Chapter XXXVIII: Part 1: is a compilation, the object of which is “to trace the (9)

“Here we shall prefer to dwell upon the fragments of biography and
autobiography. The first thing we have to say is that, though they are
so slight, they paint the true ‘Student in arms,’ and show how his
life enforced the lessons of his writing. ... No one was ever less of
a prig.”

+ =Spec= 118:589 My 26 ‘17 1750w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 20 ‘17 200w

“From Rugby he went to Woolwich; spent six years in the artillery; and
retired with a view to entering the church after passing through
Oxford. He never actually took orders, but shared the lives of the
poor by making his home in Bermondsey, travelling steerage, and
enlisting as a private when the war broke out. Thus he came to know
the men in the ranks from within, without being so closely identified
with them as not to recognize their idiosyncrasies as such. This may
be one reason why his weary ‘Tommies’ are not in the least like the
epigrammatic comedians of the picturesque writers.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p236 My 17 ‘17 880w

=HANNAY, DAVID.= Diaz. il *$2 (2c) Holt (Eng ed 17-26317)

Two opinions exist regarding Porfirio Diaz: He was a great man and a
beneficent ruler; he was an unmitigated tyrant and a curse to the
country he ruled. The fact that he is included among the “Makers of
the nineteenth century” indicates the attitude taken toward him in
this book. The general editor, Basil Williams, says in his preface:
“He is worthy of note by the student of the nineteenth century, since
he brought his country to a more respectable prominence and to greater
prosperity than it had enjoyed since its original conquest by the
Spaniards.” The author says in conclusion: “He showed the world what
was the utmost that his country was capable of doing in order to
qualify itself to take its place among civilised and progressive
states.” Mr Hannay is an English journalist and author of “The navy
and sea-power.”

“Mr Hannay appears to be a man of talents, candor, and good sense, and
his book, in addition to being readable, is worth reading; but it can
hardly be described as well-proportioned, scholarly, or sound. ... As
might be inferred, the author’s ‘bibliography’ is meagre and his index
inadequate.” J. H. Smith

– + =Am Hist R= 22:890 Jl ‘17 670w

“An authoritative, popular account.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:352 My ‘17

“Mr Hannay’s narrative is animated, and well worth reading.”

+ =Ath= p418 Ag ‘17 130w

=Boston Transcript= p8 F 14 ‘17 700w

“It is somewhat tedious and involved; the subject with its fascinating
material, could have been made more interesting reading by one whose
writing had more of the true charm of a real biographer.”

+ — =Cath World= 105:265 My ‘17 450w

+ =Dial= 63:279 S 27 ‘17 400w

“No dry and superficial statement of facts, but a most readable and
enlightening story of Mexico and its people from 1854.”

+ =Ind= 90:257 My 5 ‘17 30w

=Lit D= 54:1080 Ap 14 ‘17 400w

“Mr Hannay has treated his interesting hero with a suitably light
touch. He neither eulogizes nor condemns him. He presents facts of
population and political development with the insight and sympathy of
one who is thoroughly familiar with the winning as well as the
repellent side of Spanish-America. Thus he frames Diaz in a Mexican
frame, and not, as too many authors are inclined to do, in an American
or European frame.”

+ =Nation= 105:461 O 25 ‘17 780w

“Commendable book which might be called ‘A political history of Mexico
in the time of Diaz.’”

+ =Outlook= 115:711 Ap 18 ‘17 100w

+ =R of Rs= 55:442 Ap ‘17 90w

=St Louis= 15:153 My ‘17

“How was it that Diaz, alone of all Mexican presidents, contrived to
retain power for so long? This is the most interesting question raised
by his career, and Mr Hannay answers it somewhat fully.”

+ =Spec= 119:190 Ag 25 ‘17 1600w

“A most scholarly and interesting book.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Mr 4 ‘17 600w

“But the interest of this volume at the present time is by no means
confined to the light it throws on Mexican conditions from the narrow
point of view of anxious investors. This brings us to the main lesson
of the history of Mexico and of the career of Diaz for the present
generation. It should prove a wholesome corrective to those who
believe that the world-war is going to be followed by the millennium
and that in that blessed word democracy there has been discovered a
universal formula for the perfecting of the world’s order.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p327 Jl 12 ‘17 1900w

=HANSCOM, ELIZABETH DEERING=, ed. Heart of the Puritan. il *$1.50 (2½c) Macmillan 974 17-29768

The writer takes exception with Mr George Edward Woodberry who has
written “The heart of the Puritan is a closed book.” Miss Hanscom,
professor of English at Smith college, has delved into many dusty
tomes for material that refutes Mr Woodberry’s contention. She has
brought together here excerpts from the letters and journals of
Puritans and grouped them under the headings; Of the coming of godly
men to these parts; Of Boston; Of affairs domestic and personal; Of
matrimony; Of education; Of Indians; Of trade; Of travel; Of holidays;
Of episcopacy; Of churches; Of prophecies and warnings; Of witchcraft,
and Cor cordium. A valuable aid to the study of history and literature
as well as to a study of religious temper in colonial times.

=A L A Bkl= 14:121 Ja ‘18

“Miss Hanscom herself is something of a wit, as is shown by her
‘Praefatio’ and headings; we wish she had been pedant enough to have
given the exact provenance of all her extracts. Such an appendix would
not have marred her book, but would have added to its interest. Apart
from that blemish, the book is excellent. It would be well if some of
our smart youths who speak so patronizingly of the Puritans would read
this volume of letters, and mark and inwardly digest.”

