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“Not the careful monograph one would expect from the auspices under
which it is published and the fact that its author is collector of
internal revenue in the Philippines and the chief designer of the
internal revenue law of 1904.”

− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 663. Ap. ’08. 150w.

“The introductory section, summarizing the Spanish methods of internal
taxation in the Philippines, is not an accurate bit of economic
history.”

− =Ind.= 64: 588. Mr. 12, ’08. 100w.

“The pamphlet sets forth very well the content of the new Philippine
internal revenue law and its administration, but gives it slight
consideration from the point of view of the student of taxation
theories and practice.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 216. Mr. 5, ’08. 150w.

* =Hornaday, William Temple.= Camp-fires on desert and lava. **$3. Scribner.

8–30960.

The record of a journey which the author made from Tuscon to Sonoyta
in company with Dr. D. T. MacDougal of the Department of botanical
research of the Carnegie institute. They traversed a hitherto unknown
tract surrounding Pinacate in northwestern Mexico. It is of the
wonders of animal and plant life, of the experiences of camp and
trail, and of adventures with big game that Mr. Hornaday writes,
lending to the whole the atmosphere of mountain and desert.

* * * * *

“A very cheerful and pleasant book recounting his adventures, ...
recording the zoological, botanical, and geographical discoveries
achieved, passing on to the kindly reader the mild jests with which
the company beguiled the nights and days in the open.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 712. N. 28, ’08. 1450w.

“Mr. Hornaday is the vivacious chronicler of a very interesting
journey.”

+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 5. N. 21, ’08. 350w.

=Hornblow, Arthur.= The profligate. †$1.50. Dillingham.

8–16713.

The “profligate” is the foster son of a New York merchant. He is first
held responsible then finally cleared of the charge of murdering his
foster father. Idler, gambler, criminal are epithets which he
determines to live down when of a sudden he finds that he loves a good
woman. In order to prove beyond question his innocence of the crime he
resolves to find the real criminal. When the latter is traced to his
hiding, he is discovered to be the profligate’s own father. Sacrifice
and readjustment follow.

* * * * *

“There is a certain public in America that will deal generously with
Mr. Hornblow for writing this story, a public that may be defined
negatively as one in which persons of refined literary taste are not
included.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 327. Je. 13, ’08. 380w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.

=Horne, Charles F.= Technique of the novel: the elements of the art,
their evolution and present use. **$1.50. Harper.

8–15748.

An authoritative work which is fundamental in its exposition of the
principles that underlie fiction writing. It is at once a history of
the novel, an analysis of its forms from earliest times to the
present, and a presentation of the six elements that enter into the
development of the modern novel; viz., plot, motive and
verisimilitude, character, emotion, background, and style.

* * * * *

“The author’s theories might not be accepted by most critics and the
untrained reader should not take its utterances too seriously.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 238. O. ’08.

“Professor Horne has brought together a most interesting series of
discussions, and his illustrative citations and interludes are
admirable.”

+ =Educ. R.= 36: 422. N. ’08. 50w.

“Professor Horne has devoted an immense amount of hard, conscientious
work to the preparation of this book, but no inspired teacher would
ever think of using it, and we tremble for the fate of the pupils who
might be forced to study it under any one else.”

− + =Ind.= 65: 841. O. 8, ’08. 500w.

“And yet, as a whole, unsatisfactory as the book is, still as a piece
of academic work it marks an advance upon the profitless editing and
reëditing of school and college texts.”

− + =Nation.= 87: 341. O. 8, ’08. 620w.

“Mr. Horne is very thorough in his discussion of the subject.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 306. My. 30, ’08. 450w.

“Inasmuch as the author has expended well-nigh one-third of his space
upon the development of classic and mediaeval fiction, there is
legitimate ground for complaining that his conclusions are at least
weakened by the inconsistency and incompleteness of his use of
available material.” F: T. Cooper.

− + =No. Am.= 188: 619. O. ’08. 700w.

“It is for intelligent novel readers as well as for novel writers. A
wide welcome is due to this masterly work.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 769. Ag. 1, ’08. 270w.

=R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 90w.

=Horsley, Albert E. (Harry Orchard, pseud.).= Confessions and
autobiography of Harry Orchard. $1. McClure.

7–41117.

“After a brief outline of his early life, the tale starts with
Orchard’s marriage and his settling down into business for himself,
and then follows his career with minute attention to every step down
to his arrest, his life in the jail, and his confession to Detective
McParland”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“This remarkable human document, almost stunning to the mind in its
simplicity of selfrevelation, produces an overwhelming impression of
essential truthfulness. As a book, the unique interest of the
confession lies in the insight afforded into the psychology of the
man-of-prey.” S: H. Adams.

+ =Bookm.= 27: 57. Mr. ’08. 1300w.

“Its value is seriously impaired because there is no information as to
how the book was written, whether by Orchard himself or by dictation
or by some one else from various conversations.”

− + =Ind.= 64: 693. Mr. 26, ’08. 270w.

=Nation.= 86: 170. F. 20, ’08. 200w.

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

“Apparently simple, straightforward story, utterly without
imagination, hanging together from start to finish with absolute
compactness and coherency, vivid in detail, and sodden with
criminality.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 69. F. 8, ’08. 270w.

* =Hough, Emerson.= Young Alaskan. †$1.25. Harper.

The narrative of exciting adventure which fell to the lot of three Alaskan boys who are castaways in the wild Kaludiak country. Their stout hearts, insuperable energy and quick wit prove invincible against hardship and danger.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 100w.

=Houmas, Mount.= Strange record. $1.50. Neale.

8–18002.

A wealthy young girl whose thoroly sensible ideas about life are at
variance with her stepmother’s superficial ones leaves her Brooklyn
home, studies medicine and chooses the south for the field of her
career. Sentiment against the woman doctor brings her to the point of
masquerading as a man, of going to the West Indies, where her
professional success is as complete as the masculine mask which she
assumes.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 700w.

