Chapter XXXVII: Part 1: is a compilation, the object of which is “to trace the (8)

“Four addresses of dynamic interest, but from two very distinct points
of view. The first three are predominantly physiological and technical
rather than popular. ... The fourth lecture is of superlative
interest, and is a masterly application of the facts of physiology to
the modern theories of life.”

+ =Nation= 104:764 Je 28 ‘17 600w

“The special value of the book to students lies in the fact that the
function of respiration is treated simply as one aspect of the
activities of the organism as a whole, as a chapter in the unending
series of adaptations, internal and external, which make up the life
of an individual.” F. H. S.

+ =Nature= 100:241 N 29 ‘17 1050w

=Pratt= p20 O ‘17 50w

“From its detailed study of the processes connected with breathing
under so many diverse conditions, the book will be of interest to
physicians and physiologists. From its consideration of the
conflicting theories of life from the standpoint primarily of
breathing, it deserves a place on the shelf of the biologist and
natural philosopher.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 29 ‘17 700w

“Dr Haldane was invited by Yale university to give the Silliman
lectures in 1915. At that time there were expectations about the
duration of the war which made it natural that postponement of one
year should be asked and granted. In 1916 it was determined to wait no
longer, and the events of 1917 have fully justified the judgment. The
lectures (on the ‘Physiology of breathing’) were delivered and are to
appear in book form before long. But since they contained much that is
technical, Dr Haldane gave also four public lectures on ‘points of
more general interest,’ which are printed in the present volume. There
is still enough of technicality left to make it hardish reading for
the layman in places, but the reading is well worth while.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p364 Ag 2 ‘17 1750w

=HALE, EDWARD EVERETT, jr.=[2] Life and letters of Edward Everett Hale. 2v il ea *$5 (2c) Little 17-31921

Not a criticism, neither an estimate of the life of Edward Everett
Hale, but a portrayal of his personal character and achievements.
Making use of a vast amount of material including letters, diaries,
day books, sermons, lectures and various contributions to literature
the son of Dr Hale has followed the progress of his father’s career
thru its nearly ninety years. After graduation from Harvard he spent a
few years making up his mind what he would do; then turned to the
ministry. Middle age found him a leading clergyman; a leader and
organizer in and out of his especial denomination, full of ideas for
public service; a man of letters who had ahead of him long, useful
years before the American public. The spirit of the great American has
been immortalized in the story that won him continuous fame, “A man
without a country.”

“Books of this kind are as rare and as universal in their interest as
the characters with which they deal.”

+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 8 ‘17 140w

“A word of praise should go to Mr Hale not only for the painstaking
care, fine discrimination and judicial mind with which he has done
this work, but also for the excellent spirit of literary craftsmanship
in which the whole work has been conceived and carried out. For it is
what one might call, for lack of a better term, creative biography. He
has used his materials as a sculptor would use clay, and out of them
has made a clear and luminous figure which stands out from the pages,
a real and authentic portrait of the man as he was. He has not even
allowed his filial love to obscure or to gild or to make deceptively
roseate what he felt to be the true lineaments of his subject or the
true estimate of his character, his work, and his influence.”

+ + =N Y Times= 22:553 D 16 ‘17 1600w

“We have had to wait eight years for this story of his life. It was
worth waiting for. His son has written, or rather we should say
edited, this life with reverencing candor—a combination rare in
biographers.” Lyman Abbott

+ =Outlook= 118:146 Ja 23 ‘18 2800w

“It is good to have this biography of vivid and vivifying life. It
will bring closer to the man thousands of readers who have known his
books and who may well wish to come, thru this biography, into more
direct touch with his personality. The illustrations help toward this
end.” R. R. Bowker

+ =Pub W= 93:216 Ja 19 ‘18 850w

+ =R of Rs= 57:99 Ja ‘18 210w

=HALL, BOLTON.= Thrift. *$1 (1½c) Huebsch 304 17-2049

Education, the cooperative movement, intensive cultivation of the land
and natural taxation are some of the subjects discussed in this book.
The author does not write of thrift in the vein of Samuel Smiles. It
is not a system of saving pennies that he advocates, but rather an
organization of all one’s resources to the end that life may be
enriched. He advocates efficiency, too, but it is not the machine-made
efficiency of the experts.

=A L A Bkl= 13:330 My ‘17 (Reprinted from Survey)

“Evidence of the up-to-date business promoter sticks out on almost
every page. His is the clever, incisive, staccato style.” H. S. K.

=Boston Transcript= p8 F 21 ‘17 330w

=Cleveland= p38 Mr ‘17 150w

“It would not be just to imply that there aren’t some good things in
this book. These good things might have been condensed into a
pamphlet. There is chapter 13, for example, on ‘Institutional garden
thrift.’ There is an interesting discussion of coöperatives; and
another of taxation of land values. Mr Hall’s dissertation on
prohibition appears to the reviewer to be partially misleading. Loose
thinking characterizes it.” D: Rosenstein

– + =N Y Call= p15 Je 10 ‘17 770w

=Pittsburgh= 22:325 Ap ‘17 20w

“The best chapter preaches ‘thrift in happiness,’ and points the way
to love without possession and to joy that is not dependent upon
material success.”

=R of Rs= 55:444 Ap ‘17 110w

“Addressed to wage earners. A sensible discussion of personal
efficiency, waste and extravagance, investments and practical
success.” P. B.

