“A most stimulating book that can be read to mental, moral, and spiritual profit.”
HODGSON, RALPH.Poems.*75c Macmillan 821 17-14542
This collection of twenty-five poems is a reprint of the verses which, before the war, used to appear at intervals in England in tiny booklets with mustard-colored paper covers and decorations, plain or colored, by Mr Lovat Fraser. The writer was recently awarded the Edward de Polignac prize.
“There is in his verse a vein of blunt and unsophisticated enthusiasm for ideals.”
“Mr Hodgson has a place of his own among the minor poets of to-day. None writes more naturally; none has such an objective, simple, and direct style, or aims less at mere literary effects. His is the poetry, not of ideas, but of sights, sensations, raptures. In forms that appear artless because they are such excellent art, it is the spontaneous expression of the lyric ecstasy of life and action, and of the natural faith of one who joys in his being as a particle in a glorious universe, untroubled by the mystery of existence.”
“What gives Mr Hodgson his distinction is his subtle fancy which may be seen at the finest in ‘The song of honor,’ ‘The bull’ (which is a rather wonderful piece of realism) and ‘Babylon,’ as well as in some of the brief lyric catches where a single idea is caught like a bee in a flower. In the whole volume there are only twenty-five titles and in spite of the above-mentioned faults they will be prized by all lovers of poetry.”
“Mr Hodgson is that rarity in these times, a poet of very small production, and of production on a uniformly high level. ... His chief value lies in what he has to say. There are two arts in poetry: the art of precisely saying what one has in mind; and, even more important (though less regarded), the art of excluding from one’s conception all that is not of pure value. It is particularly in this latter respect that Mr Hodgson excels. The most arresting feature of his work, however, is the fact that though he is essentially a lyric poet he is none the less essentially objective,—never, or seldom, speaking in his own voice, or developing, psychologically, any personal or dramatic viewpoint.” Conrad Aiken
“There is not a page in this book that is not beautiful; to come upon a volume of this sort is a real pleasure to the critic wearied with much technically excellent, but commonplace perfunctory, verse. ... Most readers will agree with the London Nation in calling ‘Eve’ ‘the most fascinating poem of our time.’”
“Mr Hodgson is something of a blend of Davies’ naïveté and de la Mare’s melodic magic; he is less distinctive than either. ‘Eve’ has some undoubted elements of greatness; ‘The bull,’ the short ‘The mystery,’ ‘After,’ and other poems possess great beauty or some striking quality.” Clement Wood
“That the original queer and charming booklets—original in every sense of the word—will always be treasured and preferred by those who possess them we take to be certain. But in the new volume the poems stand the test of collective and separate presentment well, and promise, it seems to us, to endure as long as anything of our time whether as a rounded achievement on a small scale or as earnest of larger things to come. ... It is the unfailing suggestion of vastness and the beyond, coupled with the insistently vivid realization of the present and the immediate, which gives Mr Hodgson’s work perhaps its most characteristic distinction.”
Hohenzollerns through German eyes. 1s Hutchinson, London 741
“The book consists of a series of cartoons, all dealing with the Kaiser and the Prussian royal family, selected from the well-known Munich comic paperSimplicissimus, from November, 1903 [March, 1906?] to May, 1914. The paper made it its main business to attack the imperial government, German militarist ideals, and clerical sycophancy.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“To readers unfamiliar with the latitude in respect to criticism of the German emperor and his family permitted, at all events prior to the war, in some of the German satirical journals, this collection of cartoons will be a revelation.”
“The paper [is] universally known for the excellence of its draughtsmen, amongst whom O. Gulbransson is perhaps the cleverest of all. ... It is rather surprising that material which gives such striking corroboration from the German side to much in our representation of the Kaiser and his entourage, should not have been brought before the British public till now. From the outbreak of the war Simplicissimus has been as strongly nationalist as before it was rebellious.”
HOLCOMBE, ARTHUR NORMAN.State government in the United States.*$2.25 (1c) Macmillan 353.9 17-51
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“This will be useful as a reference work or text for advanced students.”
