Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August.Last words on evolution: a popular retrospect and summary; tr. from 2nd ed. by Joseph McCabe. *$1. Eckler.
Three lectures which reiterate Professor Haeckel’s views of human life and destiny as affected by the doctrine of evolution. They are as follows: The controversy about creation, The struggle over our genealogical tree and The controversy over the soul.
Hagar, Frank Nichols.American family: a sociological problem. $1.50 Univ. pub. soc.
“The author brings to his task the special training of a lawyer and considerable reading in the history of institutions. He discusses sex, theories of primitive and historical forms of domestic life, the decadence of the Yankees, occupations of women, matrimonial law, divorce, free love, education, industrial influences, democracy.... The volume illustrates the fact that men with legal training can render a valuable service to sociology by calling attention to the obstacles which the law itself presents when it is no longer fitted to contemporary conditions.”—Am. J. Soc.
“It is a serious work with a conservative purpose. Perhaps the most useful and instructive parts are the discussions of the decadence in the Yankee stock, the danger of foreign inundation, and the law of property affecting husband and wife.” C. R. Henderson.
“Dispatching many of the grave questions connected with the family in sweeping generalizations, the author is too generally loose, vague, and incoherent. His wide discursiveness has resulted in a work lacking in due proportion and unity.”
“It is a decidedly interesting and by no means contemptible argument.”
Haggard, (Henry) Rider.Ayesha: the return of “She.” †$1.50. Doubleday.
Haggard, (Henry) Rider.Poor and the land; being a report of the Salvation army colonies in the United States and at Hadleigh, England; with a scheme of national land settlement, and an introduction by H. Rider Haggard. 75c. Longmans.
“The report deserves a wide reading here, and careful consideration.”
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
Haggard, Henry Rider.Spirit of Bambatse; a romance. †$1.50. Longmans.
The ingredients out of which H. Rider Haggard’s story is compounded are “Zulu warriors, buried treasure, underground passages, a standard villain, an English maiden of surpassing beauty and bravery, much hypnotism on the part of the villain, and considerable sonorous prophecy on the part of an ancient native priest.” (Ath.)
“Here is the old touch, the old fascination; and the tale—a constant stream of excitement—ends as such tales should end, happily.”
“A story bristling with adventure and thoroly readable. It reminds us of ‘King Solomon’s mines’ and certain other of Mr. Haggard’s stories but that may be its best passport to popularity.”
“The man who likes his interest kept at white heat and who doesn’t mind having his feelings harrowed a bit, will find in this book plenty of the diversion and entertainment he seeks.”
“Mr. Rider Haggard is treading an old road with wonderful buoyancy.”
Haile, Martin.Mary of Modena, her life and letters. *$4. Dutton.
“Mr. Haile has told the story fully, and with a judicious use of documents.”
“The author of this biography has made good use of the wealth of materials which in recent years have become available for his purpose.”
“While clearly in sympathy with his subject, Mr. Haile writes in a calm, temperate manner, and has produced a readable biography.”
“Is a distinct addition to the historical literature of the close of the Stuart era.”
“Mr. Haile has done as well as he could do on behalf of his heroine, and several of the documents he includes are well worth exhuming.”
Haines, Henry Stevens.Restrictive railway legislation. **$1.25. Macmillan.
Reviewed by H. Parker Willis.
“On the whole it is an exceedingly lucid and fair-minded review of the railway situation in its present-day aspects.”
“The breadth of view manifested in his analysis of problems is not always found in men who are doing things.”
“Where he speaks as a technical expert, he is surest of his ground. Where he essays a theory of reasonable rates, he is weakest. Where, finally, he attempts a philosophic resume of the underlying forces which have been operative in our railroad history, he attains a very high degree of success.”
Reviewed by Frank Haigh Dixon.
“Mr. Haines has written one of the best treatises on this bothersome and much-discussed problem which we have seen in recent years. His book is to be recommended to all who desire an unprejudiced view.”
Hains, Thornton Jenkins.Voyage of the Arrow to the China seas: its adventures and perils, including its capture by sea vultures from the Countess of Warwickas set down by William Gore, chief mate. $1.50. Page.
A tale of thrilling sea-adventure thru which runs the romance of the Arrow’s first mate and the captain’s niece. The reader is subjectively a part of the boat’s company, breathes the saltair, enjoys the rough, out-spoken ways of the captain, delights in the Irish grit of Larry O’Toole and enters into the thick of the fight with the convict pirates. There is swift action in the narrative, and many a strong dramatic climax.
“It is written with feeling and conviction, without gross negligence of truth, and with a swing and zest which should commend it particularly to young people.”
