Chapter 57

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“Of the fifteen chapters comprising the volume, the first two are devoted to conditions governing the different forms of electric lighting, the third and fourth to the factors entering into the various methods of alternating-current distribution; fifth, sixth, and seventh, to the principles and performance of transformers; the eighth to thirteenth inclusive, to alternators and a practical consideration of the current generated; the fourteenth to transformer testing and operation, and the fifteenth to definitions and formulas associated with alternating-current practice.”—Engin. N.

“One of the few successful attempts thus far made to discuss alternating currents without the use of mathematics. In clearness and originality of expression, neat press work, and general appearance, the book is a credit to both the author and publisher.”

Harrison, Peleg D.Stars and stripes and other American flags. il. **$3. Little.

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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Something of this inclusiveness might profitably have been sacrificed for a more methodical arrangement and a more critical spirit of inquiry.”

“Mr. Harrison has interwoven many interesting incidents of history with his history of the national flag.”

Hart, Albert Bushnell, ed. American nation: a history from original sources by associated scholars. 28v. per v. *$2. Harper.

v. 20. Hosmer, James Kendall.Appeal to arms.

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A work with which its successor, “Outcome of the civil war,” is intended to afford a brief, compact and impartial view of the military and civil side of the civil war. Not so much a study of contestants’ motives as their behavior on the field. Dr. Hosmer says “I have tried to criticize men in the light of their opportunities at the time.”

v. 21. Hosmer, James Kendall.Outcome of the civil war.

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Although independent in field and in arrangement, this volume is a continuation of Dr. Hosmer’s “Appeal to arms,” the foregoing volume of this series. It takes up the story from midsummer, 1863 and carries it forward to the surrender of Lee, the collapse of the confederacy and the assassination of Lincoln.

v. 22. Dunning, William Archibald.Reconstruction, political and economic.

This volume is the first in the last group of the series devoted to “National expansion.” The purpose of the study is “to show that reconstruction, with all its hardships and inequities, was not deliberately planned as punishment and humiliation for those formerly in rebellion.” It deals with “the stormy administration of Johnson, the year of trouble and unrest in the south, the gradual recovery from the strain of war, the great industrial developments, and railroad building to the Pacific, the stormy Hayes-Tilden contest.”

v. 23. Sparks, Edwin Erie.National development (1877–1885).

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Professor Sparks’ volume begins with the year 1877 that marks the break between old issues and the intermediate, vital question of the adaptation of American government to the industrial and social needs of the country. The first five chapters are devoted to a summary of the social and economic conditions of the time; six to eight, to the party struggles due to President Hayes’ withdrawal of the federal troops from the south; nine to twelve discuss silver coinage and the national civil service; thirteen and fourteen discuss the Isthmian canal and the exclusion of the Chinese; fifteen and sixteen follow the effect on the nation of the rapid settling up of the west; seventeen to nineteen deal with conditions which Cleveland found in 1884.

v. 24. Dewey, Davis R.National problems.

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Beginning with the new economic conditions that the Cleveland administration of 1884 found, Professor Dewey traces the course of the national problems to 1897. He deals with organized labor, civil service, the tariff, silver, railroads, foreign relations, the reorganization of the Republican party, foreign policy, commercial organization, currency, and the free coinage campaign of 1896.

“The merit of this volume is the thoughtful and judicial treatment of a period of complicated political conditions and of problems new to the national life. If any fault is to be found with the book, it is in its lack of proportion. This, however, appears to be due rather to the plan of the work than to the author’s execution of it.” Jesse S. Reeves.

“Our author is eminently fair in his treatment of the South, though the parts of the book dealing with that section exhibit less complete information than do other portions.”

“The military and naval situation is presented with unusual clearness, and this whole portion of the book has the ring of a definitive account. Errors are few.” Carl Russell Fish.

“Aside from a sometimes too literal following of authorities where opinion rather than fact is stated, Professor Hart has given us the best general description and study of the socialand moral aspects of the American slavery controversy that has yet appeared.” J. C. Ballagh.

“The work under examination, therefore, while an excellent record as far as it goes and on the whole the best civil war history yet written, is too little objective to serve as the final history of that war.” E. Benj. Andrews.

“The best survey of its field.”

“Best brief survey of the subject.”

“Perhaps the best general account of the size, and for the price.”

