“A concise, clear and comprehensive presentation of the national and international interests involved in present movements and tendencies, viewed as growing from the past.”
“Is a model of compactness and illumination.”
Gunsaulus, Frank W.Paths to power; Central church sermons.*$1.25. Revell.
The first group of Dr. Gunsaulus’ sermons to be published. They emphasize his right to be classed with such men as Beecher, Brooks and Spurgeon. “But to feel their power one must surrender for the time to the speaker’s wand and not dissolve the spell by a critical mood.” (Outlook.)
Gwynn, Stephen.Thomas Moore.**75c. Macmillan.
The author, who is already known as a novelist and a critic of English-Irish literature, is also an Irishman and consequently found an unusually happy subject in Thomas Moore. The romantic rise of Moore from the Dublin grocery store to London’s rank and fashion is detailed.The critical estimate of his work is fully given, and his part in the last century’s remarkable advance in poetical technique is enlarged upon.
“His life is excellently set forth in this volume, the author having evidently put before him as the object of his task the painting of a faithful portrait. Mr. Gwynn has added considerably to his already very considerable repute by this capital little book, in which he does justice to his subject and to himself.” W. Teignmouth Shore.
“Mr. Gwynn had accomplished no easy task with tact and literary skill, if not with accuracy.”
“A sympathetic treatment of the man and his works.”
“Mr. Gwynn’s book is compact with information and well-balanced criticism.”
“Delightful little volume.”
“Considered as a portrayal of Moore’s character, this book of Mr. Gwynn’s is adequate and satisfactory. It is not, however, eminently successful in evoking for the imagination the world in which the poet lived. As a literary estimate, while it neither observes its subject from a new angle, nor throws new light upon it, it is upon the whole a thoroughly competent and workmanlike performance—an orderly, trustworthy, and comprehensive statement of the established critical opinions regarding Moore’s poetry and prose. Mr. Gwynn has shown himself a safe, if neither a brilliant nor remarkably painstaking critic.” Horatio S. Krans.
“Mr. Gwynn has given us an eminently readable book.”
“Mr. Gwynn’s estimate of Moore is the most noteworthy thing in the volume.”
“We feel that Mr. Gwynn is making quite a nice and workmanlike book to fill a supposed cap in a respectable series; we admire his visible yet sober efforts to impart a tinge of enthusiasm.”
“Mr. Gwynne, who has done his work with much skill and sympathy, has never allowed his judgment to be influenced.”
Gwynne, Paul.Bandolero,†$1.50. Dodd.
A book which gives a vivid picture of Spanish peasant life. The story concerns the only son of the Marquis de Bazan who is kidnapped by his father’s enemy, a “bandolero,” and brought up on an Andalusian farm. The boy falls in love with his playmate, the bandit’s daughter, and altho her father violently opposes their marriage, he at last not only gives his consent but sacrifices his life for the son of his enemy. Altho the plot is melodramatic, the scenes of country life are homely and humorous.
“The romance is thoroughly interesting, and has a considerable degree of literary charm.” Wm. M. Payne.
“A good melodramatic novel. The author must know his Spain far better than most men.”
“As has been said by some one, Mr. Gwynne knows the Spanish peasant as well as Miss Wilkins knows the New England farmer. It is this part of this book, as it was with his former story, which attracts us in Mr. Gwynne’s work. The plot of the story ... seems to us on the melodramatic order and less worthy of praise.”
“A logical, well-atmosphered story whose interest is steadily sustained and whose denouement is satisfactory.”
“Mr. Gwynne has painted for us the large sun-lit landscape of the Andalusian plains and the slow comedy of village life with a certainty of touch and a depth of colour which are entirely admirable. But apart from merits of atmosphere and scenery, he has a very stirring story to tell and much excellent character-drawing. Mr. Gwynne, though he deals with the favourite constituents of melodrama, is always a serious novelist, and his characters are as carefully studied as his plot. Mr. Gwynne has found a field in which he need fear no rival, and we welcome a book so full of freshness and vitality.”
Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich Philipp August.Evolution of man: a popular scientific study; tr. by Joseph McCabe.*$10. Putnam.
The present translation has been made from “the fifth (enlarged) edition of the German work. The abstruse and puzzling phenomena of embryology occupy the whole first volume.... The second volume is devoted to the vexed problem of our ancestry—beginning with the lowest forms of life and working upwards thru ‘Our worm-like ancestors,’ ‘Our fish-like ancestors,’ ‘Our five-toed ancestors,’ and ‘Our ape-like ancestors.’ But besides these we have some luminous chapters on the evolution of the nervous system, sense organs, vascular system, and so on. A summary on the ‘results of anthropogeny’ closes the book.” (Acad.)
Reviewed by W. P. Pycraft.
*“As always, he is prodigious of learning, fertile alike in illuminating suggestion and extraordinary new words; and as always, totally at sea as to what may reasonably be said in a popular book.” E. T. Brewster.
*“A translation which is, on the whole, excellent.”
“The broad fact of development and the main details of the process are undeniably given by Prof. Haeckel with a wealth of illustration and a positiveness of statement which aids both understanding and memory, even if it somewhat obscures the complexity of the problem and the insecurity of the conclusions to which one is lead.” Joseph Jacobs.
“It is unfortunate that more care has not been taken with the translation and proof-reading, in the latter especially with regard to proper names. On the whole, however, the translation is readable and set forth in idiomatic English.” J. P. McM.
Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich.Wonders of life.*$2. Harper.
This volume is supplementary to the author’s “Riddle of the universe,” and is an answer to the thousands of letters and the many published attacks the first work called forth. It contains a quantity of biological information and is probably too technical to be popular. “His whole method of argument is based on the continuity of life, the unity of nature, and his metaphysics grows out of his biology. The book is divided into four parts, in which he treats respectively of the knowledge, the nature, the functions and the history of life. Altho he is now in his seventy-second year he has not lost the skill in classification and terminology which has given him his special reputation, andhe uses effectively the tabular form and parallel columns to elucidate his theories and to contrast them with those of his opponents.” (Ind.)
“The chapters on ‘Forms of life,’ ‘Monera,’ and ‘Nutrition’ are written by a master in these fields and tend to compensate for the enormous mass of paralogisms and unproved assertions that constitute perhaps the greater part of the remaining chapters.” C. W. Saleeby.
“Yet the book must be respected for its learning, and is absorbing even when not convincing.”
“The book is translated into good English, but there are various slips or misprints in names and technical terms.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
“It [the translation] is on the whole clear and vigorous, but it betrays inexpertness. The translator has not the vaguest idea of what he is translating. Defective proofreading.... This book expresses the sincere convictions of a veteran who has done much for biology.”
“Notwithstanding this obscurity in parts, the whole book is fairly clear as to its tendency.” Joseph Jacobs.
“After one wades through this terrible terminology of the scientific philosopher he is gratified, however, to find that he has been led always to a clear conclusion. Such is the nature of the question that much depends on the original bias of the reader.”
“Has been well translated by Mr. Joseph McCabe.”
“On the whole we find it disappointing. In the present book we got a mass of biological information, often of the most obscure kind, set forth with all the ability of an acknowledged master in this branch of science: but in conjunction with this we get a considerable quantity of loose thinking of a kind which passes for philosophical often presented in a very superficial manner.”
Haenssgen, Oswald H.Suction gas. $1. Gas engine pub.
“Written, according to the author, to supply the lack, in this country, of information on the subject of suction gas producers, and more briefly of their first cost, cost of running and possible utility and development.”—Engin. N.
Reviewed by Alfred B. Forstall.
Hafiz, Mohammed Shems-ed-Din.Odes from the Divan of. Freely rendered from literal translations by Richard Le Gallienne.*$1.50. Page.
