Chapter 12

, on the accounting system, is not up to date. ... The reviewer commends the book to the libraries of valuation men, not because it is a model of clearness, nor even because he thinks the depreciation problem is as desperately complex as the authors make it, but because the authors have painstakingly expounded a fair-minded theory about which valuation men should know something, and because they have presented some remarkably complete tables.” C. W. Stark

+ =Engin Rec= 75:475 Mr 24 ‘17 850w

“This work on the valuation of utilities and mines contains little new material for most students of the subject. It is primarily an exposition of established practices in valuation without much critical appraisal of their soundness. Students beginning the study of valuation, however, will find the work a clear and helpful presentation of the subject.”

+ — =J Pol Econ= 25:757 Jl ‘17 370w

“The book is not suited for popular reading, but has value for technicians. Its preparation marks a decided step in the regulation of utilities. We hear so much about it that it might be thought an old art. In fact, it is so new that it has hardly developed its science.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:174 Ap 29 ‘17 220w

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:336 Ap ‘17 50w

“The engineer or utility official ... will probably find the mathematical and tabular information of considerable value.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:453 My ‘17 170w (Reprinted from Electric Railway Journal p674 Ap 7 ‘17)

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:822 D ‘17 20w

+ =Railway Review= p539 Ap 14 ‘17

=GRUNZEL, JOSEF.= Economic protectionism; ed. by Eugen von Philippovich. *$2.90 Oxford 337 (Eng ed 16-23811)

“This volume is the first published by the Division of economics and history of the Carnegie endowment for international peace. ... The

## book covers a much wider range of topics than is ordinarily covered in

books on the protective question. Not duties upon imports alone are considered, but also the regulation and manipulation of railway rates for the purpose of affording protection, and administrative measures which, though nominally for hygienic and sanitary purposes, in reality are designed to impede importation. Export duties naturally receive attention; and further, the import and export of capital, and immigration and emigration.”—Nation

Reviewed by A. L. Bishop

=Am Econ R= 7:659 S ‘17 600w

“The volume will be chiefly valuable as a general presentation of a subject, too much neglected by American writers, which is bound to attract greater attention in the immediate future. More particularly the second part will be useful, for few people realize the wide extent of the measures already adopted by various countries in carrying out this policy. But as a theoretical discussion of the economic soundness and political wisdom of the policy as a whole it is inadequate.” C. W. Wright

+ — =Am Hist R= 22:851 Jl ‘17 700w

“It has been strongly criticized for its protectionist bias.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:376 Je ‘17

“Its purpose is to survey the problem of protectionist policy as a whole, and summarize the results of the past research. The committee wisely committed this task to a scholar who believed in protection. The result is a most useful volume, although it throws little light on the problem of the causation of war.”

+ — =Ath= p22 Ja ‘17 1450w

“Professor Grunzel’s chief field of activity seems to be in the Austrian ministry of commerce, as adviser and administrator; and this accounts for the fulness of his information upon such concrete matters as were just referred to. No doubt it serves also to account for the general character of the present performance. The book is not such as would come from a scholar or from any one having capacity for intellectual discrimination. It is frankly, almost naïvely protectionist; indeed, exhibits protectionism in its vulgar form. The verdict, alas, must be that it is full of superficialities, question-begging phrases, muddy reasoning. ... As an intellectual performance, it is negligible. But as an indication of the ways, and purposes of the economic politician, it is of sad and portentous significance.”

