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A slight story steeped in the atmosphere, the mystery, the fascination of the Algerian desert. An English nobleman falls in with the whims of his wife who must be amused and takes her to the edge of the Algerian desert. While he hunts Barbary sheep, she succumbs to the wiles of an Arab army officer who practices his hypnotic arts upon her. It is a daring bit of romantic color that Mr. Hichens flings upon his canvas.
“It is merely a small thing supremely well done.” Edward Clark Marsh.
“As for the style and proportions of the narrative. they suggest ... a distinct advance in the art of the novelist. The purple passages of description are few and not over-long; and there is a general abstention from ‘piling on the agony.’”
“Hardly reaches the dignity of a novel either in length or substance.”
“On the whole, not a pleasant tale.”
Hichens, Robert Smythe.Call of the blood.†$1.50. Harper.
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“When the emotional impulse is lacking, his ideas become singularly dull and his manner quite without distinction. But at the first sting of sensation, the style leaps into vitality; and if always deficient in a certain finality of touch, it continually delights with its resiliency and exuberance.” Harry James Smith.
“In respect of scene-painting, dramatic construction, and emotional force alike, the book deserves unusual praise.” Wm. M. Payne.
“On the whole we think that in ‘The call of the blood’ Mr. Hichens’s aim as a romancer and his aim as a novelist were at odds.” Edith Baker Brown.
*Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.Life and times of Stephen Higginson. **$2. Houghton.
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Here is offered a clear insight into the character of Stephen Higginson and also into post-revolutionary times at Boston. His prominence in New England councils both before and after the revolution, the importance of the “Laco” letters, his career as shipmaster, merchant, patriot and politician are all emphasized in the sketch.
“The attractive touch of the amateur, so noticeable in all of Colonel Higginson’s writings, is peculiarly well adapted to these memorials of his Federalist grandfather.”
“A book which though largely a compilation from correspondence and official records, is alive with human interest from the first to the last of its gracefully written pages.”
“There is much material in the letters published in this volume which has an important bearing on the manners and politics of that day.”
Higinbotham, Harlow Niles.Making of a merchant. $1.50. Forbes.
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“The book before us is unlikely to prove of the slightest value to anybody.”
“The book is full of good business advice, and is especially to be recommended to young business men.” George M. Fisk.
Hildreth, Richard.Japan as it was and is. 2v. *$3. McClurg.
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“To this day Richard Hildreth’s book (published in 1855) gives the best pictures of Japan as seen by the various early travelers.”
“Had our diplomatists and merchants and missionaries studied Hildreth many costly errors would have been avoided.”
Hildrup, Jessie S.Missions of California and the old Southwest; with 35 il. from photographs. **$1. McClurg.
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An interesting account of the old missions and settlements of the days of Spanish rule. “This is the sort of a book that one loves to pick up and linger over. The profuse and well-executed illustrations catch the eye, the narrative is full of interest, and the historical chapters are brief and accurate, and evidence considerable study.” (Cath. World.)
“It is a bright, popular treatment of the theme, very thoroughly and sympathetically done.”
Hilgard, Eugene Woldemar.Soils, their formation, properties, composition and relations to climate and plant growth in the humid, and arid regions. *$4. Macmillan.
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“Professor Hilgard’s book, in broad outline, deals with the origin and formation, the physics and the chemistry, of soils, and with native vegetation as an aid to the study of the agricultural value of soils.”—Engin. N.
“The section of the most value to engineers as a class is the one on the ‘Physics of soils.’”
“The book is a little heavy for classroom use. It contains a larger number of printers’ errors than ought to exist. Yet, when all is said, there is so much valuable matter packed into its six hundred pages ... that it remains indispensable.”
“This volume should be introduced to a much wider circle of students than those of the agricultural colleges generally. It will be found well suited to serve as the foundation of important seminars in chemistry, in geology and especially in plant physiology and ecology.” F. H. King.
Hill, Constance.House in St. Martin’s street. **$7. Lane.
