Chapter XXV: Part IV: gives the story of relief methods at times of disaster.” (Am (11)

+ — =Arena.= 33: 453. Ap. ‘05. 250w.

“It is well told, and the author has enough coloring matter in her
vocabulary to paint the national history of a whole continent.”

+ — =Ind.= 59: 218. Jl. 27, ‘05. 110w.

— + =Sat. R.= 99: 779. Je. 10, ‘05. 170w.

=Holland, Clive.= Japanese romance. $1.50. Stokes.

A young English artist sailing eastward to paint the wonders of Japan,
meets a beautiful English girl on the steamer and admires her
apparently merely in an artistic way. Arriving at Nagasaki he falls in
with two former fellow-students at Paris, one a Japanese, the other a
Scot who has taken a Japanese wife. Thru these he becomes involved in
many social complications and finally marries Mio-Lan, a lovely
Japanese maid. Later he begins to long for the English girl he had met
on the steamer and the story becomes a tragedy for Mio-Lan.

“The merit of the story lies not in the sentiment and flower women,
but in the characters of the modern Japanese, Mr. Yumoto, and the
Scottish expatriate.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 54. Ja. 28, ‘05. 370w. (Outlines plot.)

=Holland, Robert Afton.= Commonwealth of man. **$1.25. Putnam.

“The Slocum lectures of 1904, delivered at the University of
Michigan ... revised by the author in the light of the discussion that
followed the publication of Mr. Edwin Markham’s poem, ‘The man with
the hoe,’ which, in the opinion of Mr. Holland, consisted chiefly of a
series of socialistic fallacies set to stormful music.’”—R. of Rs.

“There are eleven lectures, all pretty vigorous writing and not bad
reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05. 420w.

=Pub. Opin.= 38: 795. My. 20, ‘05. 310w.

=R. of Rs.= 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 80w.

=Holley, Marietta (Josiah Allen’s wife, pseud.).= Around the world with Josiah Allen’s wife. †$150. Dillingham.

The inveterate traveller, Samantha, accompanied by Josiah Allen and a
sick grandson, for whose health the trip is undertaken, starts on a
journey around the world with a party which includes a Dorothy, who
enlivens the trip by marrying in spite of her chaperone. Samantha’s
characteristic descriptions and comments include much of interest on
Hawaii, the Philippines, India, Egypt, the Holy Land, and many
European states, while she frequently attempts to set right whatever
she thinks may be wrong, even instructing the Empress Si Ann on her
duty.

* + =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 60w.

* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 774. N. 18, ‘05. 200w.

=Holley, Marietta (Josiah Allen’s wife, pseud.).= Samantha at the St. Louis exposition. $1.50. Dillingham.

Samantha, as unique and widely known as any book character ever
created, is at her best in these “episodin’” bits of wit, pathos, and
clear visioned common sense. In the story, Josiah Allen discovers that
his farm had come into the possession of the Allen family the year of
the Louisiana purchase, that his ancestors had paid fifteen dollars
for it, the same sum, he said, “with the orts left off,” that was
given for Louisiana. The Allens celebrate this discovery by taking a
trip to the Exposition. A group of interesting companions serve only
to enhance the characteristic observations of Samantha, which are
better than ever.

“Feminine frailty and masculine arrogance and the sexual inequalities
of social customs and the laws continue to furnish material for her
satire and weakly witty garrulity.”

+ =Ind.= 58: 212. Ja. 26, ‘05. 110w.

=Hollis, A. C.= Masai, their language and folk-lore. *$4.75. Oxford.

A study of the language, myths, traditions, enigmas, proverbs, and
customs of this fast vanishing East African race by the chief
secretary of the East African Protectorate, assisted by native
authorities.

“Mr. Hollis’s is the fullest study yet made. It is impossible to do
justice in the course of an ordinary notice to this exceedingly
interesting book, which is, moreover, absolutely free from padding of
the ordinary kind.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 742. Je. 17. 2420w.

“In describing the mythology, folklore, and customs of the Masai he
has hit upon a method as scientific as it is original.”

+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 143. My. 5, ‘05. 460w.

“For the first time the civilized world has been presented with an
authoritative work on the Masai language, customs, and folklore, by
Mr. A. C. Hollis. It is the authoritative study of the Masai people;
and it is satisfactory to record that the author confines himself
mainly to facts and not to theories.” H. H. Johnston.

+ + + =Nature.= 72: 83. My. 25, ‘05. 1200w.

“Mr. Hollis’ grammatical treatise is a study in itself. The book is
worthy of the greatest attention.”

+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 309. S. 2, ‘05. 1330w.

=Holmes, Gordon.= Mysterious disappearance. $1.50. Clode.

The usual crime, shrouded in the usual mystery, the rapid succession
of events, the story action that palls not for a moment are all here.
But the book surpasses others of its kind in the clever comparison of
two distinctive types of detectives. There is Claude Bruce, barrister,
“subtle, analytic, introspective,” and there is his foil, the Scotland
yard inspector, a part of the machine, “direct, pertinacious,
self-confident ... a slave to system,” one whose method, as the
barrister comments, “works admirably for the detection of common place
crimes, but as soon as the region of higher romance is entered, it is
as much out of place as a steam roller in a lady’s boudoir.”

=Holmes, Mary Jane Hawes.= Abandoned farm. †$1. Dillingham.

The romance of a young girl who becomes a waitress at a summer house
party on an estate once owned by her grandfather. She is known as
waitress no. 1, and her ladylike mien, even in white cap and apron,
charms the rich young master of the house who loves her even before he
discovers that the estate is really hers. The volume also contains a
story called Connie’s secret, which hinges upon a sham marriage by
which the girl believes herself to be legally bound to the man who has
deserted her.

* =Holmes, Oliver Wendell.= One-hoss shay, with its companion poems. $1.50. Houghton.

A delightful Christmas edition of Holmes’ humorous poems, “The
one-hoss shay,” “How the old horse won the bet,” and “The broomstick
train,” illustrated by Mr. Howard Pyle in colors and black and white.

* + + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 40w.

