Chapter XXXVI: Part II: is composed of chapters on: Paris—a brief sketch for tourists; (6)

“Mr Birmingham takes apparently a rather Laodicean attitude. He is not
aflame with that determined patriotism which burns in the souls of so
many other Irish writers of today. He has applied, on the contrary,
his own rather detached, yet pleasantly sympathetic spirit, and the
wit and knowledge of human nature that have gone to the making of his
novels, to a study of his fellow-Irishmen, and with laudable results.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:261 N ’20 370w

+ =Dial= 68:669 My ’20 110w

Reviewed by Preserved Smith

=Nation= 110:768 Je 5 ’20 500w

“Mr Birmingham’s book covers a very broad field, and does it with an
ease, a lack of hurry and an ever-present sense of humor, which, when
the highly controversial nature of the subjects is considered, render
it a most unusual volume.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:117 Mr 14 ’20 900w

+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 60w

“We can cordially commend Canon Hannay’s book to all who want to know
what sort of men inhabit Ireland, what they think about, and in what
way they will bear themselves in the hour of trial; we commend it to
all who think some working compromise can be devised to inveigle
Ulster under a Dublin parliament, and who imagine that because a
policy is useful and desirable it must therefore also be practicable.”

+ =Spec= 124:146 Ja 31 ’20 700w

“This book will be much more helpful than ‘Irish impressions.’ Mr
Chesterton found in Ireland the stronghold of the religion of which he
is such an able propagandist. George Birmingham, although adherent to
the church of Ireland, deals more even justice and displays in his
treatment of the religious question that Irish fairness which is as
real as Irish bigotry, though far less generally recognized.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p661 N 20 ’19 360w

=HANNAY, JAMES OWEN (GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM, pseud.).= Up, the rebels! *$1.75 (2½c) Doran

19–15676

Sir Ulick Conolly was a high government official in Ireland whose
phlegmatic temperament and easy-going worldly wisdom refused to take
the unrest of the Irish Nationals seriously. His policy was not to
suppress the rebels but to avert an explosion by letting them blow off
steam freely. He did not even suppress his daughter Mona, one of the
rebels, who talked in Gaelic and dressed like a Celtic queen; who
engaged in conspiracies and led uprisings. But he managed to send her
off into the country to her aunt’s, for safe keeping, as he thought.
There she organizes the natives and proclaims the Irish republic in
the village of Dunally. Her father’s timely interference saves the
situation from becoming serious for the rebels and turns the fracas
into something of a farce. In the end the girl is put to bed for
recuperation under the watchful eye of her aunt.

* * * * *

“The humorous possibilities of the situation are used with delicacy
and ingenuity. George A. Birmingham is at his best in this book.”

+ =Ath= p930 S 19 ’19 120w

+ =Booklist= 16:243 Ap ’20

“Never was irony so playful, so kindly an instrument as in
Birmingham’s ‘Up, the rebels.’” M. E. Bailey

+ =Bookm= 51:207 Ap ’20 900w

“To read ‘Up, the rebels!’ is to see new light upon the Irish
question. Both as a story and as a study of political and social
conditions it is a tribute to the knowledge and skill of a leader
among present-day clerical humorists.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ja 31 ’20 1200w

“Of course it is possible that some persons will not find this tale
amusing; there are people who do not find the Gilbert and Sullivan
operas amusing. But those who can enjoy wit and a shrewd, ironic
treatment of certain human vanities and foibles will undoubtedly
chuckle long and deeply over Mr G. A. Birmingham’s new tale.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:53 F 1 ’20 1150w

“A thoroughly delightful story of Ireland, over which the reader
chuckles long if not loud, appreciating and enjoying the whimsical wit
and good-natured satire he has some time ago learned to expect from
this most entertaining of writers.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 60w

“Canon Hannay has never written a more satisfying story.”

+ =Outlook= 124:249 F 11 ’20 100w

“Another of those disconcerting criticisms of Irish life and English
government which illuminate the difficulties of affairs in the
distressful country. The fact that the book is as amusing as any of
its predecessors, even ‘Spanish gold’ or ‘The search party,’ seems
merely incidental, but it must be mentioned.”

+ =Sat R= 129:70 Ja 17 ’20 120w

“We have already had several serious novels inspired by the events of
Easter, 1916, but George Birmingham is the only writer who has turned
the sequel to humorous purpose, and he is probably the only writer
living who could be trusted to do so without offence. The worst that
can be said of the book is that, as in ‘The seething pot,’ his first
novel, the author sees no way out.”

+ =Spec= 123:510 O 18 ’19 900w

“The relation between his amusing chronicles and actual life may be
remote: no matter, for they were always considered to be descriptive
of the kind of events that might occur if people and Ireland had
happened to be like the people and the Ireland of George Birmingham’s
books.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p514 S 25 ’19 450w

=HANSHEW, MARY E., and HANSHEW, THOMAS W. (CHARLOTTE MAY KINGSLEY, pseud.).= Riddle of the frozen flame. il *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday

20–9476

“Mr Maverick Narkom, superintendent of Scotland Yard, sat before the
litter of papers upon his desk.... ‘Dash it, Cleek!’ he said for the
thirty-third time, ‘I don’t know what to make of it, I don’t,
indeed!’” So opens the new Cleek story. The mystery referred to is a
series of daring bank robberies. But more unusual matters are to
follow, involving the riddle of the frozen flames. Sir Nigel Merriton
sees them on the first night spent in Merriton Towers and his impulse
is to go out onto the fens to investigate, but his horrified servants
restrain him with tales of those who have dared this never to return.
Sir Nigel, who is very much in love and has just become engaged, has
no wish to risk his life and his interest in the supposed supernatural
phenomenon lapses. It is only when Dacre Wynne, his unsuccessful
rival, disappears, that he is moved to action and carries the strange
tale to Scotland Yard, arousing the interest of Cleek, who pursues the
mystery to its solution.

