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A book for the amateur. It aims “to assist the tyro or the ordinary collector who may be the fortunate possessor of some fine work upon Chinese porcelain.” It discusses the glazes and enamels, figures and symbols, periods and date-marks.
“A careful study of her brief and accurately worded chapters should enable the beginner to view collections, classify his own specimens, and buy others, with a fair amount of intelligence; and this is more than he could do after perusing many more ambitious but less systematic treatises.”
Hoffding, Harald.Philosophy of religion. *$3. Macmillan.
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“Apart from the main argument of the book there are many criticisms and suggestions of real insight and power.”
“And no one who is aware of the perplexities of the religious mood can read his sympathetic interpretation of its meaning without being grateful for this balanced and well-ordered statement of his conclusions.” J. B. Baillie.
“A work of rare philosophical perspicacity and broad religious sympathy.”
“We do not think that Professor Hoffding possesses the necessary qualifications to write a philosophy of religion. He is a psychologist. He is distinguished in philosophy. But it needs more than this and other gifts than this to write on Christianity. And neither the sympathy nor the theological learning requisite is found in Dr. Hoffding’s book.”
Hofmann, Ottokar.Hydrometallurgy of silver, with special reference to chloridizing roasting of silver ores and the extraction of silver by hyposulphite and cyanide solutions. $4. Hill pub. co.
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“The book is divided into two parts, of which the first deals with chloridizing roasting of silver ores (154 pages), the second with the extraction of the silver (174 pages). The author points out in the preface that in the hydrometallurgical process for the extraction of silver from complex sulphide ores, the final result depends entirely on the quality of the roasting.”—Engin. N.
“On the whole, the book is well written, in an easy and interesting style, and even if the hypo-sulphite method has seen its day, this volume will be read with interest.” Bradley Stoughton.
Hogg, Ethel M.Quintin Hogg: a biography; with a preface by the Duke of Argyll. *$1.50. Dutton.
A popular edition of the biography of Quintin Hogg which sketches his life and work in the London slums. See volume one of theBook Review Digest.
“The book is too long and contains much that is trivial and unworthy of publication, but as a whole it is a stimulating account of a noble, self-sacrificing life.”
Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chlodwig Karl Victor, prince von.Memoirs of Prince Chlodwig of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst; tr. by G: W. Chrystal. **$6. Macmillan.
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On the stage which is created by these memoirs, Prince Bismarck is well to the fore. “Prince Hohenlohe says very characteristically that while Bismarck was in power he dominated all, but after his retirement other and smaller personalities swelled like sponges. The light shed on the negotiations preceding the Franco-Prussian war are of historical value. The account of the plenipotentiaries who met to discuss what afterward became the Treaty of Berlin is described with acuteness of vision, and there are many other portions of the book that cannot fail to command attention.” (Acad.)
“Students of politics will no doubt toil conscientiously through the nine hundred odd pages, but we question whether any one will make this exploration for pleasure.”
“The index is as imperfect as is unfortunately usual, but in several cases shows that slips in the text are not to be attributed to the translator—except, indeed, that proofs should have been more carefully corrected.”
“If the Hohenlohe memoirs do nothing more than arouse men in power to the sacredness of their trust, they will serve an excellent purpose.”
“The chief source of regret is that Prince von Hohenlohe did not live to supervise the preparation of the work; in that case those elements that have provoked censure would doubtless have been omitted, and the whole work rounded out into a biography in the ordinary sense of the term.” Lewis A. Rhoades.
“The experienced old diplomat would unquestionably have excised many an indiscretion which the editor has allowed to remain—not diplomatic indiscretions, be it understood, but amusing personalities.”
“Written in a crisp, epigrammatical style, they present some interesting flash-lights on the history of Europe during the most important part of the nineteenth century. There is lack of continuity in the book, however.”
“The instant success of scandal which these memoirs attained has resulted in obscuring even their true personal interest. The English translation, so far as we have been able to test it, appears to be fairly satisfactory. It betrays signs of haste, and the printing, especially of French is carelessly done.”
“Though in the main hard to read, they repay the trouble. It cannot be honestly said that Chlodwig Prince Hohenlohe shines in its pages either as man or politician.” Wolf von Schierbrand.