— =Nation= 104:239 Mr 1 ‘17 1400w

=GUÉRARD, ALBERT LÉON.= Five masters of French romance. *$1.50 Scribner 843 17-26178

“The present volume is, in the main, independent of politics, though we do not overlook the introductory and concluding chapters—‘The twilight of a world,’ ‘Geniuses as cannon-fodder and survival of the unfittest,’ ‘Regeneration,’ and so on. The writers studied are Anatole France, primate of French literature; Pierre Loti, exotic representative of French Protestantism, ‘and on the surface the least Protestant of all’; Paul Bourget, ‘the most skilful technician’; Maurice Barrès, ‘defender of tradition’; and Romain Rolland, author of ‘one of the world’s classics.’”—Dial

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:257 Mr ‘17

“The criticism is sane, the argument popular, the substance interesting and the tone serious, while the style sparkles with a true French vivacity which has not had to suffer by translation. ... While it would be impossible to subscribe to every one of M. Guérard’s appreciations, he would be himself the first to disavow any such necessity.”

+ =Cath World= 104:694 F ‘17 350w

“Professor Guérard is a well-read man and he has written a useful book of a secondary sort. His book is, as his college lectures doubtless are, highly instructive to those who are not already well informed in the field traversed. His exposition of French novels and French culture is discreet and balanced, and his knowledge of American life, its standards, and limitations, adds to his conservatism in the present work. There is no heat or passion here, either for men or works or ideas, and the level style and equal temper of the essays make them all the more judicious and all the less inspiring.”

+ — =Dial= 62:113 F 8 ‘17 350w

+ =Ind= 91:351 S 1 ‘17 130w

+ =N Y Times= 22:187 My 13 ‘17 920w

=Outlook= 115:116 Ja 17 ‘17 100w

“Peculiarly circumstanced for interpreting to Americans the personal and literary characteristics of modern French authors is Albert Leon Guérard, a Frenchman born and bred, but now an American of more than ten years’ standing who is professor of French in the Rice institute, at Houston, Tex.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 10 ‘17 350w

“He wants to be on the side of the heavy angel, sociology, yet he is by inclination a connoisseur of literature. ... He is so anxious to convince Texas that French yellow-backs are worthy of serious attention that he is a little unscrupulous as to the kind of attention he secures for them. Secretly convinced that they are to be judged as literature, he has not the courage of his conviction, and serves them up as documents of social history. Unsteadiness of aim makes a bad book, and Mr Guérard’s is not a good one. And yet it might have been had not the American conscience so much perturbed the French taste.”

— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p622 D 21 ‘16 700w

“Useful for readers who wish short-cuts to a knowledge of these French writers and their novels, but are hardly equal to Miss Stephens’ ‘French novelists of today.’”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:156 My ‘17 70w

=GUEST, EDGAR ALBERT.= Heap o’ livin’. *$1.25 Reilly & B. 811 16-21963

“Mr Guest chooses the old familiar themes of domestic joys and sorrows, the ups and downs of life, the high hopes and the grievous disappointments common to our lot. ... This is by no means his first appearance in print, and to his old friends he needs no introduction. Let those who still have before them the pleasure of making his acquaintance try his quality in such poems of the present collection as ‘My creed,’ ‘Spring in the trenches,’ ‘The other fellow,’ ‘Father,’ and ‘Mother.’”—Dial

“Those who like Will Carleton and James Whitcomb Riley will not dislike Mr Guest.”

+ =Dial= 61:355 N 2 ‘16 200w

“Homespun poetry, full of health and vigor.”

+ =Lit D= 53:1727 D 30 ‘16 360w

“Inspiration may or may not lie between its covers; but love and good solid, spiritual fellowship for the common man are there.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 1 ‘17 250w

=GUEST, FLORA (BIGELOW) (MRS LIONEL GEORGE WILLIAM GUEST).= Cow and milk book. il *75c (3c) Lane 636 17-12845

A series of short, practical chapters on dairying by a woman who writes from personal experience in Canada. Emphasis is placed on cleanliness, careful inspection, etc. Among the subjects taken up are: Beef versus milk, The care of milk, The price of milk, Housing the cattle, Housing calves, To start a herd on economical lines, Advanced registry of cattle, How to choose a dairy cow, Stall-fed cows, Bedding, Watering the cattle.

“Will be found as helpful as the more scientific guides, most of which have the herd owner in mind.”

