Chapter XXXVII: Part II: is composed of chapters on: Paris—a brief sketch for tourists; (7)

+ =Spec= 125:281 Ag 28 ’20 190w

=HASTINGS, MILO MILTON.= City of endless night. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd

20–15704

Great changes had taken place on the earth’s surface in 2150. The
German empire had been wiped out and all that was left of it was the
roof of Berlin looming up to the height of three hundred metres out of
a bomb-torn desert that had once been Germany. The German people
themselves now lived underground, three hundred million of them. It
was an American chemical engineer who, during one of his experiments,
was by accident exploded into their domain and by a cunning strategy
managed to live and work among them; to escape by submarine and by
means of his knowledge to be instrumental in the overthrow of that
stronghold and in the liberation of those millions. All the qualities
that the Germans have been credited with before, during and since the
war, are utilized in the story with satiric exaggeration.

* * * * *

“Mr Hastings has succeeded in interweaving into this book a love story
that always escapes being bizarre, no mean accomplishment in a tale
depicting a society ‘that never was on land or sea’ outside of an
author’s imagination.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 420w

=HAWES, CHARLES BOARDMAN.= Mutineers. il $2 (2c) Atlantic monthly press

20–26982

“A tale of old days at sea and of adventures in the Far East as
Benjamin Lathrop set it down some sixty years ago.” (Sub-title) It was
young Ben’s first voyage and although only a ship’s boy he was in the
midst of all the adventures that happened. He was the first to detect
treason aboard, to suspect that it was not the pirates they
encountered who killed the captain and first mate, and to join the
mutineers against the crafty usurpers of power. He was set adrift with
the mutineers in a boat, had an exciting encounter with Malay savages
who helped them regain control of the ship and, after more thrilling
experiences, in the course of which the culprits met their doom, the
ship and its precious cargo was saved, and when the “Island Princess”
returned to its home port there was indeed a story to tell.

* * * * *

“Told with skill and an evident knowledge of the sea and seamen. Older
boys will find it absorbing. Good make-up.”

+ =Booklist= 17:163 Ja ’21

“This is a story that has the sort of appeal carried by ‘Treasure
island.’ It is a book written with swing and go, windy of the high
seas, full of the wild doings of those early days.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 80w

“There’s not one element of the ideal sea story lacking.” L. H. Seaman

+ =Pub W= 98:1200 O 16 ’20 320w

“It is a tale with the true flavor of the time it professes to
portray, and will have the genuine attraction for boys of all ages
that similar stories by Stevenson and other lovers of the South sea
and its shores possess.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 140w

=HAWKES, CLARENCE.= Master Frisky. new ed il *$1.50 (6c) Crowell

The author is a well-known naturalist, author of “Wood and water
friends,” and other books. Master Frisky is a collie puppy and in
telling his story many other animal friends of barnyard and field are
introduced. There are interesting chapters on the training of dogs, on
dog signs and language and dog friendships.

* * * * *

“A worthy addition to our delightful literature of dogdom.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ’20 140w

=HAWKES, CLARENCE.= Trails to woods and waters; foreword by W: T. Hornaday. il *$1.60 (3c) Jacobs 590.4

20–6752

In driving the cows to and from pasture as a barefoot boy, the author
tells us, he learned to love nature, he learned to “see” things, he
learned to endow the growing, running, flying things in the woods with
personality. He makes his young readers feel that they are coming in
touch with sentient things, with personalities, when they read about
the trees, brooks and animals of the stories. Contents: The trail to
woods and waters; A tale from the skidway; The story of willow brook;
A little dapple fool; The family of Bob-White; The busy bee;
Downstream in a canoe; Jacking and moose-calling; In Beaver-land;
One’s own back door-yard; A wary mother; A lively bee hunt; The
speckled heifer’s calf; Camping with old Ben; Forest footfalls; In the
hunter’s moon; A winter walk; Camp fire legends of the wood folks.
Some of the material of the book has appeared in two earlier works now
out of print.

* * * * *

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 29 ’20 200w

=HAWKINS, SIR ANTHONY HOPE (ANTHONY HOPE, pseud.).= Lucinda. *$2 (2c) Appleton

20–18612

The scene is all set for a fashionable London wedding, but at the last
moment something goes wrong. The wedding is “unavoidably postponed.”
As a matter of fact the bride has disappeared. Waldo Rillington, the
bridegroom, is about to start in pursuit of the pair, for he rightly
assumes that she has gone with Arsenio Valdez, but the war intervenes
and for years Lucinda is lost to her English friends. Julius
Rillington, Waldo’s cousin, meets her once in the interval, comes upon
her unexpectedly in the year 1916 in a town in southern France. She
tells him her story but he refrains from telling it to the others and
keeps the meeting secret. Julius is thereafter much involved in
Lucinda’s affairs, and when she is set free, he marries her. Lucinda
is a heroine who serenely refuses to be downed by fortune. She takes
good or ill with the same imperturbability and so always has the
better of her rival, Nina, later Lady Dundrannan.

* * * * *

“The canvas is small and the theme has no great originality, but it is
treated with the delicately humorous grace which has always
distinguished this author.”

+ =Ath= p763 D 3 ’20 130w

“There is some very clever characterization of the group of people
involved in the delinquency.” S. M. R.

+ =Bookm= 52:371 D ’20 100w

“Light, whimsical, ironic, sophisticated, the history of ‘Lucinda’ is
pleasantly diverting.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 D 19 ’20 600w

“One feels that Mr Hope is now writing to please his own ideals of the
art of fiction rather than to amuse the crowd. The novel is on
original lines and has underlying humor.”

