This small book, made to fit the pocket, has chapters on: The duties and deportment of officers; The duties and deportment of enlisted men; The officer’s equipment; An enlisted man’s equipment; Hygiene; Miscellaneous information; Discipline and morale. The author says that he has “merely endeavored to help the beginner find his way through the tortuous mass of detailed knowledge he must acquire—as well as furnish ready reference for the more experienced.”
HESLER, LEXEMUEL RAY, and WHETZEL, HERBERT HICE.Manual of fruit diseases. (Rural manuals) il*$2 Macmillan 632 17-9694
“Fruits are arranged alphabetically from apple to strawberry and under each the known diseases are grouped in order of importance. Symptoms of each disease are given, the cause described, and the best remedy suggested. Descriptions are popular; technical terms are all explained in a glossary. The final chapter is devoted to the preparation and application of fungicides. Short bibliographies given after each disease.” (A L A Bkl) The authors of this manual are the professor and the assistant professor of plant pathology in the New York State college of agriculture, Cornell university.
“This book with Slingerland’s ‘Manual of fruit insects’ (Booklist 11:205 Ja ‘15) forms a very practical guide for the doctoring of fruit trees.”
“Discusses the subject from an essentially New England viewpoint, omitting from all consideration fruits and diseases that are of major interest in many states and nearly all that are of interest in our tropical possessions. The discussion of such diseases as are treated is in many instances from a local viewpoint rather than of a general nature. This is especially obvious in the treatment of such diseases as apple rust and pear blight. The illustrations are poor. ... Assuming a central New York viewpoint and interest, the book may be said to give a very complete presentation of what is known of fruit diseases, with valuable lists of references to original sources of information. It is, as the authors announce, the first American text to deal wholly with diseases of fruits, and here for the first time are brought together with comprehensive discussion many obscure and little-known diseases. The facts presented are well selected, and the book constitutes a valuable addition to the literature of plant diseases.” F. L. Stevens
HEUSSER, ALBERT HENRY.Land of the prophets. il*$2.50 (3½c) Crowell 915.69 16-23378
The author’s advice to those who wish to visit Palestine is to “see Egypt first.” Our own home land, he says, is so attractive that Palestine suffers by comparison, but “after the burning yellow sands of the Sudan, Syria and Judea will seem to you, as to the Israelites of old, a ‘goodly land, beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth.’” The author is a lecturer for the Department of education of New York city, and his chapters have much of the informality of the spoken lecture. Contents: Port Said to Beyrout; Damascus; Galilee; Nazareth and Samaria; Ancient Jerusalem; Round about Jerusalem; Jericho and Petra; Bethlehem and Jaffa. There are many illustrations from photographs and a map.
HEWES, AMY.Women as munition makers, and Munition workers in England and France, by Henriette R. Walter.*75c Russell Sage foundation 331.4 17-28208
The first ninety-two pages of this book are given to a study, by Amy Hewes, professor of economics in Mt. Holyoke college and former secretary of the Massachusetts minimum wage commission, of conditions under which women were making munitions, in 1916, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. “Two articles giving the main results of the inquiry have already been published in advance of this report. ... The second of these articles, that dealing with the munition industry, was submitted in manuscript, in advance of publication, to officials of the Remington arms-union metallic cartridge company for their criticism. This procedure, customary in industrial investigations made by the Russell Sage foundation, was the more necessary in this case, because of the previous refusal of the company to give the Foundation the desired information. In the conferences which followed the reading of the manuscript, some statements were challenged, others verified, and additional material was obtained, especially regarding changes made after the field work of the investigation was completed. In response to the suggestion of the company that no study could be accurate which was not based on data obtained in the plant itself, the Foundation offered to make such a supplementary inquiry before publishing the report. This offer was refused.” (Introd.) The second section of the book (sixty-three pages) is by Henriette R. Walter, investigator for the Division of industrial studies of the Russell Sage foundation, who, under the caption “Munition workers in France and England,” summarizes reports issued by the British ministry of munitions. There is a bibliography of three pages.