“Hafiz has the epicureanism of Omar Khayyam without his philosophy. He sings of nothing but wine and love.... Mr. Le Gallienne has not merely translated, he has transmuted the odes into true English poetry, and any one but an antiquarian will prefer to read them in this form rather than in the literal versions.”—Ind.
“In short, while Mr. Le Gallienne has not found much more to tell us in this than in his last Persian study, he has not shown any greater poetical merit; but, on the contrary, by his more ambitious metrical scheme and greater dependence upon himself, he has been led into worse technical blunders.”
“The only fault we have to find with Mr. Le Gallienne is that he is inclined to make his task easy by diluting his poetry until it flows freely. With more pains he might have kept more of the terseness and spirit of the original.”
“His work is frankly not a translation by a scholar, but a poet’s version of another poet. Jarring notes like these are the more discordant when one thinks of the beauty of so much of his version, and remembers the undoubted ability of Mr. Le Gallienne.”
“Many of these odes have the lyrical quality, and that while they may not be in all points acceptable to Oriental scholars, they give to the reader sufficiently well the effect of Persian imagery and the essence of the poet’s feeling.”
Haggard, Andrew Charles Parker.Silver Bells,†$1.50. Page.
Stories of hunting and fishing abound in this tale of a man who leaves home and friends for the care free life of the Canadian Indians. Silver Bells, an Indian girl, is the heroine.
“Col. Haggard has gone back to Fenimore Cooper for his model in this story. The story may amuse boys, perhaps.”
Haggard, (Henry) Rider.Ayesha: the return of “She.”†$1.50. Doubleday.
In this sequel to “She.” the book which thrilled and fascinated twenty years ago, “Holly and Leo search full sixteen years for Ayesha and find her at last, the priestess of a strange religion, half Isis-worship, half fire-worship, on a lonely mountain in no man’s land at the back of beyond, there are hair-breadth escapes from avalanches and from mad Khans who hunt people to death with bloodhounds, mysterious doings in great temples and on the roof of the world, fierce battles, in which nature fights for Ayesha against her old foe Amenartas.... And Leo Vincey having won, after many an ordeal, his bride, dies on the eve of bliss and Ayesha herself, now half goddess, half weak and wilful woman, passes away from the earth forever.” (Lond. Times.)
“Not all the wishes that we could form of submitting our imagination to that of the author result in a moment of illusion.”
“‘Ayesha’ fails to exercise the fascination of ‘She’; and the reason must, perhaps, be sought, not in Mr. Haggard, but in ourselves. ‘Ayesha’ deserves indeed a vogue only second to that of her previous incarnation.”
“Has our taste changed and our discrimination grown keener through the intervening years, or has the pen of Mr. Haggard lost its magic?” Frederic Taber Cooper.
“If the reader will lay aside doubt and scepticism for the old ready belief, he cannot fail to feel again the old pleasure, the old interests, and the old thrills.”
“‘Ayesha’ is not ‘She,’ and the lovers of ‘She’ are a little stiffer in the mental joints.”
“No doubt, allowing for the disillusionment of years, this sequel is as well-wrought as its original. Probably it is even superior geographically, ethnologically, theologically, and pyro-technically.”
*“‘Ayesha,’ continuing ‘She,’ betokens no weariness and no decay.”
“The novel shows fine imagination, but it is surely an artistic mistake to throw doubt on the reincarnation story which readers of ‘She’ were bound to accept.”
“As in all Mr. Haggard’s stories, there are some admirable adventures, and the tale is told with much skill.”
Haggard, (Henry) Rider.Gardener’s year.*$4. Longmans.
There are two gardens described in this book, one on the eastern shore of Suffolk, where the author, by planting a certain beach-grass, has successfully checked the inroads of the sea, and the other at Ditchingham, where he has three acres under cultivation. He has six glass houses and two ponds in which he grows aquatic plants. With the assistance of two gardeners he raises fruit, vegetables and flowers, making a specialty of orchids. There are 25 illustrations from photographs.