+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 110w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p777 N 25 ’20 560w

=HAWORTH, PAUL LELAND.= United States in our own times, 1865–1920. *$2.25 Scribner 973.8

20–14454

“This book is designed to meet the needs of students who desire to
know our country in our own times. In it I have devoted a large share
of space to social and industrial questions, but I have been on my
guard against swinging too far in this direction. After all, the
business of government is still of prime importance to the welfare of
the nation, and it is essential that our citizens should understand
our past political history.” (Preface) The contents are in part: The
aftermath of war; President Johnson’s plan of reconstruction; Mexico,
Alaska, and the election of 1868; The fruits of reconstruction;
Foreign relations and the liberal Republican movement; The passing of
the “Wild West”; Hard times and free silver; The war with Spain;
“Imperialism”; “Big business” and the Panama canal; The Progressive
revolt; America enters the great war; The peace conference. The book
contains eight maps, some suggestions for further reading and an
index.

* * * * *

“Not only has the author failed to show the interaction between the
social and industrial problems of the country and the evolution of our
law, but also he has failed to indicate the relation of these problems
to our political life. Two attributes, however, of this work stand out
so strikingly as to make its reading well worth the while of the
student of recent American history. In the first place the
‘Suggestions for further readings,’ giving as they do page references
to selected portions of various works, are excellent; secondly, and
more important, Mr Haworth has produced a work which is so readable as
to justify the claim of the publishers that it is as ‘fascinating as a
story.’” B. B. Kendrick

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:349 Ja ’21 520w

=Booklist= 17:108 D ’20

“The author uses no little self-restraint in his endeavor to be
impartial. The style is attractive, and the author has hit upon a
happy medium between a mere outline and excessive details. This work
is the best of its kind that has been published.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 580w

“His book deserves no serious consideration, save in so far as it may
be used to befuddle the minds of our children.” Harold Kellock

− =Freeman= 2:93 O 6 ’20 650w

Reviewed by C: A. Beard

=Nation= 111:sup417 O 13 ’20 460w

“It is possible to detect errors, for, though Dr Haworth’s method has
apparently been to study thoroughly each standard authority on each
particular phase of his subject, standard authorities on very recent
events sometimes need a good deal of overhauling.... When it comes to
the war itself, Dr Haworth gives about as lucid and understandable an
account of it as we have met with anywhere. In his treatment of the
social question no extremist on either side will find much comfort,
but it will be applauded by all who want a sane and intelligent
account.”

+ − =N Y Times= p22 S 5 ’20 3000w

+ =R of Rs= 62:445 O ’20 150w

“The text is notably readable with a delightfully simple style. The
judgments passed on the actors in the difficult times of
reconstruction and on such characters as Arthur, McKinley and Taft
follow closely the estimates by Rhodes and the authors in the American
nation series, which is to say they are eminently fair. The last
chapters, dealing with the war and the peace conference, do not
represent such mature or impartial judgments.” R. D. Leigh

+ − =Survey= 45:579 Ja 15 ’21 440w

=HAWTREY, R. G.=[2] Currency and credit. *$5 (*15s) Longmans 332

19–19368

“Mr R. G. Hawtrey’s ‘Currency and credit’ is a series of essays on
subjects connected with money, which the writer has put together with
the intention of presenting ‘a systematic analysis of currency and
credit movements.’ His ‘analysis’ takes the form of a description of
the mechanism of exchange and of the way it works in practice, in the
course of which he supplies an exposition of the nature of financial
crises. Two chapters are devoted to the discussion of the financial
problems which have to be faced in time of war, and two more to ‘The
assignats’ and ‘The bank restriction, 1797.’”—The Times [London] Lit
Sup

* * * * *

=Am Pol Sci R= 14:362 My ’20 80w

“The book as a whole is in danger of falling between two stools: it is
not easy or simple enough for beginners, and it does not take enough
for granted to appeal to those who are already familiar with the
theory of money. It could have been improved a good deal by
rearrangement and a redistribution of emphasis. It is, however, the
product of an acute intellect which reasons closely and threads its
way through what are sometimes rather tortuous paths of abstraction.”
G. S.

+ − =Ath= p1120 O 31 ’19 460w

“The last two sections of the book are, on the whole, the best
portions of it. Mr Hawtrey’s history of the assignats is so well done
that it could hardly be improved upon; it is clear, concise, and
covers all the points which require bringing out. In selecting these
few chapters for special praise we do not deny merit to the rest of
the book.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p568 O 16 ’19 720w

=HAY, JAMES.= Melwood mystery. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd

20–4958

Washington is the scene of this mystery story. Zimony Newman,
suspected of being a German spy, is murdered in her apartment in the
Melwood. Suspicion rests chiefly upon John Thayer, a young senator,
and Knowles, an inventor who had once employed Miss Newman as his
secretary. Other characters are Felix Conrad, a retired
German-American manufacturer, and his secretary, David Gower, and
Rosalie, Conrad’s daughter, who is engaged to John. Two detectives are
occupied with the case, one the typical secret service man, working
with conventional methods, the other Hastings, who whittles away with
his jack knife and thinks.

* * * * *

“A well worked out detective story. Although conventional, the
characters are interesting and the climax unexpected.”

+ =Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20

“The author’s style, simple, terse and gripping makes it easy to
follow the dramatic happenings that finally lead to the dénouement.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:165 Ap 11 ’20 650w

=Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 140w

=HAY, JAMES.= “No clue!” *$1.75 (2½c) Dodd

20–15703

Like most mystery stories, this one begins with a murder. The victim
is a young girl, Mildred Brace, the scene the lawn in front of
“Sloanehurst,” the time, around midnight on a rainy night in summer.
With so much known, it is left to Jefferson Hastings, an elderly
detective who happened to be staying at Sloanehurst at the time, to
discover the murderer and the motive. Also at Sloanehurst as week-end
guests were Berne Webster, Lucille Sloane’s fiancé, and Judge Wilton,
Mr Sloane’s close friend. From circumstantial evidence, Webster seemed
guilty, as he had recently discharged Mildred from his office and she
had since annoyed him with threats of a breach of promise suit. But
Hastings mulled over the case and was not satisfied with
circumstantial evidence. He got in touch with Mrs Brace, the girl’s
mother, and upon discovering what manner of woman she was, became
convinced that she held the key to the mystery in her hands. He played
on her weakness, love of money, and eventually brought to light the
facts that he had been sure existed—which completely cleared Webster
and brought the criminal to justice.