Reviewed by Edith Abbott
“Although Miss Hewes’s study is confined to the subject of women as munition-makers, its social and economic findings apply generally.” H. M. Kallen
HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY.Thorgils.*$1.35 (3½c) Dodd 17-5127
Like “A lover’s tale” and “Frey and his wife” this is a Norse romance. It is the story of Thorgils of Iceland who sailed with Eric the Red and voyaged to Greenland, where he endured unnumbered hardships. Thorgils lacks the dash of some of Mr Hewlett’s other Norse heroes, notably that Gunnar who married the wife of Frey, but he is a man of might who wields great power by the force of his character.
“Mr Hewlett seems to tell his tale without effort or self-consciousness, with a bare vigour which fits his theme; with hardly a trace of verbal archaism.” H. W. Boynton
“An effect of virility and massive simplicity is produced with the art that is his own; yet the result is not all that we could ask from an author so gifted. It is at once too detached, and too harmonious with the stormy note of today. We feel we have almost a right to demand from Mr Hewlett that he either beguile our troubled eyes with a lovelier vision, or give us substance of hope and inspiration for the present.”
“There are no descriptions, or conversations, or character studies. That is certainly a very different sort of writing from ‘Richard Yea and Nay,’ or ‘The queen’s quair,’ and people nowadays will not like it so well. Yet, like it or not, the result is much the same; out of the book there emerges a pretty definite figure.” E: E. Hale
“We seem to visualize the Norse people, their customs and picturesque life.”
“A little saga of the northland, very perfect in its reticence and simplicity and human appeal.” H. W. Boynton
“Those who like stories of adventure that deal with simple, hardy, brave men and women will find ‘Thorgils’ an entertaining tale.”
“With its lovemaking and fighting, its ship-building and sea sailing, the story makes a capital book for boys, who, unconscious of being instructed, might well be prepared by reading it for the reading of the saga stories.”
HICHENS, ROBERT SMYTHE.In the wilderness.il*$1.50 (1½c) Stokes 17-5984
Dion and Rosamund Leith spend the first months of their married life in Greece and when they return to England they bring with them something of the Greek spirit. In Rosamund, however, there is a touch of the ascetic. She had once contemplated a religious life, and after the birth of her son she bestows on him all the fervor and devotion of her nature. The tragedy of their life together comes after the death of this child. She holds the father responsible and turns from him. Another woman who has always loved Dion steps in at this crisis, but the danger of losing her husband awakens Rosamund. The later scenes of the story are laid in Constantinople.
“It runs to nearly six hundred black pages, perhaps four hundred of them frankly through the mire. Mr Hichens is a master of the portentous style. All of his virtuous parts are done in it and are, to tell the truth, pretty dull going: the first book of the present story, before we get comfortably into the mud, is deadly.” H. W. Boynton
“If ‘In the wilderness,’ were shorter, it would unquestionably be more forcible. Its nearly six hundred closely printed pages have a lifelike story to tell and an important problem to solve, but their sum and substance could easily be compressed within a third of that space with no loss to either the story or the problem.” E. F. E.
“Now and again one has a sense of surfeit. The relentless analysis confuses and fatigues. ... Such, however, is the artfulness of Mr Hichens that one reads his book to the end and lays it down satisfied to have witnessed an achievement fine of its kind.” Alice Bishop
“It is a pitiful hero who is so absolutely at the mercy of any woman, bad or good. The novel, however, is worth reading for its marvelous descriptions of Athens, Olympia, Constantinople and a little cathedral town in England.”
“It exerts a definite and compelling fascination. The hours pass along as one reads, and time seems not to be. ... It is three years since Mr Hichens last gave a novel to the reading public; the present work has no note of hurry in it; it is ripe work, carefully finished and thoroughly felt.”
“The most satisfying love story Robert Hichens has written.”
“Written with all Mr Hichens’s usual subtlety and dexterity.”
“The story commands the reader’s closest attention. Except for the ‘scarlet’ nature of Mrs Clarke, it is largely free from those hectic qualities which have marked several of Mr Hichens’s recent novels.”
“The theme that Mr Robert Hichens has chosen is the egoism of the religious mystic, and he has developed it in a way to bring out his own talent for describing the East and for suggesting the occult.”
