Chapter XXIV: Part 1: , deals with historic material—the beginnings and growth of (9)

A short introduction giving some of the characteristics of “Ursus, the
droll” is followed by the life history of a bear from cubhood, during
which he was a household pet, on thru dancing and circus-bear periods
to the wild again whither he escapes after killing his trainer.

* * * * *

“The author has skilfully woven into his story much of the natural
history of the bear, and he has produced a readable story, but yet
‘Black Bruin’ is not typical.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 899. O. 15, ’08. 180w.

“A marvelous nature story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 80w.

=Hawkins, Anthony Hope.= Great Miss Driver. †$1.50. McClure.

8–25366.

In which an unambitious secretary to the Great Miss Driver sketches
her career—the career of a masterful young woman of wealth, a dictator
and financier, the possessor of a man’s perspective and sense of
justice and the heart of a woman. To her, shortcomings in big men may
well be overlooked. “They have their big lives, their big selves, to
look after. They can’t spend all the time thinking whether they are
doing justice to a woman.”

* * * * *

“Anthony Hope’s new novel is in its way as good as anything he has for
some time produced. The air of the story is somewhat artificial, but
there are human sentiments and situations.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 397. O. 3. 400w.

“There is no exaggeration in saying that in literary technique and
human interest and the various other qualities that go to make good
fiction ‘The great Miss Driver’ is easily the biggest, best rounded,
and altogether worthiest story he has ever written.” F: T. Cooper.

+ + =Bookm.= 28: 379. D. ’08. 760w.

“The ease and politeness of manner with which the story is told may be
compared with that of an intelligent, cultivated man who tells a story
fascinatingly, yet with a certain deprecatory air, as if he said, ‘But
do not let me tire you’ and the reader’s response is, ‘Pray go on,
sir; you could not tire me if your tale lasted till morning.’”

+ =Ind.= 65: 1002. O. 29, ’08. 970w.

“In this book he shows less humor and verbal dexterity than he has led
us to expect; but he goes about his task with the air of a man who can
handle the tools of the trade, and he produces a novel that, if not
extraordinary, is at least entertaining.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 270w.

“This is not in the least reminiscent of Anthony Hope, but it’s a good
story all the same.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 554. O. 10, ’08. 560w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 70w.

“An extremely clever but perhaps a little over-protracted study of a
forceful and willful young woman.”

+ − =Outlook.= 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 120w.

“Even with what he gives in the earlier half, Anthony Hope does not
quite make Jenny Driver credible, though he makes her human, and
delightful and new; so human, indeed, that his handling suggests that
he is not himself quite sure how far he understands her.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 6. S. 26, ’08. 830w.

“When he writes with the subtlety and finish, the acuteness and
sympathy, that are displayed in ‘The great Miss Driver,’ we are
reconciled to his abandonment of the domain of fantastic and
adventurous romance in which he won his earliest and most resounding
successes. There is something artificial in the machinery employed to
enable Jenny to turn the tables on her judges and detractors.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: 636. O. 24, ’08. 860w.

=Hawkins, Anthony Hope.= Love’s logic and other stories. †$1.25.
McClure.

8–10617.

Fifteen short stories with the title piece, a little drama, buried in
the middle of the book. The best of them are Mrs. Thistleton’s
princess, Miss Gladwin’s chance, and The prince consort. A bit of art
in the first of the three is suggested by the fact that the author
keeps his scheme to the short story length by causing the principal
character—who with money might have been developed into a hero—to be
in a chronic penniless state with an overdrawn bank account.

* * * * *

“Short stories, good, bad, and indifferent.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 156. My. ’08.

“Cleverly made stories.” F: T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 27: 500. Jl. ’08. 660w.

“Unusually well told in the musing, gently reminiscent manner of the
old friend of the family.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 1150. My. 21, ’08. 50w.

“Good enough for magazines, but distinctly not worth publication in
permanent form.”

− =Nation.= 86: 310. Ap. 2, ’08. 150w.

“All are pervaded with that gentle irony, mildly whimsical humor, and
amused acceptance of human foibles with which the author is wont to
spice his romantic tales.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 253. My. 2, ’08. 200w.

=Hawley, Frederick Barnard.= Enterprise and the productive process.
**$1.75. Putnam.

7–39068.

A theory of economic productivity presented from the point of view of
the entrepreneur and based upon definitions secured thru deduction of
the scope and fundamental terms of the science of economics. The
author aims to present authoritative notions upon the definition,
scope, and method of his reconstructed economic theory and discusses
fully the four productive factors, land, capital, labor and
enterprise.

* * * * *

“Not a great book, but a serviceable one for students of advanced
economic theory.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 185. Je. ’08.

“An acquiescence in the author’s general conclusions necessitates an
acceptance of his risk theory of profits, of his perhaps too
pronouncedly entrepreneur point of view, and of his extremely
restricted conception of the scope of economics.” R. V. Phelan.

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 729. My. ’08. 300w.

“The chief contribution of the book is its point of approach. Anyone
who will read Mr. Hawley’s argument will also be convinced that he is
in contact with a mind of unusual force and acumen. The argument is
well planned and consistently worked out. The present writer is not
convinced, however, that the author’s method and point of view are
inherently superior to those of the classical school.” T. N. Carver.

+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 123. Je. ’08. 460w.

=Ind.= 64: 419. F. 20, ’08. 330w.

“On the whole it must be said that the author comes out much better in
his conclusions than one is likely to expect after a reading of his
introductory chapters wherein he expounds his method and sets forth
his point of view.” T. N. Carver.

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 111. F. ’08. 960w.

“It would be hard to mention another work that has appeared within the
past three or four years which is freighted with more solid thinking
upon economic fundamentals.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 291. S. 24, ’08. 830w.