* * * * *

“The story holds interest throughout, though it is of rather
commonplace people, and devoid of dramatic circumstances, until the
moment of fastening the guilt on the unexpected person.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p12 D 8 ’20 420w

“It is no better and no worse than the general run of detective
stories that will stand beside it on the booksellers’ shelves. Its
author’s faults are typical of contemporary detective fiction. Of
these faults, the most glaring is Mr Hay’s failure to arouse interest
in his automaton-like characters.”

+ − =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 300w

“A cleverly constructed detective story, but one with very little
genuine human interest.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 40w

=HAYDEN, ARTHUR.= Bye-paths in curio collecting. il *$6.50 Stokes 749

20–15722

“This is another of Mr Hayden’s useful books. He classifies a
heterogeneous collection of objects in a practical, if slightly
unscientific way under such headings as ‘Boxes,’ ‘Man and fire,’ ‘The
land,’ ‘The boudoir,’ etc.” (Ath) “Among the less usual antiquities to
be collected, which Mr Hayden describes, are tobacco-stoppers, early
examples of which embody portraits of King Charles I.; keys, many of
them beautifully decorated, playing-cards, children’s toys, and
tea-table accessories.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

* * * * *

“There is a fairly good index. Mr Hayden’s advice is sound, and his
insistence that the function of the curio collector is to rescue works
of art is welcome in these days of indiscriminate high prices. The
half-tone illustrations are clear.”

+ =Ath= p193 F 6 ’20 90w

“Always delightful is Mr Hayden, and in this latest book of his, he is
just as charming and even more discursive. Like most English writers,
too, he has the advantage of a very firm historical basis.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 2 ’20 400w

Reviewed by B. R. Redman

+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 O 23 ’20 400w

“An introductory note to the book, written with the grace and charm of
a delightful essay, is full of lively comments on collecting in
general. Fascinating information on a wide miscellany of subjects
peeps at us from every paragraph of ‘Bye-paths in curio collecting.’”

+ =N Y Times= p10 S 12 ’20 2250w

“Mr Hayden belongs, quite frankly, to the sentimental school, finding,
if not beauty, at least a genuine charm in the chattels of our
forefathers; and his book, without being exactly ‘popular,’ is of
human rather than technical interest.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p757 D 18 ’19 3050w

=HAYES, CARLETON JOSEPH HUNTLEY.= Brief history of the great war. *$3.50 Macmillan 940.3

20–8603

The author states that he has essayed to sketch tentatively what seem
to him to be the broad outlines of the war, the “domestic politics of
the several belligerents no less than army campaigns and naval
battles,—and in presenting his synthesis to be guided so far as in him
lay by an honest desire to put heat and passion aside and to write
candidly and objectively for the instruction of the succeeding
generation.” (Preface) After giving in due order the various events
and phases of the war the last chapter—A new era begins—is devoted to
the settlement, the losses and the landmarks of the new era. The three
appendices contain: The covenant of the league of nations; American
reservations to the treaty of Versailles; and Proposed agreement
between the United States and France. The book contains a select
bibliography, an index, ten maps in color and numerous sketch maps.

* * * * *

“This is the best single-volume history of the great war which has so
far appeared, and it is one of the very few which deserve serious
consideration by professional students of history. It is written with
a high degree of scientific responsibility, and not for mere purposes
of journalism or propaganda. At present it holds practically a unique
place for fullness of information, fairness, balance, and accuracy.”
W: S. Davis

+ =Am Hist R= 26:91 O ’20 1250w

“Useful as a school text or reference.”

+ =Booklist= 17:24 O ’20

“In mastery of detail, in perspective, in proportion, in perspicuity,
in philosophic grasp of his subject as a whole, he outclasses all
rivals, whether they have written in English, in French, or in German.
Even his faults, such little ones as may be picked out here and there,
are but the excesses of his virtues. Thus, in his desire to make
everything perfectly clear, he verges on the pedagogical. Certainly,
by his lucidity and his impartiality he has attained a result
unsurpassed by the poets and thinkers who have written on the war, by
Sassoon or Barbusse, by Keynes or Bertrand Russell.” Preserved Smith

+ − =Nation= 111:46 Jl 10 ’20 850w

Reviewed by C: A. Beard

=New Repub= 25:114 D 22 ’20 880w

“Considering the time and the circumstances under which it was
composed, Professor Hayes has written a good brief history of the
war.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p12 O 23 ’20 850w

“As a book of reference it will be highly useful, for it has an
admirable index, abundance of maps and sketches, a good bibliography,
and its table of contents, with the titles of chapters and
sub-chapters at once suggests the true proportion of the different
events of the war. But the breath of life is lacking which would
convert these cold recitals into a vivid picture of the war as a
whole.” F. V. Greene

+ − =N Y Times= 25:8 Jl 11 ’20 1900w

“The author’s acquaintance with European politics enabled him to
supply the appropriate background for his pictures.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 100w

“Well adapted for use in the schools. While it does not attain at all
times to scientific objectivity of view, it shows a broad and judicial
comprehension of events, and is as strong on the military side as the
political. The bibliography is very faulty.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 280w