“The work shows a careful study of the great mass of material and a systematic organization of the data, forming the most important single contribution thus far made to the whole subject.” J: A. Fairlie
“An excellent survey of the whole field of state government, its history, tendencies and needs. There is less detail on the administrative side than in Mathews’ ‘Principles of American state administration,’ but the discussion of political reforms is much fuller.”
“The tendency of modern reformers is to concentrate attention upon a single measure and to ignore its effect upon the general system of which it forms a part. Works such as this serve, with those who will attend to them, to check this tendency, and therein lies their special merit.”
“Very interesting, and by no means without instruction for ourselves, is Mr Holcombe’s account of the working of the party system and of the efforts made by the sovereign people to escape from the tyranny of the ‘machine.’ Of special value is the light which Mr Holcombe throws on the working of the most recent experiments in the initiative, referendum, and recall. The book is not light reading, though of absorbing interest.”
HOLDICH, SIR THOMAS HUNGERFORD.Political frontiers and boundary making.*$3.25 Macmillan 320.1 16-23414
“It has been the lot of Sir Thomas Holdich to give practical consideration in many parts of the world to problems of boundary settlement. ... His present aim is governed by the fact that among the few writers who treat of this important subject he can find no authoritative opinion based on practical experience, no elementary work in which the stern needs of political discretion are shown to be at variance with the sentiments cherished by idealists. ... The sovereign purpose of a national frontier is to promote friendly relations between neighbour states by putting a definite edge to the territorial and political horizon of both; then trespass cannot be easy in a time of excitement, and secret planned aggression has natural difficulties to overcome before it can do harm to a peaceable country. Sir Thomas Holdich considers these conditions in boundary-making, and shows how they may be made real—or as real as human nature will permit them to be—in a statesmanly choice of a frontier.”—Sat R
“It is with the major premise that most readers of the volume will be tempted to quarrel. ... Apart from the particular theory upon which the volume rests there is much that is of value in the author’s description of the geographic features of boundary lines, and the chapters upon the delimitation of frontiers in Asia, Africa and South America will be read with particular interest.” C. G. Fenwick
Reviewed by C. L. Jones
“Sir Thomas Holdich has known these frontiers from their first formation in the seventies of last century, and is probably better qualified to write of them than any other man alive. The descriptions in his book will be of permanent importance, but the book ranges far from the Pamirs and Andes over broad fields of political theory and the European war, and here it will not go unchallenged.”
“The author, who served on the Afghan, Asmar, and Argentine-Chile Boundary commissions and was superintendent of frontier surveys of India, here speaks with authority on a theme of timely interest.”
“His book is easily the best discussion of its subject that exists in the English language. I can only hope that in a second edition it will be given the illustrative maps it so badly needs.” H. J. Laski
“The great blemish in his book is the conspicuous absence of index and maps.”
“A brave, a breezy, a timely, and a suitably optimistic book. ... His conclusions are extremely interesting, they are expressed in admirably clear and striking phrases, they are enlivened by vivid and captivating pictures of the wild hill tracts.”
“He invariably approaches the subject of which he is a master without any marked political prepossessions. Sir Thomas Holdich is a geographer, and not a politician. Yet no frontier-maker can be indifferent to political considerations; and so he tells us that in dealing with problems of boundary settlement his object has been ‘to ensure peace and good will between contiguous peoples by putting a definite edge to the national political horizon, so as to limit unauthorized expansion and trespass.’”
HOLDSWORTH, JOHN THOM.[2]Money and banking.*$2.25 (1½c) Appleton 332 17-24253
The first edition of this work was published in 1914. Of the changes in the new edition, the author says, “the most significant, perhaps, are those involving clearings and collections, Federal reserve currency and foreign finance. ... The discussion of these changes and developments has been introduced with the least possible disturbance to the textual arrangement, but on nearly every page some revisions have been made; many sections have been rewritten, entire new sections have been added; and the last chapter, on the Federal reserve system, has been rewritten in the light of its development to date.” (Preface)
“The revision is well designed to render the book even more acceptable as a text than was the first edition three years ago.” C. A. P.