“Novel and original contribution to political economy.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 141. Mr. 14, ’08. 1250w.

“Is an original contribution to economic discussion both in method and
point of view. However, if we find it impossible to indorse Mr.
Hawley’s principal contention, his book is helpful in many ways.”

+ − =Outlook.= 90: 136. S. 19, ’08. 500w.

“Mr. Hawley’s work does not appear, to the reviewer at least, to have
produced theoretical results of a high degree of value.” A. S.
Johnson.

+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 532. S. ’08. 1850w.

“The economist will find Mr. Hawley’s working out of his theory of
economic productivity exceedingly interesting and original, even
though neither premise nor conclusion can be accepted without doing
violence to established economic tradition.”

+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 755. Je. ’08. 180w.

=Hay, Alfred.= Introductory course of continuous current
engineering. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.

W 8–37.

“The purpose of this book is to acquaint the reader, assumed to be
already familiar with the elements of electricity and magnetism, with
the construction of the component parts of an electrical installation.
It is largely descriptive, the text being illustrated with diagrams of
electrical devices and circuits.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“The work has been prepared for use as an introductory text on
continuous current engineering; it is exceptionally well arranged for
this purpose.”

+ =Elec. World.= 51: 731. Ap. 4, ’08. 120w.

Reviewed by H: H. Norris.

+ =Engin. N.= 59: 297. Mr. 12, ’08. 550w.

“The matter is well presented and the work forms a fine companion
volume to the author’s excellent treatise on ‘Alternating currents.’
It combines within the same covers the fundamental phenomena and their
applications.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 50w.

=Hay, Oliver Perry.= Fossil turtles of North America, pa. $7.
Carnegie inst.

8–26862.

“A work which not only makes it possible to gain speedy and accurate
knowledge of the group of which it treats, but completely paves the
way for further progress in its study.” (N. Y. Times.) “The author
finds that there are 266 well-defined species of North American fossil
turtles—or more than now survive on all the continents. From this it
is evident that the turtles are a disappearing group, though yet so
abundant as to lend a deep interest to all problems connected with
their origin and distribution.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“It is far in advance of any [work] that has hitherto been written on
its subject, or on the turtle fauna of any other country.”

+ + =Nation.= 87: 343. O. 8, ’08. 330w.

“Almost the only fault we have to find with the volume is the absence
of a good table of contents, or of a classified synopsis, whereby the
serial positions of all the genera and species might be seen at a
glance. In all other respects we heartily congratulate Mr. Hay on the
completion of such a valuable and heavy piece of palæontological
work.” R. L.

+ − =Nature.= 79: 91. N. 26, ’08. 600w.

“This ponderous and splendidly illustrated volume affords naturalists
a compact statement of quite all that is known to date of the ancient
turtle life on this continent; many of the forms being new to
science.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 200w.

“The Carnegie institution is to be congratulated on the publication of
this valuable and useful work.” S. W. Williston.

+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 803. D. 4, ’08. 700w.

=Hayes, Hiram W.= Paul Anthony, Christian. *$1.50. Reid pub. co.

7–42007.

A story whose scenes are principally laid in Burma in which a young
American engineer, a Christian scientist, antagonizes a missionary
leader and an army surgeon while winning thru his livable,
demonstrable religion most of the other characters of the story. It is
interesting as a romance and reveals fundamentally what Christian
science “teaches in regard to man’s relation to God, his fellowmen,
the problems of sin and sickness and how they are destroyed, and the
ideal of life.” (Arena.)

* * * * *

“It is a book that Christian scientists would do well to circulate
very widely, and it is a deeply interesting romance that is very pure
and uplifting in its influence and atmosphere,—a good book that merits
wide reading.”

+ =Arena.= 39: 251. F. ’08. 950w.

=Ath.= 1908, 2: 297. S. 12. 160w.

“Written with more skill than is usual with propagandist novels.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 695. Mr. 26, ’08. 50w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.

=Hays, Joseph W.= How to build up furnace efficiency. 50c. J. W.
Hays. 601 Hartford building, Chicago.

A book which deals with the “most common furnace losses and their
causes in detail, and makes a strong argument for a liberal use of the
Orsat apparatus for furnace gas analysis.” (Engin. Rec.)

* * * * *

“A booklet that will indicate to the man in charge of a boiler plant
where to look for the causes of fuel waste and how to go about
stopping them.”

+ =Elec. World.= 52: 1308. D. 12, ’08. 160w.

+ =Engin. N.= 60: 429. O. 15, ’08. 90w.

“It cannot fail to prove of value to every operating engineer.”

+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 363. S. 26, ’08. 200w.

=Hazard, Caroline.= Scallop shell of quiet. **$1. Houghton.

8–243.

A book of religious verse containing forty Lenten sonnets, an
Interlude of fifteen poems, and eight final sonnets composing A cycle
of grief ever the death of a friend.

* * * * *

“[Has] the grace of a deep sincerity.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 180w.

“Shows the subjectiveness of a thinker to whom the world does not
present itself in images of form and color, but in whisperings and
prayers.” E. L. Cary.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 424. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.

=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Letters from The Raven; being the correspondence
of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin; with introd. and critical
comment by the editor, Milton Bronner. $1.50. Brentano’s.

7–34585.

In Hearn’s early youth he formed a friendship with Watkin, a
Cincinnati printer, who became the “Old man” or “Dad” while he
himself, because of his gloomy tendencies and love for Poe, was dubbed
“The Raven.” These letters from “The Raven” to Watkin cover the
former’s experiences in New Orleans, offering a series of “vignettes
of his strange Creole life,” experiences in the West Indies, and in
Japan.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 186. Je. ’08.

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 573. My. 9. 200w.