“That the author of this tale knows the ocean and the men who sail upon it is undeniable, and he writes with a zest reminding one of Mr Clark Russell, though he has not that novelist’s literary skill.”
Haldane, Elizabeth S.Descartes: his life and times. $4.50. Dutton.
“Miss Haldane has hit upon a fortunate analysis of the life of Descartes, and its distribution under three general heads: His education, from 1596 to 1612; his ‘Wanderjahre,’ from 1612 to 1628, spent in seeing the world, in travel and warfare, and, finally, what may be called his constructive period, ‘after his warfare was over, and this dates from 1628 to 1650.’... In tracing his experience in each of the periods Miss Haldane gives much and very intelligent attention to the environment, historical and personal, in which it was passed; and this has the merit not only of bringing out more distinctly the true picture of Descartes, but of rendering the general reader, for whom obviously the work is done, more at home with the man, since he is realized in his surroundings.”—N. Y. Times.
“If Miss Haldane’s ‘Life of Descartes’ smacks rather of a description of genius in a dressing gown, what it lacks in breadth of outlook it certainly gains in possessing the personal note, no small merit when we consider how comparatively uneventful was the philosopher’s history.”
“Miss Haldane has given us the standard life of Descartes. Its interest is not merely biographical, for it throws light on many points of difficulty in Descartes’s philosophy, and on his relations to the philosophers and scientists of his time.” R. Latta.
“Is by far the fullest and most interesting account of Descartes’s life and times in English.”
“The nature and character of the man are insufficiently considered. The style of the book is easy and unperiodical; a little too much so, perhaps.”
“It is Descartes the man that appeals to her, and she traces the course of his experience and development patiently, minutely, with sympathy, and with simplicity that verges on the naïve. The style is unaffected, direct, almost colloquial.” Edward Cary.
“Has finely told the story of the honest, constructive skeptic.”
“Miss Haldane’s interesting biography of Descartes will be welcomed by the student of philosophy as well as by the general reader.”
Haldane, Joseph.Old Cronnak. $1.50. Decker pub.
Here the muck-raker is at work and brings to view the evil side of life as it defies the code of the moral law. Incontinence is bared for the negative lesson’s sake, and characters are set forth which do not easily find their way into books. Yet in the midst of all this shines the strong, pure love of Joseph Haldane and Alice Carter, which forms the main thread of the story.
Hale, Edward Everett.Man without a country.$1. Century.
Uniform with the “Thumb-nail series” this volume contains an introduction and the author’s preface to the edition of 1897.
Hale, Edward Everett.Man without a country.**50c. Crowell.
A holiday edition of Mr. Hale’s great lesson in patriotism.
Hale, Edward Everett.Tarry at home travels; il. **$2.50. Macmillan.
Dr. Hale’s description serves as a field glass to the ordinary observer. These travels are concerned with New England mainly, with an exception made of the state of New York and of the city of Washington. “It is a talkative sort of book, with bits of description and bits of history and bits of geology and bits of agricultural and horticultural information and bits of biography all run in together and fused into a coherent whole by Mr. Hale’s long knowledge of men and events and his active participation in the life of his time.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It contains much that is old—old enough, for the most part, to have become new again to Dr. Hale’s readers; and it is laden with reminiscences from a day more remote in feeling than in time.” Wallace Rice.
“Rapid as has been his survey, he has said more things and opened more avenues of interest and stimulated the reader’s thought more than do most books of travel either at home or abroad.”
Hale, Louise Closser.Motor car divorce. †$1.50. Dodd.
Peggy Ward fostering notions from her club that preaches “liberty of thought,” “wider horizon,” and “freedom after ten years from the tyrant man,” has a whim for divorce and is humored in it by her husband. “Hence ‘A motor car divorce.’ It was in this clever way the author found a peg on which to hang the description of a tour in Europe.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Lacks coherence as a piece of fiction.”
“The chief ingredients thereof are modern slang, trivial humor, frothy sentiment, and pickings of a guide-book information.” Wm. M. Payne.
“Her work is filled with a kind of wit that is delightful because it is real humor, and more because it is really womanly.”
“A gay and rather foolish tale.”
Hall, Charles Cuthbert.Christian belief interpreted by Christian experience. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
“Even as a study in homiletics no minister should lose sight of this volume.” W. Douglas Mackenzie.
Hall, Charles Cuthbert.Universal elements of the Christian religion: an attempt to interpret contemporary religious conditions. **$1.25. Revell.
