Chapter XL: Part II: is composed of chapters on: Paris—a brief sketch for tourists; (10)

Kelwyn, post-graduate lecturer on historical sociology, was rather
theoretical than practical. Mrs Kelwyn was conventionally practical,
always eager, theoretically, to be fair and generous, but rather
fussy, withal; and both were typically New England. They rented an
abandoned farm, with one of their “family” houses, of the Shakers for
a year, had a farmer and his wife put in charge, and arranged to spend
their vacation there. The farmers were shiftless and ignorant. In
their world and the Kelwyn’s there was no common meeting ground and
the latter’s summer turned out a tragicomedy. The situation was
somewhat saved by their cousin, Parthenope Brook, and a stray teacher,
a poetic dreamer and idealist and experimenter with life. His
experiments even included the kitchen and the cooking of meals in
which Parthenope joined him with the inevitable result.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:116 D ’20

“Nowhere has Mr Howells shown more clearly his possession of the dual
powers of the observer and the chronicler. Many novelists have either
the one power or the other. Few possess them both equally, and Mr
Howells is one of the few.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 1500w

“It must be admitted that ‘The vacation of the Kelwyns’ represents Mr
Howells in his most uninteresting phase.” F. E. H.

− + =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 180w

“About this trivial theme play all the warmth and grace and gentleness
which marked the later Howells.” C. V. D.

+ =Nation= 111:510 N 3 ’20 180w

“The trouble with ‘The vacation of the Kelwyns’ is that it makes too
little out of the situation presented. The implications of the story
hang at loose ends. Worse, the movements of the characters thus
tangled in a web of intangible difficulties are not only too often
trivial in themselves but they lack the symbolical significance which
might have carried the observer into larger regions of reflection.”
Carl Van Doren

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 O 23 ’20 1900w

“‘The vacation of the Kelwyns’ is a delightful example of Mr Howell’s
method and (every creation being a form of confession) a vivid
revelation of the man himself. It takes a simple situation, simple
people; but this very simplicity makes us feel anew that the drama of
human emotions is never simple.” Alexander Black

+ =N Y Times= p1 O 3 ’20 1950w

“It is a finely wrought out presentation of American life and
character, with interesting sketches of the Shakers and of the
reaction of their tenets and practices on the minds of ordinary
Americans. It is quiet and restrained, but by no means boresome.”

+ =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 80w

“The whole affair has the effect, at least, of something altogether
casual and artless. Its range and theme are slight; but only one
person could have told it, and we who loved that demure and faultless
voice may well be grateful that fate has somehow saved one more
hearing of it for us, as a surprise.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:534 D 1 ’20 850w

“The ambling graces of the narrative are not a great matter, but it is
really interesting to see that a novelist of this true and
distinguished talent, at the end of the long span of his career, had
still the freshness and the good faith to tell a simple story with
simplicity.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p829 D 9 ’20 850w

=HOWLAND, LOUIS.= Stephen A. Douglas. (Figures from American history) *$2 Scribner

20–7497

“A study of Douglas as a public character which is necessarily also a
picture of his times. The author stresses the fundamental patriotism
which the heated party controversies of the day often obscured.
Sources are not cited.”—Booklist

+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20

+ =N Y Times= 25:9 Jl 4 ’20 80w

“Mr Howland leaves upon his readers a clear-cut impression of
Douglas—of what he did and of what he failed to do. He knows his man
and the times in which he lived. Slips are few.” J: C. Rose

+ =Review= 3:191 S 1 ’19 1700w

=HRBKOVA, SÁRKA B.=, tr. and ed. Czechoslovak stories. (Interpreters’ ser.) *$1.90 (2c) Duffield

20–8884

The author of these translations in a long introductory essay on the
people and literature of Czechoslovakia, divides the literature into
three periods: the early, the middle and the modern—the last dating
from the close of the eighteenth century to the present day. The
writers of the stories belong to the most modern group, from 1848 to
the present day and consist of Svatopluk Cech; Jan Neruda;
Franti[)s]ek Xavier Svoboda; Joseph Svatopluk Machar; Bo[)z]ena
Víková-Kunĕtická; Bo[)z]ena Nĕmcová; Alois Jirásek; Ignát Herrman; Jan
Klecanda; Caroline Svĕtlá. A short biography of the writer precedes
each translation and there are appendices.

* * * * *

“Several in their simplicity and beauty are as fine and true as some
of Selma Lagerlöf’s best peasant tales.”

+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20

=HUBBARD, GILBERT ERNEST.=[2] Day of the crescent; glimpses of old Turkey. il *$6 Macmillan 949.6

“In the library of the British Foreign office the author of this book
stumbled upon a collection of sixteenth and seventeenth century books
of Turkish travel, which had been bequeathed to the library by some
noble diplomat of the last century who had been attached to the
Constantinople embassy. ‘The authors were a cosmopolitan and
heterogeneous lot, including among others such diverse characters as a
Flemish diplomat, a French artist, a Polish soldier, a Venetian
dragoman, and an English man of science. Their stories of how they
travelled, painted, plotted, or fought according to their several
capacities are full of color and romance, and worthy products of the
age of adventure in which the actors lived.’ All these books pictured
the ‘golden age’ of Turkey—an age that is almost unknown to us
today—and Mr Hubbard decided that it would be a pleasant and
profitable task to arrange and compress in one volume the most
interesting portions from this collection of old narratives.”—N Y
Evening Post

* * * * *

“He has certainly made no wide search for material, nor approached his
subject in any critical way, nor attempted to give close unity to his
scheme. Under these conditions Mr Hubbard has succeeded in presenting
a vivacious, interesting, and thoroughly readable book.” A. H. Lybyer

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:129 O ’20 560w

“This is certainly the most picturesque of the scores of volumes of
which the great war and its surroundings have been the occasion.” E.
J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 900w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 180w