“Though Lafcadio Hearn’s literary reputation will not be enhanced by
the publication of ‘Letters from The Raven’ these unstudied early
writings give an insight into phases of his personality not revealed
by what he wrote for the world at large, nor, except in small measure,
by the numerous private letters printed in his ‘Life and letters’ by
Miss Elizabeth Bisland.”

+ + =Dial.= 44: 46. Ja. 16, ’08. 470w.

=Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 100w.

“Perhaps there is an advantage in having them by themselves in this
little book. Their flavor gains a certain pungency by this isolation
from his general correspondence.”

+ + =Nation.= 85: 447. N. 14, ’07. 650w.

“Amid much that is dull and scarcely worth while in these letters of
Hearn’s written to Mr. Watkin ... there is also a touch now and again
of the curious Hearn imagination and the haunting delicacies of
thought that we know in his later writings.” Florence Wilkinson.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 43. Ja. 25, ’08. 1050w.

“These letters have little, if any, intrinsic importance.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 598. My. 9, ’08. 1200w.

=Heck, Robert C. H.= Steam engine and other steam motors. 2v. ea.
*$5. Van Nostrand.

5–4757.

=v. 2.= Deals with The form, construction and working of the engine;
and The steam turbine. Whereas the first volume contained theoretical
discussions, this one relates to the actual engine and its
performance. It is fully illustrated.

* * * * *

“Very full treatise of specialized character, suitable for large
libraries.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 138. My. ’08. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“Painstaking and scientific work.”

+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’08. 300w. (Review of v. 2.)

“The two volumes are far from being a complete treatise on the steam
engine, and they are scarcely suitable for text-books, but, for
reference books, they are to be recommended as giving a better and
fuller treatment of some works on this subject.” William Kent.

+ − =Technical Literature.= 2: 456. N. ’07. 800w. (Review of v.
2.)

=Heineman, Theodore William.= Physical basis of civilization: a
revised version of “Psychic and economic results of man’s physical
uprightness.” $1.25. Forbes.

8–13635.

A demonstration that two small anatomical modifications determined
physical, mental, moral, economic, social and political conditions.
The author says, “When sexual reproduction among mammalian creatures
resembling the quadrumana produced a variation in the ento-cuneiform
bones of their posterior extremities and shifted the occipital foramen
magnum to a position a little back of the base of the skull, then was
the birthday of the human race.”

* * * * *

“It is only on the side of ethnographic and sociological facts that he
is weak. To those who are interested in tracing out the biological
roots of human institutions, especially of the family, therefore, the
book is to be commended as well worth reading.” C: A. Ellwood.

+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 412. N. ’08. 420w.

“The weakness of the book is found in its assumptions. The author has
done a good piece of work, especially strong and suggestive in its
biological aspect; and he has shown himself to be an able, original
and independent thinker.” F. W. Collins.

+ − =Arena.= 40: 478. N. ’08. 450w.

“There is room for a difference of opinion as to the force of this
‘demonstration.’”

− =Ind.= 65: 1070. N. 5, ’08. 160w.

=Helleu, Paul C.= Gallery of portraits. *$7. Longmans.

A book of plates accompanied by an introduction by Frederick Wedmore.
There are reproductions of twenty and more portraits of prominent
women. Mr. Wedmore says, “The Duchess of Marlborough, depicted here,
is far, very far, from being the only instance of a type drawn from
moneyed and, no doubt, cultivated America. The Comtesse de Noailles—a
young dame du monde who has found time to give to France more than one
volume of introspective poetry—represents the Faubourg and the
chateau, and the literary salon where tender and gifted Melancholy
leaves Flirtation no chance, and rhythmic Sorrow is poured out with
the tea.”

* * * * *

“Except in one or two of these reproductions, we do not quite
recognize the magic for which [M. Helleu’s] name once stood.”

+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 775. D. 14. 180w.

“One of the most elaborate and interesting art books of the season.”

+ =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 120w.

“Prominent women are presented in the vivacious style of this most
brilliant of modern dry-point etchers, who gives a note of piquancy to
all his sitters.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 836. D. 14, ’07. 310w.

=Helmolt, Hans Ferdinand and others=, eds. World’s history: a survey
of man’s record; with an introd. essay by James Bryce. 8v. ea. $6.
Dodd.

7–42036.

=v. 8.= Western Europe in the nineteenth century—The Atlantic ocean.

The subjects treated are The French revolution, Napoleon and reaction;
The political and social changes, in Europe between 1830 and 1859; The
unification of Italy and of Germany from 1859 to 1866; A summary of
important events which occurred in Western Europe between 1866 and
1902. The last chapter “suggests, without describing, the significance
of the Atlantic ocean in history (1) as a great dividing barrier, (2)
as the training school of nations, and (3) as a medium of world
commerce.”

* * * * *

“The work of the translator has been uniformly well performed
throughout the volume. Of minor faults (there are no great ones) we
note a few misprints. For the rest of the book is a truly remarkable
compendium of a little understood and less appreciated section of the
world.”

+ + − =Acad.= 73: 814. Ag. 24, ’07. 2350w. (Review of v. 5.)

“[The first] four chapters are more or less open to two points of
criticism. First, none of the writers has shown at all satisfactorily
the great influence of religion, romanticism, capitalism and the
improvement in the means of communication in shaping the history of
the nineteenth century; they too often lapse into the conventional
juiceless political narrative. The fault is not theirs but the
editor’s; they fear to be guilty of repetition, in as much as these
subjects have already been completely developed as separate topics in
volume 7. In the second place, the point of view and the allotment of
space seem excessively German. While three chapters are disappointing
in that they rather fall from the lofty principles and novel features
of the earlier volumes, they nevertheless deserve a place among the
best scholarly one-volume accounts of the nineteenth century.” S. B.
Fay.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 363. Ja. ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 8.)