HIGGINS, SYDNEY HERBERT.Dyeing in Germany and America; with notes on colour production. 2d ed*$1.75 Longmans 667.2 Agr17-505
“About thirty pages larger than the first edition which appeared in 1907 as ‘a report to the electors of the Gartside scholarship of the University of Manchester on the results of a tour in the United States of America and Germany in 1905-1906.’ Intended to give a general survey of dyeing and its allied industries in the two countries. The text has been changed slightly and three chapters have been added, German and English flannelettes, Instruction in dyeing, and a continuation of the chapter on Colour production.”—A L A Bkl
“The author has been for nine years demonstrator in the dyehouse of the Manchester school of technology and in addition works as chemist and manager.”
“The author has gained much practical experience in dye and bleach works, the results of which are embodied in the new volume. This has added considerably to its value, particularly in the sections dealing with mercerisation and bleaching. ... The new edition of the book has been largely rewritten throughout, with great advantage. The concluding section deals with the future prospects of the dye-manufacturing industries in Britain, France, and the United States.” W. M. G.
HIGGINSON, MRS ELLA (RHOADS).Alaska, the great country.new ed il*$2.50 Macmillan 917.98 17-12395
“Mrs Higginson’s notable book on ‘Alaska,’ first published nine years ago, has been revised, new material has been added, and the story of ‘the great country’ has been brought down to date. The body of the book, which deals with the scenic beauties, early history, native customs, resources, and the charm of the country, the author has not changed. But in a supplementary chapter she tells what has happened during the past ten years, and what is the present condition in railroad development, in commerce, mining, in the fishing and agricultural industries. ... The work has a map and half a hundred illustrations from photographs.”—N Y Times
“Anyone who has visited Alaska will appreciate the enthusiasm which colors every page of this delightful volume.”
“Mrs Higginson’s descriptions and her photographs of fir-tipped points, of swirling rapids, Eskimos in their parkas, and dog teams harnessed for their run across the frozen spaces, all make one long poignantly for bracing northern air and life among hardy, simple people.”
“Although the material presented is rather unsystematically put together and the style of presentation rather disjointed and unliterary, the book contains such a vast amount of information that it has met with considerable favor, necessitating a number of reprintings. Unfortunately this ‘new edition with new matter’ is produced in the easier and less expensive way of reprinting from the old plates the body of the book and adding a chapter at the end. In this latter is thrown together in an even more formless manner than is employed in the body of the book and, in a way of presentation that is, from the literary point ofview, decidedly crude, the necessary information about the development of the last ten years. The original index is reprinted, and thus the new material is not indexed.”
HILL, DAVID JAYNE.Rebuilding of Europe.*$1.50 (3c) Century 327.4 17-28774
Dr Hill, former university professor, has been minister to Switzerland and to the Netherlands, and ambassador to the German empire. In this book, based on lectures delivered at Johns Hopkins university, he argues that “the great war is a revolution against the alleged rights of arbitrary force, rendered necessary by the failure to reach the goal of a secure international organization by an evolutionary process”; that the war was caused by “economic imperialism”; that its main issue is “the right of people to dispose of themselves,” that no permanent peace can coexist with the old European idea of state sovereignty. Dr Hill tries to show that the real enemy to be destroyed is not “any particular form of mere state organization,” but this “dogma that the state is a licensed brigand.” Various forms of international organization are discussed, and the author concludes that while “a general international government” is neither possible nor desirable, we may reasonably expect the formation of “a strong, but limited, group of powers, each willing to sacrifice something of its own sovereignty for the purpose of insuring peace and equity.” The last chapter deals with “America’s interest in the new Europe.” Five chapters were in part printed in the Century Magazine for 1917.
“An illuminating and forceful presentation of the war, regarded as a revolution against economic imperialism.”
“A very helpful exposition of the forces and conditions that have been prevailing in Europe and which must be taken into account when a definite plan for the reconstruction of civilization is undertaken after the war. The story is simple and direct, and the presentation is that of the trained scholar and publicist. The book deserves wide reading.”
“No man in America was probably better equipped than Dr Hill to treat the momentous topic discussed in this volume. ... He understood the German people and the German mind. He could analyze feelings and facts with rare intelligence and sure skill. He speaks, therefore, as one having authority.”