=Spec= 124:768 Je 5 ’20 150w

=HUDSON, HENRY, 2d., pseud.= Spendthrift town. *$2.25 (1c) Houghton

20–22444

New York city is the Spendthrift town of the title. Claire Nicholson
is the central character, a young girl brought up in a conservative
and aristocratic family who have never moved from their Ninth street
house, and whose creed is “Work hard, take care of your property,
increase it if you possibly can, and let all idealists and spouters
and impractical people alone.” At twenty a series of misfortunes come
upon the family, bringing death, dishonor and poverty into Claire’s
experience of life, and when wealthy Dudley Orville asks her to marry
him, she consents. It doesn’t take many years for her to discover that
Dudley values material things too highly and his marriage vows not at
all. But she has by now realized, too, that she loves Felix Malette, a
young Englishman whom she had previously scoffed at for regarding
material things too lightly. She realizes that she has wronged both
Dudley and herself by marrying him and they separate, but she refuses
to get a divorce as Dudley wishes. She is finally driven to doing so
to obtain the allowance that she needs, but feels herself degraded in
so doing, and feels that it would be impossible ever to make use of a
freedom secured as she had secured hers. Nevertheless the closing page
sees her sailing for Europe where Felix is.

* * * * *

“‘Spendthrift town’ is one of the finest bits of realistic American
literature which has come to my attention this year.” S. M. R.

+ =Bookm= 52:371 D ’20 130w

“The book, as a whole, has solid merit and abundant promise and should
not be overlooked by readers who care for good work of native origin.”

+ − =Nation= 111:693 D 15 ’20 380w

“The caste, the manners of these people, suggest Scott Fitzgerald’s
more earnest moments, but the story is altogether without that young
gentleman’s vigor, ardor and wit.”

− =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 120w

“The real strength of the story is in the vivid picture it presents of
certain phases of metropolitan life, which will be appreciated by New
Yorkers as well as by those who know little of the great city.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 9 ’21 320w

“In fact all of the characters in the story appear weak, selfish and
bored, and one following their apparently aimless existences has no
difficulty in falling into the last-named condition, especially as the
book is full of descriptions of a rather exhaustive nature.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 210w

=HUDSON, JAY WILLIAM.= College and new America. *$2 (5c) Appleton 378

20–12841

Social reconstruction, the author holds, requires the aid of the
colleges and looks to them for skilled intelligence of a special sort.
This requires reform and the first reform needed is that of the
college professor himself. He outlines the nature of the college
professor’s obligation to the social order, hardly recognized
heretofore but upon which lies the ultimate hope of the college. Dr
Henry Suzzallo contributes a foreword, and the contents are: The call
of the new order; The academic mind; The defense of the academic mind;
The obligation to the social order; The failure of the academic mind;
How college professors educate; America as an educational motive; The
truth worth teaching; Some next things in college education; The
meaning of America; The college and American life; The largest terms
of culture; How may these things be? Index.

* * * * *

“Although written from the professor’s point of view, all who are
interested will find profit in this clarifying consideration of aims.”

+ =Booklist= 17:94 D ’20

“We somehow feel that Dr Hudson’s ‘New America’ started about 1865,
right after the Civil war; that he draws no distinction between what
the conscious America of today is trying to be, and what it was
permitting itself to be before the late unpleasantness in Europe.
Also, though he points out with some acumen the faults of our present
system of college education, he does not convince the reader that he
has anything very substantial with which to remedy these faults.” J.
W. G.

− + =Grinnell R= 15:261 O ’20 400w

“In formulating the educational problem of the colleges, Dr Hudson has
performed a real service such as one could scarcely expect from any
one but a practical-minded philosopher, at home alike with realities
and with abstractions. Dr Hudson’s remedies are not so convincing as
his criticism.”

+ − =No Am= 212:573 O ’20 1250w

“All in all, if Prof. Hudson’s book had been written before the war it
would have come as a startling prophecy, but now it is in the position
of the oracle which tells, in faltering accents, that which has come
to pass.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 5 ’20 330w

“The book is likely to be subjected to the criticism that it does not
tell us what to do. But as a definite challenge to university and
college men who are not completely academic to undertake seriously the
task of reconstructing the aims and instruments of higher education in
America, this book must have wide and serious consideration.” J. K.
Hart

+ =Survey= 45:136 O 23 ’20 450w

=HUDSON, STEPHEN.= Richard Kurt. *$2.25 Knopf

A long novel concerned with the emotions and reactions of a young
Englishman, particularly in his relations with his father, his wife,
and a young Italian girl called Virginia. Between himself and his
father there is a long standing antagonism. His wife, Elinor, is a
woman of social aspirations with one set of values only. She is
beautiful and he still apparently loves her, altho there is little
sympathy between them. In Italy he meets Virginia, a girl of puzzling
character, who alternately intrigues and repulses him. He is ready to
leave his wife for her and cannot determine whether her pose of
reluctance is the result of genuine naïveté or of deep-seated design.
In the end repugnance overcomes him. He leaves her and accompanies his
now aged father to London. Midway in the story there is a brief
interlude of friendship with an intelligent American woman who exhorts
Richard to “be a man,” advice he seems temperamentally incapable of
following.

* * * * *

=Ath= p1153 N 7 ’19 460w

“Mr Hudson combines aloofness of attitude and a complete saturation
with his subject. Rarely has a riper first novel appeared. It is
solidly founded in its observation, built with a serene sureness of
touch, careless of vain graces, disdainful of all appeals save that of
its inner veracity.”

+ =Nation= 110:859 Je 26 ’20 320w

“The very long book is much of it well done. Many of the numerous
descriptions are good, and, in short, the author shows himself to be
possessed of talent which it seems rather a pity that he should expend
on relating the detailed history of a man who was not only a drinker
and a gambler, but a sponge, a spineless parasite and cad, too feeble
and too monotonous in character to hold the reader’s attention.”

