“The studies will be found suggestive and helpful to the average Bible student.”
“We are sure that many people who never go near a Sunday-school would, if they were to read this book, turn to the Bible with an unaccustomed interest.”
“Its treatment is farthest possible from the conventional discussion of biblical books, and will infallibly cause any reader to feel new admiration and interest in the Bible.”
Houghton, Mrs. Louise Seymour.Telling Bible stories; with an introd. by Rev. T. T Munger. **$1.25. Scribner.
“In a deeper vein Louise Seymour Houghton, in her ‘Telling Bible stories,’ sketches the best way of outlining the Old Testament for young folks.”—Ind.
“The woman already somewhat intelligent in the biblical field, and sufficiently open-minded to adapt herself to modern ways of dealing with biblical material, will find the book most suggestive. Is a valuable contribution to the literature on the religious education of children, and it is hoped, will be carefully studied by leaders in Sunday-school work, and especially those who are planning graded curricula, although there may be difference of opinion as to many of her conclusions.”
“It is a pity that so excellent a book has no index.”
“Her discussion is of wider interest than mere educational guidance.”
“This is a book of high value for all who would bring to fruitage in mature years the ‘natural piety’ which is latent in the child.”
“Will be found a most valuable help, and we warmly recommend it.”
Houston, Edwin James.Young prospector. †$1.50. Wilde.
Harry Maxwell and his friend Ned Cartwright, two alert, ambitious boys, go West in search of the gold mine where Harry’s father lost his life. The book, aside from being full of adventure illustrates how information useful to boys may be worked into attractive form.
Howard, Bronson.Kate, a comedy in four acts. †$1.25. Harper.
The modern marriage question, the barter of soulless men and women for great wealth and great names, and the final triumph of love and human nature is dealt with in this reading version of Bronsor Howard’s new play. In the course of four acts entitled, When marriage is a farce, Love and legal documents, Stronger than law or rite, and Which would be wife, three mismated couples are re-assorted and all are left happier than if Kate had won her coronet. The dialogue is startlingly frank and pithy, the characters varied and the plot well worked out.
“The play is interesting reading, but carries no conviction with it.”
“Except that the four chapters are called ‘acts,’ the book looks quite like one of those modern novels which are rich in conversation. The effect of the method, which is a new one, is excellent, and no confusion arises from the circumstance that the form is not that of the prompt book.”
Howard, Burt Estes.German empire. **$2. Macmillan.
In a discussion which aims “to give a broad view of the German government, explaining clearly the main features of the Imperial constitution and the salient doctrines of German constitutional law,” the author gives us “systematic, accurate, unadorned law.”
“The title of the book has raised larger expectations than the contents will satisfy. Thruout the work there are abundant evidences of a full acquaintance with the best German publicists, a careful study of the original legal documents and a persistent tho sometimes belaboredaccuracy. As things stand now it must go on our shelves with our Bryce, Bodley and Bagehot.”
“The book, as a whole, will prove a convenient manual of the subject viewed in its strictly constitutional aspect.”
“The subject has now been further illuminated in very serious and thorough-going fashion by Dr. Howard. Clearly, compactly, intelligently, discriminatingly, but not very picturesquely, he describes for us the founding of the Empire, the individual States which compose it, the position of the Emperor, the Bundesrath, the Reichstag as the voice of the German people.”
“He has done well what he chose to do, and his readers may be confident that they are getting from his book the same impressions of the fundamental provisions of the constitution which they would derive from the elaborate treatises of von Rönne, Laband, Meyer, Schulze, Haenel, Zorn, and the rest.” J. H. R.
“The book should be in the hands of all (and among them are not a few newspaper writers) who have a hazy conception of the Kaiser as an autocrat who can make war when he pleases, whereas in reality he can do nothing of the kind, and of the German people as subjects without rights.”
Howard, Clifford. (Simon Arke, pseud.).Curious facts; interesting and surprising information regarding the origin of familiar names, words, sayings and customs. 50c. Penn.
An analysis of “strange beginnings,” of names—family and geographical nicknames—familiar words, sayings and customs. The fact of strangeness appears only when original forms are compared with present-day meanings and usages.
Howard, John Hamilton.In the shadow of the pines: a tale of tidewater Virginia. $1.25. Meth. bk.
A tale of the Dismal swamp region which spends its energy in clearing up the mystery that shrouds the murder of one of the emissaries of Napoleon III.
“Might have been a good horror story if he had not been afraid to take liberties with his imagination.”
