Chapter XXIV: Part 1: of this group of essays treats of love as a cosmic principle, (5)

“Powers of Keen observation and the facile pen of a cultured citizen
of the world are noticeable on every page, and perhaps the greatest
charm of the writer lies in the fact that, while the professional
reader cannot fail to profit by his expert criticisms, the layman
finds himself led on from episode to episode with ever-increasing
interest, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that, full though it be
of brilliant and expert professional knowledge and criticism, no work
of more enthralling interest could well be placed before a reader.”

+ + =Acad.= 72: 212. Mr. 2, 07. 1240w. (Review of v. 2.)

“It is even better than its forerunner.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 530w. (Review of v. 2.)

“A vivid and trustworthy account. General Hamilton’s pictures of the
atrocious sides of war are among the most striking features of his
admirable book.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 723. My. 4, ’07. 490w. (Review of v. 2.)

“The peculiar charm of this second instalment ... lies in the extreme
humility and taking simplicity of language in which he narrates the
stirring scenes of which he was a witness. Most fascinating military
work.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 60. F. 22, ’07. 1110w. (Review of v. 2.)

“This really brilliant book deserves a wide public.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 290. Ap. 25, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 2.)

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 124. Mr. 2, ’07. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Gen. Hamilton has a style that draws the reader irresistibly along
with him. His comments from the standpoint of a highly competent
military authority, greatly enhance the value of his volumes.” George
R. Bishop.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 1120w.

“This volume is more reticent, is fuller of really useful information,
and is altogether more valuable.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 271. Mr. 2, ’07. 1220w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Undoubtedly a work of first-rate importance.”

+ =Spec.= 98: 499. Mr. 30, ’07. 2180w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Hamilton, Joseph.= Spirit world. **$1.50. Revell.

6–36932.

The author “thinks that we have not only proof of the existence of a
supernatural world, but also knowledge of its inhabitants and
governing laws. He bases his views almost entirely upon the accounts
given in the Bible of angelic visitations, miraculous events, etc. It
is astonishing what an elaborate structure he rears on their
foundations. The supernatural world he conceives on the analogy of the
natural.... The angelic beings ... have bodies like the human, only
more ethereal; senses like the human, only more refined; and are
nourished, not by food taken in the mouth, but by elements absorbed
from the atmosphere. Fancies like these are multiplied, and curious
speculations abound.”—Am. J. Theol.

* * * * *

“One is bound to respect the reverence with which he approaches his
subject, and the frank and earnest manner in which he avows his
beliefs.” Henry W. Wright.

− + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 361. Ap. ’07. 340w.

“Only the need of protesting against it entitles such books to serious
notice.”

− =Outlook.= 84: 633. N. 10, ’06. 160w.

=Hamilton, M.= First claim. †$1.50. Doubleday.

7–5067.

“This is the story of a woman who, having made in extreme youth an
uncongenial marriage, is tempted beyond withstanding to skip blithely
away with a young subaltern, Charley Osborne, less from love of him
than from aversion to her husband.” (Nation.) “It may be a very just
punishment for a woman who elopes with another man, leaving a little
child behind her, to find that this child is treated with a strictness
amounting to cruelty by the woman whom her husband marries after the
inevitable divorce. There is, however, no reason why the innocent
reader’s feelings should be wrung by such a recital.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“It is not great creative work, but it is remarkably good of its kind;
it is the work of a novelist with an eye for character, a spontaneous
sense of humour, and a standard of truth to which every line of the
story is adjusted.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 360. O. 26, ’06. 450w.

“The ending in a ghastly triumph of falsehood makes an unsatisfying
conclusion to a story of struggle not without genuine power.”

− + =Nation.= 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 230w.

“There is no denying that ‘The first claim’ is interesting; but it is
an unpleasant tale.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 242. Ap. 13, ’07. 190w.

“The plot which Miss Hamilton has chosen for her book is carried out
with great cleverness and detail; but we feel bound to say that the
story is one which very few people will be able to take any pleasure
in reading.”

− + =Spec.= 97: 990. D. 15, ’06. 140w.

=Hamilton, Samuel.= Recitation. **$1.25. Lippincott.

6–15713.

“The first part of the book treats of the purpose and essentials of
the recitation and the art of study; the second part, of the five
formal steps of general method; and the third and last part, of the
more specific problems of individual method, the use of text-books,
oral and written work, English, etc., in the recitation.”—J. Philos.

* * * * *

“A sensible and practical book.”

+ =Ind.= 61: 262. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.

“Made accessible by marginal topics and synoptical summaries and
outlines.” W. F. Dearborn.

+ =J. Philos.= 4: 217. Ap. 11, ’07. 420w.

“The presentation is clear and orderly; the subdivision of topics is
minute.” J. H. T.

+ =School R.= 15: 239. Mr. ’07. 200w.

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

6–30932.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Boy readers can scarcely help being absorbed in his doings.”

+ =Bookm.= 24: 529. Ja. ’07. 60w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 40w.

=Hamp, Sidford F.= Boys of Crawford’s Basin: the story of a mountain ranch in the early days of Colorado. †$1.50. Wilde.

7–26966.

Experiences in ranching, prospecting, and working as a miner in the
early seventies has afforded the author a first-hand intimacy with
facts and scenes which he records here. He shows how two sturdy young
men, prone to honesty and not afraid to work, do their share in
advancing the prosperity of the state in its infancy.

=Hamp, Sidford Frederick.= Dale and Fraser, sheepmen. †$1.50. Wilde.

6–30460.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 82. Mr. ’07.

=Hampson, W.= Paradoxes of nature and science. $1.50. Dutton.

W 7–163.