“To the socialist reader the treatment of the subject will necessarily appear vague.” Joshua Wanhope
HILL, JANET (MCKENZIE) (MRS BENJAMIN M. HILL).Cakes, pastry and dessert dishes. il*$1.50 Little 641.5 17-24721
The editor of the Boston Cooking School Magazine has added another to her already substantial list of cook-books. The publishers have given large, clear type and over sixty enticing illustrations reproduced from photographs. The index carries over 500 entries which include the old favorite cakes and desserts as well as many less-known ones.
“A tantalizing collection of recipes to be published in war times. However, it contains bran cookies as well as a twelve-egg torte. There are brief general directions at the head of each chapter which are useful and the recipes are easy to follow.”
“A boon indeed to young and old planners of meals. Carefully indexed, attractively illustrated and admirably printed and bound, a most satisfactory production in every particular.”
“Since desserts are now reckoned among the luxuries of life in many households, the possessor of this book will be obliged to wait some time perhaps before she will feel that all the recipes may be added to her list of available favorites. This does not mean that all the recipes are unduly extravagant, for there are many of moderate cost.”
HILL, JOHN ARTHUR.Psychical investigations; some personally-observed proofs of survival.*$2 (2½c) Doran 134 17-13827
Mr Hill has written other books on psychical research. He tells us: “at the beginning of my investigations, my prejudices and wishes were opposed to the conclusions which the facts gradually forced upon me. If I am now biased in favour of the belief in personal life after death, it is objective fact, not subjective preference, that has brought it about. And my judgments have not been hasty. I have worked at the subject for over eleven years.” (Preface) About one-half of the book is given up to verbatim reports of sittings with three different mediums, A. Wilkinson, Tom Tyrrell, and A. V. Peters. At one of the meetings with Mr Peters, occurred some of the incidents related by Sir Oliver Lodge in “Raymond.” Several chapters deal with the methods employed in psychical research. Other chapters deal with: Immortality; Home mediumship; Telepathy and survival; Psychical phenomena in earlier times; Pre-existence and the nature of the after-life; Psychical research and religion.
“The special interest of this volume is to be found in the fact that it deals, not with alleged messages from important or well-known people, but with communications, or what profess to be communications, from very ordinary and very often rather dull types of deceased humanity. It is not a book from which any spicy or sensational quotations are to be drawn. Nevertheless, open-minded investigators will find it worth perusal.”
“An investigator as careful and open-minded as Mr Hill is entitled to the opinion based upon his experience, and is justified in his endeavour to show that the conclusion to which his experience leads him, a decision in favour of the reality of spirit communications, is not incompatible with philosophy or religion.”
HILL, MARION (HILL) (MRS CHARLES R. HILL).McAllister’s grove. il*$1.40 Appleton 17-13950
“This new novel is a delightfully written little story of a girl, a man, and an orange grove. Laurie McAllister—full name, Annie Laurie—had saved a little bit of money; her aristocratic old grandfather and only living relative suffered greatly from the cold of New York winters, and the advertisements about Florida were most alluring. ... To Florida they went, she and her grandfather, who in Scotland was ‘The McAllister,’ and there she discovered that the grove was in an utterly forlorn and neglected condition, the trees having been starved for years. ... Though she soon learned that the number of ills to which flesh is heir are as nothing compared with those which are the natural inheritance of an orange grove, she struggled along, and while she would certainly have been beaten had it not been for Charles Roycroft and his chivalrous sacrifice, she won out at the end.”—N Y Times
“A story both cleverly conceived and cleverly told, with a refreshing spontaneity and sincerity.”
“An unusually well-written story which does not put too heavy a strain upon the reader’s credulity and which has a vivid charm by way of local color and much genuine humor.”
“The book contains an interesting account of the growing and packing of oranges.”
HILL, WILLIAM ELY.Among us mortals; pictures and legends by W: E. Hill; text by Franklin P. Adams.*$1 Houghton 817 17-30263
Mr Hill’s profession, so Franklin P. Adams says, is helping make the world safe from hypocrisy. The collection of drawings offered in this volume shows some of his best efforts in that direction. Mr Adams says in his “Preface to a preface,” “Hill is popular, by which I mean universal, because you think his pictures look like somebody you know, like Eddie, or Marjorie, or Aunt Em. But they don’t; they look like you. Or, if you prefer, like me.” When the reader finds himself, somewhere in the group, surely the great disillusioning comes. Perhaps one may be the lady laughing at a Ford joke, or one of the two faculty wives having the time of their lives pulling Mrs Prexy to pieces; or perhaps one may be the young man who makes an unfortunate break, or the artist who discovers that the only one of his pictures sold has been hung upside down. It is the sort of glass Cassius would be to Brutus—one that “reveals that of yourself which you yet know not of.”