Six lectures delivered before Vanderbilt University, dealing with religious conditions as distinguished from theological systems. “In these lectures Dr. Hall has tried to discover the deeper tendency of the religious thinking of the present time, in which the critical movement, the modern view of the Bible, the declining interest in sectarianism, the increased cosmopolitanism,and the large reconception of world Christianization are powerful elements. He speaks from the point of view of one holding the Pauline and Johannine view of the Person and work of our blessed Lord.” (N. Y. Times.)
Reviewed by Clarence Augustine Beckwith.
“They contain an arraignment of sectarianism as earnest as it is gracious, and a plea for church unity full of noble and convincing eloquence.”
“Dr. Hall’s lectures are not only pervaded by this spirit of open-mindedness ... but no less by that spirit of devotion which is so distinctly characteristic of oriental thinking, and so often, unhappily, lacking in our occidental thinking.”
Hall, Clare H.Chemistry of paints and paint vehicles. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
“The general scheme which the author has attempted to follow is to take up in Chapter 1 the elementary constituents of paints with the quantitative methods for their determination; in Chapter 2 the dry materials entering into the manufacture of paints with a short description of their physical properties and the separation of their elementary constituents by methods given in Chapter 1; in Chapter 3 the analysis of samples consisting of a mixture of two or more of the raw materials described in Chapter 2; in Chapter 4 an interpretation of results previously obtained where it is desired to duplicate the sample analyzed; and finally in Chapter 5, descriptions and methods for determining the purity of paint vehicles.”
“The scope of the volume is indeed extremely limited, since it deals with the examination of only a few common pigments, and by no means exhaustively even with these; about some vehicles and diluents the information to be found in these pages is less meagre. This little book, with all its imperfections and its immaturity, is not destitute of merit.”
Hall, Florence Howe.Social usages at Washington. **$1. Harper.
The social usages of Washington, the seat of federal government and the home of a large official world, differ in many important respects from those of the rest of the country and these differences are made clear in this little volume which “covers not only the fixed etiquette of official circles but also the new social issues that have come up under the Roosevelt administration.” It will prove of value to all visitors at the national capital who wish to enjoy its public functions and meet its public people without being entangled in the intricacies of its etiquette.
Hall, H. Fielding.People at school. $3. Macmillan.
Mr. Hall says: “Some years ago I wrote ‘The soul of a people.’ It was an attempt to understand the Burmese, to see them as they do themselves, to describe their religion and its effect on them. This book is also concerned with the Burmese.... This is of the outer life, of success and failure, of progress and retrogression judged as nations judge each other.”
“‘A people at school’ will never, we think, attain the popularity of ‘The soul of a people:’ the tonic is never sought like the sweet. But it deserves to be read in conjunction with the other book, and no one can read it without learning much about some ten millions of our fellow-subjects.”
“The work has little literary charm, but it is sane, lucid and instructive.”
“Interesting if not very exhaustive, nor always entirely convincing.”
“Despite ... errors of fact and judgment and the decline in style as compared with the previous volume, there is an honesty in Mr. Hall which makes his studies attractive, and it is always refreshing to get a first-hand impression.”
“That this book is rather suggestive than conclusive is one of its charms, and no one who cares for the mysterious and vanishing East should fail to read this study of a people at school.” Archibald R. Colquhoun.
“If there be any to whom the secret of England’s genius of empire is still hidden—in spite of all that Mr. Kipling has done to reveal it—the unenlightened one has only to read understandingly H. Fielding Hall’s ‘A people at school.’”
Hall, Henry Foljambe, ed. Napoleon’s notes on English history made on the eve of the French revolution; illustrated from contemporary historians and refreshed from the findings of later research. **$3. Dutton.
Of Napoleon as a student of eighteenth century history, the compiler says: “Napoleon’s almost invariably right judgment seems marvelous, and his verdicts, generally the very opposite of those of his author, who kept to the orthodox ruts of eighteenth century opinion, are those of a hundred years later.” Further Mr. Hall discusses the “note books,” and furnishes notes on Napoleon’s probable authorities—Barron, Rapin, and Carte.
“Mr. Foljambe Hall appended very complete notes to this volume, respecting the manner in which Bonaparte used his authorities; and it is here, of course, that the chief value of the book lies. On certain topics, perhaps, the notes are needlessly full, and we have noticed occasional slips.”
“Nowhere are they illuminated by any of that prodigious precocity which hero-worshippers like to find. There are, however, some entertaining passages.”
“The value of the book is not in the editor’s work, but entirely in the translation.”
“Mr. Hall’s own observations are original and instructive, albeit not always as critical as could be desired.”