+ — =Nation= 105:697 D 20 ‘17 160w

“With loving care and a scholar’s sense of accuracy and fitness, Miss
Hanscom has preserved the spellings of an age that scorned the arts of
spelling, and the abbreviations with which that age larded its written
discourse. She has supplied chapter and page headings that pique the
reader’s curiosity. Her preface is delightfully self-effacing and
appreciative; in fact, the editor’s touch throughout the volume is
gracious and good-humoredly keen. The book is meant for reading (in
spite of the difficult spellings) and very good reading it makes. Much
of Miss Hanscom’s book is in light vein, but it all tends to inculcate
that tolerant and respectful view of our New England past of which we
are much in need.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 19 ‘17 990w

=HANSHEW, THOMAS W. (CHARLOTTE MAY KINGSLEY, pseud.).= Cleek’s government cases. il *$1.35 (1½c) Doubleday 17-5982

“Cleek of Scotland Yard,” “The riddle of the night,” and “Cleek, the
man of the forty faces” are stories that have preceded this. Like the
others, this one is made up of distinct episodes in which Cleek, the
one time crook, now a detective, displays his skill, but there is a
thread of narrative binding the whole together. In the first chapter
Cleek finds that his old enemies, the Apaches, are still on his track.
He is kidnapped, and after his rescue by his friend, Narkom of
Scotland Yard, says, “This is but the first throw of the dice, old
friend. ... This is but the beginning; the end, who shall say?”

“Mr Hanshew never lets the plot grow stale, and he does not leave his
readers for even a few moments without excitement.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ‘17 150w

“Lovers of detective stories will find a good deal of entertainment in
this new volume which tells of ‘Cleek’s government cases.’”

+ =N Y Times= 22:115 Ap 1 ‘17 330w

“The book compares unfavorably with the Cleek stories published
heretofore.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p19 Mr 25 ‘17 130w

=HARBEN, WILLIAM NATHANIEL (WILL N., pseud.).= Triumph. il *$1.40 (1c) Harper 17-22297

“Two brothers form the central pivot of ‘The triumph,’ and one of them
has made himself despised by his neighbors because he does not hold
the conventional southern view of slavery. Andrew Merlin lives in the
little town of Delbridge; his brother Thomas has a plantation some ten
miles away and owns many slaves. Because of their opposing opinions,
the brothers drift apart, and into Andrew’s immediate family trouble
comes, for his wife and son feel keenly the ostracism to which they
are subjected, while his daughter Anne is wholly on her father’s side.
The war comes, Georgia is up in arms, Thomas Merlin enlists and
becomes a Confederate brigadier general, but Andrew, because of his
Union sympathies, and especially because he dares to free a slave who
has been forced into his hand to pay a debt, is beset on all sides. He
is forced to flee for his life, is overtaken by a band of Confederate
bushwhackers, and succeeds in saving his life by a ruse. Enlisting in
the Union army, he returns home before the end of the war, and by his
injudicious behavior only succeeds in making himself more despised
than ever.”—Boston Transcript

“It cannot be said that Mr Harben’s aristocrats are as ‘convincing’ as
his commonalty; Anne Merlin and Arthur Preston are a singularly wooden
pair of leading juveniles.” H. W. Boynton

+ — =Bookm= 46:207 O ‘17 420w

“Mr Harben’s pages contain more accurate knowledge of Georgia men and
women, of the Georgia ways of living, of the Georgia passions, than
could be revealed in a thousand formal historical narratives. ... In
‘The triumph’ Mr Harben goes back to the Civil war period. Many novels
have been written about that era, but few of them have the strong
equipoise that dominates its plot and its characters. It is a plea for
neither side, it contains nothing of the polemic, it merely seeks to
present life as Mr Harben found it in his native state during some
five years of the strongest social, moral and political upheaval that
could overwhelm a stricken people. ... Something of these Georgians is
wholly of Georgia, but something is purely American, and something in
them is akin to the peasant character of any country. They are
spiritually of the same stuff as the denizens of Hardy’s Wessex, of
Phillpotts’ Dartmoor or of Miss Jewett’s New England.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 5 ‘17 1550w

“He really has a good point to make, and he makes it in spite of the
commonplace melodrama to which his plot lends itself.”

+ — =Dial= 63:402 O 25 ‘17 150w

“In withdrawing to the Civil war period, Mr Harben has abandoned that
main asset of his and Mr Howells’s sort of realism, the thing seen and
known at first hand. In consequence, he has not worked freely or
spontaneously, and his product is too plainly a made affair. ... The
‘love-interest’ is of the most perfunctory sort.”

— =Nation= 105:316 S 20 ‘17 460w

“Mr Harben’s new novel contains many of the elements that make for
real greatness.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:326 S 2 ‘17 580w

=HARDING, ALICE (MRS EDWARD HARDING).= Book of the peony. il *$6 (18c) Lippincott 716 17-13093

This is said to be the first book published on peony culture. It is
made up of chapters on: An appreciation of the peony; The mythology,
ancient and modern history of the peony; Best varieties and their
characteristics; Extending the period of bloom; Purchasing; Where to
plant and how to prepare the soil; Planting and cultivation;
Propagation; The tree peony—description and history; Tree peonies:
cultivation, propagation and best varieties; Various species of the
peony. A valuable feature of the book is the “main list” of 125
varieties recommended for garden culture, with supplementary lists
based on color. Twenty of the illustrations are in color and there are
a number of good half-tone plates in addition.

“The format of this, the first book ever devoted to peonies alone,
demands appreciation. Covers and typing are distinctive. While the
many illustrations in color and in black-and-white, from photographs
of peonies in various noted private gardens of the United States, are
of a rare beauty vision alone can adequately disclose.” F. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 18 ‘17 500w

=Cleveland= p113 S ‘17 60w

“Although a large bibliography on the peony is given, no other volume
yet published appears to be so complete as this one. ... The two
chapters on tree peonies present material new to many gardeners, and
Professor H. H. Whetzel’s discussion of ‘Diseases of the peony’
represents the latest research.”

+ =Dial= 62:486 My 31 ‘17 180w

“Should help all flower-lovers to use it for landscape as well as
floral value.”

