Chapter XLII: Part 1: is a compilation, the object of which is “to trace the (13)

“It will be long before we have a better book to supersede it. For the
qualities that distinguish Hoxie’s work are exceedingly rare in
scholarship. Where other scholars strive earnestly to deal in
certitudes, it was Hoxie’s zeal to preserve an open mind. His devotion
to openmindedness is infectious.” Alvin Johnson

+ =New Repub= 13:319 Ja 12 ‘18 1650w

“The value of a sympathetic attitude on the part of the investigator
of an institution is seldom seen to greater advantage than in this
important work, which will be indispensable to the student of labor
conditions in America.”

+ =Outlook= 117:516 N 28 ‘17 80w

“Even though he did not live to see his studies brought out in book
form, the work unquestionably stands out as one of the most complete
treatises on trade unionism in this country.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 18 ‘18 470w

=HUARD, FRANCES (WILSON) (MME CHARLES HUARD).= My home in the field of mercy. il *$1.35 (2½c) Doran 940.91 17-29627

Mme Huard here continues the story told in “My home on the field of
honour” by describing the transformation of the Château de Villiers
into “Annex No. 7,” a hospital for French wounded. After “ten days of
shoveling out and burying the filth” that had been her “most cherished
possessions,” she was cheered by the arrival of Mme Guix, the nurse,
the sergeant-infirmier and his four assistants. Then the sick and
wounded began to come in. We are told “how they were taken care of,
healed, amused, humored, and set to work according to their capacity”;
(N Y Times) how the number of beds was increased from 45 to 120, and
typhoid patients, some in the worst stages of the disease, were taken
in, and how Mme Huard made the trip to Soissons, then under fire, to
get tobacco for her patients from Mme Macherez, who risked her life
for Soissons when the Germans entered it. The episode of ten-year-old
Elvire, “mad with a terrible remembered experience and shrieking at
the sight of a man in uniform,” stands out unforgettably, as does also
the picture of Mme Huard, driving off to Paris to have her appendix
removed, cheered on by her helpers “all standing on the steps waving a
fond adieu, and for want of something more appropriate shrieking ‘Vive
la France!’”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:123 Ja ‘18

“The book is rather carelessly written but interesting and dramatic.”

+ — =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 60w

“Her book is a wonderful record.”

+ =Lit D= 55:44 D 8 ‘17 130w

“A book that is breathlessly interesting, full of fun in spite of all
the danger and the tragedy, lightened with the most delicious pen
pictures of the French poilu in all sorts of situations. ... It is a
book worth having written and deeply worth the reading. The
illustrations by Charles Huard are exquisite drawings, vignettes of
battle scenes, characters in the story, visions of France as she looks
today.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:492 N 25 ‘17 1100w

=Outlook= 117:521 N 28 ‘17 40w

=Pittsburgh= 22:826 D ‘17 50w

=R of Rs= 57:101 Ja ‘18 90w

“Mme Huard does not dwell on unpleasant details. With an American
sense of humor—for she is the daughter of Francis Wilson, the
comedian—and with also a touch of dramatic sense, she lightens her
book with the quaint sayings and doings of the people around her.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 D 9 ‘17 550w

=HUBBARD, GILBERT ERNEST.= From the gulf to Ararat; an expedition through Mesopotamia and Kurdistan. il *$3.50 Dutton 915 (Eng ed 17-9114)

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

“The author has incidentally furnished us with a careful description
of those regions in Mesopotamia and Persia that have been fought over
by the British, Russian, Turkish, and German armies.” W. G.
Tinckom-Fernandez

+ =Dial= 63:394 Oct 25 ‘17 1150w

+ =N Y Times= 22:539 D 9 ‘17 80w

=HUDSON, CHARLES BENJAMIN.= Royal outlaw. *$1.50 (1½c) Dutton 17-17619

This is the story of the early life of David, beginning with his
flight from Saul, who tries to take David’s life, picturing his career
as an outlaw, and ending with his coronation as king of Israel. The
author has filled out the biblical outlines with incidents of his own
imagination. “David is portrayed as a young man of quick temper and
lightning decision, and as an extremely resourceful military
commander.” (Springf’d Republican)

“Delightfully human book ... portrays an interesting period in Hebrew
history with accuracy and sympathy. It is a nice combination of Bible
facts and the author’s fancy, a spirited tale of adventure and romance
charmingly written.”

+ + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 15 ‘17 200w

“Unfortunately, the author appears to have felt that to accomplish his
purpose he must eliminate from the incomparable romance its inner
significance. The hand with which he has removed the veil of symbolism
was curiously maladroit and lacking in ordinary veneration for a
literary masterpiece.”

— =Cath World= 106:693 F ‘18 220w

+ — =Ind= 91:189 Ag 4 ‘17 50w

“A perfectly corking story, without a single moral or sign of a moral
about it. It is human, and not only credible, but almost convincing.
David is a hero after the heart of men and women. ... It will make a
thrilling film.” L: A. Walker

+ + =N Y Call= p15 Jl 8 ‘17 340w

“As for adventures and perils and hairbreadth escapes and all manner
of fighting, it would be hard to find more of them in any single novel
that has been written in many a day. ... Humor enlivens the pages.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:265 Jl 15 ‘17 620w

“A very interesting tale told with spirit and in close adherence to
biblical facts. But the principal service it performs is to present
David as a man with human passions as well as a writer of poetry.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 350w

=HUDSON, WILLIAM HENRY.= Crystal age; with an introd. by Clifford Smyth. *$1.50 Dutton A17-174

“The crystal age” was published in the eighties. An edition was
brought out in America in 1907 and was reviewed in the Digest at that
time. The present revival of interest in W. H. Hudson has called for a
reprint. “In ‘A crystal age,’ the author visits and describes for us a
no man’s land. It may be England, it may be South America, it may be
any other country on the face of the globe. Its people and incidents
may be of the past, the present or the future. As he himself describes
his story, he has written in it ‘a dream and picture of the human race
in its forest period.’ ... Although the country and the people of ‘A
crystal age’ are obviously of mythical origin, they are visualized
none the less vividly by Mr Hudson. We see them as they are, and their
manners and customs are explicitly described. Over and around them
all, however, is thrown a romantic glamour that is wholly Mr Hudson’s
own.” (Boston Transcript)

