Chapter XXXVIII: Part II: is composed of chapters on: Paris—a brief sketch for tourists; (8)

In a passively receptive mood the author went to Havana and drifted
thru his days taking in impressions of the city, of the people, of the
social atmosphere, of its all-pervading romance. “There was never a
more complex spirit than Havana’s, no stranger mingling of chance and
climate and race had ever occurred; but, remarkably, a unity of effect
had been the result, such a singleness as that possessed by an
opera.... It was its special charm to be charged with sensations
rather than facts; a place where facts ... could be safely ignored.”

* * * * *

“Mr Hergesheimer, translating the spell of Havana into words of great
imagery and color, has visualized its wonderful charm.”

+ =Bookm= 52:367 Ja ’21 70w

“Half the time we see the city through his meticulously observant
eyes, and the other half he plays Boswell to his own personality and
ideas. The result is an engaging series of vignettes, a most
understanding interpretation, and a remarkably honest human document.”
J. S. N.

+ =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 230w

“A production at once original and excellent. Mr Hergesheimer
possesses to an extraordinary degree the power of subjectifying the
objective, which is another way of saying that he can make external
realities his very own. In consequence of this happy ability his book
is about one-tenth Havana and nine-tenths Hergesheimer.”

+ =N Y Times= p22 D 12 ’20 2000w

“Not the least interesting of Mr Hergesheimer’s remarks refer to the
creation of literature, his own and others.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 7 ’20 350w

=HERRICK, CHEESMAN ABIAH.= Outstanding days. *$1.25 Am. S. S. union 394

20–4985

A book of selections for readings and recitations for day school and
Sunday school. Each section is prefaced by a discussion of the origin
and meaning of the special day under consideration. “A collection of
nearly a hundred literary selections is presented in connection with
the several studies. Some of these are old favorites which can never
be out of date. Others are relatively recent, furnishing an expression
of the thought and feeling of the present on the subjects discussed.”
Contents: Place of special days; New Year’s day; Lincoln’s birthday;
Washington’s birthday; Good Friday; Easter Sunday; Mother’s day;
Memorial day; Children’s day; Flag day; Commencement day; Independence
day; Labor day; Beginning school; Thanksgiving day; Christmas day.

* * * * *

+ =El School J= 20:795 Je ’20 100w

=HERRICK, GLENN WASHINGTON.= Insects of economic importance. *$2 Macmillan 632.7

20–12386

These “outlines of lectures in economic entomology” are a revised
edition of a previous volume. Space considerations prevent the
inclusion of all insects of economic importance. “However, the
principal pests of our important fruits, vegetables, cereals, farm
animals, shade trees, and of the household are discussed. A brief
summary of the life habits of each, so far as they are known, is made,
and the latest methods of control are outlined. In addition, a concise
discussion of insecticides is given together with formulæ and
directions for making and applying them.” (Preface) The first twelve
chapters are: Losses caused by insects; Useful insects; Entomological
literature; Natural methods of insect control; Artificial methods of
insect control; Poison insecticides; Poison baits; Contact
insecticides; Fumigating substances; Miscellaneous means of insect
control; Dusting; Quarantine and insecticide laws. The remainder of
the book is devoted to the special insect pests and their victims and
an index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:165 Ja ’21

=R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 40w

=HERRINGHAM, SIR WILMOT PARKER.= Physician in France. (Liverpool diocesan board of divinity publications) *$5 (*15s) Longmans 940.475

(Eng ed 19–19873)

“Preliminary to this narrative the author discusses the surprise of
the English at the sudden outbreak of the war. After this preliminary
discussion he, in his fifth chapter, begins his personal narrative and
relates the early operations of the medical corps in England at the
beginning of the war, showing us how the thing was done and the
sanitary precautions that were made against sickness among the forces.
Continuing, he tells of the organization and work of the Field
ambulance corps; of the clearing stations; of the work of transporting
the wounded and of the base hospitals and nurses. He then discusses
some phases of medical work, especially the management of cases of
enteric and other fevers, and of shell shock. He talks of the advance
of medicine in the war, of the operations on the plains of Flanders:
of the medical headquarters at Hesdin. Diverging, the author, drawing
from his experiences abroad, tells of education and the religious
question in France and of some interesting contrasts between French
and English people, in domestic manners and management and in human
characteristics.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“The reasons for his popularity will be apparent to anyone who reads
his book, for it exhibits in an attractive form the qualities of his
mind and general outlook.”

+ =Ath= p1401 D 26 ’19 520w

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 F 21 ’20 480w

“It is written in ordinary, straightforward language, free from those
amateur attempts at the literary manner which make most books written
by doctors so tedious. Much of the book is political, and this, except
as throwing light on the character of the author, is the least
important part. The most entertaining part of the book consists in the
record of the author’s observations of French life and its contrasts
with our own.” H. R.

+ =Nation [London]= 26:360 D 6 ’19 1350w

“Entertaining and instructive. The purely medical chapters of the book
have their value as a lucid exposition calculated to enlighten the
layman and to enlist his sympathy.”

+ =Sat R= 129:37 Ja 10 ’20 1350w

“In the opening chapters, devoted to a consideration of the causes
which led up to the outbreak of the great war, the author exhibits a
fine patriotism tempered by broad-mindedness. The book will enhance
the author’s reputation, and prove most welcome reading after the
publication of so many self-centred memoirs.”

