Chapter XVIII: Preface (18)

Dr. Hale’s description serves as a field glass to the ordinary
observer. These travels are concerned with New England mainly, with an
exception made of the state of New York and of the city of Washington.
“It is a talkative sort of book, with bits of description and bits of
history and bits of geology and bits of agricultural and horticultural
information and bits of biography all run in together and fused into a
coherent whole by Mr. Hale’s long knowledge of men and events and his
active participation in the life of his time.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“It contains much that is old—old enough, for the most part, to have
become new again to Dr. Hale’s readers; and it is laden with
reminiscences from a day more remote in feeling than in time.” Wallace
Rice.

+ =Dial.= 41: 390. D. 1, ’06. 250w.

+ – =Nation.= 83: 398. N. 8, ’06. 330w.

“Rapid as has been his survey, he has said more things and opened more
avenues of interest and stimulated the reader’s thought more than do
most books of travel either at home or abroad.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 843. D. 1, ’06. 340w.

=Hale, Louise Closser.= Motor car divorce. †$1.50. Dodd.

Peggy Ward fostering notions from her club that preaches “liberty of
thought,” “wider horizon,” and “freedom after ten years from the
tyrant man,” has a whim for divorce and is humored in it by her
husband. “Hence ‘A motor car divorce.’ It was in this clever way the
author found a peg on which to hang the description of a tour in
Europe.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“Lacks coherence as a piece of fiction.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 572. Je. ’06. 60w.

“The chief ingredients thereof are modern slang, trivial humor, frothy
sentiment, and pickings of a guide-book information.” Wm. M. Payne.

– =Dial.= 40: 366. Je. 1, ’06. 110w.

“Her work is filled with a kind of wit that is delightful because it
is real humor, and more because it is really womanly.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 239. Ap. 14, ’06. 510w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.

“A gay and rather foolish tale.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.

=Sat. R.= 102: 53. Jl. 14, ’06. 120w.

=Hall, Charles Cuthbert.= Christian belief interpreted by Christian experience. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

“Even as a study in homiletics no minister should lose sight of this
volume.” W. Douglas Mackenzie.

+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 376. Ap. ’06. 830w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 30w.

=Hall, Charles Cuthbert.= Universal elements of the Christian religion: an attempt to interpret contemporary religious conditions. **$1.25. Revell.

Six lectures delivered before Vanderbilt University, dealing with
religious conditions as distinguished from theological systems. “In
these lectures Dr. Hall has tried to discover the deeper tendency of
the religious thinking of the present time, in which the critical
movement, the modern view of the Bible, the declining interest in
sectarianism, the increased cosmopolitanism, and the large
reconception of world Christianization are powerful elements. He
speaks from the point of view of one holding the Pauline and Johannine
view of the Person and work of our blessed Lord.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

Reviewed by Clarence Augustine Beckwith.

=Am. J. Theol.= 10: 373. Ap. ’06. 1460w.

“They contain an arraignment of sectarianism as earnest as it is
gracious, and a plea for church unity full of noble and convincing
eloquence.”

+ + =Ind.= 61: 1498. D. 20, ’06. 270w.

“Dr. Hall’s lectures are not only pervaded by this spirit of
open-mindedness ... but no less by that spirit of devotion which is so
distinctly characteristic of oriental thinking, and so often,
unhappily, lacking in our occidental thinking.”

+ + =Outlook.= 82: 39. Ja. 6, ’06. 1510w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 752. D. ’05. 200w.

=Hall, Clare H.= Chemistry of paints and paint vehicles. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.

“The general scheme which the author has attempted to follow is to
take up in Chapter 1 the elementary constituents of paints with the
quantitative methods for their determination; in Chapter 2 the dry
materials entering into the manufacture of paints with a short
description of their physical properties and the separation of their
elementary constituents by methods given in Chapter 1; in Chapter 3
the analysis of samples consisting of a mixture of two or more of the
raw materials described in Chapter 2; in Chapter 4 an interpretation
of results previously obtained where it is desired to duplicate the
sample analyzed; and finally in Chapter 5, descriptions and methods
for determining the purity of paint vehicles.”

* * * * *

“The scope of the volume is indeed extremely limited, since it deals
with the examination of only a few common pigments, and by no means
exhaustively even with these; about some vehicles and diluents the
information to be found in these pages is less meagre. This little
book, with all its imperfections and its immaturity, is not destitute
of merit.”

+ – =Nature.= 75: 4. N. 1, ’06. 640w.

=Hall, Florence Howe.= Social usages at Washington. **$1. Harper.

The social usages of Washington, the seat of federal government and
the home of a large official world, differ in many important respects
from those of the rest of the country and these differences are made
clear in this little volume which “covers not only the fixed etiquette
of official circles but also the new social issues that have come up
under the Roosevelt administration.” It will prove of value to all
visitors at the national capital who wish to enjoy its public
functions and meet its public people without being entangled in the
intricacies of its etiquette.

=Hall, H. Fielding.= People at school. $3. Macmillan.

Mr. Hall says: “Some years ago I wrote ‘The soul of a people.’ It was
an attempt to understand the Burmese, to see them as they do
themselves, to describe their religion and its effect on them. This
book is also concerned with the Burmese.... This is of the outer life,
of success and failure, of progress and retrogression judged as
nations judge each other.”

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 70: 450. My. 12, ’06. 630w.

“‘A people at school’ will never, we think, attain the popularity of
‘The soul of a people:’ the tonic is never sought like the sweet. But
it deserves to be read in conjunction with the other book, and no one
can read it without learning much about some ten millions of our
fellow-subjects.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 322. Mr. 17. 1340w.

“The work has little literary charm, but it is sane, lucid and
instructive.”

+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 770. My. 10, ’06. 130w.

“Interesting if not very exhaustive, nor always entirely convincing.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 162. My. 4, ’06. 880w.

“Despite ... errors of fact and judgment and the decline in style as
compared with the previous volume, there is an honesty in Mr. Hall
which makes his studies attractive, and it is always refreshing to get
a first-hand impression.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 372. My. 3, ’06. 680w.