“It is the most readable account of the period with which the reviewer is acquainted; there is no better treatment of that tangled business of Buchanan, Seward and Lincoln from November, 1860 to April, 1861.” Walter L. Fleming.

“Some points deserve slight criticism. The author does not seem to have a clear understanding of internal conditions in the south. Some objection might reasonably be made to the comparison between Stonewall Jackson and John Brown, and the ‘craziness’ of Jackson is entirely too much insisted upon.” W. L. Fleming.

“This undertone of scholarly geniality makes the book not merely easy reading, but gives to it an interest for every intelligent American.” Harry Thurston Peck.

“It is indeed questionable whether the series as a whole is not too large for the general reader, to whose interests it is professedly devoted.” St. George L. Sioussat.

“It is a matter of gratification that all [these books] are good and that there are no very horrible examples.”

“He has brought to his task that somewhat rare quality, historic imagination.”

“A thoughtful and scholarly study of a period which has long needed impartial examination.”

“The readableness of Professor Smith’s pages merits particular commendation.”

“The most distinctive contribution of Admiral Chadwick’s book, however, is its thorough-going examination of the military and naval situation on the eve of hostilities.”

“Outside of military affairs, in short, Mr. Hosmer’s narrative is, as a whole, conventional.”

“Mr. Hosmer succeeds in making [military matters] not only intelligible but interesting to the layman.”

“He has prepared a splendid bibliography in the final chapter on the authorities, the best in his period which exists.”

“The work is marked throughout by scholarship, sound judgment, and critical insight, and is the best short history of the subject with which we are acquainted.”

“As a narrative it is easy, compact, and lucid. The Admiral, it seems to us, is inclined to take an over-roseate view of Southern slavery, and a rather narrow one of the motives and conduct of those who lent comfort and aid to John Brown.”

“His treatment of the assassination of Lincoln is distinctly inadequate.”

“Possibly he over-emphasizes the accentuation of the speculative instinct as one of the results of the war, but there can be but little disposition to question the accuracy and essential fairness of the pictures he draws of the conditions which prevailed, north and south, from the assassination of Lincoln to the election of Hayes.”

“As to quality the general average is good, and some of the volumes, marked by more originality than could be expected in others, contain distinct contributions to historical knowledge. Out of this comes, however, a certain unevenness of treatment ... and the inequality which comes from having succeeding volumes from men who have different points of view.” John Spencer Bassett.

Harting, James Edmund.Recreations of a naturalist. $4.50. Wessels.

“The writer of the ‘Recreations’ gets much that is stimulating to himself and to his readers out of a marsh walk in May. With notebook in hand he sees and records things that might otherwise easily be overlooked or forgotten. When the enthusiast thus writes down the things that appeal to him because he writes under the spell of enthusiasm he makes the story read with all the greater zest.”—Ind.

“Mr. Harting’s flowing and easy style renders these chapters very agreeable reading, and a considerable amount of information is therein afforded on sport and natural history, often in association with antiquarian research.”

“These ‘Recreations’ may be cordially recommended to the lover of nature as a companion on his summer holidays.” F.

“There is a certain dryness about Mr. Harting’s style of writing, and for this reason he is at his best when he has learning to impart.”

Harvard studies in classical philology; ed. by a committee of the instructors in classics. Harvard univ., Cambridge, Mass.

Among these informing studies are the following: An unrecognized actor in Greek comedy,The battle of Salamis, The origin of Plato’s cave, Notes on Vitruvius, The dramatic art of Aeschylus, The use of the high-soled shoe or buskin, and Five new manuscripts of Donatus on Terence.

“A good specimen of the general character of those preceding it, perhaps more than usually interesting, because it deals more with questions of history and literature, and less with speculations.” R. Y. Tyrrell.

“An especially interesting series of papers in literature as well as in technical scholarship.”

*Harvey society, New York.Harvey lectures delivered under the auspices of the Harvey society of New York. *$2. Lippincott.

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Thirteen lectures given before the Harvey society, an association of physicians organized for the purpose of making the work of investigation better known to the practitioner. “The range of subjects is wide, from the implantation of the ovum to old age.... Even the general reader, not altogether unversed in science, will find it worth while to examine the lectures on trypanosomes, fatigue, tuberculosis, the cause of the heart-beat, and possibly one or two more.” (Nation.)