“It is written with a commendable absence of subjective theory or
tendency and will be of value as a textbook when, owing to changes in
popular sentiment, other war ‘histories’ written so soon after the
events will have proved little more than political treatises. In
short, a book worthy of a permanent place in any library.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 44:501 Jl 3 ’20 120w

“Will be found useful for general readers and students.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 90w

=HAYES, ELLEN.= Wild turkeys and tallow candles. *$2.50 Four seas co. 977.1

20–19252

A book in which the author, formerly professor of astronomy in
Wellesley college, recreates something of the atmosphere of pioneer
days in Ohio, drawing on printed records and her own memories. In
explanation of her title she says, “The turkey and the candle serve
fairly well to indicate the early and the late colonial times. With
the passing of the candle and the coming of the kerosene lamp modern
life was fairly introduced. As my own memory runs back to a
prekerosene time I am able to describe at first hand some phases of
Granville township life that were essentially pioneer.” Part 1, Wild
turkey period, has chapters on Early Ohio; The pioneer journey; The
wilderness home, etc., and among the chapters of Part 2, Tallow candle
period, are An octagon of education; The Wolcott homestead; The year
around; The county fair; A child of the Ohio eighteen-fifties.

* * * * *

“The effect achieved is a brilliant painting of sturdy scenes that
linger in the imagination after the book is laid down.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 O 30 ’20 200w

+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 50w

“This book should have three classes of readers, those who are
interested in the early settlement of Ohio, those who like small
history personally written, and those who are quite justifiedly
interested in the early life and background of Ellen Hayes.” M. C. C.

+ =Survey= 45:329 N 27 ’20 300w

=HAYNES, EDMOND SIDNEY POLLOCK.= Case for liberty. *$2.50 Dutton 323.4

(Eng ed 19–19932)

“Mr Haynes here develops the argument which he outlined three years
ago in ‘The decline of liberty in England.’ He associates himself,
subject to some reservations, with Mr Belloc in restating the case for
personal liberty in the old radical sense. ‘The vitally important
aspect of liberty today,’ he says, ‘is its function in combating the
sort of anarchy which threatens civilization all over the world; for
this anarchy is the inevitable result of war lords and their imitators
despising the normal aspirations of the individual human being to a
brief period of normal happiness.’ The book is in the main a review of
the more recent tendencies of politics in England with the object of
showing that the individual human being is marked for destruction as
such by the plutocrat on one side and the collectivist on the other.
The political remedies he proposes are the referendum and the revival
of the process of impeachment.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

=Nation= 112:90 Ja 19 ’21 410w

“His little book is replete with rare and robust commonsense; his
reasoning is consequent; and his illustrations are occasionally
witty.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:201 Ag 30 ’19 1300w

+ − =Spec= 122:220 Ag 16 ’19 180w

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 13 ’19 290w (Reprinted from the
Times [London] Lit Sup p415 Jl 31 ’19)

=Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 470w

“Mr Haynes’s book will not command universal agreement, but it is a
real contribution to current political discussion.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p415 Jl 31 ’19 280w

=HEAD, JOSEPH.= Everyday mouth hygiene. il *$1 Saunders 613.4

20–1616

The author, dentist to the Jefferson hospital, Philadelphia, sounds a
serious note of warning against imperfectly cleaned teeth, which,
through infection, cause “directly or indirectly one-half of the fatal
diseases.” Rheumatism, heart disease, ulcer of the stomach and many
other fatal diseases can be reduced fifty per cent if decay of the
teeth and gum infection are stayed. How this can be done the book
tells minutely in word and picture. It contains besides some closing
remarks on the irregularity of children’s teeth and has an index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:227 Ap ’20

“Considering the appalling prevalence of digestive and nerve diseases
due to bad teeth, the detailed instruction here given for tooth
preservation deserves wide circulation.”

+ =Survey= 43:592 F 14 ’20 80w

=HEADLAM, ARTHUR CAYLEY.= Doctrine of the church and Christian reunion; being the Bampton lectures for the year 1920. *$4 Longmans 280

20–18237

“Dr Headlam is Regius professor of divinity in the University of
Oxford. He traces the doctrine of the church from the four gospels
down to the Lambeth conference. He says that Christ ‘created the
church as a visible society. He instituted ministry and sacraments. He
gave authority for legislation and discipline.’ ‘But he gave no
directions as to the form or organization of the new community, and
the actual organization which was ultimately developed was different
from anything which he personally established.’ Episcopacy ‘was the
creation of the church.... It had its origin in the apostolic church;
it represents a continuous development from apostolic times; but we
cannot claim that it has apostolic authority.’ Dr Headlam defends the
historic episcopacy and the Nicene creed as a basis for organic church
union, not on the ground that they have the direct authority of Jesus
Christ, but because their value has been recognized by an overwhelming
majority in the Christian church from a very early age.”—Outlook

* * * * *

“The writer, condemning himself, well says; ‘Only too often the
professed adoption of the historical method appears to be but a device
for concealing one’s bias’; for on page after page he misrepresents
and misinterprets the evidence that lies plainly before him.”

− =Cath World= 112:543 Ja ’21 600w

Reviewed by Lyman Abbott

+ =Outlook= 126:689 D 15 ’20 390w

=Sat R= 130:459 D 4 ’20 1650w

“It should not only be read, but studied; and, in particular, it
should be in the hands of every member of the Lambeth conference.”