+ =Spec= 124:245 F 21 ’20 1050w

“Unfortunately, the opening chapters are platitudinous and have
nothing to do with the author’s real theme; but the book improves as
he gets into his stride, and is best of all in the later chapters,
devoted to the differences between the customs and viewpoints of the
French and ourselves, which are handled at once frankly and with
comprehension and discretion.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p643 N 13 ’19 1250w

=HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY.= Light heart. *$2 (5c) Holt

20–8858

This tale is a story of men’s friendships. Thormod, of the light
heart, is a poet who easily wins the love of women, but his real
devotion is given to men, first to his friend Thorgar, whose death he
avenges, then to King Olaf. In his preface the author says, “Of this
heroic, naked story, three fragments survive in ‘Origines Islandicæ,’
that learned repository; but to compound one plain tale of them it has
been necessary to go for the catastrophe to the Saga of King Olaf. As
a result of my hunting and piecing I am able to give an orderly
account of the life of a young man which, I think, justifies the title
I have given it.”

* * * * *

=Ath= p559 Ap 23 ’20 40w

+ − =Booklist= 17:33 O ’20

“While ‘The light heart’ is far less interesting and far less stirring
than either ‘Gudrid the fair’ or ‘The outlaw,’ it has one truly
splendid moment—that in which Thormod swears his allegiance for life
and death to King Olaf.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:291 Je 6 ’20 900w

“I confess that for me the starkness, the frugality, the astringency
of this tale render it a tougher morsel than some of the Norse fables
Mr Hewlett has previously wrought from similar materials. For his
sources he shows a reverence almost excessive.” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Review= 3:110 Ag 4 ’20 340w

“The story is good and unusual. But above all we would commend Mr
Hewlett’s short introduction on the nature of the Sagas.”

+ =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 100w

“The story has retained the legendary atmosphere of the twelfth
century Iceland and Norway. The book is written with Hewlett’s usual
romantic touch. It is interesting mainly on account of the unusual
setting and the strangeness of the characters treated. The author
sacrifices plot to faithfulness to his sources.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 480w

“Colloquial and prosaic though the telling is—prosaic even in
describing dreams and visions—there shines through it a spirit which
is high and beautiful.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p255 Ap 22 ’20 1000w

=HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY.= Mainwaring. *$2 (4c) Dodd

20–19506

The story portrays two extremely opposed types, a man and a woman.
Mainwaring is a genius of a sort, grasping everything to himself,
ambitious, a demagogue, reckless and unmoral. From obscurity he rises
to political power and is only stayed from achieving the highest rung
by disease and death. He burns himself out prematurely. While still
quite young and out of his mastering passion of grasping everything he
wants, he forces a beautiful young working girl to marry him. Lizzy in
her selflessness, her poise and sincerity, her obedience to duty, is
his opposite. She endures starvation with him but when he asks her to
follow him into high life she refuses. She has seen through it at a
glance and hates it, and prefers the duties of a housemaid to those of
hostess at his banquets. He subjects her to every indignity but
willingly accepts her services as a nurse during his last days.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:116 D ’20

“Mainwaring stands before a dull gray background, which is rather bad
for the story, but serves the purpose of the novelist in making
Mainwaring a crimson figure against this same gray. As usual, Mr
Hewlett is fascinatingly facile with his pen, but this same smooth
style cannot wholly atone for a very flimsy plot and a succession of
avowed characters that are of no more use than a Greek chorus.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ’20 390w

“Lizzy is a human being, strongly conventional in her sense of duty,
yet as freshly natural in emotional values as Eve strayed from the
garden. On the whole, however, ‘Mainwaring’ is a disappointment as a
novel. The author too apparently is doing over again with unconvincing
dexterity things once well accomplished in ‘Rest Harrow’.”

− + =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 300w

“The sharp contrasts between these well-drawn figures, whose souls are
silhouetted by the tragic circumstances in which the author places
them, afforded Mr Hewlett equal opportunity to display his powers of
creating and analyzing character. The artistry and dignity of the
story he has written around them make ‘Mainwaring’ a worthy addition
to the novels bearing his name.”

+ =N Y Times= p22 S 26 ’20 560w

“The political part of the story is not excessively interesting,
although it has capital pen sketches of Disraeli and Gladstone under
slight disguises. Like all Mr Hewlett’s writing, the literary
execution of the book is admirable in its finish and quiet
effectiveness.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 170w

“A brilliant study in its kind; but some of us will feel as we have
often felt with Mr Hewlett, that the childlike creature woman rather
than the childish creature man gives the story its charm. Mainwaring’s
Lizzy is a girl to be remembered.” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Review= 3:382 O 27 ’20 340w

“The two characters are analyzed in vigorous fashion and will stand as
examples of Mr Hewlett’s most finished work.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 450w

=HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY.= Outlaw. *$1.75 (3½c) Dodd

20–4

This is the fifth of Maurice Hewlett’s saga tales retold. It is the
story of Gisli and of Grayflanks, the sword on which a curse was laid
when it was turned against its owner. Young Gisli is a craftsman and
man of peace, who nevertheless is fated to be the slayer of men, to
flee from Norway to Iceland, to become an outlaw, and to die fighting
with his back against the wall, his wife, Aud, beside him.

* * * * *

“We cannot help wishing that he had been a great deal more lenient
with himself. For the tale, as it stands, is so exceedingly plain, and
the fights, murders, escapes and pursuits described upon so even a
breath, that it is hard to believe the great, more than life-size
dolls minded whether they were hit over the head or not. There is no
doubt that the very large number of words of one syllable help to keep
the tone low. They have a curious effect upon the reader. He finds
himself, as it were, reading aloud, spelling out the tale.” K. M.

+ − =Ath= p15 Ja 2 ’20 600w

=Booklist= 16:244 Ap ’20

“None of his stories out of the Icelandic sagas is as spirited as ‘The
outlaw.’ The vein of romance discovered in them by Mr Hewlett seems to
be inexhaustible.” E. F. E

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 1150w

“‘The outlaw’ is a noble tale fully and in the main nobly told.”
Ludwig Lewisohn

+ =Nation= 111:191 Ag 14 ’20 500w

“A grim tale, full of strong passions and desperate fighting, is this
of ‘The outlaw.’”

