Chapter XXII: Preface (22)

+ + – =Acad.= 69: 1353. D. 30, ’05. 940w.

“The author’s style, here as elsewhere, is lucidity itself.”

+ + =Critic.= 48: 189. F. ’06. 180w.

“In fact ‘London films’ is quite the kind of book that we should like
to see written about ourselves by a foreign sojourner who sensitively
gathered impressions by the way.”

+ + =Reader.= 7: 226. Ja. ’06. 250w.

“Some of the most charming commentaries on London life and people are
to be found in William Dean Howells’ latest reminiscent volume.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 128. Ja. ’06. 90w.

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

“Mr. Howells’ whole ability (and in reading ‘all the new novels’ one
learns the worth of such skill as his) is called forth to show three
hapless men in three stages of engulfment by affectionate
boa-constrictors.” Mary Moss.

– + =Atlan.= 97: 51. Ja. ’06. 110w.

=Howells, William Dean, and Alden, Henry Mills=, eds. Under the sunset. Harper’s novelettes. †$1. Harper.

This volume of novelettes includes “The end of the journey,” “The
sage-brush hen,” “The prophetess of the land of no-smoke,” “A little
pioneer,” “Back to Indiana,” “The gray chieftain,” “The inn of San
Jacinto,” “Tio Juan,” and “Jamie the kid.” Mr. Howells says: “In the
immense geographical range of these admirable stories, we have some
faint indications of the vastness as well as the richness of the field
they touch.”

* * * * *

=Critic.= 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 60w.

=Dial.= 41: 21. Jl. 1, ’06. 60w.

“Many of them exceedingly good, and the variety, within the broad
limits of the Western localization and inspiration, is strikingly
wide.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 446. Ag. 11, ’06. 230w.

=Outlook.= 83: 483. Je. 23, ’06. 40w.

=Hoyt, Arthur Stephen.= Work of preaching. **$1.50. Macmillan.

Dr. Hoyt, professor of homiletics and sociology in the Auburn
theological seminary, “claims no original and certain method for the
making of pulpit orators, but his remarks on the preparation and
delivery of sermons are sane and practical. He has had especially in
mind the problem and position of the preacher today, and his book
might well be read by those who are familiar with the older
homiletical literature.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“However, it would seem that Dr. Hoyt over-estimates the
authoritativeness of a scripture text with a present-day congregation
in a progressive community, and thereby fails to appreciate some of
the largeness and difficulty of the work of preaching in the present
generation.”

+ – =Ind.= 60: 631. Mr. 15, ’06. 160w.

“They are free from scholasticism, and sensitive to the demands of the
present time.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 141. Ja. 20, ’06. 220w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 70w.

=Hubback, J. H., and Hubback, Edith C.= Jane Austen’s sailor brothers: being the adventures of Sir Francis Austen, G. C. B., Admiral of the fleet and Rear-Admiral Charles Austen. **$3.50. Lane.

Jane Austen’s sailor brothers “were both captains in the British navy
during the Napoleonic period, and the extracts from their logs and
letters here presented, though of no particular importance, give
occasional glimpses of conditions at the time of the great war that
are not without interest. The authors attempted to draw a parallel
between some passages in Jane Austen’s novels and the actual
experience of her brothers at sea.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“There are frequent slips in respect of technicalities.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 420. Ap. 7. 490w.

“When all is said and done it was written for the Janeans, and they
will best appreciate it.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 472. My. ’06. 150w.

=Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 621. Jl. ’06. 250w.

“It has been agreeably put together by its joint authors.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 328. O. 6, ’05. 500w.

+ =Nation.= 82: 261. Mr. 29, ’06. 100w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 431. Jl. 7, ’06. 1090w.

“It is simply written and it should be of real interest to all members
of the Austen family. It is impossible to say that public purpose is
served by it.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 100: 530. O. 21, ’05. 170w.

=Hubbard, Lindley Murray.= Express of ’76, a chronicle of the town of York in the war of independence. †$1.50. Little.

An old journal written in Revolutionary days, by General Hubbard, so
the author says, forms the basis of this romantic novel of the
campaign in New York. The scenes are set vividly before us with a
journal’s own detail and, in following the fortunes of Jonathan
Hubbard, we see something of Washington, Franklin, Putnam, Burr,
Hamilton and others who are as well known as the battles in which they
fought. The mysterious lady Claremont, the little Quaker maid, and
other maidens, some historic, some semi-historic fill out the plot and
make this tale a typical war-time romance.

* * * * *

“The main interest of the book is the intimate approach the reader may
have to such men as Washington, Burr, Franklin, Hamilton, and others,
who were destined to become great in their country’s service. They are
well drawn and carry conviction of their manly reality.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 180w.

“The story is not imaginative or dramatic, but will interest those who
enjoy an average presentation of historic material.”

+ =Outlook.= 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 90w.

=Hubbard, Mrs. Sara Anderson (Mrs. James M. Hubbard).= Religion of cheerfulness; an essay. **50c. McClurg.

Believing that “a sunny disposition is a boon which confers more
happiness on its owner and more happiness on those with whom one comes
in contact, than any other which falls to the lot of a human
creature,” Mrs. Hubbard preaches the religion of cheerfulness
convincingly, urging that “as age increases cheerfulness should
increase.”

=Huber, John Bessner.= Consumption: its relation to man and his civilization, its prevention and cure. **$3. Lippincott.

A serious volume with a wide scope. Dr. Huber requires that economic,
legislative, sociological and humanitarian aid be summoned to
strengthen the medical forces in fighting the white plague. The author
addresses both physician and layman.

* * * * *

“The author has read widely ... but his own style is so peculiar and
involved as to make the book difficult to read.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 17. Jl. 7. 400w.

+ =Ind.= 61: 940. O. 18, ’06. 450w.

“The book is written with spirit and should be widely read. The style
is a little diffuse, but as a whole this is a good and timely piece of
work.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 34 Jl. 12, ’06. 130w.

“A thorough and instructive book, made with infinite pains, putting
before the reader a sane and broad view of a tremendous problem of
civilization.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 470. Jl. 28, ’06. 1200w.

