Chapter XXIII: Part IV: gives the story of relief methods at times of disaster.” (Am (9)

* “The scheme of the history is on the whole good, though we are bound
to say that some of the writing is uninspired, and not in the same
rank of literary production as much of the work by American writers in
the volume of the ‘Cambridge modern history’ dealing with the United
States.”

+ + — =Spec.= 95: 694. N. 4, ‘05. 700w. (Review of v. 1-5.)

=Hart, Albert Bushnell.= Essentials in American history (from the discovery to the present day). *$1.50. Am. bk.

This is one of a series of text books which includes a volume each on
ancient, medieval, modern, and English history. “The volumes are
intended for use in secondary schools, and contain lists of references
and topical questions, but apart from this pedagogic machinery they
have little in common with the ordinary schoolbook. The authors have
addressed themselves avowedly only to those things which have been
vital and significant to the development of the civilizations treated
respectively in the several works.” (Outlook.)

“The somewhat original grouping of topics in the Colonial period is
the book’s most distinguishing feature. Upon the whole this work of
Professor Hart deserves commendation and should meet with a cordial
welcome among a wide circle of teachers.” Frank Greene Bates.

+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 166. O. ‘05. 1240w.

“While the historic narrative is necessarily compact and free from all
attempts at rhetorical writing or dramatic presentation, the books are
essentially selective in that they purposely omit confusing details.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 442. Je. 17. ‘05. 70w.

* =Hart, Jerome.= Levantine log book. **$2. Longmans.

All the reverence with which one likes to approach the Holy Land is
shattered by the genially sarcastic observations which the author
makes upon all his observant eyes saw in the Levant. His Levant
includes Stamboul, Smyrna, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Cairo, Luxor, Thebes,
Alexandria and other places naturally included in this itinerary, and
his log book is a record of cheerful disillusionment, but the pictures
he draws are amusing enough to compensate for the shock his
revelations bring. The volume is illustrated with photographs, many of
which were taken by the author.

* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.

* “A gossipy, vivacious account of travel.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 941. D. 16, ‘05. 30w.

* =Harte, Francis Bret.= Her letter, His answer, and Her last letter. $2. Houghton.

“For the present reprint, these old favorites have been literally, as
the title-page has it, ‘pictured’ by Mr. Arthur I. Keller.... The
illustrations, a few more in number than the stanzas, are in color or
in tint, some from wash-drawings and others from pen-and-ink sketches.
They catch both the humor and the sentiment of the verses, and the
artist has not forgotten that the life of Poverty Flat is now a full
generation behind us.”—Dial.

* + =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 70w.

* “‘Her letter’ is certainly one of the artistic triumphs of the
season’s output.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 190w.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1379. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.

* + =Nation.= 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 90w.

* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 712. O. 21, ‘05. 220w.

* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 90w.

=Hartley, Charles Gasquoine.= Pictures in the Tate gallery. *$3.50. Dutton.

A study, with twenty reproductions, of the famous gallery presented to
the British nation by Sir Henry Tate. There is a general summary of
modern English art; the treatment is by epochs represented in the
gallery.

“The brief essays ... are well written and instructive ... and the
illustrations are thoroughly representative.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 25: 273. My. ‘05. 160w.

=R. of Rs.= 31: 252. F. ‘05. 90w.

“A general summary of modern English art written in a popular manner,
and as such may prove a useful book, for there is discrimination in
the criticism.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 115. Ja. 28, ‘05. 40w.

* =Harwood, Edith.= Notable pictures in Florence. *$1.50. Dutton.

The author “aims to help the uninitiated in art matters.... Miss
Harwood arranges her artists alphabetically, giving us some account of
their lives and their most important works, and telling where these
are to be found, with small illustrations, good only for assistance in
remembering the compositions. She includes the principal artists
represented in the Belle Arti, the Uffizi, and the Pitti, along with
frescoes in the churches.”—Nation.

* “The book is good to read, full of interesting historical detail,
and ample in quotations from writers ancient and modern in prose and
verse.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 402. N. 16, ‘05. 270w.

* “The pleasure it has given the writer to set down her impressions
may do something toward removing the suggestion that the book lacks a
good reason for existence.” Chas. de Kay.

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 741. N. 4, ‘05. 220w.

* “A book distinctly better than the customary ‘center-table’ variety,
the text is better than the pictures, but that is not saying that the
text is either original or adequate enough.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 50w.

=Harwood, W. S.= New creations in plant life: an authoritative account of the life and work of Luther Burbank. **$1.75. Macmillan.

“Following the brief account of Mr. Burbank’s career down to the
present time. Mr. Harwood has a chapter on his methods of work in
general. He then passes on to a discussion of the individual creations
of the breeder, describing the trees created by him, the amaryllis and
the poppy, the potato and pomato, lilies, plums, and prunes, the
‘Shasta’ daisy, cacti, breeding plants for perfumes, etc. There are
also chapters on breeding and grafting and the commercial aspect of
the work; a description of a day with Mr. Burbank, and his
personality. The volume is profusely illustrated from photographs.”—N.
Y. Times.

* “Given reasonably clear English and logical presentation, the actual
information in this book could be condensed into a magazine article.”
C. R. B.

+ — =Bot. G.= 40: 459. D. ‘05. 600w.

* + =Critic.= 47: 581. D. ‘05. 80w.

“Here and there the style is a little difficult to follow. We can
recommend this volume as a readable and truthful description of a
remarkable career.”

+ + — =Nation.= 81: 388. N. 9, ‘05. 510w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 709. O. 21, ‘05. 290w.

* “Contains the most complete and comprehensive account of Mr.
Burbank’s great achievements, his methods of work, and his
personality. His book is eminently readable.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 1039. D. 23, ‘05. 250w.

* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 754. D. ‘05. 130w.

=Hatch, Ernest Frederick George.= Far Eastern impressions. *$1.40. McClurg.