+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 1000w

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 70w

“Needless to say, it is masterly in its art and vividness; yet many of
the author’s admirers would welcome his return to that type of writing
that gave us ‘Half-way house’ and ‘Richard yea-and-nay.’”

+ − =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w

“Mr Hewlett tells a tense dramatic story, reveals studious research of
ancient lore and a singular gift for vitalizing the remote scenes of a
vanished civilization. This is no mere approximation of what the
Vikings were and what they did. It is a lifelike recreation.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 550w

“In reproducing the old story Mr Hewlett mediates with his usual skill
between the Scylla of excessive modernity and the Charybdis of an
obsolete idiom. It is, however, questionable whether he might not
without harm have ventured even closer to Scylla.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p649 N 13 ’19 600w

=HEYDRICK, BENJAMIN ALEXANDER=, ed. Americans all; stories of American life of today. *$1.50 (1½c) Harcourt

20–14759

The editor of this volume of short stories states in his preface that
he believes that the short story is the form which can best stand as
the adequate expression in fiction of American life. He says “If it
were possible to bring together in a single volume a group of these,
each one reflecting faithfully one facet of our many-sided life, would
not such a book be a truer picture of America than any single novel
could present? The present volume is an attempt to do this.” Contents:
The right Promethean fire, by George Madden Martin; The land of
heart’s desire, by Myra Kelly; The tenor, by H. C. Bunner; The passing
of Priscilla Winthrop, by William Allen White; The gift of the Magi,
by O. Henry; The gold brick, by Brand Whitlock; His mother’s son, by
Edna Ferber; Bitter-sweet, by Fannie Hurst; The riverman, by Stewart
Edward White; Flint and fire, by Dorothy Canfield; The ordeal at Mt
Hope, by Paul Laurence Dunbar; Israel Drake, by Katherine Mayo; The
struggles and triumph of Isidro de los Maestros, by James M. Hopper;
The citizen, by James F. Dwyer. There is a sketch of the author
following each story, and at the end a List of American short stories
classified by locality, and Notes and questions for study.

* * * * *

“An interesting group of stories.”

+ =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21

=Boston Transcript= p4 O 9 ’20 280w

“Only two stories in the volume, Myra Kelly’s ‘Just kids’ and William
Allen White’s ‘Society in our town,’ have grown instead of being made
after a model.”

− + =Nation= 111:692 D 15 ’20 420w

“Literary merit aside, however, the authors all have a place in a book
which seeks not to present the best short stories but rather different
phases of American life. ‘American life of today,’ however, is a
misnomer. In their steadfast sometimes sentimental idealism, in their
passionate belief in democracy, the stories are obviously and
pathetically stories of life before the war.” Marian O’Connor

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p9 N 13 ’20 850w

“An unusually excellent anthology of American short tales.”

+ =Outlook= 126:201 S 29 ’20 120w

“Considered merely as a vehicle of recreational reading ‘Americans
all’ answers its purpose well; for the one who desires to combine
recreation with study of the successful short story the text is well
selected.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 270w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 190w

=HIBBEN, PAXTON.= Constantine I and the Greek people. il *$3.50 (3½c) Century 949.5

20–10649

The book was written in the spring of 1917 after the author had been
in Greece, Macedonia and Serbia and constitutes another postwar
revelation. It is stated that “during the war and after our entry into
it as an ally of France and Great Britain, without our knowledge and
consent the constitution of a little, but a brave and fine people was
nullified by the joint action of two of our allies: the neutrality of
a small country was violated, the will of its people set at naught,
its laws broken, its citizens persecuted, its press muzzled. By force
a government was imposed on this free people, and by force that
government has been and is today maintained in absolute power.”
(Foreword) The contents is in three parts: Intrigue; Coercion;
Starvation; and there are an epilogue and appendices.

* * * * *

“Interesting to read as a sequel to Mrs Brown’s ‘In the heart of
German intrigue.’”

+ =Booklist= 17:25 O ’20

“This fascinating story of political and military intrigue makes poor
reading for those who blindly felt the Allies did no wrong. It
constitutes a bitter arraignment of Venizelos.”

+ =Cath World= 112:691 F ’21 480w

=Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 140w

“The book, as a whole, is well done. It is written in a clear,
readable style, is carefully documented, and is unusually free from
errors. Particularly good are the analysis of diplomatic situations,
the different attitudes of parties and foreign powers being
excellently portrayed. The book’s only noticeable defects arise from
the reflexes of the author’s own temperament. Obviously a man of
strong feelings, Mr Hibben seems occasionally to be slightly carried
away by them.” Lothrop Stoddard

+ − =New Repub= 24:48 S 8 ’20 1600w

“Mr Hibben’s book has the defect, on the surface, of being too much of
an apologia.... Mr Hibben has given us one of the torches; it does not
always burn clearly; he waves it in the air too violently at times:
but it is a torch, and its light may help to show how little we
understand the temperament and the good qualities of the Grecian
people.” M. F. Egan

+ − =N Y Times= p4 Ag 1 ’20 2850w

“The writer of this book had a full opportunity to study the Balkan
situation and above all the Greek question. Unfortunately, all this
unusual opportunity has been wasted on a book so full of inaccuracies
that it is difficult to determine whether it is the mere result of
journalistic carelessness or a calculated attempt to palliate truth.”
A. E. Phoutrides

− =Review= 3:170 Ag 25 ’20 900w

“The story is told with great skill and lucidity, and the volume is
one of the most readable that has come out of any of the so-called
side-shows of the war.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:220 Ag ’20 350w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 5 ’20 110w

=HICHENS, ROBERT SMYTHE.= Snake-bite, and other stories. *$1.90 (2c) Doran

19–11943

“‘Snake-bite’ is a collection of six stories, three in the approved
Robert Hichens style, one an excellent little mystery, one a story of
a faith healer, and one a dainty little war-time sketch. You have your
choice of the familiar East or the unfamiliar West, with or without a
touch of colour.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The titles are:
Snake-bite; The lost faith; The Hindu; The lighted candles; The nomad;
The two fears.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20

“As a teller of short stories, Mr Hichens reveals in this collection
another phase of his skill. In each he shows his mastery of place and
people, and his command of the illusory effects of atmosphere.” E. F.
E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 1450w

“In the matter of atmosphere and sustained mood, comparable with his
best work.”