+ =Lit D= 55:37 S 22 ‘17 160w

+ =N Y Times= 22:191 My 13 ‘17 130w

+ =Outlook= 115:711 Ap 18 ‘17 30w

“There is much sound advice for the amateur in the chapter on
Purchasing. ... All of the practical chapters of the book are valuable
because drawn from the personal experience of the author. It is a
beautiful book and a distinct addition to gardening literature.” M. K.
Reely

+ =Pub W= 91:1325 Ap 21 ‘17 350w

+ =R of Rs= 55:664 Je ‘17 170w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 27 ‘17 500w

=HARDING, LOUIS ALLEN, and WILLARD, ARTHUR CUTTS.= Mechanical equipment of buildings; a reference book for engineers and architects. 3v v 2 il *$5 Wiley 690

=v 2= Power plants and refrigeration.

“The first volume of this important series was published a few months
ago and dealt with the subject of heating and ventilation. The second
volume, dealing exhaustively with steam plants and ice and
refrigeration machinery, contains a large amount of theoretical and
commercial data and discussions of their practical applications.” (N Y
P L New Tech Bks) “In order to make the volume more complete, several
of the chapters appearing in volume 1 have been reprinted, including
the chapters on Heat; Water, steam and air; and Fuels and combustion.”
(Heating and Ventilating Magazine)

“As a reference book and a textbook for students it should be most
valuable. The free use of manufacturers’ data adds much to the
usefulness of this volume. ... There are several forms of boilers
largely used by heating engineers not referred to in this volume or
the preceding one.” D. D. Kimball

+ — =Engin News-Rec= 79:130 Jl 19 ‘17 220w

“Special mention should be made of the chapter on ‘Chimneys for power
boilers’ which is remarkably complete, and also the chapter on ‘Power
plant piping.’”

+ =Heating and Ventilating Magazine= 14:51 Jl ‘17 350w

“Unusually well illustrated with line drawings and charts. Many
practical problems are solved step by step.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p12 Jl ‘17 70w

“The authors will probably find that in the next printing it would be
well to elaborate more upon the index. The excellent character of the
book warrants doing so.”

+ — =Power= 46:238 Ag 14 ‘17 770w

=HARDING, MRS RUTH GUTHRIE.= Lark went singing, and other poems; with an introd. by R: Burton. *$1 E. D. Brooks, Minneapolis, Minn. 811 16-24958

“This exquisite little volume of lyrics we owe to the gardening
sympathies of Richard Burton. Anyone who noted, some years ago, the
little slips of song by Ruth Guthrie Harding, rooted here and there in
a magazine page, and had the power of discernment, knew they sprung
from the seeds of poetry. There they might have withered and died; but
this gardener came along and cultivated an indisputable gift of beauty
and joy.”—Boston Transcript

“The quality is wistful, almost evanescent in the embodiment of simple
moods and themes.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Bookm= 45:433 Je ‘17 210w

“Here is the whole poetic temperament in this poet, transmitting all
that it touches. Every first and last dream, impression, mood, makes
you aware of loveliness and nothing but loveliness. This does not mean
that experience does not come into the poet’s recognition of life and
reality, but coming naked she sends it forth clothed with fabrics of
spiritual weaving. And this is recognized all the more deeply because
of the intense lyrical note which is one of Mrs Harding’s most
distinctive gifts as a poet.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 23 ‘16 850w

“A poet of true promise.” O. W. Firkins

+ =Nation= 104:523 My 3 ‘17 240w

=HARDING, SIDNEY TWITCHELL.=[2] Operation and maintenance of irrigation systems. il *$2.50 McGraw 631 17-22587

“This book is a compilation of the fundamental principles and
representative methods of the operation and maintenance of irrigation
systems in the United States. ... In the first chapter the subject of
general maintenance is treated extensively. ... In the second chapter
the relative serviceability, length of life and needful precautionary
measures in the maintenance of wooden, steel and concrete structures
are discussed. ... The third chapter is given to the problem of
organization, outlining and suggesting appropriate plans for systems
of varying sizes and conditions based upon experiences so far
available. The methods of delivering irrigation water are treated
fully in the fourth chapter. ... The measurement of irrigation water
is treated exhaustively in the fifth chapter. ... A chapter of
fourteen pages is devoted to rules and regulations. ... The proper
apportionment of construction and operation charges receives thorough
study and analysis, and the results are summarized in a concluding
article. ... The eighth chapter is devoted to a brief discussion of
miscellaneous phases of irrigation operations. ... At the close a
short chapter is given to the subject of accounts.”—Engin News-Rec

“This book is timely and useful. It presents in concentrated form a
large range of information not elsewhere compiled and of special value
to the student of irrigation engineering. It covers much of great
value to the engineer or manager charged with construction, as well as
operation and betterment, of irrigation works.” Andrew Weiss

+ =Engin News-Rec= 79:938 N 15 ‘17 780w

“Practical rather than theoretical.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:756 N ‘17 30w

=HARDY, ARTHUR SHERBURNE.= No. 13, rue du Bon Diable. il *$1.35 (3½c) Houghton 17-28186

Mr Hardy has written a new kind of detective story, which begins by
telling us just how M. Janvier was murdered, and keeps us intensely
interested in the efforts of the detectives to arrive at a solution.
M. Janvier is an old bachelor, devoted to his niece Corinne, for whom
he has bought a pearl necklace as a birthday present, drawing 30,000
francs from the bank to pay for it. His murderer is finally discovered
by M. Joly, the detective who figured in “Diane and her friends.”

“Very well written though not as absorbing as others by this author.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:131 Ja ‘18

“Mr Hardy’s detective story is unusual in many ways. There are
actually human characters in it, and a swiftly woven texture of
motives, and charming bits of color, local and otherwise. ... In the
make-up of the volume there is displayed a feeling for the quality of
the text that is seldom found in any but the more expensive books.”

+ =Dial= 63:597 D 6 ‘17 290w

“Mr Hardy’s style has the old distinction; his people are clear-cut as
cameos; his psychology is never at fault.”

