Chapter XXVI: Part 2: , Three Boston object lessons in taxation; Part 3, Private (6)

An edition revised to include results of the latest experiment for determining the functions of bacteria and fungi in the soil. “Mr. Hall’s book is not only for the scientific student of soil problems, who can, by the use of the bibliography in the appendix, become familiar with the most important research on the subject, but the practical man will find a very considerable portion of the book of interest and value to him, and the carefully reasoned conclusions will assure him of the reliability of the recommendations.” (Nature.)

* * * * *

“A careful revision of one of the most authoritative works in print.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 194. Je. ’09.

“Will be of interest and value to all those who have occasion to go into those subjects for engineering or other reasons. From the agricultural viewpoint, the book seems to be comprehensive and thorough.”

+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 53. Ap. 15, ’09. 130w.

“This edition has evidently been most carefully revised in the light of modern investigation, and is an accurate record of existing knowledge on the soil considered from its mechanical, chemical, and biological aspects.” M. J. R. D.

+ =Nature.= 79: 127. D. 3, ’08. 550w.

“A helpful bibliography of works on the soil and its organisms is appended, and the absence of a too severe technical style should render Mr. Hall’s treatise on the soil of genuine instructive interest to all who are seeking practical scientific aids in improved methods of agriculture.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 42. Ja. 23, ’09. 900w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 127. Ja. ’09. 60w.

“It is at once authoritative and wide in scope, and it gives the reader an impression of the difficulties of the subject which is not conveyed by some writing on soil problems.”

+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 158. Ja. 30, ’09. 140w.

=Hall, Bolton.=^{[7]} Garden yard: a handbook of intensive farming;
introd. by N. O. Nelson. $1. McKay.

9–14704.

Not a scientific book on agriculture but a book that shows how the plain man or woman who has a back yard or back lot can make a living. He has combined his own experience and that of friends with information contained in bulletins, books and catalogs and tells “how to lay out the land, how to prepare and plant the harvest, and how to make life joyous.” Intelligence and care exercised as the author outlines will insure a bare living the first year, a good living the second, and the beginning of a bank account the third.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 13. S. ’09. ✠

“While planned along similar lines, the book falls distinctly below the standard set by such books as Bailey’s ‘Principles of vegetable gardening.’”

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 605. N. ’09. 140w.

“In spite of being a book of decided value, has an amateur flavor. However, take this book thru and thru, and you will be surprised to find how little there is to criticise, especially when you consider what an infinite number of topics are discussed.”

+ − =Ind.= 67: 600. S. 9, ’09. 600w.

“For its size the book is very comprehensive, and its treatment of the subject is simple and practical.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 147. Ag. 12, ’09. 120w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 384. S. ’09. 70w.

=Hall, Charles Cuthbert.=^{[5]} Christ and the eastern soul: the
witness of the oriental consciousness to Jesus Christ. (Barrows
lectures, 1906–1907.) *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.

9–10502.

“To thoughtful Indians of all faiths these lectures are dedicated respectfully by a citizen of the west who believes in the unity of the human race and who looks with reverence on the India of the past, with affection on the India of the present and with ardent expectation on the India of the future.” The lectures delivered in many Indian cities aim to put the sacred lore of the east into normal relation to the Truth as revealed in Jesus Christ.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 167. Je. ’09.

“Missionaries, missionary boards, and all concerned with the propagation of Christianity among the oriental peoples may learn much from these lectures.”

+ =Bib. World.= 33: 432. Je. ’09. 90w.
=Ind.= 66: 1346. Je. 17, ’09. 240w.

“With rare tactfulness and grace Dr. Hall undertook to discover ‘elements of sublimity in the Oriental consciousness.’”

+ =Nation.= 88: 486. My. 13, ’09. 140w.

=Hall, Rev. Charles Cuthbert.=^{[7]} Silver cup: simple messages to
children from one who loved them. **$1.25. Houghton.

9–8405.

A posthumous volume of sermons preached during special afternoon services for children while Dr. Hall was pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Brooklyn.

* * * * *

“They would be helpful for parents, Sunday-school teachers and ministers.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 190. Je. ’09. + =Ind.= 66: 1348. Je. 17, ’09. 80w. + =Nation.= 88: 486. My. 13, ’09. 80w.

=Hall, Henry Fielding.= One immortality. †$1.50. Macmillan.

9–4484.

“True marriage, founded upon love and nurtured by romance, is one immortality. Three loves dominate the world, each justified in its own immortality—the love of man and woman, the love that draws families into nations, the love that holds the world to God. With this thesis, the author depicts the experiences of a group of travelers whose goal is India. Two Englishmen are attracted by a girl in the care of a Mr. and Mrs. Holman, who furnish the happy, hopeful, sensible element in the party. Two other youths flutter for a time about a young woman of India returning after some years in Germany to her home. An ill-matched couple, a German scientist, and a group of nuns make up the ship’s company.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“The reader will find no plot, and no action in the story. Mr. Fielding Hall is a poet in feeling, and if on this occasion he is disappointing as an exponent of the East to the West, there is beauty both in his ideas and his expression of them.”

− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 220. F. 20. 160w.

“The best definition of its subject, form and style would be to call it a prose poem of love. It is eminently a wholesome book, full of an unquenchable faith in the happiness and the sanctity of love and marriage.” F: T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 29: 76. Mr. ’09. 300w.

“The people have a phonographic effect, as tho they were reeling out the record of the author’s voice, a little thin and strange, and saying undisputed things in a metallic way.”

− + =Ind.= 66: 1141. My. 27, ’09. 300w.

“Sententious is the word for this book. The author, with little distinctly in mind to say, invents a few named figures and a situation as excuse for the multitudinous and, alas! often platitudinous apothegms which for some hundreds of pages flow from his pen.”

− =Nation.= 88: 364. Ap. 8, ’09. 250w.

