Chapter 59

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As the author points out in his preface, the idea of a league of nations is so generally acceptable that many persons overlook the fact that the covenant prepared at Paris is not a “general association of nations,” but rather “a limited defensive alliance for the protection of existing possessions, regardless of the manner in which they were acquired.” The purpose of this book is to show that the proposed league “not only repudiates the ideas underlying our traditional foreign policy as a nation but presents a contradiction of the fundamental principles upon which our government is based.” The book is composed of eight chapters and as many documents. The chapters, which are reprinted from the North American Review are: Disillusionment regarding the League; The un-American character of the League; The president’s hostility to the Senate; The struggle of the Senate for its prerogatives; The eclipse of peace through the League; The covenant or the constitution? The nations and the law; The solemn referendum; and Epilogue. Among the documents are President Wilson’s “points”; The covenant of the League of nations; The Senate’s reservations of November 19, 1919, and of March 19, 1920. The book is indexed.

“Dr Hill’s argument is presented with all the skill of an experienced political writer but the impression is conveyed that he is putting a microscope upon the covenant of the League and is looking for trouble in every line, without offering anything more constructive than the old order in return.”

“His negative part is well done and thoroughly worth consideration. His discussion, while at times heated and failing in logic, is thoughtful and provokes thought.” C. R. Fish

“It is the familiar Republican argument, but it is stated with a force, clearness, and plausibility which do not always characterize that argument. In short, if Senator Lodge could talk as clearly and convincingly as Dr Hill writes, this would make an ideal speech by him.”

“To say that the book is clarifying, enlightening, high-minded, and therefore of a value far transcending that of most political discussions, is only to make a legitimate critical pronouncement.”

“We do not know of any book so valuable as this for the information of editors, legislators, or other students of the league problem who wish to get in clear and authoritative form the objections to the Wilson or Paris league.”

“The termination of the campaign against the League of nations as proposed will take from Dr Hill’s book much of its current value; yet when the history of the struggle over the Wilson league comes to be written, the discerning historian will accord to Dr Hill’s labors an important place among the efforts of those who fought to assert the belief that American independence and true internationalism are not incompatible things.” E: S. Corwin

HILL, FREDERICK TREVOR.High school farces. *$1 Stokes 812

20–19677

A foreword says: “The scarcity of short farces, suitable for junior amateurs seems to justify the publication of this little volume.... The three simple little farces included herein were written for a boys’ club and a boy scout troop.... As they require very little study and a minimum of ‘properties and effects,’ it is thought they may prove useful to those in search of such material.” The first play, “Dinner’s served,” represents a southern scene near a camp during the Spanish American war and introduces two negro characters. The second, “A heathen Chinee,” is set in California, with cowboys, miners and a Chinese cook among the characters. The third, “A knotty problem,” is a boy scout play.

“It is with deep regret that one lays down this book from the pen of the gifted writer of those fine stories, ‘On the trail of Washington’ and ‘On the trail of Grant and Lee,’ for something better had been anticipated.”

HILL, FREDERICK TREVOR.Tales out of court. *$1.60 (3c) Stokes

20–18659

The book is a collection of lawyers’ stories of legal cases and court-room scenes and of unusual incidents and characters. The stories are: Exhibit No. 2; The shield of privilege; The woman in the case; Two fishers of men; The unearned increment; The judgment of his peers; Of disposing memory; Submitted on the facts; The personal equation; In the presence of the enemy; A debt of honor; The weapons of a gentleman; Pewee—gladiator; Peregrine Pickle; Charity suffereth long; War.

“His touch is sure, his pen facile, his plots unusual and fascinating.”

“The plots are so cleverly manipulated that the reader is sure to get a number of surprises, about at the denouement of each story.”

HILL, HIBBERT WINSLOW.[2]Sanitation for public health nurses. *$1.35 Macmillan 614

19–19494

“The development of public health nursing in the United States has naturally created a demand for books on the subject. The book written by Dr Hill endeavors to give in a brief and concise manner the elements of sanitation and public health, with which a nurse must be acquainted in her work.” (Survey F 14 ’20) “It is devoted chiefly to the problems of isolation and immunology and touches but lightly upon such great modern movements as the infant welfare campaign and the campaign for better nutrition among school children.” (Survey S 15 ’20)

“A survey of hygiene and immediately related medical procedures which can be heartily recommended.”

