Chapter XL: Part 1: is a compilation, the object of which is “to trace the (11)

“Contributing also to the ultimate failure of the work as a novel is a
smaller flaw. The characters move in the setting as though it were a
mere stage back-drop. The moods, the thoughts, the spirits of the
various characters are in no way changed by those minute influences
which make up so large a part of the mosaic of life. Memories of the
exquisite blending of man and nature by such men as Meredith,
Maupassant, and Flaubert flood into the reviewer’s mind. The virtue of
the book is its psychology.” B. I. Kinne

+ – — =Dial= 63:643 D 20 ‘17 1250w

“We do not suggest the quality of the tale; how, in the artist’s
hands, this material, which in outline will seem merely clever or
sensational, assumes dignity and a kind of beauty such as, if we were
to search for an analogue, might lead us to Hawthorne rather than
elsewhere.”

+ =Nation= 105:432 O 18 ‘17 400w

“In spite of the sting of its fine artistry, its adroit blend of high
literary models, only fitfully and uncertainly does it touch creative
height.” H. S.

+ — =New Repub= 12:334 O 20 ‘17 1050w

“Joseph Hergesheimer in this book has shown an exquisite mastery of
prose form. The description of the modern iron furnace, for instance,
is one of the finest word-paintings in recent fiction.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p18 D 15 ‘17 640w

“He has here fashioned a novel out of distinctively American life on
an original pattern, caught the very air and flavor of three widely
separated epochs of our history.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:342 S 16 ‘17 1200w

“The chief weakness of the present volume is that while the connection
between the several parts is plausible, you feel that there is no
inexorable connection between cause and effect. In fact, his work
would have lost nothing essential if he had given it to us in the form
of three unrelated short stories.” Grant Hosmer

+ — =Pub W= 92:1378 O 20 ‘17 1000w

“He adopts an ambitious plan for a writer who has been before the
reading public for so short a time, but he develops his theme with
skill and notable success.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 480w

=HERING, CARL, and GETMAN, FREDERICK HUTTON.= Standard table of electrochemical equivalents and their derivatives. il *$2 (7c) Van Nostrand 541.37 17-20864

“The chief purpose of this publication is to serve as a reference book
on account of the tables and other data given in it, and not as a
treatise on electrochemistry in general; sufficient explanatory text
has however been added to enable the data to be used for most purposes
without the need of a further treatise on the subject.” (Preface) The
table of electrochemical equivalents is based on one worked out by Mr
Hering in 1903, but it has been entirely recalculated from the latest
and best internationally adopted values, including the atomic weights
for 1917. Glossary and index are provided at the end.

=HERRICK, FRANCIS HOBART.= Audubon, the naturalist; a history of his life and time. 2v il *$7.50 (3½c) Appleton 17-29872

The discovery in France of a collection of fresh material bearing on
Audubon’s ancestry and early life has enabled the author to write what
may be called the first complete biography of the naturalist.
Heretofore all that has been written on Audubon’s life has been based
almost wholly on a brief sketch which he himself put together hastily
in 1835, characterizing it as “a very imperfect account of my early
life.” The new material supplements this fragmentary sketch and
corrects it in many of its statements of fact. The two volume work,
which is very fully illustrated, follows Audubon’s adventurous career
in detail. The appendixes contain valuable matter, including the
complete text of the French documents, some in the original, others in
translation, and a bibliography, containing a fully annotated list of
Audubon’s writings, biographies, criticism, and Auduboniana. Volume 2
contains the index for the complete work.

=A L A Bkl= 14:127 Ja ‘18

“One closes Mr Herrick’s notable book with a feeling of keen
satisfaction over the pleasure it has afforded and of gratitude to the
author for having written it. ... The scores of beautiful and most
interesting illustrations also deserve mention.” F. F. Kelly

+ =Bookm= 46:329 N ‘17 250w

“Combines scholarliness with a popular style and is enhanced by many
fine illustrations.”

+ =Cleveland= p12 Ja ‘18 70w

“This work by the professor of biology in Western Reserve university,
himself a well-known ornithologist, is the first thorough and
authoritative biography of the great naturalist whose life was one of
the most romantic in American history.”

+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 8 ‘17 140w

“The volumes are beautifully printed and magnificently illustrated,
many of the plates being reproductions in color of Audubon’s drawings.
For the reader whose interest in Audubon is scientific the book is
invaluable; the more general reader will find it a fascinating story
of tremendous struggle and great achievement.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:478 N 18 ‘17 1400w

+ =Outlook= 118:31 Ja 2 ‘18 80w

“The present work gives from start to finish a sustained impression of
a pioneer work. Even in the chapters that are necessarily based upon
old, well-worked material, there is absolute freshness of treatment
and point of view. ... As a crowning merit the work is equipped with
an admirable bibliography.” Calvin Winter

+ =Pub W= 92:1388 O 20 ‘17 670w

+ =R of Rs= 57:99 Ja ‘18 130w

=HERRON, GEORGE DAVIS.= Menace of peace. *$1 (6c) Kennerley 940.91 (Eng ed 17-13835)

This little book is directed against the “clamour for a peace that
shall leave the causes of the war unknown, the embattled questions
unanswered,” and argues that “a peace based upon a drawn battle
between the Germanic powers and the Allies is nothing else than the
capitulation of the world to Prussian might and mastery,” whereas the
victory of the Allies “will lead to the banishment of war from our
planet.” Mr Herron believes that peace without victory would be to the
interest of the munition-makers, because Europe would then continue to
arm for war, and to the interest of the Vatican because, if autocracy
should perish in Germany, it would perish elsewhere, and “the Catholic
power depends upon the subjection of the peoples.”

Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston

— =Bookm= 46:289 N ‘17 10w

“An eloquent appeal to the Allies to endure to the end and win a
complete victory for the sake of the spiritual values of humanity.”

