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A southern story of Civil war days in which the fair play-day world is transformed for a group of irresponsible Southern girls into a dreary world of waiting and anxiety.
Hoyt, William Henry.Mecklenburg declaration of independence. **$2.50. Putnam.
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A study of evidence that the alleged early declaration of independence of Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, on May 20, 1775, is spurious.
“The last page leaves the reader as helpless as the first, in ability to separate hearsay from evidence. But the book is valuable as a history of a controversy.”
“The book offers a very good example of an historical investigation, conducted in a judicial spirit, and carries conviction with its conclusions. The illustrations are excellent, but nothing can excuse the absence of an index.”
*Hubbard, Elbert (Fra Elbertus, pseud.).Little journeys to the homes of eminent orators.(Little journeys, new ser.) $2.50. Putnam.
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An unusual aggregation of orators is presented here. The group includes Pericles, Mark Antony, Savonarola, Marat, Ingersoll, Patrick Henry, Starr King, Henry Ward Beecher and Wendell Phillips.
“It is an incongruous array in time, character, and purpose, but the author brings out strongly their common characteristics.”
“The book has real interest, especially to that curious boy, or man, who ‘wants to know.’”
Hubbard, Frank McKinney.Abe Martin, of Brown county, Indiana. il. **$1. Bobbs.
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Mr. Meredith Nicholson characterizes Abe Martin as a “Plato on a cracker barrel; or radiant Socrates after Xantippe’s departure to visit her own folks in Tecumseh township.” Cartoons of Abe’s neighbors who are characterized in epigram appear, accompanied by brief bibliographical bits. Then follow the “mirth-provoking epigrams” themselves, which do justice to an Artemus Ward.
Hubbard, George H.Teachings of Jesus in parables. *$1.50. Pilgrim press.
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“Mr. Hubbard recognizes the fact that the parables of Jesus were addressed to plain people.... He abstains from dogmatizing and from critical exegesis, and gives a free homiletical exposition of what he sees as the central truth of the short story.”—Outlook.
“These popular and interesting expositions of the parables reveal clear religious insight, practical common-sense, and no small degree of literary skill.”
“Fresh thoughts in new points of view make this volume a helpful addition to the abundant literature of its subject. Those who have read any number of works upon the gospel parables find need to supplement or correct one author by another, and this volume, though excellent, occasions no exception to that experience.”
Hubbard, Winfred D., and Kiersted, Wynkoof.Water-works management and maintenance. $4. Wiley.
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“Part 1., which fills 217 out of a total of 419 pages, deals with the securing of water supplies from various sources, and the selection and installation of pumps; Part 2, 167 pages, discusses more particularly the various features of management and maintenance, but also necessarily contains much that relates to construction work; and Part 3, 35 pages, treats from various points of view the subjects of franchise, water rates and depreciation.”—Engin. N.
“The title of this important book is somewhat misleading, as less than half the volume is devoted to the management and maintenance of water-works. Along with a reproduction of many facts already well known to every competent water-works man, and many citations from papers which have already been frequently published, there are a great many useful and practical suggestions nearly all of which are in the line of good modern practice. All of these make the work a valuable addition to water-works literature.” Dabney H. Maury.
Huber, John Bessnes.Consumption. **$3. Lippincott.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This work, though burdened by a too ambitious title, is really a very valuable compilation of the facts of the present day anti-tuberculosis campaign in this and other countries.” Christopher Easton.
Huchon, Rene.George Crabbe and his times, 1754–1832: a critical and biographical study; tr. from the French by Frederick Clarke. *$5. Dutton.
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With less of narrative and more of criticism, M. Huchon aims to write “a psychological biography of the poet, with a view to the interpretation of his works.”
“The picture he presents of the young Crabbe is clear and convincing. When in the later portion of his book he is dealing with the actual poems he develops these tendencies at which he has previously hinted, with great skill, so that he brings the reader very close to the intimate side of the poet’s character.”
“As a biographer M. Huchon is full, clear, and precise, rivalling the late James Dykes Campbell in his zest for research and verification.”
“At times the narrative is too discursive ... but on the whole it is a just and clear biography, with sympathetic interpretation.” Annie Russell Marble.