“Too much space seems to be given to infectious diseases of which the nurse must necessarily learn from a study of other sources, while too little space is devoted to the important questions of food, water, milk, etc., and no space at all to dietetics.” G: M. Price

“His chapters on the general course of an infectious disease, on the diagnosis and etiology of the commoner specific communicable diseases, on immunity and on epidemiology are sound in substance and brilliant in form.” C. E. A. Winslow

HILL, JAMES LANGDON.Worst boys in town, and other addresses to young men and women, boys and girls. $2.50 (2½c) Stratford co. 252

20–3809

A collection of addresses, given in all parts of the United States, on righteous moral living for young people, each address based on an appropriate scriptural text. Partial list of contents: The clean sporting spirit; The morals of money; The stick girls of Venice; The sound and robust have no monopoly; Becoming a lady; A difference in cradles; Doing the handsome thing; Modern methods of Christian nurture. Dr Hill is author also of “Favorites of history”; “Memory comforting sorrow”; “The scholar’s larger life,” etc.

HILL, JOHN ARTHUR.Psychical miscellanea. *$1.35 (3c) Harcourt 130

20–26542

“Being papers on psychical research, telepathy, hypnotism, Christian science, etc.” (Subtitle) They are a collection of articles, each dealing with some aspect of psychical research, which have appeared in various periodicals. As a psychical investigator his treatment of every subject is sympathetic even where he suspends judgment. This is the case in his attitude towards Christian science to which he is not an adherent, but towards which he keeps “an open mind” for, he says, “I do believe that the power of the mind over the body is so great that almost anything is possible; and I think that the medical advance of the next half-century will be chiefly in this hitherto neglected direction.” Contents: Death; If a man die, shall he live again? Psychical research—its method, evidence, and tendency; The evolution of a psychical researcher; Do miracles happen? The truth about telepathy; The truth about hypnotism; Christian Science; Joan of Arc; Is the earth alive? Religious belief after the war.

“Interesting, but not a representative work to be required by most small or medium sized libraries, although coming from an authoritative source.”

“Mr Hill knows the temper of science and presents a brief which the advocate of the opposite view can respect, while he is convinced that it is penetrated with fallacy and shot through and through with an unwarranted personalism.” Joseph Jastrow

“The papers are all of a popular quality, skimming lightly and gracefully over the surface of their subjects and carrying what frequently passes as a literary atmosphere derived from numerous quotations of both prose and verse.”

HILL, JOHN WESLEY.Abraham Lincoln, man of God. *$3.50 Putnam

20–21413

The object of the book is not to be a biography of Lincoln, but to reveal his deeply religious soul. “A candid examination of the evidence will show that the religious element in Lincoln’s life was its dominant factor; that his character as a politician and as a statesman was determined by his character as a Christian; and that he drew from the story of the ‘Man of sorrows’ the conclusion that God rules the world in a personal way.” (Preface) The book contains a tribute by Lloyd George, a foreword by Leonard Wood and an introduction by Warren G. Harding. There are appendices, a bibliography and an index.

“If the book had been written solely to prove that Lincoln was an orthodox Christian it would not have been worth the writing or the reading, and the few chapters that Dr Hill devotes to that unprofitable subject are the least worthwhile in the whole work. But the bulk of Dr Hill’s book is of much value.”

“Abraham Lincoln has been written about in so many books that the average American would know Lincoln if he met him on the street. Dr Hill in this book has gone a step further and has given an insight into his real character which is worth while. The chapter on ‘The education of a president’ is of especial interest to Americans today. ‘A Christian view of labor’ also is timely.” J: E: Oster

HILL, OWEN ALOYSIUS.[2]Ethics, general and special. *$3.50 Macmillan 170

20–15460

“From the point of view of Catholic doctrine the author of this work discusses what’s wrong with man and the world as they are determined by modern philosophy and ethics. ‘The whole trouble with modern philosophy,’ he says, ‘is rank subjectivism, and subjectivism is, perhaps, most destructive in the domain of ethics.’” The first half of the work dealing with ‘General ethics,’ discusses the general nature of humanity in its attitude towards morality and in relation to final destiny; the second half discusses ‘Special ethics’ as applied to individual responsibility consequent upon his belief in an acceptance of religious duties.”—Boston Transcript

“The question of Woman suffrage might have been treated more sympathetically and Dr Bouquillon’s treatise on the school question discussed more fairly.”