“It is addressed more to scholars but is necessarily too brief to
satisfy them. It is pervaded with the spirit of Lamprecht and Ratzel,
but at the same time has drawn heavily from Ranke.” Sidney B. Fay.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 835. Jl. ’08. 1050w. (Review of v. 6.)

“The translator of each section seems to have been free to follow his
or her will, regardless of any one else. These evils are brought out
glaringly by the egregious index, whose compiler was evidently
incapable of recognizing the same word under two separate spellings or
the same person with two qualifications attached to him. We can only
regret that the English rendering of a painstaking and useful
historical work should be marred by such disgraceful slovenliness in
some of its details.” A. C. Coolidge.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 97. O. ’08. 1150w. (Review of v. 5.)

“As a preliminary study for the history of Europe these volumes are in
many ways excellent; one cannot however help wishing for references to
authorities, for occasional notes, and for a general index.” C. A. S.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 610. Jl. ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 6 and
8.)

“The monumental work of Dr. Helmolt is original, attractive, and
thoroughly readable. It places the history of the world in a new
light, basing it upon a foundation of geography and ethnography, while
at the same time it rests upon a solid structure of the most modern
research, and does not suffer, as some other cooperative histories
have done, from the collaboration of different writers. It is in every
sense of the word a possession for ever.”

+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 6. D. 16, ’07. 1540w. (Review of v. 5.)

“It would, perhaps, have been better if [v. 8] had been rewritten for
English readers.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 599. My. 9, ’08. 1600w. (Review of v. 6 and 8.)

“Generally, we may say of these eight volumes that they are full of
original work—originality is one of their special merits—that his work
is of a very high average of value, and that it has been skilfully put
together and methodised by the editor.”

+ + =Spec.= 100: 502. Mr. 28, ’08. 1350w. (Review of v. 1–8.)

=Henderson, Charles Hanford.= Lighted lamp: a novel. †$1.50.
Houghton.

8–27806.

A theosophical story in which a legacy and ill health combine to
arouse a Boston spice clerk from the lethargy of a “drab” existence
and to send him to Europe where he “suffers the sea change into
something rich and strange.” Thru contact with the things of life,
with women of flawless, first water type, one in particular who
present or absent represents feminine force that has no beginning or
ending, his spirit expands. When death cuts him off suddenly the
theory is advanced that he had reached his earth limit—he had come to
flower and required another incarnation for further development.

* * * * *

“The reader of this book finds Baedeker daintily disguised by an
embroidered cover of romance. The book will hardy prove as interesting
to the traveller as to the student of the psychic.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 497. N. 19, ’08. 230w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.

“In spite of its refined charm ... the book is almost immoral, for it
arouses in the reader distinctly criminal sentiments. Mr. Henderson
has the ability to charm, a fund of delicate humor, and a background
of deep culture; what he lacks is simply the knowledge of how to ‘let
himself go.’”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 672. N. 14, ’08. 400w.

=Henderson, David, Lt.-Col.= Art of reconnaissance. *$1.50. Dutton.

War 7–139.

The author “does but remind (in a rather ponderous style) those who
may have to undertake reconnaissance, or require it of others, what
are the principles which go to make success. This is no mere textbook,
though it has rules and examples; but it may best serve as a
commentary (it is carefully indexed) for officers who are inclined to
study the subject psychologically as well as tactically, and to give
common sense its due. They will find here the notes of a thinker
rather than the notions of a theorist.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“It is not unfair to say of it, as of many military works, that it
needs viva-voce exposition to make it really intelligible and useful.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 223. F. 22. 600w.

“It contains many valuable hints on one of the most difficult branches
of the soldier’s art, and well repays the few hours’ study it
demands.”

+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 247. Ag. 9, ’07. 400w.

“The virtue of the book is its shining good sense. Col. Henderson’s
style is notably good.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 263. S. 17, ’08. 170w.

=Henderson, George Cockburn.= Sir George Grey. *$4. Dutton.

8–14844.

Scholar, soldier, explorer, governor, Sir George Grey “was the
autocrat of three important colonies for long terms and through
critical periods, and shaped political and ecclesiastical
constitutions, conducted protracted wars, moulded and reconciled
aboriginal peoples, ruled without and with responsible ministers,
conceived smaller and larger federations, and wound up an historic
career by returning as a private citizen to a colony he had
despotically ruled, sitting in the popular branch of its legislature.”
(Nation.)

* * * * *

“A valuable contribution to the history of the British empire. Mr.
Henderson is to be commended for what he has left out no less than for
the accuracy of his general conclusions.”

+ =Ath.= 1907. 2: 578. N. 9. 850w.

“The stern retrenchments and the administrative reconstructions by
which Grey restored financial equilibrium to a bankrupt colony, and
sent it forward on a career of stable prosperity have never before
been so fully or clearly described.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 335. Ap. 9, ’08. 1350w.

“Professor Henderson has written the story of [Sir George Grey’s]
interesting life with justice and with impartial judgment.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 200. Ap. 11, ’08. 250w.

+ − =Outlook.= 89: 581. Jl. 11, ’08. 270w.

Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.

=Putnam’s.= 4: 493. Jl. ’08. 160w.

“The importance of this study of his achievements, his failures, and
his ideals consists in its lucid suggestion of the lines along which
democracy and empire may march hand in hand.”

+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 7. O. 19, ’07. 750w.

=Henderson, Mrs. May Sturge.= George Meredith, novelist, poet and
reformer. *$1.50. Scribner.

7–37625.

A volume of “detailed and minutely introspective criticism” touching
each of Mr. Meredith’s great works. From her analysis of his “Essay on
comedy” she proceeds to the generalization that the main theme of
Meredith’s novels as well as his poetry is the purification of
rebellious and intemperate youth.