Impressions of Japan, Korea and China, being the author’s
recollections of a tour of those countries made some three years ago.
His memory is fortified by facts and opinions collected at the time in
his note books and the whole is cast in narrative form. While the
industrial and political aspects receive first attention, the
historical and social phases are fully and fairly presented and the
book will undoubtedly fulfill its object of further stimulating public
interest in the great Far Eastern problem. There are three maps and
eighty-eight illustrations from photographs.

* “Mr. Hatch’s impressions are not mere chance gatherings and
ill-digested glimpses; they are acute and weighty observations upon
the things that appeal to a business man interested in politics. The
volume is well indexed, well illustrated, and written in a clear and
forcible style.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 378. D. 1, ‘05. 390w.

* “A capital book for the investor and fortune seeker.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1479. D. 21, ‘05. 90w.

* “The illustrations seem about as valuable as the text, for little of
purely original matter of any great importance enters into the book,
which is rather too rich in quotations.”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 445. N. 30, ‘05. 290w.

* “The book is an interesting one to read in connection with Lord
Curzon’s and Mr. Norman’s much larger and exhaustive volumes on the
same subjects.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 80w.

=Hatch, F. H., and Corstorphine, George Stewart.= Geology of South Africa. *$7. Macmillan.

“The book is divided into five parts. Part I deals with the pre-Karroo
rocks.... The Karroo rocks are adequately dealt with in part II....
The coastal system, including the Uitenhage and Umtavuna Cretaceous
rocks, profusely illustrated with typical fossils, occupies part
III.... Part IV briefly discusses the igneous rocks of doubtful
position.... Part V discusses the correlation of the South African
strata.”—Nature.

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 278. Ag. 26. 1460w.

“The volume might be more truthfully entitled ‘A geognostic account of
British South Africa.’ Thus regarded the work is good and should prove
of much practical value.”

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 266. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1510w.

“The authors have certainly succeeded in their self-imposed task ‘to
correlate and systematise the valuable results of both official and
private work.’” W. G.

+ + =Nature.= 72: 346. Ag. 10, ‘05. 980w.

“Admirable summary provided by these two most competent geologists.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 374. S. 16, ‘05. 1620w.

=Spec.= 95: 198. Ag. 5, ‘05. 180w.

=Hatch, Louis Clinton.= Administration of the American revolutionary army. **$1.50. Longmans.

A monograph, “Harvard historical series X,” which first treats of the
evolution of the Continental army and discusses the relation between
Congress and the commander-in-chief. There are also chapters on
“Appointment and promotion” of officers, setting forth the states’
jealousies; “Foreign officers;” “Pay and half-pay,” the real
contrasted with the apparent pay of the soldiers; “Supplying the
army,” its mismanagement and the suffering at Valley Forge; “Newburg
addresses;” and “Mutiny of 1786, and disbandment of the army.”

“A valuable chapter on the subject of the ‘Appointment and promotion’
of officers, showing the jealousy of the members of Congress for the
rights of their states. The chapter on ‘Foreign officers’ is the least
valuable in the volume, adding little to the account in Tower’s
‘Lafayette’ and that in Wharton’s ‘Diplomatic correspondence.’ The
following chapter, on ‘Pay and half-pay,’ is, on the other hand, a
real contribution. ‘Supplying the army,’ the mismanagement in the
feeding and clothing of the army, and the consequent suffering at
Valley Forge is, on the whole, the most accurate account we have, and
is stated with moderation and without sentimentality. The ‘Newburg
addresses’ in the following chapter are, however, treated in a fuller
and more conclusive manner. The book is well organized and well
written. It is a source study of high merit. There is a valuable
bibliography and a good index.” C. H. Van Tyne.

+ + =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 401. Ja. ‘05. 730w.

* =Hatzfeldt, Paul.= Hatzfeldt letters: letters of Count Paul Hatzfeldt to his wife; written from the headquarters of the King of Prussia, 1870-71; tr. from the French by J. L. Bashford. *$4. Dutton.

“The Countess ... says in her introduction that the letters ‘throw so
much light on the great events of 1870-1’ as well as on the character
of the writer, that she thinks they will be ‘interesting to many
people who only know hitherto of Count Hatzfeldt’s public
services.’ ... Candor, however, compels one to deny the accuracy of
the first statement.... Count Paul was not behind the scenes in those
great events ... his letters ... were merely family letters.... As to
throwing light on the diplomat’s character, they may do that; but
merely that he loved his family, wanted to be with them.... The
letters were written almost daily—sometimes more than one a day—from
Aug. 2, 1870, to March 6, 1871, those from and after Oct. 7, being
dated from Versailles.”—N. Y. Times.

* “While, however, a little more care in editing might have avoided
some blemishes, we welcome the volume as throwing light on many
historical characters and events. The index is unfortunately poor,
though fairly accurate as far as it goes. There are a few errors in
the text.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 499. O. 14. 1490w.

* “In fact, so far as the public is concerned, the translation is far
better than the letters themselves.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 764. N. 11, ‘05. 660w.

* + =Sat. R.= 100: 754. D. 9, ‘05. 1090w.

=Havell, E. B.= Handbook to Agra and the Taj, Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri, and the neighborhood. *$1.50. Longmans.

The object of this volume is “to assist those who visit, or have
visited, Agra to an intelligent understanding of one of the greatest
epochs of Indian art.” The author, who is the principal of the
government school of art at Calcutta, gives a brief historical
introduction followed by a detailed treatment of the buildings and
tombs at and about Agra. There are 14 illustrations in half-tone from
photographs, four plans, an index and footnotes.

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 269. Ap. 6. ‘05. 110w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 479. Jl. 22, ‘05. 320w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 9. Ja. 7, ‘05. 240w.

“The book appears to be at least as good as most books of its kind and
better than many.”

=Hawkins, Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope, pseud.).= Servant of the public. †$1.50. Stokes.

A story not of the stage, but of an actress: a character study of Ora
Pinsent, a creature of whim and folly, and ever behind the failure she
makes of living and the cloud her attractive, clinging, and uncertain
personality casts over those who cross her path, is the glory of her
triumph behind the footlights. There is slight reference to her public
career, but its success seems measured by the detailed failure of her
private life.