HOLLAND, RUPERT SARGENT.Blue heron’s feather. il*$1.25 (1½c) Lippincott 17-28759
A story of old New Netherland. Nicholas Tappan, silk merchant of Amsterdam, decides to send his son Peter to the new world in company with Derek Keeft, who is to act as superintendent of the vast estate recently acquired along the Hudson. Peter looks forward to new adventures and is not disappointed, for very shortly after his arrival, he is taken captive by Indians. Fortunately he had earlier won the friendship of Manawok, a young brave, who now intercedes for him. Peter learns Indian ways, and after his return to his own people takes a stand for justice and friendly relations toward the red men which results in an unbroken peace between the Dutch and the Mohawks.
Reviewed by J: Walcott
“One of the most excellent stories of Indian days in the Colonies is that of ‘The blue heron’s feather.’”
HOLLEY, HORACE.Divinations and Creation.*$1.25 Kennerley 811 17-9237
Mr Holley’s small volume of post-impressionist poems called “Creation” was published in 1915. This group of poems is included as part 2 of this new book. Part 1 consists of an entirely new group, altho some of its individual poems have appeared in Poetry, the Smart Set, the Forum, the Masses and other magazines.
“Between vain sublimities Mr Horace Holley now and then achieves a quiet success. ‘The orchard’ is a specimen.” O. W. Firkins
“His first little book was passionately arresting. And now we find the same extraordinary individuality revealing itself in ‘Divinations,’which, though it may lack much of the author’s earlier impassioned beauty shows a more constrained power and flexibility.”
“Miss Harriet Monroe has selected three of these poems for her anthology of ‘new poetry,’ and W. S. Braithwaite has included ‘Cross patch’ and a sonnet, ‘The orchard,’ in his anthology for 1916.”
HOLLINGWORTH, HARRY LEVI, and POFFENBERGER, ALBERT THEODOR.Applied psychology.*$2.25 (3½c) Appleton 150 17-28082
Untechnical in treatment this volume, by two Columbia university men, offers to men and women of every walk of life assistance towards a dignified and prosperous existence. It is an efficient instrument in producing success in life. The discussions all aiming to assist in systematizing a field hitherto vague and unorganized, include the following chapters: Efficiency and applied psychology; Influence of heredity upon achievement; Family inheritance; Efficiency and learning; Influence of sex and age on efficiency; Environmental conditions [two chapters]; Work, rest, fatigue and sleep; Drugs and stimulants; Methods of applying psychology in special fields; Psychology and the executive; Psychology in the workshop; Psychology and the market; Psychology and the law; Psychology for the social worker; Psychology and medicine; Psychology and education; The future of applied psychology.
“There is little evidence that Messrs Hollingworth and Poffenberger value highly any other kind than business success. We are rarely offered a more naïve revelation of psychological science serving as the handmaid of commercial exploitation.”
“For the social worker, teacher or parent the book should be valuable in presenting the latest scientific word on many modern problems. It is written very simply and is free from many technical terms.”
“This new book is the best that has yet appeared in bringing the results of many experiments and excursions in this field within two covers.” F. A. Manny
HOLLINGWORTH, HARRY LEVI, and POFFENBERGER, ALBERT THEODOR.Sense of taste. il*$1.25 Moffat 152 17-14044
“‘The sense of taste’ is a book of two hundred pages by two members of the faculty of Columbia university. It is one of a series in preparation by Moffat, Yard & Co., with the title ‘Our senses and what they mean to us.’ It is edited by G. Van N. Dearborn, who contributes an introduction to this volume, which is, as he truly says, ‘at once interesting and scientific up to the hour.’”—Nation
“While it does not purport to solve any of the riddles still presented by this sense, it gives an excellent summary of present knowledge, the writers who have done most to elucidate the subject being, with one exception, duly cited. The authors are more careful than their predecessors in not claiming for the sense of taste what belongs to the allied sense of smell.”
“This first volume in the new series presages an interesting and well-coordinated attempt to synthetize an exposition of the sensory apparatus and its psychologic reflexes.”
