Chapter XXXV: Part II: is composed of chapters on: Paris—a brief sketch for tourists; (5)

“From the time Field Marshal (now Earl) Haig assumed the chief command
of the British armies in France on December 19, 1915, until the close
of fighting at the end of 1918, he forwarded to the war office at
London in May and December of each year a summary of the operations
for the six months preceding. These were intended frankly for the
information of the people at home and were quite apart from the
detailed, confidential information sent daily from great headquarters
in France to the general staff at home. These statements have been
collected and edited by Lieut.-Col. J. H. Boraston, private secretary
to Earl Haig and published under the title ‘Sir Douglas Haig’s
despatches.’ The despatches, which number eight and fill 357 pages of
the heavy volume, are preceded by an introduction written by Marshal
Foch, and a preface by the field marshal himself. The volume is
accompanied by a number of carefully prepared, highly detailed maps in
large scale.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“For those desirous of studying the war as a military event, these
despatches furnish information of remarkable clearness and precision.
The splendid series of very large and detailed maps which accompanies
the volume, not only enables one to follow each detail of every
struggle, but appeals to the imagination.”

+ =No Am= 212:135 Jl ’20 2600w

“Altogether the volume is an invaluable aid to the student of the
campaigns that it describes.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 100w

“The civilian and the soldier alike may profit by reading and
re-reading the masterly despatches of Lord Haig.”

+ =Spec= 123:769 D 6 ’19 1000w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 23 ’20 950w

=HALDANE, RICHARD BURDON HALDANE, 1st viscount of Cloan.= Before the war. il *$2.50 (5½c) Funk 327.42

20–3879

The attitude of the author throughout is that of an impartial
investigator rather than an accuser. “Few wars are really inevitable,”
he says. “If we knew better how we should be careful to comport
ourselves it may be that none are so.... How some of those who were
deeply responsible for the conduct of affairs tried to think in the
anxious years before the war, and how they endeavored to apply their
conclusions, is what I have endeavored to state in the course of what
follows.” (Introd.) The book is based on personal, official experience
and contains several interviews of the author with the kaiser. In the
epilog, deprecating the harshness of the treaty, he says: “It is at
all events possible that the wider view of a generation later than
this may be one in which Germany will be judged more gently than the
Allies can judge her today. We do not now look on the French
revolution as our forefathers looked on it.... And here some
enlargement of the spirit seems to be desirable in our own interest.”
Contents: Introduction: Diplomacy before the war; The German attitude
before the war; The military preparations; Epilog; Index.

* * * * *

“As a defence of those in power it is sincere and in the blame for the
war attributed to Germany, temperate and generously sympathetic. The
style is admirable. Interesting for general readers and as a first
hand account.”

+ =Booklist= 17:66 N ’20

Reviewed by Sganarelle

+ =Dial= 68:799 Je ’20 250w

=Lit D= 64:116 Mr 13 ’20 1250w

“It goes without saying that Viscount Haldane makes out a good case
for Great Britain: but he does so in anything but a blindly
chauvinistic temper. Without anger or irritation, imputing sinister
motives to none, he deals honestly with the facts as he sees them and
presents his case with a patient and persuasive reasonableness that
lends an air of finality to his conclusions. Nevertheless, what
strikes one on reflection is that the discussion never goes below the
surface of things.” Carl Becker

+ − =Nation= 110:692 My 22 ’20 1600w

=Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 310w

“Great injustice has been done by the press and the public to Mr
Haldane’s work before the war as secretary of state.... The war being
over, Lord Haldane publishes his defence, which we hope everybody will
read, and having read, will admit to be a refutation of charges
hatched in the fever of fear.”

+ =Sat R= 129:187 F 21 ’20 1250w

“Lord Haldane’s defence of the policy adopted by the liberal
government towards Germany between 1906 and 1914 deserves attentive
reading. His little volume, mainly composed from the articles which he
has published recently in various periodicals, has been hastily put
together and contains a certain amount of repetition, but it is an
obviously sincere attempt to explain and justify a policy that has
brought much unmerited odium on the author.”

+ − =Spec= 124:83 Ja 17 ’20 950w

=HALE, FREDERICK.= From Persian uplands. *$5 Dutton 915.5

(Eng ed 20–11662)

“Mr Hale was stationed from 1913 to 1917 at Birjand, in eastern
Persia, and from 1917 onwards at Kermanshah, near the western
frontier. This book contains his letters to a friend at home,
describing the ordinary course of life in sleepy Persia, and touching
lightly on the German and Turkish intrigues and the measures taken to
counteract them. Mr Hale declares that the Persians are far more
intelligent than their neighbors, and that they only need good schools
and a tolerable administration. Mr Hale was engaged at Kermanshah in
the preparations for General Dunsterville’s romantic little expedition
to Baku.”—Spec

* * * * *

“Here is a vivid picture of Persia during the war made by one who can
describe his own times in delicate phrasing and neat speech.” R. C. T.

+ =Ath= p506 Ap 16 ’20 600w

“His comment on current topics ... is extremely diverting, always in
good taste, and enlivened with a dash of humor reminiscent of Howells.
It is the charming style and manner which make the book worth while.”

+ =Bookm= 52:272 N ’20 100w

“Mr Hale is a charming writer, and he evidently knows and likes the
Persian people. Thus his unpretentious book gives perhaps a truer
picture of modern Persia than some more ambitious works.”

+ =Spec= 124:526 Ap 17 ’20 220w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p248 Ap 22 ’20 530w

=HALE, LOUISE (CLOSSER) (MRS WALTER HALE).= American’s London. il *$2 (1½c) Harper 914.21

20–26752

An American actress goes to London for a season and talks wittily and
ramblingly about her experiences on and off the stage. She gives many
a glimpse of the aftermath of the war in London streets, in London
houses, and in London heads in the form of opinions and judgments. The
book is illustrated.