“To speak frankly, a book that proposes to introduce an English poet to the French, and yet in some 700 pages scarcely quotes a line of his verse as he wrote it, seems to us an absurdity. The truth is that it has gone a long way to spoil an admirable book. It is an injustice to the French reader; to the English reader it is a constant annoyance. And yet the book, even as it is, deserves to have plenty of English readers.”
“Its abundance of literary judgment is presented rather in dispersion than compactness, for the purpose of elucidating the biographical theses; and the complete proportion and harmony preserved throughout may well be considered the crowning achievement of the work.”
“Though the French scholar may have prepared a better biography than the younger Crabbe’s, time will have to judge whether he has written a better book.” H. W. Boynton.
“Is distinctly original and unconventional.”
“Of M. Huchon’s volume (not at all badly translated by Mr. Clarke) we may say, in one word, that it is the work of an expert. If only as a piece of social history the work is full ofvalue. Our main praise, however, we reserve for the judgment and taste with which M. Huchon has made his quotations.”
*Huck, A.Synopsis of the first three Gospels arranged for English readers; ed. by Ross L. Finney. *$1. Meth. bk.
An English version of Huck’s “Synopse,” a Greek harmony used widely in Germany as an aid to Holtzmann’s “Hand-commentar.” “The present volume exhibits Mark as the basal work of the evangelic records, the use of Mark by both Matthew and Luke, the collection of Logia, and the material peculiar to each evangelist. The use of this harmony does not blind the student to the special characteristics of the several evangelists and their relations of mutual dependence, as is often the case with the older manuals.”
“The work is faithfully done, but it is based on Huck’s second edition in 1898. This is most unfortunate, as in his recent third edition, 1906, Huck has fundamentally remodeled his work, greatly improving and enriching it.”
“This is decidedly the best harmony for historical study, and its wide use would promote greatly the knowledge of the New Testament.”
“This harmony, which follows the order of Mark, is the most useful in existence for historical students.”
Huckel, Oliver.Modern study of conscience. (Boardman lectureship in Christian ethics.) 50c. Univ. of Pa.
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The study looks into the origin and nature of conscience, its means of education and enlightenment, and finally considers the grounds for the present and perpetual authority of conscience.
Hudson, Charles Bradford.Crimson conquest: a romance of Pizarro and Peru.il. †$1.50. McClurg.
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A story of aboriginal America. The events fall in the period of Pizarro’s conquest of the Peruvian chief and his determined hosts. The hero, Viracocha Christoval, is one of the bravest of the Castilian knights and the heroine is an Inca princess for love of whom Christoval fights against his own army. Barbaric splendor and Spanish chivalry combine in producing splendid dramatic coloring.
“There is not a bit of harm in the book, except that it is very long and strikes us as being very dull.”
Hudson, William Henry.Crystal age.**$1.50. Dutton.
“This is a second edition of a book published in the eighties.... One Smith of Great Britain loses consciousness through a fall and wakes to find himself in a crystal age of organized human beings with senses of exquisite keenness and souls of crystal purity.... The cloud on Smith’s horizon is the strange fact that warmer than fraternal love is unknown. The passion that he conceives for a daughter of ‘The house’ brings him against a blank wall of incomprehension. For the perfecting of the race it has come about that its renewal is vouchsafed only to elect morals who must be fitted for their high office by a sacred training. A cryptic catastrophe ends the story, leaving the reader free to suppose anything.”—Nation.
“Like most stories of the impossible future it contains its touches of the credible among the prevailing absurdities and the occasional touch of the tiresome amid many fascinations. Unlike most, it has the ring of genuine poetry, the zeal of the open air, kinship with beauty of all sorts, and a relieving glint of humor.”
Hueffer, Ford Madox.England and the English: an interpretation. **$2. McClure.
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The three divisions of Mr. Hueffer’s book, “The soul of London,” “The heart of the country,” and “The spirit of the people,” constitute a view of modern life. “Mr. Hueffer here dedicates himself to essays in descriptive impressionism” (Ath.) offering to the traveler in and about London almost every type to be met with and revealing an intimate understanding of prevailing conditions.
