Healy, Patrick Joseph.Valerian persecution: a study of the relations between church and state in the third century, A.D. **$1.50. Houghton.
“The book as a whole is interesting and valuable.” John Winthrop Platner.
“The tone of the work throughout is candid and temperate, the style is clear and engaging, and the conclusions reached are, with minor exceptions justified by the evidence.” Eri B. Hulbert.
“We have praised the author’s impartiality: but we may detect a certain prepossession in his account of the fate of Emperor Valerian.”
Reviewed by George Hodges.
“Both in acuteness and erudition this book is a leader.”
“This work is evidently based on a careful study of all the sources, ancient and recent, whence our information on the persecution under Valerian is derived.” Alice Gardner.
Hearn, Lafcadio.Romance of the Milky Way, and other studies and stories.**$1.25. Houghton.
“This posthumous book is full of prettinesses, much of the character and value of those admirably set forth in English in the author’s former works.”
Reviewed by W. E. Griffis.
Hearn, Lafcadio.Some Chinese ghosts.**$1.50. Little.
Mr. Hearn sought especially for “weird beauty” in preparing the legends grouped here. The six tales possess the charm of a poet’s touch and are as follows: The soul of the great bell, The story of Ming-Y, The legend of Tchi-Niu, The return of Yen-Tchin-Kny, The tradition of the tea-plant and The tale of the porcelain god.
“New and most attractive edition of a delightful book.”
Heigh, John.House of cards. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
“The book is of almost painful interest, but is no mere political pamphlet.”
Heilprin, Angelo.Tower of Pelee. **$3. Lippincott.
“It will be difficult, even for those geologists who hesitate to accept all of Lacroix’s brilliant reasoning and explanation in regard to the physical manifestations of Pelée’s eruptions, to agree with Professor Heilprin’s views, largely because the manner in which they are presented must in many cases fail to convince the reader.” Ernest Howe.
Heilprin, Angelo, and Heilprin, Louis, eds. Lippincott’s new gazetteer. *$10. Lippincott.
The best of all the editions of fifty years has been retained, the unnecessary amplification cut out, and the latter-day material which the march of improvement orders has been added to this semi-centennial volume of Lippincott’s gazetteer. It is complete, condensed and monumental.
“Is a work of great value and contains an up-to-date, reliable and well-selected summary of the most important geographical information.” Emory R. Johnson.
“All the modern advances of geography are capably exhibited, as might have been expected from the editors.”
“The latest changes in geographical conditions are to be found in this new edition.”
“In omissions and errors the Territory of Alaska fares worst.”
“We gladly recognize that it has substantial claims to distinction as a reference work of great usefulness to all who require geographical information. For such, indeed, there is no other work of equal scope. And if only because of this fact it is to be hoped that in future editions greater care will be exercised to secure both freedom from error and ease of consultation.”
“There is little with which fault can be found, and abundance to praise in the volume.”
“In its new form will be as indispensable as is an unabridged dictionary.”
“This work of Messrs. Heilprin cannot be too highly praised—the devotion to detail has not only been conscientious to a degree, but they have also shown an intelligent discrimination which is a large portion of the value of the book.”
“The work as a whole is far more comprehensive in scope than ever before. Its treatment of the recently acquired possessions of the United States gives it a distinctive value to Americans such as no other book of its class now has.”
“Have done their work of bringing this gazetteer up to date very thoroughly.”
“As far as we have been able to examine the book, we have found it complete.”
Heisch, C. E.Art and craft of the author; practical hints upon literary work. *$1.20. Grafton press.
Miss Heisch’s book is full of practical hints upon literary work. “Her advice may be boiled down into the old golden precepts; Be honest; be patient; be industrious.” (Acad.) Yet there are specific suggestions for a writer along the line of principles which should guide him, objects he should keep in view and the methods of carrying them out.
“Her advice is always good, and her book is well-arranged and clearly written.”
“Authors with some experience as well as beginners will find profit in these pages.”
“She says judicious things, and she fortifies her precepts with good illustrations.”
Heller, Otto.Studies in modern German literature. *$1.50; school ed. *$1.25. Ginn.
Three essays devoted respectively to Sudermann, Hauptmann and women writers of the nineteenth century.
“Herr Heller is not a very great or original critic, but he is genuinely interested in his subject, and that goes for much; he has read and assimilated a great deal of the best German criticism bearing on the matter, and his outlook is generally sensible.”