+ =Ind= 92:60 O 6 ‘17 30w

“The burden of Dr Herron’s adjuration is ‘Germania est delenda!’ He
doesn’t put it in exactly these terms; calls it necessary
chastisement, justice and things of that kind. ... It is written with
all the powerful and graceful diction of which Dr Herron is an
undoubted master. But we cannot in common honesty say that we are
greatly impressed with it.” J. W.

+ – — =N Y Call= p14 Jl 8 ‘17 700w

“Few writers upon the subject have stated the case with such
comprehensive understanding of its factors, implications, and possible
consequences, such compactness of presentation, such sturdy basing of
argument upon the democracy that is at stake and such noble
utterance.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:344 S 16 ‘17 450w

“Written in the fiery eloquence of style and elegance of diction which
have always characterized Dr Herron’s polemic writings. It has
incidental interest as another vigorous expression of a well-known
American socialist in direct opposition to the Socialist party’s
policy of pacifism.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Jl 15 ‘17 270w

=HERRON, GEORGE DAVIS.= Woodrow Wilson and the world’s peace. il *$1.25 (5c) Kennerley 940.91 17-25519

The author of “The menace of peace,” a Socialist, has collected in
this volume six papers in defense of President Wilson’s policy and
against a premature peace. All except the first, which was originally
printed in the New Age of London, and afterwards in Die Freie Zeitung
of Bern, were written for continental European readers, and published
from Dec. 31, 1916, to July 1, 1917. The papers have been “somewhat
developed,” but stand substantially as written. “Each paper has had
two or more translations into other languages, other countries, than
that in which it was originally published.” (Explanations and
dedication) The frontispiece pictures the bust of President Wilson
modeled in 1916 by Jo Davidson. Contents: Woodrow Wilson and the
world’s peace; The man and the president; His initial effort; The
pro-German morality of the pacifist; Pro-America; Appendix: an
apologia.

=A L A Bkl= 14:89 D ‘17

— =Nation= 106:96 Ja 24 ‘18 300w

“It is exceedingly difficult to adequately review a work of this kind,
when one has not the viewpoint of the author, and especially when that
viewpoint shifts.” J. W.

— =N Y Call= p14 O 21 ‘17 590w

“Americans ought to be thankful that so sturdy and understanding a
fellow-countryman as Mr Herron lives in Europe and endeavors to
interpret the mind of America to Europeans. Indeed, a good many
Americans who have never been out of their own country will do well to
read Mr Herron’s book and gain thereby a less superficial
understanding of the policy of this government toward the world war
during its first two years and upon other matters.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:359 S 23 ‘17 900w

=HERSEY, HAROLD.= Do’s and dont’s in the army for officers and privates; an introd. to military science. *50c (2½c) Britton pub. 355 17-24260

This small book, made to fit the pocket, has chapters on: The duties
and deportment of officers; The duties and deportment of enlisted men;
The officer’s equipment; An enlisted man’s equipment; Hygiene;
Miscellaneous information; Discipline and morale. The author says that
he has “merely endeavored to help the beginner find his way through
the tortuous mass of detailed knowledge he must acquire—as well as
furnish ready reference for the more experienced.”

=HESLER, LEXEMUEL RAY, and WHETZEL, HERBERT HICE.= Manual of fruit diseases. (Rural manuals) il *$2 Macmillan 632 17-9694

“Fruits are arranged alphabetically from apple to strawberry and under
each the known diseases are grouped in order of importance. Symptoms
of each disease are given, the cause described, and the best remedy
suggested. Descriptions are popular; technical terms are all explained
in a glossary. The final chapter is devoted to the preparation and
application of fungicides. Short bibliographies given after each
disease.” (A L A Bkl) The authors of this manual are the professor and
the assistant professor of plant pathology in the New York State
college of agriculture, Cornell university.

“This book with Slingerland’s ‘Manual of fruit insects’ (Booklist
11:205 Ja ‘15) forms a very practical guide for the doctoring of fruit
trees.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:434 Jl ‘17

“Discusses the subject from an essentially New England viewpoint,
omitting from all consideration fruits and diseases that are of major
interest in many states and nearly all that are of interest in our
tropical possessions. The discussion of such diseases as are treated
is in many instances from a local viewpoint rather than of a general
nature. This is especially obvious in the treatment of such diseases
as apple rust and pear blight. The illustrations are poor. ...
Assuming a central New York viewpoint and interest, the book may be
said to give a very complete presentation of what is known of fruit
diseases, with valuable lists of references to original sources of
information. It is, as the authors announce, the first American text
to deal wholly with diseases of fruits, and here for the first time
are brought together with comprehensive discussion many obscure and
little-known diseases. The facts presented are well selected, and the
book constitutes a valuable addition to the literature of plant
diseases.” F. L. Stevens

+ — =Bot Gaz= 64:254 S ‘17 240w

=Cleveland= p95 Jl ‘17 30w

+ =Ind= 91:297 Ag 25 ‘17 50w

=St Louis= 15:174 Je ‘17

=HEUSSER, ALBERT HENRY.= Land of the prophets. il *$2.50 (3½c) Crowell 915.69 16-23378

The author’s advice to those who wish to visit Palestine is to “see
Egypt first.” Our own home land, he says, is so attractive that
Palestine suffers by comparison, but “after the burning yellow sands
of the Sudan, Syria and Judea will seem to you, as to the Israelites
of old, a ‘goodly land, beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole
earth.’” The author is a lecturer for the Department of education of
New York city, and his chapters have much of the informality of the
spoken lecture. Contents: Port Said to Beyrout; Damascus; Galilee;
Nazareth and Samaria; Ancient Jerusalem; Round about Jerusalem;
Jericho and Petra; Bethlehem and Jaffa. There are many illustrations
from photographs and a map.