“That this book is rather suggestive than conclusive is one of its
charms, and no one who cares for the mysterious and vanishing East
should fail to read this study of a people at school.” Archibald R.
Colquhoun.

+ – =Nature.= 74: sup. 7. My. 3, ’06. 930w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 156. Mr. 10, ’06. 240w.

“If there be any to whom the secret of England’s genius of empire is
still hidden—in spite of all that Mr. Kipling has done to reveal
it—the unenlightened one has only to read understandingly H. Fielding
Hall’s ‘A people at school.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 288. My. 5, ’06. 1460w.

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 760. Je. 16, ’06. 820w.

=Hall, Henry Foljambe=, ed. Napoleon’s notes on English history made on the eve of the French revolution; illustrated from contemporary historians and refreshed from the findings of later research. **$3. Dutton.

Of Napoleon as a student of eighteenth century history, the compiler
says: “Napoleon’s almost invariably right judgment seems marvelous,
and his verdicts, generally the very opposite of those of his author,
who kept to the orthodox ruts of eighteenth century opinion, are those
of a hundred years later.” Further Mr. Hall discusses the “note
books,” and furnishes notes on Napoleon’s probable authorities—Barron,
Rapin, and Carte.

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 70: 203. Mr. 3, ’06. 550w.

“Mr. Foljambe Hall appended very complete notes to this volume,
respecting the manner in which Bonaparte used his authorities; and it
is here, of course, that the chief value of the book lies. On certain
topics, perhaps, the notes are needlessly full, and we have noticed
occasional slips.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 684. N. 18. 710w.

“Nowhere are they illuminated by any of that prodigious precocity
which hero-worshippers like to find. There are, however, some
entertaining passages.”

+ – =Ind.= 61: 43. Jl. 5, ’06. 360w.

“The value of the book is not in the editor’s work, but entirely in
the translation.”

+ =Nation.= 82: 62. Ja. 18, ’06. 490w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 876. D. 9, ’05. 820w.

“Mr. Hall’s own observations are original and instructive, albeit not
always as critical as could be desired.”

+ – =Outlook.= 81: 1085. D. 30, ’05. 120w.

“Napoleon’s notes are worth reading for their own sake; as given in
this volume, with abundant—if not superabundant—and minute
explanations, they constitute a most valuable survey of a most
important portion of British history.”

+ + =Spec.= 96: sup. 646. Ap. 28, ’06. 530w.

=Hall, Prescott F.= Immigration and its effects upon the United States. *$1.50. Holt.

Volume one of the “American public problems” series, edited by Ralph
Curtis Ringwalt, is a handbook upon immigration intended for the
American people at large. Part 1, Immigration and emigration, presents
the history, causes and conditions of immigration; Part 2, discusses
The effects of immigration, Part 3, Immigration legislation, gives the
history of past immigration and describes various proposed remedies
for existing evils; Part 4 deals with Chinese immigration. Appendices
contain copies of the federal immigration acts now in force.

* * * * *

“Notwithstanding blemishes ... the book seems to me a valuable summary
of the recent history and the present aspects of a great national
problem; and with the exception of Mayo-Smith’s book the best general
discussion of immigration into the United States.” W. F. Willcox.

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 921. Jl. ’06. 810w.

“The volume under review is the most comprehensive book on the subject
of the last decade. It discusses practically all of the questions
which have arisen and of the suggestions made for avoiding the
dangers. It deserves careful attention in spite of its very serious
defects.” Carl Kelsey.

+ + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 346. S. ’06. 650w.

Reviewed by Robert C. Brooks.

+ – =Bookm.= 23: 653. Ag. ’06. 660w.

Reviewed by Cyrus L. Sulzberger.

– – =Charities.= 115: 924. Mr. 31, ’06. 5830w.

“The book reads well, and one is struck by the author’s skill in
condensation where the temptation to more or less diffuse writing must
have been very great.” Frederick Austin Ogg.

+ + =Dial.= 40: 258. Ap. 16, ’06. 440w.

=Ind.= 60: 983. Ap. 26, ’06. 710w.

“The book would make an even more favorable impression if the
footnotes did not sometimes indicate a lack of discrimination in the
use of materials. It may be accepted, however, as a trustworthy
general guide; and to college debating societies ... it should prove a
godsend.”

+ + – =Nation.= 82: 280. Ap. 5, ’06. 190w.

“Mr. Hall writes with conviction, but not with prejudice or passion.
He holds a brief, but his argument is sober and reasonable. Perhaps
nowhere else can be found equally full and conveniently arranged
statistics, and as good an epitome of legislation.” Edward A.
Bradford.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 141. Mr. 10, ’06. 1200w.

“He gives, with evident intention of fairness, both sides of the
various questions he raises; but he reaches certain definite
conclusions which he urges upon his readers. In some respects we think
he argues upon false premises.”

+ – =Outlook.= 83: 577. Jl. 7, ’06. 630w.

+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 509. Ap. ’06. 80w.

“Taken as a whole, the book is a well-balanced treatment of the
subject, and does not deserve the violent criticism which it has
received in some quarters.” William B. Bailey.

+ + – =Yale R.= 15: 332. N. ’06. 310w.

=Halpin, Rev. P. A.= Apologetica: elementary apologetics for pulpit and pew. *85c. Wagner, J. F.

“This volume, whose author has frequently given proof that he reads
the signs of the times, is a step in the right direction. It presents
the fundamental facts of Christianity in the light of reason, with the
least possible appeal to revelation.... Every one of his fifty-two
sketches deals with an objection that is in the atmosphere which
Catholics breathe to-day, and against which they require the
strengthening tonic of sound instruction, as frequently as it can be
administered.”—Cath. World.

* * * * *

+ =Cath. World.= 83: 268. My. ’06. 120w.

=Hamilton, Angus.= Afghanistan. *$5. Scribner.

To material gathered from various books and official papers the author
has added his own first hand information producing more of a gazetteer
than a volume of travel in the ordinary sense. “He gives trade
statistics for every town, elaborate measurements of all railway lines
and distances, and he endeavours to set out the kind of detail as to
the various defences which might be expected in a confidential report
to some Army intelligence department.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“If the author has erred at all, he has erred in not restricting
himself to his subject.”