“Suggestive and interesting work.”
“Very able treatise on modern German literature.”
Helm, W. H.Aspects of Balzac. **$1. Pott.
“His book is a useful addition to Balzac literature.”
“Mr. Helm’s method furnishes us with a number of unpretentious chats, that commend themselves by intelligence and discrimination, and move in the middle region of appreciation between fanatical zeal and grudging recognition.”
Henderson, Charles Hanford.Children of good fortune: an essay in morals. **$1.30. Houghton.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
“One feels disposed to say that Dr. Henderson has written a most immoral book about morality.” Edward Fuller.
Henderson, Ernest Flagg.Short history of Germany; new ed. [2v. in 1.] *$2.50. Macmillan.
The two volumes of Mr. Henderson’s history which appeared four years ago have been combined in one volume for the present edition. “The author assumes, as his starting-point, the preëminence of Germany as the guiding thread to lead the student through the intricacies of general European history. All the great international struggles, he points out, have been fought out on German soil, from the Thirty years’ war to the great struggle against Napoleon. The two great ever-present factors ofthe entire medieval period—the Papacy and the Empire—fought out their differences on German soil and through German personages.... This volume, which is excellently printed and provided with indexes and notes, is also supplied with several maps and bibliographical lists.” (R. of Rs.)
“It is a book that is most needful.”
“Those who are really interested in German history, however, will not be satisfied with such a condensation, admirably as it has been done.”
“Not the least valuable part of the book is a careful bibliography introducing each chapter and covering the subject matter of the chapter.”
Henderson, Henry F.Religious controversies of Scotland. *$1.75. imp. Scribner.
Reviewed by Eri B. Hulbert.
“Mr. Henderson’s book is not exhaustive. Full information on the religious controversies of Scotland will have to be sought elsewhere. The book was manifestly intended to be a popular account of its subject, rather than a professional and scientific one.” T. Johnstone Irving.
Henderson, John.West Indies; painted by A. L. Forrest; described by John Henderson.
Henderson, M. Sturge.Constable. *$2. Scribner.
A late addition to the “Library of art.” The volume furnishes a short, condensed life of the English landscape painter, “who, by virtue of a naturalism that was unique in two respects—his ‘fearless adoption of “unpicturesque” localities as subjects for his pictures, and his practice of using fresh, bright color’—pointed out to his successors ‘the way to a new kingdom.’” (Ind.) Much of the material has been drawn from C. R. Leslie’s “Life.” There are 38 half-tone reproductions from the artist’s paintings, sketches and studies.
“The author not only indulges in restrained criticism, but presents the actions and interests of the artist in a vivid and chronological manner.”
“The beautiful simplicity of Constable’s life and art are admirably expressed in this book, and those who read it carefully will learn much more than they have known before about the simple and homely but great English master.” Walter Cranston Larned.
“His critical comment, besides being sound, has the further merit of clear and concise expression.”
“It is well enough done, but there was no great necessity of doing it at all, and there is nothing in it that is not readily enough to be found elsewhere.”
“The present volume challenges comparison with Mr. Holmes’s excellent biography published four years ago. Both biographers are notable for clearness, vigor, and discrimination.”
Henderson, Mary Foote.Aristocracy of health. $1.50. Harper.
The author outlines the path royal for the would-be health aristocrat,—the being who achieves strength, self-reliance, success, influence long life, and happiness. The way lies close to physical culture, abstinence from poisons, and dietetic care. The author views the subject of human degeneracy from the standpoint of different countries, and so leads up to her suggestion that a national and international league be formed for the advancement of physical culture.
“Laborious and enthusiastic volume.”
“The material is thrown into popular form and although it could easily be reduced in bulk, the book is readable. As an argument against the use of stimulants, it carries weight; as a general philosophy of living it has its limitations.”
Henderson, T. F.Mary, Queen of Scots: her environment and tragedy. *$6 Scribner.
A biography satisfactory for students because of its wealth of footnotes and references. “To sum up, the presentation of Queen Mary ... is good and true to nature for the period in which she can be observed in freedom, while she displayed to the world her great and royal heart, facing her enemies in the field of battle, meeting diplomatists in the council chamber, and discharging with grace and gaiety the duties of hostess, or the functions of a queen, and Mr. Henderson can make allowances for the strong temptations which led to her fall. But in her long and cruel confinement he loses touch with her. Without adequate conception of her rights, or of the part which as a queen and a Catholic she should have played, he considers her now as an actress, a devote, a mischief-maker. But her conduct at her trial and execution again appeals to him and he concludes with a fitting testimony to her great qualities.” (Acad.)