=HEWES, AMY.= Women as munition makers, and Munition workers in England and France, by Henriette R. Walter. *75c Russell Sage foundation 331.4 17-28208

The first ninety-two pages of this book are given to a study, by Amy
Hewes, professor of economics in Mt. Holyoke college and former
secretary of the Massachusetts minimum wage commission, of conditions
under which women were making munitions, in 1916, in Bridgeport,
Connecticut. “Two articles giving the main results of the inquiry have
already been published in advance of this report. ... The second of
these articles, that dealing with the munition industry, was submitted
in manuscript, in advance of publication, to officials of the
Remington arms-union metallic cartridge company for their criticism.
This procedure, customary in industrial investigations made by the
Russell Sage foundation, was the more necessary in this case, because
of the previous refusal of the company to give the Foundation the
desired information. In the conferences which followed the reading of
the manuscript, some statements were challenged, others verified, and
additional material was obtained, especially regarding changes made
after the field work of the investigation was completed. In response
to the suggestion of the company that no study could be accurate which
was not based on data obtained in the plant itself, the Foundation
offered to make such a supplementary inquiry before publishing the
report. This offer was refused.” (Introd.) The second section of the
book (sixty-three pages) is by Henriette R. Walter, investigator for
the Division of industrial studies of the Russell Sage foundation,
who, under the caption “Munition workers in France and England,”
summarizes reports issued by the British ministry of munitions. There
is a bibliography of three pages.

Reviewed by Edith Abbott

=Am J Soc= 23:531 Ja ‘18 370w

=A L A Bkl= 14:76 D ‘17

“Although Miss Hewes’s study is confined to the subject of women as
munition-makers, its social and economic findings apply generally.” H.
M. Kallen

* =Dial= 63:336 O 11 ‘17 1400w

=Ind= 92:193 O 27 ‘17 80w

=HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY.= Thorgils. *$1.35 (3½c) Dodd 17-5127

Like “A lover’s tale” and “Frey and his wife” this is a Norse romance.
It is the story of Thorgils of Iceland who sailed with Eric the Red
and voyaged to Greenland, where he endured unnumbered hardships.
Thorgils lacks the dash of some of Mr Hewlett’s other Norse heroes,
notably that Gunnar who married the wife of Frey, but he is a man of
might who wields great power by the force of his character.

=A L A Bkl= 13:354 My ‘17

“Mr Hewlett seems to tell his tale without effort or
self-consciousness, with a bare vigour which fits his theme; with
hardly a trace of verbal archaism.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:209 Ap ‘17 430w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 14 ‘17 1350w

“An effect of virility and massive simplicity is produced with the art
that is his own; yet the result is not all that we could ask from an
author so gifted. It is at once too detached, and too harmonious with
the stormy note of today. We feel we have almost a right to demand
from Mr Hewlett that he either beguile our troubled eyes with a
lovelier vision, or give us substance of hope and inspiration for the
present.”

+ — =Cath World= 105:403 Je ‘17 220w

“There are no descriptions, or conversations, or character studies.
That is certainly a very different sort of writing from ‘Richard Yea
and Nay,’ or ‘The queen’s quair,’ and people nowadays will not like it
so well. Yet, like it or not, the result is much the same; out of the
book there emerges a pretty definite figure.” E: E. Hale

+ =Dial= 62:189 Mr 8 ‘17 650w

“We seem to visualize the Norse people, their customs and picturesque
life.”

+ =Lit D= 54:1087 Ap 14 ‘17 180w

+ =Nation= 104:368 Mr 29 ‘17 380w

“A little saga of the northland, very perfect in its reticence and
simplicity and human appeal.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Nation= 104:404 Ap 5 ‘17 110w

“Those who like stories of adventure that deal with simple, hardy,
brave men and women will find ‘Thorgils’ an entertaining tale.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:51 F 11 ‘17 350w

+ =R of Rs= 55:664 Je ‘17 50w

“With its lovemaking and fighting, its ship-building and sea sailing,
the story makes a capital book for boys, who, unconscious of being
instructed, might well be prepared by reading it for the reading of
the saga stories.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p212 My 3 ‘17 370w

=HICHENS, ROBERT SMYTHE.= In the wilderness. il *$1.50 (1½c) Stokes 17-5984

Dion and Rosamund Leith spend the first months of their married life
in Greece and when they return to England they bring with them
something of the Greek spirit. In Rosamund, however, there is a touch
of the ascetic. She had once contemplated a religious life, and after
the birth of her son she bestows on him all the fervor and devotion of
her nature. The tragedy of their life together comes after the death
of this child. She holds the father responsible and turns from him.
Another woman who has always loved Dion steps in at this crisis, but
the danger of losing her husband awakens Rosamund. The later scenes of
the story are laid in Constantinople.

+ =Ath= p102 F ‘17 50w

“It runs to nearly six hundred black pages, perhaps four hundred of
them frankly through the mire. Mr Hichens is a master of the
portentous style. All of his virtuous parts are done in it and are, to
tell the truth, pretty dull going: the first book of the present
story, before we get comfortably into the mud, is deadly.” H. W.
Boynton

— =Bookm= 45:205 Ap ‘17 470w

“If ‘In the wilderness,’ were shorter, it would unquestionably be more
forcible. Its nearly six hundred closely printed pages have a lifelike
story to tell and an important problem to solve, but their sum and
substance could easily be compressed within a third of that space with
no loss to either the story or the problem.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 28 ‘17 1400w

“Now and again one has a sense of surfeit. The relentless analysis
confuses and fatigues. ... Such, however, is the artfulness of Mr
Hichens that one reads his book to the end and lays it down satisfied
to have witnessed an achievement fine of its kind.” Alice Bishop

+ — =Dial= 62:313 Ap 5 ‘17 670w

“It is a pitiful hero who is so absolutely at the mercy of any woman,
bad or good. The novel, however, is worth reading for its marvelous
descriptions of Athens, Olympia, Constantinople and a little cathedral
town in England.”

+ =Ind= 90:254 My 5 ‘17 200w

“It exerts a definite and compelling fascination. The hours pass along
as one reads, and time seems not to be. ... It is three years since Mr
Hichens last gave a novel to the reading public; the present work has
no note of hurry in it; it is ripe work, carefully finished and
thoroughly felt.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:53 F 18 ‘17 1500w

+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 50w

“The most satisfying love story Robert Hichens has written.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:555 My ‘17 80w

“Written with all Mr Hichens’s usual subtlety and dexterity.”

