“The book is amusing reading for an idle hour.”
“If we consider the book as a serious novel, its superficiality irritates us, or if we take it as a short story we are wearied by the protracted explanations.”
“There is a freshness and strength in the pen-painting of people who inhabit this new novel.”
“Is a triumph of ‘manner.’”
“A highly agreeable romance, suffused with graceful sentiment and containing a half-a-dozen pleasant portraits.”
Harriman, Karl Edwin.Girl and the deal. †$1.25. Jacobs.
“The very kind of a tale to rest an overtired brain or to relieve the tedium of a long journey.”
Harriman, Karl Edwin.Girl out there; il. by A. Russell. †$1.25. Jacobs.
Mr. Harriman finds his heroine of the title in a little rural town whither a young journalist goes to recuperate after a run of fever. The simple folk of the village from Alec Truesdale, the close-fisted man who nibbles crackers by the hour in the little weather-grayed grocery, much to the discomfiture of the owner, to Herb Jenkins, stout of heart and generous of purpose, are cleverly sketched. The new comer wins the heart of the girl that Herb Jenkins loves, and how Herb crushes his own hopeand gains for the two the blessing of an obdurate father is an example of fine unselfishness.
“As a study of the ways and manners of the inhabitants of a small New England village the book is not without merit, but it lacks both plot and incident.”
Harris, J. Henry.Cornish saints and sinners.†$1.50. Lane.
“The fabled land of Lyonesse is supposed to lie under the sea off the coast of Cornwall, and the country abounds in legends of saints, giants and fairies to say nothing of numerous tales in which his Satanic majesty figures more or less prominently. Many of these old folklore stories are retold by Mr. Harris as he heard them from the natives, but with an added touch of humor all his own.”—Arena.
“We find Mr. Harris feebly and coarsely imitating Mark Twain at his very worst, with the result that the feelings of any person of taste must be shocked.”
“Delightfully humorous account of the travels of three friends.” Amy C. Rich.
“Many more pretentious chronicles of travel have been less entertaining.”
“In spite of these mistaken efforts, most of the book is agreeable reading, and Mr. Harris shows real interest in Cornwall, and sympathy, mixed with a certain condescension, for the people he describes.”
Harris, William Charles, and Bean, Tarleton Hoffman.Basses, fresh-water and marine. **$3.50. Stokes.
“The brook brings you into pleasant contact with nature, even if the trout refuse to rise, and if one possesses a fairly active imagination the book may do the same, even if it fails to satisfy all applicable objective tests of good literature. It is chiefly from this point of view that we must commend the sumptuous volume which Mr. Rhead has devoted to the basses.” (Nation.)
“If any important facts about the bass have been overlooked it would be difficult to specify what they are.”
“One does not really find any striking positive merits to distinguish it from other literature available on the same subject.”
“While the volume is mainly intended for the fisherman, the natural history side has not been forgotten.”
“It is a carefully planned survey of the entire field. The joys and trials of the fisherman’s life are so charmingly described that the book is an exceptional companion for the shore or library.”
Harrison, Constance Cary (Mrs. Burton Harrison).Carlyles, The: a story of the fall of the confederacy. †$1.50. Appleton.
A Civil war story whose opening chapters give a detailed account of the evacuation of Richmond. When the city is set on fire, the home of Monimia Carlyle is protected by a Union officer who supplants in the young maiden’s affection the place of her accepted Confederate cousin. Molly Ball, a Confederate spy “of that never extinct Amazon brood that springs from sleep at the trumpet’s call” (Nation) calls the cousin off from his initial love pursuits and rather monopolizes the remainder of the story.
“There is no doubt as to the charm of the book and the accuracy of the picture it presents of certain aspects of post-bellum life in Dixie.”
“The several parts, though not unrelated, are not smoothly connected, and, in the later chapters, the charming heroine is seriously neglected for metal less attractive.”
Harrison, Edith Ogden (Mrs. Carter Henry).Moon princess. **$1.25. McClurg.
“With a simple, unaffected style, the writer has narrated a child’s story of lively interest.”
“Is full of delicate shades.”
Harrison, Frederic.Chatham. **$1.25. Macmillan.
“Care coupled with his style has given us a monograph on Chatham of abiding value.” Edward Porritt.
Harrison, James Albert.George Washington: patriot, soldier, statesman, first president of the United States. **$1.35. Putnam.