“We cannot regard ‘A servant of the public’ as other than a failure.
It is sufficiently interesting to wile away an hour or two, but not so
interesting as to fulfil the promise to which the early career of its
author gave rise.”

— + =Acad.= 68: 1025. O. 7, ‘05. 820w.

“Marks an improvement in some ways on ‘Double harness.’ The canvas is
less crowded, and the attempt to unravel cross-purposes and
conflicting motives is less strenuous yet more successful.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 396. S. 23. 590w.

“One of the few heroines of this season’s fiction that will not easily
be forgotten.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 234. N. ‘05. 350w.

* “The ostensibly piquant history of Miss Ora Pinsent is, after all,
dull reading.”

+ — =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 140w.

* “The story is written in a vein of grave comedy, pleasing but not
stirring in effect. Its half-dozen chief characters are delicately
defined, while its diction is an acceptable compound of natural
dialogue, engaging description, and agreeable social philosophy.” Wm.
M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 39: 310. N. 16, ‘05. 220w.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1151. N. 16, ‘05. 180w.

* “Altho the plot is a little tenuous, yet Mr. Hope treats it with
much solidity.”

+ — =Lit. D.= 31: 886. D. 9, ‘05. 570w.

+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 910w.

“There is a sound as well as subtle philosophy to be read between the
lines of this unusual book.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 602. S. 16, ‘05. 880w.

“As a clever study of a character often met with in real life, but not
so often attempted in fiction, this story offers unusual attractions.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 430. O. 21, ‘05. 220w.

* “As an analysis of a temperament and an artistic presentment of
individual problems the novel is wrought out with skill and ability.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 140w.

“Mr. Hope’s fine comedy manner has no better example than ‘A servant
of the public.’ Lacking the dramatic vitality of ‘Double harness,’
this story is almost as interesting, for it deals, keenly,
good-humoredly, with that fascinating subject, the dramatic instincts
of a woman.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 320w.

* =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 50w.

“The finish of the story illustrated an art of which Anthony Hope is
attaining real control. He gives by a very delicate succession of
blunting touches, an admirable imitation of the dulling effect of
time.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 376. S. 16, ‘05. 630w.

“Subject to the limitations of his theme, in the choice of which we
are ready to admit that opportunity as well as temperament may have
been a governing factor, we have little but praise for the skill, the
tact, and the subtlety with which Mr. Anthony Hope has handled it.”

+ + =Spec.= 95: 395. S. 16, ‘05. 1160w.

=Hawks, Wells.= Red wagon stories; or, Tales told under the tent. 50c; pa. 25c. Ottenheimer.

In “these realistic sketches, reminiscent of traveling circus
days, ... the men who make the great show go, the bill poster, the
press agent, the boss canvasman, the bandmaster, and the ticket
seller, give us, in their rough and ready manner, a cheery view of
their good-humored personalities in the breezy stories they relate
when seated around the ring bark between performances.... In all there
are eleven stories.”—N. Y. Times.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 277. Ap. 29, ‘05. 140w.

=Hawthorne, Hildegarde.= Poems. $1. Badger, R. G.

A little volume of delicate poems by the granddaughter of Nathaniel
Hawthorne.

+ + =Critic.= 46: 566. Je. ‘05. 160w.

Reviewed by William Morton Payne.

+ =Dial.= 38: 201. Mr. 16, ‘05. 140w.

“A graceful lyric gift, a vein of pretty fancy, and a habitual mood of
ideality are very little inconvenienced by disturbing mental
processes.”

+ — =Nation.= 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 150w.

“In Miss Hawthorne’s work a certain respect for the purity of the
poetic impulse is invariably felt. She neither trifles nor bungles
with her art, but approaches it sincerely and with intelligence. Her
verse, therefore, even when it is of the slightest, has a delicate,
veracious property that charms.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 133. Mr. 4, ‘05. 250w.

=Hawthorne, Nathaniel.= Marble faun. $1.25. Crowell.

A volume of the “Thin paper classics,” with an introduction by
Katharine Lee Bates, and a frontispiece showing the Grand Salon, in
the Capitoline Museum.

=Hay, Helen.= See =Whitney, Mrs. Helen Hay.=

=Hayden, Arthur.= Chats on old furniture: a practical guide for collectors. **$2. Stokes.

The author “begins with a bibliography, and follows this with a
glossary.... He then proceeds to deal separately with various periods
of style. The first chapter is given to the French renaissance, the
second to the English, the Jacobean and Queen Anne styles, and the
styles of the successive Louises, with that of the empire. Finally we
have an account of the famous English makers. Each chapter has an
appendix of recent sale-prices.”—Spec.

“Is an admirable compendium of all that has been written on the
subject.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 272. Mr. 18, ‘05. 900w.

=Ath.= 1905, 1: 377. Mr. 25. 490w.

+ + — =Sat. R.= 99: 846. Je. 24, ‘05. 200w.

“A useful and instructive volume.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 333. Mr. 4, ‘05. 110w.

=Hayes, Helen.= Her memory book. $2. Harper.

An elaborately decorated volume of blank pages in which a young girl
may keep a record of her social life, her “coming-out” party, dinners,
teas, balls, card parties, and out of door sports, there is even space
for samples of her favorite gowns and newspaper notices; the final
page is headed by a wee winged figure with veil, and orange wreath.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 180w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 701. O. 14, ‘05. 280w.

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 279. S. 30, ‘05. 30w.

=Hazlitt, William Carew,= ed. Faiths and folklore. *$6. Scribner.

“This is really a new edition of Brand and Ellis’s ‘Popular
antiquities of Great Britain,’ but it is now for the first time
alphabetically arranged—an immense improvement—and has also been
enlarged and improved. The title, as given above, sufficiently
indicates the classes of topics treated.”—Outlook.

“The author has collected a good deal of folklore, which it is useful
to possess in alphabetical order, but many of the entries would have
been improved by revision.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 39. Jl. 8. 1710w.