+ =Spec= 125:779 D 11 ’20 2000w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 1150w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p486 Jl 29 ’20)

“No other recent book on the church and its ministry matches this
volume in importance. It brings out the essential elements of the
problems with which it deals clearly and dispassionately. Students of
this subject will appreciate the fact that there is apparently not a
single ambiguous sentence in the book.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p486 Jl 29 ’20 2200w

=HEAGLE, DAVID.= Do the dead still live? or, The testimony of science respecting a future life; new foundations for man’s great hope. *$1.50 Am. Bapt. 218

20–9221

The purpose of the book is to present in popular form all the
arguments in support of a belief in human immortality. The sources
drawn from are science, philosophy and religion, but the scientific
proofs are especially enlarged upon. The book has an introduction by
Bishop Samuel Fallows who calls it a whole library of condensed
information on the subject. The discussion is outlined in the first
chapter—Preliminaries. The rest of the contents are: The older
arguments, from philosophy and religion; The argument from
biology—from physics—from physiology—from psychology (normal and
abnormal)—from spiritism scientifically examined; Conclusions, and
possibilities of further discovery; Supplement—related matters and
objections, with opinions of eminent philosophers and scholars; Notes
and a bibliography.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:297 Je ’20

=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 400w

“An earnest and well-meaning intention will not atone for the lack of
critical discrimination. The book is an unfortunate example of
juggling with incommensurables.” Joseph Jastrow

− =Dial= 69:209 Ag ’20 210w

“The work is, perhaps, unique in its comprehensive and succinct survey
of the argument for personal survival after death.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 240w

Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow

=Review= 3:41 Jl 14 ’20 80w

=HEARN, LAFCADIO.= Talks to writers. *$2 Dodd 814

20–19452

These chapters are reprinted from the author’s “Interpretations of
literature” and “Life and literature”—lectures delivered at the
University of Tokyo. Hearn writes as a craftsman and looks upon
literature as an emotional art, a moral art and one requiring
unceasing discipline. He insists on clearness of vision, on exactness
in the use of words and holds that literature must grow out of the
vernacular. He advises translating as a literary practice and
preliminary discipline. The book is edited with an introduction by
John Erskine and is indexed. Contents: On the relation of life and
character to literature; On composition; Studies of extraordinary
prose; The value of the supernatural in fiction; The question of the
highest art; Tolstoi’s theory of art; Note upon the abuse and the use
of literary societies; On reading; Literature and public opinion;
Farewell address.

* * * * *

“The content, not the style, is here of first importance; these
lectures, as they stand, not only furnish light on an interesting side
of Hearn’s personality, but represent adequately his point of view as
it had been ripened by study and thought.” F. N. A.

+ =Freeman= 2:501 F 2 ’21 360w

“Addressed to alien students, they are necessarily often elementary in
subject matter and always simple in style. Out of the latter necessity
Hearn made a virtue and achieved a naive charm, so that, as writing,
the lectures are, like everything else he wrote, beautiful.”

+ =Nation= 112:sup248 F 9 ’21 340w

“No one who is beginning to write, or who is a student of composition,
can afford to miss these lectures.” W. P. Eaton

+ =N Y Call= p10 N 21 ’20 290w

=N Y Evening Post= p8 N 6 ’20 190w

“There is real suggestiveness and stimulation in these dissertations.”

+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 70w

“The first three chapters, which deal more directly with the
workmanship of good writing and good books, contain more common sense
on the subject than all the books on ‘how to become a writer in 30
lessons’ on the market.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 11 ’21 220w

=HEATLEY, DAVID PLAYFAIR.= Diplomacy and the study of international relations. *$3.75 Oxford 327

20–4112

“The purpose of this book, as stated by its author, is ‘to portray
diplomacy and the conduct of foreign policy from the stand-point of
history, to show how they have been analyzed and appraised by
representative writers, and to indicate sources from which the
knowledge thus acquired may be supplemented.’ The first third of the
volume consists of an essay of a general character on Diplomacy and
the conduct of foreign policy, written from a British point of view.
The remaining two-thirds of the book consist of a general discussion
of the literature of international relations.”—Am Hist R

* * * * *

“The bibliography on treaties, maps, and supplementary reading is
rather scanty. It should be added that, whatever may be the estimate
of this volume in other respects, its tone is scholarly and gives
evidence of much painstaking in its preparation.” D: J. Hill

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:698 Jl ’20 1000w

“A valuable and scholarly work.”

+ =Ath= p782 Je 11 ’20 80w

=Booklist= 17:52 N ’20

“This is a very valuable source book for students of international
law. This is a book for the student, not for the general reader—a
record of careful, conscientious scholarship, containing new material,
but somewhat dry in style.” M. R. F. G.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 700w

“The arrangement of ‘Diplomacy and the study of international
relations’ is so far from orderly that its usefulness is very much
impaired, and one has even some doubt as to what the author really
aimed at doing. Much of the matter thus put together is of great
interest, but as the book stands at present, it is rather a note-book
than a finished work.”

+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:629 O ’20 170w

“A repertory of historical information that is not easily found
elsewhere.”

+ =Spec= 124:465 Ap 3 ’20 170w

=HEATON, ELIZA OSBORN (PUTNAM) (MRS JOHN LANGDON HEATON).= By-paths in Sicily. il *$3.50 Dutton 914.58

20–12460

“The late Mrs Heaton was a clever New York journalist who for reasons
of health had to spend seven years in Sicily. She devoted herself to
the study of the Sicilian peasantry, their customs and their dialects.
We are told that after the Messina earthquake this American lady was
called in as an interpreter between Italian officers from the North
and the peasants. Her book shows that she made many close friends
among the poor and gained an unusual knowledge of their ways. Six of
the chapters are given to descriptions of fairs and festivals.”—Spec

* * * * *

“The author was a gifted writer whose perceptions struck far below the
surface and who could see her material in historical perspective as
well as with rare human understanding.”

+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20

+ =Bookm= 52:345 D ’20 40w

+ =N Y Times= p22 D 12 ’20 280w

“A book which possesses both charm and real value. The high quality of
the vivid and sympathetic realism with which the scenes and characters
are described recalls the best regional writers of Italy.”