Howard, Timothy Edward.Musings and memories. 75c. Lakeside press, Chicago.
Poetic musings upon such subjects as The bells of Notre Dame; Failure; The student; and Indian summer, interspersed with memories of The old church; The stricken ash; Halcyon days; Youth; Books, and Kindred things.
Howe, Frederick Clemson.City: the hope of democracy. **$1.50. Scribner.
“If we except Professor Parsons’ ‘The city for the people’ there is no volume with which we are acquainted that is comparable to this work. It forms an admirable complement to Professor Parsons’ exhaustive storehouse of vital facts.”
“It has life, vigor, movement. It is imbued with a healthful optimism. The truth is, Mr. Howe’s enthusiasm sometimes runs away with his judgment.” Winthrop More Daniels.
“Within its definite rôle, Dr. Howe’s work adds much strength to the literature of reform possibly more to inspiration than to tactics; more to suggestion than to guidance.”
“An invaluable contribution to municipal literature. Seldom does a writer so successfully justify an ambitious title; rarely is a sentiment, which to many must be a contradiction, so ably defended.” Charles Zueblin.
“Every leader in city politics will find facts and arguments in this book to stimulate his hope and to pilot his activities.”
“The book is a really noteworthy contribution to a discussion of vital significance to all Americans.”
“The book can hardly take a high place in scientific literature. It can not convince anyone not already inclined to accept its conclusions. But there are many in that position, and to these the author’s evident sincerity of purpose, and even his determination to see only one side of the question, will make a strong appeal.” Alvin S. Johnson.
Howells, William Dean.Certain delightful English towns, with glimpses of the pleasant country between.**$3. Harper.
To be led thru Exeter, Bath, Wells, Bristol, Canterbury, Oxford, Chester, Malvern, Shrewsbury, Northampton, and the country in between seems of itself pleasing but to see it all with Mr. Howell’s eyes, to catch the real spirit of each spot, to be shown at a glance the charm of each place and to enjoy with him the little personal adventures which he met with by the way is truly delightful. And should the reader wish to see with his own eyes, four dozen full page illustrations bid him look.
“The book has the usual charming and idiomatic style of Mr. Howells.” Wallace Rice.
“Mr. Howells travels with open eyes and after seeing describes the thing seen with a keen regard for the value of an incident and with full appreciation of the humorous.”
“There is nothing essential missed of the historic or literary association of these towns, but what one seems to value even more is the suave, humorous observation of ordinary things which gives one the sense of the highest reality.”
“What will endear its pages to every reader is its unfailing humor, its nice balancing of the emotions and aesthetic impressions by one on whom no charm whether of setting or human association was thrown away.”
“Another permanent contribution to American letters. Throughout the book we find the same genial humor we found so delightful in his ‘Italian journeys’, and ‘Their silver wedding journey’; the same poetically realistic descriptions of places and people; inimitable touches, that bring instantly and vividly the scene or person before the mind’s eye.” Madison Cawein.
Howells, William Dean.London films.**$2.25. Harper.
“The continual references to America are a blemish to the book as a whole. But the book as a whole is delightfully characteristic, andwhen we put it down we are left with a very near understanding of an invigorating temperament and a charming personality.”
“The author’s style, here as elsewhere, is lucidity itself.”
“In fact ‘London films’ is quite the kind of book that we should like to see written about ourselves by a foreign sojourner who sensitively gathered impressions by the way.”
“Some of the most charming commentaries on London life and people are to be found in William Dean Howells’ latest reminiscent volume.”
Howells, William Dean.Miss Bellard’s inspiration. †$1.50. Harper.
“Mr. Howells’ whole ability (and in reading ‘all the new novels’ one learns the worth of such skill as his) is called forth to show three hapless men in three stages of engulfment by affectionate boa-constrictors.” Mary Moss.
Howells, William Dean, and Alden, Henry Mills, eds. Under the sunset. Harper’s novelettes. †$1. Harper.
This volume of novelettes includes “The end of the journey,” “The sage-brush hen,” “The prophetess of the land of no-smoke,” “A little pioneer,” “Back to Indiana,” “The gray chieftain,” “The inn of San Jacinto,” “Tio Juan,” and “Jamie the kid.” Mr. Howells says: “In the immense geographical range of these admirable stories, we have some faint indications of the vastness as well as the richness of the field they touch.”
“Many of them exceedingly good, and the variety, within the broad limits of the Western localization and inspiration, is strikingly wide.”