* * * * *

“Pleasing, spontaneously humorous, keen often, and clever, though the
author’s self-consciousness will seem to some to be intrusive.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:111 D ’20

“From her first page to her last, Mrs Hale is distinctly entertaining.
Her philosophy of life is a genial one and her style of presenting it
agreeably light and pleasantly tinged with humor.” F. A. G.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 29 ’20 870w

“Mrs Hale has a very pleasant style, a nice discrimination in the
incidents she relates, and a gently humorous way of recording her
experiences that makes her book delightful reading.”

+ =Lit D= p94 N 20 ’20 1550w

“‘An American’s London’ is no solemn study of social economics, but it
is fully as illuminating as a dozen scholarly tomes and far more
likely to make an impression on the lay reader’s memory. Its pages are
lightened by a sprightly sense of humor, and the enjoyment of reading
is further heightened by the author’s generous sharing of her most
intimate confidences.”

+ =N Y Times= p10 S 26 ’20 2200w

“The book is more Hale than London, but under the circumstances who
would have it otherwise?”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 21 ’20 280w

=HALE, WILLIAM BAYARD.= Story of a style. *$2 Huebsch

An analysis of President Wilson’s literary style by the author of
“Woodrow Wilson; the story of his life.” “Mr Woodrow Wilson,” says the
author, “is a man of words.... What he has accomplished—and his has
been a wonderful record of accomplishment—has been accomplished
through statement, argument, appeal. His scepter is his—pen; his sword
is his—tongue; his realm is that of—words. Therefore it ought to be,
it infallibly will be, in his language that Mr Wilson’s real self will
be revealed.” Beginning with the essay on “Cabinet government in the
United States,” written at the age of twenty-two, Mr Hale examines Mr
Wilson’s writings and speeches, pointing out his excessive use of
adjectives, his habits of repetition and interrogation, etc., and
drawing his inferences therefrom. The book was written before the
President fell sick, and was completed on Sept. 26, 1919. Contents:
Prophetic symptoms; Aristocratic affectations; Learned addictions;
Symbolism; Phonetic phenomena; Doubt and the flight from the fact; A
typical manuscript; Concerning popular repute; The story of the League
of nations speeches.

=HALL, AMANDA BENJAMIN.=[2] Blind wisdom. *$1.90 (1½c) Jacobs

20–17531

Joan Wister was and remained a character of incorruptible sincerity
and spontaneity. Because she was clear as crystal and trusted her own
impulses she was a puzzle. Expelled from boarding school on account of
her inconvenient questionings of the things that were taught her, she
found a friend in Jerry Callendar, her brother-in-law’s law partner.
For years he was her friend, adviser and father confessor and when one
day Joan found herself precipitantly in love with Bret Ballou and her
course beset with obstacles and temptations more than she could bear,
she fled to Jerry for protection and demanded that he should marry
her, the better to secure this end. Although Jerry truly loved her he
took upon himself the rôle of protector only and for a year even gave
her every chance to try out her infatuation for Bret. Before the end
of the year the make believe marriage had gone through various stages,
finally arriving at the real thing.

* * * * *

“The entire book has many delightful descriptions, and some bits of
whimsy humor. The ending of the story with its subduing veil of
pathos, is a flash of pure inspiration, worthy of the poet as well as
the novelist.” W. T. R.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ’20 600w

“In Joan Miss Hall shows to great advantage not only as a teller of
tales but as an acute and dramatic delineator of character.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 D 4 ’20 520w

Reviewed by Marguerite Fellows

=Pub W= 98:1886 D 18 ’20 260w

=HALL, ARNOLD BENNETT.= Monroe doctrine and the great war. (National social science ser.) *75c McClurg 327

20–2059

“The author has aimed ‘to present in simple form an accurate but brief
account of the origin and development of the doctrine and some of its
relations to the present problems of peace.’ He concludes that the
League of nations is the logical method of extending the principles of
the Monroe doctrine to the larger diplomatic problems of the
present.”—Booklist

* * * * *

“The narrative is generally clear and in most respects quite
conventional.” J. S. R.

+ =Am Hist R= 26:150 O ’20 370w

“A convenient summary.”

+ =Booklist= 16:262 My ’20

+ =Dial= 68:669 My ’20 80w

“Professor Hall furnishes us with a compendious account of the Monroe
doctrine, which not only skillfully skims the cream from more
extensive compilations, but churns it, salts it, and serves it up
ready for the table. When, however, it comes to making bread and
butter of the doctrine and the covenant, Mr Hall’s success is not
conspicuous.” E. S. Corwin

+ − =Review= 3:70 Jl 21 ’20 1100w

=HALL, GRACE.= Stories of the saints. *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday 922

20–7587

“For children, young and old” these stories of the saints are retold
in the form of legends. The contents fall into two parts. Some of the
saints whose story is told in part 1 are St Thomas, in The palace of
Gondoforus; St Patrick; St Bridgit of Kildare; St Ursula and the
eleven thousand virgins; St Edward’s smile, and the seven sleepers; St
Louis of France; St Margaret of Scotland; St Anthony of Padua; St
Elizabeth of Hungary. Part 2 under the caption “The saints and their
humble friends” contains in part: St Francis, the birds and the
beasts; St Roch and his dog; St Deicolus and the wild boar; St Felix
and the spider. The chronological order of the saints gives a list of
the saints according to their century and one according to their days.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:316 Je ’20

=HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY.= Morale, the supreme standard of life and conduct. *$3 Appleton 170

20–13129

The background of this book, as the war-term “morale” suggests, is the
war. The author holds that the war itself revealed the bankruptcy of
the old criteria and that our human standards and values must now be
subjected to a redefinition. This the book sets out to do, using
morale with a psychophysic connotation in its individual, industrial
and social applications. “It implies the maximum of vitality, life
abounding, getting and keeping in the very center of the current of
creative evolution; and minimizing, destroying, or avoiding all
checks, arrests, and inhibitions to it.” (Chapter I) The long list of
contents is in part: Morale as a supreme standard; Morale, patriotism
and health; The morale of placards, slogans, decorations, and war
museums; Conscientious objectors and diversities of patriotic ideals;
The soldier ideal and its conservation in peace; The labor problem;
Morale and feminism; Morale and education; Morale and “The Reds”;
Morale and religion; Bibliography.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:6 O ’20

“Of course, Dr Hall has many valuable things to say in his book. He
colors up his quasi-physical norm of morality with a good dash now and
again of Christian sentiment. Still it is a pity that he, like so many
of our ‘advanced’ collegiate thinkers, can find so little room for
Christ.”