“In this, which may be perhaps regarded as the true type of ‘popular’
science book, Mr. Hampson explains, in language clear to the ordinary
man the principle of the boomerang, of the gyroscope, of bird flight,
of double vision, and of much else.... ‘Curiosities of freezing and
melting,’ and his discourse on ‘Liquid air,’ on which, as a subject he
has made his own, he is particularly lucid and informing.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“On one page we find him laying down that electricity is ‘a form of
energy.’ This idea, which was popular in the seventies, may be said to
have received its quietus at the hands of Prof. Silvanus Thompson.
Except for this we have nothing but praise for Mr. Hampson’s book,
which is excellent reading, and written with a sense of humour as
unexpected as it is pleasant.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 776. D. 15. 320w.

“His explanations are appeals to prejudices as unscientific as those
which gave rise to the appearance of the paradox. Even when his
arguments are sound they must convey to a reader a wholly untrue idea
of scientific method. But they are not always sound.”

− =Nature.= 75: 341. F. 7, ’07. 160w.

“His book is an extremely readable one, and in the article on the
navigation of the air it supplies many useful and timely hints.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 462. Jl. 27, ’07. 1040w.

Handasyde. For the week-end. †$1.50. Lane.

“The week-end here is the country house gathering of an exalted social
circle, animated, it would appear, by the purpose of philandering with
each other’s wives and husbands, while prudently keeping on the safe
side of the divorce court—a half-hearted method of procedure which has
perhaps suggested the author’s curious pseudonym.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“This book is slight, but what there is of it is true, direct, and
simple.”

+ =Acad.= 72: 539. Je. 1, ’07. 290w.

“The style, though marred by grammatical lapses, shows considerable
facility both in dialogue and description.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 660. Je. 1. 110w.

“The character drawing is excellent, the atmosphere is well preserved,
and the details in excellent taste.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 70w.

“The writer seems to be a rather inefficient disciple of Mr. E. F.
Benson.”

− =Sat. R.= 103: 787. Je. 22, ’07. 110w.

=Haney, William H.= Mountain people of Kentucky. $1.50. W: H: Haney, P. O. box 431, Lexington, Ky.

6–26563.

A book whose purpose is to show the existing conditions in the
mountains of Kentucky and the attitude of the people of this region
toward the improvement of the conditions affecting life and character.

* * * * *

“The style is not always clear and one at times is not quite sure just
how much of a given statement is one of fact and how much is what a
young and optimistic teacher hopes to see realized. On the whole,
however, the author has shown up the modern, progressive side of the
mountain people in a very creditable manner.” Samuel MacClintock.

+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 273. S. ’07. 920w.

“The work is rather crudely arranged and written.”

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 637. My. ’07. 130w.

“Most interesting sketch.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 638. N. ’07. 100w.

=Hankin, St. John.= Three plays with happy endings. French, S:

The three plays are “The prodigal’s return,” “The charity that began
at home” and “The Cassilis engagement.” “They have no plots, present
no conflicts of character, and are practically destitute of dramatic
action.... Familiar as most of the personages are in the world of the
footlights—the rich and vulgar parvenu, the complacent parson, the
self-excusing wastrel, the East Indian military bore, the quack, the
music hall siren, her mother, and their rich young dupe—they are
sketched with such happy dexterity and vivacity that they assume a
certain semblance of freshness and reality.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“Since realism has come to mean something violent, something even
indecent, let us call Mr. Hankin a naturalist who is doing for the
English stage what Constable did for European landscape. He contrives
beauty and interest, decoration even, by keeping the tones and values
of drama in their true relation to life. He is a fairy godmother who
has saved the rather vulgar coach from being run over by the motor-car
of realism.”

+ =Acad.= 73: 941. S. 28, ’07. 1280w.

“He has a fine, fastidious, deft talent, as any one who reads the
three plays in his present volume (and skips the preface) will agree.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 278. S. 13, ’07. 1070w.

“As a dramatist Mr. Hankin has a good deal to learn, but there ought
to be a future for a man who can see the humorous side of things so
clearly.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 288. S. 26, ’07. 400w.

=Hannis, Margaret.= Emancipation of Miss Susana. **40c. Funk.

7–24766.

The story of Susana Adams who relieves the monotony of her spinster
life by going to New York and entering upon a fictitious matrimonial
venture which finally leads to a real one.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 683. O. 26, ’07. 100w.

=Hanotaux, Gabriel.= Contemporary France; tr. by John C. Tarver. 4v. ea. *$3.75. Putnam.

=v. 3.= France from 1874–1877 occupies this volume. It includes the
latter days of the National assembly with its work on the
constitution, the first year’s sittings of the Chamber and the Senate,
and closes with Marshal MacMahon’s opposition to Gambetta and the Left
majority, announced in his letter to M. Jules Simon of May 15th, 1877.

* * * * *

“The translation appears to be fairly executed, but we regret to find
that the serious blunders in the French original pointed out in our
review are not corrected, even in cases where they concern English
facts and names.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 758. Je. 22. 590w. (Review of v. 3.)

“M. Hanotaux’s third volume is in no way inferior in interest to the
first and second. The English translator, who has to attempt no easy
task in rendering M. Hanotaux’s picturesque periods and somewhat
violent metaphors, improves by practice. But he might do better still
if he took more pains.” P. F. Willert.

+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 817. O. ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 3.)

“It is indeed a historian’s history of the Third French republic.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 489. O. 5, ’07. 710w. (Review of v. 3.)

“While M. Hanotaux leaves the impress of a painstaking scholar, while
he records a statesmanlike judgment on wellnigh every page, he also
leaves a deeper impress—that of a psychologist and of a philosopher.”

+ + =Outlook.= 87: 355. O. 19, ’07. 450w. (Review of v. 3.)

“When he philosophises, as he does in chapter v. at length, he is far
from convincing, and the tale of later years has not unfortunately
revealed to us those qualities of ‘abnegation, conciliation, and
persevering optimism’ for which he hopes.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 276. Ag. 31, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 3.)

