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Holyoake, George Jacob.Bygones worth remembering.2 vols.*$5. Dutton.

The author, who has for many years taken an active part in all movements toward the bettering of the conditions of the working classes gives interesting details concerning the progress of the English nation during the last few decades and reminiscences of Harriet Martineau, Mazzini, Kossuth, John Stuart Mill, Lord Shaftesbury, Garibaldi, and Gladstone. There are many illustrations.

“In this later book the gold is beaten rather thin; and, in fact, the reminiscences—which are none of them to be described as wildly exciting—are eked out with extracts from newspapers.”

“As a contribution to the history of the political and social progress of the nation these ‘Bygones’ are of great value.”

Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.

Reviewed by Jeanette L. Gilder.

“Frank egotism is evidenced on every page. Mr. Holyoake has a strong sense of humor, but his manner of writing is such that it is not always easy to discover when he is jesting and when he is in earnest.” Edith J. R. Isaacs.

“He states many facts, he corrects many fallacies, that should claim the consideration of historians of British politics during the nineteenth century. Seldom have we read a book breathing a more tender, tolerant, and judicial spirit.”

“These pages and people are all interesting.”

“A further characteristic of the author’s opinions and reminiscences is a whole-souled optimism which, pervading his book, manifests itself perhaps most impressively in the final chapter.”

“We are not sure that all the ‘Bygones’ which Mr. Holyoake recalls are ‘worth remembering.’”

*Home, Andrew.Boys of Badminster.†$1.50. Lippincott.

A tale of English schoolboy adventure whose hero is Jack Coverdale, broad shouldered enough to bear the burden of his own scrapes and those of less honorable companions. “There is an attempt at kidnapping, with exciting cricket games and boys’ pranks, all of which must be read to be appreciated. There is another good story, ‘A row in the sixth,’ at the end of the book, which is a big one.” (N. Y. Times.)

*“Good characterization and plenty of humor should make this a success.”

*“Mr. Home has the happy knack of rousing an expectancy which he never disappoints.”

*“Mr. Home does his best, not wholly without success, to make it seem possible, and constructs a good story out of it, as school stories go.”

Home, Gordon Cochrane.Evolution of an English town.*$3.50. Dutton.

The old town and castle of Pickering in Yorkshire, and the country of Pickering vale are dealt with here from pre-glacial times down to the beginnings of 1905. “It is really surprising to find how much may be learned relating to ethnology, archæology, and ancient customs from this curious piece of local antiquarian study.” (Outlook.)

*“The quality and number of the illustrations greatly enhance the value of the book. We have only noticed one misprint.”

“The book furnishes a pleasing type of local history to which other essays in that field will do well to conform.”

“The book commends itself to special readers more than to the general traveler.”

“Makes altogether a charming book for lovers of things old, picturesque and curious.”

*Home, Gordon.Normandy: The scenery and romance of its ancient towns.*$3.50. Dutton.

The author has profusely illustrated this volume with colored plates and pen-and-ink sketches. “Mr. Home says his book is not a guide, but simply ‘an attempt to convey by pictures and description a clear impression of the Normandy which awaits the visitor.’ But it will serve as a guide if need be, for the author, with that curious naiveté of the Englishman, names inns and hotels without fear of being accused of advertising; and as he says, ‘any one using the book as a guide would find in his path some of the richest architecture and scenery that the province possesses.’” (N. Y. Times.)

*“Is chiefly of interest for its beautiful colored plates, which give clearer impressions of Normandy’s varied and wonderful scenery ... than any words, however perfectly chosen, could hope to do. Mr. Home is sufficiently an artist to write, as well as paint, like one. He wins the reader’s approbation by his first sentence.”

*“A very successful attempt has been made to convey, by means of pictures and description, a clear impression of the Normandy which awaits the visitor.”

*“The book will certainly give us a better notion of Normandy than Mr. Menpes’s much moremultitudinous blots can convey to us of Brittany or any other place.”

*“A charming book on Normandy. The book is one to read and keep, and to take with one on his trip to the old duchy it describes.”

*“Its text is illuminative, graphic, and sympathetic. Mr. Home has produced a work on Normandy to appeal to every one who has ever visited that interesting region.”