“Mr. Hazlitt has added some material to the old book, but neither in
quantity nor in quality is it worth while. Most of it is newspaper
clippings culled at random, and both in arrangement and in subject
shows no sense of proportion or definite plan.”

— =Dial.= 39: 119. S. 1, ‘05. 320w.

“The work is a rarely quaint storehouse of legend, allusion,
antiquarian information, and bygone usages.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 95. Ja. 7. ‘05. 60w.

+ + =Spec.= 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 420w.

=Healy, Patrick Joseph.= Valerian persecution: a study of the relations between church and state in the third century, A. D. **$1.50. Houghton.

An historical monograph, which is not a sectarian work, but which sets
forth in the light of recent investigation, the true history of this
period in which the early Christians suffered much at the hands of the
Roman state.

* “The character of Dr. Healy’s work may be briefly indicated by
saying that, while it satisfies the exacting standards to which the
modern writer of history must conform, it will not fail to fascinate
the intelligent reader who takes up a book of history, not for severe
study, but partly for instruction, partly for entertainment. Clear
alike by its methodic arrangement and its simple style, lively and
vivid without falling into the rhetorical, the narrative flows
smoothly on, and, though abounding in detail, never becomes tedious or
monotonous.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 403. D. ‘05. 1070w.

* “Painstaking as he has been in piecing together his material, he
does not always seem to have understood the sphere to which the
statements he copied down applied. This will not prevent his book’s
being useful to a large circle of readers to whom the sources from
which he draws are not accessible.”

+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 374. N. 3, ‘05. 540w.

“Dr. Healy’s work is not everywhere selfconsistent.”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 346. O. 26, ‘05. 1100w.

“A carefully written monograph.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 385. O. 14, ‘05. 140w.

=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Exotics and retrospectives. Shadowings. A. Japanese miscellany. In ghostly Japan, ea. $1.25. Little.

The general title, “Stories and sketches of Japan,” includes in
popular form four volumes of the short papers written during the last
few years of the author’s life. The volume entitled “A Japanese
miscellany,” “would have fitted,” says the N. Y. Times, “the whole
series excellently well for it is altogether Japanese.... Bits of
antiquarian and ethnological investigation; little papers of research
in all kinds of interesting matters relating to the people whom the
author loved so well; Japanese stories retold from curious old
Japanese books, with Mr. Hearn’s own version of traits and occurrences
that have come under his observation; a few of the exquisitely
artistic and suggestive tales, impressions, descriptions, which no one
but a Hearn could write—these fill the four volumes with such a wealth
of entertaining as well as valuable material that, in reading them,
one constantly marvels how any one man found time or patience to
gather and assimilate it all into one such orderly shape.”

“He does not so much attempt to define, as to convey by means of his
charmingly expressed and equally charmingly conceived ideas, some
notion of the other half of the world, and the ideals as well as the
daily life of the East.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 40. Ap. ‘05. 230w.

“Together they offer an extraordinary variety of apercus of Japanese
character and customs and beliefs, subtly apprehended, and expressed
in a style infused with sympathy, phantasy, and color.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 68. Ja. 26, ‘05. 330w.

“It is here that we gain some idea of the painstaking study, for
infinite capacity for details, the special sympathy and appreciation
that formed the solid basis of that wonderful power of vivid portrayal
and poetic fancy that have made all of Mr. Hearn’s work unique and
delightful. Certainly no one can afford to miss the insight into the
very spirit of Japan, which is to be gained from these books. He, more
than any other English writer, was fitted to be their prophet, and he
nobly began his task, even if he did not have opportunity to complete
it.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 68. F. 4, ‘05. 1010w.

=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Japan. **$2. Macmillan.

The author, an American journalist, son of a Greek mother and an Irish
father, took a Japanese name and a Japanese wife and lived the life of
a native teacher, in order to interpret sympathetically the Japanese
mind and its products to the Western world. Altho frankly devoted to
the country, he surpasses her enemies in admiringly laying bare the
realities. “One cannot quote, one must read this work. It shows the
Japanese under his armor, modern science. The Japanese, outwardly, are
ruled by treaties, diplomacy, governments, codes, imperial diet,
armies, and battleships—all modern and external. Inwardly they—that
is, forty-nine millions of them—are governed by ghosts. The graveyard
is the true dictator. It is ever their ‘illustrious ancestors’ who
achieve victories.” (Critic).

“Probably three greater errors were never compressed into a single
sentence than this from p. 27: ‘The real religion of Japan, the
religion still professed in one form or another by the entire nation,
is that cult which has been the foundation of all civilized religion
and of all civilized society—ancestor-worship.’ The close and frequent
points of influence which religion exercised upon politics and
morality in Japan can nowhere else be so well studied as here.” E.
Buckley.

+ + — =Am. J. Soc.= 10: 545. Ja. ‘05. 2460w.

“Is a classic in science, a wonder of interpretation. It is the
product of long years of thought, of keenest perception, of marvellous
comprehension. Hearn outdoes the missionaries in dogmatism, exceeds
even the hostile propagandist in telling the naked truth. His book is
a re-reading of all Japanese history, a sociological appraisement of
the value of Japanese civilization, and a warning against intolerant
propaganda of any sort whatever.” W. E. Griffis.

+ + + =Critic.= 46: 185. F. ‘05. 710w.

“Both the prose and the poetry of Japanese life are infused into Mr.
Hearn’s charming pages. Nobody, so far as we know, has given a better
description of the fascination which Japanese life has at first for
such as enter into its true spirit, and of its gradual disappearance.
The swan-song of a very striking writer.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 54. Ja. 14, ‘05. 530w.

=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Letters from the raven. *$5. Mintie press.

In this volume of letters and poems, Hearn tells of his life in the
South, gives his views on the negro question, and his impressions of
Memphis, New Orleans, and New York. The verses are both light and
serious, and there are translations from negro and Creole love songs.

=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Romance of the Milky Way, and other studies and stories. **$1.25. Houghton.