* * * * *

“We cannot affirm that this study of Mr. Meredith appears to us wholly
good, but it is very far indeed from being bad; it is never
egregious.”

+ − =Acad.= 73: 286. D. 28, ’07. 1850w.

“This book offers more in the way of the philosophy and general
significance of Meredith, goes deeper, views more broadly than the
faithful, intelligent, informing account of the ‘Novels of George
Meredith’ by E. J. Bailey.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 186. Je. ’08.

“Her book ... affects one like the reading of conscientious journalism
which is no longer new. The book has a useful index, which would make
it really luminous if it could; but an index cannot do everything.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 227. F. 22. 220w.

“All that Mrs. Henderson has to say [is] interesting and her
quotations both beautiful and appropriate.” Eunice Follansbee.

+ =Dial.= 44: 129. Mr. 1, ’08. 550w.

“Mrs. Henderson, undertaking a comprehensive consideration of
Meredith’s works in chronological order, has given us the best general
survey of them that we possess.” E: C. Marsh.

+ + − =Forum.= 39: 385. Ja. ’08. 550w.

“It is thoroughly informed and cleverly executed.”

+ + =Nation.= 86: 147. F. 13, ’08. 440w.

“This is one of the most serious of the many serious books which the
Meredith worship of the last ten years has produced. If it errs at
all, it errs in exaggerating Meredith’s own weakness of placing too
much stress upon the philosophy and too little upon the humour as
distinguished from the comedy of life.”

+ + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 909. D. 7, ’07. 280w.

=Henry VIII., king of England.= Assertio septem sacramentorum; or,
Defence of the seven sacraments; re-edited, with an introd. by
Rev. Louis O’Donovan; with a preface by James Cardinal Gibbons.
*$2. Benziger.

8–5572.

A reprint valuable to the Catholic church both for the orthodox
exposition of the church’s crucial dogmas and for the light thrown
upon a most interesting epoch of church history.

* * * * *

“The abundance of references and the full bibliography which the
editor gives us indicate that the book is the fruit of intelligent and
extensive study.”

+ =Cath. World.= 87: 258. My. ’08. 550w.

=Henry, George Garr.= How to invest money. **75c. Funk.

8–14682.

Presents the simple principles of investment and aims “to afford the
reader a working knowledge of the various classes of securities which
are available as investments, and their adaptability to different
needs.” (Preface.) The chapter headings are as follows: General
principles of investment, Railroad mortgage bonds, Railroad equipment
bonds, Real estate mortgages, Industrial bonds, Public-utility bonds,
Municipal bonds, Stocks, and Market movements of securities.

* * * * *

=Lit. D.= 37: 163. Ag. 1, ’08. 70w.

* =Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Gentle grafter. †$1. McClure.

Fourteen stories which exploit Jeff Peters’s methods of “unillegal
graft.” He is not to be dreaded by widows and orphans, he is simply a
“reducer of surplusage.” He is not so cock sure in his gentle art that
he is never a victim of his own methods. The last story. The ethics of
pig, shows how an untrustworthy partner plays a clever counter game
and wins.

* * * * *

“O. Henry possesses, in fact, the genius for conveying in a few
strokes, and by the aid of accessories which often seem least
concerned with the thing he is achieving, the essence, the living
spirit of a place or a type.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 685. N. 21, ’08. 1000w.

=Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Voice of the city: further
stories of the four million. †$1. McClure.

Twenty-five “cameos” of metropolitan life make up this book, the third
“Four million” book. The stories are short, clear cut, and leave
distinct impressions first of individuals, second of types.

* * * * *

“Some of the twenty-five short stories collected in the present volume
are in his best vein.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 130w.

“Admirers may call ‘O. Henry’ the American Maupassant, but so long as
he continues to hang so far over the abyss of slang they should put
the accent on American.”

− =Nation.= 87: 12. Jl. 2, ’08. 470w.

“The spirit of the huge town is in each.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.

“The book reflects life; it is worth reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 240w.

“These are slighter and more ephemeral than ‘The four million.’”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 70w.

* =Henry= of Navarre: a romance of August, 1572. †$1.50. Putnam.

8–30614.

A dramatic story of verve and daring whose scene is laid in Paris
during the memorable month of August, 1572, on the eve of the marriage
of Marguerite de Valois to Henry of Navarre. The horrors of the
massacre of St. Bartholomew, the venom and intrigue that lay back of
the arch-plotting, and the faithfulness and love of a woman are
elements in this vivid, concrete portrayal of facts out of history.

* * * * *

“The story is full of exciting incident, and the action ... moves
rapidly and dramatically to the climax.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 701. N. 28, ’08. 160w.

=Henshall, James A.= Favorite fish and fishing. *$1.25. Outing pub.

8–14724.

An ardent angler and nature lover treats of the gentle art of fishing
in the following chapters: The black bass, the game-fish of the
people; The grayling, the flower of fishes; The trout, the angler’s
pride; His majesty, the silver king (tarpon); Florida fish and
fishing.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4. 186. Je. ’08. ✠

“Lovers of the gentle art will find much that will interest them and
little to criticise in Dr. Henshall’s readable little volume.” G:
Gladden.

+ =Bookm.= 27: 608. Ag. ’08. 780w.

“The work is an authentic natural history within its limits, as well
as a guide to the genuine follower of Walton.” Wallace Rice.

+ =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.

“In this new book Dr. Henshall has given not only information valuable
to the angler, but also it is interesting reading.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 1292. Je. 4, ’08. 100w.

=Nation.= 86: 582. Je. 25, ’08. 230w.

“Dr. Henshall is a learned and pleasing writer, and his book has
attractions for a multitude of his kind.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 330. Je. 13, ’08. 400w.

=Herkomer, Sir Hubert von.= My school and my gospel. *$7.50.
Doubleday.