“Napoleon’s notes are worth reading for their own sake; as given in this volume, with abundant—if not superabundant—and minute explanations, they constitute a most valuable survey of a most important portion of British history.”
Hall, Prescott F.Immigration and its effects upon the United States. *$1.50. Holt.
Volume one of the “American public problems” series, edited by Ralph Curtis Ringwalt, is a handbook upon immigration intended for the American people at large. Part 1, Immigration and emigration, presents the history, causes and conditions of immigration; Part 2, discussesThe effects of immigration, Part 3, Immigration legislation, gives the history of past immigration and describes various proposed remedies for existing evils; Part 4 deals with Chinese immigration. Appendices contain copies of the federal immigration acts now in force.
“Notwithstanding blemishes ... the book seems to me a valuable summary of the recent history and the present aspects of a great national problem; and with the exception of Mayo-Smith’s book the best general discussion of immigration into the United States.” W. F. Willcox.
“The volume under review is the most comprehensive book on the subject of the last decade. It discusses practically all of the questions which have arisen and of the suggestions made for avoiding the dangers. It deserves careful attention in spite of its very serious defects.” Carl Kelsey.
Reviewed by Robert C. Brooks.
Reviewed by Cyrus L. Sulzberger.
“The book reads well, and one is struck by the author’s skill in condensation where the temptation to more or less diffuse writing must have been very great.” Frederick Austin Ogg.
“The book would make an even more favorable impression if the footnotes did not sometimes indicate a lack of discrimination in the use of materials. It may be accepted, however, as a trustworthy general guide; and to college debating societies ... it should prove a godsend.”
“Mr. Hall writes with conviction, but not with prejudice or passion. He holds a brief, but his argument is sober and reasonable. Perhaps nowhere else can be found equally full and conveniently arranged statistics, and as good an epitome of legislation.” Edward A. Bradford.
“He gives, with evident intention of fairness, both sides of the various questions he raises; but he reaches certain definite conclusions which he urges upon his readers. In some respects we think he argues upon false premises.”
“Taken as a whole, the book is a well-balanced treatment of the subject, and does not deserve the violent criticism which it has received in some quarters.” William B. Bailey.
Halpin, Rev. P. A.Apologetica: elementary apologetics for pulpit and pew. *85c. Wagner, J. F.
“This volume, whose author has frequently given proof that he reads the signs of the times, is a step in the right direction. It presents the fundamental facts of Christianity in the light of reason, with the least possible appeal to revelation.... Every one of his fifty-two sketches deals with an objection that is in the atmosphere which Catholics breathe to-day, and against which they require the strengthening tonic of sound instruction, as frequently as it can be administered.”—Cath. World.
Hamilton, Angus.Afghanistan. *$5. Scribner.
To material gathered from various books and official papers the author has added his own first hand information producing more of a gazetteer than a volume of travel in the ordinary sense. “He gives trade statistics for every town, elaborate measurements of all railway lines and distances, and he endeavours to set out the kind of detail as to the various defences which might be expected in a confidential report to some Army intelligence department.” (Spec.)
“If the author has erred at all, he has erred in not restricting himself to his subject.”
“The book is not to be commended on literary grounds. It contains a great deal of repetition. The map is far from good.”
“Is heavy, but it is substantial and instructive reading.” H. E. Coblentz.
“To those who know something of Afghanistan, to soldiers and statesmen, the work of Mr. Angus Hamilton will be welcome; but to the general reader the painstaking and admirably minute descriptions of the divisions and routes of Afghanistan will be difficult and perhaps tedious.”
“The book is heavy reading, for Mr. Hamilton is not concerned with the usual traveller’s picturesque account of the strange manners and customs of a strange country. He gives us statistics ... such data as appeal to the man who wants a thorough working knowledge of Central Asian affairs.”
“To the serious traveller, the politician, the trader, and the soldier Mr. Hamilton’s work has great value. It is a compendium of all that is known about one of our most permanent frontier questions, and though the author prefers facts to generalizations, there is ample guidance in his book as to the greater questions of policy.”
Hamilton, Sir Ian Standish Monteith.Staff officer’s scrapbook during the Russo-Japanese war. *$4.50. Longmans.
“Facts as they appeared to the First Japanese army while the wounded still lay bleeding upon the stricken field.” From the standpoint of the soldier of insight there are impressions of the Japanese army, its leaders, some acquaintances, the march from Tokio to the Yalu, the battle of the Yalu, an account of the visit from the Chinese General, entertainments for the attachés, and “snap shots” and impressions and opinions of other battles in which the First army engaged and which Hamilton witnessed.