* * * * *

“The dénouement is obvious from the first, while the love interest is
of the usual stereotyped kind. Even so, ‘The riddle of the frozen
flame’ is an infinitely better mystery tale than many others appearing
this season.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ’20 220w

“‘The riddle of the frozen flame’ is a cleverly conceived tale that
will idle away an hour most pleasantly.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:302 Je 6 ’20 400w

=Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 200w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 80w

=HANSON, DANIEL LOUIS.= Business philosophy of Moses Irons. il *$2.50 (1c) Shaw, A. W. 658

20–19862

A series of chapters, in fiction form, on the methods of conducting a
big business today. Moses Irons is the typical self-made business man,
shrewd, kindly, humorous and masterful. His ideals, his methods, his
relations with his subordinates are set forth in the book, some of the
chapters of which are: A romance of business; Live wires and dead
ones; Getting a job with Moses Irons; The ironmaster talks
advertising; Business diplomacy and trade anarchists; Wives and
sweethearts; The ironmaster gets pointers on handling salesmen; The
ironmaster invests in junk.

=HANSON, OLE.= Americanism versus bolshevism. il *$1.75 (2½c) Doubleday 331.87

20–2669

The author speaks of bolshevism and everything he conceives of as
coming under the head—communism, syndicalism, I. W. W.’ism—in no
uncertain terms. They all, he says, thrive on “murder, rape, pillage,
arson, free love, poverty, want, starvation, filth, slavery,
autocracy, suppression, sorrow and hell on earth.” (Preface) After
giving the above ‘isms more than their due he also mentions the red
employers as likewise culpable, but “we should be thankful that every
day they become less and soon will be an inconsequential minority in
the land.” Among the contents are: The labour situation in Seattle;
Something of the rise, trial and failure of bolshevism in Europe; Some
of history’s verdicts on reformers, utopias, trade unions, and
bolshevism; The causes of Bolshevism in Russia; The origin and
development of bolshevism in the United States; Bolshevism in America:
its causes and some remedies; Bolshevism contrasted with Americanism.

* * * * *

“The book contains pages of shallow generalizations.”

− =Booklist= 16:223 Ap ’20

“The value of this book, and the interest of it, is the clearness with
which it points out the menace.” I. W. L.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 950w

=Ind= 103:320 S 11 ’20 70w

“The best part of the book is that in which Mr Hanson tells the story
of his own fight. The reader is forced to decide whether or not Mr
Hanson has attempted too much. For one thing he has endeavored to
generalize from his own experiences. His arguments are weak when he
delves into the past. Ole Hanson on the subject of remedies is worth
reading.”

+ − =Lit D= p90 My 1 ’20 1050w

=R of Rs= 61:560 My ’20 60w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 15 ’20 400w

=HANUS, PAUL HENRY.= School administration and school reports. *$1.75 Houghton 379.15

20–13792

The object of the book is to help principals and teachers as well as
superintendents and boards of education to acquire a clearly defined
educational and administrative policy and to formulate and justify
their opinions and procedure. Contents: The meaning of education; Some
principles of school administration; Town and city school reports,
more particularly superintendents’ reports; Testing the efficiency of
public schools; Courtis arithmetic tests applied to employees in
business houses; Measuring progress in learning Latin; How far shall
the state go? The German example; German schools and American
education; Germany’s kultur; The Harvard graduate school of education.

* * * * *

“One might raise a question as to why such an excellent monograph as
the first three chapters would make should be made to carry an equal
amount of loosely associated material. The last eight chapters are
interesting and have individual value, but are not more closely
related to the theme of the book than many other articles which might
have been included. The busy school administrator would doubtless
appreciate the book more if there were fewer ‘riders’ attached.”

+ − =El School J= 21:73 S ’20 880w

“The clear-cut statement of principles of school administration and of
the bases of determining the efficiency of the administration of a
system of schools, and the analysis of typical school reports and the
suggestions for their improvement contained in the first four of the
essays have in themselves much more than enough of value to justify
the volume.”

+ =School R= 28:710 N ’20 190w

=HAPGOOD, NORMAN.= Advancing hour. *$2 Boni & Liveright 940.5

20–12808

Mr Hapgood accepts the fact that we are now in the midst of
revolution, and accepting that fact, he says “the only question is in
what manner it will be conducted, and by whom.” He states his own
position, and defines his liberalism: “If a radical is one who by
nature prefers sudden change and violent remedies then I am not a
radical.... A liberal differs from a radical in humility. He
concentrates on certain changes, good in themselves and also carrying
the seeds of further change, but he leaves later steps to later times.
His faith is that if the next step taken by us is important and of
right direction we shall have done all that belongs to our moment.”
Contents: In time of revolution; The storm cellar; The blockade of
thought; What the issues are; Without a party; Facing bolshevism: our
follies in Russia; Facing bolshevism: the future in Russia; Is
socialism needed? The answer of cooperation; The answer of liberalism;
From Wilsonism to the future; What is our faith?

* * * * *

“A hopeful book which does not attempt to solve all problems at a
stroke.”

+ =Booklist= 17:13 O ’20

“Mr Hapgood always writes interestingly even though his words may not
be based upon the soundest philosophy.”

+ =Cath World= 112:403 D ’20 330w

“Outside of an excellent chapter on the cooperative movement, the
volume is chiefly pious platitude, amiable advice to business men not
to make fools of themselves in a time of rapid social change like the
present.” Harold Stearns

− + =Freeman= 2:92 O 6 ’20 960w

Reviewed by W: MacDonald

=Nation= 111:sup427 O 13 ’20 750w

“It is a book worth everyone’s reading, for its notable contribution
of facts and ideas, and more especially for its candor of spirit, rare
indeed in a day when a great part of our political writers are still
more or less disabled morally by their late services to national
morale in disseminating lies and misrepresentations for the glory of
God and the cause of right.” A. J.