+ — =Ind= 92:385 N 24 ‘17 100w

“Mr Hardy’s new book differs from the general run of detective stories
in that he makes no attempt to mystify or to mislead the reader, but
takes him into his confidence at once. The idea is a good one and has
some novelty, but one feels that it could have been developed more
cleverly and greater ingenuity been shown in the complications.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:500 N 25 ‘17 250w

+ =Outlook= 117:432 N 14 ‘17 20w

“The reader enjoys the skill with which the author creates the proper
atmosphere for the affair and analyzes the psychology of the
participants.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 11 ‘17 250w

=HARDY, OSWALD HENRY.= In Greek seas, and other poems of travel. il *$1.25 Lane 821 17-23683

Things of the spirit cannot be stifled even by the war, the author of
this handful of verse asserts. The poems have been written during busy
years and they have served as “a refuge from the engrossing calls of
official life, and have served to keep alive memories of inspiring
travel and of the earlier days when the great ages of Greece and Rome
supplied a constant background of dream and happy thought.” There are
two war poems in the group.

“Fluent and pleasing, several of the shorter pieces, such as ‘A
mountain pansy’ and ‘The mountain pine,’ merit attention; and some of
the lines in the poem which gives its title to the volume, as well as
in the verses upon ‘The tomb of Columbus in Seville cathedral,’ are
noteworthy and impressive.”

+ =Ath= p469 S ‘17 120w

“In the sense that the author who has travelled much records in verse
the scenes he has visited and the impressions made upon him, the poems
are inspired, but the inspiration is not transformed by an essentially
poetic spirit. The results would have been much better recorded in
prose, for they strike no emotional register.”

— =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 300w

=HARE, CHRISTOPHER, pseud. (MRS MARIAN ANDREWS).= Great emperor: Charles V, 1519-1558. il *$3.50 Scribner 17-18588

“This latest biographer of the emperor whose abdication of the throne
of Spain was forced in the middle sixteenth century has little except
good to write of his subject. The devotion to pious ends and aims, the
grief of his devoted family and friends, his benefactions to the
church, are all set forth in admiration, while his military glories
are fully recounted.”—Boston Transcript

=Boston Transcript= p7 My 12 ‘17 250w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:91 Je ‘17

“The story of Charles V., ... has long been recognized as full of
fascination and wonder. Christopher Hare tells it with much historic
detail, yet with a keen sense of its picturesque personal qualities,
its romantic appeal. ... The book is readable and valuable for the
‘general public’ and for the student.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:197 My 20 ‘17 1450w

“Whatever his bias, our author has succeeded in seeing his subject
clearly and seeing it whole; he marshals his facts with certainty and
skill, and his narrative runs smoothly from the first page to the
last. In all its main features the book is a meritorious piece of
work, the result of study and sane enthusiasm; there are excellent
chapters on the conquest of Mexico and Peru, and the two sketch maps
at the beginning and end of the volume are helpful. Indeed, our only
real ground of complaint is to be found in the fact that, with all his
accumulated knowledge, Mr Hare does not appreciate the value of
accuracy in minor matters.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p125 Mr 15 ‘17 950w

=HARE, WALTER BEN.=[2] White Christmas, and other merry Christmas plays. il 75c Denison 812 17-24880

“The white Christmas” is a morality play in one act. One of the other
plays in the collection is a dramatization of Dickens’ “Christmas
carol.” The author says, “In these little plays I have tried to bring
before the public the two dominant characteristics of the ideal
Christmas season, kindness, expressed by ‘good will toward men,’ and
the inward joy wrought by kind acts. ... Some of the plays are filled
with the spirit of fun and jollity that is always associated with
Christmas merrymaking; in others I have tried to emphasize the
spiritual blessings brought to the children of men on that first white
Christmas night.” Both children and adults take part in the plays.
They are meant to be acted and the necessary stage directions are
provided.

“Mr Hare’s new volume of plays contains some amusement, but no
superlative wit.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 270w

“They are ‘merry plays’ and the instructions for producing them are
very complete.”

+ =Ind= 92:444 D 1 ‘17 30w

=HARGRAVE, JOHN.= At Suvla Bay. il *$1.50 Houghton 940.91 (Eng ed 17-1486)

“For the most part Mr Hargrave writes of the Dardanelles campaign. He
enlisted as a private at the beginning of the war, going from an
outdoor life spent mainly in sketching and writing, to the hardships
of camp life. No one reading these notes could doubt that he has seen
and experienced all of which he writes. ... The volume is liberally
enlivened with the author’s delightful sketches of men and
scenes.”—Boston Transcript

“Journalistic and conversational, told with a vivid sense of the
picturesque, whether enjoying various types on the way or experiencing
the horrors of the campaign itself.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:20 O ‘17

“Mr Hargrave is the author of ‘Lonecraft’ and is a well known scout
master, and his work as a scout has made it impossible that he should
come to campaigning with the lack of adaptability to conditions which
hindered so many of the enlisted men. For this reason, his first
chapters describing the hard conditions endured by the soldiers at the
beginning of the war have unusual weight.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 6 ‘17 320w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:57 Ap ‘17

=Pittsburgh= 22:426 My ‘17

=St Louis= 15:314 S ‘17

=HARKER, MRS LIZZIE ALLEN.= Jan and her job. il *$1.50 (3c) Scribner 17-10199

Janet Ross goes out to India at the call of her younger sister, Fay.
Broken in health and deserted by a husband who has proved faithless to
a trust, Fay, with two little children dependent on her, calls for
Jan. Her death leaves the children in Jan’s charge. She takes them
back to England and with the help of a young friend, who insists on
acting as nursemaid in cap and apron, brings them up. In India Jan has
met Peter Ledgard, and shortly after her departure, Peter finds that
he needs a vacation and asks for six months’ leave. The captivating
little nursemaid has a love affair too. The story comes to an end with
August, 1914.

“Appeared in the Delineator as ‘Jan her work and love.’”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:354 My ‘17

“This capital story has vivacity, freshness, and humour.”