“The style is bright and easy and the English is clear and vigorous. The spirit of Catholicity of course, pervades the whole book. It is the teaching of such men as St Augustine, Bonaventure, Aquinas, and Liguori crystallized in twentieth century English.” C: A. Dougherty

“The whole book is well written, fresh and lucid, and in its way thoroughly scholarly, but its main appeal must be to Catholics.”

“The book affords interesting light on the workings of a trained, devout mind. There are Roman Catholic writers on social problems whose views offer in the main much more salutary guidance than Father Hill’s.” H: Neumann

HILLIS, NEWELL DWIGHT.Rebuilding Europe in the face of world-wide bolshevism. *$1.50 (3c) Revell 940.314

20–2359

The author calls his book “a study of repopulation.” His motives are hatred for Germany and fear of bolshevism. Contents: Germany: her human losses and the reflex influence of the war upon her people; France: the rebuilding of her people; Great Britain: her losses upon land and sea, and her new position among the nations of the earth; Russia, and the fruits of bolshevism; Rebuilding the little nations of the East; The crime of Bolshevists in alienating Americans from America; The United States; and reasons why our citizens should love their country; Notes, and references to authorities.

“Making all allowance for rhetorical effect, and discounting errors due to haste and careless work, the fact remains that America needs several persons of this type to serve as prophets of the greatness of this country and the sanity and sanctity of its fundamental principles.”

HILLYER, ROBERT SILLIMAN.Five books of youth. *$1.50 Brentano’s 811

20–7792

“Mr Hillyer’s five books are headed, A miscellany, Days and seasons, Eros, The garden of Epicurus, and Sonnets. The range is remarkable, from the brilliant alliterative imagery of Esther dancing and the glowing medieval quaintness of Hunters to crisp snatches of epigram and passionate love sonnets. Some of the best work is descriptive of French scenes.”—Springf’d Republican

“His imagination is foot-feathered, and lifts his utterances, perhaps with more dignity than swiftness, on oracular journeys. It is an imagination that is singularly passionate about the business of beauty; a messenger that carries on an intercourse between the earth of man’s experience and the gods of his dreams.”

“Mr Hillyer has written a beautiful poem that is streaked with a golden message. Upon it is the dewy freshness of youth’s passion for the ideal, sparkling with the fire and energy of an inspired visionary.” W: S. Braithwaite

“In this, his second book, there is fine performance and no little promise of greater things. He stands, as craftsman, upon the ancient ways, and reminds one at times of the cool lucidity of Matthew Arnold (and, at times, of the jeweled intensity of Rossetti). He is especially successful in the sonnet.”

“‘The five books of youth’ is marked by a beauty of phraseology and an authentic valuing of poetic qualities that give it a distinct place among the books of the season.”

“Mr Hillyer has skill and conscience, is metrist, artist, atmospherist, and the thoughtful, or at least pensive, melancholy of his lyrics rises on occasion to undoubted charm.” O. W. Firkins

“There is poetry of great promise as well as actual achievement in ‘The five books of youth.’ Mr Hillyer writes with fluency of phrase and cadence and with dignity; he has technical mastery of verse forms and an adequate vocabulary to express his rich sensuous perception.”

HINDUS, MAURICE GERSCHON.Russian peasant and the revolution. *$2 (2c) Holt 914.7

20–14675

In order fully to understand the Russian revolution and its ultimate destiny, says the author, we must understand the Russian peasant who constitutes by far the most important element, and the mightiest force in Russian life. He maintains that the current opinions of him are utterly and thoroughly false. Although ignorant and oppressed by centuries of despotism, he is highly intelligent and has a will and a goal of his own, which has played a part in the revolutionary movement and is destined to play a part in the future of Russia. Contents: The peasant at home; Under serfdom; Education in the Russian village; The legal and social position of the peasant; The peasant as a farmer; Taxation; Home-industries and wage-labor; The other alternatives; The ideology of the peasant (1) political, (2) social; Battling for land; The cadets and the peasants; The social-revolutionaries and the peasant; The bolsheviki and the peasant; The gist of the peasant problem; The co-operative movement and the peasant; Bolshevism, the American democracy and the peasant; Bibliography.

