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“Half Mr. Hone’s book is devoted to a reasonably short account of the history of the manor, no undue space being given to the dispute concerning its evolution. With this we have the story of the lord and his tenants and officers and of their daily life and work as a community, the illustrations being for the most part already familiar.... The second half of the book shortly explains the procedure of the manorial courts, and then gives a very well chosen series of examples of court rolls, accounts and extents.”—Acad.
“Mr. Hone’s treatise on the manor offers itself rather as a popular introduction to its history and customs than as an original study of a subject on which much good ink has been spent. The result is a book which may be commended especially to those who are entering upon the study of English topography.”
“Forms a very suitable introduction for the beginner in the study of manorial court rolls, of which many are in private hands. The translations are not in all respects accurate.”
“Is more general and popular than Dr. Davenport’s volume. The first half of Mr. Hone’s work is but slight, and seems scarcely worthy of the large amount of research which he appears to have undertaken.”
“We can think of no book which presents in a lucid manner a picture of the mode in which, or the extent to which, our fathers living remote from London were governed; none at all events which gives abundance of extracts from original records.”
“The uninitiated reader, should be grateful to Mr. Hone for giving him an opportunity to obtain a good general idea of old country life without too severe a mental effort.”
Hood, Thomas.Poetical works, ed. by Walter Jerrold. *$1.10 Oxford.
“‘The complete poetical works of Thomas Hood’ ... is added to the excellent Oxford edition of the poets.... Mr. Jerrold has provided a more comprehensive edition of Hood than has hitherto been available, searching out from the magazines whatever could be certainly attributed to him, and adding half a dozen new poems from manuscript.”—Nation.
“We confess ourselves in general hostile to this mania for making up insignificant matter and adding to it the works of writers who already suffer from the preservation of too much that is mediocre. The notes are capital, and the make-up of the volume attractive.”
Hornaday, William Temple.Camp fires in the Canadian Rockies. **$3. Scribner.
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“Perhaps the chief charm of the book is that he manages so faithfully to convey a sense of the recrudescence of boyish energy and spirits in staid middle-life, aroused under the stimulus of unusual and invigorating surroundings.” G. W. L.
“It is the best of advocates for true sport and game preservation.”
Hornblow, Arthur.End of the game; il. by A. E. Jameson. †$1.50. Dillingham.
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Instead of marrying a shallow-minded girl with a two-hundred-thousand dollar dowery, Roy Marshall chooses to wed his sister’s governess, a girl whose literary career had been checked by her father’s loss of money and subsequent death. From an unsuccessful beginning in life on a New York paper his course is turned into the channel of Pittsburg steel interests and he rises to a multi-millionaire’s position of prominence and power. The loose morals that result in his abandoning and divorcing his wife are astonishingly at variance with his early integrity; he pays a heavy penalty, and the book has a moral.
“The characters, if somewhat tamely drawn, are good human creatures and not the flat paper dolls found in the pages of so much current fiction. It is a thoroughly wholesome story, better for general purposes perhaps than many novels better written.”
“The work is creditable—somewhat ‘slow’ and unformed in many of the earlier portions, but gaining constantly in assurance as it progresses.”
Horne, Herman Harrell.Psychological principles of education. *$1.75. Macmillan.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The real strength of Dr. Horne’s book is found in its treatment of emotional, moral, and religious education; these vital subjects are handled with breadth, warmth, and frankness, and with an unusually full comprehension of their supreme importance.”
“Horne’s theoretical assumptions, both in this discussion and thruout the book seem to me to show evidence of a certain confusion of thought of so fundamental a nature as to justify notice here. The author has given to teachers many suggestions of practical value and very likely an inspiration toward better teaching, but he has not based these suggestions upon a consistent and accurate system, of psychology.” Guy Montrose Whipple.
Reviewed by Charles Hughes Johnston.
“One can but regret casting a disparaging word at so admirably written a book as Horne’s ‘Psychological principles of education;’ but, in spite of its containing much excellent material and many good suggestions for practical teaching, it does not present any particularly original point of view, nor does it mark any advance in the general field of education psychology.” Irving King.
Horner, Joseph G.Modern milling machines: their design, construction and operation: a handbook for practical men and engineering students. $4. Henley.
“The author has endeavored to treat the subject, both in the text and by the illustrations, in such a manner, as will make clear the essentials of the art, and to provide a book which will be useful to both the designer and the operator.” (Engin. N.) He “describes very fully many different types of machines, and probably one of the best chapters is that dealing with the design and manufacture of cutters.”—Nature.