+ − =N Y Times= p25 Ag 1 ’20 550w

“Three-quarters of the book is weak, trivial, negligible, and but for
Virginia the rest would be the same. She alone is something more than
an unpleasant hotel acquaintance. There is Virginia and one thing
more, the last meeting between Richard and his father. This also,
slight though it is, is touched with beauty.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p569 O 16 ’19 650w

=HUDSON, W. H.= Birds in town and village. il *$4 Dutton 598.2

20–2104

“Sketches of birds done with an intimate understanding of their habits
and temperaments; chatty anecdotes and quaint legends, and the
out-of-doors make this one of the author’s characteristically charming
books. The first part is a revision of his earlier work, ‘Birds in a
village,’ now out of print. Eight colored plates by E. J.
Detmold.”—Booklist

* * * * *

“Vivid and fascinating descriptions of bird life.”

+ =Ath= p1137 O 31 ’19 80w

+ =Booklist= 16:227 Ap ’20

“Mr Hudson is not an ordinary writer nor his book an ordinary book
about birds. One is at loss to decide which is the greater charm of
the books, the author’s mastery of style or his knowledge of the birds
which he describes and makes real.” J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 730w

“This book is not so whimsical as Mr Hudson’s ‘The book of a
naturalist.’ On the other hand, it is a closer and more charming study
of natural history.”

+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 80w

“The essays are delightful, even in tone, but with only occasional
bits that are Hudson at his best.”

+ =Review= 3:48 Jl 14 ’20 80w

“It is literary, of course: but the writing is based on solid fact,
and though Mr Hudson is sensitive, he is not sentimental.”

+ =Sat R= 129:107 Ja 31 ’20 400w

“The book is well worth reading.”

+ =Spec= 123:774 D 6 ’19 100w

=Springf’d Republican= p10 Mr 19 ’20 280w

“Though some of Mr Hudson’s contentions appear disputable, this book
is full of his unsurpassed perception and unique charm.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p583 O 23 ’19 1000w

=HUDSON, W. H.=[2] Birds of La Plata. il 2v *$15 Dutton 598.2

“The matter contained in this volume (which forms a companion to Mr
Hudson’s famous ‘The naturalist in La Plata’) is taken from his
‘Argentine ornithology’ (1888–9), the matter contributed by the late
P. L. Sclater, in order to make a complete list, being omitted along
with the synonymy of the species described by Mr Hudson. Fresh species
being continually added to the list, the work became out of date, the
only thing of permanent interest being Mr Hudson’s account of the
birds’ habits. There seems to have been no subsequent volume from any
other source about Argentine birds.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

+ =Nation= 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 70w

“The two volumes are packed full of the little delightful personal
touches which make Hudson’s descriptions always a delight. In this
book are traces of the carelessness which sometimes appears in
Hudson’s writings. The color-plates by Gronvold add much to the beauty
of the book, and although not so spirited as those of our own Fuertes
they are beautifully done.” S: Scoville, jr.

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 Ja 29 ’21 1300w

“Though the book thus forms no inadequate guide to the birds of at
least a large portion of the Argentine territories, it makes a direct
appeal to many bird-lovers who may never hope to see any of the
species here described in their natural haunts.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p715 N 4 ’20 1450w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 O 28 ’20 100w

=HUDSON, W. H.=[2] Dead Man’s Plack, and An old thorn. *$2.50 Dutton

20–23046

“‘Dead Man’s Plack’ is a story of a thousand years ago. The story is
of Edgar the Peaceful, of Earl Athelwold, and of the beautiful Elfrida
who so dreadfully became queen and again so dreadfully became queen
mother, and is a simple, savage story of a simple, savage time. It is
a happy fortune that has brought ‘An old thorn’ within book covers
with ‘Dead Man’s Plack.’ This shorter story, which was originally
published in The English Review a number of years ago, is probably the
only narrative we have (the only one to Mr Hudson’s knowledge) which
deals with ‘that rare and curious subject, the survival of tree
worship’ in England. But it will live in the readers’ mind as a
piteous and haunting human tragedy—the story of a young countryman who
was hanged (and this was only a century ago) for stealing a sheep.”—N
Y Times

* * * * *

“In ‘An old thorn’ Hudson is at his best. He moves to his conclusion
with that sense of inevitability that is the core of tragedy.”

+ =Bookm= 52:550 F ’21 140w

“And just as ‘Green mansions’ glows forever with the brilliance of the
tropical forest, so here in ‘Dead Man’s Plack’ a Saxon England is
recreated for us, and can never die. This new book of Hudson’s must
have a permanent place in our libraries.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 D 19 ’20 1050w

“There is a simple and plaintive charm in the narrative.”

+ =Outlook= 127:110 Ja 19 ’21 50w

“Here are two short stories by Mr Hudson, good enough for most
writers, but not his best. We could praise them for many things; if
they were by an unknown writer we should be content to praise; we
should even enjoy them more than we do now, knowing the other works of
their author; but, as it is, we are perhaps a little ungrateful for
their many beauties because we cannot refrain from asking why the
short story, even in ‘El ombu,’ does not quite suit Mr Hudson’s
genius.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p823 D 9 ’20 960w

=HUEBNER, GROVER GERHARDT.= Ocean steamship traffic management. *$3 Appleton 387

20–9794

The book is one of a series of manuals for instruction in the various
phases of steamship business. Its object is to give in systematic
order all the facts and activities that come within the range of the
ocean shipping business, for the guidance of individual students
studying by themselves and for use as a class text-book. The contents
are divided into three parts: Part I: The traffic organization of
ocean shipping; Part II: Ocean shipping documents; Part III: Ocean
rates and regulation. There is an index.

* * * * *

“The material is exceptionally well arranged.”

+ =Am Econ R= 10:595 S ’20 80w

“Well organized; written with clearness and precision.”

