Chapter XXXIX: Part II: is composed of chapters on: Paris—a brief sketch for tourists; (9)

“Mr Hobhouse has performed his task adequately, with a conscientious
enthusiasm for his subject. But it must be confessed that his book is
a little heavy, a little leaden.” L. W.

+ − =Ath= p207 Ap 18 ’19 1050w

=Brooklyn= 12:68 Ja ’20 30w

=Review= 3:95 Jl 28 ’20 90w

=Spec= 122:433 Ap 5 ’19 300w

=HOBSON, JOHN ATKINSON.= Morals of economic internationalism. (Barbara Weinstock lectures on the morals of trade) *$1 (2½c) Houghton 172.4

20–21968

“It ought not to be the case that there is one standard of morality
for individuals in their relations with one another, a different and a
slighter standard for corporations, and a third and still slighter
standard for nations.” That this, however, actually is the case is the
book’s contention. The author makes a plea for an emergency commerce
and finance agreement between nations by way of preventing economic
ruin and starvation in the war-stricken countries of Europe. “For
morality among nations, as among individuals, implies faith and
risk-taking.”

* * * * *

=Nation= 112:sup245 F 9 ’21 370w

=Survey= 45:468 D 26 ’20 230w

=HOBSON, JOHN ATKINSON.= Taxation in the new state. *$1.75 (3c) Harcourt 336.42

(Eng ed 20–114)

The author holds that the war’s legacies of indebtedness and its large
sudden demands of state expenditure for reconstruction, calling for an
enormous increase in tax-income, necessitates a re-examination of the
principles of tax policy. “Recognizing that the normal annual
tax-income can only be derived from the incomes of the several members
of the nation ... we are confronted first with the necessity of
distinguishing the portions of personal incomes that have ability to
bear taxation from those that have not such ability.” (Preface) The
object of the book then is to arrive at a clear definition of ‘ability
to bear’ and to ascertain the reforms needed to conform the demands of
taxation to this principle. The book falls into two parts. Part 1:
Principles of tax reform, contains: Ability to pay; The taxable
surplus; The shifting of taxes; The taxation of income; Reforms of
income-tax: Death duties; Supplementary taxes; Tariffs for revenue.
Contents of part 2, Emergency finance, are: Our financial emergency; A
levy on war-made wealth; A general levy upon capital; Relations of
imperial to local taxation; Index.

* * * * *

“We no doubt adopt philosophies to justify what we want to do or have
decided to do, not as a means of ascertaining what we ought to do. By
working out the philosophy to justify the tax system which England is
apparently heading toward, this book by Professor Hobson will be of
outstanding influence.” C. L. King

+ =Ann Am Acad= 90:172 Jl ’20 700w

=Ath= p570 Jl 4 ’19 40w

=Booklist= 16:330 Jl ’20

“Worth the attention of all students of economics, legislators and
taxpayers in the United States as well as in Great Britain.”

+ =Ind= 104:248 N 19 ’20 70w

“Of the ways and means of ascertaining the taxable capital and of
collecting the levy, Mr Hobson does not say as much as one would like.
But he is dealing primarily with principle rather than with practice.”
R. R.

+ − =Nation= 110:431 Ap 3 ’20 1000w

“That Hobson has few illusions regarding the nature of the present
regime, is clearly evident in the second, more interesting half of
this volume.” L: Jacobs

+ − =N Y Call= p10 Jl 4 ’20 1300w

Reviewed by H. P. Fairchild

+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 Ap 24 ’20 100w

“That his discussion slips into a discussion of British taxes in
particular lessens the value of his conclusions little, if any, so
nearly alike is the condition of nations in general as a result of war
burdens.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 15 ’20 1450w

Reviewed by Lawson Purdy

* + =Survey= 44:287 My 22 ’20 2800w

“The book is full of assumptions that propositions have been proved
when they have only been asserted, and of insinuations regarding facts
and inferences from them which it is impossible to make good. The case
is, indeed, put before us with an ingenuity which might almost be
called Jesuitical, if Mr Hobson were not so audaciously open, and even
truculent, in his demand for the increase of the ‘public’ income at
the expense of the ‘private surplus,’ in order to supply the assumed
‘needs’ of the state.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p395 Jl 24 ’19 1850w

=HOBSON, S. G.= National guilds and the state. *$4 (*12s 6d) Macmillan 338.6

(Eng ed 20–16216)

“The first part of this book is devoted to a theoretical discussion of
the relations between producer and consumer, and their joint relations
with the state. It is presupposed that readers are acquainted with the
principles and purposes of the national guild movement. The argument
is largely the outcome of controversy between the author and Mr G. D.
H. Cole, in which different stresses were laid upon the status of the
consumer, ‘and, in consequence, upon the structure of the state.’ At
the end of the second part, which deals with ‘transition,’ Mr Hobson
avers his belief that national guilds are inevitable. ‘There is no
student of industry,’ he declares, ‘who ... would deny the possibility
of a revolution’; and the author expresses his belief that
wage-abolition, with its logical sequel of an infinitely more humane
structure of society, will mark a great epoch in the history of
western civilization.”—Ath

* * * * *

“This study marks a distinct advance in our knowledge of guild
proposals.” J: G. Brooks

+ =Am Econ R= 10:858 D ’20 750w

=Ath= p383 Mr 19 ’20 150w

+ =Booklist= 17:94 D ’20

Reviewed by Ordway Tead

=Dial= 69:412 O ’20 640w

“Mr Hobson in the first chapter of this book is guilty of substituting
dialectic for honest examination. Few better analyses of the
shop-steward movement and the tendencies of the unions have been
written. They are full of rich thinking and are highly suggestive.” G:
Soule

+ − =Nation= 111:73 Jl 17 ’20 800w

“Continentals and Americans born west of New England will hardly be
able to grasp Mr Hobson’s analysis. The present reviewer, not being a
theologian, confesses hopelessness in the presence of it. The trouble
with Mr Hobson and his brethren is that they are looking for exactness
where none can exist, for the separation of that which never can be
separated. They are modern utopians. They seek finality.” C: A. Beard

− + =New Republic= 25:50 D 8 ’20 1900w

“The idea of receiving wages for work done seems to give him positive
pain, but his attempt to formulate a practical alternative is a sad
failure, though it is veiled in obscure terms.”