* + + =Dial.= 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 170w.

* + =Nation.= 81: 424. N. 23, ‘05. 70w.

* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 120w.

=Holt, Martin.= Out of bondage. $1.25. Benziger.

Renie, a pretty Catholic girl, kept in the country with no knowledge
of life or of her own parentage, serves the cruel Mrs. Sherwood well
until her death and then flies forth into the world to enjoy her
freedom. She encounters many tragic things, but her courage enables
her to straighten out a serious tangle and save the man she loves from
a murderer’s death.

=Holyoake, George Jacob.= Bygones worth remembering. 2 vols. *$5. Dutton.

The author, who has for many years taken an active part in all
movements toward the bettering of the conditions of the working
classes gives interesting details concerning the progress of the
English nation during the last few decades and reminiscences of
Harriet Martineau, Mazzini, Kossuth, John Stuart Mill, Lord
Shaftesbury, Garibaldi, and Gladstone. There are many illustrations.

“In this later book the gold is beaten rather thin; and, in fact, the
reminiscences—which are none of them to be described as wildly
exciting—are eked out with extracts from newspapers.”

+ — =Acad.= 68: 145. F. 18, ‘05. 1230w.

“As a contribution to the history of the political and social progress
of the nation these ‘Bygones’ are of great value.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 232. F. 25, 1490w.

Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.

+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 605. Ag. ‘05. 1780w.

Reviewed by Jeanette L. Gilder.

+ + — =Critic.= 47: 156. Ag. ‘05. 1430w.

“Frank egotism is evidenced on every page. Mr. Holyoake has a strong
sense of humor, but his manner of writing is such that it is not
always easy to discover when he is jesting and when he is in earnest.”
Edith J. R. Isaacs.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 106. S. 1, ‘05. 1180w.

* =Ind.= 59: 988. O. 26, ‘05. 230w.

“He states many facts, he corrects many fallacies, that should claim
the consideration of historians of British politics during the
nineteenth century. Seldom have we read a book breathing a more
tender, tolerant, and judicial spirit.”

+ + + =Nation.= 81: 127. Ag. 10, ‘05. 1380w.

“These pages and people are all interesting.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 372. Je. 10, ‘05. 1590w.

“A further characteristic of the author’s opinions and reminiscences
is a whole-souled optimism which, pervading his book, manifests itself
perhaps most impressively in the final chapter.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 85. S. 9, ‘05. 2280w.

“We are not sure that all the ‘Bygones’ which Mr. Holyoake recalls are
‘worth remembering.’”

— =Spec.= 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 340w.

* =Home, Andrew.= Boys of Badminster. †$1.50. Lippincott.

A tale of English schoolboy adventure whose hero is Jack Coverdale,
broad shouldered enough to bear the burden of his own scrapes and
those of less honorable companions. “There is an attempt at
kidnapping, with exciting cricket games and boys’ pranks, all of which
must be read to be appreciated. There is another good story, ‘A row in
the sixth,’ at the end of the book, which is a big one.” (N. Y.
Times.)

* “Good characterization and plenty of humor should make this a
success.”

+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 30w.

* + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 761. N. 11, ‘05. 320w.

* “Mr. Home has the happy knack of rousing an expectancy which he
never disappoints.”

+ =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 7. D. 9, ‘05. 100w.

* “Mr. Home does his best, not wholly without success, to make it seem
possible, and constructs a good story out of it, as school stories
go.”

+ =Spec.= 95: 693. N. 4, ‘05. 100w.

=Home, Gordon Cochrane.= Evolution of an English town. *$3.50. Dutton.

The old town and castle of Pickering in Yorkshire, and the country of
Pickering vale are dealt with here from pre-glacial times down to the
beginnings of 1905. “It is really surprising to find how much may be
learned relating to ethnology, archæology, and ancient customs from
this curious piece of local antiquarian study.” (Outlook.)

* “The quality and number of the illustrations greatly enhance the
value of the book. We have only noticed one misprint.”

+ =Acad.= 68: 922. S. 9, ‘05. 750w.

“The book furnishes a pleasing type of local history to which other
essays in that field will do well to conform.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 211. O. 1, ‘05. 330w.

“The book commends itself to special readers more than to the general
traveler.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1111. N. 9, ‘05. 110w.

“Makes altogether a charming book for lovers of things old,
picturesque and curious.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 497. Jl. 29, ‘05. 810w.

=Outlook.= 80: 691. Jl. 15, ‘05. 110w.

* =Home, Gordon.= Normandy: The scenery and romance of its ancient towns. *$3.50. Dutton.

The author has profusely illustrated this volume with colored plates
and pen-and-ink sketches. “Mr. Home says his book is not a guide, but
simply ‘an attempt to convey by pictures and description a clear
impression of the Normandy which awaits the visitor.’ But it will
serve as a guide if need be, for the author, with that curious naiveté
of the Englishman, names inns and hotels without fear of being accused
of advertising; and as he says, ‘any one using the book as a guide
would find in his path some of the richest architecture and scenery
that the province possesses.’” (N. Y. Times.)

* “Is chiefly of interest for its beautiful colored plates, which give
clearer impressions of Normandy’s varied and wonderful scenery ...
than any words, however perfectly chosen, could hope to do. Mr. Home
is sufficiently an artist to write, as well as paint, like one. He
wins the reader’s approbation by his first sentence.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 170w.

* “A very successful attempt has been made to convey, by means of
pictures and description, a clear impression of the Normandy which
awaits the visitor.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 110w.

* “The book will certainly give us a better notion of Normandy than
Mr. Menpes’s much more multitudinous blots can convey to us of
Brittany or any other place.”

+ =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21, ‘05. 180w.

* “A charming book on Normandy. The book is one to read and keep, and
to take with one on his trip to the old duchy it describes.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 851. D. 2, ‘05. 510w.

* “Its text is illuminative, graphic, and sympathetic. Mr. Home has
produced a work on Normandy to appeal to every one who has ever
visited that interesting region.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 9, ‘05. 40w.

* “Mr. Home knows something of architecture and describes with feeling
and taste.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 14, D. 2, ‘05. 240w.

