citizens should understand our past political history.” (Preface) The contents are in part: The aftermath of war; President Johnson’s plan of reconstruction; Mexico, Alaska, and the election of 1868; The fruits of reconstruction; Foreign relations and the liberal Republican movement; The passing of the “Wild West”; Hard times and free silver; The war with Spain; “Imperialism”; “Big business” and the Panama canal; The Progressive revolt; America enters the great war; The peace conference. The book contains eight maps, some suggestions for further reading and an index.
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“Not only has the author failed to show the interaction between the social and industrial problems of the country and the evolution of our law, but also he has failed to indicate the relation of these problems to our political life. Two attributes, however, of this work stand out so strikingly as to make its reading well worth the while of the student of recent American history. In the first place the ‘Suggestions for further readings,’ giving as they do page references to selected portions of various works, are excellent; secondly, and more important, Mr Haworth has produced a work which is so readable as to justify the claim of the publishers that it is as ‘fascinating as a story.’” B. B. Kendrick
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:349 Ja ’21 520w
=Booklist= 17:108 D ’20
“The author uses no little self-restraint in his endeavor to be impartial. The style is attractive, and the author has hit upon a happy medium between a mere outline and excessive details. This work is the best of its kind that has been published.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 580w
“His book deserves no serious consideration, save in so far as it may be used to befuddle the minds of our children.” Harold Kellock
− =Freeman= 2:93 O 6 ’20 650w
Reviewed by C: A. Beard
=Nation= 111:sup417 O 13 ’20 460w
“It is possible to detect errors, for, though Dr Haworth’s method has apparently been to study thoroughly each standard authority on each
## particular phase of his subject, standard authorities on very recent
events sometimes need a good deal of overhauling.... When it comes to the war itself, Dr Haworth gives about as lucid and understandable an account of it as we have met with anywhere. In his treatment of the social question no extremist on either side will find much comfort, but it will be applauded by all who want a sane and intelligent account.”
+ − =N Y Times= p22 S 5 ’20 3000w
+ =R of Rs= 62:445 O ’20 150w
“The text is notably readable with a delightfully simple style. The judgments passed on the actors in the difficult times of reconstruction and on such characters as Arthur, McKinley and Taft follow closely the estimates by Rhodes and the authors in the American nation series, which is to say they are eminently fair. The last chapters, dealing with the war and the peace conference, do not represent such mature or impartial judgments.” R. D. Leigh
+ − =Survey= 45:579 Ja 15 ’21 440w
=HAWTREY, R. G.=[2] Currency and credit. *$5 (*15s) Longmans 332
19–19368
“Mr R. G. Hawtrey’s ‘Currency and credit’ is a series of essays on subjects connected with money, which the writer has put together with the intention of presenting ‘a systematic analysis of currency and credit movements.’ His ‘analysis’ takes the form of a description of the mechanism of exchange and of the way it works in practice, in the course of which he supplies an exposition of the nature of financial crises. Two chapters are devoted to the discussion of the financial problems which have to be faced in time of war, and two more to ‘The assignats’ and ‘The bank restriction, 1797.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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=Am Pol Sci R= 14:362 My ’20 80w
“The book as a whole is in danger of falling between two stools: it is not easy or simple enough for beginners, and it does not take enough for granted to appeal to those who are already familiar with the theory of money. It could have been improved a good deal by rearrangement and a redistribution of emphasis. It is, however, the product of an acute intellect which reasons closely and threads its way through what are sometimes rather tortuous paths of abstraction.” G. S.
+ − =Ath= p1120 O 31 ’19 460w
“The last two sections of the book are, on the whole, the best portions of it. Mr Hawtrey’s history of the assignats is so well done that it could hardly be improved upon; it is clear, concise, and covers all the points which require bringing out. In selecting these few chapters for special praise we do not deny merit to the rest of the book.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p568 O 16 ’19 720w
=HAY, JAMES.= Melwood mystery. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–4958
Washington is the scene of this mystery story. Zimony Newman, suspected of being a German spy, is murdered in her apartment in the Melwood. Suspicion rests chiefly upon John Thayer, a young senator, and Knowles, an inventor who had once employed Miss Newman as his secretary. Other characters are Felix Conrad, a retired German-American manufacturer, and his secretary, David Gower, and Rosalie, Conrad’s daughter, who is engaged to John. Two detectives are occupied with the case, one the typical secret service man, working with conventional methods, the other Hastings, who whittles away with his jack knife and thinks.
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“A well worked out detective story. Although conventional, the characters are interesting and the climax unexpected.”
+ =Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20
“The author’s style, simple, terse and gripping makes it easy to follow the dramatic happenings that finally lead to the dénouement.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:165 Ap 11 ’20 650w
=Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 140w
=HAY, JAMES.= “No clue!” *$1.75 (2½c) Dodd
20–15703
Like most mystery stories, this one begins with a murder. The victim is a young girl, Mildred Brace, the scene the lawn in front of “Sloanehurst,” the time, around midnight on a rainy night in summer. With so much known, it is left to Jefferson Hastings, an elderly detective who happened to be staying at Sloanehurst at the time, to discover the murderer and the motive. Also at Sloanehurst as week-end guests were Berne Webster, Lucille Sloane’s fiancé, and Judge Wilton, Mr Sloane’s close friend. From circumstantial evidence, Webster seemed guilty, as he had recently discharged Mildred from his office and she had since annoyed him with threats of a breach of promise suit. But Hastings mulled over the case and was not satisfied with circumstantial evidence. He got in touch with Mrs Brace, the girl’s mother, and upon discovering what manner of woman she was, became convinced that she held the key to the mystery in her hands. He played on her weakness, love of money, and eventually brought to light the facts that he had been sure existed—which completely cleared Webster and brought the criminal to justice.
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“The story holds interest throughout, though it is of rather commonplace people, and devoid of dramatic circumstances, until the moment of fastening the guilt on the unexpected person.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p12 D 8 ’20 420w
“It is no better and no worse than the general run of detective stories that will stand beside it on the booksellers’ shelves. Its author’s faults are typical of contemporary detective fiction. Of these faults, the most glaring is Mr Hay’s failure to arouse interest in his automaton-like characters.”
+ − =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 300w
“A cleverly constructed detective story, but one with very little genuine human interest.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 40w
=HAYDEN, ARTHUR.= Bye-paths in curio collecting. il *$6.50 Stokes 749
20–15722
“This is another of Mr Hayden’s useful books. He classifies a heterogeneous collection of objects in a practical, if slightly unscientific way under such headings as ‘Boxes,’ ‘Man and fire,’ ‘The land,’ ‘The boudoir,’ etc.” (Ath) “Among the less usual antiquities to be collected, which Mr Hayden describes, are tobacco-stoppers, early examples of which embody portraits of King Charles I.; keys, many of them beautifully decorated, playing-cards, children’s toys, and tea-table accessories.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
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“There is a fairly good index. Mr Hayden’s advice is sound, and his insistence that the function of the curio collector is to rescue works of art is welcome in these days of indiscriminate high prices. The half-tone illustrations are clear.”
+ =Ath= p193 F 6 ’20 90w
“Always delightful is Mr Hayden, and in this latest book of his, he is just as charming and even more discursive. Like most English writers, too, he has the advantage of a very firm historical basis.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 2 ’20 400w
Reviewed by B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 O 23 ’20 400w
“An introductory note to the book, written with the grace and charm of a delightful essay, is full of lively comments on collecting in general. Fascinating information on a wide miscellany of subjects peeps at us from every paragraph of ‘Bye-paths in curio collecting.’”