− =Spec= 124:281 F 28 ’20 200w

“Admirably argumentative book.” W: L. Chenery

+ =Survey= 45:288 N 20 ’20 180w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p111 F 12 ’20 40w

“It is long, controversial, ill-knit; lacking in clarity of thought
and expression, and in consecutive argument. It gives the impression
of being made up largely of fragments written at different times and
strung together, not worked out in logical sequence. The writer seems
to be striving all the time to get his own thoughts clear as he goes
along, and to find the right words for them.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p132 F 26 ’20 1050w

=HOCKING, JOSEPH.= Passion for life. il *$1.90 (1c) Revell

Francis Erskine was given a year to live by his doctor and chooses the
Cornwall coast to pass this year in quiet rural seclusion and in
finding out, if possible, if there is any hope for a life beyond. He
is an unbeliever and has no faith whatever in immortality. His
secluded hut on the cliffs turns out to be almost directly over a cave
used by the Germans for their secret operations and he soon begins to
sense the presence of German spies. He spends his time between
cultivating the village folk and clergy, in his quest for a life after
death, and in trying to discover what the Germans are doing at the
cave. To this last he consecrates himself in patriotic fervor, and
succeeds, but apparently dies in a struggle with a spy. During his
death trance he has a vision of the two worlds and becomes conscious
of the presence of God. He awakes to find that an operation has been
performed on him and that a new life and even love is waiting for him.

* * * * *

“There is material for a really worth while book in this novel of Mr
Hocking’s and the tale begins well. If the author had only been able
to restrain his fondness for sugar and sentimentality he might have
been able to maintain the whole at the level of the beginning.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:287 My 30 ’20 440w

=Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 140w

=HODGE, ALBERT CLAIRE, and MCKINSEY, JAMES OSCAR.= Principles of accounting. *$3 Univ. of Chicago press 657

20–17381

Three classes of students of accounting are considered in this volume:
those who aim at understanding its use as a means of social control
over business activities—consisting mostly of students of economics;
those who expect to qualify as certified public accountants; and those
who expect to become business executives of one kind or another.
Contents: The meaning and function of accounting; The relationship of
accounting to proprietorship; The balance sheet; The statement of
profit and loss; The account as a means of classifying information;
The construction and interpretation of particular accounts; The
construction and interpretation of accounts; The trial balance; The
adjusting entries; The closing entries; The source of the ledger
entries; Some special forms of the journal; The use of the general
journal; Business vouchers and forms; The accounting process; Business
practice and procedure; Books of original entry; Controlling accounts;
The construction and interpretation of accounts; Accruals and deferred
items; The adjusting and closing entries; The classification of
accounts; Financial reports; The graphical method of presenting
accounting facts; Appendix.

* * * * *

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 50w

=HODGES, FRANK.= Nationalisation of the mines; with foreword by J: R. Clynes. (New era ser.) $1.75 Seltzer 338.2

(Eng ed 20–6078)

“Mr Hodges’s case is, briefly, that there is inevitably waste in the
production, in the consumption, and in the distribution of coal under
the present system of private ownership. He insists that the coal
industry should be regarded as a whole; that the accidental frontiers
of private ownership are not geological frontiers: that the prime
consideration of an industry developed by shareholders’ capital,
namely, that a certain monetary return should be obtained within a
certain time, is not compatible with the most efficient and scientific
development of that industry; and that different and competitive
systems of distribution involve needless expenses for superfluous
labour. His conclusions are based on figures, and the figures are
taken from government reports. His argument is, in fact, the old
argument that one great trust controlling a whole industry can work
more efficiently and economically than a number of small and
overlapping concerns. Here he develops his second argument. We have to
consider the psychology of the miners. Rightly or wrongly, they are
now reluctant to work for the purpose of creating private profit. No
system of profit-sharing will content them; they insist on the dignity
of being regarded directly as servants of the community; they have
lost all faith in the divine right of employers. That is why the
country, and not a trust, must own and develop the coal-mines.”—Ath

* * * * *

“He has arranged his matter in a logical sequence, he confines himself
to essentials, and he writes throughout with, at least, an appearance
of scientific detachment.”

+ =Ath= p369 Mr 19 ’20 670w

“The little book is worth reading if only because it shows the
extremely vague and unpractical nature of the scheme which Mr Hodges
and his colleagues propose to force upon the government and the nation
whether they like it or not.”

− =Spec= 124:355 Mr 13 ’20 240w

“Mr Hodges is studiously moderate in tone and not unmindful of the
rules of logic.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p163 Mr 11 ’20 750w

=HOERNLÉ, REINHOLD FRIEDRICH ALFRED.= Studies in contemporary metaphysics. *$3 (3½c) Harcourt 104

20–4123

The author calls his studies “chips from a metaphysician’s workshop”
and in the opening chapter explains what this workshop implies, at the
same time justifying its existence in the midst of the vital problems
and perplexities of our age. He asserts that there are evidences in
plenty of a vigorous philosophic life; that speculative interest and
activity have been of recent years increasingly varied and
enterprising; and that there has been no lack of originality. What is
needed is to understand its spirit, which the author defines as the
spirit of wholeness, the attempt to view the universe as a whole in
the midst of shifting appearances and accumulative experiences. The
contents are: Prologue—the philosopher’s quest; The idol of scientific
method in philosophy; Philosophy of nature at the cross-roads; On
“doubting the reality of the world of sense”; “Saving the appearances”
in the physical world (note on John Locke’s distinction of primary and
secondary qualities); Mechanism and vitalism; Theories of mind; The
self in self-consciousness; Epilogue—religion and philosophy of
religion; Index.