“Dr. Huber’s book, which is literally encyclopædic in scope, seems
primarily designed for the lay reader.”

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 377. O. 13, ’06. 2690w.

“Unlike many works in this field. Dr. Huber’s book will be found
readable, and even entertaining, from cover to cover.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 130w.

“Several of the chapters in it would make readable magazine articles,
but taken as a whole it establishes no pretensions to be considered a
valuable contribution to the literature of tuberculosis.”

– + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. O. 13, ’06. 200w.

“We recommend Dr. Huber’s book to our readers, though we cannot but
feel that for practical purposes a much smaller volume would have been
more useful.”

+ – =Spec.= 96: 1045. Je. 30, ’06. 200w.

=Huddy, Mary E.= Matilda, Countess of Tuscany. $3.50. Herder.

“Mrs. Huddy’s purpose has evidently been to provide a volume of
instructive, popular reading, rather than a book for the student.
Edification, too, is her object; and she finds in the brilliant
virtues of Matilda, and still more in those of Pope Gregory, ample
resources to set off the depressing pictures of vice, violence,
cruelty and greed which the chronicler of this stormy period of
Italian history is obliged to recall.”—Cath. World.

* * * * *

“It certainly is not for the sake of any inferences that she draws
from it that Mrs. Huddy’s narrative is valuable. She is equally
lacking in the historic and the philosophic sense.”

+ – =Acad.= 68: 194. Mr. 4, ’05. 1690w.

“Her own pen is fluent, and her book will be a source of considerable
pleasure and profit, we have no doubt, to readers who have no
knowledge of the subject, and are able to put up with or even enjoy,
sentimental exuberance, misplaced rhetoric, and remarks of an edifying
nature.”

– + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 11. Jl. 1. 280w.

“The proportions ... that she has given to the various elements of her
narrative, sometimes suggests the historical novel as much as they do
strict history.”

+ =Cath. World.= 82: 564. Ja. ’06. 220w.

“It is an entirely amateurish and unworkmanlike performance, wholly
destitute of importance of any and every description. The author’s
sentiments are womanly; we have no quarrel with her ideals; her
judgments are usually just. To begin with this important work has not
yet a shred of an index. The style—the English—is maddening when it is
not amusing. There are numberless passages in inverted commas without
any references to the authorities. When authorities are indicated
volume and page are never given. Not once throughout the whole of this
‘important historical work’ is a single Italian authority referred to.
Nearly every Italian word is misspelled.”

– – + =Sat. R.= 100: 248. Ag. 19, ’05. 1040w.

“The book is strongly partisan. Not only Countess Matilda, but Gregory
VII. and the other Popes, her contemporaries, can do no wrong. We must
say that the more she deals with historical scenes and facts, and the
less with personalities, the pleasanter reading her book becomes.”

+ – =Spec.= 95: 122. Jl. 22, ’05. 1720w.

=Hudson, William Henry.= Purple land. **$1.50. Dutton.

A new edition of a story written twenty years ago. “The adventures and
reflections are ostensibly those of Richard Lamb, a person of English
birth but oriental temperament. Richard had begun his career by
stealing from a proud man of Argentina his beloved only daughter. With
this lovely flower for his bride he fled to Montevideo, and leaving
the lady in the charge of a grim aunt person, sought his fortune upon
the plains.” (N. Y. Times.) “Young Richard Lamb rides forth an errant
knight, and many adventures and desperadoes and fair ladies fall to
his share. The country, the people, the customs, the moral and
political ideals, all pass in vivid array before us.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“Charming narrative of life in South America.”

+ =Dial.= 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 50w.

=Nation.= 82: 182. Mr. 1, ’06. 280w.

“It appears a rarely fresh, charming and delightful book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 914. D. 23, ’05. 410w.

“A narrative of unusual charm. The reader who can appreciate literary
charm and fresh, almost elemental, or at least mediaeval ideas, will
enjoy it to the full.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 1087. D. 30, ’05. 220w.

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

“The book contains a number of judiciously selected legal forms. It
would be improved by citations of the authorities for the cases
presented.” R. M.

+ – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 254. Ap. ’06. 120w.

“A book of good proportion, packed full of important matter,
attractively and interestingly set forth.” Floyd R. Mechem.

+ =School. R.= 14: 468. Je. ’06. 160w.

+ =Bookm.= 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 90w.

=Hughes, Rupert.= Col. Crockett’s co-operative Christmas. †$1. Jacobs.

Col. Crockett of Waco instituted a unique undertaking last Christmas
of gathering together in the auditorium of the Madison square garden
“every stranger in New York and his lady.” In two letters to his wife
he sketches the “before and after” of his plan which proved successful
beyond his anticipation.

* * * * *

“A holiday novelette of the conventional type, varied in this case by
the introduction of rather more novelty and less probability than are
customary in similar narratives.”

+ – =Dial.= 41: 399. D. 1, ’06. 70w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 40w.

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

“Otherwise, particularly for a first novel, ‘Zal’ shows very good
workmanship.”

+ – =Dial.= 40: 20. Ja. 1, ’06. 150w.

=Pub. Opin.= 40: 26. Ja. 6, ’06. 260w.

“Gives us a sympathetic and accurate presentation of the Polish
character.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 160w.

=Hugo, Victor Marie, viscomte.= Les miserables; tr. by Isabel F. Hapgood. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.

Uniform with the “Thin paper two volume sets,” this usually large work
is reduced to the compass of two pocket volumes.

=Hulbert, Archer Butler.= Pilots of the republic; the romance of the pioneer-promoter in the middle west; pors. and drawings by Walter J. Enright. **$1.50. McClurg.

“Pioneers’ axe chanted a truer tune than ever musket crooned or sabre
sang.” And it is the pioneer who with epic courage extended America’s
boundaries and built up her bulwark that fill Mr. Hulbert’s volume.
Among them are Washington, Richard Henderson, Rufus Putnam, George
Rogers Clark, Henry Clay, Morris and Clinton, Thomas and Mercer. Lewis
and Clark, Astor, and Marcus Whitman.