“The best chapters are the first eight, which depict the economic and the social life of the peasants.” M. Rostovtsev

“Considering the general demand for information, it must be said that, excellently and sympathetically written as it is, Mr Hindus’s book, ‘The Russian peasant and the revolution,’ is a failure. It is a failure because it contains hardly a word that helps us to understand what is now going on in Russia.” M. L. L.

“We need this book to get the full significance of the numerous and contradictory reports about Russia that are published in our daily press. For only when we know what the status of the Russian people was before the war can we judge whether conditions in Russia are improved or made worse by the Soviet government. Another signal service that Mr Hindus has performed is the dissipation of the illusions about the soul or the character of the Russian peasant.” J. J. S.

“Such bias as he has is valuable, being the result of his own peasant origin and early associations. There are lucid and concrete chapters, without sentimentality, as remote as possible from the moonshine with which Stephen Graham for some years saturated English readers.” Jacob Zeitlin

“The reviewer has not been able to detect a trace of propaganda in it, and can find nobody but the observer and historian. Not that Mr Hindus is colorless. Without becoming a mere annalist, it is hard to see how a writer could be fairer or more impartial.”

HINE, REGINALD L.[2]Cream of curiosity: being an account of certain historical and literary manuscripts of the XVIIth, XVIIIth and XIXth centuries. il *$6 Dutton 040

20–18243

“‘The cream of curiosity,’ by Reginald L. Hine is an account by the author of several manuscript collections in his possession. The most interesting of them appears to be the Heath papers, extracts from which throw a true ‘Sidelight on the Civil war.’ The extracts from Harpsfield’s life of Sir Thomas More are familiar. Two of these papers have already appeared in Blackwood; those dealing with Monmouth and Sir Justinian Pagitt. A collection of epitaphs is exceptionally good.”—Sat R

“For the most part the manuscripts which he prints are heavy work. Nor is he always over-happy in the presentation of his documents: the humour drags. Yet he deserves well of readers in general: he sets a liberal example for other owners of mss.; and his book is in its externals one of the best for many months.”

“Possessing a sense of humor, an ability to appraise human nature, and a profound respect for truth, he has given enough of these old manuscripts to reproduce for us a picture of the times in which their writers lived. These papers are not without value to the historian.” G. H. S.

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

“The book is very well illustrated and printed and will be found an excellent thing to dip into and dally with in the spirit in which it was written. It is a book for the country house table.”

“His book demands not so much to be read from cover to cover as to be kept within easy reach of one’s most comfortable chair, to be opened at random, and browsed upon in the leisurely, epicurean way in which we can picture the author himself perusing his manuscripts. Nor are they altogether without their value for the historian.”

HINKSON, KATHARINE (TYNAN) (MRS HENRY ALBERT HINKSON).Love of brothers. *$1.75 (2c) Benziger

20–3710

Sir Shawn O’Gara had upbraided his dearest friend, his brother in affection, for having ruined—as he thought—a young girl of the people; and enraged beyond control at Terence Comerford’s careless laugh had lashed the spirited horse, Spitfire, Terence was riding, thus sending him to his death. The shadow of his remorse haunted Sir Shawn throughout his subsequent, unusually blest married life. Retribution overtook him when his own son fell in love with Terence Comerford’s supposedly illegitimate daughter, Stella, and when his horse Mustapha, grandson of Spitfire and as spirited as his ancestor threw and apparently killed him. But he lived and Stella was proven legitimate and of exceedingly fine metal for standing up for and openly loving her mother while still in disgrace.

“Her mastery of her material is complete; she shapes it into fresh form, leaving no suggestion of the hackneyed or the improbable.”

“After the production of some sixty-four novels, it is something yet to be able to achieve a story which shows no signs of a worn-out imagination, but a decided quickening of spirit. Katharine Tynan tells her tale simply and with economy of words; yet there is real originality of plot and individuality of outlook, the whole showing a definite form, finely moulded.”

