“Gen. Lee now belongs to the nation at large, not simply to the South, and the authors have written an enthusiastic as well as historicallysound life of their hero. The book should be welcomed by young people all over the country, but it will be quite as interesting to many ‘grown-ups’ as well.”
HAMILTON, ROBERT W.Belinda of the Red cross. il*$1.25 (2c) Sully & Kleinteich 17-24969
“The heroine, born in America, is the granddaughter on one side of French and on the other of German ancestors. ... At the beginning of the story she is taking a nurse’s training in a big New York hospital in which one of the surgeons is a famous German, resident for ten years in this country. As she nears the end of her course of training a young aviator who has had a fall and smashed one shoulder is brought in. ... He is Belinda’s last patient, and they find each other mutually interesting. After graduation she decides to join the Red cross service in France, and the young aviator, although neither knows the other’s purpose, goes over to offer his services to the French army. ... Belinda works in the field hospitals and the aviator crosses the battle lines and finally they are both caught by the enemy. ... The two German cousins of Belinda play an important part in the action.”—N Y Times
“A thrilling war story.”
“The incidents are highly improbable. The narrative may be found entertaining if the reader is not in a critical mood.”
HAMMER, SIMON CHRISTIAN.William the Second.*$1.50 Houghton 17-26781
“The present volume is an English attempt at a calm, clear-cut analysis of the imperial psychology as disclosed by numerous speeches and contemporary German writings.”—R of Rs
“Author is an Englishman and his remarks are tinged with prejudice.”
“Mr Hammer’s picture of the Kaiser will never win him a German decoration, but it bears more of the earmarks of truth than those we are accustomed to.” C. H. P. Thurston
HAMMOND, JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON, and HAMMOND, BARBARA (BRADBY) (MRS JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON HAMMOND).Town labourer, 1760-1832; the new civilisation.*$3.50 (3c) Longmans 330.9 17-22687
This volume is the first part of a study of the industrial revolution. It attempts to describe the general features of the new civilization, to picture the effect of the great social change which took place between 1780 and 1832 on the lives of the English working-class, and which turned them, according to the authors, into the “cannon-fodder of industry.” About half of the chapters deal with the material surroundings of “the new civilisation”—the “new town,” the conditions in mill, mine, and workshop, the administration of justice, the war on trade unions, the employment of children, etc., and the remainder “with the psychological conditions that resulted from them.” A table of dates and a list of chief authorities are appended. A second volume is to follow which “will give in detail the history of the work-people in various industries, with a full account of the disturbances known as the Luddite rising, and of those connected with the adventures of Oliver, the famous ‘agent provocateur.’” (Preface)
“An arresting and appalling picture.”
“In their feeling for class attitudes, for the rationalizations that accompany the economic war, for the sinister manipulation of government by capital, the Hammonds have an intellectual tool which should be in the hands of every one who tries to write of this modern industrial era.” Randolph Bourne
“It is a book to be read by all who are concerned with present labour problems, and conditions of industrial life; for a full understanding of the purgatorial experiences of the working class in the critical years of this great social change is a key to its attitude to-day. The working class, like an oppressed nationality, has its memories.” M. J.
“This book is valuable as an indisputable record of facts, unpleasant enough to our national self-satisfaction—our besetting sin, as Matthew Arnold declared. It would have been more valuable but for the obvious political bias of its authors, who skilfully heap the blame on the back of the Tory party. In truth, the aristocratic Whigs and the Nonconformist manufacturers and tradesmen were just as much to blame as the Tory government for the state of labour in the pre-reform era. ... This is not a mere squalid story of slum misery: it is not a sensational ‘film,’ striking the eyes and ‘gingering’ the emotion, but leaving the intellect unstirred. This tale of trouble sets one on inquiries innumerable, psychological, spiritual, moral, economic, political.”
“The book is pleasant to read because of its literary art and mastery; the subject-matter is extremely gloomy. The misery admits of no denial, but we are not persuaded that Mr and Mrs Hammond have given the right values to the various causes when they enter upon explanations. There is something in the temper in which they write which strikes us as mistaken. ... But we must not express our partial agreement with their spirit at the expense of saying too little about the admirable skill and clearness with which they have presented their facts. They have written the best description of the conditions of the time that we have ever read.”