“For the most part the book is a pack of irrelevant commonplace and sentimental nonsense. The gleams which have already been noted are well enough, but they might all be concentrated into a magazine article of, say, two pages.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 76. F. 6, ’09. 370w.

“There is some good talk, but more that is ineffective. Underneath all, however, is a wholesome, practical faith in the power of love and in its inevitableness. The story is too slight to command real interest, and the philosophy lacks substance. In point of style, ‘One immortality’ does not equal in beauty ‘The inward light.’”

− + =Outlook.= 91: 533. Mr. 6, ’09. 210w.

“Mr. Hall shadows forth a mystical theory of love with much of that quiet charm which we are accustomed to look for in his books. The story—what there is of it—has been naïvely constructed to afford a peg for the mysticism. Even the most exact scientist may admire the deft word-pictures of sea and sky and shore, done quite simply.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 278. F. 27, ’09. 300w.

“The characterization throughout is too misty to be effective. The real charm of the book resides in the author’s digressions.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 230. F. 6, ’09. 950w.

=Hall, Hubert=, ed. Formula book of English official historical
documents. *$2. Putnam.

9–4070.

“A handbook of two hundred and twenty-five classified specimens of English official documents, ranging in date from the eighth to the nineteenth centuries.... Besides the examples of individual types, the editor has at certain points brought together a series of writs or letters which show a connected sequence of transactions, as in the grant of letters patent to Connecticut in 1661–1662.”—Am. Hist. R.

* * * * *

“A collection at once more convenient and more scientific than the ‘Formulare’ of Madox with which the student has hitherto been obliged to content himself. The method of printing the documents will not command universal assent.” C: H. Haskins.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 558. Ap. ’09. 250w.

“To criticize his work is easy; but to produce a better one is hardly likely to be the good fortune of any scholar of the present generation.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 600. N. 14. 320w.

“The work is admirably done and its usefulness is beyond dispute.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 463. My. 6, ’09. 240w.
=Spec.= 102: sup. 645. Ap. 24, ’09. 100w.

=Hall, Hubert.= Studies in English official historical documents.
*$3.75. Putnam.

9–4071.

“The first systematic attempt in modern times to deal with the diplomatic of our official records as a consecutive whole.” (Ath.) “Mr. Hall divides his work into three parts: the first relating to the history, classification, and analysis of the archives; the second, to the diplomatic study of official documents; and the third to palaeography, its requirements and uses. Each part is accompanied by a series of appendices, containing tables, lists, outlines, and classifications too elaborate for insertion in the text.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“As is inevitable in so vast and so little cultivated a field, the book disclaims anything like completeness or finality but it covers a wide range of topics compactly and from the sources, and is everywhere suggestive and full of meat. Some topics are dismissed too briefly and some not touched.” C: H. Haskins.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 558. Ap. ’09. 1000w.

“For the future Mr. Hall’s books will be the inseparable companions of all engaged in original investigation of the English middle ages. It must be recognized that, with all Mr. Hall’s learning and devotion, his style and method sometimes lack that incisive clearness which guides the student straight to the point of which he is in quest, and never overwhelms him in a sea of semi-relevant detail. Sometimes we are rather at a loss to discover what Mr. Hall is driving at; and occasionally he indulges in generalizations that do not seem to us specially helpful towards his immediate ends.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 600. N. 14. 1000w.

“No other work, British or Continental, combines in such an admirable manner the learning of the archivist, the grasp of the historian, and the suggestiveness of the teacher.”

+ + =Nation.= 87: 657. D. 31, ’08. 640w.

=Halsey, Forrest.= Fate and the butterfly. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.

9–9466.

A cross-section of contemporary American society. Against a background shifting from New York, Egypt, Italy, back to New York, is enacted a drama of ill-assorted loves. A young society woman tricked into marriage with a morphine-drugged man of millions leaves him for the man of her early dreams only to find the prince charming unworthy, and is finally reclaimed by a rising politician to save whose career she makes the supreme sacrifice.

* * * * *

“A remarkably clever first story. The determination to have a pleasant ending—or perhaps it was only the necessity—or it may have been an overendowment of youthful sentiment—has proved too much for the author’s sense of the grim logic of life.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 279. My. 1, ’09. 240w.

=Hamilton, Angus.=^{[8]} Problems of the middle East. *12s. 6d. Nash,
London.

9–18475.

“In this volume the author writes concerning the Young Turks, the Baghdad railway, our interests in the Persian Gulf, the Turkish railway through Arabia, and Japanese actions in Korea. The most valuable part of the book is that upon the Baghdad railway, and we commend the careful survey of Mr. Angus Hamilton upon a subject which he has considered with less partiality than most British writers.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“The non-strategic portion of Mr. Angus Hamilton’s volume may be commended, especially that dealing with the Baghdad railway in its commercial and narrowly political aspects.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 527. My. 1, 300w.

“It is a pity that this book, to which we have not the space to do full justice, suffers from the weakness of advocating constitutional government for countries unsuited to it.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 726. Je. 5, 09. 650w.

“The chapter on the present and the late Amirs of Afghanistan is a careful piece of history, much of which is very little known. Mr. Hamilton is one of the few journalists who can write of Afghanistan from first-hand knowledge. But the chief importance of Mr. Hamilton’s book lies in the political chapters, where he offers advice on the foreign policy of Britain.”

+ =Spec.= 103: 166. Jl. 31, ’09. 900w.

=Hamilton, Cecily Mary.=^{[11]} Marriage as a trade. **$1.25. Moffatt.
9–23010

Miss Hamilton advocates woman’s economic independence, and, all sentiment of marriage aside, constructs a theory of marriage which would make it a real partnership, “not merely a partnership in social and parental affairs.” No longer will she serve man for her mere food and shelter, but she will be able to demand premium wages.

* * * * *

“Marked prejudices and cynicism weaken the effect of the work, which is not without value.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 75. N. ’09.