+ =Booklist= 17:58 N ’20

+ =R of Rs= 62:224 Ag ’20 40w

=HUEBNER, SOLOMON S.= Marine insurance. *$3 Appleton 368.2

20–16525

The volume is the first of a series of manuals designed to assist
students training for the marine insurance, shipping and exporting
business. It is adapted to the needs of beginners and does not aim to
discuss highly technical or isolated aspects of the business, such as
the specialist of long training may desire. Contents: Nature and
functions of marine insurance; Types of underwriters; Types of
policies; Analysis of the policy contract; Analysis of the perils
covered; Total loss; General average; Particular average; Cargo
insurance; Hull insurance; Freight insurance; Builders’ risk
insurance; Reinsurance agreements; Marine underwriters’ associations;
Rate making in marine insurance; Appendices (including specimens of
the various types of policies); Index

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:141 Ja ’21

+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 N 6 ’20 140w

“His book is comprehensive and well written and should prove helpful
to large numbers of the young generation in the country’s marine
insurance offices.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 26 ’20 170w

=HUGHES, ADELAIDE MANOLA.= Diantha goes the primrose way, and other verses. *$1.35 Harper 811

20–6682

The title poem depicts in free verse the drama of a woman who, turning
away from her husband-friend to passionate love, sees that love die
and leave her desolate. She seeks comfort in work and in an hour of
mortal agony grasps the protecting hand of that husband-friend. The
other poems are grouped under the headings: Ceremonials, and Beloved
objects.

* * * * *

Reviewed by R. M. Weaver

=Bookm= 52:61 S ’20 580w

=Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 50w

=HUGHES, EDWARD ARTHUR.= Britain and greater Britain in the nineteenth century. *$1.60 (1½c) Putnam 942.08

(Eng ed 20–3437)

A book written “for the general public, as well as for the upper forms
of schools.” The author is assistant master at the Royal naval
college, Dartmouth. Part 1, devoted to Great Britain and Ireland,
consists of the following chapters: Introductory; England from
Waterloo to the great reform bill (1815–1832); English politics from
the great reform bill to the outbreak of the Crimean war (1832–1853);
The condition of England 1815–1853; Foreign relations to the end of
the Crimean war; Palmerstonian England; Ireland 1800–1866; England and
Ireland 1868–1885; England and Ireland 1886–1906; Social movements
(two chapters). Part 2 devotes a chapter each to Canada, South Africa,
Australia, New Zealand, India and Egypt, with a concluding chapter on
The British empire. There is an index.

* * * * *

“On the whole it is the best short history of modern Britain that has
appeared. But there is one serious defect that greatly impairs its
usefulness. Not only is there no bibliography but there are no
references whatever. Good as it is, it is not particularly dynamic or
illuminating.” C. F. Lavell

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:133 O ’20 350w

“Despite the absence of personal bias, rigorously to be suppressed in
a book like this, and the compression of a large subject into 300
pages, we read ‘Britain and greater Britain’ through from start to
finish with unabated interest.”

+ =Sat R= 128:491 N 22 ’19 1350w

=HUGHES, GLENN.= Broken lights. *$1.50 Univ. of Washington 811

20–11395

From the preface contributed to this collection of poems by Frederick
Morgan Padelford, it is to be inferred that the poems were accepted by
the English department of the University of Washington in lieu of a
thesis for the degree of Master of Arts, on the ground that “the
creation of art is at least as severe a test of culture and of refined
and disciplined thinking as the ability to reason sagely upon the art
created by others.” The poems are grouped under the headings; A
garland for Euterpe; Remembrances: Eccentricities: Pro patria.

* * * * *

“Our ‘strong’ young poets will doubtless see too much of softly
falling rain or gently moving cloud to please them in the volume, too
much of Mother Nature and too little of human nature.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 190w

=HUGHES, RUPERT.= Momma, and other unimportant people. *$2 (2c) Harper

20–20946

Thirteen short stories with the titles: “Momma”; The
stick-in-the-muds; Read it again; The father of waters; Innocence; The
college Lorelei; Yellow cords; The split; A story I can’t write; The
butcher’s daughter; The quick-silver window; The dauntless bookkeeper;
You hadn’t ought to. The stories have appeared in Collier’s and other
magazines.

* * * * *

“If the people all belong to about the same class, the stories
themselves are of very uneven merit, several of them being very good,
while others are distinctly poor. The book gives, take it all in all,
an accurate picture of certain phases of American life.”

+ − =N Y Times= p19 N 14 ’20 580w

=HUGHES, RUPERT.= What’s the world coming to? il *$1.90 (1c) Harper

20–8631

Bob Taxter, coming home from the war, learns that he has inherited ten
thousand dollars. His first thought is that now he will be free to
marry April, the girl he has loved and quarrelled with since
childhood. But he finds that April too has inherited money, a much
larger sum than his own. He straightway sets about making more and
turns his attention to oil. And quite opportunely Joe Yarmy and his
sister Kate appear on the scene. The old homestead in Texas is all
ready to gush oil. They need only capital. Bob bites, but April is
sceptical. They quarrel and she returns his ring. Bewildered, Bob
finds himself engaged to marry Kate. But there has been another
sceptic, old Uncle Zeb, family retainer of the Taxters, now a
“professor of vacuum cleaning.” It is he who thwarts the wedding
plans, redeems the ten thousand dollars and the Taxter diamonds. This
is the story, but the book abounds in an astounding array of other
matters, doggerel verses current at the time, statistics, price lists,
quotations from the Brewers’ board of trade, and the author’s opinions
on prohibition and social conditions generally.