E8–821.

A discussion that has grown out of twenty-one years’ experiment in art
education at Bushey. “The story of the rise and progress of an
institution from which so much that is good has come is told by Sir
Hubert in this book with charming frankness and simplicity. He makes
no secret of his purpose or of the methods by which he sought to
realize it; and he explains fully both the creed which guided him as a
teacher, and the system he used to make his creed intelligible to the
student who passed through his hands.” (Int. Studio.)

* * * * *

“The story is told in a clear, rapid style, enlivened by frequent
touches of humor, and, with all its fine and high idealism. He has
certainly proved his ability to write an autobiographic narrative not
less interesting in its way than Cellini’s.” P. F. Bicknell.

+ + =Dial.= 45: 109. S. 1, ’08. 1500w.

“It ranks really as a very important contribution to the literature
available for the information of both masters and students.”

+ + =Int. Studio.= 35: 166. Ag. ’08. 570w.

“It is rather discursive, and it takes careful reading to make sure
just what the ‘gospel’ of Bushey was.”

− + =Nation.= 87: 243. S. 10, ’08. 1500w.

=Herrick, Robert.= Master of the inn. **50c. Scribner.

8–14332.

“The central figure of this little story is one of those teachers who
appear from time to time among men, whose function is not only to open
the eyes but to gladden the heart and to restore the soul. This
teacher has about him a little company of men who go to him for
regeneration among the mountains of northern New England. Sooner or
later every man tells him his secret, and with the telling the poison
goes out of his life. There comes finally an overworked surgeon of
great eminence who long resists the impulse to confess, but finally
opens his heart and reveals the one secret which tortures him, only to
find that the wronged man is before him, and to receive not only
absolution but health from his hands.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 244. O. ’08. ✠

“A spirit of sweet wholesomeness pervades the little book, and many
will wish to read it a second time.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 286. My. 23, ’08. 120w.

“This is a beautifully conceived piece of work, wrought out with the
care which Mr. Herrick never fails to give his stories.”

+ + =Outlook.= 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 200w.

“It is a chapter in American idealism, and it is also an admirable
example of the best contemporary American writing.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 324. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.

=Herrick, Robert.= Together. †$1.50. Macmillan.

8–20019.

A strong story “of married lives as lived in America.” Here the veil
is withdrawn which usually conceals the struggles of man and wife from
the moment they leave the altar. Here are the Lanes, the Falkners, the
Johnstons, the Woodyards, and other wedded people working out the
problems common to married life. What marriage means to the husband
and what his nature demands from his wife: what it means to the wife
with her ambition to keep her individuality, to wield social power, to
court favor; with her disposition to spend a little more than the
five, ten, or twenty thousand dollar income; with her yearning for
sentiment, supplied, perchance, by one who has no right to bestow
it—these are the themes of Mr. Herricks’ story with its note of
partnership triumphant.

* * * * *

“A realistic, problem novel, forcibly told, and of literary merit. It
should be considered only for the library which has a restricted
shelf.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 245. O. ’08.

“It is a powerful and compelling novel of real life, and at the same
time it is one of the most masterful studies of the marriage relation
as it obtains in the society of the new-rich in America that has
appeared in fiction.” B. O. Flower.

+ + =Arena.= 40: 376. O. ’08. 2900w.

“The threads binding these numerous interests are altogether
insufficient, and the crowding of the canvas is wearying as well as
inartistic. A few really dramatic scenes tend to relieve the tedium of
a story in which every supernumerary has to have its say.”

− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 469. O. 17. 150w.

“The peculiar conditions of American married life, are treated with
something of the frankness, the breadth, the sweeping generality of
Tolstoi’s ‘Krutzer sonata’ and Zola’s ‘Fécondite.’” F: T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 27: 580. Ag. ’08. 200w.

“It lacks the virtue of reticence where that virtue is most needed.”
W: M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 45: 213. O. 1, ’08. 1000w.

“A book of first magnitude, that handles a momentous theme boldly,
wisely, sympathetically, and with an insight into racial traits that
makes it in the best sense a representative American novel.” F: T.
Cooper.

+ + =Forum.= 40: 134. Ag. ’08. 1950w.

“Robert Herricks’ novel, large in its intention and painstaking in its
working out as it is, fails in reality, in humor, in wisdom.”

− =Ind.= 65: 263. Je. 30, ’08. 430w.

“The novelist has apparently overlooked the fact that in America are
still to be found numberless men and women old-fashioned enough to
believe in married happiness and helpfulness.”

− =Lit. D.= 37: 852. D. 5, ’08. 300w.

“Professor Herrick has done nothing so good as this, nothing so full
of energy and truth.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 96. Jl. 30, ’08. 340w.

“A story that is unraveled with rare cleverness and that holds the
reader’s attention, in spite of its intricacies and the too
transparently ethical intention of the author.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 397. Jl. 18, ’08. 1250w.

“With all its defects, however, the novel is serious, earnest, and
thoughtful.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 956. Ag. 22, ’08. 320w.

+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 508. O. ’08. 250w.

=Hewitt, Mrs. Emma Churchman.= How to train children. **50c. Jacobs.

8–21931.

A condensed account of actual experiences of actual mothers.
Suggestions and advice are offered under such headings as Nursery
days, Physical and moral defects, Punishment, Preventive measures,
General deportment, Pride of possession, Work and play, As to schools,
Our future mothers and fathers and The adolescent.

=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.= Halfway house. †$1.50. Scribner.

8–19024.

“A story of the present day—and Meredithian to the core.... A girl,
married to a gentleman twice her age, finds her nascent love stifled
by his egoistic condescension. He is of a great and old family; she, a
child of the ‘lower classes,’ a nursery governess when he meets her,
has had her girl’s affairs of love or what has passed for it.
Believing her an innocent fool, he learns his mistake before the
marriage, but goes on stoically, keeping his secret.”—Bookm.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 245. O. ’08.