“It shares the faults of the German edition—long-windedness and futile digression—and has a full sufficiency of faults of its own, particularly in the spelling of German words.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
“The greater bulk is of interest only to the special student.” George Louis Beer.
“Is to be recommended without reserve to all students of European history not by reason of any startling revelations it contains, for it contains none, but because it throws much light on a complicated and important series of events and is the record of an upright, courageous and far-seeing statesman.”
*Hohler, Venetia. (Mrs. Edwin Hohler).Peter: a Christmas story. †$1.25. Dutton.
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“Little Sir Peter Moberley is as charming as little Lord Fauntleroy, and Bill, his ugly pet, the huge and gentle bulldog, is one of the most fascinating of dream-hounds.”—Ath.
“The child-lover will delight in ‘Peter;’ we do not feel sure that the child himself will be greatly attracted.”
“Is worth while.”
*Holbach, Maude M.Dalmatia: the land where the East meets the West. *$1.50. Lane.
A first-hand series of sketches, descriptive and historical of the principal places along the Dalmatian coast. “The architectural glutton has an almost unending feast prepared for him.... The same may be said of all the Mediterranean littoral; but the unique position of this rich coast peopled by a brave race and the home of successive civilisations but little changed by modern conquests must of necessity spell the survival of much that is picturesque and local to the artist.” (Spec.)
“It is so easy to be accurate, careful—and tedious. Mrs. Holbach is certainly the two former, and narrowly escapes being the last.”
“One can hardly glance over these fifty or more plates without at once being seized with a wild desire to start upon an Adriatic trip.”
“In one or two respects it offers hostages to criticism; the style is a little unskilful ... the scholarship is sometimes imperfect. But apart from these blemishes, which can be easily removed, the volume is attractive and entertaining.”
“Mrs. Holbach’s account of ‘the land where East meets West’ is picturesque, her description of its people and places of interest being admirably supplemented by the numerous illustrations.”
Holdich, Sir Thomas Hungerford.Tibet, the mysterious. **$3. Stokes.
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“The immediate interest in the Tibetan situation is sufficiently acute to demand a handbook which will serve both as an introduction to and a summary of the various expeditions and travels, and of the geographical and political features of that well-nigh impregnable land. Such a book is ‘Tibet the mysterious.’ Colonel Holdich, although not an explorer or traveller in Tibet, has made an exhaustive investigation of all the literature relating to that country, and has summarized his studies in an accurate and systematic manner. For those who wish to plunge ‘in medias res’ concerning Tibet, his book will be most acceptable.”—Dial.
“A volume in every way worthy of the series.”
“While the casual reader may wish that the names of the places were less difficult and the different routes less confusing, yet after the first few chapters the book holds the interest.” Lurena Wilson Tower.
“We fear that in the preparation of this volume he did not sufficiently realize that his acquaintance with the details had become a little rusty. We mention these circumstances as the only explanation we can think of for so experienced a geographer lapsing into inaccuracies.”
“These minor errors, however, detract but little from the otherwise scholarly work of the author, which will be held in high esteem as a general reference-book for the history of exploration and travel in Tibet.” H. E. Coblentz.
“The book is marred by repetitions, and in a second edition the author should avoid as poison the iteration, if not the subjects, of tea, dogs, and ants.”
“The present account is disappointing in that its information is neither very trustworthy nor up-to-date. It would be pleasant to be able to congratulate the author on the illustrations, but nearly all of these we have seen elsewhere before. They are not very closely connected with the letterpress nor are the landscapes very characteristic whilst some of them are not what they profess to be.” L. A. W.
“It is a serious, well-written treatise, worked out from the point of view of the scientist who would contribute something of practical and general value and interest. As a reference book of all expeditions into the ‘forbidden land’ it will be found most comprehensive and convenient.”
*Holland, Clive.Old and new Japan; 50 col. pictures by Montagu Smith. **$5 Dutton.
“The text leads open the way for some specially good illustration; for Mr. Holland has much to say about the superstitions, legends, and stories of Japan concerning the national spirit of Japan and her legendary genesis, concerning Japan’s religions, her Buddhist and Shinto temples and ancient shrines, concerning the quaint, pathetic, and beautiful Japanese festivals, concerning Japanese gardens, old and new, and the life of the country folk.”—Outlook.