+ =N Y Times= p10 S 12 ’20 2250w
“Mr Hayden belongs, quite frankly, to the sentimental school, finding, if not beauty, at least a genuine charm in the chattels of our forefathers; and his book, without being exactly ‘popular,’ is of human rather than technical interest.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p757 D 18 ’19 3050w
=HAYES, CARLETON JOSEPH HUNTLEY.= Brief history of the great war. *$3.50 Macmillan 940.3
20–8603
The author states that he has essayed to sketch tentatively what seem to him to be the broad outlines of the war, the “domestic politics of the several belligerents no less than army campaigns and naval battles,—and in presenting his synthesis to be guided so far as in him lay by an honest desire to put heat and passion aside and to write candidly and objectively for the instruction of the succeeding generation.” (Preface) After giving in due order the various events and phases of the war the last chapter—A new era begins—is devoted to the settlement, the losses and the landmarks of the new era. The three appendices contain: The covenant of the league of nations; American reservations to the treaty of Versailles; and Proposed agreement between the United States and France. The book contains a select bibliography, an index, ten maps in color and numerous sketch maps.
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“This is the best single-volume history of the great war which has so far appeared, and it is one of the very few which deserve serious consideration by professional students of history. It is written with a high degree of scientific responsibility, and not for mere purposes of journalism or propaganda. At present it holds practically a unique place for fullness of information, fairness, balance, and accuracy.” W: S. Davis
+ =Am Hist R= 26:91 O ’20 1250w
“Useful as a school text or reference.”
+ =Booklist= 17:24 O ’20
“In mastery of detail, in perspective, in proportion, in perspicuity, in philosophic grasp of his subject as a whole, he outclasses all rivals, whether they have written in English, in French, or in German. Even his faults, such little ones as may be picked out here and there, are but the excesses of his virtues. Thus, in his desire to make everything perfectly clear, he verges on the pedagogical. Certainly, by his lucidity and his impartiality he has attained a result unsurpassed by the poets and thinkers who have written on the war, by Sassoon or Barbusse, by Keynes or Bertrand Russell.” Preserved Smith
+ − =Nation= 111:46 Jl 10 ’20 850w
Reviewed by C: A. Beard
=New Repub= 25:114 D 22 ’20 880w
“Considering the time and the circumstances under which it was composed, Professor Hayes has written a good brief history of the war.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p12 O 23 ’20 850w
“As a book of reference it will be highly useful, for it has an admirable index, abundance of maps and sketches, a good bibliography, and its table of contents, with the titles of chapters and sub-chapters at once suggests the true proportion of the different events of the war. But the breath of life is lacking which would convert these cold recitals into a vivid picture of the war as a whole.” F. V. Greene
+ − =N Y Times= 25:8 Jl 11 ’20 1900w
“The author’s acquaintance with European politics enabled him to supply the appropriate background for his pictures.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 100w
“Well adapted for use in the schools. While it does not attain at all times to scientific objectivity of view, it shows a broad and judicial comprehension of events, and is as strong on the military side as the political. The bibliography is very faulty.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 280w
“It is written with a commendable absence of subjective theory or tendency and will be of value as a textbook when, owing to changes in popular sentiment, other war ‘histories’ written so soon after the events will have proved little more than political treatises. In short, a book worthy of a permanent place in any library.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:501 Jl 3 ’20 120w
“Will be found useful for general readers and students.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 90w
=HAYES, ELLEN.= Wild turkeys and tallow candles. *$2.50 Four seas co. 977.1
20–19252
A book in which the author, formerly professor of astronomy in Wellesley college, recreates something of the atmosphere of pioneer days in Ohio, drawing on printed records and her own memories. In explanation of her title she says, “The turkey and the candle serve fairly well to indicate the early and the late colonial times. With the passing of the candle and the coming of the kerosene lamp modern life was fairly introduced. As my own memory runs back to a prekerosene time I am able to describe at first hand some phases of Granville township life that were essentially pioneer.” Part 1, Wild turkey period, has chapters on Early Ohio; The pioneer journey; The wilderness home, etc., and among the chapters of Part 2, Tallow candle period, are An octagon of education; The Wolcott homestead; The year around; The county fair; A child of the Ohio eighteen-fifties.
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“The effect achieved is a brilliant painting of sturdy scenes that linger in the imagination after the book is laid down.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 O 30 ’20 200w
+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 50w
“This book should have three classes of readers, those who are interested in the early settlement of Ohio, those who like small history personally written, and those who are quite justifiedly interested in the early life and background of Ellen Hayes.” M. C. C.
+ =Survey= 45:329 N 27 ’20 300w
=HAYNES, EDMOND SIDNEY POLLOCK.= Case for liberty. *$2.50 Dutton 323.4
(Eng ed 19–19932)
“Mr Haynes here develops the argument which he outlined three years ago in ‘The decline of liberty in England.’ He associates himself, subject to some reservations, with Mr Belloc in restating the case for personal liberty in the old radical sense. ‘The vitally important aspect of liberty today,’ he says, ‘is its function in combating the sort of anarchy which threatens civilization all over the world; for this anarchy is the inevitable result of war lords and their imitators despising the normal aspirations of the individual human being to a brief period of normal happiness.’ The book is in the main a review of the more recent tendencies of politics in England with the object of showing that the individual human being is marked for destruction as such by the plutocrat on one side and the collectivist on the other. The political remedies he proposes are the referendum and the revival of the process of impeachment.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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=Nation= 112:90 Ja 19 ’21 410w
“His little book is replete with rare and robust commonsense; his reasoning is consequent; and his illustrations are occasionally witty.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:201 Ag 30 ’19 1300w
+ − =Spec= 122:220 Ag 16 ’19 180w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 13 ’19 290w (Reprinted from the Times [London] Lit Sup p415 Jl 31 ’19)
=Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 470w
“Mr Haynes’s book will not command universal agreement, but it is a real contribution to current political discussion.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p415 Jl 31 ’19 280w
=HEAD, JOSEPH.= Everyday mouth hygiene. il *$1 Saunders 613.4
20–1616
The author, dentist to the Jefferson hospital, Philadelphia, sounds a serious note of warning against imperfectly cleaned teeth, which, through infection, cause “directly or indirectly one-half of the fatal diseases.” Rheumatism, heart disease, ulcer of the stomach and many other fatal diseases can be reduced fifty per cent if decay of the teeth and gum infection are stayed. How this can be done the book tells minutely in word and picture. It contains besides some closing remarks on the irregularity of children’s teeth and has an index.
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=Booklist= 16:227 Ap ’20
“Considering the appalling prevalence of digestive and nerve diseases due to bad teeth, the detailed instruction here given for tooth preservation deserves wide circulation.”
+ =Survey= 43:592 F 14 ’20 80w
=HEADLAM, ARTHUR CAYLEY.= Doctrine of the church and Christian reunion; being the Bampton lectures for the year 1920. *$4 Longmans 280
20–18237
“Dr Headlam is Regius professor of divinity in the University of Oxford. He traces the doctrine of the church from the four gospels down to the Lambeth conference. He says that Christ ‘created the church as a visible society. He instituted ministry and sacraments. He gave authority for legislation and discipline.’ ‘But he gave no directions as to the form or organization of the new community, and the actual organization which was ultimately developed was different from anything which he personally established.’ Episcopacy ‘was the creation of the church.... It had its origin in the apostolic church; it represents a continuous development from apostolic times; but we cannot claim that it has apostolic authority.’ Dr Headlam defends the historic episcopacy and the Nicene creed as a basis for organic church union, not on the ground that they have the direct authority of Jesus Christ, but because their value has been recognized by an overwhelming majority in the Christian church from a very early age.”—Outlook
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“The writer, condemning himself, well says; ‘Only too often the professed adoption of the historical method appears to be but a device for concealing one’s bias’; for on page after page he misrepresents and misinterprets the evidence that lies plainly before him.”