* * * * *

“Good reading for those interested in modern thought movements.”

+ =Booklist= 16:326 Jl ’20

Reviewed by H. B. Alexander

+ =Nation= 110:sup482 Ap 10 ’20 1250w

“A book like the present one should go far to supply the real need of
a clear and convincing statement of what is admitted to be the most
difficult of all philosophical systems. Mr Hoernlé is to be
congratulated on a work of permanent value.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 9 ’20 900w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 100w

=HOFFMAN, CONRAD.= In the prison camps of Germany. il *$4 Assn. press 940.472

20–21330

Mr Hoffman, of the University of Kansas, went abroad in 1915 to do
relief work. He reached Berlin in August of that year and remained in
Germany as Secretary of the War prisoners’ aid of the Y. M. C. A.
thruout the war. He then staid on for eight months after the armistice
to continue the work in behalf of the Russian prisoners still held in
Germany. Among the chapters are: First impressions of Berlin; The
Britishers at Ruhleben; Christmas in a prison hospital; Prisoners at
work and hungry; Help in both worship and study; Working under
surveillance; The day of food substitutes; Visiting the first American
prisoners; Real Americanism in evidence; First days of the German
revolution; Russian prisoners and their guards; A concluding judgment.
In one of the appendixes Mrs Hoffman writes of the experiences of an
American woman in Berlin.

=HOFFMAN, MARIE E.= Lindy Loyd; a tale of the mountains. *$1.75 Jones, Marshall

20–8234

“The southern mountains of the Blue ridge, presumably, where the
moonshiners find inaccessible places to hide their illicit stills from
the ever-vigilant ‘revenoors,’ are the scene of ‘Lindy Loyd.’ Against
their background with alluring descriptions of their wild scenery,
their birds and animals, the rushing of the mountain torrent, and the
tinkling of the hidden stream, Mrs Hoffman places the love story of
Lindy Loyd, the course of which, perfect in its beginning, encounters
the traditional rough places over which true love is doomed to
pass.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“The author knows well the mountains, knows, too, the mountain people,
and pictures with fidelity the characteristics, manners and customs
engendered by the ruggedness, almost inaccessibility of their
environment.” F. M. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 400w

“Less melodramatic than many of its kind and notable for its true
local color.”

+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 30w

=N Y Times= p17 Je 27 ’20 270w

=HOFMANNSTHAL, HUGO HOFMANN, edler von.= Death of Titian. (Contemporary ser.) *75c Four seas co. 832

20–6845

This dramatic fragment, written in 1892, was translated from the
German by John Heard, Jr. The prologue was added in 1901 when it was
acted in Munich as a memorial to Arnold Böcklin. It depicts a scene on
the terrace of Titian’s villa, in 1576, at the time of Titian’s death.

* * * * *

“After all, what interest one may have in the play lies in the
excellence of the translation, for, as a play, there is no blood in
it.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 270w

“The dramatic form, unfortunately for the translator, is only
skin-deep. Essential drama, apart from its verbal expression, loses
nothing in a new language: poetry, and ‘The death of Titian’ in
particular, lose most everything.”

− =Dial= 69:322 S ’20 50w

“This group of monologues of the old master’s pupils gathered about
his death-bed possessed the ecstatic phrasing and the comparative
aimlessness of youthful genius. Over all there is a blue-bronze
atmosphere which John Heard has not completely lost in his English.”
E. E. H.

+ − =Freeman= 1:478 Jl 28 ’20 150w

“Hofmannsthal fashioned those incomparable verses (which Mr Heard has
sensitively read but quite failed to render) because the very pang of
beauty wrung them from him. No wonder that such verses are not written
today either in Vienna or elsewhere.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ − =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 110w

“The slow movement and sluggish dialog give to this little fragment a
funereal as well as a memorial aspect. There is too little of the
pageant, too much of the orator. Words cloud illusions and crowd out
the sympathetic play of the individual imagination.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 14 ’20 150w

=HOLDEN, GEORGE PARKER.= Idyl of the split bamboo. il *$3 Stewart & Kidd 799

20–21340

While the author’s previous book, “Streamcraft,” deals mainly with the
open season and actual streamside technic, this one is more a book for
winter evenings and the fireside and for the workshop. Building a
split-bamboo rod is an operation, the author avows. He describes this
operation in every detail but he prepares the reader’s mind for this
more tedious process by a long chapter on “The joys of angling.” Nine
chapters of the book are devoted to the rod-making. Edwin T. Whiffen
contributes a chapter on “Cultivating silkworm-gut at home,” and the
two remaining chapters are on Landing-nets and other equipment and The
angler’s camp. Besides many full-page illustrations there are diagrams
showing the different stages of rod building and details of camp
outfit.

* * * * *

“Both the expert and the tyro will find good fishing in these
attractive pages.”

+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 60w

=HOLDING, ELISABETH SANXAY.= Invincible Minnie. *$1.75 (2c) Doran

20–5229

As her central figure the author presents one type of the eternal
feminine, the ruthlessly domestic and womanly woman who takes what she
wants for herself regardless of the results to others. Minnie hasn’t
even beauty or charm, but she takes away her sister’s lover, marries
him and wrecks his life, marries a second man while the first still
lives, bears him a child and accepts his support for the child of the
first man, justifies herself when her guilt is discovered and forever
after lives on the bounty of the man she has wronged. She is an
incompetent housekeeper and a criminally bad mother but she succeeds
in creating the impression that she is the true woman, and perhaps she
is, writes the author, “perhaps those others, with hearts, with
brains, with souls, are ... only the freaks of nature.”