“An authoritative book.”
“This is just the book and these just the illustrations to make one who has not seen Japan long to see it, and to make the one who has sojourned in Japan long to return.”
*Holland, Clive.Things seen in Egypt. *75c. Dutton.
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An “expanded Baedeker” containing interesting chapters on Egyptian life, monuments and scenery.
“A little more study on certain points would have improved the treatment and given it a greater value.”
“Contains much of general interest, and is well written.”
“It is a handy, convenient size, a small quarto, and altogether a most attractive little book.”
Holland, Clive.Things seen in Japan. *75c. Dutton.
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“A little book about as big as a man’s hand, richly illustrated with Underwood’s photographs, which is full of chat about things and folk seen in Dai Nippon.”—Ind.
“A pleasant hour may be spent with this author, who touches only the surface of things, but that very pleasantly.”
“This is a small volume, but it contains admirably arranged and well-written accounts of much that is essential and characteristic.”
Holland, Clive.Wessex; painted by Walter Tyndale; described by Clive Holland. *$6. Macmillan.
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“For a guide-book it is too heavy in bulk and too full of irrelevant matter; for a serious history it is too ill-arranged and indefinite.”
Holliday, Carl.History of southern literature. $2.50. Neale.
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The purpose of Mr. Holliday’s volume is “to make a study of the various literary movements and their results, and to show that the writings of this section are not merely disconnected efforts of isolated thinkers, but, rather, the natural, logical, and continuous productions of a people differing so materially in views and sentiments from their neighbors on the north that even civil war was necessary to prevent their becoming separate nations.” The subject is treated under the following headings: The beginnings, The period of national consciousness, The revolutionary period, The period of expansion, The civil war period, and The new South.
“Not to mince words, it contains 400 pages of elegantly printed platitudes, and little else except an occasional quotation. Apparently, however, the author has been industrious in the collection and careful in the verification of his data, and his work, with its good index and bibliography, should make an excellent reference book for mere facts.”
“As a critic he is quite without authority and almost equally lacking in insight. He makes some astonishing misstatements.”
“Seems to be a carefully prepared work.”
*Holman, Frederick Van Voorhies.Dr. John McLoughlin: the father of Oregon.*$2.50. Clark, A. H.
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A great deal of Oregon’s pioneer history is included in this sketch. After the coalition of the Northwest company, which McLoughlin had joined, and the Hudson bay company, he was engaged to manage the company’s interests in Oregon. His work which finally led up to American occupation makes an interesting personal account as well as an informing historical document.
Holme, Charles, ed. Old English country cottages. *$2.50. Lane.
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“An attempt to preserve some record of these antique buildings that form one of the chief charms of rural England. They are dealt with in the text by counties.... Some 135 pen-and-ink drawings by Mr. Sidney R. Jones, depicting general views and architectural detail with charm and marked artistic skill, are scattered through the text; and in addition there are fifteen beautiful full-page plates in color, after paintings by Mrs. Allingham and others.”—Dial.
“While no attempt has been made to cover the subject thoroughly, a most interesting general outline has been achieved.”
“The two hundred drawings of old English cottages form a record at once useful and interesting.”
Holmes, Daniel Henry.Pedlar’s pack. $5. E. D. North, 4 E. 39th st., N. Y.
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Ninety clever short poems which the author declares are intended to help a “tired man to kill a Sunday,” but they are really better than their mission implies.
“It is, indeed, the temperament of the painter blessed with humor, the temperament of the ‘limb of the spectrum,’ that gives effectiveness to Mr. Holmes’s work.”
Holmes, Gordon.Late tenant.$1.50. Clode, E. J.
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“A bronze young man who has spent his youth on a Wyoming ranch and has gone to London to grow rich and famous ‘in the city,’ rents a furnished apartment in Eddystone Mansions, and there you are. You smell violets, you hear the swish of trailing garments, you get tangled up in the most extraordinary ‘affair.’... There are missing papers to be plotted for, there are serving women to be bribed, there are mad drives in hansom cabs, with the hero on the driver’s perch and the speed regulations of the greatest city in the world set at naught. There are love scenes, hand-to-hand struggles in the dark, dramatic tableau of marriage settlements interrupted, and a dropping of the curtain on the tragic finish of a misguided life.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a story in the ‘genre’ which Miss Brandon popularized and which, whatever may be said by the realists, has never entirely lost favor.”