=A L A Bkl= 13:274 Mr ‘17

“After reading one of Hudson’s books one feels toward him a personal
debt so great that one can discharge some small part of it only by
handing on to others the news of what he is and does.” F. F. Kelly

+ =Bookm= 45:84 Mr ‘17 850w

“It is of course easily discernible whence Mr Hudson drew his scheme
for the social order of this strange gathering of men and women. A
student of nature, he saw in the life of the bee a theme for the
creation of a human community after their fashion, and he has
therefore made ‘A crystal age’ a perfect analogy between the two. If
we read it with that knowledge in view, we have a perfect scientific
study; if we read it simply as a story, we have a narrative complete
in substance and beautiful in form.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 3 ‘17 1400w

“Hudson gives us ‘literary opium’ in its most delightful form, in
words so musical that at times one almost forgets the sense.”

+ =Ind= 89:506 Mr 19 ‘17 150w

“In the majority of Mr Hudson’s books—always excepting ‘Green
mansions’—the naturalist seems more to the fore than the artist. Here
the latter controls the former’s abundant wealth. Nature certainly
serves as a well-known and well-loved background. ... Yet the striking
thing is rather the artistic and dramatic unity of the volume: the
unity of the story, which moves on, picking up anticipations, opening
new vistas, down to its poignant close; and the consistency of the
character development as seen in the invading Englishman, who quietly
acquires a soul as the action progresses.”

+ =Nation= 104:340 Mr 22 ‘17 600w

“W. H. Hudson is one of the very great writers of English.”

+ =N Y Times= 21:575 D 31 ‘16 800w

=Pittsburgh= 22:649 O ‘17 90w

+ =R of Rs= 55:554 My ‘17 140w

“Has too little story, and is too leisurely and too visionary for most
novel readers, but both the subject and the fine style of its writing
will endear it to some, especially those who liked ‘Green mansions.’”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 80w

=HUDSON, WILLIAM HENRY.= Idle days in Patagonia. il *$1.50 (2½c) Dutton 918.2 A17-394

The author went out to Patagonia to make a study of its bird life. An
accident shortly after his arrival rendered him quite helpless for a
time and limited the field of his researches. But out of the idle days
which resulted from his change of plans grew these sketches, perhaps
more intimate because of their narrower range. He writes of Life in
Patagonia; Snow, and the quality of whiteness; Bird music in South
America; Sight in savages, etc. The book was published some years ago
by D. Appleton and company, but has been out of print.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:364 My ‘17

“Its charm, as in everything Mr Hudson writes, is varied, and it
appeals to the reader through his understanding of nature, through his
reflections upon the lives of men and beasts as he encounters them,
through his many interpolated anecdotes, through his visualization of
everything he sees, and through the grace of a remarkable and
unpretentious English style. Its manner is no less attractive than its
substance.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 14 ‘17 1000w

+ =Cath World= 105:404 Je ‘17 140w

+ =Ind= 91:33 Jl 7 ‘17 140w

+ =Nation= 104:526 My 3 ‘17 1000w

Reviewed by Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p15 My 20 ‘17 220w

“Full of exquisite prose-poetry, of careful observation, of keen, live
interest in all the life of those ‘idle’ days.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:95 Mr 18 ‘17 770w

+ =R of Rs= 55:555 My ‘17 80w

“The total effect of the book is something the same as if John
Burroughs and Joseph Conrad had collaborated—and in a field almost of
Conrad’s choice.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 14 ‘17 900w

“The chapter which especially caught my attention in the ‘Idle days in
Patagonia,’ as it probably has that of most readers of the book, was
the thirteenth.” Arthur Colton

+ =Yale R= n s 6:856 Jl ‘17 1350w

=HUESTON, ETHEL.= Sunny slopes. il *$1.40 (2½c) Bobbs 17-22006

Excepting Connie, the daughters of the parsonage are now all married,
and in this volume Connie finds her way through her literary ventures
to a cowboy husband. Connie was always the “different” one of the
family. But Connie’s affairs are only incidental to the main thread of
the story which is concerned with gay little Carol, now the wife of a
Presbyterian minister and his mainstay while he fights tuberculosis in
New Mexico and Colorado. “It is in New Mexico that they see the ‘sunny
slopes’ of the mesas and learn to fight the battle for cheerfulness,
to keep in the sunshine and avoid the shadows.” (N Y Times)

“Simple, a trifle sentimental and will be popular.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:26 O ‘17

+ =N Y Times= 22:326 S 2 ‘17 280w

“In spite of the story’s sad trend, it is the reverse of gloomy.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 290w

=HUGHES, JAMES LAUGHLIN.= Training the children. *60c Barnes 173 17-10692

Seven brief chapters on the training of children thru self activity.
Thruout, the author contrasts this new idea of training with the old
idea of coercion and repression. He writes of: The child’s achieving
tendencies; Training through doing; Negative and positive training;
Coercion; The child’s need of freedom; The “bad” boy; Some common
mistakes of the old training. The author was for many years chief
inspector of schools in Toronto. He is author also of “Mistakes in
teaching,” “Teaching to read,” etc.

“Here in a tiny volume, entirely within the means of any one, so far
as cash or time value to be expended is concerned, we find just such a
clear exposition of the eternal principles of education and the
relative values of free activity and development contrasted with ‘the
negative and coercive ideal’ of old times, as we long to inject into
the consciousness of that great majority of adults who, as Dr Hughes
aptly says, no longer defend harsh methods of disciplining children,
but still retain their faith in the old ideal.” J. L. Hunt

+ =Survey= 38:575 S 29 ‘17 480w

=HUGHES, RUPERT.= In a little town. il *$1.35 (1c) Harper 17-8348

The author’s earlier books have been novels of city life. This is a
book of small town stories. The author, however, staunchly protests
against the idea that there is any essential difference between a big
town and a small one. “A village is simply a quiet street in the big
city of the world. Quaint, sweet happenings take place in the avenues
most thronged, and desperate events come about in sleepy lanes. People
are people, chance is chance.” The scene of the stories is close to
the Mississippi. The titles are: Don’t you care! Pop; Baby talk; The
mouth of the gift horse; The old folks at home; And this is marriage;
The man that might have been; The happiest man in Ioway; Prayers;
Pain; The beauty and the fool; The ghostly counselors; Daughters of
Shiloh; “A” as in “father.”