− =Cath World= 112:543 Ja ’21 600w
Reviewed by Lyman Abbott
+ =Outlook= 126:689 D 15 ’20 390w
=Sat R= 130:459 D 4 ’20 1650w
“It should not only be read, but studied; and, in particular, it should be in the hands of every member of the Lambeth conference.”
+ =Spec= 125:779 D 11 ’20 2000w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 1150w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p486 Jl 29 ’20)
“No other recent book on the church and its ministry matches this volume in importance. It brings out the essential elements of the problems with which it deals clearly and dispassionately. Students of this subject will appreciate the fact that there is apparently not a single ambiguous sentence in the book.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p486 Jl 29 ’20 2200w
=HEAGLE, DAVID.= Do the dead still live? or, The testimony of science respecting a future life; new foundations for man’s great hope. *$1.50 Am. Bapt. 218
20–9221
The purpose of the book is to present in popular form all the arguments in support of a belief in human immortality. The sources drawn from are science, philosophy and religion, but the scientific proofs are especially enlarged upon. The book has an introduction by Bishop Samuel Fallows who calls it a whole library of condensed information on the subject. The discussion is outlined in the first chapter—Preliminaries. The rest of the contents are: The older arguments, from philosophy and religion; The argument from biology—from physics—from physiology—from psychology (normal and abnormal)—from spiritism scientifically examined; Conclusions, and possibilities of further discovery; Supplement—related matters and objections, with opinions of eminent philosophers and scholars; Notes and a bibliography.
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=Booklist= 16:297 Je ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 400w
“An earnest and well-meaning intention will not atone for the lack of critical discrimination. The book is an unfortunate example of juggling with incommensurables.” Joseph Jastrow
− =Dial= 69:209 Ag ’20 210w
“The work is, perhaps, unique in its comprehensive and succinct survey of the argument for personal survival after death.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 240w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
=Review= 3:41 Jl 14 ’20 80w
=HEARN, LAFCADIO.= Talks to writers. *$2 Dodd 814
20–19452
These chapters are reprinted from the author’s “Interpretations of literature” and “Life and literature”—lectures delivered at the University of Tokyo. Hearn writes as a craftsman and looks upon literature as an emotional art, a moral art and one requiring unceasing discipline. He insists on clearness of vision, on exactness in the use of words and holds that literature must grow out of the vernacular. He advises translating as a literary practice and preliminary discipline. The book is edited with an introduction by John Erskine and is indexed. Contents: On the relation of life and character to literature; On composition; Studies of extraordinary prose; The value of the supernatural in fiction; The question of the highest art; Tolstoi’s theory of art; Note upon the abuse and the use of literary societies; On reading; Literature and public opinion; Farewell address.
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“The content, not the style, is here of first importance; these lectures, as they stand, not only furnish light on an interesting side of Hearn’s personality, but represent adequately his point of view as it had been ripened by study and thought.” F. N. A.
+ =Freeman= 2:501 F 2 ’21 360w
“Addressed to alien students, they are necessarily often elementary in subject matter and always simple in style. Out of the latter necessity Hearn made a virtue and achieved a naive charm, so that, as writing, the lectures are, like everything else he wrote, beautiful.”
+ =Nation= 112:sup248 F 9 ’21 340w
“No one who is beginning to write, or who is a student of composition, can afford to miss these lectures.” W. P. Eaton
+ =N Y Call= p10 N 21 ’20 290w
=N Y Evening Post= p8 N 6 ’20 190w
“There is real suggestiveness and stimulation in these dissertations.”
+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 70w
“The first three chapters, which deal more directly with the workmanship of good writing and good books, contain more common sense on the subject than all the books on ‘how to become a writer in 30 lessons’ on the market.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 11 ’21 220w
=HEATLEY, DAVID PLAYFAIR.= Diplomacy and the study of international relations. *$3.75 Oxford 327
20–4112
“The purpose of this book, as stated by its author, is ‘to portray diplomacy and the conduct of foreign policy from the stand-point of history, to show how they have been analyzed and appraised by representative writers, and to indicate sources from which the knowledge thus acquired may be supplemented.’ The first third of the volume consists of an essay of a general character on Diplomacy and the conduct of foreign policy, written from a British point of view. The remaining two-thirds of the book consist of a general discussion of the literature of international relations.”—Am Hist R
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“The bibliography on treaties, maps, and supplementary reading is rather scanty. It should be added that, whatever may be the estimate of this volume in other respects, its tone is scholarly and gives evidence of much painstaking in its preparation.” D: J. Hill
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:698 Jl ’20 1000w
“A valuable and scholarly work.”
+ =Ath= p782 Je 11 ’20 80w
=Booklist= 17:52 N ’20
“This is a very valuable source book for students of international law. This is a book for the student, not for the general reader—a record of careful, conscientious scholarship, containing new material, but somewhat dry in style.” M. R. F. G.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 700w
“The arrangement of ‘Diplomacy and the study of international relations’ is so far from orderly that its usefulness is very much impaired, and one has even some doubt as to what the author really aimed at doing. Much of the matter thus put together is of great interest, but as the book stands at present, it is rather a note-book than a finished work.”
+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:629 O ’20 170w
“A repertory of historical information that is not easily found elsewhere.”
+ =Spec= 124:465 Ap 3 ’20 170w
=HEATON, ELIZA OSBORN (PUTNAM) (MRS JOHN LANGDON HEATON).= By-paths in Sicily. il *$3.50 Dutton 914.58
20–12460
“The late Mrs Heaton was a clever New York journalist who for reasons of health had to spend seven years in Sicily. She devoted herself to the study of the Sicilian peasantry, their customs and their dialects. We are told that after the Messina earthquake this American lady was called in as an interpreter between Italian officers from the North and the peasants. Her book shows that she made many close friends among the poor and gained an unusual knowledge of their ways. Six of the chapters are given to descriptions of fairs and festivals.”—Spec
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“The author was a gifted writer whose perceptions struck far below the surface and who could see her material in historical perspective as well as with rare human understanding.”
+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20
+ =Bookm= 52:345 D ’20 40w
+ =N Y Times= p22 D 12 ’20 280w
“A book which possesses both charm and real value. The high quality of the vivid and sympathetic realism with which the scenes and characters are described recalls the best regional writers of Italy.”
+ =Review= 3:390 O 27 ’20 660w
+ =Spec= 125:282 Ag 28 ’20 190w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p528 Ag 19 ’20 900w
=HEIDENSTAM, KARL GUSTAF VERNER VON.= Birth of God. *$1.25 Four seas co. 839.7
20–6852
This one act play, translated from the Swedish by Karoline M. Knudsen, is a symbolic presentation of the human soul’s eternal search after God. It is a moonlit scene in the street of the Sphinxes at Karnak, where a modern and an ancient man meet on the same quest with the old animal idols dancing about. The quest comes to an end when they both realize that it is in their faith in the unknown God and their search for him that they possess him and build him altars and sacrificial fires.