Reviewed by Leonard Curtis.

+ − =Bookm.= 30: 265. N. ’09. 660w.

“An instructive and somewhat startling volume. Even a mere man ... may see that there is much truth in what she says. But he may also suspect, with all polite deference and proper diffidence, that there is much wrong also.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 578. O. 2, ’09. 1150w.

=Hamilton, James Shelley.=^{[11]} New sophomore. †$1.50. Appleton.

9–26954.

A continuation of college life at Tresham in which the old hero, Butt Chanler, reappears but permits one Ridgeway Bill to play the role of hero. His right to the title is demonstrated thru some clever detective work in restoring to the institution a lost statue of Sabrina.

=Hamilton, W. Wistar.= Sane evangelism. **75c. Am. Bapt.

9–3366.

Addresses contributed by eight divines in which are revealed the present-day possibilities of sane evangelism. The volume deprecates vast movements away from the church, and advocates well-planned, well-organized efforts in the church.

=Hammerton, J. A.=^{[8]} George Meredith in anecdote and criticism.
*$4. Kennerley.

A generous volume whose chief concern is criticism but which also gives in “orderly narrative some slight account of Meredith’s life and friendships.” The chapter headings are suggestive of the scope of the work: Outline of life and work; The eighteenth birthday; Personal characteristics; Friendships and home life; Some early appreciations; Literary characteristics; In parody and caricature; The novels in contemporary criticism; His heroines and women-folk; His poetry; The comic spirit; His philosophy of life; Judged by his fellow-novelists; His place in literature; The continental view of Meredith; Illustrators of the poems and novels; Index.

* * * * *

“Altogether, the book in the hands of a judicious reader will be of considerable service until the biography by Mr. Edward Clodd or another is given to the world.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 94. Jl. 24. 300w.

“Mr. Hammerton’s book is a sort of ‘Literary guide to Meredith’—the ‘filler’ for a good Meredith smoke.” Archibald Henderson.

+ =Forum.= 42: 387. O. ’09. 1350w.

“Yet withal we regard the book as distinctly valuable and even to a certain degree, despite the necessary repetition of ideas, interesting.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 281. S. 23, ’09. 770w.

“Mr. Hammerton’s work is rather a reference book than a biography for general reading. The immense amount of research and study makes it an invaluable contribution to Meredithiana, and the illustrations, many of them reproductions from the original editions of the novels and poems, lend it an exceptional interest.” Anne Peacock.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 461. Jl. 31, 09. 1900w.

“It is the invasion of cheap journalism into the preserves of literature. All unity of impression is broken by balancing contradictory estimates, and the point of view is shifted often enough to keep the reader dizzy.”

− + =No. Am.= 190: 559. O. ’09. 420w.

“This is exactly the sort of book for readers who could not read Meredith to save their lives, but have found out from the newspapers that he was a great man they ought to be able to talk about.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 822. Je. 26, ’09. 370w.

“Mr. Hammerton’s book is so good and so useful for students of Meredith that it is to be hoped that he will publish a second edition correcting a few errors and supplementing a few deficiences. Among the errors we have noticed a very incomplete index.”

+ − =Spec.= 103: 98. Jl. 17, ’09. 1500w.

=Hancock, Albert Elmer.=^{[11]} Bronson of the rabble: a novel.
†$1.50. Lippincott.

9–25822.

Philadelphia in 1812 and the years following forms the setting for this story of the blacksmith’s son who is a true American and by his own effort wins his countrymen’s esteem as soldier and politician until he penetrates into the hearts and homes of the Federalist aristocrats of lace and knee-buckles. His love story follows his fortunes and he rises above a plebian attachment, which ends in disaster, to win the Judge’s niece, the girl who has been brought up to look down upon him and has learned to look up to him.

=Hancock, Albert Elmer.= John Keats: a literary biography. **$2.
Houghton.

8–28422.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“Supplements Sidney Colvin’s ‘Keats’ and duplicates it comparatively little.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 12. Ja. ’09.

“Unless it be a dash or two of gossip, he has added little to Mr. Colvin’s delicate sketch. This is a book neither for students of Keats nor for the fastidious in literature.”

− =Ath.= 1909, 1: 8. Ja. 2. 950w.

“Somewhat too smart in style, with a frequent straining for effect. Yet it is an admirable book, accurate and well-founded in its learning, and judicial in its verdicts.”

+ − =Ind.= 65: 1617. D. 31, ’08. 750w.

“The style is of that spasmodic sort which allows the reader no rest, and the critical tone is of the ultra-romantic.”

− =Nation.= 87: 386. O. 22, ’08. 180w.

“This is quite as much a book of criticism as of biography, and it is criticism of unusual quality.” H. W. Boynton.

+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 488. Ja. ’09. 1000w.

“An eminently successful biography.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 125. Jl. ’09. 100w.

=Hancock, Edward Lee.= Applied mechanics for engineers. *$2.
Macmillan.

9–1597.

“Prepared for the instruction of engineering students of the Junior year, and while little new in the way of principles is presented, yet many novel applications of these principles are introduced.” (Engin. D.) “It is characterized by more attention to problems relating to moment of inertia, center of gravity, work and energy, friction and impact than most elementary text-books, by the use of vectors in the treatment of couples, and by an excellent collection of problems.” (Engin. Rec.)

* * * * *

“Is more mathematical than Perry’s ‘Applied mechanics’ and disregards graphical methods, which receive brief attention in Perry. Not a work for engineers.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 117. D. ’09.

“No textbook dealing with the subject that has reached us is better or simpler.”

+ =Educ. R.= 38: 99. Je. ’09. 50w.

“Will be found decidedly helpful to engineers as well as to students.”

+ =Engin. D.= 5: 296. Mr. ’09. 180w.

“There are also a number of minor errors both in the text and in the figures.” A. H. Knight.