“Though the writing of social and industrial history in England has in recent years been carried to a very high point of literary accomplishment combined with careful use of original sources and sound interpretation by such writers as Gilbert Slater, the Webbs, and others, there has been no similar publication so vividly describing this vital period of change. ... In almost every chapter of Mr and Mrs Hammond’s work are lessons of our time. The attitude towards ‘the poor,’ for instance, was in many respects similar to that yet taken in this country towards the negro. The procedure in the case of strikes often seems to have resembled that now frequently in vogue to meet the real or imagined danger of the I. W. W.” Bruno Lasker
“A companion volume to the important work which the authors published in 1911 on the ‘Village labourer’ during the same period.”
“A book that should be read by all who are concerned, however indirectly, with what is called ‘the labour problem.’ The story of the Industrial revolution has been told before, but the story of the Social revolution which accompanied it, has never yet received adequate treatment. ... The authors have helped towards a better understanding not only of the early nineteenth century but of some of the most obstinate problems of today.”
HAMMOND, MELVIN ORMOND.Canadian confederation and its leaders. il*$2.50 (3½c) Doran 971 18-2512
Canadian confederation was perfected in 1867 and has now known a half century of history. It has seemed a fitting time therefore “to examinethe part played by the leaders of that great day in the various provinces in bringing about the union.” This has been the object of the author, who has brought together studies of seventeen men, among them Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Oliver Mowat, William McDougall, Sir Alexander T. Galt, Sir George E. Cartier, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Sir Charles Tupper, and others. The choice has been not wholly limited to those who worked for federation. Leaders of the opposition have been included. The book has an introductory chapter, Before confederation, and a closing chapter, Rounding out confederation, and ends with bibliography and index.
“Our author gives a close and searching analysis of the character and personality of each of his subjects.” H. S. K.
HANCOCK, HARRIE IRVING.Physical training for business men; basic rules and simple exercises for gaining assured control of the physical self. il*$1.75 (5½c) Putnam 613.7 17-25762
The man who sits at his desk all day and feels stale at night will find in these pages concise instructions for livening up. The exercises outlined are an antidote for physical slovenliness and mental dulness. They are simple leg, arm, trunk and head movements designed to produce in a short space of time poise, alertness, power. Illustrations of the model performances are from photographs which represent the nearest approach possible to a moving picture on a single plate and are, in consequence, easily followed.
“The plain, common-sense general advice and comment is of great value to any man or woman, and would add to efficiency.”
“Books on physical training are either manuals which most people will open only on doctor’s orders, or they are made more readable with the help of a good deal of matter not strictly relevant. The present volume is of the latter variety; it may be added that its ‘padding’ is interesting and contains many shrewd observations. A. B. Phelan’s synthetic photographs may be clever, but on the whole the diagrammatic illustrations of the old handbooks were easier to understand.” B. L.
HANDY, AMY LITTLEFIELD.War food. il*75c (14c) Houghton 664 17-21110
Miss Handy describes practical and economical methods of keeping vegetables, fruits and meats, and urges the importance of preserving and storing perishable food. There is a chapter on “Canning without sugar.” The author hopes that the recipes will prove helpful to those who are trying to carry out Mr Hoover’s instructions.
“Miss Handy is explicit in her directions, which cover, we believe, a very wide field of possibilities in canning.”
“A good little book to own.”
“And it is a most valuable book. In the tersest and most practical fashion it sets forth the methods of drying, evaporating, canning, salting, and picking various articles, with special directions for each. And these methods are inexpensive.”
HANKEY, DONALD WILLIAM ALERS (STUDENT IN ARMS, pseud.).Student in arms.*$1.50 (4c) Dutton 940.91 E17-249
A series of articles written at the front and first printed in the Spectator and the Westminster Gazette. They differ from many other accounts written on the firing line in that they are thoughtful and speculative rather than anecdotal and descriptive. The author writes of: “Kitchener’s army”; An experiment in democracy; Discipline and leadership; The religion of the inarticulate; The army and the universities: a study of educational values, etc. There is an introduction by J. St. Loe Strachey, editor of the Spectator.