“It will not be surprising if the general public find the present
volume rather less readable than its forerunners.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 484. O. 5, ’07. 1700w. (Review of v. 3.)

=Hapgood, Hutchins.= Spirit of labor. **$1.50. Duffield.

7–8549.

The author of “The autobiography of a thief” offers in this volume a
first hand study of the life of a Chicago labor leader and trade
unionist. After a long search Mr. Hapgood found a German who, both as
a type and a person, combined the desired temperament, character and
experience for his impressionistic study. Born in Germany, Anton came
to America as a child, shifted much of the time for himself, lived
thru the various stages of tramp life, rural, sordid conditions,
worked off and on at odd jobs, finally married and settled down in
Chicago as a wood-worker. His quick intelligence discovered the
injustice of organised society on every hand and led him to the basic
principles of radicalism with which the book deals.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 165. O. ’07. S.

“It is extremely well done, and particularly admirable is the
adroitness with which Mr. Hapgood has extracted from the ‘inexpressive
ego’ of semi-illiterate labour such salient facts as are here
assembled. The trouble with ‘The spirit of labour’ regarded
thoughtfully is, that it has in it very little of the spirit and less
of labour.” Florence Wilkinson.

+ − =Bookm.= 25: 294. My. ’07. 530w.

“A faithful and photographic picture of aspects of the urban
activity.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

+ =Dial.= 42: 287. My. 1, ’07. 480w.

“Tho the book deserves the severest censure for its false coloring,
its fatuous confusion of the anomalous with the typical, and its
obliviousness of many of the distinctive characteristics of the
movement, there are other respects in which it deserves cordial
praise.”

− + =Ind.= 63: 340. Ag. 8, ’07. 600w.

“For those who would see the industrial world as the workingman sees
it, the book is invaluable.”

+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 572. N. ’07. 170w.

“Throws much fresh light upon that radical political movement loosely
denominated socialism.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 330w.

“It is all extremely interesting, valuable as a human document, and
still more valuable as a contribution to the study of laboring men and
their conditions. But it will not do to call the man a type.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 173. Mr. 23, ’07. 680w.

Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.

+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 232. N. ’07. 530w.

“A highly informative volume, containing, no doubt, large quantities
of substantial, solid truth.”

+ − =R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 200w.

=Hapgood, Isabel Florence.= Service book of the Holy orthodox-Catholic apostolic (Greco-Russian) church; comp., tr., and arranged from the old church-Slavonic service books of the Russian church and collated with the service books of the Greek church. $4. Houghton.

7–526.

“This volume contains the order of services as prescribed for vespers,
compline, matins, the communion, the great feasts, ordination,
marriage, unction, ‘the office at the parting of the soul from the
body,’ the burial of the dead, requiem offices, services for the
founding and consecration of churches, thanksgivings and various
special prayers. For the Scripture lessons, as translated into
English, the King James’s version is used, and for the ‘Psalms and
verses’ the prayer-book version of the Psalter.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“Reverence can call forth such labors of devotion as this
compilation.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 141. Mr. 9, ’07. 310w.

“This laudable volume should be of value, not only to American
ecclesiastics and their congregations, but also to students of
liturgies and to sojourners in the various lands where the Eastern
church exists, and to all who would become better acquainted with its
undeniable majesty, impressiveness, and exquisite symbolism of
ritual.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 524. Mr. 2, ’07. 720w.

=Harben, William Nathaniel.= Ann Boyd. †$1.50. Harper.

6–32356.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Marked by genuine power and real emotion.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 210w.

“Easily the strongest piece of work that Mr. Harben has thus far
produced.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 150w.

“For the first time the author has met the demands of literary art in
the construction of his book.”

+ =Ind.= 62: 211. Ja. 24, ’07. 590w.

=Harben, William Nathaniel.= Mam’ Linda. †$1.50. Harper.

7–29431.

A story with a Georgia setting which involves the negro question,
politics and romance. The champion of Mam’ Linda, a faithful negro
mammy, and her “no count” boy who, however, is unjustly accused of
murder, is a young southern attorney. He takes up the cudgels of
defense, and in so doing overcomes time-honored prejudice, fights
lawlessness, and outwits lynching bands. The story is permeated with
southern atmosphere.

* * * * *

“At last the South has produced an author who writes with strength and
beauty and absolute veracity about living issues. Here is Harben with
his message told with such simplicity that few will recognize its
great value.”

+ + =Ind.= 63: 1058. O. 31, ’07. 890w.

“Mr. Harben’s novel is the most significant book that has appeared
relating to the negro since Bishop Haygood wrote ‘Our brother in
black.’”

+ =Ind.= 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 80w.

“This is a simple, straightforward, and readable book.”

+ =Lit. D.= 35: 795. N. 23, ’07. 310w.

“The hero and heroine behave themselves in the usual situations with
about as much ease as an English peasant in his Sunday clothes. But
this is insignificant beside the impression which he gives us of a
vigorous young population striking out with arms and legs, careless as
yet of the proprieties.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 301. O. 4, ’07. 520w.

“A modern story of the south with a pretty love story and a plot
involving a significant new attitude on the negro question.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

“Mr. Harben, who may have sketched a Georgia cracker or two with some
faithfulness, is not on that account a novelist.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 764. N. 30, ’07. 230w.

“The romance inevitable in Southern novels is as wholesome and sweet
as possible.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 100w.

“Illustrates afresh his direct and effective style and his ability to
tell a love story full of purity and sweetness in a natural and
delightful way.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 30w.

=Harboe, Paul, pseud. (Paul Christensen).= Child’s story of Hans Christian Andersen. †$1.50. Duffield.

7–29563.