“In the volume under notice he details his joys and sorrows as a gardener in a manner which is well nigh certain to prove very acceptable to the vast army of garden lovers.”
Haggard, (Henry) Rider.Poor and the land; being a report of the Salvation army colonies in the United States and at Hadleigh, England; with a scheme of national land settlement, and an introduction by H. Rider Haggard. 75c. Longmans.
By permission of the British government, Mr. Haggard’s report to parliament of the results of his investigation of the Salvation army colonies is re-printed in book form. It contains full descriptions of these colonies with reports of conversations with the colonists, letters, etc., and is illustrated from photographs.
“Any one who believes in state-aided emigration as a cure for some of our graver social evils will be grateful to Mr. Haggard for his thorough investigation of the question and his thoughtful proposals towards a solution.”
Haile, Martin.Mary of Modena, her life and letters.*$4. Dutton.
“The biography of the ‘fascinating’ princess—the only Italian queen who ever shared the English throne—as it appears in her own letters and the dispatches and letters of her contemporaries.... The volume is illustrated with photogravures.”—N. Y. Times.
*“A valuable addition to the history of her time.”
“But it is heaped together rather than written, and the author has no gift of historical portraiture. Here and there interesting facts emerge; there is, alas, no life in the whole.”
“An interesting book on the life of a young woman of little importance.”
*“Is a sympathetic survey of Mary’s life. The interest is both historic and sentimental.”
“The one source of regret is that Mr. Haile, manifestly tireless in research and an adept in converting the results of research into narrative has not preserved a judicial attitude.”
Haines, Alice Calhoun.SeeKnipe, Emilie Benson.
Haines, Alice Calhoun.SeeMar, Alice.
*Haines, Henry Stevens.Restrictive railway legislation.**$1.25. Macmillan.
This volume is made up of twelve lectures given by the author in April and May, 1905, at the Boston university school of law, “the purpose being to present the manner in which legislation and judicial decisions have affected the operations of railway corporations in their relations to the public.”
*“Perhaps the most interesting portion of Col. Haines’s book, and a unique and valuable record to the student, is the historical matter which it contains.”
*“The author discusses in an academic spirit, and without heat, questions which are the subject of very heated discussion by the press and by public men. The volume will be valuable to all students of this subject whether they deal with it from the point of view of the publicist or of the railroad manager.”
*“Conservative discussions of the whole question, conducted in a judicial temper.”
Haines, Jennie Day, comp. Sovereign woman versus mere man: a medley of quotation.**$1. Elder.
In these well chosen quotations from writers of both sexes and many ages the compiler has compared and contrasted man and woman in various phases and stages of their being. The left hand page applies to sovereign woman, the one facing it to mere man, and they are presented as heroines and heroes, spinsters and bachelors, wives and husbands, and as related to love, matrimony, fads, fame, ways, work, religion and many other things. The marginal decorations and general get up make the volume an attractive gift-book.
*“The quotations, which are of very miscellaneous authorship, possess more than a superficial aptness, and there is a refreshing absence of that attempt at epigrammatic smartness which spoils most books of this type.”
Hains, Thornton Jenkins.Black barque.†$1.50. Page.
The adventures of a sailor aboard the slave-ship, Gentle Hand, on her last cruise in the year 1815, form the subject of this new romance of the sea.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
“In spite of its exaggerations, it is probable that one does not get from this story a very erroneous idea of slave ships, as they were in 1815.”
“Language somewhat surprising for the rough character he makes himself out to be.”
“Mr. Hains’s story—one of pure adventure—is vivid and exciting.”
Haldane, J. W. C.Life as an engineer; its lights, shades and prospects.*$2. Spon.
“This volume would make an excellent present for a lad with a taste for mechanics, or for a young man thinking of an engineer’s occupation.... The reader learns something not only of the marvels of machinery ... butof the likelihood of earning a living in this particular line.... The author has given an autobiographical form to his book, relating his experiences at various great centres of industry, as at Glasgow and at Birkenhead.”—Spec.