“The subject of Miss Hill’s book is the Burney family in the last of their London homes; that is, from the autumn of 1774 to the spring of 1783. The author has been fortunate enough to obtain new material in the shape of unpublished letters from the Burney Mss.; and she has also had the use of a copy of Madame D’Arblay’s ‘Diary and letters’ annotated by a granddaughter of its first editor. By interweaving with the new matter passages from the ‘Early diary,’ the ‘Memoirs of Dr. Burney’ and other printed sources dealing with the Burney and Thrale circle, she has produced a most agreeable volume of handsome appearance.”—Ath.
“If its pages sometimes repeat what should be a familiar tale, they also illustrate and supplement it.” S. M. Francis.
“Granted the limitations of her method and of her present opportunity, she deserves nothing but praise for her conscientious and capable investigation of the resources at her command and for her judicious selection and arrangement of her well-chosen material.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
“Miss Constance Hill writes of the happy little household with all her wonted grace, and the book abounds in quotations from diaries and other documents, hitherto unpublished, and is further enriched with charming illustrations.”
“Of the tribe of gentlewomen who are exploiting the eighteenth century at their ease, Miss Hill is the least amateurish and most entertaining.”
“Miss Constance Hill has made the happy discovery of a new lode in the Burney mine.”
“She has little to tell us that we do not already know. Her stories have been told a hundred times.”
Hill, David Jayne.History of diplomacy in the international development of Europe. 6v. ea. **$5. Longmans.
v. 2.The establishment of the territorial sovereignty.
“Having shown how the struggle between the Empire and the Papacy gave room and occasion for the rise of national monarchies, Dr. Hill now proceeds to trace the evolution of the modern state through the warring efforts of these monarchies to attain, if not supremacy as conceived in the earlier ideal of universal dominion, at least primacy; and their subsequent adjustment to a system of balanced and co-ordinate power based upon the principle of territorial sovereignty.”—Outlook.
“Should take rank among the best of our books of reference.” George L. Burr.
“In effect, then, Mr. Hill seems to the reviewer to have just arrived at the true beginning of his task—to have expanded in one volume, and in all but one chapter of the second, matter that might have been described and analysed in an introduction of reasonable length.” E. D. Adams.
“The book is little more than a résumé of general history from a particular standpoint. We do not say that the thing was not worth doing, for the book is both readable and accurate, and the author keeps fairly close to international interests.”
“It is perhaps, the most meritorious characteristic of Mr. Hill’s work that he shows a good sense of proportion.”
“As a history of Europe mainly from the point of view of international relations, Mr. Hill’s work possesses conspicuous merits; but it has only a very limited value for the student of diplomacy.”
“It is ... a history of diplomacy without the dry and technical features that usually characterize works indicated by this title.”
“By any other name than diplomacy, it would have smelled as much of the lamp.”
“The book covers an interesting period of the world’s history; it is an honest, able, and well-told story.” Wm. E. Dodd.
“As before, Dr. Hill’s tone is admirably impartial and his treatment scholarly. But the promise of that volume is hardly so well fulfilled in the matter of narrative, which is somewhat lacking in the ease and freshness exhibited in the account of the crude diplomacy of the earlier centuries, and is, it seems to us, overburdened with detail.”
“Misstatements of detail here and there, bear witness of shortcoming. It represents extraordinarily wide reading in both primary and derived sources; its matter is set forth always conscientiously and often effectively. It may be read with profit.” Earle W. Dow.
“The second volume maintains the high scholarly standard set by the first.”
“The reader receives the impression that Dr. Hill selected his subject, set himself to work up the necessary background of history, and found this so novel and engrossing that he felt it must be presented, and as a result, lost sight of his central theme.” Guy Stanton Ford.
Hill, Frederick Trevor.Decisive battles of the law. **$2.25. Harper.
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In this volume are described the great legal contests which have proven to be of the deepest significance in the history of our country. That the full historic value may be appreciated the scene is vitalized and peopled with the human beings who dominated it—the judges, the jury, the witnesses, the lawyers and the laymen. Among the eight “decisive battles” thus presented are the following: the United States vs. Callender: a fight for the freedom of the press; The commonwealth vs. Brown: the prelude to the civil war; and The impeachment of Andrew Johnson: a historic moot case.