+ =New Repub= 23:339 Ag 18 ’20 2050w

“Mr Hapgood shows the defects of his good qualities and one of these
is at present a lack of knowledge in what these good qualities
consist. The volume is stimulating, patriotic without being
nationalistic, unselfish and idealistic; but it shows some of the
defects of an education which seems to have been entirely American.”
M. F. Egan

+ − =N Y Times= p8 Ag 29 ’20 3550w

“The best chapter in the book is chapter eight on the advantages of
co-operation, over both socialism and government regulation of great
combinations, as a remedy for industrial injustice. Mr Norman Hapgood
is an effective pamphleteer; but excellences in a pamphleteer are
fatal defects in a historian.”

− + =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 300w

“To one reviewer at least—and one who is not insensible to the part Mr
Hapgood has taken in past times in the advocacy of certain social
measures—there is provocation on almost every page of this book. But
in the two chapters on the Russian problem, as well as in other
incidental treatment of this problem, the provocation concentrates in
every line.” W. J. Ghent

− + =Review= 3:230 S 15 ’20 3350w

=R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 130w

“To see things steadily and clearly is a gift of few. Mr Hapgood
possesses fewer blind spots than most, but it may be that he is
mistaken in parts of his analysis. However, he stimulates the reader
to formulate his own beliefs. The style is a trifle labored, but there
is no mistaking the book’s earnestness.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 320w

“Special mention should be made of Mr Hapgood’s intimate study of
President Wilson. It is a helpful antidote to Mr Keynes’ sketch.” L.
R. Robinson

+ =Survey= 45:320 N 27 ’20 720w

=HARA, KATSURO.=[2] Introduction to the history of Japan. *$2.50 (2½c) Putnam

952

The book is the first of a projected series of publications by the
Yamato society, whose aim is to make clear the meaning and extent of
Japanese culture to other nations, and to introduce the best
literature and art of foreign nations to Japan for a promotion of a
common understanding. The present volume is intended for those
Europeans and Americans who would like to know Japan “not as a land of
quaint curios and picturesque paradoxes only worthy to be preserved
intact for a show, but as a land inhabited by a nation striving hard
to improve itself, and to take its share, however humble, in the
common progress of the civilisation of the world.” (Preface) Contents:
The races and climate of Japan; Japan before the introduction of
Buddhism and Chinese civilisation; Growth of the imperial power;
gradual centralisation; Remodeling of the state; Culmination of the
new régime; stagnation; rise of the military régime; The military
régime; the Taira and the Minamoto; the shogunate of Kamakura; The
welding of the nation; the political disintegration of the country;
End of medieval Japan; The transition from medieval to modern Japan;
The Tokugawa shogunate—its political régime; culture and society (two
chapters); The restoration of the Meidji; Epilogue. The objects of and
the rules of the Yamato society are given in full and there is an
index.

* * * * *

“A carefully evolved and well written synopsis of the many centuries
of Japanese national life. There is one especially creditable
circumstance about the publication of this book. It is honest Japanese
propaganda, and it makes no pretensions of being anything else.” S. L.
C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 22 ’21 420w

=HARBEN, WILLIAM NATHANIEL.= Divine event. *$1.75 (2c) Harper

20–16796

A story of psychical phenomena. Hillery Gramling, unhappy over the
death of his brother, in consultation with a medium is sent to New
York’s East side to live among the poor. There he comes in contact
with Lucia Lingle, a beautiful young girl who seems to be under the
shadow of some awful, mysterious tragedy. He falls in love with her
and is anxious to help her. He is aided by Professor Trimble,
psychologist, alienist, mental scientist, who becomes deeply
interested in Lucia’s case. Thru the mediumship of Madame DuFresne,
they discover the exact nature of her trouble, that her half-brother
is trying to prove her insane that he may take over her inheritance.
Together they fight the thing out, encouraged always by the
supernatural aid they receive, thru Madame DuFresne, from those on the
other side of death. In the end thru their combined efforts, Lucia is
freed from the awful curse that has hung over her, and has the promise
of happiness.

* * * * *

“The plot is slight and unconvincing but is evidently meant to be
taken seriously and will interest readers inclined to believe in
spirit control and guardian angels.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21

=HARCOURT, ROBERT HENRY.= Elementary forge practice. 2d ed, enl il $1.50 Manual arts press 672

20–19056

A second edition of a work originally published by the author,
instructor in forge practice in Leland Stanford Junior university,
where it has been used as a text. It is designed for use in technical
and vocational schools. Contents: Materials and equipment;
Drawing-out, bending and twisting; Common welds; Special welds; Hammer
work; Annealing, hardening and tempering steel; Tool forging. There
are forty-four plates illustrating as many projects.

* * * * *

“The volume should prove a valuable addition to any shop library as a
supplementary text. For the teacher of large classes of beginners it
should lift the burden of much class work and explanation if placed in
the hands of the pupils as a text.”

+ =School R= 29:77 Ja ’21 210w

=HARD, WILLIAM.= Raymond Robins’ own story. il *$2 (4c) Harper 947

20–3007

Colonel Robins was the unofficial representative of the American
ambassador to Russia for eighteen months and a close observer of the
powers that conducted Russian affairs, and he has had a more intimate
acquaintance than any other American or allied representative with the
government of Lenin. He is not a socialist and not a bolshevist, but
he sees that the danger from the latter, if such there be, lies not in
riots and robberies, mobs and massacres, not in its disorder but in
its order, in that “the Soviet system is genuinely a system on its own
account.... It can be extinguished only in the free air of fair
controversy and of fair, practical proof.” There is but one choice
left to America, according to Colonel Robins, in dealing with Russia,
and that is not intervention but intercourse. The story of the book is
told by the author as it was narrated to him by Colonel Robins. The
contents are: The arrival of the Soviet; Trotzky’s plans for soviet
Russia; The all-Russian congress and the Brest-Litovsk peace; The
personality and power of Nikolai Lenin; The bolshevik “bomb”; and many
illustrations.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:237 Ap ’20

