HAZEN, CHARLES DOWNER, and others.Three peace congresses of the nineteenth century.*75c (4c) Harvard univ. press 341.1 17-13066
The papers on the Peace congresses of Vienna, Paris, and Berlin contained in this volume were written for the meeting of the American historical association held in Cincinnati in 1916. The congress of Vienna is treated by Charles Downer Hazen; The congress of Paris, by William Roscoe Thayer; The congress of Berlin, by Robert Howard Lord. In addition there is a paper on Claimants to Constantinople, by Archibald Cary Coolidge. The problem of Constantinople is pronounced by Henry Eldridge Bourne in his introduction “the most important single question to which the war must furnish an answer.”
“All the papers are interesting and suggestive. Mr Thayer’s alone is rather shabbily dressed so far as literary form is concerned and not exactly punctilious in its impartiality. Mr Coolidge’s article on ‘Claimants to Constantinople’ is a clear, well-balanced, and fair-minded, though appropriately brief, account of the most difficult question in the international relations of modern times. It deals mainly with the political aspects of the problem, and only incidentally with the economic.” C. J. H. Hayes
“Deals rather with the social side than with the political results of the negotiations, the personality of the plenipotentiaries than with their achievements. For those who wish to study the history of the questions involved in them, a useful bibliography is provided.” E.
“The basis of Russia’s claims apropos of current discussion about the fate of Constantinople is clearly stated.”
HEADLAM, JAMES WYCLIFFE.German chancellor and the outbreak of war.*3s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London 940.91
“This is, in effect, a supplement to the valuable analysis of the diplomatic negotiations immediately preceding the entry of Great Britain into the war which Mr Headlam issued in 1915 under the title ‘The history of twelve days.’ It includes additional evidence—from Germany—which has since become available, and is concerned mainly with events which intervened between the afternoon of Wednesday, July 29, and midnight on July 30. It challenges the view elaborated for the German public by the Chancellor that the act which made war inevitable was the Russian mobilization, and that for this mobilization Great Britain was really responsible. The five chapters are reprinted (with alterations and additions) from the Westminster Gazette.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“In 1915 Mr Headlam completed his book, ‘The history of twelve days,’ which is still the best thing about the immediate causes of the war. Now, in this brief, clearly written volume, he has contributed one of the best supplementary things relating to the subject. It is marred in some places by small errors or too positive statement of that which should be conjecture, but in no essential part is the reasoning thereby affected.”
HEADLAM, JAMES WYCLIFFE.The Issue.*$1 (3c) Houghton 940.91 17-4974
Four of the papers in this volume are reprinted from the Nineteenth Century and After and one from the Westminster Gazette. They are discussions of the various suggestions for peace that have come from Germany. The author says there are three issues involved in this war, the Atlantic, the Eastern, and the European. It is with the third, the predominance of Germany in Europe, that he is concerned. This is the great issue with which the war began and with which it will close. Contents: Two manifestoes: The party leaders; The German chancellor and peace; Prince Bülow on peace; Central Europe. Mr Headlam is author of a life of Bismarck.
“The appendixes contain translations of the manifestoes of the six industrial associations and of the German professors to the chancellor.”
“The evidence of German policy adduced would perhaps have had even more weight with some if it had been allowed to speak for itself than accompanied as it is by the expression of Mr Headlam’s strong feeling.”
“Certainly he is thoroughly sane.”
“Of special value to American readers because it states clearly and concisely precisely what the aims of the Allies are in the great war.”
Reviewed by Alvin Johnson
“Mr J. W. Headlam is one of the sanest and best-informed of our critics of German policy.”
HEALY, WILLIAM.Mental conflicts and misconduct.*$2.50 (3c) Little 136.7 17-9835
Mr Healy is director of the Psychopathic institute, in connection with the Juvenile court of Chicago, and author of “The individual delinquent.” This work on the part mental conflict plays in delinquency is an outgrowth of his experience. In general the conclusions arrived at conform to those of Freud, but the author is not a Freudian disciple. Acknowledgment is made to the psycho-analytic school for enlightenment, but the author’s studies have been followed independently, with no intention of proving any particular theory. The first four chapters are of a general nature, discussing principles, methods, etc. The main body of the book is given up to description and analysis of cases, arranged under such headings as: Conflicts accompanied by obsessive imagery; Conflicts causing impelling ideas; Criminal careers developed from conflicts; Conflict arising from sex experiences; Conflicts arising from secret sex knowledge; Conflicts concerning parentage, etc.