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=Booklist= 16:306 Je ’20
=Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 150w
“The dialogue is not ineffective and von Heidenstam punctuates it adequately with stage effects. Yet its rather oratorical progress is not entirely convincing.” F. E. H.
+ − =Freeman= 1:478 Jl 28 ’20 130w
Reviewed by Ludwig Lewisohn
=Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 110w
Reviewed by O. W. Firkins
=Review= 2:609 Je 5 ’20 100w
“‘The birth of God’ is possibly less direct than its predecessor, ‘The soothsayer.’ The movement is slow. Nor is the treatment as striking in originality.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 580w
=HEILNER, VAN CAMPEN, and STICK, FRANK.= Call of the surf. il *$3 (4½c) Doubleday 799
20–16781
This is the first book on surf fishing and its authors are enthusiasts for the sport. The purpose of the book is threefold: “to afford some small entertainment to brother fishermen on those long evenings when the north wind howls and winter’s sleet drives against the window pane; to attract the stranger to a sport in which the authors have found a vast measure of happiness, and to make somewhat smoother his trail to the Big-Sea Water.” (Authors’ note) The illustrations are from photographs and from paintings by Frank Stick. Contents: Surf fishing; In quest of the channel bass; Gold medal fish and others; Down Barnegat way; The tiger of the sea; With the tide runners of the inlets; On the offshore banks; The channel bass of Gray Gull Shoals; The smaller brethren; By western seas; Beach camping; Equipment.
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“The delights of surf fishing are shown forth after the manner of an accomplished essayist, in the opening chapter. Others than fishermen will find much pleasure in reading this book.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 600w
“It is written with a threefold purpose, which it triumphantly achieves. Both Mr Heilner and Mr Stick are surfmen whose enthusiasm for the sport about which they write is most contagious. They won one convert in the reviewer; he’s going a-fishing with them next spring ‘when the red gods call.’”
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 10 ’20 1050w
“With three good sports collaborating in this friendly fashion the book ought to be pretty good—and it is.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 340w
=HENDERSON, ARCHIBALD.= Conquest of the old Southwest. il *$3 (5c) Century 976
20–8247
It is “the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740–1790,” (Sub-title) now known as the old Southwest, that is told in this volume. The author points out two determinative principles in the progressive American civilization of the eighteenth century as: the passion for the acquisition of land; and wanderlust—the inquisitive instinct of the hunter, the traveler, and the explorer. They gave rise to a restless nomadic temperament which in its turn formed the sub-soil of a buoyant national character. What it did for democracy in the second half of the eighteenth century is the theme of the book. The contents in part are: The migration of the peoples; The cradle of westward expansion; The back country and the border; The Indian war; The land companies; Daniel Boone and wilderness exploration; The regulators; Transylvania—a wilderness commonwealth; The repulse of the red men; The lure of Spain—the haven of statehood; List of notes, bibliographical notes, index and illustrations.
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“One expects from Mr Henderson a well-told story, and this volume realizes this expectation. The narrative will interest the scientific historian as well as the lay reader. It is evident that there are grave limitations to Mr Henderson’s interpretation of old Southwest history.” C. W. Alvord
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:116 O ’20 580w
“An interesting economic and social story to all who know the Mississippi valley settlements mainly as exploits of Boone and George Rogers Clark”
+ =Booklist= 17:25 O ’20
“This volume is a very condensed history, with a great number of witness-references showing the care with which Mr Henderson has done his work. He has added a valuable and convenient treatise concerning a somewhat overlooked section to the group of histories of the states, and to the history of the formation of the United States of America.” J. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 650w
=Freeman= 2:69 S 29 ’20 190w
+ =N Y Times= p14 Ag 29 ’20 2550w
“All in all, this is a book to be strongly recommended.” G. I. Colbron
+ =Pub W= 97:1293 Ap 17 ’20 350w
=R of Rs= 62:335 S ’20 60w
“An important contribution to history.” C. L. Skinner
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:183 O ’20 940w
=HENDRYX, JAMES BEARDSLEY.= Gold girl. il *$1.75 (3c) Putnam
20–6633
Following her father’s death, Patty Sinclair goes West to locate his claim. She has only his map with the directions she is too unskilled to read to guide her, but she follows his example in playing a lone hand and will not ask advice. She soon learns that her movements are watched and that in her absence her cabin is being searched. Suspicion might fall on two men and she picks the wrong one. Vil Holland knows that she distrusts him but that makes no difference in his attitude toward her. He knows too her opinion of the brown jug she has seen attached to his saddle, but out of perversity he continues to carry it. In the end the true villain is unmasked and the race for the registry office that follows her finding of the claim has a different meaning and a different outcome from the one she had anticipated.
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“Bright and interesting story.”
+ =Ath= p687 My 21 ’20 70w
“The book is colorful and well written.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 11 ’20 340w
“We should like to believe that the book gives a picture of life anywhere or at any time, but somehow the author fails to convince us.”
− =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 50w
“The plot of the story is one to intrigue the interest from the outset.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 130w
=HENRY, AUGUSTINE.= Forests, woods and trees in relation to hygiene. (Chadwick library) il *$7.50 (*18s) Dutton 634.9
(Eng ed Agr20–233)
“The book is an amplification of the Chadwick lectures delivered by Prof. Henry at the Royal society of arts in 1917, and the author no doubt looks upon it in large measure as propaganda in the cause of tree-planting on a national scale. The first three chapters, however, deal with matters of profound scientific importance—the influence of forests on climate, the sanitary influence of forests, and forests as sites for sanatoria. The greater part of the volume is devoted to a question of national importance—the afforestation of water-catchment areas, with particulars of the extent to which the work has already proceeded.”—Nature
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+ =Booklist= 17:58 N ’20
“Prof. Henry has read up the subject widely, but the nature of his
## book makes it impossible for him to focus the results sharply enough.
He does, indeed, direct the attention of his readers to many recent investigations which it is most useful to have brought together, and for this guidance the student who wishes to go farther should be sincerely grateful.” H. R. Mill
+ − =Nature= 105:158 Ap 8 ’20 1250w
=HENRY, ROBERT MITCHELL.= Evolution of Sinn Fein. *$2 (3c) Huebsch 941.5
The book is a complete survey of the historical struggle of the Irish for independence. The author asserts that at no time did the English government aim at anything less than the complete moral, material and political subjugation of Ireland—nor did the Irish at any time yield in their assertion of their national independence. How this spirit of independence finally culminated in the birth of the Sinn Fein movement and in the course of the war developed into open rebellion is the subject of the book. The introductory deals with Irish nationalism before the nineteenth century and the chapters following are: Irish nationalism in the nineteenth century; Sinn Fein; The early years of Sinn Fein; Sinn Fein and the republicans; The volunteer movement; Ulster and nationalist Ireland; Sinn Fein, 1914–1916; After the rising; Conclusion.
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“It displays generally the gift of patient research into the details of the newest development of revolutionary Ireland, and in this respect supplies much information from the writings and ideals of the present leaders which must be of considerable value to future historians. From the historic point of view the weak point is that the case of England—politically and strategically—is hardly considered at all.” P. B.