“It stands out in this consecutive form as the most vigorous, the most
picturesque, as well as the most truthful record in English of the
birth of Bolshevism through the Soviet.” O. M. Sayler

+ =Bookm= 51:310 My ’20 950w

=Cleveland= p76 Ag ’20 60w

+ =R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 180w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 1 ’20 1000w

“Mr Hard is so carried away with dramatic fervor that he feels it
necessary to interrupt himself every now and then to assure us that Mr
Robins is a good anti-Bolshevist. But these interludes need not divert
the reader from the important parts of the book. Mr Robins’ admirable
suggestions as to future American policy toward Russia deserve to be
widely read.” Reed Lewis

+ − =Survey= 44:48 Ap 3 ’20 270w

=HARDY, THOMAS.= Collected poems, lyrical, narratory and reflective. *$3.40 Macmillan 821

20–26754

“This book contains all of Thomas Hardy’s poetry except ‘The dynasts,’
including poems which have appeared in his prose works.”—Booklist

* * * * *

“There have been many poets among us in the last fifty years, poets of
sure talent, and it may be even of genius, but no other of them has
this compulsive power of Hardy. The secret is not hard to find. Not
one of them is adequate to what we know and have suffered....
Therefore we deliberately set Mr Hardy among the greatest.” J. M. M.

+ =Ath= p1147 N 7 ’19 2200w

+ =Booklist= 17:21 O ’20

“Let it be said straight out that in our opinion, whatever else Mr
Hardy’s writing, susceptible to scansion, is, it is not poetry. It is
not poetry, because, in the end, poetry is in a sort illusion.... He
has been guilty of the last, the unforgivable sin in poetry—* *he has
sinned against love, for which there is and should be no forgiveness.”

− + =Sat R= 128:459 N 15 ’19 1250w

=Spec= 122:512 O 18 ’19 20w

“Mr Hardy, once and for all, set up as poet, then, at an age when
Shakespeare left our mortal stage. This book, for that reason alone,
is an unprecedented achievement. Apart from that, to read steadily
through it—and what severer test of lyrical poetry could be
devised?—is to win to the consciousness not of any superficial
consistency, but assuredly of a ‘harmony of colouring’; not, however
keen the joy manifest ‘in the making,’ of an art become habitual, but
of a shadowy unity and design.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p681 N 27 ’19 2450w

=HARKER, MRS LIZZIE ALLEN.= Allegra. *$1.75 (2c) Scribner

20–161

Allegra is a charming but decidedly self-centered young actress who
sees every person and every incident in the light of her career. She
is playing in a provincial repertory theater at the opening of the
story and it is thru a chance meeting with Paul Staniland that her
ambition to appear in London is gratified. Paul is delighted with
Allegra and works up a part for her in the play he is dramatizing from
one of Matthew Maythorne’s novels. Maythorne is one of those popular
novelists whose books sell into the thousands and he fatuously accepts
the success of the play as a tribute to himself, giving Paul none of
the credit. Allegra’s admiration for the novelist is killed by a
reading of his book and she comes to appreciate Paul, but a visit at
the country home of Paul’s people, delightful tho they are, convinces
her that she belongs to the theater and she returns to the stage.

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p1208 N 14 ’19 70w

“The plot is not credible in parts, but this does not mar the interest
of the story.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:244 Ap ’20

Reviewed by M. E. Bailey

=Bookm= 51:205 Ap ’20 260w

“If Paul seems a special creation made to fit Allegra’s need, why
quarrel with him? Are we not left with the conviction that here is a
really happy ending to a story?”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 260w

“A number of minor characters are very well drawn.”

+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 70w

“All the minor characters, in fact, are skillfully portrayed, with any
number of quaint and understanding little touches which make ‘Allegra’
very agreeable reading—the more agreeable because the author has had
the good taste and good sense to avoid the conventional ‘happy
ending.’”

+ =N Y Times= 25:71 F 8 ’20 440w

+ =Sat R= 130:380 N 6 ’20 100w

“Altogether it is a slight but pleasing little story without any
probing into psychology or any tremendous conflict of forces.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 160w

“Allegra, a little hard and egotistical, and passionately devoted to
her art, is well studied. And the whole tale (which moves among
well-bred people throughout) is on a good level, though we think a
little below that attained in other books by the author.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p594 O 23 ’19 100w

=HARPER, GEORGE MCLEAN.=[2] John Morley, and other essays. *$1.60 Princeton univ. press 814

20–10290

“Professor Harper, of Princeton university, author of various books of
literary criticism (including the substantial and able work on
Wordsworth), here puts together eight essays—on John Morley; Victor
Hugo (these from the Atlantic Monthly); Michael Angelo’s sonnets;
Balzac; W. C. Brownell (an American critic); Wordsworth at Blois;
Wordsworth’s love poetry; and ‘David Brainerd: a Puritan saint.’”—The
Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“His generalizations are just, and he is not ridden by them; he knows
when to generalize and when to forget his generalizations.”

+ =Ath= p838 D 17 ’20 110w

=Booklist= 17:68 N ’20

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p762 N 18 ’20 70w

=HARRIS, CORRA MAY (WHITE) (MRS LUNDY HOWARD HARRIS).= Happily married. *$1.75 (2c) Doran

20–3192

The scene is an exclusive southern town, the time that summer of
intense war activity, 1918, and the characters several married pairs.
Two of these are Mary and Pelham Madden, and two others Ellen and
Barrie Skipwith. Mary is one of those calm, maternal and beautifully
placid women, a perfect housekeeper and mother of four children. Ellen
is a childless woman with red hair and baby blue eyes. Mary has just
found a note in her husband’s pocket addressed to Dear Pep. Ellen has
just turned in a Red cross subscription list with an anonymous
contribution of $1000. How Mary wakes up and learns to practice the
old womanly wiles is the theme of a story that is told amusingly with
touches of satire.