+ =Ath= p204 Ap ‘17 60w

+ =Ind= 90:594 Je 30 ‘17 60w

“A pleasant, conventional little story, easily and simply told.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:131 Ap 8 ‘17 220w

+ =Spec= 118:464 Ap 21 ‘17 430w

“The story does not depend on its plot. Its attractiveness lies in the
portrayal of people who do their best to make the world a pleasanter
place to live in. As little as possible is said about the disagreeable
characters; the others are saved from insipidity by their foibles.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p128 Mr 15 ‘17 420w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 30w

=HARRIS, GARRARD.= Treasure of the land; how Alice won her way. il *$1.25 (1½c) Harper 17-22298

This story, by the author of “Joe, the book farmer,” tells how Alice
Warren, a girl of seventeen, and her brother Henry, encouraged and
helped by Miss Allen, the new district school teacher, transform the
untidy farmhouse in which they live, learn to apply intelligence to
the cultivation of the soil, and finally take prizes for their
tomatoes and corn. Miss Allen sees that mere book study is almost
valueless in such a farming community as that in which she is
teaching, that the people “need first to be taught to live, to lighten
the burdens upon themselves, and to give the women a chance.” She
therefore interests the leading men in raising money for prizes, and
gets government experts to organize the boy’s corn-club work and the
tomato-club and canning work among the girls.

“An interesting, able novel, whose author shows unusual charm in
telling a story and pointing an extremely delicate moral while so
doing. He evidently knows life on dreary American farm lands and
exactly how meagre is the outlook a girl has, who is brought up amid
their desolation. Then too, Mr Harris writes excellent dialogue. It
does stagger our intellect somewhat to read that the heroine has grown
on one tenth of an acre, canned and sold as well, two thousand, one
hundred and twenty-five tomatoes, in two pound cans, realizing eight
cents per can.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 O 10 ‘17 350w

“Conveys a lesson of encouragement to the country girl who can see no
prospect before her but a lifetime of drudgery, by showing what a
scientific efficiency may accomplish when backed by earnest purpose.”

+ =Ind= 92:110 O 13 ‘17 50w

“Mr Harris’s practical story about what a few people were able to
achieve in one small region in the Middle West ought to be a very
great help to all earnest men and women and baffled young people who
are trying to improve conditions in country districts.”

=N Y Times= 22:349 S 16 ‘17 250w

=HARRIS, H. WILSON.= President Wilson; his problems and his policy. il *$1.75 Stokes 18-3535

This book “has been written by [an Englishman] to interpret President
Wilson and his measures to English readers. It was published in
England just before our declaration of a state of war with Germany,
but the recent American edition includes the author’s account of the
circumstances leading to the rupture. The book is semi-biographic. The
main facts of the President’s nativity and education, of his
professional and literary life, are outlined by way of prelude to the
larger purpose of exhibiting his acts and motives as a statesman. ...
At the conclusion of his book Mr Harris reproduces the President’s
address to the Senate on January 21, 1917, and his second
inaugural.”—Bookm

=A L A Bkl= 14:24 O ‘17

“Clear and well-written.”

+ =Ath= p233 My ‘17 230w

+ =Ath= p257 My ‘17 120w

“A very compact, well-balanced book. ... The impersonal temper in
which with expert brevity the author has aligned and appraised the
acts and objects of the President’s domestic policy will be gratifying
to his readers on this side. From his ability to look at both sides of
a question with admirable disinterestedness, Mr Harris has approached
a more complete standard of interpreting the President than Professor
Ford [in his volume on Woodrow Wilson] has succeeded in doing.” L. E.
Robinson

+ =Bookm= 46:201 O ‘17 2400w

“This volume is by an Englishman who says: ‘I cannot pretend to be
entirely free from a certain pro-American bias, though I hope I have
not allowed it to color what I have written.’ And it is true that the
author is not so pro-American that he is blind to some of the blunders
of his hero. American readers will find the book exceedingly
interesting.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 15 ‘17 550w

“What may appeal to most Americans as a fundamental error is his
assumption that Mr Wilson is primarily an initiating leader. ... To
interpret the public will seems to be his chosen ideal for a leader of
democracy. To write successfully the life of such a man requires an
intimate knowledge of the politics and politicians of his time. This
knowledge Mr Harris admittedly lacks. ... Upon international questions
Mr Wilson spoke for the people, and his purposes rather than those of
our people may be read in those utterances. Mr Harris’s exposition of
Wilson as president of humanity—to use the phrase of a hostile
critic—is therefore more accurate and illuminating than his
well-intentioned but inadequate presentation of Wilson as president of
the United States.” D. R. Richberg

+ — =Dial= 63:342 O 11 ‘17 970w

“He does understand and appreciate the importance of those parts of
the country that are not on the Atlantic seaboard in the creation and
molding of national life. He is one of the very few European writers
upon this country who have sensed that fact. ... The book will
interest Americans primarily because it gives so clear and
well-defined a view, from an English standpoint, of President Wilson
and of his political policies and leadership. But they may well find
it worth reading also because of its unprejudiced and accurate
presentation of American history for the last five years and its
résumé of Mr Wilson’s life. For the author has aimed at neither eulogy
nor interpretation. He has been satisfied to present his facts as they
are, and to allow his readers to form their own judgment. And that is
something that, perhaps, no American writer could do at this time.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:269 Jl 22 ‘17 1000w

=Spec= 118:517 My 5 ‘17 1800w

“An excellent short-order biography of Woodrow Wilson. But it is a
book which any American of Mr Harris’s gifts and sympathies could have
written. For the deeper illumination of ourselves, it is still
necessary to go to Bryce.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 700w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p176 Ap 12 ‘17 780w

=HARRIS, WALTER STEWART.= Christian science and the ordinary man. *$1.50 Putnam 615.8 17-7038

The title-page describes this work as “a discussion of some of the
teachings of Mary Baker Eddy.” In his foreword the author adds, “This
book, in addition to being a discussion of Christian science, is in
part an attempt to set forth the essential true elements existing in
some other beliefs, to the end that a starting point may be found for
greater brotherhood among all churches and beliefs, a basis in Christ
for the brotherhood of man.” Contents: A few preliminary thoughts; “Is
God all?” Contradictions: Does matter have reality? Does evil have
reality? Christ Jesus and the meaning of life; To church members.