“Clever, often amusing, and often keen.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:403 Je ‘17

“It is only that Mr Hughes is at times banal and even cheap in his
style, and he is surely inexcusably flippant; it is that we must
resent the lack of distinction in writing where the matter cries aloud
for sincerity and dignity. The collection is much too good not to be
very much better. As it stands, it is always thoroughly readable, and
often extremely diverting.”

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 My 2 ‘17 370w

“The promise is not fulfilled. The stories contain excellent material,
hastily handled. These cheerful, ordinary, humanly vulgar folk fail to
arouse interest because their creator writes of them but not for them.
They are crude snapshots rather than artistic photographs. ‘And this
is marriage’ strikes the highest note.”

– + =Dial= 62:402 My 3 ‘17 120w

+ =Ind= 90:471 Je 9 ‘17 120w

“The effect is of artifice, of ‘well-made’ plots and character in the
sense of the stage rather than of the art which interprets. In short,
they are of the magazine formula, and of little account on other
grounds.”

— =Nation= 104:633 My 24 ‘17 280w

“Mr Hughes’s collection of fourteen short stories all have their
scenes laid in imaginary small towns in the region round about the
city of Keokuk, Iowa, a region familiar to his youth.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:93 Mr 18 ‘17 380w

“Almost without exception the stories are diverting in high degree.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 3 ‘17 430w

“Not very cheerful on the whole, but well done.”

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:158 My ‘17 30w

=HUGHES, RUPERT.= We can’t have everything. il *$1.50 (1c) Harper 17-22299

Kedzie Thropp came from a little Missouri town to visit New York with
her parents. She ran away from them and began her career by getting a
job in a candy-store. Later, she tried Greek dancing and the movies.
Her first marriage venture was with Tommie Gilfoyle, an advertising
man, her second with Jim Dyckman, one of the richest men in New York
society, and her third with the Marquess of Strathdene. Kedzie, the
social climber, greedy for all the material good that life can give,
is contrasted with Charity Coe Cheever, a woman of assured position in
society, who was also divorced and re-married.

“Kedzie is the one person in the story in whom we more or less
believe. As for the others, the more strokes the artist puts into
their portraits, the less clearly we see them. ... The truth is, Mr
Hughes has again, in the thin disguise of a story-teller, taken the
floor to have his say about something. ... The book is an argument in
favour of tolerably easy divorce, with a laboriously arranged exhibit
of what decent people may suffer under the present laws of New York
state. If the believer could only have embodied his belief in his
story! Unluckily, it is only too clear that his idea and not his
people interests him.” H. W. Boynton

— =Bookm= 46:210 O ‘17 960w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ — =Bookm= 46:339 N ‘17 50w

“In the end the reader isn’t sure just who is married. The whole, in
its sly sex-suggestiveness and apparent frankness about ostensibly
vital problems, is quite characteristic of Rupert Hughes.”

— =Dial= 63:463 N 8 ‘17 110w

“The book has a story to tell, but the narrator appears to be in at
least two minds as to what it is all about. Under these conditions
there can be no story pure and simple. At best it is a piece of
satirical comedy in an elaborate New York setting; we recognize the
scene, we marvel at the effectiveness of the lighting and authenticity
of the costumes. Unluckily, we also recognize the plot and personæ,
less as ‘from the life’ than as from the stockroom of recent fiction.”

– + =Nation= 105:370 O 4 ‘17 470w

“Kedzie is a Rupert Hughes version of a vampire, very beautiful, very
modern, very resourceful and capable in adapting herself to
surroundings and blooming out afresh with each new possibility of
progress. The story comes down to the present and takes in the recent
welcome of New York to the French mission.”

=N Y Times= 22:311 Ag 26 ‘17 660w

“Rupert Hughes requires 637 closely printed pages to find the way to
happiness for Jim Dyckman and Charity Coe. It could have been found by
a shorter route and without sacrificing a single essential of the
story. ... The author’s flow of satirical, and often flippant, humor,
is more diverting than his exposé of odoriferous social morals,
though, needless to say, this is done with Mr Hughes’s grasp of
character and sense of atmosphere.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 16 ‘17 300w

=HUGINS, ROLAND.= Possible peace; a forecast of world politics after the great war. *$1.25 (3½c) Century 327 16-23057

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

=A L A Bkl= 13:306 Ap ‘17

“A judicial and admirably dispassionate survey of the unfolding of
recent European history, culminating in the war, with discussion of
its significance for us and its possible influence upon our future.”
F. F. Kelly

+ =Bookm= 45:182 Ap ‘17 450w

=Ind= 89:320 F 19 ‘17 160w

“The author develops his theses with candor and intelligence. The book
is not exactly inspiriting, but it is wholesome reading in an epoch in
which partisan interpretations and pragmatic conclusions make up the
bulk of the literature on international affairs.”