The life of deprivation and penury which falls to the lot of the man
renowned for fairy tales was at variance with the results of his fine
imagination. The sketch follows the cobbler’s son thru the sore trials
of his early life to his day of fame, which proved a sad realization
inasmuch as it was bereft of the fulfilment of his one romance.

* * * * *

“An interesting, trustworthy account, simple and straightforward in
telling. Will, perhaps, be enjoyed best by the children of an age most
interested in the fairy tales if read aloud to them, for the style is
adapted, rather to older children.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 207. N. ’07.

“There is not much attempt at coherent construction in the little
book. Anecdotes are given sometimes without much point or much
connection. And the style reminds us frequently that the author is
writing in a language other than the one to which he was born.” Grace
Isabel Colbron.

+ − =Bookm.= 26: 418. D. ’07. 570w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 130w.

“There is a touch of quaint stiffness in the style of the book that
harmonizes with the childlike temper of the Danish romancer.”

+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 120w.

=R. of Rs.= 36: 767. D. ’07. 50w.

=Harcourt, Mrs. Charles.= Good form for women: a guide to conduct and dress on all occasions. $1. Winston.

7–12681.

Believing that all commendable conventionalities are more or less
directly traceable to some altruistic or utilitarian principle, the
author presents the fundamental features of good form by combining
ethics with etiquette. She aims particularly to help girls who have
not had the benefit of proper home training.

=Harcourt, L. W. Vernon.= His grace the steward, and the trial of peers: a novel inquiry into a special branch of constitutional government. *$5. Longmans.

A two part work. “The first describes the evolution of the Lord High
Steward of England up to the reign of Henry VIII., and the second
treats of the gradual working out of the principle that peers shall be
judged only by their peers. In both sections it is Mr. Harcourt’s
delight to show the fraudulent basis of what have been honored as
historic English institutions.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“The interest of Mr. Vernon Harcourt’s book lies less in the main
theme than in his often original and always acute interpretations of
men and motives, and the side-lights he throws on many disputed points
of constitutional history.”

+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 66. Jl. 20. 790w.

“We have here, in short, a notable contribution to our institutional
history not merely for the results attained, but also for its rigid
investigation, reminding us how often close inquiry may modify
accepted views. One rises however from its perusal with the feeling
that, however impartially the appendices may set the evidences before
us, the author has throughout a case to prove, is a counsel speaking
to his brief. And that case is prejudiced rather than assisted by the
use of forensic methods.” J. H. Round.

+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 778. O. ’07. 2420w.

“This lengthy and erudite work ... is scarcely intended for general
reading.”

+ + =Nation.= 85: 332. O. 10, ’07. 680w.

“We suspect that Mr. Harcourt is not really very interested in the
stewardship; he uses it only as convenient padding to his pet theory
that procedure in the trial of peers is founded on a forged document;
and herein he has expended a great deal of useless energy.”

− =Sat. R.= 104: 337. S. 14, ’07. 640w.

“He is steeped in the political and personal history of his period, he
possesses a sense of humor, and that gift of imagination without which
the past is a sealed book alike to those who write and those who read.
We are paying a high, but not an excessive, compliment when we say
that no better piece of work of its class has been accomplished since
Bishop Stubbs penned the last of his prefaces in the ‘Rolls series.’”

+ + + =Spec.= 99: 198. Ag. 10, ’07. 2300w.

“If the reader grants the right of the author to choose what subject
he pleases he can feel only admiration for the manner in which the
study is executed.”

+ =Yale. R.= 16: 334. N. ’07. 100w.

=Harcourt, Leveson Francis.= Sanitary engineering with respect to water supply and sewage disposal. *$4.50. Longmans.

7–35189.

A valuable general text-book. “In addition to a very complete
discussion of the subject of water supplies in all its aspects,
including sources, collection and storage, purification, distribution
and statistics of water consumption, and a rather brief summary of the
methods of sewage disposal, the writer takes up very fully the whole
subject of sewerage, and more briefly that of garbage disposal.”
(Technical Lit.)

* * * * *

“Important book.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 97. Ap. ’07.

“We think we do the author no injustice in saying that throughout his
book he writes like a person experienced in general civil engineering
construction rather than like a sanitary engineer, at least as we in
America now understand that term. Nevertheless he has epitomized a
considerable part of water-works and sewage practice, including
purification in each field, and seems to have produced a book
remarkably free from errors and vagaries.”

+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 551. My. 16, ’07. 670w.

“An addition of undoubted value to an engineer’s library. Its pleasing
style, moreover, makes it a very readable work, while the abundant
references to historical and current engineering work, its general
breadth of view and full citations of original sources of information,
commend it, in particular, to the student and to the engineer in
general practice or specializing in other branches. The book lacks
proper balance as a book on sanitary engineering.” Earle B. Phelps.

+ + − =Technical Literature.= 1: 176. Ap. ’07. 1870w.

=Hare, Christopher.= High and puissant Marguerite of Austria, princess dowager of Spain, duchess dowager of Savoy, regent of the Netherlands. *$2.50. Scribner.

7–25681.

A full biography which incidentally makes use of the interesting
events of Marguerite’s life and leadership for reflecting the royal
customs of her century.

* * * * *

“That writer has given evidence in previous works of various excellent
qualities, such as sincerity and literary charm; but she lacks grip,
and shows the defect much more in this than in her last book. Although
the author is usually accurate in her facts, a few slips will be found
in her text.”

− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 90. Jl. 27. 940w.

“Character-study is not Mr. Hare’s strong point. He is more skilled in
the art of setting forth his story and weaving his fairly copious
material. It is a book worth reading, concerning persons not too well
known. And the story is clear and well outlined.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 132. Ap. 26, ’07. 2260w.

“Mr. Hare has written a book which at the lowest appreciation is
creditable. Our worst censure is directed against a style of
composition.”

+ − =Nation.= 85: 497. N. 28, ’07. 870w.