=Spec= 118:568 My 19 ‘17 90w

“The story commands the reader’s closest attention. Except for the
‘scarlet’ nature of Mrs Clarke, it is largely free from those hectic
qualities which have marked several of Mr Hichens’s recent novels.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Mr 18 ‘17 380w

“The theme that Mr Robert Hichens has chosen is the egoism of the
religious mystic, and he has developed it in a way to bring out his
own talent for describing the East and for suggesting the occult.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p68 F 8 ‘17 850w

=HIGGINS, SYDNEY HERBERT.= Dyeing in Germany and America; with notes on colour production. 2d ed *$1.75 Longmans 667.2 Agr17-505

“About thirty pages larger than the first edition which appeared in
1907 as ‘a report to the electors of the Gartside scholarship of the
University of Manchester on the results of a tour in the United States
of America and Germany in 1905-1906.’ Intended to give a general
survey of dyeing and its allied industries in the two countries. The
text has been changed slightly and three chapters have been added,
German and English flannelettes, Instruction in dyeing, and a
continuation of the chapter on Colour production.”—A L A Bkl

=A L A Bkl= 13:459 Jl ‘17

“The author has been for nine years demonstrator in the dyehouse of
the Manchester school of technology and in addition works as chemist
and manager.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 25 ‘17 130w

“The author has gained much practical experience in dye and bleach
works, the results of which are embodied in the new volume. This has
added considerably to its value, particularly in the sections dealing
with mercerisation and bleaching. ... The new edition of the book has
been largely rewritten throughout, with great advantage. The
concluding section deals with the future prospects of the
dye-manufacturing industries in Britain, France, and the United
States.” W. M. G.

+ =Nature= 99:303 Je 14 ‘17 530w

=HIGGINSON, MRS ELLA (RHOADS).= Alaska, the great country. new ed il *$2.50 Macmillan 917.98 17-12395

“Mrs Higginson’s notable book on ‘Alaska,’ first published nine years
ago, has been revised, new material has been added, and the story of
‘the great country’ has been brought down to date. The body of the
book, which deals with the scenic beauties, early history, native
customs, resources, and the charm of the country, the author has not
changed. But in a supplementary chapter she tells what has happened
during the past ten years, and what is the present condition in
railroad development, in commerce, mining, in the fishing and
agricultural industries. ... The work has a map and half a hundred
illustrations from photographs.”—N Y Times

“Anyone who has visited Alaska will appreciate the enthusiasm which
colors every page of this delightful volume.”

+ =Cath World= 106:545 Ja ‘18 130w

“Mrs Higginson’s descriptions and her photographs of fir-tipped
points, of swirling rapids, Eskimos in their parkas, and dog teams
harnessed for their run across the frozen spaces, all make one long
poignantly for bracing northern air and life among hardy, simple
people.”

+ =Dial= 63:350 O 11 ‘17 260w

+ =N Y Times= 22:229 Je 17 ‘17 180w

“Although the material presented is rather unsystematically put
together and the style of presentation rather disjointed and
unliterary, the book contains such a vast amount of information that
it has met with considerable favor, necessitating a number of
reprintings. Unfortunately this ‘new edition with new matter’ is
produced in the easier and less expensive way of reprinting from the
old plates the body of the book and adding a chapter at the end. In
this latter is thrown together in an even more formless manner than is
employed in the body of the book and, in a way of presentation that
is, from the literary point of view, decidedly crude, the necessary
information about the development of the last ten years. The original
index is reprinted, and thus the new material is not indexed.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 29 ‘17 250w

=HILL, DAVID JAYNE.= Rebuilding of Europe. *$1.50 (3c) Century 327.4 17-28774

Dr Hill, former university professor, has been minister to Switzerland
and to the Netherlands, and ambassador to the German empire. In this
book, based on lectures delivered at Johns Hopkins university, he
argues that “the great war is a revolution against the alleged rights
of arbitrary force, rendered necessary by the failure to reach the
goal of a secure international organization by an evolutionary
process”; that the war was caused by “economic imperialism”; that its
main issue is “the right of people to dispose of themselves,” that no
permanent peace can coexist with the old European idea of state
sovereignty. Dr Hill tries to show that the real enemy to be destroyed
is not “any particular form of mere state organization,” but this
“dogma that the state is a licensed brigand.” Various forms of
international organization are discussed, and the author concludes
that while “a general international government” is neither possible
nor desirable, we may reasonably expect the formation of “a strong,
but limited, group of powers, each willing to sacrifice something of
its own sovereignty for the purpose of insuring peace and equity.” The
last chapter deals with “America’s interest in the new Europe.” Five
chapters were in part printed in the Century Magazine for 1917.

=Bookm= 46:286 N ‘17 50w

“An illuminating and forceful presentation of the war, regarded as a
revolution against economic imperialism.”

+ =Cleveland= p2 Ja ‘18 50w

“A very helpful exposition of the forces and conditions that have been
prevailing in Europe and which must be taken into account when a
definite plan for the reconstruction of civilization is undertaken
after the war. The story is simple and direct, and the presentation is
that of the trained scholar and publicist. The book deserves wide
reading.”

+ =Educ R= 54:531 D ‘17 90w

“No man in America was probably better equipped than Dr Hill to treat
the momentous topic discussed in this volume. ... He understood the
German people and the German mind. He could analyze feelings and facts
with rare intelligence and sure skill. He speaks, therefore, as one
having authority.”

+ =Lit D= 55:42 D 1 ‘17 600w

“To the socialist reader the treatment of the subject will necessarily
appear vague.” Joshua Wanhope

— =N Y Cal=l p19 D 15 ‘17 900w.

=HILL, JANET (MCKENZIE) (MRS BENJAMIN M. HILL).= Cakes, pastry and dessert dishes. il *$1.50 Little 641.5 17-24721

The editor of the Boston Cooking School Magazine has added another to
her already substantial list of cook-books. The publishers have given
large, clear type and over sixty enticing illustrations reproduced
from photographs. The index carries over 500 entries which include the
old favorite cakes and desserts as well as many less-known ones.