− + =Cath World= 112:696 F ’21 490w

“The book is keenly analytic, a little coloured by the Freudian trend
of what philosophy people will read nowadays, but helpful in its
breadth and application, to any one concerned with studying or
directing the rest of the race.” E. P.

+ =Dial= 70:109 Ja ’21 90w

“The style of the book under review is symbolic of its weakness. It
appears to be the product of what he calls ‘exuberant, euphorious, and
eureka moments.’” Preserved Smith

− =Nation= 111:595 N 24 ’20 780w

“Some of the psychologic explanations in this volume are undoubtedly
ingenious. But as to the reality of the facts which he explains it is
not so easy to be certain. But considerations of fact are, after all,
not primary in the author’s regard. He believes that facts ‘cannot and
must not’ change certain treasured beliefs.”

− + =New Repub= 24:126 S 29 ’20 1400w

“No writer of modern times has so completely freed himself from every
vestige of scholastic methods, nor dared so freely to apply to
religion, ethics, education and social reconstruction, every last and
newest product of psychogenetic, psychoanalytic, experimental and
differential psychology. The result is that Dr Hall’s style is
peculiarly stimulating, refreshing and invigorating.” G. T. W. Patrick

+ =N Y Times= p18 O 24 ’20 1300w

“To speak seriously, these vivacious lectures are the readable
improvisations of a clever ready writer who possesses a facility of
association that Emerson would have envied, but who persistently
overworks and overloads his faculty or facility with undigested
reminiscences of his German studies and his subsequent dabblings in
all the sciences and all the philosophies.” Paul Shorey

− + =Review= 3:378 O 27 ’20 1600w

“Dr Hall’s views will often be found ‘stimulating’ for their
independence, whether one agrees with them or not. But there is no
groundwork of a new ethics or new sociology here. As with some other
books of Dr Hall’s, better organization of the material and more
careful writing would improve this one.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 1400w

“On the whole the work will hardly enhance the reputation of the
author of ‘Adolescence.’ First presented as a series of lectures
during the war, it reveals in many places the highly colored effects
induced by war-time emotions. Besides it views the psychologic
features in life out of all due proportion.” H: Neumann

− =Survey= 45:332 N 27 ’20 280w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p782 N 25 ’20 190w

=HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY.= Recreations of a psychologist. *$2.50 Appleton

20–20441

“Vacation skits” the author calls this collection of short stories,
whose merit he claims to be their illustration of psychological
principles. The first of these stories, “The fall of Atlantis,” is a
new version of the Platonic myth, and records what happened to the
world after the year 2000—the record purporting to have been made by
the writer’s subliminal self while his conscious mind was in a state
of amnesia. The other stories are: How Johnnie’s vision came true; A
conversion; Preëstablished harmony—a midsummer revery of a
psychologist; Getting married in Germany; A man’s adventure in
domestic industries; A leap year romance; Note on early memories.

* * * * *

“Dr Hall is in error when he styles his work in these fields ‘crude
and amateurish if judged from the standpoint of literature’; he is
right when he claims a distinct merit for it as a means to the
enunciation of scientific principles. The literary touch and the
psychological implication characterize the book throughout.” E. N.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 8 ’20 500w

=HALL, HERSCHEL SALMON.= Steel preferred. *$2 Dutton

20–12451

“‘Steel preferred’ is a punning title, the point being that Wellington
Gay, born and brought up in the steel industry, can not be tempted
away from it. There his personal success or failure must be made, and
which it may be is a matter of secondary importance. Steel is his
lode-star and his love. All he asks is to be permitted to take a hand
somehow, somewhere, in the great game of steel-making. Chance takes
him away from Steelburg, as chance has brought him there—in the same
boxcar, to round out the coincidence. He has an uncommon knack for
clerical work, and is presently offered a promising position in a city
office. But chance once more sets him down at Steelburg, and the old
spell takes him. Once more he becomes a cheerful drudge, overworked,
unrecognized, and happy in the service of his mistress Steel. He is
discovered after a while by a new manager, and given his first step
upwards on the climb from roustabout to master of Steelburg. The point
is that, whether as roustabout or ‘old man,’ the main thing with him
is love of work and not love of personal reward or ‘success.’”—Review

* * * * *

“Boys and men will like this.”

+ =Booklist= 17:32 O ’20

“A good story well told and a vivid picture of the life of a big steel
plant are combined in this very readable novel.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:26 Jl 25 ’20 420w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:214 S 8 ’20 650w

“An entertaining and inspiring story.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 220w

=HALL, JAMES NORMAN, and NORDHOFF, CHARLES BERNARD=, eds. Lafayette flying corps; associate editor, Edgar G. Hamilton. 2v il *$15 Houghton 940.44

20–17744

“In offering this record of the Lafayette flying corps to the families
and friends of the men who served in it, and to the public at large,
the editors feel that a few words of explanation are necessary. Their
purpose has been twofold: to furnish a record as complete and
authentic as possible, and to reconstruct an atmosphere.” (Preface)
The contents of the first volume comprise: The origin of the
Escadrille Américaine; The Escadrille Lafayette at the front; The
Lafayette flying corps and Biographical sketches. Volume 2 is devoted
wholly to letters and personal reminiscences, arranged under the
headings: Enlistment and early training; Adventures in action; Life on
the front; Combats; Prisoners of war. Lists of dead, wounded,
prisoners of war, etc. are given in an appendix. The volumes are very
fully illustrated.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:108 D ’20