+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 30w

“Of the six short stories two are dominated by the desert, while one
might almost be called a plain ghost story, and these three are so
markedly superior to the others that they are quite in a different
class.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:2 F 22 ’20 900w

+ =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 50w

“We doubt if Mr Hichens has ever done better work than in ‘The snake
bite’; the African color and atmosphere are admirably rendered.”

+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 70w

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 480w

“These stories are well told, with a brisk, practised pen. The
dialogue is interesting, and the touches of light and shade well
done.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p311 Je 5 ’19 400w

=HICKS BEACH, SUSAN EMILY (CHRISTIAN) (MRS WILLIAM FREDERICK HICKS BEACH).= Shuttered doors. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane

20–7653

A story that covers several generations in the life of an English
family. The figure of outstanding interest is Aletta Hulse, who is
strongly influenced by association in childhood with her aunt, Ann
Duller of Duller Place. Aletta inherits a fortune from an old Boer
uncle, marries and brings up a family of three children, who in their
turn marry. Interest in the latter part of the story centers in
Andrew, one of the grandsons, to whom his grandmother bequeaths Duller
Place. Andrew is killed in the war leaving an infant daughter to carry
on the family tradition.

* * * * *

=Ath= p194 F 6 ’20 80w

“‘Shuttered doors’ presents one of those pictures of English life
before which Americans can only stand and wonder. Perfection of detail
in living has not yet been attained by us to such a degree that an
entire novel can be built about it with little attention paid to plot,
and not even much to characterization.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 20 ’20 260w

“This long, slow story of ‘upper middle-class’ life in England never
rises above the deadly commonplace. Andy Duller is the most human
character in the novel.”

− + =N Y Times= p23 Ag 8 ’20 330w

+ =Sat R= 129:478 My 22 ’20 90w

“Most people will not have very much sympathy with Aletta Hulse, later
Aletta Picard, but at any rate her character is consistent to the
smallest detail, and the author succeeds in creating a living figure.”

+ − =Spec= 124:314 Mr 6 ’20 80w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 300w

=HICKS, FREDERICK CHARLES.= New world order. *$3 Doubleday 341

20–14528

The book is the outcome of a course of lectures on International
organization and cooperation, delivered at the summer session of 1919,
in the department of public law, Columbia university. “The general
purpose was to examine the League covenant analytically in its
relation to (1) international organization, (2) international law, and
(3) international cooperation, using the comparative method whenever
precedents could be found.” (Preface) The author’s personal conviction
is “that the League of nations should be supported not merely because
it provides means for putting war a few steps farther in the
background, but because it emphasizes the necessity for cooperation
between sovereign states.” (Preface) In strict accordance with the
general purpose the contents are in three parts and the appendices
contain, besides a complete draft of the treaty of peace with Germany:
The Triple alliance; Russo-French alliance; The Holy alliance act;
Central American treaties, December 20, 1907; Hague conventions and
drafts, 1907; Treaty for the advancement of peace between the United
States of America and Guatemala, September 20, 1913; Bibliography and
index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:52 N ’20

“A useful reference manual.”

+ =Ind= 163:442 D 25 ’20 70w

“For college classes studying the legal aspects of international
organization Mr Hicks’s book will doubtless be very useful. The
pedagogical apparatus and Mr Hick’s treatment of the problems he
discusses are unexceptionable. ‘The new world order’ is an excessively
pretentious title for a volume dealing with the League of nations.
Such a utopian nomenclature would have prejudiced the case for
international organization even if idealism has been triumphant; under
existing circumstances it is little short of absurd.” Lindsay Rogers

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 23 ’20 1000w

“From the legal and historical points of view, an important exposition
of the Versailles treaty has been gathered, coordinated, and written
by Columbia’s law librarian.” Walter Littlefield

+ =N Y Times= p10 O 31 ’20 1600w

“The scope of Mr Hicks’s plan is so impressive and his workmanship is
so excellent that it is greatly to be hoped that his volume will not
be allowed to fall into oblivion, whatever the outcome of the struggle
over the League in this country.” E: S. Corwin

+ =Review= 3:382 O 27 ’20 800w

+ =R of Rs= 62:668 D ’20 180w

+ =Survey= 45:221 N 27 ’20 120w

=HILL, CONSTANCE.= Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings. il *$6 (*21s) (7c) Lane

20–12406

“The name of Mary Russell Mitford—the author of ‘Our village’—is dear
to thousands of readers, both English and American, for she has
enabled them to see nature with her eyes and to enter into the very
spirit of rural life.” (Chapter 1) She was born December 16, 1787, and
was a versatile writer not only of stories, but of poems and
successful dramas, performed in London with John Kemble and Macready
in the leading parts. Many quotations and extracts from her writings
acquaint the reader with her style. The book is illustrated with
drawings by Ellen G. Hill and has an index.

* * * * *

“Speaking truthfully, ‘Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings’ is
not a good book. It neither enlarges the mind nor purifies the heart.
There is nothing in it about prime ministers and not very much about
Miss Mitford. Yet, as one is setting out to speak the truth, one must
own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind
and without the heart, but still with considerable enjoyment. To come
to the point, the great merit of these scrapbooks, for they can
scarcely be called biographies, is that they license mendacity.” V. W.