“Mr. Hill is not only a well-read lawyer, but also a writer who knows how to make his narrative clear, direct, and often in a high degree dramatic.”
“So well does he succeed in humanizing dry records of legal procedure that the readers become, as it were, listening spectators. Few writers upon legal topics have acquired so masterly a skill in narration.”
Hill, Frederick Trevor.Lincoln the lawyer. **$2. Century.
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“Mr. Hill has undoubtedly rendered a conspicuous and important service.” Floyd R. Mechem.
“This is an extremely interesting and well-written work, a contribution of real value to the already voluminous literature dealing with the life of the great Emancipator. There isone criticism that we think can be justly made. The author lays far too much stress and importance, in our judgment, on Lincoln’s legal training, and attributes a value to it out of all proportion to the proper relation it bears to the action of the great and single-hearted statesman.”
“Mr. Hill has done the public and the profession a favor in showing how it came about that Mr. Lincoln was one of the great lawyers of this country.”
“No one familiar with the qualities which the legal profession demands and generates in its best representatives needs to be told how much of Lincoln’s strength in the presidency resulted from that daily exercise which the practice of law had provided. It is the special virtue of Mr. Hill’s book that it will bring home to many readers this important fact, and will help them to realize what a great man and a great profession may owe to each other.” M. A. DeWolfe Howe.
Hill, George Birkbeck.Letters of George Birkbeck Hill, arranged by his daughter, Lucy Crump. *$3.50. Longmans.
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A subjective view is afforded in these letters of a man whose chief literary service was rendered thru his edition of Boswell’s Johnson. Unassuming candor and sincerity create an atmosphere in which can be made a sympathetic study of the leader and scholar.
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow.
“His letters, here collected by his daughter, will interest all readers who care to know something of the man, his life, and his work from day to day.”
“This is one of the best examples that have been given to the public of that now popular form of biography which allows its subject to speak for himself by means of letters.”
Hill, George Francis.Historical Greek coins. *$2.50. Macmillan.
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“We can speak with great satisfaction of the interest of the book, which is written with caution and sanity.”
“As an elementary treatise it presents the subject in a clear, straightforward style, unhampered by details, yet with some attention to the historical problems involved. In some cases the reader may be unwilling to accept the author’s view.”
Hill, George W.Collected mathematical works. (Carnegie inst. of Washington publications.) 4v. ea. $2.50. Carnegie inst.
Dr. Hill’s valuable contributions to practical astronomy are collected here, covering seventeen hundred pages. Among his best known papers are those which set forth his theory of the moon’s motion and the theory of Jupiter and Saturn.
Reviewed by R. A. S.
“It is, indeed, difficult to overstate the interest of the whole volume—at least, to those occupied in the subjects treated of.” R. A. S.
Reviewed by E. W. B.
Hill, Headon, pseud. (Francis Edward Grainger).The avengers. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
To free her lover from an insane asylum, a young heiress searches out his double, offers him ample remuneration to assume insanity, become an inmate of the asylum, exchange places with the lover and help the latter to escape. The one feigning insanity finds the other too hopelessly mad to execute the commission; so after a few weeks goes forth himself, weds the girl, who supposes him to be her rescued lover, and then the complications begin which involve a vendetta meant for the man shut away in the “refractory cell” but which in reality menaces the life and happiness of the innocent double. The tangle is straightened by the death of the real maniac.
“Immaturity marks the treatment of an idea which promises well.”
Hill, Marion.Pettison twins. †$1.50. McClure.
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A mother, who with the best of intentions strives to bring up her children according to the rigid ideas put forth in child-study books, meets with unexpected set backs due to the vigorous personalities of Rex and Regina, confronting her with problems not dealt by the editor. A series of amusing stories full of gentle sarcasm is the result.
“We defy any one whose sense of humor is not submerged to resist a laugh at Marion Hills fun over the Pettison twins and Fanny Y. Cory’s pictures of them.”