* * * * *

“The plot is fairly complicated, and interspersed with a very great
deal of comment and of moralizing, some of which is worth reading,
though most of it is exceedingly trite. The novel is inordinately
long, but no doubt it will please Mr Hughes’s admirers.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:280 My 30 ’20 1150w

“The story is a potpourri of post-war conditions and incidents loosely
put together.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 190w

=HUGHES, TALBOT.= Dress design, il $4 Pitman 391

The book is one of the Artistic crafts series of technical handbooks
edited by W. R. Lethaby, and is “an account of costume for artists and
dressmakers.” (Sub-title) The object of the series is to encourage
greater consideration for design and workmanship and the object of
this particular volume is to emphasize the craftsman and artistic side
of costume making and to “separate in some degree the more constant
elements of dress from those which are more variable.” (Preface)
Although cast into the form of history it is also a book of
suggestions to modern dressmakers. The book is profusely illustrated
with figures and full-page plates and a special feature has been made
of supplying the maker or designer of dress with actual proportions
and patterns, gleaned from antique dresses. Beginning with prehistoric
dress, both male and female, successive chapters are given to the
development of costume in the different centuries including the
nineteenth. There is an index and a detailed list of patterns.

=HULBERT, ARCHER BUTLER.= Paths of inland commerce. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 380

20–4902

“Professor Hulbert is well equipped for writing the story of the early
development of the transportation routes of the United States, for he
has already published sixteen volumes on the pioneer roads and canals,
based upon personal observation and firsthand study. In the monograph
under review the author has brought together the best results of his
earlier labors and woven them into a connected narrative of the part
which trails, roads, canals, and natural waterways have played in our
commercial development.”—Am Hist R

* * * * *

“The interest of the author in his subject has at times betrayed him
into extreme forms of statement, but on the whole he has maintained a
fair balance.” E. L. Bogart

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:145 O ’20 340w

“The progress both in historical scholarship and in the author’s
knowledge is shown by a comparison of this mature and carefully
wrought volume with the earlier ‘Historic highways of America’
published some fifteen to eighteen years ago by the same author. The
enthusiasm has remained, and has deepened and broadened with the
author’s enlarging acquaintance with the subject, until it has evoked
a notable epic of transportation.” L. P. Kellogg

+ =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:153 S ’20 550w

“An extremely readable volume.”

+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w

=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 50w

=HUMPHREY, ZEPHINE (MRS WALLACE WEIR FAHNESTOCK).=[2] Sword of the spirit. *$2.50 Dutton

20–8516

“The novel begins with the marriage of a young couple well endowed
with this world’s goods, who are ardently infatuated with each other.
Every one looks upon it as a most desirable match in every way, and at
first the young husband and wife are superlatively happy. Then the
little rifts begin to appear. The girl is of a very spiritual nature.
The husband lives upon a distinctly lower level, is frankly material
in his enjoyment of life. The climax comes with some riotous living on
his part, which includes too much toying with the wine cup. The
barrier that has grown between them seems impassable, and wreckage
threatens their marriage. The situations and developments by which the
author chastens and humbles both of them and finally brings them
together again are plausible and emotional.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21

“Miss Humphrey has shown no lack of temerity and assurance in handling
the things of the spirit; but in so doing she has merely revolved
around her subject without ever really grappling it. The novel, as a
whole, is neither pleasing nor convincing.”

− + =Cath World= 112:544 Ja ’21 330w

“It is, perhaps, in construction and development and emotional tensity
the best work she has yet done. There is, indeed, much fine and keen
perception of spiritual beauty throughout the book.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 380w

=HUMPHREYS, ELIZA M. J. (GOLLAN) (MRS DESMOND HUMPHREYS) (RITA, pseud.).= Diana of the Ephesians. *$1.75 (1c) Stokes

20–2263

The hero of this story is the incarnation of egotism, self-conceit and
arrogant, heartless megalomania. She is a Greek girl of doubtful
parentage, her father an Englishman. Claiming the guardianship of an
English professor she comes to England at the age of seventeen,
consumed with ambition to become a great writer and under the delusion
of being the daughter of some great personage. Rough-shod she walks
over everybody in the home that has received her; wheedles herself
into the good graces of an old lord; has a brief but dazzling and
artificial career and sinks into oblivion as the bubble of her genius
bursts and the true secret of her humble origin is revealed.

* * * * *

=Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 40w

“The story is well written and entertaining, but endows the girl with
improbable power.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20

“The leading character, though exaggerated and decidedly bizarre, is
interesting and keeps the reader wondering what she will find to do
next. The novel is interesting, and its plot is more than a little out
of the ordinary.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:164 Ap 11 ’20 400w

“The story’s rapid action, its multitude of interesting detail, and
the singular character of the heroine engage the reader’s attention
throughout 500 closely printed pages.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 330w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p754 D 11 ’19 250w

=HUMPHREYS, ELIZA M. J. (GOLLAN) MRS DESMOND HUMPHREYS) (RITA, pseud.).= Truth of spiritualism. *$1.25 Lippincott 134

20–7778

“‘Rita’ has closely examined the different phenomena of spiritualism,
with the result that she believes it does reveal more than the church
has told us as to the condition of the departed; and that, though not
‘an orthodox religion,’ it is ‘the root and source of all
religions.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“Rita’s denunciations will hardly make much difference, especially as
they are often more eloquent than intelligible.”

− + =Ath= p1301 D 5 ’19 60w

“A maze of vague, incoherent, unproven assertions, a jumble of
rambling nonsense, of stuffy, sickly sentimental Raymondiana,
interspersed with impassioned tirades against Christianity as seen
through the spectacles of ignorance, prejudice, and calumny, and
hovering above all this the arrogant, self-canonized opinion of Mrs
Humphreys, run amuck among truths beyond its grasp and appreciation,
ignorant, irrational, defiant, indecent and sacrilegious.”