* * * * *

“Entertaining in spite of its hackneyed plot.”

+ =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20

“Mrs Harris makes no attempt to inject novelty into the situation. She
relies on her knowledge of men and women and her happy faculty in
phrasing her reflections thereon for the pleasure of her readers. And
these easily suffice.” F. A. G.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Mr 27 ’20 500w

“The entertaining and shrewd comment upon married life, adds ginger to
a somewhat conventional vamp story.”

+ − =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 100w

+ =Lit D= p99 My 1 ’20 2300w

“An immense quantity of mildly entertaining and occasionally shrewd
comment strung on a very slight, very much worn thread of plot,
constitutes Corra Harris’s new novel.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:4 F 29 ’20 300w

+ =Outlook= 124:562 Mr 31 ’20 30w

“Mrs Harris’s thesis does not command unfaltering acquiescence. For
those, however, who collect novels as others collect butterflies, the
book will have a great deal of interest.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p383 Je 17 ’20 500w

=HARRIS, CREDO FITCH.= Wings of the wind. *$1.75 (1½c) Small

20–11301

Jack Bronx, returning from the war, is packed off by his fond parents
on their private yacht, with one of his army pals. On the way to
Havana they pick up a stranger who turns out to be a secret envoy from
the Kingdom of Azuria, in search of a lost princess. Chance favoring
they trace the princess as one of the passengers on another yacht.
Great is the chase, thrilling the adventures which eventually take the
party to the Florida swamps into the ancient haunts of the Seminoles.
The princess is rescued, Jack falls violently in love with her, and
the old emissary hard put to it to save her, under the circumstances,
for the throne of Azuria. Jack’s resourceful friend settles the matter
by demonstrating to everybody’s satisfaction that the emissary’s
orders to deliver the princess did not contain the provision that she
must be single when found.

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 650w

“The story teems with thrilling incidents. The plot, however, is
trite.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:552 Ja ’21 90w

=N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 25 ’20 530w

=HARRIS, H. WILSON.= Peace in the making. il *$2 Dutton 940.314

20–6966

“‘What I have endeavored to produce is an account, checked by such
official documents as are available, which will convey to the general
reader some not wholly inadequate impression both of what the
conference did and how it did it.’ (Preface) The author was for three
months the special correspondent of the London Daily News to the
conference.”—Wis Lib Bul

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p95 Ja 16 ’20 200w

+ =Booklist= 17:66 N ’20

“Mr Harris is well-informed and his pen-pictures of the personality
and policy of the leading diplomats, tho less lively than those of Mr
Keynes, are far closer to the facts.”

+ =Ind= 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 50w

“His plan is less ambitious than that of Dr Dillon, for he leaves out
most of the historical summaries which are a valuable feature of Dr
Dillon’s volume, and also tells fewer incidents. His account of the
Prinkipo episode, and of the apparently deliberate intermeddling of
France to insure that the proposed conference should come to naught,
should be read by anyone who still cherishes confidence in the good
faith of the Paris negotiators.” W: MacDonald

+ =Nation= 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 150w

=N Y Times= p15 S 19 ’20 50w

“Those readers who are interested in finding an account of the peace
conference to supplement the somewhat opinionated statements of Keynes
and Dillon would do well to provide themselves with a copy of ‘The
peace in the making.’ The book as a whole, while not itself history in
the fullest sense, may well be regarded as a contribution to history.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 140w

=Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 220w

“His summary of the deliberations of the conference is just a little
too summary, and the chapter on Lenin and Bela Kun is vague and
unsatisfactory. On the other hand, Mr Harris’s judgments of the
personalities of the conference are generally temperate and just.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p23 Ja 8 ’20 220w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:119 Je ’20 60w

=HARRIS, JAMES RENDEL.= Last of the Mayflower. (Manchester univ. publications) *$2 (*5s) Longmans 974.4

20–14551

“In this publication of the John Rylands library Dr Rendel Harris
tries to find an answer to the question, ‘What became of the
“Mayflower“?’ The name was a common one for ships in late Tudor and
early Stuart times; hence the tracing of the authentic ‘Mayflower’ has
entailed much research. Some ten years after the landing of the
Pilgrims (1620), she was employed on a similar service, that of
transporting the remainder of the Leyden colony to New Plymouth. Then
she is traced in the whale-fishery, and to her last owner and master,
Mr Thomas Webber of Boston. Not long after 1654, the author says, ‘one
is tempted to conjecture that she died (in a nautical sense). Most
likely she was broken up in Boston, or perhaps in the Thames on her
last voyage to London.’ ”—Ath

* * * * *

=Ath= p591 Ap 30 ’20 140w

Reviewed by W. A. Dyer

=Bookm= 52:125 O ’20 40w

=HARRISON, AUSTIN.= Before and now. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane 304

20–6972

This collection of papers, reprinted in a revised form from the
English Review, are critical and partly satirical and humorous
impressions of conditions in England previous to and during the war.
They were “journalism then, today they are prophetic,” says the
author. It is the disintegration of old conceptions and the
birth-pangs of new that form the subject-matter of the papers, which
are: Jingoism; The coming of Smith; “Surrey in danger”; Peace, perfect
peace; St George’s stirrup; The duke’s buffalo; A “Christian” Europe
and afterwards; Our gentlemen’s schools; Authority and privilege; The
new “Sesame and lilies”; The Christian drum; What is ours is not ours;
The country of the blind; “Leave them ‘orses alone!”; Foreign
politics; “Minny”; The awakening; Musings at Fort Vaux; Foundations of
reconstruction.

* * * * *

“Some of these reprinted articles from the English Review are worth
reading again, as the contemporary views of a very independent
critic.”