=Hulbert, Homer Beza.= Passing of Korea; il. from photographs. **$3.80. Doubleday.

Mr. Hulbert “compares Korea in its present plight in Japanese hands,
and with Japanese immigration flooding it with Poland, Armenia, and
the Congo ‘Free’ State. To save Korea, and he adds it will be to our
material advantage to do so, we must bring modern education to the
Koreans, and for this purpose he asks us to open our purses. His book
is a history of the so-called ‘Hermit’ kingdom from the earliest
times, concluding, of course, with a survey of present conditions,
manners, and customs of the people, and the resources of the country.
It is profusely illustrated.”—Putnam’s.

* * * * *

“The book is written in an attractive style and is a notable addition
to the recent literature of the Orient.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 913. D. 15, ’06. 250w.

“Books on Korea may be named by the dozen but this is _the_ book.”

+ + =Nation.= 83: 421. N. 15, ’06. 530w.

“It may be safe to say that, apart from a few conclusions which may be
regarded as hasty. It is one of the most commendable books on the
Hermit kingdom that have issued from the pen of foreign authors.” K.
K. Kawakami.

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 749. N. 17. ’06. 2020w.

=Putnam’s.= 1: 378. D. ’06. 230w.

=R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 280w.

=Hullah, Annette.= Theodor Leschetizky. *$1. Lane.

A recent addition to the “Living masters of music” series. “The story
of Leschetizky’s career from his birth in 1830 down to 1905, is told
in the first two chapters of the book. The five chapters following
describe Leschetizky’s method of playing and technique, his manner of
teaching, his class, and interest in each pupil, and lastly,
Leschetizky as ‘the center of the circle.’ There are several pictures
of the pianist as well as some showing him with certain pupils.” (N.
Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“The story of this concentrated career is well and clearly told by
Miss Hullah, who makes the discriminating point that Leschetizky is
emphatically an individualist in his work.”

+ + =Dial.= 41: 18. Jl. 1, ’06. 210w.

+ =Nation.= 82: 473. Je. 7, ’06. 210w.

“Miss Hullah has given a lively picture of a personality prominent in
the musical world in her work about Leschetizky.” Richard Aldrich.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 227. Ap. 7, ’06. 520w.

=Hume, Fergus W.= Lady Jim of Curzon street. †$1.50. Dillingham.

A titled couple badly in debt fail to excite the sympathy of a wealthy
father in their behalf and resort to the means of a sham death in
order to secure insurance money. The way of the transgressor was never
harder than portrayed in Mr. Hume’s story. Lady Jim’s clever wit is
directed toward the perpetration of fraud that results in betrayal and
even the contracting of leprosy which is cheated of its lingering
terror by an overdose of chloral.

* * * * *

“It is a pleasure to be able unreservedly to recommend this book. The
dialogue is all through of the cleverest, and the plot is well
conceived and elaborated.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 682. N. 18. 140w.

=Hume, Fergus W.= Mystery of the shadow. $1.25. Dodge, B. W.

Mr. Hume’s plot centers about the strangling of one Mrs. Gilbert
Ainsleigh by some one masquerading as the ghost of a monk. An attempt
is made to trace the crime to no less than five persons, and it is no
wonder that the reader ejaculates “Pshaw” with the hero when he is put
upon the wrong trail.

* * * * *

“There is ability in the book, but the author has shown himself
capable of better things.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 417. Ap. 7. 120w.

“The author has given a good measure of mystery, and has kept the
assassin’s identity well veiled until the end of the book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 665. O. 13, ’06. 270w.

=Sat. R.= 101: 369. Mr. 24, ’06. 120w.

=Hume, Fergus W.= Opal serpent. †$1.25. Dillingham.

A struggling young writer, disinherited, at least temporarily, by an
irascible father, and the daughter of a fear-shaken man who is a
book-stall keeper by day and a pawn broker by night, in the cellar
below, live thru a succession of mysteries, fears and catastrophes all
of which seem secretly connected with a jewelled serpent. In the
tangle-straightening process, Mr. Hume’s usual number of odd types
appear.

* * * * *

“All who retain a partiality for tales of mystery and incident will
welcome ‘The opal serpent.’”

+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 268. Ag. 26. 190w.

=Lit. D.= 32: 532. Ap. 7, ’06. 140w.

“The matter is the matter of such yarns from the beginning, the manner
is the manner or Fergus Hume, which is fair to middlin’—of its kind.”

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 133. Mr. 3, ’06. 220w.

=Pub. Opin.= 40: 444. Ap. 7, ’06. 150w.

=Hume, John T.= Abolitionists: together with personal memoirs of the struggle for human rights. **$1. Putnam.

In his sketch of partly biographical, partly historical significance
Mr. Hume, a Garrisonian abolitionist, gives many personal
recollections of the days of the “underground railroad,” and with
characteristic partisanship recounts his movements among the Missouri
radicals. “His long life includes the early struggle for human rights,
when abolitionists were accounted lawful game for mobs. The names of
its heroes and heroines, and the tribulations they fought through,
find record in his pages.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

“In spite of its motif, the volume contains in accessible form much
information concerning all these matters which will be of value to the
student.”

+ – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 420. Mr. ’06. 140w.

=Dial.= 40: 333. My. 16, ’06. 240w.

“It is unfortunate that dates and exact particulars are often missing,
and are sometimes wrongly given.”

+ – =Ind.= 60: 1165. My. 17, ’06. 270w.

“Deserves the widest circulation and calm pondering.”

+ + =Nation.= 82: 143. F. 15, ’06. 1380w.

“Interesting volume.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 921. D. 30, ’05. 1110w.

+ =Outlook.= 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’06. 120w.

“While some may disagree with him there is no doubt that he has shed
much light on a very obscure period of our country’s history.”

+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 379. Mr. 24, ’06. 200w.

=R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 90w.

=Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp.= Wives of Henry VIII. **$4.50. McClure.

=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 465. Ja. ’06. 60w.

+ =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 240w.

“There is much ... that helps us to understand more fully this
difficult age, but the great riddles of the Tudor period still remain
unanswered.” Laurence M. Larson.