“The author was killed in action in October, 1916.”
“His interpretation limited to some slight degree by its immaturity, is so sweet with the highest spiritual idealism that the reader pauses and marvels.”
“The author treats the subject in a matter-of-fact way, which, by its very rarity, becomes effective.”
“Desperately sincere, openly the product of brave and unsophisticated youth. It is with a sort of reverence that one finishes a book so thoroughly imbued with the most promising of human tendencies, the wish to be justified on a constructive instead of on a destructive basis.” S. K. Toksvig
“Where his book is novel is in its sincere and always thoughtful exposition of the philosophy and religion of the trenches, and the changes needed for effective Christianity at home.”
“A book of high spiritual idealism as well as a vivid picture of life in the trenches of Flanders.”
“The war has given us no other book like this. It is worthy to stand beside Rupert Brooke’s sonnets as an expression of the spiritual attitude of England’s educated and gifted young men.”
HANKEY, DONALD WILLIAM ALERS (STUDENT IN ARMS, pseud.).Student in arms: second series; with an introd. by J. St Loe Strachey. il*$1.50 (5½c) Dutton 17-17623
This collection of sketches, conversations and essays suggested by the war, written, with three exceptions, in France in 1916, were for the most part first printed in the Spectator. “The potentate,” written for the original volume of “A student in arms,” but not published on account of its likeness in subject to Barrie’s “Der tag,” is included here, as is also the essay entitled “Don’t worry.” In addition to these, the new volume contains a good deal of biographical matter: a sketch by Miss Hankey, the author’s sister, entitled “Something about ‘A student in arms’”; a fragment of autobiography entitled “My home and school,” and some notes on the autobiography.
“Like the first series, these sketches are the expression of a forthright idealism and give a version of the hopes, fears and beliefs of the men in the trenches, evidently not heightened for literary or humorous effect.”
“The various papers, are not, it must be confessed, of permanent value as literature, but the total impression of this output by a youngman of thirty-two, who died leading a charge which gained a few yards of trenches, is of the immense and irretrievable waste of war.”
“We can’t measure, even approximately, how much ‘good’ these works will do, but we unhesitatingly affirm that they are exceedingly well worth reading.” J. W.
“The general level of the book is not so high as was that of the first, but, nevertheless, it contains some very good things that are well worth reading. Moreover, in the first volume and also in this Donald Hankey revealed himself a personality so interesting and so lovable that the opportunity this ‘Second series’ gives to make acquaintance with the man behind the book will be welcomed.”
“Here we shall prefer to dwell upon the fragments of biography and autobiography. The first thing we have to say is that, though they are so slight, they paint the true ‘Student in arms,’ and show how his life enforced the lessons of his writing. ... No one was ever less of a prig.”
“From Rugby he went to Woolwich; spent six years in the artillery; and retired with a view to entering the church after passing through Oxford. He never actually took orders, but shared the lives of the poor by making his home in Bermondsey, travelling steerage, and enlisting as a private when the war broke out. Thus he came to know the men in the ranks from within, without being so closely identified with them as not to recognize their idiosyncrasies as such. This may be one reason why his weary ‘Tommies’ are not in the least like the epigrammatic comedians of the picturesque writers.”
HANNAY, DAVID.Diaz. il*$2 (2c) Holt (Eng ed 17-26317)
Two opinions exist regarding Porfirio Diaz: He was a great man and a beneficent ruler; he was an unmitigated tyrant and a curse to the country he ruled. The fact that he is included among the “Makers of the nineteenth century” indicates the attitude taken toward him in this book. The general editor, Basil Williams, says in his preface: “He is worthy of note by the student of the nineteenth century, since he brought his country to a more respectable prominence and to greater prosperity than it had enjoyed since its original conquest by the Spaniards.” The author says in conclusion: “He showed the world what was the utmost that his country was capable of doing in order to qualify itself to take its place among civilised and progressive states.” Mr Hannay is an English journalist and author of “The navy and sea-power.”