*“Mr. Home knows something of architecture and describes with feeling and taste.”

Hooker, Katharine.Wayfarers in Italy.**$2. Scribner.

A fourth edition of a book about the out-of-the-way places of Italy, by one who has left the beaten and over-described paths to hunt for old books and lost Madonnas, and study the life, habits, and temperament of the village and country folk.

“Is well deserving of the many editions it has passed through.”

“A fresh, informing, and thoroughly charming book in one of the oldest fields in the world.”

Hope, Anthony, pseud. SeeHawkins, Anthony Hope.

Hopekirk, Helen, ed. Seventy Scottish songs. $2.50. Ditson.

These seventy songs include the folk-music student’s favorites. They have been gathered from the Lowlands and the Highlands, from the remote mountainous regions and from the western isles. The volume is uniform with the “Musicians library.”

*“A very interesting and valuable work.”

*“Those who care only for popular tunes with any serviceable accompaniment will find this selection acceptable; whereas the epicure who likes his folk-music pure and unadulterated will be likely to object to many passages in which the arranger has exercised her faculty of harmonizing with too little regard for the racial essence of the tunes.”

Hoppenstedt, J.Problems in manoeuvre tactics; with solutions for officers of all arms, tr. by J. H. V. Crowe,*$1.60. Macmillan.

In this volume the original German organizations have been adapted to those of the British army in order to assist its officers in studying for examinations, and furthering their knowledge of the art of war. Four maps have been provided.

Hornaday, William Temple.American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America.**$3.50. Scribner.

“The author has had many years’ experience as a field naturalist in America and the far East, and as director of the New York zoölogical park, gives much information in an interesting style, illustrating his text with maps, charts, and drawings. “The object of this book is to make nature available to laymen; it is also particularly addressed to teachers and parents.” It is intended to be plain, practical and direct, as well as systematic and scientific.... The field covered includes all the principal types of vertebrates found in North America.” (Science.)

“We find here much practical and economic zoölogy, invaluable matter on the extinction of American species, and the setting right of many ancient and silly myths. Clear exposition is exhibited in many sections of the book. The drawings, while of uneven merit, are full of life and action and have good teaching value. The author aims to amuse as well as to instruct.” W. K. Gregory.

*Home, C. Silvester.Common sense Christianity.*35c. Meth. bk.

“This book aims at being a popular contribution to the art of Christian defence.” The author believes that a policy of vigorous attack is necessary to oppose the work of many who maintain that for the twentieth century a new religion is needed.

Horner, Joseph.Engineers’ turning.*$3.50. Van Nostrand.

A well-illustrated text which considers the principles and practice in the different branches of turning. A feature of the book is the important section devoted to modern turret practice; boring is another subject treated fully; a chapter on tool holders illustrates a large number of representative types; screw-cutting is treated at length; and the last chapter contains a good deal of information relating to the high-speed steels and their work.

Horner, Joseph.Tools for engineers and woodworkers.*$3.50. Van Nostrand.

A comprehensive work whose object is “to give an account of such tools as are commonly used by engineers and woodworkers, written chiefly from the standpoint of the men who have used them, and who desire to understand the principles which underlie the forms in which those tools are found. Practical instruction for their employment, as suggested by the writer’s own experience, have been added.”

“Although there is necessarily a good deal of the descriptive catalogue in a work of this kind, yet this one is so well put together, its brief descriptions are so clear, and above all the endless varieties of tools enumerated are brought to one’s notice in so logical an order, their classification is so essentially scientific, that it may be regarded as in a sense a finished monograph of one phase of evolution.”

*“The author has written a clear and comprehensive description of various groups of tools.”

Hornung, Ernest William.Stingaree.†$1.50. Scribner.

Stingaree, a one-time London clubman, now a robber in Australia, “sticks up” (Australian for hold up) mail coaches and banks in a manner both theatrical and gentlemanly. On one occasion he operates among a company of amateurs, forcing them to give a concert, and makes use of the occasion to introduce a girl with a beautiful voice to a prominent composer. He is afterward released from jail just in time to don evening clothes and hear this girl as a prima donna.

“Of no importance from the literary standpoint, the present volume yet contains ten very readable and ingeniously worked out stories.”