“A sincere attempt to view Christian science from an impartial point
of view.”

+ =Cleveland= p53 Ap ‘17 13w

=St Louis= 15:107 Ap ‘17

“The writer is a Presbyterian and has never been a member of any
Christian science organization, but he finds that much of what he has
written is so far in agreement with the views of Mrs Eddy that he
would fail in his obligation of acknowledgment were he to speak of the
views he expresses as his own. This accounts for the title of the
book, which presents a modification of Christian science set out with
an earnestness which does not destroy the author’s sense of humour.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p432 S 6 ‘17 80w

=HART, EVANSTON IVES.= Virgil C. Hart: missionary statesman. il *$1.50 (2c) Doran 17-13400

The subject of this biography was founder of the American and Canadian
missions in central and west China. The foreword says, “Two great
missions in China, of which Dr V. C. Hart was the founder, testify to
the comprehensive insight he had of China’s needs, his recognition of
her potential powers, and his appreciation of the forces which would
free her from her age-long stagnation and lift her into new life and
influence.” This story of his life is written by his son.

“This career was not only rich in achievement, but highly picturesque.
The biographer, his son, has been able to portray it vividly.”

+ =Bib World= 50:375 D ‘17 90w

“A straightforward narrative of an unusually picturesque career.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:667 Je ‘17 30w

=HARTMAN, LOUIS O.= Popular aspects of oriental religions. il *$1.35 Abingdon press 290 17-13234

“[This book] combines brief surveys of eastern faiths with brief
descriptions of the countries where they have their strongholds. ...
Mr Hartman makes no pretense at thoroughness, but he supplies a
lively and informing account of the principal features of oriental
religions and describes the scenes with which they are connected,
including some of their sacred spots. He gives the results of his
own observation and his reading in authoritative treatises. ... Mr
Hartman has words of cordial admiration for the great world-religion
of Buddha, and he also does full justice to the aggressive character
of Mohammedanism.”—Springf’d Republican

“Remembering the method and purpose, it should be said that the book
is written in an attractive literary style and is splendidly
illustrated. It should inspire the beginner to delve deeper into the
lore of the history of religions.” A. S. W.

+ =Am J Theol= 22:158 Ja ‘18 160w

“One of the very best chapters in the book is that on
Zoroastrianism. ... The author is sympathetic but critical, nowhere
condemning any of these religions in toto, but finding them inadequate
in a progressive civilization. It is an excellent book for the busy
person who wishes to know the teachings of these religions, and how
these teachings work in practice.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 23 ‘17 550w

“Numerous well chosen illustrations add to the interest of the
narrative.”

+ =Ind= 90:439 Je 2 ‘17 50w

“An admirable, brief, popular statement of oriental religions. ... The
author writes from the Christian point of view, but his spirit is not
that of a partisan but of a lover of truth wherever it exists. It will
be found especially valuable for those endeavoring to promote in our
churches an intelligent interest in foreign missions.”

+ =Outlook= 116:232 Je 6 ‘17 80w

“Mr Hartman conducts his inquiry in the proper spirit of appreciation
of the notable ethical and spiritual characteristics of eastern
religions, but with an eye also to their defects. He takes a
common-sense view of the problems of missionaries.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 13 ‘17 470w

=HARVEY, ALEXANDER.= William Dean Howells; a study of the achievement of a literary artist. *$1.50 (3½c) Huebsch 17-26889

Mr Harvey, who has held editorial positions on the New York Herald,
the Literary Digest, and other papers, has been associate editor of
Current Literature since 1905, and is the author of several other
books, tells us in this volume some of his thoughts on Mr Howells and
a great many of his thoughts on other subjects. This is not a life of
Howells, whom Mr Harvey calls “the greatest living artist in the field
of fiction who uses the English language,” but a “study of his
achievements.” The author believes that the lack of appreciation of
Howells in this country is due to the fact that American literary
judgments are made in England, and that England has always
underestimated Howells. Altho Mr Harvey ranks Howells so high, he
tells us that “Howells is at the head of the sissy school of American
literature” which is responsible for the “renascence of insipidity in
Anglo-Saxon literature,” that his influence upon the short story has
been “especially mischievous,” that he is “inadequate to the male
factor in human experience,” and that were it not for his “intimacy
with the soul and the circumstance of woman he could not have written
his masterpieces.” To Howells’ women, therefore, a good deal of space
is given. The chapter on “The Howells masterpiece” deals with “The
rise of Silas Lapham.” The type of the page headlines in the book is
pronouncedly unusual.

=A L A Bkl= 14:86 D ‘17

“Nothing could be more preposterous than the attitude of Alexander
Harvey towards literature in this volume. Nothing pleases him. He
attacks everything. He begins with a hatred of the English, and this
hatred is reiterated almost to his very last page. Although his theme
is ostensibly Howells, he tells us very little about that writer. ...
Another of Mr Harvey’s absurd objects of attack is the American book
review. He declares that ‘a book review in an American newspaper is
either a display of impertinence to an author or of ill-breeding to
the public.’” E. F. E.

– — =Boston Transcript= p7 S 5 ‘17 860w

“An entertaining and keen, if rather pert study. The index is an
alphabetical epitome of the author’s own philosophy rather than a key
to the book.”