− =Cath World= 111:553 Jl ’20 320w

“The converted will no doubt read her disquisition with pleasure; but
it cannot be said to add anything of importance to the controversy.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p783 D 25 ’19 60w

=HUNEKER, JAMES GIBBONS.= Bedouins. il *$2 (5½c) Scribner 780.4

20–5751

Some of Mr Huneker’s bedouins, in this collection of essays, are real
and some are fictitious. A number of the essays are devoted to Mary
Garden, whom the author admires as a “wonderful artiste” and an
“extraordinary woman,” others to Debussy, Mirbeau, George Luks,
Chopin, Caruso, Anatole France. All partake of the nature of
extravaganzas, particularly the fiction. The book falls into two
parts: Mary Garden, and Idols and ambergris. Under part 1 some of the
titles are: Superwoman; The baby, the critic, and the guitar; The
artistic temperament; The passing of Octave Mirbeau; Anarchs and
ecstasy; Caruso on wheels; A masque of music. Among the contents of
part 2 are: The supreme sin; Venus or Valkyr? The cardinal’s fiddle;
The vision malefic.

* * * * *

“We find Mr Huneker unreadable. It is not only the rush and freshness
of his style, which has all the marvellous energy of a woman in
hysterics, that we find unendurable, but we can attach no meaning to
what he says.”

− =Ath= p145 Jl 30 ’19 280w

+ =Booklist= 16:270 My ’20

“He has a marvellous power of suggesting, of stimulating, of suddenly
burbanking widely separated notions and as suddenly dissociating them.
As some one said about him, his brilliancy and versatility hide his
profundity. ‘Bedouins’ is a book without a desert.” B: de Casseres

+ =Bookm= 51:231 Ap ’20 900w

“James Huneker’s writing is full of sound and fury but it signifies a
good deal. His criticism is backed by a real knowledge of most of the
arts in most of the centuries.”

+ =Ind= 102:373 Je 12 ’20 120w

“Maeterlinck wrote: ‘I have marvelled at the vigilance and clarity
with which you follow and judge the new literary and artistic
movements in all countries.’ ‘Bedouins’ is a new illustration of this
vigilance and clarity. His pages on Anatole France, though different
in style, are worthy of being included in Henry James’s little read
but wonderful book on ‘French poets and novelists.’” H: T. Finck

+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 My 8 ’20 580w

“Mr Huneker is, to me, the greatest master of English prose living
today, and ‘Bedouins’ shows no weakening of his hand.” B: de Casseres

+ − =N Y Times= 25:144 Mr 28 ’20 1000w

“Mr Huneker’s enthusiasm and good nature win acceptance for his
literary caprices; he is always to be distinguished from his imitators
of the Mencken-Nathan order.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican p11a Ap 11 ’20 650w=

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p515 Ag 12 ’20 1450w

Reviewed by M. F. Egan

=Yale R= n s 10:187 O ’20 250w

=HUNEKER, JAMES GIBBONS.= Steeplejack. 2v il *$7.50 Scribner

20–16114

“Mr Huneker has been for many years one of the best known of the music
and dramatic critics in New York. These volumes give an entertaining
running account of his relations with musicians, artists, men and
women of the stage, and authors, both here and in Europe.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“Whatever the talk, the brilliant style, the startling paradoxes, and
the individuality of the writer’s reactions make it interesting.”

+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20

“His book is the romance of the year.” B: de Casseres

+ =Bookm= 52:267 N ’20 800w

“Mr Huneker is seen in his confessions as a very human being, rich in
experience and mellow in philosophy. His narrative becomes by turns
merry, stinging, meditative, instructive; but never dull,
hypocritical, or self-laudatory. He has performed a difficult task
with the utmost skill, albeit with no dainty hand.” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:346 D ’20 140w

“Through all the disjointed mass of youthful recollection Mr Huneker
has never been dull. Only when he gets onto the current era, in volume
two, does his blast of steam become inconsequential. He pounds his
fists, strikes his favorite pose, gesticulates and roars; but when he
discusses his contemporaries—puff; his charm is gone. His
autobiography as well as his career is for the most part distinctive,
versatile, individual.” J. B. A.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 10 ’20 1350w

“It is easily the non-fiction book of the year in this country, where
there are so many persons and so few individuals. It is the challenge
of a cultured superman to his generation. And withal a profoundly
human book.” B. D.

+ =N Y Times= p8 S 12 ’20 2000w

“In a less ebullient individuality the cultivation of the ego would
make for boredom; in the case of Mr Huneker a conscious and
concentrated development of personality has enriched our insight into
contemporary peregrinations of the spirit.” L. R. Morris

+ =Outlook= 126:469 N 10 ’20 1650w

“The first impression left by this stimulating and quite
unconventional autobiography is that of a personally conducted tour
thru the literary and artistic ‘Who’s who?’ of the past fifty years.
One’s second thought is an involuntary wish, not that Mr Huneker’s
life had been less rich in varied scenes and privileged friendships,
but that he had given us a narrower and more selective perspective.
Yet it would be the sheerest ingratitude to imply that other methods
and proportions would have made a better book.” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 98:662 S 18 ’20 500w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:292 O 6 ’20 450w

“‘Steeplejack’ should appeal to anyone who cares to recall the
artistic, musical, literary, and journalistic history of America in
the past thirty years.” E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 140w

“Both volumes well repay perusal.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 50w

“It is a gay, happy, animated recital, not of high importance as
intellectual biography, but preserving a good many recollections worth
preserving and giving a full-length picture of a temperament which the
reader will agree with possessor in calling more continental than
American. ‘Steeplejack’ takes us to three cities—Philadelphia, Paris
and New York. Will one’s taste be indictable for dulness if it selects
Philadelphia as the most interesting?”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 1700w

=HUNGERFORD, EDWARD.=[2] With the doughboy in France. il *$2 (2c) Macmillan 940.477

20–20074

“A few chapters of an American effort” the author calls this book,
meaning the work of the Red cross, which seemed to him such an
outpouring of affection, of patriotism, of a sincere desire to serve,
as he had never before seen. It is not a consecutive narrative but a
series of descriptions, well illustrated, under the headings: America
awakens; Our Red cross goes to war; Organizing for work; The problem
of transport; The American Red cross as a department store; The
doughboy moves toward the front; The Red cross on the field of honor;
Our Red cross performs its supreme mission; The Red cross in the
hospitals of the A. F. F.; “Pack up your troubles in your old kit
bag”; When Johnny came marching home; The girl who went to war.