“His exposition of the methods of getting at the mental conflicts, as well as the method itself, is so simple that it obviates much of the occultism of some psycho-analysts. His reliance primarily upon the presentation of the facts of the clinic and the procedure therein makes it a work which must be made a starting-point by any future worker in the same field. It would seem that the cases could have been more carefully classified and presented more systematically. ... The genius of the author as shown in the application of this method of treatment to a class of juvenile offenders cannot be too highly commended.” T: H. Haines, M.D.
“Valuable to the eugenist, intelligent parent, teacher or physician. Too pathological for the general reader.”
“No writer in the field of criminological literature has done so much as has the author of this volume to analyze the causation underlying criminality. He has established psychological research as one of the most valuable approaches to the real understanding of the problem. This is the first rational explanation of that class of cases where the criminal confesses to impulses which he cannot explain.Dr Healy establishes the value of psycho-analysis as a genuine scientific procedure. The work is thoroughly scientific and of absorbing interest to all who are handling misconduct problems, especially those of adolescent children.” J. P. L.
“Forms a notable contribution to the group of writings, mostly of American origin, distinctive of the applied psychology of crime.”
“To one outside the Freudian fold this theory is unconvincing. The idea of mental conflict is ill-defined, and in the use made of the notion of repression lurk many doubtful assumptions. The sound suggestions given by the author for the treatment of these cases are in no way bound up with the theory of the mental mechanisms with which he connects them.”
“Psychologically, the author’s case-material is of great interest, and the interpretation given, in terms of mental conflict, is likewise of considerable interest, though it does not appear to fit all the cases equally well.” R. S. Woodworth
“A work that must prove of absorbing interest to professional people, pastors, judges, court and institution officers, as well as parents and guardians of children. Dr Healy’s findings interpret much that has been hitherto misunderstood by those engaged in close study of delinquency.”
“The forty cases are very simply and attractively described and give a picture of an almost uniform pattern bringing home the havoc played in the child’s mind by the lottery of naïveté and partial information on sex topics to which the child is exposed. In contrast to the very direct and perhaps over-simple account of records, the general discussion goes at length into a fairly orthodox though somewhat simplified rendering of the Freudian system of interpretations, general principles, applications and methods, with many interesting and helpful discussions, with much evidence of sound experience.” Adolph Meyer
HEARN, LAFCADIO.Life and literature.*$3.50 Dodd 804 17-31448
Professor John Erskine of Columbia university, editor of Hearn’s “Interpretations of literature” and “Appreciations of poetry,” is editor also of this third volume. The material which has been secured thru Hearn’s Japanese students is in substance the lectures delivered at the University of Tokyo between 1896 and 1902. The volume contains critical comment which confirms Hearn lovers in their impression of his “noble and continuous discrimination, a sustained sympathy, day after day, year after year, towards good books of all sorts, whether contemporary or long published.” Some of the chapters are: On reading in relation to literature; On the relation of life and character to literature; On composition; Literary genius (a fragment); On modern English criticism, and the contemporary relations of English to French literature; The poetry of George Meredith; Note upon Rossetti’s prose; Note on some French romantics; Note upon an ugly subject; Tolstoi’s theory of art; Note upon Tolstoi’s “Resurrection”; Some fairy literature; The most beautiful romance of the middle ages.
“Hearn has rendered a service alike to the West by his interpretations of the Japanese mind and to the East by his suggestive study of western literature, and he is certain that by their extraordinary quality they add something of great value to the body of English literary criticism, and that they stand among the best examples of this form of writing. Their remarkable feature is that they appeal to and contain much of value not merely to beginners in the study of English literature, but also to those who are anxious to amplify their knowledge of it.” E. F. E.