“This small posthumous volume ... presents half a dozen ... graceful
trifles, all but two Japanese in theme, preceded by a short
biographical and appreciative notice ... by Mr. Ferris Greenslet.
‘With the exception of a body of familiar letters now in process of
collection,’ says this editor, ‘the present volume contains all of
Hearn’s writing that he left uncollected in the magazines or in
manuscripts of a sufficient ripeness for publication.’”—Dial.

* “The last work of Lafcadio Hearn lacks nothing of that delicacy of
expression, of that beauty and depth of thought which caused his
earlier books to be sought after and cherished by the ‘many who are
yet the few.’”

+ =Acad.= 68: 1257. D. 2, ‘05. 850w.

“The exquisite art of Hearn’s pen stamps the little book as a notable
one.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 276. N. 1, ‘05. 580w.

* + =Ind.= 59: 1478. D. 21, ‘05. 160w.

* + =Nation.= 81: 510. D. 21, ‘05. 400w.

=Heath, Dudley.= Miniatures. *$6.75 Putnam.

“The chief object of the book is to present a historical account of
the art which shall be suggestive and stimulating to further study and
appreciation rather than to attempt an exhaustive catalog or an
authoritative guide for the specialist.”—Ind.

“Mr. Heath has done his work with exceptional thoroughness and skill.
The closing pages are given up to ‘Foreign portrait miniaturists’ and
we read of Italy, Germany, and France, but not a word of America or
the United States.” Charles Henry Hart.

+ + — =Dial.= 39: 202. O. 1, ‘05. 1960w.

“Mr. Heath has taken up the consideration of his subject with
enthusiastic zeal as well as with discrimination.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 394. Ag. 17, ‘05. 200w.

“The present volume has been designed on too ambitious a pattern.”

+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 276. S. 1, ‘05. 940w.

=Heath, William.= Heath’s memoirs of the American war: ed. by Rufus Rockwell Wilson, **$2.50. Wessels.

“This is the third and decidedly the most important of the ‘Source
books of American history’ thus far issued under the direction of
Rufus Rockwell Wilson. General Heath’s memoirs, which were
originally published in 1798, and, so far as we are aware, have
hitherto been reprinted only in a limited edition, are of direct
value to the student of the war of the Revolution, constituting a
first-hand account of many of the operations connected therewith,
and assisting to an appreciation of the men and conditions of the
period. The author served as a major-general in the American army
throughout the long conflict, his military activity dating from the
battle of Concord, where he took part in the harrying of the
retreating British.”—Outlook.

“The editor’s introduction, notes, and appendixes are excellent in
their way.”

+ + =Critic.= 46: 285. Mr. ‘05. 80w.

“The book is of value also for its accounts of the disposition of
Burgoyne after his surrender, of Arnold’s treason, and of the
surrender of Cornwallis.”

+ =Dial.= 38: 204. Mr. 16, ‘05. 170w.

“His diary is, as stated, gossipy, redolent of army life and its
trifling incidents. Well worth rescuing from the dusty obscurity of
library shelves.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 220. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1740w.

“In its present form it should command a wide audience, its value to
the modern student being increased by the intelligent annotations of
its present editor.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 95. Ja. 7, ‘05. 340w.

“In this new dress ... these memoirs form a valuable addition to our
source books of American history.”

+ + + =Reader.= 5: 626. Ap. ‘05. 330w.

=Heigh, John.= House of cards. †$150. Macmillan.

The pen-name John Heigh has aroused genuine curiosity among the lovers
of a “morsel of mystery.” “The corrupt league between business and
politics is the leading note, but the strength and grace of the story
lie in the narrative of the life and portrayal of the character of
Kriemhild West, of the friendship of Eliot and Cards, of the bluff,
hearty and honest personality of John Heigh.” (Ind.)

“The style is epigrammatic without being laboured, the dramatic
situations are handled with artistic restraint, and a vein of quiet
humor runs all through the book.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 236. Ag. 19. 220w.

“Written in an exasperating style. There is very little story about
the book but instead a great deal of shrewd comment and incisive
characterization.” Wm. M. Payne.

— + =Dial.= 39: 209. O. 1, ‘05. 400w.

“An exceptionally bright and striking story. He has the art of telling
a story, of putting each incident, rightly proportioned, in its proper
place, of making his characters speak for themselves and justify their
existence.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 150w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.

“It is not often that a lesson of serious import is conveyed in
fiction with such delicacy of style, charm of humour, and literary
effectiveness as here.”

+ + =Outlook.= 80: 692. Jl. 15, ‘05. 140w.

“Bricks of humor, satire, pathos, a couple of tragedy keystones, and
all these joined with the mortar of realism into a magnificent
edifice, built upon the rocks of cleverness.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 140w.

=Heilprin, Angelo.= Tower of Pelee. **$3. Lippincott.

Professor Heilprin, of the Yale scientific school, and author of “Mont
Pelée and the tragedy of Martinique,” was in Martinique at the time of
the great eruption in the summer of 1902 and has visited the islands
twice since that time, ascending Pelee many times. This volume is an
illustrated study of the great West Indian volcano, and the strange
tower of lava which rose so mysteriously from the crater’s mouth, and
crumbled away in constantly falling fragments. He also gives the
after-history of the tower and explanations of the phenomena.

“An important contribution to our knowledge of the ways of volcanoes.
The book is written with more care than preceding volumes from the
same hand.”

+ + =Dial.= 38: 203. Mr. 16, ‘05. 240w.

“It is in the wide and sympathetic interest stirred by the tragic fate
of St. Pierre that Professor Heilprin’s volume finds its
justification. Author is a man of versatile scientific attainment, a
general naturalist and geographer rather than a geologist or
volcanologist, and with the journalist’s eye for the effective (albeit
not always essential or accurate) details. A tendency to introduce
irrelevant matter. In giving the results of Prof. Moissan’s analysis
of fumerole gases from St. Pierre, the author curiously omits nitrogen
which formed 55 per cent of the whole.”

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 137. F. 16, ‘05. 1730w. (Abstract of contents.)

Reviewed by J. S. F.

+ =Nature.= 72: 101. Je. 1, ‘05. 170w.