+ =Ind= 90:516 Je 16 ‘17 40w

“Mrs Lionel Guest was the daughter of the late John Bigelow. ... She has a successful dairy farm near Montreal which she superintends, and this little book offers the results of her own experience. It is thoroughly practical and deals with all the phases of the subject.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:167 Ap 29 ‘17 150w

=GUIMERÁ, ANGEL.= La pecadora (Daniela); a play in three acts; tr. by Wallace Gillpatrick. (Pub. of Hispanic soc. of Am.) pa *$1.25 Putnam 862 16-22623

For the English version of this play by the author of “Marta of the Lowlands,” we are indebted to Mexico City. The translator saw its first performance there in 1902 and, impressed with its merits, obtained permission from the author to translate it into English. The

## scene is in a little Spanish village. A great singer, after fifteen

years of absence, has just returned to her childhood home. She is broken in health and her hopes of renewing her strength among well-loved scenes are frustrated by the suspicions of her old friends, and especially by the jealousy of the wife of her one-time sweetheart.

“Wallace Gillpatrick has translated ‘La pecadora’ and has brought over into English most if not all of the hot and fluid passion of the original. ... For acting purposes, at least with us, some of the scenes, notably the first half of the first act, would have to be condensed, but it makes easier reading as it stands, affording the opportunity to come slowly and surely under the spell of the emotions and the sensibilities of another race.” O. M. Sayler

+ =Dial= 62:142 F 22 ‘17 120w

“For sheer dramatic intensity the second act has been equalled by few plays in the past half century. ... Guimerá’s play should be accessible in the theater. It probably will not be. There is too much of the primitive and the true in it, and nothing whatever of the veiled sex appeal. ... As a reading play it is fascinating, and we fortunately have it in an admirable translation.” Frank Macdonald

+ =N Y Call= p14 Mr 11 ‘17 850w

=Pratt= p36 O ‘17 10w

+ =R of Rs= 55:441 Ap ‘17 160w

=GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY.= Dynamic of manhood. *75c (3c) Assn. press; *$1 (4c) Doran 170 17-21790

Dr Gulick says that human desires, or hungers, may be divided into two classes: (1) those that seek some benefit for one’s self; and (2) those that seek some benefit for others. The first are stomach-hungers—or Hunger; the second are heart-hungers—or Love. It is with these “heart-hungers” that his book is concerned. Contents: The two major motives; Hunger for a friend; Hunger for woman; Hunger for children; Hunger for God. The two editions are printed from the same plates, altho that issued by the Association Press is in smaller form.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:149 F ‘18

“His conclusions coincide with and add weight to the best thought of the day, from the viewpoint of religion as well as from that of science.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 100w

“The opening chapter on unsexed persons gives the book an excessively physiological keynote, and does not establish the author’s thesis. Dr Gulick has, however, an excellent chapter on the dangers of talking sexual subjects so as to arouse pruriency in children and his presentation of the ideal of romantic marriage is sincere and high-principled.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 150w

=GULLIVER, JULIA HENRIETTA.= Studies in democracy. *$1 (6c) Putnam 321.8 17-6232

Three addresses by the president of Rockford college for women. In the first, The essence of democracy, delivered as a baccalaureate address in 1915, the author expresses the belief that “the impulse toward expansion, which underlies the present world-upheaval, is the impulse toward the democratizing of Europe.” The second, The twentieth-century search for the Holy Grail, delivered before the State federation of women’s clubs in Rockford, Ill., in 1915, is a study of the work of American women along economic, civic and legislative lines. The third, The efficiency of democracy, a baccalaureate address of 1916, is given to a comparison of the methods of a democracy and an autocracy, as represented by the United States and Germany, with suggestions as to what each can learn from the other.