+ =St Louis= 15:107 Ap ‘17 20w

“It is full of bright turns, but it is more than bright,—it is
sensible and practical. ... The argument [about temperance], as far as
it goes, is sound, but it doesn’t get far into the merits of the
question. It is the shallowest part of the book.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 9 ‘17 330w

“How to become prosperous without petrifying in the process really is
Mr Hall’s theme; and, though we may not agree with him in every detail
of his plan, no one can read this little book without getting benefit
from his warm human counsel.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 37:585 F 17 ‘17 180w

=HALL, GERTRUDE.= Aurora the magnificent. il *$1.40 (1c) Century 17-10200

Mrs Aurora Hawthorne and her friend Miss Estelle Madison drop on the
little Anglo-American colony in Florence, determined to see and to
spend and to enjoy. They, in particular Aurora, possess all the
failings of the “typical” American abroad, but the Anglo-American
colony, led by the American consul and his family, accept Aurora and
Estelle without question. The reader can do no less, for there is
something about them, particularly Aurora, that is compelling. The
Fosses, the American consul’s family, are delightful, and worthy of a
book all of themselves, but this story as it develops becomes more and
more the story of Aurora and Gerald Fane, poor, over-wrought, artistic
Gerald alternately moved by a desire to shake Aurora and an impulse to
rest his tired head on her generous shoulder.

“Published in the Century.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:353 My ‘17

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:413 Je ‘17 550w

“The story is simple and comprehensible, the mystery untangling itself
bit by bit, as mysteries really do. It is natural and not
melodramatic; amusing and thoroughly readable.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 11 ‘17 330w

+ =Cath World= 105:555 Jl ‘17 80w

“People who frankly enjoy love-mazes will like this story; it is
written with grace and simplicity, and an honest insight into the
thoughts and experiences with which most folk most of the time are
engrossed. Those who yearn for light on the vaster perplexities of the
human struggle en masse, might as well pass it by.”

=Dial= 62:401 My 3 ‘17 230w

“Aurora is that rare thing in popular fiction, an individual, a new
personality.”

+ =Ind= 90:471 Je 9 ‘17 130w

“The main thing, and the overwhelming thing, is our faith in Aurora’s
greatness as a woman, in her adequacy for life, upon whatever terms it
may challenge her. ... Our Aurora’s triumph over us and her Gerald is
that we exult in her as she is.”

+ =Nation= 104:581 My 10 ‘17 470w

“The story is a very fine and generous comedy of Americanism abroad.
There is no denying Aurora, or the wholesome elemental womanhood, the
ripeness of character, that underlies her outrageous bloom.” H. W.
Boynton

+ =Nation= 105:601 N 29 ‘17 90w

“The novel is clever and written with a good deal of charm, but the
author has spread her slight plot over far too many pages.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:114 Ap 1 ‘17 330w

“Reading ‘Aurora the magnificent’ is like taking a railway journey
thru pleasant enough but rather uneventful country and all at once
getting somewhere.” Doris Webb

+ =Pub W= 91:973 Mr 17 ‘17 550w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 60w

=HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY.= Jesus, the Christ, in the light of psychology. 2v *$7.50 (2c) Doubleday 232 17-8497

A psychological study of Jesus is regarded by the author as the
logical next step following the historical and critical research of
recent years. The introduction says, “It is this step that the author
attempts to take in this volume. ... He regards himself as a pioneer
in a new domain in which he is certain to be followed by many others,
and is convinced that the psychological Jesus Christ is the true and
living Christ of the present and of the future. He is the spiritual
Christ of the resurrection whom alone Paul knew and proclaimed,
although he is here described in modern terms, and it is this that now
chiefly matters rather than what an historical person was or did in
Palestine, two thousand years ago.” It is Dr Hall’s hope that such a
study may go far toward the reinterpretation of Christianity which is
necessary if it is to remain a vital religion for the modern world.
Volume 1 consists of chapters on: Jesus’ physical personality; Jesus
in literature; Jesus’ character, negative views; The nativity;
Beginnings of the supreme pedagogy. Volume 2 has chapters on:
Messianity, sonship, and the kingdom; Jesus’ eschatology, his inner
character, purpose, and work; Jesus’ ethics and prayer; The parables
of Jesus; The miracles; Death and resurrection of Jesus.

“The title is likely to mislead the general reader; the work is not a
contribution to the study of Jesus, but to the study of genetic
psychology. Librarians need to note this in cataloguing it. The
student who wishes to know what Jesus said and did, or to understand
the gospels, will find only incidental benefit here; it is not the
psychology of Jesus which is treated, but the psychology of those who
have reflected on Jesus. How the human mind has reacted upon this
name; above all, how a modern encyclopedic mind, superlatively trained
in psychological analysis, reacts upon it, is exhaustively and
illuminatingly presented.” C. R. Bowen

* + – =Am J Theol= 21:612 O ‘17 3200w

“A book for scholars and serious students.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:39 N ‘17

“That the work will prove valuable will hardly be questioned. ... Dr
Hall will not expect all to agree with his conclusions. We think very
few will. But hardly any will fail to appreciate the fine spirit of
the author; the great mass of material, gathered by the toil of many
years; and his introducing them to a method which is sure to throw
much light upon him whom the author calls ‘the best of all beings.’”
F. W. C.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 My 19 ‘17 1700w

— =Cath World= 105:245 My ‘17 1400w

+ =Cleveland= p91 Jl ‘17 60w

=Dial= 63:70 Jl 19 ‘17 530w

“A notable contribution to the understanding of Jesus. Probably no
other man possesses either the equipment or the sympathy necessary to
write this book.”

+ =Educ R= 56:173 F ‘18 60w

“In his first chapters Dr Hall treats with notable comprehensiveness
the conceptions of Christ’s physical appearance and character that
have been set forth in art and literature from earliest times down to
the immediate present, discussing and weighing each with care and
thoroughness and judicial temper. Among the very recent books thus
considered in which Christ or Christian teachings are the theme are,
to mention only a very few of the large and diverse list, Kennedy’s
‘The servant in the house,’ Jerome’s ‘Passing of the third floor
back,’ Maxwell’s ‘The ragged messenger,’ Moore’s ‘The Brook Kerith,’
Selma Lagerlöf’s ‘Miracles of Anti-Christ,’ Zangwill’s ‘The next
religion,’ while discussion at some length is given to the cult of the
superman, which Dr Hall calls ‘The chief and most extraordinary
literary phenomenon of our time.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:246 Jl 1 ‘17 800w

“Whether God, Jesus Christ, and Christianity are anything more than
psychic phenomena according to Dr Hall’s philosophy he does not make
clear; but he makes it quite clear that he thinks this a question not
important to answer.”