HOLME, CHARLES, ed. Art of the British empire overseas. (International studio. Special winter no., 1916-17) il*$3; pa*$2.50 Lane 759 17-15451
“Mr Holme has gathered reproductions of twenty-three pictures by eighteen Canadian artists (one being in color), forty by twenty Australian artists (three in color), twenty-nine by New Zealand painters (five in color), and twenty-three by South African painters. Each section has a brief account of the development of the artistic expression in these four quarters of the world and the outlook for the future. Mr Eric Brown, director of the National gallery of Canada; Mr James Ashton, a prominent painter of Australia; Mr E. A. S. Killick, secretary of the New Zealand academy of fine arts, and Mr Edward Roworth of Cape Town, speak with authority of their respective countries and give many interesting biographical details of the artists represented, besides pointing out the difficulties under which they labor.”—Boston Transcript
HOLME, CHARLES, ed. Arts and crafts. (International Studio, Special number) il*$3; pa*$2.50 (6½c) Lane 740 17-6662
A review of the work executed by students in the leading art schools of Great Britain and Ireland. The London and the provincial schools of art are treated separately, the first by W. T. Whitley, the second by the head master or some other person connected with each school. The illustrations have been chosen to show many lines of work.
“Especially useful to American supervisors and teachers. The pictures, to be sure, of work done by the students demonstrate no marked superiority over the output of American schools of similar scope; they show, indeed, a few things which a rigorous censor might have left out.”
“The text is highly illuminating, enabling the reader to gain a clear idea of the activities of the schools and also the underlying intention governing these activities which is to develop home talent to a degree that will make unnecessary foreign importations of design. The chapters on the provincial schools are even more interesting than those given to the schools of London.”
“Of intense interest both to students and teachers in this country for purposes of comparison and the stimulation of effort.”
“There is any amount of talent evident in the works illustrated in this book and a good deal of skill: but both seem aimless. The objects are produced rather for competitions between students than for human beings to use. They do not express the real tastes, the real values, of anyone in particular. Therefore, they are likely to fail economically no less than artistically.”
HOLMES, JOHN HAYNES.[2]Life and letters of Robert Collyer, 1823-1912. 2v il*$5 Dodd 17-30357
A full and well-rounded story so told that the great Unitarian divine “speaks for himself and thus reveals the fibre of his soul.” Rev. John Haynes Holmes, one of the foremost leaders of liberal thought of today, has found his task a thoroughly congenial one. Associated in the ministry with Dr Collyer, Mr Holmes says, “He was my colleague, my friend, my brother, my father in the spirit.” The materials used in the preparation of the biography include Dr Collyer’s autobiography; his own writings; autobiographical lectures; his letters; three scrap-books of newspaper and magazine clippings; pamphlets, programs, leaflets and newspapers and magazines coveringperiods of Dr Collyer’s career. The man whom Mr Holmes holds up to view is Robert Collyer “the blacksmith, preacher, lecturer, author, public leader, but always radiant of spirit, full of grace and truth, touched with the potency of love.”
“Dr Holmes, whose pages, although written in a more sentimental manner, also make, as do Mr Hale’s, a graphic portrayal of his subject and cause the very man himself to stand forth a vital, radiant being, discusses very interestingly Dr Collyer’s relation to his time and the reasons for his wide and potent influence.”
“It is hardly to be wondered at if the biographer, in the lawful enthusiasm of his task, may sometimes seem open to the charge of hero worship. At the same time one discovers, briefly, in the summary, that this idol had toes, if not feet of clay, which were usually well shod and covered from general gaze.”
HOLMES, JOHN HAYNES.Religion for to-day; various interpretations of the thought and practise of the new religion of our time.*$1.50 (1c) Dodd 252 17-5458
Thirteen addresses, delivered first as sermons in the Church of the Messiah, New York city, and elsewhere, make up this volume. Each has been selected, the author says, “because of its own especial character as a representative expression of radical thought on religious questions of the day.” In the first essay the essential characteristics of the religion of the future are summed up: it will be a scientific religion, doing away with the old antagonism between science and religion; it will be based on ethical values rather than on theological beliefs; it will stress social rather than individual morality. The last three sermons were preached shortly after the outbreak of the war and reflect the author’s uncompromising attitude on the subject of force.