“Mr. Henderson’s volume is at least the fourth separate biography of her which has appeared during this year alone. Of all these lives Mr. Henderson’s is without doubt the best and most thorough. His advantages over his rivals are many.” J. H. Pollen.
“His book is both a narrative biography and a critical study. The value of the book lies chiefly in its clear presentation of general conditions underlying the crises of Mary’s career and particularly of the influence of foreign affairs upon their shaping and development.” O. H. Richardson.
“Some readers will be inclined to question not only the soundness of many of Mr. Henderson’s criticisms, but also his presentation of some of the facts. The book is vigorously written and displays much critical acumen; but some of the phrases are rather inelegant, and one or two savor of slang.”
“It is a pity that several mistakes have been allowed to creep into the text, and that, in giving the date of the month, in nearly every instance that date of the year has been omitted; also that the author has permitted himself the use of so many unusual words.”
“He has brought together for the first time many facts that were formerly to be sought only in scattered and more or less inaccessible books or magazine articles, and he has added not a little entirely new matter, important to a proper understanding of the life of Mary Stuart and of those around her.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
“His survey is thorough, extensive and precise, missing scarcely a detail of the stormy and adventurous career.”
“Though we differ widely from Mr. Henderson on many points, his book is a valuable contribution to the controversy, and it will be indispensable to the student. The general reader will find it fresh and clear and well-informed. We feel bound to add that it is to a considerable extent spoiled by Mr. Henderson’s irritating habit of correcting his predecessors on points of detail. Sometimes he is right, but more often it seems to us, there is as much evidence for their view as for his.”
“His book not only claims to be free from prepossessions, but succeeds much better than most works on Mary Stuart in preserving the mood of objectivity.”
“Mr. Henderson may have Mary’s history at his fingers’ ends ... but he has not succeeded in telling what he knows convincingly, or with clearness or fullness. Mrs. MacCunn’s biography is not only far more interesting, but it is fuller.”
“His is a book for advanced students, and these will find it richly informative.” H. Addington Bruce.
“We have mentioned points susceptible of improvement in the book, but it will be very welcome to the relatively large public which studies the history of the unhappy queen.”
Henderson, William James.Art of the singer; practical hints about vocal technics and style. **$1.25. Scribner.
The results of twenty-five years of study are summed up for the teacher, the student and the lover of singing. “Probably the best thing in Mr. Henderson’s book, the ‘Art of the singer,’ is his defence of that art. In reply to the declaration of an acquaintance that singing is an artificial achievement, he says: ‘The truth is that while speaking is nature, singing is nothing more than nature under high cultivation.’” (Nation.)
“A real acquisition to the library.”
“While the book is to some extent technical, it is written in a clear, comprehensive style and can be enjoyed by the mere lover of singing.”
“Mr. Henderson’s book is a most valuable and useful one. It makes for the preservation and integrity of something that cannot possibly be spared in the musical world.” Richard Aldrich.
Henry, Arthur.Lodgings in town. †$1.50. Barnes.
“The intimate, straightforward and lively style in which Mr. Henry writes, and his large and convincing optimism, make a strong appeal to the reader’s sympathy.”
Henry, Arthur.Unwritten law. †$1.50. Barnes.
“It is a truer reproduction of contemporaneous cosmopolitan existence than are most historical essays that claim to represent things as they are, and being instinct with the higher realism ... the work holds the interest of the reader from cover to cover.”
Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).Four million.†$1. McClure.
“In the four million people of New York city their daily living and working and playing, Mr. Henry has found the material for comedy, and tragedy, for laughter and tears. With a few deft touches he weaves the fabric of romance in East side tenements, Wall street brokers’ offices or along Fifth avenue. His sketches—they are hardly stories—are remarkable for their terseness, sympathy and humor, and for their deep insight into the inner life of the great city.”—Pub. Opin.
“These sketches of New York life are among the best things of the kind put forth in many a day.”
“The work is not even, of course, and some of it is not up to the mark—but on the whole it expresses the spirit of New York wonderfully. And it is clever and entertaining always.”
“Little stories, each with its individual point, and all pervaded with genuine fun and here and there a touch of sentiment or pathos.”
“His work is a living proof of the oft-repeated statement that literature depends for its value not on the quality of the material but on the eye of the beholder.”