Hoyt, Arthur Stephen.Work of preaching. **$1.50. Macmillan.
Dr. Hoyt, professor of homiletics and sociology in the Auburn theological seminary, “claims no original and certain method for the making of pulpit orators, but his remarks on the preparation and delivery of sermons are sane and practical. He has had especially in mind the problem and position of the preacher today, and his book might well be read by those who are familiar with the older homiletical literature.” (Ind.)
“However, it would seem that Dr. Hoyt over-estimates the authoritativeness of a scripture text with a present-day congregation in a progressive community, and thereby fails to appreciate some of the largeness and difficulty of the work of preaching in the present generation.”
“They are free from scholasticism, and sensitive to the demands of the present time.”
Hubback, J. H., and Hubback, Edith C.Jane Austen’s sailor brothers: being the adventures of Sir Francis Austen, G. C. B., Admiral of the fleet and Rear-Admiral Charles Austen. **$3.50. Lane.
Jane Austen’s sailor brothers “were both captains in the British navy during the Napoleonic period, and the extracts from their logs and letters here presented, though of no particular importance, give occasional glimpses of conditions at the time of the great war that are not without interest. The authors attempted to draw a parallel between some passages in Jane Austen’s novels and the actual experience of her brothers at sea.” (Nation.)
“There are frequent slips in respect of technicalities.”
“When all is said and done it was written for the Janeans, and they will best appreciate it.”
“It has been agreeably put together by its joint authors.”
“It is simply written and it should be of real interest to all members of the Austen family. It is impossible to say that public purpose is served by it.”
Hubbard, Lindley Murray.Express of ’76, a chronicle of the town of York in the war of independence. †$1.50. Little.
An old journal written in Revolutionary days, by General Hubbard, so the author says, forms the basis of this romantic novel of the campaign in New York. The scenes are set vividly before us with a journal’s own detail and, in following the fortunes of Jonathan Hubbard, we see something of Washington, Franklin, Putnam, Burr, Hamilton and others who are as well known as the battles in which they fought. The mysterious lady Claremont, the little Quaker maid, and other maidens, some historic, some semi-historic fill out the plot and make this tale a typical war-time romance.
“The main interest of the book is the intimate approach the reader may have to such men as Washington, Burr, Franklin, Hamilton, and others, who were destined to become great in their country’s service. They are well drawn and carry conviction of their manly reality.”
“The story is not imaginative or dramatic, but will interest those who enjoy an average presentation of historic material.”
Hubbard, Mrs. Sara Anderson (Mrs. James M. Hubbard).Religion of cheerfulness; an essay. **50c. McClurg.
Believing that “a sunny disposition is a boon which confers more happiness on its owner and more happiness on those with whom one comes in contact, than any other which falls to the lot of a human creature,” Mrs. Hubbard preaches the religion of cheerfulness convincingly, urging that “as age increases cheerfulness should increase.”
Huber, John Bessner.Consumption: its relation to man and his civilization, its prevention and cure. **$3. Lippincott.
A serious volume with a wide scope. Dr. Huber requires that economic, legislative, sociological and humanitarian aid be summoned to strengthen the medical forces in fighting the white plague. The author addresses both physician and layman.
“The author has read widely ... but his own style is so peculiar and involved as to make the book difficult to read.”
“The book is written with spirit and should be widely read. The style is a little diffuse, but as a whole this is a good and timely piece of work.”
“A thorough and instructive book, made with infinite pains, putting before the reader a sane and broad view of a tremendous problem of civilization.”
“Dr. Huber’s book, which is literally encyclopædic in scope, seems primarily designed for the lay reader.”
“Unlike many works in this field. Dr. Huber’s book will be found readable, and even entertaining, from cover to cover.”
“Several of the chapters in it would make readable magazine articles, but taken as a whole it establishes no pretensions to be considered a valuable contribution to the literature of tuberculosis.”
“We recommend Dr. Huber’s book to our readers, though we cannot but feel that for practical purposes a much smaller volume would have been more useful.”
Huddy, Mary E.Matilda, Countess of Tuscany. $3.50. Herder.
“Mrs. Huddy’s purpose has evidently been to provide a volume of instructive, popular reading, rather than a book for the student. Edification, too, is her object; and she finds in the brilliant virtues of Matilda, and still more in those of Pope Gregory, ample resources to set off the depressing pictures of vice, violence, cruelty and greed which the chronicler of this stormy period of Italian history is obliged to recall.”—Cath. World.
