“There are no purple, or even very brilliant, passages in the book, much less new and startling theories of political and social incidents.”
Huntington, William Reed.Good Shepherd and other sermons. *$1.25. Whittaker.
Twenty-five sermons by the rector of Grace church, New York, which will interest all church-men. They are published under such headings as: The wilderness a school of character; A day’s journey away from Christ; Priesthood in the light of the transfiguration; The search after reality; Facing inevitable change; The contemporary Christ: The heavenly friend; The eagle and the stars; The Afro-American; The wickedness of war; and “Inter-church,” or Intra-church,—which?
Hussey, Eyre.Girl of resource. †$1.50. Longmans.
A story of “commonplace modern life,” with a heroine who has the habit of inflicting quotations and long harangues on any listener, who enacts scenes from “Sanford and Merton,” and who is “gifted with a keen appreciation of the humorous.”
“The reader may find it hard to smile as often as is expected of him. The fun is from the first to the last a little forced, yet always abounding.”
“We suppose we must be sadly dense to find her the very paragon of bores, but such she certainly appears upon these amazing pages. And yet the writer has facility, and he knows his compendium.”
“The book is not quite equal to ‘Miss Badsworth, M. F. H.’ in which the author exploited an original idea; but it is agreeable, and would be even more so had it been a little shorter.”
Hutchinson, Horatio Gordon, ed. Big game shooting. 2v. *$7.50. Scribner.
Hutten, Baroness von.Pam decides; il. by B. Martin Justice. †$1.50. Dodd.
“In this sequel to ‘Pam’ we find her twenty-seven years old, on the third floor of a Bloomsbury boarding house, and the author of twenty-two novels, written since we saw her last.... The title of the novel, ‘Pam decides,’ indicates that the readers of ‘Pam’ will be relieved from the strain that has been on their minds for over a year, for the most experienced novel reader could not anticipate the decision of this most capricious of women. We have seldom had a heroine on our hands, an attractive heroine, eligible in every way, who gave us so much trouble to marry off, and we are so relieved to have the matter settled in the last few pages of this volume that we do not care to question whether her choice was the wisest she might have made.”—Ind.
“The edge of observation seems less keen, the vitality of the picture not so high either in the heroine herself or in the surrounding figures.”
“It is really not a sequel at all in the ordinary sense, but a new story—and a strong, well-rounded story too, even better than ‘Pam,’ in some respects.” Frederick Taber Cooper
“The book is clever and modern.”
“It exhibits a firmer touch, a more intimate knowledge of human character than ‘Pam.’”
Hutton, Edward.Cities of Spain. *$2. Macmillan.
The first city described is “Fuentarabia, with her narrow streets and music and white-dressed women. Then comes San Sebastian ... Valladolid, Salamanca, with its university and old monks; Zamora, with its decayed Romanesque buildings ... Avila, with her old men and infinite silence and beautiful cathedral; and so on and on to the grave of Torquemada, to Segovia, to the anomalous city of old and new Castile, where the author lingers long at the Prado gallery, and discusses with loving sympathy, with knowledge and with critical perception the masters of the old Spanish schools.... And then on and on again through Toledo ... through the home of Cervantes, Seville, Cadiz, and then across the sea to Morocco and back again to Granada. Nor are Murcia, Alicante, and Valencia forgotten. Tarragona and Barcelona receive their portion of the tourist’s impressions.” (N. Y. Times.) There are twenty-four illustrations in color by A. Wallace Rimington, and twenty other illustrations.
“At its best Mr. Hutton’s style is verbose, artificial, and over-charged with colour; at its worst ... it is to us intolerable in its violence and exaggeration.”
“This book is neither good nor bad.”
“Series of impressions charming in sympathy and intimacy, satisfactory to those who would acquire knowledge through emotions rather than through erudition. For all genuine lovers of Spain, Mr. Hutton’s volume renders stale, flat, and unprofitable the most comprehensive guide books crammed with their lore of statistics and their vague attempts to impart practical information.”
“Interestingly written and beautifully illustrated.”
“It is all felt, there is not a dry word in it; thought comes into it musically, in cadences perhaps at times a little languid, but persuasively, with an engaging frankness.”
Hutton, Edward.Cities of Umbria. *$2. Dutton.
“Taking both matter and manner into consideration, Mr. Hutton’s book is perhaps the most exhaustive and attractive of the long list of Umbrian books of the past year.”
“So much of his narrative is plainly imaginary, and the commonest things are so distorted in his unreal fashions of speech, that it is often hard to know what he would have us take for fancy and what for fact.”
“It is sympathetic and appreciative in tone.”
“We applaud delightedly on one page, and our equanimity is sorely tried on the next. Still it is the work of a genuine devotee of Italy, shedding much light as he goes, and if it needs to be studied critically it at least merits to be read lovingly.”
Hutton, Richard Holt.Brief literary criticisms. $1.50. Macmillan.