+ − =Ath= p1136 O 31 ’19 120w

“Although the intimate knowledge of men and events which the author
demands of his readers will be a drawback to many, the interest of his
criticisms will hold the attention of the more thoughtful and well
informed.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:305 Je ’20

“The papers are stimulating and thoughtful.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 14 ’20 480w

“Mr Austin Harrison is unfortunate enough to live in a between-age.
Actually he belongs to the Victorian era, but his generation and his
intelligence will not leave him at peace, and push him into a rather
uncomfortable ultra-modern attitude. Of all his essays the musings at
Fort Vaux are the most illuminating, because they are at once the most
sincere, the least preconceived.”

+ − =Nation= 111:224 Ag 21 ’20 220w

=N Y Times= p17 S 12 ’20 50w

“What he has given us is very suggestive, and one is grateful to any
man who can stir up general interest in our social problems by the use
of such a facile pen. He has the same sort of literary gift as Mr H.
G. Wells, though in a slighter degree. But he has not so far shown
anything like the rich literary nutritiousness that belongs to the
work of his distinguished father [Frederick Harrison].” H. L. Stewart

+ − =Review= 2:600 Je 5 ’20 1000w

“Mr Harrison has a vigorous and effective pen, which often runs away
with him and never quite knows when to stop; but his chief fault, as
this book reveals it, is a love for exaggeration which detracts
considerably from the value of his words.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p609 O 30 ’19 1150w

=HARRISON, MARY ST LEGER (KINGSLEY) (MRS WILLIAM HARRISON) (LUCAS MALET, pseud.).= Tall villa. *$1.75 (4c) Doran

20–3

The outstanding characteristic of this novel is that it is a ghost
story. After her husband’s financial failure, Frances Copley betakes
herself away from Grosvenor square and London high society and buries
herself in Tall villa, a maternal inheritance and a preposterous piece
of architecture, while her husband goes to seek a new fortune in South
America. There the ghost of an ancient relative, a suicide from
disappointed love, makes itself known to her and moved by pity she
resolves to consecrate her life to his redemption. They hold daily
concourse and by the time his earth-bound spirit has been released
through her martyrdom, the latter for her had turned into rapture. Her
spirit too, now longs for release and when the ghost makes its final
appearance it is to free her too from earthly thralldom.

* * * * *

=Ath= p767 Je 11 ’20 460w

“The story is kept sane by means of the other people, the Bulparcs,
Lady Lucia and her baby, and Charlie Montagu. Therefore it is cleverly
done. But no one who has not been drawn by a spirit lover to the
fairer clime can tell if the rest of it is really correct. To review
the volume rightly one needs a ouija board.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 14 ’20 520w

“The story, a modern fairy tale, is handled with much restraint and
artistry.”

+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 50w

=Dial= 68:665 My ’20 50w

“Those who are desirous of finding something to laugh at and to
ridicule in any tale of the supernatural will readily discover all
that they desire in ‘The Tall villa’; even those who are ready and
willing to take the novel with the same high and intense seriousness
with which it is written will find it difficult to refrain from
smiling over some of the high-flown speeches addressed by Frances
Copley to the ghost of Alexis Lord Oxley. Yet there is much of charm
in the book.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:2 F 22 ’20 900w

“The character of Frances Copley is exquisitely etched. The rare
distinction of Mrs Harrison’s carven style is at its best in this
unusual and dexterously handled romance, which is finely free from the
over-frank emphasis of the senses found in ‘Sir Richard Calmady.’”
Katharine Perry

+ =Pub W= 97:601 F 21 ’20 400w

“The book will rank with the best of the author’s.”

+ =Sat R= 130:300 O 9 ’20 110w

“It is a sad confession to make, but we are Philistine enough to
prefer those portions of the story in which normal events and
personages predominate.”

+ − =Spec= 124:728 My 29 ’20 450w

“The dialog is invariably stilted, and the generally formal tone robs
the situation of reality and those startling qualities inherent in it.
The heroine herself is delicately portrayed. The story is not long and
stirs only a mild interest.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 9 ’20 560w

“This novel is excellently written; but a ghost story should make the
flesh creep, and that is the one function which, in spite of its
excellences, it certainly does not perform.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p284 My 6 ’20 460w

=HARROW, BENJAMIN.=[2] Eminent chemists of our time. il *$2.50 Van Nostrand 540.9

The author has chosen eleven scientists “whose work is indissolubly
bound up with the progress of chemistry during the last generation or
so.” His aim has been “to write a history of chemistry of our times by
centering it around some of its leading figures.” Contents:
Introduction; Perkin and coal-tar dyes; Mendeléeff and the periodic
law; Ramsay and the gases of the atmosphere; Richards and atomic
weights; Van’t Hoff and physical chemistry; Arrhenius and the theory
of electrolytic dissociation; Moissan and the electric furnace; Madame
Curie and radium; Victor Meyer and the rise of organic chemistry;
Remsen and the rise of chemistry in America; Fischer and the chemistry
of foods. Reading references follow the chapters and there is an
index.

=HARROW, BENJAMIN.= From Newton to Einstein; changing conceptions of the universe. il *$1 (6½c) Van Nostrand 530

20–7594

The booklet gives in simple popular language an outline of Newton’s
great discovery and of the various steps in scientific achievements
which led up to Einstein’s conception of the universe and theory of
relativity. It shows how Einstein’s conception of time and space led
to a new view of gravitation and explains some facts which Newton’s
law was incapable of explaining. The three essays of the book are:
Newton; The ether and its consequences; Einstein.

* * * * *

“Dr Harrow’s account is altogether too inadequate. The chapter on
‘Einstein’ utterly fails to bring out the central conceptions of the
‘Relativity theory’; it is not that the treatment is obscure; it is
that very important points are slurred over, misstated, or ignored.”