=Housden, C. E.= Practical earthwork tables. *90c. Longmans.

Tables that have been “prepared for the purpose of facilitating the
computation of the cross-sectional areas of embankments and
excavations, by reducing the work involved in preparing special
sections and in making the necessary calculations from longitudinal
and cross-sections of ground over or through which the proposed cut
has to be made.” (Engin. D.)

* * * * *

+ =Engin. D.= 3: 653. Je. ’08. 150w.

“His book is inferior in design and application to most of the dozen
or more earthwork tables now in print.”

− =Engin. N.= 59: 441. Ap. 16, ’08. 320w.

=Housden, C. E.= Practical hydraulic (water supply and drainage)
tables and diagrams. *$1.25. Longmans.

W7–233.

“These tables and diagrams, originally prepared for the personal use
of the author, have proved of such use and convenience in ascertaining
the sizes of pipes for water supply systems, surface drains and
sewers, that they have been published in the present form.” (Engin.
D.) “The tables are based upon the formulas of Messrs. Ganguillet and
Kutter for the calculation of the flow in pipes and channels.” (Engin.
N.)

* * * * *

=Engin. D.= 3: 652. Je. ’08. 140w.

“It may be a very useful work for some people, but not for those
familiar with any of the American books of hydraulic tables.” G. S.
Williams.

− =Engin. N.= 59: 541. My. 14, ’08. 220w.

=Housman, Laurence.= Stories from the Arabian nights; retold by
Laurence Housman. *$5. Scribner.

8–13714.

“Laurence Housman has taken a half-dozen of the best tales, and from
the various authoritative translations has made a version in which the
repetitions and indecencies are suppressed and the points of the
narrative thrown into relief. He has, in a word, tried to get a result
similar to that attained by Galland, in the old French translation,
which so long stood as the basis of our English ‘Arabian nights,’
until displaced by an irruption of pedantic Orientalists.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“A new version of some of the stories, written by Mr. Housman in prose
as graceful as his verse, will be very welcome.”

+ =Acad.= 73: 243. D. 14, ’07. 770w.

“As to the retelling, Mr. Housman takes all sorts of liberties, and we
do not blame him. The text is only a peg whereon to hang the pictures,
and these are most delightfully whimsical.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 158. F. 8. 1050w.

+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 84. Mr. ’08. 220w.

+ =Nation.= 85: 564. D. 19, ’07. 200w.

“For real charm—a charm quite comparable to Scheherezade’s own—this
volume depends upon the indescribably quaint and bewitching
illustrations provided by Edmund Dulac.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 848. D. 21, ’07. 400w.

“Mr. Dulac has given them an eastern look with quite uncommon
success.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 936. D. 7, ’07. 160w.

=Houston, Edwin James.= Five months on a derelict. (Pacific ser., v.
1.) †$1.25. Am. Bapt.

8–20577.

The experiences of a ship’s crew and some lively boys who escaped to a
derelict brig and tossed about on the Pacific for five months. Boys
will find exciting adventure wholesomely interspersed with geography,
natural history, astronomy and mythology. One of the best sailors in
the group is Rompey the collie.

* * * * *

“A book that is obviously intended to be instructive as well as
entertaining.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 439. Ag. 8, ’08. 230w.

* =Houston, Edwin James.= Wrecked on a coral island. †$1.25. Am. Bapt.

A continuation of the experiences of the group of boys who figured in
“Five months on a derelict.” Aside from the strong story interest,
information is furnished concerning the formation of a coral island,
and concerning the plant and animal life of the southern Pacific.

* * * * *

“A good story and an instructive one.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 100w.

=Hovey, Richard.= Holy graal, and other fragments by Richard Hovey;
being the uncompleted parts of the Arthurian dramas; ed. with
introd. and notes by Mrs. Richard Hovey, and a preface by Bliss
Carman. $1.25. Duffield.

Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“More effectually perhaps than any other book of the year this volume
of fragmentary literary remains reawakens us to a sense of the
reality, the permanence and power of the poetic spirit.” Ferris
Greenslet.

+ =Atlan.= 100: 850. D. ’07. 580w.

“[Has] a poetry of thought and an intimate skill in form full of
larger promise.” Brian Hooker.

+ =Forum.= 39: 526. Ap. ’08. 300w.

“It is impossible to study the conception of the work as a whole
without grave misgivings. If nothing else, it is altogether too
complicated. Whether for this reason or not, the dramatic interest
even of the completed plays is not very great.”

+ − =Ind.= 64: 753. Ap. 2, ’08. 300w.

“Much as his untimely death is to be lamented by every lover of verse,
it is impossible to consider what remains of his cycle as a great or
very significant poem or to believe that even if it were finished, it
would be other than a work ‘manqué’ as a whole, a thing of brilliant
passages and of splendid promise for the time when the author should
have found himself in his own best vein.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 63. Ja. 16, ’08. 650w.

=Hovey Richard.= To the end of the trail; ed. with notes by Mrs.
Richard Hovey. **$1.25. Duffield.

8–12814.

Collected and published as a tribute to the memory of a man who was
cut off before the fulfilment of extraordinary promise in his verse.
Aside from his lyrics are translations from Maeterlinck, Mallarmé and
Paul Verlaine.

* * * * *

“Completes the collected edition of the works of one of our most
interesting poets, a man of vivid imagination, of deep, if not broad,
sympathies, endowed with insight, sensibility, and the gift of
melodious expression.” E: A. Dithmar.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 287. My. 23, ’08. 900w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.

=Howard, George Bronson.= Scars on the southern seas. $1.50. Dodge,
B. W.

7–40047.