+ + – =Acad.= 71: 58. Jl. 21, ’06. 800w.

“The book is not to be commended on literary grounds. It contains a
great deal of repetition. The map is far from good.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 11. Jl. 7. 1490w.

“Is heavy, but it is substantial and instructive reading.” H. E.
Coblentz.

+ + =Dial.= 41: 239. O. 16, ’06. 1090w.

“To those who know something of Afghanistan, to soldiers and
statesmen, the work of Mr. Angus Hamilton will be welcome; but to the
general reader the painstaking and admirably minute descriptions of
the divisions and routes of Afghanistan will be difficult and perhaps
tedious.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 246. Jl. 13, ’06. 1410w.

“The book is heavy reading, for Mr. Hamilton is not concerned with the
usual traveller’s picturesque account of the strange manners and
customs of a strange country. He gives us statistics ... such data as
appeal to the man who wants a thorough working knowledge of Central
Asian affairs.”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 309. O. 11, ’06. 900w.

“To the serious traveller, the politician, the trader, and the soldier
Mr. Hamilton’s work has great value. It is a compendium of all that is
known about one of our most permanent frontier questions, and though
the author prefers facts to generalizations, there is ample guidance
in his book as to the greater questions of policy.”

+ + – =Spec.= 97: 232. Ag. 18, ’06. 1460w.

=Hamilton, Sir Ian Standish Monteith.= Staff officer’s scrapbook during the Russo-Japanese war. *$4.50. Longmans.

“Facts as they appeared to the First Japanese army while the wounded
still lay bleeding upon the stricken field.” From the standpoint of
the soldier of insight there are impressions of the Japanese army, its
leaders, some acquaintances, the march from Tokio to the Yalu, the
battle of the Yalu, an account of the visit from the Chinese General,
entertainments for the attachés, and “snap shots” and impressions and
opinions of other battles in which the First army engaged and which
Hamilton witnessed.

* * * * *

“Although in many respects a disappointing production ... is a very
welcome addition to the extensive but unsatisfying literature that has
been the outcrop of the campaign. In certain instances Sir Ian
Hamilton succeeded where others failed in piercing the veil of secrecy
at least partially.”

+ =Acad.= 69: 1224. N. 25, ’05. 1840w.

“Sir Ian Hamilton’s book is of great interest, though the volume forms
but a fragment and breaks off suddenly.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 755. D. 2. 1690w.

“Under the above modest title Sir Ian Hamilton has produced by far the
most interesting book on the Russo-Japanese war that has yet appeared
from the pen of an eye-witness.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 414. D. 1, ’05. 1020w.

“Attractive for its personal or literary quality. Sir Ian evidently
became highly popular at the Japanese headquarters, and obtained much
technical information not generally accessible. His ‘Scrapbook’ is not
only valuable for this reason, but delightful for the personality of
the writer.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 79. Ja. 25, ’06. 330w.

“The author gives almost no dates. His is a good book by a good
observer. Even if one is tired of war, he can read this with
interest.”

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 87. F. 10, ’06. 1100w.

“Sir Ian will often amuse his readers, he will certainly startle them,
and he will occasionally instruct them. So we welcome a very readable
volume. There is in fact a fatal want of ballast about the book.”

+ + – =Sat. R.= 100: 752. D. 9, ’05. 1320w.

“We might indeed search the whole army through without finding such a
combination of qualities as this distinguished General brings to the
making of his book. Not only is he a soldier revelling, as some old
pagan hero would revel, in the grand game of war, but he is poet,
humorist, sentimentalist, and descriptive writer as well. The result
is that his scrapbook, most fitly so called, is a delightful medley of
grave and of gay, of pleasing sentiment and excellent good sense.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 1124. D. 30, ’05. 2170w.

=Hammond, Harold.= Further fortunes of Pinkey Perkins. †$1.50. Century.

Recollections of a real live healthy boyhood in a country town must
lie behind these stories of boy fun and boy ingenuity; for Pinkey
Perkins is as full of wholesome mischief in this story as he was in
the earlier volume which bears his name and his experiences as his own
Santa Claus, as a philanthropist, a visitor at the County fair, or
midnight adventurer, will not hurt the boy of to-day and will bring a
reminiscent chuckle to the boy of yesterday.

* * * * *

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 80w.

=R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 30w.

=Hammond, Mrs. L. H.= Master-word. †$1.50 Macmillan.

“Taken in its place, it is full of significance, and should be
neglected by no one who wishes to follow contemporary conditions.”
Mary Moss.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 50. Ja. ’06. 70w.

=Hamp, Sidford Frederick.= Dale and Fraser, sheepmen: a story of Colorado sheep raising; il. †$1.50. Wilde.

The wool-grower’s west is pictured from real happenings. There are
descriptions of the wolf hunt, the great sheep drive, the prairie fire
which threatened the ranch and the western blizzard.

* * * * *

=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.

=Hancock, Harrie Irving.= Physical culture life: a guide for all who seek the simple laws of abounding health. **$1.25. Putnam.

“It is certain that were much of the advice in this book generally
followed, a lot of doctors’ shingles would very speedily come down.”

+ =Reader.= 7: 562. Ap. ’06. 230w.

=Handel, Georg Friedrich.= Songs and airs; ed. by Ebenezer Prout. pa. $1.50; cl. $2.50. Ditson.

+ + =Dial.= 40: 133. F. 16, ’06. 120w.

=Ind.= 60: 226. Ja. 25, ’06. 50w.

“Ebenezer Prout ... displays, both in the introduction and in the
editing of the songs, the scholarship which is expected of him.”

+ + =Outlook.= 82: 477. F. 24, ’06. 130w.

“Dr. Prout has made his selections with great discrimination.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 255. F. ’06. 90w.

=Hanks, Charles Stedman (Niblick, pseud.).= Camp kits and camp life. **$1.50. Scribner.