Hale, Edward Everett.Man without a country.*25c. Little.
A new edition of a story “written in the darkest period of the Civil war to show what love of country is.” A young army officer, court-martialed for treason charges, curses the United States and wishes that he may never hear its name again. As punishment his wish is granted, and for fifty years he is “a man without a country.” He is carried on one long cruise after another by government vessels and barred from hearing or seeing a word from home.
Hale, Edward Everett, jr. Dramatists of to-day.*$1.50. Holt.
Rostand, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Pinero, Shaw, Phillips, Maeterlinck: being an informal discussion of their significant work. This book is exactly what it declares itself to be in the fore-going sub-title, but in its informal discussion is matter of much interest, for the dramatists and their dramas are discussed from the viewpoint of both literature and the stage. They and their works are chatted about and compared in a fireside fashion that makes the reader feel as tho he had entertained a pleasing and instructive guest, one who can vividly revive memories of “Cyrano de Bergerac,” “L’Aiglon,” “Die versunkene glocke,” “Magda,” “Sweet lavender,” “The second Mrs. Tanqueray,” “Candida,” “Paolo and Francesca,” and “Ulysses.”
“These papers are what is called readable: chatty, urbane, a little ostentatiously inconsequent, perhaps, and familiar not always in the best sense.” H. W. Boynton.
“Strangely immature judgments and ... oddly egotistic digressions from which the author forgets to return. He has an amazing capacity for misunderstanding the things he writes about.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
“An amiable and quite unacademic vagueness is ... the chief characteristic. His English style leaves much to be improved.”
“His little book, modest in style and also in spirit, is a fresh and entertaining piece of writing.”
Hale, Harris Grafton.Who then is this? a study of the personality of Jesus.*$1.25. Pilgrim press.
“The personality of Jesus is exhibited as in a normally human development, attaining thru communion with God a transcendence beyond all measure of comparison. The work avoids technical theology, but its Christological view is clearly of the Ritschlian type. Mr. Hale is a Congregational minister.”—Outlook.
“Not without attractiveness from a literary point of view.”
“This is, on the whole, a strong book. The method of the work is inductive, and its style is clear and vigorous.”
Hale, William.Dauntless viking. $1.50. Badger.
The foreword states that “this story of the Gloucester fisheries is a conscientious study of the local life and color as it actually exists.” It follows the fortunes of a young viking who comes to America and casts his lot among the fishermen of Cape Ann, and is told in the broken English of the sons of Norway. It describes a hard life and does not close upon a happy ending, but lets the hero win success and happiness, and then ends grimly.
Hall, Charles Cuthbert.Christian belief interpreted by Christian experience.*$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
These lectures were delivered in India, Ceylon and Japan on the Barrows foundation, 1902-1903, and are now submitted to Western readers in book form that they may see “the manner and style of the work done in India for Indians.” Written in that spirit of broad sympathy which is essential if the Christian would successfully approach the non-Christian mind, they appeal to all creeds, to all ages, to all seekers after God.
“The foremost merit of President Hall’s ‘Barrows lectures’ is their supreme tact, their gracious Christian courtesy.”
“The tone of the book is ironic and characterized by the true Christian spirit of a broad catholicity.”
Hall, Edward.Henry VIII.; with an introd. by C: Whibley. 2v.*$12. Grafton press.
This text is reprinted from the folio edition of 1550. In its quaint English it gives an account of the social rather than the political phases of the reign of the “high and prudent prince, King Henry the Eighth, theindubitateflower, and very heire” of Lancaster and York. It gives a brilliant and interesting picture of the early 16th century, it narrates faithfully, but lets many great heads go to the block without comment. It was safer so in those times.
“Admirable alike in print, paper, format, style, and introduction.”
“This present book disarms critics, so far as concerns Hall’s gift of seeing things, and of using a dignified old English which now and then ... rises to something like splendour.”