+ =Review= 3:390 O 27 ’20 660w

+ =Spec= 125:282 Ag 28 ’20 190w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p528 Ag 19 ’20 900w

=HEIDENSTAM, KARL GUSTAF VERNER VON.= Birth of God. *$1.25 Four seas co. 839.7

20–6852

This one act play, translated from the Swedish by Karoline M. Knudsen,
is a symbolic presentation of the human soul’s eternal search after
God. It is a moonlit scene in the street of the Sphinxes at Karnak,
where a modern and an ancient man meet on the same quest with the old
animal idols dancing about. The quest comes to an end when they both
realize that it is in their faith in the unknown God and their search
for him that they possess him and build him altars and sacrificial
fires.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:306 Je ’20

=Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 150w

“The dialogue is not ineffective and von Heidenstam punctuates it
adequately with stage effects. Yet its rather oratorical progress is
not entirely convincing.” F. E. H.

+ − =Freeman= 1:478 Jl 28 ’20 130w

Reviewed by Ludwig Lewisohn

=Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 110w

Reviewed by O. W. Firkins

=Review= 2:609 Je 5 ’20 100w

“‘The birth of God’ is possibly less direct than its predecessor, ‘The
soothsayer.’ The movement is slow. Nor is the treatment as striking in
originality.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 580w

=HEILNER, VAN CAMPEN, and STICK, FRANK.= Call of the surf. il *$3 (4½c) Doubleday 799

20–16781

This is the first book on surf fishing and its authors are enthusiasts
for the sport. The purpose of the book is threefold: “to afford some
small entertainment to brother fishermen on those long evenings when
the north wind howls and winter’s sleet drives against the window
pane; to attract the stranger to a sport in which the authors have
found a vast measure of happiness, and to make somewhat smoother his
trail to the Big-Sea Water.” (Authors’ note) The illustrations are
from photographs and from paintings by Frank Stick. Contents: Surf
fishing; In quest of the channel bass; Gold medal fish and others;
Down Barnegat way; The tiger of the sea; With the tide runners of the
inlets; On the offshore banks; The channel bass of Gray Gull Shoals;
The smaller brethren; By western seas; Beach camping; Equipment.

* * * * *

“The delights of surf fishing are shown forth after the manner of an
accomplished essayist, in the opening chapter. Others than fishermen
will find much pleasure in reading this book.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 600w

“It is written with a threefold purpose, which it triumphantly
achieves. Both Mr Heilner and Mr Stick are surfmen whose enthusiasm
for the sport about which they write is most contagious. They won one
convert in the reviewer; he’s going a-fishing with them next spring
‘when the red gods call.’”

+ =N Y Times= p10 O 10 ’20 1050w

“With three good sports collaborating in this friendly fashion the
book ought to be pretty good—and it is.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 340w

=HENDERSON, ARCHIBALD.= Conquest of the old Southwest. il *$3 (5c) Century 976

20–8247

It is “the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the
Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740–1790,” (Sub-title) now known
as the old Southwest, that is told in this volume. The author points
out two determinative principles in the progressive American
civilization of the eighteenth century as: the passion for the
acquisition of land; and wanderlust—the inquisitive instinct of the
hunter, the traveler, and the explorer. They gave rise to a restless
nomadic temperament which in its turn formed the sub-soil of a buoyant
national character. What it did for democracy in the second half of
the eighteenth century is the theme of the book. The contents in part
are: The migration of the peoples; The cradle of westward expansion;
The back country and the border; The Indian war; The land companies;
Daniel Boone and wilderness exploration; The regulators;
Transylvania—a wilderness commonwealth; The repulse of the red men;
The lure of Spain—the haven of statehood; List of notes,
bibliographical notes, index and illustrations.

* * * * *

“One expects from Mr Henderson a well-told story, and this volume
realizes this expectation. The narrative will interest the scientific
historian as well as the lay reader. It is evident that there are
grave limitations to Mr Henderson’s interpretation of old Southwest
history.” C. W. Alvord

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:116 O ’20 580w

“An interesting economic and social story to all who know the
Mississippi valley settlements mainly as exploits of Boone and George
Rogers Clark”

+ =Booklist= 17:25 O ’20

“This volume is a very condensed history, with a great number of
witness-references showing the care with which Mr Henderson has done
his work. He has added a valuable and convenient treatise concerning a
somewhat overlooked section to the group of histories of the states,
and to the history of the formation of the United States of America.”
J. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 650w

=Freeman= 2:69 S 29 ’20 190w

+ =N Y Times= p14 Ag 29 ’20 2550w

“All in all, this is a book to be strongly recommended.” G. I. Colbron

+ =Pub W= 97:1293 Ap 17 ’20 350w

=R of Rs= 62:335 S ’20 60w

“An important contribution to history.” C. L. Skinner

+ − =Yale R= n s 10:183 O ’20 940w

=HENDRYX, JAMES BEARDSLEY.= Gold girl. il *$1.75 (3c) Putnam

20–6633

Following her father’s death, Patty Sinclair goes West to locate his
claim. She has only his map with the directions she is too unskilled
to read to guide her, but she follows his example in playing a lone
hand and will not ask advice. She soon learns that her movements are
watched and that in her absence her cabin is being searched. Suspicion
might fall on two men and she picks the wrong one. Vil Holland knows
that she distrusts him but that makes no difference in his attitude
toward her. He knows too her opinion of the brown jug she has seen
attached to his saddle, but out of perversity he continues to carry
it. In the end the true villain is unmasked and the race for the
registry office that follows her finding of the claim has a different
meaning and a different outcome from the one she had anticipated.

* * * * *

“Bright and interesting story.”

+ =Ath= p687 My 21 ’20 70w

“The book is colorful and well written.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 11 ’20 340w

“We should like to believe that the book gives a picture of life
anywhere or at any time, but somehow the author fails to convince us.”