“This is a compilation of explicit and prac- shooting, fishing, or
merely rusticating. There are excellent chapters on camps and
campfires, camp cooking, what to do when lost in the woods, some
remedies for sickness or accidents in camp, and other topics of
suggestive interest to intending campers.”—R. of Rs.

* * * * *

+ =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 180w.

+ =Ind.= 60: 1369 Je. 7, ’06. 120w.

+ – =Nation.= 82: 449. My. 31, ’06. 290w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 80w.

+ + =World To-Day.= 11: 763. Jl. ’06. 110w.

=Hannah, Rev. Henry King=, comp. Bible for the sick. **$1. Whittaker.

Selections have been made from the Old and New Testament alike which
are intended for the sick to read themselves.

=Hanotaux, Gabriel.= Contemporary France, tr. from the French. 4v. ea. *$3.75. Putnam.

“The book is more than a history, it is the reflection of attitudes of
mind of a contemporary Frenchman of fine type. This enhances the value
of the book which aims to interpret for us contemporary France.” Henry
E. Bourne.

+ =Dial.= 40: 295. My. 1, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 2.)

“The translator ... has performed his task far better than in the
previous volume, and it must be allowed that the pregnant and
spasmodically emphatic style of M. Hanotaux is one very difficult to
translate into clear and idiomatic English.” P. F. Willert.

+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 400. Ap. ’06. 500w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Compared with Justin McCarthy’s popular ‘History of our own times,’
this volume by Hanotaux ... is less picturesque, less witty, more
solid, more detailed and more given to philosophising.”

+ + – =Ind.= 61: 694. S. 20, ’06. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)

“M. Hanotaux, shines more by his pen than by his philosophy. We do not
feel that he has got to the bottom of the question he discusses.
Nevertheless the book is most interesting—as interesting a piece of
contemporary history as has appeared for many a year.”

+ + – =Nation.= 82: 533. Je. 28, ’06. 1630w. (Review of v. 2.)

“M. Hanotaux shows here to more advantage than in his first volume. On
the whole the translation is satisfactory. M. Hanotaux must study
compression.”

+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 206. F. 17, ’06. 1690w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Harben, William Nathaniel (Will N., pseud.).= Ann Boyd. $1.50. Harper.

Ann Boyd had been unfairly dealt with by her fellow-villagers, her
reputation sullied, her finer sensibilities crushed. Yet,
single-handed she ran her farm, made money, invested it and became the
envy of all her maligners. The two forces fighting for mastery in Ann
are hatred born of resentment and the power of love which is awakened
thru the one soul which she considers white—that of her protégé, Luke
King. The love interest centers about Luke and the daughter of Ann’s
bitter enemy. The tangle finally straightens and Ann forgives and is
at peace with the world.

* * * * *

“In some portions of the book the writer has succeeded in imparting a
suggestion of the rude pathos and unaffected sentiment that we
associate with the peasant pictures of Millet.”

+ =Lit. D.= 33: 513. O. 13, ’06. 200w.

“There is difficulty in reaching the old enthusiasm over ‘Ann Boyd.’”

– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 669. O. 13, ’06. 740w.

“The story is injured by the tendency of the characters to excessive
monologue.”

+ – =Outlook.= 84: 335. O. 6, ’06. 240w.

“The story has a certain elemental vigor which is characteristic of
all Mr. Harben’s work.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 712. N. 24, ’06. 120w.

=Harben, William Nathaniel.= Pole Baker; a novel. †$1.50. Harper.

“In the shuttling of these well-proven motifs of the book, Mr. Harben
shows himself a practiced and skillful craftsman, keeping his threads
caught up and unbroken, and working out a clear, bright design. The
result is a texture not especially dainty or beautiful, but a homespun
stuff of fast color and good wear.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 216. F. 10, ’06. 620w.

=Hardie, Martin.= English coloured books. $6.75. Putnam.

A recent addition to the “Connoisseur’s library” which enlightens the
reader on the various processes employed in the production of colored
illustrations. “Premising that, like Gaul of old, the subject is
divisible into three parts, the author gives an account first of
coloured illustrations printed from wood blocks, secondly of those
printed from metal plates, and thirdly of those printed from stone,
devoting special chapters to men who have played a leading role in
evolution of colour printing in this country.” (Int. Studio.)

* * * * *

“A manual for the use of collector’s and students is urgently
required, and it could not come from a better source than from a
librarian in the Art library at South Kensington, nor appear under
better auspices than those of Mr. Cyril Davenport.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 555. N. 3. 1430w.

+ =Ind.= 61: 1403. D. 13, ’06. 270w.

“Mr. Hardie’s exposition throughout is clear and concise, and he
writes with the authority of one whose knowledge of the subject is
probably unequalled.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 90. N. ’06. 480w.

“There can be nothing but praise for Mr. Hardie’s thorough treatment
and pleasant style.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 266. Jl. 27, ’06. 760w.

“Appendixes valuable to book and print collectors, an index, and many
color prints beautifully reproduced make this volume a necessary book
for certain libraries. Along with the text that keeps the reader’s
interest there is a mass of information which gives the advantage of a
book of reference.” C. de Kay.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 885. D. 22, ’06. 380w.

“From the point of view of the bibliographer and the printer the
volume could hardly be improved.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 336. O. 6, ’06. 210w.

=Hardy, Rev. Edward John.= John Chinaman at home. **$2.50. Scribner.

“Writes in a very bright and breezy way of his observations in China.
The account is rambling, jumping from city to city with no special
attempt at system.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 236. Ja. ’06. 130w.

– + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 834. D. 16. 820w.

“He furnishes a readable book, without notable characteristics.” John
W. Foster.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 544. Ap. ’06. 90w.

“This is one of the most readable books about the country whose
population and peculiarities are permanently exaggerated in most of
our text-books.” W. E. Griffis.

+ + =Critic.= 48: 372. Ap. ’06. 200w.

“Not at all distinguished, not always in the best of taste, but
readable throughout, and well adapted to the needs of the middle-class
book-buyer.”

+ – =Spec.= 97: 270. Ag. 25, ’06. 250w.