“Although in many respects a disappointing production ... is a very welcome addition to the extensive but unsatisfying literature that has been the outcrop of the campaign. In certain instances Sir Ian Hamilton succeeded where others failed in piercing the veil of secrecy at least partially.”
“Sir Ian Hamilton’s book is of great interest, though the volume forms but a fragment and breaks off suddenly.”
“Under the above modest title Sir Ian Hamilton has produced by far the most interesting book on the Russo-Japanese war that has yet appeared from the pen of an eye-witness.”
“Attractive for its personal or literary quality. Sir Ian evidently became highly popular at the Japanese headquarters, and obtained much technical information not generally accessible. His ‘Scrapbook’ is not only valuable for this reason, but delightful for the personality of the writer.”
“The author gives almost no dates. His is a good book by a good observer. Even if one is tired of war, he can read this with interest.”
“Sir Ian will often amuse his readers, he will certainly startle them, and he will occasionally instruct them. So we welcome a veryreadable volume. There is in fact a fatal want of ballast about the book.”
“We might indeed search the whole army through without finding such a combination of qualities as this distinguished General brings to the making of his book. Not only is he a soldier revelling, as some old pagan hero would revel, in the grand game of war, but he is poet, humorist, sentimentalist, and descriptive writer as well. The result is that his scrapbook, most fitly so called, is a delightful medley of grave and of gay, of pleasing sentiment and excellent good sense.”
Hammond, Harold.Further fortunes of Pinkey Perkins. †$1.50. Century.
Recollections of a real live healthy boyhood in a country town must lie behind these stories of boy fun and boy ingenuity; for Pinkey Perkins is as full of wholesome mischief in this story as he was in the earlier volume which bears his name and his experiences as his own Santa Claus, as a philanthropist, a visitor at the County fair, or midnight adventurer, will not hurt the boy of to-day and will bring a reminiscent chuckle to the boy of yesterday.
Hammond, Mrs. L. H.Master-word. †$1.50 Macmillan.
“Taken in its place, it is full of significance, and should be neglected by no one who wishes to follow contemporary conditions.” Mary Moss.
Hamp, Sidford Frederick.Dale and Fraser, sheepmen: a story of Colorado sheep raising; il. †$1.50. Wilde.
The wool-grower’s west is pictured from real happenings. There are descriptions of the wolf hunt, the great sheep drive, the prairie fire which threatened the ranch and the western blizzard.
Hancock, Harrie Irving.Physical culture life: a guide for all who seek the simple laws of abounding health. **$1.25. Putnam.
“It is certain that were much of the advice in this book generally followed, a lot of doctors’ shingles would very speedily come down.”
Handel, Georg Friedrich.Songs and airs; ed. by Ebenezer Prout. pa. $1.50; cl. $2.50. Ditson.
“Ebenezer Prout ... displays, both in the introduction and in the editing of the songs, the scholarship which is expected of him.”
“Dr. Prout has made his selections with great discrimination.”
Hanks, Charles Stedman (Niblick, pseud.).Camp kits and camp life. **$1.50. Scribner.
“This is a compilation of explicit and prac-shooting, fishing, or merely rusticating. There are excellent chapters on camps and campfires, camp cooking, what to do when lost in the woods, some remedies for sickness or accidents in camp, and other topics of suggestive interest to intending campers.”—R. of Rs.
Hannah, Rev. Henry King, comp. Bible for the sick. **$1. Whittaker.
Selections have been made from the Old and New Testament alike which are intended for the sick to read themselves.
Hanotaux, Gabriel.Contemporary France, tr. from the French. 4v. ea. *$3.75. Putnam.
“The book is more than a history, it is the reflection of attitudes of mind of a contemporary Frenchman of fine type. This enhances the value of the book which aims to interpret for us contemporary France.” Henry E. Bourne.
“The translator ... has performed his task far better than in the previous volume, and it must be allowed that the pregnant and spasmodically emphatic style of M. Hanotaux is one very difficult to translate into clear and idiomatic English.” P. F. Willert.
“Compared with Justin McCarthy’s popular ‘History of our own times,’ this volume by Hanotaux ... is less picturesque, less witty, more solid, more detailed and more given to philosophising.”
“M. Hanotaux, shines more by his pen than by his philosophy. We do not feel that he has got to the bottom of the question he discusses. Nevertheless the book is most interesting—as interesting a piece of contemporary history as has appeared for many a year.”
“M. Hanotaux shows here to more advantage than in his first volume. On the whole the translation is satisfactory. M. Hanotaux must study compression.”
Harben, William Nathaniel (Will N., pseud.).Ann Boyd.$1.50. Harper.