“The stories are all fluent, ingenious, and diverting, and will be found readable enough.”

“Series of ingenious tales.”

“On the whole, his adventures being as hazardous and exciting as those of his predecessor he should be equally well beloved.”

“The tales ... are dashing, daring, entertaining, and show considerable inventiveness without disclosing any special literary power.”

“He is a real creation.”

“Mr. Hornung who has much aptitude for sensational fiction has exhibited little ingenuity or originality in these tales.”

*Hornung, Ernest William.Thief in the night: further adventures of A. J. Raffles, cricketer and cracksman.†$1.50. Scribner.

The third series of the adventures of Raffles goes back to the earliest days of the cracksman and Bunny, his foil. One of the nine tales portrays the disloyalty of the thief in losing for Bunny his sweetheart, another, and quite the most ingenious of the group, is that of a little “job” at Lord Thornaby’s town house where Raffles diverted from himself the suspicions of the “Criminologists’ club.” All thru Raffles is still the same terrible expert burglar.

*“Unfortunately the reader’s taste has been whetted for better things, and he looks in vain for the quick turns and the conquering of difficult situations of the earlier yarns.”

*“The newer stories, while they seem somehow to lack the snap and go of the earlier ones, are nevertheless not very different in quality, and if you are not tired of the old Raffles they may be trusted to furnish entertainment for an idle hour.”

*“Those unacquainted with the cracksman will find admirably written stories retailing the exploits of a gentleman burglar of the most marvelous skill and finesse, and an unusually winning personality.”

*“His mind works with all its old rapidity and originality, but he is less convincing and beguiling.”

*“It is not so mischievous as its predecessors, because it is not nearly so well done.”

Horsley, Walter C., tr.See La Colonie, Jean Martin de.

Hort, Fenton John Anthony.Village sermons.*$1.75. Macmillan.

Dr. Hort, a noted scholar and Christian gentleman, writes with simplicity for the country folk with whom he had to deal as the parson of a Hertfordshire village. The sermons “are generally founded on some incident of the day’s service, some sentences in a psalm, or more often some petition in a collect.” (Lond. Times.)

*“We must confess that the sermons strike us as being highly conscientious but a trifle dull. Yet here and there, genius shows itself in the easy power of expressing a great deal in a few words.”

Horton, George.Monk’s treasure. $1.50. Bobbs.

Ta Castra, an island of the Cyclades, in the Ægean sea, is the scene of a series of adventures in which a young American, buying up Greek argols for his uncle’s firm, and his interpreter, a sturdy Scotchman, figure conspicuously. The American straightway becomes involved in breaking up an alliance between a beautiful Greek bond-girl and her belligerent betrothed, Spiro. Thru treasure, hidden in a monastery, he proves the girl to be a duchess, and outwitting the monks and Spiro alike, escapes with Polyxene and her bags of gold.

“Those who love a story for the story’s sake will be sure to enjoy Mr. Horton’s latest romance.” Amy C. Rich.

“The recovery of the wealth against the cunning machinations of the monks supplies a number of exciting and tragic events to sustain interest in a story which otherwise is rather lightly worked out.”

“Crude romance.”

“A good story.”

Hosking, Arthur Nicholas, comp. and ed. Artist’s year book. $3. Art league pub. assn., Chicago.

A handy reference book wherein may be found interesting data pertaining to artists, and their studio, home and summer addresses for 1905-1906. Recognized merit has been made the standard of selection for this list.

*Hough, Emerson.Heart’s Desire.†$1.50. Macmillan.

Heart’s Desire is a little settlement hidden away in a corner of the West “where men have gone to live at peace—without law and without women.” “The inhabitants dozed in the sunshine, smoked, drank, gambled a little, toiled fitfully, fought occasionally, and dreamed a good deal. Then the railroad came and the dreams were gone. Along with the railroad came Constance and the old vexations that troubled Eden and have troubled every assemblage of men ever since.” (Pub. Opin.) It is a picture of rough Western life with clever character delineation.

*“A singularly pleasing story of the west o’ dreams.”

*“A more vivacious tale of far western life one does not often get.”

*“In vigor and spontaneousness it seems to us Mr. Hough’s best work in fiction.”