“It is, in short, too much like the ordinary mystery story by, say, Fergus Hume. Yet if you open the book you will read it through unless something or somebody very important interrupts.”
“In the present tale he has grown less clever than he was in ‘The Arncliffe puzzle,’ but he has not ceased to be clever.”
Holt, Byron W., comp. Gold supply and prosperity. *$1. Moody corporation.
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“An able introduction and conclusion by the author, with a symposium of twenty-two papers by leading authorities on various phases of the gold supply question, make up an interesting and attractive book. In summing up the statements in the various papers of this symposium the following points are brought out: First, that for many years the output of gold will increase rapidly; second, that, therefore, adepreciation in the value of gold will inevitably result.... Like several books, which have appeared during the past few years, the author takes one item, in this case the gold supply, and attempts to show that ‘all the ills that flesh is heir to’ arise from this one cause.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“It is not the part of wisdom to state that all of our problems can be traced to such an artificial thing as the gold supply. On the whole, however, the book is well written, and represents a valuable compilation of knowledge in this field.”
Holt, Henry.On the civic relations. *$1.75. Houghton.
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Mr. Holt’s “Talks on civics” has been “much amplified, modernized and actualized” (Putnam’s) to produce the present revised edition. The book has been written in the hope of “doing a little something to develop in young people a character of mind which is proof against political quackery—especially the quackery which proposes immediate cures by legislation for the abiding ills resulting from human weakness and ignorance.”
“Those who do not ‘desire to be deceived’ will find much ‘dry light’ in Mr. Holt’s pages on current and burning questions, concerning which there is much more of heat than of light in most current discussion.” Montgomery Schuyler.
“The author takes no pains to conceal his real opinion of the abilities of a very large part of ‘so-called civilized’ mankind, especially that part that labors with its hands for a living. This contempt steams up from every page until it nearly suffocates the appetite of the expectant reader. Yet there is an abundance of food in Mr. Holt’s book for readers with a suitable digestion.” Edward E. Hill.
Homans, James Edward.Self-propelled vehicles: a practical treatise on the theory, construction, operation, care and management of all forms of automobiles; with upwards of 500 il. and diagrams. 5th ed., rev. and enl. $2. Audel.
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“The book is thoroughly revised and brought up to date, describing the latest innovations of the present day practice, while all obsolete material has been discarded.”—Engin. N.
“The volume is a useful handbook for the owner of an automobile, and it is also calculated for use as a manual for class instruction.”
“It is a very satisfactory production for the man who wants to know the ‘why and wherefore’ of the automobile, as designed to-day, and its proper care and manipulation.”
Homer.Iliad for boys and girls told from Homer in simple language, by Rev. Alfred J. Church. *$1.50. Macmillan.
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To reset classical literature in the language of the child has become a worthy task of the present day. This juvenile renders the thrilling incidents of the Trojan war life-like and true to the Iliad’s text. The illustrations in color are suggestively good.
“Shows that he understands how to rehearse the classics for childish minds.”
“The narrative is suited in every possible way to a child’s understanding; it is childlike without a trace of childishness; and it is a rare pleasure for old readers of Professor Church to see that his zest is as keen as ever, his fact as unfailing, and his instinct for seizing essentials as swift and true.”
Homer. Odyssey for boys and girls, told from Homer by the Rev. Alfred J. Church. †$1.50. Macmillan.
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A simplified version of the Odyssey, attractive in its illustrations, which is intended for young readers.
“The style is much more attractive than that of the author’s ‘Story of the Odyssey.’”
“Is a model of what such adaptations should be.”
“The story is intact, and the characters are there, but there is not much of that bigness for which Homer was noted.”
“Mr. Church has no superior in the art of retelling classical stories so as to interest girls and boys.”
“We have taken the precaution of having the book submitted to the true arbiter of this form of literature,—a boy under five. He has listened to it with breathless attention and sparkling eyes.”
Hone, Nathaniel J.Manor and manorial records. *$3. Dutton.