+ – =Dial.= 40: 293. My. 1, ’06. 630w.

“If Mr. Hume has not succeeded in making out a good case, he has
nevertheless contributed some valuable new material to the study of
the history of the reign, and has written a capital series of brief
biographies.”

+ + – =Lit. D.= 32: 216. F. 10, ’06. 130w.

“The plain fact is that Mr. Hume is much too good a man to be wasted
upon this kind of ‘pot-boiling,’ appealing as it does to the craving
for personal gossip which is an unpromising characteristic of to-day.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 6. Ja. 5, ’06. 790w.

“A clever though inconclusive volume.”

+ – =Nation.= 81: 530. D. 28, ’05. 500w.

“In this book Major Hume sets forth with great clearness, and in a
most interesting and readable way, the gradual deterioration of
Henry’s character as he became year by year more of ‘a law unto
himself.’”

+ =Spec.= 96: 60. Ja. 13, ’06. 1760w.

=Humphrey, Seth K.= Indian dispossessed. **$1.50. Little.

“The matter set forth in the book is free from emotionalism or
sentimentalism, being a plain, straight-forward, historic presentation
of a shameful page in modern history.”

+ =Arena.= 35: 104. Ja. ’06. 530w.

“The book might have been strengthened by precise references to the
documents and authorities quoted.”

– =Cath. World.= 82: 831. Mr. ’06. 250w.

=Critic.= 48: 191. F. ’06. 60w.

=Dial.= 40: 21. Ja. 1, ’06. 520w.

=R of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 120w.

=Huneker, James Gibbons.= Visionaries. †$1.50. Scribner.

Music, poetry and the plastic arts furnish the field in which Mr.
Huneker lets his imagination soar. There are twenty stories in the
group in which “he is merely diverting himself with his pen, letting
his fancy do what it will with human beings—improvising, as it were.”
(Pub. Opin.)

* * * * *

“The author’s style is sometimes grotesque in its desire both to
startle and to find true expression. In nearly every story the reader
is arrested by the idea, and only a little troubled now and then by an
over-elaborate style.”

+ – =Acad.= 70: 116. F. 3, ’06. 700w.

“With all this straining after the repellent and lawless, the tales
for the most part miss their designed effect. They are cleverly
executed, with no insignificant portion of imagination; yet with two
or three exceptions they fail to be uncanny.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 228. F. 24. 870w.

“These are pictures, thoughtful, intricate pictures, with a tinge of
morbid mysticism, better to be enjoyed by reading one, at intervals,
than devoured wholesale at a sitting.” Mary Moss.

+ =Atlan.= 97: 47. Ja. ’06. 150w.

“With every limitation of Mr. Huneker’s creative faculty recognised
and even exaggerated, the conviction remains that his is an artistic
individuality of rare potency and of welcome value to American
letters.” Edward Clark Marsh.

+ + – =Bookm.= 22: 360. D. ’05. 1090w.

“His characters look like posters and talk like Mr. Huneker. Nobody
will deny that the result is interesting, but it is not fiction of the
first order.”

+ – =Critic.= 48: 381. Ap. ’06. 220w.

“It seems a pity that any one who can upon occasion write so well
should so often let his imagination ride him into the country of the
grotesque.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 30. Ja. 26, ’06. 620w.

“They are odd in conception and admirably told.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ’05. 40w.

“Most of them are fantastic, some of them are decadent, all of them
are intensely modern in method. But what he does he does with subtle
and finished skill, and the product is interesting reading.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 859. D. 30, ’05. 90w.

“There have always been touches in Mr. Huneker’s work that suggest his
possession of positive genius. But ‘Visionaries’ outsteps all bounds
of reason, is almost wholly fantastic, esoteric, narcotic.”

+ – =Reader.= 7: 226. Ja. ’06. 350w.

=Hunt, Theodore Whitefield.= Literature: its principles and problems. **$1.20. Funk.

The disciplinary value ranks ahead of the culture value in the present
discussion; the high-tension qualities of literature being those
essential to form and structure. The idea of law and order pervades
the study, and it outlines the guiding principles and methods of
literature, its scope and mission, its primary aims, processes and
forms, the laws that govern its orderly development and its logical
relation to other great departments of human thought, its specifically
intellectual and esthetic quality, and its informing genius and
spirit. Its ultimate aim appears as that of suggestion and stimulus
along the lines of inquiry that are opened and examined.

* * * * *

“For older students who want to do something in literary criticism,
this book offers a good consideration of the principles and problems
involved, because it is logically planned in the main and depends on a
wide knowledge of literature and literary criticisms.” E. E. H. jr.

+ =Bookm.= 23: 453. Je. ’06. 350w.

“A book that is in many respects stimulating and suggestive. But it
would be the grossest flattery to say that it is well written, or that
one’s appreciation of the best in literature is forwarded by the
perusal of it.”

– + =Critic.= 48: 569. Je. ’06. 190w.

“An unusually able, thoro, and discriminating treatment of literary
questions and might be read by all serious students and teachers with
great advantage to the clarity of their ideas.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 180w.

=Lit. D.= 32: 680. My. 5, ’06. 480w.

“On the topic of literary criticism we find his paragraphs involving
either a slight self-contradiction or else lack of clearness in
meaning. In a short chapter on ‘Hebraism and Hellenism,’ we think that
the author does serious injustice to Mathew Arnold’s position.”

+ – =Nation.= 82: 415. My. 17, ’06. 550w.

“Thoughtful readers will acknowledge this to be a work of rare merit.
A clarifying and a stimulating work it is, critical and widely
informing.”

+ + =Outlook.= 83: 43. My. 3, ’06. 310w.

“It is comprehensive, capable, and always correct, where accuracy is
possible.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 710. Je. 9, ’06. 130w.

=Hunt, W. Holman.= Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood. 2v. **$10. Macmillan.

“This volume is uniform with the “Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones,”
and is devoted to a school that did more than any other to restore
life and vitality and meaning to English art during the last century.”
“This book has a threefold interest—historical, artistic, and human.
Mr. Holman Hunt, as every one knows, was one of the original members
of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood.... He is able to tell the story of
the beginning and early struggles of the most important movement in
modern English painting more fully than it has ever been told before.
He is also able to give us a very clear and concise account of the
intentions of that movement, and of the state of things which it is
proposed to reform.” (Lond. Times.)