“While it contains nothing that is novel or striking, the book is interesting, cogent in its expression of ideas and possesses more literary merit than most brief discussions of its kind.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:366 My ‘17 80w

=Boston Transcript= p6 My 29 ‘17 280w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:43 Mr ‘17 10w

=R of Rs= 55:444 Ap ‘17 20w

“The fact that two of them are baccalaureate sermons may explain their limitations, for nothing seems to stultify original thought like the necessity of imparting it to June graduates.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 29 ‘17 200w

=GUTHRIE, WILLIAM DAMERON.= Magna carta, and other addresses. *$1.50 (2c) Columbia univ. press 342.7 16-17474

The address on Magna carta which opens this volume was delivered before the Constitutional convention of the State of New York in 1915. The other addresses, also prepared for special occasions, are: The Mayflower compact; Constitutional morality; The eleventh amendment; Criticism of the courts; Graduated or progressive taxation; The duty of citizenship; Nominating conventions; Catholic parochial schools; The France-America committee of New York.

“Mr Guthrie’s addresses add very little to the discussion of the problems which they are concerned with, but they have their value as a statement of the conservative view by a learned and clear-thinking student and teacher of the law. The essay on ‘Magna carta’ is perhaps the least valuable of the entire collection. In this paper the author presents the older view of the content and purpose of this document, a view that has long since lost credit among English historians.”

=Dial= 62:112 F 8 ‘17 250w

“On every page there is to be found cogent argument, happy illustration and sound setting forth of vitally important legal and constitutional principles.”

+ =Educ R= 52:529 D ‘16 90w

“Mr Guthrie’s predilection for quasi-historical arguments prevents him from dealing with any issue on its merits. However, in the essay on the income tax, he shows his moral insight and social wisdom in his condemnation of a graduated income tax.” M. R. Cohen

– + =New Repub= 9:sup18 N 18 ‘16 800w

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 12 ‘17 450w

=GWATKIN, HENRY MELVILL.=[2] Church and state in England to the death of Queen Anne; with a preface by the Rev E. W. Watson. *$5 (3c) Longmans 274.2 17-27958

Dr Gwatkin did not live to revise his manuscript, and it is offered with some imperfections which the editors deemed presumptuous to tamper with. It is not a textbook for beginners but for “informed and intelligent students” who wish a survey of England’s secular and ecclesiastical development, in due coordination and proportion. A good index is provided.

“If, in consequence of the lamented author’s death, some portions of the book are not quite abreast of the most recent knowledge there is compensation in the broadminded and comprehensive treatment of the weighty theme to which Prof. Gwatkin wholeheartedly addressed himself.”

+ =Ath= p590 N ‘17 190w

“As a scamper through English history this posthumous work, edited by Dr E. W. Watson, is clever. Here and there we find shrewd remarks and phrases. But, whereas the modern historian strives painfully to be coldly neutral, Gwatkin’s bias was so vehement that he seldom troubles to argue, or even to be accurate.”

– + =Sat R= 124:465 D 8 ‘17 1500w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p507 O 18 ‘17 70w

“No references are given, but they are hardly to be expected in a compendium of facts which derives its interest from the personality of the author and the independence of his views. There is no lack of learning, and the book is wonderfully compressed. The character sketches are always interesting, and some of the generalizations on collateral subjects, like the remarks on English foreign policy on page 237, would do credit to a specialized monograph. No ecclesiastical historian has written with a broader outlook on the human side of English history.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 D 20 ‘17 1300w

=GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS.= Mrs Humphry Ward. (Writers of the day) *60c (3c) Holt 823 (Eng ed 18-1392)

This study of Mrs Humphry Ward is added to a series which already includes books on Anatole France, Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and others. It is Mrs Ward’s great and long continued popularity that draws critical attention to her work. As Mr Gwynne says, “Such a success as she has achieved and consolidated does not dictate to critical opinion, but it compels appraisement to be made.” Following the introduction, are chapters devoted to: “Robert Elsmere”; Novels of the general world: “Helbeck of Bannisdale” and “Eleanor”; Novels with a historical basis: “The case of Richard Meynell”; Later novels and general appreciation.