In Professor Harrison’s life Washington’s heart and head unite in admirable mastery over problems of humanity, war and state. The sketch gives an intimate view of Washington from boyhood up, showing how well America’s hero developed his birthright powers to meet the demands of leadership. Martha Washington is portrayed as “an ideal of the gentler motherhood that preceded the era of the Amazon, and consecrated itself altogether to the sacred office of friendship.”
“Rhetorical descriptions abound, and there are digressions not a few; but the portrait presented in the work is hazy and inadequate in all that relates to Washington’s public life.”
“Its style—inflated, involved, obscure, often ungrammatical—furnishes a fairly accurate model of all that an historical writer’s work should not be.”
“The Washington depicted in this volume is the familiar heroic and half-deified figure of the older panegyrists. As a whole the style is that of the romanticist, embellished with imagery and superlatives. It is not too much to say that the quotations are the best part of this work.”
“We know of no other life of Washington within moderate compass which presents so clear a picture of the man and maintains so well throughout a pleasing narrative style.”
“Has done full justice to his attractive subject, treating it with thorough scholarship, patriotic sympathy, and felicity of style.”
“Professor Harrison has succeeded remarkably well in presenting an eminently readable biography.”
“The historian has his duty of self-effacement as well as the biographer. The biographermust not intrude his own personality; the historian must not intrude his style. This is what Professor Harrison is perpetually doing.”
Harrison, Jane Ellen.Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides. *$1.75. Macmillan.
Dr. Harrison sets forth a new view of the character and limits of ancient Athens, based on the evidence of Thucydides and the recent excavations of Dörpfeld.
“She illustrates her book with good plans and photographs, but apart from these it is hard to see what useful purpose it can serve.”
“Even those who are not prepared to accept the author’s theories will welcome the presentation, in so convenient a form, of the recent researches both of other archaeologists and of the author herself.”
“In her mythological excursions, Miss Harrison is less likely to secure the ready reference of her reader.”
“In one curious detail in an otherwise convincing argument, Miss Harrison has unsuspectingly followed her leader into a gaping trap.”
“Learned volume.”
Harrison, Newton.Electric wiring, diagrams and switch boards. 15th ed. rev. and enl. *$1.50. Henley.
“Mr. Harrison’s work is intended to help practical wiremen to do a better grade of work by informing them of the reasons for what they do.... The author ... devotes his attention to statements of the practical matters connected with the installation of electric machines, including the necessary switchboards and the wiring connecting these with the supply circuits.”—Engin. N.
“In the opinion of the reviewer, the book would be better without the last two chapters. It should be useful not only to artisans, but also to architects, builders and others who are responsible for the proper installation of electric circuits.” Henry H. Norris.
Harrison, Peleg D.Stars and stripes and other American flags; il. **$3. Little.
Their origin and history, army and navy regulations concerning the national standard and ensign, flag making, salutes, improvised, unique, and commercial flags, flag legislation, and many associations of American flags, including the origin of “Old Glory,” with songs and their stories.
“The material is largely undigested but the industry of the author in collecting miscellaneous facts and fables pertaining to his subject has been immense, and his enthusiasm is contagious.”
Harry, Myriam.Conquest of Jerusalem. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.
“This story of modern Jerusalem is really a study of what is known as the ‘artistic’ temperament worked out in a morbid fashion. Hélie’s apostasy from the Roman Catholic religion upon his marriage with a deaconess of a protestant church destroys eventually the religious instinct in his nature. Many of the details of the novel are revolting.”—Critic.
“It is unwholesome and unpleasant.”
“An excellent translation.”
Hart, Albert Bushnell, ed. American nation: a history from original sources by associated scholars. 28v. per. v. *$2. Harper.
Group II of this series of histories, volumes 6–10, is devoted to the “Transformation into a nation,” including Provincial America, by Evarts Boutell Greene; France in America, by Reuben Gold Thwaites; Preliminaries of the Revolution, by George Elliott Howard; The American Revolution, by Claude Halstead Van Tyne; and The confederation and the constitution, by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin. The first volume of Group III, which division includes volumes 11–15 and treats the “Development of the nation,” is a discussion of The federalist system, by John Spencer Bassett. The author says, “On its political side this volume treats of three principal facts; the successful establishment of the government under the constitution, the organization of the Republican party on the basis of popular government, and the steady adherence of the government to a policy of neutrality at a time when we were threatened with serious foreign complications.” The author follows the program of establishing an effective government while the nation faced a new constitution and trying international situations.