“Mr. Hare has drawn with minute and loving detail—for his sympathy
with his subject is evident on every page—a complete picture of a very
interesting character. The reader wishes heartily for more of the
historical background.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 740w.

“The subject and the period of this book could not be more
interesting, the treatment perhaps is a little too ambitious.”

+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 465. O. 5, ’07. 460w.

=Harnack, Adolf.= Luke the physician. (Crown theological lib., no. 21.) *$1.50. Putnam.

“In Dr. Harnack’s view, Luke as a historian is inferior to Luke as a
stylist; he is uncritical, and blunders for want of exact information.
But the author contends that the present trend of criticism is toward
the belief that between A. D. 30 and 70 the primitive Christian
tradition as a whole took the essential form it has since
attained.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

+ =Bib. World.= 30: 240. S. ’07. 30w.

“The assertion that the language of both Gospel and Acts betrays the
hand of one familiar with Greek medicine is not new, but never before
has the argument received such skilful treatment.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 940. O. 17, ’07. 630w.

=Ind.= 63: 1379. D. 5, ’07. 240w.

“Whatever be one’s opinion of the proposition on which Harnack lays
chiefest stress, the value of the book as a contribution to the
history of the fixing of the evangelic tradition cannot be
questioned.”

+ + =Nation.= 85: 163. Ag. 22, ’07. 340w.

=Outlook.= 86: 792. Ag. 10, ’07. 170w.

+ + =Spec.= 99: 252. Ag. 24, ’07. 1950w.

=Harnack, Adolf, and Herrmann, Wilhelm.= Essays on the social gospel; tr. by G. M. Craik. *$1.25. Putnam.

Containing “The evangelical history of the church,” and “The moral and
social significance of modern education,” by Dr. Harnack, and “The
moral teachings of Jesus,” by Dr. Herrmann. “Dr. Harnack insists that
the chief task of the church is still the preaching of the message of
redemption and of eternal life, and insists, too, that the church has
a social mission.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“The essay by Herrmann will be the most welcome part of the book.”
Gerald Birney Smith.

+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 708. O. ’07. 340w.

=Ath.= 1907. 1: 695. Je. 8. 470w.

“The essay is not light reading, but the reader who takes the pains to
work his way into its spirit will be rewarded.”

+ =Ind.= 63: 457. Ag. 22, ’07. 350w.

“These essays by distinguished German theologians throw instructive
side-lights upon the social problem of the modern church.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 569. Je. 13, ’07. 280w.

=R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 50w.

=Spec.= 98: 566. Ap. 13, ’07. 1480w.

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

7–35146.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 67. Mr. ’07.

“Assuredly Mr. Harris is not witty, but his animal spirits are
inexhaustible.” Harriet Waters Preston.

+ − =Atlan.= 99: 418. Mr. ’07. 500w.

=Harris, Miriam Coles.= Tents of wickedness. †$1.50. Appleton.

7–31979.

“Types of the New York smart set are vividly portrayed in this story.
The chief female figure, is a young, motherless American girl, who has
been brought up in a French convent. She is a Roman Catholic, and is
shocked at many of the things she sees, and has only one congenial
friend among her father’s many acquaintances. This friend is the hero,
from whom she is separated through misunderstandings.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“The book treats in an able way a theme of the utmost practical
importance to-day, and we bespeak for it an encouraging and hearty
welcome.”

+ =Cath. World.= 86: 403. D. ’07. 430w.

“If this book were not marred by one or two unnecessary bits of
artificial coarseness, one would be tempted to say that after skimming
through a dozen linotype historical romances here at last is a novel
to sit down and read.”

+ − =Lit. D.= 35: 759. N. 16, ’07. 200w.

=Nation.= 85: 378. O. 24, ’07. 220w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 70w.

“This is a novel of more than ordinary length, but it is by no means
wearisome, and will better repay attention than most of the stories
offered in such profusion to a long-suffering public.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 230w.

=Harrison, Frederic.= Creed of a layman: apologia pro fide mea. **$1.75. Macmillan.

7–16987.

The author calls his book “my simple story of conversion and
conviction,” an account of a “regular and calm development of
thought.” He expresses a hope that the story of how spiritual rest
might be achieved may “prove useful to some ‘perturbed spirit’ in our
troubled times.” The exposition of his creed includes chapters upon:
Day of all the dead, Septem contra fidem, A Socratic dialogue,
Pantheism and cosmic emotion, Aims and ideals, A positivist prayer,
The presentation of infants, Marriage, Burial, Day of humanity, and a
Valedictory, Twenty one years at Newton Hall.

* * * * *

“Mr. Harrison begins with a somewhat narrow egotism, and his first
pages are irritating, meagre, and disappointing; but the latter half
of the book becomes universal in its interest, and cogent in its
claims, so that these essays well repay the reflective reading which
they acquire.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 751. Je. 22. 1460w.

+ − =Dial.= 43: 94. Ag. 16, ’07. 370w.

“May not attract new proselytes to the gospel of humanity as expounded
by Auguste Comte; but, in spite of its rather uncompromising polemic,
it compels respect by its manifest sincerity and genuine fervour of
conviction.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 157. My. 17, ’07. 1830w.

=Nation.= 85: 124. Ag. 8, ’07. 1320w.

“A sense of humour is a sense of proportion. And if Mr. Harrison had
had a deeper sense of proportion he would not have taken himself quite
so seriously, and he would have been saved from some of the solemn
absurdities of the positivist religion.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 550. S. 14, ’07. 460w.

“We do not ... know of any book which will give to the curious and
interested reader so good an interpretation of the religion of
humanity as this volume of Mr. Frederic Harrison’s.”

+ =Outlook.= 86: 523. Jl. 6, ’07. 540w.

=R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 80w.