– + =Outlook= 117:65 S 12 ‘17 330w

=Pittsburgh= 22:437 My ‘17 40w

=St Louis= 15:136 My ‘17 7w

“It is unfortunate that a work containing so much learning and so
authentic vision should be expressed in such heavy and difficult
English. The style often obscures the ideas it seeks to express.
Otherwise, the book is a valuable contribution from one of America’s
leading psychologists to the pressing religious problems of the time.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 22 ‘17 600w

“The mind of President Hall is singularly unfit for his undertaking.
He not only is destitute of historical judgment; he does not even
realize that his task requires it.” B. W. Bacon

— =Yale R= n s 7:211 O ‘17 1850w

=HALL, JENNIE.= Our ancestors in Europe; ed. by J: Montgomery Gambrill and Lida Lee Tall. il *76c Silver 940 16-14054

“Jennie Hall’s book is made up of three main parts, viz.: The ancient
world. The newer nations, and Beginnings of our own times. The titles
of these parts suggest their contents. One hundred and forty pages are
devoted to part 1, one hundred and four to part 2, and eighty-two to
part 3. The list of illustrations is a very long one. There is also a
considerable number of maps and plans scattered throughout the book.
At the end of each chapter one finds a long list of questions.
Following the last chapter is a list of important dates.” (School R)
“The book is designed to furnish pupils in the sixth grade with a
background for their imminent study of American history.” (Nation)

“The author, Miss Jennie Hall, of the Parker school of Chicago, has
shown considerable skill both in selecting the incidents and figures
on which to dwell and in making the narrative simple without making it
dull or childish.”

+ =Nation= 105:268 S 6 ‘17 90w

“Generally speaking the make-up of the text is attractive, and the
contents deal with concrete material well in the range of the
understanding of the pupils for whom the book was written.” R M Tryon

+ — =School R= 25:684 N ‘17 180w

=HALL, JOHN LESSLIE.= English usage; studies in the history and uses of English words and phrases. *$1.50 Scott 420.4 17-14826

“A reference book for high school pupils or for teachers. Unlike
similar books, it aims to give authorities on both sides, leaving the
choice to the reader. It is a protest against the rigid rules of the
purists in grammatical form.”—Ind

=Ind= 91:234 Ag 11 ‘17 80w

“As a history of opinion on the chief disputed points of usage the
book is valuable. Its value would have been increased if instead of
statistical lists we had more often before us the passages in their
context.”

– + =Nation= 105:261 S 6 ‘17 330w

“In reading the book, one feels less confident than before as to what
‘good usage’ really is, and also recognizes the danger of concluding
that a wrong use of words by a good author makes good usage.”

+ =Outlook= 116:593 Ag 15 ‘17 120w

Reviewed by E. F. Geyer and R. L. Lyman

+ =School R= 25:607 O ‘17 120w

=HALL, MAY EMERY.= Roger Williams. il *$1.25 (3c) Pilgrim press 17-24423

The story of Roger Williams forms a chapter in the history of the
struggle for personal liberty in America, and the author has told it
in a popular style that will be attractive to young people. She has
based her account on recognized sources. There are several
illustrations to add interest to the book.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:173 F ‘18

“Very brightly is the story written, delightfully fascinating and
especially attractive in the naïve manner in which she rushes into the
forum as a special pleader in behalf of her client. For Mrs Hall is
confessedly an ardent and enthusiastic admirer of the character of
Williams, so ardent and so enthusiastic that she fails to discern his
undoubted failings.” E. J. C.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p9 O 20 ‘17 850w

“His story is always worth retelling, and Mrs Hall’s volume is, in its
way, a public educator. Issued at smaller cost, as one believes it
might be, it would be an excellent work for reading in the schools.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 400w

=HALLER, WILLIAM.=[2] Early life of Robert Southey, 1774-1803. (Columbia univ. studies in English and comparative literature) *$1.50 (1½c) Columbia univ. press 17-25840

The first portion of the life of a poet who has no adequate detailed
biography. It covers the first twenty-nine years of Southey’s life:
his boyhood at school and university; his reactions to literary and
political movements in his youth; his early associations with
Coleridge, Lamb, Wordsworth, and others; his share in attempting to
establish a communistic society in America; his characteristics as a
young man, poet, and man of letters; his connection with the “lake
school” of poetry; and his settling down in what became his permanent
home in Keswick.

=Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ‘17 1000w

“Southey played so prominent a part in the intellectual and literary
generation that sprang from the French revolution that a competent
study of him has long been needed. That need is now being supplied.
The mere bulk of his writings has frightened scholars. Yet the story
of this man is not only worth the telling; it is rich in interest
besides.”

+ =Dial= 64:73 Ja 17 ‘18 470w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 D 20 ‘17 130w

=HALSEY, FRANCIS WHITING=, ed. Balfour, Viviani and Joffre; their speeches and other public utterances in America. *$1.50 (1½c) Funk 940.91 17-24227

Mr Halsey has collected and arranged, with descriptive matter, as
compiled from contemporary accounts, the speeches and other public
utterances in America of Mr Balfour, M. Viviani and Marshal Joffre,
together with those of Italian, Belgian and Russian commissioners
during the great war. To these he has added an account of the arrival
of the United States warships and soldiers in England and France under
Admiral Sims and General Pershing. The period covered is April 21 to
July 4, 1917. The material used was first published in the
Congressional Record and Canadian parliamentary reports, the great
American and Canadian dailies, the London Times and Morning Post, the
Paris Temps and La Victoire, the Literary Digest, etc. The book has no
index.

“Newspaper ‘clippings,’ it would seem, should hardly be given unedited
to posterity. They could not include, in this case, much that was of
importance concerning these visits; hence the record is neither
complete nor accurate.” A. I. A.