*“It is idyllic, impossible, and extremely entertaining.”

Houston, Edwin James.Electricity in every-day life. 3v. $4.50. Collier.

“These volumes aim to give to the general reader a comprehensive knowledge of the history of electricity, the principles and laws that govern its action, and its practical applications in every-day life.” (Outlook.) There are eight hundred illustrations which present electricity as applied to modern industry and as used in laboratories, and in the home.

“Without trace of romance and yet in an eminently attractive style, the author has made comparatively clear the vagaries of electricity.”

“The style is clear and pleasant. Abstruse technicalities are carefully avoided, and no part of the book will be difficult of comprehension for the average well-informed man who has made no specialty of electrical subjects.”

“He succeeds well in popularizing technical subjects. The present work is voluminous, but never wearisome.”

Howard, George Elliott.History of matrimonial institutions chiefly in England and the United States.*$10. Univ. of Chicago press.

“In the three volume work ... Prof. George E. Howard deals chiefly with the matrimonial institutions of the English race, prefacing his treatment of the subject with an analysis of the literature and the theories of primitive matrimonial institutions. Professor Howard’s treatise covers practically every phase of the subject that calls for treatment, and gives elaborate biographical data relating, not only to the institution of marriage itself, but to almost every conceivable phase of the sex problem that has been treated in our literature.”—R. of Rs.

“To students of sociology this work is one of importance.” Simeon E. Baldwin.

Reviewed by E. T. B.

“Professor Howard’s volumes are admirable studies and a much needed supplement to the famous works of Starcke and Westermarck.”

*“A scholarly and profound inquiry.”

“For even the general public Professor Howard’s volumes cannot fail to be both interesting and instructive, for they deal attractively with the most human of all institutions, and contain a mass of facts nowhere else obtainable.”

“An immense bibliographical index at the end of the third volume completes the usefulness of the work as a book of reference, and it is as a book of reference that it will be chiefly used and valued.”

Howard, John R., comp. SeeOnehundred best American poems.

Howe, Frederick Clemson.City: the hope*of democracy.**$1.50. Scribner.

“A novel interpretation of municipal affairs.... Mr. Howe ascribes most of the ills to which the American city is heir to economic and industrial, rather than to political or ethical causes.... Mr. Howe’s remedy for the present evil conditions consists in offering opportunity to labor, in taxing monopoly, and in the abolition of privilege.”—R. of Rs.

*“Mr. Howe’s main arguments in favor of municipal ownership are strong, and much of his abstract reasoning in favor of the single tax is well put, although less convincing to most people; but the author is too sweeping in his advocacy of the adoption of these measures and in his claims for resulting benefits.”

*“Dr. Howe, in a spirited and striking description of the American city, interprets its myriad phases from the economic standpoint.”

*“Is a good deal of a theorist, but, happily also, he is very much of a student. Mr. Howe’s book, we fear, will not advance that result as much as it might have done had it been more soberly written.” E. C.

*“His book is a frank discussion of municipal problems as they are actually encountered in the more typical of our American cities. The prevailing note is one of optimism.”

Howe, Maude.SeeElliott, Mrs. Maude Howe.

Howells, William Dean.London films.***$2.25. Harper.

The volume is made up of Mr. Howells’ characteristic talks about London weather, London streets, London noises, churches, parks, buses, slums, children, and bobbies—often with humorous comparison with the corresponding phenomena in New York. He tells, too, about society out of doors in Rotten Row and Piccadilly. Some of the matter has already appeared in some of the magazines. The book is provided with sixteen full-page illustrations and is bound to match the author’s “Literary friends and acquaintances.”

*“These films do not amount to so comprehensive or extensive a survey as Emerson achieved. But they are very fascinating, and are written with the clarity and richness of style which constitute Mr. Howells one of our foremost writers of English to-day.”

*“Its ‘films’ are far more interesting and significant than some that Mr. Howells has shown; they are indeed in his happiest analytic vein.”

*“The book is in no whit inferior to those masterly studies in Italian life.”

*“A series of delicate and charming impressions of London in many of its aspects, social, civic, and meteorological.”

*“Easily takes its place among the few most noteworthy books of the season.”