“A tantalizing collection of recipes to be published in war times.
However, it contains bran cookies as well as a twelve-egg torte. There
are brief general directions at the head of each chapter which are
useful and the recipes are easy to follow.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:80 D ‘17

“A boon indeed to young and old planners of meals. Carefully indexed,
attractively illustrated and admirably printed and bound, a most
satisfactory production in every particular.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 13 ‘17 110w

=R of Rs= 56:554 N ‘17 50w

“Since desserts are now reckoned among the luxuries of life in many
households, the possessor of this book will be obliged to wait some
time perhaps before she will feel that all the recipes may be added to
her list of available favorites. This does not mean that all the
recipes are unduly extravagant, for there are many of moderate cost.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 170w

=HILL, JOHN ARTHUR.= Psychical investigations; some personally-observed proofs of survival. *$2 (2½c) Doran 134 17-13827

Mr Hill has written other books on psychical research. He tells us:
“at the beginning of my investigations, my prejudices and wishes were
opposed to the conclusions which the facts gradually forced upon me.
If I am now biased in favour of the belief in personal life after
death, it is objective fact, not subjective preference, that has
brought it about. And my judgments have not been hasty. I have worked
at the subject for over eleven years.” (Preface) About one-half of the
book is given up to verbatim reports of sittings with three different
mediums, A. Wilkinson, Tom Tyrrell, and A. V. Peters. At one of the
meetings with Mr Peters, occurred some of the incidents related by Sir
Oliver Lodge in “Raymond.” Several chapters deal with the methods
employed in psychical research. Other chapters deal with: Immortality;
Home mediumship; Telepathy and survival; Psychical phenomena in
earlier times; Pre-existence and the nature of the after-life;
Psychical research and religion.

=N Y Times= 22:281 Jl 29 ‘17 580w

“The special interest of this volume is to be found in the fact that
it deals, not with alleged messages from important or well-known
people, but with communications, or what profess to be communications,
from very ordinary and very often rather dull types of deceased
humanity. It is not a book from which any spicy or sensational
quotations are to be drawn. Nevertheless, open-minded investigators
will find it worth perusal.”

+ =Spec= 118:613 Je 2 ‘17 350w

“An investigator as careful and open-minded as Mr Hill is entitled to
the opinion based upon his experience, and is justified in his
endeavour to show that the conclusion to which his experience leads
him, a decision in favour of the reality of spirit communications, is
not incompatible with philosophy or religion.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p150 Mr 29 ‘17 1000w

=HILL, MARION (HILL) (MRS CHARLES R. HILL).= McAllister’s grove. il *$1.40 Appleton 17-13950

“This new novel is a delightfully written little story of a girl, a
man, and an orange grove. Laurie McAllister—full name, Annie
Laurie—had saved a little bit of money; her aristocratic old
grandfather and only living relative suffered greatly from the cold of
New York winters, and the advertisements about Florida were most
alluring. ... To Florida they went, she and her grandfather, who in
Scotland was ‘The McAllister,’ and there she discovered that the grove
was in an utterly forlorn and neglected condition, the trees having
been starved for years. ... Though she soon learned that the number of
ills to which flesh is heir are as nothing compared with those which
are the natural inheritance of an orange grove, she struggled along,
and while she would certainly have been beaten had it not been for
Charles Roycroft and his chivalrous sacrifice, she won out at the
end.”—N Y Times

=A L A Bkl= 13:450 Jl ‘17

“A story both cleverly conceived and cleverly told, with a refreshing
spontaneity and sincerity.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Jl 14 ‘17 420w

=Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 60w

“An unusually well-written story which does not put too heavy a strain
upon the reader’s credulity and which has a vivid charm by way of
local color and much genuine humor.”

+ =Dial= 63:74 Jl 19 ‘17 120w

“The book contains an interesting account of the growing and packing
of oranges.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:211 My 27 ‘17 400w

=HILL, WILLIAM ELY.= Among us mortals; pictures and legends by W: E. Hill; text by Franklin P. Adams. *$1 Houghton 817 17-30263

Mr Hill’s profession, so Franklin P. Adams says, is helping make the
world safe from hypocrisy. The collection of drawings offered in this
volume shows some of his best efforts in that direction. Mr Adams says
in his “Preface to a preface,” “Hill is popular, by which I mean
universal, because you think his pictures look like somebody you know,
like Eddie, or Marjorie, or Aunt Em. But they don’t; they look like
you. Or, if you prefer, like me.” When the reader finds himself,
somewhere in the group, surely the great disillusioning comes. Perhaps
one may be the lady laughing at a Ford joke, or one of the two faculty
wives having the time of their lives pulling Mrs Prexy to pieces; or
perhaps one may be the young man who makes an unfortunate break, or
the artist who discovers that the only one of his pictures sold has
been hung upside down. It is the sort of glass Cassius would be to
Brutus—one that “reveals that of yourself which you yet know not of.”

“Unmistakably American.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:157 F ‘18

“These drawings have attracted much attention in the New York Tribune,
striking a new and very penetrating note in American caricature.”

+ =Dial= 64:36 Ja 3 ‘18 60w

“Solving the problem of Yuletide—what to give for Christmas—is a
difficult matter. ... ‘Among us mortals’ is the kind of book which can
be sent to anybody with perfect safety. The wisest will laugh at
Hill’s pictures and F. P. A.’s nonsense, and the foolish will take it
seriously.” L. G.

+ =N Y Call= p14 Ja 5 ‘18 230w

=HILLS, RALPH WINCHESTER.= Machine drawing. (Industrial education ser.) il *$1 McGraw 744 17-19718

“‘Machine drawing’ is the title of a new book on this subject prepared
in the extension division of the University of Wisconsin, by Ralph W.
Hills, instructor in mechanical drawing. ‘The material in this volume
is the first half of the instruction papers as developed and used by
the extension division. ... The second volume will be devoted to the
more specialized lines of work.’ The author avoids needless
technicalities and begins at once with ‘real drawings.’”—School Arts
Magazine

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p12 Jl ‘17 50w

=Pittsburgh= 22:651 O ‘17

“He pays no attention to perspective effects when sketching freehand,
and but little to pleasing arrangement of sheet. It is a reliable
guide to _mechanical_ drawing.”