Number twelve in this “American nation” series is a discussion of “The Jeffersonian system” by Edward Channing. It “emphasizes the innate tendency to expansion of territory, of which Louisiana, West Florida, and Oregon were all examples. The special and successful purpose of the author is to make clear how it was possible for the nation to expand in territory and in spirit, and for the federal government to gain consequence and authority, while at the same time the government was growing more democratic: it is a study in imperial democracy.”
Number fourteen in this series is the “Rise of the new West” by Frederick Jackson Turner of the University of Wisconsin. “Professor Turner takes up the west as an integral part of the Union, with a self-consciousness as lively as that of the east or south, with its own aims and prejudices, but as a partner in the councils and the benefits of the national government which, as a whole, it is the aim at this volume to describe.” The period covered is that from 1815 to 1830. The panic of 1819, the Missouri compromise, The Monroe doctrine in particular and the tariff disputes, internal improvements and foreign trade relations in general are fully treated.
The fifteenth volume of “The American nation” series is Dr. William McDonald’s discussion of “Jacksonian democracy.” The aggressive personality of Andrew Jackson is made to dominate the solution of the great questions of national policy paramount during the years 1829–37. The study reveals the president and man, and shows the evolution of the political principles upon which a new democratic party was founded.
In volume seventeen the expansion movement which extended the boundaries of the United States from the western edge of the Louisiana purchase to the Pacific ocean, is described “in such a way as to indicate the real forces which gave it impulse, and how they actually worked, and especially to show how it was affected by, and how it reacted upon, the contemporaneous sectionalizing movement which finally ended in civil war.”
In volume 18 of “The American nation” Dr. Smith has covered the subject of “Parties and slavery from 1850 to 1859,” that transition period, which saw old party organization dissolve and new ones crystalize. The aim of the volume is “to bring out the contrast between the old parties and their aims and the new and imperious issues.” The efforts to prevent the crisis which resulted in the Civil war, and the rival habits of thought which made it inevitableare clearly shown, the effects of the struggle upon parties, legislation and the courts as well as the social and economic changes brought about by railroad development and the growth of cotton are carefully detailed.
“The first part of volume nineteen in the “American nation” series discusses political divergences in the light of sectional rivalry and mutual dislike revealed by the election of Lincoln to the presidency. The author presents the full significance of the John Brown raid, pictures the attitude of Buchanan and his unsuccessful attempts at compromise. discusses the status of the federal forts, pays tribute to the high minded attitude of Lincoln and closes with the fall of Sumter.”
“In scholarship and construction he has produced the best synopsis of the subject existing within the limits of a single volume, and ... his careful references and a valuable bibliography enhance the utility of the book to the student who desires to inquire for himself.” M. Oppenheim.
“Mr. Greene has handled his problem with the grasp of a true historical artisan, and his book is a definite contribution to American history.” Carl Russell Fish.
+ + + |Am. Hist. R.11: 411. Ja. ’06. 1310w. (Review of v. 6.)
“In regard to style it must be pronounced very defective. Summing up one is obliged to say that, while the book shows industry and knowledge, its faults in regard both to style and to accuracy are so numerous as to make it hardly worthy of the high reputation of its author.” George M. Wrong.
“It may be doubted whether either volume adds much to the thoroughly exploited facts in its respective field.” H. A. C.
“More exact dates would be in some of the chapters desirable. The volume is quite worthy of recognition as a model history of the time.” Austin Scott.
+ + –|Am. Hist. R.11: 916. Jl. ’06. 1910w. (Review of v. 10.)
“The book itself is so sanely written that it seems ungrateful to call attention to what are very small defects.” Worthington Chauncey Ford.
“Considering the limitations imposed by the nature of the task assigned to them, the credit of fully maintaining the high standard set in the preceding volumes of the ‘American nation’ series and of closely approximating the ideal standard for works of this class must be accorded both to Professor Channing and to President Babcock.” Marshall Brown.
“The book is written in an attractive style in which few errors of literary taste occur and is pleasing in appearance. The text seems free from mistakes: but the foot-notes contain some that are troublesome.” Frederick W. Moore.
“Professor MacDonald’s contribution is, thus far, the best concise and brief essay upon Jackson’s two administrations. For a lucid and temperate statement of all but one of the dominant questions during Jackson’s presidency. Professor MacDonald’s volume is adequate.” Charles H. Levermore.
“One feels, indeed, in this volume as well as in others of the series, the inadequacy of treatment of these deeper undercurrents of economic and social change, not only as concerns the assignment of space, but in the lack of a fresh individual investigation. There is not the intimate knowledge of the field evidenced in the chapter on political history.” Albert Cook Myers.
Reviewed by David Y. Thomas.
