not without his difficulties. It must be confessed that there is
  tedium in the triteness of some of his ideas and situations.” D. L. M.

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

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

     + − =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w

  “Utterly unconvincing story.”

       − =N Y Times= 25:237 My 9 ’20 350w

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

       + =Pub W= 97:994 Mr 20 ’20 180w

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

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

                                                         (Eng ed 20–655)

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

         =Ath= p415 My 30 ’19 120w

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

  Reviewed by Preserved Smith

         =Nation= 110:555 Ap 24 ’20 500w

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

     + − =Review= 2:284 Mr 20 ’20 320w

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

     + − =Sat R= 127:634 Je 28 ’19 420w

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

     + − =Spec= 122:700 My 31 ’19 1700w

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

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

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

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

       − =Yale R= n s 10:209 O ’20 150w

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

                                                       (Eng ed 20–10129)

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

       + =Booklist= 17:84 N ’20

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

       + =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 11 ’20 1900w

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

       + =Review= 3:348 O 20 ’20 900w

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

       + =Spec= 123:815 D 13 ’19 1800w

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

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

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

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

                                                       (Eng ed 20–10127)

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

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

       + =Ath= p795 Je 18 ’20 1500w

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

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

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

       + =Nation= 111:sup653 D 8 ’20 2000w

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

       + =N Y Times= p9 N 7 ’20 1900w

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

       + =Outlook= 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 130w

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

       + =R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 150w

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

     + − =Sat R= 129:518 Je 5 ’20 1400w

         =Spec= 124:762 Je 5 ’20 1400w

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

                                                                20–11849

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

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

     + − =Outlook= 125:715 Ag 25 ’20 50w

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

       + =Photo-Era= 45:104 Ag ’20 760w

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

                                                       (Eng ed 20–16277)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

                                                                 20–4494

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

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

     + − =Am Hist R= 26:324 Ja ’21 800w

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

     + − =Am J Soc= 26:364 N ’20 1050w

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

     + − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:362 My ’20 110w

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

     + − =Ath= p76 Ja 16 ’20 1800w

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

       + =Booklist= 17:12 O ’20

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

       + =Cath World= 111:404 Je ’20 290w

       + =Dial= 68:671 My ’20 100w

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

       + =Eng Hist R= 35:624 O ’20 390w

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

       + =Nation= 110:594 My 1 ’20 200w

         =Sat R= 129:188 F 21 ’20 1350w

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

       + =Spec= 124:243 F 21 ’20 1000w

         =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 7 ’20 90w

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

       + =Survey= 44:313 My 29 ’20 140w

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

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

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

                                                                19–19930

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

  Reviewed by Edith Abbott

       + =Am Econ R= 10:841 D ’20 160w

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

     + − =Am Hist R= 25:550 Ap ’20 400w

  Reviewed by E. H. Sutherland

       + =Am J Soc= 26:370 N ’20 150w

         =Ath= p353 Mr 12 ’20 100w

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

     + − =Ath= p442 Ap 2 ’20 500w

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

       + =Booklist= 16:262 My ’20

  Reviewed by C. C. Plehn

       + =Nation= 111:379 O 6 ’20 190w

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

       + =Socialist R= 8:252 Mr ’20 100w

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

       + =Survey= 43:781 Mr 20 ’20 300w

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

                                                                20–21963

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

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

       + =Dial= 70:106 Ja ’21 70w

       + =Nation= 112:122 Ja 26 ’21 200w

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

       + =N Y Times= p20 D 12 ’20 1000w

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

       + =Pub W= 98:1884 D 18 ’20 300w

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

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

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

                                                                 20–3342

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

         =Booklist= 17:13 O ’20

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

       + =Survey= 44:308 My 29 ’20 120w

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

                                                                 20–4805

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

       + =Ath= p1354 D 12 ’19 90w

       + =Booklist= 16:278 My ’20

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

       + =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 160w

         =R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 80w

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

     + − =Spec= 123:860 D 20 ’19 1900w

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

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

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

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

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

                                                                 20–4485

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

       + =Booklist= 16:240 Ap ’20

  “Mr Birmingham takes apparently a rather Laodicean attitude. He is not
  aflame with that determined patriotism which burns in the souls of so
  many other Irish writers of today. He has applied, on the contrary,
  his own rather detached, yet pleasantly sympathetic spirit, and the
  wit and knowledge of human nature that have gone to the making of his
  novels, to a study of his fellow-Irishmen, and with laudable results.”

     + − =Cath World= 112:261 N ’20 370w

       + =Dial= 68:669 My ’20 110w

  Reviewed by Preserved Smith

         =Nation= 110:768 Je 5 ’20 500w

  “Mr Birmingham’s book covers a very broad field, and does it with an
  ease, a lack of hurry and an ever-present sense of humor, which, when
  the highly controversial nature of the subjects is considered, render
  it a most unusual volume.”

       + =N Y Times= 25:117 Mr 14 ’20 900w

       + =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 60w

  “We can cordially commend Canon Hannay’s book to all who want to know
  what sort of men inhabit Ireland, what they think about, and in what
  way they will bear themselves in the hour of trial; we commend it to
  all who think some working compromise can be devised to inveigle
  Ulster under a Dublin parliament, and who imagine that because a
  policy is useful and desirable it must therefore also be practicable.”

       + =Spec= 124:146 Ja 31 ’20 700w

  “This book will be much more helpful than ‘Irish impressions.’ Mr
  Chesterton found in Ireland the stronghold of the religion of which he
  is such an able propagandist. George Birmingham, although adherent to
  the church of Ireland, deals more even justice and displays in his
  treatment of the religious question that Irish fairness which is as
  real as Irish bigotry, though far less generally recognized.”

       + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p661 N 20 ’19 360w

=HANNAY, JAMES OWEN (GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM, pseud.).= Up, the rebels!
*$1.75 (2½c) Doran

                                                                19–15676

  Sir Ulick Conolly was a high government official in Ireland whose
  phlegmatic temperament and easy-going worldly wisdom refused to take
  the unrest of the Irish Nationals seriously. His policy was not to
  suppress the rebels but to avert an explosion by letting them blow off
  steam freely. He did not even suppress his daughter Mona, one of the
  rebels, who talked in Gaelic and dressed like a Celtic queen; who
  engaged in conspiracies and led uprisings. But he managed to send her
  off into the country to her aunt’s, for safe keeping, as he thought.
  There she organizes the natives and proclaims the Irish republic in
  the village of Dunally. Her father’s timely interference saves the
  situation from becoming serious for the rebels and turns the fracas
  into something of a farce. In the end the girl is put to bed for
  recuperation under the watchful eye of her aunt.

  “The humorous possibilities of the situation are used with delicacy
  and ingenuity. George A. Birmingham is at his best in this book.”