“Mr Hannay appears to be a man of talents, candor, and good sense, and his book, in addition to being readable, is worth reading; but it can hardly be described as well-proportioned, scholarly, or sound. ... As might be inferred, the author’s ‘bibliography’ is meagre and his index inadequate.” J. H. Smith
“An authoritative, popular account.”
“Mr Hannay’s narrative is animated, and well worth reading.”
“It is somewhat tedious and involved; the subject with its fascinating material, could have been made more interesting reading by one whose writing had more of the true charm of a real biographer.”
“No dry and superficial statement of facts, but a most readable and enlightening story of Mexico and its people from 1854.”
“Mr Hannay has treated his interesting hero with a suitably light touch. He neither eulogizes nor condemns him. He presents facts of population and political development with the insight and sympathy of one who is thoroughly familiar with the winning as well as the repellent side of Spanish-America. Thus he frames Diaz in a Mexican frame, and not, as too many authors are inclined to do, in an American or European frame.”
“Commendable book which might be called ‘A political history of Mexico in the time of Diaz.’”
“How was it that Diaz, alone of all Mexican presidents, contrived to retain power for so long? This is the most interesting question raised by his career, and Mr Hannay answers it somewhat fully.”
“A most scholarly and interesting book.”
“But the interest of this volume at the present time is by no means confined to the light it throws on Mexican conditions from the narrow point of view of anxious investors. This brings us to the main lesson of the history of Mexico and of the career of Diaz for the present generation. It should prove a wholesome corrective to those who believe that the world-war is going to be followed by the millennium and that in that blessed word democracy there has been discovered a universal formula for the perfecting of the world’s order.”
HANSCOM, ELIZABETH DEERING, ed. Heart of the Puritan. il*$1.50 (2½c) Macmillan 974 17-29768
The writer takes exception with Mr George Edward Woodberry who has written “The heart of the Puritan is a closed book.” Miss Hanscom, professor of English at Smith college, has delved into many dusty tomes for material that refutes Mr Woodberry’s contention. She has brought together here excerpts from the letters and journals of Puritans and grouped them under the headings; Of the coming of godly men to these parts; Of Boston; Of affairs domestic and personal; Of matrimony; Of education; Of Indians; Of trade; Of travel; Of holidays; Of episcopacy; Of churches; Of prophecies and warnings; Of witchcraft, andCor cordium. A valuable aid to the study of history and literature as well as to a study of religious temper in colonial times.
“Miss Hanscom herself is something of a wit, as is shown by her ‘Praefatio’ and headings; we wish she had been pedant enough to have given the exact provenance of all her extracts. Such an appendix would not have marred her book, but would have added to its interest. Apart from that blemish, the book is excellent. It would be well if some of our smart youths who speak so patronizingly of the Puritans would read this volume of letters, and mark and inwardly digest.”
“With loving care and a scholar’s sense of accuracy and fitness, Miss Hanscom has preserved the spellings of an age that scorned the arts of spelling, and the abbreviations with which that age larded its written discourse. She has supplied chapter and page headings that pique the reader’s curiosity. Her preface is delightfully self-effacing and appreciative; in fact, the editor’s touch throughout the volume is gracious and good-humoredly keen. The book is meant for reading (in spite of the difficult spellings) and very good reading it makes. Much of Miss Hanscom’s book is in light vein,but it all tends to inculcate that tolerant and respectful view of our New England past of which we are much in need.”
HANSHEW, THOMAS W. (CHARLOTTE MAY KINGSLEY, pseud.).Cleek’s government cases. il*$1.35 (1½c) Doubleday 17-5982
“Cleek of Scotland Yard,” “The riddle of the night,” and “Cleek, the man of the forty faces” are stories that have preceded this. Like the others, this one is made up of distinct episodes in which Cleek, the one time crook, now a detective, displays his skill, but there is a thread of narrative binding the whole together. In the first chapter Cleek finds that his old enemies, the Apaches, are still on his track. He is kidnapped, and after his rescue by his friend, Narkom of Scotland Yard, says, “This is but the first throw of the dice, old friend. ... This is but the beginning; the end, who shall say?”