“The skilled workman as well as the amateur will find much that is valuable and worth while and little of the usual padding. Any one collecting a library of shop books should include this volume.” Wm. W. Bird.
“Chapter 11 is too short, though very interesting; it deals with the subject of feeds and speeds. We can recommend this volume to all interested in machine-shop practice. The machines dealt with are of the latest type, and much useful information will be found scattered through its pages.” N. J. L.
Horner, Joseph G.Practical metal turning: a handbook for engineers, technical students and amateurs. il. $3.50. Henley.
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“The work in all its varied forms is discussed, its many tools and appliances are shown and described and the question of speeds and feeds for various tools and metals is well treated. A good deal of valuable information is given regarding the use of high-speed steel for lathe work.”—Engin. N.
“While nothing new or especially novel is found, the book as a whole is well arranged, the illustrations are good, and a copy is worth owning for those interested in this line of work.” Wm. W. Bird.
Horniman, Roy.Lord Cammarleigh’s secret; a fairy story of to-day. †$1.50. Little.
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Anthony Brooke, unwilling to battle for bread, hits upon a bold plan. During his aimless wandering through Grosvenor square he espies Lord Cammarleigh, whom he knows by reputation, in conversation with a woman. Brooke observes the restlessness of his eyes and concludes that he is a man who has a secret, one who is afraid. With none of the malice of blackmail but spurred on by a fortune-hunter’s necessity of the things of life, Brooke looked the peer squarely in the eye and said, “I know your secret.” A private secretaryship, the management of the household affairs and, in truth of the obdurate Cammarleigh himself follow for the imposter in a most surprising manner.
“The book abounds with unfeeling fun, culminating in a rhetorical flourish of impudence. Fortunately for the nerves of the ordinary reader,the victim of blackmail is a puppet; but the other important characters are vigorously drawn.”
“Granted, however, a single initial impossibility, the story goes on smoothly and naturally enough; and this, we take it, represents a more artistic method of dealing with the impossible than that which demands our acceptance of new miracles in every chapter.” Wm. M. Payne.
“Mr. Horniman is to be congratulated on a capital idea fully but not tediously exploited.”
*Horsley, Sir Victor A. H., and Sturge, Mary M.Alcohol and the human body: an introduction to the study of the subject; with a chapter by Arthur Newsholme. *$1.50. Macmillan.
An indictment against the use of alcohol in which “its ill effects on body and mind, on health and strength, on moral action and intellectual activity, are set forth by argument, by facts, by figures, by representations, gruesome in outline and hue, of the morbid conditions which it induces in the chief organs of the human frame.” (Spec.)
“This book is sound literary performance and an earnest tract for the times but we do not see that it can achieve much.”
“Though on the main issue we do not feel competent to give judgment—the conflict of evidence is too great—we are bound to record the opinion that a book like that under notice is sure to do a great deal of good, and can hardly do any harm even if it is mistaken in fact.”
Horstmann, Henry Charles, and Tousley, Victor Hugo.Electrical wiring and construction tables. *$1.50. Drake, F: J.
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A pocket hand-book for the wire man, contractor, engineer and architect. “The book contains tables for direct-current calculations, for alternating-current calculations, for the smallest size of wire permissible, and for the most economical loss in different installations. Tables and diagrams are given showing the proper size of conduits to accommodate different combinations or numbers of wires; also tables and data for estimating the quantity of material required for different lines of work.” (Engin. N.)
“Contains much useful information.”
Hoskins, Leander Miller.Text-book on hydraulics, including an outline of the theory of turbines. *$2.50. Holt.
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A text for the use of instructors of experience and thorough training in the subject, a work giving the fundamental principles in a clear and concise form without elaboration.
“As a whole it may be said that the book presents the laws and theories of hydraulics as they were recognized 20 to 25 years ago. There is authority for most of its statements in the treatises of that time, but it can hardly be said to cover the field as we regard it today.” Gardner S. Williams.
“The book is distinctly elementary, and as such is well written and supplied with good examples.”
“This book will be valuable in training engineering students possessing a fair knowledge of mathematics to solve any problems in hydraulics they are likely to meet with in practice, and it will also furnish them with an insight into the principles on which the working and efficiency of turbines are based.”
Hough, Emerson.Story of the outlaw: a study of the western desperado.il. *$1.50. Outing.