+ =New Repub= 10:52 F 10 ‘17 350w

“His volume is one of the sanest that the war has produced and
deserves to rank for its calm, judicial temper, its loyalty to truth,
and its illuminative thought with G. Lowes Dickinson’s ‘European
anarchy’ and Fried’s ‘Restoration of Europe,’ while not even Romain
Rolland’s ‘Above the battle,’ although more passionate in its longing
and more inspired in its utterance, is more earnestly and
single-heartedly desirous of the ending of the war and the
establishment of a more enlightened understanding of one another among
the peoples of the earth. So clear and fair and free from all
prejudice is Mr Hugins’s marshaling of the facts of recent history and
so strictly just his interpretation that his book, along with that by
Mr Dickinson—for the two admirably supplement each other—ought to be
put on the supplementary reading courses of modern history classics in
universities and colleges.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:34 F 4 ‘17 530w

=HULL, ARTHUR EAGLEFIELD.=[2] Great Russian tone-poet, Scriabin. (Library of music and musicians.) il *$1.25 Dutton 17-11131

“Dr Eaglefield Hull devotes his book chiefly to an analysis of
Scriabin’s works, both for the pianoforte and for orchestra. The
pianoforte works comprise preludes, études, nocturnes, etc., a
concerto and ten sonatas; the orchestral three symphonies, the ‘Poem
of ecstasy’ and ‘Prometheus.’ There is a brief biography, preceded by
the inevitable exposition of the musical awakening in Russia. ... The
mystery of Scriabin’s new scales and new chords is expounded. ... In
appendices are lists of his works, each with a brief descriptive
paragraph. There is a list of Russian and other names.”—N Y Times

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:84 D ‘17

“The author’s style is often confused, and troublesome to the reader.
The thought in a book is the test; and this volume comes off well in
that respect.”

+ — =Ath= p588 D ‘16 320w

“Whether one reads to damn or praise, the value of Dr Hull’s
commentary must be recognized.” Russell Ramsey

+ =Dial= 64:21 Ja 3 ‘18 1500w

“Dr Hull’s comments are intelligent, granting the point of view; and
his book should be valuable to the followers of the new and to any who
wish to know the new.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:479 N 18 ‘17 410w

“We are more grateful for the matter than for the manner of this
book.”

– + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p571 N 30 ‘16 970w

=HUMPHREY, SETH KING.= Mankind. *$1.50 (4c) Scribner 575.6 17-24251

A treatise on racial values and the racial prospect. It presents the
subject untechnically in its broad social aspect with a view to
awakening in the lay reader an appreciation of the fundamental part
played in human affairs by inborn racial quality. He examines racial
tendencies as factors in human progress, views the race values of the
countries at war, shows the necessity of a eugenic system at work in
the world that shall effectively cut off the increase of downright
human unfitness and forecasts an era when hereditary defects among
enlightened peoples are wiped out as a preparatory period to one that
shall legitimately insure adequate perpetuation of only superior
inheritances.

“An interesting study, vigorous in expression and noteworthy for the
laudable independence of the thinking.” Archibald Henderson

+ =Bookm= 46:275 N ‘17 650w

“This book overlooks entirely the economic interpretation of history,
the influence of social heredity in calling out the potentialities
which for all we know may lie dormant in every individual. The
writer’s opinion of woman is influenced by his conception of her value
as a means of transmitting a valuable trait down the family line.
Other chapters on The nations at war, The immigration problem and The
negro all show themselves tinged by dogmatism and the same narrow
point of view.” A. E. Watson

— =Survey= 39:445 Ja 19 ‘18 510w

=HUMPHREY, ZEPHINE (MRS WALLACE WEIR FAHNESTOCK).= Grail fire. *$1.50 (2c) Dutton 17-8347

The story of a young man’s search for religious peace of mind. Francis
Merwin is the son of a man who is an agnostic and a woman who is a
strict Puritan. His mother’s narrow Protestantism seems to him barren
and meaningless, and yet he demands something that his father,
beauty-loving pagan that he is, cannot give him. In Eleanor Ramsey he
finds a companion who sympathizes with him. Together they study the
doctrines of the Roman Catholic church, finding themselves repelled by
its hard and fast dogmas, altho emotionally it seems to offer what
they seek. Finally they discover the Catholic branch of the Episcopal
church and in it find the answer to all their doubts and questions.
Francis, altho his mother and father are both hurt by his choice,
studies for the ministry. Eleanor remains true to him, even tho it
seems for a time that his priestly ideals will demand the renunciation
of personal happiness.

“‘Grail fire’ barely convinces. ... Those with tendencies towards
mysticism will find the novel attractive. The average reader will be
somewhat repelled because of its lack of vitality. Without question it
is both carefully written and sincere in feeling.”

+ — =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 25 ‘17 190w

“The author must be totally devoid of all sense of humor, for her
description of Father Merwin’s first mass with his sweetheart acolyte,
and his motley congregation of Jews, Italians and Irish is ludicrous
in the extreme.”

— =Cath World= 105:263 My ‘17 200w

“A very charming, if somewhat illogical book. ... Although ‘Grail
fire’ may be a bit too idealistic for the average mortal, we predict
that all the sixteen-year-olds in the land will find it absolutely
true to life.”

+ — =Dial= 62:402 My 3 ‘17 170w

“Despite its theological thesis she has written a novel of vital human
interest, which even a casual reader will hardly lay aside until the
end is reached.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:125 Ap 8 ‘17 380w

=HUMPHREYS, ELIZA M. J. (GOLLAN) (MRS W. DESMOND HUMPHREYS) (RITA, pseud.).= Rubbish heap. *$1.40 (1c) Putnam 17-13182

A half French nephew who comes to disturb the Victorian propriety and
solitude of two maiden aunts, and a little Irish waif brought home by
a sea captain to be a companion to his wife, are characters in this
story. Christopher, whose artistic tastes and temperament are so
puzzling to Miss Augusta and Miss Jane, discovers little Mara and
paints her against the background of the curio shop that is her home.
The attic of this shop, with its heaped up treasure, proves the means
of solving the mystery of the little girl, and shows that between her
and Christopher there exists a strange relationship.

“A fairly pretty story tho not very convincing.”