“Mr Hanshew never lets the plot grow stale, and he does not leave his readers for even a few moments without excitement.”
“Lovers of detective stories will find a good deal of entertainment in this new volume which tells of ‘Cleek’s government cases.’”
“The book compares unfavorably with the Cleek stories published heretofore.”
HARBEN, WILLIAM NATHANIEL (WILL N., pseud.).Triumph. il*$1.40 (1c) Harper 17-22297
“Two brothers form the central pivot of ‘The triumph,’ and one of them has made himself despised by his neighbors because he does not hold the conventional southern view of slavery. Andrew Merlin lives in the little town of Delbridge; his brother Thomas has a plantation some ten miles away and owns many slaves. Because of their opposing opinions, the brothers drift apart, and into Andrew’s immediate family trouble comes, for his wife and son feel keenly the ostracism to which they are subjected, while his daughter Anne is wholly on her father’s side. The war comes, Georgia is up in arms, Thomas Merlin enlists and becomes a Confederate brigadier general, but Andrew, because of his Union sympathies, and especially because he dares to free a slave who has been forced into his hand to pay a debt, is beset on all sides. He is forced to flee for his life, is overtaken by a band of Confederate bushwhackers, and succeeds in saving his life by a ruse. Enlisting in the Union army, he returns home before the end of the war, and by his injudicious behavior only succeeds in making himself more despised than ever.”—Boston Transcript
“It cannot be said that Mr Harben’s aristocrats are as ‘convincing’ as his commonalty; Anne Merlin and Arthur Preston are a singularly wooden pair of leading juveniles.” H. W. Boynton
“Mr Harben’s pages contain more accurate knowledge of Georgia men and women, of the Georgia ways of living, of the Georgia passions, than could be revealed in a thousand formal historical narratives. ... In ‘The triumph’ Mr Harben goes back to the Civil war period. Many novels have been written about that era, but few of them have the strong equipoise that dominates its plot and its characters. It is a plea for neither side, it contains nothing of the polemic, it merely seeks to present life as Mr Harben found it in his native state during some five years of the strongest social, moral and political upheaval that could overwhelm a stricken people. ... Something of these Georgians is wholly of Georgia, but something is purely American, and something in them is akin to the peasant character of any country. They are spiritually of the same stuff as the denizens of Hardy’s Wessex, of Phillpotts’ Dartmoor or of Miss Jewett’s New England.” E. F. E.
“He really has a good point to make, and he makes it in spite of the commonplace melodrama to which his plot lends itself.”
“In withdrawing to the Civil war period, Mr Harben has abandoned that main asset of his and Mr Howells’s sort of realism, the thing seen and known at first hand. In consequence, he has not worked freely or spontaneously, and his product is too plainly a made affair. ... The ‘love-interest’ is of the most perfunctory sort.”
“Mr Harben’s new novel contains many of the elements that make for real greatness.”
HARDING, ALICE (MRS EDWARD HARDING).Book of the peony. il*$6 (18c) Lippincott 716 17-13093
This is said to be the first book published on peony culture. It is made up of chapters on: An appreciation of the peony; The mythology, ancient and modern history of the peony; Best varieties and their characteristics; Extending the period of bloom; Purchasing; Where to plant and how to prepare the soil; Planting and cultivation; Propagation; The tree peony—description and history; Tree peonies: cultivation, propagation and best varieties; Various species of the peony. A valuable feature of the book is the “main list” of 125 varieties recommended for garden culture, with supplementary lists based on color. Twenty of the illustrations are in color and there are a number of good half-tone plates in addition.
“The format of this, the first book ever devoted to peonies alone, demands appreciation. Covers and typing are distinctive. While the many illustrations in color and in black-and-white, from photographs of peonies in various noted private gardens of the United States, are of a rare beauty vision alone can adequately disclose.” F. B.