“It certainly is not for the sake of any inferences that she draws from it that Mrs. Huddy’s narrative is valuable. She is equally lacking in the historic and the philosophic sense.”
“Her own pen is fluent, and her book will be a source of considerable pleasure and profit, we have no doubt, to readers who have no knowledge of the subject, and are able to put up with or even enjoy, sentimental exuberance, misplaced rhetoric, and remarks of an edifying nature.”
“The proportions ... that she has given to the various elements of her narrative, sometimes suggests the historical novel as much as they do strict history.”
“It is an entirely amateurish and unworkmanlike performance, wholly destitute of importance of any and every description. The author’s sentiments are womanly; we have no quarrel with her ideals; her judgments are usually just. To begin with this important work has not yet a shred of an index. The style—the English—is maddening when it is not amusing. There are numberless passages in inverted commas without any references to the authorities. When authorities are indicated volume and page are never given. Not once throughout the whole of this ‘important historical work’ is a single Italian authority referred to. Nearly every Italian word is misspelled.”
“The book is strongly partisan. Not only Countess Matilda, but Gregory VII. and the other Popes, her contemporaries, can do no wrong. We must say that the more she deals with historical scenes and facts, and the less with personalities, the pleasanter reading her book becomes.”
Hudson, William Henry.Purple land.**$1.50. Dutton.
A new edition of a story written twenty years ago. “The adventures and reflections are ostensibly those of Richard Lamb, a person of English birth but oriental temperament. Richard had begun his career by stealing from a proud man of Argentina his beloved only daughter. With this lovely flower for his bride he fled to Montevideo, and leaving the lady in the charge of a grim aunt person, sought his fortune upon the plains.” (N. Y. Times.) “Young Richard Lamb rides forth an errant knight, and many adventures and desperadoes and fair ladies fall to his share. The country, the people, the customs, the moral and political ideals, all pass in vivid array before us.” (Outlook.)
“Charming narrative of life in South America.”
“It appears a rarely fresh, charming and delightful book.”
“A narrative of unusual charm. The reader who can appreciate literary charm and fresh, almost elemental, or at least mediaeval ideas, will enjoy it to the full.”
Huffcut, Ernest Wilson.Elements of business law; with illustrative examples and problems. *$1. Ginn.
“The book contains a number of judiciously selected legal forms. It would be improved by citations of the authorities for the cases presented.” R. M.
“A book of good proportion, packed full of important matter, attractively and interestingly set forth.” Floyd R. Mechem.
Hughes, Rupert.Col. Crockett’s co-operative Christmas.†$1. Jacobs.
Col. Crockett of Waco instituted a unique undertaking last Christmas of gathering together in the auditorium of the Madison square garden “every stranger in New York and his lady.” In two letters to his wife he sketches the “before and after” of his plan which proved successful beyond his anticipation.
“A holiday novelette of the conventional type, varied in this case by the introduction of rather more novelty and less probability than are customary in similar narratives.”
Hughes, Rupert.Zal: an international romance. †$1.50. Century.
“Otherwise, particularly for a first novel, ‘Zal’ shows very good workmanship.”
“Gives us a sympathetic and accurate presentation of the Polish character.”
Hugo, Victor Marie, viscomte.Les miserables; tr. by Isabel F. Hapgood. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper two volume sets,” this usually large work is reduced to the compass of two pocket volumes.
Hulbert, Archer Butler.Pilots of the republic; the romance of the pioneer-promoter in the middle west; pors. and drawings by Walter J. Enright. **$1.50. McClurg.
“Pioneers’ axe chanted a truer tune than ever musket crooned or sabre sang.” And it is the pioneer who with epic courage extended America’s boundaries and built up her bulwark that fill Mr. Hulbert’s volume. Among them are Washington, Richard Henderson, Rufus Putnam, George Rogers Clark, Henry Clay, Morris and Clinton, Thomas and Mercer. Lewis and Clark, Astor, and Marcus Whitman.
Hulbert, Homer Beza.Passing of Korea; il. from photographs. **$3.80. Doubleday.
Mr. Hulbert “compares Korea in its present plight in Japanese hands, and with Japanese immigration flooding it with Poland, Armenia, and the Congo ‘Free’ State. To save Korea, and he adds it will be to our material advantage to do so, we must bring modern education to the Koreans, and for this purpose he asks us to open our purses. His book is a history of the so-called ‘Hermit’ kingdom from the earliest times, concluding, of course, with a survey of present conditions, manners, and customs of the people, and the resources of the country. It is profusely illustrated.”—Putnam’s.