HISTORYof the American field service in France; Friends of France, 1914–1917; told by its members. 3v il *$12.50 Houghton 940.373

20–15471

“Four years ago, while yet our armies were in the field, was published a volume entitled ‘Friends of France,’ which contained numerous accounts of the work done by American soldiers in France who wore the blue of the poilu. The war was still in progress and some of our regiments were still on the way overseas in danger of submarines and anticipating the serious work which was to follow. The volume, ‘Friends of France,’ was therefore more or less provisional and incomplete. This publication then is designed to supersede the former work; its aim, as expressed by the publishers, is to fill in the gaps and finish the story, to give the final record of all the sections, new as well as old, and of the work of the many hundreds of younger volunteers as well as of the pioneers of 1915 and 1916.”—Boston Transcript

“Very carefully have the selections been made and they are edited with rare skill and discrimination.” E. T. C.

HOBBS, WILLIAM HERBERT.Leonard Wood, administrator, soldier, and citizen. il *$2 (4½c) Putnam

20–6726

The emphasis of this account of General Wood’s career is put on his advocacy of military preparedness. The author of the book sees as much danger in pacifism and internationalism as opposed to national preparedness, now as before and during the war. Henry A. Wise Wood writes a foreword to the book in the same spirit. The contents under the two divisions of: The soldier and administrator; and Prophet and organizer of preparedness, are: An American soldier; The builder of republics; Roosevelt’s estimate of Wood; Organizing the American army for defence; The fight against pacifism; The darkening of counsel; “Broomstick preparedness”; At war; A soldier’s reward; Addendum; Partial list of writings of General Leonard Wood; Books and articles concerning General Leonard Wood.

“The book is obviously a campaign document and not a very good one. It is so fulsome in its eulogy of its hero and so bitter in its denunciation of all who disagree with him, but above all of President Wilson, that it overshoots its mark in both directions.” L. B. Evans

“Serviceable and readable volume.”

HOBHOUSE, STEPHEN.Joseph Sturge. *1.50 Dutton

“A short biography (198 pages) of this earnest-minded Quaker, social reformer, and Chartist, who died in 1859, a year after he had been appointed President of the Peace society (British).” (Brooklyn) “Among the big things which he looked after were temperance, anti-slavery, Chartism and reform, free trade, education, international arbitration and peace.” (Ath)

“Mr Hobhouse has performed his task adequately, with a conscientious enthusiasm for his subject. But it must be confessed that his book is a little heavy, a little leaden.” L. W.

HOBSON, JOHN ATKINSON.Morals of economic internationalism. (Barbara Weinstock lectures on the morals of trade) *$1 (2½c) Houghton 172.4

20–21968

“It ought not to be the case that there is one standard of morality for individuals in their relations with one another, a different and a slighter standard for corporations, and a third and still slighter standard for nations.” That this, however, actually is the case is the book’s contention. The author makes a plea for an emergency commerce and finance agreement between nations by way of preventing economic ruin and starvation in the war-stricken countries of Europe. “For morality among nations, as among individuals, implies faith and risk-taking.”

HOBSON, JOHN ATKINSON.Taxation in the new state. *$1.75 (3c) Harcourt 336.42

(Eng ed 20–114)

The author holds that the war’s legacies of indebtedness and its large sudden demands of state expenditure for reconstruction, calling for an enormous increase in tax-income, necessitates a re-examination of the principles of tax policy. “Recognizing that the normal annual tax-income can only be derived from the incomes of the several members of the nation ... we are confronted first with the necessity of distinguishing the portions of personal incomes that have ability to bear taxation from those that have not such ability.” (Preface) The object of the book then is to arrive at a clear definition of ‘ability to bear’ and to ascertain the reforms needed to conform the demands of taxation to this principle. The book falls into two parts. Part 1: Principles of tax reform, contains: Ability to pay; The taxable surplus; The shifting of taxes; The taxation of income; Reforms of income-tax: Death duties; Supplementary taxes; Tariffs for revenue. Contents of part 2, Emergency finance, are: Our financial emergency; A levy on war-made wealth; A general levy upon capital; Relations of imperial to local taxation; Index.

“We no doubt adopt philosophies to justify what we want to do or have decided to do, not as a means of ascertaining what we ought to do. By working out the philosophy to justify the tax system which England is apparently heading toward, this book by Professor Hobson will be of outstanding influence.” C. L. King

“Worth the attention of all students of economics, legislators and taxpayers in the United States as well as in Great Britain.”