“Although a large bibliography on the peony is given, no other volume yet published appears to be so complete as this one. ... The two chapters on tree peonies present material new to many gardeners, and Professor H. H. Whetzel’s discussion of ‘Diseases of the peony’ represents the latest research.”
“Should help all flower-lovers to use it for landscape as well as floral value.”
“There is much sound advice for the amateur in the chapter on Purchasing. ... All of the practical chapters of the book are valuable because drawn from the personal experience of the author. It is a beautiful book and a distinct addition to gardening literature.” M. K. Reely
HARDING, LOUIS ALLEN, and WILLARD, ARTHUR CUTTS.Mechanical equipment of buildings; a reference book for engineers and architects. 3v v 2 il*$5 Wiley 690
v 2Power plants and refrigeration.
“The first volume of this important series was published a few months ago and dealt with the subject of heating and ventilation. The second volume, dealing exhaustively with steam plants and ice and refrigeration machinery, contains a large amount of theoretical and commercial data and discussions of their practical applications.” (N Y P L New Tech Bks) “In order to make the volume more complete, several of the chapters appearing in volume 1 have been reprinted, including the chapters on Heat; Water, steam and air; and Fuels and combustion.” (Heating and Ventilating Magazine)
“As a reference book and a textbook for students it should be most valuable. The free use of manufacturers’ data adds much to the usefulness of this volume. ... There are several forms of boilers largely used by heating engineers not referred to in this volume or the preceding one.” D. D. Kimball
“Special mention should be made of the chapter on ‘Chimneys for power boilers’ which is remarkably complete, and also the chapter on ‘Power plant piping.’”
“Unusually well illustrated with line drawings and charts. Many practical problems are solved step by step.”
“The authors will probably find that in the next printing it would be well to elaborate more upon the index. The excellent character of the book warrants doing so.”
HARDING, MRS RUTH GUTHRIE.Lark went singing, and other poems; with an introd. by R: Burton.*$1 E. D. Brooks, Minneapolis, Minn. 811 16-24958
“This exquisite little volume of lyrics we owe to the gardening sympathies of Richard Burton. Anyone who noted, some years ago, the little slips of song by Ruth Guthrie Harding, rooted here and there in a magazine page, and had the power of discernment, knew they sprung from the seeds of poetry. There they might have withered and died; but this gardener came along and cultivated an indisputable gift of beauty and joy.”—Boston Transcript
“The quality is wistful, almost evanescent in the embodiment of simple moods and themes.” W: S. Braithwaite
“Here is the whole poetic temperament in this poet, transmitting all that it touches. Every first and last dream, impression, mood, makes you aware of loveliness and nothing but loveliness. This does not mean that experience does not come into the poet’s recognition of life and reality, but coming naked she sends it forth clothed with fabrics of spiritual weaving. And this is recognized all the more deeply because of the intense lyrical note which is one of Mrs Harding’s most distinctive gifts as a poet.”
“A poet of true promise.” O. W. Firkins
HARDING, SIDNEY TWITCHELL.[2]Operation and maintenance of irrigation systems. il*$2.50 McGraw 631 17-22587
“This book is a compilation of the fundamental principles and representative methods of the operation and maintenance of irrigation systems in the United States. ... In the first chapter the subject of general maintenance is treated extensively. ... In the second chapter the relative serviceability, length of life and needful precautionary measures in the maintenance of wooden, steel and concrete structures are discussed. ... The third chapter is given to the problem of organization, outlining and suggesting appropriate plans for systems of varying sizes and conditions based upon experiences so far available. The methods of delivering irrigation water are treated fully in the fourth chapter. ... The measurement of irrigation water is treated exhaustively in the fifth chapter. ... A chapter of fourteen pages is devoted to rules and regulations. ... The proper apportionment of construction and operation charges receives thorough study and analysis, and the results are summarized in a concluding article. ... The eighth chapter is devoted to a brief discussion of miscellaneous phases of irrigation operations. ... At the close a short chapter is given to the subject of accounts.”—Engin News-Rec
“This book is timely and useful. It presents in concentrated form a large range of information not elsewhere compiled and of special value to the student of irrigation engineering. It covers much of great value to the engineer or manager charged with construction, as well as operation and betterment, of irrigation works.” Andrew Weiss
“Practical rather than theoretical.”