=Hardy, Edward John.= What men like in women. **$1. Dillingham.

From invincible youth to graceful age, the author sketches the likable
characteristics and qualities of women. In every chapter he sounds the
depths of the permanent and trustworthy elements that make for life
happiness.

* * * * *

“Out of the serious often cometh forth humor. The wheat is in about
the same proportion to the chaff as history is to fiction in an
historical novel.”

+ – =Critic.= 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 150w.

=Hardy, Ernest George.= Studies in Roman history. *$1.60. Macmillan.

“A new edition of the author’s well-known work on ‘Christianity and
the Roman government,’ supplemented by half a dozen other essays, two
of which originally appeared in the English historical review, three
in the Journal of philology, and one as part of an introduction to an
edition of Plutarch’s ‘Lives of Galba and Otha.’”—Nation.

* * * * *

“At its first appearance Hardy’s work was not marked by much
originality, and hence it is questionable whether any justification
can be found for a second edition in which no account has been taken
of recent developments. Some of the special studies ... which form the
concluding portions of the book are decided contributions to the
literature of Roman administration.” Patrick J. Healy.

+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 931. Jl. ’06. 410w.

“Present volume is indispensable to all serious students of the Roman
empire.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 576. My. 11. 990w.

“All are of a most scholarly, some even of an extremely technical
character; and hence all are deserving of the careful attention of the
special student.”

+ + =Bookm.= 23: 455. Je. ’06. 130w.

“Dr. Hardy presents his case with utmost candour of mind and cleanness
of language, and there is no point of importance on which the present
writer is unable to accept his conclusions. Altogether the book is one
which will certainly be read with interest and deserves to be studied
with respect.” W. A. G.

+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 610. Jl. ’06. 450w.

“They show what instructive results a patient reading of inscriptions
may yield to any one with sufficient knowledge to find and hold the
clue.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 386. N. 16, ’06. 700w.

=Nation.= 82: 222. Mr. 15, ’06. 190w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 377. Je. 9, ’06. 670w.

“Eminently sane and judicious. The work is always accurate and
reliable. Their tone is admirable, and the writer does his best to set
out the particulars fairly and fully. The author writes with less
obvious prepossessions than almost all who have attempted to deal with
the matter.”

+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: 271. S. 1, ’06. 630w.

+ + – =Spec.= 97: 301. S. 1, ’06. 710w.

=Hardy, Thomas.= Dynasts: a drama of the Napoleonic wars. In three parts. Part 2. *$1.50. Macmillan.

The first part of this work of nineteen acts and one hundred and
thirty scenes appeared about two years ago. With the completion of
this second part “There is a disposition ... to look into the matter
more closely and more reverently. As its huge proportions are slowly
developed, this drama of the making of history takes on grandeur in
the reviewer’s eyes. They are no longer troubled to identify,
reasonably, the Spirits sinister, the Chorus of the pities, the
ancient spirit of the years, the Recording angels These are but
personifications of human and normal influences after all.” (N. Y.
Times.)

* * * * *

“The great drama of ‘The dynasts’ ... proves him not merely a great
novelist but an essayist, a poet and a dramatist and, I might add, an
acute historical critic.” Robert Ross.

+ + – =Acad.= 70: 206. Mr. 3, ’06. 1080w. (Review of pt. 2.)

“The poetry of the piece is not so much in the brickish verse as in
some of the stage directions in prose.” Ferris Greenslet.

+ – =Atlan.= 96: 422. S. ’05. 220w. (Review of pt. 1.)

Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne,

+ + – =Dial.= 40: 325 My. 16, ’06. 1090w. (Review of pt. 2.)

“There is probably little, if any, great dramatic poetry throughout
the multitude of scenes; but there is some good, and a great deal of
passable verse; there is some excellent prose; and there is a
continuous manifestation of imagination and intelligence for which I
am glad to acknowledge myself deeply grateful.” W. P. Trent.

+ + – =Forum.= 38: 86. Jl. ’06. 4150w.

“‘The dynasts’ is a gloomy and powerful epic, but it is not a drama.”

+ – =Ind.= 60: 807. Ap. 5, ’06. 320w. (Review of pt. 2.)

=Lit. D.= 32: 609. Ap. 21, ’06. 1580w. (Review of pt. 2.)

“There can be no possible question of the importance and high literary
excellence of his latest book. ‘The dynasts’ is a work of exceptional
power. It is a thing compact with imagination.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 49. F. 16, ’06. 2120w. (Review of pt. 2.)

+ – =Nation.= 82: 325. Ap. 19, ’06. 530w. (Review of pt. 2.)

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 132. Mr. 3, ’06. 270w. (Editorial on pt. 2.)

“This work has in it the substance, in short, of a true prose
masterpiece. Mr. Hardy has nothing of the poet in him.” H. W. Boynton.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 160. Mr. 17, ’06. 1910w. (Review of pt. 2.)

“It is absolutely hopeless as a poem.”

– =Outlook.= 82: 808. Ap. 7, ’06. 260w. (Review of pt. 2.)

“However it all may strike the historian’s mind as a spectacle of
predigested history, to the lay mind Mr. Hardy has made a wonderful
gift. He has invented a new sensation.”

+ + – =Putnam’s.= 1: 254. N. ’06. 570w. (Review of pt. 2.)

“The diction is strained, and when metaphysics begin we flounder among
quasi-technical platitudes. But in spite of a hundred faults, there is
a curious sublimity about the very immensity of the scheme.”

+ – =Spec.= 96: 645. Ap. 7, ’06. 300w. (Review of pt. 2.)

=Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert, and Baddeley (Welbore) St. Clair.= Sicily. **$1. Dutton.

The guide-book prepared by the late Augustus C. Hare is now published
in a new edition revised and brought admirably down to date by St.
Clair Baddeley. The volume is pocket size and contains maps and
photographs.

* * * * *

“In general the practical information which it contains has been
brought up to date. The historical sketch with which the volume opens
is clearly written, and will be helpful to the traveler who has not
read Freeman; but it is defective in one or two points.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 13. Ja. 6. 500w.