“Unmistakably American.”
“These drawings have attracted much attention in the New York Tribune, striking a new and very penetrating note in American caricature.”
“Solving the problem of Yuletide—what to give for Christmas—is a difficult matter. ... ‘Among us mortals’ is the kind of book which can be sent to anybody with perfect safety. The wisest will laugh at Hill’s pictures and F. P. A.’s nonsense, and the foolish will take it seriously.” L. G.
HILLS, RALPH WINCHESTER.Machine drawing. (Industrial education ser.) il*$1 McGraw 744 17-19718
“‘Machine drawing’ is the title of a new book on this subject prepared in the extension division of the University of Wisconsin, by Ralph W. Hills, instructor in mechanical drawing. ‘The material in this volume is the first half of the instruction papers as developed and used by the extension division. ... The second volume will be devoted to the more specialized lines of work.’ The author avoids needless technicalities and begins at once with ‘real drawings.’”—School Arts Magazine
“He pays no attention to perspective effects when sketching freehand, and but little to pleasing arrangement of sheet. It is a reliable guide tomechanicaldrawing.”
“‘The text and problems have been carefully prepared and arranged so as to develop speed, accuracy, neatness, and a knowledge of the best drafting room practices.’ The above quotation from the preface is thoroughly justified. Supplementing the chapters on principles and those on detail and assembly drawing there is one on Technical sketching that should prove valuable.”
Hindu mind training; by an Anglo-Saxon mother; with an introd. by S. M. Mitra.*$3.50 Longmans 371.4 E17-302
“The author, dissatisfied with various western systems of mind training ... turned her attention to the ancient Hindu system of mind training, into which she was initiated by the writer of the introduction to her book. The system largely depends upon unconscious or preconscious cerebration. ... By a series of psychological questions and answers on subjectmatter previously narrated, the pupil’s mind is prepared, the author states, to receive facts, to interpret them correctly, to distinguish facts from opinions, to reason accurately, to differentiate between the logic of words and the logic of facts, and to make practical use of the information so gained. Character is in this way developed. The book contains many examples of this method of training receptive minds.” (Ath) “Mr Mitra is an Indian writer and teacher of much ability, whose works are well known to those who study Indian thought and politics. ... In an introduction he explains the advantage of the procedure, and also devotes some pages to a comparison between Hindu and Western philosophic thought while he appends, at the close of the book, an essay instituting a comparison between the analytic psychology in ancient Sanskrit literature with that to be found in La Rochefoucauld, under the title ‘Franco-Hindu psychological affinity.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“A careful perusal of the Hindu stories impressed upon the young in the course of an Anglo-Saxon Mother’s many trials will produce in most minds trained in philosophic thought a profound conviction that neither Hindu philosophy nor Hindu morality is suitable for inculcation in this country. The logical deductions are too divergent from our whole social and moral system. ... This book, if it cannot be regarded as an educational gospel, will do something to provoke interest in Indian moralities.”
HINES, JOHN CHESTERFIELD (JACK HINES).Blue streak. il*$1.35 (3c) Doran 17-25860
Ten stories for young and old of ice bound Alaskan trails whose central figures are fearless, heroic, obedient wolf dogs. These malamutes have a sympathetic champion in the writer who tells of the kind of dog devotion that can lavish the love of a life time upon a supreme effort to save a master; or that can starve and die if need be, in the traces of duty. It is this sort of creature that hears his master exclaim, “What dog words are there that I can bark or howl long enough to proclaim what you are!” The half wild, half domesticated friend and servant of the lonely trapper and miner is well-nigh immortalized in these chapters that proclaim the blue streak in dog nature.
“All of them are vigorous human tales of the Yukon, and they are written obviously by a genuine lover of dogs. Boys will enjoy the adventurous aspect of these stories; and yet the best one of them all does not deal with adventures, but with a trial.”