Reviewed by St. George L. Sioussat.
“No better introduction to a detailed study of American history could be desired than these excellent volumes.” H. E. E.
“No volume in the series to which it belongs has quite the same charm of freshness or fills quite the same ‘long-felt want.’”
“In purely literary interest, and in the sure feeling for what is effective or dramatic in historical events, Fiske’s superiority is unquestionable: but in just balance and proportion, in thoroughness of research, and in all-round attention to the various aspects of the subject ... [v. 9 and 10] are far better, not only than Fiske’s work, but also than any other account of the American revolution of equal compass. Professor McLaughlin’s presentation of the political history of the Confederation is, as a whole, of such merit that we can but regret that he has not ploughed more deeply in the economic field.”
“If any criticism is to be passed on the author’s treatment of Western history, it is that strictly political matters are presented in scanty detail.”
“No volume of this series thus far exhibits more commendable literary qualities.”
“Careful investigation, sane conclusions, clear and orderly presentation, are thus the very solid merits of Professor MacDonald’s work.”
“The text shows an unexpected number of typographical errors.”
Reviewed by R. L. S.
“A scholarly and sympathetic history of the rise of the West.” R. L. S.
“The present is one of the most valuable of the volumes in ‘The American nation’ series.” R. L. S.
“Each of these volumes, while giving evidence of thorough research and acquaintance with the subject, is devoid of noticeable features.”
“Though ... the presentation is not always as ample as might be desired, his book should be cordially welcomed by students of Revolutionary history.”
“From the literary standpoint his work does not reach any high level. On the score of accuracy, lucidity, impartiality, perspective, and perception of cause and effect, little fault is to be found.”
“He has, generally speaking, succeeded in investing the well-known facts with a fresh interest. His pages are rich in acute analysis, suggestive comment, and clear-cut portraiture; his style is lucid, direct, and dignified, his tone judicial.”
“Accuracy and impartiality are also distinctive characteristics, but from the standpoint of proportion there is no room for improvement. Altogether, his is a most creditable addition to this standard work.”
“In some respects Professor Turner’s book differs strikingly from most of its predecessors in the series. Most significant, perhaps, is the emphasis laid upon the necessity of regarding the development of the United States as the outcome of economic and social as well as political forces.”
“Much as we must lament the absence of that appeal to the imagination which the historian should make, the merits of the treatise are such that it may be safely commended.”
“Is marked by daring and originality and, it is pleasant to be able to add, by scholarship. It is not, however, cast in the most attractive form, being monographic rather than unitary in treatment, and being of the scientific rather than the artistic school of historical writing.”
Review by W. Roy Smith.
Reviewed by W. Roy Smith.
Reviewed by W. Roy Smith.
Reviewed by George Louis Beer.
Reviewed by George Louis Beer.
Hart, Jerome.Levantine log book. **$2. Longmans.
“There is also a deal of useful information for the tourist.”
“In form and illustration the book is as pleasing to the eye as the text is to the mind.” H. E. Coblentz.
“Has all the ease, breeziness, and entertaining information that won such popularity for its author’s earlier travel sketches.”
Hartley, C. Gasquoine, pseud. (Mrs. Walter M. Gallichan).Moorish cities in Spain. *$1. Scribner.
Mrs. Gallichan “describes in welcome and never wearisome detail Cordova, Toledo, Seville, and Granada, and they that dwell therein. We have no guidebook detail, however. The reader is supposed to have Baedeker or Murray at his elbow. But we do find hints not contained in any guide-book.” (Outlook.)
Harvey, James Clarence.In Bohemia. $1.25. Caldwell.
A medley of verse and prose sketches in which “the author tells the uninitiated how to go to Bohemia and what they may reasonably expect to find there, making a special point of the distinction between the false and the true Bohemianism, whether it is to be found in New York or Damascus.” (Dial.)
“Some of the verse in dialect is very clever.”
Harwood, Edith.Notable pictures in Florence. *$1.50. Dutton.
“Is a cheap and useful book for laymen visiting the churches and picture galleries of Florence.”
Harwood, W. S.New creations in plant life: an authoritative account of the life and work of Luther Burbank. **$1.75. Macmillan.
“The book is far too popular in style and indefinite to be of real value to those seriously interested in plant-breeding, and it contains very little information meet to be absolutely accredited by the impartial observer.”
“Had it contained more documentary evidence set forth with scientific method, it would have commended itself to naturalists in a higher degree than it is likely to do at present.”