Among a Pacific mail steamship’s passengers are four people, one of
them a young woman, whose thrilling adventures begin with a midocean
swim violently terminated by a typhoon that cuts them loose from the
liner. Scrambling into the ship’s boat that had been lowered with them
they drift to an island where they discover a plot to wrest the
Philippines from the United States. Among them is a hero of the Jack
London type, who holds at bay a band of Japanese and Chinese
mercenaries while the remainder steal a ship and go to Manila for
help. Romance mingles with adventure in the usual proportion.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

=Howard, Oliver Otis.= Autobiography. 2v. **$5. Baker.

7–35640.

Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.

* * * * *

“The portion dealing with reconstruction has a special value as
General Howard was at that time in charge of the Freedman’s bureau.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 43. F. ’08.

“The work is rather a rambling narrative of reminiscences. These pages
reveal little historical ability or literary skill, they are yet
exceptionally valuable in revealing the character of a high-minded
gentleman and patriot.”

+ − =Ind.= 64: 469. F. 27, ’08. 600w.

“This is a book to dip into as we dip into Pepys or Evelyn. Even the
great length of the autobiography is precluded from tediousness by the
multitude of good things with which it abounds.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 236. F. 15, ’08. 250w.

“General Howard has made numerous changes, additions, and corrections,
giving new value to a record which, in the first edition, was well
received everywhere.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 852. D. 5, ’08. 60w.

“The student of military science will find other records more
illuminating; for vivid pictures we must search elsewhere.
Nevertheless, there are fine qualities, truthfulness, candor, the
spirit of humanity.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 175. F. 20, ’08. 1000w.

“These well-printed, clearly written volumes exhibit the career of a
trained warrior.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 516. S. 19, ’08. 1250w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 253. F. ’08. 90w.

=Howard, Oliver Otis.= Famous Indian chiefs I have known. †$1.50.
Century.

8–24869.

A Major-general of the civil war tells of his experiences and
adventures with Indian leaders, both friendly and hostile. One of the
most interesting chapters tells of the long Nez Percé war which was
fought with Chief Joseph, whom General Howard followed over fourteen
hundred miles before the warrior surrendered. More than twenty chiefs
figure in the narrative.

=Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.

“He has put [into it] the cream of his knowledge of Indian character
and of his experience with Indians.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 513. S. 19, ’08. 230w.

“The unique character of these reminiscences make them interesting to
readers of all ages.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 510. O. ’08. 90w.

=Howard, Oliver Otis.= My life and experiences among our hostile
Indians. $2.75. Worthington.

7–38634.

“Records the author’s observations, adventures, and campaigns among
the Indians of the great west. He gives details of their life, habits,
religion, ceremonies, dress, savage instincts, and customs in peace
and war.” (Lit. D.) The book is fully illustrated.

* * * * *

“The romance of realism has never been more stirringly demonstrated
than in these pages. The tone in which the book is written is
elevated.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 257. Ag. 22, ’08. 230w.

“Animated narrative ... which may be commended not only as thoroughly
readable but as sympathetic with the effort to raise the American
Indian from a condition of ignorant savagery to that of industrious
citizenship. The story is full of incidents and anecdotes, and is
entertaining as well as instructive.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 127. My. 16, ’08. 250w.

=Howden, J. R.= Boys’ book of steamships. †$2. McClure.

W8–151.

An informing book covering the entire ground of achievement
represented by the steamship: its history, principles of design,
machinery, development of type, work of the ship, river and lake
boats, ocean steamships and their routes in various quarters of the
globe.

* * * * *

“For the boy with a mechanical turn of mind this book is especially
profitable, and any boy intending to travel will find it beneficial.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 764. D. ’08. 50w.

“Mr. Howden prefaces this interesting account of steamships with a
really valuable and most lucid historical sketch of ancient and
medieval shipping. We have no hesitation in describing it as one of
the best introductions to the study of sailing-ships we have met with.
If some of the same ground has been traversed before, much is
comparatively unbroken, and has new sidelights thrown on it.
Altogether the book is an acquisition for the ‘steamboat’ boy.”

+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 707. N. 7, ’08. 420w.

=Howe, Edward Watson.= Daily notes of a trip around the world. 2v.
*$2. Crane & co.

The record of a trip around the world, including Hawaii, Japan, China,
the Philippines, Ceylon, India, Egypt, Palestine and Europe. Every day
he wrote a few paragraphs for a newspaper, which, collected, make a
continuous history of his journey.

* * * * *

“The most entertaining record of travel we have read in many a year.
The book is a Kansas classic.”

+ + =Ind.= 64: 320. F. 6, ’08. 550w.

“They have distinct vitality, unusual humor, and are always
interesting, not alone for the information conveyed, but as an
expression of an interesting personality.”

+ =Lit. D.= 36: 418. Mr. 21, ’08. 70w.

=Howe, Mark Anthony De Wolfe.= Life and letters of George Bancroft.
2v. **$4. Scribner.

8–12121.

Letters strung together on a slight thread of narrative and comment
tell a story of Bancroft’s life at once authentic and complete. It is
especially informing as it relates Bancroft’s political and scholarly
activity to his contemporaries and his times.

* * * * *

“Mr. Howe has done his work judiciously and the picture of the great
historian which he presents is at least clear in outline and
interesting in detail.” W: MacDonald.

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 150. O. ’08. 900w.

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 188. Je. 08.

“Though this book should command a wide public on both sides of the
Atlantic, its English readers may not unfairly complain that American
politics are presented in a manner so allusive as to be almost
unintelligible.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 430. O. 10. 1300w.

“This magisterial and critical life of a great historian is very
welcome.” W: M. Sloane.

+ + =Atlan.= 102: 275. Ag. ’08. 4100w.