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 531. Ag. 12, ‘05. 490w.

=Outlook.= 79: 145. Ja. 14, ‘05. 100w.

“His study is both scientific and popular.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 251. F. ‘05. 100w.

“The illustrations, indeed, can hardly be matched, so effective is
their representation of the volcanic phenomena.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 223. F. 11, ‘05. 170w.

* =Helm, W. H.= Aspects of Balzac. **$1. Pott.

“The greater part of the book is reprinted from the ‘Empire
review.’ ... Two articles run through the women and men of Balzac, and
another deals with Balzac’s idea of the English and his admiration for
various English authors. In ‘Balzac and Dickens’ essential differences
between the French realist and the ‘respectable English author’ are
well indicated.... In ‘Literary references in Balzac’ ... the
influence of Sterne and Richardson is rightly pointed out.”—Ath.

* “He gossips freely and with abundance of humour (which seems
occasionally introduced for the purpose of mollifying the general
reader) concerning the characters in Balzac’s immense world, and sets
down the main conclusions about the novelist which most expert readers
have reached.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 493. Ap. 15. 260w.

* “It contains entertaining information about the novelist and his
novels, presented in a clear, direct, offhand manner, which agreeably
does not exact too much patience from the reader.”

+ =Lit. D.= 31: 838. D. 2. ‘05. 530w.

=Henderson, Charles Hanford.= Children of good fortune: an essay in morals. **$1.30. Houghton.

The philosophy that preaches salvation thru good fortune is set forth
under the headings: The problem; Human conduct; Right and wrong;
Efficiency; Worth; The moral person; Individual morality; The cardinal
virtues; The doctrine of automatic goodness; Social welfare; The
morality of the four institutions; Occupations; Immediacy; The moral
outlook.

* “The work is written in a charming style, and possesses keen
penetration and moral insight.” W. C. Keirstead.

+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 781. O. ‘05. 880w.

* + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 798. D. 9. 390w.

“Mr. Henderson’s books, moreover, are not written from strange heights
which none but the moral philosopher can scale. They are clear and
simple, showing a rare firsthand knowledge of the larger life. They
combine to an unusual extent the attitudes of the observer and the
experimentalist; they are at once dispassionate and enthusiastic.”
Edith J. R. Isaacs.

+ + + =Dial.= 38: 354. My. 16, 05. 1840w.

“At all events the book is good reading, fit to stimulate thought and
apt even to produce effects upon conduct itself.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 460. Jl. 8, ‘05. 640w.

“Such a book is a moral tonic.”

+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 343. Je. 3, ‘05. 450w.

“Dr. Henderson’s book is stimulating, and represents an interesting
attempt to provide a working basis for moral conduct.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 100w.

=Henderson, Charles Richmond, and others.= Modern methods of charity. **$3.50. Macmillan.

An account of the public and private systems of relief in the
principal countries of Europe, the British empire, and the United
States; also a special treatment of Jewish charities. It is a book for
active workers in any field of philanthropy, as well as for students.

=Acad.= 68: 151. F. 18, ‘05. 350w.

* “It is not philosophy, it is not theory; but it is a foundation upon
which theory and philosophy may be erected. It is the product of the
hardest and most tedious delving, searching, translating, comparing
and verifying.” Ernest P. Bicknell.

+ + — =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 426. N. ‘05. 790w.

“Encyclopaedic compend.” Winthrop More Daniels.

+ + =Atlan.= 95: 556. Ap. ‘05. 710w.

“The book is almost encyclopaedic in character, and hence more likely
to be referred to on special topics than to be read through as a
treatise. The volume has too many details which are not digested and
which are not of valuable significance, and altogether too many
statements which do not convey clear and helpful ideas; while some
information that should be found in it is unhappily lacking.... The
misleading generalizations which the editor has allowed to appear at
frequent intervals throughout the volume.” B.

+ — =Charities.= 14: 639. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1870w.

Reviewed by Max West.

+ + — =Dial.= 38: 269. Ap. 16, ‘05. 560w.

“We regret to say, the editor seems to have a very inadequate
conception of the comparative method of study and of scientific
methods in general.”

— — =Nation.= 80: 422. My. 25, ‘05. 960w.

“It is a scientific study in what we may call the methodology of
public relief for public poverty.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 902. Ap. 8, ‘05. 340w.

“A useful compendium.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 127. Ja. ‘05. 130w.

=Henderson, George Francis Robert.= Science of war; ed. by Neil Malcolm. *$4. Longmans.

The author of “Stonewall Jackson” called the Herbert Spencer of
military tactics was a master of the theory and practice of the art of
war. This collection of essays and lectures which separately have been
regarded as authoritative along their respective lines of thought,
treat such subjects as “War,” “Strategy,” “The tactical employment of
cavalry,” “Tactics of the three arms combined,” “Training of the
infantry for the attack,” “Military criticism and modern tactics,”
etc. The fourteen essays are preceded by a memoir by Col. Henderson’s
staunch admirer and patron, Lord Roberts.

“Henderson is at his best in driving home with quiet persistence, and
with the help of countless apt examples, the lessons of pure military
warfare.”

+ + + =Acad.= 68: 728. Jl. 15, ‘05. 810w.

“In the present volume there are many contradictions. So, too as
regards style itself.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 687. Je. 3, 670w.

“Reading them we get the real measure of the man; we realize the
extraordinary compass of his knowledge, the wise way in which he
looked on professional things, his power to put before his hearers or
his readers matter for deep thought, and repaying any amount of
thought bestowed on them.”

+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 200. Je. 23, ‘05. 2270w.

“It is rare for the reviewer to open the pages of a book in which
there is so little to criticise, so much to admire.”

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 346. O. 26, 05. 730w.

“Those in the volume before us are minor only in the matter of
quantity, not at all in that of quality.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 660. O. 7, ‘05. 1020w.

“An admirable contribution to the serious study of the art of war.”

+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 153. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1580w.

=Henderson, Henry F.= Religious controversies of Scotland. *$1.75. imp. Scribner.