+ — =Cleveland= p120 N ‘17 90w

“The author’s text is not so much a book as a tirade, not so much a
tirade as a miscellany, and not so much a miscellany as the preface to
an index. ... Mr Harvey diverts even while he irritates; and often he
is unsurpassably acute. We ask for bread and are given—by no means a
stone, but, let us say, a cocktail.” H. T. Follett

— — + =Dial= 63:331 O 11 ‘17 1350w

+ — =Ind= 92:58 O 6 ‘17 70w

“Mr Harvey selects important aspects of Mr Howells’s work for lively
and assertive advocacy, but it is abundantly clear from the start that
Mr Howells is his point of departure rather than his goal. ... An
arduous task confronted Mr Harvey. ... It must be said that in being
loosely oracular and discursive, instead of attentive, he has missed
his hour.” Francis Hackett

— — + =New Repub= 10:sup3 Ap 21 ‘17 2500w

“Such sheer insanity of prejudice is rarely expressed more
bluntly. ... To deny the eminence of British achievements is the
giddiest height of fatuity. ... There is a unique critical index at
the end of the book which exhausts the reader and presumably the
subject.” Max Lustig

— =N Y Call= p15 S 23 ‘17 1000w

“Occasionally you meet with an experience or a thing for which some
particular word is the one fit and perfect definition. So with this
book. For it the word egregious seems to have been exquisitely
invented.”

— =N Y Times= 22:561 D 16 ‘17 880w

“People who admire Mr Howells’s art and intelligence will have little
patience with this farrago of impertinences and irrelevancies.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 10 ‘17 420w

=HASLETT, HARRIET HOLMES.= Dolores of the Sierra, and other one act plays. *$1.25 Elder 812 17-20676

A half dozen one-act plays, “bits of drama,” the author calls them,
“fragments of the human life about you.” Some of them, “A modern
menage” and “When love is blind” commend themselves for acting in the
little-theater. The plays are: Dolores of the Sierra; The scoop;
Undercurrents; A modern menage; The inventor; When love is blind.

“The promise in the plays of Harriet Holmes Haslett is not so clearly
spoken. Her people are types rather than individuals; her plots are
more commonplace; her action is too often switched by mere chance; her
thought is less mature. She has, however, dexterity in dialogue and
has learned to manipulate stage business.” Williams Haynes

– + =Dial= 63:587 D 6 ‘17 220w

=HASTINGS, FRANK SEYMOUR.=[2] Navigation. *75c Appleton 527 17-25796

The purpose of this book is to provide a short course explaining the
principal problems met with in ordinary, everyday work at sea. The
author is instructor in navigation on the U.S.S. “Granite State.”
Contents: Chart sailing; Mean and apparent time; Compass error; Dead
reckoning; Soundings; Corrected altitude; Latitude; Latitude by sun on
meridian short rule; Longitude; Latitude by sun, ex-meridian;
Chronometer reading; Stars and planets; General remarks.

=R of Rs= 57:102 Ja ‘18 60w

=HASTINGS, JAMES, and others=, eds.[2] Encyclopædia of religion and ethics. v 9 Mundas-Phrygians. *$7 Scribner 203 (8-35833)

For descriptive note see Annual for 1909; for reviews of v 8 see
Annual for 1916.

+ =Ath= p519 O ‘17 70w

“The work holds its place as one of the greatest and most useful
reference works ever published. It has no competitor, as it has made a
field for itself which is unique; and it is indispensable to the
student of the mental and social sciences, as well as to him who is
interested in philosophy and theology.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 2 ‘18 1100w

+ =Lit D= 56:39 Ja 12 ‘18 360w

+ =Outlook= 118:67 Ja 9 ‘18 80w

“This new volume maintains the standard of its predecessors.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p383 Ag 9 ‘17 230w

“Specially attractive contributions are grouped under the titles of
‘Ordeal’ and ‘Nature,’ while the less important subjects, whose number
shows the wide field covered by the work, have been entrusted to
experts, who inspire the confidence which is half the charm which the
ordinary reader feels as he consults a work of this character.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 N 15 ‘17 1150w

=HAUSER, HENRI.= Germany’s commercial grip on the world; her business methods explained; tr. by Manfred Emanuel. *$1.65 Scribner 382 17-14560

“The aim of this work is essentially practical. It is an objective
study of facts, not a scientific discussion of economic principles;
and its purpose is to promote the future prosperity of France in two
ways, a negative and a positive. The first is to avoid the German
grip, and the second to apply the lessons to be learnt from German
success. ... The most important lesson of all is that German success
has in the main been earned by solid work. ... As for those who urge
‘war on Germany’s trade’ with the weapons of passion and force, they
are merely talking nonsense. Professor Hauser brings out this lesson
better than most writers on the same subject.”—The Times [London] Lit
Sup

=A L A Bkl= 14:41 N ‘17

=Ath= p96 P ‘17 60w

“Of interest to thoughtful business men, legislators and students of
economic and current history.”

+ =Cleveland= p92 Jl ‘17 60w

+ =N Y Times= 22:262 Jl 15 ‘17 950w

=St Louis= 15:320 S ‘17

“Professor Hauser’s book was written for Frenchmen, but it well
deserves translation and the widest circulation. It is a penetrating
and comprehensive analysis of the economic development of Germany,
full of detailed information, acute deductions, and sound
conclusions. ... Professor Hauser’s treatment is much more thorough
than any hitherto attempted in English, and his conclusions are better
informed and better balanced than the hasty and somewhat excited
counsels pressed upon us here from various quarters.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p3 Ja 4 ‘17 900w

=HAWKES, CLARENCE.= Wood and water friends. il *$1.25 (1½c) Crowell 590 18-2698

A selection from the author’s nature writings. Some of them are
sketches from a childhood spent in a happy out-of-door environment,
where the foundations were laid for the studies that have been
continued even after the loss of eye-sight. The pictures are by
Charles Copeland. The selections are arranged miscellaneously without
table of contents or index.