=Hooker, Katharine.= Wayfarers in Italy. **$2. Scribner.

A fourth edition of a book about the out-of-the-way places of Italy,
by one who has left the beaten and over-described paths to hunt for
old books and lost Madonnas, and study the life, habits, and
temperament of the village and country folk.

“Is well deserving of the many editions it has passed through.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 172. Mr. 18, ‘05. 410w.

“A fresh, informing, and thoroughly charming book in one of the oldest
fields in the world.”

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 140w.

=Hope, Anthony=, pseud. See =Hawkins, Anthony Hope.=

=Hopekirk, Helen=, ed. Seventy Scottish songs. $2.50. Ditson.

These seventy songs include the folk-music student’s favorites. They
have been gathered from the Lowlands and the Highlands, from the
remote mountainous regions and from the western isles. The volume is
uniform with the “Musicians library.”

* “A very interesting and valuable work.”

+ =Dial.= 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 70w.

* “Those who care only for popular tunes with any serviceable
accompaniment will find this selection acceptable; whereas the epicure
who likes his folk-music pure and unadulterated will be likely to
object to many passages in which the arranger has exercised her
faculty of harmonizing with too little regard for the racial essence
of the tunes.”

+ — =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 110w.

=Hoppenstedt, J.= Problems in manoeuvre tactics; with solutions for officers of all arms, tr. by J. H. V. Crowe, *$1.60. Macmillan.

In this volume the original German organizations have been adapted to
those of the British army in order to assist its officers in studying
for examinations, and furthering their knowledge of the art of war.
Four maps have been provided.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 240w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 492. Jl. 22, ‘05. 70w.

+ =Sat. R.= 99: 671. My. 20, ‘05. 920w.

=Hornaday, William Temple.= American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. **$3.50. Scribner.

“The author has had many years’ experience as a field naturalist in
America and the far East, and as director of the New York zoölogical
park, gives much information in an interesting style, illustrating his
text with maps, charts, and drawings. “The object of this book is to
make nature available to laymen; it is also particularly addressed to
teachers and parents.” It is intended to be plain, practical and
direct, as well as systematic and scientific.... The field covered
includes all the principal types of vertebrates found in North
America.” (Science.)

“We find here much practical and economic zoölogy, invaluable matter
on the extinction of American species, and the setting right of many
ancient and silly myths. Clear exposition is exhibited in many
sections of the book. The drawings, while of uneven merit, are full of
life and action and have good teaching value. The author aims to amuse
as well as to instruct.” W. K. Gregory.

+ + — =Science=, n. s. 21: 346. Mr. 3, ‘05. 1510w.

* =Home, C. Silvester.= Common sense Christianity. *35c. Meth. bk.

“This book aims at being a popular contribution to the art of
Christian defence.” The author believes that a policy of vigorous
attack is necessary to oppose the work of many who maintain that for
the twentieth century a new religion is needed.

=Horner, Joseph.= Engineers’ turning. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.

A well-illustrated text which considers the principles and practice in
the different branches of turning. A feature of the book is the
important section devoted to modern turret practice; boring is another
subject treated fully; a chapter on tool holders illustrates a large
number of representative types; screw-cutting is treated at length;
and the last chapter contains a good deal of information relating to
the high-speed steels and their work.

=Horner, Joseph.= Tools for engineers and woodworkers. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.

A comprehensive work whose object is “to give an account of such tools
as are commonly used by engineers and woodworkers, written chiefly
from the standpoint of the men who have used them, and who desire to
understand the principles which underlie the forms in which those
tools are found. Practical instruction for their employment, as
suggested by the writer’s own experience, have been added.”

“Although there is necessarily a good deal of the descriptive
catalogue in a work of this kind, yet this one is so well put
together, its brief descriptions are so clear, and above all the
endless varieties of tools enumerated are brought to one’s notice in
so logical an order, their classification is so essentially
scientific, that it may be regarded as in a sense a finished monograph
of one phase of evolution.”

+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 280. Ag. 26. 420w.

* “The author has written a clear and comprehensive description of
various groups of tools.”

+ =Engin. N.= 54:529. N. 16, ‘05. 120w.

=Hornung, Ernest William.= Stingaree. †$1.50. Scribner.

Stingaree, a one-time London clubman, now a robber in Australia,
“sticks up” (Australian for hold up) mail coaches and banks in a
manner both theatrical and gentlemanly. On one occasion he operates
among a company of amateurs, forcing them to give a concert, and makes
use of the occasion to introduce a girl with a beautiful voice to a
prominent composer. He is afterward released from jail just in time to
don evening clothes and hear this girl as a prima donna.

“Of no importance from the literary standpoint, the present volume yet
contains ten very readable and ingeniously worked out stories.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 716. Je. 10, 180w.

“The stories are all fluent, ingenious, and diverting, and will be
found readable enough.”

+ =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 90w.

“Series of ingenious tales.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 292. My. 6, ‘05. 250w.

“On the whole, his adventures being as hazardous and exciting as those
of his predecessor he should be equally well beloved.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.

“The tales ... are dashing, daring, entertaining, and show
considerable inventiveness without disclosing any special literary
power.”

+ =Outlook.= 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 160w.

+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 869. Je. 3, ‘05. 210w.

“He is a real creation.”

+ =Reader.= 6: 593. O. 05. 220w.

+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 90w.

“Mr. Hornung who has much aptitude for sensational fiction has
exhibited little ingenuity or originality in these tales.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 140w.

* =Hornung, Ernest William.= Thief in the night: further adventures of A. J. Raffles, cricketer and cracksman. †$1.50. Scribner.

The third series of the adventures of Raffles goes back to the
earliest days of the cracksman and Bunny, his foil. One of the nine
tales portrays the disloyalty of the thief in losing for Bunny his
sweetheart, another, and quite the most ingenious of the group, is
that of a little “job” at Lord Thornaby’s town house where Raffles
diverted from himself the suspicions of the “Criminologists’ club.”
All thru Raffles is still the same terrible expert burglar.