– — =Am Hist R= 23:433 Ja ‘18 350w

=A L A Bkl= 14:53 N ‘17

“Mr Halsey’s collection of the speeches of the commissioners is a
useful work of reference rather than a readable book, for one must
grant that the average of eloquence, despite the frequent ‘lift’ in M.
Viviani’s addresses, is low, while the passages that are insignificant
and that duplicate one another are very numerous indeed.”

+ — =Dial= 63:594 D 6 ‘17 200w

+ =Ind= 91:512 S 29 ‘17 100w

“Even a hasty reading of the book, however, creates two impressions
which one ventures to believe will not later be unjustified by the
results of complete investigation. The first is that Mr Balfour is a
master of the shrewd, weighed phrase, a genius at resolving dangerous
difficulties and at allaying any nascent suspicions. M. Viviani, on
the other hand, is easily the most eloquent orator that we have heard
in America for a generation.”

+ =New Repub= 13:355 Ja 19 ‘18 200w

=R of Rs= 57:214 F ‘18 40w

+ =Spec= 119:sup474 N 3 ‘17 130w

=HAMILTON, CLAYTON MEEKER.= Problems of the playwright. *$1.60 (2c) Holt 792 17-29336

A companion volume to “The theory of the theatre and studies in
stage-craft” which the writer calls “a sort of suffix” to the earlier
work. “In this book, the kaleidoscopic field of the contemporary drama
is considered from various points of view,—that of the critic, the
dramatist, the stage-director, the scenic artist, the manager, and the
theatre-going public.” Among the chapters, a good many of which have
had magazine publication, are: Contrast in the drama; Surprise in the
drama; The troublesome last act; Strategy and tactics; Harmony in
presentation; High comedy in America; The George M. Cohan school of
playwrights; Yvette Guilbert; The magic of Mr Chesterton; Criticism
and creation in the drama; A kiss for Cinderella; Dramatic talent and
theatrical talent; Stevenson on the stage; The plays of Lord Dunsany;
The mood of Maeterlinck; Euripides in New York; Romance and realism in
the drama; The new stagecraft; The non-commercial drama; A democratic
insurrection in the theatre; What is wrong with the American drama?

=A L A Bkl= 14:84 D ‘17

“Mr Hamilton’s dominant characteristic as a dramatic critic is his
desire always to go behind the specific example, often possessing only
a fleeting interest, to the law which controlled it. ... His
enthusiasm is cautiously controlled; and it is set free only when his
head is convinced and his heart is touched. He does not allow his
judgment to be unduly influenced by the vagaries of public opinion;
and the ardent admirers of Mr Galsworthy’s plays and the uncritical
worshippers at the shrine of Mr Shaw will probably be rudely shocked
by the chilly analysis of the merits and demerits of these two
favourites of the moment. ... Mr Hamilton’s criticism is consistently
interesting because it has the support of knowledge and the savour of
individuality.” Brander Matthews

+ =Bookm= 46:355 N ‘17 1300w

+ =Cleveland= p135 D ‘17 20w

“He isn’t a radical in matters dramatic, and he isn’t a reactionary.
He doesn’t champion the newer movements, nor does he evade condemning
the older schools. The indecision is largely due to Mr Hamilton’s
indefinite opinions, and also to his apparent refusal to trace a theme
to his logical end. It is a good book with which to interest those who
are not interested at all, but it will not appeal to students who have
made some progress.” L: Gardy

– + =N Y Call= p16 Ja 19 ‘18 340w

“The title of Clayton Hamilton’s ‘Problems of the playwright’ is as
unfortunate as it is alliterative, for the idea it suggests of the
technical side of writing plays is much too narrow to cover the many
and varied and suggestive discussions of the contemporary drama.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:578 D 30 ‘17 220w

“For sheer power to entertain no other writer on stagecraft excels
Clayton Hamilton.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:108 Ja ‘18 110w

“The book deals in general observations, but they are observations
that are pertinent because they are fortified by knowledge,
earnestness and critical sense. They are not, however, co-ordinated
into a study. Mr Hamilton’s book has little unity of purpose, though a
unity of spirit does pervade it.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 1100w

“Of interest to satisfy the reader’s curiosity as to the author’s
opinion of certain plays or playwrights, rather than of value as
dramatic criticism.”

+ — =Wis Lib Bul= 14:30 Ja ‘18 50w

=HAMILTON, COSMO.= Joan and the babies and I; being certain chapters from the autobiography of John Mainwaring, the novelist. il *$1 (6c) Little (Eng ed 16-15133)

A story which can be summed up in a few words. An Englishman,
suffering from nerves and over-indulgence in self analysis, spends a
summer on the Massachusetts coast. He makes friends on the beach with
two small children, meets their mother, falls in love with her and
marries her. It may be that the reason for existence of the book is
explained in this sentence, “Being male I intended to follow the law
of nature and be the dominating factor—a law which if adopted by
American husbands would save many thoughtless women, over-burdened
with freedom, from making epic fools of themselves.”

“There is a certain sentimental intimacy that some authors affect in
relation to their characters that is more repulsive than the most
outspoken language of your Fieldings or your Smolletts. ... Condemned
by his own confession, he stands as an exemplar of that lack of
reticence—or lack of frankness, it is hard to say which—that is the
besetting sin of American literature.”