“Though physically blind, Mr Hawkes has a wonderful way of making
others see. The world is far richer for his book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 5 ‘18 140w

“The stories are varied and will interest children and young people of
different ages—some of them speak especially to younger folk, while
others have a wider field of interest. There is much to commend in the
book as an introduction to nature lore.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:501 N 25 ‘17 300w

“He has developed the happy faculty of telling nature stories that are
sometimes true and always interesting. Even the fiction is based on
truth.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 8 ‘17 150w

=HAWORTH, PAUL LELAND.= On the headwaters of Peace river. il *$4 Scribner 917.11 17-28894

“The journey which Paul Leland Haworth took ‘On the headwaters of
Peace river,’ a thousand-mile canoe trip in the northern wilderness of
the Canadian Rockies, is not one that would be practicable for the
ordinary traveler. ... Outfitting at Edmonton, and making his start,
with one man, from Hansard, on the Fraser river, he followed the
Crooked and the Parsnip rivers to the junction of the latter with the
Finlay to make the mighty Peace river, and then went on up the Finlay
and well into the country of the Quadicha river, where the author
thinks they were the first white men to penetrate. The many beautiful
and interesting pictures are from photographs taken by the author.”—N
Y Times

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:92 D ‘17

“Mr Haworth’s story of his trip is peculiarly delightful because of
his own zest in every experience and in every inspiring sight of
mountain, glacier, forest, or noble river, and because of his faculty
for having interesting experiences and meeting people who had had
strange and varied contacts with life and nature and were willing to
talk about them.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:482 N 18 ‘17 200w

“Will appeal to men who love rifle and canoe.”

+ =Outlook= 117:387 N 7 ‘17 40w

=HAWTHORNE, HILDEGARDE.= Rambles in old college towns. il *$2.50 (3c) Dodd 378 17-29340

Graduates of the following colleges will take keen pleasure in a
ramble with Miss Hawthorne to the brightest spot of bygone days:
Jefferson’s college, William and Mary, Annapolis, Princeton, Yale,
Brown university, Harvard, Wellesley, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Amherst,
Smith, Williams, Vassar, West Point and Cornell. It is of the
buildings, the campus, the spirit and traditions of these time honored
old places of learning that she writes. Of Cornell she quotes: “I
don’t see but that, by and large, Cornell doesn’t pretty well express
the whole of this country of ours, male and female, rich and poor, in
most of its countless activities and interests. A great democratic
university, wonderfully beautiful, magnificently situated, thoroughly
alive. It’s tremendous!”

=A L A Bkl= 14:76 D ‘17

“Life past and present, scenes as they strike the eye and as they
bring memories of bygone days, both of the colleges themselves and of
their historic surroundings, appeal directly to Miss Hawthorne, and
are made memorable to the reader. ... Miss Hawthorne’s description of
Harvard is much too casual and perfunctory.” E. F. E.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p9 O 31 ‘17 650w

“The descriptions of buildings and of elms grow a trifle monotonous,
if one reads the book in course, and will doubtless be the most
enjoyable to the students and alumni of the institutions portrayed.
There is more variety in the historical anecdotes.”

+ — =Dial= 63:534 N 22 ‘17 250w

+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 8 ‘17 110w

“It is the sort of thing for which Miss Hawthorne has a particularly
happy faculty. Her mood responds sensitively to every appeal of
landscape, tradition, human sentiment, the ever-lasting joyousness of
youth, beauty of building or of setting. Her sense of humor is always
keen and its expression genial and sunny.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:482 N 18 ‘17 350w

=HAY, JOHN.= Complete poetical works. il *$1.50 Houghton 811

The poems are grouped under the headings: The Pike county ballads;
Wanderlieder; New and old; Translations; Uncollected pieces. There is
an index of titles and one of first lines. The introduction is by the
author’s son, Clarence Leonard Hay. The frontispiece is a portrait of
the author.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 7 ‘17 320w

“John Hay cannot be ranked among the greatest poets. ... But there
have been few poets whose work maintained a more consistent average of
excellence. He was always the competent master of his craft, alike in
the delightful ‘Pike county ballads’ and in historical verse of
classic dignity.”

+ =Ind= 92:63 O 6 ‘17 120w

“Judged by exacting standards, Mr Hay’s poems are in the main more
notable for rich thought and balanced human feeling than for the
lyrical quality which creates the emotion of beauty. But their place
in American letters is secure. Their importance, too, in American life
is established because they reveal the true character of one who in
the eyes of men was chiefly the statesman and diplomat.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 18 ‘17 290w

=HAY, MARLEY FOTHERINGHAM.= Secrets of the submarine. il *$1.25 (3c) Dodd 623.8 17-24865

Mr Hay has for seventeen years devoted his time exclusively to the
design and construction of submarines. “Touching but lightly on
historical development or the technique of hull and engine design
(subjects already treated by Burgoyne, Stirling, Hoar, and others), he
discusses in clear and simple language the armament of the submarine
and the functions of its various mechanisms. ... He describes the way
in which these craft are maintained, operated, and fought; the special
dangers to which they and their crews are exposed, and the devices by
which it is sought to counteract those dangers. He indicates many of
the problems connected with them which remain to be solved and he
analyzes Germany’s building facilities.” (Nation)

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:80 D ‘17

“Just the book for the man who is looking for a vade mecum on the
subject. It answers practically every possible question.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 26 ‘17 300w

+ =Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 30w

“Besides giving America credit for the original invention by Holland,
the author might also have mentioned Sperry’s gyroscopic compass,
without which submarines could not navigate under water; Admiral
Howell’s first employment of the gyroscope to make the torpedo run
straight; and the heating of the air in the Whitehead torpedo to gain
speed and distance, due to the late Walter N. Hill. The chapter on
Submarine antidotes is not encouraging; that on the Sphere of the
submarine is conservative, valuable, thoughtful.”

+ + — =Nation= 105:407 O 11 ‘17 300w

=N Y Times= 22:551 D 9 ‘17 70w

“Authentic, up-to-date information.”

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 50w

=HAYES, CARLTON (JOSEPH HUNTLEY).= Political and social history of modern Europe. 2v v 1 *$2; v 2 $2.25 Macmillan 940.5 16-16141

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“In the second volume interest centres in chapters 21-25, which set
forth the ‘Social factors in recent European history, 1871-1914,’ and
explain the special form these factors took in England, France,
Germany, Russia, and the minor states during that time. ... In the
sections on France in the eighteenth century, especially during the
revolution, are statements which need revision.” H. E. Bourne

+ =Am Hist R= 22:638 Ap ‘17 920w

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:346 My ‘17