Henshaw, Julia W.Mountain wild flowers of America: a simple and popular guide to the names and descriptions of the flowers that bloom above the clouds. *$2. Ginn.
Three hundred plants which the wanderer in mountain regions may meet with at any turning are introduced to the reader of this volume by both their popular and scientific names, while one hundred of them are further identified by means of full-page pictures reproduced from photographs taken by the author. The flowers are classified according to color, an explanation of all botanical terms used is given, and there is one index to the scientific names and another to the English.
“Among the best of the numerous popular works on nature issued during recent years.”
“Even one ignorant of botany will be able to make use of the book.”
“Is certain to stimulate as well as delight all tourists to the wonderland of our great common Northwest.”
“An interesting and practical volume to the unenlightened.” Helen R. Albee.
Herbert, George.English works, newly arranged and annotated and considered in relation to his life, by G. Herbert Palmer. 3v. *$6. Houghton.
“The edition is an elaborate and worthy monument to the gravely sweet and original genius.”
“He has done a work never attempted before, and it is so final in its results that henceforth every student of Herbert must reckon with it.” A. V. G. Allen.
“Wide and intimate scholarship and a rare insight born of a lifetime of close fellowship are met together in this work.” Frances Duncan.
“Professor Palmer’s essays are terse, direct, and pithy, felicitous in their combination oftireless scholarly research and infectious enthusiasm.”
“He has run the risk of misleading the general reader by imposing upon the arrangement an interpretation of the poet’s character which is peculiarly his own, and unsustained by internal or external evidence.”
“Excellent as an annotator, the present editor does not appear to us so happy as a biographer.”
“It is probably the most complete, and critically speaking, the final edition of the English poet’s works.”
Herrick, Albert Bledsoe.Practical electric railway hand-book. 2nd ed. rev. & corrected. *$3. McGraw pub.
The results of practical experiences along the lines of improvement in the operation of electric railways have been arranged here in convenient form for reference. “The material is logically arranged in the following nine sections: General tables, testing, track, power station, line car house, repair shop, equipment and operation.”
“The second edition of this handbook ... is greatly improved in many ways.” Henry H. Norris.
Herrick, Christine Terhune, ed. Lewis Carroll birthday book. 75c. Wessels.
Herrick, Robert.Memoirs of an American citizen.†$1.50. Macmillan.
“The story is told in a clear, personal narrative which never strays into a false key.” Mary Moss.
“It is in the life-like portraits of Carmichael and other business men that he excels, and in the description of the purely business side of life.”
Herrmann, Wilhelm.Communion of the Christian with God. Authorized tr.; new cheaper ed. **$1.50. Putnam.
A translation of the last German edition issued in a more convenient form than the first American issue and at a popular price.
“It is assuredly one of the important doctrinal treatises of a generation, and it is well that it is rendered into English from the text which is likely to be the author’s final revision.”
“It is a book which has entered into the life of our time, and its work has been in behalf of sincere piety and true devotion.”
“We are glad to see so rational and so devout a book published in a form which brings it within the reach of others than professional students. For it is more than a book of theology; it is an exposition and interpretation of religious experience.”
Herzfeld, Elsa G.Family monographs: the history of twenty-four families living in the middle of the west side of New York city. For sale by Brentano’s and Charity organization soc., N. Y.
Miss Herzfeld says, “The object of these studies is to throw light on the family of the New York tenement-house dweller. The majority of the families studied are fairly typical of the German and Irish, foreign and native born, tenement-house population of New York.” While not the most thriftless type they live from hand to mouth. The work is based on wide sociological observation.
“Fragmentary as the study is, it is an authentic document by a shrewd observer and interpreter of social motives.” C. R. H.
“The monograph is valuable and will be very serviceable to students of city life.”
“The book is one that the general reader will enjoy; for interest has not been sacrificed to scientific colorness, and humor and pathos are alike to be found here.” E. A.
“It is not, in fact, a literary work in any sense, or a ‘book’ in any but the most restricted sense. It is a tract.”
Hewitt, Randall H.Across the plains and over the divide: a mule train journey from East to West in 1862, and incidents connected therewith. $1.50. Broadway pub.
The untamed West of the Civil war days, with its primitive grandeur and unrestraint is reproduced in these pages for the benefit of the younger generation. The journey covers a zigzag course from Illinois to Washington, over wild country, with no end of perilous encounters.