+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 33. Mr. 18, ’09. 670w.

“There is an unsatisfactory looseness of statement in some places. The book is such a thorough one in some branches that it may prove useful in a good many schools.”

+ − =Engin. Rec.= 59: 251. F. 27, ’09. 210w. + =Ind.= 67: 307. Ag. 5, ’09. 70w.

“A modest but sound work.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 416. Ap. 22, ’09. 10w.

“The book is certain to prove a useful one to all those who are engaged in teaching the subject of mechanics to engineering students, and the number of well-selected examples makes it a particularly satisfactory book for the student himself.”

+ =Nature.= 81: 332. S. 16, ’09. 450w.

=Haney, Lewis Henry.=^{[6]} Congressional history of railways in the
United States to 1850. v. 1. (Reprinted from v. 3. of the Bulletin
of the Univ. of Wisconsin, economics and political science ser.)
50c. Univ. of Wis.

8–24289.

=v. 1.= The first instalment of a three volume work. “The present volume is divided into three ‘books,’ which deal respectively with the Rise of the railway question, Aid to railways, and Railways to the Pacific, in so far as these questions came before Congress. As is indicated in the title, the work is a study of Congress and the railway, and to a lesser degree a history of the railway as illustrated by congressional debates and legislation.” (Econ. Bull.)

* * * * *

“The criticism most likely to be passed upon the volume is that it shows too evidently its earlier form of a monograph. Evidences of a prentice hand are not infrequent. This volume in connection with those to appear later will form a distinct contribution to economic history.”

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 164. O. ’09. 670w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The volume as a whole indicates a large amount of systematic work, and though its scope is chiefly limited to congressional activity, it is a valuable contribution to the early periods of railway history.” G: G. Huebner.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 732. My. ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)

“The errors into which the author has fallen are those of lack of discrimination rather than of misstatement of fact.” E. L. Bogart.

+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 30. Ap. ’09. 850w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Dr. Haney’s monograph is a well-written and thorough piece of investigation. The author has relied mainly upon congressional documents for his material and few measures or proposals seem to have escaped his notice.” W. B. Hammond.

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 233. Ap. ’09. 1200w. (Review of v. 1.)

“He takes up in an interesting way the rise and development of the railways, and especially the subject of land grants, which is treated more fully than in any previous work.”

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 191. Mr. ’09. 110w. (Review of v. 1.)

=Hanks, Charles Stedman.=^{[9]} Our Plymouth forefathers. **$1.50.
Estes.

9–9526.

“Beginning with a chapter on ‘The English separatists.’ which gives the commonly accepted account of King Henry VIII’s rupture with Rome, the author traces the course of the Pilgrims from Scrooby to Holland and America, the greater part of the book being naturally devoted to the vicissitudes of the colony at Plymouth. Due honor is paid to Provincetown, as the place of our forefathers’ first landing; and some account is also given of the Buzzard’s Bay, Connecticut River, and Penobscott River trading posts, with one chapter on ‘The Puritan settlement at Boston.’” (Dial.)

* * * * *

“Suited to the needs and tastes of young students of American history and good reading for their elders.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 75. N. ’09 ✠

“The book is well suited to the needs and tastes of young students of American history, and is good reading for older persons also.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 104. Ag. 16, ’09. 200w.

“The attention which Mr. Hanks devotes to the business side of the enterprise and the shrewd common sense which the colonists displayed in developing and making the most of their resources gives to the book a special interest.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 318. My. 22, ’09. 250w.

=Hanotaux, Gabriel-Albert-Auguste.=^{[9]} Contemporary France; tr.
from the French by E. Sparvel-Bayly. v. 4. *$3.75. Putnam.

=v. 4.= 1877–1882. Covers the political records of France from 1877 until 1882 on thru seven ministries, from that of the Duc de Broglie to that of Duclerc.

* * * * *

“Indispensable to large libraries.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 14. S. ’09. (Review of v. 4.)

“Errors, which are the joint production of the author, the translator, and the index-maker, are most serious, and are numerous beyond our experience. In many cases the result will be to deceive the very elect. We cannot explain the extraordinary difference between the concluding pages of the French and the English versions.”

− =Ath.= 1909, 2: 94. Jl. 24. 630w. (Review of v. 4.)

“This volume, like its predecessors, shows qualities of style which remind the reader that the author is a member of the Academy, but occasionally the habit of epigrammatic expression merges in a fondness for obscure Delphic utterances.”

+ − =Dial.= 47: 185. S. 16, ’09. 550w. (Review of v. 4.)

“M. Hanotaux maintains the high level of the earlier parts; but the period treated (1877–1882), being less dramatic than the years preceding, its story is perforce less thrilling.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 1209. N. 25, ’09. 320w. (Review of v. 4.)

“The author of this work has kept up the interest of the reader from the beginning to the close of his narrative.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 538. O. 2, ’09. 360w. (Review of v. 4.)

“In this last volume M. Hanotaux’s style retains all its vivacity and its finish. It is with regret that we part from this animated narrative of events fateful for France and for Europe, which so intelligent and well-informed an observer has given us.”

+ + − =Nation.= 89: 253. S. 16, ’09. 2850w. (Review of v. 4.)

“We do not deny that M. Hanotaux’s volume, principally on account of its personal and intimate atmosphere, makes entertaining reading. M. Hanotaux has no perspective and offers no hypotheses, while his narrative is burdened with opinions, judgments and even impressions, which the future is as likely as not to prove wrong.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 499. Ag. 21, ’09. 1250w. (Review of v. 4.)

“This fourth volume is much the best of the work, and is more worthy of the author’s reputation than those which preceded it.”

+ =Sat. R.= 108: 292. S. 4, ’09. 1550w. (Review of v. 4.)

“The book is alive with personal and general interest, and no intelligent person is likely to lay it down unfinished.”