“Mr Gwynn takes the candid and reasonable view that the popularity of Mrs Humphry Ward justifies a critical attention which her books hardly deserve on mere literary grounds.”

+ =Ath= p594 N ‘17 130w

“While he has apparently read Mrs Ward’s novels thoroughly, he has little understanding of their purpose. A serious mistake was made by the editor of the series in inviting him to contribute the study of Mrs Humphry Ward.” E. F. E.

— =Boston Transcript= p8 N 10 ‘17 650w

“At times his criticism is most caustic, more than is usually found in sketches of this character.” D. F. K.

+ =N Y Call= p14 Ja 5 ‘18 160w

“It is with unmixed joy that we greet this critical estimate of Mrs Humphry Ward, not because it is vital to have an estimate of Mrs Ward, but because in itself this little study is of unusual value. This critique is excellent from a critical point of view, and well worth reading for its own sake.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 440w

“It is a remarkably spirited and readable appreciation, even though one may not fully agree with the conclusions.”

+ — =R of Rs= 57:217 F ‘18 80w

“Mr Gwynn shows himself at once a sympathetic and a severe critic.”

+ =Spec= 119:529 N 10 ‘17 140w

“Mr Gwynn has not a few shrewd things to say as to Mrs Ward’s mental attitude. His opening pages seem to be imbued with the highly unintelligent view that there must be something suspicious about a large circulation. This leads him to impose upon the reader at the outset what seems to us a wholly unfair view of his subject, and one which he does not prove himself able to substantiate.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p519 O 25 ‘17 470w

=GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS, and TUCKWELL, GERTRUDE M.= Life of the Rt Hon Sir Charles W. Dilke. 2v il *$10.50 Macmillan (Eng ed 17-29369)

“It may be expected that this ‘Life of Sir Charles Dilke’ will at once take its place among standard works of reference, for much of it records in his own words, from notes made day by day, the important events in British and European history of the second half of the nineteenth century in which he took a prominent part. ... Sir Charles Dilke’s activities were many-sided, and his biographers have tried to present a picture of the complete man. Sections are allotted to his lifelong efforts to improve the conditions of the working classes, his care for the rights of native races, and his literary work and interests; and Mr Spenser Wilkinson contributes the chapters describing the active part taken by Sir Charles Dilke in impressing upon the nation the necessity of preparations for imperial defence. In all the activities of the second half of his life Sir Charles had a devoted co-worker in Lady Dilke, and Miss Tuckwell has provided a delightful picture of happy home life.”—Ath

“The two volumes are a notable addition to the socio-political history of the last generation. For in the realm of social politics Dilke established a new tradition. In the sphere of foreign policy or imperial policy, on questions relating to the army and navy, he undoubtedly possessed an almost unrivalled knowledge; but these matters were, in a sense, the stock-in-trade of all politicians. In the field of social politics, however, he stood alone—a pioneer.”

+ =Ath= p504 O ‘17 1900w

“The reader feels that he is a privileged spectator in the actual making of history, and is enabled to realize the personalities of the chief characters who directed the course of events.”

+ =Ath= p530 O ‘17 480w

“His biographers appear to have magnified his strong and engaging qualities and minimized his failings, which is not an uncommon practice with biographers who are also loving friends. It is unfortunately to be noted that the publishers of this work found it necessary or desirable to give the book a fragile and mechanically poor binding.” H. S. K.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p8 O 17 ‘17 900w

“There has been no English political biography so valuable as this since Lord Morley summarized an epoch in his life of Gladstone. ... From whatever angle this life is regarded it is a valuable supplement to what we already possess.” H. J. L.