– + =Lit D= 55:34 Ag 18 ‘17 170w

=Nation= 105:40 Jl 12 ‘17 200w

“An ingenious little story and well written, although the coincidences
are too numerous to be altogether credible.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:202 My 20 ‘17 280w

=HUMPHREYS, FRANCIS LANDON.= Life and times of David Humphreys, 1752-1818. 2v il *$7.50 Putnam 17-8099

A biography that takes us back to the American revolution. David
Humphreys, soldier, statesman, poet and manufacturer, was termed by
one of his contemporaries the “belov’d of Washington.” “It may safely
be said,” says the author, “that as it is impossible to write the life
of Humphreys without including a large part of the life of Washington,
so it is almost as impossible to write fully of the career of
Washington without presenting, in large measure at least, the life of
Humphreys.” The biography is based in part on the Humphreys and
Washington correspondence, now in the manuscript department of the
Library of Congress. As a manufacturer Humphreys has a present-day
interest as founder of the woolen industry in this country.

“An extremely detailed biography; not a brilliant book, but a work
which will be useful for reference. The illustrations and the index
deserve a word of commendation.”

+ =Ath= p365 Jl ‘17 120w

“A casual reader with endless time will find in them much of
miscellaneous interest, and the scholar may make use of them by means
of the excellent index. Except for one or two slips that may be
chargeable to the printer the work seems accurate and scholarly.”

+ — =Dial= 63:462 N 8 ‘17 550w

“There is, in this varied and useful career, much that is typical of
the lives men led in our heroic age. Perhaps for that reason the
biographer has yielded to the temptation to be at times, out of the
wealth of his material, a little superfluous in his account of
well-known events. In spite of the attempt of the biographer to make
him out a hero, Humphreys is most interesting as a representative man
who deserved either a shorter or a more vivid biography than has
fallen to his lot.”

+ — =Nation= 105:455 O 25 ‘17 1350w

“Although he has made considerable use of Colonel Humphreys’s
correspondence with Washington which is preserved in the Library of
Congress, the author has been somewhat sparing in direct quotation
therefrom. Whenever he has done so it is very readable, especially the
long reports to President Washington from Spain and Portugal.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:200 My 20 ‘17 750w

+ =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 150w

=R of Rs= 55:667 Je ‘17 60w

“This biography is singularly opportune, and should find many readers
on this side of the Atlantic.”

* + =Spec= 118:62 Jl 21 ‘17 1100w

“The book is well produced and illustrated, and is a useful
contribution to American history, particularly that of the period from
the close of the Revolution to the adoption of the present
constitution. It is, however, too long; its contents could easily and
better have been compressed into a single volume. Some of the text is
much the same as can be found in an ordinary book of history, and many
of Col. Humphreys’s letters have but faint interest for the reading
public of to-day.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 28 ‘17 650w

“A biography so constructed inevitably falls between the two stools of
biography proper and what the French call ‘Mémoires pour servir.’ ‘It
is to be noted,’ says the biographer, ‘that very little of Humphreys’s
correspondence is published in these two volumes.’ And yet there is
too much. His private correspondence is excellent—full of shrewd
observation, terse description, and keen political insight. But his
public correspondence belongs to a different category, that of
history, not of biography.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p280 Je 14 ‘17 2050w

“Here is a subject for a valuable and interesting biography, and in
its preparation there is evidence of persistent scholarship. The
records are closely read. The background of historical events,
doubtless, is drawn with fidelity to fact. And yet this biography is
not interesting.” C: S. Brooks

– + =Yale R= n s 7:437 Ja ‘18 1000w

=HUNEKER, JAMES GIBBONS.= Unicorns. *$1.75 (2c) Scribner 814 17-25117

These thirty essays, copyrighted from 1906 to 1917, deal with Edward
MacDowell, Remy de Gourmont, Artzibashef, Henry James, George Sand,
Cézanne, Brahms, Huysmans, W. H. Mallock, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde,
Chopin, George Moore, and Richard Wagner; also with such subjects as
Style and rhythm in English prose; A synthesis of the seven arts;
Pillow-land; Cross-currents in modern French literature; Violinists
now and yesteryear; Prayers for the living, etc. The title essay, In
praise of unicorns, takes the unicorn as “the symbol of fantasy and
intellectual freedom.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:86 D ‘17

=Boston Transcript= p7 O 24 ‘17 750w

=Cleveland= p133 D ‘17 50w

“It is all in the same manner, obligingly informative and genially
casual. It has the compactness of pemmican. It is guaranteed by the
authority of great names, and shows an agile intellect dovetailing
epigrams. Mr Huneker has never escaped from the blight of cleverness
that characterized the nineties. ... His great merit is that he has
banished solemnity and cant; he talks about books because he loves
them, and there isn’t an ounce of pedantry in his whole nature.” G: B.
Donlin

+ — =Dial= 63:344 O 11 ‘17 1400w

“Would it be unkind to intimate that he is writing, or at least
publishing, in 1917 and not in 1897, and that the world has grown, for
terrible reasons, rather weary of trifling with morality?”

– + =Nation= 105:402 O 11 ‘17 980w

“After all that he has done for us, it seems a little ungrateful to be
bored with ‘Unicorns.’ Mr Huneker remains a brilliant journalist,
instead of developing into an American critic who would respond to the
large currents and counter-currents with an individual competence of
appreciation.” R. B.

– + =New Repub= 13:130 D 1 ‘17 830w

“Mr Huneker is always brilliant. He is always worth reading. But this
collection of essays is more personal than anything else that he has
done, and we are not sure that it is not more charming.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:416 O 21 ‘17 820w

“Mr Huneker is amiable, effervescent, always companionable, and in his
disdainful talk about ‘conventional morality’ and the like shows none
of the hauteur of the modern intellectual egoist who usually uses such
phrases. For a time he was our most implacable ‘modern,’ but that
distinction, no longer undivided, has passed to a less worthy and less
likeable crew.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 19 ‘17 780w

=HUNGERFORD, EDWARD.= Railroad problem. il $1.50 (2c) McClurg 385 17-10892

The railroad is characterized by the author as “the great sick man of
the American business family.” He says, “Just at this time, owing to
the extraordinary and abnormal prosperity that has come to the United
States, largely because of the great war in Europe, he [the railroad]
has rallied temporarily. But his illness continues, far too
deep-seated to be thrown off in a moment. And the recent extraordinary
legislation passed by Congress has done nothing to alleviate the
condition of the sufferer. On the contrary, it has been a great
aggravation.” In the author’s opinion great opportunities for
development lie before the railroad system of the United States, and
his purpose, after discussing the present situation and its causes, is
to point out the course that it must follow if it is to continue as a
privately owned institution. The problems of labor are given five
chapters. Other chapters discuss: The railroad and national defense;
The necessity of the railroad; Regulation. In part the material of the
book has appeared in Collier’s, Every Week and the Saturday Evening
Post.