— =Dial= 62:403 My 3 ‘17 170w

“In spite of the domestic title of Mr Hamilton’s story, and the two
delightfully natural children who usher in the first chapter, the
little book is decidedly upsetting to a normally constituted mind. ...
It contains some true sentiment and wise conclusions, but, great as
are the faults of the present social system, it is more coherent, and
certainly, less offensive to good taste than would be a society made
up of Johns and Joans.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:155 Ap 15 ‘17 270w

=HAMILTON, COSMO.= Scandal. il *$1.50 (1½c) Little 17-23982

“Beatrix Vanderdyke was extraordinary rich, extraordinarily beautiful,
extraordinarily charming, and extraordinarily foolish. ... Her habit
of making night time visits to the studio of a rather vulgar portrait
painter ... resulted in scandal. Beatrix’s family threatened her with
banishment to a cottage in Maine, and to save herself from losing a
New York season she declared that she had been secretly married to one
of her acquaintances. This gentleman, being a good sport, accepted the
challenge and determined to tame the willful Beatrix for the good of
her soul. Follows the course of events to be expected in a novel
beginning with this kind of a situation, including the usual bedroom
scene and ending with the happy conclusion which the reader has long
known was sure to come. In the meanwhile there is plenty of sparring
between the hero and the more or less unclad heroine, a lady of
doubtful antecedents endeavors to intervene, and an obliging fog
undertakes the rôle of deus ex machina.”—N Y Times

“There is none of the preaching here which was to be found in ‘The
blindness of virtue’ and which the title suggests we may be going to
find. It is wholly an entertaining story with those touches of the
unconventional with which Mr Hamilton knows so well how to deal.” D.
L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 26 ‘17 550w

“Need be taken no more seriously than the fashion-plates in a popular
magazine. ... Those having a taste for the sort of stories usually
told over the cigars, after the women have left the room, will enjoy
this bit of journalese.”

– — =Dial= 63:354 O 11 ‘17 140w

“The novel has one character, Beatrix’s English companion, who is
really quite like a human being.”

– — =N Y Times= 22:349 S 16 ‘17 270w

“Mr Hamilton fails to make his American characters convincing, but in
the case of his heroine’s English duenna from Clapham he is more
successful.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 23 ‘17 270w

=HAMILTON, LORD ERNEST WILLIAM.= Soul of Ulster. *$1.25 Dutton 941.5 17-14524

“This volume by the author of ‘The first seven divisions’ is a concise
history of Ulster as it affects the Irish question. Lord Ernest
Hamilton shows what, in his opinion, is at the back of the demand for
Home rule, and what would happen if it were granted.” (Ath) “The book
falls into three parts—an historical retrospect, a survey of the
situation at the present day, and a forecast of the future
possibilities inherent in the Sinn Fein movement. The Ulster question
treated historically is, in his view, bound up with the general ethics
of colonization. ... Lord Ernest Hamilton writes as the advocate and
champion of the Ulster Protestant colonist and the British garrison,
and one may search his pages in vain for any indication of the
emergence of the type of Young Ulsterman sketched in Mr St John
Ervine’s book.” (Spec)

=A L A Bkl= 14:53 N ‘17

=Ath= p257 My ‘17 50w

“Lord Ernest possesses the pen of a ready writer, and is able to
retain the reader’s interest from cover to cover. ... He writes from
the point of view of the Ulster Unionist, and of his sincerity there
can be no doubt. But his judgment and better feelings appear to have
been warped by fear, so much so that his conception of Irish character
is too black to be credited. ... ‘The soul of Ulster’ deserves to be
read as a strong presentation of the Unionist case. Before
difficulties can be overcome, they must be clearly seen. Lord Ernest
Hamilton’s book skilfully indicates the difficulties of the Ulster
problem.”

+ — =Ath= p344 Jl ‘17 750w

“Of that Irish and Catholic half of Ulster, Mr Hamilton knows
nothing—or at best, only the worst! Prejudice and bigotry speak from
his every page.”

– — =Cath World= 105:826 S ‘17 600w

“Of course ‘The Soul of Ulster’ is no more dispassionate than any Sinn
Feiner argument. But it is well for us interested onlookers to see the
other side of the perennial Irish question.”

+ =Ind= 92:260 N 3 ‘17 60w

“They do give to the reader who has time to go through them vivid
understanding of the difficulties to be encountered by those who would
settle Irish affairs. ... It may be also that perusal of such books
will do further good in this country. ... It has been to small purpose
that some informed neither by Tories abroad nor from newspapers of
immigrants in New York have pointed out that England has changed, that
whatever the sins of the past she is anxious now to do honorable
justice, that of late she has made much amends, and is prevented from
settling the whole question partly because of circumstances pertaining
to Irishmen and beyond her control. The slight and transient and
narrow writings which are appearing more frequently as two Irish
parties set forth their cause will make it, no doubt, much easier for
people to comprehend what these difficulties are.”

* =Nation= 105:149 Ag 9 ‘17 750w

“It is quite likely that a good many people who do not know nearly as
much about Ulster as Lord Ernest Hamilton evidently does will suspect
him of prejudice. At any rate, his convictions are very definite and
downright and they are expressed with simplicity and force.”

=N Y Times= 22:246 Jl 1 ‘17 650w

“The great surprise of the book is the anticipation that the
development of Sinn Feinism, of the origin and organization of which
Lord Ernest Hamilton gives a very inadequate and perfunctory account,
may provide a solution of the Irish question by its refusal to
recognize a standardized religion, and by the consequent fusion of the
races by intermarriage. ... His curious book is not conceived or
executed in a judicial spirit, though it contains many wholesome
truths and much sane criticism.”

=Spec= 118:541 My 12 ‘17 1450w

“Ordinarily we in the United States hear only one side of the Irish
question. The other side of the picture is vividly, yet fairly,
presented by Ernest W. Hamilton.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 30 ‘17 350w

“Considering the vastness of the literature on Ireland, there is a
remarkable dearth of books interpreting the viewpoint of Ulster.
Captain Hamilton though he does not perform this service in any
scientific spirit and does not assume a judicial attitude which could
not be genuine, yet gives us valuable insight into the philosophy of
his former constituents by rewriting Irish history as they see it.”
Bruno Lasker

+ — =Survey= 38:548 S 22 ‘17 500w

“His book should be read by those who wish to get at a true
comprehension of the uncompromising Ulsterman. Lord Ernest Hamilton,
who was for some years M. P. for North Tyrone, is also the author of
‘The first seven divisions,’ and he writes lucidly and forcibly.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p167 Ap 5 ‘17 420w

=HAMILTON, LORD GEORGE FRANCIS.= Parliamentary reminiscences and reflections, 1868 to 1885. *$4 Dutton (Eng ed 17-12869)