“Of the ways and means of ascertaining the taxable capital and of collecting the levy, Mr Hobson does not say as much as one would like. But he is dealing primarily with principle rather than with practice.” R. R.

“That Hobson has few illusions regarding the nature of the present regime, is clearly evident in the second, more interesting half of this volume.” L: Jacobs

Reviewed by H. P. Fairchild

“That his discussion slips into a discussion of British taxes in particular lessens the value of his conclusions little, if any, so nearly alike is the condition of nations in general as a result of war burdens.”

Reviewed by Lawson Purdy

“The book is full of assumptions that propositions have been proved when they have only been asserted, and of insinuations regarding facts and inferences from them which it is impossible to make good. The case is, indeed, put before us with an ingenuity which might almost be called Jesuitical, if Mr Hobson were not so audaciously open, and even truculent, in his demand for the increase of the ‘public’ income at the expense of the ‘private surplus,’ in order to supply the assumed ‘needs’ of the state.”

HOBSON, S. G.National guilds and the state. *$4 (*12s 6d) Macmillan 338.6

(Eng ed 20–16216)

“The first part of this book is devoted to a theoretical discussion of the relations between producer and consumer, and their joint relations with the state. It is presupposed that readers are acquainted with the principles and purposes of the national guild movement. The argument is largely the outcome of controversy between the author and Mr G. D. H. Cole, in which different stresses were laid upon the status of the consumer, ‘and, in consequence, upon the structure of the state.’ At the end of the second part, which deals with ‘transition,’ Mr Hobson avers his belief that national guilds are inevitable. ‘There is no student of industry,’ he declares, ‘who ... would deny the possibility of a revolution’; and the author expresses his belief that wage-abolition, with its logical sequel of an infinitely more humane structure of society, will mark a great epoch in the history of western civilization.”—Ath

“This study marks a distinct advance in our knowledge of guild proposals.” J: G. Brooks

Reviewed by Ordway Tead

“Mr Hobson in the first chapter of this book is guilty of substituting dialectic for honest examination. Few better analyses of the shop-steward movement and the tendencies of the unions have been written. They are full of rich thinking and are highly suggestive.” G: Soule

“Continentals and Americans born west of New England will hardly be able to grasp Mr Hobson’s analysis. The present reviewer, not being a theologian, confesses hopelessness in the presence of it. The trouble with Mr Hobson and his brethren is that they are looking for exactness where none can exist, for the separation of that which never can be separated. They are modern utopians. They seek finality.” C: A. Beard

“The idea of receiving wages for work done seems to give him positive pain, but his attempt to formulate a practical alternative is a sad failure, though it is veiled in obscure terms.”

“Admirably argumentative book.” W: L. Chenery

“It is long, controversial, ill-knit; lacking in clarity of thought and expression, and in consecutive argument. It gives the impression of being made up largely of fragments written at different times and strung together, not worked out in logical sequence. The writer seems to be striving all the time to get his own thoughts clear as he goes along, and to find the right words for them.”

HOCKING, JOSEPH.Passion for life. il *$1.90 (1c) Revell

Francis Erskine was given a year to live by his doctor and chooses the Cornwall coast to pass this year in quiet rural seclusion and in finding out, if possible, if there is any hope for a life beyond. He is an unbeliever and has no faith whatever in immortality. His secluded hut on the cliffs turns out to be almost directly over a cave used by the Germans for their secret operations and he soon begins to sense the presence of German spies. He spends his time between cultivating the village folk and clergy, in his quest for a life after death, and in trying to discover what the Germans are doing at the cave. To this last he consecrates himself in patriotic fervor, and succeeds, but apparently dies in a struggle with a spy. During his death trance he has a vision of the two worlds and becomes conscious of the presence of God. He awakes to find that an operation has been performed on him and that a new life and even love is waiting for him.

“There is material for a really worth while book in this novel of Mr Hocking’s and the tale begins well. If the author had only been able to restrain his fondness for sugar and sentimentality he might have been able to maintain the whole at the level of the beginning.”

HODGE, ALBERT CLAIRE, and MCKINSEY, JAMES OSCAR.Principles of accounting. *$3 Univ. of Chicago press 657

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