− =Ath= p377 S 17 ’20 240w

+ =Booklist= 17:57 N ’20

“It contains egregious mistakes, minor errors, misplaced emphasis,
wrong interpretation, and a modicum of information.” R: F. Deimel

− =Freeman= 1:423 Jl 14 ’20 60w

+ =Nature= 106:466 D 9 ’20 40w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p36 Ap ’20 70w

“A lucid little book.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p603 S 16 ’20 20w

=HARTLEY, OLGA.= Anne. *$1.90 (2c) Lippincott

Anne is an orphan and still a child at seventeen when young Gilbert
Trevor, one of her self-appointed guardians, falls in love with and
marries her, while her other self-appointed guardian, John Halliday,
continues to hover over her with a more selfless devotion. Anne never
grows up but remains an ardent, wilful, fascinating child with a
child’s sincerity and purity of heart. It leads her into dangerous
situations and causes complications during which, at a crucial moment,
Gilbert fails her. She forces the estrangement and after some mad
escapades follows the dying John to Scotland, resolved to give him all
the love that he deserved and of which Gilbert has proved himself
unworthy. But the latter’s love and manhood stand the final test and
his protecting arms once more hold Anne safe.

* * * * *

“Anne’s future sister-in-law, Francesca, is a likeable character; but
the heroine herself is difficult to understand, almost to the end of
the book.”

+ − =Ath= p783 Je 11 ’20 100w

“The author’s handling of the heights and depths of the story towards
its climax deserves high praise for restraint, for absence of
sensationalism while it yet holds and thrills.”

+ =Cath World= 112:407 D ’20 260w

“Whether one has patience with the violent-tempered, erratic heroine
or not, it cannot be denied that here is a soundly-constructed,
well-written novel.”

+ − =N Y Times= p26 D 19 ’20 260w

Reviewed by Caroline Singer

=Pub W= 98:658 S 18 ’20 300w

“The development and gradual ripening of the heroine’s character (she
needed it) are very well done, and we commend the book to our
readers.”

+ =Sat R= 130:379 N 6 ’20 80w

=HARTMAN, HARLEIGH HOLROYD.= Fair value. *$2.50 Houghton 338

20–6119

The book is one of the series of Hart, Schaffner, and Marx prize
essays in economics and the thesis is concerned with the meaning and
application of the term “Fair valuation” as used by utility
commissions. The usage of the term is a loose one and open to much
confusion on the part of the public as well as of the courts. The
author’s inquiry rests on the points: “that the public utility is
essentially different from other industry; that private property
devoted to the public use is not the same as other private property,
and does not enjoy the same legal protection; that the service
rendered is governmental in its nature, and; that the purpose of
regulation is curtailment of ‘private rights’ and the encumbrance of
‘private property.’” The book falls into two parts: 1, The meaning of
the term “fair value” contains: The basis of regulation; The purpose
of regulation; Valuation and regulation; The theory of valuation;
Valuation methods. 2, The application of the theory of fair value,
contains: The valuation of tangible property; Valuation of intangible
property; Depreciation; The return on the investment; Conclusion.
There is also a selected bibliography, a table of cases, and an index.

* * * * *

“The first is far the more significant part. A valid criticism of the
book is that it overstrains legal definitions and logical legal
relationships.” J: Bauer

+ − =Am Econ R= 10:822 D ’20 880w

“A useful and opportune classifying of a large mass of scattered
material.”

+ =Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20

“‘Fair value’ is, withal, a most exhaustive and illuminative work on
current economics, with principles, laws, court decisions and
commission opinions all set forth in such a fashion that even the
uninitiate in such matters are able to grasp Mr Hartman’s theories of
valuation.” G. M. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 22 ’20 550w

=Review= 3:448 N 10 ’20 1100w

=R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 120w

Reviewed by E. R. Burton

+ =Survey= 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 340w

=HARVARD UNIVERSITY. DRAMATIC CLUB.= Plays of the Harvard dramatic club. *$1.25 Brentano’s 812.08

“The little volume of one-act plays, edited by Professor George Pierce
Baker, contains only four pieces, all of them dealing with American
themes and all of them the result of their several authors’ studies in
the dramaturgic laboratory which the editor has successfully conducted
at Harvard. In his brief prefatory note he explains the activities of
the Harvard dramatic club and tells us that the four plays he has
chosen for inclusion have been selected ‘as a group which perhaps
gives the volume best variety and balance.’” (N Y Times) The titles
are “The harbor of lost ships, by Louise Whitefield Bray; Garafelia’s
husband, by Esther Willard Bates; The scales and the sword, by Farnham
Bishop; and The four-flushers, by Cleves Kinkead.” (Brooklyn)

* * * * *

=Brooklyn= 12:66 Ja ’20 30w

“Professor Baker has worked earnestly, unostentatiously, and with only
one failing, a somewhat lively fear of being academic.” K. M.

+ − =Freeman= 2:310 D 8 ’20 190w

Reviewed by Brander Matthews

=N Y Times= p10 Ag 8 ’20 150w

=HARVEY, LUCILE STIMSON.= Food facts for the home-maker. il *$2.50 Houghton 613.2

20–6498

The book is intended to help the young housekeeper without either
knowledge of science or technical skill, and to give the experienced
cook a scientific foundation, but primarily to show mothers how to
feed their children. “Few women realize the great importance of the
proper feeding of the family. Undernourishment among our children in
the United States is far more prevalent than is generally supposed,
and is found quite as often in the homes of the well-to-do as in those
of the poor.” (Preface) Although the book contains recipes it is not
intended to compete with cook-books, but rather to supplement them.
Among the contents are: The importance of food; The composition of
foods; Milk and eggs; Meat; Cheese and legumes; Cereals; Fruits and
vegetables; Fats; Sugar; The use of food in the body; The measurement
of food values; Food for infants and young children; Food for
school-children; Food for invalids. There is a bibliography and an
index.