+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 918. D. 4, ’09. 450w. (Review of v. 4.)

=Hanscom, Elizabeth Deering=, comp. Friendly craft. *$1.25. Macmillan.

8–33897.

An anthology of letters which have been gathered together under such heads as The news from home, Little men and little women, Students’ tales, Lovers and friends, Genial gossip, Makers of history, Quips and cranks, and The fine art of living.

* * * * *

“A more interesting collection to the American reader than Lucas’ ‘The gentlest art.’”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 41. F. ’09.

“Everyone who owns ‘The gentlest art,’ will want ‘The friendly craft’ to place beside it on his shelves.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 464. D. 16, ’08. 140w.

“The editor of the collection has an unerring taste for literary quality, and a sense of humor which shows itself in prankish headlines.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 638. Mr. 25, ’09. 160w.

“The volume is, in our opinion quite as entertaining as Mr. Lucas’s, and that is saying a great deal. The pages contain abundant humor, with now and then a touch of pathos.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 200w.

“There should be a copy of this delightful book in the collection of every lover of that which is choice in literature.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 116. F. 27, ’09. 560w. + =Outlook.= 91: 151. Ja. 23, ’09. 130w.

“A quite admirable book.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 464. Mr. 20, ’09. 840w.

=Hanus, Paul Henry.= Beginnings in industrial education; and other
educational discussions. *$1. Houghton.

8–21612.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“Able, practical papers.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 289. D. ’08.

“The most valuable contribution is made by the chapter on ‘The industrial continuation schools of Munich.’”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 195. Ja. ’09. 60w.

“The busy man will find the meat of these essays in the first one, which gives title to the volume.”

+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 22. F. 18, ’09. 300w.

“Professor Hanus puts the case clearly and convincingly.” L.

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 383. Je. ’09. 180w.

“Each of the eight brief essays makes the reader sigh for more of the same kind.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 412. Ap. 22, ’09. 160w.

“It is a help to have these miscellaneous presentations brought together at the time when the first excitement of the revival is over and men realize the necessity of taking their bearings before going farther.” F. A. Manny.

+ =School R.= 17: 203. Mr. ’09. 470w.

=Hapgood, Hutchins.=^{[8]} Anarchist woman. **$1.25. Duffield.

“A book belonging to the same general order as Mr. Hapgood’s ‘Autobiography of a thief’ and ‘The spirit of labor.’ It is a report of ‘low’ life tinged with almost morbid sympathy.” (Nation.) It portrays the mental life of a woman who possessed the “temperament of revolt.” The man to whom she abandoned herself is little else than a drunkard in whom the author finds “a perfect type of the idealist.” Thru these two rebellious slum folk Mr. Hapgood shows under what conditions, in connection with what personal qualities, the anarchistic habit of mind arises.

* * * * *

“If you agree with Mr. William Winter’s criticism of Ibsen or approve the policy of Anthony Comstock toward Bernard Shaw, this is no fit book for you to read.” F. M. Colby.

− =Bookm.= 29: 637. Ag. ’09. 3200w.

“Mr. Hapgood’s chief fault is lack of humor, and the effect of it in this instance is rather appalling. Mr. Hapgood’s story is largely made up of letters. They are extremely frank letters, but they have little beside frankness to recommend them.”

− =Nation.= 88: 608. Je. 17, ’09. 600w.

=Harben, William Nathaniel (Will N., pseud.).=^{[10]} Redemption of
Kenneth Galt. †$1.50. Harper.

9–25184.

Once more Mr. Harben introduces his readers to his favorite Georgian setting. The story follows the awakening and regeneration of Kenneth Galt, brilliant and well-born, who, when success is within his very reach, betrays a young girl, and leaves her to bear her burden of village ostracism while he goes out into the world to win power and fame. Six years later he returns and thru the influence of his own child has the courage to atone for his cowardly action and face a situation which during all these years had been allowed to implicate an innocent man.

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“The book has astonishingly little excuse for being, even in this age of incontinent pens. The plot and characters are as hackneyed as the title, and the quality of the English, which is richly journalese, differs sadly from that of mercy.”

− =Nation.= 89: 407. O. 28, ’09. 250w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 591. O. 9, ’09. 230w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 636. N. ’09. 30w.

=Hard, Miron Elisha.=^{[6]} Mushroom, edible and otherwise; its
habitat and its time of growth. $4.75. Mushroom pub. co., 210
Schultz bldg., Columbus, O.

8–24898.

A guide to the study of mushrooms, with special reference to the edible and poisonous varieties, with a view of opening up to the student of nature a wide field of interesting and useful knowledge. “This volume chiefly on account of its excellent half-tone illustrations, which include almost all of the common species, will be of good service to those who wish a book less expensive and voluminous than McIlvaine’s, and at the same time comprehensive enough to enable them to identify the plants they pick up in fields and woods.” (Bot. Gaz.)

* * * * *

“Will be useful for reference in large libraries but for identification purposes is not so good as Atkinson’s ‘Studies of American fungi’ or Marshall’s ‘Mushroom book.’”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 167. Je. ’09.

“It is evident that the author has no adequate technical training in taxonomy or morphology; and in presenting such matters, neither his keen powers of observation nor his enthusiasm could prevent him from falling into errors both of form and fact. It will indeed be a welcome addition to public, school, and college libraries, where there is always a demand for well-illustrated books of this kind, and it will probably do good service in awakening an interest in mushrooms. It certainly treats wisely the matter of testing the edibility of mushrooms and no one who follows Mr. Hard’s advice will come to harm. Thus it has a real field of usefulness. But it is not for the mycologist.” C. R. B.

+ − =Bot. Gaz.= 47: 414. My. ’09. 450w.

“An exceedingly interesting and valuable book upon a subject, in which every one is interested, whether he is a botanist or not. Without doubt this is the finest and most carefully arranged set of half-tone figures of American agarics to be found in a single book.” R. J. Pool.