* * * * *

“Mr. Hunt has stated his views with a certain literary grace that is
pleasant to find: he has taken his own part with a great vigour and
has said trenchant things with a refreshing incisiveness.” Ford Madox
Hueffer.

+ + – =Acad.= 69: 1290. D. 9, ’05. 1390w.

“He has indeed a fine gift of narrative, and though he takes his time
about telling his stories, and the reader of these two substantial
volumes will do well to take his, no one who has begun to listen to
him is likely to ask him to stop.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 22. Ja. 6. 2460w.

“The book is absorbing because it gives with minute particularity the
reminiscences of a man who was born in 1827, began to paint at an
early age, has been painting ever since, and, throughout his long
career, has been a man of original ideas and of interesting
friendships.” Royal Cortissoz.

+ + =Atlan.= 97: 275. F. ’06. 1420w.

“Taking the book as a whole, it seems, despite its prolixity,
curiously incomplete. As a history of a movement in art it is a
failure.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.

– =Critic.= 48: 529. Je. ’06. 2090w.

“Holman-Hunt tells his story well, in a style more earnest than
lively, and with a memory for detail that is truly marvellous.” Edith
Kellogg Dunton.

+ + =Dial.= 40: 113. F. 16, ’06. 2590w.

+ – =Edinburgh R.= 203: 450. Ap. ’06. 9790w.

+ =Ind.= 60: 572. Mr. 8, ’06. 870w.

“About that important phase in the history of art the ‘Pre-Raphaelite
brotherhood,’ no one living can speak with more authority than Holman
Hunt, but he was too closely associated with the movement to be an
impartial historian of it.”

+ – =Ind.= 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 40w.

“Probably few of his readers, at this late day, will fully endorse his
opinions, but his utterances will no doubt be read with the deference
due to the long experience and great achievements of so accomplished a
veteran.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 370. F. ’06. 630w.

=Lit. D.= 32: 315. Mr. 3, ’06. 680w.

“He was, therefore, the man of all others best fitted to tell the
story of their prime, and this book of his, though we could wish that
some passages in it were less bitter deserves to be read with
attention and reverence. We hope that an index will be added to the
next edition.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 425. D. 8, ’05. 2330w.

+ =Nation.= 82: 177. Mr. 1, ’06. 200w.

“But what much interferes with the value of the work and the pleasure
of the reader is, that Holman Hunt ... is entirely preoccupied with a
contention and a grievance.”

– + =Nation.= 82: 263. Mr. 29, ’06. 1830w.

+ – =Nation.= 82: 283. Ap. 5, ’06. 2650w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 837. D. 2, ’05. 150w.

“Altogether, Mr. Hunt’s book, valuable as it is with its interesting
anecdotes of the most interesting set of men England produced in the
middle of the last century, does not change the verdict of art-history
as to the inception and influence of Pre-Raphaelitism in the wider
sense.” Joseph Jacobs.

+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 157. Mr. 17, ’06. 1560w.

+ – =Outlook.= 83: 810. Ag. 4, ’06. 1610w.

“It is really a history of the art-development in England for half a
century, with much that is of fascinating interest in the way of
biographical, reminiscent, and travel significance.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 170w.

“A very interesting book.” D. S. MacColl.

+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 102. Ja. 27, ’06. 2010w.

“Singleness of aim and determination of purpose everywhere
characterise the story of the life recorded.”

+ =Spec.= 96: 499. Mr. 31, ’06. 2300w.

=Hunt, Rev. William, and Poole, Reginald Lane.= Political history of England. 12v. ea. *$2.60. Longmans.

“Mr. Adams has written an admirable work; scientific—we need hardly
say—inclining a little to the bald (in the modern manner) in his
statement of events; but always clear, trenchant and forcible in his
brief expositions of the results and tendencies of events.”

+ + =Acad.= 69: 1270. D. 2, ’05. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Mr. Brodrick gloried in a style which hung about him like the folds
of a Roman toga, and on one subject he cultivated prejudices of a
quite passionate kind. He hated Ireland. With that single exception,
he possessed, the judicial mind, and a type of mental patience which
admirably qualified him for the kind of summary work which is required
in these volumes.”

+ + – =Acad.= 71: 226. S. 8, ’06. 680w. (Review of v. 11.)

“He has showed commendable zeal in research and in the use of
secondary authorities, and his account is for the most part accurate.
It is not industry nor honesty that he lacks; it is breadth of mind,
it is capacity to see both sides of a question, it is an ability to
put aside national prejudices.” Ralph C. H. Catterall.

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 382. Ja. ’06. 1390w. (Review of v. 10.)

“Misprints are uncommon. It must be confessed that the whole book is
without literary grace or adornment, but serious and even pedestrian
as the style is, it is neither dry nor repellant. His book is informed
with a large-minded, conscientious desire to see the past as it
actually was and to represent it truthfully to men of his own day.”
Gaillard Thomas Lapsley.

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 639. Ap. ’06. 1730w. (Review of v. 2.)

“On the institutional side Dr. Hodgkin’s work shows very little
independent research.” Laurence M. Larson.

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 114. O. ’06. 1430w. (Review of v. 1.)

“It covers the field thoroughly, its writer’s views of controverted
questions are unusually sound, his judgment is excellent, his temper
almost ideal.” Ralph C. H. Catterall.

+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12:139. O. ’06. 1500w. (Review of v. 11.)

“It is scholarly, clear and interesting. It is rather a sense of
regret that such an inadequate plan has been adopted for this
important series, and that so little that is new, stimulating or broad
is disclosed in this, the earliest volume to appear.” E. P. Cheyney.

+ – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 179. Mr. ’06. 900w. (Review of v. 10.)