“Lord George Hamilton was of the House of commons from 1868 to 1906.
As son of the Duke of Abercorn, at one time lord-lieutenant of
Ireland, he was of the governing class, a fact which accounts for the
early age at which a place was found for him in the Disraeli
administration of 1874-1880. He was then appointed under-secretary for
India, with Salisbury as his chief. In 1878-1880 he was vice-president
of the committee of council, practically minister for education. In
the short-lived Conservative administration of 1885-1886 he was first
lord of the admiralty. He resumed this office when the Unionist
administration was formed in 1886, and held it until the Liberals came
into power in 1892. From 1895 to 1903, when he retired from the
cabinet, he was secretary for India. Only the years from 1868 to 1885
are covered by these reminiscences.”—Am Hist R

“For half a dozen reasons they are likely to be of service to students
of British politics of the two decades that preceded the realignment
of parties after 1886, when Gladstone had committed the Liberal party
to Home rule for Ireland. ... Hamilton went to the India office in
1874, and in detailing his work there as under-secretary, he has
written one of the best descriptions of the work of the office, and of
its organization, that has ever been embodied in English political
memoirs. One other value in these reminiscences has yet to be
mentioned. There is more than once in these pages the most sweeping
and strongly-worded indictment that has been written or uttered of the
Manchester school of politics by any man in the front rank of English
political life.” E: Porritt

+ =Am Hist R= 22:855 Jl ‘17 800w

“The author’s attitude is in strong opposition, to the ‘pacificist or
Manchester school of politicians’; and conscientious objectors to
military service receive small mercy at Lord George Hamilton’s hands.
Indeed, there is a good deal of hard hitting in the book.”

=Ath= p50 Ja ‘17 130w

“Lord George is of the type of English public men who are dogged hard
workers, and, no doubt, useful servants of the state, but who are
little gifted with the pen, which they hold in a heavy hand. And these
notes of events during twenty years of parliamentary experience
contain little that is novel or exhilarating. ... Many personal
characterizations occur in his pages, but few of them are penetrating
or enlivening.”

— =Nation= 105:44 Jl 12 ‘17 370w

“One feature of these pages that calls for comment is that Disraeli
appears throughout in a softened and unusually advantageous light, an
accessible and kindly figure.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:368 S 30 ‘17 600w

=R of Rs= 56:328 S ‘17 50w

“This book is disappointing. ... The historical chapters are a languid
rechauffé of events which are, perhaps, too near for historical
treatment, but which need not be (as they are) dull. ... Of personal
anecdotes or intimate descriptions of Lord George Hamilton’s
colleagues—Disraeli, Northcote, Hardy, Beach, Salisbury,
Churchill—there are none. ... The really valuable chapter in the book
is the last but one, in which Lord George Hamilton tells us of his
doings at the Admiralty as first lord.”

– + =Sat R= 122:601 D 23 ‘16 850w

“The book is just what such a book should be; it is full of a simple
and mellow wisdom; there is not an idea in it that is not practical
and rational; and the political ideas are reinforced or illustrated by
a flow of anecdotes which are in themselves a delightful
entertainment.”

+ =Spec= 118:136 F 3 ‘17 1950w

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p597 D 14 ‘16 2000w

=HAMILTON, JOSEPH GRÉGOIRE DE ROULHAC, and HAMILTON, MARY THOMPSON (MRS J. G. DE R. HAMILTON).= Life of Robert E. Lee; for boys and girls. il *$1.25 (2½c) Houghton 17-28464

“This book is written with the hope that through it the life and
character of Lee may become more real to the generation of young
Americans growing up.” (Preface) The authors express the further hope
that the book may, by making clearer the purity of motive of Lee and
those he represented, hasten the day when all sectional bitterness
shall have disappeared. Among the books on which the authors have
drawn as sources are: Jones’s “Life and letters of General Robert E.
Lee”; “Recollections and letters of General Lee,” by R. E. Lee, jr.;
and Bradford’s “Lee, the American.” There are four illustrations and
an index.

“A wholesome book for reading by northern children.” J: Walcott

+ =Bookm= 46:496 D ‘17 50w

+ =Cath World= 106:694 F ‘18 150w

“Full of Civil war incidents told from an unbiased standpoint. The
character and outlook of the Confederate leader as presented here will
appeal to young people.”

+ =Ind= 92:448 D 1 ‘17 40w

“Gen. Lee now belongs to the nation at large, not simply to the South,
and the authors have written an enthusiastic as well as historically
sound life of their hero. The book should be welcomed by young people
all over the country, but it will be quite as interesting to many
‘grown-ups’ as well.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 1 ‘17 150w

=HAMILTON, ROBERT W.= Belinda of the Red cross. il *$1.25 (2c) Sully & Kleinteich 17-24969

“The heroine, born in America, is the granddaughter on one side of
French and on the other of German ancestors. ... At the beginning of
the story she is taking a nurse’s training in a big New York hospital
in which one of the surgeons is a famous German, resident for ten
years in this country. As she nears the end of her course of training
a young aviator who has had a fall and smashed one shoulder is brought
in. ... He is Belinda’s last patient, and they find each other
mutually interesting. After graduation she decides to join the Red
cross service in France, and the young aviator, although neither knows
the other’s purpose, goes over to offer his services to the French
army. ... Belinda works in the field hospitals and the aviator crosses
the battle lines and finally they are both caught by the enemy. ...
The two German cousins of Belinda play an important part in the
action.”—N Y Times

“A thrilling war story.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:372 S 30 ‘17 280w

“The incidents are highly improbable. The narrative may be found
entertaining if the reader is not in a critical mood.”