       + =Ath= p930 S 19 ’19 120w

       + =Booklist= 16:243 Ap ’20

  “Never was irony so playful, so kindly an instrument as in
  Birmingham’s ‘Up, the rebels.’” M. E. Bailey

       + =Bookm= 51:207 Ap ’20 900w

  “To read ‘Up, the rebels!’ is to see new light upon the Irish
  question. Both as a story and as a study of political and social
  conditions it is a tribute to the knowledge and skill of a leader
  among present-day clerical humorists.” E. F. E.

       + =Boston Transcript= p10 Ja 31 ’20 1200w

  “Of course it is possible that some persons will not find this tale
  amusing; there are people who do not find the Gilbert and Sullivan
  operas amusing. But those who can enjoy wit and a shrewd, ironic
  treatment of certain human vanities and foibles will undoubtedly
  chuckle long and deeply over Mr G. A. Birmingham’s new tale.”

       + =N Y Times= 25:53 F 1 ’20 1150w

  “A thoroughly delightful story of Ireland, over which the reader
  chuckles long if not loud, appreciating and enjoying the whimsical wit
  and good-natured satire he has some time ago learned to expect from
  this most entertaining of writers.”

       + =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 60w

  “Canon Hannay has never written a more satisfying story.”

       + =Outlook= 124:249 F 11 ’20 100w

  “Another of those disconcerting criticisms of Irish life and English
  government which illuminate the difficulties of affairs in the
  distressful country. The fact that the book is as amusing as any of
  its predecessors, even ‘Spanish gold’ or ‘The search party,’ seems
  merely incidental, but it must be mentioned.”

       + =Sat R= 129:70 Ja 17 ’20 120w

  “We have already had several serious novels inspired by the events of
  Easter, 1916, but George Birmingham is the only writer who has turned
  the sequel to humorous purpose, and he is probably the only writer
  living who could be trusted to do so without offence. The worst that
  can be said of the book is that, as in ‘The seething pot,’ his first
  novel, the author sees no way out.”

       + =Spec= 123:510 O 18 ’19 900w

  “The relation between his amusing chronicles and actual life may be
  remote: no matter, for they were always considered to be descriptive
  of the kind of events that might occur if people and Ireland had
  happened to be like the people and the Ireland of George Birmingham’s
  books.”

     + − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p514 S 25 ’19 450w

=HANSHEW, MARY E., and HANSHEW, THOMAS W. (CHARLOTTE MAY KINGSLEY,
pseud.).= Riddle of the frozen flame. il *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday

                                                                 20–9476

  “Mr Maverick Narkom, superintendent of Scotland Yard, sat before the
  litter of papers upon his desk.... ‘Dash it, Cleek!’ he said for the
  thirty-third time, ‘I don’t know what to make of it, I don’t,
  indeed!’” So opens the new Cleek story. The mystery referred to is a
  series of daring bank robberies. But more unusual matters are to
  follow, involving the riddle of the frozen flames. Sir Nigel Merriton
  sees them on the first night spent in Merriton Towers and his impulse
  is to go out onto the fens to investigate, but his horrified servants
  restrain him with tales of those who have dared this never to return.
  Sir Nigel, who is very much in love and has just become engaged, has
  no wish to risk his life and his interest in the supposed supernatural
  phenomenon lapses. It is only when Dacre Wynne, his unsuccessful
  rival, disappears, that he is moved to action and carries the strange
  tale to Scotland Yard, arousing the interest of Cleek, who pursues the
  mystery to its solution.

  “The dénouement is obvious from the first, while the love interest is
  of the usual stereotyped kind. Even so, ‘The riddle of the frozen
  flame’ is an infinitely better mystery tale than many others appearing
  this season.”

     + − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ’20 220w

  “‘The riddle of the frozen flame’ is a cleverly conceived tale that
  will idle away an hour most pleasantly.”

       + =N Y Times= 25:302 Je 6 ’20 400w

         =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 200w

       + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 80w

=HANSON, DANIEL LOUIS.= Business philosophy of Moses Irons. il *$2.50
(1c) Shaw, A. W. 658

                                                                20–19862

  A series of chapters, in fiction form, on the methods of conducting a
  big business today. Moses Irons is the typical self-made business man,
  shrewd, kindly, humorous and masterful. His ideals, his methods, his
  relations with his subordinates are set forth in the book, some of the
  chapters of which are: A romance of business; Live wires and dead
  ones; Getting a job with Moses Irons; The ironmaster talks
  advertising; Business diplomacy and trade anarchists; Wives and
  sweethearts; The ironmaster gets pointers on handling salesmen; The
  ironmaster invests in junk.

=HANSON, OLE.= Americanism versus bolshevism. il *$1.75 (2½c) Doubleday
331.87

                                                                 20–2669

  The author speaks of bolshevism and everything he conceives of as
  coming under the head—communism, syndicalism, I. W. W.’ism—in no
  uncertain terms. They all, he says, thrive on “murder, rape, pillage,
  arson, free love, poverty, want, starvation, filth, slavery,
  autocracy, suppression, sorrow and hell on earth.” (Preface) After
  giving the above ‘isms more than their due he also mentions the red
  employers as likewise culpable, but “we should be thankful that every
  day they become less and soon will be an inconsequential minority in
  the land.” Among the contents are: The labour situation in Seattle;
  Something of the rise, trial and failure of bolshevism in Europe; Some
  of history’s verdicts on reformers, utopias, trade unions, and
  bolshevism; The causes of Bolshevism in Russia; The origin and
  development of bolshevism in the United States; Bolshevism in America:
  its causes and some remedies; Bolshevism contrasted with Americanism.

  “The book contains pages of shallow generalizations.”

       − =Booklist= 16:223 Ap ’20

  “The value of this book, and the interest of it, is the clearness with
  which it points out the menace.” I. W. L.

       + =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 950w

         =Ind= 103:320 S 11 ’20 70w

  “The best part of the book is that in which Mr Hanson tells the story
  of his own fight. The reader is forced to decide whether or not Mr
  Hanson has attempted too much. For one thing he has endeavored to
  generalize from his own experiences. His arguments are weak when he
  delves into the past. Ole Hanson on the subject of remedies is worth
  reading.”

     + − =Lit D= p90 My 1 ’20 1050w

         =R of Rs= 61:560 My ’20 60w

         =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 15 ’20 400w

=HANUS, PAUL HENRY.= School administration and school reports. *$1.75
Houghton 379.15

                                                                20–13792

  The object of the book is to help principals and teachers as well as
  superintendents and boards of education to acquire a clearly defined
  educational and administrative policy and to formulate and justify
  their opinions and procedure. Contents: The meaning of education; Some
  principles of school administration; Town and city school reports,
  more particularly superintendents’ reports; Testing the efficiency of
  public schools; Courtis arithmetic tests applied to employees in
  business houses; Measuring progress in learning Latin; How far shall
  the state go? The German example; German schools and American
  education; Germany’s kultur; The Harvard graduate school of education.