* + =Acad.= 68: 1177. N. 11, ‘05. 310w.

* “Unfortunately the reader’s taste has been whetted for better
things, and he looks in vain for the quick turns and the conquering of
difficult situations of the earlier yarns.”

+ — =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 70w.

* “The newer stories, while they seem somehow to lack the snap and go
of the earlier ones, are nevertheless not very different in quality,
and if you are not tired of the old Raffles they may be trusted to
furnish entertainment for an idle hour.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 727. O. 28, ‘05. 160w.

* “Those unacquainted with the cracksman will find admirably written
stories retailing the exploits of a gentleman burglar of the most
marvelous skill and finesse, and an unusually winning personality.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 530. O. 28, ‘05. 70w.

* “His mind works with all its old rapidity and originality, but he is
less convincing and beguiling.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.

* “It is not so mischievous as its predecessors, because it is not
nearly so well done.”

+ — =Spec.= 95: 871. N. 25, ‘05. 90w.

=Horsley, Walter C.=, tr. =See La Colonie, Jean Martin de.=

=Hort, Fenton John Anthony.= Village sermons. * $1.75. Macmillan.

Dr. Hort, a noted scholar and Christian gentleman, writes with
simplicity for the country folk with whom he had to deal as the parson
of a Hertfordshire village. The sermons “are generally founded on some
incident of the day’s service, some sentences in a psalm, or more
often some petition in a collect.” (Lond. Times.)

* + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 470w.

* + — =Outlook.= 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 70w.

* “We must confess that the sermons strike us as being highly
conscientious but a trifle dull. Yet here and there, genius shows
itself in the easy power of expressing a great deal in a few words.”

+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 190. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w.

=Horton, George.= Monk’s treasure. $1.50. Bobbs.

Ta Castra, an island of the Cyclades, in the Ægean sea, is the scene
of a series of adventures in which a young American, buying up Greek
argols for his uncle’s firm, and his interpreter, a sturdy Scotchman,
figure conspicuously. The American straightway becomes involved in
breaking up an alliance between a beautiful Greek bond-girl and her
belligerent betrothed, Spiro. Thru treasure, hidden in a monastery, he
proves the girl to be a duchess, and outwitting the monks and Spiro
alike, escapes with Polyxene and her bags of gold.

“Those who love a story for the story’s sake will be sure to enjoy Mr.
Horton’s latest romance.” Amy C. Rich.

+ + =Arena.= 33: 565. My. ‘05. 120w.

“The recovery of the wealth against the cunning machinations of the
monks supplies a number of exciting and tragic events to sustain
interest in a story which otherwise is rather lightly worked out.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 293. My. 6, ‘05. 280w.

“Crude romance.”

— =Outlook.= 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 80w.

“A good story.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 70w.

=Hosking, Arthur Nicholas=, comp. and ed. Artist’s year book. $3. Art league pub. assn., Chicago.

A handy reference book wherein may be found interesting data
pertaining to artists, and their studio, home and summer addresses for
1905-1906. Recognized merit has been made the standard of selection
for this list.

* =Hough, Emerson.= Heart’s Desire. †$1.50. Macmillan.

Heart’s Desire is a little settlement hidden away in a corner of the
West “where men have gone to live at peace—without law and without
women.” “The inhabitants dozed in the sunshine, smoked, drank, gambled
a little, toiled fitfully, fought occasionally, and dreamed a good
deal. Then the railroad came and the dreams were gone. Along with the
railroad came Constance and the old vexations that troubled Eden and
have troubled every assemblage of men ever since.” (Pub. Opin.) It is
a picture of rough Western life with clever character delineation.

* “A singularly pleasing story of the west o’ dreams.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.

* “A more vivacious tale of far western life one does not often get.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 576. N. 4, ‘05. 100w.

* “In vigor and spontaneousness it seems to us Mr. Hough’s best work
in fiction.”

+ + =Outlook.= 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.

* “It is idyllic, impossible, and extremely entertaining.”

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 220w.

=Houston, Edwin James.= Electricity in every-day life. 3v. $4.50. Collier.

“These volumes aim to give to the general reader a comprehensive
knowledge of the history of electricity, the principles and laws that
govern its action, and its practical applications in every-day life.”
(Outlook.) There are eight hundred illustrations which present
electricity as applied to modern industry and as used in laboratories,
and in the home.

“Without trace of romance and yet in an eminently attractive style,
the author has made comparatively clear the vagaries of electricity.”

+ + =Critic.= 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 90w.

“The style is clear and pleasant. Abstruse technicalities are
carefully avoided, and no part of the book will be difficult of
comprehension for the average well-informed man who has made no
specialty of electrical subjects.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 330w.

=Outlook.= 79: 502. F. 25, ‘05. 30w.

“He succeeds well in popularizing technical subjects. The present work
is voluminous, but never wearisome.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 251. F. ‘05. 90w.

=Howard, George Elliott.= History of matrimonial institutions chiefly in England and the United States. *$10. Univ. of Chicago press.

“In the three volume work ... Prof. George E. Howard deals chiefly
with the matrimonial institutions of the English race, prefacing his
treatment of the subject with an analysis of the literature and the
theories of primitive matrimonial institutions. Professor Howard’s
treatise covers practically every phase of the subject that calls for
treatment, and gives elaborate biographical data relating, not only to
the institution of marriage itself, but to almost every conceivable
phase of the sex problem that has been treated in our literature.”—R.
of Rs.

“To students of sociology this work is one of importance.” Simeon E.
Baldwin.

+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 607. Ap. ‘05. 1070w. (Abstract of book).

Reviewed by E. T. B.

=Atlan.= 95: 137. Ja. ‘05. 650w.

“Professor Howard’s volumes are admirable studies and a much needed
supplement to the famous works of Starcke and Westermarck.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 784. Ap. 6, ‘05. 720w.

* “A scholarly and profound inquiry.”

+ + =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.

“For even the general public Professor Howard’s volumes cannot fail to
be both interesting and instructive, for they deal attractively with
the most human of all institutions, and contain a mass of facts
nowhere else obtainable.”