“It [the whole series] is certainly not an epoch-making work, it is
certainly not a pioneer into new paths, it gives no new outlook into
English history or new synthesis of its elements; but it is full,
clear, scholarly, moderate, and useful.” Edward P. Cheyney.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 189. Jl. ’06. 1270w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

“In the author’s treatment of his theme the most prominent feature is
his sobriety of style—a sobriety which, it must be confessed, imparts
a certain dullness. He possesses, however, the merit of a sane and
broad outlook.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 825. D. 16. 1210w. (Review of v. 2.)

“It is perhaps the first time that the history of the United Kingdom
during the years 1801–37 has been thoroughly well told in a single
volume.”

+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 64. Jl. 21. 1570w. (Review of v. 11.)

“Dr. Adams deals intelligently with his sources; he steers a safe
course between undue scepticism and undue credulity. Dr. Hunt is
perhaps somewhat less than fair to the Whigs.” Edward Fuller.

+ + – =Bookm.= 23: 286. My. ’06. 1100w (Review of v. 2 and 10.)

“The authors evince a freedom from that spirit of bigotry and the
denomination of prejudices and prepossessions, which, too often, have
rendered non-Catholic contributions to English history confirmation of
the saying that ‘history is a conspiracy against the truth.’”

+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 115. Ap. ’06. 470w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

“It is the work of an industrious, conscientious. erudite compiler,
rather than of an original historian.”

+ =Cath. World.= 83: 400. Je. ’06. 610w. (Review of v. 10.)

“Of the volumes thus far published that of Adams in the Hunt series
covers somewhat less ground than that of Davis, but as in the main
they treat of the same period, they are convenient for purposes of
comparison. Hunt has made some slight excursions into this unexplored
realm, but the chief merit of his work consists not in the new
material brought to light, but in his courage in speaking the truth,
both about the victors and the vanquished in the contest leading up to
the independence of the United States.” George L. Beer.

+ + =Critic.= 48: 450. My. ’06. 2210w. (Review of v. 2, 3 and 10.)

“Taken as a whole, the work of Professor Adams covers a difficult
period of English history with a combination of unity and depth that
neither Sir James Ramsay nor Miss Norgate has completely attained.”
St. George D. Sioussat.

+ + – =Dial.= 40: 122. F. 16, ’06. 2140w. (Review of v. 2, 3 and 10.)

“This richness of suggestion and allusion seems to be the element of
greatest originality in Mr. Hodgkin’s volume, which is in no sense a
rival of the works of Seebohm, Maitland, or Vinagradoff.”

+ + =Dial.= 41: 92. Ag. 16, ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Dr. Hunt’s lucid and orderly narrative is of none the less value
because his conclusions have been inevitably, for the most part,
anticipated. A modest protest may be allowed against the period of
time chosen for this volume. The strong qualities of Dr. Hunt as an
historian are conspicuously manifest in the chapters relating to the
American war of independence.” Hugh E. Egerton.

+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 173. Ja. ’06. 860w. (Review of v. 10.)

“It is well-proportioned and with trifling exceptions, accurate
narrative, incorporating without unduly obtruding the chief results of
the minute investigation to which the Norman and Angevin periods have
of late years been subjected. Its treatment of controversial subjects
is marked by caution and judicial candour. Yet it cannot honestly be
said that the book is very readable.” J. Tait.

+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 566. Jl. ’06. 740w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Dr. Hodgkin has made the best of a not very favourable situation, and
given us a book distinguished by all the engaging qualities that have
procured so extensive an audience for his earlier works.” Gaillard
Thomas Lapsley.

+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 755. O. ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 1.)

“With American social and economic conditions of the Revolutionary era
Mr. Hunt displays but a poor acquaintance.”

+ + – =Ind.= 60: 984. Ap. 26, ’06. 1230w. (Review of v. 1–3 and 10.)

“Working within his limitations Dr. Brodrick achieved success.”

+ + – =Ind.= 61: 334. Ag. 9, ’06. 470w. (Review of v. 11.)

“The editors would have been wiser if they had permitted the writer of
the volume to deal with matters outside the general scope of their
series. Uniformity of scheme is uniformly mischievous in all such
cases. We have laid stress on this weakness of the book, because it
seems to us fundamental.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 50. F. 16, ’06. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Of political organization he tells us surprisingly little. Dr.
Hodgkin has performed so well what he endeavored to perform that we
hardly ought to complain of his not having done something else.”

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 253. Jl. 20, ’06. 3590w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 407. D. 7, ’06. 930w. (Review of v. 4.)

“All deductions made, however, (v. 1.) is well written and up to the
standard of the series. This habit of superficial generalization is
the great drawback to Professor Adams’s work, and becomes at times
quite irritating to the careful reader. Professor Tout’s volume ... is
excellent in every respect. The style is direct, the scholarship
sound, the judgment sane.”

+ + – =Nation.= 82: 306. Ap. 12, ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 1, 2 and
3.)

+ + =Nation.= 83: 372. N. 1, ’06. 1620w. (Review of v. 11.)

“Dr. Hunt makes some errors of fact, but it is his general attitude
that lays him open to criticism. He should not have attempted a task
that called so conspicuously for unprejudiced treatment.” Robert
Livingston Schuyler.

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 924. D. 30, ’05. 2670w. (Review of v. 2, 3,
and 10.)

+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 535. S. 1, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 11.)

“Mr. Adams, it is satisfactory to find, has acquitted himself
creditably both in narration and exposition. It is in dealing with
matters of foreign policy that Mr. Tout is weak, and more particularly
in discussing the Welsh and Scottish wars. Dr. Hunt’s presentation
makes too great a demand not only on the caution but on the patience
of the student. On the other hand, his volume, like those of Mr. Adams
and Mr. Tout, contains a great mass of important, well-digested, and
well-arranged information not usually found in general histories.”

+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 38. My. 3, ’06. 1470w. (Review of v. 2, 3 and 10)

+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 45. S. 1, ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 11.)

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 238. S. 22, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)

Reviewed by Herbert L. Osgood.

+ + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 350. Je. ’06. 750w. (Review of v. 10.)