  “One might raise a question as to why such an excellent monograph as
  the first three chapters would make should be made to carry an equal
  amount of loosely associated material. The last eight chapters are
  interesting and have individual value, but are not more closely
  related to the theme of the book than many other articles which might
  have been included. The busy school administrator would doubtless
  appreciate the book more if there were fewer ‘riders’ attached.”

     + − =El School J= 21:73 S ’20 880w

  “The clear-cut statement of principles of school administration and of
  the bases of determining the efficiency of the administration of a
  system of schools, and the analysis of typical school reports and the
  suggestions for their improvement contained in the first four of the
  essays have in themselves much more than enough of value to justify
  the volume.”

       + =School R= 28:710 N ’20 190w

=HAPGOOD, NORMAN.= Advancing hour. *$2 Boni & Liveright 940.5

                                                                20–12808

  Mr Hapgood accepts the fact that we are now in the midst of
  revolution, and accepting that fact, he says “the only question is in
  what manner it will be conducted, and by whom.” He states his own
  position, and defines his liberalism: “If a radical is one who by
  nature prefers sudden change and violent remedies then I am not a
  radical.... A liberal differs from a radical in humility. He
  concentrates on certain changes, good in themselves and also carrying
  the seeds of further change, but he leaves later steps to later times.
  His faith is that if the next step taken by us is important and of
  right direction we shall have done all that belongs to our moment.”
  Contents: In time of revolution; The storm cellar; The blockade of
  thought; What the issues are; Without a party; Facing bolshevism: our
  follies in Russia; Facing bolshevism: the future in Russia; Is
  socialism needed? The answer of cooperation; The answer of liberalism;
  From Wilsonism to the future; What is our faith?

  “A hopeful book which does not attempt to solve all problems at a
  stroke.”

       + =Booklist= 17:13 O ’20

  “Mr Hapgood always writes interestingly even though his words may not
  be based upon the soundest philosophy.”

       + =Cath World= 112:403 D ’20 330w

  “Outside of an excellent chapter on the cooperative movement, the
  volume is chiefly pious platitude, amiable advice to business men not
  to make fools of themselves in a time of rapid social change like the
  present.” Harold Stearns

     − + =Freeman= 2:92 O 6 ’20 960w

  Reviewed by W: MacDonald

         =Nation= 111:sup427 O 13 ’20 750w

  “It is a book worth everyone’s reading, for its notable contribution
  of facts and ideas, and more especially for its candor of spirit, rare
  indeed in a day when a great part of our political writers are still
  more or less disabled morally by their late services to national
  morale in disseminating lies and misrepresentations for the glory of
  God and the cause of right.” A. J.

       + =New Repub= 23:339 Ag 18 ’20 2050w

  “Mr Hapgood shows the defects of his good qualities and one of these
  is at present a lack of knowledge in what these good qualities
  consist. The volume is stimulating, patriotic without being
  nationalistic, unselfish and idealistic; but it shows some of the
  defects of an education which seems to have been entirely American.”
  M. F. Egan

     + − =N Y Times= p8 Ag 29 ’20 3550w

  “The best chapter in the book is chapter eight on the advantages of
  co-operation, over both socialism and government regulation of great
  combinations, as a remedy for industrial injustice. Mr Norman Hapgood
  is an effective pamphleteer; but excellences in a pamphleteer are
  fatal defects in a historian.”

     − + =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 300w

  “To one reviewer at least—and one who is not insensible to the part Mr
  Hapgood has taken in past times in the advocacy of certain social
  measures—there is provocation on almost every page of this book. But
  in the two chapters on the Russian problem, as well as in other
  incidental treatment of this problem, the provocation concentrates in
  every line.” W. J. Ghent

     − + =Review= 3:230 S 15 ’20 3350w

         =R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 130w

  “To see things steadily and clearly is a gift of few. Mr Hapgood
  possesses fewer blind spots than most, but it may be that he is
  mistaken in parts of his analysis. However, he stimulates the reader
  to formulate his own beliefs. The style is a trifle labored, but there
  is no mistaking the book’s earnestness.”

     + − =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 320w

  “Special mention should be made of Mr Hapgood’s intimate study of
  President Wilson. It is a helpful antidote to Mr Keynes’ sketch.” L.
  R. Robinson

       + =Survey= 45:320 N 27 ’20 720w

=HARA, KATSURO.=[2] Introduction to the history of Japan. *$2.50 (2½c)
Putnam

                                                                     952

  The book is the first of a projected series of publications by the
  Yamato society, whose aim is to make clear the meaning and extent of
  Japanese culture to other nations, and to introduce the best
  literature and art of foreign nations to Japan for a promotion of a
  common understanding. The present volume is intended for those
  Europeans and Americans who would like to know Japan “not as a land of
  quaint curios and picturesque paradoxes only worthy to be preserved
  intact for a show, but as a land inhabited by a nation striving hard
  to improve itself, and to take its share, however humble, in the
  common progress of the civilisation of the world.” (Preface) Contents:
  The races and climate of Japan; Japan before the introduction of
  Buddhism and Chinese civilisation; Growth of the imperial power;
  gradual centralisation; Remodeling of the state; Culmination of the
  new régime; stagnation; rise of the military régime; The military
  régime; the Taira and the Minamoto; the shogunate of Kamakura; The
  welding of the nation; the political disintegration of the country;
  End of medieval Japan; The transition from medieval to modern Japan;
  The Tokugawa shogunate—its political régime; culture and society (two
  chapters); The restoration of the Meidji; Epilogue. The objects of and
  the rules of the Yamato society are given in full and there is an
  index.

  “A carefully evolved and well written synopsis of the many centuries
  of Japanese national life. There is one especially creditable
  circumstance about the publication of this book. It is honest Japanese
  propaganda, and it makes no pretensions of being anything else.” S. L.
  C.

       + =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 22 ’21 420w

=HARBEN, WILLIAM NATHANIEL.= Divine event. *$1.75 (2c) Harper

                                                                20–16796

  A story of psychical phenomena. Hillery Gramling, unhappy over the
  death of his brother, in consultation with a medium is sent to New
  York’s East side to live among the poor. There he comes in contact
  with Lucia Lingle, a beautiful young girl who seems to be under the
  shadow of some awful, mysterious tragedy. He falls in love with her
  and is anxious to help her. He is aided by Professor Trimble,
  psychologist, alienist, mental scientist, who becomes deeply
  interested in Lucia’s case. Thru the mediumship of Madame DuFresne,
  they discover the exact nature of her trouble, that her half-brother
  is trying to prove her insane that he may take over her inheritance.
  Together they fight the thing out, encouraged always by the
  supernatural aid they receive, thru Madame DuFresne, from those on the
  other side of death. In the end thru their combined efforts, Lucia is
  freed from the awful curse that has hung over her, and has the promise
  of happiness.