+ =New Repub= 13:320 Ja 12 ‘18 2450w

+ =N Y Times= 22:532 D 2 ‘17 600w

“It is impossible to praise too highly the industry and tact with which Miss Tuckwell has discharged her task of compiling what will certainly rank as a great political biography. ... Miss Tuckwell’s comments are sparing and relevant; and while she obviously writes as a loving disciple, there is no indiscriminate or emotional eulogy.”

+ =Sat R= 124:sup3 S 29 ‘17 1200w

“We cannot think of Sir Charles Dilke as a possible prime minister. ... Miss Tuckwell, however, has unquestionably shown that Sir Charles Dilke was a greater force in Liberal politics before 1885 than many people supposed.”

+ — =Spec= 119:327 S 29 ‘17 2050w

“It is for their spiritual quite as much as for their historical value that these volumes will take their place in English literature. ... We find, with some disappointment, in the passages dealing with labour questions a lack of that intimacy, that private estimation of personalities and tendencies, which is so fascinating in other chapters of the book.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p451 S 20 ‘17 1950w

=GWYNNE, WALKER.=[2] Primitive worship and prayer book; rationale, history, and doctrine of the English, Irish, Scottish, and American books. *$2.50 Longmans 264 17-15175

A study made timely by the work of revision of the prayer book in England, the United States and Canada. The writer traces the origin and development of Christian worship to the present form for English-speaking people. The second part of his work is devoted to a clear explanation of what the church teaches by means of the prayer book—by means of the formularies, traditional customs and interpretative scripture embodied in the prayer book. The book seeks an audience among students, general readers, teachers and candidates for Holy orders.

=Pittsburgh= 22:698 O ‘17

“The chapters contain the result of considerable reading in the modern literature on the subject, and show that the writer has the gift of interesting exposition.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p519 O 25 ‘17 210w

H

=HAGEDORN, HERMANN.= You are the hope of the world! *50c (5½c) Macmillan 172 17-23664

Mr Hagedorn appeals to the boys and girls of America, especially to those between the ages of ten and seventeen, to realize the responsibility laid upon their shoulders by the great war. He asks them to think squarely about their country, to realize that “democracy isn’t a success—yet,” that we are wasteful, materialistic, improvident and indifferent, and then to “create a tradition of alert citizenship, a tradition of public service.” “Your elder brothers will have to fight with guns. ... To you is given a work every bit as grand as dying for your country; and that is, living for the highest interests of your country! Those interests are the interests of democracy. If, therefore, you live for the highest interests of America, you live at the same time for the highest interests of the world. You are the hope of the world!”

=A L A Bkl= 14:136 Ja ‘18

“Such a book as this cannot be reviewed. It must be read if its mission is to be understood. And all should read it, all Americans who know, who fear to know, or who are anxious to know what America stands for in this war.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 27 ‘17 270w

+ =Cleveland= p119 N ‘17 50w

“Mr Hagedorn has compiled all the patriotic persuasion that he can cram into 100 pages or so, and from a literary point of view, his appeal is well worth reading. It is curious to note how he traverses what ‘teacher’ told the boys and girls in school about the faultless democracy of Uncle Sam ... and how we have always been morally, ethically and spiritually right, and those who opposed us wrong.” J. W.

=N Y Call= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 400w

“This appeal to patriotism is praiseworthy in Its musical simplicity of style, and the wholesome tenor of his arguments. ... If Mr Hagedorn can make this war teach the lesson of obligation and responsibility to our over-fed and under-worked youth, that will be one consolation left us.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 16 ‘17 320w

=HAGGARD, SIR HENRY RIDER.= Finished. il *$1.40 Longmans 17-24205

“That mighty African hunter and adventurer, Allan Quatermain, who has so often filled the roles of hero and narrator of H. Rider Haggard’s romances, is once more pressed into service in ‘Finished.’ ... While this story is complete in itself, it forms the concluding unit of a trilogy, of which ‘Marie’ and ‘Child of storm’ are the preceding numbers ... The story embodies the last episode in the wizard Zikali’s mysterious career; but to give it a proper setting, Mr Haggard recounts the events preceding the Zulu-British war of 1879, together with events in the early stages of the strife. Historical facts are, of course, suitably cloaked in romance, and arranged to the needs of the plot.”—Springf’d Republican

=A L A Bkl= 14:96 D ‘17

“Our old friend, Allan Quatermain tells this story. And he tells it well, even if some of the old glamour seems to be missing.”