Hewlett, Maurice.Works. Ed. de luxe. 11v. ea. *$3. Macmillan.
Hewlett, Maurice Henry.Fond adventures: tales of the youth of the world. †$1.50. Harper.
“Here again he shows his virtuosity in creating a magic haze, beyond which his mediaeval figures move upon their fate.” Mary Moss.
Hewlett, Maurice.Fool errant.†$1.50. Macmillan.
“Can it be that Mr. Hewlett after all grows genial?” Mary Moss.
Heyward, Janie Screven.Wild roses. $1.25. Neale.
Some thirty verses, simple to a fault, upon homey subjects—with a touch here and there of strong Southern feeling. The volume opens with a poem on Confederate reunion 1899, and closes with The Confederate private.
Heywood, William.Palio and Ponte. Methuen, London.
“For the present volume all those who love the history of sport or of Italy will be grateful. It is as light as it is learned, while the excellent illustrations and pleasant type and form give it an added charm.” E. Armstrong.
Hichens, Robert Smythe.Black spaniel and other stories. †$1.50. Stokes.
“They have not the epigrammatic flash of his earlier books nor the substantial impressiveness of his latest.”
Hichens, Robert Smythe.Call of the blood; il. by Orson Lowell. †$1.50. Harper.
An Englishman ten years younger than his “ugly though brilliantly clever and intellectual” bride finds, under the sunny skies of Sicilywhence they go for their honeymoon, that he cannot resist the cry of youth and beauty. The strain of Sicilian blood in his veins is responsible for his aptitude in dancing the tarantella and for his yielding to the quick call of love—dishonourable tho it be, and tragic tho it prove.
“It is a full-blooded stirring story—a work which, if Mr. Hichens had not written ‘The garden of Allah,’ we might hail as the greatest novel of passion in the century.”
“Mr. Hichens at any rate is open to the accusation of taking a long time to tell a simple story.”
“Mr. Hichens envelops himself in rather artificial motives and seems quite oblivious of the influences that must really move his characters to act with consummate naturalness to an inevitable end.” Duffield Osborne
“So far as the matter of scene painting goes, ‘The call of the blood’ recalls the splendid richness of colour in ‘The garden of Allah’ while in all other respects it serves only to emphasize the marked superiority of the earlier volume.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“Mr. Hichens, it seems, has committed the strategic crime of not making his new novel even better than its predecessor. Yet ‘The call of the blood’ is a good book, perhaps even a great book.”
“There is not enough power in this story and too much decadent fineness.”
“The book is entertaining and well worth reading.”
“Some of the Sicilian descriptions are quite as remarkable as anything Mr. Hichens has done.”
“The story is written with much dramatic power and with fine restraint as well. The chief fault of the novel, is that at times, notably in the last hundred pages, the action drags.”
“The latter part of the story is tragic and moves with some vigor—but too late!”
“The author’s style has an even carefulness. It has no compelling illumination, no gift for happy phrase, and is never impregnated with the sense of character; but it lends itself to the landscape passages of which he is fond, and retains throughout a literary finish.”
“Mr. Hichens’s style harmonises excellently with his subject. Its colour is at times rather hectic, but in the main it seems to heighten the effect of a remarkably interesting and dramatic study of the survival of pagan and primitive instincts.”
Hichens, Robert.Garden of Allah.$1.50. Stokes.
“From the standpoint of the author, in so far as he has vouchsafed to disclose it, the ending of the story is forced and inartistic.” Duffield Osborne.
Higgins, Hubert.Humaniculture. **$1.20. Stokes.
“A phrase of the author’s states the subject matter of this book: ‘The problem has now shifted its ground from how to cure a man ... in a hospital to the cure of a man in a sanitarium. The real problem still remains; how to prevent a man in a home from acquiring disease.’... It is now known that only through the exercise of the faculty of mastication and insalivation can the stomach and intestines perform their functions in a non-poison-producing way.... The real significance of this act has only recently been demonstrated, and by an American, Mr. Horace Fletcher. The first half of Dr. Higgins’s book is devoted to analysis and eulogy of Mr. Fletcher’s theories.”—Outlook.
“To do him justice there is more truth in his theories than in some others with which a long-suffering public has been afflicted.”
“Dr. Higgins is neither a ‘crank’ nor a faddist. While his book is, unfortunately, diffuse in style and not clear in construction, it is worth reading.”
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.Part of a man’s life. **$2.50. Houghton.
Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
“It is pleasant to see, in regard to this intensely human part of a man’s life, that he can still point a pen not greatly corroded by the rust of days.”
“Has seldom written to better purpose than in this semi-biographical volume of reminiscences and impressions.”
“This volume with its rich fund of story and observation, garmented in graciousness and adorned with many interesting portraits and autograph facsimiles, will win for its author an increasing measure of esteem and affection.”
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, and MacDonald, William.History of the United States from 986 to 1905. $2. Harper.
“The revision and enlargement will tend to prolong its space of public favor for another score of years.”
Hight, George Ainslie.Unity of will: studies of an irrationalist. **$3. Dutton.
“Mr. Hight’s treatise is quite in line with the present trend of philosophy. This, reversing the long-prevalent and still popular conception of will as the instrument of reason, recognizes will as the master and intellect as its servant, both in the individual and in the universe.... By will is broadly meant the self-active principle manifested in all loving, hating, seeking, shunning, striving.”—Outlook.
“The book was written throughout in an attractive and readable style; to this is added the merit of brevity, unusual in philosophic works of this sort. At the end a series of ‘First principles’ sums up in concise form the main views of the author, which, although, as has been pointed out, they do not always fit in with those of one more used to a psychological and epistemological method of approach, still are calculated to present to all much food for profound and beneficial reflection.” Robert Morris Ogden.
“His argument is carried forward with a directness, a logic, a careful avoidance of unnecessary technicalities that are admirable.”
“Whatever be its defects, Mr. Hight’s line of thought is soundly practical, and its effect is tonic and uplifting.”
Higginbotham, Harlow Niles.Making of a merchant. $1.50. Forbes.
A thoroly practical handling of a subject most vital to young men entering upon a business career. Mr. Higinbotham writes from experience and discusses the foundation, advancement, qualities that make a merchant, details that spell success, buying merchandise, treatment of employers, the department store and its management, and the extension of credit in its various phases.
Hildreth, Richard.Japan as it was and is: a handbook of old Japan: a reprint, ed. and rev., with notes and additions by Ernest W. Clement; introd. by William Elliot Griffis. *$3. McClurg.
The material of the 1861 edition of Hildreth’s “Japan” has been revised and reprinted with copious illustrations and adequate editorial matter. The work is no less important now than when it first appeared in 1855, for the fact that it is a compilation from all the important European writings on Old Japan establishes its permanent value. In the revision, the author has harmonized the spelling of Japanese words with the modern system of Romanization, and has added such other notes and explanations as might be necessary.
Hildt, John C.Early diplomatic negotiations of the United States with Russia. Johns Hopkins press.
This volume of the “Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and political science” forms an introductory study of the relations of the United States with Russia, and narrates “the history of the rise and progress of the early diplomatic relations of the American government to that country and the steps by which the negotiations were carried forward.” The missions of Dana, Adams, and Pinckney, the question of consular immunity, Spanish-American affairs, and the treaty of 1824 all receive careful consideration.
“He gives a careful and clear, but pedestrian account, based on the printed American materials and, after 1816, on an extensive use of the manuscript materials in the archives of the Department of state.”
Hill, David Jayne.History of diplomacy in the international development of Europe, v. 1. **$5. Longmans.
“But what is much more striking is the industry, the insight, and the thoroughness with which, on the whole, even in its vast introductory field, he has acquainted himself, as to all points cardinal to his theme, with the best and the latest of the teeming literature of his subject. As for petty slips ... they are exceptionally few.” George L. Burr.
“The misfortune of the volume is, in short, that it lacks a true perspective. If, however, the work be considered as merely a new general history, on the international side, it has many excellent features, being very well written, clear, accurate and even entertaining, while the source references at the end of each chapter, the lists of treaties, the maps, and a comprehensive index render it a valuable reference work.” E. D. Adams.
“On the whole the book has the qualities of a competent American work, being well written, but a little dull, very dependent on European scholarship, and lacking in freshness.”
“It is valuable, however, for bringing into one view the larger facts of the period treated, and emphasizing their influence upon the growth of national states.” David Y. Thomas.
“A word of praise is due to the bibliographies which are appended to each chapter, and to the regnal tables, maps, and index.” H. W. C. Davis.
Hill, Frederick Trevor.Lincoln the lawyer. **$2. Century.