“But it all serves admirably for the high-school or university student in our own country, as well as for the older reader who enjoys being freshened up by a series of capablerésumés. For matured Anglo-Saxons the most interesting of Hearn’s chapters are the first three, which deal with general opinions and which state his views on the reading and writing of literature—particularly the one in which he gives his ideas of composition.” H: B. Fuller
“This third volume is a bit more personal than its predecessors, personal in the sense of bespeaking more clearly the adventure of the critic’s taste. And it is of the utmost significance in the extraordinary quality of its interpretation, its literary criticism, not after the manner of the academic or journalistic schools of judgment, but from the point of view of the creative artist.”
HEATH, ARTHUR GEORGE.Letters.*$1.25 Longmans 940.91 17-29759
“Arthur George Heath, fellow of New college, Oxford, and lieutenant in the Royal West Kent regiment, fell on the eighth of October, 1915, his twenty-eighth birthday. ... He applied for a commission a few days after the declaration of war, and threw himself whole-heartedly into the necessarily abhorrent task, to carry it through or to die at his post. Gentleness and humor, forgetfulness of self and thoughtfulness for those at home, with a scholar’s studiousness and earnestness, mark these letters from the field, mostly to the writer’s mother, now collected and prefaced with a warmly appreciative memoir by Professor Gilbert Murray, fellow Oxonian and fellow collegian of Heath’s.”—Dial
“The book takes its place beside similar memorials of Dixon Scott and Rupert Brooke and scores of others, as a sad reminder of high possibilities of achievement sacrificed without a murmur, and also of high actualities of achievement in a great cause.”
“There is something in the young Oxford don’s way of facing the facts of his life honestly, with no illusion of the imagination, yet with a steady and at times humorous desire to make the best of them, something in his sense of routine obligation, in the very absence of a transforming imagination, which makes one feel as if standing on the bedrock of truth.”
HEATH, CARL.Pacific settlement of international disputes. pa*1s Headley bros., London 341 (Eng ed 17-10174)
“This little book by a leading pacifist of advanced views is not a general dissertation but a collection of material; first giving in a concise form for reference the facts as to what has been done in the past by The Hague conventions, the Pacific convention, and International peace commissions; and then considering in order the new propositions for the prevention of war. The recommendations are on international lines. ... At the end of each chapter are references to a few modern books in which its subject is dealt with at greater length.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
HEINE, HEINRICH.Poems.il*$2 Holt 831 17-10874
Louis Untermeyer has selected and translated three hundred and twenty-five of the poems of Heinrich Heine. These include not only the well-known “lieder,” but selections from “Die Nord see” and some of the poems from “Die Harz reise” series as well. The translatorsays, “I have endeavored, by the selections chosen, to show Heine’s lyrical power not only at its best but at its most characteristic. For this reason I have included many poems usually glossed over by his translators; poems that are trivial enough in themselves, but necessary to the series that contains them, and necessary also to a complete appreciation of Heine’s development.” The introduction is important as a piece of criticism, and in his translations Mr Untermeyer has endeavored to retain a quality too often lost in the English versions, the bitter flavor that is so characteristically Heine.
“The poems are translated into vivid English verse.”
“Mr Untermeyer approaches Heine from three standpoints—that of the man, of the poet and of the paradox. He clears away at the very beginning much of the rubbish which has collected about the Heine tradition. His translation as a whole is not only satisfactory but deserves the highest praise for its faithfulness to both spirit and text and for the keenness with which he has made more clear the complex genius of Heine.” D. L. M.
“Heine’s simplicity is a trap for the unwary. That simplicity is the art that conceals art and can be reproduced only by one who is a poet in his own right, responsive to the same medium and claiming the same racial background. It took a Jewish poet to translate the Jewish poet. ... Comment on the volume would be inadequate without reference to Mr Untermeyer’s scholarly (not academic) preface which, except for its failure to praise the translator, constitutes the best possible review of the work.” B: W. Huebsch
“The book will give to those who do not read German a real knowledge of a great poet; it will please those who do read German because it is a true and faithful rendering; and it will take its place as something more than a translation, because, thanks to the introduction and the choice and arrangement of the poems it is an interpretative and critical essay.”