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20

Reviewed by R. M. Underhill

=Bookm= 51:440 Je ’20 150w

“Only a degree less arresting than her character building, however, is
the author’s method of telling the story.” C. M. Greene

+ =Bookm= 51:565 Jl ’20 550w

“Minnie is real, in life, but she has not been made real in the
American fiction of our day until Elisabeth Sanxay Holding created her
for us in these pages. Minnie Defoe takes her place as the true
American cousin, also the only American cousin, of Ann Veronica, Hilda
Lessways, Sonia O’Rane.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 1300w

“‘Invincible Minnie’ is an astounding person. It is no use to say that
she is impossible; that is one of the most terrifying things about
her, she isn’t.”

+ =Ind= 103:320 S 11 ’20 200w

“Mrs Holding writes coldly, warily, ruthlessly. She is beyond any
passionate concern in the matter. She has moments of a cosmic
tolerance for Minnie. But how Minnie must have made her suffer! It is
only when we get to the other shore of suffering that we can see with
eyes so penetrating and so passionless.”

+ =Nation= 110:730 My 29 ’20 750w

“It has various minor faults. The scourge of revision has not been
ruthlessly enough applied, and the style is marred here and there by a
loose carelessness. What makes one indifferent to these defects is the
author’s marvellous ability to record and analyze Minnie. Minnie may
not be the artistic equal of Becky Sharp, but she is far nearer our
common experience.” Signe Toksvig

+ − =New Repub= 22:357 My 12 ’20 1650w

“It is all done with an art-concealing simplicity and frankness the
study of which will repay the best of our modern English ‘realists,’
though they will find it hard to analyze and still harder to imitate.”
Oliver Herford

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 My 1 ’20 750w

“We can recall no piece of fiction, with the exception of Sudermann’s
masterful short story, ‘The purpose,’ which portrays the unmoral woman
more unflinchingly than Elisabeth Sanxay Holding has done in her vivid
novel.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:287 My 30 ’20 600w

Reviewed by F: T. Cooper

=Pub W= 97:1290 Ap 17 ’20 350w

“A bitter book, remorselessly written, and quite against the current
stream of tolerance for all human creatures. Perhaps it is wholesome
for us to turn now and then from the genial process of admiring the
best of us in the worst of us, and to behold how a Minnie looks,
pinned fairly on the slide and set under a ruthless lens.” H. W.
Boynton

+ =Review= 2:602 Je 5 ’20 550w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 100w

=HOLDSWORTH, ETHEL.= Taming of Nan. *$1.90 (2c) Dutton

19–19359

Here’s another tale of the taming of a shrew. She is a Lancashire
working woman full of primitive savagery which she lets out in
explosions of fiery temper towards her good-natured giant of a husband
and her pretty pleasure-loving daughter. When both of the giant’s legs
have been cut off by a train, she hammers away at him still, to break
him still more, and not until he has found a new strength and a new
independence do the fates discover her vulnerable spot and begin the
breaking and taming process on her. And not until she has almost lost
her soul and her daughter does she find the only outlet for the fierce
life-force within her to be love and the ministrations of love.

* * * * *

“This is the old story of the reclaiming of a virago retold with
considerable power.”

+ =Ath= p1018 O 10 ’19 120w

“For those readers who like character studies as well as plots.”

+ =Booklist= 16:204 Mr ’20

“‘The taming of Nan’ is a very different kind of story from ‘Helen of
four gates.’ It is with less concentration but it is constructed upon
a broader basis and the whole atmosphere of it is more human, more
genial, less tense and stormy.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:43 Ja 25 ’20 750w

“While Ethel Holdsworth’s second book, ‘The taming of Nan,’ is less
striking and peculiar than her first [‘Helen of Four Gates’], it is
more genial and shows growth and a broader knowledge of life.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 30w

“It is as a study of Polly’s emergence from the blurred prettiness and
apparently unprotected amativeness of girlhood to real achievements in
character and happiness that the book may especially commend itself to
the confirmed yet still hopeful novel reader.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 2:208 F 28 ’20 340w

“The characterisation is admirable, if slightly idealised, and the
book is, as a whole, quite admirable.”

+ =Sat R= 130:379 N 6 ’20 90w

“The story is wanting in the continuous strength found in the
preceding novel. As usual, Mrs Holdsworth reveals keen insight into
human nature and does not shrink from picturing the truth however
brutal or sordid. But she leans less towards crude realism than
heretofore.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 28 ’20 600w

“A study of Lancashire working folk by one who evidently knows them
intimately enough to give a genuine picture of them. The whole is by
no means lengthy, but it is not less complete on that account. It is
the result not only of intimacy on the part of the writer, but of an
ordered perception which is not afraid either of cruelty or kindness,
but sees in both the movement of life.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p547 O 9 ’19 460w

=HOLLAND, FRANCIS CALDWELL.= Seneca. il *$4 (*10s) Longmans

20–12858

“Mr Holland’s biographical essay, originally designed to preface a
translation of Seneca’s letters to Lucilius, is now allowed to appear
‘on the chance that here or there some readers may be found to share
my interest in the subject.’ Into the long and interesting story of
Seneca’s literary fortunes it is no part of Mr Holland’s task to
enter. He is placing the story of his life against the background of
Julio-Claudian Rome. His tone is that of a discriminating
apologist.”—Review

* * * * *

“The historical narrative is well written. With regard to the estimate
given of Seneca’s character and the view taken of the literary and
philosophic value of his works, Mr Holland presents what will seem to
many too favourable a picture.” H. E. B.

+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:467 Jl ’20 460w

“The grave dignity of Mr Holland’s style has somehow the fine sound of
the best translations from the Latin, the spirit of his enterprise is
ripely philosophical.”

+ =Nation= 110:828 Je 19 ’20 320w

“His full and agreeably written narrative of the life of the
philosopher-statesman should win readers for Seneca.” H. M. Ayers

+ =Review= 2:521 My 15 ’20 1300w

“If we had more such books, the classics would stand on a firmer
footing of human interest, instead of appearing to exist chiefly for
the purpose of adding to the incomes of publishers, dons, and
schoolmasters.”