*“He is still master of the gentle irony, the subtle, mischievous suggestion, the humorous backward glance, that have fascinated his readers for years.”

Howells, William Dean.Miss Bellard’s inspiration.†$1.50. Harper.

“It was nothing short of inspiration which made Miss Lillias Bellard decide to visit her aunt and uncle, the Crombies, in order to consider quietly the question of marrying a certain eager young Englishman. Mr. and Mrs. Crombie had ... taken a cottage in the New Hampshire hills. Miss Bellard’s intention was to watch the domestic conditions of the Crombie household before rushing recklessly into matrimony. But coincident with her visit came that of the Mevisons, a couple trembling upon the verge of separation. Thus Miss Bellard was treated to a variety of domestic relations which produced varying effects upon her.”—N. Y. Times.

“Charming and idyllic comedy which at once tickles and instructs. Mr. Howells has written no more delightful story for years.”

*“The book is undeniably a delicate and diverting piece of satire and full of those illuminating sidelights upon human foibles and frailties that make Mr. Howells inimitable.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

*“The charm of Mr. Howells’s style is the only inducement offered the ‘gentle reader’ in this book.” Charlotte Harwood.

“Has a charm altogether out of proportion to its pretensions.” Wm. M. Payne.

“The whole thing is dainty and amusing, and the irony so suavely expended that some readers may fail to detect it, and hence be a little puzzled as to the degree of the author’s facetiousness.”

“It is as if Mr. Howells’s vision were being contracted instead of enlarged as the years go on. He stops short now at the surface; and delicately and gracefully as he plays about on it, we regret his arrested development.”

“Is a light comedy with enough social satire to remind us that Mr. Howells is not just fooling for our summer holiday.”

“Mr. Howells has not lost any of his cunning in portraying the delightfully illogical phases of the feminine mental processes. Altogether it is a decidedly entertaining book.”

“Has all the lightness, the charming comedy touch, of his earlier work, and yet is not lacking in serious purpose. The studies of temperament are both skillful and convincing. It is quite certain that Mr. Howells has written nothing in a happier style; the vein of humor which runs through the book is as fresh as in his earlier work, and parallel with it runs a vein of quiet, kindly irony equally effective.”

“Beyond a doubt the story is amusing, but to Mr. Howells’ real devotees it must be rather hard sledding.”

*“Though but a slight love tale, embodies a maturity of conception, a surety of view, a subtle phraseology, an exquisite use of irony, and, withal, a sedate, appeasing dignity.”

“The book is mainly a study—and a very clever and shrewd study—of one type of American girl. But all the subordinate characters are carefully drawn.”

Howells, William Dean.Son of Royal Langbrith. $2. Harper.

The story is the tragic one of the weakness of a good mother who lacks the courage to tell her son of the iniquities of his dead father. He grows up in the belief that his father is a noble and heroic character, and when the truth is revealed to him, through the courtship of his mother by the country doctor, he suffers greatly in the loss of his ideal. An opium eater and his loyal daughter enter into the story. The setting is a small New England manufacturing town.

“Is in many respects the best bit of work Mr. Howells has done of late years. One is inclined to read it slowly, lingering in enjoyment of the charming style, and appreciating to the full the perfect picture of New England life in the minute details that Mr. Howells so loves to dwell on. It is a pity, however, that in his love of realistic detail, Mr. Howells should be led into writing passages which, to say the least, mar the artistic effect of his work. He has set such a dainty dish before us that we cannot bear even one drop of grease to spoil the taste.” C. Harwood.

“The one objection which the average reader has been known to make against the work of Mr. William Dean Howells,—namely, that that distinguished novelist is too fond of the insignificant,—cannot be brought against ‘The son of Royal Langbrith.’ That the working out of this theme is masterly it is superfluous to add.”

“What lends peculiar charm to Mr. Howells’s best work is the fact that it could only have been written by an American. It is in the delicacy and tact with which it is handsovereign merit of the story resides.”

Hubbard, Arthur John, and Hubbard, George.Neolithic dew-ponds and cattle-ways.*$1.25. Longmans.