Hilliers, Ashton.Fanshawe of the Fifth; being memoirs of a person of quality. †$1.50. McClure.
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“Those who relish Besant’s novels, with their quiet movement, gentle sentiment, and abundance of detail, will be apt to like ‘Fanshawe of the fifth.’ The hero, who tells the story of his own life, is the younger son of a noble family. Not succeeding in the army, for which he was intended, he works his way to success through many hardships and perils. There is plenty of adventure.”—N. Y. Times.
“The episodes Mr. Hilliers handles with great skill, but he is somewhat at fault in the process of co-ordination. The author’s study of the period must have been profound, and he has absorbed the spirit of the times with remarkable ability. His narrative is thus convincing, except in the London part, which reads almost like a piece of Dickensian caricature.”
“A book to be cordially commended to the consideration of the discriminating few.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“It offers us the real thing, as distinguished from the artificial fabrication of the novelist who ‘gets up’ his subject.” Wm. M. Payne.
“But to be enjoyed, it is a book that must be read at leisure, and when you are in a congenial mood.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“Without affectation, it has a pleasant flavour of sedate Georgian prose, and its polish and lucidity reflect the best qualities of that period.”
“The plot is interesting and well sustained, and there are several characters drawn with dramatic insight. It has much quiet charm and is written in a style of marked distinction.”
“The eighteenth-century manner is well sustained without affectation or strained elegance, the style being indeed throughout of conspicuous and consistent treatment. The series of adventures and experiences ... are admirably conceived and described and the characters, if not brilliant pieces of portraiture, are effective and real.”
“The long scenario of Mr. Hilliers’ romance given on his title-page prepares the reader for something unconventional and unusual, and these expectations are richly fulfilled in the contents of this admirably written and engrossing romance.”
Hillis, Newell Dwight.Fortune of the republic. **$1.20. Revell.
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Sturdy optimism is shown thruout these essays and addresses. In the course of his travels thru every state and territory of the Union, Dr. Hillis has found that “‘any darkness there is on the horizon is morning twilight and not evening twilight.’ This evidence is summed up in the growth of the religious spirit, the increasing popularization of education and culture, and the passing of sectionalism. Dr. Hillis believes that everything points to a still greater America.” (Outlook.)
“Such thinking and such writing furnish the soil that will forever produce corruption in business and in politics. Fortunately, it may be said that the optimism, which the author says has been forced upon him by much travel and by the pressure of events, is not the kind that the leading pulpiteers of the country are meeting in their travels and are being forced by the pressure of events to preach to their congregations.” William H. Allen.
“In a word, his book makes for religious and intellectual betterment and for a whole-hearted, robust patriotism that must be up and doing.”
Hilprecht, Hermann Vollrat, ed. Babylonian expedition of the University of Pennsylvania. Series A. Cuneiform texts. $6. Dept. of Archaeology of Univ. of Pennsylvania, Phil.
v. 6. pt. 1.Legal and business documents from the time of the first dynasty of Babylon, chiefly from Shippar; by Hermann Ranke. An interesting collection of tablets preceded by a scholarly introduction.
v. 20. pt. 1.Mathematical, metrological, and chronological tablets from the temple library of Nippur. This volume contains “an unusually large number of tablets which may be called the school exercises of a temple school.... There are over thirty including multiplication tables, division tables and square roots.... The metrological texts ... have value. More important is a single tablet containing a dynastic list of some of the kings of Ur and Isin.”—(Ind.)
“[The] work has been done in an exceptionally satisfactory manner.”
“The work is done in a thoro and scholarly way with abundant credit to other scholars as shown by the multitude of citations.”
“The value of the entire material is impaired because of the lack of frank and honest statements with regard to the place of discovery and the environments of that material. So far as the actual publication of texts is concerned, Professor Hilprecht’s work seems to be admirably done.”
Hilty, Carl.Steps of life, further essays on happiness; tr. by Melvin Brandow. *$1.25. Macmillan.