Ann Boyd had been unfairly dealt with by her fellow-villagers, her reputation sullied, her finer sensibilities crushed. Yet, single-handed she ran her farm, made money, invested it and became the envy of all her maligners. The two forces fighting for mastery in Ann are hatred born of resentment and the power of love which is awakened thru the one soul which she considers white—that of her protégé, Luke King. The love interest centers about Luke and the daughter of Ann’s bitter enemy. The tangle finally straightens and Ann forgives and is at peace with the world.
“In some portions of the book the writer has succeeded in imparting a suggestion of the rude pathos and unaffected sentiment that we associate with the peasant pictures of Millet.”
“There is difficulty in reaching the old enthusiasm over ‘Ann Boyd.’”
“The story is injured by the tendency of the characters to excessive monologue.”
“The story has a certain elemental vigor which is characteristic of all Mr. Harben’s work.”
Harben, William Nathaniel.Pole Baker; a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
“In the shuttling of these well-proven motifsof the book, Mr. Harben shows himself a practiced and skillful craftsman, keeping his threads caught up and unbroken, and working out a clear, bright design. The result is a texture not especially dainty or beautiful, but a homespun stuff of fast color and good wear.”
Hardie, Martin.English coloured books. $6.75. Putnam.
A recent addition to the “Connoisseur’s library” which enlightens the reader on the various processes employed in the production of colored illustrations. “Premising that, like Gaul of old, the subject is divisible into three parts, the author gives an account first of coloured illustrations printed from wood blocks, secondly of those printed from metal plates, and thirdly of those printed from stone, devoting special chapters to men who have played a leading role in evolution of colour printing in this country.” (Int. Studio.)
“A manual for the use of collector’s and students is urgently required, and it could not come from a better source than from a librarian in the Art library at South Kensington, nor appear under better auspices than those of Mr. Cyril Davenport.”
“Mr. Hardie’s exposition throughout is clear and concise, and he writes with the authority of one whose knowledge of the subject is probably unequalled.”
“There can be nothing but praise for Mr. Hardie’s thorough treatment and pleasant style.”
“Appendixes valuable to book and print collectors, an index, and many color prints beautifully reproduced make this volume a necessary book for certain libraries. Along with the text that keeps the reader’s interest there is a mass of information which gives the advantage of a book of reference.” C. de Kay.
“From the point of view of the bibliographer and the printer the volume could hardly be improved.”
Hardy, Rev. Edward John.John Chinaman at home. **$2.50. Scribner.
“Writes in a very bright and breezy way of his observations in China. The account is rambling, jumping from city to city with no special attempt at system.”
“He furnishes a readable book, without notable characteristics.” John W. Foster.
“This is one of the most readable books about the country whose population and peculiarities are permanently exaggerated in most of our text-books.” W. E. Griffis.
“Not at all distinguished, not always in the best of taste, but readable throughout, and well adapted to the needs of the middle-class book-buyer.”
Hardy, Edward John.What men like in women. **$1. Dillingham.
From invincible youth to graceful age, the author sketches the likable characteristics and qualities of women. In every chapter he sounds the depths of the permanent and trustworthy elements that make for life happiness.
“Out of the serious often cometh forth humor. The wheat is in about the same proportion to the chaff as history is to fiction in an historical novel.”
Hardy, Ernest George.Studies in Roman history. *$1.60. Macmillan.
“A new edition of the author’s well-known work on ‘Christianity and the Roman government,’ supplemented by half a dozen other essays, two of which originally appeared in the English historical review, three in the Journal of philology, and one as part of an introduction to an edition of Plutarch’s ‘Lives of Galba and Otha.’”—Nation.
“At its first appearance Hardy’s work was not marked by much originality, and hence it is questionable whether any justification can be found for a second edition in which no account has been taken of recent developments. Some of the special studies ... which form the concluding portions of the book are decided contributions to the literature of Roman administration.” Patrick J. Healy.
“Present volume is indispensable to all serious students of the Roman empire.”
“All are of a most scholarly, some even of an extremely technical character; and hence all are deserving of the careful attention of the special student.”
“Dr. Hardy presents his case with utmost candour of mind and cleanness of language, and there is no point of importance on which the present writer is unable to accept his conclusions. Altogether the book is one which will certainly be read with interest and deserves to be studied with respect.” W. A. G.
“They show what instructive results a patient reading of inscriptions may yield to any one with sufficient knowledge to find and hold the clue.”
“Eminently sane and judicious. The work is always accurate and reliable. Their tone is admirable, and the writer does his best to set out the particulars fairly and fully. The author writes with less obvious prepossessions than almost all who have attempted to deal with the matter.”