The author believes that in the vast amount of material on the life of Abraham Lincoln too little can be found which sums up the great President’s legal career. So this sketch starts with Lincoln’s mythical birthright to the law, locates the real source of his professional aspirations, follows him through his workshop apprenticeship to his admission to the bar, and on, step by step, to the presidency. The whole discussion particularizes the stages of legal growth that is usually assumed in the presentation of Lincoln the statesman.
“Is, on the whole, something of a contribution to the Lincolniana already so vast.”
“Mr. Hill has made a distinct contribution to Lincoln biography. By this we mean a contribution of original material, not a new interpretation, or new presentation, of material already in existence.”
“No layman—not to mention the lawyer—can fail to be interested by evidence so carefully sifted and a story so well told. Indeed, many parts of the book have almost the value of original documents.”
“Mr. Hill writes for laymen, in a clear, simple, and non-professional style, and has made an interesting as well as valuable volume. He has done his work so well that we regret that he has not done it better.”
“A real contribution to history. Mr. Hill’s researches have brought to light a vast amount of interesting data concerning the bench and bar of Illinois in Lincoln’s time.”
Hill, G. Francis.Historical Greek coins. **$2.50. Macmillan.
A sidelight on Greek history. It is “not a popular work in the broad sense of the term. It is rather a handbook to the most interesting items in the British museum.... The material in the introduction is naturally encyclopedic.... It presupposes a general knowledge of numismatics on the part of the reader, which is only to be gathered from the present volume by careful perusal. The coins are taken up one by one—in many cases most excellently reproduced in half-tone—and studied from the point of view of their material, pictures, and inscriptions, their historical period being described in such a way as to bring its customs and manners vividly before the reader.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The selection of documents can be criticised, of course, both for its inclusions and its omissions. But it is quite sufficiently representative to serve as an introduction to the use of numismatic evidence in historical study, which wetake to be the main object of the book.” D. G. Hogarth.
“The author is the most competent that could be found in this country. If we think that, written on a somewhat different plan, it might have been more valuable, we hasten to admit that its actual value is very great. It will widen the outlook of every historical student who consults it.”
“Here and there in the volume we find passages containing information which long ago should have been employed as footnotes to history.”
“The reader will find most of the great problems of Greek numismatics adequately discussed, with a laudable terseness and much sound judgment.”
“Mr. Hill has a way of making his learning attractive.”
Hill, George Francis.Pisanello. *$2. Scribner.
“Mr. Hill paints his portrait and interprets his art with a skill worthy of the theme.” Royal Cortissoz.
“Pisanello, the painter and the medalist, together with his brother workers upon the little reliefs, have been comprehended here in a distinct and lucid manner.”
Hill, Headon, pseud. (Francis Edward Grainger.)One who saw. $1.50. Victoria press (Stitt pub. co.).
There is a mystery in this story which “hovers around a haunted tower. The deus ex machina is a small boy with a cockney accent, a bona fide burglar (with a jimmy that he calls a James,) for a father, and a remarkable facility for climbing up precipices and other apparently impossible places, a facility, by the bye, which stands everybody in the book in good stead before the end is reached. Of course, the hero does nothing but pose and bluster. Of course, the heroine looks beautiful and suffers patiently, like the ‘hangel’ that she is to the small Tommy. And, of course, the small Tommy in question is, as anyone with half an imagination could guess, ‘The one who saw.’” (N. Y. Times.)
Hill, Janet McKenzie (Mrs. Benjamin M. Hill).Up-to-date waitress. **$1.50. Little.
Mrs. Hill, editor of the Boston cooking-school magazine, says “This book is intended as a guide to what may be called good, perhaps ideal, service for waitresses under all circumstances, and not as a set of hard and fast rules from which there is no appeal.” It gives complete information on the care of the dining room, the arrangement of the table, the serving of food, and the preparing of certain dishes.
“It should be in every household.”
“It is a most useful and interesting volume. The mistress of the house cannot afford to be without it.”
Hill, Mabel.Lessons for junior citizens. 50c. Ginn.
A little text-book in civics which aims to arouse children to take an intelligent interest in the activities of their local government. Each chapter contains a short story concerning some municipal or political function, such as, the police department, board of health, fire department, school system, park commission, immigration, and naturalization, etc. Each chapter is followed by a series of questions which fit the book for school use.
Hill, Sarah C.Cook book for nurses. *75c. Whitcomb & B.
A collection of recipes in a condensed form which will prove valuable to nurses and all those who wish to prepare proper food for the sick. Various rules for fluid diet, soft or convalescent diet, special diets and formulae for infant feeding are given while blank leaves are left for additional recipes.