“One hoped, upon learning that such a history was to appear, that at
least a fair proportion of the possibilities might be compassed, and
it is a great satisfaction to find in the finished book these hopes
more than realized and expectations generally surpassed. The editors
are to be congratulated and heartily thanked for their achievement.”
J. W. D. Seymour

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 1100w

+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 120w

“The brief biographies are touched off, not always quite happily, with
the jocularity of a college class book. Everything is written from the
point of view of the insider. Thus the outsider will have to pick and
choose. The picking, however, is excellent.” F. J. Mather

+ − =Review= 3:476 N 17 ’20 640w

=HALLIBURTON, WILLIAM DOBINSON, ed.= Physiology and national needs. *$4 Dutton 613

(Eng ed SG20–168)

“The physiologists in this country and in England were called upon
during the war to give expert advice in food rationing, food
conservation, health preservation, etc., and a series of public
lectures on these topics given at King’s college by men of eminence in
their profession have now been edited by Mr Halliburton. Some of them
are worthy of special notice owing to the amount of new scientific
knowledge they contain, knowledge that as yet has hardly penetrated
beyond well-informed medical circles. Such, for example is the lecture
by Professor Hopkins on vitamines. In the lecture by Professor Harden
on scurvy a great deal of new and important information is collected
and presented. In the article by Professor Dendy on ‘The conservation
of our cereal reserves’ the difficulties connected with the storage of
grain are described, and evidence is given for the great saving that
might be effected by the adoption of a system of air-tight
storage.”—Review

* * * * *

=Ath= p418 Mr 26 ’20 1300w

“The book as a whole is extraordinarily interesting from many
different aspects, as much perhaps for the questions it asks as for
those it answers.” A. E. B.

+ − =Nature= 105:286 Mr 6 ’20 1000w

“The addresses selected for publication are well written in popular
style, free from scientific terminology, and may be read with profit
by any intelligent person interested in such topics.”

+ =Review= 3:505 N 24 ’20 370w

“In all probability the reader will find the first three lectures
dealing with foods and vitamines the most interesting of the series,
but each one is well worth studying.”

+ =Spec= 124:870 Je 26 ’20 1200w

=HAMBIDGE, JAY.= Dynamic symmetry: the Greek vase, il *$6 Yale univ. press 738

20–15783

“The life-suggesting quality of Greek art by which generation after
generation of art-lovers have been impressed is the true theme of the
book. To get back of appearances to the source of this quality has
been a task occupying more than twenty years of the author’s
concentrated mental labor. Why should the Greek masterpieces suggest
the life and growth of nature in their design while inferior designs
suggest inertia and fail to stimulate the mind? The secret was simple
enough, although it has called for an elaborate and extended process
of proving by mathematical tests. It consists in the fact that the
Greeks did all their measuring for works of art in areas, and that by
finding the proportions of these areas in growing organisms such as
plants, and especially the human figure, they provided themselves with
a guide to the arrangement of areas in design that enabled them to
capture vitality in all their works.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“The make-up of the book is beautiful and the illustrations and
general idea are interesting to the lay student, though the study of
the text is for the artist.”

+ =Booklist= 17:60 N ’20

“What seems to distinguish this study is the effort, apparently quite
subconsciously made, to cover the whole matter with an air of mystery.
This has been done by the familiar device, prehistoric in origin and
perennial in its growth, of creating a new vocabulary. Stripped of its
mystery and set forth in simple language it would have been an
interesting work.” D: E. Smith

− + =Nation= 111:326 S 18 ’20 1600w

“A contribution to the literature of art more searching and revealing
than anything published within this field during the last century.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:20 Jl 4 ’20 1700w

“On the side of aesthetic appreciation ‘Dynamic symmetry’ affords, at
least to one critic, very little help.... Mr Hambidge’s patient and
modestly presented researches should cause a restudy of the whole
problem, which can only be beneficial.” F. J. Mather, Jr.

+ − =Review= 3:456 N 10 ’20 1400w

“In this book through his re-discovery of the principles used by the
Greek artists of the classic age, Mr Hambidge has opened up a new
field in modern art.”

+ =School Arts Magazine= 20:187 N ’20 70 w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 13 ’20 110w

“At first sight his results appear little short of marvellous, and yet
it may be doubted whether they are so convincing as appears to their
author.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p700 O 28 ’20 1750w

=HAMILTON, CICELY MARY.= William—an Englishman. *$1.25 (2c) Stokes

20–8361

Mild-mannered, pale-faced, undersized, painstaking and obedient—thus
is William Tully characterized in this biographical novel. At his desk
in a London insurance office he is vaguely conscious that his too well
regulated life has been ordered by his masterful mother. Her sudden
death leaves him adrift and chance lands him among the reformers. Like
a new garment he puts on their cult and convictions, finds him a wife
among them—and is surprised by the war while on his honeymoon in
Belgium. Inwardly and outwardly his world collapses about him and his
wife is crushed in the ruins. Stunned he returns to England, his
pacifism changed into patriotism. After several rejections he is
accepted in the army and eventually finds himself caught in the
rat-trap of a military clerkship from whence he is rescued from
growing bitterness by an aerial bomb.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:32 O ’20

“The book is earnest, realistic and very well written, the emotional
and dramatic portions of it getting a real hold on the reader’s
imagination. It is an unpretentious volume, and a very moving, very
interesting one.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:307 Je 13 ’20 400w

“Vividness of characters and a keen study of human emotions under
abnormal strain, are the more noticeable traits of ‘William—an
Englishman.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 300w