+ + =Ind.= 60: 871. Ap. 12, ’06. 80w.

“The author’s great fund of information is presented in compact style.
The style might have been made somewhat clearer, however—especially
with regard to ambiguity in the use of relative pronouns—without any
necessity of increasing the text.”

+ – =Outlook.= 82: 571. Mr. 10, ’06. 110w.

=Hare, Christopher.= Dante the wayfarer. *$2.50. Scribner.

“Mr. Hare’s fine compilation is fitted to be of such incalculable use
to the earnest student of Dante that it seems needful, if a little
ungracious, to point out the fact that the text of the present edition
teems with minute typographical errors.”

+ + – =Atlan.= 97: 558. Ap. ’06. 780w.

+ =Ind.= 60: 399. F. 15, ’06. 650w.

=Hare, Christopher.= Queen of queens, and the making of Spain. **$2.50. Scribner.

“There are few more striking figures in European history than Isabel,
the Catholic, Queen of Spain.... The subject of the book is wide. It
is by no means a study of the Queen’s life alone, but a good swift,
picturesque sketch of the history of Spain, beginning with the
conquest of the Moors in A. D. 711, and going on to the gradual
recovery of power and territory by the Christian Goths who fled before
them to the mountains of Asturias. Then comes the rise of the
Christian kingdoms ... then the fusion of these, after much fighting
and confusion and many romantic episodes, including the immortal story
of the Cid, into the two kingdoms of Castile and Leon and Aragon and
Catalonia.”—Spec.

* * * * *

“The book adds little to our knowledge; at its best, it summarizes the
chapters in some unrevised edition of Prescott’s work, and it is
disfigured by interpolated errors which could never have been made by
any one acquainted with Spanish. Decidedly this is a book not to be
trusted.”

– – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 12. Jl. 7. 470w.

“He quotes too much from others to produce a vivid effect, and most of
the lines in his portrait are those common to the great ladies who
lived at the same time as Isabella.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 218. Je. 15, ’06. 980w.

“The historian would be scientific, in sad truth, whom Isabella the
Catholic would not carry off his feet. That he seems hardly to have
read his proof-sheets is another matter; to be balanced perhaps by the
excellent illustrations.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 419. N. 15, ’06. 780w.

“Mr. Hare is not himself an eloquent writer, and the most of his
purple patches, especially those dealing with the Moorish wars and the
story of the Queen’s dealings with Columbus, are taken verbatim from
Irving.”

– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 515. Ag. 18, ’06. 570w.

“Mr. Hare always writes with evidence of so much research, and with
such a real enthusiasm for his subject, that we cannot help regretting
some literary lapses in his style. This book, for instance, would have
been greatly improved in value and dignity if he had read through his
proofs more severely, cut out various ornamental passages, and
tightened up certain slovenly sentences. As we have already said, the
book is agreeable and picturesque, and we have read it with interest
and enjoyment.”

+ + – =Spec.= 96: 987. Je. 23, ’06. 1400w.

=Harker, Mrs. Lizzie Allen.= Concerning Paul and Fiammetta; with an introd. by Kate Douglas Wiggin. †$1.25. Scribner.

While in England a year ago, Kate Douglas Wiggin discovered in the
children of Mrs. Harker’s “A romance of the nursery” such delightful
little people that she asked for the privilege of introducing to her
own American readers Mrs. Harker’s next story. And so Paul and
Fiammetta have come to take their place beside Rebecca, Timothy and
Polly Oliver. “‘Fee’ is a travelled, hotel-bred child, who had learned
experience without losing her good manners.” (Lond. Times.) Paul has a
mania for reading, and is devoted to dogs no less than to his friend
Tonks.

* * * * *

“The story has many appealing qualities,—its gayety, sympathy, humour,
and lifelikeness; and perhaps to American readers one of its chiefest
charms will be that it is so thoroughly English,—as English as a
hedge-rose or a bit of pink hawthorne,—yet, with all its local colour,
sounding the human and universal note.” Kate Douglas Wiggin.

Foreword to book.

“It is easy to imagine many parties both in the school room and
downstairs where these sketches will be read aloud and approved
enthusiastically.”

+ =Acad.= 70: 288. Mr. 24, ’06. 210w.

+ =Critic.= 48: 572. Je. ’06. 60w.

“In the main, the book is rather about children than for them.
Children ... would never notice the delicacy, the strength, and the
sympathy with which Mrs. Harker has worked.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 104. Mr. 23, ’06. 450w.

+ =Nation.= 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 30w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 193. Mr. 31, ’06. 420w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.

+ =Outlook.= 82: 810. Ap. 7, ’06. 80w.

“The way in which the four children are differentiated and each
endowed with a well-marked individuality is extremely clever. In a
book which strikes so true a note all through the critic may be
forgiven for wishing that the simplicity of the original keynote has
been preserved to the concluding sentence.”

+ + – =Spec.= 96: 623. Ap. 21, ’06. 700w.

=Harnack, (Carl Gustav) Adolf.= Expansion of Christianity in the first three centuries; tr. and ed. by James Moffatt. 2v. *$3. Putnam.

“There are certain dangers into which the modern aggressive historian
is apt to fall, and does fall if Harnack and Knopf are to be taken as
fair representatives of the class. If he has successfully found his
way out of the swamp of sectarian prejudice on the one hand, he seems
likely to wander, on the other, into the dense forest of conjecture,
wherein he will see all sorts of fantastic forms in the dim light.”
Andrew C. Zenos.

+ – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 334. Ap. ’06. 1420w.

Reviewed by George Hodges.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 413. Mr. ’06. 460w.

“Dr. Harnack, in fine, has produced what is as yet the most
satisfactory, if not the most striking and original, of the noble
series of works in which he is casting new light upon Christian
history. We wish that we could say that a worthy translator had been
found for him.”

+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 19. Ja. 6, ’06. 740w.

=Harper, William Rainey.= Critical and exegetical commentary on Amos and Hosea. **$3. Scribner.