=A L A Bkl= 14:6 O ‘17

=Cleveland= p96 Jl ‘17 30w

“The good red blood of human life runs all through the book. Even the
serious student of the railroad problem may profit by its perusal, for
it helps to humanize the whole situation.”

+ =Dial= 63:398 O 25 ‘17 200w

=Pittsburgh= 22:758 N ‘17 30w

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:215 Jl ‘17 40w

=HURGRONJE, CHRISTIAAN SNOUCK.= Revolt in Arabia. *75c (2c) Putnam 953 17-7479

A translation of articles that appeared in a Dutch newspaper in July,
1916. Announcement had just come of a revolt in Arabia against Turkish
rule. Professor Hurgronje’s purpose was to supply the historical
background for an understanding of such an event. The book has a
foreword by Richard J. H. Gottheil of Columbia university, and a
translation of the proclamation of the Shereef of Mecca is added as an
appendix.

“This brief account of the revolt and of the general situation is
admirably lucid, and so is the chapter explaining the impropriety,
according to Mohammedan law, of the assumption of the title of Caliph
by the Sultan of Turkey. It will help western readers to understand
questions that are to most of them obscure.”

+ =Ath= p530 O ‘17 100w

“Though we must agree with Prof. Snouck Hurgronje that the Sherifate
of Mecca, acting alone, is a negligible quantity in the great war,
Arabia, considered as a whole, can undoubtedly become an important
factor in its course and its consequential bearing on Near Eastern
problems.”

+ =Nation= 104:711 Je 14 ‘17 1600w

=N Y Times= 22:174 Ap 29 ‘17 200w

=St Louis= 15:186 Je ‘17 20w

“A most instructive little book. The author condemns the attempt of
the Young Turks, under German influence, to revive the Caliphate,
‘playing with the fire of religious hate.’ He regards the Shereef’s
revolt as ‘a master stroke,’ in reply to this pernicious scheme, which
has happily failed in the great Mohammedan countries and is now
rejected in Mecca itself.”

+ =Spec= 119:247 S 8 ‘17 1350w

“The author is professor of Arabic in the University of Leiden,
Holland. As he also dwelt for some time in Mecca he has been able to
get a good insight into the hopes and aspirations of the followers of
the prophet. The little work is of value for the light it throws on
one of the side issues of the war.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Ap 1 ‘17 90w

* + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p377 Ag 9 ‘17 1350w

=HURLEY, EDWARD NASH.=[2] Awakening of business. *$2 (4c) Doubleday 380 16-24342

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:297 Ap ‘17

“In popular, almost journalistic form, the newer point of view as to
the relation between government and business is set forth. A valuable
chapter on the work of the trade commission shows how the commission
prevents law suits. The author is optimistic and singularly devoid of
that fear of calamity from either foreign competition or government
oppression which permeates the writings and addresses of the older
school. His attention is taken up less with ‘grave perils’ than with
means of strengthening and expanding business prosperity.” J. T. Y.

+ =Ann Am Acad= 72:236 Jl ‘17 250w

“This book by the former chairman of the Federal trade commission,
exhibits those ideas which have given him nation-wide fame. But the
careful thinker will not be able to avoid the inference that with all
his apparent clearness of thought he has some of those heresies that
have made Frank A. Vanderlip term us ‘a nation of economic
illiterates.’ The author discusses the Sherman law in a sane way and
explains the attitude of the Federal trade commission. At the close of
the book the act under which the commission was formed and a part of
the Clayton act are published. The book is interesting from cover to
cover. Hurley’s meaning is always clear and his ideas always clever.”

+ — =Coal Age= 11:641 Ap 7 ‘17 1250w

=HURST, ARTHUR F.= Medical diseases of the war. *$1.75 Longmans 616

“Dr Hurst discusses certain common diseases in the war, such as trench
fever, dysentery and paratyphoid, and shows how infections received at
this time may linger and revive through many years in other forms.”
(Survey) “The first chapter is devoted to the functional nervous
disorders of which so many varieties have been met with during the
war. Among these are classed cases of shell shock, neurasthenia,
hysteria, and psychasthenia.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

Reviewed by Gertrude Seymour

=Survey= 39:170 N 17 ‘17 80w

“It is a valuable addition to the medical literature of the war.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p4 Ja 4 ‘17 400w

=HUSBAND, JOSEPH.= Story of the Pullman car. il *$1.50 (6½c) McClurg 656 17-15079

The story of the Pullman car is told in the following chapters: The
birth of railroad transportation; The evolution of the sleeping car;
The rise of a great industry; The Pullman car in Europe; The survival
of the fittest; The town of Pullman; Inventions and improvements; How
the cars are made; The operation of the Pullman car. One aspect of the
subject is not touched on, the labor disturbances that have attended
the development of the industry. The illustrations, which include
reproductions of cartoons made in the early days of the sleeping car,
are interesting.

=A L A Bkl= 14:46 N ‘17

“The majority of people know in a vague way about the town of Pullman
and the immense size of this industry, and these exact details of the
various inventions and improvements which bring about the comfort and
luxury of present day travel make an interesting and instructive
book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 12 ‘17 130w

=Cleveland= p112 S ‘17 30w

=Pittsburgh= 22:819 D ‘17 20w

=HUSIK, ISAAC.= History of mediaeval Jewish philosophy. *$3 (2c) Macmillan 181 16-21233

At the suggestion of the Jewish publication society the author has
undertaken to write a “history of mediaeval Jewish rationalistic
philosophy in one volume—a history that will appeal alike to the
scholar and the intelligent non-technical reader.” He points out that
no such work exists in any language, and that in English, Jewish
philosophy in general is barely touched. This work then seems to fill
a gap in the history of philosophy. A general introduction is followed
by chapters devoted to eighteen mediaeval philosophers. Bibliography,
notes, list of Biblical and rabbinic passages, and index complete the
book. The author is assistant professor of philosophy in the
University of Pennsylvania.