“The book is written in an attractive style and is a notable addition to the recent literature of the Orient.”
“Books on Korea may be named by the dozen but this isthebook.”
“It may be safe to say that, apart from a few conclusions which may be regarded as hasty. It is one of the most commendable books on the Hermit kingdom that have issued from the pen of foreign authors.” K. K. Kawakami.
Hullah, Annette.Theodor Leschetizky.*$1. Lane.
A recent addition to the “Living masters of music” series. “The story of Leschetizky’s career from his birth in 1830 down to 1905, is told in the first two chapters of the book. The five chapters following describe Leschetizky’s method of playing and technique, his manner of teaching, his class, and interest in each pupil, and lastly, Leschetizky as ‘the center of the circle.’ There are several pictures of the pianist as well as some showing him with certain pupils.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The story of this concentrated career is well and clearly told by Miss Hullah, who makes the discriminating point that Leschetizky is emphatically an individualist in his work.”
“Miss Hullah has given a lively picture of a personality prominent in the musical world in her work about Leschetizky.” Richard Aldrich.
Hume, Fergus W.Lady Jim of Curzon street.†$1.50. Dillingham.
A titled couple badly in debt fail to excite the sympathy of a wealthy father in their behalf and resort to the means of a sham death in order to secure insurance money. The way of the transgressor was never harder than portrayed in Mr. Hume’s story. Lady Jim’s clever wit is directed toward the perpetration of fraud that results in betrayal and even the contracting of leprosy which is cheated of its lingering terror by an overdose of chloral.
“It is a pleasure to be able unreservedly to recommend this book. The dialogue is all through of the cleverest, and the plot is well conceived and elaborated.”
Hume, Fergus W.Mystery of the shadow. $1.25. Dodge, B. W.
Mr. Hume’s plot centers about the strangling of one Mrs. Gilbert Ainsleigh by some one masquerading as the ghost of a monk. An attempt is made to trace the crime to no less than five persons, and it is no wonder that the reader ejaculates “Pshaw” with the hero when he is put upon the wrong trail.
“There is ability in the book, but the author has shown himself capable of better things.”
“The author has given a good measure of mystery, and has kept the assassin’s identity well veiled until the end of the book.”
Hume, Fergus W.Opal serpent.†$1.25. Dillingham.
A struggling young writer, disinherited, at least temporarily, by an irascible father, and the daughter of a fear-shaken man who is a book-stall keeper by day and a pawn broker by night, in the cellar below, live thru a succession of mysteries, fears and catastrophes all of which seem secretly connected with a jewelled serpent. In the tangle-straightening process, Mr. Hume’s usual number of odd types appear.
“All who retain a partiality for tales of mystery and incident will welcome ‘The opal serpent.’”
“The matter is the matter of such yarns from the beginning, the manner is the manner or Fergus Hume, which is fair to middlin’—of its kind.”
Hume, John T.Abolitionists: together with personal memoirs of the struggle for human rights. **$1. Putnam.
In his sketch of partly biographical, partly historical significance Mr. Hume, a Garrisonian abolitionist, gives many personal recollections of the days of the “underground railroad,” and with characteristic partisanship recounts his movements among the Missouri radicals. “His long life includes the early struggle for human rights, when abolitionists were accounted lawful game for mobs. The names of its heroes and heroines, and the tribulations they fought through, find record in his pages.” (Outlook.)
“In spite of its motif, the volume contains in accessible form much information concerning all these matters which will be of value to the student.”
“It is unfortunate that dates and exact particulars are often missing, and are sometimes wrongly given.”
“Deserves the widest circulation and calm pondering.”
“Interesting volume.”
“While some may disagree with him there is no doubt that he has shed much light on a very obscure period of our country’s history.”
Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp.Wives of Henry VIII.**$4.50. McClure.
“There is much ... that helps us to understand more fully this difficult age, but the great riddles of the Tudor period still remain unanswered.” Laurence M. Larson.
“If Mr. Hume has not succeeded in making out a good case, he has nevertheless contributed some valuable new material to the study of the history of the reign, and has written a capital series of brief biographies.”
“The plain fact is that Mr. Hume is much too good a man to be wasted upon this kind of ‘pot-boiling,’ appealing as it does to the craving for personal gossip which is an unpromising characteristic of to-day.”
“A clever though inconclusive volume.”