“The stories are convincingly written because they are not well written. If done in a facile style they would probably be accepted as merely entertaining. But the very faults of redundancy and sentimentalism and occasional failure of action are faults natural to a story-teller who is engaged rather in showing the bravery, beauty, and cleverness of his beloved thoroughbreds than in producing a finished tale.”
“Mr Hines reveals himself a delightful story-teller. He does not waste words, but drives straight at the point he intends to illustrate.”
HINKSON, KATHARINE (TYNAN) (MRS HENRY ALBERT HINKSON).Middle years.*$3.50 Houghton (*10s 6d Constable & co., London) (Eng ed 17-11336)
“‘Katharine Tynan’s’ earlier volume of reminiscences agreeably whetted the appetite of her readers for further memories, and this record of what she calls ‘the middle years’ eclipses itspredecessor in the interest and variety of its contents. In it she describes the close of her girlhood in Dublin and some twenty years of married life spent in England before her return to Ireland shortly before the war. In a sense it is the story of an exile from Erin, because she was never Anglicized, Ireland remained the true home of her heart, and her most intimate friends were Irish or people with Irish affiliations. But though Irish to the core, a devout Roman Catholic, and an intense admirer of Parnell, she does not harbour any anti-English animosity.”—Spec
“The real centres of interest are about the Meynells, Francis Thompson, and Lionel Johnson. ... And those to whom these names already mean much as the names of leaders in modern letters, will find that their affection deepens in proportion to their more intimate, familiar acquaintance with the objects of that affection.”
“Her record conveys the impression that she has been delightfully busy, tirelessly interested, and exuberantly happy. Her prime gifts, which richly flavor the volume, are her Celtic blood, her quick warm sympathies, her affection for almost all kinds of men and women and all kinds of flowers and pets.”
“Those who read ‘Twenty-five years: reminiscences’ were persuaded that Miss Tynan lives a most enviable life; those who read ‘The middle years’ will be convinced of it. It is a charmingly intimate talk with the author about all her friends, and unconsciously she conveys to us a very lovable portrait of her own cheery self.”
“It is really as a novel, veraciously and graciously picturing life, that one reads ‘The middle years.’ The story is a true one, of course, but its spirit is more important than its facts. Even in the fuller portraits, what one thinks of is friendship and character, rather than the details of the picture.”
“These chapters abound in generous and affectionate tributes to those who were near and dear to her, who shared her ideals, encouraged her in her work, and applauded her successes. Her early days in London brought her in contact with many remarkable people in the literary world, and the letters from Mr W. B. Yeats, from ‘Æ’ (Mr George Russell), from Francis Thompson, and from Mr George Wyndham would alone make the book cheap at double the price.”
“Against Katharine Tynan herself the accusation of having substituted literature for life cannot be brought. One learns enough of the woman and the mother to see that her life has been full and very human. There is a mellowness about the last chapters that leaves one warmed.”
HIRSCH, MRS CHARLOTTE (TELLER).Diary of an expectant mother. il $1.25 (2½c) McClurg 618.2 17-12627
This is the story of a woman who wanted children but feared the months of waiting before the birth of her first child, and who did not know how to live hygienically under such conditions. In addition to much advice as to her personal life, the nursery, the baby’s outfit, etc., are considered. The book is exceedingly popular in style.
“As a volume for the perusal of other expectant mothers we can heartily recommend this work. It is not loaded with technicalities, and is in no sense a treatise on obstetrics and maternity generally, but rather a sane and excellent preventive against needless worry, while at the same time emphasizing the natural character of the episode of motherhood and recommending the simple, sensible course that should be pursued during the period.” J. W.
HITCHCOCK, ALFRED MARSHALL.[2]Over Japan way. il*$2 (3c) Holt 915.2 17-31433
An informing, entertaining book about Japan, handsomely illustrated, which is made up of the impressions of an American tourist with eyes wide open. After six days of “monotonous blue” he lands and claims the reader for companion while he runs the gamut of first sensations, which he remarks, “are cause for grayer hair about the temples.” The rikisha, the tram, the bewildering sights thru “wide streets, narrow streets, narrower street, alleys barely wide enough for a wheelbarrow, dark places and still darker suggest treachery, ambush.” He tells about the inns and hotels, he visits schools from the kindergarten to the university, goes shopping, attends a play, beards a volcano, visits shrines and sacred places and touches the high spots of Japanese scenery. He records lightly his experiences and their play upon his emotions.