− + =Ath= p695 My 28 ’20 2400w

+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20

“Miss Hill has compiled an entertaining volume of literary personalia,
and its attractiveness is increased by numerous drawings from her
sister’s pencil.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 10 ’20 1300w

“As an introduction to Miss Mitford’s work and personality Miss Hill’s
book is an admirable achievement. It presents the women perfectly and
brings before the reader again the age wherein she lived.” H. S.
Gorman

+ =N Y Times= p2 Ag 29 ’20 1500w

+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 50w

“Our feeling on laying it down is that we had better have spent our
time in reading Miss Mitford’s own account of herself in
‘Recollections of a literary life.’ Nevertheless, the book is a nice
book, a very nice book (if it is largely paste and scissors).”

+ − =Sat R= 129:454 My 15 ’20 650w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 19 ’20 450w (Reprinted from The
Times [London] Lit Sup p283 My 6 ’20)

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p283 My 6 ’20 1150w

=HILL, DAVID JAYNE.= American world policies. *3.50 (7c) Doran 341.1

20–11020

As the author points out in his preface, the idea of a league of
nations is so generally acceptable that many persons overlook the fact
that the covenant prepared at Paris is not a “general association of
nations,” but rather “a limited defensive alliance for the protection
of existing possessions, regardless of the manner in which they were
acquired.” The purpose of this book is to show that the proposed
league “not only repudiates the ideas underlying our traditional
foreign policy as a nation but presents a contradiction of the
fundamental principles upon which our government is based.” The book
is composed of eight chapters and as many documents. The chapters,
which are reprinted from the North American Review are:
Disillusionment regarding the League; The un-American character of the
League; The president’s hostility to the Senate; The struggle of the
Senate for its prerogatives; The eclipse of peace through the League;
The covenant or the constitution? The nations and the law; The solemn
referendum; and Epilogue. Among the documents are President Wilson’s
“points”; The covenant of the League of nations; The Senate’s
reservations of November 19, 1919, and of March 19, 1920. The book is
indexed.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:53 N ’20

“Dr Hill’s argument is presented with all the skill of an experienced
political writer but the impression is conveyed that he is putting a
microscope upon the covenant of the League and is looking for trouble
in every line, without offering anything more constructive than the
old order in return.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:399 D ’20 550w

=Freeman= 2:93 O 6 ’20 210w

“His negative part is well done and thoroughly worth consideration.
His discussion, while at times heated and failing in logic, is
thoughtful and provokes thought.” C. R. Fish

+ − =Nation= 111:sup426 O 13 ’20 600w

“It is the familiar Republican argument, but it is stated with a
force, clearness, and plausibility which do not always characterize
that argument. In short, if Senator Lodge could talk as clearly and
convincingly as Dr Hill writes, this would make an ideal speech by
him.”

− =N Y Times= p5 S 5 ’20 2450w

“To say that the book is clarifying, enlightening, high-minded, and
therefore of a value far transcending that of most political
discussions, is only to make a legitimate critical pronouncement.”

+ =No Am= 212:424 S ’20 1150w

“We do not know of any book so valuable as this for the information of
editors, legislators, or other students of the league problem who wish
to get in clear and authoritative form the objections to the Wilson or
Paris league.”

+ =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 160w

“The termination of the campaign against the League of nations as
proposed will take from Dr Hill’s book much of its current value; yet
when the history of the struggle over the Wilson league comes to be
written, the discerning historian will accord to Dr Hill’s labors an
important place among the efforts of those who fought to assert the
belief that American independence and true internationalism are not
incompatible things.” E: S. Corwin

+ =Review= 3:381 O 27 ’20 1400w

=R of Rs= 62:221 Ag ’20 140w

=HILL, FREDERICK TREVOR.= High school farces. *$1 Stokes 812

20–19677

A foreword says: “The scarcity of short farces, suitable for junior
amateurs seems to justify the publication of this little volume....
The three simple little farces included herein were written for a
boys’ club and a boy scout troop.... As they require very little study
and a minimum of ‘properties and effects,’ it is thought they may
prove useful to those in search of such material.” The first play,
“Dinner’s served,” represents a southern scene near a camp during the
Spanish American war and introduces two negro characters. The second,
“A heathen Chinee,” is set in California, with cowboys, miners and a
Chinese cook among the characters. The third, “A knotty problem,” is a
boy scout play.

* * * * *

“It is with deep regret that one lays down this book from the pen of
the gifted writer of those fine stories, ‘On the trail of Washington’
and ‘On the trail of Grant and Lee,’ for something better had been
anticipated.”

− + =N Y Evening Post= p15 N 13 ’20 130w

=HILL, FREDERICK TREVOR.= Tales out of court. *$1.60 (3c) Stokes

20–18659

The book is a collection of lawyers’ stories of legal cases and
court-room scenes and of unusual incidents and characters. The stories
are: Exhibit No. 2; The shield of privilege; The woman in the case;
Two fishers of men; The unearned increment; The judgment of his peers;
Of disposing memory; Submitted on the facts; The personal equation; In
the presence of the enemy; A debt of honor; The weapons of a
gentleman; Pewee—gladiator; Peregrine Pickle; Charity suffereth long;
War.

* * * * *

“His touch is sure, his pen facile, his plots unusual and
fascinating.”

+ =N Y Times= p19 N 28 ’20 230w

=Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 30w

“The plots are so cleverly manipulated that the reader is sure to get
a number of surprises, about at the denouement of each story.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 4 ’21 190w

=HILL, HIBBERT WINSLOW.=[2] Sanitation for public health nurses. *$1.35 Macmillan 614

19–19494

“The development of public health nursing in the United States has
naturally created a demand for books on the subject. The book written
by Dr Hill endeavors to give in a brief and concise manner the
elements of sanitation and public health, with which a nurse must be
acquainted in her work.” (Survey F 14 ’20) “It is devoted chiefly to
the problems of isolation and immunology and touches but lightly upon
such great modern movements as the infant welfare campaign and the
campaign for better nutrition among school children.” (Survey S 15
’20)

* * * * *

“A survey of hygiene and immediately related medical procedures which
can be heartily recommended.”