“The tone throughout is serious and dignified. The interest, and often
the style, of Mr. Howe’s volumes suffers from unevenness; certain
portions have a power of absorbing the reader, while other pages seem
colorless.” A. R. Marble.

+ − =Dial.= 44: 267. My. 1, ’08. 2600w.

“Mr. Howe’s work is a clean and admirable addition to American
biography.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 1093. My. 14, ’08. 1000w.

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 26. Jl. 4, ’08. 1500w.

“Mr. Howe has performed creditably a work of peculiar difficulty. He
had to dispose of a large mass of material; but he has confined the
narrative within proper limits.... He writes as if devoid of affection
for his subject. It is this circumstance which makes the reader finish
the book with the feeling that while he has profited somewhat, he has
nevertheless missed that keen enjoyment which a good biography should
furnish.”

+ − =Nation.= 86: 446. My. 14, ’08. 1100w.

“Mr. Howe is far from dull. He has taken a good deal of time in the
preparation of these volumes, and his care regarding them has been as
intelligent as it has been patient.” Edward Cary.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 254. My. 2, ’08. 3000w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 270w.

“As a collection of letters this work is most valuable, and little
fault is to be found with it; but as a biography it is distinctly open
to improvement.” H. A. Bruce.

+ − =Outlook.= 89: 616. Jl. 18, ’08. 4800w.

“His ‘Life and letters’ give interesting revelations of all the
prominent personalities with whom at one time or another he had come
in contact.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 753. Je. ’08. 300w.

“The work has been accomplished in excellent taste and with no small
literary skill. There are, however, some glaring mistakes in the
transcription of letters. A valuable contribution to American
literature.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 703. N. 7, ’08. 1900w.

* =Howe, Maud.= Sun and shadow in Spain. **$3. Little.

This volume written by a daughter of Julia Ward Howe tells the story
of varied and fascinating experiences while wandering thru Spain. Keen
observation, rich imagination, and sprightly wit are quickened into
vigorous activity under the spell of the real Spain and her people.
Numerous illustrations add reality to the word pictures.

* * * * *

“Maud Howe is appreciative and sympathetic; she is also
impressionable, but the greatest gift of all is hers—she can remember
and record her impressions and convey them to her readers.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 220w.

“Much of the information supplied by one of the party, who acts as a
sort of Greek chorus, would be less wearisome if soberly stated as a
matter of fact.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 300w.

“Everywhere the author’s sprightly wit lends life and color to the
pictures she has painted of this fascinating country.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 170w.

“This is a travel book for the light hearted who don’t mind slang or
object to the companionship of fellow-travelers disguised under
initials.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 90w.

=R. of Rs.= 38: 760. D. ’08. 30w.

* =Howells, William Dean.= Christmas every day. †$1.75. Harper.

A charmingly told tale of a little girl who begged the Christmas fairy
to have Christmas every day in the year, and the monotony of the
surfeit of festivity that follows the granting of the request.

* * * * *

“In the telling of this story there is a certain zest that adds spirit
to the little girl’s wish, and the adventures that result therefrom.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 50w.

“Such a nice story that when you commence you cannot put it down until
it is finished.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 702. N. 28, ’08. 360w.

“In taste and sentiment it is doubtful if any Christmas book of the
year surpasses this.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 80w.

“It is written with grace, lightness of touch, brilliancy, and
literary charm.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 764. D. ’08. 30w.

=Howells, William Dean.= Fennel and rue. †$1.50. Harper.

8–9174.

A study of a young author and his treatment of a woman who tries to
trick him into revealing to her the conclusion of his story,
publishing serially, on the ground of her approaching death.
Discovering the trick, the author writes to his unknown correspondent
a stern and indignant letter. These young people afterward meet at a
house-party, the author as a guest, the girl as a professional
entertainer. The differing social altitudes of the two and their past
experiences of each other give a dramatic interest to every chance
encounter and present a problem which is solved, or unsolved, with a
satirical but delicate touch.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 156. My. ’08.

“Mr. Howells’s wit and sense of character nowadays seem attenuated,
and as lovers of his work in other days, we regret to find the persons
of his small drama bloodless creatures, splitting ethical hairs.”

− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 537. My. 2, 200w.

“A chip from Mr. Howells’s literary workshop, delicately carved and
polished, yet highly finished though it be, a by-product none the
less.” A. S. van Westrum.

+ =Bookm.= 27: 281. My. ’08. 750w.

“It is all very charming and slyly humorous in the working out, but
cannot be said to engage any serious interest.” W: M. Payne.

+ − =Dial.= 44: 350. Je. 1, ’08. 180w.

“Mr. Howells has not forgotten how to invent a situation,
half-psychical, half sentimental. The old skill is not lacking.”

+ − =Ind.= 64: 925. Ap. 23, ’08. 150w.

“Mr. Howells has succeeded admirably in depicting the excesses to
which continual brooding over a trifle may lead those who have no
sense of humor. The slender plot is well developed, though it is
embedded in a good many pages of banal, but exceedingly life-like
conversation, uttered by desperately uninteresting and real people.”

+ + − =Nation.= 86: 309. Ap. 2, ’08. 300w.

“It is short; the characters are few; the narrative is swift and easy.
The dramatic sense of the writer is as fresh as ever and the interest
never flags. There is delicate observation in plenty, and there are
passages of exquisite description of scenes in which one can imagine
the writer himself delightfully absorbed.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 151. Mr. 21, ’08. 800w.

“Another slight story, so far as length goes, but one delicately
wrought and with great literary skill.”

+ =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 120w.

“Not by any means a masterpiece and in no way to be compared with the
author’s richer product.” E. L. Cary.

+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 618. Ag. ’08. 120w.

“Some of Mr. Howells’ readers may wish that he had let his imagination
react more decidedly upon his material.”

+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 760. Je. ’08. 330w.