“The story of the dozen storms that differences of opinion have
generated in the Scottish church during the last two centuries....
Some of the chapters in this volume relate to recent contentions about
the higher criticism; others to conflicts equally serious in their
time, but now forgotten.”—Outlook.

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 120w.

“Generally. Mr. Henderson has treated a very difficult subject in a
satisfactory way.”

+ =Spec.= 94: 755. My. 20, ‘05. 300w.

=Henderson, Howard.= Ethics and etiquette of the pulpit, pew, parish, press and platform. $1. H. A. Schroetter, Covington, Ky.

A second revised edition of this manual of manners for ministers and
members, which may prove helpful to those who have had no home
training and who know nothing of common social usages.

=Henderson, John.= West Indies; painted by A. L. Forrest; described by John Henderson. *$6. Macmillan.

The text deals almost wholly with Jamaica and its people, chiefly its
negroes. Much information upon the flora, the commerce, and various
matters of interest to the tourist are given. The illustrations are
done in color.

“Mr. Forrest has done better in this volume than he did in its
predecessor, ‘Morocco.’ Mr. Henderson’s text falls considerably short
of the artistic level of its illustrations.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 217. Ag. 12. 260w.

“Their joint work is a very attractive book. Its illustrations are
charming. Mr. Henderson’s descriptive chapters are not to be taken too
seriously; they are light, bright, and rapid, not to say slap-dash
here and there, and they display, as is only to be expected, not a few
of the defects of those attractive qualities.”

+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 199. Je. 23, ‘05. 580w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 361. Je. 3, ‘05. 200w.

“The book is very interesting, and within the limits which we think we
have found, is valuable as a study of some of the phases of
subtropical America.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 451. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1410w.

“The pictures of negro types are full of character and individuality.
The reproductions are unusually good. The text of the book consists of
the observations of a traveler, chatty and genial, but not penetrating
to any great depth.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 696. Jl. 15, ‘05. 60w.

* =Henderson, R. S.= Earthwork tables. 2 pts. $1.50. Eng. news.

This useful book of tables is divided into two parts: Part I.
Preliminary earthwork tables, giving cubic yards per 100 feet for
level sections, to which is added a graphical method of estimating
quantities from a profile. Part II. Earthwork tables, giving the
volume in cubic yards of prismoids 100 feet long by the average end
area method.

* “The reviewer knows of no other similar table that equals it for
range.” Halbert P. Gillette.

+ + + =Engin. N.= 54: 650. D. 14, ‘05. 640w.

=Henderson, William James.= Pipes and timbrels. $1.25. Badger, R: G.

“A new volume of poems.... Pictures, music, dreams, and reminiscences
of the classic world are the flowers that grow in Mr. Henderson’s
garden, and from these he makes a most acceptable bouquet of the
pretty old-time ‘mixed’ variety.”—N. Y. Times.

“There are poems in blank verse, sonnets, songs, and in all the meter
is good, in some excellent. There is thought in all the poems, and it
is poetic thought.” Eltweed Pomeroy.

+ + + =Arena.= 34: 219. Ag. ‘05. 280w.

“A certain compliance with the rules of prosody, a flavor of the
sentiment of poetry, an inspiration toward the best, characterize
these verses.”

+ =Critic.= 46: 566. Je. ‘05. 60w.

Review by W: M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 67. Ag. ‘05. 240w.

“Contains many lovely lines and a few successful technical
experiments.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 265. Ap. 22, ‘05. 300w.

* =Henry, Arthur.= Lodgings in town. †$1.50. Barnes.

“To interest yourself in others, to go with the tide of the great city
and observe closely every possible condition, is Mr. Henry’s recipe
for happiness. Add to this an especial care for one person in
particular—like Nancy—and the picture is complete. The faith that kept
firm hold of the youth who began his New York life possessed of one
clean collar and a poem must be the kind that moves mountains.
Particularly good are the descriptions of the office where Nancy
worked and the Baxter street lodgings where she and her poet
lived.”—Outlook.

* + =Outlook.= 81: 527. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.

* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 663. N. 18, ‘05. 350w.

=Henry, Arthur.= Unwritten law. †$1.50. Barnes.

The purpose of this book is to show how, in our modern social system,
ignorance of the laws themselves and of the crime done in breaking
them often leads to tragedy. A German engraver, who loses his savings
thru the speculations of his banker, sets innocently to work to
support his family by engraving bank notes for himself, the result is
Sing Sing. One daughter, simple and unlearned, comes to grief, while
her sophisticated and selfish sister marries well. The book treats of
both the upper and the lower classes, and of the many problems of
modern life. The setting is New York.

“Handful of tragedies in the guise of a novel.”

— =Acad.= 68: 759. Jl. 22, ‘05. 420w.

“The book is animated by a fine seriousness, a single-minded
sincerity, which pertain to the best and highest in American art and
thought. It exhibits a certain crudeness, a certain toughness of
fiber, which may militate against its right appreciation by the
fastidious.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 778. Je. 24. 750w.

* “Is an encouraging example of that best sort of realism. The style
is simple, at times almost to the point of baldness. It will
inevitably provoke discussion; it will arouse some antagonism; but it
cannot fail to make people think.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + =Bookm.= 21: 267. My. ‘05. 980w.

“There is no kind of excuse for the excessively plain speaking in
which this book indulges. It impresses one as the work of a reporter
rather than that of a constructive novelist.” Wm. M. Payne.

— — =Dial.= 39: 115. S. 1, ‘05. 200w.

“The book has, perhaps, no merely literary merit, it is crude in plot
and exhibits much bad taste in incident, but it has a certain
sincerity in strength, and a vividness, too, in places.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 220. Ap. 8, ‘05. 710w.

=Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Cabbages and kings. $1.50. McClure.

The author, who has lived many years among the people of the South
American republics, draws upon his fund of experience in this breezy
story which recounts the adventures of an energetic American in the
land of popular revolutions. “The characters range from the native
brown-skinned maiden to the daughter of an American banker, and from a
peon to an absconding president. The game proceeds much like a
rattling good comic opera—and the characters have many opportunities
to spin yarns of the kind that have already made famous the name of
‘O. Henry.’” (Pub. note.).