+ =Ath= p507 Ap 16 ’20 1850w
“As a history of the party, it makes very good reading, but unfortunately the author is partisan, almost blindly so, and Sinn Fein is the only matter in Ireland that he finds for praise.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p158 Mr 4 ’20 80w
=HENRY, STUART.= Villa Elsa. *$2 Dutton
20–2260
“‘Villa Elsa’ is the actual, everyday family life of the middle-class German before the war—nothing glossed over, nothing exaggerated or fanciful. It is Mr Henry’s personal experience expressed in the form of a novel. The Bucher family lived in Loschwitz, a suburb of Dresden. Herr Bucher, the father, is a stolid, unwashed, collarless, healthy and obese German ‘Vater’; his wife, Frau Bucher, is coarse, red-faced, heavy-handed, snarling and shouting, at the top of her lungs, her fierce hatred of England. Elsa, the only daughter, has the usual tow hair, is stupidly healthy, reads Heine, tries to be sentimental, but is essentially matter of fact. Rudolph, the eldest son, is in secret a government spy, reporting upon their visitor, Gard Kirtley, from America. He is a spruce young engineer, militaristic, dissolute, despising all decent women, and continually hinting of Der Tag. Ernst, a pale boy of fifteen, studies eighteen hours out of the twenty-four, quotes falsified history, and particularly discredits all American institutions. Gard Kirtley believes he has fallen in love with Elsa, but her stolid indifference and phlegmatic stupidity finally overpower him.”—Bookm
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“The chief merit of the book is that the reader is bound to feel its truth. There is no attempt at fine writing or that easy familiarity with aristocratic court life, so often affected by English novelists, which, while it adds a gloss to the story, never wears the features of actual experience.” J: S. Wood
+ =Bookm= 51:361 My ’20 1600w
“While the story is not uninteresting in itself, it loses both in vividness and in artistic value by being constantly kept subservient to the author’s determination to inform and to teach.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:164 Ap 11 ’20 1000w
=Review= 2:436 Ap 24 ’20 180w
“For English readers this book has probably come to birth too late by some six years. His picture is unconvincing too, because it is the outcome of a mood which, in this country at least, has exhausted itself.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p13 Ja 6 ’21 450w
=HENSLOW, GEORGE.= Proofs of the truths of spiritualism. 2d ed, rev il *$2.50 Dodd 134
An inquiry into, and exposition of the nature of spiritualism, with its abundant material for evidence discussed and described in detail, such as automatic handwriting, apports, poltergeists, levitation, spirit lights, spirit clouds, “spirit-controlled” painting and drawing, psychographs, etc. Some of the chapter titles are as follows: Practical methods of substantiating the truths of spiritualism; Testing the spirits’ sight; Babies, children and adult spirits, reappearing as children; The gradual development of spirit photography; Psychographs across ordinary photographs of sitters; Materialisations. A religious atmosphere pervades the book. The text is supplemented by fifty-one illustrations, some of them reproductions of spirit-photographs.
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“From a scientific point of view Professor Henslow’s book is utterly valueless, as it is evident from the opening of his first chapter that he himself is a spiritualist of the most pronounced type. But as an extraordinarily definite account of experiments and results with all the various phenomena of the reputable private seance room, the book is as marvelous as an Arabian nights’ story and much more satisfactory because such things actually happened.” C. H. O.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 580w
“His book, slovenly as it often is in statement, is another moment in the accumulating mass of evidence which can not be laughed or sneered or denounced away.”
+ − =Review= 2:337 Ap 3 ’20 250w
=HENSLOW, GEORGE.= Religion of the spirit world; written by the spirits themselves. *$2 Dodd 134
20–15944
The book is a compilation of famous communications from the spirit world for the purpose of proving their religious significance. The author’s object is to show that the life beyond is but a continuation of life on earth, that we reap what we have sown, that every character development here on earth counts beyond and that, in a certain sense, there is a judgment day awaiting us. The contents are in part: The necessary pre-acquired mental conditions for securing happiness in the next world; The laws of eternal life; The gospel of character, preached and practised in the next life; The acquisition of the Christ-like character and conduct is everything hereafter, and must be striven for on earth; The true spiritual meaning of “heaven” and “hell”; The fate of the suicide—a terrible warning; The nature of man, here and hereafter.
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“He gives out matters of opinion constantly as matters of faith. If such a world as the contributors to this volume depict really existed, the fact ought to be concealed, in the interests of the preachers of immortality.” M. F. Egan
− =N Y Times= p17 S 26 ’20 160w
=HENSON, HERBERT HENSLEY, bp. of Hereford, and others.= Church of England; its nature and its future. *$1.75 Macmillan 283
(Eng ed 20–16630)
“Those who arranged this series of lectures took care to secure a thoroughly representative group of English clergymen. Their live lectures taken together set out with considerable force the views of high, low, and broad churchmen, with two academic pronouncements from a couple of Oxford professors. The Rev. W. R. Matthews, dean of King’s college, London, where the lectures were delivered, in a short preface, states that their purpose was to bring together exponents of the different tendencies within the church and to secure from them full and frank statements of their views on the great problem which gives its title to the book.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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=Nation= 110:773 Je 5 ’20 250w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p173 Ap 3 ’19 650w
=HERBERT, ALAN PATRICK.= Bomber gipsy, and other poems. *$1.50 Knopf 821
(Eng ed 20–1081)
With a few exceptions these poems are reprinted from Punch. They are spirited and humorous pictures of life at the front. Besides the title poem some of the pieces are: Ballade of incipient lunacy; The rest-rumour; At the dump; The atrocity; The ballad of Jones’s Blighty; The trench code; The mischief-makers; The deserters; Free meals; The cookers: a song of the transport; A song of plenty.
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+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20
“Because he has a sense of humor, a great deal of common sense and the good sense to make what is merely good verse and in no way pretends to be serious poetry, Mr Herbert has given us a very likable book about the Tommy.” Marguerite Williams
+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 22 ’20 100w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 160w
=HERBERT, ALAN PATRICK.= Secret battle. *$2 (4c) Knopf
20–628
He was a sensitive, romantic and imaginative lad, lacking confidence in himself but pathetically eager and conscientious about doing the right thing, not to make a mess of it, to measure up and more than measure up to what was required of him. He always exacted a bit more of himself than could reasonably be expected. He distinguished himself at Gallipoli in the most trying part of the war until he was carried down to the ship in a high fever. Later in France, his record was the same, always doing the over and above his power of endurance that was bound in the end to undermine his power of existence. When the strain had become too great and petty jealousies of fellow officers and the bullying arrogance of the commander had done their deadly work, the fatal move was made and one of the bravest men the war knew was shot for cowardice.
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“Mr Herbert’s is one of the most interesting and moving English war books.”
+ =Ath= p572 Jl 4 ’19 180w
“The story is told with a quiet restraint, with no attempt to pile up horrors, but with a relentless insistence on the central tragedy. Very fine work with a limited appeal.”
+ =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:78 Mr ’20 580w
“It is simply and vividly told. It reads not like fiction but like fact, which perhaps it is.”
+ =Ind= 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 280w
“He evidently and perhaps rightly considered that to draw any ultimate consequences from his story in the world of conduct would have diminished its inherent force. That force is very great.”