+ + + =Nation.= 80: 55. Ja. 19, ‘05. 2270w.

=R. of Rs.= 30: 756. D. ‘05. 120w.

“An immense bibliographical index at the end of the third volume
completes the usefulness of the work as a book of reference, and it is
as a book of reference that it will be chiefly used and valued.”

+ + + =Spec.= 94: 617. Ap. 29, ‘05. 830w.

=Howard, John R.=, comp. See =One= hundred best American poems.

=Howe, Frederick Clemson.= City: the hope * of democracy. **$1.50. Scribner.

“A novel interpretation of municipal affairs.... Mr. Howe ascribes
most of the ills to which the American city is heir to economic and
industrial, rather than to political or ethical causes.... Mr. Howe’s
remedy for the present evil conditions consists in offering
opportunity to labor, in taxing monopoly, and in the abolition of
privilege.”—R. of Rs.

* “Mr. Howe’s main arguments in favor of municipal ownership are
strong, and much of his abstract reasoning in favor of the single tax
is well put, although less convincing to most people; but the author
is too sweeping in his advocacy of the adoption of these measures and
in his claims for resulting benefits.”

+ — =Engin. N.= 54: 648. D. 14, ‘05. 610w.

* “Dr. Howe, in a spirited and striking description of the American
city, interprets its myriad phases from the economic standpoint.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.

* “Is a good deal of a theorist, but, happily also, he is very much of
a student. Mr. Howe’s book, we fear, will not advance that result as
much as it might have done had it been more soberly written.” E. C.

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 773. N. 18, ‘05. 970w.

* “His book is a frank discussion of municipal problems as they are
actually encountered in the more typical of our American cities. The
prevailing note is one of optimism.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 637. N. ‘05. 230w.

=Howe, Maude.= See =Elliott, Mrs. Maude Howe.=

=Howells, William Dean.= London films. * **$2.25. Harper.

The volume is made up of Mr. Howells’ characteristic talks about
London weather, London streets, London noises, churches, parks, buses,
slums, children, and bobbies—often with humorous comparison with the
corresponding phenomena in New York. He tells, too, about society out
of doors in Rotten Row and Piccadilly. Some of the matter has already
appeared in some of the magazines. The book is provided with sixteen
full-page illustrations and is bound to match the author’s “Literary
friends and acquaintances.”

* “These films do not amount to so comprehensive or extensive a survey
as Emerson achieved. But they are very fascinating, and are written
with the clarity and richness of style which constitute Mr. Howells
one of our foremost writers of English to-day.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 717. N. 25. 1740w.

* “Its ‘films’ are far more interesting and significant than some that
Mr. Howells has shown; they are indeed in his happiest analytic vein.”

+ + =Dial.= 39: 381. D. 1, ‘05. 270w.

* “The book is in no whit inferior to those masterly studies in
Italian life.”

+ =Ind.= 59: 1227. N. 23, ‘05. 880w.

* “A series of delicate and charming impressions of London in many of
its aspects, social, civic, and meteorological.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 490. D. 14, ‘05. 820w.

* “Easily takes its place among the few most noteworthy books of the
season.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 712. O. 21, ‘05. 130w.

* “He is still master of the gentle irony, the subtle, mischievous
suggestion, the humorous backward glance, that have fascinated his
readers for years.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 682. N. 18, ‘05. 270w.

=Howells, William Dean.= Miss Bellard’s inspiration. †$1.50. Harper.

“It was nothing short of inspiration which made Miss Lillias Bellard
decide to visit her aunt and uncle, the Crombies, in order to consider
quietly the question of marrying a certain eager young Englishman. Mr.
and Mrs. Crombie had ... taken a cottage in the New Hampshire hills.
Miss Bellard’s intention was to watch the domestic conditions of the
Crombie household before rushing recklessly into matrimony. But
coincident with her visit came that of the Mevisons, a couple
trembling upon the verge of separation. Thus Miss Bellard was treated
to a variety of domestic relations which produced varying effects upon
her.”—N. Y. Times.

“Charming and idyllic comedy which at once tickles and instructs. Mr.
Howells has written no more delightful story for years.”

+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 41. Jl. 8, 310w.

* “The book is undeniably a delicate and diverting piece of satire and
full of those illuminating sidelights upon human foibles and frailties
that make Mr. Howells inimitable.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 21: 610. Ag. ‘05. 1500w.

* “The charm of Mr. Howells’s style is the only inducement offered the
‘gentle reader’ in this book.” Charlotte Harwood.

+ — =Critic.= 47: 452. N. ‘05. 240w.

“Has a charm altogether out of proportion to its pretensions.” Wm. M.
Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 39: 115. S. 1, ‘05. 280w.

* =Ind.= 59: 1152. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.

“The whole thing is dainty and amusing, and the irony so suavely
expended that some readers may fail to detect it, and hence be a
little puzzled as to the degree of the author’s facetiousness.”

+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 187. Ag. 5, ‘05. 790w.

“It is as if Mr. Howells’s vision were being contracted instead of
enlarged as the years go on. He stops short now at the surface; and
delicately and gracefully as he plays about on it, we regret his
arrested development.”

+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 209. Je. 30, ‘05. 520w.

“Is a light comedy with enough social satire to remind us that Mr.
Howells is not just fooling for our summer holiday.”

+ + =Nation.= 81: 101. Ag. 3, ‘05. 320w.

“Mr. Howells has not lost any of his cunning in portraying the
delightfully illogical phases of the feminine mental processes.
Altogether it is a decidedly entertaining book.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.

“Has all the lightness, the charming comedy touch, of his earlier
work, and yet is not lacking in serious purpose. The studies of
temperament are both skillful and convincing. It is quite certain that
Mr. Howells has written nothing in a happier style; the vein of humor
which runs through the book is as fresh as in his earlier work, and
parallel with it runs a vein of quiet, kindly irony equally
effective.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 643. Jl. 8, ‘05. 190w.

“Beyond a doubt the story is amusing, but to Mr. Howells’ real
devotees it must be rather hard sledding.”

+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 650w.