+ — =School Arts Magazine= 17:94 O ‘17 160w

“‘The text and problems have been carefully prepared and arranged so
as to develop speed, accuracy, neatness, and a knowledge of the best
drafting room practices.’ The above quotation from the preface is
thoroughly justified. Supplementing the chapters on principles and
those on detail and assembly drawing there is one on Technical
sketching that should prove valuable.”

+ =School Arts Magazine= 17:228 Ja ‘18 130w

Hindu mind training; by an Anglo-Saxon mother; with an introd. by S. M. Mitra. *$3.50 Longmans 371.4 E17-302

“The author, dissatisfied with various western systems of mind
training ... turned her attention to the ancient Hindu system of mind
training, into which she was initiated by the writer of the
introduction to her book. The system largely depends upon unconscious
or preconscious cerebration. ... By a series of psychological
questions and answers on subjectmatter previously narrated, the
pupil’s mind is prepared, the author states, to receive facts, to
interpret them correctly, to distinguish facts from opinions, to
reason accurately, to differentiate between the logic of words and the
logic of facts, and to make practical use of the information so
gained. Character is in this way developed. The book contains many
examples of this method of training receptive minds.” (Ath) “Mr Mitra
is an Indian writer and teacher of much ability, whose works are well
known to those who study Indian thought and politics. ... In an
introduction he explains the advantage of the procedure, and also
devotes some pages to a comparison between Hindu and Western
philosophic thought while he appends, at the close of the book, an
essay instituting a comparison between the analytic psychology in
ancient Sanskrit literature with that to be found in La Rochefoucauld,
under the title ‘Franco-Hindu psychological affinity.’” (The Times
[London] Lit Sup)

=Ath= p96 F ‘17 150w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:103 Jl ‘17

=Pittsburgh= 22:692 O ‘17 40w

“A careful perusal of the Hindu stories impressed upon the young in
the course of an Anglo-Saxon Mother’s many trials will produce in most
minds trained in philosophic thought a profound conviction that
neither Hindu philosophy nor Hindu morality is suitable for
inculcation in this country. The logical deductions are too divergent
from our whole social and moral system. ... This book, if it cannot be
regarded as an educational gospel, will do something to provoke
interest in Indian moralities.”

=Sat R= 123:sup6 My 19 ‘17 420w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p58 F 1 ‘17 220w

=HINES, JOHN CHESTERFIELD (JACK HINES).= Blue streak. il *$1.35 (3c) Doran 17-25860

Ten stories for young and old of ice bound Alaskan trails whose
central figures are fearless, heroic, obedient wolf dogs. These
malamutes have a sympathetic champion in the writer who tells of the
kind of dog devotion that can lavish the love of a life time upon a
supreme effort to save a master; or that can starve and die if need
be, in the traces of duty. It is this sort of creature that hears his
master exclaim, “What dog words are there that I can bark or howl long
enough to proclaim what you are!” The half wild, half domesticated
friend and servant of the lonely trapper and miner is well-nigh
immortalized in these chapters that proclaim the blue streak in dog
nature.

“All of them are vigorous human tales of the Yukon, and they are
written obviously by a genuine lover of dogs. Boys will enjoy the
adventurous aspect of these stories; and yet the best one of them all
does not deal with adventures, but with a trial.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 2 ‘18 230w

“The stories are convincingly written because they are not well
written. If done in a facile style they would probably be accepted as
merely entertaining. But the very faults of redundancy and
sentimentalism and occasional failure of action are faults natural to
a story-teller who is engaged rather in showing the bravery, beauty,
and cleverness of his beloved thoroughbreds than in producing a
finished tale.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:414 O 21 ‘17 180w

“Mr Hines reveals himself a delightful story-teller. He does not waste
words, but drives straight at the point he intends to illustrate.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 230w

=HINKSON, KATHARINE (TYNAN) (MRS HENRY ALBERT HINKSON).= Middle years. *$3.50 Houghton (*10s 6d Constable & co., London) (Eng ed 17-11336)

“‘Katharine Tynan’s’ earlier volume of reminiscences agreeably whetted
the appetite of her readers for further memories, and this record of
what she calls ‘the middle years’ eclipses its predecessor in the
interest and variety of its contents. In it she describes the close of
her girlhood in Dublin and some twenty years of married life spent in
England before her return to Ireland shortly before the war. In a
sense it is the story of an exile from Erin, because she was never
Anglicized, Ireland remained the true home of her heart, and her most
intimate friends were Irish or people with Irish affiliations. But
though Irish to the core, a devout Roman Catholic, and an intense
admirer of Parnell, she does not harbour any anti-English
animosity.”—Spec

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:399 Je ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 4 ‘17 670w

“The real centres of interest are about the Meynells, Francis
Thompson, and Lionel Johnson. ... And those to whom these names
already mean much as the names of leaders in modern letters, will find
that their affection deepens in proportion to their more intimate,
familiar acquaintance with the objects of that affection.”

+ =Cath World= 105:535 Jl ‘17 600w

“Her record conveys the impression that she has been delightfully
busy, tirelessly interested, and exuberantly happy. Her prime gifts,
which richly flavor the volume, are her Celtic blood, her quick warm
sympathies, her affection for almost all kinds of men and women and
all kinds of flowers and pets.”

+ =Nation= 105:459 O 25 ‘17 680w

“Those who read ‘Twenty-five years: reminiscences’ were persuaded that
Miss Tynan lives a most enviable life; those who read ‘The middle
years’ will be convinced of it. It is a charmingly intimate talk with
the author about all her friends, and unconsciously she conveys to us
a very lovable portrait of her own cheery self.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:139 Ap 15 ‘17 1400w

“It is really as a novel, veraciously and graciously picturing life,
that one reads ‘The middle years.’ The story is a true one, of course,
but its spirit is more important than its facts. Even in the fuller
portraits, what one thinks of is friendship and character, rather than
the details of the picture.”