“The author shows his ability to do pioneer work of this type by the
skill with which he handles the obscure and intricate subtleties of
his theme. He deals exhaustively with mediaeval Jewish rationalism but
omits all reference to mysticism or the Kabbaka.”

+ =Ind= 91:136 Jl 28 ‘17 60w

“Those familiar with the scattered, obscure, and unintelligible
material with which Dr Husik had to cope, can best appreciate the
value of his excellent work. He has transformed a literary chaos into
a systematic presentation, accessible to the modern reader. His study
of the texts is deep and thorough; and his clear, simple, and concise
style stands in contrast with the obscure interpretations in German.”
N. H. Adlerblum

+ — =J Philos= 15:22 Ja 3 ‘18 1600w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:188 D ‘16

“Most scholarly and illuminating work.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:554 N ‘17 160w

“Dr Husik deliberately restricts his scope to the medieval Jewish
rationalism. Within these limits Dr Husik has written a good book. ...
He has the two qualifications necessary for his main task. He has a
real control of the technique of metaphysics and an independent
knowledge of the Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic materials. The skilful
exercise of these qualifications has resulted in a notable addition to
the history of philosophy.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p32 Ja 18 ‘17 1150w

=HUTCHINGS, MRS EMILY GRANT.= Jap Herron; a novel written from the ouija board; with an introd. The coming of Jap Herron. il *$1.50 (3c) Kennerley 17-28757

The sponsors of this story, Emily Grant Hutchings and Lola V. Hays,
seem to be convinced that Mark Twain spelled out the tale to them on
the ouija board. “Emily Grant Hutchings, who writes the introductory
account of how it all happened, is from Hannibal, Mo., the home of
Mark Twain’s boyhood, and in her the alleged spirit of the author
seems to have put much confidence.” (N Y Times) “Jap Herron is the son
of the local drunkard of a village somewhere in Missouri. After his
father’s death and his mother’s remarriage ‘to another bum,’ Jap runs
away and strays into Bloomtown and the printing office of the Herald.
The editor, Ellis Hinton, has already worked and starved himself to
the verge of consumption. ... Jap appoints himself assistant, which
means chiefly the sharing of Hinton’s thankless toil and pitiful fare.
The two become devoted to each other; a good third is added them in
the son of the village skinflint, and, later, a fourth in the angelic
middle-aged Flossy, who marries Hinton and mothers them all. It is
Hinton’s dream that Jap shall grow up to be what he himself has wished
to be, a power for righteousness in the community. Jap does: we leave
him secure in the esteem and leadership of a rejuvenated Bloomtown.”
(Bookm)

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

— =Bookm= 46:208 O ‘17 520w

=Cleveland= p128 N ‘17 90w

=Dial= 63:597 D 6 ‘17 200w

“A good deal of the detail does ‘sound like Mark’—as an echo sounds
like a voice. The ‘lay-out’ of the tale is natural enough, too, its
setting in a little Missouri town, with the village printing office as
its closer scene. But that is all. It is a tale of voluptuous domestic
sentiment and pathos, with morbid emphasis (strange as coming from a
freed spirit!) upon the pathos of death. ... It is a woman’s story of
a notably ‘slushy’ type. Its roughness, its Twainish flavor, are
external and occasional. Its people are unreal; when they do not
remember to talk like Mark Twain, they talk like a best-seller.”

— =Nation= 105:223 Ag 30 ‘17 550w

“The story is short and snappy. ... There are spots of undoubted
brilliance. The pathos is much in evidence, and there is a lot of
slapstick comedy. ... At its worst, it could be called a decent parody
of Mark Twain.” Clement Wood

– + =N Y Call= p14 S 2 ‘17 230w

– + =N Y Times= 22:336 S 9 ‘17 500w

=HUTCHINSON, ROBERT H.= Socialism of New Zealand. *$1 New review pub. 335 16-14591

“Like Mr Walling, the author would apply the term ‘state capitalism’
to the social experiments of New Zealand; and says, with much truth,
that they are designed largely for the benefit of the small farmers
and shopkeepers, and that the result has been to entrench capitalism
more strongly than ever in the affections of the middle class. The
‘Lib-Lab’ alliance, which controlled New Zealand politics for so many
years under Ballance, Seddon, and Ward, has reached the limit of its
power, and now the small farmers and capitalists, under the leadership
of Massey and the so-called ‘Reform party,’ show reactionary
tendencies, while the labor leaders and socialists are breaking away
from the old entanglements to take a new and more radical path, where
true progress lies. ... The experience of New Zealand, as Mr
Hutchinson says, indicates the lines of development which the United
States is likely to take in the near future.”—Am Econ R

“While this little book gives few unfamiliar facts about New Zealand,
it is important in that it shows the point of view of a socialist who
has spent a year or more in that country and who wishes to ‘dispel the
prevalent idea that her progressive institutions have in any way
solved the problems of capital and labor.’ ... Mr Hutchinson’s book is
very readable, and shows an intimate knowledge of the subject. Here
and there one might cavil at his argument.” J. E. LeRossignol

+ =Am Econ R= 7:176 Mr ‘17 370w

“The book is not a technical treatise, but a brief simple work for the
general reader, and is both readable and instructive.” G. S. Dow

+ =Am J Soc= 22:414 N ‘16 430w

=Pittsburgh= 22:689 O ‘17 60w

=Springf’d Republican= p5 Jl 18 ‘16 170w

=Survey= 37:673 Mr 10 ‘17 70w

=HUTTEN ZUM STOLZENBERG, BETTINA (RIDDLE) freifrau von.= Mag Pye. *$1.50 Appleton 17-4712

“This new story by the Baroness von Hutten is, first and foremost, a
tale of mystery. There is the mystery of Mag’s mother, and the even
greater mystery of Bettany’s disappearance, and several minor secrets
connected more or less closely with these two principal ones. Victor
Quest, the briefless, or almost briefless, barrister, learned about
them all after a while, and it is Victor Quest who tells the
story. ... Although the tale ends in the year 1916, the war is but
lightly touched upon, with just a glimpse or two of the opinions of
various persons as to the relations of England and Germany before
August, 1914.”—N Y Times

“Told in a quiet, reflective manner with good characterizations.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:316 Ap ‘17

“The novel is pleasing and wholesome.”