* “Though but a slight love tale, embodies a maturity of conception, a
surety of view, a subtle phraseology, an exquisite use of irony, and,
withal, a sedate, appeasing dignity.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 757. D. ‘05. 70w.

“The book is mainly a study—and a very clever and shrewd study—of one
type of American girl. But all the subordinate characters are
carefully drawn.”

+ + — =Spec.= 95: 124. Jl. 22, ‘05. 830w.

=Howells, William Dean.= Son of Royal Langbrith. $2. Harper.

The story is the tragic one of the weakness of a good mother who lacks
the courage to tell her son of the iniquities of his dead father. He
grows up in the belief that his father is a noble and heroic
character, and when the truth is revealed to him, through the
courtship of his mother by the country doctor, he suffers greatly in
the loss of his ideal. An opium eater and his loyal daughter enter
into the story. The setting is a small New England manufacturing town.

“Is in many respects the best bit of work Mr. Howells has done of late
years. One is inclined to read it slowly, lingering in enjoyment of
the charming style, and appreciating to the full the perfect picture
of New England life in the minute details that Mr. Howells so loves to
dwell on. It is a pity, however, that in his love of realistic detail,
Mr. Howells should be led into writing passages which, to say the
least, mar the artistic effect of his work. He has set such a dainty
dish before us that we cannot bear even one drop of grease to spoil
the taste.” C. Harwood.

+ + — =Critic.= 46: 184. F. ‘05. 560w.

“The one objection which the average reader has been known to make
against the work of Mr. William Dean Howells,—namely, that that
distinguished novelist is too fond of the insignificant,—cannot be
brought against ‘The son of Royal Langbrith.’ That the working out of
this theme is masterly it is superfluous to add.”

+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 116. Ja. ‘05. 80w.

“What lends peculiar charm to Mr. Howells’s best work is the fact that
it could only have been written by an American. It is in the delicacy
and tact with which it is hand sovereign merit of the story resides.”

+ + =Spec.= 94: 22. Ja. 7, ‘05. 960w.

=Hubbard, Arthur John, and Hubbard, George.= Neolithic dew-ponds and cattle-ways. *$1.25. Longmans.

“The author endeavors to solve the question of the water-supply of the
Neolithic dwellers in hill-encampments on the downs in the south of
England. There were apparently no wells, and they had to depend on the
‘unfed’ artificial dew-pond.... Closely connected with the dew-ponds
are the cattle-ways down which primitive man drove his herds from the
entrenched settlement to water.... There are numerous and very clear
photographs.”—Nation.

“Altogether the book is one to be read with interest and profit by
everyone at all interested in the evidences relating to our ancestors
of the stone age.”

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 589. My. ‘05. 220w.

“Contains much suggestive and interesting matter, and is very good
reading, but not wholly convincing.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 151. Jl. 29, 1080w.

“The whole study is well worth reading even by those who have no
immediate interest in antiquarian topography.”

+ + =Nation.= 80: 360. My. 4, ‘05. 830w.

“The construction of dew-ponds by the early inhabitants of Britain has
often been glibly asserted, but few, if any, have furnished such clear
and circumstantial evidence as the authors of this short treatise.”

+ + + =Nature.= 71: 611 Ap. 27, ‘05. 610w.

=Hubbard, Gardiner Greene.= Collection of engravings. See =United States=, Library of Congress.

=Hubbard, Sarah A.=, comp. See =Catch= words of cheer.

=Huckel, Oliver.=, tr. Lohengrin, **75c. Crowell.

A companion volume to Mr. Huckel’s “Parsifal” which appeared in
similar form two years ago. “It is a version for the general reader.
It is not a libretto for the music. It gives a cumulative impression,
the composite effect of words, scenery, action, and it is hoped, the
spirit of the musical interpretation ... the spirit of the original
text in a free version rather than in a strictly literal one.”

* “The poem is preceded by an admirable introductory chapter relating
to the work, the whole forming a little volume which will be highly
prized by lovers of this noble music-drama.”

+ =Arena.= 34: 557. N. ‘05. 140w.

“It gives the reader a much better impression of the drama than the
ordinary literally translated libretto can furnish.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 40w.

* “The verse is smooth and dignified.”

+ =R of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 30w.

=Huckel, Oliver.= Melody of God’s love; a new unfolding of the twenty-third psalm, *75c. Crowell.

An interpretation of the twenty-third psalm which divides it into
three melodies: In green pastures, a song of the sweet and pleasant
experiences of life; Through the valley of the shadow, a song of the
harder and deeper and more sorrowful experiences of life; and, In the
house of the Lord forever, a song of the exultant and triumphant and
heavenly experiences of life here and hereafter.

“A series of meditative essays in poetic vein, but without great
distinction of style.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 20w.

=Huffcut, Ernest Wilson.= Elements of business law; with illustrative examples and problems. *$1. Ginn.

This volume is intended as a text-book for students in commercial
courses in high schools and colleges and it sets forth the fundamental
principles of business law, giving simple concrete examples which show
them in their actual application to business transactions. Problems
taken from decided cases are given at the end of each chapter. The
book is based upon the common law and a glossary of legal terms is
provided.

=Hughes, Hugh Price.= Life of Hugh Price Hughes, by his daughter. 3d ed. *$3. Armstrong.

“Mr. Price Hughes broke in early life with the traditional
conservatism of the Methodist body, and allied himself with the
Liberation society.... The greater part of the volume is taken up with
the spiritual activities with which” he “occupied his strenuous life.
These were very various in kind. Not the least interesting among them
is the part which he took in the reunion conferences at
Grindelwald.”—Spec.

“She tries to set down all her father ever did or said, with little
order of time and not too much of logic; yet large abstractions
obscure practical details.”

— + =Nation.= 80: 354. My. 4, ‘05. 630w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 196. Ap. 1, ‘05. 480w.

“This story of his life will be read in all branches of the Church. It
deserves to be. It needs to be.”

+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 143. Ja. 14, ‘05. 270w.