“The result of Mr Untermeyer’s labor is not merely passing good, it is surpassingly excellent. His knowledge of German—as is evident from the beginning and becomes more so as one studies his translations—is intimate and fundamentally sound. His greatest attainment is that he has caught the spirit of Heine.”
“Mr Untermeyer has unquestionably brought the reader who has no German closer to the source. If he has not quite succeeded in translating Heine the poet, he has succeeded very often in translating Heine the wit. ... Nevertheless, Mr Untermeyer’s volume is a little of a disappointment. One expected something more than a ‘libretto’ from a poet who takes his calling so seriously. It was really Heine the artist that we wanted.” Paul Rosenfeld
Reviewed by Clement Wood
“His preface is especially illuminating. ... The defects of the book are small indeed, compared with its qualities. For the first time the English reader is furnished with a genuinely representative selection from Heine’s poems, so translated as to give not the apparent or superficial meaning, but their real significance.”
“It is too much to say that these translations keep Heine’s music. They do, however, fairly—at times brilliantly—present his poetic work and are a valuable addition to any library. The preface is unusually good, well worth publishing alone as a critical and interpretative essay on the great German Jew, whose words are immortal.”
“Except for its irony, it gives but little hope for any great revival of interest in Heine’s poetry. Heine was above all things musical, but this translation, while ingenious and true to the meaning of the original, does not make him remarkably sweet to the ear or appealing to one’s sense of rhythm in words.”
Helen of Four Gates.*$1.50 (2c) Dutton 17-16318
An anonymous story of the north country moors, by an Englishwoman said to have worked in a cotton mill for nearly the whole of the twenty years since she was eleven. Her grip upon the elemental in men and women, her uncanny imagination, her power of picturing cruelty and horror, and love unashamed, remind the reader of Eden Phillpotts, of Emily Brontë and of Edgar Allan Poe. An old and well-to-do farmer, Abel Mason, has never forgiven the sweetheart of his youth for casting him aside because of insanity in his family. After she and her husband have died, Abel adopts their daughter, Helen, whom he passes off as his own child in order to sate his longing for revenge upon her. When Helen falls in love with Martin, a lad working on the farm, Abel tells him that Helen carries the taint of insanity in her blood. Martin refuses either to marry Helen or to leave her, and for years the old man watches their sufferings with delight and invents new tortures until, by cunning schemes, he drives Martin from the farm and forces Helen into marriage with a tramp. The happy ending, though unexpected, is convincing, and does not leave the reader with a sense of anti-climax.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
“‘Helen of Four Gates’ is an unusual novel. Its atmosphere is dark and morbid and its characters are nearly all abnormal. Nevertheless, the author has created in it a very real atmosphere of terror, and to some extent also of pity. The best work of the novelist is done in the creation of this terrifying monster, [Abel Mason]. For sheer stark horror his character finds few equals in recent fiction.”
“It is plain that in theme and treatment she has been, probably unconsciously, influenced by the writings of Mr Thomas Hardy and Mr Phillpotts: thus the very considerable powers of expression with which she pictures the rich loveliness of an English countryside in springtime throw into ironical and shocking relief the sins and miseries of the human element. The author has somewhat overshot the mark. The material seems at times to get out of hand, the characters are not always intelligible, and there are unnecessary uglinesses.”
“It is something more than a merely human struggle that the author has represented, consciously or not. It is the eternal struggle of all elemental, living things to maintain their birthright to freedom of expression in living terms. This is the truth that the ‘ex-mill-girl’ makes you feel. The dénouement is distinctly disappointing, below the level of the rest.” Ruth McIntire
Reviewed by Clement Wood
“It is all written with an imagination that shrinks from no horror, but is always able with sombre power to depict whatever height or depth of passion or suffering the characters rise or sink to. ... One closes the book with the conviction that ‘An ex-mill girl’ has brought a new note to current English fiction, a note that excels in sheer emotional power, in beauty of tone, in imagination, any voice that is now telling stories to the English-speaking peoples.”