A volume of literary essays collected by Elizabeth M. Roscoe from Mr. Hutton’s contributions to the Spectator. The author “was a journalist in his attitude rather than in the manner of his work, for many of these short essays are stamped with genuine literary quality. He is at his best in dealing with such subjects as Wordsworth, Cardinal Newman, Carlyle and Arnold, and his best means keen criticism, sympathetic interpretation, and an eminently readable style.” (Outlook.)
“We have already hinted that Miss Roscoe’s editorial work has been well done; but these essays should not have been issued without an index, and one regrets that undue reverence for her author has restrained her from occasionally emending his text.”
“These additional gleanings from the late R. H. Hutton’s contributions to the ‘Spectator’ are excellent specimens of the reviewer’s art, with the exception of a few slight crudities of style and thought inseparable from the nature of such work.”
“One cannot say that the volume contains anything like a body of critical doctrine. But one can say that it contains a great deal of stimulating and suggestive discourse.” Montgomery Schuyler.
“This selection covers a wide range, and brings out the diversity of Mr. Hutton’s gifts, the breadth of his sympathies, and the ease and clearness of his style.”
“Carefully chosen and edited.”
Hutton, Rev. William Holden.Burford papers: being letters from Samuel Crisp to his sister at Burford: and other studies of a century, (1745–1845.). *$2.50. Dutton.
“A number of letters which passed from ‘Daddy’ Crisp, the friend of Fanny Burney, to his sister, Mrs. Gast, who lived in Burford in the house now occupied by Hutton himself. The letters contain nothing very striking and add but little to our own sum of knowledge of Fanny Burney, Johnson, Mrs. Thrale or other famous people of the day.... But they were well worth preserving for the charm of their kindliness and humour, and the picture of the life of the times which they exhibit.... For the rest, Mr. Hutton’s essays are very largely concerned with the literary history of the Cotswolds and the neighborhood—small beer most of it, but refreshing and pleasant. He writes of Shenstone, of Richard Jago ... and other minor poets; and winds up with an able study of George Crabbe, a poet whom he understands and knows better than most.”—Acad.
“Lovers of the Cotswolds and the district cannot do without this book, and other people will find it agreeable reading.”
“The author has fished in the backwaters of eighteenth-century life and thought in England, and he gives us here the results—not very grand, perhaps, but novel and, in their quiet way, most attractive—of his pleasant labour.”
“Mr. Hutton is a true lover of his period, and as such is sure to give enjoyment.”
“To readers who have the habit of memoirs and ‘ana’ these hitherto unpublished letters will be a distinct and valuable find.” M. S.
“It may be said that the part would have been greater than the whole. There are certain chapters of the book which we could easily have spared.”
Hutton, Rev. William Holden.Church and the barbarians; being an outline of the history of the church from A. D. 461 to A. D. 1003.*$1. Macmillan.
Within the compass of ten hundred pages the author has essayed to write “from the point of view of one who believes that the church is charged with the duty of preserving and defending a ‘deposit of faith,’ and who assumes that heresy is error and orthodoxy truth.” (Outlook.)
“Mr. Hutton is overwhelmed by the multiplicity of his facts, and one feels in reading his pages that one is examining a skeleton, not following the development of an organism. The ecclesiastical bias of the writer is somewhat too evident.”
“Mr. Hutton has certainly struggled hard and has no doubt done his best; but the result is a book which takes so much for granted that it will be hardly intelligible to the beginner, and which goes over the ground so rapidly that it will be of little value to the advanced student.”
Hyde, A. G.George Herbert and his times. **$2.75. Putnam.
The true George Herbert is the theme of Mr. Hyde’s biography, whose burden is the reconciliation of the elements of a complex nature. “The story of Herbert’s ‘spiritual conflicts’ has been told once for all in the immortal pages of Walton’s ‘Life’; but that golden text requires for these modern days a good deal of expansion and comment, and this Mr. Hyde has sought to supply in the book before us. He has taken pains to collect information about the poet’s environment. He tells about the condition of Westminster school during Herbert’s boyhood; about the status and duties of the oratorship which Herbert held at Cambridge; and he writes chaptersupon the church politics of the day and on the poet’s friends and contemporaries.” (Lond. Times.)
“Very interesting, wise and well-written book.”
“He knows nothing about the theories of Professor Palmer, of Harvard, as to the chronology of the poems. However, it cannot be said that these deficiencies make much difference in a popular book. The merit of Mr. Hyde’s volume is its readableness.”
“In coming to this theme Mr. Hyde has nothing new to add to our knowledge of Herbert’s life or surroundings. But he has a cultivated style, is well read in the general field, and from the common sources has put together a thoroughly entertaining volume. The weakest part of the book ... is that which pretends to deal with criticism.”
“An admirably sober and scholarly piece of work, in keeping with the spirit of the man of whom it treats, and abundantly appreciative of his achievements.”
“Mr. Hyde has done his part very well.”
“This is in every way an interesting book.”
Hyde, William DeWitt.College man and the college woman. **$1.50. Houghton.
“A book especially for “people” who are concerned, either as parents or teachers or simply as good citizens, with college students. It provokes sympathy with the undergraduate’s point of view; it explains persuasively what it is in college life that makes it worth while; it subjects the college to the tests that the man of plain mind applies without sophistry, and shows how the college does, or ought to, meet those tests; it puts into intelligible language the educational ideals of the enlightened college teacher and administrator; and it states effectively what the public attitude toward a college in a democracy should be.” (Outlook.)