  “The plot is slight and unconvincing but is evidently meant to be
  taken seriously and will interest readers inclined to believe in
  spirit control and guardian angels.”

     + − =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21

=HARCOURT, ROBERT HENRY.= Elementary forge practice. 2d ed, enl il $1.50
Manual arts press 672

                                                                20–19056

  A second edition of a work originally published by the author,
  instructor in forge practice in Leland Stanford Junior university,
  where it has been used as a text. It is designed for use in technical
  and vocational schools. Contents: Materials and equipment;
  Drawing-out, bending and twisting; Common welds; Special welds; Hammer
  work; Annealing, hardening and tempering steel; Tool forging. There
  are forty-four plates illustrating as many projects.

  “The volume should prove a valuable addition to any shop library as a
  supplementary text. For the teacher of large classes of beginners it
  should lift the burden of much class work and explanation if placed in
  the hands of the pupils as a text.”

       + =School R= 29:77 Ja ’21 210w

=HARD, WILLIAM.= Raymond Robins’ own story. il *$2 (4c) Harper 947

                                                                 20–3007

  Colonel Robins was the unofficial representative of the American
  ambassador to Russia for eighteen months and a close observer of the
  powers that conducted Russian affairs, and he has had a more intimate
  acquaintance than any other American or allied representative with the
  government of Lenin. He is not a socialist and not a bolshevist, but
  he sees that the danger from the latter, if such there be, lies not in
  riots and robberies, mobs and massacres, not in its disorder but in
  its order, in that “the Soviet system is genuinely a system on its own
  account.... It can be extinguished only in the free air of fair
  controversy and of fair, practical proof.” There is but one choice
  left to America, according to Colonel Robins, in dealing with Russia,
  and that is not intervention but intercourse. The story of the book is
  told by the author as it was narrated to him by Colonel Robins. The
  contents are: The arrival of the Soviet; Trotzky’s plans for soviet
  Russia; The all-Russian congress and the Brest-Litovsk peace; The
  personality and power of Nikolai Lenin; The bolshevik “bomb”; and many
  illustrations.

       + =Booklist= 16:237 Ap ’20

  “It stands out in this consecutive form as the most vigorous, the most
  picturesque, as well as the most truthful record in English of the
  birth of Bolshevism through the Soviet.” O. M. Sayler

       + =Bookm= 51:310 My ’20 950w

         =Cleveland= p76 Ag ’20 60w

       + =R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 180w

         =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 1 ’20 1000w

  “Mr Hard is so carried away with dramatic fervor that he feels it
  necessary to interrupt himself every now and then to assure us that Mr
  Robins is a good anti-Bolshevist. But these interludes need not divert
  the reader from the important parts of the book. Mr Robins’ admirable
  suggestions as to future American policy toward Russia deserve to be
  widely read.” Reed Lewis

     + − =Survey= 44:48 Ap 3 ’20 270w

=HARDY, THOMAS.= Collected poems, lyrical, narratory and reflective.
*$3.40 Macmillan 821

                                                                20–26754

  “This book contains all of Thomas Hardy’s poetry except ‘The dynasts,’
  including poems which have appeared in his prose works.”—Booklist

  “There have been many poets among us in the last fifty years, poets of
  sure talent, and it may be even of genius, but no other of them has
  this compulsive power of Hardy. The secret is not hard to find. Not
  one of them is adequate to what we know and have suffered....
  Therefore we deliberately set Mr Hardy among the greatest.” J. M. M.

       + =Ath= p1147 N 7 ’19 2200w

       + =Booklist= 17:21 O ’20

  “Let it be said straight out that in our opinion, whatever else Mr
  Hardy’s writing, susceptible to scansion, is, it is not poetry. It is
  not poetry, because, in the end, poetry is in a sort illusion.... He
  has been guilty of the last, the unforgivable sin in poetry—* *he has
  sinned against love, for which there is and should be no forgiveness.”

     − + =Sat R= 128:459 N 15 ’19 1250w

         =Spec= 122:512 O 18 ’19 20w

  “Mr Hardy, once and for all, set up as poet, then, at an age when
  Shakespeare left our mortal stage. This book, for that reason alone,
  is an unprecedented achievement. Apart from that, to read steadily
  through it—and what severer test of lyrical poetry could be
  devised?—is to win to the consciousness not of any superficial
  consistency, but assuredly of a ‘harmony of colouring’; not, however
  keen the joy manifest ‘in the making,’ of an art become habitual, but
  of a shadowy unity and design.”

     + − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p681 N 27 ’19 2450w

=HARKER, MRS LIZZIE ALLEN.= Allegra. *$1.75 (2c) Scribner

                                                                  20–161

  Allegra is a charming but decidedly self-centered young actress who
  sees every person and every incident in the light of her career. She
  is playing in a provincial repertory theater at the opening of the
  story and it is thru a chance meeting with Paul Staniland that her
  ambition to appear in London is gratified. Paul is delighted with
  Allegra and works up a part for her in the play he is dramatizing from
  one of Matthew Maythorne’s novels. Maythorne is one of those popular
  novelists whose books sell into the thousands and he fatuously accepts
  the success of the play as a tribute to himself, giving Paul none of
  the credit. Allegra’s admiration for the novelist is killed by a
  reading of his book and she comes to appreciate Paul, but a visit at
  the country home of Paul’s people, delightful tho they are, convinces
  her that she belongs to the theater and she returns to the stage.

       + =Ath= p1208 N 14 ’19 70w

  “The plot is not credible in parts, but this does not mar the interest
  of the story.”

     + − =Booklist= 16:244 Ap ’20

  Reviewed by M. E. Bailey

         =Bookm= 51:205 Ap ’20 260w

  “If Paul seems a special creation made to fit Allegra’s need, why
  quarrel with him? Are we not left with the conviction that here is a
  really happy ending to a story?”

     + − =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 260w

  “A number of minor characters are very well drawn.”

       + =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 70w

  “All the minor characters, in fact, are skillfully portrayed, with any
  number of quaint and understanding little touches which make ‘Allegra’
  very agreeable reading—the more agreeable because the author has had
  the good taste and good sense to avoid the conventional ‘happy
  ending.’”

       + =N Y Times= 25:71 F 8 ’20 440w

       + =Sat R= 130:380 N 6 ’20 100w

  “Altogether it is a slight but pleasing little story without any
  probing into psychology or any tremendous conflict of forces.”