“The volume constitutes a most valuable collection of first-hand information given by some of the most prominent investigators in this country and Europe.” Victor C. Vaughan.

*Harwood, Edith.Notable pictures in Rome. *$1.50. Dutton.

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Numerous illustrations and an alphabetical list of artists represented in Rome increase the reference value of the book. It “aims to furnish the visitor to that city with a guide by which he can find, and which will help him to understand and appreciate, the important pictures in the galleries, churches, and palaces. The author’s method is to indicate the causes which led to the production of the painting and to tell something of the personality of the artist. Then she describes the work itself and its meaning, with occasional extracts from famous critics.” (N. Y. Times.)

“As a guide this book might be of great use in Rome. But the unwary must be warned against some of the writer’s fanciful ideas.”

*Harwood, William Sumner.New creations in plant life: an authoritative account of the life and work of Luther Burbank. 2d ed. **$1.75. Macmillan.

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An intimate account of the life, scientific achievements and methods of the foremost plant-breeder in the world. The appearance of this second edition is justified by the facts that Mr. Burbank vouches for the statements both scientific and practical made in the volume, that the interest in the man and his work has steadily increased since the first edition appeared, and that a “closer study of the work during the period since the book was first issued demonstrates that this is one of the greatest constructive enterprises ever established among men.”

Haskell, Helen Eggleston.Billy’s princess. $1.25. Page.

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Billy was a boy of ten who ran away from the boarding house after his mother had been carried off to the sanitarium, and his princess was the little French girl whom he found on the streets and befriended to the extent of buying her new clothes with his savings and entertaining her lavishly in his drygoods box home. Then after he had prospered at his trade of news boy he found kind aunts who took him to England to be educated, and who promised the princess that they would some day bring him back to her.

Hasluck, Paul Nooncree, ed. Cassell’s carpentry and joinery: comprising notes on materials, processes, principles, and practice, including about 1800 engravings and 12 plates. $3. McKay.

A practical, exhaustive treatment of the subject with full description of tools and processes commonly found in daily use in the workshop.

Hasluck, Paul Nooncree, ed. Metal working: a book of tools, materials, and processes for the handyman; 2206 il. and working drawings. $2.50. McKay.

Very nearly eight hundred pages are devoted to the practical phases of metal-working, the theory being discussed only where it is an essential preliminary to principle underlying a method, a process or the action of a tool. The scope of the book embraces the whole art of working metals with hand tools and with such simple machine tools as the small engineering shop usually contains.

Hasluck, Paul Nooncree, ed. Woodworking: a book of tools, materials, and processes for the handyman; with 2545 il. and working drawings. $2.50. McKay.

An exhaustive presentation of woodworking. “The book is intended for all those who would handle tools and who, by the use of them, wish to furnish the home and to profit their pockets. The treatment adopted throughout is simple and practical, and there has been a consistent endeavor to combine accurate information, with clear and definite instruction.”

Hastings, James, ed. Dictionary of Christ and the gospels. $6. Scribner.

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v. 1.“This volume extends from ‘Aaron’ to ‘Knowledge,’ and the work when completed will ‘include everything that the gospels contain, whether directly related to Christ or not.’”—Ath.

“Apart from varieties of opinion, which are inevitable where many contributors are concerned, the dictionary is a scholarly work, which ought to foster learning among the preachers for whom it is written.”

“To sum up our judgment on this work, we would say that, from the standpoint of a rather strict conservative scholarship, it is a highly creditable accomplishment; and that it will be of great service to students and preachers whose opinions are free from a tendency to radicalism.”

“Is learned and decidedly conservative, and is adapted for both the exegetic and homiletic use of the preacher.”

“It will, no doubt, be objected against the ‘Dictionary of Christ and the gospels’ that it contains some otiose matter, such as the somewhat inferior discussion of ‘Art,’ which takes us little if at all further than Westcott’s familiar essay. But equally it will be admitted that the preacher’s purpose is better served than it has ever been before. The articles have a tendency to make him think, and, in so far, they earn the gratitude of his congregation.”

“The work contains, in the first place, an intolerable amount of extraneous and irrelevant matter. A far more serious defect is thechoice of writers of a decidedly reactionary point of view for articles on important subjects.”