+ =Review= 3:112 Ag 4 ’20 80w

“Too much space seems to be given to infectious diseases of which the
nurse must necessarily learn from a study of other sources, while too
little space is devoted to the important questions of food, water,
milk, etc., and no space at all to dietetics.” G: M. Price

+ − =Survey= 43:592 F 14 ’20 170w

“His chapters on the general course of an infectious disease, on the
diagnosis and etiology of the commoner specific communicable diseases,
on immunity and on epidemiology are sound in substance and brilliant
in form.” C. E. A. Winslow

+ − =Survey= 44:732 S 15 ’20 330w

=HILL, JAMES LANGDON.= Worst boys in town, and other addresses to young men and women, boys and girls. $2.50 (2½c) Stratford co. 252

20–3809

A collection of addresses, given in all parts of the United States, on
righteous moral living for young people, each address based on an
appropriate scriptural text. Partial list of contents: The clean
sporting spirit; The morals of money; The stick girls of Venice; The
sound and robust have no monopoly; Becoming a lady; A difference in
cradles; Doing the handsome thing; Modern methods of Christian
nurture. Dr Hill is author also of “Favorites of history”; “Memory
comforting sorrow”; “The scholar’s larger life,” etc.

* * * * *

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 6 ’20 470w

=HILL, JOHN ARTHUR.= Psychical miscellanea. *$1.35 (3c) Harcourt 130

20–26542

“Being papers on psychical research, telepathy, hypnotism, Christian
science, etc.” (Subtitle) They are a collection of articles, each
dealing with some aspect of psychical research, which have appeared in
various periodicals. As a psychical investigator his treatment of
every subject is sympathetic even where he suspends judgment. This is
the case in his attitude towards Christian science to which he is not
an adherent, but towards which he keeps “an open mind” for, he says,
“I do believe that the power of the mind over the body is so great
that almost anything is possible; and I think that the medical advance
of the next half-century will be chiefly in this hitherto neglected
direction.” Contents: Death; If a man die, shall he live again?
Psychical research—its method, evidence, and tendency; The evolution
of a psychical researcher; Do miracles happen? The truth about
telepathy; The truth about hypnotism; Christian Science; Joan of Arc;
Is the earth alive? Religious belief after the war.

* * * * *

“Interesting, but not a representative work to be required by most
small or medium sized libraries, although coming from an authoritative
source.”

+ =Booklist= 16:297 Je ’20

“Mr Hill knows the temper of science and presents a brief which the
advocate of the opposite view can respect, while he is convinced that
it is penetrated with fallacy and shot through and through with an
unwarranted personalism.” Joseph Jastrow

+ − =Dial= 69:206 Ag ’20 400w

− =Nation= 111:49 Jl 10 ’20 290w

“The papers are all of a popular quality, skimming lightly and
gracefully over the surface of their subjects and carrying what
frequently passes as a literary atmosphere derived from numerous
quotations of both prose and verse.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 170w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 N 6 ’20 50w

=HILL, JOHN WESLEY.= Abraham Lincoln, man of God. *$3.50 Putnam

20–21413

The object of the book is not to be a biography of Lincoln, but to
reveal his deeply religious soul. “A candid examination of the
evidence will show that the religious element in Lincoln’s life was
its dominant factor; that his character as a politician and as a
statesman was determined by his character as a Christian; and that he
drew from the story of the ‘Man of sorrows’ the conclusion that God
rules the world in a personal way.” (Preface) The book contains a
tribute by Lloyd George, a foreword by Leonard Wood and an
introduction by Warren G. Harding. There are appendices, a
bibliography and an index.

* * * * *

“If the book had been written solely to prove that Lincoln was an
orthodox Christian it would not have been worth the writing or the
reading, and the few chapters that Dr Hill devotes to that
unprofitable subject are the least worthwhile in the whole work. But
the bulk of Dr Hill’s book is of much value.”

+ − =NY Times= p1 D 5 ’20 800w

=R of Rs= 53:222 F ’21 190w

“Abraham Lincoln has been written about in so many books that the
average American would know Lincoln if he met him on the street. Dr
Hill in this book has gone a step further and has given an insight
into his real character which is worth while. The chapter on ‘The
education of a president’ is of especial interest to Americans today.
‘A Christian view of labor’ also is timely.” J: E: Oster

+ =Survey= 45:579 Ja 15 ’21 180w

=HILL, OWEN ALOYSIUS.=[2] Ethics, general and special. *$3.50 Macmillan 170

20–15460

“From the point of view of Catholic doctrine the author of this work
discusses what’s wrong with man and the world as they are determined
by modern philosophy and ethics. ‘The whole trouble with modern
philosophy,’ he says, ‘is rank subjectivism, and subjectivism is,
perhaps, most destructive in the domain of ethics.’” The first half of
the work dealing with ‘General ethics,’ discusses the general nature
of humanity in its attitude towards morality and in relation to final
destiny; the second half discusses ‘Special ethics’ as applied to
individual responsibility consequent upon his belief in an acceptance
of religious duties.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p3 D 4 ’20 270w

“The question of Woman suffrage might have been treated more
sympathetically and Dr Bouquillon’s treatise on the school question
discussed more fairly.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:690 F ’21 100w

“The style is bright and easy and the English is clear and vigorous.
The spirit of Catholicity of course, pervades the whole book. It is
the teaching of such men as St Augustine, Bonaventure, Aquinas, and
Liguori crystallized in twentieth century English.” C: A. Dougherty