       + =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 160w

  “Allegra, a little hard and egotistical, and passionately devoted to
  her art, is well studied. And the whole tale (which moves among
  well-bred people throughout) is on a good level, though we think a
  little below that attained in other books by the author.”

       + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p594 O 23 ’19 100w

=HARPER, GEORGE MCLEAN.=[2] John Morley, and other essays. *$1.60
Princeton univ. press 814

                                                                20–10290

  “Professor Harper, of Princeton university, author of various books of
  literary criticism (including the substantial and able work on
  Wordsworth), here puts together eight essays—on John Morley; Victor
  Hugo (these from the Atlantic Monthly); Michael Angelo’s sonnets;
  Balzac; W. C. Brownell (an American critic); Wordsworth at Blois;
  Wordsworth’s love poetry; and ‘David Brainerd: a Puritan saint.’”—The
  Times [London] Lit Sup

  “His generalizations are just, and he is not ridden by them; he knows
  when to generalize and when to forget his generalizations.”

       + =Ath= p838 D 17 ’20 110w

         =Booklist= 17:68 N ’20

         =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p762 N 18 ’20 70w

=HARRIS, CORRA MAY (WHITE) (MRS LUNDY HOWARD HARRIS).= Happily married.
*$1.75 (2c) Doran

                                                                 20–3192

  The scene is an exclusive southern town, the time that summer of
  intense war activity, 1918, and the characters several married pairs.
  Two of these are Mary and Pelham Madden, and two others Ellen and
  Barrie Skipwith. Mary is one of those calm, maternal and beautifully
  placid women, a perfect housekeeper and mother of four children. Ellen
  is a childless woman with red hair and baby blue eyes. Mary has just
  found a note in her husband’s pocket addressed to Dear Pep. Ellen has
  just turned in a Red cross subscription list with an anonymous
  contribution of $1000. How Mary wakes up and learns to practice the
  old womanly wiles is the theme of a story that is told amusingly with
  touches of satire.

  “Entertaining in spite of its hackneyed plot.”

       + =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20

  “Mrs Harris makes no attempt to inject novelty into the situation. She
  relies on her knowledge of men and women and her happy faculty in
  phrasing her reflections thereon for the pleasure of her readers. And
  these easily suffice.” F. A. G.

       + =Boston Transcript= p11 Mr 27 ’20 500w

  “The entertaining and shrewd comment upon married life, adds ginger to
  a somewhat conventional vamp story.”

     + − =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 100w

       + =Lit D= p99 My 1 ’20 2300w

  “An immense quantity of mildly entertaining and occasionally shrewd
  comment strung on a very slight, very much worn thread of plot,
  constitutes Corra Harris’s new novel.”

     + − =N Y Times= 25:4 F 29 ’20 300w

       + =Outlook= 124:562 Mr 31 ’20 30w

  “Mrs Harris’s thesis does not command unfaltering acquiescence. For
  those, however, who collect novels as others collect butterflies, the
  book will have a great deal of interest.”

     + − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p383 Je 17 ’20 500w

=HARRIS, CREDO FITCH.= Wings of the wind. *$1.75 (1½c) Small

                                                                20–11301

  Jack Bronx, returning from the war, is packed off by his fond parents
  on their private yacht, with one of his army pals. On the way to
  Havana they pick up a stranger who turns out to be a secret envoy from
  the Kingdom of Azuria, in search of a lost princess. Chance favoring
  they trace the princess as one of the passengers on another yacht.
  Great is the chase, thrilling the adventures which eventually take the
  party to the Florida swamps into the ancient haunts of the Seminoles.
  The princess is rescued, Jack falls violently in love with her, and
  the old emissary hard put to it to save her, under the circumstances,
  for the throne of Azuria. Jack’s resourceful friend settles the matter
  by demonstrating to everybody’s satisfaction that the emissary’s
  orders to deliver the princess did not contain the provision that she
  must be single when found.

         =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 650w

  “The story teems with thrilling incidents. The plot, however, is
  trite.”

     + − =Cath World= 112:552 Ja ’21 90w

         =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 25 ’20 530w

=HARRIS, H. WILSON.= Peace in the making. il *$2 Dutton 940.314

                                                                 20–6966

  “‘What I have endeavored to produce is an account, checked by such
  official documents as are available, which will convey to the general
  reader some not wholly inadequate impression both of what the
  conference did and how it did it.’ (Preface) The author was for three
  months the special correspondent of the London Daily News to the
  conference.”—Wis Lib Bul

       + =Ath= p95 Ja 16 ’20 200w

       + =Booklist= 17:66 N ’20

  “Mr Harris is well-informed and his pen-pictures of the personality
  and policy of the leading diplomats, tho less lively than those of Mr
  Keynes, are far closer to the facts.”

       + =Ind= 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 50w

  “His plan is less ambitious than that of Dr Dillon, for he leaves out
  most of the historical summaries which are a valuable feature of Dr
  Dillon’s volume, and also tells fewer incidents. His account of the
  Prinkipo episode, and of the apparently deliberate intermeddling of
  France to insure that the proposed conference should come to naught,
  should be read by anyone who still cherishes confidence in the good
  faith of the Paris negotiators.” W: MacDonald

       + =Nation= 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 150w

         =N Y Times= p15 S 19 ’20 50w

  “Those readers who are interested in finding an account of the peace
  conference to supplement the somewhat opinionated statements of Keynes
  and Dillon would do well to provide themselves with a copy of ‘The
  peace in the making.’ The book as a whole, while not itself history in
  the fullest sense, may well be regarded as a contribution to history.”

       + =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 140w

         =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 220w

  “His summary of the deliberations of the conference is just a little
  too summary, and the chapter on Lenin and Bela Kun is vague and
  unsatisfactory. On the other hand, Mr Harris’s judgments of the
  personalities of the conference are generally temperate and just.”

     + − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p23 Ja 8 ’20 220w

         =Wis Lib Bul= 16:119 Je ’20 60w

=HARRIS, JAMES RENDEL.= Last of the Mayflower. (Manchester univ.
publications) *$2 (*5s) Longmans 974.4

                                                                20–14551

  “In this publication of the John Rylands library Dr Rendel Harris
  tries to find an answer to the question, ‘What became of the
  “Mayflower“?’ The name was a common one for ships in late Tudor and
  early Stuart times; hence the tracing of the authentic ‘Mayflower’ has
  entailed much research. Some ten years after the landing of the
  Pilgrims (1620), she was employed on a similar service, that of
  transporting the remainder of the Leyden colony to New Plymouth. Then
  she is traced in the whale-fishery, and to her last owner and master,
  Mr Thomas Webber of Boston. Not long after 1654, the author says, ‘one
  is tempted to conjecture that she died (in a nautical sense). Most
  likely she was broken up in Boston, or perhaps in the Thames on her
  last voyage to London.’ ”—Ath

         =Ath= p591 Ap 30 ’20 140w

  Reviewed by W. A. Dyer

         =Bookm= 52:125 O ’20 40w

=HARRISON, AUSTIN.= Before and now. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane 304

                                                                 20–6972

  This collection of papers, reprinted in a revised form from the
  English Review, are critical and partly satirical and humorous
  impressions of conditions in England previous to and during the war.
  They were “journalism then, today they are prophetic,” says the
  author. It is the disintegration of old conceptions and the
  birth-pangs of new that form the subject-matter of the papers, which
  are: Jingoism; The coming of Smith; “Surrey in danger”; Peace, perfect
  peace; St George’s stirrup; The duke’s buffalo; A “Christian” Europe
  and afterwards; Our gentlemen’s schools; Authority and privilege; The
  new “Sesame and lilies”; The Christian drum; What is ours is not ours;
  The country of the blind; “Leave them ‘orses alone!”; Foreign
  politics; “Minny”; The awakening; Musings at Fort Vaux; Foundations of
  reconstruction.

  “Some of these reprinted articles from the English Review are worth
  reading again, as the contemporary views of a very independent
  critic.”

     + − =Ath= p1136 O 31 ’19 120w

  “Although the intimate knowledge of men and events which the author
  demands of his readers will be a drawback to many, the interest of his
  criticisms will hold the attention of the more thoughtful and well
  informed.”

     + − =Booklist= 16:305 Je ’20

  “The papers are stimulating and thoughtful.” W. S. B.

       + =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 14 ’20 480w

  “Mr Austin Harrison is unfortunate enough to live in a between-age.
  Actually he belongs to the Victorian era, but his generation and his
  intelligence will not leave him at peace, and push him into a rather
  uncomfortable ultra-modern attitude. Of all his essays the musings at
  Fort Vaux are the most illuminating, because they are at once the most
  sincere, the least preconceived.”

     + − =Nation= 111:224 Ag 21 ’20 220w

         =N Y Times= p17 S 12 ’20 50w

  “What he has given us is very suggestive, and one is grateful to any
  man who can stir up general interest in our social problems by the use
  of such a facile pen. He has the same sort of literary gift as Mr H.
  G. Wells, though in a slighter degree. But he has not so far shown
  anything like the rich literary nutritiousness that belongs to the
  work of his distinguished father [Frederick Harrison].” H. L. Stewart

     + − =Review= 2:600 Je 5 ’20 1000w

  “Mr Harrison has a vigorous and effective pen, which often runs away
  with him and never quite knows when to stop; but his chief fault, as
  this book reveals it, is a love for exaggeration which detracts
  considerably from the value of his words.”

     + − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p609 O 30 ’19 1150w

=HARRISON, MARY ST LEGER (KINGSLEY) (MRS WILLIAM HARRISON) (LUCAS MALET,
pseud.).= Tall villa. *$1.75 (4c) Doran

                                                                    20–3

  The outstanding characteristic of this novel is that it is a ghost
  story. After her husband’s financial failure, Frances Copley betakes
  herself away from Grosvenor square and London high society and buries
  herself in Tall villa, a maternal inheritance and a preposterous piece
  of architecture, while her husband goes to seek a new fortune in South
  America. There the ghost of an ancient relative, a suicide from
  disappointed love, makes itself known to her and moved by pity she
  resolves to consecrate her life to his redemption. They hold daily
  concourse and by the time his earth-bound spirit has been released
  through her martyrdom, the latter for her had turned into rapture. Her
  spirit too, now longs for release and when the ghost makes its final
  appearance it is to free her too from earthly thralldom.

         =Ath= p767 Je 11 ’20 460w

  “The story is kept sane by means of the other people, the Bulparcs,
  Lady Lucia and her baby, and Charlie Montagu. Therefore it is cleverly
  done. But no one who has not been drawn by a spirit lover to the
  fairer clime can tell if the rest of it is really correct. To review
  the volume rightly one needs a ouija board.”

     + − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 14 ’20 520w

  “The story, a modern fairy tale, is handled with much restraint and
  artistry.”

       + =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 50w

         =Dial= 68:665 My ’20 50w

  “Those who are desirous of finding something to laugh at and to
  ridicule in any tale of the supernatural will readily discover all
  that they desire in ‘The Tall villa’; even those who are ready and
  willing to take the novel with the same high and intense seriousness
  with which it is written will find it difficult to refrain from
  smiling over some of the high-flown speeches addressed by Frances
  Copley to the ghost of Alexis Lord Oxley. Yet there is much of charm
  in the book.”

     + − =N Y Times= 25:2 F 22 ’20 900w

  “The character of Frances Copley is exquisitely etched. The rare
  distinction of Mrs Harrison’s carven style is at its best in this
  unusual and dexterously handled romance, which is finely free from the
  over-frank emphasis of the senses found in ‘Sir Richard Calmady.’”
  Katharine Perry

       + =Pub W= 97:601 F 21 ’20 400w

  “The book will rank with the best of the author’s.”

       + =Sat R= 130:300 O 9 ’20 110w

  “It is a sad confession to make, but we are Philistine enough to
  prefer those portions of the story in which normal events and
  personages predominate.”

     + − =Spec= 124:728 My 29 ’20 450w

  “The dialog is invariably stilted, and the generally formal tone robs
  the situation of reality and those startling qualities inherent in it.
  The heroine herself is delicately portrayed. The story is not long and
  stirs only a mild interest.”

     + − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 9 ’20 560w

  “This novel is excellently written; but a ghost story should make the
  flesh creep, and that is the one function which, in spite of its
  excellences, it certainly does not perform.”

     + − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p284 My 6 ’20 460w

=HARROW, BENJAMIN.=[2] Eminent chemists of our time. il *$2.50 Van
Nostrand 540.9

  The author has chosen eleven scientists “whose work is indissolubly
  bound up with the progress of chemistry during the last generation or
  so.” His aim has been “to write a history of chemistry of our times by
  centering it around some of its leading figures.” Contents:
  Introduction; Perkin and coal-tar dyes; Mendeléeff and the periodic
  law; Ramsay and the gases of the atmosphere; Richards and atomic
  weights; Van’t Hoff and physical chemistry; Arrhenius and the theory
  of electrolytic dissociation; Moissan and the electric furnace; Madame
  Curie and radium; Victor Meyer and the rise of organic chemistry;
  Remsen and the rise of chemistry in America; Fischer and the chemistry
  of foods. Reading references follow the chapters and there is an
  index.