+ =Nation= 110:115 Ja 24 ’20 500w
“Very simply, very quietly and naturally, the author builds up the structure of events, some of them apparently trivial at the time, but destined later to become of dreadful portent, which at the last crushes and breaks Harry’s nerve. The logic of it all is unassailable and perfectly convincing.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:11 Ja 11 ’20 1100w
“Vivid, convincing, written in a style at once strong and flexible and revealing an unusual gift for character portrayal. ‘The secret battle’ is one of the few really big novels of the world war.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 200w
“Being the work of a cultivated Englishman, it has the restraint of the famous public-school tradition. It wishes to betray too little rather than too much feeling. Its manner is tense with sympathy, but its matter approaches dryness.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 2:257 Mr 13 ’20 350w
=Spec= 122:800 Je 21 ’19 100w
“The indictment against the verdict is stated quietly and without passion. The issue it raises is of interest to all ex-service men; how far must the army treat men as things, how far can and should it treat them as persons?”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 5 ’20 320w
“Needless to say, it is a painful book. Comfortable people who do not like their feelings harrowed will no more find it to their taste than they found ‘Justice’ or ‘Jude the obscure’, to their taste. To the former, indeed, the last part of ‘The secret battle’ offers a striking parallel. Not in detail, for it is pitched in a quieter key, and its author expressly states that he is not attempting to indict a system.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p356 Jl 3 ’19 500w
=HERGESHEIMER, JOSEPH.= San Cristóbal de la Habana. *$3 (4c) Knopf 917.29
20–21412
In a passively receptive mood the author went to Havana and drifted thru his days taking in impressions of the city, of the people, of the social atmosphere, of its all-pervading romance. “There was never a more complex spirit than Havana’s, no stranger mingling of chance and climate and race had ever occurred; but, remarkably, a unity of effect had been the result, such a singleness as that possessed by an opera.... It was its special charm to be charged with sensations rather than facts; a place where facts ... could be safely ignored.”
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“Mr Hergesheimer, translating the spell of Havana into words of great imagery and color, has visualized its wonderful charm.”
+ =Bookm= 52:367 Ja ’21 70w
“Half the time we see the city through his meticulously observant eyes, and the other half he plays Boswell to his own personality and ideas. The result is an engaging series of vignettes, a most understanding interpretation, and a remarkably honest human document.” J. S. N.
+ =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 230w
“A production at once original and excellent. Mr Hergesheimer possesses to an extraordinary degree the power of subjectifying the objective, which is another way of saying that he can make external realities his very own. In consequence of this happy ability his book is about one-tenth Havana and nine-tenths Hergesheimer.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 D 12 ’20 2000w
“Not the least interesting of Mr Hergesheimer’s remarks refer to the creation of literature, his own and others.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 7 ’20 350w
=HERRICK, CHEESMAN ABIAH.= Outstanding days. *$1.25 Am. S. S. union 394
20–4985
A book of selections for readings and recitations for day school and Sunday school. Each section is prefaced by a discussion of the origin and meaning of the special day under consideration. “A collection of nearly a hundred literary selections is presented in connection with the several studies. Some of these are old favorites which can never be out of date. Others are relatively recent, furnishing an expression of the thought and feeling of the present on the subjects discussed.” Contents: Place of special days; New Year’s day; Lincoln’s birthday; Washington’s birthday; Good Friday; Easter Sunday; Mother’s day; Memorial day; Children’s day; Flag day; Commencement day; Independence day; Labor day; Beginning school; Thanksgiving day; Christmas day.
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+ =El School J= 20:795 Je ’20 100w
=HERRICK, GLENN WASHINGTON.= Insects of economic importance. *$2 Macmillan 632.7
20–12386
These “outlines of lectures in economic entomology” are a revised edition of a previous volume. Space considerations prevent the inclusion of all insects of economic importance. “However, the principal pests of our important fruits, vegetables, cereals, farm animals, shade trees, and of the household are discussed. A brief summary of the life habits of each, so far as they are known, is made, and the latest methods of control are outlined. In addition, a concise discussion of insecticides is given together with formulæ and directions for making and applying them.” (Preface) The first twelve chapters are: Losses caused by insects; Useful insects; Entomological literature; Natural methods of insect control; Artificial methods of insect control; Poison insecticides; Poison baits; Contact insecticides; Fumigating substances; Miscellaneous means of insect control; Dusting; Quarantine and insecticide laws. The remainder of the book is devoted to the special insect pests and their victims and an index.
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=Booklist= 17:165 Ja ’21
=R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 40w
=HERRINGHAM, SIR WILMOT PARKER.= Physician in France. (Liverpool diocesan board of divinity publications) *$5 (*15s) Longmans 940.475
(Eng ed 19–19873)
“Preliminary to this narrative the author discusses the surprise of the English at the sudden outbreak of the war. After this preliminary discussion he, in his fifth chapter, begins his personal narrative and relates the early operations of the medical corps in England at the beginning of the war, showing us how the thing was done and the sanitary precautions that were made against sickness among the forces. Continuing, he tells of the organization and work of the Field ambulance corps; of the clearing stations; of the work of transporting the wounded and of the base hospitals and nurses. He then discusses some phases of medical work, especially the management of cases of enteric and other fevers, and of shell shock. He talks of the advance of medicine in the war, of the operations on the plains of Flanders: of the medical headquarters at Hesdin. Diverging, the author, drawing from his experiences abroad, tells of education and the religious question in France and of some interesting contrasts between French and English people, in domestic manners and management and in human characteristics.”—Boston Transcript
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“The reasons for his popularity will be apparent to anyone who reads his book, for it exhibits in an attractive form the qualities of his mind and general outlook.”
+ =Ath= p1401 D 26 ’19 520w
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 F 21 ’20 480w
“It is written in ordinary, straightforward language, free from those amateur attempts at the literary manner which make most books written by doctors so tedious. Much of the book is political, and this, except as throwing light on the character of the author, is the least important part. The most entertaining part of the book consists in the record of the author’s observations of French life and its contrasts with our own.” H. R.
+ =Nation [London]= 26:360 D 6 ’19 1350w
“Entertaining and instructive. The purely medical chapters of the book have their value as a lucid exposition calculated to enlighten the layman and to enlist his sympathy.”
+ =Sat R= 129:37 Ja 10 ’20 1350w
“In the opening chapters, devoted to a consideration of the causes which led up to the outbreak of the great war, the author exhibits a fine patriotism tempered by broad-mindedness. The book will enhance the author’s reputation, and prove most welcome reading after the publication of so many self-centred memoirs.”
+ =Spec= 124:245 F 21 ’20 1050w
“Unfortunately, the opening chapters are platitudinous and have nothing to do with the author’s real theme; but the book improves as he gets into his stride, and is best of all in the later chapters, devoted to the differences between the customs and viewpoints of the French and ourselves, which are handled at once frankly and with comprehension and discretion.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p643 N 13 ’19 1250w
=HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY.= Light heart. *$2 (5c) Holt
20–8858
This tale is a story of men’s friendships. Thormod, of the light heart, is a poet who easily wins the love of women, but his real devotion is given to men, first to his friend Thorgar, whose death he avenges, then to King Olaf. In his preface the author says, “Of this heroic, naked story, three fragments survive in ‘Origines Islandicæ,’ that learned repository; but to compound one plain tale of them it has been necessary to go for the catastrophe to the Saga of King Olaf. As a result of my hunting and piecing I am able to give an orderly account of the life of a young man which, I think, justifies the title I have given it.”
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=Ath= p559 Ap 23 ’20 40w
+ − =Booklist= 17:33 O ’20
“While ‘The light heart’ is far less interesting and far less stirring than either ‘Gudrid the fair’ or ‘The outlaw,’ it has one truly splendid moment—that in which Thormod swears his allegiance for life and death to King Olaf.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:291 Je 6 ’20 900w
“I confess that for me the starkness, the frugality, the astringency of this tale render it a tougher morsel than some of the Norse fables Mr Hewlett has previously wrought from similar materials. For his sources he shows a reverence almost excessive.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:110 Ag 4 ’20 340w
“The story is good and unusual. But above all we would commend Mr Hewlett’s short introduction on the nature of the Sagas.”