=Booklist= 16:334 Jl ’20

“A highly important and serviceable book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 230w

“Throughout the volume is an excellent manual that is well arranged,
written in an informal and untechnical vein and well fitted to meet
the demands of the ordinary household.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 140w

Reviewed by E. A. Winslow

+ =Survey= 44:592 Ag 2 ’20 110w

=HASBROUCK, LOUISE SEYMOUR.= Hall with doors. il *$1.75 (4c) Womans press

20–8235

A story for girls with a vocation moral. In their junior year in high
school a group of friends form the V. V. club (the initials standing
for vacation-vocation), and in the chapters of the book their various
experiences in the world of work are followed. After college one group
goes to New York to attack business, advertising, interior decorating
and tearoom management. One girl stays at home and finds her vocation
in a recreation center. One country girl leaves the farm to go to
college and then comes back to teach a country school and make over a
rural community. One girl, who is a misfit in business, succeeds as
athletic director and organizer of a summer camp. The girls are bright
and natural, the stories are interestingly told and the romance that
has a part in all real-life stories is not omitted.

=HASKINS, CHARLES HOMER, and LORD, ROBERT HOWARD.= Some problems of the Peace conference. *$3 Harvard univ. press 914.314

20–12208

“It will be remembered that Professor Haskins and Professor Lord were
two of the experts who accompanied President Wilson to the peace
conference. Prof. Haskins served as chief of the division of western
Europe and he was American member of the special committee of three
which drafted the treaty clauses on Alsace-Lorraine and the Sarre
valley. Professor Lord served as American adviser on Poland and
related problems, both at Paris and in Poland itself. The lectures
published in this volume were delivered last winter at the Lowell
institute and are now given with only incidental changes. The effort
of the two men has been to present each of these problems in its
historical setting, revealing at the same time, the reason of its
importance to the conference.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“In respect both to extent and to content, the book leaves much to be
contributed to the subject in the future, by the present authors or by
other scholars. It does provide what is most needed at this time, a
well-informed and fairminded sketch of the background and of the
probable issue of the territorial settlement. One noteworthy
contribution of the book is the first chapter on Task and methods of
the conference.” Clive Day

+ =Am Hist R= 26:334 Ja ’21 1400w

“May be regarded, without question, as the most important work on the
conference that has yet appeared. It should do much to counteract the
overdrawn and splenetic sketches of Keynes, Dillon, or Creel.” C:
Seymour

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:734 N ’20 420w

“It is improbable that this particular book, with the accurate
knowledge it displays and the authoritative position which its authors
held in the actual negotiations, will ever be replaced as an
historical record.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 14 ’20 280w

“By far the best account of the Paris conference which has yet
appeared.”

+ =Ind= 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 130w

Reviewed by W: MacDonald

=Nation= 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 500w

“Their book will meet the needs of the many now looking for just such
a graphic account of the methods of the peace conference in dealing
with important questions.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 30 ’20 180w

“The book is to be welcomed warmly just because the Peace conference
did not accomplish (whether it could have done so we need not here
discuss) the enormous task it set itself, and Americans will be forced
again and again to take a stand on new disputes arising from the
settlements made.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 45:104 O 16 ’20 260w

“Within its limits the book, which is admirably written, is of great
value. It contains a scholarly, open-minded, impartial account of such
matters as the problem of Slesvig, and the questions concerning the
status, and territorial extension of Belgium. It will do much good,
for it serves as a useful antidote to the criticisms, often so
ignorant and so partisan, of the territorial settlement.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p526 Ag 19 ’20 950w

=HASLETT, ELMER.= Luck on the wing; thirteen stories of a sky spy. il *$3 Dutton 940.44

20–8364

The personal narrative of a young American aviator in France. “The
author records at the very outset how he preferred the clean air to
the rat-haunted trenches, and it was that human desire to escape from
the muddy, disagreeable ground that made him become a flying man. The
book reads more like a novel than the record of a warrior.” (Bookm)

* * * * *

“Hardships and adventures are told with a youthful verve, without
overstraining and with an ever ready appreciation when the joke is on
himself.”

+ =Booklist= 17:66 N ’20

“Major Elmer Haslett has written, in ‘Luck on the wing,’ just the kind
of book we need, now that we all have some perspective—though little,
I admit—on the war. It is full of the fire and fervor of youth,
good-natured, natural—a splendid picture of the fighting airman.” C:
H. Towne

+ =Bookm= 52:77 S ’20 430w

“For those who have shared our ignorance of the aerial observer, this
book should be of value.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 S 26 ’20 500w

=HASLUCK, EUGENE LEWIS.=[2] Teaching of history. (Cambridge handbooks for teachers) *$3.20 Macmillan 907

“After defining certain legitimate reasons for teaching history in
schools, and distinguishing these from ‘false and shallow
justification,’ a statement is presented of the basis of selection of
materials for pupils of different age groups and a detailed plan is
outlined for organizing courses in English history for upper-grade
pupils in either a one, two, three, or four years’ sequence. Further
discussion concerns the nature and use of the history textbook and the
effective use of supplementary historical and literary source
material, with specific reference to a number of especially valuable
ones; types of historical exercises which may be employed as aids to
the stimulation of interest and the retention of historical facts; and
different ways of utilizing general, local, and recent history. Three
specimen lesson-units are given in outline form—one illustrating a
unit of pure narrative, one which describes a particular social
situation, and one which centers about a national character. A final
chapter points out some of the most common pitfalls which beset the
teacher of history, and suggests means of avoiding them.”—School R

* * * * *

“This slender volume is of interest to American teachers for two
reasons: first, for the information it gives directly or by
implication upon the state of history-teaching in England, and,
secondly, for the practical quality of its criticisms and suggestions,
so wholly unaffected by the airs and attitudes of the professional
pedagogue.” H. E. B.

+ =Am Hist R= 26:353 Ja ’21 390w

=Ath= p140 Jl 30 ’19 940w

“On the study of history, and the study of teaching as applied
thereto, Mr Hasluck writes as an expert. Where there is life, there is
hope. And even the formal categories of this handbook bear witness to
a vitality, widespread and abounding in promise.”

+ =Sat R= 130:120 Ag 7 ’20 750w

+ =School R= 28:793 D ’20 320w

“Suggestive and helpful.”