“It is no small proof of Mr. Howells’s delicate and distinguished
talent that he should have kept a story which trembles on the verge of
morbidity pure and sweet throughout.”

+ =Spec.= 100: 710. My. 2, ’08. 900w.

=Howells, William Dean.= Roman holidays and others. **$3. Harper.

8–30605.

Quiet, capacious observation, poetic vision, and ripe reflection
characterize these impressions which are made to contrast
interestingly with impressions of the same scenes forty years ago.
Howells journeys about leisurely, comments upon old landmarks, modern
innovations, street scenes, popular customs, manners, the municipal
situation, and the Papal church.

* * * * *

“With that genially serious attention to minute details, that humorous
circumstantiality in treating the commonplace, which we have all come
to know so well and to like (or dislike) so heartily in Mr. Howells,
he has filled a substantial volume with his easy-flowing narrative of
a Mediterranean vacation journey.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 409. D. 1, ’08. 220w.

+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19, ’08. 200w.

“One of the charms of the volume springs from the change in the
impressions that Italy made upon him after the lapse of more than a
full generation since his first visit.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 100w.

“In this new book of Rome and Italy there is a joy and a mellow
philosophy that are typical of the author.”

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

“There is no sadness, in these pages, nothing but a joy and a mellow
philosophy that are both typical of the author and of holidays in
general.”

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

“The habit Mr. W. D. Howells formed many years ago of writing
charmingly about his holiday doings still clings to him, and manifests
itself strikingly in his latest book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 774. D. 12, ’08. 780w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 760. D. ’08. 100w.

=Howells, William Dean and others.= Whole family: a novel by twelve
authors. †$1.50. Harper.

Twelve authors have coöperated in producing this character-sketch
novel. A chapter is devoted to each member of the family as follows:
The father, by William Dean Howells; The old-maid aunt, by Mary E.
Wilkins Freeman; The grandmother, by Mary Heaton Vorse; The
daughter-in-law, by Mary Stewart Cutting; The school-girl, by
Elizabeth Jordan; The son-in-law, by John Kendrick Bangs; The married
son, by Henry James; The married daughter, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps;
The mother, by Edith Wyatt; The school-boy, by Mary R. S. Andrews;
Peggy, by Alice Brown; and The friend of the family, by Henry Van
Dyke.

* * * * *

“It is pure vaudeville, but many of the ‘turns’ are characteristic and
amusing.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 552. D. 3, ’08. 620w.

“Mr. James and Mr. Howells are, of course, the star performers in this
company of twelve, and the rest have all attempted, with more or less
success, to play up to them and to carry on a harmonious method of
treatment.” F. F. Kelly.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 590. O. 24, ’08. 600w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 60w.

“The book will be keenly enjoyed by all readers of to-day, and the
future critic who writes the literary history of this period will not
be likely to pass it over in silence.” C. H. Gaines.

+ =No. Am.= 188: 928. D. ’08. 1000w.

=Hoyt, John Clayton, and Grover, Nathan Clifford.= River discharge;
prepared for the use of engineers and students. $2. Wiley.

7–28189.

“The book is divided into six chapters, dealing respectively with
rainfall and evaporation; instruments used for obtaining velocities
and depths; cable-station equipments; wading stations; theory and
practices of measuring discharges; weirs and weir formulas; discussion
and use of data; together with seventeen tables for facilitating the
computations in various hydraulic problems.”—Nature.

* * * * *

“The volume is certain to meet the needs of engineers, students and
capitalists, to whom for the first time much data from government
reports is here made readily accessible.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 713. My. ’08. 150w.

“Being practically the only work available dealing with the subject
this volume will find a ready reception, and when future editions
enable the authors to fill in the omissions and strengthen the weak
spots, it should be one of the most valuable works on practical
hydraulics printed in the English language.” G. S. Williams.

+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 650. D. 12, ’07. 710w.

“The authors of the book ... give in a thoroughly practical and useful
way the result of their experience, and of the methods adopted in
carrying out the work.”

+ =Nature.= 77: 148. D. 19, ’07. 200w.

=Technical Literature.= 2: 582. D. ’07. 150w.

=Hubbard, Mina Benson.= Woman’s way through unknown Labrador: an
account of the exploration of the Nascaupee and George rivers.
**$1.50. McClure.

8–35700.

To correct misleading accounts of Mr. Hubbard’s ill-fated expedition
organized for the purpose of exploring the Northwest river draining
Lake Michikamau, and the George river draining the northern slope of
the plateau to Ungava bay, his wife went over the same ground in a
more favorable season. This is a record of her journey, to which she
adds her husband’s latter-day diary and a narrative by one of his
party, George Elson.

* * * * *

=Ath.= 1908, 1: 758. Je. 20. 720w.

“Her book should command a wide circle of interested readers. It is to
be regretted, however, that her account lacks both definiteness and
good form in its presentation; there are hopeless and involved
anti-climaxes when striking situations afforded opportunities for
quite the opposite effects. One reader, at least, has been pained by
the evident depreciation, throughout her book, of Wallace’s services
to her husband and loyalty to his memory, as evidenced in the earlier
books and by Hubbard’s own diary.” M. A. Havens.

+ − =Dial.= 45: 286. N. 1, ’08. 3850w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 140w.

=R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 80w.

“This volume contains the diary notes kept by her husband of his own
attempt, but its chief interest is in the fascinating story which she
has to tell of her own triumph. This book is one of great interest,
not only for its own story, but also for the fact that its authoress
succeeded where her husband failed.”

+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 472. O. 3, ’08. 1150w.

=Huey, Edmund Burke.= Psychology and pedagogy of reading; with a
review of the history of reading and writing, and of methods,
texts, and hygiene in reading. *$1.40. Macmillan.

8–4327.