“Undoubtedly the work contains a great deal that is of value. But it is not to be compared in value with the ‘Dictionary of the Bible.’ And the minister who already possesses that dictionary, and who has not very much money to spend on books, will not find this later work indispensable.”

“The principal criticism indeed that we have to make on this volume is that both editor and contributors have tried too much to be complete; there are too many articles and they are too long.”

“Criticism, history, geography, and other matters have not been neglected, but as a whole the book is of a distinctly practical character.”

Hatch, F. H., and Corstorphine, George Steuart.Geology of South Africa. *$7. Macmillan.

Descriptive note in December, 1905.

“The book contains some details that were hardly intended for the student so far away as America, and on the other hand, many general points of vital interest are passed over all too briefly. This is especially true of the physical history and dynamical problems of the region. Nevertheless, the volume is a valuable and welcome summary of the geology of this distant land.” J. E. C.

Reviewed by W. M. D.

Hattersley, C. W.Uganda by pen and camera; with preface by T. F. Victor Buxton. $1. Union press.

In which is reflected the progress made by this African province during the years since Stanley’s visit. The author shows how the journey is made from London, describes the natives, their government, religion, schools, the work of missionaries and the results of Christianity.

Haultmont, Marie.By the royal road. *$1.60. Herder.

“The church of Rome is here presented as ‘the living church.’ ... The heroine is a high church member of the English establishment by education, but passes through scepticism to the Catholic fold, while two or three of the most attractive characters remain Protestants. The lively narrative is mainly concerned with provincial society and family life as affected by mixed attachments and marriages between French and English Catholics and Protestants.”—Ath.

“Considerable taste and skill are displayed in structure and characterization and the style occasionally recalls Charlotte Yonge’s work.”

“A good English novel of the old Miss Austen family sitting-room type, written by a woman who understands women, and does not strive to carry her analysis of the masculine soul much below the surface.”

Havell, Herbert Lorde.Tales from Herodotus. 60c. Crowell.

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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Haw, George, ed. Christianity and the working classes. $1.50. Macmillan.

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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Hawk, Philip B.Practical physiological chemistry. il. *$4. Blakiston.

“Written for students of medicine and general science, who have already secured a good groundwork in the more fundamental branches of chemistry, and presents a very good outline of those facts of physiological chemistry which may be clearly demonstrated in a laboratory course. While the title might be taken to indicate that the work is a laboratory manual only, this is by no means the case, as many of the discussions are full enough to constitute a general treatise on the subject.”—Science.

“Although there is nothing strikingly original in his presentation of the subject, the book he has produced is free from error, is clearly written, is practical, and sufficiently full for most purposes.” W. D. H.

“Most of [the tests] are clearly described, and are full enough for working conditions, but in a few cases the value to the student would be greatly increased by the addition of fuller explanations.” J. H. Long.

Hawker, Mary Elizabeth (Lanoe Falconer, pseud.).Old Hampshire vignettes. $1. Macmillan.

“Twenty-three very short chapters present ‘The valley’ and a score or more of its odd and interesting inhabitants. These portraits are the slightest of thumb-nail sketches.”—Dial.

“She has wit and insight and that quality gratefully and instantly recognized, yet difficult to label, the quality of saying just the thing that should be said in just the words that should express it.”

“They are newspaper articles of a superior sort, and very pleasantly written, and full of the pathos and humours of the village.”

“Daintily executed, and touched with life and reality.”

“The writer has attempted, for the most part, to catch her pose or quality on the wing as it were; and it says much for her skill that she has almost always succeeded. If she fails it is because her sketch is sometimes so slight as to be almost evanescent; but in most cases she has swiftly touched off the humour or the oddity and bathed the people meanwhile in an atmosphere of tenderest banter.”

“Miss Hawker has taste, feeling, exquisite nicety. Beyond all doubt she writes of village character better than anyone has written since George Eliot. No one comes near her in her combination of crystal clearness, fine point, discrimination and simplicity. Where she is wanting, of course, is in dramatic power.”

Hawkes, Clarence.Little water-folks: stories of lake and river. †75c. Crowell.

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Dedicated to the boy who sees, these stories sketch intimately the habits of water-dwellers, among them muskrats, otters, frogs, water-weasels, and turtles.

“It is like living in the open to read the stories.”

Hawkes, Clarence.Shaggycoat; the biography of a beaver.$1.25. Jacobs.

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