“This indifference to facts is characteristic of the whole book; it
marks both Mr. Harrison’s criticism of Christianity and defence of his
own creed. When we turn from Mr. Harrison’s criticism to this
construction, we are still in the same abstract region. Facts are
still held of no account.”

− =Spec.= 98: 945. Je. 15, ’07. 1100w.

“It may be safely predicted that this book will take a permanent and
conspicuous place among the too few similar works of distinguished men
and women.” Arthur Ransom.

+ + =Westminster R.= 168: 49. Jl. ’07. 3440w.

=Harrison, Frederic.= Memories and thoughts: men—books—cities—art. **$2. Macmillan.

6–35547.

“This volume is a collection of articles which appeared during the
past twenty-four years in various American and English periodicals of
the better class. By the author the book is described as ‘a chapter
from certain Memoirs that [he] intends to retain in manuscript penes
se.’ The articles are occasional in origin, and in character they are
miscellaneous, varying in topic from discussions of card-playing and
tobacco to appreciations of Tennyson and Renan on the occasion of
their deaths.”—Am. Hist. R.

* * * * *

=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 422. Ja. ’07. 260w.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 67. Mr. ’07.

“At one time Mr. Harrison goes to the bottom of his subject, at
another he merely touches its surface. Still these ‘Memories and
thoughts,’ if approached with an open mind, will be found to reflect
seriousness of purpose and insight into life. They frequently provoke
dissent, they never forfeit respect.”

+ + − =Ath.= 1906. 2: 476. O. 20. 940w.

“It is the fine tone, the genial atmosphere, the rich suggestiveness,
of Mr. Harrison’s writings that attract the reader and win him over to
the cause of good literature.”

+ =Dial.= 41: 212. O. 1, ’06. 140w.

“But the papers are not all of equal value and interest. He presents
them ‘as permanent impressions left on his mind by a somewhat wide
experience.’ Some of these permanent impressions will appear to many
readers to be not much more than rather violent and persistent
prejudices.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 342. O. 12, ’06. 1080w.

“The personal note is dominant throughout Mr. Harrison’s book, which
leaves us with a sense of friendly and close acquaintance with a
writer in whom seriousness of purpose, firm convictions, broad
culture, and generous sympathies combine with the thinker’s love of
truth, the artist’s love of beauty, and a keen zest for the joys of
living.” Horatio S. Krans.

+ + =Outlook.= 84: 1076. D. 29, ’06. 930w.

“If they are not marked by the quality which we call ‘artistic’ or
‘literary’ they at least express a freshness and alertness by no means
common in men of letters who have passed their prime of years.” H. W.
Boynton.

+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 632. F. ’07. 780w.

“About the bulk of [these papers] the most we can say is that unless
one has an exaggerated opinion of the significance of Mr. Harrison’s
personality, their interest expired with their occasion.”

− + =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 2. F. 23, ’07. 750w.

“The American paper is particularly well worth studying. So much,
doubtless, may be said of the whole of the volume, one or two minor
articles possibly excepted.”

+ + =Spec.= 97: 1080. D. 29, ’06. 1710w.

* =Harrison, Frederic.= Philosophy of common sense. **$1.75. Macmillan.

7–36260.

A companion to “The creed of a layman.” “It is designed to form a
summary of the philosophical grounds on which the preceding work was
based; and it carries on the autobiographical account of the stages by
which the author reached those conclusions.”

* * * * *

“He has been well advised to gather these trophies of his skill for a
newer generation, which ought to find them of interest.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 748. N. 23, ’07. 850w.

=Harrison, Mary S. K. (Lucas Malet, pseud.).= Far horizon. †$1.50. Dodd.

7–983.

“Mrs. Harrison’s first work in five years. It deals with the acts and
opinions of a foreign-born man, who, after many years of hard work,
becomes suddenly possessed of a moderate fortune and leisure. The time
covered is from 1899 to 1901. Matters of modern finance, manners, and
morals, theatrical and religious, are touched upon.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 78. Mr. ’07.

“The merits of the book are more obvious than its defects.”

+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 729. D. 8. 690w.

“There is little humour in the book, no lovemaking, and the hero is a
man of between fifty and sixty, and yet from what might be called
unpromising material the author has given us a story of never-flagging
interest, rich in thought and feeling.” Mary K. Ford.

+ =Bookm.= 24: 595. F. ’07. 1560w.

“The book is a vivid, masterful, human document, fulfilling the
strictest demands of great art. We need but add that any one who does
not read it, and read it thoughtfully, will suffer a distinct loss.
‘The far horizon’ is worthy to take its place among the great English
novels.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 538. Jl. ’07. 1770w.

=Current Literature.= 42: 343. Mr. ’07. 1360w.

“May be reckoned among the more considerable fictional productions of
the season.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 42: 225. Ap. 1, ’07. 420w.

“A story so well told; so finely finished, with such real people of
the British middle-class sort moving thru its pages, that the critical
faculty is disarmed from the first, and one yields to the charm of
unique art.”

+ + =Ind.= 62: 739. Mr. 28, ’07. 420w.

“Of Charles Kingsley’s purely literary talents and graces of style his
daughter, the author, evinces hardly a trace.”

+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 200w.

“A clever and an interesting book. But it would be more than that if
the main story were only as good as its setting.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 394. N. 23, ’06. 500w.

“It does not strike one as a book which had to be written, or will
have to be read. But it possesses the treasure of a really original
and affecting central motive.”

+ − =Nation.= 84: 39. Ja. 10, ’07. 460w.

“It is readable in no ordinary way. One does not hurry through its
pages intent only on the story, but it both invites and repays
leisurely attention. One reads, also, with no very distinct sense of
the author’s style, which is unobtrusive and free from vagaries.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 18. Ja. 12, ’07. 750w.