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Historical narratives of famous outlaws, the stories of noted border wars, vigilant movements and armed conflicts on the frontier. It is a contemplative study of the American desperado as he is, and in spite of the author’s intention to do away as far as possible with melodramatic thrills, the character of the subject precludes their complete elimination.
“Not particularly interesting, but contains material not easily available elsewhere.”
“It is a concise, clearly-reasoned, well-balanced and admirably written piece of work—a real contribution to our economic literature, and interesting to the average reader.”
“The pages exhale the smell of blood and hemp. The realism is almost too raw for literature.”
“His book certainly shows no trace of a tendency to exaggeration, but on the contrary is distinguished by a scrupulously careful moderation of statement.”
“It is all interesting and suggestive, as material lifted bodily from life always is, but a little of it goes a long way.”
“Mr. Hough’s philosophising is the weak part of his book.”
Hough, Emerson.Way of a man.$1.50. Outing pub.
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The scene of Mr. Hough’s story is once again laid in the west, chiefly during the time of the westward movement previous to the civil war. It concerns a young Virginian who, tho bound to an eastern girl, finds that he loves his companion of many adventures on the great plains. Their love-making, interrupted for a time by a villainous emissary from the cotton interests in England, and by the war itself, finally terminates happily. It has been the wish of the author to show the effect of a broad strong environment on human beings.
“The style of the hero’s narrative in the opening pages, is too archaic for the period treated, but becomes more appropriate as the story goes forward.”
“Is chiefly of interest in the illustration it affords of several tendencies in contemporary fiction, as deplorable as they are conspicuous: the glorification of the violent, the primitive, and the crude; a sophomorical searching after effects of style; and a habit of cheap philosophizing.”
“Mr. Hough writes a dignified and forthright sort of tale, which, although it has a good plot and plenty of incident, yet moves along quietly and without the clatter-and-bang effect which characterizes so many novels of action. But this mood seems all the time a little overstrained, as if he wrote at high pitch and found it rather painful.”
“There is plenty of thrill and suspense—possibly a trifle too much.”
Hough, Romeyn Beck.Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada, east of the Rocky mountains; photo-descriptive, buck. $8. Hough.
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“A new guide-book to the trees of the northern states and Canada devotes two pages to each species. One page bears a photographic reproduction showing a group of leaves (both sides) and fruit. The other page has a photograph of the trunk of the tree, showing the distinguishing peculiarities of the bark, a small map showing by shading the range of the tree’s growth, and a short, clear description of its characteristics.”—Outlook.
“We cannot think of an item which would contribute to greater completeness. Everything that has been attempted seems to have been well planned and well executed. The book may be commended as indispensable for public and school libraries, for all students of trees, and botanical laboratories.” C. R. B.
“There is nothing but praise for the work as a whole. This handbook should be widely useful in nature libraries, schools and colleges.”
“The book is admirably adapted for the average person who wants to be able to tell the trees apart with the least possible study.”
“These photographs are of unusual excellence and give to this handbook its distinctive value as a work of reference.”
Hough, Theodore, and Sedgwick, William Thompson.Human mechanism; its physiology, and hygiene, and the sanitation of its surroundings. *$2. Ginn.
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“This is a textbook of hygiene on new lines. Anatomy, both gross and microscopic, is reduced to the lowest terms, and the emphasis of the book, as stated in the preface, is placed on physiology, hygiene, and sanitation—on function and conduct.”—School R.
“First half of the book ... avoids unnecessary details, but omits nothing essential. It is so lucidly written that the wayfaring man will have to be a terrible fool if he does not understand it. We can award to [the second] part no higher praise than to say that it is as excellent as the preliminary physiological portion. It teems with sound practical common-sense; it points out convincingly, avoiding too great technicality, the scientific reason for their [the authors’] faith.”
“It seems to be altogether the best work upon the subject for use either as a textbook or for private reading.” Joseph E. Raycroft.
Houghton, Louise (Seymour).Hebrew life and thought; being interpretative studies in the literature of Israel. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
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“One is disappointed that he finds no attempt at the unity of purpose, except to entertain the reader, indicated in the title of the book. We are glad to find that each lecture has a definite purpose, and some of them are admirably treated.” Ira M. Price and John M. P. Smith.