=HARROW, BENJAMIN.= From Newton to Einstein; changing conceptions of the
universe. il *$1 (6½c) Van Nostrand 530

                                                                 20–7594

  The booklet gives in simple popular language an outline of Newton’s
  great discovery and of the various steps in scientific achievements
  which led up to Einstein’s conception of the universe and theory of
  relativity. It shows how Einstein’s conception of time and space led
  to a new view of gravitation and explains some facts which Newton’s
  law was incapable of explaining. The three essays of the book are:
  Newton; The ether and its consequences; Einstein.

  “Dr Harrow’s account is altogether too inadequate. The chapter on
  ‘Einstein’ utterly fails to bring out the central conceptions of the
  ‘Relativity theory’; it is not that the treatment is obscure; it is
  that very important points are slurred over, misstated, or ignored.”

       − =Ath= p377 S 17 ’20 240w

       + =Booklist= 17:57 N ’20

  “It contains egregious mistakes, minor errors, misplaced emphasis,
  wrong interpretation, and a modicum of information.” R: F. Deimel

       − =Freeman= 1:423 Jl 14 ’20 60w

       + =Nature= 106:466 D 9 ’20 40w

         =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p36 Ap ’20 70w

  “A lucid little book.”

       + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p603 S 16 ’20 20w

=HARTLEY, OLGA.= Anne. *$1.90 (2c) Lippincott

  Anne is an orphan and still a child at seventeen when young Gilbert
  Trevor, one of her self-appointed guardians, falls in love with and
  marries her, while her other self-appointed guardian, John Halliday,
  continues to hover over her with a more selfless devotion. Anne never
  grows up but remains an ardent, wilful, fascinating child with a
  child’s sincerity and purity of heart. It leads her into dangerous
  situations and causes complications during which, at a crucial moment,
  Gilbert fails her. She forces the estrangement and after some mad
  escapades follows the dying John to Scotland, resolved to give him all
  the love that he deserved and of which Gilbert has proved himself
  unworthy. But the latter’s love and manhood stand the final test and
  his protecting arms once more hold Anne safe.

  “Anne’s future sister-in-law, Francesca, is a likeable character; but
  the heroine herself is difficult to understand, almost to the end of
  the book.”

     + − =Ath= p783 Je 11 ’20 100w

  “The author’s handling of the heights and depths of the story towards
  its climax deserves high praise for restraint, for absence of
  sensationalism while it yet holds and thrills.”

       + =Cath World= 112:407 D ’20 260w

  “Whether one has patience with the violent-tempered, erratic heroine
  or not, it cannot be denied that here is a soundly-constructed,
  well-written novel.”

     + − =N Y Times= p26 D 19 ’20 260w

  Reviewed by Caroline Singer

         =Pub W= 98:658 S 18 ’20 300w

  “The development and gradual ripening of the heroine’s character (she
  needed it) are very well done, and we commend the book to our
  readers.”

       + =Sat R= 130:379 N 6 ’20 80w

=HARTMAN, HARLEIGH HOLROYD.= Fair value. *$2.50 Houghton 338

                                                                 20–6119

  The book is one of the series of Hart, Schaffner, and Marx prize
  essays in economics and the thesis is concerned with the meaning and
  application of the term “Fair valuation” as used by utility
  commissions. The usage of the term is a loose one and open to much
  confusion on the part of the public as well as of the courts. The
  author’s inquiry rests on the points: “that the public utility is
  essentially different from other industry; that private property
  devoted to the public use is not the same as other private property,
  and does not enjoy the same legal protection; that the service
  rendered is governmental in its nature, and; that the purpose of
  regulation is curtailment of ‘private rights’ and the encumbrance of
  ‘private property.’” The book falls into two parts: 1, The meaning of
  the term “fair value” contains: The basis of regulation; The purpose
  of regulation; Valuation and regulation; The theory of valuation;
  Valuation methods. 2, The application of the theory of fair value,
  contains: The valuation of tangible property; Valuation of intangible
  property; Depreciation; The return on the investment; Conclusion.
  There is also a selected bibliography, a table of cases, and an index.

  “The first is far the more significant part. A valid criticism of the
  book is that it overstrains legal definitions and logical legal
  relationships.” J: Bauer

     + − =Am Econ R= 10:822 D ’20 880w

  “A useful and opportune classifying of a large mass of scattered
  material.”

       + =Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20

  “‘Fair value’ is, withal, a most exhaustive and illuminative work on
  current economics, with principles, laws, court decisions and
  commission opinions all set forth in such a fashion that even the
  uninitiate in such matters are able to grasp Mr Hartman’s theories of
  valuation.” G. M. H.

       + =Boston Transcript= p11 My 22 ’20 550w

  =Review= 3:448 N 10 ’20 1100w

         =R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 120w

  Reviewed by E. R. Burton

       + =Survey= 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 340w

=HARVARD UNIVERSITY. DRAMATIC CLUB.= Plays of the Harvard dramatic club.
*$1.25 Brentano’s 812.08

  “The little volume of one-act plays, edited by Professor George Pierce
  Baker, contains only four pieces, all of them dealing with American
  themes and all of them the result of their several authors’ studies in
  the dramaturgic laboratory which the editor has successfully conducted
  at Harvard. In his brief prefatory note he explains the activities of
  the Harvard dramatic club and tells us that the four plays he has
  chosen for inclusion have been selected ‘as a group which perhaps
  gives the volume best variety and balance.’” (N Y Times) The titles
  are “The harbor of lost ships, by Louise Whitefield Bray; Garafelia’s
  husband, by Esther Willard Bates; The scales and the sword, by Farnham
  Bishop; and The four-flushers, by Cleves Kinkead.” (Brooklyn)

         =Brooklyn= 12:66 Ja ’20 30w

  “Professor Baker has worked earnestly, unostentatiously, and with only
  one failing, a somewhat lively fear of being academic.” K. M.

     + − =Freeman= 2:310 D 8 ’20 190w

  Reviewed by Brander Matthews

         =N Y Times= p10 Ag 8 ’20 150w

=HARVEY, LUCILE STIMSON.= Food facts for the home-maker. il *$2.50
Houghton 613.2

                                                                 20–6498

  The book is intended to help the young housekeeper without either
  knowledge of science or technical skill, and to give the experienced
  cook a scientific foundation, but primarily to show mothers how to
  feed their children. “Few women realize the great importance of the
  proper feeding of the family. Undernourishment among our children in
  the United States is far more prevalent than is generally supposed,
  and is found quite as often in the homes of the well-to-do as in those
  of the poor.” (Preface) Although the book contains recipes it is not
  intended to compete with cook-books, but rather to supplement them.
  Among the contents are: The importance of food; The composition of
  foods; Milk and eggs; Meat; Cheese and legumes; Cereals; Fruits and
  vegetables; Fats; Sugar; The use of food in the body; The measurement
  of food values; Food for infants and young children; Food for
  school-children; Food for invalids. There is a bibliography and an
  index.