“The volume may be profitably read by anyone proposing a trip to England for the introductory impressions it affords of the people and their environment. The reader of serious purpose will feel no little disappointment that the ‘interpretation’ is not more interpretative. The author’s over-fondness for dissertation is a blemish that grows more trying to the reader as he advances.”
“Here is an antidote to the tour of the sights which leaves an American visitor far better informed about historical monuments and the homes of distinguished Englishmen than any English resident, but without any real insight into the lives and ideals of the English of to-day. It is a pity that a volume otherwise admirably got up should be marred by so many errors in proofreading. Their number is inexcusable.”
“As for the success of the book in its desire to interpret for us the spirit of England and her people, that is as it may be. But it does give a wonderful series of pictures—a vitascope, as it were, of life on the island, yet not a photographic one; for each picture is tinged with the personality of the author, if it be no other than the desire he feels that his personality shall not intrude.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
“A voluminous ‘author’s note’ is prefixed, supplemented by one of similar length, in which egotism and over-sophistication of view-point and utterance contend, as, indeed, they do throughout.”
“A rather ambitious volume which, on the whole, fairly reaches its aim.”
Hueffer, Ford Madox.Hans Holbein the younger: a critical monograph. *75c. Dutton.
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Uniform with the “Popular library of art.” “A striking feature of Mr. Hueffer’s text is his comparison of Holbein with Dürer. Both stand between the Old World and the modern, between the old faith and the new learning. With Dürer the old age ends; with Holbein a new age begins.... Dürer stands for the great imaginers who went before—the Minnesingers, the Tristan poets, the great feudal upholders. As defining his country’s great place in art, Holbein represented what Bach did in music—namely, completeness and thoroughness in getting out of a preceding epoch and in getting into our own.” (Outlook.)
“Is a model of what such a study should be.”
“Authoritatively informing, sufficiently critical and admirably well written.”
“A worthy addition to that attractive series.”
Hugo, Victor.Novels. 8v. ea. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the thin paper sets. The eight volumes included are Les Miserables, two volumes, Notre Dame, Ninety-three, Toilers of the sea, Man who laughs, Hans of Iceland, and Bug Jargal.
Hugo, Victor.Poems; ed. by Arthur Graves Canfield. $1. Holt.
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A student’s edition of Hugo’s poems in handy form, containing an introduction, biographical summary and notes.
Hugo, Victor Marie, viscomte.Victor Hugo’s intellectual autobiography; tr. with an introd. by Lorenzo O’Rourke. **$1.20. Funk.
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A translation of “what will hereafter be regarded as Victor Hugo’s ultimate Confession of faith. The volume dates from the period of the great romanticist’s exile in the English island of Guernsey, to which he fled when Napoleon III. usurped the throne of France. It is composed of a group of rhapsodies on such themes as ‘Genius’, ‘Life and death’, ‘Reveries on God’, in which the most versatile of nineteenth century men-of-letters sets down his final convictions on art, on religion, and on life.”—Ind.
“Of the sons of the nineteenth century, Victor Hugo, it seems to us, was preëminent as a transmitter of the light.” B. O. Flower.
“An interesting and, on the whole, a well-written volume.”
“A graceful and scholarly translation.”
“A well-written and illuminating piece of work, being not only critical but to some extent biographical.”
“The effect of the volume in its English form is of a wild medley of jerky phrases.”
“Lorenzo O’Rourke, has contrived to throw into his rendering some of the eloquence of the Titan—more than a suggestion of his volcanic force and white hot rush of his burning words.”
“The whole book is but a last illustration of Hugo’s incomparable gift of phrase-making, of his self-consciousness, his egotism, his reliance upon a superb, but purely external, literary gift, upon a craftmanship that apparently never was in close communion with its possessor’s essential inner self, which, instead, always looked abroad for stimulation to the intellectual, social or political preoccupations of the hour.” A. Schade Van Westrum.
“We cannot but feel however, that Mr. O’Rourke is not always qualified for his task.”
Hulbert, Archer Butler.Ohio river; a course of empire. **$3.50. Putnam.