+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 Ja 8 ’21 610w

“The whole book is well written, fresh and lucid, and in its way
thoroughly scholarly, but its main appeal must be to Catholics.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 240w

“The book affords interesting light on the workings of a trained,
devout mind. There are Roman Catholic writers on social problems whose
views offer in the main much more salutary guidance than Father
Hill’s.” H: Neumann

+ − =Survey= 45:332 N 27 ’20 180w

=HILLIS, NEWELL DWIGHT.= Rebuilding Europe in the face of world-wide bolshevism. *$1.50 (3c) Revell 940.314

20–2359

The author calls his book “a study of repopulation.” His motives are
hatred for Germany and fear of bolshevism. Contents: Germany: her
human losses and the reflex influence of the war upon her people;
France: the rebuilding of her people; Great Britain: her losses upon
land and sea, and her new position among the nations of the earth;
Russia, and the fruits of bolshevism; Rebuilding the little nations of
the East; The crime of Bolshevists in alienating Americans from
America; The United States; and reasons why our citizens should love
their country; Notes, and references to authorities.

* * * * *

=R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 40w

“Making all allowance for rhetorical effect, and discounting errors
due to haste and careless work, the fact remains that America needs
several persons of this type to serve as prophets of the greatness of
this country and the sanity and sanctity of its fundamental
principles.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 23 ’20 520w

=HILLYER, ROBERT SILLIMAN.= Five books of youth. *$1.50 Brentano’s 811

20–7792

“Mr Hillyer’s five books are headed, A miscellany, Days and seasons,
Eros, The garden of Epicurus, and Sonnets. The range is remarkable,
from the brilliant alliterative imagery of Esther dancing and the
glowing medieval quaintness of Hunters to crisp snatches of epigram
and passionate love sonnets. Some of the best work is descriptive of
French scenes.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20

“His imagination is foot-feathered, and lifts his utterances, perhaps
with more dignity than swiftness, on oracular journeys. It is an
imagination that is singularly passionate about the business of
beauty; a messenger that carries on an intercourse between the earth
of man’s experience and the gods of his dreams.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Je 5 ’20 1300w

“Mr Hillyer has written a beautiful poem that is streaked with a
golden message. Upon it is the dewy freshness of youth’s passion for
the ideal, sparkling with the fire and energy of an inspired
visionary.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ’20 1050w

“In this, his second book, there is fine performance and no little
promise of greater things. He stands, as craftsman, upon the ancient
ways, and reminds one at times of the cool lucidity of Matthew Arnold
(and, at times, of the jeweled intensity of Rossetti). He is
especially successful in the sonnet.”

+ =Cath World= 112:118 O ’20 90w

“‘The five books of youth’ is marked by a beauty of phraseology and an
authentic valuing of poetic qualities that give it a distinct place
among the books of the season.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 230w

“Mr Hillyer has skill and conscience, is metrist, artist,
atmospherist, and the thoughtful, or at least pensive, melancholy of
his lyrics rises on occasion to undoubted charm.” O. W. Firkins

+ =Review= 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 120w

“There is poetry of great promise as well as actual achievement in
‘The five books of youth.’ Mr Hillyer writes with fluency of phrase
and cadence and with dignity; he has technical mastery of verse forms
and an adequate vocabulary to express his rich sensuous perception.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 24 ’20 150w

=HINDUS, MAURICE GERSCHON.= Russian peasant and the revolution. *$2 (2c) Holt 914.7

20–14675

In order fully to understand the Russian revolution and its ultimate
destiny, says the author, we must understand the Russian peasant who
constitutes by far the most important element, and the mightiest force
in Russian life. He maintains that the current opinions of him are
utterly and thoroughly false. Although ignorant and oppressed by
centuries of despotism, he is highly intelligent and has a will and a
goal of his own, which has played a part in the revolutionary movement
and is destined to play a part in the future of Russia. Contents: The
peasant at home; Under serfdom; Education in the Russian village; The
legal and social position of the peasant; The peasant as a farmer;
Taxation; Home-industries and wage-labor; The other alternatives; The
ideology of the peasant (1) political, (2) social; Battling for land;
The cadets and the peasants; The social-revolutionaries and the
peasant; The bolsheviki and the peasant; The gist of the peasant
problem; The co-operative movement and the peasant; Bolshevism, the
American democracy and the peasant; Bibliography.

* * * * *

“The best chapters are the first eight, which depict the economic and
the social life of the peasants.” M. Rostovtsev

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:364 Ja ’21 490w

“Considering the general demand for information, it must be said that,
excellently and sympathetically written as it is, Mr Hindus’s book,
‘The Russian peasant and the revolution,’ is a failure. It is a
failure because it contains hardly a word that helps us to understand
what is now going on in Russia.” M. L. L.

− + =Freeman= 2:334 D 15 ’20 360w

“We need this book to get the full significance of the numerous and
contradictory reports about Russia that are published in our daily
press. For only when we know what the status of the Russian people was
before the war can we judge whether conditions in Russia are improved
or made worse by the Soviet government. Another signal service that Mr
Hindus has performed is the dissipation of the illusions about the
soul or the character of the Russian peasant.” J. J. S.

+ =Grinnell R= 16:307 D ’20 560w

“Such bias as he has is valuable, being the result of his own peasant
origin and early associations. There are lucid and concrete chapters,
without sentimentality, as remote as possible from the moonshine with
which Stephen Graham for some years saturated English readers.” Jacob
Zeitlin

+ =Nation= 112:19 Ja 5 ’21 340w

“The reviewer has not been able to detect a trace of propaganda in it,
and can find nobody but the observer and historian. Not that Mr Hindus
is colorless. Without becoming a mere annalist, it is hard to see how
a writer could be fairer or more impartial.”