+ =Science=, n.s. 29: 263. F. 12, ’09. 340w.

=Hardie, J. Keir.=^{[9]} India, impressions and suggestions. $1.
Huebsch.

Conclusions and the reasons for forming them which were reached by the author during two months spent in traveling in India and in interviewing officials or representative men of all stations in life and of all creeds, castes and classes.

* * * * *

“One can but feel, in reading these interesting sketches, that the author went to India to criticise, yet there is so much current official praise of the English administration of India that we welcome any discussion from the other side.”

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 605. N. ’09. 200w.

“Mr. Hardie has not, we may say, assimilated all his information gathered in his two months’ stay in India, but he has written a book that will interest and instruct everyone who is interested in Great Britain’s major problem.”

+ − =Dial.= 47: 240. O. 1, ’09. 270w.

“The greatest lack of this book is that it is practically silent concerning those features of the India of to-day which, in the last analysis, mean infinitely more to Hindustan than do verbal and picric acid bombs.”

− =Nation.= 89: 411. O. 28, ’09. 520w.

“It does not follow necessarily that Mr. Hardie is unjust in his views concerning the British administration in India, but it is of course material to know that he did not go East with an open mind, and that what he has written is not the outcome of prolonged, painstaking, and unbiased effort to know the truth.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 664. O. 23, ’09. 680w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 512. O. ’09. 60w.

“His arguments are recklessly and wilfully perverse. We are astonished that he should have taken so little trouble to make some of them even superficially plausible. As a narrative the work is very poor, the descriptions leaving little impression upon the mind, and making one reflect on the immense superiority of such work as that of Mr. Sidney Low.”

− =Spec.= 102: 937. Je. 12, ’09. 2100w.

=Hardie, Martin.=^{[6]} John Pettie. *$6. Macmillan.

A monograph which furnishes “a delightful picture of the kindly, generous, tremendously forceful Scotch artist, and makes up for meagreness of biographical incident by fulness of descriptive matter about Pettie’s paintings. Diligent search through the artist’s note-books and in exhibition and sale catalogues, as well as in correspondence of interviews with private owners of his work, has resulted in a practically complete catalogue, chronologically arranged.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“Both as an individual study and as a contribution to the history of Scotch art in the last century, Mr. Hardie’s biography is well worth while.”

+ =Dial.= 46: 267. Ap. 16, ’09. 210w.

“When the author writes of his uncle’s works as an artist, he does so with a commendable personal detachment. The book is profusely illustrated by reproductions in colour of almost all of Pettie’s principal pictures, and the catalogue of his works is not the least valuable portion of the volume.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 37: 253. My. ’09. 320w. + =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 24. N. ’09. 70w. + =Nation.= 88: 205. F. 25, ’09. 60w.

=Harding, John William.= City of splendid night. †$1.50. Dillingham.

9–4958.

Reveals the heart of a man and of a woman, who after fifteen years of separation, divorce, remarriage for the husband, and death of the second wife, are brought to a reconciliation.

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“After the title the best things in it are the many pages of description of the varied aspects of New York city by night and by day, under various conditions of weather. These show sensibility to beauty and good descriptive power. Not one of the characters shows any sign that the author knows anything about men and women except what he has learned from other novels.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 147. Mr. 13, ’09. 130w.

=Harding, Samuel Bannister=, comp. and ed.^{[11]} Select orations;
with an introduction on oratorical style and structure, and notes by
J: Mantel Clapp. *$1.25. Macmillan.

9–26305.

A book for schools, clubs and teachers’ institutes. The purpose, primarily, historical, has been that of bringing together selections that illustrate the political history and development of the United States; while oratorical excellence has also been considered. The orations are grouped under the following heads: The revolution; The constitution adopted; National government established; The conquest on slavery; Civil war and reconstruction.

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=Educ. R.= 38: 426. N. ’09. 50w.

=Hardy, Blanche Christabel.=^{[7]} Princesse de Lamballe. *$3.50.
Appleton.

9–18960.

“This is a sympathetic study of a supremely touching figure in French history, a martyr to loyalty and friendship in whose innocent life nothing had ever happened to merit one of the most frightful deaths—perhaps the most frightful of all—in the annals of the revolution.” (Spec.) “The Princess de Lamballe had been superintendent of the household of Marie Antoinette, and we have here, among other things, a remarkably telling picture of how a queen lived in the days before the revolution.” (N. Y. Times.) The author draws clear portraits of “the sad Queen Maria Leczinska ... the once reckless and pleasure-loving Marie Antoinette ... the stolid, lumbering, pathetic Louis XVI, the faithless Duc d’Orléans ... and the Princesse herself.” (N. Y. Times.)

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“The author is as a rule laudably guarded in her judgments concerning conjecture and evidence. We have but slight reservations to make as to style and accuracy.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 811. D. 26. 1500w.

“She gives us a distinctly lifelike picture of the woman in her life of every day, treating her with all becoming reverence, omitting nothing in this record of her heroism and devotion, setting down naught in malice, and yet letting us see through to the little failings that make her woman. She gains in being thus humanized, and the author has given us a work that is at once interesting and authentic.” Christian Gauss.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 385. Je. 19, ’09. 1100w.

“Little exception can be taken to the history of this volume.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 486. O. 17, ’08. 780w.

“This was not an easy book to write. The author has overcome that difficulty very well, and has kept the later story of his heroine clear against the background of confusion and storm.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 886. N. 28, ’08. 550w.

=Hardy, E. G.=^{[9]} Studies in Roman history, 6s. Sonnenschein,
London.