A work for advanced students of this phase of education and
psychology, as well as for elementary school teachers. It sets forth
the machinery of the subconscious process which one undergoes in
transferring the printed page to one’s consciousness. “The material
used is the whole body of reference from the experiments of all the
psychologists who have occupied themselves in this curious study,
supplemented by the writer’s own observations.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“For psychologists, teachers of more than average training and
understanding, advanced students, and exceptionally intelligent
parents.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 188. Je. ’08.

“He comes mighty near achieving the direct and simple conversational
style for which he pleads. This book undoubtedly sets the high-water
mark for books on special method.” W: C. Ruediger.

+ + − =Educ. R.= 36: 203. S. ’08. 770w.

“The author has done for reading what ought to be done for every
branch of study.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.

“The book treats the subject more extensively and in a more
thorough-going way than has been done heretofore. The experimental
work is presented in an unusually interesting manner; and so, indeed,
is the entire material. The author thinks it would be best to have
children learn to read late, and at home, which they could easily do
if left largely to themselves. The present writer thinks Professor
Huey is not consistent in the attitude he takes upon this problem.” M.
V. O’Shea.

+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 500. Ag. 27, ’08. 1300w.

“An attractive study, which is likely to arouse a broader interest in
the questions at issue.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 495. My. 28, ’08. 400w.

“A modestly laborious volume.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 137. Mr. 14, ’08. 1750w.

“The best book on this radically important subject that we have met
with.”

+ + =Outlook.= 88: 655. Mr. 21, ’08. 350w.

“Professor Huey’s book is interesting, well written, and useful.” M.
F. Washburn.

+ =Philos. R.= 17: 668. N. ’08. 300w.

“The book brings together an immense amount of material in unusually
readable form. It seems destined to arouse interest and stimulate
investigation in an important field.” Raymond Dodge.

+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 178. Ag. 7, ’08. 800w.

=Hughes, Charles Evans.= Addresses and papers of Charles Evans
Hughes, governor of New York, 1906–1908; with an introd. by Jacob
Gould Schurman. **$1.50. Putnam.

8–14814.

President Schurman has contributed to this volume an introduction
which is both a biographical sketch and an estimate of Governor
Hughes’s career as a public man. The body of the book contains
selected speeches reflecting Mr. Hughes’s political views, classified
under the following heads: Public office and party principles;
Regulation of public-service corporations; and Occasional addresses.

* * * * *

“These speeches reveal the man. They should be widely read and
studied. They will be an uplift to our young men in this time of graft
and self-seeking. In Governor Hughes this ideal of the days of the
early republic lives again.” S. L. Woodford.

+ + =Ind.= 64: 1024. My. 7, ’08. 500w.

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 286. My. 23, ’08. 100w.

“His utterances, written and spoken, are notably clear, compact, and
forceful in expression, and equally sincere and frank in spirit.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 80w.

=R. of Rs.= 37: 756. Je. ’08. 100w.

=Hughes, Thomas Aloysius.= History of the Society of Jesus in North
America, colonial and federal. *$4.50. Burrows.

7–25073.

=v. 1.= From the first colonization till 1645.

The first volume in a “comprehensive historical series, comprising in
different languages an authentic account of the society over the
world.” The first part of the work “deals entirely with the first few
years of the history of the province of Maryland and is provided with
remarkably complete critical apparatus.” (Am. Hist. R.) The second
part, known v. 1, pt. 1, includes documents from 1605 to 1838
“applying to the early history of the missions to the Jesuit property
and its uses in the Maryland and Pennsylvania missions.” (Nation.)

=v. 2.= Contains the text based upon the documentary evidence which
comprised the first volume. “As in all other ecclesiastical history,
so here we have much that is sordid—disputes about property, quarrels
between secular priests and religious and much else of similar
character—but on the whole it is a story of sincere devotion and true
Christian heroism.” (Ind.)

* * * * *

“The author is without question a most learned man and a most careful
student. His introduction on the sources, archives and literature of
his subject is exceedingly valuable, not only to students of American
history, but also to those interested in the Jesuits in any land. His
bibliography is extensive and shows that he has investigated most of
the authorities and that he appreciates the importance of writing
history from the sources.” B. C. Steiner.

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 597. Ap. ’08. 2600w. (Review of v. 1.)

“This work supplies food for the serious student, rather than easy
entertaining reading for leisure hours. It will prove an invaluable
mine for future historians.”

+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 816. Mr. ’08. 650w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Even more eloquently than the first volume of the text, testifies to
the laborious, painstaking industry which Father Hughes has devoted to
his great task. American Catholics will require Father Hughes’ data to
be thoroughly and impartially scrutinized before they will be ready to
acquiesce in the conclusions which he draws.”

+ − =Cath. World.= 87: 255. My. ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1, pt.
1.)

“In spite of crudity of style, errors of judgment, and an absolute
inability to comprehend the point of view of an opponent, Father
Hughes has produced an extremely valuable book. It is not too much to
say that, after all allowances are made, he has completely changed our
ideas of the part played by the Jesuits in the Maryland episode.” W.
L. Grant.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 579. Jl. ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)

“A source-book of high value for the ecclesiastical history of the
American colonies.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 788. O. 1, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“This work is in the highest sense a work of learning, and while it
must reach the shelves of every public library and every college
collection, it will also take an honored place in the many private
studies where scholarship, conscientious impartiality, and masterly
style are valued.”

+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 491. Ap. 4, ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The author has added comparatively little to what was already known
of the first years of Maryland’s settlement; and the many
controversies involved in the purpose and methods of that venture have
frequently led him off the main track.”