HARDY, ARTHUR SHERBURNE.No. 13, rue du Bon Diable. il*$1.35 (3½c) Houghton 17-28186
Mr Hardy has written a new kind of detective story, which begins by telling us just how M. Janvier was murdered, and keeps us intensely interested in the efforts of the detectives to arrive at a solution. M. Janvier is an old bachelor, devoted to his niece Corinne, for whom he has bought a pearl necklace as a birthday present, drawing 30,000 francs from the bank to pay for it. His murderer is finally discovered by M. Joly, the detective who figured in “Diane and her friends.”
“Very well written though not as absorbing as others by this author.”
“Mr Hardy’s detective story is unusual in many ways. There are actually human characters in it, and a swiftly woven texture of motives, and charming bits of color, local and otherwise. ... In the make-up of the volume there is displayed a feeling for the quality of the text that is seldom found in any but the more expensive books.”
“Mr Hardy’s style has the old distinction; his people are clear-cut as cameos; his psychology is never at fault.”
“Mr Hardy’s new book differs from the general run of detective stories in that he makes no attempt to mystify or to mislead the reader, but takes him into his confidence at once. The idea is a good one and has some novelty, but one feels that it could have been developed more cleverly and greater ingenuity been shown in the complications.”
“The reader enjoys the skill with which the author creates the proper atmosphere for the affair and analyzes the psychology of the participants.”
HARDY, OSWALD HENRY.In Greek seas, and other poems of travel. il*$1.25 Lane 821 17-23683
Things of the spirit cannot be stifled even by the war, the author of this handful of verse asserts. The poems have been written during busy years and they have served as “a refuge from the engrossing calls of official life, and have served to keep alive memories of inspiring travel and of the earlier days when the great ages of Greece and Rome supplied a constant background of dream and happy thought.” There are two war poems in the group.
“Fluent and pleasing, several of the shorter pieces, such as ‘A mountain pansy’ and ‘The mountain pine,’ merit attention; and some of the lines in the poem which gives its title to the volume, as well as in the verses upon ‘The tomb of Columbus in Seville cathedral,’ are noteworthy and impressive.”
“In the sense that the author who has travelled much records in verse the scenes he has visited and the impressions made upon him, the poems are inspired, but the inspiration is not transformed by an essentially poetic spirit. The results would have been much better recorded in prose, for they strike no emotional register.”
HARE, CHRISTOPHER, pseud. (MRS MARIAN ANDREWS).Great emperor: Charles V, 1519-1558. il*$3.50 Scribner 17-18588
“This latest biographer of the emperor whose abdication of the throne of Spain was forced in the middle sixteenth century has little except good to write of his subject. The devotion to pious ends and aims, the grief of his devoted family and friends, his benefactions to the church, are all set forth in admiration, while his military glories are fully recounted.”—Boston Transcript
“The story of Charles V., ... has long been recognized as full of fascination and wonder. Christopher Hare tells it with much historic detail, yet with a keen sense of its picturesque personal qualities, its romantic appeal. ... The book is readable and valuable for the ‘general public’ and for the student.”
“Whatever his bias, our author has succeeded in seeing his subject clearly and seeing it whole; he marshals his facts with certainty and skill, and his narrative runs smoothly from the first page to the last. In all its main features the book is a meritorious piece of work, the result of study and sane enthusiasm; there are excellent chapters on the conquest of Mexico and Peru, and the two sketch maps at the beginning and end of the volume are helpful. Indeed, our only real ground of complaint is to be found in the fact that, with all his accumulated knowledge, Mr Hare does not appreciate the value of accuracy in minor matters.”