=HAMILTON, CLAYTON MEEKER.= Seen on the stage. *$1.75 (3c) Holt 792

20–21431

The author wishes this informal collection of essays to be considered
as a suffix to his other books on the theatre. In the first paper,
“Life and the theatre,” he quotes the Athenians who regarded our world
as “the valley of soulmaking” and states that the aim of art should be
to provide a sense of life for men who, in themselves, are not
sufficiently alive to create art by their very living. Some of the
other papers are: Personal greatness on the stage; Hero-worship in the
drama; Acting and impersonation; The laziness of Bernard Shaw; Satire
on the American stage; Le Théâtre du Vieux Colombier; In praise of
puppet-theatres; Understanding the Russians; Ibsen once again; The
Jewish art-theatre; Booth Tarkington as a playwright; The Athenian
drama and the American audience; A reminiscence of the Middle
Ages—Guibour; Edmond Rostand. The book is indexed.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:144 Ja ’21

“One of his most thorough criticisms is that of Eugene O’Neill, whom
he thinks the greatest dramatist of the present day. Other essays in
the volume are of less importance; they are correct but commonplace,
and interesting chiefly for the gossip they contain.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 160w

“He has studied the drama of the past as thoroughly as he has mastered
the drama of the present. In other words, his preparation for dramatic
criticism is far more than adequate; it is exceptionally ample. To
this substantial equipment for his task he adds also the other three
qualifications which a critic ought to possess—insight and sympathy
and disinterestedness.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= p4 Ja 30 ’21 1600w

=HAMILTON, COSMO.= Blue room. il *$1.90 (2c) Little

20–18662

Bill Mortimer comes back from the war with an intense desire to settle
down and be happy with a wife and family. His past has been lurid, and
he has memories locked in his “Blue room” which he wishes he could
forget. His pal, Teddy Jedburgh, on the other hand, having walked the
paths of rectitude in his youth, is inclined to kick over the traces
and go the pace now. Both men fall in love with the same girl, a “Miss
Respectable,” a “flower of a girl, with the dew on her and a morning
hymn in her eyes.” Bill is the successful suitor and plans for the
wedding are quickly made. Then just on the eve of the ceremony, Martha
discovers Bill’s blue room, and, disillusioned and bitter, knows not
which way to turn. It is Teddy who decides for her whether she shall,
at the last moment, run away and refuse to marry Bill, or, letting the
dead past bury its dead, carry on and marry him.

* * * * *

“The tale is told in a style of consistent and complacent banality,
the very style of the movie commentator.” H. W. Boynton

− =Bookm= 52:342 Ja ’21 360w

=N Y Evening Post= p10 N 6 ’20 100w

“The plot, which is rather simple, at times dovetails in too smoothly
to convince the reader. But once it gets fairly under way it carries
the reader along without a hitch, to the very end.”

+ − =N Y Times= p18 N 7 ’20 500w

Reviewed by Caroline Singer

=Pub W= 98:1194 O 16 ’20 320w

=HAMILTON, COSMO.= His friend and his wife. il *$1.75 (3c) Little

20–6492

A story of the Quaker Hill colony, an exclusive residential community
within commuting distance of New York. Julian Osborn has been
unfaithful to his wife and Margaret Meredith to her husband, but in
the divorce proceedings a false alibi is provided for Margaret and she
returns to her husband, resolved to be a model wife and mother
henceforward. Julian and Daisy Osborn are also reconciled, and altho
Daisy knows the truth, as do several other people, she joins in the
conspiracy to shield Bob Meredith. Their plans are upset however. Mary
Miller, the girl who out of gratitude to Margaret had sworn herself to
be the guilty party, becomes engaged to one of the colony’s popular
young men and the wife of the lawyer who arranged this false
testimony, herself a malicious gossip, tells the truth. Tragedy is
averted and affairs are settled to everyone’s satisfaction.

* * * * *

“Readable as Mr Hamilton’s style is, it must be admitted that he is
not without his difficulties. It must be confessed that there is
tedium in the triteness of some of his ideas and situations.” D. L. M.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 500w

“The background, cleverly and entertainingly sketched, is very much
better than the overdrawn story.”

+ − =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w

“Utterly unconvincing story.”

− =N Y Times= 25:237 My 9 ’20 350w

“Mr Hamilton’s story moves swiftly and keeps the reader intent on the
disentangling of the threads. Two characters stand out clearly—the
self-made inventor and the worldly-wise, kindly woman who dominates
her little circle.” H. Dick

+ =Pub W= 97:994 Mr 20 ’20 180w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 180w

=HAMILTON, ERNEST WILLIAM, lord.= Elizabethan Ulster. *$6 Dutton 941.5

(Eng ed 20–655)

“‘Elizabethan Ulster’ is an account of the stormy days of that Irish
province during the reign of Elizabeth of England. Ulster then was in
continuous strife with one or another—and occasionally practically
all—of the great Irish chieftains, who resisted the English attempt to
overrun and colonize their lands. The greater part of the book is
given over to the rebellion of the three Hughs—O’Neil, O’Donnell and
Macguire—in which most of the chiefs participated. The movement is
traced in detail from its earliest stages until after the battle of
Kinsale. The closing chapters deal with a few later and weaker revolts
and the flight of the Ulster Earls, Tyrone and Tyrconnell, to the
continent in the reign of King James.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

=Ath= p415 My 30 ’19 120w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 5 ’20 550w

Reviewed by Preserved Smith

=Nation= 110:555 Ap 24 ’20 500w

“It is a dull thing that he has given us, but not without its value.
The chief fault of his work is his obvious inability to think himself
back into an environment and a mode of life quite different from that
of the year 1920.” H. L. Stewart

+ − =Review= 2:284 Mr 20 ’20 320w

“Every student of the history of Ulster must obtain this most valuable
handbook. The publishers have, however, been so remiss as to send it
out without either an index or even a table of contents.”