“Mr. Harwood is anything but scientific but his picture of the achievements of Mr. Luther Burbank impresses the reader, as no scientific treatise could, with the astonishing command over their material now possessed by the breeders of animals and plants.” E. T. Brewster.
“It is sufficiently full, tolerably well written, authentic, and prepared under the direction of the gardener himself.” Thomas H. MacBride.
“The author shows no desire or ability to make a critical examination of his achievements and to arrive at a just estimate of their practical and scientific value.”
“If he will give us his own experiences in his own words, rather than in those of some too partial biographer, the whole world will be the gainer, and the value of Mr. Burbank’s work more accurately gauged than it can be from the perusal of the present volume.”
“Mr. Harwood with a certain dash and journalistic swing has brought an important topic from where it might have long remained ambushed by scientific languages, and presented it to the people at large in such a way that it at once becomes a reality.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
“Aside from being an account of what is probably the most scientific work done in ourcountry of late, Mr. Harwood’s book is interesting reading.”
Harwood, W. S.New earth: a recital of the triumphs of modern agriculture in America. **$1.75. Macmillan.
The new earth of Mr. Harwood’s work is the cultivated earth, broad acres, well kept and stocked, that has risen out of the old—“a fine sane resurrection.” It is with the details of this progress as well as with the underlying principles that have governed it that this fully illustrated volume deals.
“Mr. Harwood’s knowledge appears to be in general derived at second hand, and he consequently not infrequently falls into error.”
“The book should be at once put into all the country libraries, especially in the traveling libraries.”
“The volume has a certain scrappiness here and there, as if the chapters had first been used in magazines, but on the whole, it is consistent and compact.”
“Though his methods still border a trifle too much towards the journalistic for serious book work, he has produced a vivid picture of the present-day husbandry.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
“The book may be warmly commended to the general reader, and it seems to us almost indispensable to the farmer who would make intelligent use of the forces now at his disposal.”
Hasluck, Paul Nooncree.Book of photography; practical, theoretical, and applied. $3. Cassell.
Photography in all its professional and amateur aspects is dealt with in nearly eight hundred pages, encyclopaedic in scope and profusely illustrated.
“It will prove a veritable boon to amateur and professional photographers alike.”
“Mr. Hasluck’s book seems to us to contain everything about photography that any one should need know.”
Hatch, Ernest Frederick George.Far Eastern impressions. *$1.40. McClurg.
“A bright and brisk book.” W. E. Griffis.
Hatch, F. H., and Corstorphine, George Steuart.Geology of South Africa. *$7. Macmillan.
“Gives an excellent account of the ancient rocks of the interior highland.”
Hatch, Marion P.Little Miss Sunshine and other stories in verse for children. $1. Goff co., Buffalo, N. Y.
A little group of child verse based upon the thought of God’s goodness, omnipotence, omnipresence which teaches a child to trust and not to fear.
Hatzfeldt, Paul.Hatzfeldt letters: letters of Count Paul Hatzfeldt to his wife; written from the headquarters of the King of Prussia, 1870–71; tr. from the French by J. L. Bashford. *$4. Dutton.
“Careful foot-notes give all the necessary information concerning the persons mentioned in the letters, and there is an inadequate index.”
Havell, Ernest Binfield.Benares the sacred city. $3.50. Blackie & son, London.
These sketches of Hindu life and religion “are not offered as a contribution to oriental scholarship, or to religious controversy, but as an attempt, to give an intelligible outline of Hindu ideas and religious practices, and especially as a presentation of the imaginative and artistic side of Indian religions, which can be observed at few places so well as in the sacred city and its neighborhood—the birthplace of Buddhism and one of the principal sects of Hinduism.”
“Mr. Havell’s account of Benares is worth more than a passing glance, for he is not to be confounded with the crowd of superficial observers who every winter visit India and find their way to the sacred city.”
“Altogether this scholarly and attractive volume is equally admirable in text, illustrations, and topography.”
“One appreciates a calm, dispassionate, well-ordered, and studious unravelling of the labyrinth of Hindu life and religion. Principal E. B. Havell ... has done this in a masterly manner.” H. E. Coblentz.
“A volume of considerable importance.”
“Well-written and sympathetic book.”
Havell, H. A.Tales from Herodotus. 60c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Children’s favorite classics.” Herodotus’ gift for weaving heroic wars and great personal deeds of the Greeks into “tales full of romance and charm” has delighted all ages. Here the tales are adapted for children.
“The historian’s tales in this book deal very largely with the Greek struggle for liberty, and they will prove as helpful and stimulating as they will fascinating to the children fortunate enough to enjoy their reading.”