* * * * *

“If one desires to know what our Red cross men and women did for their
country, he will find the story here.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 8 ’20 580w

+ =N Y Times= p13 Ja 30 ’21 700w

+ =R of Rs= 53:223 F ’21 140w

“The method of the book is to recount in a chatty, journalistic way
the general experiences of the Red cross, and, incidentally, of the
armies. The total effect, unfortunately, is of triviality.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 13 ’21 180w

=HUNT, H. ERNEST.= Self-training. *$1.25 (3c) McKay 131

(Eng ed SG19–89)

In laying down the lines of mental progress it is the object of the
book to teach men how to become master workmen in the art of living by
building up correct dominant ideas into the subconscious. He describes
the important part played by the subconscious mind, how our health and
our activities are constantly under the control of an accumulated
stock of ideas and how this stock of ideas can in turn be controlled
by a conscious effort of the will. Contents: The nature of mind; Mind
at work; Thought and health; Suggestion; Training the senses; Memory;
The feelings; Will and imagination; The machinery of nerves;
Extensions of faculty; Self-building; The spiritual basis.

* * * * *

“Good for the discouraged person who is capable of taking himself in
hand.”

+ =Booklist= 16:326 Jl ’20

=HUNTER, GEORGE MCPHERSON.= When I was a boy in Scotland. (Children of other lands books) il *$1 (4c) Lothrop 914.1

20–7945

The author, who is now a clergyman in the United States, writes of:
The place where I was born; My schools and school-teachers; Our games
and play; Tales of my grandfathers; High days and holidays in
Scotland; Days on the beach and among the heather; Tramps in and
around Glasgow, etc. The last chapter tells how he went to sea,
returned to Glasgow university, and then came to America.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:353 Jl ’20

“To read this book is not only to know a real Scotch lad but to learn
many things in a pleasing way.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 24 ’20 180w

=HURLEY, EDWARD NASH.= New merchant marine. il *$3 (3½c) Century 387

20–11687

This is the second volume in the Century foreign trade series. The
author was formerly chairman of the United States shipping board and
has written “The awakening of business” and other books. In the
present work he sketches the history of American shipping but devotes
most of his space to future problems of foreign trade. Among the
chapters are: Our past glories on the sea; Organization of the United
States shipping board; Preparing for ship construction under war
conditions; Methods by which tonnage was acquired; The new merchant
marine; American commerce in the western hemisphere; American commerce
in Australia and the Far East; The economical operation of ships;
Reaction of ships upon national industries; Americanization and
re-orientation. The book is illustrated, has two appendices and an
index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:53 N ’20

=R of Rs= 62:224 Ag ’20 110w

“The book contains a wealth of timely suggestions and detailed
instruction in practice and methods.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 26 ’20 190w

=HUSBAND, JOSEPH.= Americans by adoption. il $1.50 (4c) Atlantic monthly press 920

20–10511

The volume contains biographical sketches of nine prominent,
foreign-born “Americans by choice” with an introduction by William
Allan Neilson, himself a foreigner, and president of Smith college. He
holds that what men want most is “to count among their fellows for
what they are worth.” That America is giving its citizens of foreign
birth this opportunity is the underlying reason for the book. Each
sketch is accompanied by a portrait and the subjects of the sketches
are: Stephen Girard; John Ericsson; Louis Agassiz; Carl Schurz;
Theodore Thomas; Andrew Carnegie; James J. Hill; Augustus
Saint-Gaudens; Jacob A. Riis.

* * * * *

“An interesting addition to any public or high school library.”

+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20

“Mr Husband’s book, however flowery some of its phraseology may be, is
yet a trumpet call.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 1100w

“Now, I am convinced that these interesting records will ‘inspire,’ in
the matter of Americanism, only those who are inspired already. Mr
Husband does not seem to realize, in the first place, that it is quite
impossible for people nowadays to admire very greatly such heroes as
Stephen Girard, James J. Hill and Andrew Carnegie. It is an old
fallacy of ours to suppose that we alone have produced men of this
kind. But Mr Husband makes a virtue of every accident.”

− =Freeman= 1:382 Je 30 ’20 1600w

“This little volume, beautifully introduced by W. A. Neilson, should
have its worthy place in any bibliography of Americanization.”

+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:55 N 17 ’20 80w

“The book is highly appropriate as a high-school reader or reference
book.”

+ =School R= 28:636 O ’20 90w

“The book is based on pure fiction, so far as America is concerned. In
the first place, since the constitution does not provide for
conferring the freedom of the nation on foreigners, there are no
‘Americans by adoption.’ Mr Husband’s portraiture is rather in keeping
with the ideas propounded by Mr Neilson in the preface; his heroes are
made to look like ‘Efficiency Edgar.’” B. L.

− =Survey= 45:401 D 11 ’20 480w

=HUTCHINSON, EMILIE JOSEPHINE.= Women’s wages. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics, and public law) pa *$1.50 Longmans 331.4

19–18237

“This book, submitted as a doctor’s thesis to Columbia university, is
a painstaking, clearly written analysis of the wages of women and the
factors affecting them. Nearly half the space is given to a discussion
of minimum-wage legislation and its possibilities. Trade unionism and
vocational training are included with minimum-wage laws as the chief
methods of raising the present low standards. The facts presented are
drawn almost exclusively from reports prepared before the war, and
although occasional references are made to the work of women during
the war, and their position after it, the discussion seems not to have
been influenced by the changes in the aspects of labor problems since
1914.”—Am J Soc

* * * * *

“The postponement of the publication of this useful laboriously
prepared study makes the data seem curiously obsolete.” Edith Abbott

+ − =Am Econ R= 10:609 S ’20 450w

“It is unfortunate that certain old opinions, which have never had
satisfactory statistical proof, such as ‘from five to seven years is
the average length of the girl’s wage-earning life,’ are repeated
without supporting evidence. As a history of data and opinions before
the war the book is useful, and with the persistence of many of the
same tendencies in women’s work, it will have continued value.” Mary
Van Kleeck

+ − =Am J Soc= 25:497 Ja ’20 200w

=Booklist= 16:262 My ’20

“‘Women’s wages’ is encouraging in its wholesome lack of optimism.”