Hardy, Thomas.Dynasts: a drama of the Napoleonic wars. In three parts. Part 2. *$1.50. Macmillan.
The first part of this work of nineteen acts and one hundred and thirty scenes appeared about two years ago. With the completion of this second part “There is a disposition ... to look into the matter more closely and more reverently. As its huge proportions are slowly developed, this drama of the making of history takes on grandeur in the reviewer’s eyes. They are no longer troubled to identify, reasonably, the Spirits sinister, the Chorus of the pities, the ancient spirit of the years, the Recording angels These are but personifications of human and normal influences after all.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The great drama of ‘The dynasts’ ... proves him not merely a great novelist but an essayist, a poet and a dramatist and, I might add, an acute historical critic.” Robert Ross.
“The poetry of the piece is not so much in the brickish verse as in some of the stage directions in prose.” Ferris Greenslet.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne,
“There is probably little, if any, great dramatic poetry throughout the multitude of scenes; but there is some good, and a great deal of passable verse; there is some excellent prose; and there is a continuous manifestation of imagination and intelligence for which I am glad to acknowledge myself deeply grateful.” W. P. Trent.
“‘The dynasts’ is a gloomy and powerful epic, but it is not a drama.”
“There can be no possible question of the importance and high literary excellence of his latest book. ‘The dynasts’ is a work of exceptional power. It is a thing compact with imagination.”
“This work has in it the substance, in short, of a true prose masterpiece. Mr. Hardy has nothing of the poet in him.” H. W. Boynton.
“It is absolutely hopeless as a poem.”
“However it all may strike the historian’s mind as a spectacle of predigested history, to the lay mind Mr. Hardy has made a wonderful gift. He has invented a new sensation.”
“The diction is strained, and when metaphysics begin we flounder among quasi-technical platitudes. But in spite of a hundred faults, there is a curious sublimity about the very immensity of the scheme.”
Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert, and Baddeley (Welbore) St. Clair.Sicily. **$1. Dutton.
The guide-book prepared by the late Augustus C. Hare is now published in a new edition revised and brought admirably down to date by St. Clair Baddeley. The volume is pocket size and contains maps and photographs.
“In general the practical information which it contains has been brought up to date. The historical sketch with which the volume opens is clearly written, and will be helpful to the traveler who has not read Freeman; but it is defective in one or two points.”
“The author’s great fund of information is presented in compact style. The style might have been made somewhat clearer, however—especially with regard to ambiguity in the use of relative pronouns—without any necessity of increasing the text.”
Hare, Christopher.Dante the wayfarer. *$2.50. Scribner.
“Mr. Hare’s fine compilation is fitted to be of such incalculable use to the earnest student of Dante that it seems needful, if a little ungracious, to point out the fact that the text of the present edition teems with minute typographical errors.”
Hare, Christopher.Queen of queens, and the making of Spain. **$2.50. Scribner.
“There are few more striking figures in European history than Isabel, the Catholic, Queen of Spain.... The subject of the book is wide. It is by no means a study of the Queen’s life alone, but a good swift, picturesque sketch of the history of Spain, beginning with the conquest of the Moors in A. D. 711, and going on to the gradual recovery of power and territory by the Christian Goths who fled before them to the mountains of Asturias. Then comes the rise of the Christian kingdoms ... then the fusion of these, after much fighting and confusion and many romantic episodes, including the immortal story of the Cid, into the two kingdoms of Castile and Leon and Aragon and Catalonia.”—Spec.
“The book adds little to our knowledge; at its best, it summarizes the chapters in some unrevised edition of Prescott’s work, and it is disfigured by interpolated errors which could never have been made by any one acquainted with Spanish. Decidedly this is a book not to be trusted.”
“He quotes too much from others to produce a vivid effect, and most of the lines in his portrait are those common to the great ladies who lived at the same time as Isabella.”
“The historian would be scientific, in sad truth, whom Isabella the Catholic would not carry off his feet. That he seems hardly to have read his proof-sheets is another matter; to be balanced perhaps by the excellent illustrations.”
“Mr. Hare is not himself an eloquent writer, and the most of his purple patches, especially those dealing with the Moorish wars and the story of the Queen’s dealings with Columbus, are taken verbatim from Irving.”
“Mr. Hare always writes with evidence of so much research, and with such a real enthusiasm for his subject, that we cannot help regretting some literary lapses in his style. This book, for instance, would have been greatly improved in value and dignity if he had read through his proofs more severely, cut out various ornamental passages, and tightened up certain slovenly sentences. As we have already said, the book is agreeable and picturesque, and we have read it with interest and enjoyment.”