“A particularly desirable sort of preparation for children’s nourishment.”
Haverstick, Alexander C.Sunday school kindergarten: a practical method of teaching in the infant room. *50c. Young ch.
A book that discusses the order of work for little people in Sunday school, the methods, the management and incentives.
Haw, George.Christianity and the working classes. $1.50. Macmillan.
“Eleven papers, dealing with the extent and intensity of the present religious defection, its causes and the means that are available for counteracting it.” (Cath. World.) Representative Englishmen including clergymen, membersof parliament and labor leaders are among the contributors.
“The present volume is well worth serious study.”
“Though written for Englishmen amid English conditions, these papers give timely and helpful suggestions to those who are studying how to cope with similar conditions here.”
Hawkes, Clarence.Shaggycoat; the biography of a beaver; il. by Charles Copeland. **$1.25. Jacobs.
Shaggycoat easily wins and holds every nature student’s attention. He is a member of a fast vanishing animal family, but sturdily upholds the traditions of his four-footed antecedents. The book reveals the habits, haunts and occupations of the beaver, shows how his nomadic habit leads him close to his enemies at times, and gives now and then a bit of primitive superstition which even greedy trappers heed.
“Mr. Hawkes gives this important animal biography in a simple, straightforward way, and earns our gratitude by leaving it with a happy ending in spite of the fact that the beaver tribe is being ruthlessly wiped out.” May Estelle Cook.
Hawkins, Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope, pseud.).Servant of the public. †$1.50. Stokes.
“A very discreet book, yet losing nothing by perfect decorum.” Mary Moss.
“His version of the woman of whims happens to be the most piquant and interesting one in the season’s books.” Edward Clark Marsh.
Hawkins, Anthony Hope. (Anthony Hope, pseud.).Sophy of Kravonia.†$1.50. Harper.
Sophy, an English girl of much spirit and no money goes to Kravonia to seek her fortune and, by a strange chance, saves the life of the crown prince who falls in love with her. The revolution which follows, the struggle between the supporters of her prince and those of his half-brother, and the part which Sophy, with the red star burning on her cheek, took in it all is stirring reading. Altho, by another chance of fate, she loses all she has gained, she carries with her from Kravonia a lasting memory of some enemies and many friends, of strife and conflict, of a crown won only to be lost, and of a great undying love.
“To be quite frank and explicit, this kingdom of Kravonia is one of the dullest realms in which it has been our ill-fortune to wander.”
“It is better reading than some of the author’s recent excursions into latter-day social life.”
“Anthony Hope has at last turned imitator of himself. That fact is the exact measure of the distance between ‘Sophia of Kravonia’ and ‘The prisoner of Zenda’. Well if we can’t have the fine original again, let us be thankful for an imitation so nearly perfect.” Edward Clark Marsh.
“Wavering between a study of character and a rattling romance, Mr. Hope misses both opportunities, and his book, though pleasant to read, is disappointing.”
“The conspiracy which thickens the plot is capitally developed, and long before the matter is solved the reader has quite forgotten that at the outset there was a certain sense of oppressiveness in the very serious marshalling of documentary evidence, as if for the history of a nation or the biography of a nation’s hero.”
“Taken all in all is not—in spite of the cleverness and entertaining qualities—quite worthy of the author’s genius. Exactly why it is so it is hard to say, for it pretends only to amuse the intelligent and it certainly serves its purpose.”
“Kravonia is much nearer reality than was Ruritania, and Mr. Hope has never done anything better in its way than the description of intrigues within the palace at Slavna while the old king lay dying and the crown prince, having met Sophy, would not set out to seek a royal bride.”
Haworth, Paul Leland.Hayes-Tilden disputed presidential election of 1876. *$1.50. Burrows.
“This is a complete record of what the writer describes as ‘the most remarkable electoral controversy in the history of popular government.’ The book is based upon the debates in Congress, the evidence gathered by various investigating committees, and the proceedings before the Electoral commission.”—R. of Rs.
“Is the first adequate history of ‘the most memorable electoral controversy in the history of popular government.’”
“A scholarly and detailed study of a political episode.”
“He does not as yet betray the gifts of an accomplished writer, and his style is marred here and there by unnecessary colloquialisms ... but even they reflect a mind that deals with a complex matter in a spirit of unusual simplicity and candor.” Edward Cary.
“The author, although he writes in a judicial spirit, does not indicate that he appreciates the political wrongs perpetrated in the south by so-called Reconstruction governments.”