+ − =Sat R= 127:634 Je 28 ’19 420w

“Lord Ernest Hamilton’s handling of the subject is throughout
wonderfully impartial; there are one or two generalizations which
betray the side to which his feelings incline him, but he allows no
personal prepossessions to interfere with an unbiassed presentation of
the facts. The defects of his book are only incidental.”

+ − =Spec= 122:700 My 31 ’19 1700w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 22 ’20 260w

“The atmosphere of war-time journalism has penetrated Lord Ernest’s
historical study, and even his phraseology has occasionally suffered.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p332 Je 19 ’19 1500w

“‘Elizabethan Ulster’ fails, and partially for lack of the qualities
of imagination and felicity of phrase.”

− =Yale R= n s 10:209 O ’20 150w

=HAMILTON, FREDERICK SPENCER, lord.= Vanished pomps of yesterday. *$4 (4c) Doran

(Eng ed 20–10129)

This is the second and revised edition of “some random reminiscences
of a British diplomat.” His official duties took the author to Rome,
Austria, Russia, Germany, Portugal, Brazil and Paraguay and he chats
pleasantly of the life he saw. On the pomp and circumstance, the
glitter and glamour of the three great courts of eastern Europe the
curtain has now been rung down definitely, is his final verdict. There
is an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:84 N ’20

“Seldom does one find a book more completely enjoyable than this
collection of the random memories of a British diplomat. It is an
ideal companion for an idle hour—an excellent article for suitcase or
bedside table—a mine of precious anecdotes.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 11 ’20 1900w

“His volume really deserves the reviewer’s conventional praise of
being impossible to lay down, if once begun. It is as fascinating as
it is informing.” Archibald MacMechan

+ =Review= 3:348 O 20 ’20 900w

“The Russian chapters are the best in this engaging chronicle.”

+ =Spec= 123:815 D 13 ’19 1800w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 29 ’20 800w

“There is nothing either indiscreet or malicious in his narrative; for
all his lightness of touch, it is concerned with essentials, not with
accidents; with conditions that were the growth of centuries, not with
moods that are ephemeral; and its interest is permanent rather than
startling.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p644 N 13 ’19 800w

=HAMILTON, SIR IAN STANDISH MONTEITH.= Gallipoli diary. 2v il *$10 Doran 940.42

(Eng ed 20–10127)

The author gives as his reason for keeping a diary during the
Gallipoli campaign, his experiences with the Royal commission after
the South African war. Never again would he trust his military memory
without the black and white of his diary. It was a help to him in his
work at the time, and he expects it to be his justification before the
verdict of his comrades. Volume one dates from March 1915 to July 1915
and volume two from July to October 1915. There are illustrations,
maps and an index.

* * * * *

“It is not so much for its literary qualities—for these have been a
little exaggerated—that the book is one to read, but for the insight
which it gives into a mind extremely sensitive to impressions not only
of actual experience, but of the imagination. What he calls ‘the
detachment of the writer’ enabled him to look at his force, his
superiors, his subordinates, and, above all, himself, as elements in a
stirring picture.” O. W.

+ =Ath= p795 Je 18 ’20 1500w

“It is a tragical story Sir Ian tells, but tells with all the art of a
poet and the precision of a soldier.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p12 D 8 ’20 1700w

“Sir Ian exposes the system he represents in its horrible imbecility.
His ‘Diary’ has changed the barrenness of disaster into a world
service. As a member of the tribunal he selects, I vote for his
acquittal.” W: J. M. A. Maloney

+ =Nation= 111:sup653 D 8 ’20 2000w

“It is the personal narrative of the failure of a great man in a great
adventure. It is history more enthralling than any fiction.” F. L.
Minnigen

+ =N Y Times= p9 N 7 ’20 1900w

“As the reader turns page after page of these volumes he may be
surprised to find that he is getting not only a valuable narration of
a particularly interesting campaign; he will find that the military
man who writes the account is frequently capable of brilliantly
atmospheric and poetic text.”

+ =Outlook= 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 130w

“For the general public the greatest charm of his diary lies in its
characterizations of great leaders like Kitchener and Churchill, and
its sketches of the principal officers of the expedition. At the same
time military experts will find in its pages much new and valuable
material by way of criticism of war policy.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 150w

“We confess that, while the matter of the narrative absorbs our
interest, we are repelled by the slangy style in which it is written.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:518 Je 5 ’20 1400w

=Spec= 124:762 Je 5 ’20 1400w

=HAMMOND, ARTHUR.= Pictorial composition in photography. il *$3.50 (7c) Am. photographic pub. co. 770

20–11849

This work by the associate editor of American Photography takes up
such subjects as spacing, mass, linear perspective, line composition
applied to figure studies, tones in portraiture, etc. A knowledge of
elementary principles is taken for granted and for the technical and
scientific aspects of photography the reader is referred to other
volumes in the series. The author’s purpose here is “to try to point
out to the artist in photography some of the universally recognized
rules of composition, and to give as much practical help as is
possible in dealing with a phase of artistic work in which the
personal equation is so important a factor.” (Chapter 1) The book is
beautifully illustrated with forty-nine pictures from photographs.

* * * * *

“The simple, common-sense suggestions about picture-making in this
book, backed as they are by thorough technical knowledge and wide
experience, will make the volume of real, practical use to ambitious
amateur photographers. The ‘soft-focus’ illustrations hardly do
justice to the text.”

+ − =Outlook= 125:715 Ag 25 ’20 50w

“Nothing that the most ambitious worker may need is omitted by the
author, whose equipment for the self-imposed task is remarkably
complete. Modesty and self-repression, rather than egotism and
presumption, characterize the mental attitude of the author throughout
his engrossing volume.”