− =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 50w

“The plot of the story is one to intrigue the interest from the
outset.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 130w

=HENRY, AUGUSTINE.= Forests, woods and trees in relation to hygiene. (Chadwick library) il *$7.50 (*18s) Dutton 634.9

(Eng ed Agr20–233)

“The book is an amplification of the Chadwick lectures delivered by
Prof. Henry at the Royal society of arts in 1917, and the author no
doubt looks upon it in large measure as propaganda in the cause of
tree-planting on a national scale. The first three chapters, however,
deal with matters of profound scientific importance—the influence of
forests on climate, the sanitary influence of forests, and forests as
sites for sanatoria. The greater part of the volume is devoted to a
question of national importance—the afforestation of water-catchment
areas, with particulars of the extent to which the work has already
proceeded.”—Nature

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:58 N ’20

“Prof. Henry has read up the subject widely, but the nature of his
book makes it impossible for him to focus the results sharply enough.
He does, indeed, direct the attention of his readers to many recent
investigations which it is most useful to have brought together, and
for this guidance the student who wishes to go farther should be
sincerely grateful.” H. R. Mill

+ − =Nature= 105:158 Ap 8 ’20 1250w

=HENRY, ROBERT MITCHELL.= Evolution of Sinn Fein. *$2 (3c) Huebsch 941.5

The book is a complete survey of the historical struggle of the Irish
for independence. The author asserts that at no time did the English
government aim at anything less than the complete moral, material and
political subjugation of Ireland—nor did the Irish at any time yield
in their assertion of their national independence. How this spirit of
independence finally culminated in the birth of the Sinn Fein movement
and in the course of the war developed into open rebellion is the
subject of the book. The introductory deals with Irish nationalism
before the nineteenth century and the chapters following are: Irish
nationalism in the nineteenth century; Sinn Fein; The early years of
Sinn Fein; Sinn Fein and the republicans; The volunteer movement;
Ulster and nationalist Ireland; Sinn Fein, 1914–1916; After the
rising; Conclusion.

* * * * *

“It displays generally the gift of patient research into the details
of the newest development of revolutionary Ireland, and in this
respect supplies much information from the writings and ideals of the
present leaders which must be of considerable value to future
historians. From the historic point of view the weak point is that the
case of England—politically and strategically—is hardly considered at
all.” P. B.

+ =Ath= p507 Ap 16 ’20 1850w

“As a history of the party, it makes very good reading, but
unfortunately the author is partisan, almost blindly so, and Sinn Fein
is the only matter in Ireland that he finds for praise.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 200w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p158 Mr 4 ’20 80w

=HENRY, STUART.= Villa Elsa. *$2 Dutton

20–2260

“‘Villa Elsa’ is the actual, everyday family life of the middle-class
German before the war—nothing glossed over, nothing exaggerated or
fanciful. It is Mr Henry’s personal experience expressed in the form
of a novel. The Bucher family lived in Loschwitz, a suburb of Dresden.
Herr Bucher, the father, is a stolid, unwashed, collarless, healthy
and obese German ‘Vater’; his wife, Frau Bucher, is coarse, red-faced,
heavy-handed, snarling and shouting, at the top of her lungs, her
fierce hatred of England. Elsa, the only daughter, has the usual tow
hair, is stupidly healthy, reads Heine, tries to be sentimental, but
is essentially matter of fact. Rudolph, the eldest son, is in secret a
government spy, reporting upon their visitor, Gard Kirtley, from
America. He is a spruce young engineer, militaristic, dissolute,
despising all decent women, and continually hinting of Der Tag. Ernst,
a pale boy of fifteen, studies eighteen hours out of the twenty-four,
quotes falsified history, and particularly discredits all American
institutions. Gard Kirtley believes he has fallen in love with Elsa,
but her stolid indifference and phlegmatic stupidity finally overpower
him.”—Bookm

* * * * *

“The chief merit of the book is that the reader is bound to feel its
truth. There is no attempt at fine writing or that easy familiarity
with aristocratic court life, so often affected by English novelists,
which, while it adds a gloss to the story, never wears the features of
actual experience.” J: S. Wood

+ =Bookm= 51:361 My ’20 1600w

“While the story is not uninteresting in itself, it loses both in
vividness and in artistic value by being constantly kept subservient
to the author’s determination to inform and to teach.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:164 Ap 11 ’20 1000w

=Review= 2:436 Ap 24 ’20 180w

“For English readers this book has probably come to birth too late by
some six years. His picture is unconvincing too, because it is the
outcome of a mood which, in this country at least, has exhausted
itself.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p13 Ja 6 ’21 450w

=HENSLOW, GEORGE.= Proofs of the truths of spiritualism. 2d ed, rev il *$2.50 Dodd 134

An inquiry into, and exposition of the nature of spiritualism, with
its abundant material for evidence discussed and described in detail,
such as automatic handwriting, apports, poltergeists, levitation,
spirit lights, spirit clouds, “spirit-controlled” painting and
drawing, psychographs, etc. Some of the chapter titles are as follows:
Practical methods of substantiating the truths of spiritualism;
Testing the spirits’ sight; Babies, children and adult spirits,
reappearing as children; The gradual development of spirit
photography; Psychographs across ordinary photographs of sitters;
Materialisations. A religious atmosphere pervades the book. The text
is supplemented by fifty-one illustrations, some of them reproductions
of spirit-photographs.

* * * * *

“From a scientific point of view Professor Henslow’s book is utterly
valueless, as it is evident from the opening of his first chapter that
he himself is a spiritualist of the most pronounced type. But as an
extraordinarily definite account of experiments and results with all
the various phenomena of the reputable private seance room, the book
is as marvelous as an Arabian nights’ story and much more satisfactory
because such things actually happened.” C. H. O.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 580w

“His book, slovenly as it often is in statement, is another moment in
the accumulating mass of evidence which can not be laughed or sneered
or denounced away.”