“Every reader who is possessed of the social passion and who has seen the social vision will sit up at night to read this book and will go around lending it to his acquaintances. It is the real thing.” L: A. Walker
“Trenchantly, yet constructively critical in his attitude throughout, Dr Holmes strives to give enough of the other side which he criticizes to present it fairly if not fully. Especially incisive and conclusive are his social applications of religion to the conditions of life and labor which demand both its destructive and reconstructive power. Dr Holmes is an absolutist in his uncompromising stand for the ultimate ideal of peace as applicable to a world at war, but he fails to show how it could have been, or could be, applied by the peoples facing a war-rampant nation on a rapid march for world conquest.” G. T.
HOLT, ANDREW HALL.Manual of field astronomy. il*$1.25 Wiley 522 17-866
“This textbook for use in civil engineering courses bases it principal claim upon conciseness, and yet completeness, in its treatment of fundamentals. On the whole, the object of the author has been obtained, and practising engineers who only occasionally have to make astronomical observations will find it especially helpful. The treatment of the ofttimes confusing conceptions of the measurement of time is given particular attention, with many illustrative problems solved in excellent form. ... The main text occupies about 76 pages, the appendices on spherical trigonometry and solar attachments for transits about 14 pages, tables about 12 pages, and the sample field notes 20 pages.” (Engin Rec) The author is instructor in civil engineering in the University of Iowa.
“Clearly and concisely written and much more complete than the usual college-student manual.”
“The illustrations and diagrams are clear and well-conceived, the method of presenting the successive operations is logical and the sample field notes show just how best to avoid confusion and error in the important matter of records.”
HOLT, LUCIUS HUDSON, and CHILTON, ALEXANDER WHEELER.[2]History of Europe, from 1862 to 1914.*$2.60 (1½c) Macmillan 940.9 17-31435
A narrative of the chief events of European history from the beginning of Bismarck’s chancellorship to the outbreak of the great war in 1914. Thruout the narrative “emphasis has been laid upon those events which have affected international relations. The narrative of the domestic politics of the separate states has been curtailed, except where such politics had a distinct bearing upon the part which a state played in international affairs. The alliances and the conflict of interests which have brought about the present great war have been discussed in detail. The characters and methods of those statesmen who have had the greatest influence in international issues have been developed at length. It has been our plan thus to give the reader a conception of a true history of Europe rather than to present an aggregation of histories of the separate European states.” (Preface)
HOLTZ, MATHILDE EDITH, and BEMIS, KATHARINE ISABEL.Glacier national park; its trails and treasures. il*$2 (4c) Doran 978.6 17-14959
One may travel thru Glacier park on foot, on horseback, by automobile, or, to some extent, by motor boat. The authors of this guide chose the horseback way, but there is plenty of information in their book for those who prefer one of the other means of travel. The chapters are: Nature’s great play-ground; Hotels and chalets; On the Mount Henry trail; Trails and roads; The old Travois trail; Piegan pass—the flower pass; The flower fields of Glacier national park; Some mountain lakes; On glaciers; Types of tourists; A day with the Blackfeet; Some Blackfeet legends and Indian names; Blackfeet historical pictographs. The photographic illustrations are exceptionally good. There are end maps and an index.
“Personal, readable descriptions. Well illustrated and has a United States geological survey map.”
“Taken all in all, the book and the park are bound to add to the emphasis of the slogan, so timely just now, ‘See America first.’”
HOPKINS, TIGHE.Romance of escapes; studies of some historic flights, with a personal commentary. il*$3 (3c) Houghton 940 (Eng ed 17-12964)
In an introductory chapter (Part 1), “On the art and mystery of escape,” the author reviews briefly many notable escapes. In Part 2, he selects some noteworthy escapes for description in detail, namely: the escapes of Casanova from the Inquisition; the Polish exile Pietrowski’s journey out of Siberia; the Irish midshipman O’Brien’s three exciting efforts to get out of a French prison in the days of Napoleon; theescape of Morgan of the Rough-riders in the Civil war; Haldane’s flight from Pretoria in the Boer war; Louis Napoleon’s flight from the fortress of Ham; the adventures of James Choyce “prisoner of war in two worlds”; Louvet’s 165 days run for life from the vengeance of Robespierre; the escape of the Empress Eugénie from Paris; the hazards of John Mitchell, Irish ‘forty-eighter, between Tasmania and San Francisco; and the adventures of De Buquoit, who claimed to be “the first man who broke the Bastille in 1709.”