“The title of this important but unpretentious little volume would fitly have been ‘Studies in Roman military history,’ for it specially deals with that branch of historical research, and will be particularly valuable to those interested in it.” (Sat. R.) “Largely an historical commentary on Tacitus. In the first section Dr. Hardy discusses the German frontier, a subject which appears again and again in the period (14–70 A. D.) covered by the ‘Annals and histories.’... The second section is given to the subject which occupies nearly all that survives of the ‘Histories.’... Finally, he gives us an illuminating account of the struggle between Pompey and Caesar, which ended at Philippi.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“When one considers the circumstances in which research is alone possible to the author, the errors are trifling, nor do they matter much to the few who will verify them; but it is a pity that Dr. Hardy did not get a pupil to spend a few hours in checking the citations. The printing is not at all good. This is a pity, as the volume is indispensable to students of Roman military history.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 297. S. 11. 330w.

“These essays would be infinitely more instructive and interesting had maps been supplied in adequate number, and we trust that in any subsequent edition of this book almost the only flaw we have discovered in it may be removed.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 138. Jl. 31, ’09. 1000w.
=Spec.= 103: sup. 1008. Je. 26, ’09. 150w.

=Hardy, Rev. Edward John.=^{[12]} How to be happy though civil. **$1.
Scribner.

“Not a book of etiquet, of social forms, perfect familiarity with which, and scrupulous observation of which, may be, and often are, accompanied by boorishness, but a treatise on the root of true courtesy, which is breeding, delicacy of perception, or, as the author himself prefers to call it, ‘bushido.’ He points his moral and adorns it with many anecdotes.”—Ind.

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“A book that should do some good in a generation where it is, oh, so badly needed.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 1210. N. 25, ’09. 120w. + =Lit. D.= 39: 960. N. 27, ’09. 180w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 766. D. 4, ’09. 170w. + =Outlook.= 93: 515. O. 30, ’09. 170w. =Spec.= 103: 937. D. 4, ’09. 1350w.

=Häring, Theodor von.=^{[11]} Ethics of the Christian life; tr. from
the 2d German ed. by James S. Hill; with an introd. by Rev. W. D.
Morrison. (Theological translation lib., v. 25.) *$3. Putnam.

9–7568.

A work that regards modern ethics as “essentially psychological, and of the world,” instead of belonging “to the realm of the infinite.” “Specially valuable portions of the volume are those which contrast Roman Catholic with Protestant ethical teachings, and discuss at length various questions of social ethics. But it is indefensible to set Christian ethics in an unreal opposition to normative ethics. ‘I regard “Christian,”’ said Edward Caird, ‘as the permanent adjective by which we must define the growing ideal of humanity.’” (Outlook.)

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“The book labors under the disadvantage which is almost inevitable in a translation from the German, in that it employs a style and a vocabulary somewhat unfamiliar to English readers. Thus while the volume is full of wholesome suggestions on various ethical problems, and while it may be used with advantage and profit by those whose thinking is still dominated by the deductive method, it will seem to the student of empirical social ethics to-day like a survival of an outgrown method in the history of ethical science.” G. B. Smith.

+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 472. Jl. ’09. 430w.
=Outlook.= 93: 227. O. 2, ’09. 160w.

=Harker, Alfred.=^{[9]} Natural history of igneous rocks. *$3.
Macmillan. GS9–256.

“The scope of Harker’s work may be indicated by the titles of the chapters which are as follows: (1) Igneous action in relation to geology; (2) Vulcanicity; (3) Igneous intrusion; (4) Petrographical provinces; (5) Mutual relations of associated igneous rocks; (6) Igneous rocks and their constituents; (7) Rock-magmas; (8) Crystallization of rock-magmas; (9) Supersaturation and deferred crystallization; (10) Isomorphism and mixed crystals; (11) Structures of igneous rock; (12) Mineralisers and pneumatolysis: (13) Magmatic differentiation; (14) Hybridism in igneous rocks; (15) Classification of igneous rocks.”—J. Geol.

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“Mr. Harker’s new work stands, in many respects, alone, and is sure of a welcome. A book which could be written now only by one who is at the same time a geologist and a physicist, acquainted with the latest development of both sciences.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 157. Ag. 7. 1300w.

“It appears that the book is an excellent summary of our present knowledge, and well suited for use with advanced students of petrology.” A. N. W.

+ =J. Geol.= 17: 488. Jl. ’09. 700w.

“This is a book for the trained specialist, but it has a message for the layman. With unexcelled completeness and force, Mr. Harker has presented the latest ideas as to the nature and activities of the fluid material emanating from the earth’s interior.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 578. D. 9, ’09. 1050w.

“Mr. Harker has covered so wide a range and compressed so much information into this brief space that he has achieved a very large measure of success.” J. S. F.

+ =Nature.= 81: 331. S. 16, ’09. 1100w.

“Mr. Harker’s treatise is for the scholar, and almost for the specialist. It may not appeal even to all who regard themselves as trained geologists; but, on the other hand, there is much in it that will attract both the chemist and the physicist.”

+ =Sat. R.= 108: 446. O. 9, ’09. 1100w.

=Harland, Henry (Sydney Luska, pseud.).= Royal end: a romance. †$1.50.
Dodd.

9–5217.

A posthumous novel completed by the author’s wife. “The book is offered to us as the last the author wrote, and it was evidently composed during his years of ill-health. But for all that it is characteristic of him, gay, irresponsible, volatile, witty, and audacious.... There are a prince, an Englishman of good lineage, a beautiful American heiress, and a useful ‘property’ dog, besides other auxiliaries.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“There is little plot, the charm of the story lying in the clever conversation. Suffers by comparison with ‘The cardinal’s snuff box’ and ‘The lady paramount.’”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 148. My. ’09.

“If the fairy tale lacks at times the spontaneity of its predecessors, and is a little less bright and less neat of wit, that is attributable doubtless to the conditions under which it was written. Nevertheless it is an agreeable and entertaining romance, the slightness of which will not concern the admirers of the author’s work.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 312. Mr. 13. 240w.