“The author writes in an intimate, conversational style. Everything is given with a running fire of humorous side remarks that entertain as well as instruct.”
“The quaint, genial, shrewdly humorous observations of Mr Hitchcock serve to make this an unusual book of travel. No attempt is made to pass over the submerged side of life as seen in the segregated parts of the large cities and in the daily grind of industry.”
“Despite obvious drawbacks, the author conveys a distinct and convincing impression of the Japanese scene. He is frankly an outsider and gives his views with some humor, appreciating that his sincerity is not to be confounded with the profundity of the research student.”
“In text and illustration this latest book on Japan seems in some respects the best of the short accounts.”
“Entertaining travel sketches embellished by a series of beautifully reproduced photographs.”
“He has not added much to the substance of our knowledge about Japan, but he has written a book of travel sketches, in which impressions are expressed gracefully and ingratiatingly. There is a graphic touch in his words, and the reader is able to share the images and ideas in the author’s mind.”
HITSCHMANN, EDUARD.Freud’s theories of the neuroses; auth. tr. by Dr C: R. Payne, with an introd. by Ernest Jones.*$2 Moffat 130 17-4719
“What may be called the orthodox or strict Freudian conception of neurotic conditions, briefly set forth by Hitschmann, holds that the neuroses originate in the sex life of the individual, the form of the nervous disturbance differing in accordance with the strain that the sex life has undergone. There are ‘true neurasthenia’ types resulting [from four causes]. ... Freud’s ‘psychoanalytic’ method of treating these conditions is explained and a chapter is devoted to his views regarding prophylaxis.” (Survey) “At the end of the book there is a useful chronological review of Freud’s works from 1893 to 1910, as well as a catalogue of Freudian literature in English.” (N Y Times)
“Hitschmann’s book is aimed primarily at physicians, although it is by far the most readable, and most clearly expressed of the three. [The other two referred to are Adler’s ‘Neurotic constitution,’ and Pfister’s ‘Psychoanalytic method’].” Wilfrid Lay
“The translation, like all of Dr Payne’s translations, is accurate, lucid, and in excellent style.”
“An interpretation of Freud which adds little, either in reasoning or examples, to Freud’s own statement of his theories.”
Reviewed by R. S. Woodworth
HOAR, ROGER SHERMAN.Constitutional conventions.*$2 Little 342.7 17-16733
A collection of all of the available law and precedent relating to the nature, powers and limitations of constitutional conventions. The book has been prepared by a former state senator of Massachusetts who was a member of the commission to compile information and data for the use of the Massachusetts convention now in session. With authority and thoroughness the writer answers questions of this character: What gives validity to this method, so frequently used to amend our state constitutions? Is the convention, once launched, subject to either legislative, executive, judicial or even popular control? Is the convention bound by law, or even by the constitution? Can it control the other branches of the government? Can it create a new constitution, without submitting it to the people for ratification? All of these questions, and many more like them, are answered in this book, the only modern and up-to-date text-book on the subject.
“A reliable textbook on a subject which has seldom been treated at any length.”
Reviewed by J. Q. Dealey
“For the statesman, the lawyer, and the student of public affairs, even for the courts, indeed, there is a wealth of useful information within the covers of this book. He has not been altogether successful in keeping to the rôle of non-partisan. Between the lines it is easy to detect, in many instances, Mr Hoar’s own political leanings. His progressivism refuses to stay in the background. Yet this is, after all, a small blemish.”
“Mr Hoar’s careful analysis of the various problems arising whenever a revision of a state’s fundamental law is undertaken, is applicable in every state, and will, no doubt, be the standard treatise for many years to come.”
“The index is of special value. The author’s opportunity to produce such a work reliably has been a public advantage.”