         =Booklist= 16:334 Jl ’20

  “A highly important and serviceable book.”

       + =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 230w

  “Throughout the volume is an excellent manual that is well arranged,
  written in an informal and untechnical vein and well fitted to meet
  the demands of the ordinary household.”

       + =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 140w

  Reviewed by E. A. Winslow

       + =Survey= 44:592 Ag 2 ’20 110w

=HASBROUCK, LOUISE SEYMOUR.= Hall with doors. il *$1.75 (4c) Womans
press

                                                                 20–8235

  A story for girls with a vocation moral. In their junior year in high
  school a group of friends form the V. V. club (the initials standing
  for vacation-vocation), and in the chapters of the book their various
  experiences in the world of work are followed. After college one group
  goes to New York to attack business, advertising, interior decorating
  and tearoom management. One girl stays at home and finds her vocation
  in a recreation center. One country girl leaves the farm to go to
  college and then comes back to teach a country school and make over a
  rural community. One girl, who is a misfit in business, succeeds as
  athletic director and organizer of a summer camp. The girls are bright
  and natural, the stories are interestingly told and the romance that
  has a part in all real-life stories is not omitted.

=HASKINS, CHARLES HOMER, and LORD, ROBERT HOWARD.= Some problems of the
Peace conference. *$3 Harvard univ. press 914.314

                                                                20–12208

  “It will be remembered that Professor Haskins and Professor Lord were
  two of the experts who accompanied President Wilson to the peace
  conference. Prof. Haskins served as chief of the division of western
  Europe and he was American member of the special committee of three
  which drafted the treaty clauses on Alsace-Lorraine and the Sarre
  valley. Professor Lord served as American adviser on Poland and
  related problems, both at Paris and in Poland itself. The lectures
  published in this volume were delivered last winter at the Lowell
  institute and are now given with only incidental changes. The effort
  of the two men has been to present each of these problems in its
  historical setting, revealing at the same time, the reason of its
  importance to the conference.”—Boston Transcript

  “In respect both to extent and to content, the book leaves much to be
  contributed to the subject in the future, by the present authors or by
  other scholars. It does provide what is most needed at this time, a
  well-informed and fairminded sketch of the background and of the
  probable issue of the territorial settlement. One noteworthy
  contribution of the book is the first chapter on Task and methods of
  the conference.” Clive Day

       + =Am Hist R= 26:334 Ja ’21 1400w

  “May be regarded, without question, as the most important work on the
  conference that has yet appeared. It should do much to counteract the
  overdrawn and splenetic sketches of Keynes, Dillon, or Creel.” C:
  Seymour

       + =Am Pol Sci R= 14:734 N ’20 420w

  “It is improbable that this particular book, with the accurate
  knowledge it displays and the authoritative position which its authors
  held in the actual negotiations, will ever be replaced as an
  historical record.”

       + =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 14 ’20 280w

  “By far the best account of the Paris conference which has yet
  appeared.”

       + =Ind= 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 130w

  Reviewed by W: MacDonald

         =Nation= 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 500w

  “Their book will meet the needs of the many now looking for just such
  a graphic account of the methods of the peace conference in dealing
  with important questions.”

       + =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 30 ’20 180w

  “The book is to be welcomed warmly just because the Peace conference
  did not accomplish (whether it could have done so we need not here
  discuss) the enormous task it set itself, and Americans will be forced
  again and again to take a stand on new disputes arising from the
  settlements made.” B. L.

       + =Survey= 45:104 O 16 ’20 260w

  “Within its limits the book, which is admirably written, is of great
  value. It contains a scholarly, open-minded, impartial account of such
  matters as the problem of Slesvig, and the questions concerning the
  status, and territorial extension of Belgium. It will do much good,
  for it serves as a useful antidote to the criticisms, often so
  ignorant and so partisan, of the territorial settlement.”

     + − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p526 Ag 19 ’20 950w

=HASLETT, ELMER.= Luck on the wing; thirteen stories of a sky spy. il
*$3 Dutton 940.44

                                                                 20–8364

  The personal narrative of a young American aviator in France. “The
  author records at the very outset how he preferred the clean air to
  the rat-haunted trenches, and it was that human desire to escape from
  the muddy, disagreeable ground that made him become a flying man. The
  book reads more like a novel than the record of a warrior.” (Bookm)

  “Hardships and adventures are told with a youthful verve, without
  overstraining and with an ever ready appreciation when the joke is on
  himself.”

       + =Booklist= 17:66 N ’20

  “Major Elmer Haslett has written, in ‘Luck on the wing,’ just the kind
  of book we need, now that we all have some perspective—though little,
  I admit—on the war. It is full of the fire and fervor of youth,
  good-natured, natural—a splendid picture of the fighting airman.” C:
  H. Towne

       + =Bookm= 52:77 S ’20 430w

  “For those who have shared our ignorance of the aerial observer, this
  book should be of value.”

       + =N Y Times= p24 S 26 ’20 500w

=HASLUCK, EUGENE LEWIS.=[2] Teaching of history. (Cambridge handbooks
for teachers) *$3.20 Macmillan 907

  “After defining certain legitimate reasons for teaching history in
  schools, and distinguishing these from ‘false and shallow
  justification,’ a statement is presented of the basis of selection of
  materials for pupils of different age groups and a detailed plan is
  outlined for organizing courses in English history for upper-grade
  pupils in either a one, two, three, or four years’ sequence. Further
  discussion concerns the nature and use of the history textbook and the
  effective use of supplementary historical and literary source
  material, with specific reference to a number of especially valuable
  ones; types of historical exercises which may be employed as aids to
  the stimulation of interest and the retention of historical facts; and
  different ways of utilizing general, local, and recent history. Three
  specimen lesson-units are given in outline form—one illustrating a
  unit of pure narrative, one which describes a particular social
  situation, and one which centers about a national character. A final
  chapter points out some of the most common pitfalls which beset the
  teacher of history, and suggests means of avoiding them.”—School R

  “This slender volume is of interest to American teachers for two
  reasons: first, for the information it gives directly or by
  implication upon the state of history-teaching in England, and,
  secondly, for the practical quality of its criticisms and suggestions,
  so wholly unaffected by the airs and attitudes of the professional
  pedagogue.” H. E. B.

       + =Am Hist R= 26:353 Ja ’21 390w

         =Ath= p140 Jl 30 ’19 940w

  “On the study of history, and the study of teaching as applied
  thereto, Mr Hasluck writes as an expert. Where there is life, there is
  hope. And even the formal categories of this handbook bear witness to
  a vitality, widespread and abounding in promise.”

       + =Sat R= 130:120 Ag 7 ’20 750w

       + =School R= 28:793 D ’20 320w

  “Suggestive and helpful.”

       + =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