“The aim of the book is good. It breathes a profound faith. Its author loves the Bible all the more because it is not only a book of religious instruction, but appeals to her as literature in the way the ‘Iliad’ or ‘Odyssey’ does. The defects of the book are occasional extravagances of statement, too great an effort to make out biblical laws and family life superior to anything else in antiquity, and an artificial interpretation of such books as Canticles and Ruth.”
“Mrs. Houghton writes with enthusiasm andcon amore, and if we were able to name a defect it would be a certain light passing over the limitations and defects of Old Testament morals and belief.”
Houghton, Louise (Seymour).Russian grandmother’s wonder tales.†$1.50. Scribner.
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“Louise Seymour Houghton openly confesses to having been prompted by ‘Uncle Remus’ in her mode of treating ‘The Russian grandmother’s wonder tales,’ a collection revealing the simple life of the Slavonians; at the same time in a short preface the author indicates analogies which reveal how close in contact legends of different lands often are. The book is excellently printed and effectively illustrated by W. T. Benda.”—Ind.
“An excellent collection from authentic sources.”
“Since Slavonic-tales do not seem yet to be ‘vieux jeu,’ we recommend this charming little work as a gift-book.”
“The tales are exceedingly well written.”
“A fascinating little volume.”
*Houston, Edwin James.Discovery of the North Pole. [*]$1. Winston.
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The second of three volumes in the “North Pole series.” Andree and Eric, two American boys, are the heroes who pass thru thrilling adventures and exciting situations while they are learning many facts of modern scientific discoveries.
*Hovey, Richard.Holy graal, and other fragments by Richard Hovey; being the uncompleted parts of the Arthurian dramas; ed. with introd. and notes by Mrs. Richard Hovey, and a preface by Bliss Carman. $1.25. Duffield.
Fragments of the Arthurian legends which are presented for the sake of the psychological problem involved rather than for their historic and picturesque value as poetic material or for the sake of their glamour and romance. From notes, jottings, and outlines set down in note books or upon scraps of paper, Mrs. Hovey has completed the work of her husband who left it unfinished.
“An inestimable service has been rendered to the memory of Richard Hovey by the publication of ‘The holy graal and other fragments’ of the uncompleted Arthurian dramas; not so much by virtue of the new material which they contain for this is slight, as for the illumination thrown upon the whole scheme of the projected cycle by the introduction and notes of Mrs. Hovey.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
Howard, Burt Estes.German empire. **$2. Macmillan.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The work makes up in solidity for whatever it lacks in interest. As a whole the book is a serious and concise summary of value in itself and a basis for wider study.”
“We have examined no better book for the American student of German institutions.” Robert E. Bisbee.
“Will probably rank among the standard briefer treatises of the Germans. The only criticism worth mentioning relates to the title of this book, which is misleading, since the work relates almost entirely to a single aspect of the German Empire, its constitution.” J. W. Garner.
“It is, indeed, a defect of the book that it does not present us with a living picture of how the various organs of the constitution perform their functions. Dr. Howard has obviously based his book upon extensive research, and possesses the great merit of writing clearly on legal subjects.” W. M.
“The text, though specifically juristical, and not, except in place, historical, never falls under the influence of Dr. Dryasdust; it is laboriously accurate, and supported by excellent explanatory notes, which our daily lecturers on foreign affairs should study.”
Howard, Earl Dean.Cause and extent of the recent industrial progress of Germany. (Hart, Schaffner and Marx prize essays in economics.) **$1. Houghton.
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The book “is divided into two parts, the first of which treats of the extent of Germany’s recent industrial progress; and the second, the causes. Industrial progress in general is defined in an introductory chapter, as the ‘increase in the amount of goods produced and transported, and the improvement of methods by which this increased production is accomplished.’ The course of this development since the industrial revolution is briefly reviewed.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“It is a concise, clearly reasoned, well balanced and admirably written piece of work—a real contribution to our economic literature, and interesting to the average reader.”
“It is a careful and discriminating study, and undoubtedly offers the best concise discussion of its subject that has yet appeared.” O. D. Skelton.
“It cannot be said that Mr. Howard has made any substantial contribution to our knowledge of the subject.”
“There is no questioning the intrinsic value of his work, which assuredly makes for a clearer understanding of modern Germany and her people.”
“The book is well worth perusal, and it does not detract from its value if we add that it is for the most part, and properly so, a careful and moderate exposition of the obvious.”
Howard, George Bronson.Norroy, diplomatic agent; il. by Gordon Ross. $1.50. Saalfield.