“‘The far horizon’—with its very obvious faults—has one great virtue:
creative spontaneity; and that is so precious, in the mass of
perfunctory work, that criticism must be delicate.” M. B. M.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 77. F. 9, ’07. 1110w.

“A certain subjectiveness of style distinguishes it, a sort of
reminiscent touch, which by some conjuror’s trick becomes the most
objective thing in the world, and as a result the characters actually
live and move and have a very real existence.” Madison Cawein.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 1440w.

“It is more than a little puzzling that a writer of Lucas Malet’s
experience and skill should have produced a novel bearing so many
dreary resemblances to a ‘first book.’” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

− =No. Am.= 184: 645. Mr. 15, ’07. 1380w.

“One notes first that it has the negative merit of being entirely
devoid of any passages of questionable taste. Affirmatively speaking,
its highest merit is in the distinction and quiet nobility of its
chief figure, Dominic Iglesias.”

+ =Outlook.= 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 310w.

“It seems incongruous, almost unseemly, as coming from the pen of one
born a Kingsley.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.

− + =Putnam’s.= 2: 183. My. ’07. 740w.

=R. of Rs.= 35: 760. Je. ’07. 450w.

“Is the dreariest and dismallest novel we have ever read. Its tragedy
does not make us weep; its comedy does not make us laugh: it bores us
acutely.”

− =Sat. R.= 102: 744. D. 15, ’06. 630w.

“‘The far horizon,’ while fully as clever as ‘Sir Richard Calmady,’ is
free from the ugly blemishes which disfigured that brilliant but
conspicuously uncomfortable novel. The theme and its treatment are
higher and finer, there is less reliance on violence or
sensationalism, and the narrative has ‘shining moments’ which
transcend the capacities of ordinary talent. On the other hand it
cannot honestly be contended that this is a pleasing or a satisfying
book.”

+ − =Spec.= 97: 937. D. 8, ’06. 1020w.

=Harrison, Newton.= Practical alternating currents and power transmission. $2.50. Hedenberg.

6–39743.

“Of the fifteen chapters comprising the volume, the first two are
devoted to conditions governing the different forms of electric
lighting, the third and fourth to the factors entering into the
various methods of alternating-current distribution; fifth, sixth, and
seventh, to the principles and performance of transformers; the eighth
to thirteenth inclusive, to alternators and a practical consideration
of the current generated; the fourteenth to transformer testing and
operation, and the fifteenth to definitions and formulas associated
with alternating-current practice.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“One of the few successful attempts thus far made to discuss
alternating currents without the use of mathematics. In clearness and
originality of expression, neat press work, and general appearance,
the book is a credit to both the author and publisher.”

+ =Engin. N.= 56: 527. N. 15, ’06. 250w.

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

6–42447.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 719. Ap. ’07. 50w.

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 43. F. ’07.

“Something of this inclusiveness might profitably have been sacrificed
for a more methodical arrangement and a more critical spirit of
inquiry.”

+ − =Ind.= 62: 1095. My. 9, ’07. 340w.

“Mr. Harrison has interwoven many interesting incidents of history
with his history of the national flag.”

+ =Lit. D.= 34: 177. F. 2, ’07. 230w.

=Hart, Albert Bushnell=, ed. American nation: a history from original sources by associated scholars. 28v. per v. *$2. Harper.

=v. 20. Hosmer, James Kendall.= Appeal to arms.

7–4798.

A work with which its successor, “Outcome of the civil war,” is
intended to afford a brief, compact and impartial view of the military
and civil side of the civil war. Not so much a study of contestants’
motives as their behavior on the field. Dr. Hosmer says “I have tried
to criticize men in the light of their opportunities at the time.”

=v. 21. Hosmer, James Kendall.= Outcome of the civil war.

7–7446.

Although independent in field and in arrangement, this volume is a
continuation of Dr. Hosmer’s “Appeal to arms,” the foregoing volume of
this series. It takes up the story from midsummer, 1863 and carries it
forward to the surrender of Lee, the collapse of the confederacy and
the assassination of Lincoln.

=v. 22. Dunning, William Archibald.= Reconstruction, political and
economic.

This volume is the first in the last group of the series devoted to
“National expansion.” The purpose of the study is “to show that
reconstruction, with all its hardships and inequities, was not
deliberately planned as punishment and humiliation for those formerly
in rebellion.” It deals with “the stormy administration of Johnson,
the year of trouble and unrest in the south, the gradual recovery from
the strain of war, the great industrial developments, and railroad
building to the Pacific, the stormy Hayes-Tilden contest.”

=v. 23. Sparks, Edwin Erie.= National development (1877–1885).

7–33222.

Professor Sparks’ volume begins with the year 1877 that marks the
break between old issues and the intermediate, vital question of the
adaptation of American government to the industrial and social needs
of the country. The first five chapters are devoted to a summary of
the social and economic conditions of the time; six to eight, to the
party struggles due to President Hayes’ withdrawal of the federal
troops from the south; nine to twelve discuss silver coinage and the
national civil service; thirteen and fourteen discuss the Isthmian
canal and the exclusion of the Chinese; fifteen and sixteen follow the
effect on the nation of the rapid settling up of the west; seventeen
to nineteen deal with conditions which Cleveland found in 1884.

=v. 24. Dewey, Davis R.= National problems.

7–33614.

Beginning with the new economic conditions that the Cleveland
administration of 1884 found, Professor Dewey traces the course of the
national problems to 1897. He deals with organized labor, civil
service, the tariff, silver, railroads, foreign relations, the
reorganization of the Republican party, foreign policy, commercial
organization, currency, and the free coinage campaign of 1896.

* * * * *

“The merit of this volume is the thoughtful and judicial treatment of
a period of complicated political conditions and of problems new to
the national life. If any fault is to be found with the book, it is in
its lack of proportion. This, however, appears to be due rather to the
plan of the work than to the author’s execution of it.” Jesse S.
Reeves.