“Is a discriminating, accurate and for the most part rigidly objective
piece of work. With a sound sense of values, the author has weighed
and marshalled the conclusions of many scholars in his field; he has
shown the mature judgment of an independent worker in the
consideration of his materials; and, despite hampering and artificial
chronological limitations, has presented the whole in a clear and
measured fashion.” Charles A. Beard.

+ + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 531. S. ’06. 1730w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Dr. Hodgkin’s narrative is readable, accurate and well proportioned.”
Charles A. Beard.

+ + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 699. D. ’06. 760w. (Review of v. 1.)

“While we fully acknowledge the care and industry with which the work
has been compiled, it is impossible to describe it as a great book.
The original authorities have been so much in the mind of the writer
that he has tended to adopt their methods, and, in consequence, his
work is somewhat dry and annalistic.”

+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 142. F. 3, ’06. 1440w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Mr. Hunt has a wide knowledge of his subject. He is a judicious
critic and never hesitates to give his own views, but at the same time
he does not adopt the futile plan of judging the politics of the
period which he is describing from the standpoint of to-day.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 207. F. 17, ’06. 1480w. (Review of v. 10.)

“At every step we find him practising the art of selection and
rejection. But it is an art which he pursues according to rules of his
own making.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 400. Mr. 31, ’06. 990w. (Review of v. 1.)

“We believe—and this is very high praise—that this volume is the best
that Professor Tout has written.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 464. Ap. 14, ’06. 510w. (Review of v. 3.)

+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 679. D. 1, ’06. 1150w. (Review of v. 4.)

“An extremely conscientious and careful volume, which will add much to
the considerable reputation of its author.”

+ + – =Spec.= 96: sup. 639. Ap. 28, ’06. 2080w. (Review of v. 2.)

“We can heartily recommend the work as the most full and succinct
narrative of our early history with which we are acquainted.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: 64. Jl. 14, ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)

“There are no purple, or even very brilliant, passages in the book,
much less new and startling theories of political and social
incidents.”

+ + – =Spec.= 97: sup. 763. N. 17, ’06. 500w. (Review of v. 11.)

+ + – =World To-Day.= 11: 1219. N. ’06. 450w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

=Huntington, William Reed.= Good Shepherd and other sermons. *$1.25. Whittaker.

Twenty-five sermons by the rector of Grace church, New York, which
will interest all church-men. They are published under such headings
as: The wilderness a school of character; A day’s journey away from
Christ; Priesthood in the light of the transfiguration; The search
after reality; Facing inevitable change; The contemporary Christ: The
heavenly friend; The eagle and the stars; The Afro-American; The
wickedness of war; and “Inter-church,” or Intra-church,—which?

* * * * *

+ =Outlook.= 82: 762. Mr. 31, ’06. 120w.

=Hussey, Eyre.= Girl of resource. †$1.50. Longmans.

A story of “commonplace modern life,” with a heroine who has the habit
of inflicting quotations and long harangues on any listener, who
enacts scenes from “Sanford and Merton,” and who is “gifted with a
keen appreciation of the humorous.”

* * * * *

“The reader may find it hard to smile as often as is expected of him.
The fun is from the first to the last a little forced, yet always
abounding.”

– – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 238. S. 1. 70w.

“We suppose we must be sadly dense to find her the very paragon of
bores, but such she certainly appears upon these amazing pages. And
yet the writer has facility, and he knows his compendium.”

– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 513. Ag. 18, ’06. 500w.

“The book is not quite equal to ‘Miss Badsworth, M. F. H.’ in which
the author exploited an original idea; but it is agreeable, and would
be even more so had it been a little shorter.”

– + =Spec.= 97: 135. Jl. 28, ’06. 160w.

=Hutchinson, Horatio Gordon=, ed. Big game shooting. 2v. *$7.50. Scribner.

+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 167. F. 10. 1130w.

+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 12. Ja. 12, ’06. 1720w.

=Hutten, Baroness von.= Pam decides; il. by B. Martin Justice. †$1.50. Dodd.

“In this sequel to ‘Pam’ we find her twenty-seven years old, on the
third floor of a Bloomsbury boarding house, and the author of
twenty-two novels, written since we saw her last.... The title of the
novel, ‘Pam decides,’ indicates that the readers of ‘Pam’ will be
relieved from the strain that has been on their minds for over a year,
for the most experienced novel reader could not anticipate the
decision of this most capricious of women. We have seldom had a
heroine on our hands, an attractive heroine, eligible in every way,
who gave us so much trouble to marry off, and we are so relieved to
have the matter settled in the last few pages of this volume that we
do not care to question whether her choice was the wisest she might
have made.”—Ind.

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 70: 479. My. 19, ’06. 330w.

“The edge of observation seems less keen, the vitality of the picture
not so high either in the heroine herself or in the surrounding
figures.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 694. Je. 9. 250w.

“It is really not a sequel at all in the ordinary sense, but a new
story—and a strong, well-rounded story too, even better than ‘Pam,’ in
some respects.” Frederick Taber Cooper

+ =Bookm.= 23: 541. Jl. ’06. 270w.

+ =Ind.= 60: 1165. My. 17, ’06. 260w

“The book is clever and modern.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 409. Je. 23, ’06. 660w.

=Outlook.= 83: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 70w.

“It exhibits a firmer touch, a more intimate knowledge of human
character than ‘Pam.’”

– + =Sat. R.= 102: 21. Jl. 7, ’06. 130w.

=Hutton, Edward.= Cities of Spain. *$2. Macmillan.

The first city described is “Fuentarabia, with her narrow streets and
music and white-dressed women. Then comes San Sebastian ...
Valladolid, Salamanca, with its university and old monks; Zamora, with
its decayed Romanesque buildings ... Avila, with her old men and
infinite silence and beautiful cathedral; and so on and on to the
grave of Torquemada, to Segovia, to the anomalous city of old and new
Castile, where the author lingers long at the Prado gallery, and
discusses with loving sympathy, with knowledge and with critical
perception the masters of the old Spanish schools.... And then on and
on again through Toledo ... through the home of Cervantes, Seville,
Cadiz, and then across the sea to Morocco and back again to Granada.
Nor are Murcia, Alicante, and Valencia forgotten. Tarragona and
Barcelona receive their portion of the tourist’s impressions.” (N. Y.
Times.) There are twenty-four illustrations in color by A. Wallace
Rimington, and twenty other illustrations.