*Hall, Jennie.Men of old Greece.†$1.50. Little.
Four chapters graphically sketching history and biography are “Leonidas,” “Themistocles,” in which this hero is set in the midst of the events that led up to the victories of Marathon and Salamis, “Phidias and the Parthenon,” and “Socrates.” The illustrations include eight full-page plates and a number of drawings suggestive of types, customs and dress.
*“Makes good reading for the boys of to-day.”
Hall, R. N., and Neal, W. G.Great Zimbabwe, Mashonaland, Rhodesia.*$6. Dutton.
“This is a detailed account of two years’ (1902-1904) examination work on behalf of the government of Rhodesia.... Mr. Hall writes briefly on the area of the ruins, burial places of the old colonists, absence of inscriptions, two periods of gold manufacture, the Elliptical temple, the Acropolis ruins.... Chapters are given to the Acropolis, the people, their customs, manners, religions and habits, the ruins, ancient architecture, relics and finds, the Elliptical temple, etc.... The volume is profusely illustrated from drawings and photographs.”—N. Y. Times.
“However fascinating these researches into hoary antiquity may be, the great value of Mr. Hall’s work consists in its ample and careful description of the ruins as they are, and inthe plans and photographs which illustrate it.”
“In the main his account is intended for the archæologist rather than for the general reader.”
Halsey, R. T. H.Boston port bill as pictured by a contemporary London cartoonist. Grolier club.
“Through the associations of the remarkable series of cartoons described and beautifully reproduced the author is led to tell directly or incidentally almost everything that is known about the Port bill ... [He] traces, through little-known letters, newspaper accounts, and pamphlets, public and private opinion about the Port bill both in England and America.... Five of the mezzotint cartoons ... were the work of one man, Philip Dawe, a pupil of Hogarth.... Other humorous mezzotints ... were put forth by anonymous cartoonists, and the subject is further fitly illustrated by portraits from contemporary prints and pictures of statues and famous historical buildings.”—Outlook.
Halstead, George Bruce.Rational geometry. $1.75. Wiley.
Altho Euclid still holds its place as the one authoritative text book on geometry, modern criticism tends to make pure reason the only court of appeal, and doubts the reliability of the intuition of our senses. This “Rational geometry” upholds this view, using points, lines and planes as the names of things, the physical conception of which is not necessary. “The object is to deduce the conclusions which follow from certain assumed relations between these things, so that if the relations hold, the conclusions follow, whatever these things may be. Space is the totality of these things; its properties are solely logical, and varied in character according to the assumed fundamental relations. These assumed relations which develop space concepts that are apparently in accord with vision constitute the modern foundations of Euclidean space.” (Science). At a hasty glance the book does not appear to differ from ordinary text-books, diagrams are given, but not as essential to the argument. Altho the method of development is new, all the school propositions of both plane and solid geometry are eventually developed.
*Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
“The aim of modern rational geometry is to pass from premise to conclusion solely by the force of reason. Mr. Halstead is the first to write an elementary text-book, which adopts a modern view, and in this respect his ‘Rational geometry’ is epoch-making. It seems as if the present text-book ought not to be above the heads of the average elementary students, and that it should serve to develop logical power as well as practical geometrical ideas.” Arthur S. Hathaway.
Hamilton, Sylla W.Forsaking all others: a story of Sherman’s march through Georgia. $1.50. Neale.
A Union soldier, by persistent kindness to a fiery daughter of the South wins her, and makes her see that though her home lies devastated in the wake of Sherman’s army, and her childhood’s lover lies dead upon the battle field, a great right has grown out of these many wrongs. The book gives a vivid picture of Georgia’s sufferings during the war, and of the brutality of Sherman’s men.
Hammond, Captain Harold.Pinkey Perkins: just a boy.†$1.50. Century.
Wholesome fun pervades this story of Pinkey, the boy, his pranks, his love affairs, and his troubles. The reader’s sympathy is wholly with him in his contests with an over-zealous teacher, in his celebration of April fool’s day, and July fourth, and in his encounters with old Hostetters, for Pinkey is always quick-witted, and never malicious.