+ − =Review= 2:337 Ap 3 ’20 250w

=HENSLOW, GEORGE.= Religion of the spirit world; written by the spirits themselves. *$2 Dodd 134

20–15944

The book is a compilation of famous communications from the spirit
world for the purpose of proving their religious significance. The
author’s object is to show that the life beyond is but a continuation
of life on earth, that we reap what we have sown, that every character
development here on earth counts beyond and that, in a certain sense,
there is a judgment day awaiting us. The contents are in part: The
necessary pre-acquired mental conditions for securing happiness in the
next world; The laws of eternal life; The gospel of character,
preached and practised in the next life; The acquisition of the
Christ-like character and conduct is everything hereafter, and must be
striven for on earth; The true spiritual meaning of “heaven” and
“hell”; The fate of the suicide—a terrible warning; The nature of man,
here and hereafter.

* * * * *

“He gives out matters of opinion constantly as matters of faith. If
such a world as the contributors to this volume depict really existed,
the fact ought to be concealed, in the interests of the preachers of
immortality.” M. F. Egan

− =N Y Times= p17 S 26 ’20 160w

=HENSON, HERBERT HENSLEY, bp. of Hereford, and others.= Church of England; its nature and its future. *$1.75 Macmillan 283

(Eng ed 20–16630)

“Those who arranged this series of lectures took care to secure a
thoroughly representative group of English clergymen. Their live
lectures taken together set out with considerable force the views of
high, low, and broad churchmen, with two academic pronouncements from
a couple of Oxford professors. The Rev. W. R. Matthews, dean of King’s
college, London, where the lectures were delivered, in a short
preface, states that their purpose was to bring together exponents of
the different tendencies within the church and to secure from them
full and frank statements of their views on the great problem which
gives its title to the book.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

=Nation= 110:773 Je 5 ’20 250w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p173 Ap 3 ’19 650w

=HERBERT, ALAN PATRICK.= Bomber gipsy, and other poems. *$1.50 Knopf 821

(Eng ed 20–1081)

With a few exceptions these poems are reprinted from Punch. They are
spirited and humorous pictures of life at the front. Besides the title
poem some of the pieces are: Ballade of incipient lunacy; The
rest-rumour; At the dump; The atrocity; The ballad of Jones’s Blighty;
The trench code; The mischief-makers; The deserters; Free meals; The
cookers: a song of the transport; A song of plenty.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20

“Because he has a sense of humor, a great deal of common sense and the
good sense to make what is merely good verse and in no way pretends to
be serious poetry, Mr Herbert has given us a very likable book about
the Tommy.” Marguerite Williams

+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 22 ’20 100w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 160w

=HERBERT, ALAN PATRICK.= Secret battle. *$2 (4c) Knopf

20–628

He was a sensitive, romantic and imaginative lad, lacking confidence
in himself but pathetically eager and conscientious about doing the
right thing, not to make a mess of it, to measure up and more than
measure up to what was required of him. He always exacted a bit more
of himself than could reasonably be expected. He distinguished himself
at Gallipoli in the most trying part of the war until he was carried
down to the ship in a high fever. Later in France, his record was the
same, always doing the over and above his power of endurance that was
bound in the end to undermine his power of existence. When the strain
had become too great and petty jealousies of fellow officers and the
bullying arrogance of the commander had done their deadly work, the
fatal move was made and one of the bravest men the war knew was shot
for cowardice.

* * * * *

“Mr Herbert’s is one of the most interesting and moving English war
books.”

+ =Ath= p572 Jl 4 ’19 180w

“The story is told with a quiet restraint, with no attempt to pile up
horrors, but with a relentless insistence on the central tragedy. Very
fine work with a limited appeal.”

+ =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 51:78 Mr ’20 580w

“It is simply and vividly told. It reads not like fiction but like
fact, which perhaps it is.”

+ =Ind= 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 280w

“He evidently and perhaps rightly considered that to draw any ultimate
consequences from his story in the world of conduct would have
diminished its inherent force. That force is very great.”

+ =Nation= 110:115 Ja 24 ’20 500w

“Very simply, very quietly and naturally, the author builds up the
structure of events, some of them apparently trivial at the time, but
destined later to become of dreadful portent, which at the last
crushes and breaks Harry’s nerve. The logic of it all is unassailable
and perfectly convincing.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:11 Ja 11 ’20 1100w

“Vivid, convincing, written in a style at once strong and flexible and
revealing an unusual gift for character portrayal. ‘The secret battle’
is one of the few really big novels of the world war.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 200w

“Being the work of a cultivated Englishman, it has the restraint of
the famous public-school tradition. It wishes to betray too little
rather than too much feeling. Its manner is tense with sympathy, but
its matter approaches dryness.” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Review= 2:257 Mr 13 ’20 350w

=Spec= 122:800 Je 21 ’19 100w

“The indictment against the verdict is stated quietly and without
passion. The issue it raises is of interest to all ex-service men; how
far must the army treat men as things, how far can and should it treat
them as persons?”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 5 ’20 320w

“Needless to say, it is a painful book. Comfortable people who do not
like their feelings harrowed will no more find it to their taste than
they found ‘Justice’ or ‘Jude the obscure’, to their taste. To the
former, indeed, the last part of ‘The secret battle’ offers a striking
parallel. Not in detail, for it is pitched in a quieter key, and its
author expressly states that he is not attempting to indict a system.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p356 Jl 3 ’19 500w

=HERGESHEIMER, JOSEPH.= San Cristóbal de la Habana. *$3 (4c) Knopf 917.29

20–21412