=Springf’d Republican= p17 O 7 ‘17 180w

=HAMMER, SIMON CHRISTIAN.= William the Second. *$1.50 Houghton 17-26781

“The present volume is an English attempt at a calm, clear-cut
analysis of the imperial psychology as disclosed by numerous speeches
and contemporary German writings.”—R of Rs

“Author is an Englishman and his remarks are tinged with prejudice.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:53 N ‘17

“Mr Hammer’s picture of the Kaiser will never win him a German
decoration, but it bears more of the earmarks of truth than those we
are accustomed to.” C. H. P. Thurston

+ =Bookm= 46:290 N ‘17 40w

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 24 ‘17 280w

=Outlook= 117:142 S 26 ‘17 90w

=Pittsburgh= 22:745 N ‘17 70w

=R of Rs= 56:439 O ‘17 100w

=HAMMOND, JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON, and HAMMOND, BARBARA (BRADBY) (MRS JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON HAMMOND).= Town labourer, 1760-1832; the new civilisation. *$3.50 (3c) Longmans 330.9 17-22687

This volume is the first part of a study of the industrial revolution.
It attempts to describe the general features of the new civilization,
to picture the effect of the great social change which took place
between 1780 and 1832 on the lives of the English working-class, and
which turned them, according to the authors, into the “cannon-fodder
of industry.” About half of the chapters deal with the material
surroundings of “the new civilisation”—the “new town,” the conditions
in mill, mine, and workshop, the administration of justice, the war on
trade unions, the employment of children, etc., and the remainder
“with the psychological conditions that resulted from them.” A table
of dates and a list of chief authorities are appended. A second volume
is to follow which “will give in detail the history of the work-people
in various industries, with a full account of the disturbances known
as the Luddite rising, and of those connected with the adventures of
Oliver, the famous ‘agent provocateur.’” (Preface)

=A L A Bkl= 14:75 D ‘17

“An arresting and appalling picture.”

+ =Ath= p407 Ag ‘17 520w

“In their feeling for class attitudes, for the rationalizations that
accompany the economic war, for the sinister manipulation of
government by capital, the Hammonds have an intellectual tool which
should be in the hands of every one who tries to write of this modern
industrial era.” Randolph Bourne

+ =Dial= 63:642 D 20 ‘17 630w

“It is a book to be read by all who are concerned with present labour
problems, and conditions of industrial life; for a full understanding
of the purgatorial experiences of the working class in the critical
years of this great social change is a key to its attitude to-day. The
working class, like an oppressed nationality, has its memories.” M. J.

+ =Int J Ethics= 28:281 Ja ‘18 550w

“This book is valuable as an indisputable record of facts, unpleasant
enough to our national self-satisfaction—our besetting sin, as Matthew
Arnold declared. It would have been more valuable but for the obvious
political bias of its authors, who skilfully heap the blame on the
back of the Tory party. In truth, the aristocratic Whigs and the
Nonconformist manufacturers and tradesmen were just as much to blame
as the Tory government for the state of labour in the pre-reform
era. ... This is not a mere squalid story of slum misery: it is not a
sensational ‘film,’ striking the eyes and ‘gingering’ the emotion, but
leaving the intellect unstirred. This tale of trouble sets one on
inquiries innumerable, psychological, spiritual, moral, economic,
political.”

* + + =Sat R= 124:169 S 1 ‘17 2250w

“The book is pleasant to read because of its literary art and mastery;
the subject-matter is extremely gloomy. The misery admits of no
denial, but we are not persuaded that Mr and Mrs Hammond have given
the right values to the various causes when they enter upon
explanations. There is something in the temper in which they write
which strikes us as mistaken. ... But we must not express our partial
agreement with their spirit at the expense of saying too little about
the admirable skill and clearness with which they have presented their
facts. They have written the best description of the conditions of the
time that we have ever read.”

+ — =Spec= 119:60 Jl 21 ‘17 1550w

“Though the writing of social and industrial history in England has in
recent years been carried to a very high point of literary
accomplishment combined with careful use of original sources and sound
interpretation by such writers as Gilbert Slater, the Webbs, and
others, there has been no similar publication so vividly describing
this vital period of change. ... In almost every chapter of Mr and Mrs
Hammond’s work are lessons of our time. The attitude towards ‘the
poor,’ for instance, was in many respects similar to that yet taken in
this country towards the negro. The procedure in the case of strikes
often seems to have resembled that now frequently in vogue to meet the
real or imagined danger of the I. W. W.” Bruno Lasker

+ =Survey= 39:200 N 24 ‘17 1250w

“A companion volume to the important work which the authors published
in 1911 on the ‘Village labourer’ during the same period.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p324 Jl 5 ‘17 50w

“A book that should be read by all who are concerned, however
indirectly, with what is called ‘the labour problem.’ The story of the
Industrial revolution has been told before, but the story of the
Social revolution which accompanied it, has never yet received
adequate treatment. ... The authors have helped towards a better
understanding not only of the early nineteenth century but of some of
the most obstinate problems of today.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p339 Jl 19 ‘17 1900w

=HAMMOND, MELVIN ORMOND.= Canadian confederation and its leaders. il *$2.50 (3½c) Doran 971 18-2512

Canadian confederation was perfected in 1867 and has now known a half
century of history. It has seemed a fitting time therefore “to examine
the part played by the leaders of that great day in the various
provinces in bringing about the union.” This has been the object of
the author, who has brought together studies of seventeen men, among
them Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Oliver Mowat, William McDougall, Sir
Alexander T. Galt, Sir George E. Cartier, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Sir
Charles Tupper, and others. The choice has been not wholly limited to
those who worked for federation. Leaders of the opposition have been
included. The book has an introductory chapter, Before confederation,
and a closing chapter, Rounding out confederation, and ends with
bibliography and index.

“Our author gives a close and searching analysis of the character and
personality of each of his subjects.” H. S. K.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 3 ‘17 750w

=Ind= 92:256 N 3 ‘17 40w

+ =R of Rs= 57:104 Ja ‘18 60w

=HANCOCK, HARRIE IRVING.= Physical training for business men; basic rules and simple exercises for gaining assured control of the physical self. il *$1.75 (5½c) Putnam 613.7 17-25762

The man who sits at his desk all day and feels stale at night will
find in these pages concise instructions for livening up. The
exercises outlined are an antidote for physical slovenliness and
mental dulness. They are simple leg, arm, trunk and head movements
designed to produce in a short space of time poise, alertness, power.
Illustrations of the model performances are from photographs which
represent the nearest approach possible to a moving picture on a
single plate and are, in consequence, easily followed.