“Is a little different from most boys’ books. He is never monotonous, however.”
Hammond, Mrs. L. H.Master-word,†$1.50 Macmillan.
A story of Tennessee, which treats of the race question. Viry, whose mother is three parts white and whose father is a Southern gentleman, feels the call of the white race but is doomed to be relegated to the black. Loathing any affiliation with them, she is one of them, and the slight arguments used by her dead father’s wife, who forgives her husband and nobly tries to do her duty by his alien child, neither help her nor solve the problem. There are other characters and an account of the development of the phosphate region.
“It is the first compassionate, intelligent interpretation ever written by any white person, North or South, of that pathetic class of men and women who suffer the loneliness and humiliation of a peculiar condition. The sympathetic attitude of the book merits all praise, and it is a story full of incident and interest.”
“The author has written with sincerity and with a high purpose; and, although there are things regrettable in her book, and she has fallen short of her aim, she has done some admirable work, and has achieved a striking story, quite out of the ordinary.”
“The story is unusual in its nobility of spirit and its sanity.”
“It is admirably constructed and well carried out save for a somewhat forced and over-pathetic conclusion.”
“‘The master-word’ is a book that stands far above the average of contemporary fiction.”
Hampson, W. J.Radium explained.**50c. Dodd.
“This little book ... will ... serve a useful purpose in giving an elementary acquaintance with the subject of radio-activity, so far as that is accessible to those with little scientific knowledge.... Probably one of the most valuable chapters in the book is that on the medical aspects of radium.”—Nature.
“The language is simple and clear and should be comprehensible to any one with the ordinary knowledge of chemistry and physics.”
“The explanations given of the experimental properties of radium are, so far as we have observed, clear and accurate.” R. J. S.
“As a preparation for the further study of the new element, or for those who wish merely to keep well abreast of the world to-day, his little volume has an important place.”
“Dr. Hampson has a fine sense of value and proportion, both in subject matter and style.”
Hanauer, J. E.Tales told in Palestine; ed. by H. G. Mitchell,*$1.25. Jennings.
A collection of folk-lore stories of ancient and modern Palestine, gathered by a long-time resident of that land, and a contributor to the publication of the Palestine exploration fund. The folk-tales fall into five groups: “Anecdotes more or less historical,” “Legends of saints and heroes,” “Stories of modern miracles,” “Tales embodying popular superstitions,” and “Specimens of oriental wit and wisdom.” There are a few helpful notes and numerous illustrations.
“As entertaining as any book of travel could be. Its combinations of shrewdness and superstition, naiveté and astuteness, its worldly wit and wisdom so other-worldly than our own, furnish an agreeable and wholesome mental recreation for a leisure hour.”
“Charming weird folk-lore tales.”
Hanchett, Henry Granger.Art of the musician: a guide to the intelligent appreciation of music,**$1.50 Macmillan.
The purpose of this book is “to supply the demand of those mature lovers of music who wish to understand the aims and purposes of a composer, some of the methods of his work, and to get some ground for fairly judging his attainments and results. It aims to supply such information as should make concert-going more satisfactory, listening to music more intelligent, and that may assist in elevating the standards of church, theatrical and popular music.”
“Undoubtedly there is need of books of this kind, but it is to be feared that this one will not accomplish its excellent object, because of the author’s diffuseness and lack of lucidity.”
“A unique and useful book, and one which goes far to demonstrate his theory that music can be thoroughly and usefully taught without teaching the art of performance.”
“In short, it is a treatise on how to listen to music that he gives us, and it is a very good one.”
“And while Mr. Hanchett may not have got to the bottom of all that he discusses, much of what he says is useful and much will be illuminating to the intelligent student who follows him through his discourse and scrutinizes the examples he gives.” Richard Aldrich.
“Useful, however, as this book is sure to be, it is not free from certain evident defects.”