+ — =Ath= p527 O ‘17 60w

“Thirty years have passed since we first heard of Allan Quatermain and he is as much alive today as ever. ... He is and will remain one of the dominant characters of English romantic fiction.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 15 ‘17 1150w

“The council at the ‘Valley of bones’ is the most thrilling and picturesque part of a lively, exciting and readable narrative.”

+ =Lit D= 55:42 O 27 ‘17 200w

+ =Nation= 105:694 D 20 ‘17 150w

“A fascinating mixture of fact and fiction.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:353 S 23 ‘17 880w

“This latest volume, with its ominous title, ‘Finished,’ shows us two things clearly: One is that this particular type of romance of adventure, ... with its long-winded periods and utter lack of characterization in dialog needed a rich imagination that provided thrills in plenty and all the action required to sweep the reader along in a fascination that forgot the cumbersome writing; and the second thing is that Rider Haggard’s once so enviably rich and fertile imagination is, if not exactly finished, at least slowing down to an extent that necessitates a change of style to make his books acceptable.” G. I. Colbron

+ — =Pub W= 92:804 S 15 ‘17 570w

=R of Rs= 56:557 N ‘17 100w

“The author re-creates, as no other novelist can, the mysterious, legendary Africa of exploration days, and his stories, which are the outgrowth of a personal knowledge of African pioneering, convey a thrill and interest shared by few adventure tales of the present.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 320w

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p428 S 6 ‘17 570w

=HALASI, ÖDÖN.= Belgium under the German heel. *$1.50 Funk 940.91 17-21999

“M. Halasi, a well-known Hungarian writer, ‘succeeded in gaining the confidence of the German authorities and was allowed in 1916 to spend a few months in Belgium, being given unusual facilities for travelling and seeing everything within the occupied territory.’ The record of his experiences has been given to the anonymous translator, who has supplemented it by information conveyed by another Magyar, M. Ernö Lovass, who spent eighteen months in Belgium during the war.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“It is evident that Mr Halasi’s sympathies are with the Belgium people. ... He sketches the present condition of Antwerp, Louvain, Namur, Dinant, Liège, and Malines, in the order named, and tells to what extent they have suffered or escaped the horrors of war. He closes his book with a picture of Cardinal Mercier and his efforts on behalf of his fellow-countrymen.”

+ =Ath= p368 Jl ‘17 350w

=Lit D= 55:43 D 8 ‘17 160w

“The description offers nothing sensational. The author apparently left Belgium before the time of the deportations; we have here nothing of the nature of the harrowing scenes described in M. Passelecq’s book.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p279 Je 14 ‘17 400w

=HALDANE, JOHN SCOTT.= Organism and environment as illustrated by the physiology of breathing. (Mrs Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures) *$1.25 Yale univ. press 612 17-9380

“Four lectures dealing respectively with the regulation of breathing; the readjustment of regulation in acclimatization and disease; the regulation of the environment, internal and external; organic regulation as the essence of life—inadequacy of mechanistic and vitalistic conceptions.”—Cleveland

“Of interest to biologists, physiologists, philosophers, and physicians.”

+ =Cleveland= p94 Jl ‘17 50w

“Four addresses of dynamic interest, but from two very distinct points of view. The first three are predominantly physiological and technical rather than popular. ... The fourth lecture is of superlative interest, and is a masterly application of the facts of physiology to the modern theories of life.”