“We must frankly say that there is a certain magniloquence of diction
and general exuberance about Miss Hughes’s description of her father’s
life and work which we could wish away; but these do not hinder us
from recognizing a really striking personality. There are, indeed,
more serious faults in Miss Hughes’s book than those of diction and
manner. It would not have cost much trouble to ascertain the facts.”

+ — =Spec.= 94: 181. F. 4, ‘05. 520w.

* =Hughes, Rupert.= Zal: an international romance. †$1.50. Century.

The tale of a young Polish pianist’s battle for recognition in New
York. There is the artist and dreamer’s “deathless enthusiasm” which
dominates Ladislav Moniusko and Rose Hargrave, a wealthy New York
girl, whose father had set her apart for an English duke.

* “The book is of value, not only because of its musical quality, but
because it enlarges information and intensifies sympathy for what may
truly be called the land of genius.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 856. D. 2, ‘05. 630w.

* “The contrast between the Polish and American natures is excellently
indicated.”

+ =Outlook.= 81: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.

=Hugo, Victor.= Notre Dame de Paris. $1.25. Crowell.

A volume in the “Thin paper classics” series, translated from the
French by Isabel F. Hapgood.

=Hugo, Victor.= Toilers of the sea. $1.25. Crowell.

A translation from the French by Isabel F. Hapgood, uniform with the
other attractive volumes of the “Thin paper classics” series.

=Hulbert, Archer Butler, and others.= Future of road making in America. (Historic highways in America.) *$2.50. Clark, A. H.

Volume XV closes the series of monographs on the history of America as
portrayed in the evolution of its highways of war, commerce, and
social expansion, in the “Historic highways of America” series.
Besides the first essay, which gives the title to this volume, Mr.
Hulbert’s symposium includes “Government co-operation in object-lesson
road work,” by Martin Dodge; Maurice O. Eldridge’s “Good roads for
farmers,” Prof. Logan Waller Page’s “The selection of materials for
macadam roads,” and E. G. Harrison’s “Stone roads in New Jersey.”
There will be a final volume devoted to an index.

+ — =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 928. Jl. ‘05. 110w.

“The later volumes of the series present both the merits and defects
of the earlier ones. They are entertaining and often suggestive, but
always incomplete. The material is ill arranged, and a surprising
amount of it is reprinted from other books.”

+ — =Dial.= 38: 322. My. 1, ‘05. 290w. (Review of v. 15 and 16.)

+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 183. F. 16, ‘05. 300w.

=N. Y. Times.= 10: 132. Mr. 4, ‘05. 390w.

“A model of what an index should be.”

+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 514. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w. (Review of v. 16.)

+ + =Outlook.= 79: 449. F. 18, ‘05. 120w.

“[The index] is model work of its kind.”

+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 838. My. 27, ‘05. 120w. (Review of v. 15 and
16.)

=Hume, Fergus.= Mandarin’s fan. †$1.25. Dillingham.

A jade fan causes a deal of trouble in Mr. Hume’s new story. It is at
the bottom of a plot which involves the good name of a Chinese
official, the fortunes of a worthy young Englishman, the satisfaction
of a Chinese god, Kwang-Ho, and the happiness of a young English girl.
Never has the author presented so motley an array of men and women
from which to select the real criminal.

“His ‘heathen’ are of the conventional and traditional sort, but the
dialogue is spicy, the plot intricate, and the personages are set in
lively contrast to each other.”

+ — =Critic.= 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 70w.

“Clever as the plot is, there are several woefully weak links, though
a rapid reader is pretty sure to overlook these while engrossed in the
really thrilling story. Contrary to his usual custom, Fergus Hume has
given us better character drawing than plot in this tale of a fan.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 262. Ap. 22, ‘05. 230w.

“The author appears frequently quite as much in the dark in trying to
fix on one of his puppets the crime involved as is the patient and
mystified reader. There is here no real flesh and blood.”

— =Outlook.= 79: 706. Mr. 18, ‘05. 70w.

=Hume, Fergus W.= Secret passage. †$1.25. Dillingham.

The secret passage contains all the strange things which are the
natural accompaniments of secret passages. An eccentric old lady is
found stabbed to death in her room and there is no clue to the
murderer. A clever young detective takes up the case and a number of
people become involved in it; several love stories past and present
serve to make matters more complicated, and in the end it is
discovered that the murdered old lady was really somebody else in
disguise, and that the only person not suspected of the crime is the
guilty one.

“Another of his hide-and-seek, jack-o’-lantern murder mysteries.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 589. S. 9, ‘05. 230w.

=Hume, Martin Andrew S.= Spanish influence of English literature. $2. Lippincott.

Ten public lectures re-written fill this portly volume. Its aim is “to
provide for English readers a comparative study of Spanish literature
in special relation to its points of contact with the literature of
our own country.”

“Major Hume does not succeed in persuading us that he has attained to
any clear conception of what is meant by literary influence.”

— =Acad.= 68: 99. F. 4, ‘05. 840w.

“But these faults of arrangement, selection, and taste are minor
defects in comparison with the want of knowledge and the inaccuracy
which the book shows. Instances of reckless assertion are numerous in
every chapter.”

— — — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 365. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1200w.

“The book, moreover, seems to be pervaded by an exaggerated sense of
the importance of its thesis.”

— =Dial.= 39: 93. Ag. 16, ‘05. 240w.

“A cursory reading of this volume will reveal that it commits two
unpardonable sins: first, that on points of scanty information, it
jumps at brilliant conclusions without an effort to gather adequate
facts; and second, that in matters of minute and detailed learning it
generally takes its knowledge bodily from a source nowhere mentioned.”

— — =Nation.= 81: 78. Jl. 27, ‘05. 2810w.

“These phenomena of European literary history, Mr. Hume presents
clearly and intelligently enough, but without that attention to
detailed evidence which would have made his principal chapters
somewhat more convincing.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 589. S. 9, ‘05. 890w.

“We are obliged to him for a most interesting book, which brings
together facts unknown to ninety-nine in every hundred of the great
reading crowd.”

+ =Sat. R.= 100: 407. S. 23, ‘05. 2020w.