Harker, Mrs. Lizzie Allen.Concerning Paul and Fiammetta; with an introd. by Kate Douglas Wiggin. †$1.25. Scribner.
While in England a year ago, Kate Douglas Wiggin discovered in the children of Mrs. Harker’s “A romance of the nursery” such delightful little people that she asked for the privilege of introducing to her own American readers Mrs. Harker’s next story. And so Paul and Fiammetta have come to take their place beside Rebecca, Timothy and Polly Oliver. “‘Fee’ is a travelled, hotel-bred child, who had learned experience without losing her good manners.” (Lond. Times.) Paul has a mania for reading, and is devoted to dogs no less than to his friend Tonks.
“The story has many appealing qualities,—its gayety, sympathy, humour, and lifelikeness; and perhaps to American readers one of its chiefest charms will be that it is so thoroughly English,—as English as a hedge-rose or a bit of pink hawthorne,—yet, with all its local colour, sounding the human and universal note.” Kate Douglas Wiggin.
“It is easy to imagine many parties both in the school room and downstairs where thesesketches will be read aloud and approved enthusiastically.”
“In the main, the book is rather about children than for them. Children ... would never notice the delicacy, the strength, and the sympathy with which Mrs. Harker has worked.”
“The way in which the four children are differentiated and each endowed with a well-marked individuality is extremely clever. In a book which strikes so true a note all through the critic may be forgiven for wishing that the simplicity of the original keynote has been preserved to the concluding sentence.”
Harnack, (Carl Gustav) Adolf.Expansion of Christianity in the first three centuries; tr. and ed. by James Moffatt. 2v. *$3. Putnam.
“There are certain dangers into which the modern aggressive historian is apt to fall, and does fall if Harnack and Knopf are to be taken as fair representatives of the class. If he has successfully found his way out of the swamp of sectarian prejudice on the one hand, he seems likely to wander, on the other, into the dense forest of conjecture, wherein he will see all sorts of fantastic forms in the dim light.” Andrew C. Zenos.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
“Dr. Harnack, in fine, has produced what is as yet the most satisfactory, if not the most striking and original, of the noble series of works in which he is casting new light upon Christian history. We wish that we could say that a worthy translator had been found for him.”
Harper, William Rainey.Critical and exegetical commentary on Amos and Hosea. **$3. Scribner.
“Students of the Old Testament have now, for the first time in many years, an adequate commentary on Amos and Hosea. The treatment of the text is on the whole conservative, the emendations adopted being generally those which the soberest scholarship of the present day would approve.” Charles Torrey.
“Judging from his own point of view Dr. Harper has succeeded fairly well. He has not the initiative of Marti, but when he selects from the emendations of others, he may count on the approval of most liberal-conservative scholars.” T. K. Cheyne.
Harper, William Rainey.Priestly element in the Old Testament: an aid to historical study for use in advanced Bible classes. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
Harper, William Rainey.Prophetic element in the Old Testament. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
“For the student who is willing to do his own thinking, and to reach his own conclusions, there will be found in this volume stimulus, suggestion, and guidance, such as will be found, in this particular form, nowhere else.” John E. McFadyen.
“A careful study of this work would lead to a highly specialized knowledge of the subject. This suggests the only criticism that might be ventured on the book. Is it not too taxing upon the average student, except when used by such a pedagogical genius as Dr. Harper himself?” Kemper Fullerton.
“For one interested in the analysis of modern biblical criticism, this manual will be in a high degree valuable; and if one is in an early stage of scriptural study, it will be almost indispensable.”
Harraden, Beatrice.Scholar’s daughter. $1.50. Dodd.
“Geraldine Grant is the daughter of an austere and self-centred scholar who lives a life of seclusion in a lonely country house, engaged in the compilation of a colossal dictionary. Soured by the unfaithfulness of his wife, shortly after his daughter’s birth, no woman is admitted to his house.... Heredity it is to be supposed will out and Geraldine practices her powers of fascination on the three middle-aged men secretaries who assist her father.... A lightning love-tale and the very obvious identification as his wife of a famous actress, Miss Charlotta Selbourne, on her casual appearance at the professor’s house make up this slender story.”—Sat. R.
“We venture to think that this story would do better as a light play than as a novel.”
“Compared with ‘Ships that pass in the night’ and even with one or two of the succeeding novels, this story is a grievous disappointment.”
“It all savours pleasantly of comic opera, with soothing little melodies running through it; and undeniably leaves a pleasant, if transitory, taste behind it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.