“In Casanova’s and Buquoit’s accounts of their exploits the author considers that much may be regarded as apocryphal. The want of an index is a serious defect in a book of this kind.”
“Mr Hopkins’s retelling of some famous episodes will interest young readers and old alike.”
HOPKINS, WILLIAM JOHN.[2]Clammer and the submarine.*$1.25 (2½c) Houghton 17-25435
Adam and Eve, the clammers, are already well known to readers of the author’s other leisurely stories of the Massachusetts coast. They appear again in this story, which is complicated somewhat by the love affairs of their friends and by the approach of war. In the end Adam enlists in the navy.
“Not as spontaneous as the earlier works.”
“Its author comes perilously near being a professional purveyor of sentiment. His Adam and Eve of the clam-beds become a trifle cloying. In the end Adam rouses himself from his amiable long-shore loitering and maundering, to enroll himself in the navy. But that act, also, he sentimentalizes.”
“Mr Hopkins’s original ‘clammers,’ Adam and Eve, are always pleasant to meet, and always a sense of humor and a spirit of refinement are in his stories. Adam’s awakening to patriotism and war service is true and fine.”
“Mr Hopkins deserves a high place as a sentimental writer, using that term in its best sense. The present volume worthily sustains the author’s reputation and provokes a call for more.”
HORNBECK, STANLEY KUHL.[2]Contemporary politics in the Far East.*$3 (2½c) Appleton 950 16-18764
For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.
“Professor Stanley K. Hornbeck has given us a really valuable study in the field of Far Eastern politics. He has rarely permitted his feelings to affect his judgment. For the period it covers, his book will win a place as a sound and useful work of reference.” P. J. Treat
“He understands what so few writers on the Far East understand about Japan, that the greater half by far of her so-called aggression and imperialism is self-defence and exaggerated caution. ... Regarding China, particularly with respect to her domestic conditions, he is not so far-seeing. ... His book, in the best tradition of American liberalism, vigorous, realistic, hopeful, broadly planned, and trenchantly written, is the most serviceable contribution in recent years towards America’s proper understanding of her responsibilities in the Far East.”
“There have been hundreds of books about the Far East in which a few grains of fact have been blown on hot air blasts of personal opinion. Beside them Mr Hornbeck’s wealth of information and judicial, temperate attitude make a volume for which American readers should be grateful.”
“Dr Hornbeck has lived long enough in China to interpret her views to the West; he has not become so immersed in the current of politics as to forget his academic training or miss the sources of this current in the past.” F. W. Williams
HORNE, HERMAN HARRELL.Teacher as artist; an essay in education as an æsthetic process. (Riverside educational monographs)*70c (7c) Houghton 371.1 17-5150
“In the following pages the first essay raises the question whether the art of teaching may in a measure become one of the fine arts, and answers in the affirmative, under certain conditions. What these conditions are the second essay attempts to set forth.” (Preface) Teaching is first tested by Professor Tufts’ definition of art: “Any activity or production involving intelligence and skill.” Next it is subjected to the test of fine art: “An activity or product of activity which has æsthetic value or (in the broadest sense of the term) is beautiful.”
“Two thoughtful, thought stimulating essays.”
“The teacher can find in this book some fine inspiration, and the lay-reader can learn how much and how little, in his private moods, the teacher can think of himself and why.”
“The chapter entitled ‘Shriving the inartistic teacher’ offers considerable food for thought.”