+ =Sat R= 129:350 Ap 10 ’20 1200w

“Mr Francis Holland retells his story in a volume of lively and
picturesque narrative. If it adds nothing to the knowledge of the
subject for the specialist student, the story is one of interest to
any man of liberal education, and a book which tells it over again so
agreeably and judiciously may be just the book which many people
want.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p345 Je 3 ’20 2350w

=HOLLAND, RUPERT SARGENT.= Refugee rock. il *$1.75 (3c) Jacobs

20–17657

Three American boys cruising along the coast of Maine land on what is
supposed to be a deserted island and find it inhabited by a charming
mannered young foreigner, his two servants and his dog. The stranger,
Pierre Romaine, is practicing fencing strokes when the boys first come
upon him and he at once arouses their curiosity and admiration. They
find that two other groups of men are interested in the island, the
first, the crew of a fishing smack, the second, a party of three
foreigners, apparently Russians. The secret of their interest is
solved, Romaine’s enemies are driven off, the treasure he is guarding
is saved, and he consents to join his new friends on their cruise.

=HOLLIDAY, CARL.= Wedding customs then and now. *75c (7c) Stratford co. 392.5

19–13678

This entertaining little volume harkens back to old customs and
usages, quoting the opinions of pessimist and optimist alike and has
nothing to do with scientific sociological research. Contents:
Marriage by force; Buying wives; Marriage taxes; Ancient ceremonies;
The wedding feast and wedding cake; Wedding presents; Wedding
festivities; Her trousseau; Gretna Green; The best time; The wedding
ring; The old shoe; Proverbs.

* * * * *

“There is little that is unfamiliar in Mr Holliday’s recital, but
there is much that is interesting in his somewhat flippant narrative.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 Mr 6 ’20 120w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 F 26 ’20 180w

=HOLLIDAY, ROBERT CORTES.= Men and books and cities. *$2.50 (5½c) Doran 917.3

20–20548

Papers that appeared in the Bookman under the pseudonym Murray Hill,
Indianapolis, St Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago, San Francisco and Los
Angeles are the cities, and among the men met on these desultory
journeyings were Booth Tarkington, Meredith Nicholson, E. V. Lucas,
William Marion Reedy and Carl Sandburg, and various literary editors
and book sellers and others.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:146 Ja ’21

“No one else has quite Mr Holliday’s faculty for his own particular
type of essay. He has captured the art of saying the forever
unexpected. He rambles as freely through his pages as one might see
him wandering about a city, with his stick upon his arm.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 11 ’20 950w

“It resembles a certain coat of many colors in its diversity of
interests, and is to be recommended to him of human interests, rather
than to the zealous seeker after exact and correlated knowledge.”

+ =Cath World= 112:692 F ’21 320w

“Seeking to be spirited, informal and impressionistic, Mr Holliday has
fallen into the error of self-consciousness. He keeps himself so
assiduously in the limelight, that one only catches such gleams of
other personalities as may filter through his bulk.” Lisle Bell

− =Freeman= 2:260 N 24 ’20 120w

“All in all, this is quite an amusing book that manages to cover a
surprisingly wide area with a limited stock of vital ideas. And that
is where Elia and Murray Hill part company.” Pierre Loving

+ − =N Y Call= p7 Ja 9 ’21 440w

“Although Mr Holliday displays a humane temper and gives some pleasure
by telling of his travels from city to city and from one barber to
another, yet his style, his imagination and his humor are hardly
sufficient to justify bringing these random pages between book
covers.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 17 ’21 210w

=HOLLINGWORTH, HARRY LEVI.= Psychology of functional neuroses. *$2 Appleton 616.8

20–17971

The book deals with those psychoneurotic manifestations that are
susceptible to the modifying influences of suggestion, motivation,
analysis and reeducation and to the numerous techniques of
psychotherapy which the study of these manifestations has developed.
As director of the psychoneurotic army hospital at Plattsburg, the
author had cognisance of 1200 cases that were examined and treated
there. Among the contents are: The mechanism of redintegration;
Redintegration in the psychoneuroses: The intelligence of
psychoneurotics; The rôle of motivation in the psychoneuroses;
Irregularity of profile (scattering) in the psychoneurotic; A
statistical study of psychoneurotic soldiers; Reliability of a group
survey in the determination of mental age; Mental measurement,
methods, and standards; Psychological service in a neuropsychiatric
hospital; Index.

=HOLME, JOHN GUNNLAUGUR.= Life of Leonard Wood. il *$1.50 Doubleday

20–5732

A biography written frankly in the interests of General Wood as a
presidential candidate. Contents: Early boyhood and school days;
Soldier and surgeon; With Cleveland and McKinley; Commander of the
Rough riders; The rescuer of Santiago; Governor and business manager
of Cuba; Pacifier of the Philippines; Chief-of-staff of the U.S. army;
The awakener of the nation; The champion of law and order. There are
four illustrations from photographs.

* * * * *

“The author is a newspaper man, well known in Washington, and he has
had access to many sources which makes his work authoritative.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 29 ’20 160w

=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 60w

=HOLMES, CHARLES JOHN.=[2] Leonardo da Vinci. (British academy. Fourth annual lecture on a master-mind. Henriette Hertz trust) *90c Oxford 759.5

20–2853

“In this lecture, delivered on the four hundredth anniversary of
Leonardo’s death, Mr Holmes sets out to show that Vasari’s judgment of
the master—‘an artist of marvellous gifts who frittered them away on
toys and trifles’—is wrong. Today we know more of Leonardo’s mind than
did Vasari, so that we may ‘reverse the traditional formula and regard
him as a very great man of science, who made a living by his talent as
an artist and an engineer.’ Mr Holmes supports his contention by
numerous and interesting quotations from Leonardo’s note-books.”—Ath

* * * * *

=Ath= p1049 O 17 ’19 100w

=Spec= 122:584 N 1 ’19 160w

“A brilliant, though concise, study.”