“It is crude, but it has a certain power and vigour which make it worth reading.”
“In places the story is well nigh revolting, but in its dramatic tensity and insight into primitive human passions it attains a high degree of power.”
“There is an intensity of emotion in ‘Helen of Four Gates’ a wild, desperate passion that excites while it oppresses the reader. You experience the same kind of sensation—though in a much stronger degree—that you have when you hold a wild bird in your hand.”
HEMENWAY, HETTY.Four days; the story of a war marriage.il*50c (4½c) Little 17-24973
This is a simply told story of a war marriage—the oft-enacted tale of the young Englishman who comes back from the horrors of the front to his quietly appointed English home with its circle of adoring relatives and his waiting girl bride. It is English in its quiet courage, pathetic in its telling of the stepping aside of the parents that those two might be all in all to each other during the short four days’ leave. It is real in its recording of the simple details and the last goodbye at the station where the two smiled back into each other’s eyes while a voice sounded behind them: “The average life of an officer in the Dardanelles is eleven days,” and above the singing of “Rule Britannia” shrilled the voice of a hunchback “I came that they might have Life.”
“Beautifully told, it holds in its small compass the essence of the tragedy of the war for all young lovers.”
“A moving and unusually well written short story.”
“The author is a young Boston woman, a protégée of Mrs Deland. It is a profoundly moving little story, told with an appreciation of the virtue of restraint that is noteworthy in a first book.”
“One of the best bits of work that we have had in this country since the war started.” E. P. Wyckoff
HENDERSON, LAWRENCE JOSEPH.Order of nature; an essay.*$1.50 Harvard univ. press 575 17-3165
“Evolution is studied from a new standpoint in ‘The order of nature.’ ... The author almost commits himself to the opinion that life is a necessary consequence of the earth’s physical and chemical constitution, an opinion which points to a hitherto unrecognized order existing among the properties of matter. As a setting for the problem the teleological principles of Aristotle and of the philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are sketched, and then the biological and evolutionary doctrines are briefly reviewed. ... The last chapters are given to a discussion of the unique properties of the three elements, hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen. And it is on the examination of the properties and activities of these elements that the author hopes to show the teleological order of the universe. A proof is not pretended.”—Nation
“Valuable and stimulating to readers with a knowledge of chemistry, physics, mathematics, and the researches of J. Willard Gibbs. For the large reference library.”
“The adaptation of organic life to its environment has been a favorite theme. As a rule, the physical and chemical aspects of the problem have been neglected, and Professor Henderson, by calling attention to them, has started an investigation which will certainly be continued.”
“It has come to be assumed that the reason why the physical and chemical environment appears to be specially fitted for life is simply that life has, by natural selection, been so moulded as to fit its environment. Against this conclusion the main chapters of the book are directed; and the argument is the more remarkable and original since the author accepts without question the theory of natural selection. His discussion of Spencer’s conception of evolution is perhaps specially luminous.” J. S. H.
HENDERSON, W. E. B.Behind the thicket.*$1.50 Dutton
“This is a novel with a somewhat unusual theme, placed in a setting which is not unusual at all. The little English village of Wokeborough, near London, is not in the least unlike any number of small English towns. ... Michael is the leading character, a boy of six when the story begins, a young man when it closes. And it is the strange influence upon him of the woods which is the dominant theme of the novel, an influence which shows itself during his childhood and becomes stronger and stronger as the story progresses, ending at last in nymph-love and a tragedy understood only by the old Greek scholar who had been so fond of him always. ... Side by side with it, however, runs an interesting, realistic account of the relations of a mother and daughter, the conflict of two generations which failed to understand each other.”—N Y Times
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
“Less delicately it treads the ground which Mr Forrest Reid touched recently in ‘The spring song.’”
“The book is very well written, despite its author’s too great fondness for quotations, and some of the descriptions have in them more than a touch of poetry. If the difficulties inherent in the blending of the mystic, nature-worship theme with that of everyday life are not always entirely surmounted, the attempt is nevertheless a very interesting one.”