HARE, WALTER BEN.[2]White Christmas, and other merry Christmas plays.il 75c Denison 812 17-24880
“The white Christmas” is a morality play in one act. One of the other plays in the collection is a dramatization of Dickens’ “Christmas carol.” The author says, “In these little plays I have tried to bring before the public the two dominant characteristics of the ideal Christmas season, kindness, expressed by ‘good will toward men,’ and the inward joy wrought by kind acts. ... Some of the plays are filled with the spirit of fun and jollity that is always associated with Christmas merrymaking; in others I have tried to emphasize the spiritual blessings brought to the children of men on that first white Christmas night.” Both children and adults take part in the plays. They are meant to be acted and the necessary stage directions are provided.
“Mr Hare’s new volume of plays contains some amusement, but no superlative wit.”
“They are ‘merry plays’ and the instructions for producing them are very complete.”
HARGRAVE, JOHN.At Suvla Bay.il*$1.50 Houghton 940.91 (Eng ed 17-1486)
“For the most part Mr Hargrave writes of the Dardanelles campaign. He enlisted as a private at the beginning of the war, going from an outdoor life spent mainly in sketching and writing, to the hardships of camp life. No one reading these notes could doubt that he has seen and experienced all of which he writes. ... The volume is liberally enlivened with the author’s delightful sketches of men and scenes.”—Boston Transcript
“Journalistic and conversational, told with a vivid sense of the picturesque, whether enjoying various types on the way or experiencing the horrors of the campaign itself.”
“Mr Hargrave is the author of ‘Lonecraft’ and is a well known scout master, and his work as a scout has made it impossible that he should come to campaigning with the lack of adaptability to conditions which hindered so many of the enlisted men. For this reason, his first chapters describing the hard conditions endured by the soldiers at the beginning of the war have unusual weight.”
HARKER, MRS LIZZIE ALLEN.Jan and her job.il*$1.50 (3c) Scribner 17-10199
Janet Ross goes out to India at the call of her younger sister, Fay. Broken in health and deserted by a husband who has proved faithless to a trust, Fay, with two little children dependent on her, calls for Jan. Her death leaves the children in Jan’s charge. She takes them back to England and with the help of a young friend, who insists on acting as nursemaid in cap and apron, brings them up. In India Jan has met Peter Ledgard, and shortly after her departure, Peter finds that he needs a vacation and asks for six months’ leave. The captivating little nursemaid has a love affair too. The story comes to an end with August, 1914.
“Appeared in the Delineator as ‘Jan her work and love.’”
“This capital story has vivacity, freshness, and humour.”
“A pleasant, conventional little story, easily and simply told.”
“The story does not depend on its plot. Its attractiveness lies in the portrayal of people who do their best to make the world a pleasanter place to live in. As little as possible is said about the disagreeable characters; the others are saved from insipidity by their foibles.”
HARRIS, GARRARD.Treasure of the land; how Alice won her way. il*$1.25 (1½c) Harper 17-22298
This story, by the author of “Joe, the book farmer,” tells how Alice Warren, a girl of seventeen, and her brother Henry, encouraged and helped by Miss Allen, the new district school teacher, transform the untidy farmhouse in which they live, learn to apply intelligence to the cultivation of the soil, and finally take prizes for their tomatoes and corn. Miss Allen sees that mere book study is almost valueless in such a farming community as that in which she is teaching, that the people “need first to be taught to live, to lighten the burdens upon themselves, and to give the women a chance.” She therefore interests the leading men in raising money for prizes, and gets government experts to organize the boy’s corn-club work and the tomato-club and canning work among the girls.
“An interesting, able novel, whose author shows unusual charm in telling a story and pointing an extremely delicate moral while so doing. He evidently knows life on dreary American farm lands and exactly how meagre is the outlook a girl has, who is brought up amid their desolation. Then too, Mr Harris writes excellent dialogue. It does stagger our intellect somewhat to read that the heroine has grown on one tenth of an acre, canned and sold as well, two thousand, one hundred and twenty-five tomatoes, in two pound cans, realizing eight cents per can.”
“Conveys a lesson of encouragement to the country girl who can see no prospect before her but a lifetime of drudgery, by showing what a scientific efficiency may accomplish when backed by earnest purpose.”