+ =Nation= 110:660 My 15 ’20 460w

=HOLMES, JOHN HAYNES.= Is violence the way out of our industrial disputes? *$1.25 (5c) Dodd 331

20–7773

Is violence the way out of our industrial disputes, which the war, far
from curing as it was hoped, has aggravated into a condition of chaos
comparable only to the military chaos that went before? In the three
addresses in the book, originally prepared for the Community church of
New York, the author outlines a doctrine of non-resistance which alone
can solve the problem satisfactorily. Between the struggle of capital
and labor there can be no compromise. Labor must win but neither can
win through violence. The presence of certain psychological elements,
not impossible of achievement, are necessary to solve the problem:
co-operative good-will on the part of labor, renunciation and
confidence on the part of capital, and on both a viewpoint of human
relationships taught by the prophet of Nazareth. Contents: The answer
for capital; The answer for labour; The better way; Conclusion.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:53 N ’20

=Freeman= 2:46 S 22 ’20 270w

=Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 30w

“Mr Holmes is nothing if not forthright. His mind works through his
topic from start to finish with a steady momentum; there is no beating
about the bush, no dallying finesse of language, no straining after
mere rhetorical or stylistic effect. Even if you are not convinced,
you instinctively recognize that you have been listening to the
passionate and able pleading of an incorruptible mind.” R. R.

+ =Nation= 111:220 Ag 21 ’20 600w

Reviewed by Ordway Tead

=New Repub= 25:210 Ja 12 ’21 50w

=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 80w

=Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 250w

Reviewed by Alexander Fleisher

=Survey= 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 130w

=HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL.= Collected legal papers. *$4 Harcourt 340

20–22316

These papers are of general interest and consist of speeches and
articles collected from various publications between 1885 to 1918.
They are: Early English equity; The law; The profession of the law; On
receiving the degree of LL.D; The use of law schools; Agency;
Privilege, malice and intent; Learning and science; Executors; The bar
as a profession; Speech at Brown university; The path of the law;
Legal interpretation; Law in science and science in law; Speech at Bar
association dinner; Montesquieu; John Marshall; Address at
Northwestern University law school; Economic elements; Maitland;
Holdsworth’s English law; Law and the court; Introduction to
continental legal historical series; Ideals and doubts; Bracton;
Natural law.

* * * * *

“Every paper has its own virtues, but there is one which they all
share, a rare and delicate charm. These papers bring the touch of
romance to philosophy but this must not detract from our realization
that the philosophy itself is fine and deep.” S. L. Cook

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 4 ’20 1400w

Reviewed by T: R. Powell

+ =Nation= 112:237 F 9 ’21 2250w

“The forbiddingly colorless title does grave injustice to an
extraordinary book of thoroughly matured human wisdom.” M. R. Cohen

+ =New Repub= 25:294 F 2 ’21 2450w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 18 ’20 40w

=HOLT, HENRY.= Cosmic relations and immortality. 2d ed 2v *$10 Houghton 134

20–26562

“Mr Holt’s two volumes on ‘The cosmic relations and immortality’ are a
new and enlarged edition of the two-volume work he published just
before the breaking out of the war under the title ‘On the cosmic
relations.’ He has added a new preface and several new chapters and
has modified and brought to date the final summary of the subject in
his last section. In the new chapters he takes up what he considers
the three most important developments during the years since the work
first appeared, which, in his opinion, ‘have added force to the
spiritistic hypothesis.’ These are, first, the investigations and
conclusions of Dr William J. Crawford, the well-known physicist of
Queen’s university, Belfast; second, the appearance of many new
sensitives, whose manifestations differ much from one another and from
their predecessors; third, the agreement of these sensitives in
depicting virtually the same future state.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:356 Jl ’20

“He guesses frequently and variably; he admits uncertainty; he has a
vigorous prejudice against dogmatism. But this philosophy takes its
form as rigidly from these bantering guesses, as though other guesses
did not exist.... The consequences are lamentable. Standards of
credibility are abandoned; subjectivism replaces criticism; and
miracles are rampant.” Joseph Jastrow

− =Dial= 69:204 Ag ’20 820w

“The notable thing about this book, now as in the earlier edition, is
the nobility of spirit which informs it.”

+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 130w

=N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 370w

=HOLT, LEE.= Paris in shadow. *$2 Lane

The author’s novel “Green and gay” was published in 1918. The present
book is written in the form of a diary, but it is not possible to
determine whether it is an authentic record or a fictional device. A
“portrait of the author,” printed as a foreword, says: “In the diary
which follows he has noted down the trifling happenings of every day,
those little events which more than all show the true spirit of the
time. He writes from the standpoint of an American who has lived in
France most of his life, but still retains a deep love of his own
country. The book was not written in a spirit of criticism, merely to
describe the everyday Paris as it was in 1916–1917.”

* * * * *

“It is written with a good deal of literary charm and may fittingly be
described by that much abused expression, a ‘human document.’”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 D 4 ’20 80w

“The book is written in an agreeable style, but contains little matter
of first-rate interest.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p405 Je 24 ’20 100w

=HOLT, LUTHER EMMETT.= Care and feeding of children. *$2 (4½c) Appleton 649.1

20–7343

The preface to the tenth edition of this well-known work says, “The
constant use of the catechism as a manual for nursery maids has shown
the need of fuller treatment of several subjects than was given in the
earlier editions.... In this edition a considerable amount of new
material has been introduced relative to the growth, nutrition, diet
and supervision of older children, thus attempting to fill a need
often expressed by mothers who have relied upon the manual as a guide
for the period of infancy.”

=HOME=—then what? the mind of the doughboy, A. E. F. *$1.50 Doran 940.373

20–4692

The Comrades in service company club was started at Gievres, France by
Dr O. D. Foster. In May, 1919, a movement was started in the club by
Capt. Leon Schwartz to offer three prizes for the three best essays on
the topic “Home—then what?” The three prize essays, a number of
selected essays, and selected extracts constitute this volume. They
have been collected and arranged by James Louis Small, and John
Kendrick Bangs has written an illuminating foreword. The prize
essayists are: Marcelle H. Wallenstein; Joshua B. Lee; and George F.
Hudson.