HOBHOUSE, LEONARD TRELAWNY.Questions of war and peace.*3s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London 940.91 (Eng ed 16-16727)
“There is, as might be expected from a thinker so able as Dr Hobhouse, much that is suggestive in these three papers, two of which—‘The soul of civilization’ (reprinted from the Contemporary Review) and ‘The hope of the world’—are in the form of dialogues. In the first the writer shows how he has come to regard the war as an inevitable clash between two separate civilizations, with two religions, and expresses his belief that there will result from it a more genuine feeling both about nationality and about public right. The second covers much ground—views of the war and its problems, of the conflict between freedom and state control, &c. ... The third paper gives the substance of an address at the National liberal club on January 18 [1916], of which the chief feature is the author’s plea that the existing alliance may form the basis of a much wider one, may point to ‘the ultimate ideal of internationalism at two or three removes.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“‘The hope of the world’ is especially interesting. ... One will go far to find a better brief of discussion of the militarist state, the prospects of democracy, the ‘laws’ of human society, and, in general, the ‘hope of the world,’”
“In these brilliant Platonic dialogues on current questions Professor L. T. Hobhouse, the Martin-White professor of sociology in the University of London, has provided us with a delightful entertainment. This can be safely said without committing ourselves to Mr Hobhouse’s conclusions. He handsomely admits that he was wrong in the past about Germany and that he misjudged Lord Grey of Fallodon’s policy.”
HOBSON, JOHN ATKINSON.Evolution of modern capitalism. il*$1.75 Scribner 331 17-13332
“In this revised edition of his well-known work the author has included a long supplementary chapter, the first part of which deals with industrial and commercial movements during the decade preceding the war. Some of the new economic facts and forces revealed by the experiences of the war, the problems they contain, and the tendencies they exhibit are then set forth, as a contribution towards a speculative forecast of capitalism in the early future.”—Ath
HODGE, HAROLD.In the wake of the war, parliament or imperial government?*$1.50 Lane 328 17-21846
“The late editor of the Saturday Review makes the same allegations about the impotence of the House of commons, the nullity of the rank and file of M.P.’s, etc., as raised such a storm of contradiction when they were made by Messrs Belloc and Chesterton in ‘The party system’ and ‘The servile state.’ He is concerned, however, less with the affairs of the United Kingdom than with the future of the empire; and he proposes to take imperial matters out of the hands of what is mistakenly called the Imperial Parliament, and put them under a separate and independent body. After considering various plans he concludes that, party government being a failure, the best solution would be for the crown ... to appoint a council of ten, five citizens of the Dominions, and five citizens of the United Kingdom. ... In order that it should reflect the will of the citizens of the empire, it should consult them by means of referenda.”—Ath
“‘In the wake of the war,’ is well written in point of style. ... Mr Hodge is sick of parties and believes they have had their day. ... We go gaily along the path of criticism with Mr Hodge. It is when he arrives at the unmapped region of reconstruction that we reluctantly part company. He proposes to strip Parliament of the powers and duties which make it interesting and respectable and to hand these over to an Imperial council of ten, nominated by the king, and armed with the referendum. To this scheme we object: (1) That Parliament will not allow itself to be stripped. (2) That the king cannot appoint anybody of his own motion. (3) That the referendum in Australia and in the United States (v. the Oregonian constitution) has been a failure. ... We think our author is mistaken in supposing that the Colonies would agree to the common management of imperial affairs.”
“Whatever scheme may be adopted for imperial government, it will certainly not be Mr Hodge’s.”
HODGES, GEORGE.Religion in a world at war.*$1 (5½c) Macmillan 252 17-14691
Eight short sermons or essays on the relation of Christianity to war, and, more especially, to the present war, by the dean of the Episcopal theological school at Cambridge, Mass.
“From the standpoint of practical homiletics, as a source of comfort or encouragement, or as a stimulus to action, Dean Hodge’s sermons on the war are rather unimpressive. As the reflection of a point of view they are significant. ... It is evident that Dean Hodges finds the whole subject of the war embarrassing and difficult. The effect of facing his difficulties frankly is, however, to give us a sane and courageous expression of what, it seems, must needs be the attitude of a Christian minister towards the war.”
“The book really demands no review—it is little more than a collection of drab and conventional biblical paraphrases justifying America’s participation in the war.” Bertram Benedict
“This is a book for the nation. It clarifies and confirms our national confession, ‘In God we trust.’”