“His work is a convenient and valuable digest of a vast amount of material not heretofore sifted for general use.”
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.Our old home: a series of English sketches: with an introd. by Katharine Lee Bates. $1.50. Crowell.
A “Luxembourg” edition of Hawthorne’s twelve English sketches. The introduction gives clippings which record America’s favorable and England’s unfavorable comments upon the work when it appeared in 1863. Miss Bates also suggests that Hawthorne might have used his note-book material to better advantage, mentioning especially the unused descriptive bits on the lake country.
Hawtrey, Valentina.Romance of old wars. †$1.50. Holt.
With a background of war between the French and Dutch of Von Arteveld’s time, theauthor has built up a pathetic love story. Matthieu de Châtelfors and Huette de Richecour are betrothed at birth. Huette develops into a plain, passionate, rather shrewish young woman whom Matthieu delays marrying on one pretext and another. She is too proud to insist and time drags on. With a promise to marry her on his return, he leaves for the battle-field. There follows a romantic meeting with a pretty peasant girl whose refusal of Matthieu’s love arouses his determination to wed her. The curtain rings down on the death of the one and the repulse of the other at Châtelfors.
Hay, Alfred D.Alternating currents: their theory, generation and transformation. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
A book for students and readers who are familiar with the subject both from practical and theoretical experience. “While the arrangement is logical, it is not systematic enough to make easy reading. Under the direction of a competent instructor, with proper laboratory facilities available, the book can be used as a text with excellent satisfaction.” (Engin. N.)
“It is undoubtedly one of the best books on the subject of alternating currents, and as a reference book for students, manufacturers and users of alternating current machinery it will prove exceedingly valuable.” H. H. Norris.
“The only drawback is that he has thus crowded the space devoted directly to the theory of alternating currents. These chapters should have been expanded or omitted altogether.”
Hay, John.Addresses: a collection of the more notable addresses delivered by the late secretary of state during the last years of his life. **$2. Century.
Mr. Hay’s discussion of men and things embodies his maturest thought, and his highest ideals of statehood. Among the twenty-four addresses grouped here are estimates of Franklin in France, Sir Walter Scott, William McKinley, Edmund Clarence Stedman, President Roosevelt, and discussions of international copyright, American diplomacy, Grand army of the republic, The press and modern progress and America’s love of peace.
“Rich in suggestive thought, and at once scholarly and charming in style, is a notable addition to the already large body of the literary remains of American statesmen.”
“Contains the addresses by which we think he will be best known. It is calculated to make every American reader prouder of our great secretary of state; it will also give to every foreign student of our affairs a higher opinion of the richest American character and attainment.”
Hay, Marie.German pompadour; being the true history of Wilhelmine von Gravenitz, landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg: a veracious narrative of the eighteenth century, gleaned from old documents. *$3.50. Scribner.
“Wilhelmine von Gravenitz was one of the most fascinating women of the eighteenth century. More passionate, and vastly more intelligent than La Pompadour, her French rival in intrigue and gallantry, she was a nobler type of woman, for she was really in love with Eberhard Ludwig, the reigning Duke of Wirtemburg, and though she played his dull and colorless wife many a cruel trick, and even attempted to assassinate her, our sympathies in spite of ourselves are stirred rather in the favour of the brilliant mistress than of the highly respectable but phlegmatic wife. To depict the life of a woman of this class in a lengthy narrative, without making her offensive, demands unusual insight into human nature.”—Sat. R.
“Her compromise between history and fiction is maintained throughout; she is always guiding herself by authentic facts, and her emotions are regulated by the documents at her side. And here lies the defect of the system. She cannot give her imagination free rein, and yet she may indulge it to such an extent that the reader does not know when he is reading history and when he is reading fiction. The ordinary reader will question whether the record of Wilhelmine might not give off a more pungent odour to other nostrils; and still more will he doubt whether this vagrant air is potent enough to steep three hundred and fifty odd pages with its fragrance. A magazine article or a sonnet were the proper vessel for such sweetness.”
“A notable piece of work. There is distinction in the style, and the writer shows such evident familiarity with the period and place involved, that certain objections which we feel should be made to the presentation of the narrative may with some show of reason be judged pedantic.”
“The author writes with a clever woman’s knowledge of the human heart, but her style occasionally borders on the luscious. It is a book for the novel reader, not for the student.” Percy F. Bicknell.
“The literary style is much inferior to the power of the narrative. We have unqualified gratitude to the authoress-historian for her labor of construction.”