HORNER, WARREN MURDOCK.Training for a life insurance agent. (Lippincott’s training ser.) il*$1.25 (7c) Lippincott 368 17-13557
“This book is written, primarily, for those directly interested in the life insurance business, but in a non-technical manner so that it may be of value to laymen, especially those interested in salesmanship.” (Introd.) The book is published in a series the aim of which is to help those “who want to find themselves,” and it sets forth the necessary qualifications and training for life insurance as a business, with a special chapter on The woman in life insurance. The author is general agent for the Provident life and trust company of Philadelphia in Minnesota, Iowa and the Dakotas.
“Brief and vigorous suggestions for making a success of life insurance.”
“The training of a life insurance agent is not the principal topic of the book in spite of its title. The early chapters explain the qualifications and personal characteristics necessary to success as an agent, but the remainder discuss methods of selling insurance and agency organization.”
HORSCH, JOHN.Menno Simons; his life, labors, and teachings. $1.25 John Horsch, Scottdale, Pa. 16-6143
A biography of Menno Simons, the 16th century religious leader from whom the Mennonite movement took its name. “That Mr Horsch had almost virgin soil to break is probably due to the fact that the material for a real biography of Menno is so slight. ... He has been compelled to devote most of his space to an account of Menno’s opinions and extracts from his writings. To this he has added refutations of many things falsely charged against Menno, most of them quite convincing; and discussionsof the relation of Menno to other radical leaders of the time, like Melchior Hofmann and John of Leyden.”—Am Hist R
“This is a welcome addition to religious literature, since there is no other life of Menno available in any language. ... The historical value of the book is very considerable, the author’s diligence is exemplary, and a quantity of material has been brought together from various sources that has never before been printed in English. ... The author’s diligence and good sense are more in evidence than his literary skill. The book is unnecessarily jejune and dry, because of the great preponderance, in parts, of quotations from documents, the interest of which to a reader is in inverse ratio to their value to a student of history. It is to be feared that this quality will limit the numbers of readers unduly.” H: C. Vedder
“The author is to be commended for the dispassion with which he sets forth events and issues which have been storm centers of controversy. As much may be said for the dignified manner in which he represses all hero-worship. One could wish that such a fine-spirited, well-balanced, and informing biography had found expression in style a little more polished and animated.” P. G. M.
HOTBLACK, KATE.Chatham’s colonial policy.*$2.50 Dutton 616 17-8079
“Miss Hotblack’s thesis is a study of how Pitt attempted to make commerce flourish by war. ... The plan of the book has enabled her to give a very clear outline of Pitt’s policy. He is followed successively through the affairs of the African colonies, Canada, the West Indies, and so on, and the commercial side of his work as secretary for the Southern department is well brought out in four very interesting chapters. Similar treatment of the Northern department, over which Pitt’s control seems to have been as complete as over the Southern, and an important chapter on the Stamp act, complete a valuable piece of research. An appendix contains some hitherto unpublished letters.”—Ath
Reviewed by C. E. Fryer
“Miss Hotblack has enabled the reader to form a much better judgment on the value of Pitt’s work than was possible before.”
“Her book will be useful to all who want to know more of the motives and principles of the creator of British imperialism.”
HOUGH, EMERSON.Broken gate.il*$1.50 (2c) Appleton 17-21973
“Aurora Lane has been for twenty years the milliner and dressmaker of the village. ... Years before, unwed, she had borne a child; she had sent it away and had said that the infant had died. Pursuing her way quietly and modestly, and earning her scanty living by hard work, she had ever since lived in the village, generally ignored, but secretly respected and outwardly scorned by most of its people. But the child had not died, and when the story opens he has grown to a fine, vigorous young manhood and comes to the village to see his mother. She and her one friend, a crippled woman, have together saved and scrimped and educated the boy, while he has believed himself to be an orphan. He strikes a man on the street who insults his mother, soon after learns from her all the bitter truth, is arrested for assault, and for the next three days the town is in a ferment of excitement and unprecedented happenings. They reach their climax when a man is mysteriously killed, the boy is arrested for the murder, and a mob, seeking to lynch him, is foiled of its purpose and rushes to ravage his mother’s home.”—N Y Times
“It is modern and American enough in scene and detail, but begins with a fantastically improbable situation, and carries the reader’s credulity and sensibility from strain to strain.” H. W. Boynton
“It is a fine opportunity for pathos, and the author may be counted on to make the most of it.”