+ =Photo-Era= 45:104 Ag ’20 760w

=HAMMOND, DARYN.= Golf swing, the Ernest Jones method. il *$3 Brentano’s 796

(Eng ed 20–16277)

“Mr Hammond sets forth the views of Ernest Jones, the Chislehurst
professional, on the golf swing, and they certainly deserve a
sympathetic and attentive hearing, because Jones’s swing has stood the
severest possible test. In March, 1916, he lost his right leg just
below the knee, in France.... His new gospel, very briefly put, is
that the golfer should first get a clear ‘mental picture’ of the shot
he wants to play, then concentrate his mind entirely on the right
action of hands and fingers, and let everything else take care of
itself.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“The book is an interesting contribution to the theory of golf, but,
in our opinion at least, it is too narrow in its range, and too
exhaustive in that range, for a satisfactory volume of instruction.”
B. R. Redman

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 4 ’20 110w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 19 ’20 130w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p287 My 6 ’20)

“Despite its reiterations the book contains much that is interesting
as well as original.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p287 My 6 ’20 250w

=HAMMOND, JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON and HAMMOND, BARBARA (BRADBY) (MRS JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON HAMMOND).= Skilled labourer, 1760–1832. *$4.50 (*12s 6d) Longmans 330.942

20–4494

“A companion volume to the valuable works by the same writers on ‘The
village labourer’ and ‘The town labourer.’ In the latter they
described the new life of town and factory introduced by the
industrial revolution; they now give the history during the same
period of particular bodies of skilled workers:—Miners of the Tyne;
The cotton workers; The woollen and worsted workers; The Spitalfields
silk weavers; The frame work knitters; The Nottingham, Lancashire, and
Yorkshire Luddites.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“This story is not new: but the full and authoritative account of it
is, and the historian may here find source-material for which he might
otherwise search many weary months. The authors have done their work
well. One wishes that they might have been a little less liberal, in
the more technical sense of that word, in their attitude toward the
ruling classes of the early nineteenth century.” W. P. Hall

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:324 Ja ’21 800w

“Despite the singularly felicitous style which is the endowment of the
Hammonds, and despite the human interest of the book, it will not,
probably, prove as charming to the general reader as ‘The village
labourer.’” W. F. Woodring

+ − =Am J Soc= 26:364 N ’20 1050w

“Unfortunately there is not much information concerning the relation
of labor to the development of English politics during the period
prior to the great reform statute, although this aspect of things is
not wholly neglected.”

+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:362 My ’20 110w

“There can be no question as to the very great merits of Mr and Mrs
Hammond’s achievement. They have deservedly taken their place in the
front rank of social or industrial historians. Their work is
conscientious, scholarly, well written, of the greatest interest and
the highest importance, and they have the instinct of the born
‘researcher.’ The authors are, however, content to let the facts speak
for themselves.” L. W.

+ − =Ath= p76 Ja 16 ’20 1800w

“In view of the present industrial disturbances this intensive study
of an earlier upheaval, written with interesting fact upon interesting
fact, is illuminating.”

+ =Booklist= 17:12 O ’20

“The whole work is a splendid example of enlightened industry and
painstaking care, and takes its place immediately among the great
classics of English sociological literature.”

+ =Cath World= 111:404 Je ’20 290w

+ =Dial= 68:671 My ’20 100w

“The book is more impartial in its discussion of social questions than
the two earlier volumes of the series; though the introduction, which
describes the England of the period in terms of ‘civil war,’ is surely
an exaggeration.”

+ =Eng Hist R= 35:624 O ’20 390w

“Brilliant volume. It is in no way inferior to its predecessors, than
which there is hardly greater praise.” H. J. Laski

+ =Nation= 110:594 My 1 ’20 200w

=Sat R= 129:188 F 21 ’20 1350w

“Readers who bear in mind the course of politics and of the Napoleonic
wars will have in this book a really instructive commentary, from the
workman’s standpoint, on the revolution then proceeding in British
industry.”

+ =Spec= 124:243 F 21 ’20 1000w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 F 7 ’20 90w

“Its timeliness quite apart, this history is one of the most
fascinating ever written—perhaps because it renders articulate the
masses of toiling people by fitting into a large, animated picture the
thoughts, actions and sufferings of obscure individuals; perhaps also
because it explains these chronicles with skilful and sympathetic
psychological search for motives and current beliefs. It cannot be
recommended too warmly.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 44:313 My 29 ’20 140w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p771 D 18 ’19 80w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p95 F 12 ’20 1950w

=HAMMOND, MATTHEW BROWN.= British labor conditions and legislation during the war. *$1 Oxford; pa gratis Carnegie endowment for international peace 331

19–19930

One of the Preliminary economic studies of the war issued by the
Carnegie endowment for international peace. Contents: The social
background: English industry and labor at the outbreak of the war;
Industrial panic and readjustment; The government and the trade
unions; The munitions of war acts; The supply and distribution of
labor; The dilution of labor; Wages, cost of living, hours of labor,
welfare work and unemployment; Industrial unrest; Industrial
reconstruction; Index. The author is professor of economics, Ohio
state university, and was a member of the United States food
administration.

* * * * *

Reviewed by Edith Abbott

+ =Am Econ R= 10:841 D ’20 160w

“This is a useful compilation but not altogether a mature treatment of
the subject. The garnering has been conscientiously done, and the
presentation is full, informing, and lucid.” H. L. Gray

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:550 Ap ’20 400w

Reviewed by E. H. Sutherland

+ =Am J Soc= 26:370 N ’20 150w

=Ath= p353 Mr 12 ’20 100w

“We cannot help feeling that Professor Hammond could have added a
great deal to the value of his book without unduly enlarging its bulk
if he had relied less complacently on the material which he found
ready to his hand. His work gives no indication of far-reaching
research or first-hand acquaintance with British conditions. Yet it
has considerable merit. It is clear and easy in style and remarkably
unbiased.” G. S.

+ − =Ath= p442 Ap 2 ’20 500w

“An interesting preliminary survey written in an uncritical historical
way.”