“This remarkable first attempt at an historical novel leads one to hope that in a future venture Miss Hay will give us, not a more vivid story but a more carefully finished one.”
Haynes, George Henry.Election of senators. **$1.50. Holt.
This volume in the “American public problems” series, aims “to make clear the considerations which led the framers of the Constitution to place the election of senators in the hands of the state legislature; the form and spirit of the elections thus made, and the causes which have led to the recent and pressing demand for popular control over the choice of senators. It attempts also to forecast in some degree the probable effectiveness of such popular control, whether exercised under a loose construction of the present law, or in accordance with a constitutional amendment making possible the election of senators by direct popular vote.” Following the eleven chapters into which this subject has been divided are the resolutions favoring popular election of senators passed by the House of representatives, Recommendations of the Pennsylvania joint committee and a bibliography.
“Of considerable popular as well as historical interest.”
“This volume presents a timely and interesting account of the arguments for and against the present system of the election of senators.”
“The book is so complete and so fair that, but for one circumstance, we should not feel called upon to do more than to refer the reader to it as a lucid and exhaustive compendium.The argument assumes, of course, that the Senate, as it exists, is in need of improvement, This part of the book is more labored than is necessary.”
Hazelton, John Hampton.Declaration of independence: its history. **$4.50. Dodd.
“The book begins with 1774, following with the first steps taken by the colonies. Jefferson’s share in the drafting of the Declaration, the help of John Adams, the position of Hancock, and an account of how, when, and where each member signed the document. There is also a description of the effect of the Declaration on this country and England. In another chapter the author writes about the present resting place of the original document. The limited edition of the work will be in two volumes: the regular, in one.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Hazelton has performed creditably a hard task, for which all students of the period will be grateful.” George Elliott Howard.
“This is not a mere historical canvas filled with stiff figures, but rather a series of character studies of live men,—a set of ‘journals intimes’, which, to employ the language of John Adams, enables one ‘to penetrate the intricate, internal foldings of their souls.’” J. Woodbridge Riley.
“Mr. Hazelton has preferred to send out his material in bullion rather than to coin it into currency. As a narrative it suffers in consequence, but it has the greater value for the student.” Edwin E. Sparks.
“An elaborate work for reference rather than for reading. Unfortunately, his methods have serious defects. Notwithstanding the author’s care, misprints may be found, and curiously careless references to printed books. Yet, in spite of its drawbacks, the volume cannot but be highly useful to the student of sources.”
“Mr. Hazelton’s work is the result of patient and laborious investigation, set forth without any effort to attain literary attractiveness. It is valuable for a correct understanding of one important phase of the Revolution.”
Headley, John William.Confederate operations in Canada and New York. $2. Neale.
One with the incendiaries who tried to burn New York City Nov. 25, 1864, and who escaped amidst the panic to Canada “gives a detailed account of the several mad undertakings, each of which proved a dismal failure but undoubtedly caused much concern and embarrassment to the federal and State authorities. Captain Headley enlisted in the Confederate army early in the war, and prior to his Canadian mission saw much active service in Kentucky and Tennessee. Of this he also writes, his narrative affording fresh glimpses of the campaigns of Bragg, Forrest, and Morgan. His book is one of adventurous interest.” (Outlook.)
“His book is a useful addition to the literature on the war.”
“Mr. Headley’s book is mostly an inaccurate rehash of the facts of the civil war; but a few chapters contain an account of the New York affair that might, if better presented, have been interesting. As it is, the style is graceless as the narrative is shameless.”
“Although devoid of literary merit and characterized by a pronounced sectional tone, deserves a place on the shelf allotted to literature on the Civil war.”
Healy, Most Rev. John.Life and writings of St. Patrick. *$4.50. Benziger.
“Dr. Healy gives us, from an inside standpoint, a copious and exhaustive history of Ireland’s Apostle. The present work, containing over seven hundred and fifty good-sized pages, embodies everything of value that is known, or probably ever will be known, on the subject. Its chief excellence is the wealth of topographical lore which the learned author has brought to his task.... The narrative of St. Patrick’s journeyings is greatly enlivened by the Archbishop’s identification of the various places and landmarks in the modern nomenclature.”—Cath. World.
“There is no reason to expect that any subsequent work will supplant this ‘Life’ with those who will wish to learn all about the Apostle of Ireland, not in the interests of dry scholarship, but from love of faith and country.”
Reviewed by T. W. Rolleston.
“For any subsequent writer to ignore the close train of reasoning by which Professor Bury reaches his conclusions is simply to put himself out of the court as a critical authority.”