− + =Nation.= 86: 148. F. 13, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The work is done with the thoroughness with which Jesuit scholarship
is associated, and if the standpoint taken is rigidly that of the
society, that is, indeed, only what might have been expected, and
constitutes to a large extent the value of this contribution to local
Maryland history.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)

“It is to be hoped that in the volumes to follow he will adopt a less
censorious and disputatious tone, and also succeed in drawing his
narrative somewhat more closely together than is the case here. Its
readability will then be greatly increased without any impairment of
its intrinsic worth.”

+ − =Outlook.= 89: 269. My. 30, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Hulbert, Archer Butler.= Niagara river. **$3.50. Putnam.

8–29355.

“Mr. Hulbert’s book is illustrated with some seventy delightful views.
The great commercial importance of Niagara falls, and still greater
developments promised in the near future, have led this author to deal
first with the river as we find it at present, beautiful and sublime
as a feature of natural scenery, but most practically valuable as a
mighty power yoked to the wheels of human machinery and turned into an
industrial instrument.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

“In mechanical execution, as well as in literary style, the volume has
decided merits.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 411. D. 1, ’08. 160w.

“It is in every respect an entertaining as well as an informing work,
at once popular and scientific.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 673. N. 7, ’08. 350w.

“The book is something more than a work written to order.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 120w.

“He presents matter of importance in an extremely readable form.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 200w.

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 140w.

=Hulbert, Eri Baker.= English reformation and Puritanism, with other
lectures and addresses: a memorial; ed. by A. R. E. Wyant. *$2.50.
Univ. of Chicago press.

8–1485.

Part one of this volume contains a number of addresses, testimonials,
and other tributes, to Dr. Hulbert. The second part consists of a
dozen lectures on the English reformation and Puritanism, with seven
occasional addresses.

* * * * *

“The author has shown good judgment in his selection of phases of the
movements treated for special emphasis. His style is vigorous,
pungent, and many passages when delivered must have been truly
eloquent. The book should find many readers among intelligent laymen
as well as among students and ministers.” A. H: Newman.

+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 317. Ap. ’08. 800w.

“Had Dean Hulbert lived ... it is probable that he would have given
these lectures a somewhat more scholarly form and that he would have
purged them of some of the errors and imperfections that now detract
from their value, especially as regards the more recent history of
nonconformity and education in England.”

− =Ind.= 64: 1096. My. 14, ’08. 350w.

“In general we may say that Dr. Hulbert’s point of view is elevated,
his horizon broad, and his purpose sincere. His lectures are therefore
good history and not cramped by the immediate purpose for which they
were prepared.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 352. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.

=Univ. Rec.= 12: 119. Ja. ’08. 400w.

* =Hull, William Isaac.= Two Hague conferences. *$1.50. Ginn.

8–28855.

“Professor Hull’s volume is a detailed account of the history and
results of each conference. All the topics discussed and all the acts
passed are grouped together, the author showing first what was done in
1899 and then in 1907.” (Ind.) “He has analyzed and compared the work
of the two conferences by topics and sub-topics, so that we are
enabled at a glance to see what advance on any special
point—disarmament, arbitration, naval warfare, land warfare, etc.—the
conference of 1907 marked over its predecessor.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“No one has as yet so completely and adequately covered the second
conference, and the volume is therefore the most complete account of
the two peace congresses up to date. The volume will become a standard
work and will prove especially valuable to editors, librarians and
students. We notice only a trifling error or two.”

+ + − =Ind.= 65: 1304. D. 3, ’08. 370w.

“The arrangement of Professor Hull’s book renders it particularly
convenient for ready reference.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 386. O. 22, ’08. 440w.

=Hume, Fergus W.= Green mummy. †$1.25. Dillingham.

8–20710.

The green mummy held in its hands some precious emeralds. Therefore a
certain antiquarian eagerly desires it and therefore the mummy case is
delivered to him, containing the dead body of the man who had been
sent to procure the treasure. The story unravels the mystery of the
murder.

* * * * *

“It will puzzle and surprise you as thoroughly as anything else he has
published.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 500. S. 12, ’08. 100w.

=Hume, Martin.= Court of Philip IV.: Spain in decadence. *$4.
Putnam.

8–3611.

“A worthy sociological study frankly recognizing the intimate relation
that court life bears to national life.” (Ind.) “Major Hume’s method
is to present a series of pictures, chronologically arranged, of
Philip’s life and surroundings, portraying as minutely as need be the
other prominent personages of the era, and the social life.” (N. Y.
Times.) “Having by birth and upbringing a foot in either camp, he has
in most of his other works maintained a critical though friendly
attitude towards Spain. In this he writes exactly as a Spaniard might
have written on the same theme. In fact, his work is really a Spanish
history, written in the English tongue.” (Sat. R.)

* * * * *

“Major Hume lends a personal interest to his descriptions of the
principal personages in the historical drama, and his rapid outline of
the political situation is vigorous and effective in its brevity.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 821. D. 28. 1350w.

“Mr. Hume’s claim to have described an important period directly from
the sources in a distinctly human and interesting way is well
sustained.”

+ =Ind.= 64: 690. Mr. 26, ’08. 600w.

“A formal and judicial history would have been more valuable than
these kaleidoscopic views of court life. Still the work is skilfully
done, and the presentation of Philip’s incurable frivolity is complete
and convincing.”

+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 337. N. 8, ’07. 2000w.

“Errors and inaccuracies ... are by no means absent. A more serious
fault of the book is its redundancy.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 16. Jl. 2, ’08. 800w.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 400w.

“The author’s art has been, through all the maze of detail, and the
wealth of documentary evidence, to keep the image of the unlucky king
clear and distinct and to enlist our sympathy.” R. B. C. Graham.

+ =Sat. R.= 104: 571. N. 9, ’07. 1800w.

“He has compiled a picturesque and superficial book of the court, full
of gossip and glittering pageants, but containing little of importance
that is new. It cannot be accepted as a wholly trustworthy or
scholarly account of his reign.”