“The plain, common-sense general advice and comment is of great value
to any man or woman, and would add to efficiency.”

+ =Dial= 63:466 N 8 ‘17 100w

“Books on physical training are either manuals which most people will
open only on doctor’s orders, or they are made more readable with the
help of a good deal of matter not strictly relevant. The present
volume is of the latter variety; it may be added that its ‘padding’ is
interesting and contains many shrewd observations. A. B. Phelan’s
synthetic photographs may be clever, but on the whole the diagrammatic
illustrations of the old handbooks were easier to understand.” B. L.

+ — =Survey= 39:447 Ja 19 ‘18 330w

=HANDY, AMY LITTLEFIELD.= War food. il *75c (14c) Houghton 664 17-21110

Miss Handy describes practical and economical methods of keeping
vegetables, fruits and meats, and urges the importance of preserving
and storing perishable food. There is a chapter on “Canning without
sugar.” The author hopes that the recipes will prove helpful to those
who are trying to carry out Mr Hoover’s instructions.

“Miss Handy is explicit in her directions, which cover, we believe, a
very wide field of possibilities in canning.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 110w

“A good little book to own.”

+ =Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 30w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p8 Jl ‘17 20w

“And it is a most valuable book. In the tersest and most practical
fashion it sets forth the methods of drying, evaporating, canning,
salting, and picking various articles, with special directions for
each. And these methods are inexpensive.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:395 O 14 ‘17 480w

=Pittsburgh= 22:668 O ‘17

=Pratt= p26 O ‘17 10w

=Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 90w

+ =R of Rs= 56:325 S ‘17 60w

=HANKEY, DONALD WILLIAM ALERS (STUDENT IN ARMS, pseud.).= Student in arms. *$1.50 (4c) Dutton 940.91 E17-249

A series of articles written at the front and first printed in the
Spectator and the Westminster Gazette. They differ from many other
accounts written on the firing line in that they are thoughtful and
speculative rather than anecdotal and descriptive. The author writes
of: “Kitchener’s army”; An experiment in democracy; Discipline and
leadership; The religion of the inarticulate; The army and the
universities: a study of educational values, etc. There is an
introduction by J. St. Loe Strachey, editor of the Spectator.

“The author was killed in action in October, 1916.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:345 My ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ‘17 750w

“His interpretation limited to some slight degree by its immaturity,
is so sweet with the highest spiritual idealism that the reader pauses
and marvels.”

+ =Cath World= 105:544 Jl ‘17 220w

“The author treats the subject in a matter-of-fact way, which, by its
very rarity, becomes effective.”

+ =Dial= 62:532 Je 14 ‘17 130w

+ =Ind= 90:381 My 26 ‘17 40w

“Desperately sincere, openly the product of brave and unsophisticated
youth. It is with a sort of reverence that one finishes a book so
thoroughly imbued with the most promising of human tendencies, the
wish to be justified on a constructive instead of on a destructive
basis.” S. K. Toksvig

=New Repub= 10:sup18 Ap 21 ‘17 850w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:155 O ‘16

+ =N Y Times= 22:78 Mr 4 ‘17 350w

“Where his book is novel is in its sincere and always thoughtful
exposition of the philosophy and religion of the trenches, and the
changes needed for effective Christianity at home.”

+ =Sat R= 121:sup2 Je 24 ‘16 300w

+ =Spec= 116:722 Je 10 ‘16 1200w

“A book of high spiritual idealism as well as a vivid picture of life
in the trenches of Flanders.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 16 ‘17 200w

“The war has given us no other book like this. It is worthy to stand
beside Rupert Brooke’s sonnets as an expression of the spiritual
attitude of England’s educated and gifted young men.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:123 Ap ‘17 60w

=HANKEY, DONALD WILLIAM ALERS (STUDENT IN ARMS, pseud.).= Student in arms: second series; with an introd. by J. St Loe Strachey. il *$1.50 (5½c) Dutton 17-17623

This collection of sketches, conversations and essays suggested by the
war, written, with three exceptions, in France in 1916, were for the
most part first printed in the Spectator. “The potentate,” written for
the original volume of “A student in arms,” but not published on
account of its likeness in subject to Barrie’s “Der tag,” is included
here, as is also the essay entitled “Don’t worry.” In addition to
these, the new volume contains a good deal of biographical matter: a
sketch by Miss Hankey, the author’s sister, entitled “Something about
‘A student in arms’”; a fragment of autobiography entitled “My home
and school,” and some notes on the autobiography.

=A L A Bkl= 14:20 O ‘17

“Like the first series, these sketches are the expression of a
forthright idealism and give a version of the hopes, fears and beliefs
of the men in the trenches, evidently not heightened for literary or
humorous effect.”

+ =Cleveland= p101 S ‘17 80w

+ =Dial= 63:213 S 13 ‘17 270w

“The various papers, are not, it must be confessed, of permanent value
as literature, but the total impression of this output by a young man
of thirty-two, who died leading a charge which gained a few yards of
trenches, is of the immense and irretrievable waste of war.”

+ — =Nation= 105:375 O 4 ‘17 260w

“We can’t measure, even approximately, how much ‘good’ these works
will do, but we unhesitatingly affirm that they are exceedingly well
worth reading.” J. W.

+ =N Y Call= p14 Ag 19 ‘17 650w

“The general level of the book is not so high as was that of the
first, but, nevertheless, it contains some very good things that are
well worth reading. Moreover, in the first volume and also in this
Donald Hankey revealed himself a personality so interesting and so
lovable that the opportunity this ‘Second series’ gives to make
acquaintance with the man behind the book will be welcomed.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:295 Ag 12 ‘17 450w

=Pittsburgh= 22:762 N ‘17 50w