“With all its brilliant intellectual cleverness, this book does not
show the writer at his best.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 536. O. 31. 250w.

“I think John Germain is, all in all, the most finely delineated of
Mr. Hewlett’s male characters; and he just misses taking the leading
place in this story from its heroine. It is the girl’s character that
gives the book its originality.” E: C. Marsh.

+ =Bookm.= 27: 602. Ag. ’08. 860w.

“It has all the seeming simplicity of the finest literary art, but its
wit, its grace, and its subtle sentiment are qualities that make of it
a far more serious book than it pretends to be.” W: M. Payne.

+ + =Dial.= 45: 215. O. 1, ’08. 600w.

“That Mary seems so real a girl and causes us to speculate on her
motives, or nature rather, for she scarcely has motives, only
sentimental impulses, is a triumph for Mr. Hewlett’s heroine.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 555. S. 3, ’08. 200w.

“No doubt, there is comedy somewhere at the core of it. But it is,
after all, the inadvertent comedy of circumstance and accident, as
things fall out, ludicrous enough, but without any very intelligible
motive.”

− + =Nation.= 87: 212. S. 3, ’08. 500w.

“Such value, as the story possesses comes rather more from the manner
in which it is told than from the story itself.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 365. Je. 27, ’08. 1600w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 50w.

“The art of the book is fine and delicate, but it is also simple and
true; and the spirit is that of pure romance applied to the conditions
of modern English life.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 956. Ag. 22, ’08. 300w.

“Mr. Hewlett’s own careful and distinctive style makes the story his
despite the unfamiliar milieu.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 508. O. ’08. 120w.

“One hopes that ‘Halfway house’ will have many readers, as much out of
regard for them as for Mr. Hewlett, but one hopes that they will not
be numerous enough to confirm him in a method more conspicuous in this
last book of his than even in ‘The stooping lady.’”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 487. O. 17, ’08. 720w.

=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.= Spanish jade. il. **90c. Doubleday.

8–15299.

Manuela, the “Spanish jade,” “who has escaped from the brutality of
her lover, is rescued from the grosser brutality of a rustic mob by
the Englishman errant. The lover pursues, and is killed by the jade
lest he kill the Briton. The casual pair are linked romantically by
the incident, and meet thereafter under the shadow of a Spanish
vengeance which is eventually stayed, not by the magnanimity of the
Englishman, but by the chivalry of a humble Spanish follower of
his.”—Nation.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 221. Je. ’08. ✠

“Brilliant study.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 633. My. 23. 250w.

“The ‘Spanish jade’ may not represent Mr. Hewlett at his best as a
story teller, but as proving him a master of technique it is of
extreme interest.” F: T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 27: 500. Jl. ’08. 530w.

=Ind.= 65: 555. S. 3, ’08. 200w.

“Mr. Hewlett’s mannerism is less insistent here than in most of his
fiction, perhaps because the substance of the work is less
pretentious.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 468. My. 21, ’08. 300w.

“It is a gallant, romantic story, well worth the telling in any form.
But it is precisely the sort of story that Hewlett tells the best. Mr.
Hewlett’s style is still a little perverse, and a little deliberate in
its perversity. To some extent he is the victim of his own rhetorical
agility.”

+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 285. My. 23, ’08. 1100w.

“The book is remarkable for its imaginative power and the sheer beauty
of its narrative.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.

=Outlook.= 89: 325. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.

“Those who want the real thing in romantic fiction will find it in the
‘Spanish jade.’” Charlotte Harwood.

+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 621. Ag. ’08. 150w.

“The book is a slight romantic sketch, but eminently good of its
kind.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 64. Jl. 11, ’08. 100w.

=Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Egypt and its monuments. **$6. Century.

8–30606.

The Nile journey is here described by Robert Hichens and pictured in
reproduced wash drawings and photographs by Jules Guérin. Mr. Hichens
makes poetry out of the wonders of the valley, arouses the “yearning
hunger of the heart and the imagination,” recalls the shifting spells
cast by sepulchre, temple and mosque; and lends to the narrative the
atmosphere of the “mystery of gold, of the mystery of heat and the
mystery of silence that seems softly showered out of the sun.”

* * * * *

“It is the fascination of the country, and not its hotels and routes
of travel, that the author has dwelt upon, and not a few of the
thousands who now every year visit Egypt, will find pleasure and
stimulus in his pages.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 409. D. 1, ’08. 250w.

+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 80w.

“Aside from its rare literary and artistic value the book will prove
to be an excellent help to the antiquarian or the traveler in Egypt.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 190w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 170w.

“A model of literary charm and artistic excellence that places this
volume in the front rank of the season’s notable publications.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 50w.

“We do not recall any American book that equals it in the good taste
and sumptuousness of its appearance and the beauty and delicacy of its
color printing.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 773. D. 12, ’08. 600w.

“It would perhaps be impossible to find two other persons as competent
to prepare a fascinating, artistic study of Egypt which should be at
the same time a literary tribute and guidebook of the highest order as
Robert Hichens and Jules Guérin.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 757. D. ’08. 140w.

“As vivid a picturing of ‘Egypt and its monuments’ as we remember to
have seen.”

+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 813. N. 21, ’08. 140w.

=Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Spirit in prison. †$1.75. Harper.

8–25367.

A small island in the Bay of Naples is the scene of this story, the
counterpart of whose emotional lights and shadows is found in the
sunset, the moonlight, the blue waters, the glimmering lights and the
sounds of melody which invariably create atmosphere for Mr. Hichens’
stories. Maurice Delarey betrays his wife for a young peasant girl and
dies leaving his wife in ignorance of his sin. The serious business of
the story turns on the withholding of the secret from the wife for
sixteen years; while a continuation of the mystery touches the lives
of Vere, the daughter, and Ruffino, the unrevealed brother, who are
drawn to one another without ever knowing the secret of the boy’s
birth.