+ =Booklist= 16:262 My ’20

Reviewed by C. C. Plehn

+ =Nation= 111:379 O 6 ’20 190w

“The volume gives a documentary history of the reactions of the war on
labor in England which future students will find invaluable.” H. W. L.

+ =Socialist R= 8:252 Mr ’20 100w

“Within its limits the present study is of the highest value. The
present reviewer has found it accurate on the matters he happens to
know about, and sufficiently detailed to make clear the intentions of
the legislature even on comparatively small points.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 43:781 Mr 20 ’20 300w

=HAMSUN, KNUT.= Hunger. *$2.50 (3½c) Knopf

20–21963

The book has been translated from the Norwegian by George Egerton and
has an introduction by Edwin Björkman. It is an epic of hunger. A
young writer has fallen on evil days and is condemned to long spells
of hunger between the acceptances of articles now and then by some
paper. The physical privations he undergoes are only casually
described but the psychology of hunger is enlarged upon with
distressing detail. There is black despair suddenly replaced by
fantastic mirth, clear mental vision by hallucinations and delirium,
complete lassitude by sudden spurts of energy, morbid sensitiveness
about his condition by brazen affrontery and mendacity.

* * * * *

“The work belongs to the naturalist movement of thirty years ago. Its
belated appearance in America may be excused on the ground that no
public could have been found for it earlier.” E. P.

+ =Dial= 70:106 Ja ’21 70w

+ =Nation= 112:122 Ja 26 ’21 200w

“Its artistic quality is indisputable. The book is very real, very
frank—distressingly and shockingly frank, some persons will no doubt
consider it. But none can deny that it is life, genuine, if
appalling.”

+ =N Y Times= p20 D 12 ’20 1000w

“There are occasional gleams of light, hints of humor, which relieve
the tense and depressing atmosphere of a book at once repellent and
compelling, highly imaginative and profoundly true.” R. F. Eliot

+ =Pub W= 98:1884 D 18 ’20 300w

“‘Hunger’ is an extraordinary book, to be read with one’s faculties
alert, quickened to a difficult understanding of a supernormal human
soul.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 7 ’20 490w

=HANIFAN, LYDA JUDSON.= Community center. (Teacher training ser.) $1.52 Silver 374.28

20–3342

In 1913 the author prepared “A handbook for community meetings at
rural schoolhouses” for the use of West Virginia school teachers. The
wide and continued demand for this work has led her to treat the
subject more comprehensively in the present book. “The aim has been to
emphasize strongly two things which the author believes to be
fundamental in any plan that may be followed in the improvement of
rural life conditions: (1) The redirection of rural forces must be
effected by the rural people themselves; (2) for the present, and
probably for a good many years to come, the active work of such
redirection must be carried on mainly by means of community activities
centering around the school.” (Author’s preface) Contents: The
community center and the world war; Leadership and the community
center; The community center idea; The enjoyment of leisure;
Recreation; Social capital—its development and use; The community
center as an aid to teaching; First steps in the community center;
Special school programs; Miscellaneous activities within the community
center; Entertainment programs for community meetings; Country life
programs. Each chapter is followed by exercises. There is a general
bibliography, in addition to occasional references in the text, and
the book is indexed.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:13 O ’20

“Altogether, a most helpful little book, suggestive and with good
references for further study.”

+ =Survey= 44:308 My 29 ’20 120w

=HANKEY, DONALD WILLIAM ALERS (STUDENT IN ARMS, pseud.).= Letters of Donald Hankey. il *$2.50 Revell

20–4805

These human documents, as letters by the author of “A student in arms”
can be called, are published as a tribute of love to one who sleeps in
France. The introduction and notes are by Edward Miller, whose glowing
picture of a loving personality adds an interest to the letters which,
although written for the most part to his family and intimate friends,
“run up and down the whole gamut of life.” Here and there are pen and
ink sketches reproduced from the letters and charming features of the
book are several facsimile letters to nephew and niece. Contents: The
subaltern, 1904–1906; The undergraduate, 1907–1910; The traveller,
July 1910–July 1912; The emigrant 1912–13; One of the immortal hundred
thousand, 1914–1916.

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p1354 D 12 ’19 90w

+ =Booklist= 16:278 My ’20

=Nation [London]= 26:866 Mr 20 ’20 1300w

+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 160w

=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 80w

“Let us say at once that the first impression on the reader is that
Hankey in his letters falls below the high literary inspiration which
he displays in a ‘Student in arms.’ Yet the letters if they do not on
the surface display the same quality as the essays, reveal when
carefully studied a nature free, noble, and humane, combined with a
truthfulness deeply impressive from its singular intensity.”

+ − =Spec= 123:860 D 20 ’19 1900w

“The author’s religion was very rational and wholesome and very
advanced in thought for so young a man. Here and there he drops a
comment on religion that would be worthy of the profoundest
philosopher.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 12 ’20 250w

“These letters reveal the zest of life in a man of deep religious
experience, especially quick to respond to the challenge of those on
whom the burdens of life bore more heavily than on himself.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 D 4 ’19 1050w

=HANNAY, JAMES OWEN (GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM, pseud.).= Irishman looks at his world. *$2 (3½c) Doran 914.15

20–4485

In this volume an Irishman tells us simply and dispassionately what he
knows about his country, its politics, its religion, its social and
economic structure and at the end disavows any knowledge of a solution
of the Irish problem. He seems strongly to suspect that “we Irishmen,
all of us, are spending most energy on what matters least, the form of
the state; and far too little energy on what matters most, the making
of men.” Contents: Irish politics—the old parties; Irish politics—the
new parties; The island of saints—Ireland’s religion;—and
scholars—Ireland’s culture; Education—primary, intermediate,
university; Education—the Gaelic league and the Irish agricultural
organisation society; The Irish aristocracy; The farmers; The middle
classes—Dublin—Belfast—the country town; Conclusion.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:240 Ap ’20