“One never used to care whether anything was doing or not, and the earlier books could have been quite as shapeless as this (though they never were) and we would have snapped our fingers. It is the mannerisms without the manner, the abandonment without the abandon.” Algernon Tassin.

− + =Bookm.= 29: 409. Je. ’09. 1350w.

“The taste of the novel reader has changed since the ‘Cardinal’s snuff box’ was published, and for this reason ‘The royal end’ is not likely to be so popular.”

+ − =Ind.= 66: 1083. My. 20, ’09. 200w. + =Nation.= 88: 539. My. 27, ’09. 280w.

“Mrs. Harland has done her work faithfully, and it may seem ungracious to emphasize her failure to capture fully the charm of her husband’s style. None the less the story is a delightful one, and the royal end is quite as satisfying as it is unexpected.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 192. Ap. 3, ’09. 500w.

“It is a pleasant tale, not altogether probable in every part, not at all well planned as to construction, and saved only from mediocrity in that its conversation is often delicately humorous.”

+ − =Outlook.= 91: 814. Ap. 10, ’09. 60w.

“The last three of the seven parts are inferior.” H. W. Boynton.

+ − =Putnam’s.= 6: 493. Jl. ’09. 270w.

“The end of the book in America is not so well done.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 672. Ap. 24, ’09. 130w.

=Harnack, Adolf.=^{[6]} Acts of the apostles; tr. by J. R. Wilkinson.
(Crown theological lib. no. 27.) *$1.75. Putnam.

9–3372.

The third volume in Dr. Harnack’s studies on the Synoptic gospels and the Acts of the apostles. “In ‘Luke the physician’ he presented with convincing power the evidence on behalf of the Lukan authorship of the Acts; in the present volume he carries his investigations further and examines with characteristic thoroughness the internal evidence of the book as to date, sources, and historical value.” (Sat. R.) “He seeks a ‘more assured judgment’ as to the degree in which Acts is homogeneous, inquires into the sources and their trustworthiness, and seeks further proof of the identity of the writer of the we-sections with the author of the whole.” (Bib. World.)

* * * * *

“The whole is wrought out with Harnack’s characteristic minuteness of research and illuminating historical imagination.”

+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 647. O. ’09. 80w.

“The chapter which deals with the sources and their value will appeal to many readers as the most suggestive.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 294. S. 11. 700w.

“It presents a wealth of material relating to Acts, and interestingly exhibits Harnack’s notable method of inquiry. The translator’s failure to supply an index is deplorable.”

+ − =Bib. World.= 33: 216. Mr. ’09. 100w.

Reviewed by E. S. Drown.

=N. Y. Times.= 14: 258. Ap. 24, ’09. 400w.

“Whether we agree with him or not, we cannot but admire the clearness and breadth of view with which he treats the puzzling phenomena of the earlier chapters.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 664. My. 22, ’09. 250w.

“The thirty pages of introduction with which it opens are written with all his force and charm, but as a whole the book is technical, and will appeal chiefly to scholars.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: sup. 1008. Je. 26, ’09. 120w.

=Harnack, Adolf.=^{[6]} Mission and expansion of Christianity in the
first three centuries; tr. and ed. by James Moffatt. 2d ed. enl. and
rev. (Theological translation lib.) 2v. *$7. Putnam.

9–8426.

A translation of the second German edition. The two volumes “contain what is practically a history of the Church’s expansion during the first three centuries as it is viewed by a critic who rejects every detail and all data which can not be certified by the tests of modern criticism.” (Lit. D.) “For the ordinary reader the first volume is by far the more interesting. Its chapters are substantially monographs, dealing with characteristics of early Christianity and with the reasons of its success—reasons at once concerned with its own inward nature, with its organization, and with its relations both to Judaism and to the Roman world.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“More than ever in this enlarged form, and with these helpful maps, it will be indispensable for the interpretation of early Christian literature and still more of early Christian life, in the stirring and mysterious centuries before Eusebius and Constantine. We notice a few misprints.”

+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 495. Jl. ’09. 180w.

“As a critical, comprehensive survey of the extension of Christianity before Constantine this work is invaluable.”

+ =Bib. World.= 33: 357. My. ’09. 70w.

“This fresh and accurate work will hereafter be an indispensible manual in teaching or studying church history with critical thoroughness.”

+ =Lit. D.= 38: 901. My. 22, ’09. 400w.

“It has taken its place as one of Harnack’s most important contributions to the early history of Christianity. A word of praise should be said for the admirable translation of Dr. Moffatt.” E. S. Drown.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 258. Ap. 24, ’09. 400w.

=Harper, Charles George.=^{[10]} Tower of London: fortress, palace and
prison. **$2.50. Jacobs.

9–27770.

“An introduction, giving a brief history of the building as a whole, is followed by chapters that present in detail a full account and description of its several parts, with abundant reference to noted prisoners once lodged within its walls, and to the famous crimes and conspiracies and rebellions that furnished occupants for its cells and dungeons. Some of the horrors of old-time torture and execution are also revealed, while two chapters reproduce many elaborate stone-carvings to show how the weary captives sometimes beguiled the long hours by perpetuating their tragic memory or the memory of those dear to them.”—Dial.

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“Recent removal of certain restrictions has opened the Tower more extensively and freely to visitors than ever before, and this latest guide-book to its many points of historic interest is timely and valuable. The evident care and study that have gone to its making place it on a high level among books of its class.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 187. S. 16, ’09. 220w. + =Spec.= 102: 785. My. 15, ’09. 180w.

=Harper, George McLean.= Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve. (French men of
letters.) **$1.50. Lippincott.

9–9445.

A biography which gathers the conditioning elements of this noted French critic’s life, and presents them topically and chronologically. The author gives him a place with Taine and Renan in the intellectual triumverate of modern France, acknowledging him to be one of the world’s greatest critics in the broad sense—“a man who has thrown the light of reason upon all great questions of psychology, morality, religion, politics and art.”

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