+ =No Am= 206:131 Jl ‘17 830w

=R of Rs= 55:667 Je ‘17 70w

“These chapters abound in generous and affectionate tributes to those
who were near and dear to her, who shared her ideals, encouraged her
in her work, and applauded her successes. Her early days in London
brought her in contact with many remarkable people in the literary
world, and the letters from Mr W. B. Yeats, from ‘Æ’ (Mr George
Russell), from Francis Thompson, and from Mr George Wyndham would
alone make the book cheap at double the price.”

+ =Spec= 118:272 Mr 3 ‘17 1900w

“Against Katharine Tynan herself the accusation of having substituted
literature for life cannot be brought. One learns enough of the woman
and the mother to see that her life has been full and very human.
There is a mellowness about the last chapters that leaves one warmed.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p579 D 7 ‘16 1100w

=HIRSCH, MRS CHARLOTTE (TELLER).= Diary of an expectant mother. il $1.25 (2½c) McClurg 618.2 17-12627

This is the story of a woman who wanted children but feared the months
of waiting before the birth of her first child, and who did not know
how to live hygienically under such conditions. In addition to much
advice as to her personal life, the nursery, the baby’s outfit, etc.,
are considered. The book is exceedingly popular in style.

“As a volume for the perusal of other expectant mothers we can
heartily recommend this work. It is not loaded with technicalities,
and is in no sense a treatise on obstetrics and maternity generally,
but rather a sane and excellent preventive against needless worry,
while at the same time emphasizing the natural character of the
episode of motherhood and recommending the simple, sensible course
that should be pursued during the period.” J. W.

+ =N Y Call= p14 S 9 ‘17 370w

=HITCHCOCK, ALFRED MARSHALL.=[2] Over Japan way. il *$2 (3c) Holt 915.2 17-31433

An informing, entertaining book about Japan, handsomely illustrated,
which is made up of the impressions of an American tourist with eyes
wide open. After six days of “monotonous blue” he lands and claims the
reader for companion while he runs the gamut of first sensations,
which he remarks, “are cause for grayer hair about the temples.” The
rikisha, the tram, the bewildering sights thru “wide streets, narrow
streets, narrower street, alleys barely wide enough for a wheelbarrow,
dark places and still darker suggest treachery, ambush.” He tells
about the inns and hotels, he visits schools from the kindergarten to
the university, goes shopping, attends a play, beards a volcano,
visits shrines and sacred places and touches the high spots of
Japanese scenery. He records lightly his experiences and their play
upon his emotions.

“The author writes in an intimate, conversational style. Everything is
given with a running fire of humorous side remarks that entertain as
well as instruct.”

+ =Lit D= 56:40 Ja 12 ‘18 160w

“The quaint, genial, shrewdly humorous observations of Mr Hitchcock
serve to make this an unusual book of travel. No attempt is made to
pass over the submerged side of life as seen in the segregated parts
of the large cities and in the daily grind of industry.”

+ =N Y Call= p14 Ja 26 ‘18 450w

“Despite obvious drawbacks, the author conveys a distinct and
convincing impression of the Japanese scene. He is frankly an outsider
and gives his views with some humor, appreciating that his sincerity
is not to be confounded with the profundity of the research student.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:10 Ja 13 ‘18 200w

“In text and illustration this latest book on Japan seems in some
respects the best of the short accounts.”

+ =Outlook= 117:654 D 19 ‘17 30w

“Entertaining travel sketches embellished by a series of beautifully
reproduced photographs.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:219 F ‘18 20w

“He has not added much to the substance of our knowledge about Japan,
but he has written a book of travel sketches, in which impressions are
expressed gracefully and ingratiatingly. There is a graphic touch in
his words, and the reader is able to share the images and ideas in the
author’s mind.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 3 ‘18 370w

=HITSCHMANN, EDUARD.= Freud’s theories of the neuroses; auth. tr. by Dr C: R. Payne, with an introd. by Ernest Jones. *$2 Moffat 130 17-4719

“What may be called the orthodox or strict Freudian conception of
neurotic conditions, briefly set forth by Hitschmann, holds that the
neuroses originate in the sex life of the individual, the form of the
nervous disturbance differing in accordance with the strain that the
sex life has undergone. There are ‘true neurasthenia’ types resulting
[from four causes]. ... Freud’s ‘psychoanalytic’ method of treating
these conditions is explained and a chapter is devoted to his views
regarding prophylaxis.” (Survey) “At the end of the book there is a
useful chronological review of Freud’s works from 1893 to 1910, as
well as a catalogue of Freudian literature in English.” (N Y Times)

“Hitschmann’s book is aimed primarily at physicians, although it is by
far the most readable, and most clearly expressed of the three. [The
other two referred to are Adler’s ‘Neurotic constitution,’ and
Pfister’s ‘Psychoanalytic method’].” Wilfrid Lay

+ =Bookm= 45:199 Ap ‘17 50w

“The translation, like all of Dr Payne’s translations, is accurate,
lucid, and in excellent style.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:331 S 9 ‘17 320w

“An interpretation of Freud which adds little, either in reasoning or
examples, to Freud’s own statement of his theories.”

=Springf’d Republican= p6 F 20 ‘17 150w

Reviewed by R. S. Woodworth

=Survey= 38:361 Jl 21 ‘17 200w

=HOAR, ROGER SHERMAN.= Constitutional conventions. *$2 Little 342.7 17-16733

A collection of all of the available law and precedent relating to the
nature, powers and limitations of constitutional conventions. The book
has been prepared by a former state senator of Massachusetts who was a
member of the commission to compile information and data for the use
of the Massachusetts convention now in session. With authority and
thoroughness the writer answers questions of this character: What
gives validity to this method, so frequently used to amend our state
constitutions? Is the convention, once launched, subject to either
legislative, executive, judicial or even popular control? Is the
convention bound by law, or even by the constitution? Can it control
the other branches of the government? Can it create a new
constitution, without submitting it to the people for ratification?
All of these questions, and many more like them, are answered in this
book, the only modern and up-to-date text-book on the subject.