+ =Ath= p102 F ‘17 60w

“A story of graceful humour and unforced sentiment, at its weakest
where it bothers with plot.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:314 My ‘17 300w

“The novel stands in that host of good, but uninspired, middle-class
English fiction.”

+ =Dial= 62:314 Ap 5 ‘17 100w

+ =Lit D= 54:1855 Je 16 ‘17 280w

“As with De Morgan the apparently careless and haphazard manner of its
telling veils an adroit and intricate method. ... It is a very
graceful and skilful story.”

+ =Nation= 104:432 Ap 12 ‘17 340w

+ =N Y Times= 22:74 Mr 4 ‘17 350w

“Not by any means the author’s best work. The plot is improbable and
mechanical. Mag herself is a natural and charming girl.”

– + =Outlook= 115:622 Ap 4 ‘17 20w

=Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 280w

“The Baroness von Hutten is far too well trained a writer to drop into
futility, but she is capable of unreality and of dullness. ... The
story may satisfy the sentimental, but it is unconscionably long.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p82 F 15 ‘17 80w

=HYAMSON, ALBERT MONTEFIORE.= Palestine, the rebirth of an ancient people. il *$1.50 Knopf 915.69 17-23768

“A detailed presentation of the social, economic, and agricultural
conditions in modern Palestine, accompanied by a brief survey of the
history of the country since the time of Roman occupation. Palestine
has long appeared to be a desert. ... The colonies established under
the care of the Zionist movement have proved that Palestine is one of
the richest agricultural and fruit-producing countries on the face of
the globe. ... What Palestine needs, Mr Hyamson states, is, first, a
new vitalized western population, secondly, roads, railways and
harbors, and above all a wise, just and stable government. Since the
sorry events of Turkish misrule following the war, the Jews of
Palestine hope for local autonomy under the protection of a Protestant
power that will see fair play between the different elements of the
population.”—R of Rs

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:124 Ja ‘18

=Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ‘17 400w

“Mr Hyamson has done his task thoroughly. His book contains all the
information necessary on the subject, handled with a nice sense of
relative values in a style that is somewhat heavy.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:462 N 11 ‘17 530w

=R of Rs= 56:553 N ‘17 180w

“The unique interest of his work lies in the part concerned with
modern Zionism and the actual work of colonisation and education which
it has so far achieved.”

+ =Sat R= 124:151 Ag 25 ‘17 1500w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 8 ‘18 310w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p387 Ag 16 ‘17 2250w

=HYDE, WILLIAM DE WITT.= Best man I know. *50c Macmillan 170 17-14119

President Hyde of Bowdoin college died on June 29, 1917. In this, his
last book, he has condensed into ninety-five pages some forty-five
treatises. “The best man Dr Hyde knows finds the roots of his being in
‘that will for the good of all which is the will of God,’ and from
these roots various practical fruits are borne.” (Nation)

“It seems almost mystically appropriate that President Hyde’s last
publication should be a message to the world describing ‘The best man
I know,’ an ideal which many of the author’s friends and former pupils
will think he not only depicted but exemplified. ... Dr Hyde had
something very definite to say on each of his topics, and what he has
written will make excellent food for reflection for men and women of
every age.”

+ =Nation= 105:377 O 4 ‘17 270w

=Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 90w

I

Information annual 1916; a continuous cyclopedia and digest of current events. *$4 Cumulative digest corporation 031 (16-9777)

The second annual cumulation of the monthly numbers of Information.
The Foreword says, “With the issue for January, 1917, Information
passed into new ownership, tho remaining under the same editorial
direction as heretofore. This change of ownership brought an enlarged
size and a changed format—which will affect materially the bulk of the
new annual volume. The present volume is, however, but slightly larger
than that for 1915. The European war, as before, overshadows all other
subjects.” The volume is a cyclopedia for the year 1916, bringing the
latest cyclopedias up to date. Fremont Rider is general editor, and
the work of compilation has been done by Elizabeth Webb.

“Unique in that it follows the news as given in the daily papers upon
a great variety of topics with only so much of editorial digestion as
is required by brevity and the exclusion of extraneous and repetitious
matter. A much larger number of topics are treated than in the
excellent ‘American year book’ or ‘New international year book’; the
annual has the nature of an edition of the index of the New York Times
with brief text under each entry instead of reference to the newspaper
files, though it is not so inclusive. Its defects are many and
evident. It contains no information except that which appears in the
news columns of the press, it is not well written, and it suffers much
from incoherence.”

+ — =Nation= 105:100 Jl 26 ‘17 250w

=INGPEN, ROGER.= Shelley in England; new facts and letters from the Shelley-Whitton papers. 2v il *$5 Houghton 17-9463

“Mr Ingpen is known already as the author of ‘The letters of Percy
Bysshe Shelley,’ first published about eight years ago. ... Its
first-hand offering of the real Shelley as limned by himself in his
letters complemented Professor Dowden’s monumental biography and the
two together gave what has been thought to be the definite depiction
of the poet, his life, career, and character. But new material has
been found which adds much of interest to the facts already known. ...
Several interesting new facts are revealed, and some portions of Mary
Shelley’s life in England are cleared up. Two letters written by Lord
Byron and a number by Shelley and his relatives are printed for the
first time. Legal documents recently unearthed establishing Shelley’s
marriage to Harriet Westbrook in Edinburgh and others concerning her
suicide are here first published.”—N Y Times

“Not necessary in the average public library.”