HENDRYX, JAMES B.Gun-brand.il*$1.50 (2c) Putnam 17-13183
Perhaps it was a little inconsistent that a girl who “felt the irresistible call of the raw,” who languished in a civilized atmosphere should be obsessed with the idea of carrying the blessings of civilization to the Indian. Nevertheless the school that she is to establish gives the needed pretext for getting Chloe Elliston into the north, and that is all that matters. Once there her interest is divided between two men. Pierre Lapierre and Bob, called Brute, MacNair. Both are free traders and there is rivalry to the death between them. One is a dastard and knave, one an honest man, and, under his crude exterior, a gentleman. But Chloe makes the mistake of misjudging each and confusing the characters of the two. Blood flows freely before the tale is ended and the “raw” for which Chloe had yearned is hers in good measure.
“Mr Hendryx is a past master in the art of serving up fiction à la northwest. The subtler seasoning of plausibility and characterization are lacking in his handiwork, but the lover of such fiction will find it sufficiently wholesome and stimulating to be worth a hasty reading.”
“The plot, which of course is the important matter in a book of this type, is sufficiently ingenious. ... Occasionally the author forgets to be grandiloquent, which is fortunate for the book. The story moves swiftly, and will probably please the kind of reader for whom it is written.”
Reviewed by Joseph Mosher
“The reader’s pleasure in ‘The gun brand’ will be in ratio to his credulity. The story is characteristic, but less spontaneous than Mr Hendryx’s earlier tales.”
HENNEBOIS, CHARLES.[2]In German hands: the diary of a severely wounded prisoner; with a preface by Ernest Daudet. (Soldiers’ tales of the great war)*$1.50 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed 16-24983)
“Charles Hennebois was a volunteer in the French army, a poet-acquaintance of Daudet, and fell severely wounded on October 12, 1914, before Saint Michiel after only a few weeks of service. He was left lying uncared for between the lines until the 16th, when the Germans gathered him up, sent him to Metz, and amputated his leg—an operation which another German surgeon later told him was unnecessary. Moved from Metz to Montigny and later to Offenburg in Baden, M. Hennebois was the victim and witness of many German brutalities, and the book is practically the diary he kept during those months. ... Incapacitated for further service, this Frenchman was fortunate enough to be exchanged, and in July, 1915, he was once more back in his home in Toulouse.”—Springf’d Republican
“A striking exposition of German cruelty and oppression.”
“Something different from the usual ‘war book.’”
“He is a man of letters by profession, not a writer for this occasion only, and knows how to tell his story instead of merely blurting it out. His tone is scrupulously fair.”
HENRY, FRANCIS AUGUSTUS.Jesus and the Christian religion.*$3 (2c) Putnam 230 16-22324
In this day of religious questioning, thinks the author, “we cannot do better than to turn from disputation and go back to the fountain-head of Christianity, the life and teaching of Him we call our Lord and Master; to try to enter into His mind and gain an insight of the religion He believed in and lived by. The following pages are an attempt to bring before the reader some of the leading principles of that religion with the purpose and the hope of inducing him to make a thorough study of a subject until recently too much neglected—‘the truth as it is in Jesus,’ and not as it is in the churches or in the Letter-writers of the New Testament.” The trend of the author’s discussion all goes to show that the history of the Christian church has been one of deviation from the teachings of its founder. In this he finds the explanation of the weakness of the church in modern life. He quotes Lessing’s words, “After eighteen centuries of Christianity it is high time to go back to Christ.”
“The argument is conducted on an extensive scale and with ability.”
HERFORD, OLIVER (PETER SIMPLE, pseud.).Confessions of a caricaturist.il*$1 Scribner 817 17-24407
This little volume consists of thirty-two caricatures, accompanied by Mr Herford’s verses, of Napoleon, Roosevelt, Pierpont Morgan, Arnold Bennett, Peter Dunne, St Paul, John D. Rockefeller, “F. W. Hohenzollern,” and others.
“Clever caricatures of famous men with an equally clever short rhyme for each picture.”
“Here is an American humorist who can write and draw out of an abounding sense of fun, whose brain is fertile in conceits, and who is never insipid when his object is merely to provoke a smile. Best of all, when his purpose is satiric, his genial mood does not depart from him.”