“A reliable textbook on a subject which has seldom been treated at any
length.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:113 Ja ‘18

Reviewed by J. Q. Dealey

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 12:143 F ‘18 440w

=Ind= 92:487 D 8 ‘17 30w

“For the statesman, the lawyer, and the student of public affairs,
even for the courts, indeed, there is a wealth of useful information
within the covers of this book. He has not been altogether successful
in keeping to the rôle of non-partisan. Between the lines it is easy
to detect, in many instances, Mr Hoar’s own political leanings. His
progressivism refuses to stay in the background. Yet this is, after
all, a small blemish.”

+ — =Nation= 106:117 Ja 31 ‘18 400w

“Mr Hoar’s careful analysis of the various problems arising whenever a
revision of a state’s fundamental law is undertaken, is applicable in
every state, and will, no doubt, be the standard treatise for many
years to come.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:326 S ‘17 220w

“The index is of special value. The author’s opportunity to produce
such a work reliably has been a public advantage.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 4 ‘17 330w

=HOBHOUSE, LEONARD TRELAWNY.= Questions of war and peace. *3s 6d T. Fisher Unwin, London 940.91 (Eng ed 16-16727)

“There is, as might be expected from a thinker so able as Dr Hobhouse,
much that is suggestive in these three papers, two of which—‘The soul
of civilization’ (reprinted from the Contemporary Review) and ‘The
hope of the world’—are in the form of dialogues. In the first the
writer shows how he has come to regard the war as an inevitable clash
between two separate civilizations, with two religions, and expresses
his belief that there will result from it a more genuine feeling both
about nationality and about public right. The second covers much
ground—views of the war and its problems, of the conflict between
freedom and state control, &c. ... The third paper gives the substance
of an address at the National liberal club on January 18 [1916], of
which the chief feature is the author’s plea that the existing
alliance may form the basis of a much wider one, may point to ‘the
ultimate ideal of internationalism at two or three removes.’”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup

“‘The hope of the world’ is especially interesting. ... One will go
far to find a better brief of discussion of the militarist state, the
prospects of democracy, the ‘laws’ of human society, and, in general,
the ‘hope of the world,’”

+ =Nation= 104:48 Ja 11 ‘17 300w

=Nation= 105:297 S 13 ‘17 450w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:187 D ‘16

“In these brilliant Platonic dialogues on current questions Professor
L. T. Hobhouse, the Martin-White professor of sociology in the
University of London, has provided us with a delightful entertainment.
This can be safely said without committing ourselves to Mr Hobhouse’s
conclusions. He handsomely admits that he was wrong in the past about
Germany and that he misjudged Lord Grey of Fallodon’s policy.”

+ =Spec= 118:17 Ja 6 ‘17 1350w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p311 Je 29 ‘16 190w

=HOBSON, JOHN ATKINSON.= Evolution of modern capitalism. il *$1.75 Scribner 331 17-13332

“In this revised edition of his well-known work the author has
included a long supplementary chapter, the first part of which deals
with industrial and commercial movements during the decade preceding
the war. Some of the new economic facts and forces revealed by the
experiences of the war, the problems they contain, and the tendencies
they exhibit are then set forth, as a contribution towards a
speculative forecast of capitalism in the early future.”—Ath

=Ath= p96 F ‘17 70w

=Dial= 63:457 N 8 ‘17 330w

+ =N Y Times= 23:3 Ja 6 ‘18 930w

=HODGE, HAROLD.= In the wake of the war, parliament or imperial government? *$1.50 Lane 328 17-21846

“The late editor of the Saturday Review makes the same allegations
about the impotence of the House of commons, the nullity of the rank
and file of M.P.’s, etc., as raised such a storm of contradiction when
they were made by Messrs Belloc and Chesterton in ‘The party system’
and ‘The servile state.’ He is concerned, however, less with the
affairs of the United Kingdom than with the future of the empire; and
he proposes to take imperial matters out of the hands of what is
mistakenly called the Imperial Parliament, and put them under a
separate and independent body. After considering various plans he
concludes that, party government being a failure, the best solution
would be for the crown ... to appoint a council of ten, five citizens
of the Dominions, and five citizens of the United Kingdom. ... In
order that it should reflect the will of the citizens of the empire,
it should consult them by means of referenda.”—Ath

=Ath= p408 Ag ‘17 270w

=Boston Transcript= p9 D 8 ‘17 580w

“‘In the wake of the war,’ is well written in point of style. ... Mr
Hodge is sick of parties and believes they have had their day. ... We
go gaily along the path of criticism with Mr Hodge. It is when he
arrives at the unmapped region of reconstruction that we reluctantly
part company. He proposes to strip Parliament of the powers and duties
which make it interesting and respectable and to hand these over to an
Imperial council of ten, nominated by the king, and armed with the
referendum. To this scheme we object: (1) That Parliament will not
allow itself to be stripped. (2) That the king cannot appoint anybody
of his own motion. (3) That the referendum in Australia and in the
United States (v. the Oregonian constitution) has been a failure. ...
We think our author is mistaken in supposing that the Colonies would
agree to the common management of imperial affairs.”

+ — =Sat R= 124:29 Jl 14 ‘17 950w

“Whatever scheme may be adopted for imperial government, it will
certainly not be Mr Hodge’s.”

— =Spec= 119:121 Ag 4 ‘17 170w

=HODGES, GEORGE.= Religion in a world at war. *$1 (5½c) Macmillan 252 17-14691

Eight short sermons or essays on the relation of Christianity to war,
and, more especially, to the present war, by the dean of the Episcopal
theological school at Cambridge, Mass.

=A L A Bkl= 14:74 D ‘17

+ =Bib World= 50:375 D ‘17 80w

=Cleveland= p102 S ‘17 40w