* * * * *

“There is a very pretty play of varied emotions, together with
limitless hints of ‘fine shades and nice feelings,’ while the
abounding descriptive passages are often of a rare beauty.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 160w.

“Deserves to be proclaimed as that rare achievement, a sequel that
surpasses its antecedent in merit and in interest.” F: T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 28: 262. N. ’08. 620w.

“He has written one of the most sensuously suggestive novels of the
season.”

− =Ind.= 65: 947. O. 22, ’08. 730w.

“Admirers of Mr. Hichens’s ‘The call of the blood’ will find a
satisfactory sequel in the present story. If the former tale was found
too harrowing, this will afford a compensatory thrill. That habit of
portentous moralizing over the moods of insignificant egoism which we
have noted as characteristic of Mr. Hichens in the past is still his
darling vice.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 340. O. 8, ’08. 300w.

“Told in an ordinary way, ‘A spirit in prison’ would seem utterly
common-place. The mere materials are conventional. But the opulence of
color, the mastery of words are indisputable.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 1100w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 50w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 120w.

“Would probably be extremely difficult and puzzling reading to any one
who did not remember the earlier book.”

− + =Spec.= 101: 636. O. 24, ’08. 200w.

* =Higgins, Aileen Cleveland.= Dream blocks. $1.50. Duffield.

8–30917.

A book of child verse with fifteen charming full-page illustrations by
Jessie Wilcox Smith.

* * * * *

“The spirit of this little book is better than the execution of its
verse.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.

“The fourteen pictures are of a high artistic merit. The infantile
pathos and humor, the prophetic element in form and feature of the
figures, will cause adults to ponder over the philosophy of child
play.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 150w.

* =Higginson, Ella.= Alaska: the great country. **$2.25. Macmillan.

8–33137.

Not so much a guide-book or a history as an unconventional and
picturesque description of the towns, people, resources, scenery and
commercial possibilities of a country of “real splendor, marvellous
beauty and poetic and haunting charm.” A book for every Alaskan
tourist to read from cover to cover.

* * * * *

“A picturesque and unconventional description of the country and the
life of its people, neither a guide book nor a history, and yet
suitable for the traveler to read and carry with him on his trip.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 623. O. 24, ’08. 40w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 150w.

“A sober, carefully prepared work. A plea for the attractions of the
land of gold and snow as a place of residence was hardly to be
expected from a woman, but in this instance the territory has been
fortunate in its advocate.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 150w.

=Higinbotham, John U.= Three weeks in Holland and Belgium. $1.50.
Reilly & B.

8–11792.

Mr. Higinbotham’s swift panorama of Holland and Belgium sights might
become a blur to the leisurely tourist who finds it necessary to
adjust his mental lens to every fresh view and impression. But to the
reader who likes motion and who can “keep up” the author’s
impressionism and confidence are not wearing. In description,
historical allusion, comment on art, and theological opinions, the
author’s mental alertness is commensurate with his tireless activity.

* * * * *

“Mr. Higinbotham’s observations are so acute and well-balanced that we
should like to have fuller records of his journeys.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ =Dial.= 44: 348. Je. 1, ’08. 280w.

“This little holiday book should not be taken too seriously, and while
Baedeker gives all and more of the necessary information than this
summer tourist of three weeks, he does not impart the childlike
freshness of discovery that finds joy in observing the Hollander’s
unfailing courtesy, and that elegance of service can be obtained for
grotesquely moderate tips.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 500w.

“A farrago of disjointed bits of guide book and pointless jests.” A.
I. du P. Coleman.

− =Putnam’s.= 4: 748. S. ’08. 340w.

=Hildebrandt, Alfred.= Airships past and present; together with
chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology,
photography and the carrier pigeon; tr. by W. H. Story. *$3.50.
Van Nostrand.

8–13633.

A sketch of the past and present state of the art of ballooning and
its application to scientific ends including the first trustworthy
information to be disseminated on the subjects of balloon photography
and the use of the carrier pigeon. The book is fully illustrated.

* * * * *

“The avoidance of technical discussions makes the book easy and
pleasant reading for anyone who is interested in the subject.”

+ =Engin. D.= 3: 653. Je. ’08. 150w.

“In an interesting and instructive volume of considerable size, the
author has fully discussed nearly all subjects, at all closely related
to aeronautics, so far as they have been susceptible to popular
treatment. To the translator belongs no little credit for the
smoothness of the English diction.”

+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 545. My. 14, ’08. 1000w.

“This work is both timely and authoritative.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 871. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.

“While the author disclaims all intention of writing a technical text,
we feel that the reader may find instruction as well as amusement in
these pages.”

+ =Lit. D.= 36: 655. My. 2, ’08. 200w.

“We note a few errors.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 539. Je. 11, ’08. 300w.

“Some portions of the work are scarcely satisfactory, even from the
popular standpoint, the chapter devoted to flying machines, for
example, being a collection of scraps of information strung together
without any definite scheme.”

+ − =Nature.= 77: 562. Ap. 16, ’08. 1000w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 758. Je. ’08. 80w.

“A clear and readable account.”

+ =Sat. R.= 105: 211. F. 15, ’08. 120w.

“There have been hitherto few satisfactory books in English upon
aerial navigation. We now have, however, a book by a thorough expert.”
O. Chanute.

+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 20. Jl. 3, ’08. 660w.

=Spec.= 100: 384. Mr. 7, ’08. 270w.

=Hill, Frederick Trevor.= Decisive battles of the law. **$2.25.
Harper.