− =Spec.= 99: sup. 745. N. 16, ’07. 1700w.

=Hume, Martin.= Two English queens and Philip. **$4.50. Putnam.

“This present volume contains a most clear and reliable narrative of
that period in English history when the struggle between the Reformed
faith and Catholicism was complicated by political intrigues and
schemes which ended in Spain’s standing up as the actual antagonist of
England in arms as well as in theological controversy, Mr. Hume tells
of Mary Stuart’s marriage with Philip and of the incidents which led
to that marriage; the events that followed Mary’s death, including
Elizabeth’s refusal of Philip and the advance of the Invincible
Armada, with whose defeat this volume ends.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

“The particular attraction of Mr. Martin Hume’s historical work lies
in his dramatic power, his skill in weaving a succinct, vivid, and
rapid narrative. He is picturesque without running to exaggeration,
and his familiarity with the records, relics, and monuments of the
sixteenth century in Western Europe is complete and under perfect
control.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 673. N. 7, ’08. 600w.

“A book like this cannot be measured by the same canons as a serious
historical work; it is frankly written to please a large public, and
not for the instruction of specialists. We venture to think that in
works like this he has found his real vocation, and, provided his
readers are adequately warned not to accept all his statements
unreservedly, we trust he may continue to live to produce a great many
more.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 581. D. 10, ’08. 550w.

“Mr. Hume’s story ... is one of great interest—picturesque, dramatic,
and vital.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 654. N. 7, ’08. 680w.

=Humphrey, Lucy Henderson=, comp. Poetic old-world: a little book
for tourists. *$1.50. Holt.

8–21527.

A volume similar in plan to that of Miss Du Bois, and easily a
companion to it. The ground covered is different and there are only
fifty poems which both compilers have used in common. Here are poems
relating to the voyage, Ireland, England, Scotland, Holland, Belgium,
France, Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, Spain, Greece and to the return.

* * * * *

“Useful in libraries not having Longfellow’s ‘Poems of places.’”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 260. N. ’08.

“This is a delightful book.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 60w.

=Ind.= 65: 383. Ag. 13, ’08. 40w.

“The selections, on the whole, are good, most of them familiar enough,
but none the worse for that. And the editor has been wise, we think,
in looking for pieces that convey some sentiment, personal or
historical, connected with a place, rather than for mere
descriptions.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 232. S. 10, ’08. 100w.

=Humphrey, Zephine.= Over against Green Peak. **$1.25. Holt.

8–12764.

“Aunt Susan, Jane, and I” make a real living personality of an old
white house beside the road in the heart of a Vermont valley. The
chapters of this book are of the nature of reveries, with the library,
the garden, and the orchard for themes. Here one finds simple-life
charm, the love of nature, and the joy of claiming the whole year for
a comrade.

* * * * *

“It is characterized by gentle humor, grace, and refinement.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 221. Je. ’08.

“It must not be supposed that the book as a whole is not as fresh and
exhilarating, to nature-lovers, as the mountain air and mountain
scenery that have largely inspired it.” P. F. Bicknell.

+ =Dial.= 44: 336. Je. 1, ’08. 400w.

“The reader at once finds that he is not dealing with a commonplace
mind.”

+ =Nation.= 86: 553. Je. 18, ’08. 170w.

“A worthy effort to express through poetry rural life in Maine.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.

“The reader takes part in the simple tasks and quiet enjoyments
cordially, and puts down the little book with the feeling that it has
afforded entertainment and that it has about it the unmistakable air
of literary grace and refinement.”

+ =Outlook.= 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 100w.

=Hunt, Gaillard.= John C. Calhoun. (American crisis biographies.)
**$1.25. Jacobs.

8–23726.

A biography which furnishes the principal events in Calhoun’s private
life and political career, and shows his identification with two
opposing popular movements:—“how he helped to form a broad national
sentiment, the part he played in the struggle in his state against
that sentiment, and his leadership of the triumphant sectional
sentiment.”

* * * * *

“While the work does not show the brilliancy that made Von Holst’s
similar biography so notable twenty-five years ago, its fairness to
all parties makes it more trustworthy.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 257. O. 16, ’08. 170w.

“The use of more recent sources of history and researches among state
papers and publications of Calhoun’s day add the sense of thoroughness
and impartiality.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 674. N. 14, ’08. 600w.

“Mr. Hunt’s sketch of the life and influence of the Southern statesman
is a sympathetic and useful one, and he has supplemented his text with
chronological and bibliographical notes.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 633. N. ’08. 110w.

=Hunt, Violet.= White rose of weary leaf. †$1.50. Brentano’s.

“Best defined as a sort of modern ‘Jane Eyre’ story.... The Jane Eyre
of this story is not an inexperienced young girl, but a sad,
disillusioned woman, who has long looked the world in the face, and
expects nothing from it but injustice. The Mr. Rochester has been
married, not once, but twice.... The spectacular tragedy is not a
fire, but a railroad wreck, and even here the wife, though badly hurt,
insists upon recovering.... The man, however, allows the other woman
to believe that the wife is dead; and from this initial wrong the
story moves strongly on to a double expiation, told in a spirit of
grim fatalism.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“The story is undoubtedly clever.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 317. Mr. 14. 300w.

“It is astonishing that a book so faulty should here and there show
streaks of such undeniable merit.” F: T. Cooper.

− + =Bookm.= 27: 579. Ag. ’08. 220w.

“A disconcerting tale, not to be commended to readers of tender
sensibility.”

− + =Nation.= 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 230w.

“The title of this cumbersome story is suggestive of its effect on the
reader.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 456. Ag. 15, ’08. 170w.

“The book is clever, well written (the dialogue and one or two
letters, being quite remarkable), and disagreeable.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 409. Mr. 28, ’08. 340w.