HERGESHEIMER, JOSEPH.Three black Pennys.*$1.50 Knopf 17-25287
“The story depicts characteristics in the Penny family. The first is the survival of a strain, appearing in widely separated generations, which had given the possessor the distinguishing title of ‘Black’ Penny; and the second—also an attribute of the strain—a black, scornful mood, an impatience at restraint and an egoistic, antisocial attitude toward life. The story is divided into three distinct parts, in each of which a ‘Black’ Penny moves upon the stage and contributes his share to the drama begun centuries earlier by the first embodiment of the foreign strain.”—Springf’d Republican
“Uncommon as this book [’Secret bread,’ by F. T. Jesse] is in mood and quality, as well as in fitness of style, we have two American novels of the season that may fairly be matched with it. One is Ernest Poole’s ‘His family,’ on which I have already said my enthusiastic say. The second is ‘The three black Pennys.’” H. W. Boynton
“Mr Hergesheimer is a master in his portrayal of the mind of man and the blind, not-understood, forces which urge him to what he does.” D. L. M.
“Contributing also to the ultimate failure of the work as a novel is a smaller flaw. The characters move in the setting as though it were a mere stage back-drop. The moods, the thoughts, the spirits of the various characters are in no way changed by those minute influences which make up so large a part of the mosaic of life. Memories of the exquisite blending of man and nature by such men as Meredith, Maupassant, and Flaubert flood into the reviewer’s mind. The virtue of the book is its psychology.” B. I. Kinne
“We do not suggest the quality of the tale; how, in the artist’s hands, this material, which in outline will seem merely clever or sensational, assumes dignity and a kind of beauty such as, if we were to search for an analogue, might lead us to Hawthorne rather than elsewhere.”
“In spite of the sting of its fine artistry, its adroit blend of high literary models, only fitfully and uncertainly does it touch creative height.” H. S.
“Joseph Hergesheimer in this book has shown an exquisite mastery of prose form. The description of the modern iron furnace, for instance, is one of the finest word-paintings in recent fiction.” Clement Wood
“He has here fashioned a novel out of distinctively American life on an original pattern, caught the very air and flavor of three widely separated epochs of our history.”
“The chief weakness of the present volume is that while the connection between the several parts is plausible, you feel that there is no inexorable connection between cause and effect. In fact, his work would have lost nothing essential if he had given it to us in the form of three unrelated short stories.” Grant Hosmer
“He adopts an ambitious plan for a writer who has been before the reading public for so short a time, but he develops his theme with skill and notable success.”
HERING, CARL, and GETMAN, FREDERICK HUTTON.Standard table of electrochemical equivalents and their derivatives. il*$2 (7c) Van Nostrand 541.37 17-20864
“The chief purpose of this publication is to serve as a reference book on account of the tables and other data given in it, and not as a treatise on electrochemistry in general; sufficient explanatory text has however been added to enable the data to be used for most purposes without the need of a further treatise on the subject.” (Preface) The table of electrochemical equivalents is based on one worked out by Mr Hering in 1903, but it has been entirely recalculated from the latest and best internationally adopted values, including the atomic weights for 1917. Glossary and index are provided at the end.
HERRICK, FRANCIS HOBART.Audubon, the naturalist; a history of his life and time. 2v il*$7.50 (3½c) Appleton 17-29872
The discovery in France of a collection of fresh material bearing on Audubon’s ancestry and early life has enabled the author to write what may be called the first complete biography of the naturalist. Heretofore all that has been written on Audubon’s life has been based almost wholly on a brief sketch which he himself put together hastily in 1835, characterizing it as “a very imperfect account of my early life.” The new material supplements this fragmentary sketch and corrects it in many of its statements of fact. The two volume work, which is very fully illustrated, follows Audubon’s adventurous career in detail. The appendixes contain valuable matter, including the complete text of the French documents, some in the original, others in translation, and a bibliography, containing a fully annotated list of Audubon’s writings, biographies, criticism, and Auduboniana. Volume 2 contains the index for the complete work.