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The sixth river to be treated in the series known as “Great waterways of America.” “The illustrations which are numerous, are from photographs, old prints, maps, and paintings, and are a distinct contribution to the value of the book.... The age of the canoe, the flatboat, and the steamer, as he names the divisions of the Ohio’s history, are each treated fully and entertainingly, in a fashion to vivify the heroes of each period, from La Salle, Boone, and the Clarks, to St. Clair, ‘Mad Anthony’ Wayne, and the rest of the Indian fighters who in their turn were supplanted by the heterogeneous multitude of pioneers.” (Dial.)
“By far the most valuable portions of the book are those which deal with the distinctly human side of the subject—the conditions of pioneer existence with which the emigrant had to wrestle, the life of flatboatman and trader, the reign of outlaw and rowdy, the intermingling of racial elements, and particularly the jealous contact of Yankee and Virginian on the north and south banks of the river. So far as political history is concerned, the student will find nothing new. The book is unfortunately subject to the limitations and defects of a hasty and somewhat scrappy narrative.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
“A useful survey, not scientific, but helpful in illustrating the successive phases of social life on the river.”
“Mr. Hulbert brings to his work unusual qualifications, for he unites a local interest and pride in the region of which he writes, with a large perspective, and accuracy and perseverance in research with picturesque and pungent style.”
“Fewer extracts and more concise treatment would make for vividness, but the book, with its excellent illustrations, shows careful research and gives a thoro knowledge of the region with which it deals.”
“Comes near to being a model of what such a book ought to be.”
“Mr. Hulbert has made what we are inclined to think is a most intrinsically important addition yet made to the Messrs. Putnam’s series.”
“There is no chapter in this book which is not of historical interest and value. But without depreciating its genuine worth, it must be said that the treatment should have been more systematic and complete.”
“On the whole the author has produced a volume of great historic value and interest.”
Hulbert, Archer Butler.Pilots of the republic.*$1.50. McClurg.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Narrated in a pleasant popular manner.”
“The book is a direct and forceful contribution to American history, and is well printed, as its text merits.”
“Mr. Hulbert’s style is attractive and in general, his presentation of historical facts is good. One of the best chapters of the book is that on Marcus Whitman, the hero of Oregon.”
Hulbert, Homer Beza.Passing of Korea. **$3.80. Doubleday.
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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Exhaustive, authoritative, and readable.”
“The author has long resided in the country, and is conversant with its language and literature. He is, we believe, the first writer on Korea who possesses the latter indispensable qualification.”
“Certain fundamental changes which are coming about as results of the late war in the far east are described with insight and vigor.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
“One of the best books on Korea that has yet been written.”
“In so far as it is a picture of the social life of a backward people, it is intensely interesting; but Mr. Hulbert is bitter when he ventures on politics, so much so that one feels that he should have named his book ‘The betrayal of Korea.’ He has nothing good to say of the Japanese. Mr. Hulbert knows Korea and Koreans thoroughly, and writes of both authoritatively and attractively.”
Huling, Caroline A.Letters of a business woman to her niece. *$1. Fenno.
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In a series of personal letters to a young woman there is a vast deal of sound sense which forms a general and impersonal contribution to conduct. The writer is a woman of keen observation and ready sympathies who has solved her problems of business life in a great city thru experience, and from her fund of acquired wisdom, talks freely to her niece. Matters of conduct, morals and dress are taught with matter-of-fact allegiance to independence and dignity.
“The advice is sensible, if trite.”
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
Hull, Walter Henry, ed. Practical problems in banking and currency; being a number of selected addresses delivered in recent years by prominent bankers, financiers, and economists. **$3.50. Macmillan.
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The sixty addresses included in this volume cover the period since 1900 and deal authoritatively with practical problems as they affect actual conditions. The papers are grouped in three sections; General banking, Banking reform and currency, and The trust company, and they discuss these subjects in three various subdivisions and from various points of view. The volume is intended as a reference book in connection with studies in banking and currency.
“The collection will be found useful to students of our monetary situation even though few of these papers have any such value as would make them worthy of a permanent place in the literature of money.” L.
“It brings together a mass of valuable information not usually dealt with—or, at any rate, not dealt with in detail—in the standard textbook.”
“The present volume is a valuable addition to our knowledge and understanding of the theory of credit, and when this is said no fuller acknowledgment of is importance can be made.”
Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp.Through Portugal.**$2. McClure.