“Though we cannot praise unreservedly either Mr. Hume’s style or his
arrangement, yet both are greatly superior to Mr. Underhill’s; and it
is just in those chapters in which he comes into competition with Mr.
Underhill that Mr. Hume is at his best.”

+ + — =Spec.= 94: 514. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1180w.

* =Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp.= Wives of Henry VIII. **$4.50. McClure.

Major Hume portrays King Henry as “a weak, vain and boastful creature,
the plaything of his passions, and the tool of those great minds about
him who worked solely to further their own religious and political
aims.” Catherine of Aragon claims the longest consideration, in which
the “pathetic and noble” picture is offset by the less agreeable light
thrown on her period of widowhood. The author “gives a pitiless
picture of Anne Boleyn—of her utter lack of generosity, her meanness
of spirit, her frivolity, and her vanity.” Katherine Howard furnishes
the best subject of study from a “psychological and romantic point of
view,” while Katherine Lady Latimer is presented as “amiable, tactful
and clever and evidently ‘managed’ her fickle husband with great
intelligence.” (Acad.)

* “The latest and by far the clearest account of these six queens.”

+ + =Acad.= 68: 1196. N. 18, ‘05. 1500w.

* “Major Hume in this, his latest book, and certainly one of the most
deeply interesting he has written, is just sufficiently partial to
make us feel that he is human.”

+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 603. N. 4. 1420w.

* “Altogether the book is one which supplies the reader with plenty of
ideas and impressions, though there are times when one gets lost in
the mazes of the game Mr. Hume is exposing, and wonders if the game is
all really there.”

+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 896. D. 16, ‘05. 1410w.

=Humieres, Robert d’ vicomte.= Through isle and empire; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. **$1.40. Doubleday.

“The psychology of the Englishman is a curious subject for a French
writer, but it is one very entertainingly treated by Vicomte
d’Humières. He divides his book into four parts, following his quarry
out of England into Egypt, India, and through Deccan, but always in
amiable pursuit; witness Mr. Kipling’s indorsement in a prefatory
letter.”—Outlook.

Reviewed by Robert C. Brooks.

+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 380. Je. ‘05. 2200w.

“Admirably translated into English.”

+ + =Dial.= 38: 360. My. 16, ‘05. 250w.

“He uses as sharp a wit as Max O’Rell in describing British customs,
manners, sports and institutions; but his criticism is much more just
and much less bitter.”

+ + =Ind.= 58: 782. Ap. 6, ‘05. 480w.

“Readers may differ in opinion of the author’s estimate of British
character, but all will agree as to the charming quality of the
recorded impressions and sketches of travel.”

+ =Outlook.= 79: 961. Ap. 15, ‘05. 90w.

“His description of English manners is not without humour and
incisiveness, and his view of India, native and British alike, is
marked by sympathy and insight.”

+ =Sat. R.= 99: 637. My. 13, ‘05. 220w.

“Brilliant and lightsome pages.”

+ — =Spec.= 94: 592. Ap. 22, ‘05. 2210w.

=Humphrey, Seth K.= Indian dispossessed. **$1.50. Little.

A plain statement of the wrongs which the Indians have suffered at the
hands of the government of the United States, backed by extracts from
official records. There is little rhetoric but there are many facts.
The crowding out process as it affected various tribes and
reservations is given in detail and the final chapters: Dividing the
spoils, and Uncle Sam, trustee, make the most ardent patriot stop and
ponder. There are sixteen full page illustrations from photographs of
Indian chiefs.

* “By taking only those instances wherein the Government or its
representatives have been conspicuously unfair in dealing with the
Indian, Mr. Humphrey succeeds in making out a pretty strong case
against the white man. He has used his material well and has made the
most of it.”

— =Ind.= 59: 1231. N. 23, ‘05. 410w.

“We ascribe to this author the best intentions, but we do not think
his book will render any real service to the Indian cause. All that he
says may be true, but he does not tell all the truth.”

+ — =Outlook.= 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 210w.

* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 668. N. 18, ‘05. 260w.

=Humphreys, Alexander Crombie.= Lecture notes on some of the business features of engineering practice. $1. Dept. of business engineering, Stevens institute of technology, Hoboken, N. J.

“This book is, we believe, the first of its kind—namely, a book of
lectures on business methods for students of engineering.” (Engin.
N.). It contains lectures upon Notes on contracts, Estimates and
specifications, three lectures on Accounting, three on Accounting as
applied to repairs and depreciation, Systems of classification—taxes,
Analysis of a balance sheet and Analysis of data.

“So well does he handle the subject that interest is awakened from the
start, and it not allowed to lag.”

+ + + =Engin. N.= 53: 635. Je. 15, ‘05. 860w.

=Huneker, James Gibbons.= Iconoclasts: a book of dramatists. **$1.50. Scribner.

Studies of modern continental dramatists. A review of Henrik Ibsen’s
work is followed by impressions and criticisms of the dramas of August
Strindberg, Henry Becque, Gerhart Hauptmann, Paul Hervieu, “The
quintessence” of Shaw, Maxim Gorky’s “Nachtasyl,” Hermann Sudermann,
Princess Mathilde’s play, Duse and D’Annunzio, Villiers del Isle Adam,
and Maurice Maeterlinck.

“If Mr. Huneker would abandon his strain after originality and
epigram, and would be content to be natural and reposeful, his chances
of enduring success would be better.”

+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 284. Ag. 26, ‘05. 690w.

“What one misses in his work is the repose, the finish, the, it may
be, studied avoidance of mere epigram, mere cleverness, which gives so
stable a charm to such criticism as that of Mr. Symons.” H. W.
Boynton.

+ + — =Atlan.= 95: 841. Je. ‘05. 1100w.

“Mr. Huneker’s brilliant book holds substantial refreshment and work
of more than transient value. Is saturated with his subject, yet has
preserved an invaluable sensitiveness to impressions.” Olivia Howard
Dunbar.

+ + + =Critic.= 47: 89. Jl. ‘05. 380w.

“Mr. Huneker’s manner of writing is pointed and almost brilliant, but
the journalistic origin of his essays is too apparent.”