+ =Nation= 110:662 My 15 ’20 220w

“A unique and much needed piece of work.” Signe Toksvig

+ =New Repub= 21:84 D 17 ’19 1200w

“This admirable study digests with fairness and with intelligence the
available data concerning women’s wages in this country. The book she
has produced excellently covers its field.” W. L. C.

+ =Survey= 43:781 Mr 20 ’20 300w

=HUTCHINSON, HORATIO GORDON.= Portraits of the eighties, il *$4 Scribner 920

(Eng ed 20–22470)

“Since the Right Hon. George W. E. Russell has himself written about
so many of his contemporaries, it is fitting that he should hold the
place of honor, with a frontispiece portrait, in Mr Hutchinson’s
‘Portraits of the eighties.’ After this introductory chapter dealing
with Mr Russell we are given a graphic series of pen portraits of men
of such diverse interests as Gladstone, John Bright, Parnell, General
Gordon, Archbishop Temple, Professor Huxley, William Morris Swinburne,
George Frederick Watts, Sir W. S. Gilbert, Oscar Wilde and W. G.
Grace, Mr Hutchinson’s survey of English personalities extending
thereby from statesmanship to cricket-playing.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“There are too many (over 30) portraits and groups attempted in these
300 pages; comparatively few lines can be given to each, and Mr
Hutchinson is not master of the economy of telling and characteristic
strokes. The fortuitous medley of the scrap-book may, however, afford
entertainment, and even a degree of instruction.” F. W. S.

+ − =Ath= p830 Je 25 ’20 550w

“The book is full of important facts brought together in an accessible
form. But Mr Hutchinson has little penetration and suffers in any
comparison that is drawn between his work, which may be admitted to be
good, and the work which is entitled to be called excellent of some
recent writers.” Theodore Maynard

+ − =Bookm= 51:682 Ag ’20 650w

“As an abstract and brief chronicle of its decade, Mr Hutchinson’s
book fulfils the promise of its title.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 1350w

“The book does not possess the brilliant style or keen analysis of Mr
Strachey’s ‘Eminent Victorians,’ but is discriminating and, if not
characterized by any remarkable insight is generally fair in its
judgment.”

+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 60w

“Mr Hutchinson is an impressionist, working with a broad and sometimes
rather careless brush, yet seldom failing to make his portrait live. A
gentle judge of the private characters of his subjects, he is a
circumspect critic of their public activities.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p299 My 13 ’20 1350w

=HUTTEN ZUM STOLZENBERG, BETTINA (RIDDLE) freifrau von.= Happy house. *$1.75 (2c) Doran

20–1214

Happy house the young bride called her new home, but it soon became
a euphemism. Violet Walbridge slaved with her pen to give without
stint to a worthless husband and a large thoughtlessly exacting
family. As the quality of her novels is falling off into mere
rubbish, and with it the quantity of her income, a young journalist
discovers her rare character as a woman. He also falls in love with
her youngest daughter but the course of his true love does not run
smoothly. During his devious courtship of Grisel, his friendship for
his would-be-mother-in-law becomes a rejuvenating elixir for the
latter and enables her to write a real true-to-life modern story,
that reinstates her in the good graces of her publishers.

* * * * *

“A pleasant character study of an interesting group.”

+ =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20

“The plot itself might well have been composed by its heroine.” M. E.
Bailey

+ − =Bookm= 51:204 Ap ’20 400w

“In ‘Happy house,’ Baroness von Hutten has written a story which
should not by rights be readable, but into which she has managed to
infuse a certain amount of vitality. It is a ghost but there are
moments when its gestures are sufficiently life-like, and despite its
rattling bones we follow its motions.” D. L. M.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 My 29 ’20 450w

“As a whole, the book is decidedly pleasing and out of the ordinary.”

+ =Cath World= 111:407 Je ’20 210w

=Cleveland= p50 My ’20 50w

=Lit D= p97 S 18 ’20 2650w

“‘Happy house’ is a quiet little story of the domestic type, but
Oliver Wick and Violet Walbridge make it worth while.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:116 Mr 14 ’20 600w

“The novel is entertaining rather than deep.”

+ =Outlook= 124:562 Mr 31 ’20 60w

“Towards the end of the book a few incredible things happen, but one
forgives these in gratitude for the careful and convincing character
drawing.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:41 Ja 10 ’20 220w

“In the tragedy of a once popular novelist, who has become something
of a fallen star, and in the very casual way in which, even when her
star was at its zenith, she has always been regarded by her own
family, there are great possibilities. But the Baroness von Hutten
scarcely makes the most of it, and dares so little to rely on it that
she introduces two sub-plots which, though mechanically linked with
this main theme, have no artistic bearing upon it.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p769 D 18 ’19 280w

=HUTTEN ZUM STOLZENBERG, BETTINA (RIDDLE) freifrau von.= Helping Hersey. *$1.90 (2c) Doran

20–26758

A book of collected short stories from the pen of this author of many
popular novels. The title story is a study of two women, mother and
daughter, in their relation to one man, an American, who at first
misjudges both and is later led to reverse his opinions. First place
in the collection is given to Peterl in the Black forest, a sketch
written in 1913 with all the marks of a study from life. The other
titles are: In loving memory; Ker Kel; Mrs Hornbeam’s headdress; The
common man’s story; The iron shutter; Two Apaches; The principino;
Three times; A Berlin adventure.

* * * * *

“Slight but entertaining.”

+ =Booklist= 17:33 O ’20