“In this book Major Hume sets forth with great clearness, and in a most interesting and readable way, the gradual deterioration of Henry’s character as he became year by year more of ‘a law unto himself.’”
Humphrey, Seth K.Indian dispossessed. **$1.50. Little.
“The matter set forth in the book is free from emotionalism or sentimentalism, being a plain, straight-forward, historic presentation of a shameful page in modern history.”
“The book might have been strengthened by precise references to the documents and authorities quoted.”
Huneker, James Gibbons.Visionaries.†$1.50. Scribner.
Music, poetry and the plastic arts furnish the field in which Mr. Huneker lets his imagination soar. There are twenty stories in the group in which “he is merely diverting himself with his pen, letting his fancy do what it will with human beings—improvising, as it were.” (Pub. Opin.)
“The author’s style is sometimes grotesque in its desire both to startle and to find true expression. In nearly every story the reader is arrested by the idea, and only a little troubled now and then by an over-elaborate style.”
“With all this straining after the repellent and lawless, the tales for the most part miss their designed effect. They are cleverly executed, with no insignificant portion of imagination; yet with two or three exceptions they fail to be uncanny.”
“These are pictures, thoughtful, intricate pictures, with a tinge of morbid mysticism, better to be enjoyed by reading one, at intervals, than devoured wholesale at a sitting.” Mary Moss.
“With every limitation of Mr. Huneker’s creative faculty recognised and even exaggerated, the conviction remains that his is an artistic individuality of rare potency and of welcome value to American letters.” Edward Clark Marsh.
“His characters look like posters and talk like Mr. Huneker. Nobody will deny that the result is interesting, but it is not fiction of the first order.”
“It seems a pity that any one who can upon occasion write so well should so often let his imagination ride him into the country of the grotesque.”
“They are odd in conception and admirably told.”
“Most of them are fantastic, some of them are decadent, all of them are intensely modern in method. But what he does he does with subtle and finished skill, and the product is interesting reading.”
“There have always been touches in Mr. Huneker’s work that suggest his possession of positive genius. But ‘Visionaries’ outsteps all bounds of reason, is almost wholly fantastic, esoteric, narcotic.”
Hunt, Theodore Whitefield.Literature: its principles and problems. **$1.20. Funk.
The disciplinary value ranks ahead of the culture value in the present discussion; the high-tension qualities of literature being those essential to form and structure. The idea of law and order pervades the study, and it outlines the guiding principles and methods of literature, its scope and mission, its primary aims, processes and forms, the laws that govern its orderly development and its logical relation to other great departments of human thought, its specifically intellectual and esthetic quality, and its informing genius and spirit. Its ultimate aim appears as that of suggestion and stimulus along the lines of inquiry that are opened and examined.
“For older students who want to do something in literary criticism, this book offers a good consideration of the principles and problems involved, because it is logically planned in the main and depends on a wide knowledge of literature and literary criticisms.” E. E. H. jr.
“A book that is in many respects stimulating and suggestive. But it would be the grossest flattery to say that it is well written, or that one’s appreciation of the best in literature is forwarded by the perusal of it.”
“An unusually able, thoro, and discriminating treatment of literary questions and might be read by all serious students and teachers with great advantage to the clarity of their ideas.”
“On the topic of literary criticism we find his paragraphs involving either a slight self-contradiction or else lack of clearness in meaning. In a short chapter on ‘Hebraism and Hellenism,’ we think that the author does serious injustice to Mathew Arnold’s position.”
“Thoughtful readers will acknowledge this to be a work of rare merit. A clarifying and a stimulating work it is, critical and widely informing.”
“It is comprehensive, capable, and always correct, where accuracy is possible.”
Hunt, W. Holman.Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood. 2v. **$10. Macmillan.
“This volume is uniform with the “Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones,” and is devoted to a school that did more than any other to restore life and vitality and meaning to English art during the last century.” “This book has a threefold interest—historical, artistic, and human. Mr. Holman Hunt, as every one knows, was one of the original members of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood.... He is able to tell the story of the beginning and early struggles of the most important movement in modern English painting more fully than it has ever been told before. He is also able to give us a very clear and concise account of the intentions of that movement, and of the state of things which it is proposed to reform.” (Lond. Times.)
“Mr. Hunt has stated his views with a certain literary grace that is pleasant to find: he has taken his own part with a great vigour and has said trenchant things with a refreshing incisiveness.” Ford Madox Hueffer.