“One closes Mr Herrick’s notable book with a feeling of keen satisfaction over the pleasure it has afforded and of gratitude to the author for having written it. ... The scores of beautiful and most interesting illustrations also deserve mention.” F. F. Kelly
“Combines scholarliness with a popular style and is enhanced by many fine illustrations.”
“This work by the professor of biology in Western Reserve university, himself a well-known ornithologist, is the first thorough and authoritative biography of the great naturalist whose life was one of the most romantic in American history.”
“The volumes are beautifully printed and magnificently illustrated, many of the plates being reproductions in color of Audubon’s drawings. For the reader whose interest in Audubon is scientific the book is invaluable; the more general reader will find it a fascinating story of tremendous struggle and great achievement.”
“The present work gives from start to finish a sustained impression of a pioneer work. Even in the chapters that are necessarily based upon old, well-worked material, there is absolute freshness of treatment and point of view. ... As a crowning merit the work is equipped with an admirable bibliography.” Calvin Winter
HERRON, GEORGE DAVIS.Menace of peace.*$1 (6c) Kennerley 940.91 (Eng ed 17-13835)
This little book is directed against the “clamour for a peace that shall leave the causes of the war unknown, the embattled questions unanswered,” and argues that “a peace based upon a drawn battle between the Germanic powers and the Allies is nothing else than the capitulation of the world to Prussian might and mastery,” whereas the victory of the Allies “will lead to the banishment of war from our planet.” Mr Herron believes that peace without victory would be to the interest of the munition-makers, because Europe would then continue to arm for war, and to the interest of the Vatican because, if autocracy should perish in Germany, it would perish elsewhere, and “the Catholic power depends upon the subjection of the peoples.”
Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston
“An eloquent appeal to the Allies to endure to the end and win a complete victory for the sake of the spiritual values of humanity.”
“The burden of Dr Herron’s adjuration is ‘Germania est delenda!’ He doesn’t put it in exactly these terms; calls it necessary chastisement, justice and things of that kind. ... It is written with all the powerful and graceful diction of which Dr Herron is an undoubted master. But we cannot in common honesty say that we are greatly impressed with it.” J. W.
“Few writers upon the subject have stated the case with such comprehensive understanding of its factors, implications, and possible consequences, such compactness of presentation, such sturdy basing of argument upon the democracy that is at stake and such noble utterance.”
“Written in the fiery eloquence of style and elegance of diction which have always characterized Dr Herron’s polemic writings. It has incidental interest as another vigorous expression of a well-known American socialist in direct opposition to the Socialist party’s policy of pacifism.”
HERRON, GEORGE DAVIS.Woodrow Wilson and the world’s peace. il*$1.25 (5c) Kennerley 940.91 17-25519
The author of “The menace of peace,” a Socialist, has collected in this volume six papers in defense of President Wilson’s policy and against a premature peace. All except the first, which was originally printed in the New Age of London, and afterwards inDie Freie Zeitungof Bern, were written for continental European readers, and published from Dec. 31, 1916, to July 1, 1917. The papers have been “somewhat developed,” but stand substantially as written. “Each paper has had two or more translations into other languages, other countries, than that in which it was originally published.” (Explanations and dedication) The frontispiece pictures the bust of President Wilson modeled in 1916 by Jo Davidson. Contents: Woodrow Wilson and the world’s peace; The man and the president; His initial effort; The pro-German morality of the pacifist; Pro-America; Appendix: an apologia.
“It is exceedingly difficult to adequately review a work of this kind, when one has not the viewpoint of the author, and especially when that viewpoint shifts.” J. W.
“Americans ought to be thankful that so sturdy and understanding a fellow-countryman as Mr Herron lives in Europe and endeavors to interpret the mind of America to Europeans. Indeed, a good many Americans who have never been out of their own country will do well to read Mr Herron’s book and gain thereby a less superficial understanding of the policy of this government toward the world war during its first two years and upon other matters.”
HERSEY, HAROLD.Do’s and dont’s in the army for officers and privates; an introd. to military science.*50c (2½c) Britton pub. 355 17-24260