+ =Nation= 104:764 Je 28 ‘17 600w

“The special value of the book to students lies in the fact that the function of respiration is treated simply as one aspect of the

## activities of the organism as a whole, as a chapter in the unending

series of adaptations, internal and external, which make up the life of an individual.” F. H. S.

+ =Nature= 100:241 N 29 ‘17 1050w

=Pratt= p20 O ‘17 50w

“From its detailed study of the processes connected with breathing under so many diverse conditions, the book will be of interest to physicians and physiologists. From its consideration of the conflicting theories of life from the standpoint primarily of breathing, it deserves a place on the shelf of the biologist and natural philosopher.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 29 ‘17 700w

“Dr Haldane was invited by Yale university to give the Silliman lectures in 1915. At that time there were expectations about the duration of the war which made it natural that postponement of one year should be asked and granted. In 1916 it was determined to wait no longer, and the events of 1917 have fully justified the judgment. The lectures (on the ‘Physiology of breathing’) were delivered and are to appear in book form before long. But since they contained much that is technical, Dr Haldane gave also four public lectures on ‘points of more general interest,’ which are printed in the present volume. There is still enough of technicality left to make it hardish reading for the layman in places, but the reading is well worth while.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p364 Ag 2 ‘17 1750w

=HALE, EDWARD EVERETT, jr.=[2] Life and letters of Edward Everett Hale. 2v il ea *$5 (2c) Little 17-31921

Not a criticism, neither an estimate of the life of Edward Everett Hale, but a portrayal of his personal character and achievements. Making use of a vast amount of material including letters, diaries, day books, sermons, lectures and various contributions to literature the son of Dr Hale has followed the progress of his father’s career thru its nearly ninety years. After graduation from Harvard he spent a few years making up his mind what he would do; then turned to the ministry. Middle age found him a leading clergyman; a leader and organizer in and out of his especial denomination, full of ideas for public service; a man of letters who had ahead of him long, useful years before the American public. The spirit of the great American has been immortalized in the story that won him continuous fame, “A man without a country.”

“Books of this kind are as rare and as universal in their interest as the characters with which they deal.”

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“A word of praise should go to Mr Hale not only for the painstaking care, fine discrimination and judicial mind with which he has done this work, but also for the excellent spirit of literary craftsmanship in which the whole work has been conceived and carried out. For it is what one might call, for lack of a better term, creative biography. He has used his materials as a sculptor would use clay, and out of them has made a clear and luminous figure which stands out from the pages, a real and authentic portrait of the man as he was. He has not even allowed his filial love to obscure or to gild or to make deceptively roseate what he felt to be the true lineaments of his subject or the true estimate of his character, his work, and his influence.”

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“We have had to wait eight years for this story of his life. It was worth waiting for. His son has written, or rather we should say edited, this life with reverencing candor—a combination rare in biographers.” Lyman Abbott

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“It is good to have this biography of vivid and vivifying life. It will bring closer to the man thousands of readers who have known his books and who may well wish to come, thru this biography, into more direct touch with his personality. The illustrations help toward this end.” R. R. Bowker

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+ =R of Rs= 57:99 Ja ‘18 210w

=HALL, BOLTON.= Thrift. *$1 (1½c) Huebsch 304 17-2049

Education, the cooperative movement, intensive cultivation of the land and natural taxation are some of the subjects discussed in this book. The author does not write of thrift in the vein of Samuel Smiles. It is not a system of saving pennies that he advocates, but rather an organization of all one’s resources to the end that life may be enriched. He advocates efficiency, too, but it is not the machine-made efficiency of the experts.

=A L A Bkl= 13:330 My ‘17 (Reprinted from Survey)

“Evidence of the up-to-date business promoter sticks out on almost every page. His is the clever, incisive, staccato style.” H. S. K.

=Boston Transcript= p8 F 21 ‘17 330w

=Cleveland= p38 Mr ‘17 150w

“It would not be just to imply that there aren’t some good things in this book. These good things might have been condensed into a pamphlet. There is