“He has indeed a fine gift of narrative, and though he takes his time about telling his stories, and the reader of these two substantial volumes will do well to take his, no one who has begun to listen to him is likely to ask him to stop.”
“The book is absorbing because it gives with minute particularity the reminiscences of a man who was born in 1827, began to paint at an early age, has been painting ever since, and, throughout his long career, has been a man of original ideas and of interesting friendships.” Royal Cortissoz.
“Taking the book as a whole, it seems, despite its prolixity, curiously incomplete. As a history of a movement in art it is a failure.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
“Holman-Hunt tells his story well, in a style more earnest than lively, and with a memory for detail that is truly marvellous.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
“About that important phase in the history of art the ‘Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood,’ no one living can speak with more authority than Holman Hunt, but he was too closely associated with the movement to be an impartial historian of it.”
“Probably few of his readers, at this late day, will fully endorse his opinions, but his utterances will no doubt be read with the deference due to the long experience and great achievements of so accomplished a veteran.”
“He was, therefore, the man of all others best fitted to tell the story of their prime, and this book of his, though we could wish that some passages in it were less bitter deserves to be read with attention and reverence. We hope that an index will be added to the next edition.”
“But what much interferes with the value of the work and the pleasure of the reader is, that Holman Hunt ... is entirely preoccupied with a contention and a grievance.”
“Altogether, Mr. Hunt’s book, valuable as it is with its interesting anecdotes of the most interesting set of men England produced in the middle of the last century, does not change the verdict of art-history as to the inception and influence of Pre-Raphaelitism in the wider sense.” Joseph Jacobs.
“It is really a history of the art-development in England for half a century, with much that is of fascinating interest in the way of biographical, reminiscent, and travel significance.”
“A very interesting book.” D. S. MacColl.
“Singleness of aim and determination of purpose everywhere characterise the story of the life recorded.”
Hunt, Rev. William, and Poole, Reginald Lane.Political history of England.12v. ea. *$2.60. Longmans.
“Mr. Adams has written an admirable work; scientific—we need hardly say—inclining a little to the bald (in the modern manner) in his statement of events; but always clear, trenchant and forcible in his brief expositions of the results and tendencies of events.”
“Mr. Brodrick gloried in a style which hung about him like the folds of a Roman toga, and on one subject he cultivated prejudices of a quite passionate kind. He hated Ireland. With that single exception, he possessed, the judicial mind, and a type of mental patience which admirably qualified him for the kind of summary work which is required in these volumes.”
“He has showed commendable zeal in research and in the use of secondary authorities, and his account is for the most part accurate. It is not industry nor honesty that he lacks; it is breadth of mind, it is capacity to see both sides of a question, it is an ability to put aside national prejudices.” Ralph C. H. Catterall.
“Misprints are uncommon. It must be confessed that the whole book is without literary grace or adornment, but serious and even pedestrian as the style is, it is neither dry nor repellant. His book is informed with a large-minded, conscientious desire to see the past as it actually was and to represent it truthfully to men of his own day.” Gaillard Thomas Lapsley.
“On the institutional side Dr. Hodgkin’s work shows very little independent research.” Laurence M. Larson.
“It covers the field thoroughly, its writer’s views of controverted questions are unusually sound, his judgment is excellent, his temper almost ideal.” Ralph C. H. Catterall.
“It is scholarly, clear and interesting. It is rather a sense of regret that such an inadequate plan has been adopted for this important series, and that so little that is new, stimulating or broad is disclosed in this, the earliest volume to appear.” E. P. Cheyney.
“It [the whole series] is certainly not an epoch-making work, it is certainly not a pioneer into new paths, it gives no new outlook into English history or new synthesis of its elements; but it is full, clear, scholarly, moderate, and useful.” Edward P. Cheyney.
“In the author’s treatment of his theme the most prominent feature is his sobriety of style—a sobriety which, it must be confessed, imparts a certain dullness. He possesses, however, the merit of a sane and broad outlook.”
“It is perhaps the first time that the history of the United Kingdom during the years 1801–37 has been thoroughly well told in a single volume.”
“Dr. Adams deals intelligently with his sources; he steers a safe course between undue scepticism and undue credulity. Dr. Hunt is perhaps somewhat less than fair to the Whigs.” Edward Fuller.
“The authors evince a freedom from that spirit of bigotry and the denomination of prejudices and prepossessions, which, too often, have rendered non-Catholic contributions to English history confirmation of the saying that ‘history is a conspiracy against the truth.’”