“It is realistic, small-town melodrama, swift and sharp in its movement, but, notwithstanding its many events crowding close upon one another’s heels, its interest is chiefly emotional. ... Although there is much in the story that the author has failed to make convincing, it has qualities of invention and construction that hold the interest.”
“In ‘The broken gate’ Emerson Hough is no longer on the solid ground of historical fact. Consequently he flounders between melodrama and tragedy. ... The story hardly attains the standard set in Mr Hough’s preceding romances.”
HOUGH, EMERSON.Man next door.il*$1.50 Appleton 17-4711
“Pyramus and Thisbe in the terms of Chicago’s North Side and the twentieth century, with the regrettable omission of the lion, is the theme of Mr Emerson Hough’s new novel. ... Curly, the ex-foreman of the Circle Arrow ranch, tells the story of Old Man Wright’s removal to Chicago, of the breaking-in of the fair Bonnie Bell Wright to millionaire row, of the building of the wall, and of the man on the other side thereof.”—Dial
“Told in cowboy dialect.”
“Except for the fact that the story is told in an entertaining way, there is very little in the plot of Bonnie Bell’s attempt to make a place for herself in the best circles of Chicago which would attract the attention. ... The excitement lies really in the almost fatal attempts at diplomacy which Curly makes and the calamity which is barely averted.”
“Untrue, insignificant, and generally uninteresting are the terms we must reluctantly attach to Mr Hough’s latest excursion in the realms of fiction.”
Reviewed by F. M. Holly
HOUGHTON, BEATRICE YORK.Shelleys of Georgia. il*$1.35 (1½c) Lothrop 17-23649
“Captain Gabriel Shelley, his lovely young second wife Madge, and his beautiful daughter and only child Rose are ‘The Shelleys of Georgia’ of the title. The story is principally concerned with the love affairs of Rose, and with the innocent and successful plot by means of which she redeemed the man she had once loved, brought happiness to a much injured woman, and secured the future of a baby which but for her might have been a very unfortunate child indeed. The date of the tale is the time of the Spanish-American war.”—N Y Times
“The novel is entertaining if not very plausible, and presents a rather interesting scheme for the care of those children who for one reason or another become the especial wards of the state.”
HOWARD, KATHARINE.Two plays, and a rhapsody. pa 60c Katharine Howard, Lee apartments, B and 9th st., San Diego, Cal. 812 17-65
The two plays are allegorical. In the first, The house of future, a series of thirteen brief scenes, the life of a woman who lives on in the lives of her children is pictured. In thehouse of life, two persons, a man and a woman, move thru the rooms of the house, tasting the experiences it offers and in the end coming out on the roof to find peace and quiet under the stars. The rhapsody describes the vision of a poet who has sought eternal youth.
“Mrs Howard’s inspirational works, ‘Eve’ and ‘The book of the serpent,’ are well known both in this country and in England, and a collection of poems of childhood, ‘The little god,’ has had generous appreciation. The two plays of her last volume in literary style are similar to her moyen-age play, ‘Candle flame.’ Over all of them there is a glamor, a rhythmic beauty peculiar to her poetic prose.”
HOWARD, MARGARET WILLET.Practical cookbook. 72c (2c) Ginn 641.5 17-11592
“This book presents a rather large collection of tested and economical recipes, in such a manner as to show their relation to one another and to the whole question of balanced meals. ... The book has grown out of many years of classroom work, and the arrangement is designed, by omitting all unnecessary directions, to force the student to reason out the recipes for herself. But it is a cookbook, not a textbook, and laboratory directions and explanatory text are purposely omitted.” (Preface) The chapter headings will show the general arrangement: Water; Mineral salts; Starch; Sugar; Proteids; Fats and oils; Frozen desserts; Canning and preserving; Food for invalids; Unclassified recipes; Selection of food.
HOWARD, WILLIAM LEE.How to rest.*$1 (3c) Clode, E: J. 613.7 17-11348