+ =N Y Times= p18 Ag 22 ’20 3050w

=HINE, REGINALD L.=[2] Cream of curiosity: being an account of certain historical and literary manuscripts of the XVIIth, XVIIIth and XIXth centuries. il *$6 Dutton 040

20–18243

“‘The cream of curiosity,’ by Reginald L. Hine is an account by the
author of several manuscript collections in his possession. The most
interesting of them appears to be the Heath papers, extracts from
which throw a true ‘Sidelight on the Civil war.’ The extracts from
Harpsfield’s life of Sir Thomas More are familiar. Two of these papers
have already appeared in Blackwood; those dealing with Monmouth and
Sir Justinian Pagitt. A collection of epitaphs is exceptionally
good.”—Sat R

* * * * *

“For the most part the manuscripts which he prints are heavy work. Nor
is he always over-happy in the presentation of his documents: the
humour drags. Yet he deserves well of readers in general: he sets a
liberal example for other owners of mss.; and his book is in its
externals one of the best for many months.”

− + =Ath= p170 Ag 6 ’20 570w

“Possessing a sense of humor, an ability to appraise human nature, and
a profound respect for truth, he has given enough of these old
manuscripts to reproduce for us a picture of the times in which their
writers lived. These papers are not without value to the historian.”
G. H. S.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 22 ’21 560w

+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:622 O ’20 400w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:619 D 22 ’20 180w

“The book is very well illustrated and printed and will be found an
excellent thing to dip into and dally with in the spirit in which it
was written. It is a book for the country house table.”

+ =Sat R= 130:463 D 4 ’20 100w

“His book demands not so much to be read from cover to cover as to be
kept within easy reach of one’s most comfortable chair, to be opened
at random, and browsed upon in the leisurely, epicurean way in which
we can picture the author himself perusing his manuscripts. Nor are
they altogether without their value for the historian.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p393 Je 24 ’20 1350w

=HINKSON, KATHARINE (TYNAN) (MRS HENRY ALBERT HINKSON).= Love of brothers. *$1.75 (2c) Benziger

20–3710

Sir Shawn O’Gara had upbraided his dearest friend, his brother in
affection, for having ruined—as he thought—a young girl of the people;
and enraged beyond control at Terence Comerford’s careless laugh had
lashed the spirited horse, Spitfire, Terence was riding, thus sending
him to his death. The shadow of his remorse haunted Sir Shawn
throughout his subsequent, unusually blest married life. Retribution
overtook him when his own son fell in love with Terence Comerford’s
supposedly illegitimate daughter, Stella, and when his horse Mustapha,
grandson of Spitfire and as spirited as his ancestor threw and
apparently killed him. But he lived and Stella was proven legitimate
and of exceedingly fine metal for standing up for and openly loving
her mother while still in disgrace.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:33 O ’20

“Her mastery of her material is complete; she shapes it into fresh
form, leaving no suggestion of the hackneyed or the improbable.”

+ =Cath World= 111:542 Jl ’20 160w

“After the production of some sixty-four novels, it is something yet
to be able to achieve a story which shows no signs of a worn-out
imagination, but a decided quickening of spirit. Katharine Tynan tells
her tale simply and with economy of words; yet there is real
originality of plot and individuality of outlook, the whole showing a
definite form, finely moulded.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p518 S 25 ’19 220w

=HISTORY= of the American field service in France; Friends of France, 1914–1917; told by its members. 3v il *$12.50 Houghton 940.373

20–15471

“Four years ago, while yet our armies were in the field, was published
a volume entitled ‘Friends of France,’ which contained numerous
accounts of the work done by American soldiers in France who wore the
blue of the poilu. The war was still in progress and some of our
regiments were still on the way overseas in danger of submarines and
anticipating the serious work which was to follow. The volume,
‘Friends of France,’ was therefore more or less provisional and
incomplete. This publication then is designed to supersede the former
work; its aim, as expressed by the publishers, is to fill in the gaps
and finish the story, to give the final record of all the sections,
new as well as old, and of the work of the many hundreds of younger
volunteers as well as of the pioneers of 1915 and 1916.”—Boston
Transcript

* * * * *

“Very carefully have the selections been made and they are edited with
rare skill and discrimination.” E. T. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 700w

=R of Rs= 62:445 O ’20 130w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p654 O 7 ’20 70w

=HOBBS, WILLIAM HERBERT.= Leonard Wood, administrator, soldier, and citizen. il *$2 (4½c) Putnam

20–6726

The emphasis of this account of General Wood’s career is put on his
advocacy of military preparedness. The author of the book sees as much
danger in pacifism and internationalism as opposed to national
preparedness, now as before and during the war. Henry A. Wise Wood
writes a foreword to the book in the same spirit. The contents under
the two divisions of: The soldier and administrator; and Prophet and
organizer of preparedness, are: An American soldier; The builder of
republics; Roosevelt’s estimate of Wood; Organizing the American army
for defence; The fight against pacifism; The darkening of counsel;
“Broomstick preparedness”; At war; A soldier’s reward; Addendum;
Partial list of writings of General Leonard Wood; Books and articles
concerning General Leonard Wood.

* * * * *

“The book is obviously a campaign document and not a very good one. It
is so fulsome in its eulogy of its hero and so bitter in its
denunciation of all who disagree with him, but above all of President
Wilson, that it overshoots its mark in both directions.” L. B. Evans

− =Am Pol Sci R= 14:719 N ’20 310w

=Freeman= 1:71 Mr 31 ’20 160w

“Serviceable and readable volume.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 70w

=HOBHOUSE, STEPHEN.= Joseph Sturge. *1.50 Dutton

“A short biography (198 pages) of this earnest-minded Quaker, social
reformer, and Chartist, who died in 1859, a year after he had been
appointed President of the Peace society (British).” (Brooklyn) “Among
the big things which he looked after were temperance, anti-slavery,
Chartism and reform, free trade, education, international arbitration
and peace.” (Ath)

* * * * *