“It is the work of an industrious, conscientious. erudite compiler, rather than of an original historian.”
“Of the volumes thus far published that of Adams in the Hunt series covers somewhat less ground than that of Davis, but as in the main they treat of the same period, they are convenient for purposes of comparison. Hunt has made some slight excursions into this unexplored realm, but the chief merit of his work consists not in the new material brought to light, but in his courage in speaking the truth, both about the victors and the vanquished in the contest leading up to the independence of the United States.” George L. Beer.
“Taken as a whole, the work of Professor Adams covers a difficult period of English history with a combination of unity and depth that neither Sir James Ramsay nor Miss Norgate has completely attained.” St. George D. Sioussat.
“This richness of suggestion and allusion seems to be the element of greatest originality in Mr. Hodgkin’s volume, which is in no sense a rival of the works of Seebohm, Maitland, or Vinagradoff.”
“Dr. Hunt’s lucid and orderly narrative is of none the less value because his conclusions have been inevitably, for the most part, anticipated. A modest protest may be allowed against the period of time chosen for this volume. The strong qualities of Dr. Hunt as an historian are conspicuously manifest in the chapters relating to the American war of independence.” Hugh E. Egerton.
“It is well-proportioned and with trifling exceptions, accurate narrative, incorporating without unduly obtruding the chief results of the minute investigation to which the Norman and Angevin periods have of late years been subjected. Its treatment of controversial subjects is marked by caution and judicial candour. Yet it cannot honestly be said that the book is very readable.” J. Tait.
“Dr. Hodgkin has made the best of a not very favourable situation, and given us a book distinguished by all the engaging qualities that have procured so extensive an audience for his earlier works.” Gaillard Thomas Lapsley.
“With American social and economic conditions of the Revolutionary era Mr. Hunt displays but a poor acquaintance.”
“Working within his limitations Dr. Brodrick achieved success.”
“The editors would have been wiser if they had permitted the writer of the volume to deal with matters outside the general scope of their series. Uniformity of scheme is uniformly mischievous in all such cases. We have laid stress on this weakness of the book, because it seems to us fundamental.”
“Of political organization he tells us surprisingly little. Dr. Hodgkin has performed so well what he endeavored to perform that we hardly ought to complain of his not having done something else.”
“All deductions made, however, (v. 1.) is well written and up to the standard of the series. This habit of superficial generalization is the great drawback to Professor Adams’s work, and becomes at times quite irritating to the careful reader. Professor Tout’s volume ... is excellent in every respect. The style is direct, the scholarship sound, the judgment sane.”
“Dr. Hunt makes some errors of fact, but it is his general attitude that lays him open to criticism. He should not have attempted a task that called so conspicuously for unprejudiced treatment.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
“Mr. Adams, it is satisfactory to find, has acquitted himself creditably both in narration and exposition. It is in dealing with matters of foreign policy that Mr. Tout is weak, and more particularly in discussing the Welsh and Scottish wars. Dr. Hunt’s presentation makes too great a demand not only on the caution but on the patience of the student. On the other hand, his volume, like those of Mr. Adams and Mr. Tout, contains a great mass of important, well-digested, and well-arranged information not usually found in general histories.”
Reviewed by Herbert L. Osgood.
“Is a discriminating, accurate and for the most part rigidly objective piece of work. With a sound sense of values, the author has weighed and marshalled the conclusions of many scholars in his field; he has shown the mature judgment of an independent worker in the consideration of his materials; and, despite hampering and artificial chronological limitations, has presented the whole in a clear and measured fashion.” Charles A. Beard.
“Dr. Hodgkin’s narrative is readable, accurate and well proportioned.” Charles A. Beard.
“While we fully acknowledge the care and industry with which the work has been compiled, it is impossible to describe it as a great book. The original authorities have been so much in the mind of the writer that he has tended to adopt their methods, and, in consequence, his work is somewhat dry and annalistic.”
“Mr. Hunt has a wide knowledge of his subject. He is a judicious critic and never hesitates to give his own views, but at the same time he does not adopt the futile plan of judging the politics of the period which he is describing from the standpoint of to-day.”
“At every step we find him practising the art of selection and rejection. But it is an art which he pursues according to rules of his own making.”
“We believe—and this is very high praise—that this volume is the best that Professor Tout has written.”
“An extremely conscientious and careful volume, which will add much to the considerable reputation of its author.”
“We can heartily recommend the work as the most full and succinct narrative of our early history with which we are acquainted.”