+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 673. Ap. ’07. 980w. (Review of v. 17.)

“Our author is eminently fair in his treatment of the South, though
the parts of the book dealing with that section exhibit less complete
information than do other portions.”

+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 675. Ap. ’07. 790w. (Review of v. 18.)

“The military and naval situation is presented with unusual clearness,
and this whole portion of the book has the ring of a definitive
account. Errors are few.” Carl Russell Fish.

+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 677. Ap. ’07. (Review of v. 19.)

“Aside from a sometimes too literal following of authorities where
opinion rather than fact is stated, Professor Hart has given us the
best general description and study of the social and moral aspects of
the American slavery controversy that has yet appeared.” J. C.
Ballagh.

+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 902. Jl. ’07. 1230w. (Review of v. 16.)

“The work under examination, therefore, while an excellent record as
far as it goes and on the whole the best civil war history yet
written, is too little objective to serve as the final history of that
war.” E. Benj. Andrews.

+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 907. Jl. ’07. 1270w. (Review of v. 20 and
21.)

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 39. F. ’07. (Review of v. 19.)

“The best survey of its field.”

+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 42. F. ’07. S. (Review of v. 17.)

“Best brief survey of the subject.”

+ + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 74. Mr. ’07. S. (Review of v. 18.)

“Perhaps the best general account of the size, and for the price.”

+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 97. Ap. ’07. (Review of v. 20 and 21.)

“It is the most readable account of the period with which the reviewer
is acquainted; there is no better treatment of that tangled business
of Buchanan, Seward and Lincoln from November, 1860 to April, 1861.”
Walter L. Fleming.

+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 174. Jl. ’07. 560w. (Review of v. 19.)

“Some points deserve slight criticism. The author does not seem to
have a clear understanding of internal conditions in the south. Some
objection might reasonably be made to the comparison between Stonewall
Jackson and John Brown, and the ‘craziness’ of Jackson is entirely too
much insisted upon.” W. L. Fleming.

+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 182. Jl. ’07. 650w. (Review of v. 20.)

“This undertone of scholarly geniality makes the book not merely easy
reading, but gives to it an interest for every intelligent American.”
Harry Thurston Peck.

+ + − =Bookm.= 26: 166. O. ’07. 1090w. (Review of v. 22.)

“It is indeed questionable whether the series as a whole is not too
large for the general reader, to whose interests it is professedly
devoted.” St. George L. Sioussat.

+ + − =Dial.= 43: 15. Jl. 1, ’07. 4100w. (Review of v. 14–21.)

“It is a matter of gratification that all [these books] are good and
that there are no very horrible examples.”

+ + =Ind.= 62: 1411. Je. 13, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 16–21.)

“He has brought to his task that somewhat rare quality, historic
imagination.”

+ + + =Lit. D.= 34: 433. Mr. 16, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 20.)

“A thoughtful and scholarly study of a period which has long needed
impartial examination.”

+ + =Nation.= 84: 84. Ja. 24, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 17.)

“The readableness of Professor Smith’s pages merits particular
commendation.”

+ + − =Nation.= 84: 156. F. 14, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 18.)

“The most distinctive contribution of Admiral Chadwick’s book,
however, is its thorough-going examination of the military and naval
situation on the eve of hostilities.”

+ + + =Nation.= 84: 202. F. 28, ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 19.)

“Outside of military affairs, in short, Mr. Hosmer’s narrative is, as
a whole, conventional.”

+ + − =Nation.= 84: 502. My. 30, ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 20 and 21.)

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 24. Ja. 12, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 19.)

“Mr. Hosmer succeeds in making [military matters] not only
intelligible but interesting to the layman.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 133. Mr. 2, ’07. 850w. (Review of v. 20.)

“He has prepared a splendid bibliography in the final chapter on the
authorities, the best in his period which exists.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 21.)

“The work is marked throughout by scholarship, sound judgment, and
critical insight, and is the best short history of the subject with
which we are acquainted.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 549. S. 14, ’07. 770w. (Review of v. 22.)

+ + + =Outlook.= 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 18.)

“As a narrative it is easy, compact, and lucid. The Admiral, it seems
to us, is inclined to take an over-roseate view of Southern slavery,
and a rather narrow one of the motives and conduct of those who lent
comfort and aid to John Brown.”

+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 332. F. 9, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 19.)

+ + + =Outlook.= 85: 764. Mr. 30, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 20.)

“His treatment of the assassination of Lincoln is distinctly
inadequate.”

+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 302. Je. 8, ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 21.)

“Possibly he over-emphasizes the accentuation of the speculative
instinct as one of the results of the war, but there can be but little
disposition to question the accuracy and essential fairness of the
pictures he draws of the conditions which prevailed, north and south,
from the assassination of Lincoln to the election of Hayes.”

+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 312. O. 12, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 22.)

“As to quality the general average is good, and some of the volumes,
marked by more originality than could be expected in others, contain
distinct contributions to historical knowledge. Out of this comes,
however, a certain unevenness of treatment ... and the inequality
which comes from having succeeding volumes from men who have different
points of view.” John Spencer Bassett.

+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 253. My. ’07. 1090w. (Review of v. 16–21.)

=Harting, James Edmund.= Recreations of a naturalist. $4.50. Wessels.

“The writer of the ‘Recreations’ gets much that is stimulating to
himself and to his readers out of a marsh walk in May. With notebook
in hand he sees and records things that might otherwise easily be
overlooked or forgotten. When the enthusiast thus writes down the
things that appeal to him because he writes under the spell of
enthusiasm he makes the story read with all the greater zest.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“Mr. Harting’s flowing and easy style renders these chapters very
agreeable reading, and a considerable amount of information is therein
afforded on sport and natural history, often in association with
antiquarian research.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 106. Jl. 28. 1290w.