“The author endeavors to solve the question of the water-supply of the Neolithic dwellers in hill-encampments on the downs in the south of England. There were apparently no wells, and they had to depend on the ‘unfed’ artificial dew-pond.... Closely connected with the dew-ponds are the cattle-ways down which primitive man drove his herds from the entrenched settlement to water.... There are numerous and very clear photographs.”—Nation.

“Altogether the book is one to be read with interest and profit by everyone at all interested in the evidences relating to our ancestors of the stone age.”

“Contains much suggestive and interesting matter, and is very good reading, but not wholly convincing.”

“The whole study is well worth reading even by those who have no immediate interest in antiquarian topography.”

“The construction of dew-ponds by the early inhabitants of Britain has often been glibly asserted, but few, if any, have furnished such clear and circumstantial evidence as the authors of this short treatise.”

Hubbard, Gardiner Greene.Collection of engravings. SeeUnited States, Library of Congress.

Hubbard, Sarah A., comp. SeeCatchwords of cheer.

Huckel, Oliver., tr. Lohengrin,**75c. Crowell.

A companion volume to Mr. Huckel’s “Parsifal” which appeared in similar form two years ago. “It is a version for the general reader. It is not a libretto for the music. It gives a cumulative impression, the composite effect of words, scenery, action, and it is hoped, the spirit of the musical interpretation ... the spirit of the original text in a free version rather than in a strictly literal one.”

*“The poem is preceded by an admirable introductory chapter relating to the work, the whole forming a little volume which will be highly prized by lovers of this noble music-drama.”

“It gives the reader a much better impression of the drama than the ordinary literally translated libretto can furnish.”

*“The verse is smooth and dignified.”

Huckel, Oliver.Melody of God’s love; a new unfolding of the twenty-third psalm,*75c. Crowell.

An interpretation of the twenty-third psalm which divides it into three melodies: In green pastures, a song of the sweet and pleasant experiences of life; Through the valley of the shadow, a song of the harder and deeper and more sorrowful experiences of life; and, In the house of the Lord forever, a song of the exultant and triumphant and heavenly experiences of life here and hereafter.

“A series of meditative essays in poetic vein, but without great distinction of style.”

Huffcut, Ernest Wilson.Elements of business law; with illustrative examples and problems.*$1. Ginn.

This volume is intended as a text-book for students in commercial courses in high schools and colleges and it sets forth the fundamental principles of business law, giving simple concrete examples which show them in their actual application to business transactions. Problems taken from decided cases are given at the end of each chapter. The book is based upon the common law and a glossary of legal terms is provided.

Hughes, Hugh Price.Life of Hugh Price Hughes, by his daughter. 3d ed.*$3. Armstrong.

“Mr. Price Hughes broke in early life with the traditional conservatism of the Methodist body, and allied himself with the Liberation society.... The greater part of the volume is taken up with the spiritual activities with which”he “occupied his strenuous life. These were very various in kind. Not the least interesting among them is the part which he took in the reunion conferences at Grindelwald.”—Spec.

“She tries to set down all her father ever did or said, with little order of time and not too much of logic; yet large abstractions obscure practical details.”

“This story of his life will be read in all branches of the Church. It deserves to be. It needs to be.”

“We must frankly say that there is a certain magniloquence of diction and general exuberance about Miss Hughes’s description of her father’s life and work which we could wish away; but these do not hinder us from recognizing a really striking personality. There are, indeed, more serious faults in Miss Hughes’s book than those of diction and manner. It would not have cost much trouble to ascertain the facts.”

*Hughes, Rupert.Zal: an international romance.†$1.50. Century.

The tale of a young Polish pianist’s battle for recognition in New York. There is the artist and dreamer’s “deathless enthusiasm” which dominates Ladislav Moniusko and Rose Hargrave, a wealthy New York girl, whose father had set her apart for an English duke.

*“The book is of value, not only because of its musical quality, but because it enlarges information and intensifies sympathy for what may truly be called the land of genius.”

*“The contrast between the Polish and American natures is excellently indicated.”

Hugo, Victor.Notre Dame de Paris.$1.25. Crowell.

A volume in the “Thin paper classics” series, translated from the French by Isabel F. Hapgood.

Hugo, Victor.Toilers of the sea.$1.25. Crowell.

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