* * * * *

“At its best Mr. Hutton’s style is verbose, artificial, and
over-charged with colour; at its worst ... it is to us intolerable in
its violence and exaggeration.”

– =Ath.= 1906, 2: 183. Ag. 18. 940w.

+ =Ind.= 61: 1309. D. 13, ’06. 50w.

“This book is neither good nor bad.”

+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 276. Ag. 10, ’06. 1040w.

“Series of impressions charming in sympathy and intimacy, satisfactory
to those who would acquire knowledge through emotions rather than
through erudition. For all genuine lovers of Spain, Mr. Hutton’s
volume renders stale, flat, and unprofitable the most comprehensive
guide books crammed with their lore of statistics and their vague
attempts to impart practical information.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 530. S. 1, ’06. 800w.

“Interestingly written and beautifully illustrated.”

+ =Outlook.= 83: 769 Jl. 28, ’06. 180w.

“It is all felt, there is not a dry word in it; thought comes into it
musically, in cadences perhaps at times a little languid, but
persuasively, with an engaging frankness.”

+ =Sat. R.= 102: 269. S. 1, ’06. 1210w.

=Hutton, Edward.= Cities of Umbria. *$2. Dutton.

+ =Cath. World.= 82: 113. Ap. ’06. 380w.

“Taking both matter and manner into consideration, Mr. Hutton’s book
is perhaps the most exhaustive and attractive of the long list of
Umbrian books of the past year.”

+ + =Dial.= 40: 199. Mr. 16, ’06. 270w.

“So much of his narrative is plainly imaginary, and the commonest
things are so distorted in his unreal fashions of speech, that it is
often hard to know what he would have us take for fancy and what for
fact.”

+ – =Nation.= 83: 107. Ag. 2, ’06. 440w.

“It is sympathetic and appreciative in tone.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 255. Ag. ’06. 40w.

“We applaud delightedly on one page, and our equanimity is sorely
tried on the next. Still it is the work of a genuine devotee of Italy,
shedding much light as he goes, and if it needs to be studied
critically it at least merits to be read lovingly.”

+ – =Sat. R.= 100: 786. D. 16, ’05. 540w.

=Hutton, Richard Holt.= Brief literary criticisms. $1.50. Macmillan.

A volume of literary essays collected by Elizabeth M. Roscoe from Mr.
Hutton’s contributions to the Spectator. The author “was a journalist
in his attitude rather than in the manner of his work, for many of
these short essays are stamped with genuine literary quality. He is at
his best in dealing with such subjects as Wordsworth, Cardinal Newman,
Carlyle and Arnold, and his best means keen criticism, sympathetic
interpretation, and an eminently readable style.” (Outlook.)

* * * * *

+ =Acad.= 70: 223. Mr. 10, ’06. 1780w.

“We have already hinted that Miss Roscoe’s editorial work has been
well done; but these essays should not have been issued without an
index, and one regrets that undue reverence for her author has
restrained her from occasionally emending his text.”

+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 416. Ap. 7. 530w.

“These additional gleanings from the late R. H. Hutton’s contributions
to the ‘Spectator’ are excellent specimens of the reviewer’s art, with
the exception of a few slight crudities of style and thought
inseparable from the nature of such work.”

+ – =Ind.= 61: 222. Jl. 26, ’06. 280w.

=Lit. D.= 32: 565. Ap. 14, ’06. 1120w.

+ =Nation.= 83: 249. S. 20, ’06. 330w.

“One cannot say that the volume contains anything like a body of
critical doctrine. But one can say that it contains a great deal of
stimulating and suggestive discourse.” Montgomery Schuyler.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 220. Ap. 7, ’06. 1010w.

“This selection covers a wide range, and brings out the diversity of
Mr. Hutton’s gifts, the breadth of his sympathies, and the ease and
clearness of his style.”

+ =Outlook.= 82: 907. Ap. 21, ’06. 160w.

“Carefully chosen and edited.”

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 340. Mr. 17, ’06. 30w.

=Spec.= 96: 426. Mr. 17. ’06. 260w.

=Hutton, Rev. William Holden.= Burford papers: being letters from Samuel Crisp to his sister at Burford: and other studies of a century, (1745–1845.). *$2.50. Dutton.

“A number of letters which passed from ‘Daddy’ Crisp, the friend of
Fanny Burney, to his sister, Mrs. Gast, who lived in Burford in the
house now occupied by Hutton himself. The letters contain nothing very
striking and add but little to our own sum of knowledge of Fanny
Burney, Johnson, Mrs. Thrale or other famous people of the day.... But
they were well worth preserving for the charm of their kindliness and
humour, and the picture of the life of the times which they
exhibit.... For the rest, Mr. Hutton’s essays are very largely
concerned with the literary history of the Cotswolds and the
neighborhood—small beer most of it, but refreshing and pleasant. He
writes of Shenstone, of Richard Jago ... and other minor poets; and
winds up with an able study of George Crabbe, a poet whom he
understands and knows better than most.”—Acad.

* * * * *

“Lovers of the Cotswolds and the district cannot do without this book,
and other people will find it agreeable reading.”

+ =Acad.= 69: 1207. N. 18, ’05. 300w.

“The author has fished in the backwaters of eighteenth-century life
and thought in England, and he gives us here the results—not very
grand, perhaps, but novel and, in their quiet way, most attractive—of
his pleasant labour.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 443. Ap. 14. 3620w.

“Mr. Hutton is a true lover of his period, and as such is sure to give
enjoyment.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 4. Ja. 5, ’06. 1470w.

+ =Nation.= 83: 122. Ag. 9, ’06. 1420w.

“To readers who have the habit of memoirs and ‘ana’ these hitherto
unpublished letters will be a distinct and valuable find.” M. S.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 429. Jl. 7, ’06. 1190w.

+ =Outlook.= 83: 862. Ag. 11, ’06. 80w.

+ =Sat. R.= 101: 23. Ja. ’06. 110w.