“At every point it is a book that will stimulate reflection at many points, one that will provoke debate.”
“Should be put on the open shelves of every library.”
“Dr. Hyde’s book is uneven. Its parts are not well woven together. They are somewhat disparate though not contradictory.”
“Nowhere is the function and value of liberal education bettor stated than in the first chapter, occupying less than a page.”
Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright.Trials of Commander McTurk. †$1.50. Dutton.
“Commander McTurk on the Retired list of the United States navy employs himself in getting “professional experience elsewhere,” really is struggling to regain lost prestige. His flaxen wig and his red face “with its thousand tiny wrinkles” are at variance with his modest claim to art. He is amusingly sketched in graphic, lively style, but hardly illumined by the vital spark which animated his truculent predecessor [Captain Kettle].” (Ath.)
“The principal blemish in this collection of stories is that it has not been devised primarily for a volume, but for serial publication.”
“Catholicity of taste is a literary virtue, and readers of rigorous health have every justification for enjoying the cumulative absurdities of this robustious patriot.”
“If it were not that he once wrote a book called ‘The adventures of Captain Kettle,’ his new work would be hailed, probably as a maker of reputation.”
Hyslop, James Hervey.Borderland of psychical research. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.
The ground of normal and abnormal psychology is covered in this volume in a manner to prepare the layman for the consideration of supernormal problems, especially upon the evidential side. The author says “the work must not be adjudged from the point of view of the trained psychologist as an effort to help scholars, but from the standpoint of public education as designed to do what text-books can hardly undertake.”
“The discussions contained in these 400 pages and more, are long and diffuse.”
“It treats perplexing questions conservatively, and with a view to create an intelligent public interest in the baffling problems of psychical research. It is a book which none should neglect who are attracted by the recondite mystery to whose solution it looks forward and attempts to clear the way.”
Hyslop, James Hervey.Enigmas of psychical research. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.
Professor Hyslop looks upon this volume as a supplement to his “Science and a future life.” He goes over his whole field of the supernormal, includes an exhaustive discussion on telepathy and apparitions, and has added much material on crystal gazing, coincidental dreams, clairvoyance and premonitions, with some illustrations of mediumistic phenomena.
“The work is a worthy companion volume to ‘Science and a future life.’”
“Almost all his evidence had long ago been laid before the curious. The book has no index.”
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
“It is to be held fortunate that an exponent of a faith that makes slight appeal to those who stand with the reviewer should find a spokesman who in general has so capable a comprehension of the philosophical implications of his enigmas.” Joseph Jastrow.
“He is careful to preserve an attitude of caution, the attitude, in short, of the trained investigator who feels that the end is not yet in sight.”
“Judging Dr. Hyslop’s book as a whole, it is carefully conservative and will appeal to many persons who would be offended by a mere theoretical treatment.”
Hyslop, James Hervey.Problems of philosophy; or, Principles of epistemology and metaphysics. *$5. Macmillan.
“In thirteen chapters Dr. Hyslop discusses, first introductory questions (chapters 1 and 2), then (chapters 3–8) the problems of the theoryof knowledge, thereafter (chapters 9–12) metaphysical theories, with special reference to ‘materialism’ and ‘spiritualism’; and finally, (chapter 13) he sums up his results in a general discussion of the office, the duties, the prospects, and the ethical significance of philosophy. This final chapter, very readable by itself, even apart from the rest of the book, is probably the one which the student of social and of ethical problems will find the most interesting.”—Int. J. Ethics.
“Professor Hyslop’s style is vigorous and clear. The book will afford valuable collateral readings in philosophical courses, and even where instruction takes issue with it, it should prove a healthy foil. In certain ranges, as the discussion of materialism and spiritualism, it occupies unique territory.” H. B. Alexander.
“The questions discussed are fundamental ones. The spirit is that of an unassuming, modest, but extremely patient, minute, and laborious inquirer, who spares neither his own pains, nor, upon some occasions, his reader’s powers of attention. This book has everywhere an admirable individuality and an unconventionality of procedure which are obvious and wholesome, even when the views themselves which are defended, appear to be less original, or even when, to the present reviewer’s mind, they are least valuable as results. Dr. Hyslop’s English is often unnecessarily hard to follow, not by reason of mere technicalities, but by reason of imperfectly constructed sentences.” Josiah Royce.
“It is a book which a hostile or wearied critic would have ample excuse for condemning utterly.”
“It will not fully commend itself to philosophic thinkers in general.”
“The most radical criticism of the book would be to deny the possibility of making any such ultimate distinction as is here made between the theory of knowing and the theory of being.” H. N. Gardiner.
Hyslop, James Hervey.Science and a future life. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.
“Issue must, however be squarely taken with Dr. Hyslop when he denies the ability of philosophers to do anything in this field.” Frederick Tracy.
“We wish that he carried more of his logic into his ‘metapsychics,’ and that he expressed himself with more clearness and grace.”