“A book of very unusual interest and cleverness. The general
popularity will necessarily be limited by the fact that it is
essentially a man’s book. A number of the chapters might be taken
bodily from the book and held up as admirable examples of short-story
telling.” Stanhope Searles.

+ =Bookm.= 20: 561. F. ‘05. 530w.

+ =Critic.= 46: 189. F. ‘05. 90w.

“The inimitably breezy style of story telling is retained in the main
episodes. Has weakened the structure of the whole. The characters, so
delightful in the original stories become less real, less convincing
on their new stage.”

— + =Ind.= 58: 328. F. 9, ‘05. 210w.

“Pure burlesque, but lively, ingenious, and slangily humorous, South
American intrigue, Yankee resource, the colossal impudence of the
American fakir, and the romance of unusual love complications, are all
worked together into a semi-connected story, parts of which have been
already used as magazine tales.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 94. Ja. 7, ‘05. 50w.

=Herbert, George.= English works, newly arranged and annotated and considered in relation to his life, by G. Herbert Palmer. 3v. *$6. Houghton.

“Herbert, though a minor poet, is established in English literature as
are few minor poets of the seventeenth century. His poems have been
constantly reprinted for general readers.... The form of this edition
is altogether admirable. The print is clear and restful to the eye,
the margins are wide ... and the volumes comfortable to hold. The
notes to the poems are printed opposite to the poems, so that one has
the poem on the right-hand page, the corresponding notes on the
left-hand. The illustrations are interesting and apt. The portrait of
Herbert published here, for the first time as the frontispiece to
volume I., is a notable addition to literary portraiture.”—Nation.

* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 30w.

* “Of the more specific work of the editor one may say that it is at
once scholarly and literary, minute in its exegesis yet mindful always
that a poet and not a ‘corpus vile’ is under discussion.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 1230. N. 23, ‘05. 870w.

“The annotations are very thorough. The study of the matter and style
is exhaustive.”

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 384. N. 9, ‘05. 1880w.

“It will ever hold its place, as one of the triumphs of American
scholarship in editing English classics, alongside such works as those
of Furness and Child. These latter are bigger and on bigger subjects,
but they are not better done.” Cameron Mann.

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 757. N. 11, ‘05. 2470w.

“Has done his work as biographer and editor con amore.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 50w.

* “Every help to the reader’s eye and mind for the appreciation of
Herbert will be found in these volumes, so great is the labor of love
which Professor Palmer, with his own fine intelligence and training,
has wrought for the most lovable and the most human of our religious
poets.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 827. D. 2, ‘05. 1480w.

* =Herford, Brooke.= Eutychus and his relations. *70c. Am. Unitar.

Under this profound title appear the witty old-time pulpit and pew
papers written from a layman’s point of view, which were first
published anonymously during the early years of their author’s
ministry, 1860-1861. They include quaintly humorous disquisitions
upon: A ‘lay’ view of sleeping in church; Some people who always come
late; Praising God by proxy; Pews; A country tea party; Over-much
discourse; Unsocial worship; Parsonic acid, and other kindred
subjects.

=Herford, Charles Harold.= Robert Browning. **$1. Dodd.

“The biographical element is sufficient, but is subordinate to the
exposition of the poet’s work in the order of its production. The true
biography of Browning can be written in no other way.... A clear
perception of this fact, and a definite though not a rigid application
of this fact to his material, give Professor Herford’s study a true
biographic as well as an interpretative quality.”—Outlook.

“Prof. Herford’s study of Browning is in many respects complementary
to that of Mr. Chesterton’s published last year. The style is, for the
most part sober and balanced though there are occasional flashes of
rather loose rhetoric, and the author has an odd habit of falling at
intervals into comments which are banal or tasteless.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 14. Jl. 1, 1580w.

“In scale it stands midway between Mr. Chesterton’s and Prof.
Dowden’s; in quality it is to be compared rather with the latter.” H.
W. Boynton.

+ + =Atlan.= 96: 279. Ag. ‘05. 760w.

“There could hardly be a better brief estimate of Browning’s genius
than Professor Herford has given us.” Edward Fuller.

+ + + =Critic.= 47: 247. S. ‘05. 390w.

“The commentator knows his Browning well, has availed himself of the
best and latest authorities, and manifests a considerable degree of
sympathetic appreciation; but he is hampered in his presentation by a
clumsiness of expression. Numerous misquotations from the poems ... do
not strengthen our confidence in Professor Herford or his book.”

+ — =Dial.= 39: 44. Jl. 16, ‘05. 400w.

“The necessity to be poetic, to live up to his matter, has been too
much for him.”

— + =Ind.= 59: 457. Ag. 24, ‘05. 220w.

“This is likely to stand as one of the best of the numerous short
critical lives of its provocative poet.”

+ + — =Nation.= 80: 531. Je. 29, ‘05. 350w.

“His treatment of Browning the poet and man shows considerable insight
and unusual sanity.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 304. My. 6, ‘05. 280w.

“His study of Browning is intelligent, sympathetic, and well
balanced.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 1015. Ap. 22, ‘05. 280w.

“He has a gift of selection and juxtaposed selection which remarkably
increases the pleasure of reading this sort of criticism. But the
scheme of the book runs parallel with how many others.”

+ =Sat. R.= 99: 849. Je. 24, ‘05. 110w.

“We are not wholly in agreement with his estimate of the poet. Our
chief difference is in regard to Browning’s literary form. The
criticism generally, we greatly admire.”

+ + — =Spec.= 94: 558. Ap. 15, ‘05. 580w.

* =Herrick, Christine Terhune=, ed. Lewis Carroll birthday book. 75c. Wessels.

A little birthday book that will delight “Alice in wonderland”
admirers.

* “As a birthday book, it is hardly a success, and the selections do
more credit to the compiler’s familiarity with her author than to her
sense of appropriateness.”