* * * * *

=Review= 2:311 Mr 27 ’20 350w

=HOOKER, FORRESTINE COOPER.= Long dim trail. (Borzoi western stories) *$2 (2c) Knopf

20–17651

The story is a vivid picture of the life in the Arizona cattle country
with its teeming beauty during prosperous seasons, its forlorn hope in
times of drought, and the colorful variety of its human element. There
is the sprinkling of college-bred easterners, the rough cow punchers
with the warm loyal hearts, the Mexican, the Chinaman and the
desperado. Between them all there is romance and thrilling adventure.

* * * * *

“The suggestion of artificiality is pleasingly absent in ‘The long dim
trail.’ The book’s greatest charm lies in the fact that its pictures
of life on the cattle ranges of Arizona compel the conviction that
they are as accurate as they are vivid.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 D 26 ’20 480w

“Lovers of stories of adventure, love, villainy and virile men and
true women will find the ingredients mixed here in a manner above the
average.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 120w

=HOPKINS, NEVIL MONROE.= Outlook for research and invention. il *$2 Van Nostrand 609

19–16654

The purpose of this book is to stimulate interest “not so much perhaps
in what has been known as Yankee invention, but in the broader and
more comprehensive American research.” There are eight chapters: The
spirit of research; Men of research and their development; Some
indifference of the past; American war research; The education for
research; Some borderline limits; Research in the factory; The making
and protecting of inventions. An appendix lists problems awaiting
solution. The book is finely illustrated with a frontispiece and six
portraits.

* * * * *

“The book shows the author to be thoroughly familiar with the national
and industrial need for research, for he tells in an immensely
illuminating manner of what research accomplished during the war and
how the need for industrial research still is a pressing one. The book
is fascinatingly written and should appeal to anyone with the instinct
for solving things.”

+ =Electrical R= 76:457 Mr 13 ’20 280w

“Research workers, inventors, educators, manufacturers and certain
government officials and legislators of the higher type will find
stimulus and suggestion in this readable volume. Most of the book is
written from the viewpoint of the chemist and physicist rather than of
the engineer and nearly all the research problems listed are in the
two fields named, but the author writes with knowledge and
appreciation of engineering.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 84:581 Mr 18 ’20 110w

“Mr Hopkins’s book will be of special interest to young men and women
who are interested in research and invention as careers, particularly
if they happen to be without the advantages of higher technical
education.” B: C. Gruenberg

+ =Nation= 111:105 Jl 24 ’20 320w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p14 Ja ’20 40w

“The volume belongs to a class of books which suffer somewhat in the
appeal that they are capable of making to the humanistically trained
intellectuals, because of a certain rawness of cultural outlook as
tested by the conventional standards of the literary and humanistic
critic. On the other hand, it is replete with indications of wide and
substantial scholarship in various scientific branches, it is composed
with a somewhat infectious enthusiasm for the beauties of science.”

+ − =Review= 2:488 My 8 ’20 750w

=HORNE, HERMAN HARRELL.= Jesus, the master teacher. *$2 Assn. press 232

20–14228

The book has to do with the pedagogy of Jesus, which, the author says,
is a discovered and staked-out but unworked mine. The aim of the book
is two-fold: “to see how Jesus taught, or is presented to us as having
taught,” and “ultimately, to influence our own methods of teaching
morals and religion,” and is primarily to be used as a guide to be
followed in study classes. A partial list of the contents is: How did
Jesus secure attention? His use of problems; His conversations; His
questions; His discourses; His parables; His use of symbols; His
imagery; Education by personal association; Did Jesus appeal to the
native reactions? His attitude toward children; His qualities as
teacher; The significance of Jesus in educational history. The
appendix consists of topics for further study, and there are
illustrations and a bibliography.

=HORTON, CHARLES MARCUS.= Opportunities in engineering. (Opportunity books) *$1 (5c) Harper 620

20–6879

This little treatise on engineering might well be called an epic, for
it sings the praises of the engineer and his work in all its aspects.
It is a wonderful profession, perhaps “the topmost of all professions”
in its possibilities of world service, and the engineer is both a
thinker and a doer and as such has more of the world under his control
than falls to the lot of most men. Contents: Engineering and the
engineer; Engineering opportunities; The engineering type; The four
major branches; Making a choice; Qualifying for promotion; The
consulting engineer; The engineer in civic affairs; Code of ethics;
Future of the engineer; What constitutes engineering success; The
personal side.

=Booklist= 16:334 Jl ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 100w

=HOWARD, ALEXANDER L.= Manual of the timbers of the world, their characteristics and uses. il *$9 Macmillan 691.1

“The book is intended to supplement the standard works on timber and
aims at giving an account of the important timbers either on the
market or likely to be of use to us in the future. The properties and
characters of 500 of these woods are considered and suggestions made
as to their practical utilization. Quite a large amount of information
is given on the cultural conditions necessary for many of the best
timber trees and on the possibility of growing them in this country.
This special part of the work is followed by a more general one,
dealing with the conversion and preservation of timber, specifications
and conditions of contract; then comes a very important section
dealing with the artificial seasoning of timber.”—Spec

* * * * *

“On the subject of timbers he is a fanatic. His passion leads him into
mistakes, but it leads him also into real appreciation of the beauty
of woods, and into a prose style that conveys unexpectedly through the
technicalities the charm of his subject.” Malcolm Cowley

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 27 ’20 570w

“The book is fully illustrated and well arranged; it will be of more
use than its author modestly imagines.”

+ − =Spec= 125:640 N 13 ’20 620w

=HOWE, EDGAR WATSON.= Anthology of another town. *$2 (5c) Knopf

20–20449

A series of sketches, varying in length from a paragraph to several
pages, describing characters from a middle western small town. The
title suggests “Spoon River,” but Mr Howe writes in simple, direct
prose and without irony. Many of the sketches go back to his boyhood
and his own experience as a printer’s apprentice.