Hind, Charles Lewis.Education of the artist. $2.50. Macmillan.
“How Claude Williams Shaw was educated in art is set forth in Mr. Hind’s volume. It tells how, at the age of thirty-three, certain persistent glimmerings of a suspicion that life is a larger tapestry than the pattern woven by the author of ‘Self-help’ broke into flame; how that flame was fanned by an artist who crossed his path; how casting about for a way to express his temperament, he decided upon painting; how he studied art in Cornwall and in the Paris studios; how he traveled through Italy, Austria, Germany, and Belgium, studying the pictures of the world in pursuit of his art education; and how in the end of the true awakening of his temperament began, and he discovered that his education was but beginning.”
“The public which delights in his writing will be just the public that can only pretend to admire the artists of his choice.”
“Is the record of the impressions of an alert, sensitive, and cultivated, if rather capricious, taste. We shall find no guide-book information, nor quotations from other people; the judgments are independent and personal.”
“These make pleasant, if not especially profitable reading.”
“The book may not interest the serious student; to the beginner it should be a kind of Bodley book in art.”
Hinkson, Mrs. Katharine Tynan (Mrs. H. A. Hinkson).Dick Pentreath. †$1.25. McClurg.
Dick Pentreath, plain gentleman, pursues his way among the commonplaces of life buoyantly enough until on the eve of his marriage a foolish drinking bout changes the course of true love. Dorothea scorns him, and in his anger he rushes headlong into a union with an ill-bred woman who brings him shame and humiliation. Had Dick but yielded even to the instinct of his dog Sancho who estimated Susan unerringly, the mistake would have been averted. His burden is lightened now and then by the kindly encouragement of his sister confessor Lady Stella, and by the ready devotion of faithful Sancho. The journey which “bleached Dick Pentreath white” does finally end in lovers meeting.
“A story of more substance and a wider range of interest than we remember in any of this author’s previous novels, and much better written.”
“The author can do better than this.”
“Everything about the novel is slip-shod.”
“It is not equal in charm to many of the novels which Miss Tynan has recently given us.”
Hishida, Seiji G.International position of Japan as a great power. (Columbia univ. press studies in history, economics and public law. v. 24, no. 3.) *$2.50. Macmillan.
“Dr. Seiji G. Hishida carefully traces Japan’s historic policy in dealing with foreign nations. Incidentally he makes frequent reference to the diplomatic and commercial history of Europe and America, to the principles of international and other law, as well as to certain phases of economics and sociology, in order to elucidate with scientific precision the relations between the Orient and the Occident.... After relating the history of ancient and modern Japan, Dr. Hishida describes the Empire’s definite entry into the comity of nations, the Russo-Japanese rivalry in Korea, the various struggles of the great Powers in China, the Boxer rebellion, and the Russo-Japanese war. An appendix appropriately contains the text of the Russo-Japanese and Anglo-Japanese treaties.”—Outlook.
“Mr. Hishida’s work is a thoroughly creditable performance. Were it not for the fact that it lacks an index it would serve as a compact reference book on the international history of Japan, China and Korea.” Frederick C. Hicks.
“Exhibits the most ambitious effort yet put forth by an Oriental to master the facts and philosophy of Western politics in their latest aspects. It contains a mass of general Japanese history, industriously gathered and clearly arranged, much of it not generally known, but which every American who takes an interest in our international relations should be familiar with.” George R. Bishop.
“Dr. Hishida’s volume has distinct value for students of history and politics.”
Historians’ history of the world; ed. by H: Smith Williams. $72. Outlook.
“The index ... seems to have been prepared with intelligence and care.” E. G. Bourne.
“The plan and execution betray the uninitiated, and notwithstanding the literary ability of the author, the book serves as a good evidence that a history of Egypt can be written only by an Egyptologist, at least at the present time. These illustrations are, perhaps, the most objectionable feature of the well-intending book.” W. Max Muller.
“On the whole ... gives a fair picture of Babylonian and Assyrian life and culture. In treating of the religion of the Babylonians, the editors have overlooked the latest and best work.” George A. Barton.
“The difficulties met by the editor in fitting together his various sources must have been enormous. That he has not succeeded fully in overcoming the difficulties will be clear on examination. There are too many typographical errors in the work; the references which are intended to give the reader knowledge of the sources of the work are often too indefinite.” Henry Preserved Smith.