“Students of the Old Testament have now, for the first time in many
years, an adequate commentary on Amos and Hosea. The treatment of the
text is on the whole conservative, the emendations adopted being
generally those which the soberest scholarship of the present day
would approve.” Charles Torrey.

+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 309. Ap. ’06. 1840w.

“Judging from his own point of view Dr. Harper has succeeded fairly
well. He has not the initiative of Marti, but when he selects from the
emendations of others, he may count on the approval of most
liberal-conservative scholars.” T. K. Cheyne.

+ + – =Hibbert J.= 3: 824. Jl. ’05. 4710w.

=Harper, William Rainey.= Priestly element in the Old Testament: an aid to historical study for use in advanced Bible classes. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.

+ + =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 375. Ap. ’06. 340w.

=Harper, William Rainey.= Prophetic element in the Old Testament. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.

“For the student who is willing to do his own thinking, and to reach
his own conclusions, there will be found in this volume stimulus,
suggestion, and guidance, such as will be found, in this particular
form, nowhere else.” John E. McFadyen.

+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 317. Ap. ’06. 440w.

“A careful study of this work would lead to a highly specialized
knowledge of the subject. This suggests the only criticism that might
be ventured on the book. Is it not too taxing upon the average
student, except when used by such a pedagogical genius as Dr. Harper
himself?” Kemper Fullerton.

+ + – =Bib. World.= 28: 154. Ag. ’06. 320w.

“For one interested in the analysis of modern biblical criticism, this
manual will be in a high degree valuable; and if one is in an early
stage of scriptural study, it will be almost indispensable.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 703. F. ’06. 330w.

=Harraden, Beatrice.= Scholar’s daughter. $1.50. Dodd.

“Geraldine Grant is the daughter of an austere and self-centred
scholar who lives a life of seclusion in a lonely country house,
engaged in the compilation of a colossal dictionary. Soured by the
unfaithfulness of his wife, shortly after his daughter’s birth, no
woman is admitted to his house.... Heredity it is to be supposed will
out and Geraldine practices her powers of fascination on the three
middle-aged men secretaries who assist her father.... A lightning
love-tale and the very obvious identification as his wife of a famous
actress, Miss Charlotta Selbourne, on her casual appearance at the
professor’s house make up this slender story.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“We venture to think that this story would do better as a light play
than as a novel.”

+ – =Acad.= 70: 182. F. 24, ’06. 200w.

“Compared with ‘Ships that pass in the night’ and even with one or two
of the succeeding novels, this story is a grievous disappointment.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 259. Mr. 3. 150w.

“It all savours pleasantly of comic opera, with soothing little
melodies running through it; and undeniably leaves a pleasant, if
transitory, taste behind it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ – =Bookm.= 23: 416. Je. ’06. 330w.

“The book is amusing reading for an idle hour.”

+ =Critic.= 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 40w.

“If we consider the book as a serious novel, its superficiality
irritates us, or if we take it as a short story we are wearied by the
protracted explanations.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 52. F. 16, ’06. 260w.

“There is a freshness and strength in the pen-painting of people who
inhabit this new novel.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 306. My. 12, ’06. 370w.

“Is a triumph of ‘manner.’”

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 401. Mr. 31, ’06. 280w.

“A highly agreeable romance, suffused with graceful sentiment and
containing a half-a-dozen pleasant portraits.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 263. F. 17, ’06. 740w.

=Harriman, Karl Edwin.= Girl and the deal. †$1.25. Jacobs.

“The very kind of a tale to rest an overtired brain or to relieve the
tedium of a long journey.”

+ =Arena.= 35: 223. F. ’06. 200w.

=Harriman, Karl Edwin.= Girl out there; il. by A. Russell. †$1.25. Jacobs.

Mr. Harriman finds his heroine of the title in a little rural town
whither a young journalist goes to recuperate after a run of fever.
The simple folk of the village from Alec Truesdale, the close-fisted
man who nibbles crackers by the hour in the little weather-grayed
grocery, much to the discomfiture of the owner, to Herb Jenkins, stout
of heart and generous of purpose, are cleverly sketched. The new comer
wins the heart of the girl that Herb Jenkins loves, and how Herb
crushes his own hope and gains for the two the blessing of an obdurate
father is an example of fine unselfishness.

* * * * *

“As a study of the ways and manners of the inhabitants of a small New
England village the book is not without merit, but it lacks both plot
and incident.”

– + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 153. Ag. 11. 110w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 435. Jl. 7, ’06. 220w.

=Harris, J. Henry.= Cornish saints and sinners. †$1.50. Lane.

“The fabled land of Lyonesse is supposed to lie under the sea off the
coast of Cornwall, and the country abounds in legends of saints,
giants and fairies to say nothing of numerous tales in which his
Satanic majesty figures more or less prominently. Many of these old
folklore stories are retold by Mr. Harris as he heard them from the
natives, but with an added touch of humor all his own.”—Arena.

* * * * *

“We find Mr. Harris feebly and coarsely imitating Mark Twain at his
very worst, with the result that the feelings of any person of taste
must be shocked.”

– + =Acad.= 70: 557. Je. 9, ’06. 160w.

“Delightfully humorous account of the travels of three friends.” Amy
C. Rich.

+ =Arena.= 36: 211. Ag. ’06. 160w.

“Many more pretentious chronicles of travel have been less
entertaining.”

+ + =Critic.= 49: 283. S. ’06. 170w.

“In spite of these mistaken efforts, most of the book is agreeable
reading, and Mr. Harris shows real interest in Cornwall, and sympathy,
mixed with a certain condescension, for the people he describes.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 230. S. 13, ’06. 420w.

=N. Y. Times.= 11: 439. Jl. 7, ’06. 130w.

=Harris, William Charles, and Bean, Tarleton Hoffman.= Basses, fresh-water and marine. **$3.50. Stokes.

“The brook brings you into pleasant contact with nature, even if the
trout refuse to rise, and if one possesses a fairly active imagination
the book may do the same, even if it fails to satisfy all applicable
objective tests of good literature. It is chiefly from this point of
view that we must commend the sumptuous volume which Mr. Rhead has
devoted to the basses.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“If any important facts about the bass have been overlooked it would
be difficult to specify what they are.”