* * * * *

“Consists of backyard gossip about the inhabitants of Atchison,
Kansas; as such it is unexpurgated and entirely delightful. Mr Howe is
not so cosmic as Mr Masters and he is a great deal easier to read.”

+ =Dial= 70:232 F ’21 90w

=HOWE, J. ALLEN.= Stones and quarries. (Pitman’s common commodities and industries) il $1 Pitman 691.2

“In this small volume an attempt has been made to place before the
reader a broad general view of the stone industry, to show what part
it plays in the life of the community and to give an outline of the
methods and machinery employed in its development.” (Preface) Chapters
on The stone industry. Rocks, stones and minerals and Classification
of stones are followed by six chapters devoted to the various types of
stones and their modes of occurrence. Then come four chapters on the
employment of stone, in building and engineering, roads, etc., and two
concluding chapters on Quarrying and The preparation of stone for the
market. There is a one-page bibliography and an index.

=HOWE, MARK ANTONY DE WOLFE.= George von Lengerke Meyer; his life and public services. il *$5 (3c) Dodd

20–726

The book is based on a large collection of papers, in manuscript and
in print, among them Mr Meyer’s diary. The contents are: Beginnings;
Affairs and politics in Boston and Massachusetts; Ambassador to Italy;
Ambassador to Russia; Postmaster general; Secretary of the navy; The
final years. Illustrations and an index.

* * * * *

“In the preparation of this work. Mr Howe has followed the golden rule
for biographers, by allowing his subject, so far as possible, to tell
his own story. Letters and diary entries constitute the record of an
interesting, useful and busy life.” G: W. Wickersham

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:345 My ’20 1650w

“The conversations with the Czar and with the Kaiser will be
especially interesting.”

+ =Booklist= 16:310 Je ’20

Reviewed by Lindsay Swift

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 F 28 ’20 1900w

=N Y Evening Post= p5 Mr 20 ’20 2000w

“The volume, while full, is not graphic, and does not reveal Mr Meyer
as a deep or vivid reader of social reactions. It is even
disappointing in the inside light it might throw on the official
‘family life’ of two presidents of the United States.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 130w

“Every chapter of this well-written biography is worth reading.”

+ =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 60w

Reviewed by E: G. Lowry

+ =Review= 2:308 Mr 27 ’20 1950w

=R of Rs= 61:444 Ap ’20 140w

“Because of its accurate and intimate picture of life behind the
scenes in the great countries of the world for a period of
approximately fifteen years, the work must certainly prove of value to
historians in search of material upon which to base comprehensive
studies of the world war.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 2050w

=HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN=, ed. Great modern American stories. *$1.75 Boni & Liveright

20–11148

“Twenty-four short stories, ranging from Edward Everett Hale’s ‘My
double’ and Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘Circumstance’ of other days,
to George Ade’s ‘Effie Whittlesy’ and Theodore Dreiser’s ‘The lost
Phoebe’ of the present, make up the contents of an anthology of ‘The
great modern American stories.’ The selection is made by none other
than William Dean Howells, and to it he contributes an introduction
which is by no means the least interesting feature of the volume. It
is compressed within eight pages, and it forms a compact summary of
the course of American short story writing during the past
half-century and more.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“A fascinating collection. One finds old favorites almost forgotten
such as ‘The little room,’ while the stories one looks for are here
too.”

+ =Booklist= 17:33 O ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 14 ’20 700w

“Some of the stories which are given a place cause one to wonder on
what possible basis Mr Howells made his choice. Their inclusion might
be comprehensible were it not for the brilliant tales which they
displace. Mr Howells’ omissions are indeed decidedly more striking
than his selections.”

− + =Cath World= 112:270 N ’20 240w

“A nice adjustment of personal preferences to inevitable inclusions is
here revealed.”

+ =Dial= 69:547 N ’20 50w

“Short story writers may very well take a look at this book, with its
soundly native material and integrity of approach. Only two or three
of the collection can by any stretch be called great, but they cleave
a way and accomplish a measurable result.” C. M. Rourke

+ =Freeman= 2:91 O 6 ’20 1200w

“No anthology, of course, is final: a dozen other candidates for this
volume will occur to any reader at all expert; but if editing can be
as nearly classical as writing, this collection may have to be called
a classic.”

+ =Nation= 111:251 Ag 28 ’20 350w

“The two dozen stories all repay reading and reward re-reading; but
none of them is more readable than the preface of the editor himself.”
Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= 25:179 Ap 18 ’20 2900w

“The volume is undoubtedly interesting, though the kind of interest it
begets does not leave one particularly impressed by the merits and
dignities of the short story as a kind.”

+ − =Review= 3:154 Ag 18 ’20 550w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 280w

=HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN.= Hither and thither in Germany. (Harper’s travel companions) il *$2 (4½c) Harper 914.3

20–2699

Basil March, of silver wedding journey fame, has taken the cure at
Carlsbad, and for an after-cure he and his wife do a bit of traveling
about Germany. Their trip is described in the book, the chapters of
which have been selected from the original volume.

* * * * *

=Dial= 68:666 My ’20 1000w

“The deftest hand which ever drove an American pen has here cut away
the meandering narrative of the original and has kept the descriptive
parts. But what description this of Mr Howells’s—as easy as an eagle,
as flexible as a serpent, as natural and clear as a brook going about
its business!”

+ =Nation= 110:661 My 15 ’20 280w

“In true Howells’ style the narrative rambles along, sometimes with
full detail as if photographed, and again with an impressionistic
summary of a whole experience in a few words. It may be that in the
future, with the smoothing of asperities, the tide of the tourist
travel will flow to Germany again. Then if not before, this book of Mr
Howells’ should score a large popularity.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 24 ’20 340w

=HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN.= Vacation of the Kelwyns; an idyl of the middle eighteen-seventies. *$2 (2c) Harper

20–16794