+ =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 100w
“The story has retained the legendary atmosphere of the twelfth century Iceland and Norway. The book is written with Hewlett’s usual romantic touch. It is interesting mainly on account of the unusual setting and the strangeness of the characters treated. The author sacrifices plot to faithfulness to his sources.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 480w
“Colloquial and prosaic though the telling is—prosaic even in describing dreams and visions—there shines through it a spirit which is high and beautiful.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p255 Ap 22 ’20 1000w
=HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY.= Mainwaring. *$2 (4c) Dodd
20–19506
The story portrays two extremely opposed types, a man and a woman. Mainwaring is a genius of a sort, grasping everything to himself, ambitious, a demagogue, reckless and unmoral. From obscurity he rises to political power and is only stayed from achieving the highest rung by disease and death. He burns himself out prematurely. While still quite young and out of his mastering passion of grasping everything he wants, he forces a beautiful young working girl to marry him. Lizzy in her selflessness, her poise and sincerity, her obedience to duty, is his opposite. She endures starvation with him but when he asks her to follow him into high life she refuses. She has seen through it at a glance and hates it, and prefers the duties of a housemaid to those of hostess at his banquets. He subjects her to every indignity but willingly accepts her services as a nurse during his last days.
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=Booklist= 17:116 D ’20
“Mainwaring stands before a dull gray background, which is rather bad for the story, but serves the purpose of the novelist in making Mainwaring a crimson figure against this same gray. As usual, Mr Hewlett is fascinatingly facile with his pen, but this same smooth style cannot wholly atone for a very flimsy plot and a succession of avowed characters that are of no more use than a Greek chorus.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ’20 390w
“Lizzy is a human being, strongly conventional in her sense of duty, yet as freshly natural in emotional values as Eve strayed from the garden. On the whole, however, ‘Mainwaring’ is a disappointment as a novel. The author too apparently is doing over again with unconvincing dexterity things once well accomplished in ‘Rest Harrow’.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 300w
“The sharp contrasts between these well-drawn figures, whose souls are silhouetted by the tragic circumstances in which the author places them, afforded Mr Hewlett equal opportunity to display his powers of creating and analyzing character. The artistry and dignity of the story he has written around them make ‘Mainwaring’ a worthy addition to the novels bearing his name.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 S 26 ’20 560w
“The political part of the story is not excessively interesting, although it has capital pen sketches of Disraeli and Gladstone under slight disguises. Like all Mr Hewlett’s writing, the literary execution of the book is admirable in its finish and quiet effectiveness.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 170w
“A brilliant study in its kind; but some of us will feel as we have often felt with Mr Hewlett, that the childlike creature woman rather than the childish creature man gives the story its charm. Mainwaring’s Lizzy is a girl to be remembered.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:382 O 27 ’20 340w
“The two characters are analyzed in vigorous fashion and will stand as examples of Mr Hewlett’s most finished work.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 450w
=HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY.= Outlaw. *$1.75 (3½c) Dodd
20–4
This is the fifth of Maurice Hewlett’s saga tales retold. It is the story of Gisli and of Grayflanks, the sword on which a curse was laid when it was turned against its owner. Young Gisli is a craftsman and man of peace, who nevertheless is fated to be the slayer of men, to flee from Norway to Iceland, to become an outlaw, and to die fighting with his back against the wall, his wife, Aud, beside him.
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“We cannot help wishing that he had been a great deal more lenient with himself. For the tale, as it stands, is so exceedingly plain, and the fights, murders, escapes and pursuits described upon so even a breath, that it is hard to believe the great, more than life-size dolls minded whether they were hit over the head or not. There is no doubt that the very large number of words of one syllable help to keep the tone low. They have a curious effect upon the reader. He finds himself, as it were, reading aloud, spelling out the tale.” K. M.
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=Booklist= 16:244 Ap ’20
“None of his stories out of the Icelandic sagas is as spirited as ‘The outlaw.’ The vein of romance discovered in them by Mr Hewlett seems to be inexhaustible.” E. F. E
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 1150w
“‘The outlaw’ is a noble tale fully and in the main nobly told.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ =Nation= 111:191 Ag 14 ’20 500w
“A grim tale, full of strong passions and desperate fighting, is this of ‘The outlaw.’”
+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 1000w
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 70w
“Needless to say, it is masterly in its art and vividness; yet many of the author’s admirers would welcome his return to that type of writing that gave us ‘Half-way house’ and ‘Richard yea-and-nay.’”
+ − =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w
“Mr Hewlett tells a tense dramatic story, reveals studious research of ancient lore and a singular gift for vitalizing the remote scenes of a vanished civilization. This is no mere approximation of what the Vikings were and what they did. It is a lifelike recreation.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 550w
“In reproducing the old story Mr Hewlett mediates with his usual skill between the Scylla of excessive modernity and the Charybdis of an obsolete idiom. It is, however, questionable whether he might not without harm have ventured even closer to Scylla.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p649 N 13 ’19 600w
=HEYDRICK, BENJAMIN ALEXANDER=, ed. Americans all; stories of American life of today. *$1.50 (1½c) Harcourt
20–14759
The editor of this volume of short stories states in his preface that he believes that the short story is the form which can best stand as the adequate expression in fiction of American life. He says “If it were possible to bring together in a single volume a group of these, each one reflecting faithfully one facet of our many-sided life, would not such a book be a truer picture of America than any single novel could present? The present volume is an attempt to do this.” Contents: The right Promethean fire, by George Madden Martin; The land of heart’s desire, by Myra Kelly; The tenor, by H. C. Bunner; The passing of Priscilla Winthrop, by William Allen White; The gift of the Magi, by O. Henry; The gold brick, by Brand Whitlock; His mother’s son, by Edna Ferber; Bitter-sweet, by Fannie Hurst; The riverman, by Stewart Edward White; Flint and fire, by Dorothy Canfield; The ordeal at Mt Hope, by Paul Laurence Dunbar; Israel Drake, by Katherine Mayo; The struggles and triumph of Isidro de los Maestros, by James M. Hopper; The citizen, by James F. Dwyer. There is a sketch of the author following each story, and at the end a List of American short stories classified by locality, and Notes and questions for study.
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“An interesting group of stories.”
+ =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21
=Boston Transcript= p4 O 9 ’20 280w
“Only two stories in the volume, Myra Kelly’s ‘Just kids’ and William Allen White’s ‘Society in our town,’ have grown instead of being made after a model.”
− + =Nation= 111:692 D 15 ’20 420w
“Literary merit aside, however, the authors all have a place in a book which seeks not to present the best short stories but rather different phases of American life. ‘American life of today,’ however, is a misnomer. In their steadfast sometimes sentimental idealism, in their passionate belief in democracy, the stories are obviously and pathetically stories of life before the war.” Marian O’Connor
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p9 N 13 ’20 850w
“An unusually excellent anthology of American short tales.”