+ + =Critic.= 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 70w.

+ =Ind.= 60: 1371. Je. 7, ’06. 140w.

+ =Lit. D.= 32: 984. Je. 30, ’06. 120w.

“One does not really find any striking positive merits to distinguish
it from other literature available on the same subject.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 268. Mr. 29, ’06. 530w.

“While the volume is mainly intended for the fisherman, the natural
history side has not been forgotten.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’06. 110w.

“It is a carefully planned survey of the entire field. The joys and
trials of the fisherman’s life are so charmingly described that the
book is an exceptional companion for the shore or library.”

+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 543. Ap. 28, ’06. 80w.

=Harrison, Constance Cary (Mrs. Burton Harrison).= Carlyles, The: a story of the fall of the confederacy. †$1.50. Appleton.

A Civil war story whose opening chapters give a detailed account of
the evacuation of Richmond. When the city is set on fire, the home of
Monimia Carlyle is protected by a Union officer who supplants in the
young maiden’s affection the place of her accepted Confederate cousin.
Molly Ball, a Confederate spy “of that never extinct Amazon brood that
springs from sleep at the trumpet’s call” (Nation) calls the cousin
off from his initial love pursuits and rather monopolizes the
remainder of the story.

* * * * *

“There is no doubt as to the charm of the book and the accuracy of the
picture it presents of certain aspects of post-bellum life in Dixie.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 190. F. ’06. 180w.

“The several parts, though not unrelated, are not smoothly connected,
and, in the later chapters, the charming heroine is seriously
neglected for metal less attractive.”

+ – =Nation.= 81: 510. D. 21, ’05. 360w.

=Outlook.= 81: 680. N. 18, ’05. 60w.

=Harrison, Edith Ogden (Mrs. Carter Henry).= Moon princess. **$1.25. McClurg.

“With a simple, unaffected style, the writer has narrated a child’s
story of lively interest.”

+ =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 30w.

“Is full of delicate shades.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1386. D. 14, ’05. 50w.

=Harrison, Frederic.= Chatham. **$1.25. Macmillan.

“Care coupled with his style has given us a monograph on Chatham of
abiding value.” Edward Porritt.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 710. Ap. ’06. 230w.

=Harrison, James Albert.= George Washington: patriot, soldier, statesman, first president of the United States. **$1.35. Putnam.

In Professor Harrison’s life Washington’s heart and head unite in
admirable mastery over problems of humanity, war and state. The sketch
gives an intimate view of Washington from boyhood up, showing how well
America’s hero developed his birthright powers to meet the demands of
leadership. Martha Washington is portrayed as “an ideal of the gentler
motherhood that preceded the era of the Amazon, and consecrated itself
altogether to the sacred office of friendship.”

* * * * *

“Rhetorical descriptions abound, and there are digressions not a few;
but the portrait presented in the work is hazy and inadequate in all
that relates to Washington’s public life.”

– + =Dial.= 41: 212. O. 1, ’06. 160w.

“Its style—inflated, involved, obscure, often ungrammatical—furnishes
a fairly accurate model of all that an historical writer’s work should
not be.”

– =Lond. Times.= 5: 374. N. 9, ’06. 90w.

“The Washington depicted in this volume is the familiar heroic and
half-deified figure of the older panegyrists. As a whole the style is
that of the romanticist, embellished with imagery and superlatives. It
is not too much to say that the quotations are the best part of this
work.”

– + =Nation.= 83: 286. O. 4, ’06. 490w.

“We know of no other life of Washington within moderate compass which
presents so clear a picture of the man and maintains so well
throughout a pleasing narrative style.”

+ + =Outlook.= 83: 1005. Ag. 25, ’06. 130w.

“Has done full justice to his attractive subject, treating it with
thorough scholarship, patriotic sympathy, and felicity of style.”

+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 253. N. ’06. 130w.

“Professor Harrison has succeeded remarkably well in presenting an
eminently readable biography.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 90w.

=Sat. R.= 102: 370. S. 22, ’06. 50w.

“The historian has his duty of self-effacement as well as the
biographer. The biographer must not intrude his own personality; the
historian must not intrude his style. This is what Professor Harrison
is perpetually doing.”

– =Spec.= 97: 405. S. 22, ’06. 280w.

=Harrison, Jane Ellen.= Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides. *$1.75. Macmillan.

Dr. Harrison sets forth a new view of the character and limits of
ancient Athens, based on the evidence of Thucydides and the recent
excavations of Dörpfeld.

* * * * *

“She illustrates her book with good plans and photographs, but apart
from these it is hard to see what useful purpose it can serve.”

– + =Acad.= 70: 526. Je. 2, ’06. 1020w.

=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 729. Ap. ’06. 60w.

“Even those who are not prepared to accept the author’s theories will
welcome the presentation, in so convenient a form, of the recent
researches both of other archaeologists and of the author herself.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 521. O. 27. 660w.

“In her mythological excursions, Miss Harrison is less likely to
secure the ready reference of her reader.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 511. Je. 21, ’06. 590w.

“In one curious detail in an otherwise convincing argument, Miss
Harrison has unsuspectingly followed her leader into a gaping trap.”

+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: 367. S. 22, ’06. 1180w.

“Learned volume.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 1045. Je. 30, ’06. 150w.

=Harrison, Newton.= Electric wiring, diagrams and switch boards. 15th ed. rev. and enl. *$1.50. Henley.

“Mr. Harrison’s work is intended to help practical wiremen to do a
better grade of work by informing them of the reasons for what they
do.... The author ... devotes his attention to statements of the
practical matters connected with the installation of electric
machines, including the necessary switchboards and the wiring
connecting these with the supply circuits.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“In the opinion of the reviewer, the book would be better without the
last two chapters. It should be useful not only to artisans, but also
to architects, builders and others who are responsible for the proper
installation of electric circuits.” Henry H. Norris.

+ + – =Engin. N.= 55: 310. Mr. 15, ’06. 780w.

=Harrison, Peleg D.= Stars and stripes and other American flags; il. **$3. Little.