+ =Outlook= 126:201 S 29 ’20 120w
“Considered merely as a vehicle of recreational reading ‘Americans all’ answers its purpose well; for the one who desires to combine recreation with study of the successful short story the text is well selected.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 270w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 190w
=HIBBEN, PAXTON.= Constantine I and the Greek people. il *$3.50 (3½c) Century 949.5
20–10649
The book was written in the spring of 1917 after the author had been in Greece, Macedonia and Serbia and constitutes another postwar revelation. It is stated that “during the war and after our entry into it as an ally of France and Great Britain, without our knowledge and consent the constitution of a little, but a brave and fine people was nullified by the joint action of two of our allies: the neutrality of a small country was violated, the will of its people set at naught, its laws broken, its citizens persecuted, its press muzzled. By force a government was imposed on this free people, and by force that government has been and is today maintained in absolute power.” (Foreword) The contents is in three parts: Intrigue; Coercion; Starvation; and there are an epilogue and appendices.
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“Interesting to read as a sequel to Mrs Brown’s ‘In the heart of German intrigue.’”
+ =Booklist= 17:25 O ’20
“This fascinating story of political and military intrigue makes poor reading for those who blindly felt the Allies did no wrong. It constitutes a bitter arraignment of Venizelos.”
+ =Cath World= 112:691 F ’21 480w
=Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 140w
“The book, as a whole, is well done. It is written in a clear, readable style, is carefully documented, and is unusually free from errors. Particularly good are the analysis of diplomatic situations, the different attitudes of parties and foreign powers being excellently portrayed. The book’s only noticeable defects arise from the reflexes of the author’s own temperament. Obviously a man of strong feelings, Mr Hibben seems occasionally to be slightly carried away by them.” Lothrop Stoddard
+ − =New Repub= 24:48 S 8 ’20 1600w
“Mr Hibben’s book has the defect, on the surface, of being too much of an apologia.... Mr Hibben has given us one of the torches; it does not always burn clearly; he waves it in the air too violently at times: but it is a torch, and its light may help to show how little we understand the temperament and the good qualities of the Grecian people.” M. F. Egan
+ − =N Y Times= p4 Ag 1 ’20 2850w
“The writer of this book had a full opportunity to study the Balkan situation and above all the Greek question. Unfortunately, all this unusual opportunity has been wasted on a book so full of inaccuracies that it is difficult to determine whether it is the mere result of journalistic carelessness or a calculated attempt to palliate truth.” A. E. Phoutrides
− =Review= 3:170 Ag 25 ’20 900w
“The story is told with great skill and lucidity, and the volume is one of the most readable that has come out of any of the so-called side-shows of the war.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:220 Ag ’20 350w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 5 ’20 110w
=HICHENS, ROBERT SMYTHE.= Snake-bite, and other stories. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
19–11943
“‘Snake-bite’ is a collection of six stories, three in the approved Robert Hichens style, one an excellent little mystery, one a story of a faith healer, and one a dainty little war-time sketch. You have your choice of the familiar East or the unfamiliar West, with or without a touch of colour.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The titles are: Snake-bite; The lost faith; The Hindu; The lighted candles; The nomad; The two fears.
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=Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20
“As a teller of short stories, Mr Hichens reveals in this collection another phase of his skill. In each he shows his mastery of place and people, and his command of the illusory effects of atmosphere.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 1450w
“In the matter of atmosphere and sustained mood, comparable with his best work.”
+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 30w
“Of the six short stories two are dominated by the desert, while one might almost be called a plain ghost story, and these three are so markedly superior to the others that they are quite in a different class.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:2 F 22 ’20 900w
+ =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 50w
“We doubt if Mr Hichens has ever done better work than in ‘The snake bite’; the African color and atmosphere are admirably rendered.”
+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 70w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 480w
“These stories are well told, with a brisk, practised pen. The dialogue is interesting, and the touches of light and shade well done.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p311 Je 5 ’19 400w
=HICKS BEACH, SUSAN EMILY (CHRISTIAN) (MRS WILLIAM FREDERICK HICKS BEACH).= Shuttered doors. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane
20–7653
A story that covers several generations in the life of an English family. The figure of outstanding interest is Aletta Hulse, who is strongly influenced by association in childhood with her aunt, Ann Duller of Duller Place. Aletta inherits a fortune from an old Boer uncle, marries and brings up a family of three children, who in their turn marry. Interest in the latter part of the story centers in Andrew, one of the grandsons, to whom his grandmother bequeaths Duller Place. Andrew is killed in the war leaving an infant daughter to carry on the family tradition.
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=Ath= p194 F 6 ’20 80w
“‘Shuttered doors’ presents one of those pictures of English life before which Americans can only stand and wonder. Perfection of detail in living has not yet been attained by us to such a degree that an entire novel can be built about it with little attention paid to plot, and not even much to characterization.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 20 ’20 260w
“This long, slow story of ‘upper middle-class’ life in England never rises above the deadly commonplace. Andy Duller is the most human character in the novel.”
− + =N Y Times= p23 Ag 8 ’20 330w
+ =Sat R= 129:478 My 22 ’20 90w
“Most people will not have very much sympathy with Aletta Hulse, later Aletta Picard, but at any rate her character is consistent to the smallest detail, and the author succeeds in creating a living figure.”
+ − =Spec= 124:314 Mr 6 ’20 80w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 300w
=HICKS, FREDERICK CHARLES.= New world order. *$3 Doubleday 341
20–14528
The book is the outcome of a course of lectures on International organization and cooperation, delivered at the summer session of 1919, in the department of public law, Columbia university. “The general purpose was to examine the League covenant analytically in its relation to (1) international organization, (2) international law, and (3) international cooperation, using the comparative method whenever precedents could be found.” (Preface) The author’s personal conviction is “that the League of nations should be supported not merely because it provides means for putting war a few steps farther in the background, but because it emphasizes the necessity for cooperation between sovereign states.” (Preface) In strict accordance with the general purpose the contents are in three parts and the appendices contain, besides a complete draft of the treaty of peace with Germany: The Triple alliance; Russo-French alliance; The Holy alliance act; Central American treaties, December 20, 1907; Hague conventions and drafts, 1907; Treaty for the advancement of peace between the United States of America and Guatemala, September 20, 1913; Bibliography and index.
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=Booklist= 17:52 N ’20
“A useful reference manual.”
+ =Ind= 163:442 D 25 ’20 70w
“For college classes studying the legal aspects of international organization Mr Hicks’s book will doubtless be very useful. The pedagogical apparatus and Mr Hick’s treatment of the problems he discusses are unexceptionable. ‘The new world order’ is an excessively pretentious title for a volume dealing with the League of nations. Such a utopian nomenclature would have prejudiced the case for international organization even if idealism has been triumphant; under existing circumstances it is little short of absurd.” Lindsay Rogers
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 23 ’20 1000w
“From the legal and historical points of view, an important exposition of the Versailles treaty has been gathered, coordinated, and written by Columbia’s law librarian.” Walter Littlefield
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 31 ’20 1600w
“The scope of Mr Hicks’s plan is so impressive and his workmanship is so excellent that it is greatly to be hoped that his volume will not be allowed to fall into oblivion, whatever the outcome of the struggle over the League in this country.” E: S. Corwin
+ =Review= 3:382 O 27 ’20 800w
+ =R of Rs= 62:668 D ’20 180w
+ =Survey= 45:221 N 27 ’20 120w
=HILL, CONSTANCE.= Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings. il *$6 (*21s) (7c) Lane
20–12406
“The name of Mary Russell Mitford—the author of ‘Our village’—is dear to thousands of readers, both English and American, for she has enabled them to see nature with her eyes and to enter into the very spirit of rural life.” (